The National Register.
London, England, 1819-02-15 00:00:00

SI NCULAR RSC.4PE OF A VAG

Some soldiers belonging to the 3lth regiment were becelekt
to trial, and two of them condemned to suffer death Oak
one of them, however, was left COI* ese('ation, named Halm
'rids poor fellow was constantly visi- ell daring hie cordless-
mem, by the Rev. G. Du Hearione, because resigned to his
fate, and expected the awful mensent with Cluistian !Orli-
tmle. He Wall accompained to the place of execution by
the shove Gentleman. Hr joined him in prayer, and a,-
centled the scatfuld with composure. At leagth he was
turned off; and when he had hang abates a ininnte sod a
h It, the executioner, had taken hold of Inseam/lased body,
.11 penile!' himself on it, by whose additional weight the Pere
gave way in such a manner that the miserable sufferer's feet
towelled the ground. The esectitioner then palled him side-
ways, with a view to strangle bins, and being eataWe to effect
it in this way, got upon his shoulders. To. the peat ear-
prise of all who witnessed this dreadful- seeire, the poor
criminal rose straight ripen his fret, witu the hangnails
on his shoelders, and immediately loosened the rope
from his throat with his huger). No langnage as
describe the sensations which were excited rust 1111
the by standers, by this shocking scene. The Sheriff order ed
another rope to be prepared ; but the spectators interfered.,
And the Sheriff agreed, that, before the proceeding to the
execnt ion of the sentence, he weold wait till the will of his
Magistracy should. he known. The Civil Magistrate net.
• being in town, orders were sent by the Commander in Chief
to carry the man back to gaol. By this time Ow peer fellow
had recovered his senses. The interest which the scene ex-
hibited rannot he described ; all became deeply interested,
in the moo's fate. Captain Nicholls mid another Gcntlenrant
took him cinder their sins to conduct hint, and bs, their am
sistonce he was able to walk back to the prison.—The Nest
deeitled,that the whole matter relative to poor Hades Afield
be transmitted to the King , and the execution os' the so*.
tence was suspended till his Nlajemy'a pleasure was knenetx.
Petitions Were prepared by the inhabitants, and &awarded
to his Majesty, and he was pardoned accordingly.

