The National Register.
London, England, 1823-05-11 00:00:00

.?HF NATIONAL REGISTER

lision with such► people," and in thtt he shewedlis
prudence—his motion for calling the printer of The.
Brills/ Press to the bar of the House was met with
tha contempt it deserved, and' was withdrawn.

We have received. talie.Paris Papers of Wednesday.
Their account. of the progress of the French Army
are in many instances absurd and contradictory.
One account states, that a division.of French troops
occupies Valencia, though the haat intelligence
does not mention a single French soldier within a
hundred and twenty miles of that city. The Ultra
Editors, what they fabricate telegraphic despatches,..
would, not commit so many blunders if they. were
brat to consith the map of Spain. The Linde
asserts, that Ballasteros has precipitately retired
on Valencia. We leave it to the Parisian Journalists
to eiplain those contlitting statements,, if they can.
The Drapeasi Blatitmantions, on the. authority of
letter front Erani.fort on the Oder, that Russia is
atisetnhling an Army of Observation on the frontiers
of Polavd,.of 120,000. man, fur the maintenance of
public tranquillity ip Germany, and even in Entice.
—The Bayonne %pens of the Qd instant present a
very gloomy picture of the situation...of the French
army in Spain. They consider the retreat of the
Spenialianny es drawing the French into a snare,
'and to oblige theni,to fight on the ground%he most
favourable to the 4tonstitutional troops, to obtain a
victory. Tkey alsnobserve, that. the Duke of An.
gouleme dohs not appear to be convinced, as he was
sit first, of the facility of a conquest, by the assist-
since of the population of Spain, which gives-him no
succour.. The Anny of the Faith has not increased,
as it was anticipated, two hash the Constitutianal
troops descried their colours. The heavy artillery
is not ytt brought before St. Sebastian and Pampe-
lune; It is stated, in the Bayonne Papers, that the
troops that were at hat have. joined Ballasteros, who
has had a smart action with Geaersl.,Molitci, in
which the latter is reported to bare been beaten.
The French General Muller has died'of his wounds.
The•Eresiekt head-quarters were to remove on the
sth instant .to..heiranda.. It is. affirmed that the
Portuguese Getterhlr Bego, .has eusered.Spairt whit
6,000 infantry, and 2,400 cavalry..
The French Funds have fallen; the Five per
Cents. closed on Wednesday at 87f. 40c,

rills FONDA.. YESTERD.4Y.

lIALt-PArr Two o'cusce.
The htahlay- of Ascension Day, being strictly
kept. in Paris, we have,no quotations of the French .
Funds since Wednesday—nor has any express
reached town this morning.
Our market opened with Consols 79—one quer-
ter per cent. under the closing price of yesterda y—
fell to 781-.-but =mow 78g.
The Hebrew party have sold largely for money--
to deliver. neat Tuesday. Report ascribes the con-
version of Stock into cash, as the preliminary of a
still further conversion—into Oats. for the French
army. The efforts to bang dawn the Funds by this
party, have been great, but the price of Consols has
never been fairly under 78g, for more than half an
hour throughout the day.
Fortitaa.—Spanish Bonds, from 3611 may: now
be quoted at S6.—The tkuantity of business in these
securities is considerable—but entirely for money.
There is an evident desire to bang Spanish, as well
as Consols—and hence, in the intervals of actual
money barpinso.-ftetitious sales are announced,
with a view to run the market down. The first
money buyer fetches it up agein ; and under this
species of action, and re-action, the market is in. a
state of constant fluctuation.

Letters from Vittoria, of the 30th, complain very_
loudly of the acts of vengeance and oppression com-
mitted there by the Royalists under .the protection
of the French. Many private individuals, leaving
influe4ce, or known to be favourable to the free in-
stitutions of their country. have been thrown into.
I prisons ;. and others, in order to escape from outrages
of this kind, are eying to France. This is the way
for the French and their Royalist friends to unde-
ceive and rouse the population of the Peninsula.
The Green Park Lodge, it appears. is held by
Lady Wm. Gordon, under a lease from the Crown,
granted in 1790, for two lives (Lord and Lady W•
Gordon) or 56 or n years, at au OURRaI ret►to

