Star.
London, England, 1829-12-12 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

Princesses."
A chaldron of coals produces from 10,000 to 12,000
cubic feet of gas.
The American plan of building frigates on a large scale
has for some time been followed in France. La Belle
Gabrielle, which lately visited our shore, is of that de-
scription, and five frigates of 60 guns each are now
building in the dock-yard at L'Orient.
Writs, relating to the business of the subject, and the
returns of them, were, according to the *simplicity of
ancient times, originally kept in hanaperis, in a hamper,
and the others (relating to such matters wherein the
Crown is mediately or immediately concerned) were pre-
sented in a little sack or bag, in parva baga, and hence
arose the distinction of the hanaper office and the petty
bag office, which both belong to the Common Law Courts
in Chancery.
COURT Olr CIIANCERY--Tlll9 DAY.--ir readers
will find the report of a cue in our last page—" Mis-
understanding at the Bar," which we had extracted
from a Morning Paper. With reference to this report,
the LORD CHAN GELLO4 this morning, after delivering
judgment in the cue of Anson and another, mentioned
that be bad seen that report, in which some expressions
were attributed to certain learned Counsel, which he
believed never were uttered. Had such expressions been
made use of, be should have considered it his imperative
duty to interfere; but he conceived the report to be
incorrect,—or that if there was any observation made to
authorise such a statement, it did not reach the ear of
the Court.

DRURY...LANE.
The Tragedy of Melte was played at this Theatre last evening to
a crowded and a delighted as
hew never recollect it
t
nosing a performance, the parts of whi ere more powerfu
cast than that of Othello at Old Dreary. )(ZAN may in some charas
ters have fllen off ; but in the Nimar this is assuredly not the caae.
Othello wasa
always considered his best character, Alla his represen
tation of it last night was indeed a chaste and powerful pee formai.ce
—such a performance, In short, as be who witnessed it. and knew
how to :•rpreciate it, would never forget. Yomen's Ingo was a 1..)
es cellert, as was the Deximona of Miss Pmtkurs, and the
of ilttowstr. The two former frequently elicited the most entlsu
sia,tlc applause. On the tall of the curtain, Messrs. kw. and
Young were loudly called for by the audience, and, Ater i•mte
delay, made their appearance, and were gterteJ by several roulids
of applause.

COVENT-GARDEN.
The announcement of Miss F. lismaxa's second appearance last
evening in the character of Belvidere, drew one of the most
crowded and fashionable audiences this season has yet p.• duceilt
and not one individual out of the hundreds who had assembled to
witness the performance, quitted the Theatre with other the
most favourable impression. Miss KIMBLei enactment of thi-
rani,e
ti
log character character was, taking It from beginning to toil, more r
because more even and equal, than on her first attempt. She dis-
played a greater degree of self-possession in the commencement . t
the play. and eacited astonishment at the fine conception she dr, w
of the readings and meanings of the author, and at the wondarini
manner in which she praduced the effects ; springing, as they ea,-
dently did, front a mind more than ordinarily cultivated ; yet,
being in itself .1 naturally prime to these things." All the points
made on Wednesday night were accomplished, and the audience
were again affected," e'en to ttttt ," at the pathetic and heart-touc
JaMhet
-
ing expression infu-ed into the lines, in the second act,
where
has delivered her as a pledge of his faithfulness to the conspiratorided tic&
ra b
And in the third scene in the same act, when she has up
husband fur not confiding in her the secret of th • conspit attars. aril
he doubting whether he shoutil do so list she should betray Inn.,
she escialtits," Shall I sweat ?" The h .use was completely etc, -
trifled. It was, indeed, a true delineation of the warmth of at as
wife's devotion to a husband's rause, wishing to convince hint •4
bre *IMO ity. In the last scene of the fourth jet the &Peril •4
the line, " Now kill me," and the action was admit ably and pow
fully Oven, and drew an instantaneous burst of applause.
_ _

