Star. — London, England, 1823-11-05 00:00:00

“ CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.” a And where is bane r uka destitute Distress, a Ibis home that yields to injuries redress? Is it reserv'd for close domestic ties, Oi fllt alike to all beneath the skies? Is it for sufferers who at distance groan, Or only those who nearer make their moan ? 0, tell me how this dwelling may be mine, This home where Charity begins to shine !" Thus spake Distress—and heav'd a plaintive sigh— When soft Humanity made this reply : " Cease, poor afflicted, by the world forgot, Cease to lament thy miserable lot, Dry up thy tears, and welcome to my cot. That Charity begin: at hotne is true; Tet this is rightly understood by few. The miser quotes it to his base desire, And robs the labourer of half his hire; The glutton wallows on luxurious haunch, And stuffs with dainties his elastic paunch: But should Distress accost him on the way, My charity's at home,' you'd hear him say Thus all, who this celestial virtue want, Can gravely, hypocritically cant! But If this lesson carefully you'll learn, The meaning of the phrase you'll soon discern— Charity dwells within the mind, possess'd Of wishes to relieve all who're distresed ; At home—abroad—on cold or torrid shore, She's ne'er from home where Pity keeps the door!" DISCOVERY OF THE SECRET DESTROYERS OF Tel? TREES IN ST. JAMES'S PARK°. • —...mi•-- The alterations which are now taking place in the Parks, and particularly in St. James's Park, evidently excite a good deal of public interest. Few persons, however, seem aware that the greatest change which is about to be effected in the appearance of these "Lungs of London," is one which is contemplated by none with less pleasure than by those who have the care of them. Few persons suspect, for instance, that in a very short period St. James's Park will be clothed in the dapper dress of a nursery plantation, and will have lost those shady avenues, and that antiquated appearance which -are all' associated with the recollections of times gone past. So rapidly, however, is it advancing to this state, that every person who is in the habit of entering it must perceive that, unless some remedy lse quickly applied, a few months have only to elapse when there will be scarcely anything green in it but the grass. Of the saplings which have been lately planted 1 do not speak; but it is manifest that everything deserving the name of a tree, a few limes only excepted, is rapidly disappearing. In spring we see the leaves sprout forth horn the vene rable trunks in all the luxuriance of vegetation, when of a sudden they are blasted as if by lightning, the bark falls from the stem, and long ere winter the finest tree perhaps in the Park is .only fit for fire-wood. Whole rows have thus disappeared and are still rapidly disap pealing in the M ill and Bird-Cage Walk ; and as it is anticipated that the Public will esteem this open condi tion of the Park to be little conducive to its beauty, even if it should add to its salubrity, great pains have of course been taken to find out the cause of the mischief. As it was clear that the trees died in consequence of being completely stripped Of their bark, rewards were at first offered for the discovery of the persons who so Mischievously barked them ; but in vain. It was ob served, however, very ingeniously, that no more of the tree was barked from the ground than what was easily within the reach of a soldier's bayonet ; and this was sufficient to throw suspicion on some unfortunate re cruits, of whom more than one was arrested without producing any diminution of the 'evil. In vain were persons employed to sit up during whole nights watch mg for the enemy; the bat k continued to be found every morning on the ground at the toots of the trees, and the park-keepers, after. all their trouble, could only Con clude, " that the bark fell off in consequence of some thing being placed on the trunks during the day-time." In this conclusion we shall see that they were right ; but the criminals, as well as their motives for such obstinate perseverance in downright mischief, have hitherto re. maned undiscovered, in spite of every offered reward andilireatened punishment. As however, I have been for sonar time past in possession of their names, and as they itouttnue . Obstinately in their mischievous courses, I gust you brill ; allow me the