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RESPECT AND LOVE. A TALE. M L'amoar et le respect s'accordent mal ensemble; ga Vous eel clevinerez bien la raison— " Celt qua Fun tue l'autre, et dc.que ]'amour tremble, C'en Vat fait, it meta: du frison." Cyntlin, the serious and the gay, In sportive mood us'd oft to say, The man, who SN edded her, must prove The type of both respect, and love; And...s het beauty all acnied, ho emulation all inspied. Oft, kneeling at her crowded shrine, The Swains still %void the Nymph daYine+ In vain—tor none she could approve, Their crime, alas ! was too much love— Nut love, that's gentle, and reppectful ; But furious love, of forms neglectful, Too soon their hapless suits denied, Poor souls ! they pin'd, despair'd, and died! At length, two vent'rous suitors came, Who swore they felt au equal When both ler favour tried to move, And both essay'd respect and love : But he, who lov'd, would fain conceal The ardent pangs, his looks reveal, I . :tiering he spoke, and scarce supprest The sighs that struggled in his breast. Next, pure 'lisped., with aspi.ct cold, His even tale, unrufird, told, No fervor in his features beain'il, Which now yet cold, and colder scenic!, rut, ah ! poor Love, with pale affright, Trembled and sicken'd at the sight, Ills pulse beat quick, be hung his head, hO dews of death now o'er him spread-- Recpcct ! your chilling frowns, he cried, Have hard me—thus he droop'd and died ! Cynthia, in tears, laments his fate, And grieves that she has learnt too late— Love freirn restraint must still be free— Respect, and Love, can nc'er agree! R. 5. LEWIS, AUGUST 21. The Lewes Annual Prize Melon Show, at the Crown Inn, on Wednesday last, furnished ,a delicious feast of melons to about forty horticultural amateurs. The first prize was awarded to the gardener of the Dowager-Countess of Chichester ; the second to the gardener of Henry Manning, Esq. of Southover ; and the third to Lord Hampden's gardener. The hops in this country have greatly improved within the last three weeks. The hop assistants were appointed to their several districts on Saturday. The wheat crops, for the most part, fall heavy upon the sickle, bat the weather continues unfavour able to the harvest. Partridges are, this season, generally numerous in this county, and the birds are strong upon the wing ; but the coveys are not so large as they were last year. Pheasants have suff•red considerably from the wetness of the breeding season—The yonnq of many nides have been literally drowned in the woods. Some few days since, as the Bishop of Ereter was stooping to inspect the heels of one of his saddle . horses, and giving directions to his groom, he received - is kick on the temple, hut happily without any serious gonsequences, us his Lordship was but barely wthin • reach of the animal. On Sunday, a wherry with a sail, in which were Mr. Johannot, of the Royal Circus, and another gen tleman, accompanied by a waterman, was upset im mediately opposite Somerset House. The boat soon righted, and in that condition floated, although full of water. Luckily they all escaped being struck by the mast, and had the presence of mind to catch hold of the side of the boat, by which they sustained them selves above water. In this situation they continued several minute.-, during which the boat was percepti bly settling down, and must inevitably have sunk in very short time, when they were discovered by a Gentleman in a small skiff, who immediately went to tipeir assistance, and by whose exertions their lives were preserved. The construction of the Thames wherry, narrow as it is, and calculated solely for a quick passage, through smooth water, renders the use of a sail extremely hazardous in foul weather ; and at no time should so great an act of indiscretion be-committed as that of making fast the sheet-rope. Friday evening cast a most daring robbery was committed by a single footpad, in the vicinity of Bow. 