The National Register.
London, England, 1818-05-11 00:00:00

MAY U.

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Werther. This piece is, we suspect, a trauslatioa of
ono of the same tide, now peribrinin4 at the Theatre
.Des Varieles. in Paris. The idea is a very good one ;
few subjucts will less stand the test of ridicule, or ihral
better material, for the mock-heroic dntam, than this
extravagant and popular German story. The wither
has not failed to seize on its prominent I.l.()StlrAitiv, and
to intrulace them, either in description or in action.
The waltzing with Charlotte; t4c .attael-.:th:ot to the
thread-bare blue coat he wore at theit. nit:eting ; and
the incident of putting bread and butterfat. his children
ore ludicrously set firth ; the catastrophe is got rid of,
Werlher's shooting his hat instead of himself.; when
he appears, and, after reproaching all parties for not
interferin,g after his ostentatious request for pistols is
p.o.‘keti off in the Munich diligence. The piece was
uncommonly well acted; and Liston, who played
IVerther gave as much effect to it as was•possible ; but
it was so far from being favourably received, that the
announcement for repetitition was not parmitted to lie
heard. One cause may have Len, that the allot:ions
were imperfectly understood.; for this little drama
certainly possessei merit, though of nJ very exalted
kind.

Extract of a letter from .Berlin, dated April '25-:
" The welding of the Princess Fredericka, daughter of
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland, took
place on thel7th inst. and was celebrated with great
splendour. The bridegroom, the reigning Duke of
Anhoit Dessau, is a young man of great promise, aged
2.1'. The marriage party were at the Opera on the 19th
when the Kitt;; conducted the Princess to her seat in
the Royal box, alaid the plaudits of a most brilliant as-
semblage, the Court being present. On the 21st his
Majesty gayest grand masquerade at the Opera-house ;
en which occasion the public were treated with every
kind of refreshment: and last night the brother of the,
Princess, Prince Frederick, gave a magnificent ball at
sidendid.residence in William-street, which was lately
furnished for his own marriage with the Princess
of
Berenburg. Next week the august couple go to Potsdam,
whence, after some farther festivities, they will proceed
about the Ist of May for Dessau, the residence of the
Prince."
A fact, not stated•in the Styptementary Gazette of
Tuesday, respecting the affairs of India, but which
•transpired a thrtnigat since, is now confirmed by the
latest intelligence from the East. We allude to the
dreadful pestilence which prevailed in the camp of t!.c
Governor-General. On the first day on which it was
observed distinctly, it carried oft' 97 persons ; on the
next day. above 500 perished. Its ravages are said to
bare been chiefly, though not exclusively, confined to •
the poorer classes of natives and camp-followers ; but
we learn with regret that the Marquis of Hastings
was himself at one time affected with this malady, and
that .1; of his loidship's native servants died. When
the accounts came away, however, hopes were enter-
tained that the progress of the disorder had been are
rested. .
At a recent meeting of the Catholic Board in Dub-
lin, a letter from the Earl of Danoughmore was read,
in which he advises the Catholic Body not to again
bring forward their question in Parliament, without a
full and previous assurance of the attendance and sup-
port of its friends.
,Tuesday, the Church Missionary Societe hold their
Annual Meeting Freemasons hall, wltich,, at an
early hour, was crowded to excess,nnd hundreds retired
for want of room. The Chair was taken by Lord Gam-
bier ; utter which the meeting were addressed in sere-
ritl interesting speeches by the venerable Bishop of
Norwich, the Bishop of Gloucester, Dr. Thorpe ; James
Stephens, W,Wilberthree, Bahington, Estes &e.itze.
After wliich a liheral collection waft mode fitr the So-
ciety. It was annonnixii that :2131. had been collected
:aces a s.:rnion bv Professor Farish in the morning., and
Cie. the fonds had increased to au unprecedented extent
ev :r since the opposition made by the Archdeacon of
Bath. The revenue fear the last year is ..!.;,700,1. The
to.,:eting elt.cti with the whole ass.!aibly standing, up
and singing. the 117th Psalm.
FINE Aturs.—The beantifol .collection of-pictur_s;
1:e the most cc:lel:reed teasters of the Italian, Spanish,
Fietnish and I),,Leli t:),;etlLer
nirectors e,f the British hibt was on Monday
f-liniitted to public inspection. Of the paintings in this
es%ibition, larp;e number deserve to be plaeed in the
first raids of rise at. We can only perticularize a fsw
of them. Of several landscapes by Claude, tai his best
style, we give the prefeeenee to So. 1:,1, Wars/tipping
the Molten Cqtf. No. ati3, by Cusp, View on a River
is one of the finest . pieces we have ever se -:11 by this
No. 1 i iw L'...obeas, Market i',•ople, is a
dist in;:nisit:-1 by ittl..ommon richness win beau-
ty : and No. a n tyke, Lis on,/ porteeit Sit cha-
racter of Puri.s, is exquisticic tinisaed. The pieces
cf
Raphael, Guido, Salvmor .(osa, and ot!oc
naines little inferior • to them, form tot.. -ensemble of this
collection.
'l'lic Duke of Sussex goes down to Bath, to the de-
dication of the Masoeic hall building in that city. A
Grand Ole is to lit sung oa the ',v.:casino, which is to
.'be computed by liithop.

