The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-04 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN.

Mr. Y. Farren appeared on Thursday night in a new
character, Sir &NNW Constant, in the comedy of The
Way to. Keep Rim. Thianctor here comes before its in
h is own person, and throw 3. off that envelope or artifi-
cial disguise, which, in his Lord Ogkby or Sir Peter
Teazle, throws:: degree of obscurity around him, and
leaves us in a greet measure to guess Relic real extent
and versatility of his powers. The disclosure has.not.
.sve think, enhanced the reputation lie has already ac-
quired,although his performance of Sir lietehful Con-
stant possesses, what it is impossible that any part Mr.
Farren eelected as the medium of his efforts should be
without, many masterly points and refined touches of
consummate skill. His great defect wet; in the scale of
.manners he helm fixed on as his notion of this character,
too much of the forced and artificial cast,, and wholly
differing both front his predecessors, and from the notion
wa forneeteperesing the comedy. 'there is no reason
why this part ofthe comedy sheuld nut be given in the
natural. ones of the voice, since it is not the manners,
but the sentiments and conduct of the character that
preduce the ludicrous effect intended. Bannister always
gave it on this principle. Mr. Farren, on the contrary,
cbviously employed a feigned voice and constrained
manner as the basis on which his performance was
founded. In every other respect he was masterly and
complete. No actor is less liable to be taken by surprise,
or more completely fills up in his by-play, the pauses
in the . dialogue. His manner of ascertaining if any
listeners wereet.,band, before he oommiti,.ates to lin L.-
vivre the secret efj2is attachment to 'lady Constant, was
truly admirable. :He received reiterated marks dap-
probation from the audience. Mr. C. Keinide did not
succeed so well in ,Lovesnort as we anticipated i and

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Jones's Sir Brilliant Fashion, though livelyand spirited,
would have admitted a greater degree of retineatent.—
We admired Mrs. Faucit, and thought her unusually
happy in Mrs. Lopenwre: and the satuc praise may be
assigned to Mrs. Gibbs, in Muslin. Miss Brunton
represented the Widow Belniour, and, allowing for too
stroug a cast of seriousness, with great success. .More
attention should be 'paid to costume in the getting up of
this asscellent comedy. The .three chief male characters
were dressed in,the fashion of three .difil.rent periods,
distant hum each other at least bales century.
A " young lady," as her first essay before a London
audience, on Friday night ventured on the part of Lucy
Bertram, in the play of Guy Mamie? ing. Judging the
debutante merely as a singer, we have seldom incurred
the painful necessity of recording a more complete
failure. In that line her chance of success is quite hope.
less, since she possesses neither voice, nor taste, nor
science; even an car for music appears to Imre. ,Ocest
denied her. As an actress she is pot without racrit;
some passages were delivered in a manner that disco.
vered both a feeling heart and a good undemauding ;
but even in that department her chance of Eminence
is very remote and uncertain. The audience were ex-
tremely indulgent ; the trying situation in which a
performer is
.placed on these occasions, particularly
when a young and interesting female, always proves
an irresistible appeal to their kindness ; if the applause
it produced could be admitted as a decisive proof of
merit, we should now be congratulating a performer on
her triumph, to whom, even as a most cordial welio
,wisher, we can only recommend a speedy retirement.

The annual expenses of Drury Lane Theatre are
reducel by the economical measures adopted by tip
Sub Committee, from 70,0001. to 40,0001, a sum below
the lowest annual receipt ever experienced at thtpt
house.

