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1= ODE TO AN INDIAN' opiep, ppm. Iron= tx Cm=tot., Masaus, Da.LXIMIM Slave of the dark and dirty mina! • What vanity has brought thee bees? Bow can I love to see thee shine So bright, whom I have bought m dear? The tent ropes flapping lone I hear For twilight converse, arin In up: The jackal'', shriek bursts on mine ear Where mirth and music seed to charm! By ChErleil's dark wandering strewn; Where cane-tufts shadow all the Wild, Sweet visions haunt my waking dreams, Of Teviot lov'd while stills child, • Of castled rocks stupendous pil'd, By Zak or Eden's classic wave inert loves of youth and friendship sued, Oncurs'd by thee, vile yellow slave! Fade, day-dreams sweet, from memory fade! The perished wish of youth's first prima, That once so bright on fancy play'd, Revives no m.re in after-time. Far from my sacred natal clime, I haste to an untimely grave; The daring thoughts that soar'd stabile Are sunk in ocean's southern wave! Slave of the mine ! thy yellow light _ _ Gleams baleful as tlie . tomb-fire drat A gentle vision comes by night, . 111 y lonely widow'd heart to cheer; Her eyes are dim with many a tear, That once were guiding stars to mine; Her fond heart throbs with many a tea— -1 cannot bear to see thee shine! For thee, for thee, vile yellow slave! I left a heart that luv'd me true; I eross'd the tedious ocean-wave, To roam in climes unkind and new. The cold wind of the stranger blew Chill on my wither d heart; the grave Dark and untimely met my view— And all for thee, vile yellow slave! Ha ! com'st thou now so late to mask A wanderer's banish'd heart forlorn. Now that his frame the lightening shock Of sun rays tipt with death has borne From love, from friendship, country, torn, To memory's fond regrets the prey, Vile slave, thy yellow dross I scorn!— Go mix thee with thy kindred clay ! The following curious and interesting details of some particulars 4.‘f the trial of Caron and Roger are extracted trom a letter from Strasburgh, dated the Ytld, which has been seut us by a most distinguished and monarchical correspondent :—" According to the custom of Councils of War, the accused s ere taken back to prison. Immediately as the proceedings were terminated and judgment given, the Captain-Reporter acquainted the jailer of the prison where Caron was confined, that he might prepare the condemned for the notification of the sentence which was to be made to him before the guard under arms. He was dining when the gen d'iii me, bearer of the order of the Re porter. piesented - himself; - and while the jailer wrote the receipt, Caron having cast his eyes on the fatal note, called out, ' I am condemned : I expected it!' He then finished his repast. M. de Fossa, Ca i -tain- Reporter, then arrived, preceded by the guard, and read to Caron the sentence of death. He listened to it quietly, and afterwards said to the Captain, It is an injustice: but I had rather be condemned by you than by my fellow.citizens He had made a de mand for a revision of the sentence. It is not known at what time the Council w ill assemble to decide on this demand. The Baton d'Escordal, Colonel of the 25th of the Line, presided over the proceedings with much talent and dignity, and in the most impartial manner. Among the sixty v. itnesses for the defence figured Dublar (Casar Brutus), condemned to five years' imprisonment for the affair of Belfort. Called on for his description, he replied, ' A French citizen; free though in chains!'—This affair occupied the Council of War for five sittings. Caron has shewn much presence of mind in his answers, and as much skill in his questions to the witnesses. However, a sensible alteration and discouragement was observed in him in the two last sittings. AU honest men re gret that such a man should have ruined himself by becoming an accomplice of the factious enemies of the legitimate Throne, and scourges of their country." Journal des Debats. At a late Assize in Somersetshire, the Court was extremely crowded w:th persons anxious to hear a case of great interest, which stood first on the list.— The Judge entered, and taking his seat, waited till the Crier should open the Court. No voice how ever was heard—all was silent suspense. At length the Judge rose up—" Where is the C ier—what is he ab,at that lie doesn't open the Court?" When a countryman, pressing forward among the crowd, ex claimed—" He's not here; his wife's dead, my Lord, and he can't cry to-cla)." POISONOUS DOSE OF OPIUM.