The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-15 00:00:00

THE NATIONAT, RTAISTER.

is said when he arrived at Minorca, it was not known
whether the sentence of death would be carried into
execution, or whether it would be commuted for some
other punishment. Hut General Lacy, upon landin,,,,
attempted to escape from the soldiers, who immediately
pursued him, and Lacy was killed in endeavouring to
defend himself fiom his assailants.

Very recent accounts are received from the Brazils.
Every thing was tranquil, but the effects of the late
attempt at revolution were severely felt. There was
scarcely any business doing at Pernambuco, and the
greatest distr.ss had been experienced for provisions,
which had been rendered more severe by the number
of soldiers that had been detached to suppress the late
insurrection. The letters front Bahia describe the
death of the chief conspirators to be perfectly different
from what had been represented. Martinez, anti two
Priests had been shot, not hanged. The •former ha-
rangued the soldiers and populace previous to his exe-
cution, mentioning that through his means, at Pernam-
buco, great excess had been prevented. The Governor
of Bahia had published his high displeasure at the man-
ner of the execution. The military fired five times--
the bodies were dreadtidly mangled, and two ramrods
were found in the body of Martinez.

Our Readers will learn with pleasure that'Govern-
ment has humanely forborne to press the severity of the
law against the Rioters who assembled at Manchester for
the illegal purpose of tumultuous petitioning, if not for
other purposes more desperate awl criminal. These per-
sons were brought up for trial on Saturday se'nnight,
at Lancaster, when the Counsel for the Crown declar-
ing that his Majesty's Government declined proceeding
further against them, they were ace,,rdingly acquitted.
That there was abundant gruund for preferring charges
of a criminal nature against these men, is unhappily but
too notorious : yet it is the distinctive feature of a mild
and beneficicnt Government to temper justice with
mercy, in all stages of prosecution. The proper occa-
sions for giving more or less sway, to this benevolent
disposition are mainly to be determined by the violent
state of agitation or tranquility in which the country
at large may happen to be. When the men in question
were arrested, such was the prevalent influence of the
wicked principles disseminated among the lower or-
ders, by a few abandoned writers and speakers, that
.firmness and energy, on the part of Government, in
putting down sedition, were absolutely essential to the
safety of the country. That purpose has now been suf-
ficiently answered. The wisdom of the Legislature has
produced reviving prosperity; and the revival of pros-
perity has produced tranquility. The Government feels
itselfjustified in giving way to its natural lenity; and
it is to be hoped, that the offenders, who have been thus
mildly dealt with, will be duly impressed with a sense
of gratitude and attachment to the laws ; that. they will
hold in abhorrence the names of Cobbett, and Hunt,
and the other miscreants, who first tempted and then
abandoned them to their flute; and finally, that by in-
dustry and economy in a time of plenty, by patience
under affliction, and by a reliance at all times on the
consolations of religion, they will show themselves fin
the future better subjects, better men, and better Chris-
tians.

By the Flanders mail, received yesterday, we learn
that the Duke of Wellington is resolved to refer his
cause against a e Belgian Journal, to the Court of
Appeal. We are sorry to see his Grace so bitter against
this Journal. From the first we thought he had good
ground for action, but a decision unfavourable to him
having been made, he ought to consult his own dignity,
and not go from Court to Court with the malevolence
ofd pettifogging attorney.
A PRETENDED Louis XVII.—An imposter, re-
presenting himself to be Louis XVII, and assuming
the name of Charles de Navarre, has made his appear-
ance at Rouen. He has been apprehended, and a copy
of his examination has been handed alxna at Paris.
He turns out to be the son of a shoe-maker, and his
propensities to deception, appear to have manifested
themselves at an early age ; he having, when a mere
child, passed himself upon a Madame de Turpin, as
the son of the Baron de Dcsin, and by her he was edu-
cated and brought up until the imposture was disco-
vered.

Mr. Owen has this week published another long,
very long article in the daily papers, in explanation of
his plan. In this he has developed his scheme of
chtsaina his communities according to the r,,ligions or
bias of the individuals. If any thing had
been wanting to our former knowledge of his system,
to make us heartily dispise it, this classification would
supply it. The idea of penning men up like sheep
of difFerent breeds, is too ridiculous even to be laughed
at. Take as a specimen the following :-Ist class :
Armenians, Methodists, and violent Ministerialists.
.57th class :—Calvanists. Methodists, and violent Re-
formers. Blst Class:—Unitarians and violent Whigs.
And thus he rings the changes through all the various
denominations of Christian, Turk, and Je‘v, even as-
iigning pens to the Bramins, Confucians, and Pagans !
If this be not liminess, it is as like it, as any thing
we elm saw.

SEPT, 15.

DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

VERSUS.
M. DE BUMMER.

