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..„ ' VERSES, NOI7B2,ACCIDiNTALLY Anst yie,-eovering, donde Mouse, How soon thy lee-fang day is o'er! • teat's, exult my lowly house, Ye grahkt ;Ad' played, free door to door; And ;debt the crumbs o' barley-cake That frae thy Mistrew'•table fell, Then frolickit for pinball's sake,. ynacaed by flunky's sounding bell. Thy life; though short, was full enjoy . d. Not had I; ohy cares to clog ye, . Nor feaed ye, while wi' her ye soy d, The slaiightering tread o' primsie Moggie! Ah! were mine ain nae harder lot! to breathe the weary air a day, Aonyrralcion at Fortune's foot, . To cringe and fawn my life away! Right wetting a' the ruefu' pain The chequer'd life o' man attending, To me ilk flowret blaws in vain, On youth its balmy fragrance spending! Then let me drown my cares in wine, And let me, while I live, carouse, And be my deed-thraw short as thine, My life as simple, luckless Mouse! LITERAtURE, 4c. POOR ON THE CONTINENT. PROM THE LETTERS OF THE REV. DM RAFFLES. " The farm-houses reminded us, from the peculiarity of their structure, being composed simply of planks of fir, with vast projecting roofs of the same mate rials, that we were approaching Switzerland, the cradle of freedom, and the retreat of Protestantism ; while the general character of the cottages, and their romantic situations, naturally brought to my mind the many happy hours I have passed amid the moun tains of Wales. The only unpleasant circumstance in crossing the Jura, and which bespoke the deep poverty of the people was the great increase ff beg gars. They were chiefly children, and their num bers and their importunities were truly astonishing. , from the very slow rate at which we travelled, they were frequently" enabled to follow us for a consider able distance, and this they did, entreating in the most piteous accents, and repeating the sane words, 1 with a sort of measured intonation, Monsieur, your plait, donnez tuoi charitj. These were the sounds that perpetually assailed us, and we were glad when a little level toad allowed us to go on at a quick rate, and thus 10-e, for a while, the distressing din." " We dined at Cauh, a village on the right bank of the Rhine. While we were at dinner, x po'r half starved dog came to take what chance or compassion might throw in its way. Our pity soon became his ad. mate, and a plate, plentiinliy supplied with bones and bread, was the tesult. of its pleading in his be half. The door of the room was open, and in the course of the meal, turning that way, I observed a poor meagre ragged boy looking wistfully at the bones which the dog was rapidly devouring. I never saw the intense anxiety of hunger so depicted in a I:;inian countenance before—or met with such an il lustration of the feelings of the prodigal, who would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat. " The look was eaquent—who could resist its power ? I beckoned him into the room, and put into his eager band a lump of bread and a mutton chop. He was leaving the room, when an old man, who had witnessed our bounty to the lad, rushed in: at his appearance I put out my arm to repel his soli cit-ation, crying out, we shall have all the town, if we go on at this rate. The poor man immedia!rly ned away—be made no complaint, be uttered no exclamation, but I could see the pangs of hunger in 11'.s :countenance, and the tear started in his eye. This was jnore than I could bear,--and, touched to the, veri heart, I tasted an exquisite luxury in seeing this poor wretch deFart with the smile of gratitude • upon his lips." TIM DIVINING ROD. FROM THE VARTEIILT REVIEW. The employment of the divining rod, when em plpyed to discover ore or metal, was associated with 'I many superkitious observances. The fact, however, of the discovery of water being affected by it when held in the hands of certain persons, seems indubi table. The following narrative, which has been lately communicated to us by a friend residing in Norfoik, puts the subject in the clearest point of view. And we shall simply state that the parties, whose names are well known to many of our readers, are utterly incapable either of deceiving others or being deceived themselves. " JANUARY 21, 1818.