Star. — London, England, 1816-07-26 00:00:00

• . . • • • • 84:OTTI8li SONG. • ' • • Braes a' Dome • -Mr fidthheiliddle fiat the wars Will never main return to me; For sae wits fought wr gallant GslMt law JAMIE fa', and saw him die ! • Me saw•hiabeart's re.l reeking stream, • His blooming fait turn pale and wan ; He bearJ the last sigh o' his breath, And his last beating ptlre bo fate! • Where are they how Earth's joys to me ? E'en life itseirs oar worth my care; My Lthrt e lies 'mang be:sps o stain It wrings my bean, 1 kenna where) 0! *ere I but beside his grain, • • fay me down and vent my waes : • Out distant far I'm doom'd to mourn In sleepless nights an' weary days, 0, JAMUL b thy seal gene ham.? ' Or art thou hovering in the sky; White watching thy fond Maar's breath; • There counting ilka broken 1110 Via:loos thy light —I bastel I come) lk thou thy Gnardian Angel now 'The wasting pang thrills through my heart; For thee I bid ilia world adieu? Au'derstan, Glasgow. sir . `a. ENGLISH OPEItA.HOUSE. Thp Beggar's Ofiera was last night lierfemedA—and In such style of excellence. as men, we ire confi dent, occasion its frequent repetition, in the emir* of the season. Miss hinny' appeared, for the first time, as Polly—awl difficult at the character is, she sus., taingi it extremely well. Polly is almost always before the audience—the interest of the piece depends, perhaps,,as much on her as on Macheath —she has many interesting songs to execute—and she is placed is some situations, where the sense and feeling bf the actress must give ll.iag force, Strength, and espres. Ann, to that which GAY has but lig htly sketched. These are difficulties sufficient to deter a novice from the assumption of the character. By combating and overcoming them, Miss Mahar has placed her claim to public applause and approbation, ott a very Secure basis. Her diffidence is gradually wearing away— and, as it retires, her merits become more and more apparent. She sang, last night, with great taste—. end occasionally poured forth a volume of voice, clear and dulcet, which, while it delighted the ear, was directed by so fine a judgment that it also touched the heart. In the duet, " Were I laid On Greenland's Coast," which was unliored, she acquitted herself extremely well. She sang the justly cele brated song, " Cease year fanning," most excellently. She here exhibited a depth and power of voice, and a facility of execution, which have rarely been exceeded by veteran vocalists,; certainly never by any novice. • The song was loudly (Rebored. It would be unjust sot to notice Miss MEnet's acting. She appears to have studied the character extremely well—arid, in every scene, she delivered the dialogue, not merely with propriety. but with great feeling and judgment. Her answer to Lacy, in the prison scene, was well delivered. Mr. Hoax made his first appearance in the character of Macheath. He sang sweetly—and, in some instances, forcibly; but he must throw more spirit into his songs, to meet our ideas of the diui pated highwayman. In our opinion his best effort was , 6 My heart emu sops," which he sang with much animatio..—and which elicited an :score. He execu ted the fine air, s• What the heart ofa "sad," very taste fully—but. to give full effect to this song, a bolder and more energetic style is necessary. Mr. HORN was exceedingly well received ; and, doubtless, a little application will make him master of the Bharat. ter. Miss KELLY supported the part of Lucy inimi tably well. We have seen many performers in this character, but Miss KELLY leaves them all far, very far behind. She blended, most exquisitely, the tender fol.dness of the woman with the fiery passion which jealousy and suspician arouse. She did not make Limy a mere termagant, as she is generally made. In the midst of her passion there were gleams of feeling— they gave us the key to her characters-and s in her hands, poor Lucy was far more pitied than laughed at. Prachants was supported by Mr. W. S. CHATTERLEY. We think he will be a favourite, if he studies to be so. He played the character well. Mr. -RARTLZY'S Leckie was highly creditable to his comic talents. His quarrel scene with Peachuns was very amusing. The Opera went off with the utmost eclat. Mr. SINCLAIR played Orlando, in The Cabinet, for his own benefit, at the Newcastle Theatre, on the evening of Wednesday se'nnight, being the last of ht. engagement. Sunday last, as Mr. Andraide, a butcher, in Wlfitechapel, was driving 'along the Commercial. road in his chaise, he met his daughter, whom