The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-05-30 00:00:00

THEATRES.

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Some weeks hive elapsed vie** the AM an.
nouncement from this house of a new Historical
Tragedy. to be culled Virginias. or Me 1.0 V
Me Oft-twirl—a subject which bed frequently bro.
fore employed the pets of the dramatist. Repeated
postponements of its exhibition took place. and
Covent-garden, in the mean time, got the start, by
producing Mr. Kwowuts's new ;4'y. founded on
the same story. The curiosity Naturally intention(
on these circumstances was at length gratified by
the production of the promised Tragedy last night.
The principal characters of it were thus represented
Virginias Mr. Rem.
Applies Clef:diem Mr. Rae. • -
Mingling . Mr. Pope. , •
/Alias Mr. Polley.
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Iforathu
Clasidiate Mr. Hamblin.

Nainiforisti -
Pl"titia Mrs. Glover.
Eirybsia Mrs. W. West.
The plot compriees most of the well-known cir-
coassignees which led to the destruction of the
Deeemviral power. The catastrophe varies from
historical truth, in exhibiting the tyrant falling be-
heath the dagger of Virginns immediately after the
death of Virginia. Similar changes are m■de in
file progress of she piece. These it would be diffi-
cult to make the classical reader look upon as ab-
solute beauties; but. on the other howl, if they
are blentishr►, they are such as could very easily
he redeemed by other excellencies; for, in
fact, it would not be easy by any thing short of
a total transformation of the facts to divest the story
of a great deal to awake interest, sympathy, and
cons passion, Rut a far more unfavourable feature
in the composition of the play is the character of
the language, The sentiments attributed to the
ddr,rent persons are usually just and natural, but
in the expression of them there is apparent a con-
tinual effort to strike and dazzle, • constant search
after the grand and elevated, and strength is
commonly sacrificed to grandiloquence. A spec-
tator must he peculiarly interested by the pass-.
log events to listen with pleasure through live
acts to characters constantly, and through all
changes of fortune, dealing in this lofty phraseelogy.
Accordingly, though the repre►entation occupied a
coinpa.atively very short space of time, bring
finished at about half-past nine o'clock. and
Waugh some mem excited sad deserved a large
measti.e of applause. yet symptoms of disappmba.
tomb manifested thettiselves very intelligibly long
before the conclusion. We bad anticipated a warm
contest on the expected giving out of the tragedy for
repetition after the fall of the curtain. That, how-
ever. was avoided by It novel mode of announce-
ment, tacking the notification of future !perform-
ance to the end of the epilogue. which could boast
of some humour. iud was exceedingly wall de-
liver-d by OXIERIY and KNIUNT. All the sup-
port which the tragedy could &tire from powerful
acting, especially in the pri..cipal parts, It received.
Mrs. ‘Vese very admirably pourtrayed the charm.-
ter assigned to Virginia bay the mithor—that of a
tender maiden. but ■ Roman imsigen—.not insen-
sible to love, but arilliugfy devakiilg WM and life
to the shrine of honour. The opposite effects
of thin strengtl► and this weakness were alternate-
ly represented with great beauty in the scene
wherein the rejects /cifies's proposal to fly with
him from Rome. Mrs. GLovea's Pitman was
characterised by force and feeling. Mr. Ke,tx's
f'i►gisies was in his usual style of excellence—and
Mr. 11.41's personation of Appins Claudius was just
1111(1 tigorour. The other pats were its general well
played.

THZ $17111V.T.,
A new mete-drama, under the lid* of Eddu, or
The ;fermis of Warkworth, added last night to
the very mime list of favourite novelties pro-
duced hare. It is the production of Mr. BALL.
gentlemen of Norwich, who has beta particularly
t•ucerwilul in bringing out several pieces at the
Theatre of that city. The characters were through-
out must admirably sustuiued. The interest of the
piece, which possesses much poetical beauty sad
invention. was well kept up till the last moment.
The limply, by SANDERSON, it beautiful; and the
ecenery in the very best style of those artists who
have mire- ily molded so much to the classic celebrity
of the. Sormi. The meln-drnine was announced
I.r repetition with repeated plaudits, and the re-
minim% essnirig's eilisrtstonsetit, which were Don
I,ioceironi. and Valentine mud Orson, espertence4l
similar eclat.