use of .. .your pages, in order thatthetriminishi may be held up to general reprobation. Wilhelm; in reciting the alarm that was occasioned . **many by•the 'ravages made in 1783 by the Sco. ...: 1 nogrophus, an insect which destroyed whole E s tslof pines' so as to threaten the inhabitants of the with a total suspension of their mining operations, itsks,,Who would believe that so Small a beetle can thus render itself mote formidable to 'mankind than the strongest and most fierce beast of prey ? If we however wereto ask, Who - would believe that the author of all, the above mischief in the Parks, is a small beetle of the same natural family as the Scolyfus iypographus, and scarcely 1-6th of an inch in length ? there is no entomo logist but would answer, that . he is every day. in the ha bit of tneeting with similar wonders. Indeed, entorno. ' logists have long been aware that it is nothing else than.' the evil which is termed in Germany leitrin-ti °kliegs (decay caused by warms) which is at present devastating, St. James's Park. However, they were unfortunately not believed until the disease had reached that pitch. which at present seems almost to make remedy hopeless. I verily believe that in 1819 scarcely two trees were attacked in St. James's Park. In the suinmer of 1110 I first noticed a tree completely barked in the Bird- Cage Walk ; and the myriads of holes with which the., trunk was perforated von pointed out the cause to be entomological, which was afterwards confirmed by my taking many specimens of the 11 .9 1c:blur Destructor out of them. If this tree had been then cut clown and burnt, in all probability the progress of the disease would have been arrested ; whereas now every elm is in some degree infected, and every week we may observe that a tree . . has perished. I have taken three different species of coleopterous in sects on the elms in the Park, viz. Hyksimrs Destructor Latr. Scolytus ligniperda Latr. and kupophltelts bicolor the insect has laid its eggs in the crevices under the bark of this species of tree, it won dies. The larvz, however, ' that 'are hatched from these 'eggs pierce their way into the wood, and remain there feeding at their ease during the winter. About the end of this season they return towards the surface of the trunk and assume the pupa state, when in, spring the first symptom of the disease appears, by the crevices of the bark being full of what seems a very fine sort of saw-dust. This results from the continued attempts of the perfect Hyland on leaving their pupa state to arrive at the external air.— The bark indeed is soon loosened from the stem by their endeavours, and at length falls in large pieces, when the leaves turn yellow, wither, and the tree finally pe rishes ; but not before a new brood of larvz has been hatched to spread further devastation in a future year under the form of winged insects. It thus is evident I 'that winter is the proper time to cut down such dead elms, which ought then to be burned with the larvz contained in them. Hitherto however the time selected for cutting down the dead elms in the Park, has been just after all the mischief for the season has been effected, and when these nurseries of Hyksini have sent forth their inhabitants to the air for the benefit of such trees as might have re mained free from infection. Perhaps it may yet be worth while to make the experiment, whether such trees may not be preserved sound and intact by having their trunks coated over at the proper season with some vegetable pitch. If these remarks should be of any service towards preserving the ancient appearance of the Parks, I shall be glad ; but I repeat, that I fear it is too late, and that my principal satisfaction in making this communication to you must result from my having " thrown the blame on tk right shoulders."