Star. — London, England, 1811-09-12 00:00:00

LINES FOR A BUST Of Tbit RIGHT HONOURABLE. CHARLES JAMES FOX. The sage, the statesman, and the pat-iot's mind, To matchless eloquence and taste he jotted; No narrow views far transient fame and sway, To reign the idol of a fleeting day; No mean expedients, and no tricks of state, , Sunk and debat'd him to the vulgar great. Alike he scorn'd the demagogue's wild schemes, . His artful plecis, or Utopian dreams; , To court the mob he never would descend, • Yet proed through life their firm consistent friend. His gen'rour temper ne'er a toe opprest, His manly candtair rivals e'er contest; Its many a storm lie freedom's cause maintaied; When falling succour 'd, and when weak sustant'd ; With voice prophetic, miry ill foretold Of haughty councils, or the thirst of gold, Which made an empire Albion's sway disown, And rais'd fierce Gallia to her guilty.tbrone. Unmov'd he met, in all these toils of state, His sovereign's anger, or the people's bate; Undaunted bore e'en Poverty's cold hour, And spurted the trappings, or the frowns of Pew's. With knowledge stor'd, his unauumiag mind Livid but to feel—and felt to serve mankind; Not check'd lay climate, nor confin'd to place, He heal'd the wounds of Afric's suff'ring race, Restor'd those rights their great Creator gave, And tore from Av'rice her much-injur'd slave. When far remoe'd from cares of public life, Its varnish'd tinsel, and its thankless strife, In the calm shelter of his Sabine farm ('Midst Faction's din, or Folly's false alarm) • Serene, compos'd, his only wish to please, With long-lov'd friends, with books, and letter'd ease, He each soft charm, each milder grace display'd, That cheers Retirement in her classic shade; Stills each fierce passion rous'd by love of pow'r. . And strews with fiow'rs each dear domestic hour. Hail, matchless Patriot ! the in dust thou lie, While England lives, thy virtues ne'er can die. Though many a year to barren toil thou lent, Though many a year in fruitless labour spent When our lov'd country, Freedom's last retreat, Of arts, of arms, alike the favour'd sear, Sees the black prospect op'ning at her feet; When all she lost by Bigotry's vile league, l3y wild Profusion, or by low Intrigue; When all she suffer'd passes in review, Thy slighted councils and advice she'll sue ; Iby upright heart, devoid of guile, record, Invoke thy shade, hid pay thy just reward. For came it must (the.time however late) When fiend-like Envy sleeps with party Hate; When all the actors of this busy age Will pass, like phantoms, from life's cheequer'd stage, Our stern debates, oursrormy conflicts o'er, Alike forgotten on Oblivion's shore; Then thou shalt rival, with increasing fares, Has roues proud wreath, and At ell I o's spotless same; Then thou shalt live in many a polish'd strain, hro' many a distant, many a pine-clad plain I Where wild La Plata rolls her foaming wave, Aad ev'ry clime Atlantic billows lave. The young, the gay, the warlike, and the bold, Shall plant the cypress round thy halluw'd mould; ' Beauty's fair hand shall deck thy trophied bier, Beauty's bright eye shall drop the silent tar; Her fairy form, with ev'ry grace array'd, Herpensive look shall soothe thy ho nour'. shad The wise, the good, shall all lament thy doom, And crowd, like Plgrints, to thy long-moored tomb I Ez.oetssewr.—A young lady, the d tughter of a wine-merchant, has eleped, within a few days, from Margate, for Gretna Green ; and, for fear of not find ing a successor tq the old Blacksmith, has taken a Par ton with her. In fact, a young Reverend Cantab is the happy man. The Divine has, however, to pray, for ten thousand good reasons, that she inny attain the age -of twenty one, of which she wants but four years and a half. This dutiful young woman did not forget, on their arrival at Canterbury, to send a few lines by a tarrier, informing her friends that she had as much impatience to see Scotland as four good horses would all"! her. Last Monday morning a market gardener, in the neighbourhood of Poplar, went out to unset a spring gun, which he was accustomed to set every night, when accidentally treading upon the spring, the gun went off, and the contents entering his body, wounded him in so dreadful manner that his life is despaired of. A dreadful accid:nt occurred on Thur.day last to a labouring man, of the name of James Dighy, who was employed, with many