Star. — London, England, 1821-12-27 00:00:00

~; BYE-PAST TIMES. From Thies Telescope, to *hick we were ado, Indebted - • Saturday for " Chrismas Clanilsole The sky is blue, the sward is green, The leaf upon the bough is seen, The wind comes from the balmy west, The little sonpter builds its nest, Tbe bee hums on from Rower to flowery Till twilight's dim and pensive hour : The joyous - year arrives ; but when Shall byefast times come back again ? I think on childhood's glowing ran, Bow soft, how bright, the scene appears! Bow estin, how cloudless, passed sway The long, long summer holiday ! I may not muse, I must not dream. Too beautiful these visions seem rot earth and mortal man; but when Shall bye-past times come back again? I think of sunny eves so soft, ' • Too deeply felt, enjoyed too oft, When through the bloomy fields I rov'd With her, the earliest—dearest loved; Around whose form I yet survey In thought a bright--celestial ray, To present scenes denied ; and whets • Shall bye-past times comeback again? Alas! the world, at distance seen, Appear'd all blissful and serene—. An Eden, form'd. to tempt the foot With crystal streams, and golden fruit; That world, when tried and trod, is found A rocky waste, a thorny ground, We then revert to youth ; but when Shall bye-put times come back again? BOXING. The Christmas-bozen had their gains yesterday, and the ama teurs of the fist had their frolic also, in no less than four prize battles—it was altogether a day ofjollity. The best battle of the four was in Harpers'-fields, between Edmunds and Williams, two very brave men, who stood up to each other until their share of sense was bit away. In the first round the men flew from the scratch to their work, and never left off until Williams was thrown by supe rior weight. 2. A gallant round in favour of Williams, who hit his adver- airy dot;n. 5. Weight told with Edmunds in this round, and after a good bitting rally, Williams was floored; he received a smart right handed bit in going down. 4. Ezertiou had tired the men, but they unmuzzled again, and dealt out slaughter; Edmunds had the best of the round; he had hi.. ma. , under in the tall. S. This round was decidedly in favour of Edmunds, and al though his opponent wanted strength to keep at fast work, yet he fought until nature left him piping, and he was floored. Ten oilier rounds were fought—the whole occupied twenty two minute. of real fighting. Williams remained well at his work until be was beat by a hit on the side. The battle was for twenty guineas. A stet.no battle was fought between Ir. Cremes, a man of acience, and Hod, the tinman. It took place in a field at Cholesley, iddlrsez. It was for ten guineas a-side, and al though it bated but ten minutes, it was a real smashing one. The fiat round won the battle; it lasted eight minutes, in which a dozen hits at least were exchanged, and neither would go. down. Holt received a tremendous hit on the side, which floored ~itn. 2. Oreaves followed his lack, and Holt, although bent double, fought tremendously ; be did much execution, but was hit corm p:tratively dead by a blow behind the jugular vein, and lost by not appearing to time. The third fight, in the same ring, was an apology for one.— The fourth was at larefield, Herts. . From the following circumstance may be the origin of Christmas-boxes, now almost forgotten The Romish Priests had masses said for almost every thing. When a ship went on a voyage, the priests had a box in her, under the protection of some saint, and the poor were desired to contribute to this box, that masses might be said for them. This treasury was not to be opened until the ship's return. The mass, at that time, was called Christmas ; the box, Christ; maa-box, or money collected against that time, that the priests might say masses to the saints, and entreat the forgiveness of the debaucheries of the people at this season, and from this, servants had the liberty to get box-money, that they, too, might be enabled to pay the priest for his masses, knowing well the old proverb--.. No penny no Paternoster. Kincardineshire Turnip Sweepstakes, for 1821.