The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-10 00:00:00

'ME NATIONAL REGISTIM.

might prepare his attaa and defence against the action
of Messrs. Sento:vine and Fabvier. Suusequent to that'
public declaration M. Cannel submitted to a very long
interrogatory. He °vitt to know. why his liberty hill
been torn from biro ; and it was necessary for his advo-
cates to see hiM, in order to know his actual resolution.
Besides. .:11. Caned was, in truth, the rrincipsl
id:bough he had become incidentally -a defendant.
Ile had summed witnesses from l yoas, and through-
out all the department of the Rhone; his vrescuco.st•
their ceatnination wet; therefore: of the greatestimpor.e
tanec. Whatever st•t'r his Counsel might apply to his
• cat:se, it weerld be imenssible for then) to know all its
innumerable dettui« Yea him. The Court had decided
on the '2 Ist duin it would hear the parties and their
Cintusel; its wish, therefore, no doubt, was, thut the
parties should peraetally. appear *before it. He ton-
eluded Lv 4raying that the cause should be put _off for
a fertaiglita that the situation of the General should
be ameliorated e.elid that his Counsel should hare liber-
ty to confer witlrltitn, and to take his instructions as to
the papyri which have been restnred to hint. M. Dupin,•
the Couueel the atl. Senneville, said. lie-Lod only op-
posed the posteenement of the trial- at the last Sitting,
because M. Cannel was free, and present, and eo ob.
stacle intervened to hinder him from enteringamliia,
attack and defence. Now circumstances were no longer.
the The -General was in close confinement, and
they clieerfulla consented to the' delay, but wished it
ta he for a month, as-he (Mph)) was to be employed
in au important cause to .mutt: mebefore the Court of
Assizes.. • Mr. Couture, on the part of General Cannel,
'opposed any longer delay then thet cif a fortnight. • M.
Marchangy, the Kiug's Adroente, • was of opinion that
the humanity of the Tribun;il could not• refitse a delay,
efface it. wee at resent impossible liar Metamtel to ap-
pear before it. The infix-illation, !meeker, against the
'General and his associates ii•as going on • rapidly, and
probably the close confinement would be tarn off next
day. The Court deliberated for a quarter of au-hour,
and the President declared the cause put off till the 2.Bth
Of A uatnst peremptorily. M. D•tpin said, it would be
impossiLle tie: the Coaasel of Messrs. Sennerille and
Ilabvieate, he prepared iu so short a time. ' They knew.
thavaleneral Gunnel had anted those tiro.Gentlemen.
fir calumny.; bet .:they: knew no more. After scene
further conversation, the. Court ,put off the.cause till
Saturday the 7tli of November.
A letter from 'Ceylon states, that affairs throughout
that island are iu a state of more alanniug confusion
than at army former period. . Martial law was proclaim-
ed maim the std of March througlwut the whale interior
of time country ; a general onler having been previously
joined, 43irectiug that neither money nor ammunition
should be removed from certain pasts therein particular-.
ized, without •an escort of a 0 men. The Governor was
obliged to concentrate his force in the ueighboerhood
of Candy, where his verious detachments had been
threatened by the natives. .lfhe leessawe of Ourah
occupied part of our tronps• ut rawer Ourah ; while
'the Pretender, us he is called, or some of his adherents,
hung Nam our communications between• Candy and
Colombo. The natives aro represented to 'lowa got
' together:both smununition • and taus. The most me-
lancholy prospects scent to Juuret the minds of our
countrymen, whose interests arc involved in those of
the British settlement at Ceylon ; and strong wishes are
expressed that its local administration should be placed
-immediately under the direct; compel of the Governor'
General of Indira.