—It is just fifty years since Lady N—'s attention was first called to this subject; she was then sixteen years old, and was on a visit with her family at a chateau in Provence, the owner of which wanted to find a spring to supply his house, and. for that purpose had sent for a peasant, who could do so with a twig. The English pan) , ridi culed the idea, but still agreed to accompany the man, who, after walking some way, pronounced that he had arrived at the object of his search, and they , accordingly dug, and found him correct. He was quite an uneducated man, and .could give no ac count of the faculty in him, or of the means which he employed, but many others; he said, could do the same. " The English party now tried for themselves, but all in vain, till it came to the turn of Lady N—, when, to her amazement and alarm, she found that the same faculty was in her as in the peasant, and on her return to England she often exerted it, though in stu dious concealment. She was afraid lest she should be ridiculed, or should, perhaps, get the name of a witch, and in either case she thought that she should certainly never get a husband. " Of late years her scruples began to wear away, and when Dr. Hutton published Ozonant's Researches, in 1803, where the effect c f the divining rod is treated as ahsurd (vol. iv. p. 260-7), she wrote a long letter to him, signed X. Y. Z. stating the facts which she knew. The Doctor answered it, begging further in formation; Lady N— wrote again, and he, in his second letter, requested the name of his correspond ent; that Lady N— also gave. " A few days afterwards she went, at Dr. Hut. ton's particular request, to see him at Woolwich, and she then slimed him the experiment, and discovered a spring in a field which be bad lately. bought near the New College, then building. The same field he has since sold to the College, and for a larger price, in consequence of the spring. U Lady N. this morning :hewed the experiment 65 Lord G. Mr. S. and me, in the park at W. She took a thin, forked hazel twig, about sixteen inches long, and held it by the end, the joint pointing down wards. When she came to a place where water was under the ground, the twig immediately bent, and the motion was more or less rapid as she approached or withdrew from the spring. When just over it, the twig turned so rick as to snap, breaking near her gers, which by pressing it were indented, and heated, and almost blistered; a degree of agitation was also visible in her floe. When she first made this experiment, she says this agitation was great, and to this hour she cannot wholly divest herself of it, though it gradually decreases. She repeated the trial several times in different parts of the park, and her statements were always accurate. Among those msons.in England who have the same faculty, she says she never knew it so.strong in any as in Sir C. H. and Miss T. It is extraordinary that no effect is produced at a well or ditch, or where earth does not interpose between the twig and the water. The ex ercise of this faculty is independent of any volition." So far our narrator, in whom, we . repeat, the most implicit confidence may be placed. The faculty so inherent in certain persons is evidently the same with that of the Spanish Zahariefi t •though the latter do . riot employ the hazel twig. HINTS FOR 711EAADIES. Words are the body and dress of thought ; and the woman who simpers and smiles, when she should resent the culpable freedom of spveech in a bold man, renders questionable the purity of her heart. The woman who depreciates her husband, still more depreciates herself; for if a woman would have the world respect her .htisband, she ought to set the example. A good woman's rirospects off' happiness with a good man, reach into eterpity. Happy the wife, who, on the death of her hus band, has nu material cause of self-reproach, on re lieving upon her behaviour to the departed. How few women there are, who, for one reason or another, have the man of their choice!