48 mine the cafe with the most minute and anxious attention; and the recol. lection of the facts will never be erased from my memory. "Demetrio Antonopolo, Commander and Half-owner of an Ottoman vessel, bound to Amfterdam, was driven by trefs of weather into Dingle Bay, on the coaft of Ireland. In this bay he was detained by Captain Hill, commanding a revenue cutter in that quarter. I have the authority of Sir William Scott, the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, to affert, that the detention of the veffel was illegal, arbitrary, and vexatious. After a tedious and dilatory litigation, the Judge of the Admiralty decreed, that the veffel fhould be releafed, and the owners allowed demurrage; and declared that Government ought to make a liberal compenfation for this illegal capture. As Captain Antonopolo could not speak the Englith language, he was neceffitated to employ a perion to tranfact his business: he unfortunately engaged a man of the mot abandoned character, who confpired with fome vile wretches to plunder his employer of his property. "As the firft ftep in the profecution of his nefarious defigns, the fhip's crew were informed, that it would be neceffary to depofe on oath to the amount of their wages, in order to obtain payment out of the money decreed by the Court of Admiralty. The unfufpecting Ottomans readily made the required allegation; and on thefe affidavits, writs were immediately iffued against Antonopolo, and he was committed, in the year 1804, to the King's Bench prifon. During the whole of the fe tranfactions, the man who had infidiously and treacherously deceived the ignorant failors was high in the confidence of Antonopolo, and actually obtained different authorities from the credulous foreigner to receive confiderable fums of money on his account. The failors frequently, but unfuccefsfully, inquired of this man concerning their Captain: having, however, at length accidentally difcovered his abode, they hurried to the prifon. "Vide the fentence of Sir William Scott, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, relative to the detention of the Turkish veffel, la Madona del Burfo San Spiridion, Demetrio Antonopolo, Captain and Half-owner, published by W. Wilfon, St. Peter's-hill, Doctors' Commons. Antonopole inveighed with much Having now received their wages, they returned to their own country: the actions, of courfe, were abandoned, and the prifoner became fuperfedable. Fearful, however, that Antonópolo would compel him to refund the property which he had embezzled, detainers were now lodged against this oppressed foreigner, for fictitious debts, to a confiderable amount; but thefe imaginary claims would not bear the fcrutinizing investigation of a court of juftice; and Antonopolo was again entitled to be fuperfeded out of cuftody. "To procure his emancipation, and punish his oppreffor, Antonopolo depofited 700l. in the hands of Mr. K*** a foi difant attorney; and with this money Mr. K**** has decamped. Two other perfons have obtained confiderThis muchable advances of cafh, which they have fimilarly_mifapplied*. injured Ottoman has thus been stripped of his property, and is doomed till to languish in confinement for fictitious debts-being unable to procure thirty pounds, the fum neceffary to pay the various fees on the different writs of fuperfedeas, and to discharge the prifon dues. "In the latter end of December, 1805, I visited this perfecuted foreigner; and never fhall I forget the fcene of wretchednefs which was difplayed to my terrified fenfes. Captain Antonopolo, his wife, and two children, were feated in a miferable room, without fire. Want had made confiderable ravages on their conftitution; famine was depicted in their countenances, and in the emaciated forms of their helplefs infants. His dignified ftruggle between the importunate cravings of hunger, and the confcious remembrance of former independence, is prefent to my imagination; and I fill fee him endeavouring to filence the cries, and reprefs the impatience of his children, who were importuning him for bread. me ftrange, E'en to the difpofition that I owe, When now I think you can behold fuch fights, And keep the nat ral ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear." "Surely in the cafe of foreigners fome investigation or inquiry into the validity, or at least the probability, of the claims of the plaintiff, thould be inftituted by a proper officer, before a perfon fhould be permitted to make an affidavit of debt to authorize an arreft. According to the prefent practice, any milcreant can arreft a foreigner for a fictitious demand without receiving any impediment from a previous examination into the juftice or probability of his claim. As thefe perfecuted trangers are ignorant of the laws of this country, and unacquainted with the mode of defending themfelves from thefe illegal arrefts, they are delighted to recover their liberty, even by complying with the infamous