others, in pullit.g sloivn a }reuse in Foley-street, near the Middlesex Hospital. The unfortunate man's fellow-workmen, it appeared, observed the front wall of the house in a tottering state, and made a timely retreat. Dilly did not per ceive his danger, until the wall was alssolutcly falling. He then thiew himself flat on the ground by the side of a log of timber, in the hope that it would save him. A yneat mass of bricks, however, fell on him, by which his right thigh and four of his ribs were broken—one of which was forced into his lungs, be sides occasioning a variety of other wounds and frac tures. He was immediately taken to the lvpital, where he languished till Sunday last. The Coroner's Inquest sat on the following day, and returned a ver dict of Accidental Death. A man and a boy, lately emplOyed in fixing pump on Beesron Hill. near Leeds, on their descent. into the well met the black damp, as it is called, • and were precipitated to the bottom in a lifeless slate. The boy was soon restored to animation ; hut the man lay at the h utomfor three quarters of an hour, • and wk-n brought up all s:gns of life had vanished ; but alter being exposed to the air for nearly an hour, the vital spat k was rekindled. It may be gratifying to • the curious to know how de sth in this way attacks his subjects. According to the man's own acccunt. he felt the azote operate upon him like a powerful disposition to sleep, and he sunk into his death-like state with as much freedom from pain as persons um ally sink to rest. While he was at the bottom, all sensation was of course extinct ;, but he describes his lieelings when he began to revive as those of a person tecOvering from a state of extreme intoxication, and so powerful were the effects of the pernicious air he had inhaled, that he was several days before he solild I Ise said to Ist is a collected. state Of mind. . _ - AMERICAN NATAL BIOGRAPHY'. I No. VIII. Ca;,tain Casirant.c is a native of Rhode island, and early in life entered into the United States ser vice doting the revolutionary war, in which he was actively employed, and received a wound which de prived him of his left heel ; from which time he has worn a high cork-heeled shoe, which has caused him to be ever since called Cork<Merl Camitbelf. On the partial warfare between the United States and France, he was called into service, and took the command of the Baltimore sloop of war. His atchievements have never been great : ho is a well-disposed man, but ex tremely warm in his temper ; there is no medium between his. liking and disliking. 'After the resigna tion of Commodore Truxton, he got the command of the Constellation frigate, and on the war with Tripoli, the John Adams frigate, in which he made a cruize up the Mediterranean, and on his return, again took the command of the Constellation. and went up the Mediterranean, and in the year 1805 returned ; from which time he has not been employed. Capt. Campbell is about six feet in height, of a slen der wake ; his walk, and manner stiff, but perhaps icaused by his wishing that his lameness should not be perceived : he has the named a good and humane 1 officer, and is about 54. years of age. 240.1 X. Captain SOMERS was a native of Cape May, at the mouth of the Delaware River, his first pursuit was the same as the other inhabitants of the place, col lecting oysters and bringing them up in small craft to Philadelphia ; his brother and he owned a boat, but on the United States frigate being built, he bid adieu to oysters, and became a midshipman on board of her, and in a few years was made a Lieutenant. He went up the Mediterranean as first Lieutenant, under the command of Capt. Stewart, in the Cyrus brig, of 16 guns; when she reached her station off he got the command of the schooner Enter prize. Commodore Preble conceiving that he could destroy the enemy's flotilla of gun-brats by sending a fire-ship among them, he purchased an old ship at Malta for the purpose, and Capt. Somers, and Mr. Dorsey, midshipman, son of a physician in Philadel phis, were selected to carry the scheme into effect. Capt. Somers seemed to have a presentiment of his ' fate, although his courage was never doubted. Oni quitting the frigate Constitution, he said to Commo dore Preble, " I have got a wife and family wholly dependent on me—is thtre no other Officer who would answer the purpose that is disencumbered 1" Commodore