Hottalnt.L PlllENoMENa!—GX.vialsisst. —On the 4th
November last, various galvanic experiments were made ea
the betty of the meirderee,Clyricsdiele,by Dr. Ure, of Glaagow
with a Voltaic battery of 270 pairs of tour inch plates. The;
reed,' were 'lady appalling. On moving tn.- red from Ike
hip to the lied, the Uwe being previesaly beta, the leg was.
thrown taut with. such violence, as nearly to overturn one of
the assistaurs,who hi vain attempted so ',Nevem its rateissibn T
In the seem'', experiment, the rod W 43 applied to the phrenie
nerve in the neck, when Lalsouriaus Wean:rag instantly come
menced ; the eldest heaved and fell; the belly wasp eenie/el
and collapsed, with the relaxing and retiring iliaphraghiss;
and it is thought, that but Isom the complete evasauttion of
the blood; pulsation Might have occurred t Its the third es-.
regiment, the supra-orbital ut rye was touched, when every
muscle in the min deuce* face " was throw D into fearful
action." The scene was IDllCOlib—sevcrol, of the spectahavar
left the roma ; one gentleman actually farmed from terror ow
sickness. In the fourth experiment, Ilse transmitting of the
decrial pow' rlt the spinal marrow to the Maar nerve
at the elbow, the fusgers were instantly put in motion, cud
the agitation of the aria was so great, that the verve: seemed
to point to tot daemon spectators, coin rt whore thought it
had come to life I Dr. Ure appears to be of opinion, that
had not incisions been made in the blood-vessel. ut the neck,
and the spinal marrow been lacerated, the criminal might
have been restored tolife !--711( Scotsman.
Wednesday the Recorder made a Report to his Royal.
Highness the Prince Regent, in Council, of the followiug
prisoners mut, r sentence of death in New gate, who were
capitally convicted in December Sessions lasi; viz. IL Erases,
G. Bellostr, K. Thrower, G. %V. Handy, J. Ntuou, W. Smith,
and K. 11-edhain, for stealing goods, ac. in dwellmg-tunties
Thomas Peeks and Sarah Tliwaites, tun house-Ui raking in
the day time ; W. Mattingley, fur horse stealing ; W..8a1..
dock, J. Mason, and J. Fellows, 0 Wood,J. Cursleroy,R.
Parsons, and J. Pidgeon, for burglaries ; when Egerton,
J. Fellows, and J. Curderoy, were ordered ter triennials
on Tuesday next. The others were respited during plea
sure.
Orr Saturday evening, the 6th instant, a melancholy *46-
dent held Sir Henry Harper Crewe, Bart. while driving
pair of young blood horses in a carriage con•I 'retest like a
break, near the gates of his residence, Borchelt Wood, note
Elstree. The horses became in a :theist degree rr..tivei and
the wheel coming ill contact with the posts at th.i gateway
of a cottage near Iris house, the cis' ira4e ...veil a conceal
si on which threw Sir Fleury with great force horn Ins seat.
• Ile fell on his head, which oceasioaell his inatactaireithe
death. Lady Crewe and some of his cliildreit were at that
moment arrived from town. to shinier. His vet was with
him on the box. when the misfortune uccuer ed. The fedinge
ut Iris distracted Lady and leanly on this unhappy occasion,
may be better conceived Uran described. Theis sorrowfrl
event serves to illustrate the uncertainty of human life, and
edit, a nether instance of the justness of Solomon's ina
&unction, " Boast not thyself of to morrow, ler thou knowest
nut what a dry may bring forth.'
Mr. Falls, a nurseryman near. Durham, gives an initiated'
land cultivated by the spade in that country, and std wilts
wheat planted in lines by a dibble, with plants pruriently
raised in a seed bed, which produced Use enormons crop of
I/ quarters per acre.
Oo the le of this month a duet took place between M. de
Saint Matcelin, an Officer lu the Royal tilled, nephew of the
Marquis. de Fontaines, l'eer of France, and a Sim- Fayot, of
Nantes. The tinnier was wounded by a pistol shot m the
abdomen. The ball could not be extracted, and the aukappy
young mau expired soon after.
A shout time ago a Coroner's-Jury was summoned to sit
upon the body of a boy who list bitten from a scaffolding, at..
Selby, in Y trek:Mire, and was reported to have died of hie
wrmds. In order that tile cause of the has death might be
clearly ascertained, a surgeon was dispatched to esantine the
body, who, on Isis rem rn to the Coroner, repotted that, either
from a Gale:uric process, ur from some uther cusses, the de-
:cored was, at the time be entered the town, perform..
hig the operation of eating a Imich of hr. ad and butter.
—ln plain English, that he was already convales•eot
and would sums he in as good health as any Member
of the Jury.
Ilenitutsiloata.—A Portsistrintli Paper says, W. are
'miry to slate, that this ttriiiiilt.ot tooilaily is now very prix a-
kat ;11‘1911411t time canine species its these parte. Sirs eral dogs
infected wills it have beets stool. AUtl lig% lucre given by
the Nlayor to volatile ail slogs tur a MDillii, t n pain of being
destroy. ii. Several persons bays Mon bitten, and atte►.rarde
immerged in the/MI, aims priveruive to the iipi.rielieonuclre,dyievneor..,
seqaences. Several Score ra cattle, besides men, Oute i, amt.
children, have this week sindergeste dippieg u t
some of them from Wilts'aire,Lierkellire,&e.'

ti titoEN.
.A n;:w trAgefly was 03 ‘Veines,lay prJi...:eed at tla s ,
Antle.re, under the title of Evadne, or, Me Statue.
ii'he pint is as films:—
* Litilosioo (Mr. Macre:sly), Chief Minister wad fa•
iroarite of a Kira ef !Valves (Mr. Abbott), conceives
ttlie:design of tleetro ving 'lila master's ltfe, and raising
in self to the throne. With this view he begins by
stasitleg in the king -a guilty passion ter Leadme (Miss
i sistr: of Cionaa (sir. Young), a Nobleman
‘4.1. Naples ; and eugages his promise that the brother
.komfell shall rouseut to tie sister's shame. fhe trai
n' IT himself 614 MO intention of sacrificing Frames,
secretly lures, to the A•nx; but sets ti,e
IP (et is Dievenieskt to destroy the Kind, by Cokilft's bun .
4c is Turtitur •tiocetsary that, to outaiu Evadne, Lei
laver, "ittorotio4lln..C. Kemhle), should be disposed
.4 by -taarria:7, to ()heir: (Nies. Faueit), Ludocleo's
Ilitifiswonaan, who loves Litt. Fteeeenlio is recalled tiom
a it'oreign einbassity ; and, upon has return, is told by
,taut Enadire was talse, avid had bccume the