'An opulent Essex farmer, named Yates, was return ing home to his residence, after disposing of tome live stock at Smithfield market ; and shortly after he _got on tl:e other side of Stratford bridge, - a ru(lian seized the bridle of his horse, arid demanded 'his money. Mr. Yates, who is rather diminutive in stature, prudently abstained from making any resis tance, but attempted to spur his horse on—in which, h , wever, he was pre7ented by the fellow's immedi ately presenting a. pistol to his breast, and vowing vengeance if he did not instantly deliver. By these means, the ruffian extorted from Mr. Yates, about -8 - )1. in bank notes, about 501. in bills of exchange, with which he escaped. It is a most remarkable cir cumstance, that there were not a few eye-Witnesses to this violent outrage, none of whom ventured to in terfere ! WiMarl N2/1, a boy between fourteen and fifteen Tears of ase, was lately commited t) Heretord gaol for having forced the end of a cart-whip into the body of a mare belonging to Mr. T. Hartland,. of bodenham, which occasioned her death in a few hours. This young savage had treated a mare in tool in the same inhuman manner, and also endea-' voureei to cut out the tongue of a horse, both the property of Mr. Hartland. At 15reco‘k Se ions, which commenced on Satur ci ty, W:1!, only one prisoner for trial, viz. David ~I lstispici:Ai of having, in the month of April w;1 4 .11',: f maliciously set on fire eight stacks of h t),7, tit , property of Mr. SAMUEL which stood (.n farm. in the parish of Llagamarch. The pi n-as indicted as the principal in this di abolic.a AT.;!. bat the Court being of opinion th:tt t he evidc:.,_ \vent to prove the prisoner only an ac- Geribary—lll Jury accivated V Puzcs. GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday Harriet Jago was brought up for her second examination, upon acbarge of being an incorrigible vagrant and impostor, having endea voured, under false pretences, to inculcate a belief of her being abandoned by a most respectable family, to whom she alledged herself to be closely connected, and that she was thereby driven by despair, to at tempt her own destruction by opiuM : in order, by such indirect means, to interest the compassion of the credulous, and to obtain charitable contributions.— Such a mass of information was adduced in illustra tion of her character in this way, as to skew that she has been rarely, if ever, paralleled in the annals of imposture. It appeared, on the statement of Mr. Kirby, a re spectable bookseller, of London House-yard, tl.at on the night of Sunday, the .6th instant, he was informed by the head beadle of his parish, who lives next door to him, that a lady in distress had fallen down at the door of Mr. Thbetson, proctor, Bell -court, -Doctors'- Commons, and was actually dying of the effects of opium, or some other deleterious drug which she had swallowed. Thither Mr. Kit by immediately went, with the beadle,' and found the unhappy object in the situation described : he had her removed to his own house, in London House yard, in order to procure for her some medical assistance ; and he accordingly sent to Mr. Hurlocic, a respectable surgeon and apo thecary, in St. Paul's Church-yard, from whence an assistant came, and after an attendance of nearly six hours, and the administration of emetics, a quantity of opium was discharged from ber stomach, wh;ch this assistant declared must have killed her, had she remained three hours longerwithout proper remedies. She told Mr. Kirby a plausible story of her high connections ; said she was born near Aberdeen, was a near relation Of the Gordon family ; that she was the daughter of Colonel Sir William Maxwell ; that she had three sisters, Mrs. Dupre and two others, now at Brighton ; that her brother, the younger Co lonel Maxwell, had lost his arm at the battle of Co runna, and was now at Aberdeen ; that her family had abandoned her, which had driven her to despair, and urged her to the rail act she had committed.— She said she had been of late permitted by the house keeper to sleep at the house of Lord Fife, in Privy gardens, Whitehall, where she had slept the night be fore. The reason why her family had abankloned her was, that she had been seduced by the Marquis of Huntly, with whom she had lived some time at Blackheath, and had a son by him, who is now at the school of the Res'. Dr. Horne, near Chiswick ; and that she had but a short time before broken out of a mad-house at Gravesend, where she had been confined by her friends. She mentioned a long list of names and high connections, to whom she stated herself to be related : and after being somewhat re covered and refreshed, she expressed a desire to go away, which Mr. Kirby permitted her to do, in care of the beadle, to conduct her to the protection of her friends ; but finding herself watched in her retreat down Ludgate-street by the beadle, she told him it was in vain to fetThive her, for nothing should prevent her from putting an end to her existence. A nich was collected, to whom she made her appeal, and the beadle was very roughly handled, for zatempi.ing t;) conduct her out of his parish. But in the result 01 the disturbance which