Preble answered, " attend your duty— if I was to send another Officer, your name would remain for ever sullied." The fire-ship in the night was towed within half a mile of what is called the square battery in the harbour of Tripoli ; the boats then remained stationary, lying on their oars, in ex pectation of Capt. Somers coming to them in his barge. After a painful delay of an hour, they heard a dreadful explosion, and no Captain Somers in sig.ta ; they waited in this suspense for another hour, and were at last obliged to seek safety by gaining their different vessels, the enemy's gun-boats being alartn.l ed, and advancing towards them. By some miscon-; duct, it is supposed that some loose powder was ly ing near the fusee, which, on being lighted, com municated to it, and the explosion took place berure Captain Somers and his little crew were able to leave the ship, by which means they lost their lives without effecting the object that was contemplated. The crew consisted of (besides Captain Somers and Mr. j Dorsey) 10 seamen ; their bodies were washed on shore the next morning, and the Bey of Tripoli kindly allowed the crew of the Philadelphia, his pri soners, to bury them. We have since learned that the fire-ship blew up opposite the fort, a mile short of the place intended, and of course did no execu tion. Capt. Somers was much regretted by those who knew him ; he had a most compassionate heart, and was an excellent son and husband. As an Offi cer, he was strict, but humane; and was 33 years of age when he lost his life.—He was of middle stature, and not any thing commanding in his countenance ; his hair and eye-brows Were light, which gave him rather an effeminate appearance. The attention of many persons was on Tues d excited by a Cat which followed a gentleman through the Strand with the greatest familiarity. It had a brass collar round its neck, and pursued its course with3ut any apparent alarm. Au application is intended to be made to Parlia ment in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill for widening and improving the street leading from Tower-hill to Upper E .st Smithfield, and also for widening and improving the street, by taking down any of the houses and other buildings in Bar ley's place, opposite the new Mint, an on the north ern side of the street, called Upper East Smithfield. At Norwich Cattle Market an Saturday there was a large show of Scotch beasts, which sold from 6s. Gd. to '7s. 6d. per stone. At the Corn Market there acre a great many samples of new as well as old Wheat, the latter selling at .50s. the former from 425. to 475. The spew ot. sheep and lambs at Horringer Fair, yesterday se'nnight, was certainly not so great as last or some preceding years; and those, generally speak ing, were of an infcror quality to the stock exhibited at Ipswich. The sales were, however, tolerably brisk, particularly for half-breds and Norfolk wether lambs, which were in great demand, and sold readily at from 17s. 6d. to 225. ;. and those of the flock of Mr. John Brooks of Westley, at £26 per score. Shearlings and other ewes, of the same stuck, sold from 335. up to two guineas.—Crones of all kings obtained a ready sale at from 15s. to 2515. each.—Mr. A. Breoks's Southdown ewe lambs were previously sold to the Duke of Grafton at 31s. 6d. each. Most of the hop-planters in Sussex have begun pick. ing, and the hops in general turn out much better than WAS sometime since expected. The duty is estimated at WlllO,OOO. Hop picking has begun generally throughout Kent, and the produce in many places is most abundant, particularly at Town Sutton, Headeron, Hawkbursr, tennenden, Biddenden, and all the lower parts of Kent, from whence many pockets of the finest qua lity have been already sent to market. The planta tions in Maidstone, and surrounding parishes, with some exceptiOns, run try indifferent, owing to the moult hating made great progress. From East Kent we are informed, that the hops in g-ntral come down so remarkably well, that should the tine weather last, it is cakulated by some; the duty will teach it NOW. . . POLICE. MANSTON Housx.—Yesterday T. Abbott, a rag merchant, charged his servant, Jane Hawkins, with stealing from his shop a qttantity of rags, valued at cod.. He informed his Lordship that the prisoner bad been several years in his service, and had hither to conducted herself with 14anesty and propriety.