The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-26 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. '

NOV. 26.

he so largely served to destroy. His son and heir is repre-
sented as a young man of considerable talents and strong
ambition ; and may find ample room for both in opposing
what he is now obliged to support.

Such are • the personages, who are expected to grace
BUONAPA RTE'S triumphant entry:into his Capital. They are
his principal vassals, and move within the orbit, which
forms the new French Empire. Denmark, though not ac-
tually forming a part of this system, seems to receive her
present light and impulse from the grand luminary, and
may be considered as a kind of irregular comet, which
strayed from her own into this new system. The pre-
sent King is actuated by the most inveterate hostility
to this country; and will support solely from that sen-
timent, every plan of aggression, however ultimately
dangerous to himself and the independence of Europe,
which tends to injure the interest of this country. He
will co-operate cordially in every plan, which has that ob-
ject in view; and as he plumes. himself upon his good
faith, no time, scarcely any concession on our part, will
erase from his memory, the conflagration of his capital,
and the capture of his, .fleet. That unfortunate affair is
now over; and we wish it were in our power to consign it
to eternal oblivion; but the present generation of Danes
must pass away, before we are able to effect a hearty re-
conciliation with that Government and Country. The
character of the present King was, unfortunately, misun-
derstood by our Government ; for his present rancorous
enmity is a strong presumption of the firmness, and, per-
haps, integrity of his principles. Had he pledged his
word not to deliver his fleet into the hands of the common
enemy; he would have sooner consented to bury himself
under the ruins of his throne and country, before he
would have violated it.

The Africaine frigate. Captain Haggett, arrived on Fri.
day at Portsivouth, from the Chesapeake, in 26 days.
The Hon. Mr. Erskine, his Lady, and four children, came
home in her. The Africaine lay two mouths in Hampton-
roads, after she landed Mr. Jackson. Soon after she ar-
rived, several of the crew deserted in one of her boats; the
men were claimed by , Capt. Hamett, but the American
mob seemed to be the judges in the case, for, though
there appear d every disposition in the GoVernment to
restore the men, they were never given up, and 'it was
attributed- to the influence of the mob. The officers of
the Africaine had very little communication, with the
shore, in consequence of this disgraceful transaction.
Capt. Haggett did not go on shore all the tiino the Afri-
caine was m America.—The general opinion when the
Afrif:aine sailed was, that the differences oith.this country
would be adjusted.
• A vessel is arrived at filyni.mth from B:lboa, wh;ch
states that she fell in on the 15th, and was boarded by the •

Renommee, one of a squadron of tour French frigates
and. a corvette, from the Loire, bound to Gnat:loupe.
They left her and then steered a Westerly course. The
Dreadnought,
,98, Rear-Admiral Sotheby, also fell in
with, and chased the above squadron a whole day, but
uufortunately they escaped in consequence of the Dread-
nought's haviug carried away her fore-topgallant-mast,
The bailing of these frigates for Guadaloupe was expected
by our Admiral on the Barbadoes station, and a flying
squadron of frigates had been sent on the look out for
them. We trust, therefore, that they .have,escaped our
naval force. in Europe only to fall into the hands of our
naval force in the West Indies.

NOV. 26.

Parliament, it is finally determined, is to meet, for the
dispatch of business, on Tuesday, the •23d of January :
the Gazette of last night contains a Proclamation to that
effect. _ _ _

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All the men of war at Plymouth arc ordered to he fitted
for sea, with all possible dispatch ; and even the slips in
ordinary are to be surveyed ►mmediately, and those dec:f►ed
worthy of being fitted for service, to-
be reported accord.
ingly. Naval preparations are accordingly going on with
great vigour.
Licences were granted on Friday for Dutch Zealand,
comprehending Walcheren and all the adjacent islands.
These licences, we understand, are of no utility, on account
of the rigorous system adopted on the coast of Holland.
At the same time, we are informed, they arc refused to
the traders of the River Ems, where there is a consider-

