The National Register.
London, England, 1816-04-21 00:00:00

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS FOR THE WEEK.

$1 The Incredible• Peas of II Diavoio Antonio the l'otiiina l'olt;gevr.
continuing to excite general and reiterated shouts of approbation. a•
well as the ailmiratam of crowded audiences, they will, with the
other Nouvelle Entertainments, be repeated every Evcntog till
further notice.

ROYAL ANIPIII.IIIEAT.RE, (AS'r LEY'S) WEST-
MINSTF.ti BRIDGE, (sender the putninage of their Royal High-
russet the Prince Regent and fluke of Voric..) TO-MORIMW, MOST.
DAY, Itel April, and during the week,. (by pentii-•ion of the Proprie-
tors of the Theatre Koval Covent Gar(letik, the Equestrian Hewlett;
Speetack, called the SEelt FT MINE. assisted by the United Stud of
ijm, Gymnastic Exercises by a Venetian (his aplaremrn•e in
this country. and for (It nights only) who, by in•rdible. Tourbillions,
0.. c. in the air. has been denominated nn the continent II Diavolo An-
tunio!---Fquestri.•i' I(xeinises by Mr. Duerow, his tint appearance at
this Theatre; Clown's Art, by Mr. flmwn ; a new Comic Song, by Mr.
Stebbing. To conclude with an entirely new Iladequinade, called
NIQU l:T Wi t H TILE TUFT, or Der/limp and Rosebud. Places
fw the boxes to be taken of Mr. Kinloch, at the Theatre. from ten till
four. Second price, ludf-past Eight. (No money returned.)

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The IN FA NT PRODIGY being received every night with reiterated
bunt, of the itto-t applause. will continue the whole of
his truly ustoni,liing pi:Korn:a:xi: the muting week.

MONDAY, April `2`..1/41, 181(1.—A new Dance, rallea
I'OLIN and BA BET ; a new Musical Extravaganza, called The
330 AR DING S:'II /1/1. MISS; the unparelleled Perfirrimuice on
the TIGHT RI) P! ; of the INFANT PRODI(.;I', who concludes his
elegant and unequalled Dancing by running up and down a Rope,
from the back of the Stage to the back of the Gallery (performing va-
rious equilibrium) with the utmost CH SC and firmness, surrounded by
Fireworks; Clown to the Rope. Signor Paulo.—.l New Pantomime.
sailed LONDON and PAItIS ; Clown, Mr. Grimahli.—Roses
Pit 2s. Gall. is. Doors open at liag-pust 5, brgiu at half-past b.—
/MCA kgei holf-pgat 7 g dock.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

THFATRF. ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.

••• • - The lassie „ ~,..-7.T!!'!":".:;:rernia, Miss Murray'; with
Pitcairn's I•land.
On Tuesday. Romeo and Juliet•—.ltiliet by a Young Lady, her first
appearance; with Garrick's (Id to Shakvspiarr, and What Nv • t %
On Wednesday, Luce in a Village, aith Pitcairn's Wand.
Thursday. A Trip to r;carborougli, with Pitcairn's Island.
On Friday, The Ilaunt,ll Tower, with Pitcairn's Wand.
On Saturday, Belle's Stratagem.

THE NATIONAL REC:IS'I'ER.

LoNnov:
SUNDAY, APRIL 9.1.

PARIS Papers to Thursday last have boon received.
The discussion upon the Budget continues in the Chamber
of Deputies, and several more of the articles have
been agreod to; among others, an article 6; prohibi-
ting the introduction of colonial produce by laud. The
salt duties arc to receive a small but temporary increase.

Some individuals of the town of the Alencon have re-
ceived orders to quit it in 2$ hours, and to repair to
the places pointed out for them.
The King is sufficiently recovered to he able to quit his
apartments.