The will of Matthew Gregory Lewis, author ar
" The Castle•Spectre," " The Monk," and other lite.
rary works, has been proved. In his will he gives se
Mrs. H. Johnstone, late of the Theatre Royal Covent
Gardm, the sum of IDOL to purchase some trinket er
other ornament to be worn on her neck in remembrance
of hint: •to the Right Honourable Lord Holland his
Wok of caricatures : personal property within the pro..
vitae of Canterbury sworn ender 60,0001.
Friday the Parliament was further prorogued till
theel.Qth of November. The manner was the same us
op the last occasion—by writ ; but the ceremony was
somewhat different. The Lord Chancellor not being
in ate..nth:nee, the seat in front of the throne on which.
the Conitnissioners usually sat on such occasions, wes
tretnoved, and the only Peers who attended, Earl Bite
hunt and Viscount Sidmouth, mune in without robes,
and took their seateon the Treasury Bench. One of
the messengers of the House of Commons, who was in
waiting, was then ordered to inform that House that
their. Lordships were ready, and that the writ of pro..
rogation was about to be read. He retired, and in a
short time returned, followed by one of the reading
clerks and subordinate officers, who on this occasion re..
presented the Cwnmons. The writ was then read,
the junior reading clerk standing at the place where
the Speaker is accustomed to hear commissions of pro-
xerition.; the others at a distance behint'. s At the con—
clusien, of the writ their I ortishies and the clerks
withdrew, The whole of the improvements in tite
House-of- Lords seem to be finished. . The House has
now a very elegant appearance-. . The covering on the
wool-sacks and benches is quite new. The throne,
which was not uncovered on this oeession, as well as
the crowns over the canopy, are newly gilt. and look
very neat, but the old velvet festooning still setimitu.
This we were informed arises from a
.matter of eti-
quette, that the materials of either throne or canopy
.should not be changed in the present reign.
" From the evidence adduced before the Committee.
it appears that I ord Lonsdale is in possesion of a
vcry beneficial lease of the whole coals belonging to
St. Bees School, for a term of 800 years, at a rent of
31.145.. per annum 1 The Noble Lord is a Trustee
of the School. His ancestor, Sir James Lowther,
was a Trustee, and as sech.granted a lease to hinueff
of the coals within the neuter—being quite an illegal
act, and ht s of course only to be noticed to be set aside.
What blame must attach to the Trustees of the Clua•
rity for allowing this abuse to exist without noticing
it !!! The evidence is incomplete, owing to the die,
solution of Parliament befige the matter had been fully
investieated."—Carlisle Patrete__ _ _ .

e kre happy, to 6eo, in the l'lolidelphu..-Aeroro of
the 26th of August, thr tidiowing contradiction of.the
report contairv..d in our. lava extracts, of a eruct fate
having betel Colonel M•Doaald and eleven companions,
on the hanks of the Orocoko, in May last
object of stories of this kind eikanot be mistaken,—.one
fact, however, may serve to chew the value of the
whole—Colonel M'lloinsld is at this moment in the
United. State,i, aid his evinpaniou.s were, in July, at
St. .Fernando de Apure."
The Lords of the 'Treasury have ordered, that all.
Bibles and Testaments exported by the Briti,h aad
Foreign Bible. Society, shall be allowed to pas:i slaty
cc.

OLD 11.11L,EE

N ~:al of the least intt rest took place on Monday or

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WEDNESDAY.

irhard Gm-ling a grey.headed old man, T 4 year% of age.
W,t4 indie•te•d for stealkag pounds of fat, the propel ty of

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'f lie prosi.eittor keeps a stattehtei -house in Marshall itreet,
Carnaby mat ket, ar.(l carries On a very estensive bli,iness.—
The pi limier use d formerly to sell cat's meat about the
C‘ reel 4, Litt had lett'rly worked iu %14tighterliottsus. On the'
morning of eL' July, Ile. Jarkvon saw the to isoner iu
Broad St. et, Cal 11,1by.markei, with something like a sack
tpOn his shoulder.. blot he afterwards discovered that it was
a r(intitl !lock, usually worn by butchers, with tile sleeves
tied 'hstmagli one of the holes in the frock lit pinissly
saw soon. lat 0(.2'..ig out. Th prisoner deposited the fat at
111 r. Blind's melting house, in Wardour-street, and reeeiveil
a paper (runt 4 clerk in attendance, authorising him to receive
11. Is 4(1. (the value of the fat deposited) at Mr. Brigid's
shop, iu Ovfoed street. The prosecutor followed the nth
tomer, having previously obtained au officer, to Oxfor(1-.tieet,
and took him into custody in the act of press ii it t the paper
in the Moils. Plank, the officer, said to him, " Nly triend,
'where slid you get that fat from; how did you I.oiue by it?"
" Come me it," repeated the ;slimmer, " why how should I
come by it bought it to be sure." The prisoner afte.rwaids
low rred tone as Ile was going to the watell.lionse, and
told Mr. J.:Ason he would tell him how he came by it.-
I"‘V hy, to sell you the truth," he said, "I did not buy the
fit, lint I had it of two men at the Maidealread
house, won gave it me to di-pose of."
In consequence of this Information, the prosecutor and the
officer went to the Maidenhead public-house just by, and son
two own, which the prisoner said were the two Ir whom
lie rt ceiv.2d the fat. 'Utley were the next Morning (ill three
taken before it magistrate, and the prisoner then der lured
that these were not the two men he meant. The magistrate
in consequence did not detain them, and they were ordered
to appeal on Ow next examination of the prisonei. At the
pothietpioit examioatiou one of the wen did appear, but the
other et ii.:contitql.