—l am, Gentlemen, yours, &c. DENDIIOPH I ',US. • From the Phil. Mag. No. 506. AFFECTING CASE OF DISTRESS. An investigation was yesterday taken before Mr. &rumple, at Saffron-hill, on the body of an infant child of Mary Ann Rose, who was detained in custody on suspicion of having starved it. The Jury viewed the body, which presented a most shocking spectacle, being nothing but skin and bone. Mr. STIRLING observed, that in the whole course of his professional duties, he never before had seen so ema ciated an object. Mr. Whitmore, surgeon, deposed to having examined the body, at the request of Mr. Scott, the Churchwarden of Clerkenwell. On opening it, he found all its organs in a healthy state; there was .no part diseased, so as to account for its death. He considered it to have died from want of proper nourishment. Mrs. George, of Peter -street, stated that the mother came to lodge with her about two months ago. On Wednesday last she told her that the child was dead. Prior to that, witness had reason to know that she was very distressed in circumstances. On one occasion, on entering her room, she found her sitting with the child in her arms, which she was pressing to her bosom. It was a very cold day, and yet there was no fire in the grate. Witness had on different occasions assisted her. Mrs. Field, an acquaintance of the mother's, gave evi dence to her extreme distress. She had on several oc casions given her a meal, knowing her to be in want.— On one occasion, when she left the baby with witness to take care of it, it had no clothes on, but was wrapped up in an old waistcoat. On the night before the child died, its mother told witness she had not broke her fast for two days. Mrs. Jacobs, the midwife who delivered the woman, stated that the child was sickly when born, and of a puny size. She did not think it would live. In answer to an inquiry from a Juror, Mr. Whitmore stated, that the distressed circum stances of the mother must have impoverished her milk, so as to render it less nutritious to the child. The Jury, after a short conference together,. gave their verdict that the child died a natural .death, but accelerated by the distressed circumstances of the mother. It did not appear that any application had been made to the parish for relief. ROBBERY OF THE BIRMINGHAM BALLOON COACH.— Griffith Lloyd Turner and Lot Cartlidge, who were tried and acquitted at the Manchester Summer Sessions, on a charge of stealing the parcels containing notes of the banks of Messrs. Taylors and Lloyds, and Gib Sins, Smith and Co. of Birmingham, from the Balloon coach, in December last, were on Friday tried and convicted of having feloniously received part of the said notes, knowing them to be stolen. This being the first con viction which has taken place under the Act of Parlia ment constituting it felony to receive stolen notes, the. Court deferred passing sentence on the prisoners until the ensuing January Sessions. Tuesday se'nnight, as the sloop Diana, from Poly. heeny for Greenock, was, off the Craig of Ailsa, the master, DONALD M'Cumc, was in the act of giving some instructions regarding the vessel, when he was sud denly struck by the main boom, carried overboard, and perished. A few days ago a Gentleman and Lady, who have the care of a little dog, appeared before the Magistrates at Hull, to make oath of the existence of their little companion, one at them being entitled to an annuity of .2.5/. during its life. he dog appeared atthe same time, and was in good health. Sunday tight, about eight o'clfick, a Gentleman very' genteelly dressed,accosted another in Chiford• street, with " Pray, are you not Mr. Long ?" "I am that person,' was the reply ; upon which the inquirer struck him a blow in the breast. ',l'he person accosted exclaimed, " Ile has stabbed me," and so saying, ran away with all speed. No person attempted totake.charge of the accused, who stood still and never attempted to escape. 'l9 a person present he stated, that the villain whom he had attacked had been his friend, but had treacherously -seduced his wife,.and he had the night before detected her and her paramour sallying from a house of ill-fame. He was therefore determined to avenge his wrongs on the villain. It may be remembered that the grandson of the nowned Prince Marshal BLUCHER, wha is a Lieutenant' of Hussars, was arrested and examined for wounding SICH, the performer, with a poignard, who had beaten, him on finding him alone with his wife, an actress of high pretensions to vistue. By the sentence against the young Count, he (BLucnia) was , adjudged to undergo three months' imprisonment in a fortress. His Majesty, the King of PRUSSIA confirmed the finding of the Court Order -` - folio, LORD g41.441_ CW.447. PRIVILRGIS OF CITIZIpTS. Tin CUAMBVILAIN OF LONDON V. BFFWER. Mr. BOLLAND stated, that this was an action which Mr. Clarke, Chamberlain of London, was compelled to bring against the defendant, for having violated an Act of Common