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THE 16.7171(iN A LREGISTER.

LONDON :
MOND.IY, MAY 13.

CHANGE IN THE FRENCH MINISTRY.

PARIS Papers of Wednesday last have been received.
The Monitcur of that day announces, that MM. BAnBE
MARBots and VAUBLANC, the Ministers of Justice and
the Interior, have been replaced by the Chancellor of
France, who takes, liar Wenn, the Portefenille of Mi-
nister of.instice ; and by M. LAINE, the lute President of
the Chamber of Deputies, who succeeds M. de Vauatasie.
The latter is named Minister of State and Member of
the Privy Council—mere honorary offices.
General Bertrand, who is with 13uonaparte at St. He-
lena, has been tried by a Council of Wur at Paris, and
condemned to Death. The cousin of the General, M.
Delasalle, demanded a delay of three months to notify
the process to the General ; but the Reporter opposed this
demand ; asserting, that it was notoriously impossible for
the accused to appear beibre the Tribunal.
The Papers contain no other intelligence of importance;
but private letters speak of the numerous arrests that have
taken place in Paris and elsewhere, and of the plots which
have been in agitation, with ramifications extending to
Madrid tmd Naples. The objects of these plots seem to
have been equally wicked and absurd—to take oil' all the
branches of the Bourbon family, to change the dynesty,
or to restore the sanguinary regime of the Republic one
caul indivisible.

" The following are the details in the ministerial cir-
cles coneerninf the conspiracy which has just been dis-
c wered at Parts: there can be little doubt of their au-
thenticity :
" Some of the agents of the Military Pollee, forming part of
the nocturnal patroles, had remarked an individual, apparently
of the inferior class, returning to his house in the Rile de la
I larpe, at tour o'clock in the morning. He was traced at nine
o'clock in the evening to an obscure horse in the Rue de la
Rorliechonard, where lie regtilarly passed the night. He was
seized at the end of a fortnight, as well as all the persons as-
s:mbled there. The greater part were disbanded officers; incn
already signalized by the Police. Their examination led to
fluffier discos cries: a press, and several seditious procla-
mations, were seized ; rather, I am informed, tending to sub.
vcrt the present Government, than in favour of the Usurper
or any other Pretender. It is ass( rted, that the apprehension
of Benoit, lark's Secretary in Switzerland, and of the Cheva-
lier St. Aietion, have thrown new and unexpected light on the
subject. This is now belicked to be a subordinate ramification
of a deep-laid plan, which embraces m its action Fotiche at
Dresden, Carnot at Warsaw Eseelmans in the Netherlands,
Mid Soult at l),useldirt. Warsaw,
sums of money have
been already secured ; and as the glair will shortly 13,! examin-
ed ny a CAnut of Justice, the public anxie•y will boon lie dis-
sipated. 'I he Govenunent appears perfretiv satisfied with the
measures already adopted, and full of coadence in the act:-
vity of the Police.

" \IM. Majon and Clonet, formerly Aides-de-Camp to Mar-
shal Ney, have been amirchriukil at Niones. The motives of
this nwasnre have no comet:film with the atiair I have just re-
ined. It is believed these (knifemen are acting under au en-
ely different influence."
Louis XVIII. it is stated, in order to signalize theepoch
of his entrance into Paris, has granted a full and absolute
amnesty to all militaryanen guilty of desertion bet re the
first of October last year. The parties, however, are to
pay the tmsts incurred by their prosecutions.
The appeal to the Council of Revision, against the ac-
quittal of General Cumbronnc, has been over-ruled; and
the judgment of acquittal consequently confirmed.
The king of France has issued an Ordinance, in
consequence of the great dearth of grain, permitting all
foreign' vessels importing corn into France to be exempt-
ed from the navigation duties ; and likewise from the
outward-bound duties on goods, the produce of France
or of its industry, taken in return for the inward cargoes.
The Paris papers of the sth contain an article from
Lisbon, which will doubtless bePreceived with due atten-
tion here. It is an edict of the Portuguese Junta of
health ; announcing, that the plague rag-es not only in
Egypt and at Conlantinople, but in the Neapolitan ports
of tae Adriatic Gulph, in those of the opposite coast, and
in the island of Curtis. Vessels front such ports are,
therefore, strictly prohibited front entering the Portu-
guese harbours ; while several others are declared to be
so flar stapecied, that vessels from them can only be re-
ceived at Lisbon, and that under a rigorous quarantine.
Among these suspected places are, Trieste, Venice, all
the ports of the kingdom of Naples, those of Sicily, of the

