!126 sere(' that Alzotida, the wife or Abeithanted, was the sister of tionentes, stolen infer infancy, and utiraculowily left wound ed on the shines of Tarento; that she ultimately died on her brother's bosom, basing pri stonily given birth to a son, srhich son was brought no by his uncle in ignorance of Ins birth, and Mss tio uthetolltait Rinaldo. An esplanatiou, as to WllO was the traitor, tai.e.• place ; and Valencia's being fully discovered, and all holies of obtaining Oriana for a,wtte, the reward which het ad intended to demand of the conqueror, as the reward of treason, being at an mid, he stabs himself. Gonzales and Abenlianted are reconciled, a union between their children takes place, and thus the. piece conelatles. There is also an under plot, the characters of which were assigned to Miss Stephens, Miss Carew. and Mr. Dui;uset , but it is no way material to the Piece; and is only a vehicle for introducing several beautiful songs, by these admired singers, especially a duct iti the first act, between Miss Stephens and 11r. Duruset. A song by Miss Stephens, in the second net, and a trio by Mh.s Stephens, Miss Carew, anti Duruset, in the third act. The, acting of Young, in Abenkained, was excellent as amid. Macready deeiniated all the passions of the trai tor Valencia with form and discrimination, which ob.. lained for him deserved applause. Booth made as much abbe could of the youthful Rinaldo, but he still rants too much ; he tears a passion so much to atoms, that it ceases to bear the stamp of natural grief, and the audi ence cannot feel for his woes—woes so unnat wally planted. Miss. Booth was highly interesting in the love ly. Oriana. Egerton played Don Gonzales in his usual ittyle—respectable. The music is by Kelly, and some of it extremely pretty. All that dress, decoration, and Scenery. can do for the piece has been done. The telcnt of she scene painter hag been particularly displayed in a view of the bay, fortifications and distant light-honk of Varento, &nearer view of the fortifications, and nn in 'ternal view, of the palace and gardens of the Govenier. The piece was received throughout without a dissenti .ent voice, and announced for repetition amidst the loudest applause. On Wednesday evening, the opera of Inkle and Yarico, and The Prize, was attempted by the Amateurs of the Tredesmans' Club, at the Horns Tavern, Ken aington, which, from the support given it by the most respectable families in the vicinity, excited unusual in terest. The performers, upon the whole, sustained their parts with a great deal of credit ; particularly atrentle man of the name of Conway, who delivered an Address, evrittett by himsct expressly for the occasion, and the -performances went off With great eclat. We understand that not fewer tha► 700 persons were present. After the curtain dropped,.the performers sat down to a most lesce.Llent supper: • • COVCICiT AT Tin MANSIOI4-Horse. —.-The Conce: t it the Mansion-house on Friday night was crowded beyond all precedent. The Egyptian-hall, beautifully illuminated with gas-light, was filled long before the commencement of the performance, and at eight o'clock not a single scat was to be procured for the numerous and elegant dressed women who continued to arrive in successive parties for a considerable time afterwards. The performances were of a very high order, and aflird ed a comffination of vocal and instrumental harmony seldom surpassed in the estimation of the musical world. •We have not room to particularise individual merits : it give us pleasure, however to testify to the successful exertions of all those eminent pertimsners who so hand somely tendered their services on this occasion. The offer was the more liberal, inasmuch as the object was one which could only interest those who feel an anxious Zesire for iarproving the situation of the lower orders, and had no connexion with any subject of a political or national character. Our readers are probably aware, that the P is of the exhibition are intended to he ap plied to urtoosc of extricating the Royal Institution for the education of Poor children from its present pe cuniary embarrassments. The practical utility of such .nn object appears to us as indisputable, as the benevo lence which stqwested and is still active in promoting at. Tuesday .a numerous meetings took place of the So eiety of Arts in the Adelphi, for the purpose of electing a Vice-President, in the room of the . late lion. H. Clif ford. Earl Percy presided. The numbers were—For Mr. Hume, 9.08 ; fur Mr. Tooke, 203—m jor it y , Mr. Hume was of course declared duly elected. The Board of Agriculture have received information, that the extensive tract of land in the Isle of Elv, called Burnt Fen (nearly 16,000 acres), which was deluged early in the winter, from a breach iu the bank of the river, has been so well (*trained by the constant working of the windmills, that the whole of it is now in a proper state to be sowed with oats. An Official Return to the House of Commute otters the effective strcni;th of the army, on the lot of iSuantry, 1817, as follows : A (MY. - • I,3tii Wryer., i ait3serieants, 517 tram pctet s, E) Mat. , is, 211.177 rank and file, and 17,117 fibr.e.. FOOT GUA Itl.l , .