Yesterday the Governor an...
The Times, 1824-08-02T00:00:00

Yester(day the Governor and two of the principal suite of the late King and Qucen of the Sandwich Islands had an interview with illr. Secretary Canning at the Foreign- office. On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Hluskisson left London to pro- cerd to the Netherlaucls, and otlher foreign parts. A letter from Stockholm of tqe 16th of July says- "Two sons of I Jarshal Ncy, and a son of the French General Count d'Erlon, have arrived here, to enter into the Swedish service." Let ters have been received f rom our squadron, off Algiers, aia Aiarseilles),datccd the 4th ult.,which state that all thebombs, mor. tar vessels, and the Ligihtningsteaa-vessel , had arrived fromn.England, and that preparations w ere makinf for au attack on Algiers. The A9lgerines appeared perfectly prepared. It vwas thought their bat. teries and defences were under th c ommand of Frenchi renegate officers. The Naiad having been despatched from Algiers to destroy an Algerine brig lying under the batteries of Bona, Captain Spencer sent hiis boats in for that purpose oR the night of the 24th of .Muay, ard captured and burnt her. There was not an intlividtal on board. The batteries mounted 40 guns. H1AYMARxHeT TiiEAraE.-irs. Inchbald's cometdy of Sutch Things Are was played at this theatre on Saturday evening. WVe had hoped never to see this play again; but it seems that, like an unquiet ghost, it is doomed fo- some few timnes every season to walk at the HIaynmarket, " making niglht hideous," because certain othier good folk.s did not, as they should have done, crtsll it in its birth forty years ago. At the bast, it was only a pi?ee de cirmonstance, whose only interest consisted in its reference to events at that time familiar to the public, and ought to share the fate of all such Pieces. Mrs. Gibbs, as Lady Tremor, displayed that faculty so rare among acrors,ofinfitsing grace anti Inirdl inito parts which an author has left little more than dull blanks. Alr. Farren did Sir Lutke Tremor in the good old barn style, making many faces, and supplying by green- room jokes those place3 where le thought the baiting wit of the author wanted hielp. The censure upon such a practice is with us as old as Hamlet ; and, bad as the comedy is, it is not bad enough to deserve such treatment from t'he hands of Mr. Farren and his colla. ior atrcr, .M r. Liston, who was not a rhitbehindhim in this pastime. Mr.Listmn's Twineall is a very unlucky character for hii, and one which, if he had been discrect or free to cloose, he never could have se- lecten. The honouirable jlMr. Twinenll is a gentleman-at least he is a man of birth and cdtucation; and although sufficiently ridiculous by the weakness of his character, anti rend eretd still more so by the impo- sition which has beeti practiced on him, he never could have de- scended to the imbecility and vulgarity of which illr. Liston makes him guilty tharoughout: no, not even in articiduo nortis, wheti he is carried out to exccuiionl, could he have dreamed of such absurdity. If it were otherwise, his pardon would have been a gross viola ion of the rules of poetical justice; for really, hanginig is a very le.. nient punishment for offiences such as iMr. IListon represented. And yet he took great pains ir.i his own particular wav to make much of the character. He came from on board sh(p in a dress coat trimmed vitl silver lace anct frogs, and the modern loose wnite trousers. For his prison garb, lie adopted time colours of the old motley-an orange jacket trimmed with black, and hecchosc tobe hanged all in whlite. Touching as this was, it didl not tell, and we wished him back again into the costume as well as the parts of Lingo o, Bily Lackaday, from which, if lie would always shine unrivalled, he must never stray. He is the best actor of thie grntesque in England, but he can no more play fine gentle. men-and Mr. Treineall is in h;is way a fine gentleman-than he can run up the rope at Vauxhall Gardens. Il r. Cooper was sentenecd to play Mr. llaswell, whose character is a kind of parodv en that of the amiible enthusiast, Joliu Howard. It is a part wholly unfitted for the stage, and could not in any man's hanlds be made effective. Mr. Cooper played it, as mallicious people would say, very repectablyr but we cannot with- hold our praise from a particularly venerable well.potvdered wig which he wvore and in which we can hardly tell whether the actor looked more likce P'orick in the LSentime,stai .loulrtiey, or the busts of John Wesley in the china-shops. dir. Pope played the Sultan in a most portentous turhan. ire. Glover. as the ferale prison- er. had as. much re son to complain of her part, as hi r. Grimaldi would have, if the managers made hbi play King Lear. Wile hope that this ghost of a come3y will not be allowed to vex the towvn muel longer; for, bad as are some of the farces we have seen lately, we would not affront the worst of them by a comparison with Such Things Are. Died, on thc 22d inst., suddenly, in his carriage, at Great Camford, near Poole, Admiral Thomas hIacnamara Russell, aged 85 years. He entered the service at an) early period of life, and after serving nineteen years a miQdshipman, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. IHe was a zealous and good officer, and attained his high rank (Admiral of the White) cntirely by ilis own merit.