MAY 13.

Nlorea, of the lonian islands, of the, ArcitipeLgo, and fi-
nally of all the Ottoman. States. A third class of vewels
may be received in the harbour of Lisbon, under a qua-
rantine of 20 days ; namtly, those from other ports of
Italy, from Malta, the isle of Film, Corsica, and Sardinia.
A .tintrth class, being under a minor degrea of suspicion,
may be received, utter an obs:Tration of 10 days, but in
the harbour of Lisbon only. This includes vessels front
Gibraltar anti the Mediterrancanports of Spain ; and even
those from the Southern ports of France are not exempt-
ed. The date of the Lisbon article in these Papers is
" April 7."
We retul with great pleasure in the French Papers of
the 4th, that the reigning Duke of Saxc-Cobourg, brother
of Prince Leopold, has issued an Ordinance for the eats-
blishment of a Constitution of States in the d tehv of
Coburg, and the other territories subjected to his Govern-.
ment. These States will flint' a national representation
on the basis of ancient institutions, according to which
some of the members will possess seats in virtue of the fief's
they possess, and others in consequence of the election
by the Magistrates, Burgesses, and Freeholders.—The
Tyrolese too are about to receive a similar reward ihr
their long-tried fidelity to the House of Austria. The
Emperor, by an Edict of the 21st ult. has restored to
them all the privileges and franchises which they held
from his ancestors; and particularly the ancient repre-
sentation of the four Orders, of Prelates, Nobles, Citizens
and Yeomanry. All the former Corporations are in like
manner restored: and the Constitution is declared to ex-
tend to the districts of Trent and Brixen.—These States,
both in Saxe-Coburgand in the Tyrol, are tohave the free
power of granting the imposts.
It is mentioned in a German paper, that between 2
and 800 Swiss were preparing to emigrate in a body to
North America. They intended to proceed down the
Rhine from Basle, and take shipping in some of the purta
of Holland.

At the date of the last adirices from Dresden, Foucho
was in that city, and is said to have been employed in
drawing up the history of the four hest eventful years.
He possesses, in an eminent degree, the materials and the
talents fiir such an undertaking. It is further stated,
that he bas addressed an " interesting Expose" to the
Duke of Wellington; the •object, however, is not men-
tion:lL

A letter, under the date of Hamburg,h, May 3, says:
" Letters just received by post from St. l'etersburgh,
state, that the new Tarif, signed by the Emperor, is now
in the press. The printing-office is guarded by soldiers.
—Hamburgh &mak?ll Lai, May
Exchange on London at Hamburgh, April 30 cud
May 3, S 4 9.
Extract of a letter from Rome, dated April 19.—" It
was reported yesterday, that through the intervention of
England a Treaty had been concluded with the Barbary
Powers, by which they will lie forced to live in peace
with all the Powers of Italy. Lord Stewart received
yesterday a courier from Turin. It is not known whe-
ther he brought this intelligence; but it is certain that
the Noble Lord has the charge of arrangements with
the Holy See, by which England takes upon itself to
cause the Burnish flag to be respected."
A Te Deem has been ehaunted at Genoa, upon tho
occasion of the liberation of the Barbaresquis slaves, by
Lord Exmouth.