took place, the lady was con ducted to the watch-house, and brought next day be fore Alderman Wool). Mr. KIRBY procured the attendance of Lord Fife's and the Hon. Mr. Fordyce's house-keepers from Whitehall, by whom she pretended to be known and befriended, but both positively denied any knowlede of her. She, however, persisted then in her story cf being the daughter of Col. Sir William Maxwell, and in the cause she before pretended for attempting self destruction. Mr. Alderman Wood, at that time, or dered her to be taken care of, until proper enquirit s should be made of her friends, and yesterday she was brought up for further examination. She affected much agitation and poignant distress ; insisted she was the daughter of Sir Wm. Maxwell, though not born in wedlock ; that his abandonment of her, and the cruelty of her fonily, were the causes of her dis. tress of mind ; that she was - in the habit of takini; opium as the means of relief; to assuage her pain, and quiet her perturbed spirits ; that she had often taken it, and if she was to be taken up and commit ted to prison every time she took opium, or if that was a crime that deserved punishment, her wish was, at once to be tried, and sent to Botany Bay, for she must still continue to take opium so long as her pain and anguish of mind continued. Mr. Alderman Wool), who was now present, cross examined her with great mildness, touching the truth of her story, in which she still persiSted. He asked her if she had not a brother named Greaves, who drove the Salisbury mail-coach, or whether that bro ther had not appeared as an evidence against her, some few years since at the Exeter Assizes, where she was tried at a vagrant and convicted ? She de nied positively any knowledge of Greaves, and said she never was at Exeter; that she was not in Eng land five years ago, having been abroace many years, and only returned within the last two. She said she had two brothers, one of whom died at Cape Coast, in Africa, and the other was in Scotland. Mr. Al derman Wood, however, had, by proper enquiries, well ascertained the fact of her trial and conviction at Exeter, and the appearance of her brother Greaves, the rnaibcoachman, as a witness there against her, and stated several other circnmstances of her having applied for pecuniary aid to several respectable per sons in the vicinity of London, under false pretences, respecting her family connections, and partieularly to Mr. Adams, who keeps a naval academy at Edmon ton, to whom she stated herself to be the near relation of Lady Madelina —, and daughter of Colonel Sir William Gordon, and allied to several other per sons of distinction ; but that Mr. Adams had written to those persons, who denied any knowledge whatever of such a woman, and said she must be an arrant im postor. Mr. COTTRELL* one of the Magistrates for the county of Middlesex, also attended, and stated that the prisoner was one of the most consummate im postors alive ; that she had imposed upon the credu lity of his own family, whose protection she enjoyed for several days, and he found she had told them a thousand lies : for being induced to make some en quiries respecting her, he had written to several of the persons before mentioned, and also .to L a d y Cornwallis, to whom she had-also claineed near rela. tionship t but - received letters from all, totally deny ing any knowledge of her. lie said he had convicted her himself, at the last Clerkenwell Sessions, of being a rOglle, vagrant, and impoSttir ; but that the Magistrates, in c'onsideration of her being pre viously imprisoned a month, had only sentenced her to another month's confinement, which terminated only about the time she stated herself to have broken out of a mad-house at Gravesend. He repeated also the circumstance of her conviction at Exeter ; and said, that' . so far from having been abroad many years as she pretended, she :raver had been out of the country ; but had for the last five years been, as it were, going circuit through every part of the kingdom, practising similar impositions, pretend ing to be the mal-treated and abandoned relative of highly respectable families, and swallowing opium, or affectiig attempts to drown herself : but always taking care so tcstime those tricks as not to incur any real danger—that she once affected to swallow two ounces of laudanum before • the whole Gloucester shire regiment, when drawn up on parade, at their country quarters; and that she had played off simi lar stratagems at Clapham, at Edmonton, in Si. Paul's, Covent-garden, at Bath, at Cheltenham, at