Very unfiriourable accounts were received on Fri
day from the South of Ireland--4be beim:gents are
guilty nightly of the most criminal excesses. Out-
rages have been. committed by the Whiteboys, even
within a mile of the boundaries of Cork. Houses
of the most respectable and unoffending individuals
have been snacked, their fields turned up, and their
cattle wantonly and cruelly mutilated. The code
of Captain Hock is enforced with the greatest bar-
barity,.and the laws of the country are violated In
tire moat daring,and audacious manner imaginable.
It is really strange that, in.such a state of things,
factions exist even in the capital, and that an at-
tempt should have been made even to overawe the
' Government, by turbulent and insulting Chtlobista.
The Legislature could not be better employed than
in endeavouring to tranquillize Ireland, otherwise
we tremble for the consequences that are likely to
ensue from the present. dia;ointed, agitated, atld
angry state of the country:.
eiLetters from Purie.mentioti the arrival of intel-
ligence from Seville of the nomination of a new
administration by Ferdinand, and that their first
step on taking of would be to send a negutiau r
-to the head-quarters of the Duke d'Angouleme to
treat .for an accommodation. Nothing can in itself
'be more improbable than such an event : one set of
.Ministers
was in office at the period referred to,
who were to give place to another as soon as the
details of thetredesbaistration could be prepared arid
laid before the Cortes ; -and in this state of disorga-
nization in the Cabinet a third party is named, sasd
to be of moderate principles, who, without waiting
'for a.vevision of the labours of their predecessors, so
as to determine the policy on which they acted, ate
at once to plostrate theirs country. at the fliet.a
France. Yet, acimorubable events do every day
occur, and as the account has been circulated both
here anctin Paris from various quartos. at the none
time, and on respectable authority, it has gainetiso
neral a beliet as to induce large purchases of
stock, and , a rise in every specie-ca. Government
security. This- has been more rapid,, perhaps, than
a mere confidence. it the truth of this stutemeet
would have caused, .owing to the specadritionctri
the fund* which have lately been entered into by
the mejor part of the speculators nith the expecta-
tion of a fall. These persarta had, indeed, ell,-
barked so fat, that theirabject could only have been
attained• by a continued series of disastrous events,
tending ultimately. to involve this country in the
war between France and Seuin. it is not surprlb-
iug, therefore, thatany prospect of a sudden peace
in that qearter, however slight the foundation on
which it rested, should excite the greatest appre-
hensions in tbase persons, causing them to reverse
their speculations, and to act in combination. with
those whose operations have been conducted in the
expectation of a rise. There is, further. great num-
ber of individuals under the inflaeuce of the mania for
stock jobbing, who, ou occesSons like the present, old
to the effect by pursuing, t be course of speculation that
appears to be prevalent, without knowing any thing
of its cause, or having formed, any'. of its cause,. or
having formed any calculation on the cluumea of
success. Theserare points- which require to be un-
derstood, in order to qtiali'y any judgment of pub-
lic events or of the state of politics founded on the
variations in the stock list.
The Council of State of the canton of Frihurg,
after a debate of two days, has suppressed, the schools
of mutual instmegan throughout the whole canter..
Tire votes for and against the system being eql)al,
the negative vote of the President decided. It was
in vain that the Council of Education hatigiven its
opinion in favour of this method. It is thought
that the great Council will be invokain May,; it
will have to dismiss the plan which will be laid
before it for a new system of education, the. basis
Of which is to be simultaneous instruction.
Letters from Petersburgh, dated the 11th ult.,
...
state that on the preceding day a Government offi-
tisk notice was affixed on the Exchange, warning
the merchants not to carry on any commercial trans-
actions with Spaimand Portugal, and particularly
net. to sendany vessel thither. The same levers
mention a curious instance of disaffection to. dm
Russian Autocrat among the peasantry of the go-
vernment of Witepsk, who, though recently' re-
leased from bondage, and actually vested wish a
right to the produce of theia-own labour, have had
the ingratitude to answer this benefit by a refusal
to pay. their taxes.. They; have even gone so far as
to insult an imperial agent sent thither to renwn-
forst° with theme and have had the audacity to ad-
dress a letter to the Empress Dowager, in which
they accuse the emperor himself of injustice !' It
has been found necessary to despatch troops to the
province to put down the rising disaffection. We
may,eotice, by the wan that this appears to be the
inbyenfit
only authentic account, yet received of any move-
ments of Russian troops.
refGrontvtalrrenimbaorthnsi
was.' hdeetststaroybedlish
inst., and the propiletor, with his family,l
morning of
()Ct. Cuxhaven
ass
narrew y
escaped with their lives..

