Star. — London, England, 1810-09-19 00:00:00

Sleep, gentle Bard! around thy bed Let Shlrauz' balmy Sown entwine; oi For thee her perfumed lap shall spread, ata Her richest gifts shall still be thine ! The tow'riog fir, the date-erown'd palm Shall here unite their sov'reign shad, •• ,•;• '•;• ; While malting rocks distil their balm 1•;.` To bathe the tomb where thou art laid! CRORUS. Lah Illah ! lilLillah! Here let the heart dissolv'd in joy its warm, luxuriant tribute leave, t . Such tears as gem the love-taught eye, Let Hake° sti r red dust receive. But here no prostituted band, Shall wound with yells his native skies I Ike tutor'd tear, no purchas'd handt Profanes the grave where Hafer lies. For him let richer gifts abound, No sullen homage here prepare; Pleas'd may his spirit linger round, And still its best-lov'd banquet share. Bring myrrh, the silver grape f invade, Etirich with sweets his long repose; ; Let olive-wreaths his pillow shade, s s Or steep'd in wine, the saffron rose ! And blue-eyed nymphs, Circassia' pride, Shall here their treasur'd charms unfold; Their tcet in purer purple dy'd, • it. • Their tresses bright with liquid gold. • Net lurking Gaur's § unliallow'd fire . Shall Shiraux' envied vale affright ; The partial sun shall here rehire. And kiss thy grave with softened light. • Ouoaus. Sleep, gcntle Bard, &c. • Hafer, the Anacreon of Persia, lira buried in the delicious "-hien( Shlrauz, where the young and gay constantly assemble. t it is tife custom is Persia to hire mourners, who make loud lamentations. _ _ ; • ' 4.3:be palm, remarkable for bearing dates on its summit ; the white grape and yellow rose are highly esteemed in Persia. 5 The Gaur3, or fire-worshippers, though strictly forbidden, sometimes continue their orgies in this spot. A PERSIAN DIRGE. • EGEISH PRISONERS IN FRANCE. *rR4CI OF A LiTTER FROM A BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER, A PRISONER OF WAR AT GIVET. (Received by the last Cartel.) • " GIVET, SEP'I•EMBER 4, 1810. " My dear Friend—We have been cruelly disap pointed in our expectations,of being exchanged ; but Hope, the last solace of the wretched, still keeps up my spirits, though boti body and mind have suff-!red severely by so long and irksome a captivity. We have, it is true, amusements of various kinds to be guile our tedious hours ; and have no reason to-cotn plain of the want of any of the necessaries of life • in deed, we have an abundance of what in many places would be deemed luxuries : yet, recollection, that faith ful monitor, is continually presenting to my view the I agonized feelings of an affectionate wife and child, 1 and pointing to the space which so cruelly separates I us. Would to Heaven' hat the warning voice of the gallant Lord COCHRANE had been attended to in ! time, and his prediction averted. He it was that • foretold that our ship (the ATALANTA) would foun der. He boldly stated in the House of Commons that she was not sea-worthy, and the event verified his assertions, at the imminent hazard of the lives of the whole ship's company ; who, however, escaped the fury of the waves, for ne other purpose than to drag out the remainder of a miserable existence in an apparently endless captivity. Were the rulers of na. tions aware of the poignant feelings of so many thou sands of their subjects, who are Severed from all those connections that alone render life desirable !—Were they aware of the acute distress and accumulated I misery of those who have fought and bled for their' security; they surely would not procrastinate their , deliverance by wasting so much time in useless diplo matic • formalities. Ever since Mr. M'KENZIE has been At Morlaix have we been flattered by the almost daily hope of deliverance from our captivity, which has been rendered mare intolerable by these repeated delusions ;' and yet, the period of our release seems as distant as ever. " Let me not, however, for a moment be under stood as implying the least blame or censure on our 1 negociator. We are thoroughly convinced that he I has doneall in his 'power to bring the business to a I conclusion ; many of us have been greatly benefited by his exertions, and through his laudable endeavours we receive our slender remittances with a regularity I I we were &fore unaccustomed to. I was qn the point of