The imports into New York for one year from April
1815, to April 1816, are stated to have amounted to 56
millions of dollars, or 14 millions sterling.
A North American ship bus arrived at Buenos Ayres
with '25,000 Mexico coined dollars on board, tbr the pur.
pose of purchasing bides. By the connection now exist-
ing between the United States and New Spain, the for-
mer are enabled to carry on the East India trade granted
to them by the late Treaty with the greatest advantage,
as well as every where else when a glut of goods render
specie an object. Don Martin Tomson has been sent us
Deputy from Buenos Ayres to the Government of the
United States.

The Duke of Wellington, after inspecting the fortress
of Valenciennes, returned to Cambmy on the Ist of May.
A change of the cantonments of the army was speedily to
take place; but whether it was to be confined to the right
wing or extend to the whole of the line, has not trans-
pired. As soon us the Duke gives directions for the me-
ditated arrangements, he will return to Paris.
Lieut -Cal. Midgley has been tried by a court-martial
at Chatham, upon nineteen charges, affecting his conduct
as commandant of Tilbury-fort, and acquitted. The Prince
Regent has confirmed the sentence; and ordered the pro-
secutor, Lieut. Brewer, to be removtxl from the situation
of adjutant to the depot at Tilbury-fort.
Sir Graham Moore is appointed one of the Lords of the
Admiralty, in the room of Lord Henry I'aulett, who re.
tires through ill health.
Admiral Mihie is to have the command at Halifax, in
the room of Admiral Grfdths. The Leamlcr, of 5U
guns, is fitting for the reception of Admiral Milne.
The naval establishment at Gibraltar is to be abolished;
and Malta will be the depot for stores, &c. for the fleet
that will be stationed in the Mediterranean.

The naval hospital and establishinents at Antig,ua are
also to be abolislaxL

MAY 13.

D11,1.11.1T1C REGIsIER.

DIM( Y-L 1.7%; E.

On Thursday night a new Tra,tr,edY was produced at
tbil 'Theatre, under the title of " Bertram; or, the Castle
of Si. .1141ohralui." The following are the Dramatia.
l'ersunte:
Cattnt Bert rain Mr. KEAN
(*moat Aidobrand qtr. PoPF;
l'rior of S. A1M:11...N

Monks—Pirates under the command of Baum's—Knights—
Peasants, 'N.C.

, .
Iniogen By a YOUNG LADY,
( Iler first appearance en any stage.)
Clotilili (her friend) .Miss Bove":
The Child
The Scene is laid on the cuast of Sicily.