he in. •iced to take a ride with him. She had scarce got seated in the vehicle, when a mischievetss !Lab dog ran before the horse and endeavoured to bite him ; the animal being alarmed set off full speed, and Mr. Andraide was thrown out, and received such a vio. lent contusion in the fall as to occasion his death in a day or, two afterwards. His daughter was more fortunate ; she had resolution and strength to keep her seat till the animal was exhausted.by his exer tions, and stopped of his own accord. The young woman had been led to this determination in conse quence of having repeatedly heard her friends say, that to remain in a chaise when a horse was running , away, was the most probable way of avoiding injury / We are informed by Drs. Coma, Munaos, and DUNCAN, Physicians to the Medical Board at Char lotte House, Blackfriars Road, that upwards of 4000 patients are cured innually of prevailing disorders, that hundreds were in a most distressing state owing to quacking themselves, and by consulting men ignorant of an important branch of the profession. Eruptions on the bead, face, and body, ulcirated throat, swelling in the neck, nodes on the shin•bones, pains in the head and limbs, frequently takes for ebeutnatisns, swelled ancles aad nervous debility are the consequences of improper treatment.--Messes. COOP'S, bturraok, and Co. are consulted iron) eight la the warning until nine at night, or by letter, cos. taming, a fee, and the poor have advice on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sundays, till twelve o'clock..A ads dtior sad Finis zoom for koala. 'POLICE. 1 - : .11•••••111111•In . Bow gram.-Mr: Rape , a fruiterer , of Covent-gar den, was convicted in the penalty of 101. and costs, for exercising his trade on the Sabbath Day. Mr. Raffiu , thought it bard that a quantity of fruit should be loste t or that. the law should be so strictly enforced, when it was so prejudicial to the individual who laid out his money in so uncertain a speculation. Mr. NAIL'S observed, that he thought it but right that they should be allowed until church tittle to dispose of `thejr fruit; but lie (as well as the law) held it mo rally wrong to. keep opeothe whole of the S ibleith. Jean Jiang was,, , eharged on suspicion of having committed divers felonies : he was met early yester , day morning by John Glare, one of the Lord Mayor's day patrole, near St. Clement's church, with sonic. , thing bulky at the bottom of a smock frock, which being considered a disguise, lie stopped and searched him, when it proved to be about a hundred weight of lead, irhich no doubt he had stolen. He was committed for further examination. • The Coultirncy.—the proceedings of Mr. NAREE on Wednesday, against Ben lihneon, related to his Se ducing a man to break open a house about two years ago in Gray's Inn-lane, and stealing silver to the I amount of about kl 6 and other property, when Johnson, - with the assistance of a city constable. whose name was Brady, took the man into custody, for which he was tried and convicted. Upon the trial'a witness was brought forward by a subpizna, who had not given evidence before the committing Magistrate or before the Grand Jury : he swore that he saw the prisoner go into the house in Gray's Inn lane, and come out of s it. Why he did pot attend before the Magistrate or the Grand Jury did not ap pear. The statement of the parties on Wednesday before Mr. NARES, with respect to the transaction, was so much at variance with the evidence given by them two years since on the trial, that Mr. NARBS read it to them from the Sessions Paper, wherein it was reported verbatim. The only answer given in explanation was, they had forgot. Some of these infamous wretches bad become so well known 'at the Old Bailey for bringing to trial such a number bf persons charged with felonies and misdemeanours, that they were greatly admired for their supposed activity in the cause of the public, and two of them have received the thanks of that Court from the mouths of the RECORDBR and the COMMON SERJEANT: Vaughan and Mackay were, we believe, the men. The RECORDER was so much idiposed upon, it is said, in one instance, by one of these hangers-on the patroles, that he wrote to the Secretary of State, re commending him to be employed, considering him to be such a useful and active man. These infamous characters, and the discovery of their practices, will, we trust, bring about the abolition of fixed rewards, and in lieu whereof all persons concerned in the po lice shoild be liberally paid according