•
The private letters art, as usual, much more inte-
resting and important than the Paris Papers.
The day after the new Law of Elections was pissed
by the Chamber of Deputies in an amended state, n de-
putation was sent with it to the King ; who, upon
receiving it, told the deputation qu'il s'ariserait ; expres-
sions which have the same effect in France as here, and
which mean that the King rejects the Bill or Law pro-
posed to him. Affairs will thus remain ix :tutu quo.
No new Law upon the Elections will be proposed. The
discussion upon the Budget will proceed ; and as soon as
that is passed through the two Chambers, the King will
prorotrue them till October ; when, it is said by our
Correspondent, " the !Members composing the present
Chamber of Deputies will be again called upon tier the
framing of a Bill of Elections; as no partial renewal of
the Representative Body can take place unfit the organi-
zation of the Electoral Colleges shall have been pistil on
by a definitive law, in eontiormity with the :rult Article
of the Charter. Without the Law of Election, his Ma-
jesty would feel some difficulty in exercising one of the
most important and essential prerogatives of the Crown ;
namely, that of dissolving the Chamber."
But the Deputies arc espected to adopt some resolu-
tion before the prorogation, expressive of their displea-
sure at the King's urisculeut, or rejection of their law.
Reports of changes continue, but are not much credited.
One report states, that M. lAtine is to replace M. Barbi!
Marbois, and Pusquier to succeed the Minister of the
Interior. The Minister of Police is also expected to be
replaced.
In the night of the (hit, a Lady of Luxemburgh
and her two young children were assassinated. The
perpetrators of this crime have not yet been discovered.
The Paris Papers of Thursday se'nnight contain the
Debate on the proposed Law of Election. The project
proposed by Minisiers has been rejected, though they
employed the name of the King, and used flattery and
reproof alternately; but all their efforts were lost on an
Assembly whose decision was fixed before the discussion
began. The amendments proposed by the Committee
were carried by a great majority; and some of the Mem-
bers, who spoke in the sense of the Report, treated the
Ministers with very little deference.

The Chamber of' Deputies was employed nn the 13th
instant in a Debate on the Budget. M. Lame presided;
and we have observed, that since the defeat he sustained
in the Chamber, he has never taken the ('hair, but on
occasions when the Budget was under discussion.
The Mimi!riff of Monday last contains an Ordonnanee
of the King 14 breaking up for the present the establish-
ment of the Polytechnic schtiol a favourite institution of
Bonaparte, in consequence of the insubordination of the
pupils. The scholars are dismissed and sent home, and
the school is to be newly organized.
The following explanation of the dispute between the
French Ministers and the majority in the House of' De-
puties hash en given. The King on his last arrivaiwith the
Hies, promised amendment of the errors of his Govern-
ment: and by way of a popular concession, %I. tie Talley-
rand suggested the Ortionnances of the I th and t Ist of
July, enacting that 14 articles of the Charter should be
subjected to the revision of the legislature. By virtue of
these Ordonnances, the House of Deputies lately under-
took the revision of that Article, aiming the 14, which
relates to the renewal of the Representative Hotly ; anti
they passed a resolution for its entire and simultaneous
renewal at the expiration of the fifth year. This resolu-
tion was sent up to the House of Peers, and rtjecked.
Upon this rejection, the majority, alarmed at hints of
dissolution, caused M. tie Villele to make his motion upon
the rrilota sink of the nation; which motion was after-
wants withdrawn, in consequence of M. de ‘'ltithlane's
coming down to the I louse the next day with an Onion-
mum of the King, enacting that the Ordonnanceb of the

APRIL 21.

l3th aud bit of July were maintained in their disposi-
;:ions relating to the present composition of the Electoral
l'olleges. 'Phis Ordonnance, by its silence on the other
.!nnetittents of those two limner ones, abrvitis them all;
the titculty of revising the 14 Articles of the Charter is
thus withdrawn titan the Legislature, mid all things arc
restored upon their original footing established by the
Charter; that is, the I louse is renewed by one Wilt ofits
Members yearly going out of it.