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CU VANS-GARDEN SHEATRE.
On Thursday•night, a new Opera, called Cirri,
or The Maid 21 Wass; was performed, fur the first
• time. The Theatre was most fashionably and nu-
merously attended, and the general expectation,
which had. been very high, we are happy to say, suf-
fered no abatement in any respect.
The story of the Opera, which is the production
of Mr. Howard Payne, is certainly of tue serious a
cast, but the efforts of the performers reconciled us
in a great measure to this departure from the proper
tone of the musical drama. The daughter of a pea-
sant has been induced to leave her father's house by
her attachment to a Nobleman, who, however, finds
it necessary. to.promise marriage belies) she con—
sents, and afterwards fails in persuading her to be
hiss on.iiishionable terms. When. he proposes thee,
terms, the exhibits so much horror that he is obliged
to . set two of his domestics to watch her motions,
and prevent her escape Posar..his house. One of
those domestics is a lively girl, who, for the Nil o*
of keeping herself awake, in the room next to that
in which the heroine of the story is confined, sings
• merrily, and does other things to the great amuse-
ment of the autlieuce,.but at last foils fest asleep.
Clani then issues from her room, • leaps from the
window, and flies towards her father's house, where
she soon becomes reconciled to her mother. It is,
however, a more difficult matter to approach her
father, and she is therefore introduced to him veiled,
ass disobedient.child, who seeks• from him advice,
rs to the means of procuring pardon. This scene is
indeed a powerful one, and Mr. Fawcett, who
played the father, gave a picture of parental feeling
that would .hare redeemed a multitude of errors
much greater than any in th 3 piece. The Opera
ends with the marriage of te.lari and the Nobleman,
who had put her virtue to the test, and who is
more delighted at the defeat which his dishonoura-
ble prepubals sustained than at.the victory which he
had gained over healeart. .
Tnese are the materials upon which, together with
a liule assistance from the introduction of two, or
three sprightly characters, who have no immediate
otnnexitni -with -the story, the writer has founded
his Opera. The-incidents are well managed, and
the catastrophe is powerful. Miss M. Tree
.per-
formed the character of Clan with great success
indeed, there. is scarcely a pandt the range which
she has been acaustonsed to undertake, is which she
exhibited her command over. the feelings more eflic-
tually. There . were several touches of dramatic
skill in the early passages of the -piece; but .in the
reconciliation scene, in which Miss Tree and Mr.
Fawcett had the best- opportunity of proving their
rank above the rest of those engaged in the piece;
there was scarcely a.dry eye in the house.
The Music is in. some 'parts beautiful. It is
Bishop, with the exception.of the National Airs, as
the bills say, A few songs are assigned to Miss M.
Tree, but they are never mink tuiaterfare with the
business of the scene, and they are mostly simple
and melancleily„ They could not have been sung
more delightfully.. Miss.Luve sang and played with
great spirit, and. was ensured in a song describing
the mischievous character of love. t
The other chanisters, which are extremely subor-
dinate, were played. with propriety ; and -there were
two excellent 'glees in •the piece, which were sung
with great taste, and will, no-doubt, become warm
hivottrites of the public.
The Duke of Gloucester sat in a.private box, and
seemed highly pleased at the Opera, which was gives.
out for repetition by Mr. Fawcett amidst theloudest
applause.