—A subscription having been formed, under the auspices of the Kincardineshire Agricultural Association, fur a sweepstakes for the best field of turnips in that county, of not less than four acres, five farms, in dif ferent parts of the county, were entered in competi tion, and two respectable farmers named as Judges, having minutely examined the several fields, on all of which great merit was displayed, awarded he stakes to JAMES INN es, Esq. for a field on his farm of Nether Balfour, of Durris. When MAXIMILIAN IL was Emperor of Germany, two Gentlemen, the one a Spaniard, the other a Ger man, having asked of him in marriage his natural daughter, the beautiful HELEN SCARIPEQUINN, the Emperor told them that he held both in equal esti mation, and wished that their strength and dexterity should decide the matter between dremselves. As the friend of both, however, he took the liberty to propose, instead of risking their lives by a duel, they should procure a sack, in which he who contrived to put his adversary should espouse the Lady. The two Gentlemen, • accordingly, contended more than an boar before the assembled Court, when at length the Spaniard fell: on which the German, ANDREW Ease.' MARI), Baron de Talbert, placed his rival in the sack, took him on his back and deposited him, to the iefi mite diversion of all the spectators, at the feet of the Emperor; and next day married the beautiful HELEN. Mr. WALLACX.--IL is with regret we copy the fol lowing paragraph from the National Advocate (a New York Paper), of December 1, which has arrived. It states, that "Mr. WALLACE, being on his way to 'Philadelphia, was upset in the stage near Brunswick, by which accident his leg was broken in two places below the knee. The horses, it appears, ran away down the hill near New Brunswick, and dashed the ferriage to pieces on the bridge. Several passengers Isere also injured. This accident, serious as it would • be to any person, is peculiarly so to Mr. WALLACE. Just . arrived from England, where he left his wife . and children, braving every danger to acquire fan* and profit in his profession, and in a strange country, he . meets with an accident which must confine him: . for a considerable length of time, andteprive him of those facilities which he had reason to calculate upon. The accident is generally regr etted ; few strangers p oss essed more Wad; than r. WALLACE, public Ord private.", MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. • Tuesday afternOcnt six persons, three young men and three females, respeEtable tradesmen's sons and daughters, hired a skiff of a bbat-builder for the-pur pose of taking an airing on the water; two of and the young men rowed the bo at up to Millbank, about five o'Clock.returned toward Somerset-House with the ebb tide, which flowed very rapidly. The young men found the boat unmanageable, and they were carried on the Surrey side of the River with great velocity, in a direction where a number of barges lay moored off. They, with all their exertions to alter the direction of the boat, became alarmed, and called with all their might for assistance • but before any one could arrive , the skiff ran foul of the roads, and stresk under :he heads of the barges, near Mr. Loris umber-yard, with great force. By the violence of the concussion, two of the party were thrown into the water, and the other four were in imminent danger. The screams of the unfortunate persons were heard by the officers on board the Thames Police brig, and by the watermen at Strand lane stairs. George Heath, senior, a waterman, took a boat, and, accompanied by one of the Thames Police officers, rowed to the spot from whence they heard the cries of distress. It was very dark, but the shouts of the distressed led them to the place, and they saved four of the party. Two of them had been carried by the tide down the River, and sunk to rise no more. The persons drowned are MARY ANN LACCOHICE, aged IS, the daughter of Mr. LACCOHES, a respectable grocer, of Union-street, Southwark ; and BENJAMIN LAwsoN, a young man who paid his addresses to her. On information of the melancholy circumstance being given at the house of Mr. LACCO• HEE, it was found that he was gone to Norwich, and what is most affecting, she was his only child, and he lost his wife very recently. Thursday, a wayfaring man stopped at Coal Barn, in the Parish of Benenden, Kant, and talked to the thrasher apparently in good he4lth, but, on turning away, he dropped down dead. He is supposed to be a native of Leigh. An Inquisition was taken yesterday, at Bartholo mew Hospital, on view of the body of Atm Cosgriffi, a fine girl, aged eleven, who died