The National Register.
London, England, 1817-01-06 00:00:00

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mtions. We could reconummdi nevertheless, a dose
AttehtlMl to :lOW particulars vitich are capable of ;ugirii•
improvement. There is a want of decfsion in her step,
and of gracefulness in her carriage. We could detect
in some instances, a fahe emphasis, and sometimes a
redublication of the emphasis in the same short sentence.
'With that exception (and the ihult did not occur more
than half a 'dozen times during the play) Mrs. Allsop
is an admirable speaker. Her articulation is front a cor-
rect school. "Alany of her times are accurately those of
Mrs. Jordan. Her voice is not only sweet, lint clear
and penetrating; and her song, self-accompanied upon
the harp, being executed with the utmost delicacy of
taste and purity of ornament, was loudly encored by
the audience. We could see this very promising actress
again with extreme pleasure in the same character, anti
we indulge the most favourable prognostics of her
future scarcer upon the stage. Of the other personages,
Miss Kelly's flora was distinguished by its arch anti
exquisite humour. Harley's Lissardo was gay, bustling,
and eccentric. [Wand did all that could be done fhr

Colonel Briton ; and though we much :,refer Charles
Kemble's i.km Felix to that of Mr. Hoe, we must give
the latter gentleman malt fair more than ordinary suc-
cess in that hupetuous character.

On Thursday the Prince Regent held a Privy Coun-
cil at the Pavilion at Brighton. The members of the
Council assembled at three o'clock, agreeably to sou-•
mous. There were present his Royal Highnes's the Duke
of Clarence, the Earl of Liverpool, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. Viscount Melville, Viscount Castle-
reagh, the Marquis of Hertfbrd, the Marquis of Chol-
mondeley, &c. The Right Hon. Lord Combermerc was
introduced to the Council, and sworn in Governor of
Barbadoes. The Regent gave audiences to several of the
Cabinet Ministers.
The late Earl of Effingham had but a small estate
considering his rank—perhaps not 20001. a year; but
Gen. Kenneth Howard, who, it is said, mimeo's to the
Barony of Howard, has property to add to this, which
will enable him better to support the dignity of the
Peerage.

Lord Stanhope, it appears, was some time before his
death much impressed with the advantages resulting to
the public from Sunday Schools, and expressed a wish to
see the children of one of these schools in his neighbour-
hood, that he might judge from personal knowledge of
the truth of what was said. He accordingly appointed a
dav for the children to wait on him, which they did. Their
innabers were 130. His Lordship, after seeing the pro-
gress they had male, addressed them respecting their
conduct in life, and the necessity of carrying the instruc-
tions they received into practice, and then gave each of
them a bun, a glass of wine, and (id.
A meeting of the electors of Westminster was held
on Wednesday at the Crown and Anchor tavern, for
the purpose of receiving the answer of Lord Cochrane
to the address voted to him by his constitutents ori the
17th ult. Major Cartwright took the chair, and the
answer of his Lordship was read to the meeting by the
secretary. It commenced with some very severe reflec-
tions on the conduct of Lord Gambier, and pronounced
the chart which had been produced in his def6tee to the
Court-martial appointed to inquire into the Basque
roads expedition, a false and fabricated instrument. A
great number of exculpatory observations were added
with regard to his Lordship's participations in the al-
ledged fraud upon the funds, of which he had been con-
victed ; and censured the conduct of the Chief Justice of
the Court of King's Bench, and the Marshal of the King's
Bench prison, as unjust, partial, and oppressive. The
answer was received with loud test imonics of approbation.
A resolution of approbation of his Lordship's conduct
was put and carried, as were the thanks of the meeting
to Major Cartwright for his zealous and uniform ex-
ertions in the cause of reform through a long and un-
wearied life.
Savary, the mock Duke of Rorigo, has been tried in
his absence, and sentenced to death. He is, we believe,
wandering about among the Deserts of Arabia ; the
last time we beard of him was from Constantinople.
The atrocities which have chequered the fretful fever of
the bad man's life makes us regardless of his future des-
tiny. It is perhaps within the scope of the decrees of
Providence, that he who has so often administered the
dagger and the bowl to others should wander a houseless
exile, until the world receives an awful example of
strict retribution by hearing that the knife of some mid-
night assassin has extinguished that life which has so
long most unaccountably braved the gripe of the exe-
cutioner !
Several boxing matches are in agitation. The one
talked of between Cribb and Carter excites the most
lively interest ; but Carter cannot get backed fOr Cribb's
sum of 3001. a side, but he is willing to fight any body
if he could get backers.—The next in point of interest
is between Scrag ins and Turner. 1001. a side is ready,
and the match will be made immediately. Scmgg,ins is
the favourite.—The next match in contemplation is be-
tween Puintee and Sutton, the black who beat Robin-
son at Doncaster. Robinson, the block, is ut Dum-
fries, in Scotland, and he will fight any one near• his
weight.