Itertrain, a popular and powerfal Nobleman, was expelled
the kingdom tor disloyal practices ; and Count 41dobrand was
the principal aniline of his exile. Bertram then became the
leader of a band of pirates. The play opens with a violent
storm, which destroys his vessel, and casts him ashore, almost
deprived of life, close under the walls of a monastery, conti-
guous to his enemy's eits;le. lie is sheltered by the Monks, who
acquaint him with the approaela of afete given by the Lady of
tat which all strangers were freely invited. The
man whom Bertra% hates is absent in the wars; he resolves,
therthre, to enter the defeoceless castle, muttering some in-
distinct threats of vengeance against the family of its owner.
In the man time we are brought sequainted with Lunge,,, the
beautiful but wretched wife of 4/dobrand. She had given way
to an ardent passion for one (IPriram) who had long been
numbered with the dead ; and had subsequently been united in
marriage with a husband forced upon her by parental autho-
rity. She performs her ditties, but bewails her miseries ; and
during the influx of strangers to her castle she mots with
Bertram in a solitary walk. This scene, the finest in
the play, is wrought or with surprising force of genius, and
intensify of passion. 'l he unfortunate Bertram recognises the
object °lbis earliest tendernes-, when bit life was giorious and
his heart was pure.—/mogen, though she dreams not of Ber-
t:woes being alive, associates some unknown terror with the
outlaw. He breathes her name, which dissolves the mystery,
and lays her insensible at his feet. Not till she avows it, dates
he discover that she is the wife (Otis enemy : not till then does
he visit her with the dreadful curse, which, in the fin: concep-
tion and solemn language of the poet, converts all bee blessings
into sources or deep and incurable remorse. :rite child of
knogin a ppeltring, Bcrtrant, in a phrenry., seizes it, to revenge
all his wrongs by its destructiou ; but. intently gazing on the
Infant features, he tints every where the traces of her whom
ha has the moment before so fiercely r xecrated, and breaks out
into this affecting prayer—" God bless thy child!"—[This we
conceive to be a master- piece both of dramatic painting and of
in human nature]—Miaow returns to his hospitable
namiks—/mairt it soon follows, to seek consolation front the holy
Prior, and chances to meet again with Bertram. Her hue.
band's retina is announced : the lover, notwithstanding his
deep despair and misanthropy,seems toted,in some respects,
like commit lovers, and obtains from his mistress a promise to
see hint once more within the castle-walls, crc he departs for
ever. Conan ,1 hlobrantl arrives--Bertrant goes to his appoint-
ment: while waiting for the expected interview, some of his
baud inform him, that his rival, having heard of his return to
that caast, had set engines in motion to pursue and destroy
him : this new banishes all farther scropleftoma mind hither-
to balancing between shame and vengeance. He forces his
way to the Count's apartment, attacks, and kills him. /owl a
Is driven to tn.otue,s—B, rt runs surrenders without resistance--
his nahappy mistress expires on again beholding Liar—he stabs
himself, and dies beside her.
The Author seems not to have employed so much of
his power in strengthening the action of his plot, as in
developing. the passions, meditating the sentiments, and
perfecting to the highest degree of which, perhaps, an
English poem is susceptible, the imagery and language •
assigned to the characters in this drama. Nor is very
striking novelty of characters so much the attribute of
the tragedy of Bertram, as matchless force and ele-
ganoe of expression. The heroine is of a class fran
which dramatic heroines have been most liberally and
most advantageously chosen—with enough of sensibility
to make her miserable, and enough of virtue to make us
compassionate her woe: robed in the richness of his own
imagination, the poet, perhaps, has left his heroine too
.closely shrouded within its draperies. She is (we sin-
cerely deprecate the charge of being uncandid) rather
too often and too long in the act of seeing invisible, and
addressing herself to absent, objects. Her reception of
her husband, in the 4th act, ought to have awakened
some suspicion on his part that all was not right ; and
her madness in the sth is too much protracted, and pain-
fully obtruded upon the audience ; but these are partial
imperfections. Them is a deep interest excited through-
out : there is a display of vigorous intellect—of im-
pressive sentiments—of refined taste—of profuse imagi-
nation—and of pathos the most exquisite and profound,
which we presume to say will render this tragedy a pre-
cious acquisition to the fund of our dramatic literature.
It; moreover, a man of worth and genius should, to the
dishonour of an enlightened community, feel, as we are
afraid too ninny have &It, a want more pressing than
that of the fume which infallibly awaits him, we rejoice
in the prospects we with confidence anticipate for the
author of such a production.
The whole of the acting of this tragedy is admirable. ;
We never saw Mr. HeA.txsin in a more impressive part:
the moral and eloquent sentiments of the Prior receive
additional force from the manner in which he delivers •
them. The music also is pure and appropriate ; the
scents?", picturesque ; and altiigether, as a spectacle as
well as a drama, it is roost en:dim:de to the Theatre.

We lave hardly room to say more of Miss SOMER..
VILLE, the debutante of the night, than that she seems a
very lovely woman; and that, under ninny obvious ("Lis-
eivantages, she showed no ordinary talents. Her voice
in its natural key is mellow and musical, filling the
Theatre apparently without an effort. She has not yet