concluding my melancholy It scrawl, but keep it open to inform you, that another ttlearn of hope has just burst in upon us. A friend 1 of mine, 'and a fellow-prisoner here, last week wrote to Mr. , at Morlaix, and has received a very polite answer, informing him that every thing was gohig or favourably, but that it might probably be Oro months before the final arrangements were con cluded ;'• and that no exertions on his part should be wanting to hasten the joyful period that would restore so nutty brave men to their country and families. Thus, you see, that although hope has so often deceived us, we are still enlisted under her banner. Heaven grant that we be not again disappointed!" Wednesday last, a bet of 100 guineas was decided on die Ashchurch-road, by Mr. FRANCIS MARTIN, of Tewkesbury, who undertook to run half a mile in two minutes and a half; he completed the task apparently with ease, in two minutes and eight seconds. The bets at starting were two to one against him. Jenny Brewer, a woman advanced in years;cairilz. parcels from St. Ives to Penzance daily. It is a at= rious spectacle to witness her arrival at either place,- ' down with lumber of all descrip. s for This MIDDISSAT I.,ESS 10, CONSPIRACY FOR A RISE OP . Yesterday James Beadle, Peter Corley, Coster, three journeymen brushmakers, for conspiring together for the purpose an increase of wages. Copley and put to the bar, Beadle having absconded. Mr. GURNEY stated tlke case : he expatiated at great length on the magnitude of the crime ; and took occasion to observe, that when journeymen combined together for the purpose of resisting their employers, they generally formed themselves into societies, under the presence of relieving the *ick and burying the dead. Mr. Francis Lear deposed, tfiat he and his mother carried on the brush-making business in the Strand ; the defendants had been in their employ, and could earn on an average two guineas per week each.— Beadle, who had since absconded, on the .sth of May last gave witness a list of new prices in the three branches of the brush-making business, and observed 46 here is a trifling rise in wages, I hope you will look to it, and think of a poor man and his family."— The defendants at the bar were present, but said nothing. Witness said, that he was sure it would-not be agreed to. In the ensuing week Mr. Cowdery, another brush-maker, whose men had struck, sent the materials for 20 dozen of brushes to witness to ma nufacture, as a matter of accommodation ; witness gave them to his men, but they refused to work at them ; and Beadle, in the presence of the others, said, If you leave off working for Cowdery you will not be marked so soon." On the Saturday after the new list of prices had been given in, the 12th of May, when Mrs. Lear was paying the men, Beadle informed her, that if the new prices were not complied with, they would come on Monday and finish the work in hand, and then they would strike—the two defen dants and a person of the name of Parrott were pre sent ; Parrott said he would not go, though he after wards did ; but tke defendants said nothing. On the following Monday, the witness had a communication with Beadle, to whom he offered 3s. a week additional if he would stay ; the latter refused, unless it was ex tended to th , _:m all ; and observed, alluding to a con tract which he had from Government, Master, you have got the contract, and you may as well give it at once, and have a good name, as you will be obliged to give it at last.' They all struck, leaving their work unfinished. This statement was corroborated by Mrs. Lear, the former witness's mother, who observed, that the de fendants had always behaved themselves well, and she verily believed they were obliged to act as they had, for tear of irritating the great body of the trade against them. Mr. Cowdery deposed as to his men having struck, and his having employed Mrs. Lear to make a quan tity of brushes. James Payne, who had been secretary to the brush makers' burial society, deposed as to having"seen the defendants at some of the meetings, but it did not ap pear that any thing improper had been transacted at those times. Mr. KNAPP addressed the Court in behalf of the defendants. He contended that Beadle, who had escaped, was the only person against whom any thing criminal had