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nr. NATIONAL REGISTER.

LORD ELT/VW/WS MEVOTII,
ADDIIES6I:I) To 1.1 CILAMUER OF PEERS

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The following t::e Nlemorial which accompanied the let-
ter till.nr,l I•lntiatrd to the Fremelt.tlimit'uer /if Peen. :-
0.1 the :?)th of .I%intry laAt. a Frenchman', whom I met at
requested perm,iloa to call upon me the day following., to
spTak to me on an idfairof it2oor'ar.ce. With thii re:1001..1.a I had
oinverFation detatie.l :n tltc knter, addree,tal by we to
General Murray, the tra:t.l.eion
Ilrucw•ls. Jan. Yu, 1818.
_

*" It is after having consulted the Nuke of !tic:mond. that I
conununtrate to you the following fact:—:t, French retugee, of whom
I know but hide, called upon me tills rainnitig. and told me that
three of lie friend. wiehial to return to France, if they could do it •
with safety; they arc two literary characters and an other of the
partisans, who are under the sentence of a Prevotal Court. He
asked me if I thought it would be possible to interest the Duke of
Wellington in their flavour; I anSwercil him. that I did not think
so, for two reasons—the first, because I did not suppose that !so
auuld inierefere in it; and the second, became 1 did not perceive.
.any motive tor requesting him to do so. He asked me if I thought
he could request this of M. de Cazes. by revealing to him a conspiracy
which tereatened the Duke's life; I answered, that a service or tlus
nature would certainly give him a claim to his attention, but that
it was very difficult to induce - the Duke to pay any attention, to
menaces of an attack upon his per on, cud teat it would required
strong evidence to remove the natural suspicion that the whole was
an invention to further some privree views. He replied that, as
far as he himself was concerned, he had nothing to ask, as he was
definitively condemned for the part that he hat; acted; that, more-
over, he was free from restraint, had foimed other plans, and had
no desire to return to France ; that he was uniy in: hued to divulge
the conspirry irons the horror with whica assassination inspired
him, and that the only advantage he wished to derive from it was
to render a service to hisTriends. I enquired of him hew he ob-
tained information of the ptojectetl conspiracy he said that an
officer (I believe on half-pep, whom he had from time to time sup
plies) with the means of subsistence, had communicated to him an
offer which hal been made to him some months previously to carry it
into exceution, which he had refueed, and another individual had
accepted it; that the latter had been paid during four months by
those who employed him : that he had been the whole of that time
constantly watching the fluke wherever he went, and he was at that
moment e. tablishett in Paris, where he waited his arrival. The per-
son who gave me this information aaldtd, the blow is meditated by a
party which is totally differece lions that whose cause I have espoused,
and is even opposed to it. I then told him that I would without
delay impart what he had related to me; but I desired to know by
what means he proposed to expose the plan, or at all events to pre-
vent the effects of a immediately; he answered that there were two
methods of doing it ; that he never would coneent to be the instru-
ment of bringing any one to punishment, and that he was nut in a
position to do so ; but that it would be impossible for hint to repair
to France without a special passport (soro-rondeit), and that if lie
couldprocure one from the Police Minister, or the Duke of Welling-
ton, he would return thither ; that this would suffice. and in
twenty four hours he would certainly denounce the perem, whom
the police could have no difficulty in recogrizing as an ad-
venturer, and a foreigner, el which they would atierwerde be
convinced ; that if this measure was not approved, he would endea-
vour to learn from a friend the name which the wretch had assunial,
and, if possible, his description, sufficiently exact to be u etul, al-
though it was to he feared, that he would render this lust difficult,
by means of disguising himself. This is what he has agreed to per,
form. If I can obtain it irons him before the departure ut the courier,
-I will communicate it to you.
•' Such has been the subject of our conversation, the details of
which are of a nature to induce me to give this recital credit enough
to convince mu of the neceseity of instantly informing you. It is tor
you to decide whether it is requisite to inform the Duke of it. It it
be judged expedient to forward the passports, I will endeavour to sue
celerate the departure of the person by the diligeme, without losing
an instant. Ido not perceive what advantage this individual would
derive from inventing such an affair, which would piece him in the
hands of the police during the whole time he might be in Paris, and
whose only ultimate advantage would consist in die favour granted to