— His Lordship recommended the prosecutor to with draw the prosecution, in consideration of the girl's previous good conduct ; but this he refused to coo ply w:th, so the prisoner was remanded for further ex amination. • Ma RLSOROUGII•STREET.—Yesterday Coderill, a hackney-coachman, was charged with having sop ped a female, who resides in the neighbourhood af Fitzroy-square, and robbed her al a ridicule, con taining eighteen shillings, and two diamond rings, on Tuesday night. The pmsecutrix was returning from a public place, about 12 o'alock, in company with a female friend, when the prisoner came up, snatched the ridicule out of her hand, and attempted to get away. She, however, held fast by his coat, and was thrown down, when the prisoner kicked her on the breast. Fortunately a respectable tradesman, in New man-street, was passing at the time, and saw the prisoner cast the ridicule from him, and assisted in securing him. A person afterwards brought the purse to the prosecutrix, but it contained half the Silver only, without ,1-e rings. Whilst in the Office, and the prisoner's it lends were tampering with the prsse cutrix to settle it, the sings were ofiered to be pra. sicced, if the proposal was agreed to ; but the man who made the offer had retreated when asked for.— The prisoner was fully committed for :a ial. Woastur-sTiturr.—Yesterday Elizabtas Brown was fully committed, charged by Mr. Hughes, of Basing hall -street, with whom she had lived servant, with having stolen linen, and other articles, part of which wet e found in her possession. A baker was summoned up, .on a complaint ex hibited against him, for selling, and 'exposing for sale, bread deficient in weight, and was convicted in the penalty of 2s. Gd. per ounce, and the bread for feited • he was likewise convicted in the , penalty of £lO, for having alum found oh his premises. Umoss HALL.—Yesterday a complaint was exhi bited against an eminent shipwright, b; the mother of one of his apprentices, under the following circum stances : —From the statement of the complainant, it appeared her son had served nearly the whole of his time, and was now upwards of 20 years of age ; by the agreement between her and the defendant, at the [ time he was bound, it was provided that, during the last three years and a ‘..alt of his apprenticeship he was to allow her son 10s. per week board wages ; and this slim had been paid till within tire last fort night, during which time it had been withheld, in consequence of the following facts. About 12 months since the boy, whilst at weak iu his master's yard, re-' ceived, by accident, a sevete wound in his leg, which tendered bins incapable of doing any thing tar several weeks, during which time a surgeou attended him.— His master, however, whilst he was confined, still aliovved him his board wages; and on his recovery he returned to his work, but the surgeon's bill for linen ! dance amounting to upwards of .E.Sa, he refused to pay; in consequence of which the son of Esculapius had proceeded against the boy in the Court of ltequ:sts, ''and the Commissioners made an order that he should pay it hy instalmeats. These payments he was not able to keep up, and an execution issued against him, s under which he was arrested and lodged in prison, where he still remained, and since his bating there, his master had refused to allow any thing for board- Wages. On the part of the defendant a professional man attended, who submitted to the Magistrate that his client was not liable to pay the surgeon's bill.— When the accident happened he wished the young man should have been sent to an Hospisal, he being a perpetual governor to two, for the sole purpose et having the power of obtaining admission for any per sons who might meet with accidents in his t tuploy.