been proved. He differed entirely from his Learned Friend (Mr. Gurney), as to Benefit So cieties. They were protected by Act of Parliament, and, he thought, ought to be suppoited. The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence, and the Jury, after a short consultation, acquitted the prisoners. Smith, Dalby, Deane, and M'Carty, four porters in the London Docks, were indicted for riotously assem bling with divers other persons, and assaulting James Taylor and John Fox, constables attached to the Thames Police Office, on the 6th of July last. Deane and M'Carty had forfeited their recogni zances ; Smith and Dalby only pleaded to the in dictment. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Wheeler, Superintendant of the London Docks, that in No vember the wages of the labourers employed in the Docks had been decreased. This occasioned much dissatisfaction ; and on the 6th of July last, between 5 and 600 of the malcontents assembled before the docks in a very riotous manner, wearing 0. P. and 0. W (meaning Old Prices and Old Wages) in their hats, for the purpose of compelling a renewal of the former wages, by intimidating those labourers who still i•emained at work in the Docks, when they went out to dinner. Mr. Wheeler was at length obliged to apply for assistance to Mr. Kinnaird, the Magis trate, who, in company with Mr. Herriot, came to the ground t and pointed out to the labourers the im propriety of their conduct. Mr. Robinson, the High Constable of the Tower division, deposed as to the riotous conduct of the de fendants, both before and after the Magistrates had departed ; they repeatedly incited the mob to remain on the ground, and encouraged tilde who appeared most ready to assault the officers. The examination, of Mr. Robinson was stopped, in consequence of a proposition made by Mr. KNaer, the Counsel for the defendants, who observed that as it was out of his power to rebut the evidence against his clients, he would trust to the lenity of the Court Ito accept the offer he was about to make on their be half, viz. that a verdict of Guilty should be entered against them, and that they should enter into recog nizances to appear to receive the judgment of the Court whenever called upon ; and that they should publicly acknowledge thew contrition for the crime they had committed. This proposal having met the approbation of the Counsel for the prosecution, was acceded to. The Chairman observed, that he did not wish to interfere between the parties, but he feared the lenity shewn would not produce the wished-for effect. He then lectured the defendants with great severity,, and ordered them to ester into recognisances kr 4100 each. 'Ewan - . Robert Blom was nest put to the bar, to take his trial oa an • wil ful and corrupt Thompson, Esq. of February last, It a from ed in the plaCe, from - ilte extensive connections of Mr. Yates, would have been attended with material injury to the practice of the prosecutor. Upon the first application of the defendant, the prosecutor declined the offer, but from frequent subsequent solicitations he was in duced to become the tenant of the defendant, at an annual rent of £7O. He also agreed to pay a pre mium of £lOO for the lease of the premises, 'And paid £lO in cash, and his own three bills for £3O each for such premium. In a short time afterwards, however, he had the mortification to learn that the representa• tions made to him to induce him to take the premises were erroneous ; that Mr. Yates had no nephew, nor had he ever applied to the defendant, either for him. self or any other person, to rent the shop in question. Upcn ascertaining this fact, he at once saw the frau dulent intentions of the defendant, and went to him if possible to persuade him to annul the agreement. In order the more effectually to attain this desirable object, he offered to be a loser of the £lO in cash, which he had paid down, provided the defendant would suffer him to be off his bargain. The defen dant, however, evaded every solicitation, and refused to depart in any degree from the arrangement already made, and, on a quarter's rent becoming due, he brought his action against the prosecutor, who refused to pay the demand, to recover the amount. The pro secutor, in consequence, filed a bill in Chancery, for an injunction to stop