The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-29 00:00:00

CAST lE.

Sta,-llaving received your Excellency's permission for the British
ships Philippa :old .\lulgrave Castle to protecti on their voyage, Sc
whose names arc undersigned. feel' it to be a duty that we owe to the
owners of those ships, and the valuable property on board of them, to
the underwriters both on ships and property, and to the Government
whose subjects we are, to protest, and we do hereby most solemnly pro_
test against all the violent measure, which your Excelkney has
thought proper to adopt towards us during our stay at Prayer, a port
which wassouglit by the Commander of the )lulgravc Castle, when
that vessel was in distress. and when he naturally expected to receive
every degree of protection, support, and assistance his situation re.
quint]. How far his expectations have been fulfilled by the circum-
stances detailed in Captain Harrington's second letter to your Excel.
lency, under date May 26. or how tar the relations of peace and amity
between two friendly powers have been preserved by your Excellency
towards us g,nerally ,it is not our purpose here to inquire; but we shah
draw up a hill and correct statement of the wl.ole of those violent
measures which are the subject of this protest, and lay the same as
hillib soon m •le beriire his Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Strang-
ford. t tish. Ambassador at the Court of Brazils, to be by hint
subniitt to the Prince Regent of Portugal, and to the British Govern-
ment. We have the honour to be,

?WY T. 29.

DRAMATIC REGISTER

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HAYMARKET.

On Monda7 night, a new Comedy was produced,
called Exit ky Mistake, said to be from the pen of Mr.
Jamieson. It is an excellent little piece, in which we
can recollect nothing at all for ill nature to snarl at, unless
it be a too great liberality in the quantity of puns. The
interest of the scene is preserved throughout ; the cha-
racters arc strongly marked; the language is pointed and
elegant; and there are, here and there, sonic very success-
ful-hitx at the follies of the day. The following will
give some slight notion of the plot of the piece.
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Mr. Rowland (TERRY) reslizei a large fortune in India, and is dig.
posed to return and enjoy it in the land of his nativity. The person
who has the management of his alitS abroad is a quaker, who sends
along with his fortune the will of Mr. Rowland to Mr. Straw (War-
Itstsoto, who is appointed executor, and, at the same time, apprises
Straw of the circumstance of Mr. Rowland's return, in language
which :rives rise to the hustle of the piece. The quaker talks of Mr.
Rwsland having departed on the Bth of May, and uses other equivocal
expressions, whale. taken together, address themselves to Mr. Straw
as a communication of the death of his friend Mr. Rowland. Upon
the arrival therefore of the property. he proceeds to the distribution of
it, as executor, and had actually paid over ona half of it to Mrs. {Val-
singhont (Nils. DAYIERPORT), a widow, and her daughter /torn et
(\lass TAYLOR); when a letter from Portsmouth, very much to his as-
tonishment, apprises him not only that Mr. Rowland is still,alive, but
that he will be in town instantly. Mrs. lfralsinghant was in the bus-
tle of new arrangements, new establishments, and new equipages, when
the mistake is communicated to her, and she faints of course. Been-
rering, at length, from the shock, the executor and the widow lay their
heads together ; and it is agreed, that Mr. Rowland shall he tempted to
take up his abode at the house of Mrs. Walsinglow, where he might
probably fall in love with Ilarriet, and thus obviate the difficulty of
re-paving the money, part of which had been actually expended. Mr.
Rowland arrives at an inn, and so dues a Mr. Rattletrap HlussEcti,
from the Baltimore Theatre, who is mistaken by Straw, when he waits
upon him at the inn, for Mr. Rowland. He is treated accordingly,
and, imagining that all this attention is paid to him from the reports of
his pmfesaional talents, he feels flattered, closes with the invitation to
Mrs. IVaLisicliam's, and has almost succeeded in obtaining the blush
ing consent ot the widow herself; when Mr. Rowland, who from a va-
riety of circumstances imagines that a plot is laid to talk about his death
and rub hint of his property, eventually makes himself known. An
delaircitsentent takes place, the mistakes are rectified, and /farrier is
married to a nephew of Mr. Roseland, an artist, who was smitten by
her as she was sitting to him for leer portrait. JON Es has a rattling
character, very suitable to him, as a legatee, and is very hard to be con-
vinced that Mr. Rowland is tent really dead. Mrs. GillaB plays the
bar maid at the tavern very eifectively ; the landlord of which tavern
GM's, lilt does not succeed, he can" turn it into a Bazaar."—Mr. Rww-
Inild, who is rather an amorous old gentleman, calls the baranaid a
roguo—and she says " she's at the Bar !" " She takes romplimenta
and gives change, :end receives a good deal of French coin both ways."
TO/ELY plays Mr. /G .eland's servant, who is distressed capon his re-
turn to England to Lind the streets widened, a relation grown rich, and
• variety of other alterations taken place.

What with the g,lty and easy flow of the dialogue, set
off by the admirable acting, this little piece was given
out for repetition with universal applause, and we have
no doubt will bring a plentiful harvest to the Theatre.