of the injuries she received in consequence of her clothes accidentally catching fire, during a temporary absence of her pa rents. Verdict— •“cidental Death. The Sovereign steam-packet, which had been un deigoing some repairs in the Canal Basin, at Glou cester, exploded on Saturday last, forcing out the off side of the engine-room, and carrying the frag ments to a considerable distance. One man was forced overboard, after being scalded in a small de gree, but was almost immediately picked up by 1 , the boat, which, being employed in carrying out an anchor, had just cleared the scene of danger. A boy was much scalded, and carried to the Infirmary in a dangetous state; as was an eminent scientific Gentle man, who happened to be in Gloucester on business, and was induced to witness the trial of the machinery. lizaring the explosion, he threw himself oa the floor, and beil.g in a confined place, he could not very readily be extricated ; but every effort was made, and, when got out, he was found to be dreadfully scalded from the knees downwards, and otherwise much injured. Several' houses in and about Union-street, in the Borough, were on Tuesday last suddenly inundated by the overflowing of the common sewers. The acci dent was occasioned by the sluice-gates of these chan nels having been incautiously left open at a time when the tide was returning ; and it has doile very considerable mischief, as the lower parts of the houses in that neighbourhood ale made the deposituties fur the different descriptions of merchandise. During the gale, on Sunday morning last, a barn, at Horsebridge, belonging to Mr. A LLiVORK, was blown entirely down. At the same time the ball on the top of the steeple of Hellingly Church was struck by lightning, and nearly destroyed. A few nights ago two young men obtained lodg ings - at the Dundee Arms, High-street, Wapping, under pretence of setting off next morning in one of the Gravesend boats, which takes passengers, &c. to and from thete. They retired to bed eitily, and in the course of the night, it is presumed, previous to the landlord, Mr. MINSHAW, going to bed, they contrived to enter his roam, and rifle the desk therein of £224, ,in notes and gold, with which they escaped unperceived by the family. One of the notes, which was for £lO, was traced next day to the Bank, and others to the possession of a slopseller in Rosemary lane, who, it appears, had received them in payment for apparel. Information being given to the Police, one of the fellows concetned in the robbery was ap prehended by two of the Lambeth-street officers. He and the slopseller were examined yesterday at the Thames Police-office, when the former was remanded, and the latter held to bail for a misdemeanour in re ceiving the notes, which appear to have been paid him by the prisoner and his accomplice, after the robbery being advertised. A Heastir.—Last week two men at work in the grounds of St. Pierre (Colonel Lawns's), were sur prised at the appearance of a column of smokt arising from the middle of some very thick coppice, almost impervious to human approach. Upon further scru tiny they were alarmed by the discovery of an apex- Lute, which, upon examination, conducted them into an excavation, where they discovered a being scarcely of this world, in appearance' t least. His body was hardly covered with the remnants of former habili ments, and a beard almost patriarchal. On being questioned, nothing satisfactory was gathered • and, except stating that he had not been a resident Of this cave for more than three months, no answer could be obtained. His first discoverers made a penny of 'their hermit, as they termed him, by exhibiting him at two-pence a-piece at a public -house in Chepstow, for some days, until his commitment to Monmouth jail for three months by Colonel Lawns, as a rogue and vagabond. Whether an escaped felon or frau dulent debtor, his beard bespeaks his cause of retire ment of no recent date, although it is conjectured that when shaved and humanised he will prove more juvenile than his present aspect bespeaks. No means of subsistence appeared' saving a few remnants of potatoes, stolen from the net siting and a quantity of bean-smell. POLICE. GOILDITALL-.