Mr. Adolphus here concluded the ease on the part of the
prosecution.
The prisoner.-1 must have all the witnesses called; there
is one I wish to be examined.
Mr. Adolphus.— Whit! is his name ?
Pm The pa isoner.-0 d—n the man, I don't know his name,
it here he is (pointing to him) with a bald head.
The witness being Cigatql, stated that he was in the Maiden-
head pit blic_houoe when the ;thorier called for a beadle,
mad at the sortie time saw two men with him. lII' coo ht not
tell what was in the sack, or what sic» it was, or what coiour.
A man of die name of Bailey helped the prisoner up with
and then he did ob•-erve its mist- and colour. lie knew nothing
more of the transaction. _

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, after a short consul_

Cation.

The nffirpr told the Jury that the prisoner wag a notoriously
bad character.

The Recorder.—Oh 'es, Gentlemen, I have tried hitu be-
fore ; I recollect him %ell.
Several Other trial% of little iutere!t to the public occupied
the Cow t until five o'clock..

The Recorder Oleo dismissed the Jury, with thanks for
their nitiesnitiiiig attention.
Mr. At mstrong, one of the Jurymen, vri,lted to take this
enrol tnnity of applying to the Court in behalf of Samuel
Mason, a little boy, who had been tried and convicted, Of;
Filthy last, of piekiiig pockets. He had emplii di into his
case, and had found out several eireamstanees which would
go mooch in mitigation of ptinishment. The sister t.f the no-
fortunate lad was at present in his set vice, and if the Court
would discharLe the boy, he had no objection to take him
Into his sets ire at all risks.
The Iter,tdt r observed that it had been found necessary
to punish those found guilty of picking poettets very severely,
bleatise the number of offenders in that partiettlae branch of
infamy bad so much ineressed. Transportation %as generally
the punishment for such criminals, and the reason why so
many wt le -sent out of the country was, that having lost their
character hell., an opportunity was given to them to begin
(as it were) a new lift, in a foieigo country. The gland fault
was, that this was not made a capital utienae. He would
certainly attend to the recommendation.
The Jury inau was °ides et! to attend to-morrow morning at
nine o'clock.
The whole of the trials having been gone tltrongh, the
Recorder proceeded to pass sentence upon the several pri.
Sonars.
Dr. Lawrence Halloran, who had been convicted of fort.
Inn a frank in the name of Sir William (Jarrow, M. P., was
among other prisoners brought np to the bar tot ceeive the
&enrolee of the law.
r. Shelton, the Clerk of the Arraignsdiaving demanded in
the utmal boom whethor any of the prismierc had any thing to
say wi v sentence should mit be ',ww(' upon them,
Lan r.•;,er. Halloran etepped forward, and humbly begged
permission to address the Court for a few minutes. Ha spoke
benely jut these woi :--
•• I beg lc a moot tespeetfolly to .11g.:1'' tto the Court, that
the present r. "sedition az:mist me is the first that has token
C. tee 'older ito• st dote ; and. althouott I profess not to 'lc
v el.'''. the tito..jees by winch k ye,seention fitly have been
iiilliteLeed, yet I hope I may b. i.etts..tted to ads crt for 4
1111,11WItt to the 11:14:1 anti have pet ienetd,
and which l Windily submit, have bent more than were crpii-
tably proportioned to the Wroteo r•oitiM tied. They have,
indeed, been to me moue e•sing and drumlin* nopalting
than eve', death itself. tinder tke vipposititio of hating
coititter frit ill a frank, hy obit It the Post °thee hap be, a
de-
thtudeJ, I has e been ton, limn my home, from the bosom
say Cattily, mid bays. bee o incarcerated for more than tin cc
months in a dungeon :mimic the refuse of mankind and al.
thong!) the warrant of the Morgi•li.ite es tended only to the
nprrchctision id my persoo, my totigi.is were seat eked, 111 V
trunks wily rifled, and my papers wire seized and earl fed

away by an officer; itlffi, uph,. indeed, *nine or them Lave
begin rrinruvd, whet.; have ores still ‘villihrld, which have

nn rrferi IWe to the ch.tr;e in tintstion. humbly hope that
the ((.;v( Hill be p:t...13e(1 to se.b,oie those documents. For
N.lll`iil 111.11111 Yr ill the ()Me( r ‘cith five or six atlvii-
di.,t• !,,,,,t toy apnrtiarnim, all ample jastilieution itaa
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I).'cil !..1 I's false awl mall( ion% sliiiements placed in
iiil•t%t:l bs tile pi umoter of. this infamous prosecution, re•
Iresen. dangerous character,iIiWA‘S carrying
loaded my ; whereas, un the contrary,
I have not has a pair of pistols in any possession for 12 months
prior to nay an a 'nese inaticions motives could not, how.
ever, be coney:', .1, and the subeer)ueut coudect of the officer