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RY ESCAPICT3te

ACCHNINT AMENEITRAORDIMA'
Superb steam-packet, from Glasgow on her way to.
Liverpool, about two o'clock un Saturday morning,
was encountered by the Majestic, from Liverpool to
Glasgow. The bow of the Superb was completely
stove.in to the water's edge; fortunately the sett
was unownsnmnly calm, and the -numerous passen-
gers were safely removed on board the Majesiic, kind
conveyed to the Isle of Man.
lteudesvoue, houses were on Monday opened on
Tower-hill, for the.reccption of able and ordinary
seamen, for clove* shipisof the line, four frigates,
sit sloops of war, and.two cutters.
The Garrick library, whick.before the sale had
been estimated as worth k,2001., un account of the
autographs of Mr. Garrick,. and other celebrated
• persons of his time, absolutely sold for upwards of
2,0001.
On Friday night, Mr. Smith, the King's aseases.
ger, arrived in town with despatches from Stein. •
• We regret to learn, that by the fall of& treenail.
New Brunswick, Mr. Mathews, tke.comedian, re-
ceived some injury, and Mr. Price, the manager of
the Park Theatre, had his leg broken, These gen-
tlemen were on their way from Philadelphia to Bal-
timore, in a private carriage.
YARMOUTH, MAY B.—Arrived in the Roads his
Majesty's frigate Seringapata" and sailed again fur
Leith, to take on board Sir B. Bloomfield, Bart.
tsar Sweden.