-A handsome young woman, far gone in the/Cosily way, was yesteiday brought up for exa mination. She had gone to market on Saturday night , and being there seized wish a longing for a very large fat goose, which her pecuniary circumstances did not enable her to become the purchaser of, she took it up, and was walking off with it, when the poulterer discovered his loss, pursued, and gave her into cus tody. The compl ainant, however, having recovered his property, did not attend yesterday to pursue the charge, and Alderman "Snow; discharged her with a mild admonition. Martitioaounu-sTam.—Yesterday a watchman of St. James's Parish entered this Office with a boy of very prepossessing appearance in his custody, as a vagrant. The prisoner was raggedly dressed, and appeared to be very much dejected, but his appear ance and address bespoke something above the com mon order. The watchman stated, that about three o'clock yesterday morning he found the prisoner asleep in one of the buildings in the New street, and on ques tioning him, he said he had no home, and it would be a Charity to shelter him in the watch-house. Mr. DYER, the Magistrate, remembered the prisoner having' been once before at the Office in the course of last week, under a similar charge. Magistrate—How de you get your living? Prisoner—l have no means of getting my living. Magistrate—Have yen any friends in Landon? Prison?—Yes, Sir, • I have a father. Magistrate—What is your father? Prisoner—A Gentleman. Magistrate—What sort of a Gentleman? Prisoner.--Latterly be has been in an eminent way of bug. ness in the London-road, near the Obelisk—his name is Weiler. Magistrate—And why are you not with your father. I sup pose he has discarded you fur some misconduct? Prisoner—(ln tears) - He has your Worship--its too true. Magistrate—Well, you had better write to your father, ex pressing your sorrow, and beg of him to forgive you. Prisener—That I have done so repeatedly that I fear it would be a vain effort to gain his pardon. Magistrate—l don't know what to advise you to do else. In answer to other questions put by the Magistrate, lie said that his father was formerly a Lieutenant- Colonel in the Army, and was one of the Commis sioners of the Lottery. He then resided at Black heath Cottage, and was a person possessed of con siderable property, but he did not receive any as.iit ance from him. His brothers and sisters lived with his father. The prisoner's mind seemed to be absorbed in thought, when he said that his life was so very mise rable that he would willingly go into the workhouse, if he knew how to proceed. lie was advised to ap ply to his parish, but ultimately ordered to wait for the parish officers. His tale excited great sympathy. MARY-LA-BONER OMCE.—Yesterday, an ill-look ing fellow was brought before the Sitting Magisti ate, charged with feloniously stealing a tin tea-kettle, a tea.not, a pair of stockings, a nightcap, a handker chiehandker- chief,aud a piece of flannel, the property of Robert Daniels, bachdor, of James-street, Manchester-square. The prosecutor stated, that Christmas-day was a day above all others in the course of the year. .on which he indulged himself at the shrine of Bacchus, and being invited by some of his friends to spend the , day with them, be consented, but the effluv:a of Hodges's best, &c. which was handed about rather 'freely, began to have effect upon him, and he was making the best if his way home, when he staggered against the prisoner, who very kindly proffered his services to support him home—they staggered home togetlier. On arriving, he asked the prisoner to make him some tea, while be laid on the bed to have a nap. The prisoner thought it better to make of while his" worthy host was clasped in the arms of Morpheus, and instead of preparing the tea, he packed up ready to start, when Daniels awoke, stomped his guest, and exclaitned, Danis, you have done that which you ought not to have dotte, and you have neglected the tea." Dennis replied , bad not rubbed him ; but an instant search was demanded, when on undoing the handkerchief the robbery was detected. Mr. D. turned constable, and brought him to the Office. The prisoner did not deny the robbery, and was committed to take his trial. QUEEN-SQUA as.