—atti °dicers, :162 verjeants, IGI daipanirls, 6,161 rank and file. r. FA . --7,2115 officers. 7,534 bedew - Rib:Xl diatom is 1.16,1i10 rank mai tile. AItBAL o11': cars, 9,614 serjesuita, ll', p 1,,, , , , , to ..:41 at:ail/eters, igrriets L43,itto taut and file Oil bus44S. •T it NATIONAL REGISTER.' REPIEW OF LITERATURE. MELANCHOLY HOURS. HOURS. We have before us two publications, the one pub lisha last year ; the other has but very recently made its appearance. Their respective tides are as fbllow: " 3lclancholy Hones; a Collection of Mucellareous Poems." This work is anonymous. The other is, "The house of Mourning, a Poem : with some smaller Pieces, by JOHN SCOTT." The similarity of these titles induces us to notice them together. With respect to the first of these works it may al most be sufficient to inflirm the reader, in the express words of the author in the preface, that " Many of the woes described in Melancholy Hour' exist only in the imagination of the writer." This was a truly for tunate disclosure : fist having read Mr. Scott's very affecting poem previous to that of this melancholic in imagination, we were but ill prepared for a second at tack- upon our feelings : and our fears' vanished imme diately on the perusal of the preface. The " imaginary woes" are, however, not destitute of merit. Let the following " Farewell to Hope" serve as a specimen : " Hence. f tithless Elope, thy magic numbers Ne'er shall cheat ms fancy nonce Broken our my charmed slumbers, And alas I tiry reign is o'er. Love and Hopet ag2in I never To any heart such pests will bring; Awhile sooth'st—then Ik•rl for ever— 'look your sweets—but left your sting!" THE. HOUSE OF MOUIZNING. Far superior, however, is Mr. Scott's " Howse of Mehrring :" his are not " imaginary woes." They are the consequences of the loss of a ftvourite chit 1, who lately died at Paris. "He was accompanying his parents to Italy, when after a fortnight's duration of sudilen illness, they lost the faithful companion of their travels." He was eight years and a half old, and lies buried in the cemetry of the Pcre la Chaise near Paris. It is a subject on which few parents have not had si milar cause of 'mourning ; but who of us (for we have felt its pangs most poignantly) can describe our losi and SOITOWS in numbers such as those of Mr. Scott's? We regret that want of room precludes the possibility of our giving a more extended extract ; but if the fol lowing description does not wring the bosom of those parents who have been similarly circumstanced we must confess that all hearts arc not (as we had sup. posed they were) originally moulded in the same form, and composed of the F.amc material. Oh, 'twauld have been a thought his soul to scare, — Young as it was,—,that he should be no where! And we remain,—remain where lie had been, — And see his Itatiose—and he not to he seen ; And meet the days concerns,—common and many,— And he no longer have a past in any ; That hourly services should still be done, And, he who did the most, should not do one ; That round our fireplace he shonld have no scat; 'I hat at our table he should eat no meat; That eve should come, and he not go to bed; That we should rest and no good-night be said ; That we should rise, and dress, and go without bins, And neither find him, nor yet ask about hint ; That friends should call, and no one give him cheer, That be, to whom all spoke, should nothing hear; That be should ne'er go out with us, but stay,— Be se'er within, but always be away ; That tight and warmth should comfort in our room, And he be left alone in cold and gloom ; That, all his journeys o'er, he'd cease to roam Our fellow-traveller,—yet ne'cr go home! That they, whose greetings he forethought with pridi i Should shut the door, and he be left outside ; That we should have a welcome hack from all, But not a look, or hand, or word for Paul: No story told of those he loved so) well, No story heard of all he had to tell ; Nor even they,—the two lie long'd to see, Who belp'd his sports, and tutus' s' his infancy; Who fed his fondness with a humble zeal, That taught it a tr* phant sense to feel, Yet made it fervent in the pure of Of a consciousness of selfirespeet,— Nor oven they come forth to help him in, And the congratulating noise begin ; No warm embracing, no exulting showing, with rec moldings of each various going,— sudden eselaimings,—breatlilesa interjections,— Tiu• littliblib of the burstio.4•ili atieciions!