—lt is well, therefore, that love is vincible. . Perseverance in a rejected lover, after the Lady has run through the circle of her humble servants, and found herself disappointed in her own views, has often been crowned with success ; and the folly of her early refusal has often been demonstrated by the happiness of her subsequent domestic life. From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in hu:' mour by their hopes and attractions, appear to be good-natured. What chasms would they give to life, if they would make this amiable disposition per manent I Those who set out for happiness in wedlock, will be most likely to find it, if they live single till the age of fancy is over. REMARKABLE ELM. There _is a remarkable vegetable curiosity in the department of Moselle; namely, an Elm, planted near the church of Bettange. The trunk of this tree measures fourteen feet in diameter one way, and be , tween seven and eight the other. It is hollow but r the cavity is divided by concentric partitions formed of ligneous layers which have resisted decomposi tion. These partitions are so widely separated one from the other, that a man may pass between them. According to local tradition, this tree has existed since the time of the Druidical worship, to the cere monies of which it was consecrated. NEW ISLANDS DISCOVERED. " Ship Rebecca, at Sea, May 45th, 1819. " Long. 188. W. Lat. 6. 58. S. - " On the 28th of- March, I took my final depar ture from Valparaiso, and on the 26th of April an chored in Port Anna Maria, Novahceva, one of the Marquesas. We remained two days to procure a supply of wood and water, and_proceeded West. On the morning of the rth of May, at three o'clock, the Rebecca's cruize had nearly terminated ; the man at the helm first caw some low bushes, not thrice her own length a-head ; brought her instantly to the wind, and I must say, with.truth she scraped clear of it. I hove-to tilt day-light, and then good close in, and at twelve reduced the latitude and longitude of this group (for it apparently consisted of fnsirteen small islands and sand keys), from many lunar ob servations, which agreed within three miles of my chronometers, to & following—Long. of the centre, ISO. 54. W. hit. 8.2). S. " Being the discoverers, I called them Ellice's Group f the island we first saw, and so narrowly escaped, Escape Island ;! the one adjoining, Re becca Island ; and the westernmost,' Brown's Island.' They. did not appear to be inhabited. At noon we made sail, and at eight in the evening discovered a large fire a : -head ; hove-to. At day-light another group appeared close on board, apparently consisting of seventeen small islands. I was again fortunate itt procuring a lunar, Which agreeing : with the chrono meters gave long. of the south obi:11181. 48. W. lat. ditto, 8. b. S. To these my Officers did me the ho nour of giving the name of De Peyster's Islands. As a further corroboration of the correctness of the lon- 1 gitude, I must tell you, that in making Cape Saintl George, New Ireland, which Horsliurgh places in' , long. 207.1. W. and the voyage in search of Perouse the same, the mean of my chronometers was 207. W. I became so nervous after these escapes, that for se veral nights I did not run. It is singular that Com modore. Byron should have run down the same pa rallel of latitude until within a short distance of the first group, and then hauled to the northward, and that Captain Wallis should have passed as near to the latter. All these islands are so remarkably low, that you cannot discover them from the deck, even in the day-time, until close on board. This route from Chili, I have every reason to think, has never before been pursued." Mr. HOWARD, of Carnabrstreet, Carnaby• market, whilst the Procession was moving along Piccadilly, on Thursday, was surrounded by a daring gang of villains, about thirty in number, who beat him with 'great violence, and, after turning his pockets inside out, they robbed him of his watch, and everything he bad in his possession, with which they escaped.—.A Gentleman, named BEAVUONT, was hustled by e daring gang; at the end of Clarges-street, and robbed of property to the amount of f.:300, but mcwly in bills of exchange. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. YesterdaY F.sisvard Forster was put to the V ar,. charged with a misdemeanour, in having uttered cer tain seditious words of and concerning his Royal Highness the Duke of York and the soldiers of the King; and in another count, of using seditious ex pressions of and concerning our Lord the King him self.—Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. PLATT appeared for 'the prosecution, which was instituted at the instance of the Officers of the 3d Regimeni of Foot Guards. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty:. The CHAIRMAN told him it was not a light of fence, and that it was proper such persons should be taught to restrain their tongues. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment in the House of Cot rection, and to give secui ity for his good behaviour in the sum of £.50, for two years. SOUTHWARK SESSIONS. The notorious Williams, who some time ago brol:e prison, .arid in double irons fell from the top of the Jail, was cart-led into Court for trial. He had re ceived dreadful- injury from the fall, but, notwith standing the fracture of all his limbs, it appeared that he conducted himself in so desperate a manticr in prison, as to indtice the superintendents to suggest to the Court the necessity of keeping him in solitary ..confinement. The indictment charged him with having stolen a watch and a pocket-book, the pro perty of Captain Edwards, of the brig Unity.—The charge was clearly proved. The prisoner put in a paper, in which he begged for mercy, upon the ground that he had broken his bones, was a complete cripple, and had suffered dreadfully from misfortune and confinement. The COMMON SERJEANT asked the Jailor whether the prisoner had been brought to prison in the state described by - him ? • . • The Jailor replied in the negative, b - ut said he had fallen from the top of the prison in endeavouring to escape. . The prisoner said he had but a few words to ad dress to the Jury. He sat there, he said, an .awful example to all. To the prosecutor, the Conrt, and, the Jury, he looked with hope for mercy. His re pentance was sincere; and he trusted that those around him would benefit by the warning, and avoid the shame and guilt by which he was overwhelmed. The CiotassoN SERJEANT, in addressing the Jury, said, it was to be regretted that the prisoner had sustained such dreadful injury ; . but observed, that the circumstance could not be successfully urged in mitigation, as the disaster had occurred in an attempt to evade the laws of the .country. The Jury instantly found him—Guilty. The CONIMON SERJEANT, in passing sentence, said the desperate man before the Court was, he feared, totally irreclaimable. Hi,. conduct in prison, even under the dreadful circumstance of the loss of the use of his limbs, had been such as convinced the Court that he was one of the most dangerous men that ever appeared in a Court of Justice ; and it was more than probable that, if the witnesses had given him an opportunity of putting his threat of stab-. bing into execution; he would have added murder to robbery. Notwithstanding this, and the fact that the prisoner had acted with great violence in prison, the Court would not send him out of the country, as he was incapable of moving without assistance. It was, however, necessary to keep him from the Public. Sentence—Two years imprisonment. The COMMON SERJEANT ordered the Jailor, if the prisoner acted badly in prison, to put him in irons, and in solitary confinement. WCENDIARY. ATTEMPT TO BURN HEREFORD COLLEGE. On Sunday last, before the conclusion of Divine Service at the Cathedral, Mr. Hayter, the organist, who 'has rooms in the College, had occasion to leave the Church, which adjoins the premises, and in proceeding to his apartment, he perceived smoke issuing from the roof of the eastern angle of the south quadrangle of the Iniilding ; he instantly pro ceeded to the spot, and found part of the wood work cf the roof in flames, which, with assistance, he succeeded in effectually suppre:sinz. As the fire was making rapid progress, there is little doubt, but for the providential circumstance of his observing the smoke, in a very short period the whole of the roof would have been on fire, and the destruction of a great part of the College inevitable.