The American papers 'describe, in :•a slay which de-
mands some 'serious notice, the trial and execution,
with the alleged oances, of Messrs. Armbrister and'
Arbuthnot, both acknowledged to be British subjects,
,and4tecused et' crimes against the United States. As
tier the crimes in question, viz. I. The supplying the
haus " with munitions of war," it seems te.;have
been done in the way of traffic ; Nlessts.:Arbuthnot,
&c. having supplied the Indians with died.golls.and
a smi.l.l portion of powder, without which they could
rot carry .ote their business of hunting—in return for
which 'they received likint .and corn to the amount of
4,0001 General Jackson's soldiers destroyed this pro-
perty. ^ Messrs. Arbuthnot, '&c. were said to have
*wen spies upon the Americans. Now they were taken
in a neutral garrison, when it was attacked by:the
American •force ; how, therefore, could they be pu-
nished as spies upon the Americans? . The fitct is re-
presented ~tc AR, that ,these English subjects were
merchants, trading.. with the 'lndians, and much re-.
spected-by them; and that Mr. Arbuthnot -occasionally
wrote letters for the unfortunate people theJlritish
Ambassador, complaining- of the depreciations and rob-
beties committed upon them by the virtimas Georgians ;
—thes.2, we are tohl, were their crimes. We think
that the British Government is bound to make a strict
anii resolute, though teroperatkinet.hiry into. the fair-
ness of their trial, and the justice of their execution :
Co., certainly, nothing yet appears to prove that they
had forfeited the protection of their native country.

Accounts front Rome state, that the English Admiral
Pourose continues. cruising near the eiwts of tbe.States
of the Holy See ; although much has bccn said of his
supl•oscfl intention of acting ngainst the-WA:laq Powers
he has not hithcao molested them

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Parlisraeut was not prorogued by Commiu;on on
Tuve<lay, but •by writ conserit.ulitly there were uo
Coottnassioners,

The form of proceeding was as follows :
The Commons being at the door of the Ileuse, were
admitted on the Chancellor's taking his seat, and went.
up tr. the bar; when the Lord Chancellor stattd, that
the Prince Re; cut, in the, name and on the b(:half of'
his Majesty, hati caused a Writ to he issued under the
Great Seal., for proroguing -the Parliament: and the
same being real by the Clerk, the Commons withdrew.
The Deputy Ckrk or the Crown delivered .in at the
table the P.et:irn of.the I U Peers chosen for-Smuland.
The Lords present were, the Chancellor, Earl Powis,
end Lord St. Helen's ' • and the Parliament is prorogued
to the 31 of Octebet.

The C!erhs and other inferior servants of the House
of Commons represented the Lower House: the 4peaker
attends on onliiiiiry occasions of prorogation, but us nr,
Speaker yet exists for the new Parliament, that term
was of uecesbity disponscd with.

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Al:(31.

THE DR43I 1.

ENGLIcaI OPERA HOUSE.

•
iIAVAIARKET THEATRE.

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Notwithstanding the intense heat of the weather,
stltis theatre has .I:4pt up its usual attraction. -2'40
Americas has been repeated every evening during the
tv'ck with the exception of Saturda:c This operatic...
-drama is exceedingly well acted, and we emitted to,
entice in our last, the Anomarous and meritorious exer-
.t:tais of Mr. .Harley Jack of alitrades, it kept the •
house in a roar of laughter.
On Thursday., the combined melo-drama and musi-,
cal entertainment .calie3 the Deserter of Naples, was
nrivea 4in the purpose of exhibiting Mr. :f . I'. Cod.:e
sls Henry, and it is but justice to any that he acquitted
I.;mself•most creditably though occasionally .a )ittle too
yam tomitnie. The exquisite and interestiug performance
....9msia,sby Miss Kelly, Is too welltnowa to need our

praise.
Saturday Bickerstaffa's opera of Lionel airs Clarissa
drew a name:row! and -fashionable audience. Miss Carew
again Llelig:itel us ; she is in to any singer on
. the stage, it i, to Miss Stephens only ; but we can
•pcsitively pronounce her to be a better musician than'
't!..e Covent (1;!elen Siren. w?earmen sang and acted
• svei:, Miss Kelly garcthe little part pf -.hung great iia
nortanc- and Bartley delivered the sentiments of the
•
bcnevoltuit Sir JoAo Flowerdale with a gentlemanly
cace.llis:Stevcnsuu is an improving yantig actress.
Co/o.tc/ Ofribtri ,and his fantastical lady loct none of
itheir humour et importance.ba the hands of Mr. Chat-
-terly•and Mrs. Grove. _ _

Tl•eir• itoyal Illiglinesscs the Mike and Duchess of
Kent smd suite visited the English Opera on Nlowlay,
And were highly gratified with the eutertainateuts se/
•lected on that occasion.