Council passed in the reign of James I. for protecting the rights and privileges of the Citizens of London. By that Act, which had been recognised by Parliament, the penalty of 51. was inflicted upon any one convicted in the offence of selling by retail, within the City of London, without being possessed of the freedom of the City—a privilege to be acquired either by inheritance, servitude, or purchase. The defendant was in a very extensive line of business as a green-grocer and potatoe seller; he resided in Golden-lane, where he carried on his trade without the necessary title. The charge was proved, and the Jury found against the defendant for the penalty of 5!. It was mentioned in Court, incidentally, that Mr. Brewer objected to the advice of his friends to become a freeman of the City, in the fear that he should be elected to the office of Sheriff. OGUILDIIA Yesterday Mr. Martin applied fora to a drover from Smithfield, for cruelly . 31 in Smithfield Market, on Blonday. G. BOW-STREI ~~ 1 Yesterday James Brown, the driver o on summons, to answer for detaining a left by accident in his coach. The Rev. Joseph Meddy, of No. 16 on Friday evening last, he having just ; Dragon, Bishopsgare..street, hired the c ordered him to drive to Argyle-strut, coach a quantity of luggag.s among w tabling Ladies wearing apparel of cow chi defendant a military 'cloak, which then drove as- far as Holborn, when doing something to the harness for suc Meddy at last got out to see what he ; was very much inebriated, and was t get upon the box again. Mr. Meddy him to prevent any accident, and shot litary cloak. He questioned the prlso but he could gain from him only s embellisliedby drunken hiccup.. On insisted on the primmer's giving some persevered in the most provoking to Meddy, tired by bistinatiswered solici pay the fare . , and take the number. hurry •forgot the luggage, which was coach had driven off.' Mr. Meddy w . coachman would briqg back the thing The defendant pleaded that be wai last, that he had not the slightest transkiired. There was no progeny morning; and if any had been left tr out without his knowledge. The Magistrate said, that such a c little, and Ordered him to bi remade # . WORSHI P-S1 Mrs. Eli= befit of NO. 9, summons for destroying a bill of cad] Mr. iIARMER, who attended for h to the proposition of the Lady's frii adjourned to Thursday next, they on that day. J.AMBETH.S' -------- - -- Yesterday Jaws Lynch aged 15, an fully committed for trial, charged w appendages, value .E 4 los. the prop poor labourer, residing in Rose and ( The prisoner Connolly, who was 1 his infancy, called at his lodging yest 4 sence from he*. Mrs. MiCar thy ga and having occasion to go down stair 4be room, when he availed Mune pocketed the watch that was hanging wiped it shortly after he was gone, of the Bow-street patrol!, who appr the morning. He then confessed the given the watch to Lyoch to dispose henoitfo of the latter by Skillieern, a admitted having sold the watch for 1 The pritiottera are both orpbans ' iu on the night preceding the robber y. . . • DIRT] Nov. 1, in Upper Csdogansplace, Sorel, of a son. . Soorisy, in LineollO:i Bun* u t-s‘G*4'* ugh . •:0• • .• -. '• ?: • -1114kititil Monday, at St.Janwes-Church, to Charlotte, youngest dambtar Ida In Westport, Captain Vaun Brice Bridget, second daughter of the ht lf i sq. pariah of Sc. Anpeaamai In Publin, 'Robert Ta gga rt, P Raw fpwth dituifitei at thq 1 4te Monday; at IslewOrtli, Mr. dood aged 78, to the widow G minus the left' eye; but Whit bridegroom has lost the use binds It happy couple started-folliaMpton ILE Oet. itt?, at Callandes f John Camp .Macfarlane,balf-pay 91* Reginies* Tuesday sennight, at his Ipdglogi nese, John Rol of thl So Science Of Nedlaue,4it ireifiiiiebe;s - , mas ..."- y of 7 vr - hOnt "l he ' d Sfil ILf/A—;TE ra t * r .. . ' 9 . X . : . t he "6 ;; l e - ail - ske or t -- re a : - - t 0 -- r s , -. 7 t fe w y r .n . - ; - d - o do ubt al l r by an drder of the Day, in which is t h e the. I4 l m. sws- tend to prodUce the effects we witness; but as the sage: " I desire that the oscers of my Army should lin g ered °NW. tbe i mot Painful" ... ant ebedaate disorders, .who D u bs '. 1 great criminal is the flyksinus Destructor, I shall cots- not endeavour to support their dignity by vindictive and aid deer flied aft obst errest inat awed"Pnielleni e g V tuan en dPerfret ereal lab9. '. 