- Hiamtpshire Teleproph. The Lord Niayor has isstted ati order against allowving dogs to rnn about unmuzzled in the streets of the city. The MIagistrates of Bow-street hare stuck up notices in various parts of their district, to the effect that the officers of Bow. street have dhirections to destroy all dogs at large in the streets that are without muzzles. The apprehension of canine madness is so prevalent in some parts of the county of Lancas(er, that on Wednesday last 103 logs were destroyed in the town of Oldliam, for which the constable paid to the executioners Is. per head; and the Mllagistrates at their mceting on Thursday, at that place, strongly recommended that all Luseless dogs should be destroyed. A similar notice has been issued by the l\ayor of Nottingham. A carriage ain(I four, contaitiing a couple, started off post.haste, at midInight, from Dartmouth, on Thurstday last-it it; supposed on their journey towards tise Nort'. The fair fugitive's fater is hiot in pursuit, but with the tristing disadvantage of being eight hours behind at starting. The gentlenan is a Ar. G-s, the lady a Bliss F.-d.-E.rcter Flyinig Post. ,rheprivate subscription which has been set on foot for a noble:nan of high rank, the relative of a distinguished statesman lately deceased, a ready amounts to 10,0001. A poor woman, the widow of an Irish soldier, recently rettirning from India, with three children, conducted herself with so much propriety, that the passengers raised a snbscriptiosi of 40 so. vereigns for her. With this store of wealth, which in her circum- stances was incalculable, she arrived iti Bristel, on her way to Ire- land, and took lodgings in}'ox'scourt, Pithay; here the ardency of her feelings prompted her to confess hergood fortune to the good wo- man of the house, and she sailed the following day in the packet for C,ork: having occasion, however, on her voyage to search her little bundle for some article for the children, shie discovered that she had bcen robbed,andimmediatelybecame almost franticwith grief, calling upon tbe Captain to .stop t0w ship, &c. Shie returned, however, the day after reaching Cork and having obtained the assistance of an able and active police-officer of Bristol, paid a visit to thegood reo- narn in the Pithay, and was fortunate enough, by great diligence in search, and Fome skill in portraying the terrors of the law, to reco. ver back 34 of her lost sovereigns. A great number of women have lately been imposing upon the overseers of various parishes in the neighlbourhood of Lon- don, with forged passes, in the charaeter of soldiersi' wives: nunibers have actually obtained relief fron i tle overseers in the parish of Eui- field, under these forged passes, amounting to between 301. and 401. On Friday two women with forged passesa pretending to be wives of soldiers in the 87thi regiment, serving at Calcutta, were taken before Peter Hardy, E3sq. at Enfield, and by him corrmmitted as rogues and vagaboads to the House of Correction at Coldbatb-hlelds to hard la- bour for t:ree months. As a caution to overseers, It may be useful to make known, thattlhctith Gco. III. c. 92, directs, that all passes for soldiers' wives shall be copper.plate, bearing H'is Majesty's arms, signed by the Secretary at WVar (or by ani officer in his department), and sealed with his official seal. A man and wornan arc going about Liondon preten(ing to sell " the genuine essence of lemos," " superior fish sauce of a pectiliar flavour," and " the best essence of anchovies that can be made." whieh are nothinr more than water coloured. They have samples of thiese articles which they give to taste, and being ot a "superior flavour," persons are thusinduced to become purchasers. DEATH BY LsGHTs(Na.--On Saturdav last, ani inquest was held at the Rose and Crown public house, Walworth, or, view of the body of Alattha Cooper. The deceased, it appeared lived as laundry.maid in the family of James Alorris, lsq., of Elm-park, and on the night of the 14th ult., during the violent itorm of thun- der and lightning, was coming with another servant through the yard after work, with a large bslset of washed linen, when a tre, mendous clap of thunder, accompanied by continued flashes oflight- ning, almost immediately over their heads, eompletely transixed Lheir, and Cooper immediately sunk to the earth, Surgicalnid was procured, when it was discovered that l,er head and face hai bean btruck by the electric fluid, over the riglit temple, the hair was burnW, ed quite to the roots. The patient seemed to recover strength for three or four days after she complained frequently of tiolent gains shooting through the head; the right eye closed almose immediatcly after the surgen examination, and the other centinuing to lose its perception, became at length talIy blind, OnAllonday the head- ache increased, and notwithstandlng the application of blisters, leecheg, nd c ipping, wlich were severally resortad to, the ppor girl expired on Friday last. After a few minutes' consideration, thi jury returned a verdict, '-hat the deceased came by her death in consequence of an infla mation on th,e brain, produced by: strole of eectrlc fre, dunng a thpndgr-storm." Deceased was only s4nttee's years old.-