able relaxation of that severity, and an extensive inter-
course is, in consequence, capable of being maintained
with a large portion of the North of Germany.
Extract of a leWr from Riga, dated 21st October :—" I
see by the English Papers, which, notwithstanding the
vigilance of Romanzow, still reach us, that you are very
ill Informed, in London, of what is passing in Petersburgh.
I quitted that capital the 2d of this month, after passing a
whole year there.—The Russiau nation is injured, if it is
supposed that it is degraded enough to adopt the politics
of his Master and his Vizier. Any Englishman of cha-
racter, travelling in any part of Russia. will acknowledge,
that at no period were Englishmen better received in Rus-
sia than they have been since Alexander has become so
subservient to the will of Buonaparte. The Emperor has
lost all his popularity. Romanzow is at once an object of
hatred and contempt. It is not true that Caulincourt is
admitted into all houses in Petersburgh ; 1 defy any one to
name above three into which he is admitted. Not only he
is not admitted into others, but in others he has been for-
mally refused, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the
Emperor. Even the person to whom the Emperor is most
attached., the celebrated Madame N—, refused to receive
him, although the Emperor requested her to do so ; and
at that time she was inviting the Prince de Schwartlen-
bnrg, the Austrian Ambassador, to dinner four limes a
week. The horror against this. Caulincourt is so great,
that the Princess D—, having publicly spoken against him,
in the strongest language, he complained to the Emperor,
who contented himself with merely requesting the Prin-
cess not to meddle vi iih politics, There is not a Russian
who does not foresee the restoration of the kingdom of
Poland, and the ruin of Russia, if this lasts. But in spite
of all this Caulincourt is master of the palace of Alex-
ander, and Romanzow is his active accomplice.—Credit is
very low here. The rouble, which is worth seventeen
pence, loses almost two third.—The Emperor lately en-
deavoured to raise a loan, at eight per cent, but the-loan,
throughout the whole empire, did not produce 10,000
roubles.
At no period of our history was there known such stores
of wine, brandy, hemp, tallow, timber, &c. as now crowd
our docks, quays, and warehouses. It is said, that the
quantity of pipes, butt's, puncheons, and hogsheads of wine
and spirits now under bond, and lying on detnurrage, ex-
clusive of the quantity in the merchant's cellars, in London,
would, if placed endways, exceed one hundred miles in
• length.
There is not, we are happy to state, any foundation for
the report of the loss of the sloop of war, 'Little Belt, off
Jamaica. She arrived at Halifax on the tech of September,
after having seen a convoy for Barbadoes, and a vessel
with provisions' for Honduras, to their respective destina-
tions.

The Earl of Rosse has been appointed Post-Master Cie-
Bend of Ireland, in the room of Lord Clancarty.
The Election for Chancellor at Oxford, will commence
at nine o'clock of the 13th December, and, by the statutes
of the University, must finish on that day.
4t is said that the Duke of Northumberland wag selicited

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to permit the iiisertaun 01 Lord rerc)'s name in the List of
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, but that the Noble
Duke refused. Lord Francis Spencer a son of the Duke
of Marlborough, was afterwards gazelled as one of the Com-
minim:era for the Affairs of India. His Lordship hod never
heard of the intention to nominate him to the office, and
instantly insisted on the revocation of the appointn7eut
A new County Jail, costing 20,0001. and a Bridewell,
costing 15,000/. have lately been built in Devoashire,
which since their completion have been discovered to be
within the district of Exeter, which is a city and county
of itself so that until au Act of Parliament can be ob-
tained on the subject of these prisons, all comtuitments
thither from the county of De•on, are understood to be
illegal.
For some time past, various persons have made it their
business to attend all the markets in London ai:d its envi-
rons, to purchase guineas, hail guineas, and seven
pieces, which no doubt, a'e: sent to a foreign matket in neu-
tral ships.
A letter from Konigsberg, dated the 26th ultimo. ::ays—
" A most singular and curious circumstance took rice is
his City a few days ago. A poor bricklayer, at a •,ery ad-
vanced age, who was on his death- bed, sent to ltiie of our
Ministers to come to him, intimalit g that he had a great
secret: to divulge before he breathed his last, which.woeld
tend to the welfare of his country. Our- Minister com-
plied with his request, and went to the poor man, who in-
formed him, that during the seven years war, old Frederick
had employed him, and two of his compamoiai, to bury in
tale of the churches in Konigshurg, a vast treasure of gold,
silver and diamonds, at the same time causing them to take
a solemn oath that the secret should never he divulges',
until the last of them was going to die, or that a great
scarcity prevailed in Konitrsburg. The Governor of the
City immediately received orders to have the cave opened,
when they found the hidden tremuire."
William Jones, a native of Coact-, in Glamorganshire,
quitted that part of the country about 50 years ago, to
avoid the grasp of the parish officers. He came to
London, and afterwards embarked in the wine and spirit
trade, which he carried on with so much success, as to ac-
cumulate a fortune of upwards of half a million. He died
a few months since, leaving his four executors 2,0001. each;
he bequeathed all his freeaold property to several parishes
in the vicinity of the intitropas ; gave leg-acies of 50001.
and 10,0001. to a number of friends; and directed that such
relations as might apply to the executors, within twelve
months after his decease, should be pa id, one shilling each ! ! !
A young lady* aged 18, the daughter of a wealthy distil-
ler, in the vicinity of St. Martin's-lane, eloped on Sunday
last, with a private soldier, who, on account of this affair
of gallantry, has been returned absent without leave.
The parties were traced to Camberwell, where the son of
Mars threw of his military attire and purchased a suit of
cloaths. The lady took with her about 1-00/. and embraced
the opportunity to go off when she was supposed to have
gone to tea to a married sister's in the neighbourhood.
Ann Harvey, and L. F. Pellman and a third person,
were brought up to the Court of King's Bench, yesterday,
to receive judgment of the Court for a conspiracy, with
,iutent to receiveloool. by pretending to obtain for a per-
son of the name of Hesse, the place of coast waiter in the
Custom House. Mrs. Harvey was sentenced to three
months imprisonment, and the other defendants to two
months each. Two men of the name of Harvey, father
and son, were also'brought up to receive judgment of the
Court, for a violent and cowardly assault upon• Peter. C.
Shaughnessy, Esq. They were severally sentenced to
three months imprisonment in• the goal of Gloucester.
A writ of Habeas Corpus was ordered, directed to the
gaoler of Hereford, to bring up a man of the name of
Priestly, in order that he shonld be discharged. He was
committed on suspicion of stealing a Queen Anne sixpence,
in the fair of Hereford, when he was searched uo such ar-
ticle was found in his poosession.
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TILEfiTRICALS.