Bristol, Tunbridge Wells,' Salisbury, Southampton, Brighton, Winchester, and a number, of other places in different parts of the kingdom ; and this trade she has been carrying on successively since 1804. Two convictions for vagrantcy had not been sufficient to warn her from continuing her impostures. Mr. Cot tcrell, therefore, urged that the Magistrate should now commit her, as an incorrigible vagabond and im postor, so that she might again be tried at the next Session ; and if convicted, either be imprisoned for two years, or transported, as the Magistrates in their discretion should deem best. Alderman Serror.Ey said, that he did not feel him self warranted to take cognizance of any circum stances of the prisoner's misconduct preceding her last conviction, as all these appeared to have been then considered ; and he could not see there was any evi- Jence now hefore him of her having obtained any money by false pretences, in the case under consider ati()ll, Nyllich could warrant him to commit her to prison. men, were committed for a riot at the gate London Dock, and knocking down several urt ing Portuguese sailors. WORSHIP-STRIET.--Yesterday'.i. 'Roberts, a ter, was hilly committed, fur. stealing a qua' plate from the house of Mr. Tennant, of B.ok Moorfields, at which place he was at work. BIRIII. On the 17th inst. at Standon,H:rts, the Lady of the Henry Law, of a son. • • At Gilinerton, in East Lothian, ou the 14th inst. thi Sir Alex. Kinloch, Bart. of a daughter. Friday last, at Ealing, the Hon. Mrs. Spencet Pere still-born mild MARRIED. On the 17th instant, at Hampstead, Charles Hilrfw -mond, Esq. Barrister at Law, to Miss Watts, dauLliter Watts, Esq. of Dublin. At Portsmouth, Edward Carter, Esq. son of th e 14!.- Carter, Esq. of Horsham, to Miss Mary Carter, low th of the late Sir John Carter. Rev. J. M. Sumner, of the Lawn, South-church, to C second daughter of the Rev. J. Wise, of Rocheford, Rcv. W. Clsytun, of Saffron Waldon, to Miss Sinai daughter of R. Smales, Esq. of iValw.irtli. Lately, at St. John's, Newfoundland, Richard I fenrs, Esq. Commander of his Majesty's sloop Comet, u s niece of Thomss Coote, Esq. Chief Magistrate of foundland. Saturday, Aug 19, Lieutenant Rudolph Prin.,' le, or t, German Legion, to Caroline, daughter of James Tuivni of Townley-I louse, Rat:legate. Wednesday last, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, the 1 Robert Hesketli, to Emma, youngest daughter of Co Esq. of Lincoln's Inn Fields. DIED. At Cowbridge, on the 13th itstunt, the Hon. Nlrs. wife of the Rev. John Nichol!, of Cowbridge, Glamorg. On the 19th instant, at Hi9haTll, Charles I.ewib Surgeon to the Forcos,aud to the Royal IVlilitary Cullen Marlow. In the West Indies, on the 21st a Mzy last, agtd 11. 'Thompson, jun. Purser of his Majei,ty's ship SAiell Mr. "Thompson, New Land-strixt. TO-MORROW. Sun rises, Sun sets, M , )r , n 59 minutes Lifter 4. 1 minutes after 7 53 uil.urt HMI( WATER AT LONDON GRUDGE 'lO-Mo. _Morning IS minutes after Afternoon SG winutes alter Mr. Alderman Woon, however, was of opinion, that the contumacy with which the prisoner kill per sisted in being the daughter of Sir William Maxwell; her denying the fact of her trial and convic:ion at Exeter, and all knowledge of her brother, the Salis bury mail coachman ; her pretending to be a woman of education, though she could not write her fume, but always pretended to be nervous, when. required to write ; and the vulgarity of her language shewing her to be a person of low degree, were all proofs of imposture ; and her pretending to be what she was not, warranted her commitment, at least for further examination. RENOVATED HEALTH. IT has been too frequently the subject . 1 general' reprobation, that men. destitute cf the medical art have offered Themselves Ls C:.l public patronage in the prolesNion of pity 4c. doing justice to the result of our studies and :,prevent us from b...ing classed among tlicse !:' dent pretensions have, unfortunately for socii•ty, heel to ally receive -1, v.