TOTTEN il A NI-STU EE C THEATRE.
This little Theatre. under the ntw management, has attained ate
Importance and respectability that must be very gratifying to its
proprietors. The performers are of respectable talent, and the per-
formances of a much higher character than we usually find here.
Thursday night Ros-nds Optra of the " Ilsrber of Seville" was
most creditably done. Vasiso made an rice lent Count, and Mrs.
Wevt.sre a delightful Itositia. Tne duet " Ail' idea," with El:-
gib& words, by Metsuse and A. Les wag sung in a better manner
than we o:ten hear u en the larger stage ; the allegro movement.
which requires William and eldicete ext.:titian, was particularly de-
serving ut praise ; so was th.: :no, " Z4tti, sent," and the belin'e
finale to the first art. A. I.at a idirbcr was lively and Arusiii,t.
The chin:wises wire well- ra Al.:aged. .ttd the orchestra boosts J ju-
dicious selection of pectoral, r-.
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WHINING coNciour—Aiwyt.i. ROOMS.
A Concert patronised by the Duchess of h sat, and under the
direction of the Philharmonic Society, was on Thursday morning
given at the Argyll 'looms, for the heatvoletit purpose o affording
relief to the five orphan children of the late %Ir. GLADVILL. a pSer-
former in the Society's orclie-tra. whose death took riJC a
few months !Lick. The performers all lent their grAtuitous
ad
on the occanion. The rooms were crdwded to tier..., rud,
doubtlessly, the fund collected was coth.ider.ae. The ban]
was complete in every part, and the Conceit unde
able direction of Sir George Smart , the first part beinger lAth by
Mr. F. Cramer. the second part by Mr. Mori. rbe vocal per-
formers were—Miss I.t.ovn, Miss M. CRAMER, Miss Ba=ts, and
Miss CHILDS ; Mr. PHILLITI. Mr. 1,. TAYLOR, Mr. GOULDES, Mr.
HORNS/VMS. and Mr. SaLe. :Mss CHILDS gave " Deb vitiate,"
by CUSASOSA. in her usual excellent style, and received the well-
merited applause of the audience. Mr. PHILLIPS was warmly ap-
plauded in " The Last Man," by CALLCOTT. " Angels ever
bright and fair" was executed in a pleasing manner by
uck effect Miss M.
Quiets. In the second part, Miss Barra sang, with m,
" Cease your funning," with variations. A glee (with a double
choir), by the principal singers, from Osman, " Chief of the
Windy Nlorven, gave great satisfaction. Miss LLOYD executed
the difficult scene from Der Freischute in a twinner which de-
''-•md and surprised the audience.

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The liite General Gaivrit's will was proved on Thurs-
day, the 10th inst. the personalty sworn under 16,000/.
It is dated the 12th of September last, and gives to his
beloved son, Tuo tit AS GA ItTll, the moiety of an annuity
of 3,000/. payable out of the Duchy of Cornwall, and
held by letters patent of King CII A 111.1.3 11. which
the General (by indeuture of the lith of Nov. 1820)
had settled on himself for life, with remainder to his said
son for life, and his lawful issue, failing which, re-
mainder to the testator's nephew, Captain Tilom as
GARTII, R. N. To his son the General also leaves his
house, No 32, Grosvenor-place, and all his plate, wines,
furniture, &c. either there or at his residence at Piddle-
combe, Dorsetabire, and directs that any sums of money
which may have been advanced hint to purchase army-com-
missions, or for other purposes, shall be considered as gifts,
not loans. Some lands which had been bequeathed
to him by his late sister, at z s uv..r it GA ItTil, he leaves
to his nephew Captain GARTH; and to his niece, Misr,
Fa Al; CEA GA ItTit, 3001. per annum. The residue is
given to Captain GARTU, who, along with anefther
uephew of the testator, JOHN FuLLERTON, Leg. o
Thovbergh, in Yorkshire, is appointed executor.
IiRPRESENTATIV E 1)1-Vit.—Lord Doneraile is, it is
said, to be the Representative Peer, having the interest
of government. In answer to the cuetomary circular or
political ntandate from the Castle, Lord Ros.more has de-
clined voting for a Representative Peer, considering it at
variance with " the case of the ex-Parliamentary Peers,'
which his Lordship intenes soon to lay before the public.
If the ex-Parliamentary Peers of Scotland stud Ireland
would in future co-operate with his Lordship, and resolve
not to accept of, or vote for, the Representative Peerage,
and use the influence they are possessed of as they ought ,
they would soon emancipate themselves.
The Rev. E. Linzee, Rector of West Ti.buiy, who,
contrary to general custom, receives his tithes but enee
a year, at his audit on Monday last, after entertaining
his agricultural parishioners with a good dinner, made a
reduction of five per cent. .upon their several payments,
and assured them that he would be ready to make a fie -
ther abatement, should circumstances hereafter requis,:
it. The original tithe is about six shillings per acre.—
Chelnisford Chronicle.
Governor Giles, in his spcech delivered to the Executive
Committee of the Virginia Convention. strenuously op-
posed the election of Governors by the peorl.. Tht
Legislature, he said, was more intelligent than the peop:e,
" whose morals, he thought, would NI a sacrfice ti.
whisky, if they were intrusted with the power of choosiet;
their own Chief Magistrate. He knew, he said, "mi
mode of ascertaining the moral condition of nations, bur
one, and that was through the assistance of the PenEtentiet ry
system! The Penitentiary of Virginia contained 140 coo -
Ivicts, the Houses of Correction in New York 1.500; ILA
is about eight times as many as Virginia, making al!irx -
ance for the difference of population. This was ascribable
to the extension of suffrage in New York I—That. and
that only, accounted for the difference in favour of Virgid
nia." On the question of electing the Governor by the
people, the Committee is supposed to have Is-en divided
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- NEW FARRINGDON MARKET, Dsc. le.
This esuket today was abundantly supplied with 'neat of
of
finest quality, and was eery respectably attended. The prices ut
the beet meat are equally low as on Thursday last :
Ihtsr.-Choicest Routing parts, 6d. and 61d. per lb. one
and 4101. Rump Steaks, td. and 11XL blumos...-Ilind H
(lbw Wetber), 6d. Leg (hoed Weber), 61d. Shasider, 51a.
Loin, sd. Neck, 4141. Breast, 4d. vast.-541. to OIL Peas
Covenry fed)-51.1 and 61d,
The weptable market in the centre was plentifully genii 4 with
kiln and usetstdes is season.