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Extract ofa letteirnesgeed-ftwas gs. ll•etersbergb, 1 Tws Gassistr--Ou Saturday 1s& a full nib--
' dated March 80, O.S, :—" The differences which of the Greek Comniittee was held at the Crown ens
hitherto subsisted between our Court and the Porte I Anchor, when a resolution was entered into to will
have been amicably adjusted ; and M. deTatischeff a general public meeting in a few dart, in order to
is mentioned as the Minister drains( to proceed to ' raise ksubscription . iii aid of the brave people who
Constantinople." I have already nearly succeeded in their efforts- to-
• CONSCIEN cc—Messrs.- H. Fielding and Co, of shake off the yoke of Ottoman barbarians. Iliad •
,the Catteral. print-works, lately received a letter Erskine wss in the Chait, and the following dis-
enclosing two pounds, dated • Preston, and signed tinguished individuals were also present :--Lord
" Juctice;* the writer of which saye—" Gentlemen Milton, Lord Ebrington, Lord Nugent, Mr. Hume,
—ln the year 1797, I had the pleasure of doing a M. P. Mr. Maxwell, M.P., Mr. J. Williams. M.P..
little business• with you to my satisfaction, and in , Mt. J Smith, M.P., together with arteral Greeks
-one instance r thought I rather charged-yon too of distinction. It war represented to the meeting.
high; I therefore enclose you two pounds, which that one thousand Germans have beery formed into
you will•please to distribete to• the right owners, u military body, by the aid of subscriptions raised in •
••
The transaction was for the print-works at Carte- Germany, fur the purpose of proceeding-to the as-
ral."-- Wedmore/awl Gazelle. sistince of the Greek Patriots, and that they eye
FALL or..WgsrosCotvitur Towen—On Toes. only waiting tie tt ship •to convey them to the place
day evening, about eight o'clock, the tower of the of, their destination. The object of the Committee
clutzch4etWeston Colville, in Cambridgeshire, turns is, to raise money sufficient fur defraying the charge
bled. down; part falling.upon the roof of the Church of this equipment •; and also to collect . together, •
.broke through and, destroyed the seats and pews; and to-convay to their own country several tinfortu-
the other part hit to the west. Titer tower contained nate Greeks, who are now-wandering over the Con-
five bells, four of which wererbeaken by the fiat.— ttncnt. and who,. owing to-the tyranny of the Cott- •
It is fortunate -that -no person wiw,pesx ;. if it had tinental Governments, cannot get away from any of
happened during divine service, many of the con- the ports of France or Italy. •
k;regAtion nould inevitably •have .lost their, lives Pi noeuts.—On Thursday last the Caret arrived
About 58 "years ego, the tower of All-gainte at Liverpool, from* New Orleans. • Otte her voyage -
church, Felbourne, fell in a simile" manner. '
, she was boarded by, a pirate, near Hakaunah. The -
, A gentleman who is just arrived from Portugal, crew were most cruelly used, their` clothing, &e.
states, that the Portuguese- Arm,' is in the finest purloined, and their provisions -taken; -so that the
possible condition,- .wad found in every particular, 'vessel was obliged to put Into. Nassau, to enable her
and would-not suffer by comparison 'with any moms to proceed on the voyage. The pirate had previously
in Europe. The Portuguese are coofsient, that captased a Dutch vessel, the individuals on board of •
in the present struggle the *asked* will be vice, whiehierielethwelooptiesref the captain and u pas-
lorious; whir are :anxious that the French should ad- sengery wereput on board the Ceres..
eancerand the at greeter distance fee. their resources. '1
Sum mar DIA'PH Or MR. CARR, or DRORY•LAWN
Fired the, Ropt.stho„. Sunday morning Tesaras.„—An inquest was held on Wednesday last at
--s
last, between two and throe o'c
• hood of .pitaitddly alas throat* ,the
atadone.otighabuutaiv:::, ‘thbeeforeL"rd'hetra:rStie*Arlirimig.hk.9l79lColiroe.isiterreet, o'lS°i tircentelxl.7onf, .
Mr. Camaro Carr, massy years Prompter of Drurydsne
in consequence of a fire breaking Ott in the chimney Timitve.,it apparel Isom the evidence,• that on his,
a. the liseral Saloon, Piccadilly, The place-at zhe ssiantay, about move o'clock, Mr. Palouse,. • ueigh-
timeef the fire breaking out teessnmseronsirsee 44 MK, was seat for to Mr. Carts house, No. 11, Sydney-
tended. An alarm was spreadffiferhich caused the street. Somers Town, as all • Carr was very ill ; but jest
nocturnal belles.and4raust to for their safety -as Mr. Whiten had got to the house Mr. Carr died.—rest
Mr. Wit Ifuni,a surgeonovis sent
.fer,and he attempted
into the Area In a shot% petW the place WAS
to bleed him, but it was cit no area. The deceased hail
lined with engines, firemen, and fora, andehe been unwell for some Mite but he 'hall been • out wi •
plug holes opened. After a cortilderablir time the Friday. The Jury:returotfil a verdict of—Diedby the
fite was got under, to the gr,:ut-consolittion. of the '‘
;gelation of God. Elie deceased has left a•wife and 12
' inhabitants, many of -whom were alarmed out of children.
their beds, and appeared in their shirts, without • MYSTSRIOUS OC.CORRSNOe.—On h,lemlity evening;
stockings. last, a man of gentlemanly appearance was.libsteryed by
shoes and
• Nsontract was entered into on Friday last far the a several persons walking by.the Avant side, at Gmthatn, •
a hamlet within two miles to the emawasit afolkistol.—.
erection-of a tread-will in Mairbierse gaol. which is Being actinted by a woman. „ill, ilia idle creamo.