-L. beg leave ¶0 submit to the ;i!., r,ll • ened, a faithful statement of our pursuits ;ie.: ..L.;•iirenv After having received a regular medical education, t of Messrs. Cried a! and Wizard, whose lee:nits and pr: carefully attended, as Profesors and Surgeons of the. Lon , OW, we entered ourselves as students in that jauly school for medical acootirements, the Royal Colhyw - burgh, and were instructed in the different branches of . Surgery, the Theory and Practice of Physic, Chemist wifeity, Botany, &c. .cc. Sec by those eminent Pron.' Monro, Gregory, Black, Hamilton, Duncan, and RI We trust we shall not be deemed presumptuous in sal our proficiency and acquirements are nut inconsiderable. for a long series of years made VENEREAL COMi- 3 1 and the variouo diseases of DEBILITY, Cie particular our studies arid practice, it will, we hope, be allowed tiz acquired superior, ktuiwledge of their treatment and I Wight ant} recent cases of infection, a perfect re-estahli, completed in the short period of two days, and in the &amok awcteracy, where other practiiiNlaS littve teas, a proper perseverance in our plan of treatment enst patient a safe and radical cure. In this opinion, Alderman Sir JOHN ANDEWN, who was present, concurred .; and the pi isoner was remanded till next Tuesday. . . Ma NSION-HOUs;E.—Yesterday /Inn KinNig was fully committed, charged with stealing a watch from W. Boycs.—A young man was sent on board the tender, ::harged with stealing a board, fastened in front of a ladder; and a carman was fined 10s. for suffetin , Y, • cart to stand above an hour before a shop-door, to the obstruction of other carriages. Bow-STREET.--An information was yesterday heard before the Sitting Magistrate against a master sweep, named Henry Doe, residing in the parish of Mary-la-bonne, for having in his service, as an ap prentice, a child under the age of eight years, con trary to the Act of Parliament passed for regulating the at ,, ,es of children to be apprenticed to that business, which partic*larly specifies the children must be up ! wards of that age, and not to be bound for a longer time than eight years. The circumstances of this case were truly distres sing, and exhibited an instance of human depravity rarely to be equalled. It appeared that the mother of the child went some distance front London, and left her little son, a fine child, five years of age, in the care of its father, who is a working plumber, named Millet. She remained out of town for nearly t twelvemonth, and oif her return, flew with anxious hopes to• the lodging of her husband, where she, of! course, expected to be gratified with the sight of her son ; but what was her misery and astonishment, when she vas informed by her unnatural husband, that during her absence he had the cruelt - v and inhu- .1 manity to place his inf an t o ff spr i ng i n t h e serv i ce of c!a sweep, and thus early to ex p ose its ten d er f rame to all those melancholy vicissitudes so prevalent, and !unhappily so often experienced by the unfortunate children doomed to that wretched employment. Her sensations may be more easily felt than described.— She rushed from the presence of the monster, her I husband, almost frantic, and after sonic difficulty found the den, for it could not,be called a human ha- 1 Ikation, where her unfortunate infant, then inaugu rated in the mysteries of sweeping a chimney, was doomed to pass its existence, without the fostering ,care of a tender mother, so necessary to a child so young, and subject to all the cruelties . an inexorable ; master might heap upon it. The measure of her woes, was yet, however, to be licaped still higher, and she had yet the horrid tale to hear that the father of this hapless child, absolutely sold it for three ininea.F, without the production of which i , s equally unnatural master refused to restore it to the longing embraces of its distracted mother. The only resource now left her was to apply to a solicitor i for advice, and Mr. Humphries humanely took the case in hand, and summoned the master before the Magistrates, who, without a moment's hesitation, nr- • dered the child to be restored to its mother, and im posed a fine of 51. on the master. Ann Goodman was committed for obtaining, under false pretences, considerable quantities of wearing aP pare and linen, from several poor women who keep mangles. Amidst the no:lanchnly variety •f disorders which fects of a habit long and most unhappily puri.ued by tht both sexes, three are none noire ularminft or more di Are those deficienciei and debilities which trev.ently l•revc: bitter the matrimonial state. To such persons it ine soling reflection to know that they may now, by a hew little mode of treatment, be restored to that Fre:rt.:A ut blessings, a strong, manly, andvigorous constitution. of Debility, front whatever cause arising . , as well as in :tea of Venereal infection, we may be consulted by p either sex with the great, st secrecy null honour. Hou imitation at home front ten to three, and front six in tl till ten at night. ratients in the etuintry are requested to irate the Marti their case, age, and general