to their exer tions: such has long been the recommendation and wish of persons best acquainted with thb subject, and even of the police officers themselves. .MARLBOROUMPSTREET.W. Cod, who keeps the Artichoke, near the Church, at Kensington, was charged with stealing pots of his neighbours: The prisoner had sent 14 pots to a pewterer's in Skinner street, Bishopsgate-street, to be melted. Some cir cumstances, such as the names having been partially filed out, &c. induced the pet:terer to set an inqui4 on foot. A search-warrant was obtained to -xamme Cook's house, and Plank, an officer, apprised bin of the nature of his errand, and asked him if lie had any pots belonging to other publicans in bis howe ? He answered. in the negatise, and said, when such mis takes occurred, he always sent then honk. The officer found two pots on the cellar stairs. recently filed, avid the instrument and filings were on the spot. Anothdr pot, the whole belonging to the neighbours, was found in the bAr. The landlord confessed bis guilty knowledge of the nefarious transactions, and was remanded. GUlLDHALL —Yesterday Thomas Jaw was brought up and underwent a final examination, charged with stealing a mare and a colt, tie property of Joseph Tilt, on Sunday the 14th instant. The prosecutor deposed that he was a farmer, and resided at Hulm wood, near Decking, in Surrey. On the evening of the day mentis-ned, be left his mare and a colt safe in the field adjoining his . premiset, but found that on the following morning they had been stolen from thence, and were not to be found in the neighbour hood. Witness, however, accompanied by one of his', servants, set off for town, and having arrived in thel neighbourhood of Smithfield, he observed the priscs. l ner riding towards him, when he immediately ex claimed to his man, that tht beast Was his. The pri soner soon perceiving him, alighted, and for some time walked up and down, leading the mare. The prosecutor then advanced, and dewed to know where he had obtained it? The prisoner replied, he had bought it, but the prosecutor not believing his story, procured the assistance of an officer, and gave him in charge. The prisoner, in his defence, said, he. had bought the mare, upon the highway between Met ton and Kingston, but that of the colt he knew nothing, wlrstever. H . was fully connoitted for tsisi. HACKNEY-COACH ACT. As we see by the daily reports from the Police Of fices that much ignOratice prevails as to the regula tions of hackney-coaches, and that thus the fraudu lent drivers are continually practising the most bare faced impositions, we think we cannot do better than republish an abstract of the principal features of the last Hackney-coach Act. The Act consists of ten clauses, Of which the following are the most important: Clause S. The driller of a hackney chariot is compellable to' carry three grown moons without My addition to the tare.- 4. The an additional fates are allowed upon driving into the impunity; with this exception. that in the day time no addition is allowed except the distance he four miles from town, and then at the rate of N. for every mile-above four. I. The driver of hackney-coaches wherein any property is left shall nasty such property. In the state in which it was found, within four days, to the Hackney-coach °See, and deposit the same with one of she clerks, wader a penalty not excading ,C2O. 7. No agreement to pay mote than the regular fare is binding; any pesos may, notwithstsadlag such agreement, refuse to pay awe than the established lass; and if be pays more, he may re• cover thuverplus, the driver being subject to a pansity of 45 ter aos-painseini • S. Hatkoepeoachatea who leave their coaches onatteadhd, whether Wed or not. are liable to &penalty not exceeding XS. S. Wears sou not refuse a fare, although they may have been oat 1$ hours t as one than the regular fare is allowed on such occasioos. sa Noshs•PCNeblitfas Watillaaat Elm 'WA la a fine and OW *Wire Wimp, itc.: the priskies of former Ain amino is *nit . ' -ON THE . TREiTIVENT OP THE DfNG. ' TO THIt mbrroß. . - SIR— . 