exactions of their oppreffors." A New Syftem of Domeflic Cookery, formed upon Principles of Economy, and adapted to the Uje of Private Families. By a Lady. Small 8vo. pp. 310. It would be abfurd in us to attempt to criticize the culinary compofitions of this good Lady, from any knowledge of the art that we can have acquired. But this we may fay, that most of the former books upon this fubject that we have seen, appeared to contain inftructions of fuch prodigious expenfe of money, and waste of ingredients, as rendered them only fuited to the larger taverns of the metropolis, or to the extenfive eftablishments of the moft wealthy of our nobility. The directions here given are on fo very fimple a principle, and fo moderate a scale, as to fuit the family eco VOL. L. JULY 1806. nomy of the humbleft tradesman, as well as of the most exalted peer of the land. We understand that being intended for the conduct of the fami lies of the writer's own daughters, and for the arrangement of their table, fo as to unite a good figure with proper economy, the has avoided all exceffive luxury, fuch as effence of ham, and that walteful expenditure of large quantities of meat for gravy, which fo and is no lefs injurious to those who eat greatly contributes to keep up the price, than to those whofe penury bids them abstain. Many receipts are given for mode of preparing them may be fupthings which, being in daily use, the. in a cookery book; yet how rarely pofed too well known to require a place do we meet with fine melted butter, good toast and water, or well-made coffee! She makes no apology for minuteness in fome articles, or for leaving others unnamed, because she writes not for profeffed cooks. This little work would have been a treasure to herself when the first fet out in life, and she therefore hopes it may be useful to others. We most ftrongly recommend to general attention the "Mifcellaneous Obfervations for the Ufe of the Mistress of a Family," which occupy the first twenty pages. It is impoffible to read them without benefit. The book wears every appearance of being an original performance; has the advantage of a very copious index; and is printed with an economy fo unufual in our days of improved typography, as to contain what would certainly, by a profeffed book-maker, have been fwelled into two, if not three volumes. Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud: in a Series of Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London, written during the Months of Auguft, September, and O&tober, 1805. 3 vols. 12mo. We have here a very interefting companion, indeed almost an indifpenfable appendage, to the "Revolutionary Plutarchs," which we have noticed in former volumes. The information is of a more mifcellaneous nature, and comprises the leading Minifters, Generals, Admirals, &c. of Spain; Holland, Italy, and Germany, as well as thofe of Buonaparte's immediate dominions. In political H political and fenfual intrigue it is as fruitful as its precurfors; and its information feems to be derived lefs from written or printed documents, and more from perfonal knowledge and obfervation, than the works before named. It moves our wonder, however, when we read of the ftrictnets of Fouche's fyftem of espionage and furveillance, how a refident in Paris could tranfmit to England, undetected, fuch an ample mafs of anecdotes of the Imperial Court, family, and favourites; any one of which might have ferved the writer as a paffport to Cayenne, or the Oubli ettes. Flights of Fancy: confifting of Miscellaneous Poems; with the Caftle of Avola, an Opera, in Three Ads. By Mrs. J. T. Serres. 8vo. This lady deprecates "the too rigid cenfure of the critic ;" and we shall not be fo ungallant as to be deaf to her entreaty: her drama poffeffes merit; and if the were more correst in her numbers, fome of her fmaller poems would not pafs without praife. We fubjoin a fair fpecimen of our author's talent, being neither the belt nor the wort in the collection: The Son of Commerce, an Original Poem, in Thirty-four Cantos. Written by a Sailor. To which is added, His Grand Ode on the Death and Funeral of the late Lord Nelfon. 12mo. If this honeft tar, difabled for fervice on his proper element, has had recourte to his pen as a mean of fubfiftence from those whom God has bleft with affluence," we shall heartily with him fuccefs: if, on the other hand, he publishes from a vain idea of poffeffing the neceffary qualifications for a poet, how miferably has he mistaken his talents! Life of Lady Jane Grey, and of Lord Guildford Dudley, ber Husband, &c. By Theophilus Marcliffe. 