The National Register.
London, England, 1808-04-03 00:00:00

TILE NATIONAL REGISTER.

An event of considerable importance to the world of Ton has
since sprung up, in the death of " the Ito)al Dane ;" an event
which may, perhaps, throws us all into infairming. So sombre,
and lugubrious a circumstance, threatens to blight the tender
buds of Fancy, to turn the gay shops of Bond-street into me-
mentos of mortality, and to confound Abigail', Dyers, and
Old Clothes Women, into one ►►►otley groupe of fashionable
confusion.

One hope still remains for the gay woM : this is an un-
precedented ease, Ft is expected that the arbiter of Court Eti-
quette will feel the motives of zeneral convenience so power-
fully as to induce him to wave a form, which in the midst of
hostility might pass for insult.

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CITY.
Tuesday a Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall, at
which the price of the quartern loaf was ordered to replant
at lld.
(in Wednesday a Deputation, consisting of the Lord
twelve Aldermen, the Recorder, the Sherilts, and twelve otthe
Common Council, waited upon Isis Majesty at
Palace with a loyal Address, to which his Majesty rei
folio►sing gracious answer.
I thank you for vour very loyal and dutiful Arb"
" The nssurances I receive of \ our unshaken at?
any person and Government, allOrd n►e the greatest sa,
" The example you have given to all ranks and
of my people, of union and public spirit, at this i►npu,
cannot but produce the most benelicinlconsequeires,
me to resist effectually the poy►erful and extensive ce
which the enemy *ins directed against my dominions,
toattly to accomplish the great object of all my efforts—a se-
cure and taking peace."

APRIL 3.

found the Most enlightened persons' in other respects at, totally
ignorant of the relative situation of the public and the Company,
lie then adverted to the general notion, that the Company were
in arrears to the public nearly six millions, and said it was
owing to the successful exertions of himself and his friends that
this claim on the part of the vublic had not at present the
shadow of any l• jai exi-truce.
The Deputy Chairman perfectly co-incided with his Learned
Friend as to the mkerably gross ignorance and misconception
which was so prevalent with respect to the Company's affairs ;
he eould assure the proprietors, that the Committee of which he
had the hoto.ur to be a ►uember, had not been disposed to
trench on the Company's rights; should such an idea unfortu-
nately occur, not a moment's time would be lost in convening
his con.t ituents.

Captain tieorge iVelttlen, of the ship Indus, took leave of
the court previous to departing• fur Madras and Bengal. Tl►e
Court adjourned at six o•cloel.

THE THEA,TRES.

INB.
lng was produced, a new Comedy, called
Kenney, the nnthor of Raising
, 111 a Rosenberg, and other popular
race-Our observations on this Comedy by
pal characters, and of the plot:-
11r.
Elliston.
Mr. Banni!..ter.
IF .
hzde.t. Mr. Mathews.
SOW, Mr. Wcwitzee.
Soria! Mr. Pur:er.
Loiter Mr. De ('amp.
Dauntless Mr. Palmer.
Margin Mr. Maddocks,
Lady Bloomfield Mrs. Jordan.
Mrs. Barclay Mrs. Powell.
Eleanor Barclay Miss Boyce.

Eeho, who has long been pinned to his mother's apron stein„
comes to town to begin business and woo Lady Bloomfield, a
rich widow. Though naturally well-disposed, he commits sc-
Neral follies from his ignorance of the world, and imitates the•
manners and the tones of all his idle acquaintance. This regard
to the opinion of The World, has induced him to abandon, in her
adversity, Eleanor Barclay, whom he once honourably loved.
Ch( viol, a foundling, was during infancy dependent on Mr. Doti,-
mint, a man of fortune• in Northumberland, w Ito placed him with
St6tle, a Ambling- merchant : but the high spirit of Cheviot re-
volts from his guardian's practices; he leaves the business, and,
disdaining to apply for further charity to Davenan►, who has never
admitted him to his presence, he maintains himself as an author.
13y rescuing Lady Bloomfield in a fracas at the opera, Cheviot
interests her affections : she sends him a bank-note, enclosed in
a letter signed by the Goddess Fortune : and he, with the money
destined to dissipate hi- own distresses, presently relieves the
poverty of Mrs. Barclay, a prisoner in the King's Bench, by
purchasing, in Margin's shop, a volume of manuscript sermons,
which Eleanor has come thither to sell. The rivalship of
hettiot and Echo, as admirers of Lady Bloomfield, produces a
sharp remonstrance from Echo : who, however, by a strong
appeal to his feelings, made by Cheviot in favour of Eleanor,
is brought back to a sense of his duty, shakes off' Dauntless and
Loiter, his idle companions, and is restored to the amiable object
of his early love. Cheviot is discovered to be a natural son Of
Davenant, who, from a weak fear of The IVorld, has ncser
owned him: but who, nevertheless, under the name of Witht
has found him in London by the assistance of the good-natured
Index, and heard him reproach his parents for abandoning their
child. Mrs. Barclay owns herself his mother, who having, since
her seduction, wedded and become a widow, receives honourable
amends iu a marriage with Mr. Davenant. Cheviot, after some
!kik obstacles, occasioned by his own pride and poverty) ii2d

the Queen's
i•cturua the
ldressi,
On Thursday Evening
•
World, written by
at isfitti: et; 'lllaesdaiiony,
descrions pieces. We will prefai
lirtant crisis, an account of the princil
, in cuabiiiig
Cheviot ..
ronfe*Tacy,
Echo
is, and ulti-