114 . iing formerly entered pretty fully4nto the means proper to be purrued when the silent of life have become indistinct. or have entirely disappeared, let us now turn our attention to the dying, a subject worthy of the must serious investigation, as relating to the manner in which every one ought to be treated in their last momenta. It not unfrequently happens that those who are in a dying state, become ;effect)? sensible of their situation, anti submit to their fate with composure and tesignatiOn. In this case, lo long as the patient retains his senses he may be permitted to direct his own aff.airs, both in his religious curies, and in taking leave of his sorrowing friends. He ought not to be perpetually teased to take medicines, which now can be of no avail; but the offering a little fluid, as occasion may require, will be beneficial, so long as he retains the power Of swallowing. This duty must be regulated .according to existing circum stances, and renders it still in the power of medical attendants, by judicious management, to pay that kind of attention which is grateful to the dying, and satisfactory to the friends. The still nearer approach of death is indicated by a rattling noise in the throat; by throwing out the arms, which 'is done to dilate the chest ; by the interval between each expiration be coming greater; and by an increasing degree of stupor : thus the world passes from his eyes, and he gradually sinks into the silent tomb. Gently sup. porting the head, and raising the body a little, as respiration becomes difficult, tends to alleviate the dreadful sense of suffocation that many feel from the head laying low, an uneasy position, which adds much to their sufferings. The room should be kept quiet, and not crowded with people, and the friends retrain from loud lamentations; for although the dying appear unable to attend to surrounding objects, they are often, even to the last, perfectly sensible, and con scious of what is going forward. Recalling them again from the commencement of insensibility, either by the loud griefol the relatives, or by the attendants endeavouring to produce pain, is only increasing their sufferings, and can' do no good. In some places it is customary to remove those whose death is lingering from off their beds, the attendants having an absurd idea that they cannot die whilst in bed. This is a most baneful practice: it is adding greatly to the mi. series of the patient, without doing any good—it is preventing a hope for life, when that remains, and it is also a needless piTce of cruelty. There is another custom, wry frequently followed in this country, and I believe, almost throughout the kingdom, which Dr. Ferriar. in his truly valuable treatise, " On the Treat searsi of the Dying," thus notices : 4 6 When the patient is supposed by the nurses to be nearly in a dying state, they withdraw the pillows and In - Aster from beneath his head, sometimes with such violence i as to throw the head back, and to add greatly to the difficulty of respiration. A full account of this in human custom may be seen in a tract preserved by Valentini, drawn up by a German lawyer, in which he asserts, that . the patiepts have been repeatedly suf focated in this manner, when there was no reason to expect death from the symptoms of the disease. As the avowed motive for this barbarity is a desire to tut the patient out offrain, that is, to put him to death, it is incumbent on his friends to preserve him front the hands of those executioners." The expression, 44 pull. .away the pillow—let him die l"--is, with many, a , tottiesston phrase, in cases at lingering death. Wnet2 4 the fatal catastrophe has taken place, we may, in the words of our immortal bard, I " Close up his eyes, and draw the certain close And let tis an to nsiditation." The bed, and every thing about it, should remain un altered for some hours, and, only one or two persons be left in the room. There is no occasion for that great haste to lay out the body which generally takes place, as the limbs do not speedily become rigid, and by the cooling of the body, we may be certain that sensibility is entirely extinguished. When death takes place, with previous symptoms of excessive dekility, hastily drawing away the clothes, and laying out the body, cannot be too severely condemned. The fol lowing fact, which I can perfectly rely upon, will tend to illustrate the absolute necessity of what is just ad - Winced :—A Gentleman, libcuring under typhus fever, became so weak and low, that he was supposed dead. In this state be was conscious of every thing that passed, and heard his nurses say, We'll go down and get our tea, and then come and lay him out." Upon their return, lie , was so fir retoveted as to be able to say blowly, 4 , What noise is,that ?" He eVentually got well, and lived many years; and fre quently declared it as his firm belief, that if his nurses had laid him out before tea, and drawn the bed from under him, he certainly must have