habit of living, &c. inclu , ing tantsr for advice atul medicitiea, when the same wilt be cut to any part of the kimtdatn. To enswe that secre, srm.tial to our timiertAiu, the postage of letters ma be the account tar niedicincs. CURRIE and Co Surgeon% No. Ha•ton WHEN PROFESSIONAL. MEN cf is and Responsibility deviate from the Genera the selectio;i of a ?Vadat - branch, the sanction of lung success is the hest criterion of superiority. Fourteen years have we devoted our practice to the treattjuan of two disorders, and the successful result o gives us additional ardour to oppose, as tar as we are an wages of those complaints which are the most import; 'catalogue of human After initiation into every branch of practice, we cot the sufferings of Sipkylitis and debilitated Patient and wish to rescue individuals front the ignorance of unvdt.• or the equally dangerous precipitancy of general pract:zi The disorders, to the cure of which we have &Not: d tion, comprise every species of Venereal Infection, v.;hl recent or long duration: 2dly, All kinds of debility arising from the habits of school-boys, or the indulgeoei tine age.—Numerous diseases are the result of igno; haste in the treatment of a simple Conurrliaa, and it in quently happens, that the seeds of life are poisoned by cretion of an unguarded hour. By a Superior method such complaints are easily con even \llia,• others have failed, we trust that we /hay pro offer a radical re-establishment. Few, however, are the cases of complicated distress in order, compared with the calamitous si•llatioUs a.f fe. m as indulgence in a Solitasy Vice,M- the prevalent a fiishionable life, acquire that state of debility, which i avoidable consequence of such pernicious habits. Where the unhappy sufferer broods over his misery, ally conceals his misfortune, it may be some consolatiot to know, that although it be an object of doubt or ui with other practitioners, the removal of these deficienci . gradual progress of renovation is the acquirement of our et • It the rites of Bacchus or Venus have hi gun to redo, . vigour, much anxiety will be prevented by an,early cow of this languid state,and in thosecases, no great dillietfhv But iihrre - this deficiency has fur years existed, a • pr9; verance is indispensibly requisite to revive the sluntberi of life, and tore-animate the constitution. ; The secrecy which is so essantial to our undeltraking, qualifications which we presume to state, form Abe bast pretensions, and the coincidence with such this intinWo that Messrs. I.F.tent and Co. may be consulted perstintill letter, (inclosingos Bank Note) at their house, No. `Ali' street, Straed, near Temple 13ar.--L•There is an additional . lo M'ater-street adjoining, and the name is on both door A Diploma front the Royal College of Surgeons ins4e. Testimonials from the most eminent Physicians and I.ei , regular education, and assiduous attention to the .pudic: branch of the profession, are open tothe inspection of any and constitute a fair ground tor that ,; •TC3i with whice hitherto been honoured. , E. Ll-:1(:11 and CO. Sir QUEEN'S-SQUARE.—Yesterday Eleanor Hunter, Emil', Hunter her daughter, and flinty Pattison, were charged witfi stealing a quantity of linen, and other articles, to a large amount, J. belonging to I Sitwell, Esq. and - Mr. Kenscy, of the Imperial Hotel, Covent-Garden, great part of which having been found in their pos session, they were fully committed. WHITECHAPEL-OFFICE. Yesterday Elizabeth Smith, 'alias Burrel, servant to the Rev. Mr. Robson, one of the Magistrates of this Office, was charged with steal- ing from him -several articles of plate, but through his and l'ubl::!ird by LEVEL KENT lenity was only committed to the House of Correction ertury nace, La-rhetb, at the STA R•OF Ma, No. 1 PVI. I / 4 511111 aht) at the S EA , Or 'ICI • 1 tvele for clan months.--Eleven Americans and two Irish- Of ;: te carpal, k LT./ 11.,:ve : , ie e va:d [I , S • th.: r, 1 25, .tt , lnt , tLlii3i.• • the pr; . 5 1 • - • o! : :.• 'try, !.s.l ti...t I: .virg dear. Wi. V: led ot arc the -t• yutyli :ft! uf t ite a con- : all liuni4u In alrtallib . ' every vo- pasief.ts of art of c ••• he trcr.; rtiort.!3: , e t ga rc..t.. •ecy e 4t!die. (;Ar.!:•n. • VI • of !!!. !ill-, the :-• tali :'.e to. a Lour As of : . orero . : no: ur the I:L.:, urea ; . • thiq rest, V. • is :lie L.:. , ev•e• on tor Itir , irrzertai-• .ciLs h•• !xperr , Ore rir• • interec - . ?per p • rit -, • g, is; • all; , ;'Arun_. • tal entraa.r 0r.,. *mien, in,: tcturers .5. • its of ev..l y hate .tsrgeor!. 1, Ca• le air. • •