—Yesterday a young man, in the family of Mr. J. Pollard, the master of Brompton Boarding-school, was charged with felony. Mr. Pollard stated, that the prisoner had been in his ser vice since April last, and had received warning to leave, but waited till he bad put the house in otder before he quitted the place. On Monday last lie had a party to dinner; the prisoner waited at table. After the cloth was removed, and the plates, spoons, &c. had been taken to the kitchen to Be cleaned, the prisoner came to him, and informed him that the plate and some other articles had been taken out of his knife.cellar, and that he suspected the sei vants had played bins a trick. On enquiry among the servants, they knew nothing u hatever of the property that was missing. The prisoner then said, that he thought some boys who reside at Chelsea had taken it ; but being strictly questioned as to the truth of his statement, he became confused, and gave such contradictory stories, that he became suspected of having stolen it himself. Being challenged with the fact, he became exceedingly agitated. Maybank, the constable, was sent for, and the prisoner was con veyed to Chelsea watch-house. After he was taken' there, some of the school-boys stated that they had frequently seen him go into the court adjoining the house ; he (the witness) and the constable searched , die place: they found concealed, under some weeds ' and rubbish, four pounds of white and yellow soap in a pillow-case, and other property which had been' stolen. The prisoner being taxed with having placed the property there, admitted the fact, and 'said that his mother was to have come that night to take it away. Maybank corroborated the above, and added, that he had searched the house of the prisoner's mo ther, and had found four towels belonging to Mr. Pollard. The prisoner was committed for examine don on a future day. LAMERTR-STREET.—J. Barber and J. Burrell were charged by Mr. James, proprietor of a Menagerie, with the following robbery :—Mr. James stated, that c t i hiat h shhwe e ega roogettshtbe between Menagerie, prisoners wdwmei aehen w ta e ai rim r oie e ifftmoeaxwal i a i lah: o n his a ih a d ai s e n . isßemdrdpavofiriai c e qco a sere ; .:theo t intleM ondaylatteru nda y cm ye ST/ t a Sod week which i sv isi t e vi n as h i :d isse tl: l e fm so m le animal could dnot m be at t l a a k ge en m w en ith t, o an ut d h f is rom kno w w h l i ed eh thle.e Witness t hi the Metropolis, and at he different Repositories' length ditcovered it at die houil of lir.Kente fancier, &e. in Whitbcliapel-road. Mr. Kent stated, that on the 14th inst. Burrell came to his shop, ac . companied by another man, of whom he purchased the animal for £2 4s. The person who sold the ani. mal was known at the shop, and it was not conceived necessary to ask him how he came by the property. The prisoners were remanded. ‘l7 iv oasntr-sraiter.—Yesterday, a long investiga. don took place in the case of a Benefit Siciety v. one of its Members, charged with imposing on the So.. ciety, by .• pretending sickness."—The business was adjourned to Saturday next. HOLYDAY FRAYS. In the early part of Tuesday a vast number of persons assembled in the vicinity of Saffron-hiu. and from thence proceeded to the Crown public-house, in Chick-lane, to celebrate Christmas. The party % which consisted chiefly of Irishmen, had nut been long seated before several Smithfield drovers cinema the room, when a general disturbance took place._. In the hurly-burley every one was anxious to iTt at the best means of defence, and pots, pokers, ma every other portable article, were instantly put in re• quisition, and a grand fight commenced. The bernians defended themselves with their well. kno wn weapon, " a sprig of shillelagh," with great ga lantry ; but, unfortunately, 1. Donnelly having been deprived of his stick, seized a poker, and struck ore bf the drovers. Another, armed with a riVhlntk, made a rush at Donnelly, %%hen the latter stritc drover, and fractured his skull in a most dreadful manner. Fortunately several City officers arrived and prevented further mischief. The wounded //in was taken to Bartholomew's Hospital, aid Donnelly to Giltspur•street Compter, where he was brought from, before the Sitting Magistrate, Al lem:in S CLAUDIUS S. HUNTER, who remanded him mail the fate of the wounded man is known. In consequence of the immense mob, a gang of thieves exercised their avocations in the most successful, and at the same time most daring manner. In this unfortn nate business more than twenty persons have be es ses iously wounded. • During the whole of Chri ,tm is-day the ne;gl;hons. hood of Peter-street, Golden-square, was a scene of the most disgraceful confusion. A party of Irish men from Connaught ploceetle i t sheet, in order to insult the Munster-men, who chiefly irhabit Pete,:-street, and, for the I.urpose of excitin. then to a hairle, they insulted several females (t...e wires of the °NA:like part)), which gave rise to a , le•perae tight between two the rufha is. w ith the • fists.