The National Register.
London, England, 1819-07-26 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

DRURY LANE THEATRE.

We copy the following paragraph from the Chro-
nicle, but WE HAVE AUTHORITY for saying that the
assertion it contains, that the necessary Loan-
subscription has been filled, is not true, and we
regret that the Editor should have so fir misled hit
readers by stating what, not being the fact, must
bt. manifestly injerious to the concern, by preventing
other names being added to the Loan-subscription

"The Special Committee, appointed by a meeting of the Pro•
prictors of Drury lane Theatre, having accomplished, through
the liberality of the Creditors, the Lnan, by which not only the
pressing incumbrances on the establishment wid be removed,
but the whole placed nn a footing of stability, have also exa-
mined the different Tending made for taking the Theatre on
lease; and finding Mr. Elliston's offer the highest, have re•
solved to raommend him to the General Committee, as their
Tenant, on terms highly adventa.4cous to the concern, and which
we trist •will secure to the pittiliz the rational entertainment of
the British Dram:ton a well-conducted system."
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A report has just reached us, which we hope may
not be correct: it is. that in consequence of the
rejection of an offer of rental made by Mr. Peter
, Moore for the Theatre, that Gentleman has declared
',his determination to oppose, u far as the Act may
have enabled him to do so, the letting of the Theatre
to any one.

It is stated in the French papers that Generals
Grouchy, Clausel, Lefebvre-Desnouetts, and some
other expatriated Frenchmen in the United States,
are shortly expected in Belgium, where they have
obtained permission to reside. The Quoliclienne
announces, on the authority of letter 3 from
London, that " the famous Hunt iatervis to %Lift
France during the ~7eriod of the electim.i."
Extract of a letter dated Hamburgh, Je'y 16 :
" Notwithstanding the severe measures adopted by
the Prussian Governtnent to prevent any communi-
cations getting abroad on the subject cf the revolu-
tionary machinations lately detected, it cannot fail
that within a short period the public will be iu
possession cf importwit intelligenze relatia , to them,
as even the Prussia!' oiScial gazette contesses that
they extend throughout all Garrasey. At Berlin,
M. Jahn, and many or his scholars, are sail to have
been arrested ; but the real seat of the conspiracy
will probably be tillzovered in some of the newly-
acquired provinces on the Rhine, and in that of
Westphalia, where, according to the.privese letters,
some evidences of a mutinous disposition have al-
ready been manifested. If the affair, after all.
should turn out less formidable than had been sup-
posed,• after the mysterious intimation., in the Per
lin papers, it must be owned that they are rather
calculated to encourage than to put a stop to un-
dertakings of thenature alluded to."
Advices from Bombay to the 231 of February
have been received. On the 4th of that month the
Fort of Newtee, after being completely invested by
the force under Sir W. Kcir, surrendered OR condi-
tion of the garrison, consisting of three hundred
men, being allowed to march out with their aunts
The ordnance and stores had been again embarked
for the investment of Raree. By letters from Chi^a
it was stated, that the permission to export Spanish
dollars to a certain extent has boon at leze,,;th grant.
ed, urid will probably be continued during the time
that the present Hopp° remains in ()Clive. He is
represented to be favourable to the English, and is
the son of the mandarin who in 1811 was Viceroy
of Canton. and who visited the. Engli.:ll ',hip', and
expressed his satistiiction and admiration at their
appearance. _ _

The second p iyment on Omnium took place on
Friday. It is now ascertained, that of the loan of
12,n00,G001 , 7,200,000 i. have been paid at the
Bunk, leaving 4,800,0001. for the eight instalments,
still remaining, which thas cannot exceed tiO:►,001l.
each ; and half of this, it must be recollected, will
be received in Exchequer-bills. A petition to the
Bank is said to be in circulation at the Stock Ex-
change, to obtain from the Directors the accorerno
dation, usual iu former loans, of taking iu the Om-
nium after the second instalment, and- making for
the holder all the remaining payments except the
last. The party opposed to a rise in the tuads ap-
pear to dread this measure, as they contend, that the
Bank Directors, after the answer given on the 4th
of June to the application made by Lord Liverpool,
cannot with justice to the public concede this ad-
vantage to the contractors. The Director..., on that
occasion, as they would have done at the formation
of any other contract of a similar nature, and espe-
emily with the alterations in the state of the cur-
, rency in prospect before them, very properly refused
to engage to take in the (Minium ; but they did not
preclude themselves as merchants from employing
their capital in that or any other way that might be
found secure and beneficial to the proprietor: whose
interests were intrusted to their management. In
the present state of the maney-market, which was
never more abundantly supplied, we believe that it
is a matter of perfect inditrerence whether the Bank
accedes to this arrangement or not, end that the
withdrawing front it 800,0001. each niJath (exclu-
sively of the exchequer-bills, which must be cowl-
dercd as already paid for), cannot produce any

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effect on the price of stock. rie fitais daring
Friday and the preceding day have been com:mra-
lively steady and free from fluctuation. The is,Atle-
ments, both for the last account nod for Oinn:uni,
are either disposed of, or carried forward to some
future period ;, and the market gives the best evi-
dence of itnprovernent—that of a slow but regiAar
advance. Omnitim kft off at 2; premium, a:,l
Consols for the account at no:.
Friday the Recorder made a report to the Prince
Regent in Council of the following convicts under
sentence of death in Newgate viz.
John I,,aver for h•arghry.
Brojninio Noble, Mary Ii• n, John Rutter, Wm. Henry
Bird, Nirit4 (tint, and Henry foe melding is 'NH-
I I Ilf. houses.