the proceedings at law against him, until an answer should be returned to his bill. An injunction was accordingly issued, and the defen dant in due course put in his answer on oath, which completely denied the allegation of the prosecutor, as to his, the defendant's, having specified Mr. Yates's nephew, or Mr. Yates, as the person who had applied to become his tenant in the shop in question. He ad mitted that he had negociated with Mr. Verlander on the subject, and that he had said, a person whom he did not know, but who had stated himself to be a re lation of Mr. Yates's, had appliEd to him for the pre mises. There were four otberstatements which the pro secutor represented to hasA been made to him by the defendant, as inducements to his falling into the trap, which the defendant also denied. For these false and fraudulent allegations, on oath, therefore, the present indictment was preferred. Mr. Alley remarked, that from the instructions given to him, and from the na ture of the evidence he had to adduce he felt no doubt of being able, most fully, to substantiate the charge against the defendant. The bill in Chancery and the answer thereto were then read, When Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, shortly ad dressed the Court. Nothing, he was convinced, could be more discordant with his client's wishes ( than the line of conduct he was about to pursue, in asmuch as it would tend to the prevention of that 'full and impartial investigation of the case before the 'Court, which would most clearly and satisfactorily, remove every possible imputation against the charac ter and respectability of the defendant, which until the present moment stood unimpzached and unques- tioncd by a very numerous and most unexceptionable circle of friends and acquaintances. It was his duty, however, according to the maxim laid down by the Lord Chief Justice of England, to suffer no opportu nity to pass, in a charge of peijury, however opposite such a step might be to the wishes of his client, of urging a legal objection, which might tend towards the exculpation of the person accused. In furtherance of that duty, therefore, it now became him to direct the attention of the Court to an inconsistency between the copy of the answer to the Bill filed in Chancery, contained in the indictment, and forming the ground of the present prosecution, and the original answer The Learned Counsel then adverted to the sub stittuion of the dissyllable " himself " for the mo nosyllable a him," and the monosyllable a and" for the monosyllable a which created a very ma terial alteration in the context of the sentences where such charges were made. The indictment, therefore, became erroneous, and must, of course, be of no avail. Mr. ALLEY contended, that all the law required, in cases of perjury was, that the indictment shoedd contain in substance and fAct, what the words charged to be used were, and not the precise words them selves ; he was therefore of opinion that the indict ment was faultless. Mr. GURNEY, however, persistql in his objection. The Learned CHAIRMAN' expressed it as his opinion that, from the inaccuracy pointed out by the Learned Counsel (Mr. Gurney) the case could not proceed. Mr. ALLF.Y remarked, that he had not himself drawn the indictment, or the trial should not have been thus evaded. The Learned CITAIRIWAN then addressed the Jury, observing, that from the objection, very propetly taken by the Counsel for the defendant, the Court could not go into the examination of evidence ; con sequently the defendant must be acquitted. The Jury returned a verdict accordingly. r A whale appeared near Flarnborotigh Head op Wednesday the 29th ult.. to tlwzreat terror of a party' of pleasure in a boat. • • • Holland House, Kensington , is undergoing consi derable repair. While svferal meal were 4t work on Thursday, upon one of the staircases, it • suddenly gave way. four of the men fell in with it and wereAor dreadfully bruised;one of whom is singe dead. 14; As the Furnace man belonging to. Messrs. lam = den's iron foundry, near Dublin, was chargior. Sl* furnace _with old metal for the purpose of rneltiilit ft; homb-shell, which ' Monday, Mrs. Liston, of Mum elk Whi • • MARR lED. On Monday the 10th .Instant, in Mamhead Church, by the Rev. Dr. Perkins, Joseph Pole Carew, Esq. of