By the Fancy, Struthers, which arrived at Greenock
on Sunday last from Rio Janeiro, we learn, that previous
to her sailing (which was on the Ist of .January;, an
army of 8000 Portuguese troops had asxembled, for the
purpose of aiding the Spanish Royalists in South Ante-
rim, in the extinction of the spirit of Liberty and Inde-
pendence which has gone Borth in that hemisphere.
This army was to sail the instant certain reinforcements
arrived front Portugal, which were daily expected.
The North Star, of 90 Capt. Bentham, arrived
at Portsmouth front Jamaica and Havanna'', with mail+.
has brought upwards of one million of dollars-6:11,000
on account of ( iovernment-500,0int belonging to mer-
chants. She left Jamaica on the 11th, and Havanna!'
nTt the 19th of February. The accounts she brought of
affitirs in Spanish Anwrica are decidedly in hevour of the
royalist cause. Since the capture of Carthagenas Santa
Fe (the capital of '.cw Granada) had Cullen into the
hands of the royalists. Gen. Nioreiles, who command-
ed the independent tire, end was taken at Carthage na,
had been shot ; and upwards of 70 lingli•h and Attica-
can subjects, who were likewise taken at the surrender
of that city, had been sentenced to the same puMsh-
mem ; but Gen. Morale( afterwards determined that they
rhould be sent to Old Spain, under the sentence, to
await the final decision of his Master, Ferdinand Vii.
All these persons were carrying on trade with Cartha-
wain when it was besieged by the royalists ; and the
Spaniards pretend, that they not only tanned, by their
exertions used counsel, the main strength of the rebel
cause, hut that they prevented many of the Spanish suh-
jec-ts from returning to their duty and allegiance to their
Kim.r. A report reached Jamaica, on the day the North
Stnr left Port Royal, that Christophe had been assassi-
nated ; hut it was not generally relied upon at Jamaica.
We have seen private letters front Vera Cruz of the
re;ent date of the :;d of February. On the :11st of .la-
muu7, an order bad been received by the Spanish Au-
aunties resident there, front the mealier country, signed
by Ferdinand VII. declaring his determination, that no
specie whatever should in future be bought up by any
I foreign power, but that the whole should be transmitti
to Spain. In consequence of this inteirmation being
made known, C. Parke, Esq. the British Commissioner
appointed tio- buying up bullion for this country, was
preparing to leave the settlement.

Letters from Spain state, that ten officers of the
nt of Catalonia have been arrested and thniwn into
prison ; as it is said, in consequence of a susyicion Uf
their being implicated in the late Madrid conspiracy.
Owing to this extraordinary measure, all the other offi-
cers have aliandiond their regiment. It :g gears dear,
that the tort are has in filet been inflicted on several per-
sons in Spain. In consequence of this, (ienerul Mo.
noglnte has lost the use of his hands, his fingers having
been all separiaely disjointed. The Intendant of Vtilen-
cia aka during the operation of the torture.
Bnisscls Papers to the 12th inst. contain accounts from
Milan, status that that Maria Louisa, now Archduchess of
Parma, joined the Emperor and Empress of Austria in
that city on the VOth ult. The whole city was
; and a second illumination, much more magnificent
than the first, took place on the -2341. The Emperor tra-
versed the principal streets amidst the acclamations of the
inhabitants, and honoured the theatre with his presence,
accompanied by the Archduchess his daughter. By an
Edict of the King of the Netherlands, that kingdom has
been divided into six principal military districts.
A Messenger, who arrived at Vienna on the inst.
front Verona, brought intelligence that the Empress of
Austria was so ill of a nervous fever, that her life was
despaireil of.
The Duke of Wellington has left Paris for the head-
quarters of the army of observation. On his arrival at
C4tlllbruy a review of the corps coinposing the
was to take place. The exact time of his Grace's return
is not mentioned; and it is merely stated that, on coming
back to the French capital, he will occupy an hotel in the
lime de Bourbon.

It is stated, that the Ottoman Porte has peremptorily
refused to aeknowkage the independency of the lonian
Republic. This net solves all conketurts about the
movements door fleets and ::nuns on the Italian shores,
without having recourse to Austria, or Naples, or hny
other Power.