—At a late meeting of the London Medical S )ciety, Mr. Waay, an eminent surgeon, related some instances of individuals whom he had roused from a state of stupor (occasioned by swallowing large doses of tincture of opium), by dashing, suddenly and repeatedly, on their heads,l basons full of cold water. The effects, in all the case., were very remarkable; the stupor was so completely removed that the patients were able to swallow eme tic draughts, which succeeded in emptying their sto machs, and in obviating any bad consequences. Comma's INQUESTS —Tuesday night an Inquest was held at the King's Head, Gerrard -street, Soho, upon the body of Mr. Thomas Cottle, a master butcher in Newport-market, whose death was occasioned in the following suspicious manner :—The deceased, op Friday night, went to a neighbouring public-house, where be remained till about ten o clock ; he then strolled about the street, and at half-past twelve was found at the corner of Litchfield-street and Grafton reet, lying upon the carriage -road, bleeding. He told the watchman a man had struck him. He was taken home, but had lost the key of the street-door, a id he could not gain admittance for some time.— lie was at last admitted; he was very weak, and re- Cued medical assistance till late on Monday night; be was then in a dying state, and expired that even ing. Verdict—That the deceased met his death in C msequence of some violence he received in the street, bat how or by what means he received that violence, there was no evidence before the Jury. Another Inquest was held at the Grave Maurice, in Whitechapel-road, on the body of J. Hardman, apprentice on board the Economy, collier, lying off Stone Stairs, who was returning . to his vessel, when his boat was crushed between a tier of ships, and be was so much injured that he shortly died in the Hos pital. Verdict—Accidental Death. 4 " . Yobs 4, was ting him ML Pori r e Lad 'youthful inhumanity rarely equalled. Lewis Hart, the prosecutor, was then called.—ls between 13 and 14 years of age. Is the son of an Ming-house-keeper in Puke-street, Aldgate; wit ness is of the Jewish persuasion. Gets his living by idling quills and pencils. On the 341 of July last," recollects coming through Fleet-market, on his way Rom Holborn to his father's house; was. alone, and did not calculate upon being insulted. About the middle of the market he met the defendant, who had a large brown dog walking.after him. Defendant came up, struck him on the head with a bag which he had to his hand, and said, " You Jew thief, where have you' been thieving' now r Witness replied— " What is that to you?' Prisoner was about to of fer some more violence, but another boy passing by 4t the time interfered, and asked—" Why dO you in sult the boy? don't let me ste you do that again."-- - - Prisoner then said—" You had better .say nothing, tor I'll serve you both worse." He then called to the dog, and said, " fetch him," pointing at the prosecu tor. The animal, which was very large and ferocious, immediately obeyed the call, and sprung upon the rosecutor, whom he threw down. He bit him dread particolarly, about the groin and his thighs. Witness swears that the dog wok away a large piece Of his skirt in his mouth. Witness screamed loudly, and this brought some of the people of the market to Isis assistance. The prisoner was looking on all the time, and when the dog had lacerated one of the boys, he then pointed to the other, and repeated the words " fetch him:' The interposition of the people, how ever, saved him. Witness was then taken in men's arms to the prisoner's father's, who keeps a silver smith's shop on Holborn-hill. The persons who were humane enough to carry the boy, upon getting into the shop, begged that he might be accommodated with a chair; but its master replied" Pooh, pooh ! I have children enough of my own, and cannot do it: take him away." Mr. Simmons also added, that he kept this dog for the protection of his children. The boy was then taken away in a coach ; he had been previously taken to a chemist's shop, where some medical aid was administered. On his cross-examination witness denied that be had gifen the prisoner any offence. The boy who came up was not in his company, and had not been known to him before that time. He denied that he had pinched the dog or struck him, or swore at the prisoner; he also denied that he had walked from the market to the prisoner's father's house. Samuel Samuels was the boy who interfered on behalf of the last witness, after he saw the prisoner itrike him. He denied that he had ever known the prosecutor before that day. The dog was so nekr the prosecutor, that it was impossible any one could have intei feted to protect him from the attack. This itness did not wait to see the wounds dressed, or to know the result. Another witness, who keeps a stall in Fleet-market, confirmed the prosecutor's testimony as to the dog being set upon him by the defendant. He saw no provocation given by the prosecutor. Mr. Nathan Constant is a surgeon. He was sent for to see the prosecutor after he was wounded, whom he found in bed. The wounds were of a serious nature : a large piece of flesh had been torn from the