GHENT, SEPT. 7.---The action brought by his Grace
the Duke of Wellington against M. do Busscher was
decided yesterday, and we announce with a sort of pride
that the sentence has justitled all hopes and given ge-
neral. satistllction. This action, to which we take plea-
ware in believing that the Noble Duke, who is placed
so•high in the scale of human greatness, could not have
consented, but in consequence of inconsiderate sugges-
tions, has appeared trifling and unworthy of the colossal
part which his Grace plays on the great theatre of the
world. For the rest, our Readers will better apprccia:e
the merits of the cause by tho terms of the sentence ;
meantime, till we can give them the sentence itself, we
will venture to give them from memory, if not the
ter, at least the spirit of it.
The article in question does not impute to the Duke
of Wellington any net which could expose him to. is
criminal or correctional action (poursuites criminells ou
correctionelles), to the con tempts or the hatred of the
public. It is not said that his Grace knew, that Debra
had prevaricated in his functions, as Govenor of Mar.
tittiquc ; supposin:, that his Grace desired, and had
even manifested this desire, to sec the said Delon con.
tinued in his functions, such a desire would necessarily
have been only the result of powerful reconnuendations
according to which the Governor had been represented
to the Noble Duke under colours very &Greta front
the article in question.
If his Grace has manifested suds a desire, because
Debru administered the colony in &your of a tbrei,gn
Government, neither does this supposition attack the
honour of the Noble Lord, because one may very well
administer a colony in favour of foreigrterm without its
following from this, that one administers it ill in respect
to the interests of the mother country ; that this is the
more true, as it is of importance to every Government
to invite ihreigners to its colouier, in order to favour
commerce, &c. _

The high deeds, the eminent qualities, and the
glory of the Noble Duke, place hint above the reach of
ail suspicion of an action unworthy of him ; his spiel'.
did reputation places him obove all ambiguous and equi-
vocal allegations, &c. In consequence, the Court has
declared his Grace the Duke of Wellington's complaint
unfounded (non recevuble), and has condeninvd hint
him in his costs. As for M. I3usscher, his demand
of damages has been rejected, on the ground that
the action brought against hint cannot be considered
as calumniatory, because the plaintiff has submitted to
the decision of a Court of Justice the nreaning of an
article inserted in a public journal.

CORBETT'S ATTACK ON BURDETT.•-•-:Wil have an
old homely adage amongst us which says, " when rogues
fall out honest men come to their own." It is even so
with political rogues, Cobbett in his last budget of trash
from Long Island has fallen foul of the head of his own
party, the Dagon of the Ret4rmers,—Sir Francis Bur-
dett ! and in his usual scalping style has laid bare every
nerve and artery, and for what ? because Sir Francis
was hunting with Mr. Maberly's, " the army tailor's"
hounds at the time he should have been in London to
" answer the enquiries of the numerous honest men
from all parts of the country" who had come to consult
him on the important subject of Reform. We were
never of the number of Sir Francis Burdett's po-
litical admirers, we always considered him, when
young, as the mere mouth of Horne Tooke, and
since he has been out of leadingstrings his vanity has
tempted him to go on in the same course, fin- the
sake of being looked up to as, " the man of the
people," but however we might differ with him,
however we might pity his want of prudence,
we cannot but congratulate him now on the sub•
stantial honour he has acquired in being abused by
William Cobbett. By that William Cobbett who was
never yet the friend of a virtuous man ; who has libelled
and praised by turns, every nation, and the individuals
of every nation with which he has come in contact, who,
on his flight from England, could only number as his
friends, Major Cartwright, Mr. Hallet of Berkshire,
and Lord Cochrane, one of the Representatives of West.
minster ! !

The journey or tour of his dominions which, the Em-
peror Alexander is about to take is of an immense ex-
tent. He will be absent from Petersburg at least fifteen
months. 1k was to proceed on the Ist imstant from the
capital to Witepsk to inspect the troops forming part
of the corps d'armiye of General Barclay de Tony, and
arrive at Moscow in November. Here he is to remain
till June, when he will proceed to visit the southern
provinces of his empire. Ile will go to Astracan, to
the Crimea, and inspect the troops of General Benning-
sen, then proceed into Germany, to assist at the Asset'.
lily fixed in 1 8 1.5 by the Allied Sovereigns, and which
will be held in Frankfort on the Maine, or at Aix-la-
Chapelle. After this he will visit Warsaw, and from
thence return to I'etertsburgh.
M. Gamy, the Spanish Finance Minister, has re-
ceived the Grand Cordon of the Royal order of Charles

AP:PT. IK.

THE D.R.DIA.

COVENT-GARDEN THE ‘TRE.