't . .' le P and coln h u eal th li ps e i v ain eral P t : W Guer at int rg y and . Jersey . •• :' • .. 4 1 I P tent myself with giving his history ) from which that of sanguinary outrages, which they draw7down upon them- t d*h tice he , c is t f le ge e b i n r a a b t f l elD t. f. r E4l •T D;% t hi be w v bo niosi realittlablee been , id the' haltit-:Etaptions, Pain; : 1-1 2 8baa t nd erram i n ICI : i i the others little differs. selves. I require of them that they shall preserve their The HA:kilts Destructor is a brown beetle .with a dignity by conduct at once decent and moral, in ab r. um e - HI alt-WATE aar LONDON. pelithed black•head and thorax, and isin this its perfect stiOning from actions which are alike repugnant to the. booms, Mention, an d leiti4 Dinineee, n— of Ned " °a ' the 'hi."' _ .04.1.sia :nsith s* moons the symptom, .. , . sir vriagssk•satte throughout • the summer months. It laws of honour morality. -In making known these >< t. out of hiz itfeet . - • . -.19 . ana 3r daily 6y patient -' • tis erne its attacks in a great degree . to the sentiments to the Army, I must add, that it is aaietiog glgaa ih ,„ • Prcmg Xlie - octor is -- - • • • Viewer blight to prevent for die present' to myself to fi nd. so comisoasised a dam e justly eels- ; 7 9" 1 /11 * at "P' ; liced; liwirf,' nifieft.stret4,lositn.l AitFnionn i . oanting of any „young elina in the park. inutile i s . s , or‘itivet, Sithfsiars in& Waterloo Roods( brpersoo, frost every , • LONDON P r in te d,... r e . . . . I ,lnoutk, cm,t,.,a 4 hy.tat is r. k , „ it „ id) .cuchongl fee. .• • _ _ r a t tl ei po li b e ll im ib i . • • ILISSETT V. CHAPMAN, GARNISHEE OF SMITH. This was a case tried under circumstances of the pe culiar privileges of the city.of London, permitting the citizens to attach, in the Mayor's Court, any money of a defendant, which might be in the hands of a third' person, who in such cases is called the Garnishee: The case was proved, and a verdict given for the plaintiff, £1 50. The ItEcorinzlt took occasion to observe, that the pri vilege which the Court possessed of making the Gar nishee responsible tct creditors for money placed in his hands by their debtors, was the means of preventing in numerable frauds upon those who gave credit, and, in fact, had recovered millions of pounds, where; under other circumstances, pence could not have been recovered. DEATH Bir Fine.--Sunday evening a fife broke out in the house of .Mrs. JNPQmn, Prince's -street, adjoining Great IlernUtate.street, East Smithfield, which entirely destroyed the premises, but which, by the timely arrival of the hie engines, was. prevented front spreading. We are sorry to add, that Mrs. m , Qt-e4 was burnt to death. Her corpse was found in the back room, where the fire is supposed to have originated, in a shocking state. A lodger also, who occupied apartments in . the second floor, was severely injured by the sheets breaking with which he attempted to descend from the window tri the ground. An Act of Parliament was passed in the last Session, authoriiing the transport of convicts to any of our Co lonies, for the purpose of being employed in any of the public works carrying on in them for their improxe ment, and in consequence the ANTELOPE has. been com missioned at Chatham by Lieutenant Hinz, for the pur pose of conveying a considerable number of them fo Bermuda, wheie docks are formi ng, and - other consi derable naval plans are projeeta The ANTELOPt will lie at the island five years. Friday se'nnight, Mr. Hutton, blacksmith, fell from a height of nearly forty feet, in the new Lunatic Asylum, Perth, by the giving way of a plank on which he stood measuring some work. His legs were breketi•in two places, and his head and body sadly.lacerated. lle was carried home perfectly sensible, but expired in great pain at an early hour neat morning. The child at Newton Stuart, with the alleged legends in its eyes, is become.the subject of considerable wagers. Last week three Gentlemen travelled post from Glasgow to see it, and determine . the question; but they did not find it at home. The mother is married to a man who shews the child to lovers of marvels. The child has. been brought to Glasgow, and examined by a number 'of medical Gentlemen and others. The appearances, which we: e said to be "John Wood" on the right eye, and " born in 1817" on the left, are merely white streaks, like