I.TCEUM THEATRE.
" There is nothing new." as Solomon says, " under the
Sun," we were not therefore surprised on Monday night
to. find the plot of the new farce actually taken from a
novel, which is not considered as the best production of a
pen which has many admirers. Those, who have read
6 4 Aubrey," will, in the very first scene, recognize the ro-
mantic story by which that Reverend Gentleman.oOtains a
.wife, and we were led from it, to attribute this dramatic
- , trifle to its author, a conjecture which we have since had.
strengthened by report. Highly as we thiak of that
writer as a novelist, yet, in dramatic dialogue,we must con-
fess, that like his Farce, he is " Xot at Home," nor has
he displayed any great ingenuity in the connection of his
twice tali tale, with an outre representation of a jealous.
husband, living in public, yet wishing to seclude his wife
from society. The endeavour of Lovewell, indeed, to en-
gage his wife's attention to the study of Chemistry, is
neatly ridiculed, and the Chemical Calkeehism, like "daugh-
ter Cherry's" Catechism of. Love is a good burlesque of
that female science to be acquired at the Albemarle Lec-
tures. Mrs. Lovetzell, however, is rather giddy, and as
she expresses a pretereuce for Botany, and the Sexual 4s- '
tem, her husband fetus, that like the spirit in his retorts,
she may evaporate. en descensu, he therefore will only ad-
niq to her confidence and his own, his friend Tom Spectre
who, spite of nature's neglect, fancies himself as Adonis.
In this character, as. played by Matthews, there is much
to laugh at, indeed without it, the piece would have been
damned, as there was a decided opposition to it from the
first, and most of the scenes went on as limpingly as Mr.
Lorewell in his half drawn boot. In giving praise to
Matthews, there would be no novelty, but here the merit
is all his own,and is indeed indescribable ; notwithstanding
the opposition at the close, the pieces was given out, or
rather imieted out by Mr. Do Camp, for further representa-
Con, and with sonic judicious curtailments has been per-
formed during the week.
The character of Miss Worthington, in the Poor Gentle- '
man, is so sinlltic when read, that it might well be sup-
posed, yow h :Ind innocence were the sole requisites neces-
sary to delineate it on the stage ; if these were, indeed, suf-
licient, the 3 oung lady, who in.,le her first appearance on '
hit
.. • oily :,cage, at this Theatre on Friday night, would have
been a correct portraiture of the gentle Emily; but it is a
misfortune attending these simple characters, that although
they have little to say with respect to dialogue, yet they
still have much to do in the action of the piece. In this
respect then, we would hint to her as a young. actress, that
much more is necessary, than a mere School Girl's repeti-
tion of the part, and he ought to recollect that every
. look, every motion should be connected with the passing
business of the scene.
Her figure is easy and graceful, rather below the middle
size, and not deficient in the " rotundity of beauty,"
though far from approaching to embonpoint; for a first*
;v;n:e.! re ;;ee, her entr6e might be esteemed unembarrassed,
li:si &I; ~I,- lose her presence of mind, either from the no-
Nei!) of iwr situation, or the plaudits which she justly q-
ceiyed ; her entmcion is clear and distinct, yet is ac- '
complmie:l by a lisp, or rather a kind of sibilation, which
a very little care wi:l remedy. Upon the whole, as " Cor-
poral Foi.'s" would say, though she has not . taken our
hearts by storm, yet she wilt undoubtedly make a lodge-
raent4 sap, before the Winter Campaign is ended.