12mo. This is an interefting portion of the Hiftory of England, and a fair pattern of female excellence under adverfity; and therefore may be recommended to young readers of the fofter fex. THEATRICAL JOURNAL. Mary Flail Jane Mrs. MATHEWS. Mrs. GIBBS. Mrs. Prudence Flail Mrs. POWELL. Laura Mifs TYRER. The following is an outline of the piece : Mr. Frankland, a country gentleman, mifled by old Sordid, his fteward, dif inherits his fon, and leaves his eftate deeply mortgaged, and entirely in the power of the man who had deceived him. Young Frankland, whofe irregularities had been privately abetted by his betrayer, thus finds himself left at the mercy of the world; and the intelligence is farther embittered by a letter a letter from Squire Flail, father of the female he had been promised, difclofing an intended alliance with the natural fon of the falfe fteward, who, to conceal the connexion which gave him birth, had brought his child up in ignorance of his parents. Edward Frankland lets out for Harvest Hall, the feat of Squire Flail, in hopes to forten his determination. Lucklefs (Sordid's fon) is alfo led thitherward, by an advertisement from his father, who journeys toward the fame place to forward the treaty of mar. riage in favour of his fon. Edward, on his road, refcues Mary Flail from a ruffian; but, fo far from prevailing on her father to relent in confequence, Flail only ironically promifes, that if Edward, within twelve hours, can produce a freehold tenement, an acre of land, and one article of live ftock, with. in fix miles of Harvelt Hall, he thall have the hand of his daughter. Mr. Kalendar, a mathematical, phi lofophical oddity, and a very warm friend to Edward, difcovers a half obiolete forest-law, which enables him to afif the young man in fulfilling, on a fmall fcale, the above hard conditions in the given time, and without purchafe. Sordid and his fon Lucklefs being feverally milled on their journey, by a wrong-pointed finger-pot, five miles from the Hall, are fufficiently delayed to give time for the accomplishment of Edward's plan. Sordid, fearful of being robbed, hides his money and fome valuable papers on the very foot over which Edward's temporary manfion is afterwards erected, as part of the ftipulation required by Squire Flail; and the title deeds of Edward's pater. nal property being found under his newly-raited roof among the other papers concealed by Sordid, (whofe fon proves to be already married,) an accommodation is effected between all parties. The eccentricities of Kalendar; the jealousy of Mrs. Prudence Flail, a maiden lady who is enamoured of him; the ruftic courtship of Jenny, and John Spriggins; with the formality of a painting Quaker, and the mistakes of an Irish Carpenter; diverfify the filling up of the foregoing outline, The title of the piece is derived from the direction-poft made by an Irish carpenter, in the centre of a wood where four roads meet. Being fomewhat too low, he gives it a moveable head, that it may give way when any perfon runs against it; and thus reverfes its directions, veering about like a weathercock, which occafions fome aukward contretems. The Comedy is plentifully befprinkled with all the peculiarities of Mr. Dibdin's Mufe, and exhibits a lively and amusing collection of Points and Puns, fometimes new, and fometimes not - humorous fallics-and comic, though fome what improbable, fituations. The principal ftrength of the piece is exerted in the character of Kalendar, who is a fort of Caleb Quotem, with his brain ftuffed full of Almanacks, Orreries, Telescopes, Horoscopes, Barometers, Thermometers, &c. This diverting humourift is admirably perfonated by Fawcett, to whofe exertions the fuc cefs of the Comedy is greatly indebted. Liston, as a Quaker, has a comic fong, and Mifs Tyrer a ballad, which were both encored. The other characters were well fupported by Meffrs. Rae, De Camp, Grove, Mathews, and Mrs. Gibbs. We do not approve of introducing footpads on the stage in the actual exercite of their profeflion; but we must do Mr. Hatton the justice to lay, that nothing could be more natural than his acting in the scene where the great coat is challenged. The moveable finger-poft was a whimfical idea, and produced much mirth. In allufion to the mansion that he had erected, Mr. Fawcett concludes the Comedy with remarking, that the fabric was of flender materials; but he trusted it would meet with approbation, as being only intended for a fummer-house. The appeal met with applaufe; and the repetition of the Comedy for next evening, announced by Fawcett, was received with the loud, and (in more fenfes than one) the warm acclamations of a molt crowded auditory. Flou. Enter Flourish. He hath fent a Quaker, Kal. What is it you predict about our Play? Flou. Flou. Enter Spriggins and Jenny. To ferve the Play. Sprig. -I's been, and married Jenny, Jenny. Beneath which fign, Sir, is my hufband born? [pricorn. Kal. Like many hufbands-under Ca Sprig. Under what fign, then, do the fky make her go? Kal. The Crab Sprig -There, Jane; I know'd it wasn't Virgo. I faid fo. Jenny. Hold your prate then, fool, ih-do; [you. Your master's wife; and know'd it afore Kal. Now for the Bard:-Athwart his telescope May no Eclipfes make his profpect black Jenny. And happy as a bride, like Kal. Come, then, (To the audience,) you |