—On the flames being extinguished, it was discovered that the beams and joists where they commenced had been partly saturated with spirit of turpentine, a quantity of brushwood from besoms taken from a room near the place, hay, straw, and some matches, were also disposed so as to spread the destructive element. and, in short, every arrangement carefully and skil fully made to envelope the building in a mass of flame before assistance could' be rendered ; the spot and time chosen for the fiend-like attempt, were like wise selected with singular discrimination ; the place is in a part of the College seldom frequented, difficult for water to be conveyed to, and the Vicars were ab sent on their.clerical duties, and the servants attend-I ing Divine' Service. A • little before twelve o'clock, the alarm became general ; the congregations of the different Churches left them, and the most active alacrity was displayed to afford assistance, which the judicious exertions of 'Mr. Hayter fortunately rendered unnecessary, of the flames were happily subdued before the engines ar rived. It is a most singular circumstance, and clearly proves .that when the smoke was first discOvered the diabolical incendiary must have been superintending his evil work, for the butler of the College, who has tened to render assistance on the first alarm s found near the spot on fire a Florence oil-flask, which evi• dently had contained turpentine ; and afterwards, 1 1 when the fire was suppressed, on searching for it, the flask was discovered in an old cask in a hole • under the stairs, near the place ; the wretch must therefore have escaped whilst Mr. Hayter and the butler were procuring water, and every circumstance proves, that whoever this diabolical fiend may be, he is one well acquainted with the College, and possessed of daring and wicked cunning eqn4 to the horrible crime he attempted to perpetrate. It is also remarkable, that within a few feet of the spot, - nscribed on the wall in Old English characters, ill the following sentence•= Th e ewes of Me Laisb are in ever y plow, behekting the evil an-t .the goad !"—Trov. :v. 3. I The Custos and Vicars immediately issued bills o 'tiri ng a reward of 100 guineas for the discovery the incendiary, and the villainous attempt of cou,e excited a strong sensation in this city, where such a crime has hitherto been unknown. On Mnnday the Mayor called a Meeting of the inhabit Ants, w'oen Re solutions were unanimously adopted, and the reward here stated, in addition to the one by the Cosecs and Vicars. offered for the discovery of the offen.ler, ‘vv hick we sincerely hope may have the desired We have now little doubt but the stables were par posely fired, partic:ilarly as the following letter was received by the h:itler of the College shortly after their destruction, the author of which nearly fulfilled his threat, with no common degree of relentless daring : " SlR—Ple:se to tell yo-.r nmsters to take care on thrintlres, for they will be viqiteci soon by a gall that they won't Friend.—To 41r. Coneuble, Colledge of Here:Jed." NVednesday everl7ng, as Mr. .!'A MUET. Pr.rztn, cf Jamaica -street, Commercial-read, Limehouse, Iva* going through Sepr.ey Fair, he was surrounded by a gang of thieves ; rive or six in number, who hustled him from one to another, and r(bbed him of.a valu able gold watch, a cln:in, two gold scab, a ler, and a silk pocket handkerchief. DARING ATTENIPT AT itOSSERT AND !1t.'177`ER....6 Thursday night, between twelve and oLe c z!:, the family of Mr. Rolec, of Claphain, .were alarc:ce. oy a noise resembling heavy footsteps, in the lorve,. cart of the hotre. Mr. Reits get out of bed, and ar:::ing himself with a sword; took his bed-room larhp, add went down stairs. The. first thing he saw was a quantity of linen tied in a bundle, in the. passage, ready to be taken away: not doubting but tilte. es were in the houe, lie gave an alarm to a man rto slept in the upper part of the house, alla immedi. ea two men rushed out of the parlour, one:of whor: , , as he passed, attempted to sta..) Mr. Roles with a but he avoided the blow, by steppiiv hack, and the same time gave the robber a cut with his swo.s., srblch brought him down. Mr. Roles ran to seize hini, on which the second man knocked him down Kith a croiv-har; the light went out, and. tire r •Y:f:s then escaped at the street-door. On examination; it was found that nothing hatilleen taken away. AN Istroaron.