Mi.' S. BooTH. of Correns-gardeti Theatre. left
town yeideralay for Dublin, under the auspice's of
Mr. Haltom who will open the Dublin Theatre
in the cuur•e of next mouth. By the present
rangrment the theatre will open on she lOth wish
the livourite opera of The Maid of She Mill—the
',Art of Lord tiiefieurth by Mr. I'HII.IPPS.
Drimturer from the Prince Saxe Coburg Hotel.
Chorica.strers. Crowe 1111 l -square :—Colutivi DAL-
Lisa and EDWARD RUNDALL, Ell. for Chel-

AVe observe that. by an union of tl.e interests of
rm, of the Shipping Compaoies trading between
Lomb,. and Leith, so important improvement is Warne-
diaiely to take pleee iu the eutiscisoce betweeo them pores,
as the mocks to the ore Company sill wow sail
nearly sorry other dry from Loodou sad Leith. We under-
stood that the sutall•sized smacks formerly employed by
'bum Cowponies are to he put in the trade between Gree-
seek owl Belfa►t, from whit* 'fora* they are to sail, on fixed
days, with the ►ause putielsoility as the London smeeks now
do, by which mean' they will greatly improve the convey-
sore for poostorors sod goods between the %Vela of Scotland
sad North of trelatol....(Soo Adritottlitootoot.)

A few nights ago • number of desperate fellows
entered the demesne of Si. tarrox Dostrittatc.
at Santry, steer Uubliu, and van ied off a large bell
of considerable value. From the weight of the
bell it i. presumed that not less than eight wee
could possibly have removed it from the ground.
Tine, following melancholy accident happened on
Wednesday afternoon last, during a very heavy
thunder storm, which was felt in Corliefe, and
along a very extended district. As a
.young man.
named JOSEPH BELL, ilettMot to Mr. WILLIAM
PIOaIIOWDA 11, Of Gleason Lonning-foot. perish of
Rawness, Cumberland, was .harrowing in- • field
seer the former place, the electric fland,streclubosk
bias and team dead upon the spot. fie was
shoot 41 years df age: and sou of Me. Acirsra
BILL, ship,carpeuter, Bewago.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
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The Committee appointed by the Wiese or Lordis
on Friths, lasi. to inquire into the means of extend-
ing our foreign 'roods-, oult.wiihstanding the adjbern.
roroot of tin. House. Inst nu time itOsltislbstatitog to
promote the important objects of 01.41 aiNtointoitests
The @meal Members named asseinhted in the chief
comoniittee.rooin of the Lord. no Sallaray.
o'clock. The Order of the lionse hiving betli
read, the first object was to sppoiiit theiselsairman,
and the propositicoo of the Earl of Liverpool, that
the Mongols of Lmodown should take the Chair,
was ago ed to unmoonnou•ly.
Lord Liverpool, who had a box filled with papers
brought into the room,, then presented a series of
documents to the Committee, consisting chiefly of
these statements illustrative of the progress of the
revenue, the hal.onces of trade, &c. to winch his
.Lordship referred in the coarse of his speech of
Fluky. Most of them are original, and have nut
yet been printed.
Their Lordships then entered into some cosver.
Potion as to the course which should he pursued in
their investigations, and • disposition was evinced
to procure sod proceed on as much documetotary
evidence at liossible. hot without rejecting the aid
of oral teetiefiey witsims,was noosed. whose
sittendasce, eeeerdiug yr the practice, swot be or.
derrd by a Tee of ON House.
After hemig a4t abetit 1113 /1161 i. their Lordships
•djusrued.
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iXteUrION OF SAND.

marrausi. NAT 20.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OEACI.E.

The general interest which has been excited by
Alte milortsinate young man of whom I em going
to give you some account, induces Inc to stud you
the following. details
' Sand, the assassin of kotzrhue, was executed
this morning at live o'clock. So early as bolf-past
three o'clock the infantry and casalry, nod almost
the whole population of Maobeim. wgre in motion.
Salad was brought from the prisons in ass open car-
rise. His countenance, winch was very pale,
bad in it somethiug extraordinary: A smile
was on his lips, sail he went to meet death
a' we should go to a fete. He bowed with much
grace to some ladies who were at a window, sad who
returned his salute With very evident marks of inte•
rest. When he reached the place of execution.
which was in a very large plain, he mounted the
scaffold immediately. His sentence was read to
him ; after which he made a speech. Noe under.
standing Germ•uy I cannot communicate to you
what he said ; I observed, however, that he spoke
with energy, and at the end raised one of his hantls
to heaven. The executioner took hold of him,
and made him sit down on a chair fastened to a
small post; he tied his hands, cis: off some of his
hair, mud put a bandage over his eyes. It, two mi..
'sutra after he was no more. All the preparations
for the exrculito were made very slowly ; twenty
minutes sieve employed, mid ten world have beet,
sufficient, as the reading or the sentence and his
speech did not take live minutes. Though lat
first intended only to see him paw. I Was carried
forward involootatily. constantly looking at him.
He was dressed in white, but wearing a black
great coat, sod his shirt collar turned down, his
hair fell in curl. on his shoulders. For fifteen
months past his life hod been preserved by the most
strengthening regimen. Every effort was made to
prevent him sinking under the effects of the wounds
which he had iuflscted on himself; he war iulict
'cry weak. so that he could not mount the scaffold
without supporting himself on the shoulders of two
pet sons, which makes the courage that he shewed to
his deaths the more extraordinary. He was'brispiideil
with a sabre, and the executioner being obliged
to make a secood stroke, a general cry arose.--
I Brussels Oracle, May ti 6.
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DISPUTE UPON 711 E DERRY RACE.