COVENT GARDEN.

The public attention to the discontent expressed at this
Theatie is still sufficient to make them forgetful both of
our foreign and domestic difficulties, and- though some of.
the daily prints, with a total disregard to truth, venture
olblushingly .to assert tbat Jae rioters, as the, term them

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Princess of WA LES,
Duke of DI: VON St!l4E,
fiatiV HO
Earl SEFTON,
Mr. VAUGLIAN (City),
Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND)
Mr. hiEY RICK,
Marquis Of ABERCORN,
Lady SPENCER
WS. J. °RBI( HUNTER,

Marqnis of STA FVO RD, -
Mr. ANGERSTEIN (City),

Mr. lior E.
Airs. Bou sm.

NOV. 94.

are nearly quelled, 'we feet it necessary to remark that
dissapprobation is as strongly marked as ever; there are,
indeed, fewer 0. P.'s and pfacards, but when the play is
over, and the mal contents, or inorejustly the non-conicnis,
sit down with their hats of, the difference both in numbers
and in respectability between them and the orderlies is evi-
deitt. 'We arc sorry to see the Managers, for a mere punc-
tilio, iccur such consequences, for we are conviuced, that
with respect io the rise in prices, the Public would acqui-
esce if they were once convinced of its necessity, nor would
the dragooning system be any long-e; necessary within
doors. Without, the same system of bail is pursued,
though not so extravagant as at first ; but one man has
been committed for coughing and sneezing, with the inten-
tion, as Mr. Brandon swears, of disturbing the peiform-
ance ! and another for calling out Silence ! with the inten-
tion of making a noise, thong!' the person himself, who
surely ought' to know his own intentions best, declared his
wish was totally dfferent ; nothing, indeed, is now want-
ing, but a criminal information for crying " Encore !"
The state of the question in the Courts of Law, presents
a very curious appearance; Mr. Clifford having been taken
up and released, notwithstanding Mr. Brandon's story,
brings an action for false imprisonment, when Mr. Bran-
don puts in eight pleas, any one of which, if true, make
Mr. Clifford's offence greater than most of those for which
so many have been committed! We ask, then, why was he
discharged ? Why was the charge dropped at the Bow-
street Office? As a sot off; a criminal information is moved
against Mr. Clifford, and according to the newspaper tic-
count of a long speech, we are told that Mr. Kemble
found it necessary/ to raise the Prices ! but nothing is there
said of the private boxes which deprive the Public of the
best. part of the House, although that Public is called on
to pav the extra expence ; and for whom is this invidious
distinction made ? Not fur the nobility—not for the high-
er classes of society—but, if we are to trust the lists which
are handed about:for City noblesse, folks who wish to se-
parate from their equals, and to rival the highest rank, bo
cause, forsooth, they can afford 500!. a year t Nay, we
are even told that. one of the " impartial arbitrators," is
au impartial proprietor of a private box ! This, for the
sake of public decency, we hope is unfounded ; but, 64 if
the galled jade winces," there is an easy reference to the
following statement, for the correctness of which we, of
course, cannot vouch. We give it as it came to our
hands;

BLOOD ROYAL.
FOUR A NNUAL BOXES RENTED BY
Prince of WALES, I Duke of Cu M ncnLA Nn,
Duke of Yoftg. Duke of GLOUCESTER.
FOUR. AN NUAL BOXES PURCHASED BY
Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, I Mr. Kriox,
Earl of EC;REMONT, I '%irS. ANTROBUS.

TWENTY-FOVR 4NNt',4l, BOX ES AT PRESENT RENT11;11
OR OCCUPIED BY

Mr. .WnirE (Office in the
House of Commons),
Marquis of Saustwar,
Mr. BOONE,
Duke of BEDFORD,
Count STA II R EMI:ER(4
Lord MOVN TJ Y
Mr. COUTTS,
Lord CHoL:noNnELEYk
Earl Gaosvr.Non,

Sunday last, about ,twelve o'clock, a hare was seen cros-
sing the Green Park from Constitution-row to the bason
near Piccadilly, when it was pursued by a number of peo-
ple, from whence it made its way into Piccadilly, returned
back, and bein4 pursued by a dug, ran into the bison ; a
young man immediately plunged in up tolls middle and
took her alive, amidst a vast coucourxe of peupla.