LITERATURE.
PRIVATE MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF
LOUIS XVIIL
BY A LADY.

HURT COLZURII MID RICHARD 111111TLIT.

We quoted a brief passage of this elegant work lately;
nrnl e now proceed, after a careful perusal of the whole
v,ork, to strengthen the introductory observations of the
Editor by saying, that if opportunities of penetrating into
the most private recesses of a Court, and exhibiting the
detions, the words, nay, almost the very thoughts of the
individuals belonging to it, from the highest personage
in the State to the lowest of his servants—if an ac-
quaintance with all the leading characters of the times,
and a happy talent for sketching them with all their
I,eculiarities—if a profusion of anecdotes of the most
piquant interest collected from such resourses, and nar-
rated in a lively style, and in unstudied language—be
recommendations in the writer of a work of this nature,
it may be safely asserted that these memoirs possess
strong claims on the public attention. Relating to that
eventful period which immediately preceded, and followed
the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France,
after an exile of more than twenty years, and purporting
to proceed from the pen of a Lady, distinguished by
the particular intimacy of Louis XVII I. they lay
open the most secret intrigues of the most plotting
and intriguing capital in Europe during the time when
they embrace, and exhibit a striking instance of the
hollow insincerity with which the most important poli-
tical services are but too often requited. Almost every
body of note in France since the downfal of BUONA-
PARTE is here pourtrayed : and if the national
vanity has caused the authoress to caricature the
features of the illustrious of other Courtiers, as
may be seen for example in her delineation of some
of the British, still it cannot be denied that the gene-
rality of these pictures are touched off with a playfulness
of fancy, an acuteness of observation, and a spirit of
satire, which impart to them a more than ordinary de-'
g►ree of attraction. We give the following passages as
specimens. The first extract describes the first inter-
view which the Authoress and her father—a staunch
Royalist—had with BONAPARTE in Italy :

I cannot describe the kind of emotion which overpowered me

as I advanced. For a long dine I bad heard nothing talked of but
General Bonaparte, his victoria, and his high destinies : he was

already, u it were, the penonificatlon of the new French glory.
What sort of man then was thi► General Buoaaparte? My

Imagination figured him as a tall man at least six feet high, with a

great sword by his side, and dressed in fine clothes all covered
with gold lace. The reality fell far short of this representation : I
found myself face to face with a man of low stature, very thin,
very pale, and having straight hair banging over his ears : no great
sword, no fine clothes either, and those which he wore that day
were even none of the cleanest. Never was disenchantment equal
to mine. My eyes sought on all sides the person whom I had
hoped to see, and I verily believe that If I had not been a little

frightened I should have asked Bonaparte himself where was Bo-
naparte?
My father, who, no doubt had not cherished the same illusious
as I had done, advanced towards the short thin man, making him a
low bow. While General Lannes was telling who we were, Bona-
pane with a couple of glances had scrutinized my father and me
from head to foot. He kept silence for a few moments, then ad-
dressing my father, he said in a sharp tone : " So you are an
emigrant?"
" Yes, General."
" And of what period?"
" Of the last."
It is the best : but why did you leave so late 7"
" I had vowed to the king never to forsake him. I did not leave
France till after his death."