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There was much controversy relative to which NM the
/hat favourite at starting, Piodarrie arSailor. Many heavy
hey *ow pending that Pititlarrie WWI id continue to be
the first favourite at starting, and it is contended that he
was, and the Stewards have made him an in the Calendar,
by plarinK the odds on him at 5 to 2 ■ad 3to I eitainal
Sailor ; and this decision should be coaclasive. A formid-
able party backed Sailor just before start imbut yet Pandas.-
rie had theism. The Jockey CIO* will, it is said, make
another decision, which will be Anal.

CORONERS' lAQUESTS.

♦t Middle Chessaock, sear Yeovil, out Charles Temple-
arse, aced 19, apprentice to Mr. Jobs, Beaman, beitchew, of
Wert Colter.' The deceased and a fellow-apprentice behrc

at play together, amid is perfect friendship, tempi...au ma
iiou a stable, fastening the door after him, mid the othe►
hayloft a short pick its his bead, threw it at the door; un-
fortunately, the deceased was its the act of opening the dour
at the very testae., and one of the prongs metered she irk•ll
in 1111 oblique direction, and wounded the bruit. The young
men boils agreed to conceal how it happened, bait at length
cunkaaed. The operation of trepanning took plaits on the
fourth day after the melancholy erect, and the medical
I.Veralewiers ()lesser,. Norris, of South Mikados, sad Moore,
of Yeovil). mom tamed favourable hopes of the pollen% bat
be died on the 14th day. Verdict—" Chime Mettler."
At Counthe•St.-Nicholas, sear atard, ea a sew-burs child,
found, secording to the direction of its depraved mother,
CONCeillirli in a ditch iu that parish. Its skull bad sustateed
a dreadful Gooier..
Ver.lict—" Wilful Harder against the mother. Nlizabelk
Waldron., cud that one John Williams, of Broadway, was
accessary le the said =order:.
The wretched mother had on the day she delivered herself,
been discharged from a farmer's senior•. Mew was not T 7
years of age, and she day after she was delivered, walked all
the way, except about four miles, to Sherburne in f)u►set-
store and hack to a public-home three miles trout theases
►hats( a distance of 23 miles; and in the two soeceediegt
disrobe walked luck through Slontarste (where she hited
btmelf to come to service us the following Thursday), to Ike'
bowie of she before-named John Williams, who had been
onssasitted muter the Coaster% vitamin to Wilma gaol. Il
is a married man, and lather of nine ehtldreSt he is also
sanitively the node of the girl, who, hem her feeble stale,
is left is the care of proper persons, instil she may with
safety be removed seder a similar warms% to Ilcbester gaol.
.—(lgatiber Paper.)

" Mr. &SWART," says the Allow, Totertreph.
" intend,. we Ire informed. to bestow the whole ul
the damage% one thoussods poutods eterlioe.sward.
cd him in hie .nit with Mr. Sheriff PARKINS. on
the poor ,peassurry of !Locate.' Add the sleeted
sdistrick."

I LAW INTELUGEACE.

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COURT OF RINGN IiKr4CH. Cuu.Douat,
INOSDAY, MAT 49.
Drier, L&rd Clitriassice ABBOTT and a Special
Jary.

Ixecirrons *I 1100sSIELD r. BOUGHTON.
its the month et' February, ISIS, its expectation
' viisso approaching election, the Defendant. the sou
EA' Str Charles Boughton. Bart. became a rands.
;As* to represent the h gh of Evesham's in Pair-
` limmtent. and Mr. Bousfield, an attorney. then living
in London, since dead, was employed as his r.scria
to cansoisa the °mayor's, and so the executiuoi of
this duty, made some journeys to Margate, Ro-
chester, and other places, for which an account had
been delivered to Mr. Boughton, amounting to
1. 2. ti.l.
It was contender% on the part of the Defendant,
that Bost-field had agreed to perform the whole of
the doily for the sets of 601. which: had been paid
into Coort.
This being proorer by' the evidence of Mr. New,
who award or treasurer to the Committee for 'con-
' dueling Mr. Boughton's election, and by Mr.
Leonard, a land agent at Everhasn, the Jury found
• verdict for the Defendant.

