Star. — London, England, 1823-08-20 00:00:00

LANGHORNE'S POEMS. • The Poems of Langhorne are very little read and never quoted at the present time. They have'been lung t.ince consigned to that stpuichre of genius the " Comp:ete Winks of British Poets," in whose " ponderous and marbt-t jaws" they repose, ‘‘ peactildy and quietly inhumed." Yet did the Muse of Lang 1, wne, in her happier moments, paint with an exquisite pencil, and with " colours dipped in licAvEN that never die." His characteristics, at such 'intervals, are delicious sweetness, an har monious flow of diction, tender and lovely sentiment, and a pathos, mild, delicate, and, if we may be allowed the expression:, graceful and elegant. Witness the opening stanzas of " Owen of Carton," one of the most original Poems its our language, full of beauties and defects. On Carrou's side the primrose pale, Why does it wear a purple hue? Ye maidens Car of Marlivale, Why stream your eyes with Pity's dew? 'Tis all with gentle °wares blood That purple grows the primrose pale; That Pity pours the tender flood From each fair eye in Marlivale ! The evening star sate in his eye, The sun his golden tresses gave ; The North's pure more her orient dye, To him who rests in yonder grave! Benzath no high historic stone, Though nobly born, is OWEN laid, Stretch'd on the green-wood's lap alone, He sleeps beneath the waving shade ! There many a flow'ry race hath sprung, And fled before the mountain gale, Since first his simple dirge ye sung— Ye maidens fair of Marlivale ! Yet still, when May, with fragrant feet, liathwander'd o'er your meads of gold, That dirge I hear, so simply sweet, Far echo'd from each evening fold ! A RURAL RIDE IN A STAGE COACH. BURY, AUGUST 1.5. As it was the main thing to see what sort of a I,(7rve4 we were likely to have, I determined to look about me for my self. There is no believing the London PI CSS, and as to the County Papers, they are to a man under the influence of the titled and un titled aristocrAcy. I can only believe what 1 see; and as I know that the harvest alone will, in a great degree—mind, I say in a great degree—determine the fate of the. landlords, I resolved to see, with my own eyes, what was the real condition of the crops. I therefore prepared to visit King Coke's country. As the Norfolk lads had heretofote talked much of their agriculture, I thought I would just have a peep at their looks now. I thought I would just have ano ther peep at the bloated numbskulls before the parish had compelled them to doff their top-boots, to kick the piannies out at the windows, and to mount the smock frocks. And why should they not? Who are they, I wonder ! England will never be England, till smock-froCks are again the fashion. _ _ On my road to Norfolk, I arrived here this even ing. In order to have tile day well before me, I rose as the sun began to rise, and when the lark was shaking its wings, at four o'clock. It was a glorious morning. The sun rose clear. No clouds threatened to mar the progress of the day. Ah ! my Norfolk lad s , we shall have coin at four shillings per bushel; if we have no rains, if this weather continue —remember I say, if all crops are got in, and on an average of years and seasons, I think we shall have corn at four shillings; indeed, I shall not be sur prised to see it below three shillings a bushel. We must have the smock-frocks; there will be no doing without them. Often as I have marked the rising of the sun, I think, in my life—and it has been a happy one, in spite of my insolent foes—l think I never more hear: tily enjoyed a fine morning. I had to pass all through that monstrously overgrown London to Whitechapel, to get to the coach. What with thought of the Nor folk lads; what with imagining how they will look me in the face now ; what with picturing King Coke, by the side of his neighbour Gaffer Gooch, brought to the s mock-frock ; and what with contemplating wheat at three and four shillings a bushel, I was never so much delighted with a progress through the dingy city. To be sure there were no carriages inso lently to throw up the dirt against one ; none of the mushroom gentry pompously bustling " to 'Change" —I was spaied the pangs of beholding this race; but as 64 London never sleeps," I saw thousands passing to their daily toil ; and I saw those who earned their bread ; and my heart would have been gladdened with the sight more than it was, could I have for gotten that the rewards