—Thursday, • as..llaniel 'He: on, a Constable of Southwark, was. coming oA the coach from Guilford, he saw A person in female attire walk. ing very confusedly along the road side. The iiinbs of the supposed Lady appeared so very clumsy, and unlike those of the fair sax, that Heron tispected there was something wrong in the business, and ac cordingly got off the coach, and followed the object of his suspicions some distance. At length. he took the liberty of looking under the bonnet, and inin.e diately discovered a well-known acquaintance, with a rough beard and a carroty pair cif whi•kes, which he attempted to 11:de under tne ears of a la, e tage cap. After the first salutations had pase../. Heron asked him " what scrinv he was then open to which he answered, " that he vas getting on queerish=no Lai:a . ..Fs was to be done at all in this part." Heron-searched him, but could find nothing, and having no charge against him,. he let bias go; but he soon afterwards learned that he had passed a. quantity of forged notes through-the county, and hr 4 adopted his female garb the more effectually co escape. BIRTLIS. At Kingston-upon Thaties;on the 4tb instant, the Lady al Capt. Shelton, lit Royal Surrey Regiment, and of Ilassnwre. House, Ireland, of a son and heir. April 4, at the Rectory, Cbiimaik, Salisbury, the Lady of the Hon. and Rev. Alfted Harris, of a dat;hter. Sunday, the Lady of Dr. Deunison, of Upper GilLifCrd street, of a daughter. March 29, at Übbeston, Suffolk, the Lady of Major M. Coast, of a daughter. MARRIED. 'March 30, at Glasgow, Robert Brown, Esq. meta:in., Glasgow, to Miss Ann Rainy, youngest daughter of t h e Ry Georise Rainy, late Minister of Creech. Monday se'nnight, at Yarmouth, the Rev. Thomas Dade, Rector of Broadway and Brincombe, Dorsi:shire, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Lloyd, of B.Lwdesweli. Lately, Lieut. Pennycuick, of the 78th Regiment, to Sara.l Farrell, third daughter of the Rev. James .Fartell, Vicar of Lancsborough, county of Longford. • On the 3d instant, at Bury St. Edmunds, Ifin Jame Rped ding, only dabghter of John Spedding, Esq. of Mirchouse, is the county of Cumberland.. March 21, at Ettrickbank, near Selkirk, William Seott, Esq. of Ettrickbank, late of the Island of Jamaica. November 17, at Demerara, aged 22, Hilary, and at Kirk aldy, on the 29th of March, Andrew, aged 30, SIM of bk. Michael Beveridge, Comptroller of Customs, Kirklildy. Lately, in Bath, at an advanced age, Countess Nugent, mo ther of General Count Nugent, Commander in Chief of the Neapolitan Army. Sunday, at Henley-on-Thames, Mrs. Anne Harper, widow of Col. Gabriel Harper, formerly of the Bengal Army. At Kinsale, Mrs. Meade, relict of the Rev. John Meade, of Ballymartle. In Waterford, aged 40, Thomas King, Esq. Deputy R•!eorder of that _City, and son of Alderman King, a member of al Irish Bar, and a Common Councilman of Waterford. Lately, Mr. John Jones, Doctor in Music, formerly Or ganist, and Master of the bojs of. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ar magh, which situation he held for upwards of 42 years. March 26, at Thropton, Honest John BoLun, aged 92, who, during 36 years, was groom and huntsman.to the Clavering to nuly at Callaly, and was never known to uttsrals oath. ...- _ NEWG ATE Ann LBADENHA LL MARK BTS, AP= 7. (By the Carcase.) Beef ... ...... —4s Od to 4s SJ I Nraa 4s Od to 6s 04 Mutton 4s 4d to ss Od Pork 4s ad to 6s Od • PRICES or HAT Aso STRAW YESTERDAY. ST. JEMILS'T. wniropmarac Hay 31 12s pd to st Ss ed Hay... 41 41 to 41 is ad Straw 11 Ils ad to 11 19s Cd Straw 11 lOs to 11 101 od Cliverol Os Od to 01 Os Od Clover it Gs to 71 7s Od ns Tallow Chandlers' HalL Ids, lis Od; id. per dose's 17 may PRICE OF CANDLES-- Candles, per doz. Ili id—li allowed for I COUNTRY MARKETg. OXFORD, Arm 6.—The price of a Bushel of Wheat Bs. 50. Th. Half-peck Loaf, Wheaten, Is. 103.—household, Is. 84. BANBURY, APRIL 6.—Wheat Bs. Od. to 10s.—Beans ss. Od. to 7s Od—Vetches, O,,Qd per busheL—Barley, 30s to 38s— Oats, sirs od to 30s 01 per quarter—Bread, 11.1k1 half peck--r Flour Ns per sack. Newel:lY, BLRAS, APRIL 6.—Wheat, 50s to 85s—Barley, 31s to 36s—Oita; 42s to 33s—Beans, 44s to 48s—Peas, to 48s.—Bread, Is 7d to 16,9 d. per Gallen. Liseatnoz, Aran 6.—Wheat, per load, £l5 Os to £2.1 Os. 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