- - That still his mother's tender tones should sound, But ties er reach her boy beneath the gromill— Mr. Scott should not, however, •` sorrow as those without hope." A day of rejoicing will dawn—the hour of re••uniou will arrive ; and we recommend to him to read the late Dr. l'rice's most excellent little tract on this cheering subject. POLICE. • ROW-silt)E'r. Ent nezzteNtewe.—Friday vectauit• 11,4).4:wee, itta.l qewatil, ice. to (icolgt II 4,111, it gentleman of considerable Ideated itto -,l•rt, lo.ttwero tiatticiti and Hertford, was cltArg , .1 %ilk entlootillog invert) to a couNiderablt• amount, belottging to his ot.i•ici.. It appeared that 11r. Ganssan, on Thursday - , discovered that the to isoirr had 51.11 i .evcral 40481111 k, of corn for 111814.11 age, sums gum he had carried to a4.4.0u1it ; he mtutioned :“4 , eircuntsta ea to the prisoner, and deliired an ti planation of the tralniate ions, wisliflig to avoid the expo su re of him, on aunt air h 'realwet lade family and eutnie%i, , ns: the tot sour prowl* to give a toll explatattioa of tau oltule; of the APRIL M. trausactiom on Friday mornemt, but iuctead of that, is was ascertained that he went to the house where he resith a, swar o;lllS‘Nfl'A Scat, and In a ~hurt ti me ' ti er h e ao „. eiir i..d from WI home. Upon Mr. Gasman dio.covering thi%, he hat no doubt but that she embezzlesueut of Isis property by the . . . . - prisoner was to a 111111.1 t greater veleta than he at tors i !MS.. peeled ; and wpm) enquiry he learnt, that the prisoner had sold to a neighbouring inhabitant timber and wood to the value of 601. and had only carried to his accomit 2111.; and that he had committed various other frauds, which lie hail no doubt would amount to latted. bes:des manufactured receipts, which it is suspected MOM be construed into forgeries hat, owing to the Immunity of Mr. Gatissan, they are not proceeded upon. The prisoner's flight was traced through Hertford shire into London, where the place of his retreat was lost (tar some t• .; but hrough a correspondence with a friend cf his, telling hint to be cautious of the Bow-street officers, he was traced to the Dell and Crown Inn, in Holbo,n, o hick place he hail left, though it was supposed lie wools! restarts there. Mr. had obtained a warrant against him early ou Thersday morning from a Hertfordshire magistrate, and brought a licrtfordishire cousts hie with bito to execute it. 0.1 application being made to Mr. Birnie, he backed the war rant, and Adkins esus dispatched with the Hertfordshire coo. stable in pursuit of the prisoner, sad he was at length found at the inn, coolly drieltiug brandy and water alter tan early dinner. He was taken into custody, brought to the ctfiee, and ordered by Mr. Binge to be taken into Hertfordshire to be examined by the magistrates at Hatfield. The whole was so well managed, that from the commencement of the pursuit he was in custody and on his way hack into Hertfordshire is the course of eight hours. The examination of Sarah Joseph and Joseph Nathar l / 4 charged with robbing Mr. John Pearle, lately from the coo n. try, of haul; notes to the amount of 1591. at a house in Suir court, in the Strand, was appointed to take place for a second time on Thursday ; but the prosecutor not appearing, they were discharged. Monday a lung investigation took place at this Office befima Mr. Conant, the Sitting Magistrate, respecting an extensive robbery committed in the house of Mr. Penton, of Lineutit'a , Inn-fields. The depredations, it appeared, had been carry. ing ou for a considerable time by two of the prosecutor's own servants, a girl and a black boy. The latter had ceuveyed some of the stolen property into the hands of a female, the servant of another person, whom he described as his sweet heart, and upon whom he lavished money and other presents.