A private letter from Paris mentions the prorogation of
the Chamber of Deputies by Louis XVI I Lin consequence
the rejection of the new Law of Elections. This is •ery
questionable.
A New York Mail has brought a strange report, to
which we attach no credit, that Bonaparte lnal made his
escape titan St. Helena, on bvurd eon American vessel.

APRIL 21.

POLITICAL DISQUISITION.
I7,NTABILITY OF EUROPEAN ARRANGEMENTS.

TI R El .Y wrapped up in the importance ofour domes-
eoneefns, we have for some time neglected to glance
beyond the limits of the British Empire, to fidlow the
,nurse of ti,reign policy, and to study the vacillations of
the Continental mind. Released from the consideration
of nearer interests, we may now look ut that world tilled
with the monuments of our power and glory, and seek to
ascertain whether the exertions which we have made, the
triumphs which we have achieved, and the dynasties that
we have restored, have been thadc, achieved, and restored
in vain.

Confidence is the natural offspring of success. At the
sudden termination of a contest which placed our greatest
enemy in our hands, and enabled us to re-seat the Bour-
bons on the throne of their ancestors, apprehension would
have appeared unreammable, it' nut criminal. Every
heart then opened to joy, and no thoughts were enter-
tained, but thoughts of lasting and universal peace. To
secure that object, treaties were signed, alliances formed,
countries partitioned, and the power of monarchies ba-
lanced. Who could then refuse to share in the general
intoxication? The rapidity with which an edifice is
raked, and the magnitude of its mass, often command in-
voluntary admiratioa. It is only when that feeling has
stihsidA, that we tan soberly and justly vlupreciate the
beauty of its proportions, and the solidity of its magnifi-
cence. This wa: tie: ease with the political fabrics on
the Continent. They rose as through the force of magic,
and astonishol us by their suddenness and their grandeur.
But we have now attained that settled state of mind, when
judgment t-.2Kes the place of feeling ; and if our opinion
of their greatness and durability should be less favoura-
ble and sanguine, it is because it will spring from dis-
passionate investigation.
Were the voice of the press unchained on the Conti-
nent, inquiry would be less laborious, and less liable to
error ; every country would then proclaim its wants, its
hisses, its regrets, it:: apprehensions, anti its perils. The
authority of a few individuals would not stifle the sense
of a whoie nation ; exaggerated representations would
be corrected by the impartial and the well-informed ; and
dangyr and security would drop that doubtful existence
which they hold in the imaginations of men, to assume a
real body and a shape. Unthrtunately, the policy of the
most liberal Soverei„►ns on the Continent becomes nar-
rowed and selfish as soon as the press is concerned. They
do nut perceive, that where danger exists, the silence of the '
press, like thedarkness that accompanies astorm, by render-
ing it more indistinct, increases its awfidness and terrors.
Where danger is not, it creates its semblance, and fre-
quently its reality. This, to a great extent, may be the .
case in France. The mockery of which the government
of that country has been guilt• towards its subjects, now
recoils upon itself Had it not annihilated the liberty
of the press, after plighting its faith in the charter to
maintain its integrity, we should have safer grounds to
aseertuin the real state of that kingdom, than the pri-
vate communications of individuals ; often uncmoweted,
bemuse some of them have been intercepted and sup-
pressed before they could reach our shores. The public
papers would then be entitled to credit, and the term tdli-
cid would not have acquired the signification of suspi-
cious. The protestations of attachment, the assurances
of gener..l obedience and satisftetion, on the part of the
people, would be considered sincere. Instead of being
thought endangered by the attacks of party writers, the
stability of the dynasty would be proved by their violence
and their inefficiency. The national mind would display
itself to the world ; and perils, which may after all prove
imaginary, would no longer be apprehended front France,
and cause her to be regarded with distrust, and treated
with hostility. Instead of this, her system of conceal-
ment has made her an object of tentill terror. The
Cuts which she enth-avonrs to hide from all nei!dsbouring
states, reach then► in perhaps a magnified condition, and
appear still snore alarming when contrasted with the
efforts of her government to suppress their know-led:N..
I ler internal dissentious, the increasing dislike of
the people towards the Royal Flintily, the cabals of
the ditft.‘rent members of that fussily against each other,
their total want of fisith to the nation, and the awkward
imbecility of their measures, thus assume a still more
threetening aspect.
The days of revolutions seem returning•. The Beene
of so many convulsions appears not to have attained its
final rest,—but, like a disturbed grave, sends firth horri-
ble visions to appal the world. With such a state of rest-
lessness and dissatisfaction in France, can it be expected
that the repose of Europe should remain untroubled, un-
less the Allied Powers themselves should make such al-
terations in their system as Will dicjiel the gathering dau.
gem