This Theatre opened on Monday evening for the
season. Great alterations have taken place—a mild but
abundant flood of light has been di' used over the whole
of the interior which presents the coup d' (Jed in all its
component parts, tinders° new an aspect that it would
appear as if there had been a general change—yet the
only material change is the arm mode of illumination.
The whole of the magnificent segment of the interior
which receives the audience is lighted by a grand, cen-
tral, and elevated light, sustained front the ceiling, and
five infCrior but still magnificent brancehes, destined
particularly to illumine the lower circles and the pit.
The former is litterally an orb of light, produced by se-
veral circles of gas lamps s.) closely and unithrmly
placed as to preserve its singleness of appearance, and so
mild, with all it* richness and radiance, as never to of-
fend the eye by excessive brilliancy or glare. Its ele-
gance is of the simple kind in spite of the pendant fringes
of glass ornaments which descend from the canopy by
which it is surmounted. It was remarked, however,
that objects in the back seats of the upper boxes were
somewhat indistinctly seen—that they become " dark
fram excessive brightness."-01 the five interior lustres
containing five lights each, two are placed one on each
side of the stage, and the remaining three disposed at
equal distances, so as to illumine the lower circles and
tile pit. The semicircle of dress boxes is terminated on
each side by two mirrors which reflect a large section of
the house and the audience, and by this illusory multi-
plication of objects and space, give much additional
grandeur andbeatity. Theunpleasant propertiesof burn-
ing gas are carried away by glass tubes. The only
doubt that could arise was, whether there was or not an
excessive strength of light.—The opening performances
were Shakespeat's tragedy of Model, and Mr. Pocock's
inelo-drama of The Miller and his 11en. The house
was crowded at an early hour. Mr. Young sustained
the character of Hamlet with much ability. Polonius
was chastely represented by Mr. Blanchard. Mr. Bon-
ne' Thornton appeared, for the first time, as Horatio,
but his eflOrts were scarcely mediocre. Prior to the tra-
gedy, " God sa»e the King" was executed by such of the
vocal corps as are at present in town. The principal per-
formers were warmly greeted by the audience.
Wednesday,Guy Mannering was performed with some
slight change in the cast of the parts. Tokely was Em-
ery's substitute in Dinmont, and Comer supplied the
place of Tokely in Iluittriek, by which means both
these interesting characters were spoiled. Miss Stephens
sustained her own part of Luce, and looked as lovely,
and sang as sweetly us ever. A 'Pastoral dance followed,
in which Noble, Luppino, and the Miss Dennetts ac-
spitted themselves with their accustomed agility.
Friday night The Belles Stratagem was performed,
when Miss Brunton, daughter of Mr. Brunton, for-
merly of this theatre, and niece to the Countess of
('raven, made her appearance in the character of Letitia
Hardy. Her figure is rather short, but her face is
peculiarly expressive, and she posesses a good deal
of grace and flexibility. Her voice is powerful, but
not sweet, but her extreme youth gives reason to hope
that fault may in some measure be amended. In the
hoyden scene she ran to the very verge of vulgarity,
without being disgusting to any except her intended
husband, and in the Masquerade her elegance captiva-
ted every heart. Her reception was of the most flat-
tering kind And the announcement of a repetition on
Monday was received with shouts of applause.

It is some time over three weeks since a carriage
drove up to an inn in the town of Ennistymon. It
was abour eleven o'clock at night, and a lady with a
female attendant, who were in the carriage agreed
with the proprietor of the house fir a certain portion of
it, to which no access should be had, during their stay
but by themselves. The preliminaries being agreed
upon. the unknown liar ones took possession of their
apartments, and the carriage immediately drove off In
a tinv days after the lady was delivered of a male child.
The landlord was applied to, and a healthy nurse pro-
cured, to whom the child was handed with five guineas,
and an assurance of being attended to once a-month.
About ten days after the accouchement the carriage
returned at night, when the lady discharged her bill
and requested to add a guinea titr the strict adherence
to the original agreement. She then stepped into the
carri ige with her attendant, and directly drove off. On
entering and departing front the inn, as well as during
their stay, they both appeared masked, and the door of
their chamber was never opened wids:r than to admit a
hand with whatever might be necessary from time to
time.—(Ennis Chronicle.)
The celebrated picture by Coreg,gio, presented to the
Duke of Wellington by the King of Spain, is one of a
great number, captured at the battle of Vittoria, many
of which have become the property of his Grace by the
same approi•riate donation.— Amongst these are the..4qa-
dor an early picture by Val:mines; Departure of Adonis,
by Titian; Virgin and Child, by Raphael ; //4 Family
aid Jan, by Mengs; and by Triflers there are about
twenty pictures of the first quality, by Leonardo da
Vinci, one ; by Wenvermaus, Spagnoletto, Claude and
Dora i nichluo, several.