groin, and he was otherwise much injured. There were also several marks of teeth in two or three parts of his belly. Witness desired that the dog might be sent for, as it was material to ascertain whether he was rabid. The boy's life might have depended upon knowing that fact without loss of time. The knife and caustic would be immediately necessary if the animal were mad. The pain of such an operation is extreme, and it could be safely avoided if the dog were not mad, The boy's father was sent to Sim mons's to fetch the dog, but they would not let him have him. He was sent a second time, and witness sent his own card and compliments, entreating the dog might be sent, as an exceedingly painful opera tion would be thereby saved the boy. The dog, how ever, could not be procured. Witness was then, after some delay, obliged to proceed with the operation, and four men were called in to hold the patient. He was confined to his bed for fifteen day, and then a medical man, at the desire of Mr. Simmons, waited upon him. Witness declared that if he had been permitted to see the dog, he would have been able to judge whether an operation was necessary, and the patient been spared the pain. Hart, the boy's father, was the next witness. fie went for the dog to Mr. Simmons's shop, by de site of the surgeon. The dog was refused, but wit ness, upon going a second time, was told that any person who came to the shop would be at liberty to see the animal. Mr. Simmons himself said that nothing was the matter with him, and that he suffered his children to play with him. The dog was then laying upon a mat in the shop. He was a ferocious. looking brute. - This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. C. PHILLIPS then addressed the Jury for the defence. He stated, that the strength of his case lay in skewing that the two principal witnesses for the prosecution were unworthy of credit, for the contra dictions of which he had no doubt of convicting them. This was a case got up to act upon the feelings of a Jury. He hoped to be able to chew that the prose cutor was the aggressor. Joseph Griffiths was then called—Witness said "I live with a green-grocer in Fleet-market. On the day in question I was standing by my master's stall, doing nothing. I recollect seeing two boys corning down the market ; they walked together. I saw die pri soner at the same time with his dog. One of the boys, I do not know which, pushed against him.— Simmons said filet me alone , the dog w ill bi te you." One of them then came up and squared in his face, as if to fight. Hatt struck him right in the face.— Simmons said again " you had better let me alone, the dog will bite you ; why do you use me so ; I did nothing to you." The boys said nothing, but *ent on vexing Simmons. Simmons then set. his dog to . bite them )3efore this ) Hart shook Ms bag in the' 7 7 7 1 71 m 4 ~ ~ I • '*xs saw him lying on the ground, but di4 was hurt. He was carried away betirreen - darishris of two men, walking. • A witness, who keeps a stall in Tleet-market, staid he saw the boys together half an hour before this transaction, and that they bought currants at his stall in company. (This witness was produced to nega r tive the averment that they were strangers to each other.) Witness saw the boy after he was wounded, and thought he was in such a dangerous state that he ought to be sent to the hospital. One of the boys called the other "cousin." John L. Simmons ' the defendant's father, keeps a silversmith's shop in Holborn. He hall been formerly a pawnbroker. Recollects the affair of a boy being bit by his dog. The boy's father came to ask for the dog, but witness was afraid the friends of the boy would kill him. It was an animal he kept when in business 46 over the way," when there used to be " a piece of work" amongst those who came to deposit pledges. The dog is no longer necessary in that way. Thinks him a quiet animal, and would trust his chil dren with him. There never was a complaint made against him by " the neighbours," though a perscn in Leather•lane once complained that he had bit him. Many persons brought dogs to fight - with him, and then they complained of him. Witness had 'not heard anything against him, until by the publication of this affair in the papers, he got " a bad name." Cross-examined.—When old Hart came to his (Simmons's) house, he never said he was the father of the boy that was hurt, to witness's knowledge. Will not swear he did not, he might have whispered' it. Witness denied that the boy was carried to his house ;• he was able to walk there, and did not ap pear much hurt. He never refused him a chair. Never offered to be bound for whatever expenses might be incurred in healing the boy's wounds, though he offered to pay the expenses at the chemist's shop. George W. Sweetson said he was assistant at the chemist's shop, No. 67, Snow-hill: Recollects the boy being brought in. It was immediately after his being hurt. His wounds were not serious. A medical Gentleman who was. passing by looked at them, and desi.ed witness to put on some adhesive plaister, and that all would he. well. Witness did so, and when the boy was going away, he desired that if any in flammation took place, a poultice might be put on, and there would be then no danger. Cross-examined.