— This, however, was opposed by the mother, who em ployed the surgeon in question contrary to his express desire, and therefore he conceived that the mother only was liable for the debt ; and as he was deprived of the young man's services by an act of the mother, he conceived she had no just claim to the board wages. The Magistrate said, the question who should pay the surgeon's bill was not for him to de, Bide. With respect to the hoard wagei, as the young man's imprisonment and consequent prevention from labour did not arise from any act o( impropriety on his part ; but in fact from an untortthiate injury sus tained by him in his master's service, the defendant was bound to pay the sum stipulated in the inden ture. He at the same time suggested, whether it would not be more for the advantage of the defen dant, if he could enter into some compromise with the surgeon, and thus set the young than at liberty, than, by continuing obstinate, keep him in prison, and suffer the loss of his services ? The defendant ac knowledged the justice of the Magistrate's observa tion, and said, it was not the object of the lxiard• wages which had caused their being withheld, but the fear that, by paying them to him in prison, with out a Magistrate's order, he should acknowledge the debt to the surgeon, and thus put a stop to the legal steps which he was taking against those who, by 11Tl• prisoning his apprentice, had deprived him of the be nefit of his services. HATTON-GAltDem.----,-Nesterday, a Mr. Dixon; was put to the bar, before Mr. Justice Leach, under I a charge of having on Tuesday night last, between the I Instils of nine and ten o'clock, timed a pistol shot, and I driven a bullet through the wind" of his opposite neighbour, one Henry Earl, a coachman, whose wife was at the time washing,. with her head within the 1 . distance of one foot from the hole made by the bul -1 let, which passed close over her head, Mrs. Earl fainted at the shock, and, upon recovering herself, went into an adjoining house, where she sornained till Wood, the Officer, who lives-in the same place, i called Garden's Walk, Clerkenwell, had an ived.— , The prisoner refused to admit the Officer, and three : tested to shoot him if he entered forcibly; but Wood, regardless of menaces, broke in the &or, and secured ' him. A Mrs. Smith, of the same place, stated, that her window was some nights ago broken by a similar firing, and herself thrown into tits, to Which she is subject. —The prisoner appeared so composed and indifferent to the charge, that the Magistrate asked the motivt { of such indifference—whereupon ,the prisoner stated his great pleasure at the happy event of Mrs. Earl's escape, who well knew that it was a mere orcidenr, since neither she nor any one living ever could or did in his '.ife time impute an idea of malice or on his pint towards any one. The cause of the firiii3 was the annoyance he suffered from an erttaordiriarr great coPKe of cats that surrounded his c ttage .ipon the roofs of the neighbourir.g houses, and which ho endeavoured to disperse by the filing; but lie p.rceiv ed his error in firing to disperse them. and most sin. cerely exulted in the merciful Interposition of 9aove. DENCE, which prevented an evil that would la. 'e at. flitted him sorely. The Magistrate laid down the law to be, tl:at, if the party were killed, it would be mar,slangtpet ; mad had any kind of quartet or dispute ever beim: fette red betwe^n the prisoner cr his wife and Mrs. in cese uf her death by rite shot it v.ould be murder. The prisoner was mistaken in his n f, malice, as such carel..,s firinp impsied malice ; he ordered him to find sumacs ut the peace, or star t committed. , A forgery to a cci , iderable went has been die. covered in one o f th e fi r st houses in the vicinity of Bond street. Upwards c.f iIiGUOD has been obtaiutd, and one of the first Jerks has ansented himself. A Gertleman was st ,ppe I and robbed of hi. watch and AI on Sunday night, by four ruffians, in Fti.ham fields. An attack was Asa made tn a lady and gen. tleman in a chaise, laaween Clapham and Battersea, on Thursday last, but they escaped in great danger. Monday !light, Mr. C. Davidson, of Totterh,rn court-road, on returning home ahntg Holloway-1 ne, Islington, in a cur rich:, was attacked by two footp a ds, dressed as sailors, and masked, who pro a reted and robbed him of wh it cash he had about him. Monday night, Mr. Wardley, of Mounc.aueet. Grosvenor-square, was hustled at the corner of Fleet. Mat ket, and robbed of his watch and pocket-book, containing bank notes to the amount of A/. .A DARING HIGHWAY % , AN..