perished. I have thus stated some of the chief points to be attended toin the treatment of the dying. - Those who with for more minute informatiott may Consult with advansge Dr. Ferriar's excellent treatise quoted above. The idea of death is onc of those subjects which gives to the mind of even the most thoughtless an impression of melancholy'. They view with regret, that world which they most shortie leave, and feel an indescribable sensation. respecting what may be their fate hereafter. The true Philosopher looksfor ward to that fatal period, when his time of probation in this world shall be finished, with calmness and re signation. Religion teacbes, him death is the only pass port from this world into the regions of eternity. He leaves the gloomy-minded Atheist, retired within his own Chamber, to reason upon false principles, in en deavouring to explain the relation between cause and effect; and says, in the words of a Reverend Divine, when doubt perplexes him, ‘4 As iviiht covers with a dark veil the little objects of this world, yet present to me a multitude of bright stars, of suns (perhaps) and worlds scattered over, the immensity of spice; so death, when it shall cover me with its shade, will cause a new light to spring up in my soul,. will dis. cover a new universe, new, works of the GIMAT CREA. von, more wonderful than those which will disappear from my closing eyes !" To such a mind, little, indeed, is the greatness of this earth. He treats with proper contempt, the unmerited insolence and neglect he too frequently receives from the affluent, and thinks what -he may be—" when time itself shall be no more !" Such, Oh Religion I is thisacred gift with whAtt , hy followers are rewarded.—Your's, Etc. , said. W. CRANE, jun. M.D. The small-pox has recently prayed very fatal in some parts of Staffordshire, in consequence of the ig norancrand obstinacy of the people, who refused to their children the beutfit of vacciirauon. roltemlies I*QuErt. *Wnesday night alt Inquest was held ai if t v %am lila Horses § Carnaby•street, on The body of m Taf!or, GO read of age, who was fou n d dead in4to on Tuesday morning, at No. 6, G..orge•court, Cr s.' street.—The first witness examined wa s % Hi As!insole, iln.itt-law to the deceas- d, W h o i 4l chimney sweeper, and with whem r s ce.t ; but l 4 equivocated equivocated in his testimony sl very much, tltt c m , uer and Jury thought the cast of a very rt y s „ ;6 , ‘ , nature, which induced them to exa:?,ii c nu l ess k." aq six witnesses, and were lining about four licurs, w h et it appeared the deceased was the widow of J. TATi ot, formerly chairman to Lady Fitzwilliams, who, k i his death, left her an annuity, arising from 30 h t , usei at Bath, of which she had been deprived, and in to , sequence reduced to extreme poverty and distres s , She had been a pauper in M:try-la-bonnt. woik lieu % for some time, and had two daughters, Ole ) of whom is married to a hackney man, lins, residing in Marlborough Mc,c.s, and Wi c , is 60 , 4 heir to the property, in consequence t , f ;he ehist n o; being born in wedlock. who is matt ied to th e swe ep , and who took the deceased out of th e woik hut* auto her family. This disappointmen t caused the o ld woman to give her mind to excessive drinking f ey several years, and was daily in a c.!ate of intozicatire about the streets. Monday she was with the sw„, and his family, at an ale house, all day, and tl ies !went to bed very drunk, about twelve o'clo c k Inight. Tuesday morning, at -even o'Clock, thesw esp and his wife went out to their laily occopatice s , The deceased was groaning in bed, but they did,, notice her, and at 'heir return. about eleven o'clock, they found her dead, lying on a wad of strlivr.—Th e Coroner summed up the evidence, observing th en was no marks of violence on the body, and that it was evident her death was facilitated by excess v drinking. Verdict--Found dead. On Monday, May 27th, as Mr. Wm. Campbrll, book keeper at Hampden estate, Kingston, Jamaica, was returning from muster, his horse took fright nest the Adelplii, and threw him ; by the fall be was so much bruised, that he died a few hours after. Wednesday morning last, a seafaring man, crossing the road near the Elephant and Cas:le, was throws down by a horse and chaise, and run over. The poor fellow received so violent a•blow on his side by oar .of the shafts of the vehicle as to deprive him of his senses. He was immediately bled on the spot by a surgeon ; and afterwards taken away to as hospi t d with very little hopes of