The play of the Africans was revived.r.t this theatre
on Wednesday night, after a llpse of six years since its
'lam representation. This revival is likely to carry with
-.it the suffrages of the public: we wish the piece had
'been innre free fmm the faults peculiarly incidental to
snmdern drainatic productions, and which g-enerally eon-.
-car with other causes to limit the perir:d of their (lora-
'..tinn—we mean an overflow of ia-placed sentiment,
menr.-.1 aphorisms out 4 character, with allusions that
arc born, and nwst expire with the occasion that pro.
diced them. The. play of she :elfricans, however, pus-
.-resses an innate strength capable of supporting much
greater weight, since it •exhibits wiry sitliations
powerful interest, well drawn .and contrasted cliarae-
Aers, together with a story well constructed and judi-
ciously developed. The performers, among whom were
Mr. %Varde and Miss E. Blanchard, who represented
14 characters of Sr/leo and ilerissa for first time,
exerted themsatiaue with unusual skill and camera; and
the play war: given aft fw repetition on. the remaining
•n:ge.; rlie week witli universal approbat'ain.

Mr. S Kemble has been appointed by the •eula-Com-
• raittee of Drury Lane Theatre, .Manager for the ensu-
ing season.
The dispute kstween .the Committee of Drury lime
Theatre and lillisten, respecting the Olympic Theatre,
has terminated i.e Lis favour ; :ma tine Law Officers of
the Crown have reported, that his pevformances there
are no infriogenm.ts of the patent.
The Special C.aninitace aral-SUb-Committeoof Drury-
lane Theatre have-at kagth declared open war against
eaih otia....r's authority. The .f.armer have served an
notico GU the latter, nut to make any engage-
-I,:onts for the ensuing season, without the approbation
•of the body of the Proprietors ; which notice the Sub-
Ceaunittee, it is tai f, refuse to ()boy.
Au official communication .has been =Gale by the
Bank to the Stock Exchange, that the former will, as
usaal, give every thcility to the negotiators of the New
• St:,k ; that they will, what is technically culled, "take
in the 01rruktm," wl:ich is, to make payment of the
realainaler of the histalments,•on living paid interest at
the rate et 5 per cent, for the morey.advanced.
Iteprest:ntatioats are now making to the Admiralty,-ors'
the subject of the depredations committed on mar.com-
merce in the West -Indies by the Insurgent privateers ;
.strong these, the ease of the Jupiter is one attic most
_prominent. It is said, that Government only-require
the facts to be fully authenticated, to determine on the
most vigorous measures tier the suppression of a nest of
freebooters and pirates, who appear to acknowledge no
distincti•m-of friend or foe, hut to plunder indivrimi-
. nately all wh, . have the misfiartune to fall inti, their
hands. _ _

The Priry Council on Monde• last itotermined that
the Council of Ab?oleen of 1816, last legally clectek,
net un .the .23d of Septetuber, and till uti a'
Council. who ai;ain ottAlichaelunts day should pmcced
usif they had been thecouncil of the present year, to
an eleciiou of Magisisstesittut Counsellors of that city
for the ensuing year.
Tuesday the Lord Mayor held a Court of Aldermen
at Guildhall fur 'her:Tose of ewearin,„,, in • Mr.Waith-
mat.4: the new Aldermen for the 'Wart of Farringtion
WithiAtt; In tho. room of Sir Charles Prix, Bart,
-.4C2.3011.

THE NATIONAL RECISTriI.

COURT OF CH.INCERY.—SATuaniY, Atm 8.