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

THE Ttuer.

GRAND MATUIL—SIR JOsHIA AND FILHO DA PUT. .
'rite grand match for 1000 guineas, between these two cele-
brated horses, took place on Monthly, at Newmarket. The day
was, contrary to expectation, Imy favourable, and the ill n-
rie of visitants iminciisc.—sir Joshua was the winner; he
heat /Wm du l'uta by about a lymph. It WaSan excellent we,
and most keenly contested. Both horses displayed the hest
boohoo, and were rude nith superior •kill. Sir .Ithhaa was he
favourite id starting. It is supposed that there was mot c money
depending upon this match, than upon any since the famous
match, about 16 sears ago, in o Pict the late Sir I v
Tempest's celebrated hose Eumbl,ionian beat 31 r. Cookson's
nu less celebrated horse 'Edmund.
The ('raven Stakes were won by /;ourtan.

We have the pleasure of communic-ating the very con-
siderable improvement which has taken place in the Prince
Regent's health. His Royal Highness on Thursday,
accompanied by the Duke of York, rode on horseback
through the three Parks, crossed into Mary-le-Bonne to
the Regent's Park, viewed the improvements, &c. and
returned to Carlton House. They were out two hours.
Postponements of Royal Marrial.,n..s are not at all out of
the common come of things, nor can they excite wonder
with any, who consider in how Tummy departments pre-
parations are to be made, and how many berms are to be
gone through. The Prince of Orange, previous to his
marriage with the Princess Mary, daughter of George 11.
passed snore than t'our monthsiu England.
It is reported, that Crown Prisoners will be liberated,
in honour of the marriage of the Princess Charlotte and
Prince Leopold of Cohourg.

The Marquis of I lurtford's rental, upon his Irish estates
has fallen oir nE, less than twenty-Cwe thousand iiounds in
the receipts of the priveiling year.

With a view to contribute still further to the accom-
plishment of the public desire titr economy and raretteh-
ment, it is said, that a Committechas been appointc.dby the
Cabinet, consisting of Lord x NI:, Nlr. STottoes
and llourtsr, Mr. ora, to enquire into all th;.• office:,
bonni.:,conitiii!:sioners,anll appointments made S; flee I Ti,9
and tO rel;•;:: as to the necessity of keepitt7:4 all or anv of
them up. ThisCcmun t:T ittee sits daily at inreasury Ch-am-
hers ; and it is said that thoy bare already examined the
members of several boards.

An article from Milan in the Bntssels Papers notices
the enthusiitstic reception of the Emperor of
,Austria,
and of his daughter, the Archduchess Maria Louisa, at
Verona.

Nlaria Louisa Inn taken possession of her three Italian
Duchies; the title she assumes is—" Maria Louisa,
Imperial Princess, Archduchess of Austria, by the (irate of
Gtxl the Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, Guasta &c."

