The National Register.
London, England, 1816-10-14 00:00:00

ON HEARING THAT A MR. PLENTY lIAD INVENTED

A NEW PLOUGH.
The great globe goes round, sages oft have maintained,
And no doubt can he entertained now ;
The Pifortgli fur us Pl,nty has f,equently gained.
Dui now Pkoty gains us a Mavis. T.
ENIGMA.

The following Enigma was made by Miss Strwmtn, and was
found in her Will, with a direction to her Executors to pay l'4o to
the person who should discover the true solution. It ye: renams
mystery.
The noblest object In the works of Art ;
The brightest gem which Nature c.in impart;
The point essential in a Lawyer's !case ;
The well-known signal in the time of peace ;
The Plotet.ltman when he drives his plough ;
The Soldier's duty and the Lover's vow;
The planet seen between the earth and tun.;
The prize which Merit never yet has won ;
The Miser's treasure and the badge of Jews:
The Wife's ambition, and the l'arson's dues.
Now. if your nobler spirit can divine,
A. corresponding wont for every line,
By all these letters clearly will be felons,
Au ancient City of no small renown !

Liecots ELECTION.—Friday the election of a Mem-
ber for the county of Lincoln, in the room of th, late
Mr. Chaplin, took place-. Mr. Cust, the brother of
Earl Brownlow, and Sir Robert Heron, were the two
candidates. The nomination of Sir Robert Heron, it
appeared, tlok place without his knowledge, and he
was deemed ineligible, in consequence of his being al-
ready a Member of the House of Commons. Mr. Cust
was therefore declared duly elected. •
Gloucester Election terminated Tuesday, in favour
of the Whig Candidate, Col. Webb, who 'was elected
by a majority of 119 ; the numbers being, for Col.
Webb Bi 9, Mr. Cooper 730.
Mr. Carter was on Wednesday elected Member fin-
Nem% ith.

_
A Writer in an Evening Paper says, that the ac-
count of a Meeting at Chester, which has appeared in
so many London papers, is an hoax.
During the late polling at Guildhall, much mirth was
excited by the appearance of a female to give her vote ;
when she was informed her vote could not be taken,
she protluced the freedom of her husband, and with
much difficulty was convinced she was no Livery Man !
Owing to some misunderstanding at the Royal Mili-
tary College, sonic of the ProfeAars have retired in
disgust.
A letter has been received at Durham, from Lord
Viscount Sidmouth, respeolz the disgraceful state of
the polite of that city.
METIIoD TO EXTINGUIII THE FIRE IN A CHIMNEY.
—Place a bucket of water on a stool near the tire, and
with the hand keep throwing the water gradually on
the fire (but so us not to injure it) ; the steam pro-
duced thereby will in a few minutes completely destroy
the tire, by passing with the current of air up the
chimney.— Worcester paper.
Mr. Andenkm, son of the the late Mr. Anderson, a
rosuectahle merchant in Newburgh, was missing for
t•!glit days, previous to Sunday last, on which day he
was accidentally fhund, by the servant maid, dead in
the garret.
Elizabeth Ward, who received sentence of de.ith at
the York Assizes, and has since been twice reprieved,
is to be transported to Botany Bay for life.
Sir George Bowyer's Sunningwell and Bayworth
estates, are reported to be purchased for Col. Davies, of
the Grenadier Guards.

A valuable horse died a few (lays ago, at Workington
Hall, in Cumberland, the property of T. C. Curwen,
Esq. The animal having shown no signs of previous
illness, its body was opened, when a large stone, which
weighed live pounds six ounces was taken from the in-
testines.
Croydon Fair finished on Monday night, after most
unfavourable weather, which proved a great loss to many
persons, who calculated as usual on the sale of their
g Rods to some customers.
Thomas Fidgeon, Edward Goticy, and Henry Lo-
mas, bankrupts, and late merchants at Sheffield and
flirmingham, and whose debts are upwards of 78,0001.
have been committed to prison, for nat answering
imestions to the satisfactjon of the Commis.,ioners.—
Lre•ting paper.

7'llE D1?.1M.1.

DRURY LANs.
A Lady, announced from the Theatre as Miss
from Liverpool, made her first appearance here. on
Saturday night, in the character of Polly, in the Beg-
gar'y Opera. Her friends greeted her very warmly,
twos her introduction, which seemed a very tbrinidaLle
thing to her, but this once safely over, she was enabled
to sums all the requisite courage for the eampaiga, in
v•hiet, however, not a shot was fired in anger. In
stature this Lady hardly reaches the middle size, with
a perm inclining to the lusty. She has not a great
1 al if voice, we mean us to strength and compum, but
sl.e elated all she possessed with considerable applause.
It pethaps ought to be chariNd to her master rather
'Lan ierself, that she destroys the yellow of her songs,
of eting a great deal of science and execution, in
'hid she sometimes sadly thiled. She was frequently
$ :cord, though upon wore than one oceaeicn not with-

NATIONAL REGISTER.

out some dixAt nieents from the compliment. Miss Kelly,
Dowton, Mundell, and Knight. appeared in their usual
characters, with their usual merit and applause. The
house overflowed.

Monday the first part of King Henry the Fourth was
played here, and exhibited, as a novelty, Mr. Bcngnugh
in King Henry. Besides this Mr. Stephen Kemble
made his appearance in Sir Alta Falstaff it character
which has obtained for hint considerable reputation.
Though not " afraid to blame," we are always
" pleased to praise," and it is therefore gratifying to us to
have to say, that Mr. Bengough acquitted himself dtuch
more respectably than on one or two late occasions,
though there is still a want of tact, which experience,
in the present Theatre of his exertions, cannot fail to
give him. There can, however, be no pretence for de-
ferring a single day the correction of his practice in the
distribution of his emphases, which he at present fre-
quently bestows upon the merest expletives. We ap-
prehend that this gentleman has been accustomed to
tread the boards of a Country Theatre with all the
ad libitum authority of a principal perthrnter ; but it is
because we think he will be of value to the town, that we
take the trouble of suggesting to him the necessity of
studying and conforming to those rules of histrionic
excellence which arc acknowledged here. He played
the King upon the whole with a good deal of kingly
dignity and spirit.
AVe hate invidious comparison—but almost every
thin.. is comparative, and while we say that Mr. S.
Kemble's Falstaff is good, we should not convey all that
we mean, if we did nut add, that Mr. Bartley's is bet-
ter. This opinion may not, perhaps be very orthodox,
but we venture the expression of it upon a recollection
of Bartley's rich, racy humour in the part, and after
having paid a close attention to tl:e performance of Mr.
S. Kemble.

The Maid and Magpie followed, and Miss Kelly
made her first appearance here in the present season.
She came trippingly on the stage, as the interesting
Annette, but she was flied in one spot for a considerable
time by an almost overwhelming torrent of applause,
which she seemed to feel very sensibly, and. acknow-
ledged in a becoming manner