his (Liana.
"•At Al events, have the go !c;s to answer me very promptly.
I send this letter to Maubeuge, because I think, should you be abseil'
(rout Cambray, that this is the best course. l wn, &a.
(Signed) 6' • hIN NAI
66 Orr the LIM Feb. I received the answer of Gen. Murray, who
announeml to me that the Duke of Wellington did not atem:h any
importance to the news ; that he himself conceived the report to b, a
perfidious conuivanet: :Jae (airtime), but he thought, that 1 should
blame nty;,•lf (as others would amuse inc), if any adifurtune hap-
pened, fur too much reserve on ►ny vat, iu not naming the person
from whom I nceived the communication.
" 1 then toot: a second letter to General Murray, of which the
following is a copy :

" Rrusa•l;; Vu1..13, 1618.

" ' Your letter, dated the Bth inst. was only delivered to me this
evening. I had anticipated the manner. in winch the hake would
re.Tive the communication; but I thought. arid still think, that it
w• 43 my duty to impart it. .I am much plea.sed to observe that you,
who ars a notch better lodge Mari iity,irlf in these alfairs, should
consider that the probabilities of the intorniation being a snare area :Li
09 to 1.
'" I have but very little knowledge of the person in question. but
if I had not thotti:ht him worthy of come confidence, or rather, it I hail
not co:unit:led that the evidence which was offered me, was capable
of untleigoiair a safe intl immediate investigation, I certainly would
nitlmare w:i;tau to
_con Oil
" • It I prop:rly interpret the concluding part of your letter, I ant
compeihti lo differ with yam in opinion, and men to believe that, you
hate not nr.clerstood ray hest eonununicatiou. lon appear tu.beueve
that I shall reproach myself witu having acted wruag, a, it appears
to you that c.l-rs will also shine tile of Cie soar., it an attempt
were to ta::oep,.:c- at this moment, because I have twt given the name
of the individual woo otkre.l hialself to 0u... nice yea of the truth.
of his declati:ticas: if I do not deceive I._.e told you that
eds man (who ci•nuot inter I ranee witlio.it :1 previous guarantee uf
entire sE'ety for his petoon) has ott;!retl...9 clqatrt for l'atis with any
• • , i.ad will a.;ike known to yam iu forty t 4
woom thete 1,; every thing to War, without
rt .7etroct;m e. or any u.h r edvantwte, than a safe co:I-
-t:net 11/111tal should nc I.i.:7llisiteff i.i.11; and that the intervention of
tame Duke would not be looloai fur UAL con.,piracy should be dis-
covered.
As I do not perceive that this individual could promise him-
self any advantage. as rou very justly rerna:k, from time conuivance
of titisde,ign, that a j•oinitc:.• to Puri, ender the direction of the
police coulii produce him no h ‘l,4it, I re.,-,:rd the guarantees winch
he offers as subtiei,ant. send I a ,ink is .ren-ii amble enotigh, that he re-
fuses at the same Mac to make k town ri-iderne to the poii:e of
France. on rwernint of persccutimis, which he would have bat too
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1,..t I.:e tui.tu c. and 1 kel no other regret than lir.4
whi,:h is om.ationed by the pr:.4.pi6t-tz. ri.fle,•ion, you uio:e it
your,44 tn. on v.,y snenee, reqwting the name, Ashen the mat, Wi.o
bars a oitl2rs thro.ng4 wy imerpo3ition, to give up his per-
son to your handl-40u the tangle condition that his return W Druosels
bo guaranteed. ••• • Believe roe, itc.
(C*11141) • • KINNAMD.` "
• M. Marinet, Awl itnr of the Council of State, enntlemned to death
p coatonare, to t 615, by the Fro otal
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