to be begun immediately. The expanse of building ~wa he Larking for a wile?" 1w answered•glomningly.
and machinery is estimator" at 2,4001 w stud when' that he .• had torife• enough already." In the same
completed will be capable uf•ensehrying aboureighty iteighlmerhoud is a, house in a state of decay, •the door
prisoners at one tins*, Whose lzriun will, he • of which had continued for some time open. 'Me next'
°Welly in grinning corn fer the, she prison. - day the door was found closed; and this circumstance,
coupled with the recollection of. the solitary wanderer,
Letters from Madeira; dated the ult., corn- induce' revers' persons to enter it; when they found the
municute the -tidings of • lien*" accident having following lines penciled on a wall, Which were copied
befallen his Excellency Lord Amherst, which at first by a geistlemais of the above city who was among the spec- •
excited considerable appfthensiois fur his Lordship's tatu.sg—•• This gkiutuy inausinu will suit any hurpuse
life. His Lordship's embarkation on board the J.e. well—it invites me torevel in d.soair, and CAM one mete
* p(ler, at Plymonth, Wee delayed some days by an refl.:ctiou on. this world of • Vetree...alTill rale of lean.—
ilinclis, from which ho had not- entirely recovered •Ist€iiiined"rnaberdiowsthe"whinri*tuilin'"gfeatithatsnis ai astturean. inrant,z::
When the ilitpiter smiled: Oh his arrival at Madeira aej weittgeity.—hut well kinnot.vn in most watering places.
his Lordship kit the benefit of hie voyage thither; This awl be me list wa.vgius.plaee, My loss if vase ;
son- d war so much a cenvaleseetiA se to be induced to 'lost my labour has been indelatigable. But what :Waits
ride on horseback. It was on this oixesiou, that in -it? for jelousy, that greeti-eyed mouster, has deposited
passing a horse which had been tied up, lie received tns comagiour venom in my breast. and nay antagonist
a severe kick from tine on his l, which was ulann- siumphing its my downfall; in a few home more I shall '
ig bete ascnt estiattwas sw,l—ns oblivious shade. 'then will
,iney lacerated_ its hittiesty*
ship /*oiler,
with o
proud
moo's atomise' be meshed; then will
Lord Amherst and suite on hoard, sailed from Ma. • li-•+'s orient • meld, outlive sink, unpitied, into' his
&ire, for Rio Janeiro end Bengal, April 5-,,- • own nuthinarodis."--(Here hallowed sonic wretched
1., Loss or' AN EiliT INDIAIIIAN.—We regret- to rhymes )--." Nature! 1 must recede. since 1 cannot
announce that the Tholtou Calle East Indieman, attain to my Conner sphere. But why do 1 dwell so 10114
in coming op the river on Thursday last, took the upon it t Whit is a desperate matt like, but a horse iu
'round, in sansequenee of which she very soon went battle, rushing into the arms of death-olds-a feaslest
and careless tepidity! But oh ! shy deaf wilt and Ott? .
over on has side; and her cargo, it is feared, will be dren I after all your a--i who 'hail support you id the
entirely lust. • trying hour, witeitrussitall hear of my indsabiutitaud •
!" On Weanesday last a aeverenhattle took place in long premeditated catasiropha 2 Well I a little longer.
the Green Croft; Salisbury, between a mac named and l shall he far foam II weary —.. 1 must recede ;
r•
"wrenee, of Winchester, andiftilas Dew, of Solis- it is g • g dark." The period! of these reflections kJ
buryt Dew is a man about the middle size, and to nuttier emery /Men of the river's brink, sad mar the
1 Lawrence, reminded us of the Goliali of. ancient Fedge of the water was found the mark of a fusstoas if
a search
was in the act, ef descentliiis the batik. •Strict
names. The battle lasted an hour end,-5.10 minutes,.
R and Lawrence won it 'by mesa dint, of -weight.— r„ern"f:Li made
la"
"4)4' which had
"ti
however
There was but little science dhlplayed, but Dew was- • ' Stuoictse Was te.—A getlenum, rixtryeartof age,
the greatest proficient. has undertakes,, lur a certain our, to row sixty times -
1 ' Cowie, May 7.—A few'days• since, Lieutenants: through, kilacktriars-bridge. cense sin slime, and go lite
Jackson R.N. of the East Cowes preventive-boat, times over the said bridge on *tot, and from thence •to
captured a boat and two men. The smugglers ran
the Obelisk bean. George's-fields ; the whole to be herr-
the boat ashore, and.theew over the whole of the formed in the space of tote hoer, to start at three u'cloc•.;
in the afternoon, en Tuesday, May ittb, baring a gee e •
tubs excepting two. The mew were convicted in of wind.
the penalty of 1001. each, befell) the. Newport ma-
FLAOELLATION out POT rreseeas.—Oa-hlenda
~gistrates. Y
morning, at a few minutes past nine o'cloci, a eetygreat
,- On Tuesday last a dreadful fire broker oursipen crowd issembled in London4treet, Tottenharo•coti%r-
ilaginuat Heath, in the vicinity of the Royal.Militazy tread. i 0 consequeuce of the politic vehipping mil cued
College, which continued to burn fur several hours- upon Scott anal Scriitn, two pet stealers, who
,wera
without intermission, and caused great consterna- eoneioted at its, last sessions for offences in that 440-
sion. Had itinvisbeen fur the wall-timed exertions nimienn"l• 'Tim Posianinent was carried intoellsetwlt it
of 2kootoythareds, atter;sretertt the cut.
of the gentlemen cadets of the Royal Military Col- spervites"wVe'reacollin"albcel.
undergo the rentatinferof• their sett - e.rectin t•')
lege, it must have occasioned ooesiderable damage.
for the !Jibe uffe „suffered a Mika( punish.iltt
It is supppsed to have been.'the act of incendiaries, man,
sad proper inquiries are euryingpu.tu discover them. matt at Paddington.
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