The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-06 00:00:00

COVENT GARDEN.

A no: t 7 appeared on Thursday night nt this thealre,
called Ruse er.intour, or Tits Little lied Riding
This is an operatic fairy tale, in two acts ; and is an •
importation from our neighbours the Parisians, among
whom it enjoys great popularity. The story consists
of a series of designs formed against the person of the
heroine, a young and beautiful girl, by a certain f )r-
-inidable person called Rudolf, the Wolf; who not
being very ingenious at inventing love stratagems,
calls even magic to his aid : the innocence of Rose
ditinour, however, is protected by a certain bene-
volent fairy. She is rescued from Ro.log; and finally
united to a nobleman cullts3. Count Lolly:ire. The
principal part was played Ly an interesting yo'ung
actress, u Miss Ili U WONT, who made her first thea-
trical appearance on the occasion, and acquitted herself
in a very pleasing manner. For the piece. itself—whe-
ther what pletres the Parisians will not succeed
and whether it is less skilfully got up than in its origi-
nal form, we know not ; but the piece was very far
ftom making a favourable impression on the audience;
so much so, that the announcement for repetition was
with difficulty heard. The drama is certainly heavy,
in several scenes, but contains asufficient portion of the
agreeable, we think, to have merited less severe
treatment

Booth is no longer a member of the Covent-callen
Corps Dranialiqrs, he haring aceerted return of his
articles.

TIM PRINCE REGENT'S CouaT..—Fritlay, his Royal •
Highness the Prince Regent held a Court at Carlton-
house, at which his Excellency Baron Fogel, the Am-
bassador from the Court of the Netherlands was in-.
trodtsevd with the usual ceremony, and delivered a .
letter of condolence, on the Jeteisct of the late Queen,
from the King of the Netherlato!'..
'Sir Isaac Heard, Garter King at Arms, attains his •
88th year on the 10th of rtest month. It has been his
melancholy dut) to attend the funeral ceremonials
six members of oar Royal Fa•nily. viz. (according to
their generation,.)-o,o)rge IL i• retieriek Prince of
Walos, Queen Charlotte, Prince's Prince*
Charlotte of Wales, and her Royal InKint.
The subscription of one guinea from each subscriber;
for erecting a monument to the memory of the late
Princes Charlotte, amounts to very near twenty thou-
sand pounds.
Men of the highest rank were obliged at Windsor,
during the ceremony, to forego the common attentions
which their station and habits require. The Duke of
Newcastle, one of the supporters of the Royal Hotly
in the procession, was actuallyy obliged to put on, his •
mourning habiliments fur the .ceremony, in one of 'the
pan(ries of the Castle Tavern.• TOere was neither
bed nor dressing-room to be had for money or entreaty.
The Duchess of Gloucester anti the princess Aa-
gusto have removed from Cambridge House, Kew .
Green to Frogmore House, near Windsor.
The New York papers of the 9th nit insert a para. •
graph front the Havannab, which states, that a body of •
400 Spaniards, dranghted from the Tarragoua and
Havannah regiments, were to leave Havannah within
a few days from the date of the intelligence, to receive •
Pensacola from the American Government. By an act
of the Provincial Legislature of New Jersey, the er-:
portation of slaves from the said state is prohibited,
under a penalty of Q,OOO dollars, or imprisonment of
from two to four years. We do not learn how the
saw stands as to the importation of the unhaopy race
of negroes. It appears that the Government of the•
United States have made arrangements for the imme-
diate execution of plans the the defence. of New Orleans,
and the districts generally on the lower Missizippi,
from the attacks of a foreign cum).
We have received Gazettes front Cape Henry (St.
Domingo) to the •.!7th September, and letters to the
20th October. It is quite evident from both these -
sources of infitrmation, that if the idea of making as ••
inroad into :he territory of Boyer ever entered the mind
of Christophe, all thought of carryiag it into execution •
is for the present abandoned. Ilia whole cares seem to •
centre in the restoration of Fort Ferrier, constructed as ••-
' a last place of refuge fur himself and all his !trivia,
after the inju.7 it lately received by being struck with
lightning. We regret the despotic means employed
for this purpose, because the remarces of the country
are itijored ; the orops of coWee and other important
proince cannot i.e gathered, nor can the merchants find ...
hands to curry on their com:nercial operations. Every
thing (according to the private accounts) was its a state
of contusion and anxiety. _ _

Extract of a letter, dated Grenada. Oct. 11, 1818
" The Independena squadron, under Admiral Ilrion,
has been laying here a lung time, rep..iring danin ;
one of them. tne brig Citlunabia, of .190 tons, and 12
guns, was run away with from the buy by her erew
(most cf them Euglis'ainco), commanded by one Gee.
Thomas, a half-pay British Lieutenant. Brion is gone
after her in the Emerald ; she is supposed to have goat
to America. During► the Line Brion was lying here, .
most of his men deserted him. Colonel lilsou hua
been shot by Bolivar, fur having spokeu tut/ freely uf
that General at a dinner."