—There was a piece out of the wound. I should have sent him to the Hospital, for in such cases we never interfere. Thomas Simmons, brother of the defendant, said he was in the shop when the prosecutor's father came for the dog. He did not say that he was the boy's father. Witness's brother said the dog was in the shop, and any one who came might see him. Another brother of the defendant was called to corroborate the last witness, Mr. ALLEY then replied, contending that his case was not at all shaken by the evidence brought for ward for the defence. He advised the witness Grif fiths to beware of how he got out of the snare into which his prevarications led him : and Mr. Simmons w give over keeping a ferocious !mute, which was a nuisance, and would subject Mm to an indictment.= To say that the prisoner was warranted in setting his dog upon the prosecutor, even supposing the latter to have been the aggressor, was absurd; for if one man struck another in the street, and that other set a ferocious animal upon him in return, if death ensued he would be guilty of manslaughter. • The RECORDER, in a per spicuous manner, summed up the evidence to the Jury. After confirming the law, laid down by the Learned Counsel, he concluded by characterising the whole transaction as one of aggravated inhumanity and want of feeling. The Jury, without hesitation, found the defendant - Guilt!". - The RECORDER then, having conferred with the Magistrates on the Bench, desired that the father of the defendant should stand forward. Addressing him, he 'said •••‘‘ This Court have found your son guilty. llis is a great offence; but we wish to make terms, if you will give a compensation to the parents of this boy. The Court requires £3O of you. We will now see whether you, who sheaved so little feeling for the child of another man, have any for your own. If you refuse, we will have him severely punished." Simmons.—" I am ready to do whatever the Court requires." The RiCORDER.-" You do well. We would have punished him with great severity. It is only in con sideration of his youth that the Court consents to a compromise." Mr. Simmons then left the Court for the money, but the defendant was kept in custody in the meantime. The witness Griffiths was also detained, by order of tlte Court, in order to the preferring of an indict ment against him for perjury. Yesterday, seventeen other individuals were pub licly whipped in the Court-yard of the Old Bailey. The punishments in general were unusually severe, and welrust that it will have a beneficial effect on the culprits, and the youths who, in great numbers, witnessed the painful and degrading infliction. Croft, alias Capt. Menry, alias Mitchell, who car ried on extensive frauds in London recently in taking houses, furnishing them, and turning the same into looney, was taken into custody last week for stealing a chariot and a pair. of horses from a Gentleman in the vicinity of Banbury. He was lent the horses for his groom to try if they were quiet in harness. On the next day he sold the lot for £lOB, and was 'on his retreat when stopped. About seven o'clock yesterday morning, the inha bitants of Swan-yard, facing Somerset-House, in the Strand, were dreadfully alarmed at a great part of the street falling in, and exposing to view a most fearful abyss, the bottom of which the eye could not reach. On examination, it appears to have been an old covered well, and upwards of 100 fret iu depth, 80 of which is now full of water. w V"; ti Ramat IND wit4la growl& dion/AINEMIN=M• bithilisibildge near stensdoi thine **s ftir*Nests was sb preltable to the fen i r IMO decease)* so enriched his sole dam buy, * bridge of timber. This bri gri s the year 1196, in the time of King wee afterwards rebuilt by a ['tien t of Cole Church, by the help of the re belonging to the bridge and other be . contributions, It continued a bridge of timber for 215 Tears. It was then made of stone, and was 83 years in building. On the 10th of July s 1213, a fire took place on the Southwark side, *hich kindled also in the City near the northern end of the bridge. Multitudes came upon the bridge to ex: tinguish the flames, likewise in barges and boats ter rescue the people, so that between the flood and the flame three thousand persons perished. In 1915, five arches were borne down by the ice. Near the middle of the bridge, on the east side, was a Chapel, which was cdnverted into a