The National Register.
London, England, 1817-07-28 00:00:00

THE DRAMA.

ENGLISH OPERt Howe.—The opera of Love in a
Village was brought out at this Theatre on Tuesday
evening, when a young l; sly, of' the mane of Stevenson,
appeared as Itoscila, and Mr. rettrman as Young Mea-
dows. Miss Stevenson is a pretty girl, but seems to
sing to herself rather than to the audience. l'earman,
in Young Meadolos, was de-:ervedly honoured with great
applause ; and in the beautiful air, Has she then filed
in her Truth ?" he was encored with repeated plaudits.
Chatterley, Isaacs, Broadhurst; Wilkinson, Miss Bugging,
and !Miss Kelly, in Justice 16iio !cock, Hawthorn, Eu-
slace, images, Lucinda, and Madge, greatly contributed
to the eclat that attended the performance of' this very
favourite opera The audience were numerous, and the
boxes boasted a fine display of elegant company.
Saturday evening a new melo-dramatic romance was
performed for the first time at this Theatre under the
title of the trizard, or the aroma Man of the Moor.
The Pece is founded npan the story of the Week
Drutzef, in the Tales of any Landlord, but to render the
,
interest more compact and dramatic, the deviations from
the tale are numerous and essential.
Tile scene is laid among the Ediots and eilieslaws of the Scottish
borders, in the latter part of the reign of Queen Anne.-110bLie
r. Bartley.) is represented as plodding his way homeward
from deer chasing, us the gloom of an autumnal evening, when he is
sought after by a peasant n Uuckel.) at the instigation
of his grandmother AV' Elliot ( Mrs Grove,) end intended bride
Gerre .1. (Miss IL Bag.,ins.) to hasten his steps. when
they are encountered on a lonely moor, by a strange being, (Mr. 11.
Jodeston,) who rejects their profferred coarta-sy, in a tone of insane
misanthropy, and leaves ff 04.- and Ditr;e per ataded, that he is not
of mortal lineage, but a goblin of no a:niable disposition ; althinigh
be stuns all society. he has acquired a certain awful reputation in
the neighbourhood. of being a heaven taught wizard—lle is con-
salted in secret by k.sliel r re, (Miss Kelly.) who is distressed by
her father's threats, to solemnize a forced marriage between her, an d
F.-ed rt* t Mr• T. Short,) when he promises to appear
and deliver her from the impending ruin which threatens her. Jn the
mean time, Ihirtoe's cottage. is destroyed by fire, and his cattle and
bride carried oil by the reivers, in.stiganal chiefly by the Laird of
jg/ifretw. (tr. Whearlev,) between whose daughter, and yoling
Ears: lip (also Mr. 14. Johnson,) there is an attachment, which
the old Laird disapproves. Cram.lr nut tong being missing
during the fire at the cottage. If dgile is plunged into toe
deepest despair, and seeks information of the Wizard, for the reto- I
very of his destined bride. By an oracular hint given him hi
the Wizard, heseeks his lot mistress in the Tower of ;Vestisumtiat,
kept by G, ( Mr. late-a). A plunderer, or one of the border foragers,
who after capitulation, leads forty in the astonishment of the be-
sir:sere not Gra^e A rflutruitg, but Vere, who had been en-
trusted by the old Laird. her father, to the temporary care of the moss
troapers. /req., in time cad, however, finds his bride balmily re-
stored tohins.—The catastrophe is be-moist about by the appearance
of the Wiser], who, whentaey are all ranled for the sacrifice madeen
the part of 3f7,, Ir.re, in order .to save her father's life, and, at
the mom ant of the solemnization befo e the altar in the Castle
chapel, suddenly appears, from the interior of a moms tient, and
is soon recognized uy the guilty Ea;-slaw, to be nu other than
yr.ang Reese •: p%, the Laird's vital enemy. The inveterate
at first thinks of having recousme to force, when he is
stulleoli arrested in Ida progress. by the discovery, that the sup.
posed i....arittetyl, is no other than the rightful heir to the estate, who
11.1,1 :seen stolen rib -1 his cradle, and was be.teved to have died its his
infancy ; but vim. in fact, was sent to a distant country, where. us
he advanced to .u..13..0cid, he bra! been persecuted by !us thinattwal
Cnele. and cenfinel on Lis return to Engl..nd, as a maniac. IC rem
this op •ression and disastron.: sit ninon, he had been roamed by a
young frieral, w'm hat aecidentally be.m his companion in child-
hood ; this friend, wan appears in the Drama. under the aueroed
-tame of //a.4 Rid ", (Mr. Wrench,) but who is the real E.Jrns-
. has introduced himself by a knowledge of Da .Garth: fatal se •
.het. into his family, and is largely instrumental to the devel‘v.ment
ef the plot. I: appears in final es:plantation, that to ensile the de-
frauded heir saixessfidly to assert Ins rights, Bares •li.ye had lent his
nine to his friend, who, its ostler to be constantly near the mistress
of his :dfection.s, (Juliet Vert%) whose life he has saved, assumes the
c'eange disguise of the %Viten! ; a character well suited to the misan-
thropic turn of mind, which his sufferings and injuries have occ.aion.
ally ,eased.
Frotn these materials, the Author, (what we under-
stand to be Mr Arnold,) has worked up a very inter-
esting. and effective I)ra.na. The Muic is the com-
position cr Mr. Horn, and is very creditable to his
talents, both for style and originality. Mexers.
Johnson, Bartley, Wrench, and Isaacs, were powerful
auxiliaries; and Miss Kelly acted as well as usual,
whica is a sufficient encomiwn. The Scenery, Dresses,
and Decorations, are of the first order, and we have
no dotilh. but titat .the Wizard • will be productive .to
the theatre, and have a successful run.
The House was crowded to excess.

GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT CLAREMONT.—.OR
Thursday the Princess Charlotte gave a mogniiicent
entertainment to her august Father. To in,:et his
Royal Higluies.s were invited a select party. In the
evening, her Royal Highness had a musical party of
the most charming description, principally from Mo.
Bart, whose works are so much a favourite with her
Highness.
It is said the reception which Sir William Congrcve
has met with at Plymouth, leaves no doubt of his
succeeding, without opposition, to the representation
of that Borough, in the room of Sir Benjamin Bloom-
field, appointed .Private Secretary to the Prince
Regent.
Government on. Thurslay issued 100,0001. of new
Exchequer Bills, which were eagerly taken by the
nionie.l men-in the city at a premium of 31. It is ge-
nerally supposed, that this will be the last issue the
Chancellor of the Exchetiner will make of 2Ad. bills,
•but that the remainder of the nine millions which lie
originally intended to issue will be brought heiore the
pubuc at an interest of xd. per day.
The Ptinceee Charlotte of Prussia ari.:yed the 29'h
ult. ut Petersburgh ; tlik.!-Emperor, the two Empresses,
and the Impclial Family, received her in the Ines;
atfvvtionate manner. Her marriage with the Grand
Doke Nicholas was to take place on the Bth July.

The most flattering accounts are received from every
part of the kineom, of the state of the ensuing harvest,
and the expectancies of abundant crops are so prevalent,
that many of the farmers, with their characteristic in-
consistency, begin to apprehend some injury to the ag-
ricultural classes, in consequence of the low prices of
provisions. We notice this strange apprehension, tier the
purpose of expressing our asttmishn*ut at itr being se-
riously entertained by any rational creature. What
possible difference een it make to the fanner, in the
ai,egreggte amount of his profits, whether he receives
high priced for small quantities, or low prices for large
quantities of cis corn, provided the sum ultimately re-
ceived be received be the same in the one case us in the
other? In a plentiful r.ar he will give more corn for
a certain sum of mono- than he would in a year less
abundant ; but he shell 1 also remember, that the pri-
ces of all other articles of consumption experience a pro-
portionate variation in price, so that he enjoys, as much
as any other person in society, the advantages arising
from a prosperous harvest. It is a strange infatuation
to thick that the abundance of the article can injure
the proprietor, because lie thereby obtains a smaller
price fbr each particular quantity of it. It reminds us
of the conduct of the Dutch merchants, in destroying
the superfluous produce of their spieeries in abundant
years, that the article might bring its usually high price
in the European markets : but in such a mode of reason-
ing, it is difficult to determine whether most to con-
demn, its extreme absurdity or its ungenerous selfish-
ness.