Anthony, in As County of Cornwall, to Caroline, sec ond daughter of him Eli, Fit. of blarnhead. At Leith', ea the 11th inst. John Paterson, Esq. banker, Edir burgh, to Miss Jane Kerr, daughter of William Kerr, Eall• latt chant, Leith. At Forglen Houie, en the Gth inst. David MonypalinT, of Yittntlly, advocate, to Miss Maria Sophia Abereremby, dal daughter of Sir George Abercrontby of Biriteubog, Bart. At Inverness, on the 24th ult. the Rev. Donald Ross, of Kilmulr, Skye, to Miss Rote Bethune, third daughter oldie Rev. Angus Buthune, late minister of Alums, Ross shire. Moqday, at Lee, William Moore, Esq. to Elisabeth, tidal * daughter of the late Captain Walter, of the Navy. On the 10th lug. the Rev. David Dye, A. M. minister of ' Moulin. to Miss Grace Matiagart. Wednesday last, N. 3. Hudson, Esq. of Oat War-06ce, as Mss Caroline Robinson, Pavillon, Battersea. Saturday, at St. Oiaves,'Hart-striet, John Peevor, Esq. of cis War.olEce, to Miss Jane Eliaabeth Morgan, latialeit ' l "g bter of Aarun M.nlan, Esq. Savage Gardens, Londun. Last week, at Gisbourne Park, in Craven, Yorkshire, Sam"' Skurray Day, Esq. of Burnett, and of Hinton Charter House, 0 the County of oonterset, to the Hon. Catherine Lister, Mot flattener of Lord Riblesdale. 'DIED. On zhis 7th Instant, In Weymouth-street, Caeendislmlra lt, lane, widow of Morris Robinson, Esq. of Lincoln's-Inn mother of Lord Rokeby and of Matthew Montague, Ea+ On the Ist instant, in his 78th year, Edward Sonthouse, En• formerly one of his Majesty's Judges In British America- On tile 9th instant, at Cadogan-place, Caroline Henrietta ! 2 ' pier, aged 20, youngest daughter of that late Ilea. George lial'of• On the 14th instant, at Malvern, in Worcestershire, the 1 Ed. Etnititts Fitzgerald de Roos, in the 1 lth year of biz age. On the 11th instant, Mrs. Janet Rutherford, wife of Car' James Norman, in the service of the Hon. jut India Cempan) . At Bengal, on the 4th of March law, Joshua John lirosrnio Proby, Esq. youngest son of the late Dr. ofLIcIAMDean • • THE' COVILSE Amsterdam, S:: 0 2 U Ditto at sight, 32 2 Rotterthm, c. (.10 0 . 2 U Harnburzh, 31 6 2} U Altona, 31 7 2t U Paris I day's tla. 21 A Liv. Ditto, 2 lTs. 21 IS Bourticaux, da. ta NTdada, - Effect 421 IF EXCIIMYLic• Pa Gesi erin gh oa, ers, e9 15 5 5 5 4 8 : race Fr"' Lc Venice, 8. C. S 2 . erectly* PO' N ar k s , 42 LANs, Qa Oporto, 613 Dublin, 9 4 Cork, I New Dollars. Si. SP' 81:Gibraltar 41, .t 4 Sitboi Rio Janeiro 72, . roNs. .4 . • eit That kiln pprathzi February. i l lP . " . :*; .desirous of ing praanises,,hegp i n w AGES. • .. . toa . Jacob VerLand aptichecm, l i . g n e parish, to take and as ati inducement :orky, and AU Ts, were indicted to such a measure, told' ion't..hat Mr. Yates, a ahy- pose of obtaining mist, residing in Sloane -street, had applied to him, Coster only were the defendant, tp rent_the shop, for the purpose Qt establishing his nepl;ew as an apothecary and chy- nded. mist in that quarter.;:which circumstance, had it taken hp Pyrtati2taxri at • • -"I .. • ' • completely weighed down with lumber of all descrip. tiOTIS--finery fur the gay, pills for the sick, books fcir the studious t and parchment for the attornies. This honest and laborious woman walks, on a moderate calculation, upwards of 5500 miles in 12 months I A, ?art' of. SO persons were. assembled in a large • btillthng at retersburgh, at the begianiag of kit sitetrEhy , to etlebrate a airier, when a thunder.sterto dirt 0:4111e-rot* ihrs • .strtiet by • the lightning,' ich entering, killed the bride and bridegrooni jeg **the priest was joining their hands, wi;hout the others h h • ilsl ist g-Any material Injury. • I TO-MORROW. ' trial oa an inc li cttnein rsseferred against him, for t - there lay a mon g it a homb-shell, which he was in tbe soon iris, . 8 stag rises, 1 sea sets, ful and corrupt perjury, committed before Charles act Of throwing into the furnace, when, fortunately, ro minutes after 5 I Thompson, Esq. a Ilaster in Chancery, in the mouth Mr. Pounden, jun. passing try Arthe. thneotcreeived to minutes after 4 itIOW• of February last, . • •a .phi* in it, and having ordered It to . be eliftined, HIGH wATnit AT LONDON BUDGE TO-MO • . -se minutes after s Murmur It appeared from' the statement of Mr. Act sr, to their astonishment it •prated .io be charged. with , Aftmd . ........."