net work on the blue of the iris. These have been interpreted to be letters or figures, in the same way as witches are fancied in broom bushes, or palaces in an expiring fire, or oceans and islands in the evening sky' s ; or any other embodying of preconceived notions on in distinct forms. It is probable that the person who first started the motion of an inscription, had seen one of the old watches whose faces have the Roman letters run to gether in an ill-defined manner. :Had the letters and figures really existed, indicating the year of the child's • irth, and name of the man said before hand by the mother to be its father, it would have been one of the most perfect miracles on record. A host of witnesses; were ready to testify. its truth, and are yet disposed to' adhere to the story ; btit the bettors have all given in. On the evening that the Gaelic Society patronised, the Perth 'Theatre; between the Play and the After piece, Dr. STEWART, the President, accompanied by a deputation of the Society, retired ; and having sent for: Mr. RYDER, the Manager of the Theatre, who has for years past been a worthy member of the Institution, he, after a neat address, presented him, in the name of the Society, with a handsome Highland broad sword°, which was gratefully acknowledged by Mr. 'RYDER. On the one side of the sword there is the following in scription Plesented•by the President and Members of the Gaelic Society of Perth to COMET RYDER, Esq. Manager of the Northern Circuit Of. Theatres, for - his• politeness in accommodating them •gratditoullt With the use of the Perth Theatre, &c. for their coM-., petitiOn of pipers; 4nd also in testimony of their admi ration of him in. his delineation of Highland characters, and as the best representative of Rob Roy at preient on the. Stage.-1823."—0n the other side of the sword there is the following inscription in Gnelic "Ars Wryer, ani guar aoldtar, • • Agus net emir saws tai sok k smair:" Which may be Englished thus ; . • Draw me not without cause, . Nor" pit rite oplut wisfi • The blade was at onetlint , tbivrOpettt of the famous Rob Roy WGregor.—Perfil Coon*. Copy of a letter to Mr. Methuen from his Garchver : " Hooted Sit—My wif an I hal* taken - the Inn in* Illbasor. Jenny Cedar has lost • her -head, the rest of the scrubs The Olen are. coin down to praise the Gods... • • -••-• • • from your bassi* spoof What he meant to say was-- HonOnted Sir—My wife and I have taken th i : re lrg. Ttie Virginia cedafllas loft its heart - the nest of the well. The auctioneer **Odom!' to appraise the goods. ' •' *. • • sachy is tbi elect Oeraeferance and i induitr7 n ske icienee of Mediane, Out *OO INSOLVENT DEBTORS' The following insolvents we opposition, viz.—William Mom Edward Joscelyn (debt only £24 has twelve children, ten of who, ent on him), and Ann Burton ' Harriet Macfarlane, and Giacom to be out of custody ; hence th from the cause paper. Samuel James applied for his not opposed either by Mr. Pinfc tor, or any other person. The insolvent underwent a ri ; I I CuIEFCOXMISSIONER. He at in February or March last by fold, con which day . he gave a another creditor for £B5, of di , 'livery-stable-kpeper in the City judgment, and, swept away all t Mr. Burgess wits called, and 1 vent's testimony in this particul4 The CHM COMMISSIONER of no.opposition was offered, a cl, undue preference never came judgment of the Court, therefi, vent be remanded for six mont fined within the walls of the pris POLICE 1N TELI IkIANSION-H( Mr. Elia was summoned before the WOOO, by the Solicitor for the Custom in elackfriars-road, three pieces of oh bited from being imported into Great J fur was 12100.—1 t was proved by au I traced to the house in question. The defendant's Solicitor coutended of"the parcel declared to be prohibited, of the house, which he wished to Magistrates were determined to cowl. the Revenue had promised, if I.is Ihtee-foutths of the penalties. Une.Solicitor for the Customs. deni dared that the promise made ;von t penalty sbquld be mitigated. The exte the Magistrates. The Loan Mare& said the candid(' ami the defendant had actually entered Alderman WOOD said, that at such a talfields manufacturers were in a condi traband trade greatly to be condemned speculations 'must expect punishment Ladies could be led to imagine, that ev not inferior to what came Iron) abro . ad. Finally, the Magistrates consented t( I