The hops in Worcestershire have assumed a favour-
able appearance within the last ten days. The planta-
tions are greatly improved. The plants arc much clean-
er, and the vine exhibits vigour.
We are happy to find that the Barrosa and Esse::
East Indiamen, which were reported to have been lost,
have arrived in safety at China. Great hopes are en-
tertained that the Anna is also safe ; but the Elplkin-
stone (the f mrth ship), it is ascertained har been burnt
at XVitamooa, after having dtlivered only three chop
boats of cotton.

Mr Courtenay, M. P. is said to be named as the
Master in Chancery, to succeed Robert Steel Esq.
The King of Prussia lives at Carlsbad in the simplest
and most unassuming way. He attends the public
rooms, like a common subscriber, every evening, and
sometimes joins in the merry dance, always retiring at
an early hour, and avoiding every thing like gaming.
The Ki.:g and Queen of Wirtemberg have gone from
Baden, the firmer to Sutz, in Alsace, where a con-
ci leruble detachment of Wirtembergesa truops is st►-
tione.l, and the latter to Strasburg.
The grand steam-boat La Duthesse de Berri, will
be launched at Rouen on the ,2r.th of Aogust, the fes-
tival of St. Louis. This v. 1, built by order of the
Marquis de Jouirroy, under the. directi n of Captain
[Lille, with the greatest care, will in nothing he found
inferior to the finest steain-buets of America She per-
fectly resembles a beautiful corvette with 20 pieces of
cannon, and will carry 300 passengers, and merchan-
dize in proportion. Her bottom is coppered, and her
pump possesses the force of twenty-four horses. It is
reported that her first voyage will be for Paris.
A letter from Vienna, dated July 9, says, " Since
Jerome Buonaparte inhabits the chateau of Schoenen,
a very unexpected attention is excited by the etiquette
he observes ; he never rides but with his flamer Royal
state, the train consisting of several carriages, with two,
fiver, and six horses, and with out-riders besides to clear
the way for him : one must wonder more at his pre-
sumption, when one hears that he insists upon being
treated as a King by his own sister Madame Murat.
Accounts from Switzerland inform us, that the Lakes
have tidlen, and restored litnuirels of houses to their
inhabitants, but in u dilapidated state.
Mr. Mr. S idler, jun. ascended from the Cavalry Ba-
rack, near Dublin, on Tuesday, the 2:2d instant, at
forty minutes past one p. m. and lauded about a mile
and a half from Holyhead, at seven p. m. having
crossed the Irish Channel in five hours uud twenty
minutes.

Since the Paris Papers which we have already given'
others have just been received, they state, that an Eng.
lish frigate has arrived at Leghorn in order to bring
away five millions in ca.:ll, being the sum reimbursed
to England by his Sardinian Majesty for the expences
of the war. It appears (say the same papers) that all
the French refugees have received orders to quit the
kingdom of the Netherlands.—The French funds have
risen to 671.
A Hamburgh Mail is also arrived. It announces
the important fact that the Grand Seignior, after issu—
ing two energetic rescript• against the delay of his Mi-
nisters in adjusting the differences with Russia, las
dismissed the Reis Effendi, severely reprimanded the
Grand Vizier, and announced his• unequivocal inter'.
tion of " amicably arranging matters" with the Empe—
ror of Russia.

The accounts from all parts ef the Continent assure
us that the harvest has commenced with the promise
of general abundance ; and truly rejoiced are we to add,
that nothing can be more gratifying than the acemnts
which we continue to receive from all parts of Great
Britain and Ireland upon this most important subject.
The Dutch Mail, states, that the Government of Hesse
Darmstadt have, by way of polishing a merchant at
Worms, who had hoarded up 180,000 bushels of corn,
prohibited him from selling any part of his stock until
the harvest is got in. At Leige two speculators in
corn have hanged themselves in despair, at the depres.
sion of the prices.