dwelling-house, and was built at the charge of the master mason who laid the foun- Idation of the bridge. This bridge is in length 800 feet. It was formerly adorned with sumptuous buildings and stately and beautiful houses on both sides; inhabited by wealthy citizens, and furnished with all sorts of trades, and was itself a little city, whose buildings were so arti ficially contrived, and so firmly combined, that dt Seemed more than an ordinary street, for it was one . continual vault or roof, except a few void places, re served from buildings, for the retirement of passers. gers, from the danger of carts and droves of cattle that then usually passed that way. The middle parts were used for shews, tournaments, and public tiiver sions, which were suppressed at the dissolution of re: ligiotis houses, with the Chapel of St. Thomas which was a beautiful construction; it had an entrance from the river as well as the street, by a winding stair case, and in the middle was a tomb, supposed to contain the remains of Peter of Cole Church.— In one part of the bridge was a drawbridge, which was protected by a strong tower. It served to re pulse Fauconbridge, the bastard, in his general as sault on the City in 1471, with a set of banditti, in order to rescue the unfortunate Henry, then confined in the Tower. The top of this Tower was covered with the heads of traitors and unfortunate partizans; end Sir Thomas More's daughter carried away his head in a box after it had been exhibited there some time. In 1593, Hentzer, the German traveiler, counted thirty heads. The old map of the City, in 1597, represents them in a most horrible cluster. Formerly the - economical Ladies were woat to drive from St. James's to London-bridge, to make cheap purchases of the pin or needle-makers; Spanish needles were then the order of the day, and invented by a negro. The water-'works were contrived by Peter Morice, a Dutchman, in 158'2 ; they were atterw aids im proved by Mr. SorocOld, and since by that great master of hydraulics, Mr. Harley. They are allowed by all judges of such machines to be tar superior to the water-engine so much tamed at Marley, in France, which is so all contrived in its cranks that it costs considerable sums to keep it in repair. They were bast made to force the water no higher than Grace churc.:-street. The engineer obtained from the City a lease for 500 years, at the yearly ten of ten for the use of the 'chimes water, and one arch and a place for fixing his mill opon. Alien\ anis the citizen. granted him A like lease for another arch. 13y which means he grew rich, and they continued in his family tiii 1701, when they were sold to Rich ard Soarns, Citizen and Goldsmith, for £36,000; then divided into 300 shares, at £5OO each share, and made into a Company. A ewe, the property of T.G KERNS, Esq. of Spring field, in the vicinity of Mulliagar, pearled two lambs at or about Christmas last, and a few days ago brought forth another ! BIRTHS. Monday evening, in Cavendish-square, M. Keith Douglas, of a son. Sept. 19, at Droraore, county of Cork, the Lady of the Rev. B. Williamson, of a son and heir. In Limerick, the Lady of Capt. Campbell, late of the 12th Foot, of a son. . , 1,01,11DOAPAIMIIIIIIN1111".: l at : : - .111 fi t. it was Simmo ns s 1 LONDON • Z.1.11.0r 1 M 1 1. . ' Pegterd a I . 414 :119iMika40112.11Palltileakigi t bo y . of lirbb •blabrft'C't z itaV 1 lei n tafilit 1 -:filiferiaall was put to theler upos airlifilitlient ihsrging the • • - SSW bite it . Irks •. • •41141% 41111071; 1 with a. brutal assault, 'open ,Wrsti Hart, by set- not istiratt that theeffs • rdialoottaiiklib elsolki)- , jSettiefai r upon hire a ferocious aii s , oral . viand w o unde d 1 think the boy sh ak d fg leitir alitiMialie* •AO sbe In l dangerouslyjn differentp#6ll l his* body. his flying at him. The * , , g Wulf , * .:benit. is 4r. ALLEY oXned the tisi tilt* :Loy for the gate-hill. to Holborn. _ .T.brei , slifOre'irri Beattifise .4t . I secuti.n. In prefacing the evidence which he pro. only sift or'seven yards Sic. IC 'irstif*lkuiger•Wertrs ca ed getgr. 0 1 ed to offer, the Learned counsel observed, that dog. He wits never set opoii the &Ws; Nip Ibilieel vemtetpfland had no doubt of laying before them a case of Hart's hat was pulled off. The dorseized the be nevolent eosin r t•w him lvintt on the mound. but did not think he timber for 215 DIED. • Sept. 24, at Folkestone, of a typhus fever, Henry, son of the Rev. John Buller, aged 13 years. At Bessborough House, county of Kilkenny, Mr. David Wil liams, steward to the Earl of Bessborough. Sept. 22, aged 84, Mary, relict of the late Richard Harman, Esq. Surveyor of Revenue Buildings iu lvland. Sept. 24, in Tipperary, Mrs. Seymour, relict oldie. Rev. John Seymour, of Limerick, and mother of Sir M. Seymour, Ban. 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