-"- Counscllcir the prosecution, that 'the defendant is a ;powder and •cainbtsstildes,l perfecay dry, mud c - vacuity of ;owe eminence, tbsidimat Knightsbridge, insisted:. 178. indsket ball, .1 :Find' heheen.oner.nin te, k4r4OON: Ikrigite4 log nubbobet by Lim jeiNT.. ll . : i ll and that he is the lasidloid of ceTtadi premises situit- later the consequence might have•beetriarak it 11 . ST4a-Orricr, Nat d - any-amok OW at the STAA- 00 ' I 40 minutes site ' ed in the same parish consisting of a shop .and being eight or ten men about the furnace. . . ttinre•uar. • POLICE►, W. • • .Sunday morning a number of vagabonds m om , bled in Copenhagen-fields, for the purpos e o f d (1. fighting ; when several Police-officers repaited to th e spot, and apprehended 16 of the most active, wh o were conveyed yesterxiay before the Magla ratts Hatton-garden ; when two of them producing good characters were discll*ged ; four were sent nn lewd the tender; and the recommitted for want of so„ oboe, Gemottata.. Yesterday Mr. Hill, hutch r, i o Fleet-market, charged a young man, •a- wagv,os tr , with stealing a neck of mutCon, six pounds in from the door of his shop. The prosecutor did 11 , 1 See the prisoner take the mutton, but, having it from the spot where he had hung it up, he diately went out, and, following the prisoner, who w driving his waggon at a quick pace, he f oun d t :, t neck of mutton concealed in the prisoner's apron..... The prisoner alleged that he had purchased the gr.:a. ton of a boy, and had given him a shilling for it.— The worthy Alderman (Hunter) gave the prisoner the alternative of serving his Majesty or tak;iig hi, trial for the offence. The priioner preferred the lat: ter, and was accordingly committed to take his trial. MA RLIVIRO 11-SiTH EXT.--Y!Sterdab James C thorne was charged wiAr having obtain e d a ,i tn „ t i, n in the service of a gamily, in Wimpt)le-street, by means of a false character, and afterwards pilf:ring m4 s . ter's property. 'l'he prisoner had been not more than a fortnight in the service, whet; he was ~i ispected,anl it was ascertained that the firnily to wh om k h ad referred. fur a character, in Surrey, was not in es. istence, although a written character had been receiv. ed, but which turned out to be the pris arm-'s writing. The prisoner was committed till tl:e Sessions. Another escape from Cold-bath-fields Prison was attempted on 'Monday night, by a pi :soner under con. finement for two years for a misdemeanor. On Mr. Newport, the officiating Govtinor, going round to lock up at the usual time, he missed his prisoner. He immediately called together the turnkeys and other 'servants employed in the prison, and informed them that he would not suffer one of them to leave the po. son until the lost man was forthcoming, or some in formation given relative to his escape; search was made and the lost prisoner was found, concealed in what is called a drying room, with a rope and a huge stone at the end of it, by which he might hare scaled the prisol wall. The prisoner was lodged more se. curtly, and the possibility of his escape prevented. A maltster, in the neighbourhood of Andover was lately fieed €2.(X) for damping malt while on the floor, contrary to the Act. On Saturday last, as J. Price, Appatitor to the Archbishop of York, was•returning home to Bishop thorpe, from York, on an ass, just after passing the Crown at Gusebridge, he perceived the danger he was in, from the Trafalgar York and Leeds coach driving quickly behind him, and consequently endea voured to urge his ass to take the causeway on the right of the bridge. Unfortunately they bah came down, and Mr. Price fell with his body across the brielge, when the wheel of the coach went over him, and. occasioned his death in a few minutes. A few days since, as a young woman, servant to Mr. Harwood, of Sheffield, w:►s bathing upon tle North Sand, at Bridlington Quay, by the strength of the back water . she was taken a considerable distance into the sea. Mr. J. Bullock, of .Bridlington, seeing her danger, took a horse from Messrs. Stephenson and Co's new bathing machine, and, at the risk ci his lite, swam the horse a great distance into the sea, and ilragged the young woman on shore. Medical assistance was immediately procured, and she has now nearly recovered. BIIC