STeruh L) OD and Dither Levy, for berating goods privately
ill a 'op.
!arch Whittle anitTbonsas Alahater, for halve-breaking
iti the 410-time I and
8 ‘mut I 6.ulur•on•, f,tr highway rqb!serv,
When Benj. Noblo was orcbred fur execution on
Wednesday next. The others were respited during
pleasure.

D 126,1171,01. Flagt—Oa Thursday evening about
10 o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the shop
of Mr. Kennedy, cork cutter, in Cow lane, which,
after raging with the greatest violence, burnt down
that and the two adjoining houses, before it was
got under. We regret to state, that the feniale ser-
vant, who jumped out of the two pair of stairs
window, died on Friday morning in St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, where she had been in a state of
insensibility ever since the- dreadful event. Mrs.
Kennedy, who broke her thigh in a similar attempt,
is•doing well. A child, who was missing, and sup-
posed to have perished, was found on Friday moro-
ing, safe, in the house of a neighbour.—On Friday
morning, Let tvecu two and three o'clock., a lire broke
out in Gravel-lane, Southwark, which raged with
great fury ; the houses being old, it was only by a
plentiful supply of wa►er and great exertions that
the opposite preini4es were saved. Three houses
were consumed, and the unfortunate c ecupiers lost
all their property, end it was with some difficulty
their lives were preserved, as several leaped from the
windows, without their cloaths.—During the fire
an attempt was made by some thieves to enter the
premises of Mr. Middleton, fellinonger, of Ber-
mondsey, and Mr. Beverley, of the same plume
On Sunday afternoon last, Messrs. Walker anti
Co,'s coach, the Comet, running between London,
Little Hampton, and Bognor-rocks, was overset in
the town of Arunclel, and the whole of the outside
passengers dashed with the greatest violence to the
earth, and dreadful to relt,te, Mr. Richard Payne,
of Noble-street, Chenpside, was killed on the spot;
another gentleman was so dreadfully injured as to
be confined ever since tan ter surgical assistance.—
A Coroner's Jury have sat upon the remains of the
unfortunate Mr. Payne, and have returned a ver-
dict of " Accidental death," but have also though-
it right to find a deodand of SUL against the prvt
prietors of the conveyance. . .

The Petlicoal Reformers in the country begin to
alarm their husbands, who have already discoveied
that the kdiss are making rapid strides to wear the
breeches. Those aniong.them who do not go the
full length of the radicals will nu doubt aatisr in
duriiitig the Constitution.
NEWRY, JULY 17.—Yesterday morning Miss.
Mary Templeton, daughter of Mr. Thomas Tem-
pleton, of North-street : and Miss Mary Matllia,
daughter of Mrs. Macklin, of Sugar Wand, Tito-
ceeded to the Green Bank, fix the purpose of bath.
ing It is supposed that Coe young ladies had entered
into the current of the river, and had been hurried
into deep water. 'they wc,..e observed in imminent
danger by Mr. Francis Haughey, of Derraliee, who,
regardless of personal !LA:, precipitated himself into
the stream, and with great yromptness caught Miss
Macklin, whom he brought to land in satiny Ile
instantly made au eflZatt to save Miss Templeton, and
fondly hoped that he had seized 11.. r b.) the hair, at
the moment she had stink under tile water—but
when he raised his hand, he thund that it only
grasped a crooked comb, with whielt she had bound
up her tresses. Mean while the body was hurried
away by the retiring title, and was not discovered
until two hones after the fatal accident, and then at
a great distance Irwin the spot where she had sunk.
All efforts to restore to life this fine young woman,
who was not more than IS years of age, proved
fruitless.

On Saturday lust Mr. Burgess had an interview
with Lord Liverpool, at Fife•house, and succeeded
in reranving his Lordship's objections to the new
plan of carrying the mails in light carriages without
any passeiyerA, at the rate of 11 miles an hnar•.--
There will be an additional postage ; bat letters
may be sent ar the present rate by the coaches wi;:t
pasaengers. The new urran-4ement is to he imme-
diately carried into effect. it will save a day in the
transmission of letters from London to Edinburgh
and Glasgow
One of the new Acts of Parliament macs Cie
cory!.alls of lunatics liable fct their Wits.

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FROM TURSDAY NIGBT'S GAZETTE•