—On Tuesday evening, about halt past seven o'clock, as two farmer's men were returning from wan d 111 their empty carts, where they had been to market with two loads of straw, one of them wad stopped by a highwayman at Tottenham-green, at a time when the road was crowd ed with toot-passengers and carriages. He demand ed the man's motley in a threatening tone—that which he had received for the hay he had sold. The carter answered that it was straw, and not hay, which he had been Co mat ket w th ; and that instead of mo ney he had received a ticket for it. Hoping to suc ceed better with his companion, who was anointed on the fore horse et the team, a short distance nettind, the highwayman rode up to him, and resentino A pistol to his brew-4 with horrid impraca .ons, 'de manded the money he had received at mat k -t for his hay or s:raw : the alarmed me denied his having any that lie -had received at market ; but the few shillings which he had of his own he offered to deli ver up, if the robber would allow him time to dismount for that purpose. Just as he war about to perform his promise, his comrade who had been first stopped came to his assistance, and loudly calling out stop thief, the highwayman was glad to gallop off with out his treaty. A hue and cry was immediately rais ed in the village, and the robber was pursued to wards Stamford-hill ; but unfortunately no horsemen were at hand to assist in the pursuit, in consequence of which the villain made his escape. It was ascer tained in the course of yesterday, that the highway. man had come a considerable distance on the toad from Ware; and that he mbhed a gentleman oft horseback near the Cock-inn, on the other side of Edmonton. On Monday, as Mr. and Mrs. Staines, of Cheap. side, were going to their country residence at Eppii g Forest, by sudden jolt Mr. Staines was throat' out of the !liaise, and so much hurt, as to cause his death in half an hour. The value of Dr. FRUMAN'S GUTTA SALOTARIO has been so long proved, that nothing of the present day can bear a competition with it, in all the diffe rent stages of a certain disease, which it effectually cores and eradicates from the habit, without exciting the painful feelings and exposure that attends saliva tion—without debilitating the constitution in any de gree, or even requiring confinement from business or restriction of diet. The radical virtues of these ines timable Drops hive proved their claim to pabl c ap probation for more than 30 years. In all the debility of both sexes they prove a never-failing restorative— whether the debility is produced by too free use of mercury, by illicit pleasures, or the effects of a warm climate To travellers and those going abroad, they cannot be recommescied too strongly, as they will re ceive a safe, speedy, and complete cure, in all olp stubborn gleets, and every weakness that affects the bladder and organs of urine. By its efficacy many women have become mothers, who for marry )eart had been deprived of that happiness.—. Sold wholesale and retail, at Mr : Butler's, No. 4, Cheapside, corral. of Paternoarer-row.; and retail, by llelam and Skarp. Portsmouth • Hall and Johnson. Gosport ; Antrim, Weston, Mallory, and Jones, Portsea; Trevrtnan, Exeter ; Cookworthy, Glenville, Gilbert, and Hos land, Plymouth; Newbury, Dublin; Baxter . and Mac donald, Glasgow ; Smith, Manderston, Scott, and Cargill, Edinburgh ; u:well, Bath ; Ross and Peck, hull ; Grevon and Billinge, Liverpool; Stains rod Lynch, Manchester; Bowen, Norwich; nett and Lloyd, Birmingham; Gregory, Brighton; and most Medicine Venders. in bottles, at es. tad. 4s. 6d. k DIED. At Ayr, Scotland, on Sun Jay, the 25th ult. Primrose tt. nedy, o;* Drum:Rau, In the 78th year a 1 is age. On the tnh lus:snt, at his seat at Nun-Appleton. .n Yo;kJ 're. in the S7th year of his age, Sir Wm. Mordaunt Milner, ear.. • He seas chasm representative for the city of York in four mere*. sive Parliaments. lie is succeeded in his tides and 8-slates by Lit eldest sun, now Sir WM. M. Milner, Bart. On the 29th ult. Mr. Joseph Barnet, of Ennis.—Thk gertk• man came by his dea:h In consequence of his !lasing atterrt.ted to come across the end of the lake between Rocksuount and Eden vale, county Clare, whereby be was drusintd. Saturday night, at Stralgways Hall, near Manc;:ester, larch Hanson, Esq. formerly Lieutenant. Colonel Cognomentaut of the Manchester Volunteer Rifle Regiment. Wednesday setwight, at Maidstone, In Kent, of a typhus fever. Captain Lucy, of the West-Kent Militia. • 0-MORROW. Sun tiara I :.un sets, t I NOM jibes 35 m atter 51 21 minutes after 411 I • • ••• • owl. sat* 1 • •• - • • rAv• 1. 1.0..110 a at. blik . 1 -.VIIJIN ..•U - Mom ng...... .... Aternoun ........-. :4 minutes atter 1 I )Ail), . mri an.: 046 Chan/very-4u., and r 1) , I.evcs. I ( ) diets acarht4ll. • - _