The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-07 00:00:00

COVENT (::11{1)EN.

A novelty appeared on Thursday night at this theatre,
called Rose d'Amour, or The Little Red Riding flu!.
This is an operatic fairy tale, in two acts ; and is au
importation from our neighlmirs the Parisians, among
whom it enjoys great opularity. The story consists
of a series at designs farmed against the person of the
heroine, a young and beautiful girl, by a certain fef-
miduble person called RodoY, Me trey; who Oct
being very ingenious at inventing love stratagems,
calls even magic to his aid : the innocence of Rose
d'Amour, however, is protected by a certain belie.
volent fairy. She is rescued from Rod° and finally
united to a nobleman called Count Lot/anire. The
principal part was played by an interesting young
actress, a Miss BEAUMONT, who sae her first thea-
trical
appearance on the occasion, and acquitted herself
in a very pleasing manner. Fur the piece itself—whe-
ther what pleases tl:c Parisians will not succeed here,
and whether it is less skiifilly got up than in its origi-
nal form, we know not ; but the piece was very far
from making a favourable impression on the audience;
so much so, that the annoutweinent fir repetition was
with ditliculty heard. The drama is certainly heavy,
in Fes-oral scenes, but contains a suilicicnt portion of the
agreeable, we think, to have merited less se.:ere
treatment.

Booth is no longer a member of the Covent-va.den
Corps Dramatipc, he havieg accepted a return of his
articles.

THE PRINCE. REGENT'S COURT.—Friday, his Royal
Highness the Prince Regent held a Court at Carlton.;
house, at which his Excellency Baron Fagel, the Am-
hassador front the Court of the Netherlands was in-
troduced with the usual ceremony, and delivered a
letter of condoicnce, on the demise of the late Qoeen,
from the King of the Netherlands.
Sir Isaac Beard, Garter King at Arms, attains hit
88th year on the 10th of next month. It has been his
melanchely duty to attend the ffineral ceremonials of
six members of our Royal Fatuity. viz. (according to
their generations)--George 11. l'rederick Prince. •of
Wales, Queen Charlotte, Princess Amelia, Princess
Charlotte of Wales, and her !,',Viyal Infant.
The subscription of one guinea from each subscriber,
for crectin4-,.. a monument to the memory of the late
Princess Charlotte, amounts to very near twenty than-
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 i;ody
in the procession, was uctuallyy obliged to put on his
mourning habiliments for the ceremony, in. one of the
pantries of the Castle Tavern. There was neither
bed nor dressing-room to be had fur money or entreaty.
The Duchess of Gloucinter and the princess Au..
gusta have retnoved from Cambridge 14ouss, Kew
Green to Frogmore House, near Windsor. •

The New York papers of the 9th ult. insert a para-
graph from the Ilavannah, which states, that a body of
4jo Spaniards, draughted from the Tarragona and
llavaunah regiments, were to leave Ilavannah 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 ex-
portation of slaves from the said state is prohibited,
under a penalty of 2,000 dollars, or imprisonment of
from two to four years. We do not learn how the.
law stands as to the importation attic unhappy race
of negroes. It appears that the Government of the
United States have made arrangements for the itnwe:-
diate execution of plans fin. the defence of New Orleans,
and the districts generally on the lower Mississippi,
from the attacks of a foreign enemy.
We have received Gazettes from Cape henry (St. .
Domingo) to the 27th September, and letters to the
20th October. It is qinte evident from both these
sources of information, that if the idea of making au
inroad into the territory of Boyer ever entered the mind
of Christophe, all thought of carrying it into execution'
is for the present abandoned. Ills whole cares scent to
centre in the restoration of Fort Ferrier, constructed as
a last place of refuge for himself and all his people,
after the injwy it lately received by being struck with
lightning. We regret the derpetic means employed
for this purpose, because the resources of the country
are injured ; the crops of coffee and other huporfunt
produce cannot be gathered, nor can the merchruits
hands to ea; ry on their commercial operations. Every •
thing (according to the private accounts) was in a state
of confusion and anxiety.
Extract of a letter, dated Grenada, Oct. 11, 1818
" The Indepentlena squadron, antler Admiral Brion,
has been laying here a long time, repairing damages ; .
one of them, time brig Columbia,.,.l if;tl tons, and 13
guns, MIS run away with from the bay by her crew .
(most of them Engliahmea), commanded by one Geo..
Thomas, a half-pay British Lieutenant. Brimi is gtr
after her in the Emerald; she is suppose.l to have gone
to America. During the tome Baku was king here, .
most of his men deserted him. Celeuel \\Non has
been shot by Bolivar, for having spoken too ffeely of .•
I that G.:::Lral at a dinner.'

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