atY,tress of the Vince:alio is persuaded to lie-
:e Ou the eVitletice tpf a letter
wittiett 1,.. /',.,que, crayoning the most pa,sh.matc
aVONV it of tenderness, really iutentled for 1.-cm:ea/to
41.. t, by the I:: a .ge of name, coritrii,el by balm/
to appear arldres-ed to the Kng.
Zyczdie ; reproaches her with her thlschool ; is halt

persuaded by um. proiesishons ut her innocence ;
but asks, as the inuails ut rewiring his auspi-
utsfis, that she should ie, him see whether she still
Wore round her neck this pictur.-, who:
!ter at his departure. She is co.er.meti ; pia:dumb the
itcture,.aud gives it to him it proves, however, to he
.the picture ot the 4/inceodie now becomes fu-
rious and inexorable. Colonna enters, insults, and
-eilallerges Vitieentio, anti they iu o.t to fight. thivia
scones in, and confesses to Lvatine, that she had con-
trived the false le ter, and substituted the pi.ture tithe
King for that of Vincentio round Evadne s neck, ut the
in:tigation of Ludovico, who euguged to reward her by
snaking Vineentio her .hustxtud. Golonna and Vinceutio
-tight ; the latter is supposed cLad, and the fernier con-
lined in a dungeon. Ludoviro visits him, gives him
his freedom tots him that the King demanded his
sister's shame, and his own ac pilescence, a,. the price
nf.his pardou—and persoaclea hnn, by smithy working
.an !ri give a nettling consent ; to invite
the King :d his Palace, and at tar moment when he
se:aped-8 the brother's base sacrifice ot the sisters ha-
110ttE, to murder him. The /Sing is itiviied and teast-
.od i.y Cohr.ia Theiliour of rest ap,moacile.-, and
the Kos retii-cs to his chamber. Culuqua enters ;at
adjoining apartment, and proceeds to the door of that.
which he was waiting. the corning of Evadne. He
untilicetle; the dagger, and is about to open the door
—when he hears a voice. It is Evadne—she knew
his purpose, and persuades him to let her meet the
%sag. He consents ; but, suspecting her weakness,
txanecah inins,ll so as to overhear what passes. 'l tae
ing 'enters, and finds Evatinc ev,tucs Lis dishu-
ittourable propositions, by calling his attention, huh
szysterious and solemn pathos, to the statues of her la.
sa:ly, which stood •in the chamber. At I..ligth she
er_eunes to one statue, awl asks the King it lie knew it.
it was her hither's, who had been the Kings tutor,
and died by a stroke aimed at the King in nettle. She
.embraess the statue, and invokes the spirit of her hither.
The King is moved, abandons his base wishes—Culenna
comes forth, einbraces his sister, and is reconciled to the
King. Luduvico is aniroaehing—Colonna places the
King behind time statues, and Li aloe retires. Ludovieo
cotes, and is told by Colonna that the King is dead.
His joy and ambition burst forth tumultuously, He
Colonize he shall d.e tile death ofd murderer, and
ar.'.crs his guards to advance and seize him ; when sud_
I:lowly the King appears hef ire ; Lod )vico s con-
thunded.—reenvers 1 • self—and tries the success of hy-
pocrisy. He is spurned by Vie King—is roused to the
waageance of despair, makes an attempt to kill the King,
and is himiclf killed by lolonua, and the Play concludes.
Tice scene is at Naples; and the taste, without any ex..
press -historic fact in the text, appears to have been
a out the,lbth century, from the woe of character and
sentiment of the Piece.

Such are the materials which constitute this bantling
of the Pout's fancy. The author is, we understand.. Mr.
Shed, a 6entlenniu of the sister kingdom, well known
in the theatrical world at the author of the Apostate,
Pelbani• a, and some other pieces. The production of
last night, like every former prodnetim of this author,
Mown& is situations of of horror ; his style is lofty, and
a;.) teals in iungery, studied comparisons, and similies
His allusions to the person and charms of his heroine
are, in more than one instance, tooglowirg and warm
to be amsis.ent With that dt.hcacy which suits the fc-
teak part of the audience. In this, u-d in all the for..
esa productions of Mr. Shiers pen, the scenes of horror
are worked up to such a pitch us to become painful in
the extreme to the audience. The reiterated acts of
diabolical villainy on the part of Ludovicu, and the ag-
gravatcd misery which they thaw down on the heads
of Lis devoted vi, tint., Fwd e, her brother, and her
lore::, Gillen. es,i) other so rapidly that they have no
poi•AL on whit the atta :vino of tho audi‘hue can rest
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