" That is to say, you are a true royalist."
My father made no reply, Bonaparte resumed : " Sueh 1 ersons
as you are dangerous in a republic. Yet, as they have honour,
one may trust their promise: will you give me your word never
to conspire against me or against the Government that shall be
established ?"

" I swear it by all that is most sacred."
" Are you returning without pecuniary resources? asked the
First Consul. "Do you need any money?"
" No General, I am not so destitute as my companions in mis-
fortune. By *foresight which events have but too well justified, I

had placed abroad a sum sufficient for my subsistence."
" Sir, rejoined the General, if you have any property left in
France which has not been sold, call upon me and we will take
measures for causing it to be restored to you." Then nodding to•
wards me, he said : " Is that your daughter ?"
" Yes, General."
" She is very handsome."
This compliment reconciled me with Bonaparte, and I looked
at him again, to see if I bad not made a wrong estimate of him.
He then asked: " Have you any other child?"
" I have a son."
6, Wby la he not with you ?"
" He remained in the service of our princes."
I hope, sir," resumed Bonaparte, knitting his brows, " that
when you have made yourself acquainted with new France, you
will bring back your son and your fortune."
The one I will do, General, and I will try to do the other ;
that is all I can promise."
Here Bonaparte ended the conversation by telling my father to
caU the following day on Id. de Boutrienne, his private secretary,
whe would give him a passport for Paris.
A little further on, we have a beautiful notice of Jo-
SEPIIINE. " JOSEPHINE-I love to call the wife of

BON APARTE by this name—JOSEPHINE was adored by
all who approached her. And who could have denied
her their homage ? She was so graceful—so noble—so
• beautiful! Yet all this was what you admired least
when you beheld her. Never had any one a more
amiable disposition, more enchanting manners, a more
angelic temper. Her innocent fondness for botany, and
her enlightened taste for the fine arts, are well known.
Her heart was worthy of her understanding. She pos-
sessed, as it were, an instinct of benevolence which no
obstacle could check; no affliction,however severe, could
baffle hei; the ingenuity of her kindness always found
means of consoling. I may be told perhaps that Jo-
SE PH IN E had her weak side too—that she was capricious,
coquettish—fond of frivolity—of fashion : this is true ;
she was a woman !" We have further on in the work
the subjoined amusing notice of the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON :
The first day I sew him I conceived a mortal dislike to him as
well as to his countryman the Duke of Wellington. But all the
ladies of the French court were not equally hard to please, and the
hero of Toulouse found many susceptible hearts. On this subject
. I may relate a little anecdote.
Thq Countess de R..— no sooner:saw Lord Wellington than
she fell deeply in love with him. His half eagle-like, half sheepish
countenance, completely captivated her. The lady's royalist senti-
ments might certainly have some share in this enthusiasm; but,
be this as it may, the poor countess was in love. When in com-
pany with the Duke she sighed and assumed all sorts of languish-
ing airs. She no doubt thought it a very fine thing to have a hero
for a lover. At length a rendezvous was solicited and grzuted ;
but its result did not appear to convince the lady that the duke was
quite as amiable and gallant as he was reported to be. She ens
greatly enraged, and she spoke of the duke in the most um.
temptuous terms. There are some things which a woman can
never pardon ; when the countess heard that the Duke had re-
ceived the baton of a French Marshal, she said that he deserved a
cudgel rather than a baton. • Only those who witnessed the state of
things in France in 1814 and 1815 can form an idea of the extra-'
want political fanaticism which then prevail a, and Whk.h in,
penal instances which was converted Into love. The above story
ai had from my friend the Viscountess de Van— who bass
ex-
ceedingly Intimate with the Countess de I communicated
it to the king, who was mach amused by it.'