A French officer, Aliquot:tea on trial at Hennes was dis-
covered to have au eagle on the button of his coat—tier
this offence he was immediately tried, and sentenced to
three months imprisonment, and the tinfriture of half his
half-pay for five years!!!
Letters from Cadiz mentiim the apprehension of great
mercantile Cidures in that city. Some houses are known
to have already fitiled. Madrid, by the last accounts, is
perfectly tranquil. The affiiir of the conspiracy is no
longer talked of; mercantile distresses'absorb every other
consideration fier the present.
A late decision of the Pope relative to the form of pro.
ceedings in the Inquisition, hits forbidden the application of
the turturr twin: accused. This decision has been officially
communicated to the Court of Spain, as a hint to follow
the example.
By a Jamaica Mail we learn from- St. Thomas's, that
a vessel from Baltimore had brought an nee( mut of an
American squadron, of two 74's, :lid other ships, prepar-
ing to sail for St. Domingo, to blockade Christophe, the
King of Hayti, for having hanged some American seamen
at the ('ape.
Some notion of the extensive transactions carrying on
between this country and America may be thrilled from
the knowledge of a circumstance mentioned in the New
York Papers of the Bth of March, that 5176 letters had
been received there on that day from this country.
A letter from Milan, dated the '27th of March, says—
" When the Vistula river broke up on the t!lst inst. the
ice cut the bulwarks and dams, and thrceil its way on the
main land, in Marienburg Werder, and overflowed about
100 English miles in circumference. The misery melt.
sinned by it is dreadful, and many of the poor inhabitants
lost all their cattle, sheep, horses," &c.

The number of persons who niEn at Paris in 1814, as stated in one of
the French .journal•. amountttl to Y;,B is. of whom 13.846 were males,
and l 1.971 temalo. In inl3 the deaths among both sews did not ex-
ceed 18,676, making a difference of mote then ;you. The marriages
contracted in 1814 amounted only to 4,1811 ; in Ist.; they were to high
u 6.585, making a difference of 2,395 in favour of the latter year. The
number of births in IhJI was 10,814 nudes, anti 10..3 females, mak-
ing a total of 21aa7. It anwars. therefore, that the excess of deaths
above births, in 1616, was equal to 6.568.

EPIGRAM CCRATE.
For the Rector in vain thrie the puri•h you'll search,
But the Curate you'll emit ct‘ts.t; HARD by the Church.

A NEW SUGGESTF.I).
4' Fire kialilott and saiwreN-j;•nr" tliir.
TO wait on the Prioress tinir wi•lto4 &clan
hat 'Ain't Court tfirou2l t Europe call boast
•I 1 iil.llle and 1111 l tirour a ho.t
If, an in a bah, airy could %%Ill( 'yu lier,
Nu doubt thi.!*ll be ist);'il ibr lair " lleyvur.r.

DR.I:II.ITIC REGISTER.
DRURV-LANE.

Wednesday night the performance of Lore in a Vil-
lage, was Mowed by a new romantic Operatic Ballet
Spectacle, Ihunded on the recent discovery of a numerous
colony, fin-mcd by, and descending from, the mutineers
of the Bounty frigate called Pitcairn's Island. The story
is simple in the extreme, and contained in what we have
already stated. It is in Met, intended only as a vehicle
for the introduction of the dances, music, and scenery; the
former of which are gm up under the direction of Mr.
Byrne, and arc as spl..•ndid as any thing of the kind which
we have yet witnessed on the English Stage. A Mon-
skur Dupree made his first appearance on this occa-
sion: his dancing displayed considerable science, and
was deservedly appluded. The performance of Mr.
Oscar Byrne and Miss Smith, however, exhibited a spe..
cimen of the art which would not have di.•graced the
boards of the Italian Opera. The scenery ix beautiful,
and the music, which is the composition and compilation
of Corti, is pretty. The dialogue is, we understand, die
offspring ot• the prolific pen of Mr. T. Dibdin, and is up-
propriate. The last scene is beautiful in the extreme ;
and the announcement of the Piece for repetition wasre-
•ivetl with -- 'the

cci.. . approbation by every part of'. house.
Miss Munitiv played Angela, in T/u Castle Spectre,
here on the same evening. We have already given an
opinion of the general merits of this lady, in which the
performance that we now notice does not suggest any ma-
terial correction. She playM the character respectably, and
is, we think, an improving actress; She has, however,
vet to learn to tread the boards with ease and elegance.
Mr. RA C'S Osnsond was much applauded.