recovery. Tuesday evening, a boy of the name of Wiseman-, son of a poor laundress, near Artillery-street, Spital fields,. was sent to carry home to a Gentleman's house, in Finsbury square, a bundle containing linen: the boy was met by a female shall er, who accosted him in Crown street, saying, you are going inane with the linen to my mistress, met.tioning the name of the family where he was going, and said big would take the bundle home, and desired him to Make haste bask and tell his mother to come invite. diately toiler mistress, is she wanted to speak to her. The lad gave her the bundle, and ran to his mntlai, io hastened to tile housi, when she d;scovered tte It aud. The remains of the late venerable Bishop et . DAFT were interred in the parish church of Isowue,,,, on the banks 'ot Windermere, on Saturday Seniiigig. His Lordship's tenants preceded the flea: be, and the procession was closed by the carriages of a nnnto of families of the first respectability, arkiong - %%Ow' were the Rev. RICIIARD WATSON, son of the deem! Prelate; DANIEL WiLsoft, Esq. of Dalian Tour; And some members of the Baowsnotme family. A number of Clergymen attended in toll robes, and the scene was highly impresiive. INS3LITENT DEBTORS' C0J11T...-John Adams, an insolvent, was opposed on behalf of a great number of creditors. Being ex trained by the learned Counsel, he said he was a bankrupt in 1810, and was subse quently a bankrupt, bot could not tell the precise year in which it took place. Mr. Serjeant RUNNING TON remanded him for prevaricatisr. A rule to shear cause was granted in the case of Wm. Jefferies, who had been remanded upon the charge of concealment, why he should not be bi ought up again to refute de charge. An affidavit was produced on the part tit the prisoncr to prove his competency. MARRIED. July 20, Captain Henry Elton, R.N. to Marr, widow of the late Peter roucliet, Eaq. DIED. Tuesday, the wife of I.leutetrantThontls 1 ynte, of tbeltcy3t Hospital, Greeowtch. • MATRIMONY. From the taint end, -r . ce Unmanly sons arise -. a puny race ! MARRIAGE should be the foundation of sloid happiness, which is often disturbed through the parties din form the union, not taking those precaumnis watch would sew them the enjoyment of that great domestic blessing. ditasht the melancholy variety of disorders under which human rave is known to suffer, there are none more alarming or more di tressing than those which result Irons fashionable gaieties, 04 dissipation, er solitary intempetaoce. Messrs. CU/.klli and Co. beg to state that the while e. al* tendon of a practice exclusively directed it, the t e ej .emee oil cure of CERTAIN CO MPI.AINTS, entitle them to the claim cf superior acquirement. As reiular rurgeuns, they ale a 'speedy and perni.ment cure for every stage of that disorder, .41: 11 is contracted In an unguaided moment, and which pawn. the springs of life, and for every class of el,bility, which I. the e.ue.e. quence of juvenile huliscrettons, preVt Ong the maturity ut hood, entailing by anticipation, on its unhappy victi.r. Ail the i •• Enmities of old age—the body becoming enervated an:; dated—the cheeks yellow and bloodless—and !he tried 1k 0 : 11 1 and dejected. Fur the result of their success la chit lar branch, they refer to that reputation, which, they Ha.: themselves, they have acqu•red, by 20 years exptrierCe, i:. a Mich extended practice. In slight and recent caws of Sy; le!lr tic C.,mplainte, a reelect cute is completed in the short vs rod of two ; and in the moot aggravated cases, a proper prrrorerr.: se in their plan of treatment insures to the patient au megcrated constitution. MS: rind Women, who have long been disappointed ii..ket• expectations of a family, may be assured that, 111 must tiistio. ,4, such detects are curable by medical skill; and though mental of such Impediments be an object of doubt and ut►ccrt rey with othere, yet the cure of such defects, by the gradual I tat greys of renovat 4 on, is the acquirement of the:r experience. Messrs. CURRIE and CO. may be cocsulted by Pate:set el eltlierSex. with the greatest secrecy and honour, at their I oi.s.:, N 0.107, HAtton-garden. Pati!nns in the country, case, age, acid general habit of &c. &c. enclosing a rerels tance loradvace and medicine's, the same will be given or sent to any part op the Kinedons...-107, Hattan.garden. stat i n g their WATha I'o MORROW Al' LorlooN BitiDdhi Morning . - • s - 49 min. atter 3 AlterilDLNl 6 ....... 4 I.UNIYJN: I.LvIL i%E. .r, Pickett 1-"Aitsi atel 4. :Li: %i4I-41L.e, ro4l- 1 0 Vats