THU ICING N. HANNAH waiTtacitta.
This was ■n indictment charging the Defendsot
with having been guilty of wilful and corrupt per-
jury.
the offence was alleged to have been committed
at a trial which took place at the Old Briley h,-fore
Mr. Baron Graham iii September last, on which
OCCI,IOII the Defendant appeared as a witness
against her late master, Captain Mills, wh ►he
charged with having assaulted and violated her per-
son in the month of July preceding. The trial
had proceeded some time, when the Learned Judge
who sat at the Old Bailey stopped it, and the Jury
acquitted Captain Mills.
There were three points on which it was now
endeavoured to be *hewn that the Defendant had
perjured herself. The assault having been com-
mitted, as she stated, on the 15th July, she not-
withstanding stayed in the house of Capt. Mills
at Chelsea till the 12th August, without eomplam-
ing to any one of the treatment she had received ;
and at the trial she was asked the reason the had
not mentioned it before, and her reply was she had
no epportunity before, and she could not leave the
house. To prove the falsehood of this testimony,
the following evidence was produced.
The record .f Captain Mills's acquittal at the
Old,Bailey having been produced and read,
Was. Oliver, the short-hand writer who attended
the trial, read his notes of Hannah Whitehorn's evi-
detice on that occasion.

In answer to a question from Mr. he
sail she was not a full grown girl.
Captain Mills perfectly will remembered Hannah
Whitehorn coming to his service. She win recom-
mended by a Mr. Price; she came on the 28th
Jolly, and quitted on 13th August. He never
made ilia most distant attempt to take an indecent
liberty with her. She was extremely offensive and
di/y se her person, dirty to so extreme. He went
from home and dined out almost every day while
she was with him, end she bad constant opportu-
nities of leaving the hone. He had sent her out
several times. His house is in Smith-street,
Chelsea. He came home generally late in the
evening.
Cross-examined by Mr. DINMAW—He was for•
surly of his Majesty's 49th regiment, hat had re-
tired from the service. There was another servant
when the Defendant came, but she left his service
the day after. Neither of the servants sat in the
parlour with bins, nor did he have them in to read
to him. There had been a complaint made by
two of his female servants before Mr. Fielding. the
Magistrate at Queen-square, but it was amicably
settled ; he gave them 11. a piece. He had had
eight servants between July and December. Ile
never gave her a drop of norm or wine.
In answer to a question from M►. SCAIILITT.
with reference to the charge which had been made
against him before Mr. Fielding, he mid he had
newer been charged before with any attempt to
commit a tape.
• Catherine Vigors lives in the King's-rood. near
Capt. Mills. Remembered Hannah Whitehorn
coining on the 14th _n.y, and sew her fire times
between that time and the 12th August. She was
thrice at witness's house; she had en opportunity
of complaining to her if she had chosen,
Louisa Hodges was servant to Captain Mills
from Tuesday to Saturday. Hannah Whitehall
left on the Friday, but during the preceding three
days she had been out four times.
Mr. Brodie, a surgeon, examined Hannah
Whitehorn. in August last; witness described the
state in which he found her; observed ismhilig
which indicated that she had sustainedany recent
violence.
Mr. Dellmaat made a powerful !appeal to the
Jury on behalf of the Defendant. and called four
witnesses who had known tier far a considerable
time, and gave her a goad character for veracity.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.

The East India Company's ship Thomas Gren-
ville was expected In be dispatched from Bengal
about the toth February. The Aria, outward
Iwiand. was all well in lat. 0.57. South, long. 18.
15. West. tin the 13th March.

Tti t A sus Y.—Tbe 1),4-ilgimenr. we understand.
is expected to arrive here in • week ur ten days, to
replace the 88th, which has received orders to hold
itself in readiness for warching.—( Hill advertiser.)
The first division of th•4oth regiment marched
from Sunderland liirrncks on Wednesday Wir 111 l K
lost, the 9.3 d instant, ou their route to Manchester.
(Newcastle Chronicle.)
• Sowerby, alias Little, the chief (tboug last de-
tected) of a gong of desperadoes justly meriting the
respective titles of poachers, hulas...brasher., and
highwaymen, was safely lodged in Carliole gaol on
the evening of Saturday se'noight. He was awe.
headed in • house of had fame, in Newcastle, on
Thut•day, by two of the police of that place, and
afterwards conveyed to Peurith, in the rrrthber-
' hood of which town the felonies lisd hetet, *iv
milted. After su examittation before gilitilkiP
fissszt. and MATTHEW ATXIIII9/4EIIOO h."
ljully committed,

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