— , After fighting for a length of time the parties were ue irly dead-beaten, and carried awa ? In. asskance. This Fcht gave rise to many others in the mouse of the day, between the opposite parties. who unfor. tunately escaped the vigilance of the Hun. of persons stood by and itnessed the bruul encounters, appatertly with the greatest The parish are adopting every measure to stop suck dis k graceful scenes in future. • Yesterday evening a number of the convicts left the Old Bailey in caravans, escorted by a troop the 14th Dragoons, on-. their way to Sheerness to embark for Botany Bay. The Convicts displayed the most unfeeling hardihood, and cheered when they tet off. ROYAL CLEMENCY.--The KING has Iven pleas!d to grant a free pardon to eight convicts whoa:e co;:- fined in Newgate, one of whom was capitally con victed, and others under , entence of transportation for various periods. Among them' are the names of Mary Troop, P. O'Egau, T. Evans, t►drrat, Arnntruz, and Pott, mho, together with• Tipper, was capitally convicted at the Sessions before last for a forgery on Wiiliams arid Co. of Birchin-lane, the particulars of whose trial we reported at considerable lengtholle Under Sheriff arrived with the pardons on Monk night, and the prisoners were discharged on Tee.day. Tipper is detained to take his trial on another charge, at the next As , izes for the county of Hertfurd. A doubt arising at .the time of the trial, a point waste ' served for the opinion of the twelve Judges, which ' was, that the conviction be affirmed ; but owing to some mitigatory circnmstances, the Royal clemency has been extended to one of the offenders. For Job Jacobs, whose singular case has considerably ercitoi the interest of the Public, in the course of last weeks free pardon, or what is equivalent to it, commutation of his punishment to three months imprisonment, eras received at Newgate. No man's lite was, perhaps, ever placed in jeopardy on such slight and indeed trifling evidence. BIRTH. Dec. 13, at Guernsey, the Lady of Capt..l. Wyn M Webb, af a daughter. MARRIED. Lately, Thomas Yates, I‘l.D. of Brighton, to Olive, widowd the late Frederick Charles Street. Esq. DIED. At Lewisham, Kent, on the 234 inst. Major Fead, of tie Royal Regiment of Artillery, son of the late Lieutenant-Gala Fead, of the same Corps. On the 22d of May, at Keshme, in the Persian Gulf, dt bilious fever, Lieutenant Samuel Peregrine Palmer, of the f.d, or Marine Battalion of the 12th Regiment of Bombay Infest'; a young man whose urbanity and gentlemanly manners endeared him to all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Dec. 6, at 3lusselburgh, Richard Jones, Esq. late of the OS' toms, Edinburgh. Suddenly, in October last, Mr. Moncrief Blair, of the lIes• treal Bank, son of the late Rev. John Blair, CohnonelL July 27, at Batavia, aged 38, Mr. Wm. Leslie; and, se tis 9th inst. at Boghall, aged 33, Mr. Andrew Leslie, farmer; 8 61 of the late Mr. William Leslie, Kinpbarns. Dec. 15, at Re.ht House, aged 37, Sir Harry Nieven Lund* Bart. of Auchindoir. Dec. 21, at Hutings, Mrs. James, wife of Lieutenant-0 1991 Elphinstone. Nov. 29, suddenly, Marjery Reid, spouse of Mr. J. INA merchant, Aberdeen, deeply and deservedly regretted. , Saturday, in Upper Gower-street, Harriet Ann, daugiter• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Dance, aged ten months. On the coast of Africa, on the 4th of August last, Baru" Assistant R. S. Gillespie, Esq. At Arcot, on the 7th of August last, William Cairo Lech Lieutenant Bth Madras Cavalry, son of the deceased Nil* General William Lockhart, of his Maiesty'a MAILS TUIS Dublin 1 1 Waterford 1 2 Guernsey and Jersey 0 3 Lisbon 0 0 Holland 0 0 Donagadee 0 0 AIM PI France e 0 Hamburgh 0 0 Flanders 0 0 ' Jamaica 0 0 Gouenburgh 0 3 Leeward Islands 0 ..°..... - - - ... HIGH-WATEltat LONDON HUI O(lt TO-110HW ) licrning - - 27 minutes after 4 4 ___ %. • Afternoon S 45 •- - - LONDON; Maud and published by Lnia V 44°. plate, Tesapte-Uw. T" grO Make. 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