• The other prisoner, in like manner, was discovered to have been privy to the robberies ; and she had ako bestowed upon her tusk admirer some articles of value, the produce of the plunder which had hero practised. This last mentioned per. son and the two girls were taken into custody ; but the prio ri/ell dcliuqucnt, the black boy, has for the present escaped. The robberies committed upon the prosecutor was discovered by the circumstance of a check for 801. Its. ed. being torn from his draft book, and which was paid at the house of has bankers, Messrs. Williams, of Birchin-lane, to one of the accused parties. Two Bank cotes of 401. each were a frw days before the discovery shown by" Biackee" to lois sweet. heart, who. however, had no idea that they weir the produce of the robbery in question. This was Wide so evident to the Magistrate by circumstances, and the gill having reeeis eil a most oublenii,hed character from her mistress, that she was discharged, upon a promise to appear when the two otket prisoners should he re-examined. The Magistrate thew gas-s directions to the officers to exert themselves for the purpose of discovering the black boy, and the two prisoners were re manded. _ . The black boy who robbed Capt. Peyton, aLincola's-rmn• fields, of a 1001. note, was on Saturday brought to the othee by a soldier, whose eyes being quicksued by the proffered reward of 101. recognized the culprit through the disguise of a midshipman. The poor creature, Who seemed quite unconcerned at his dangerous situation, said he had spent his share of the 1001. on eating, drinking, and a Mademoi selle Margaret. His fellow servant (a female) and her sweet heart had, it is suspected, the rest of the plunder. Houses or ILL. FA/AC—The parish of St. Cement Danes oontinues to be dreadfully infested by houses of ill fame, which are a shocking nuisance and disgrace to the respecta ble inhabitants, and tend to the corruption of the morals of the rising generation, as well as forming receptacles for daring robberies and depredations. They are principally inhabited and conducted by Jews and Jewesses. Anothit instance occurred on Tuesday last in this parish, where one of the most daring and flagrant robberies was committed that has come to light for a considerable time. Sarah Cooper, alias Jessop, J. Nathan, and Sarah Joseph, were charged at this Office with robbing Mr. J. Pe,ilc, a gentleman from the country, of his pocketbook. containing Bank of England notes to the automat of 1591. He appeared to be a respectable farmer, and stated, that on Tuesday evening last he had dined %silly some friends, and was returning home to his lodge logs, near Hungerford-street, about twelve o'clock, and met the prisoner, Sarah Cooper, near Temple-bar, who asked him to treat her with some liquor, which be agreed to, and they went together to a public house in the Strand, the sign of which he did not know, where they hail some gin to drink. He afterwards agreed to go to her lodgings, No. 4, Star court, as she represented, where he stated he was positive he had his pocket-book with Rank notes to the above amount stolen. It was thought right by Mr. Conant, the Sitting Ma gistrate, to admit Cooper, alias Sarah Jessup, an evi dence for the Cr. wn, that the ends ot' publie justice might be answered, who apps tired to give a very candid statement or the transaction. NIII• stated, as her reason for assuming the name of Cooper, that she did not wish to disgrace her family ; she emitirnied the statement of Ma. Pearle, the prosecutor, and said, that when they entered the house, No. 4, Star court, which was kept by the prisoners, Sarah Joseph and J. Nathan, who cohabited together, they had halt a pint of gin; after that, Sarah Joseph asked fur more liquor. and moeey for the use of the room, which prosecutor gave her silver tor. White she was sitting with prosecutor, Sarah Jo seph asked her in the Dutch language, is Well she u n derstood a little fr having lived a good drat with Dutch Jewx, if the prosecutor had money or Bank notes about him, and if she credo pet them, she would ding the pocket book (throw it away), and avOrek (share) every farthing; of the contents. She, ill voos el ot lire of this persuasion, took the pocket book of the pr..seentor out of his side coat put ket ; and on opening it, Sarah Joseph snatched one of the mites front her, which she ittof•rstood to he a 1001. time, she not he hug able to read only [thrill piloting; she snatched it from her, and pretvailvd to return it it, the prosecutor, but in tact gave the whole to Sae Joseph;rub she conducted the prosecutor to the spot in a+ atrati , l where site first met .v itli him, 31111 I here hit him. She and saint, J,,4•1111 then went 1n a wait: house in Shire-lane, the sign of v loci, slit did not know, hut it was opposi e to Ulb Bible piddle lillilbe ; it piovt (1 to be the si;oi of the Duke of York, Where the landloid of the house esi411111(1 a mite pro duced by them, and which they had taken Onus the titusectt-