of their labour will be wormed with cork-screw force by the tax gatherer from their pockets. Then, it was so early in the morning, there was no smoke. You could see the tops of the houses; you could see the steeples of the churches, only we could not forget that they surmounted churches, and you could even see the top of St. Paul's, the flourish ing and figuring on the new ball and cross—a cheer ing sight, and would have been more cheering had they been above any other place. My servant, who was currying my portmanteau, seemed to feel the influence of the morning and the difference of the' prospect; but he did not know what made the dif ference. I told him why he was so pleased with this clearness, even in huge London's streets. I also told him that it was ever the sonie clearness in Paris. I told him that from Mont- Moire, for instance, he could see all over Pori:; but then I added, they burn no coals there, they have nothing but wood-fires, so that they have no smoke. It was the cursed smoke, I told him, when the still more accursed tea-kettle was put on for the slop-d. inking crew, that spoiled all—it vas the smoke and the tea, I told him, which I ve rdy believed altered the characters and minds of the greedy, jobbing generation. How else, I asked, were we to account for such a falling off from their forefathers? I was at the coach half an hour before my time. Your cockneys would have been half an hour af ter their time; they must have stopped to get the nerve and' soul destroying tea. I told my servant to s:e my r ortmanteau placed safely in the boot, for Clem is no trusting the fellows about inns. I would as soon have faith in the Holy Alliance chaps. I then told my servant to put my great coat - and gloves on tie seat I meant to occupy is the coach. I also cl•arged h;rn to keep hi: eye on them till he saw me take my seat. At a quarter past six we gallopped off, helter-skelter, at a tremendous rate. Why all this haste? Why so much hurry ? To be sure the cattle were very fine ; the King, whom I honour, and al ways have supported in his crown and dignity, has not nobler carriage cattle. At Stratford-le-Bow, _I saw that both oats and wheat had been cut. They were in sheaf, and, in some instances, there, and further down the road, they were hooded—that is, the sheaf's were piled one above another by the ears, so as to turn off the wet. I would recommend this plan ; it is much used in the North. They do so in Yorkshire; they are knowing fellows in Yorkshire, almost as brave as the-brave Lancashirers ; however, brother farmers, adopt this plan if you see the rain's coming. Anything to cheat the Quakers—anything to knock down the landlords, which will be done by banging down wheat to four and three shillings a bushel. I have always said so, and though prices have got up, and keep tsp, nous verrons—which is French for we shall see. As I looked to the right, in the direction of the Black wall Docks, &c. (more of what the blockheads call " Improvements !"), I saw clouds succeeding clouds of smoke; the smiths, the factories, the dock ' vards, the steam-engines, all were at work ; there was the bustle of thousands, and all to fill the coffers of the few. We had not gone much further, when I saw, by the road-side, men picking stones to• break them for the roads. Here is occupation for English men! Breaking stones for the roads! But the men looked well ; seemed as if they had meat and beer at least twice a day ; had jackets on, and no hay-bands about their legs. But depend upon it, there was some trickery in this—it was so near London—there were so many eyes likely to be turned on the stone peckers, that it would not do to let them appear with ragged clothes, meagre looks, and twisted hay about their legs. This, however, will not do; there is no deceiving us the sytem is touched, and, like the fly in turnips, there is no cure. Just beyond Stratford, there lives a fellow who, they told me, has made an immense fortune by rowing potatoes. There's a fellow for you ! only thihk, to make a fortune by growing that abominable and mischievous toot, which is only exceeded in mis chief by the tea! I dare say he does not eat potatoes. No, no ; he knows better than that, I'll warrant him. Like the vagabond razor-maker, mentioned by Peter Pinder, a vagabond of a thymster—your moderns call them poets—what he manufactures is for sale! But thus we are jilted and gulled; and all by " ma nufacture" and " system." Well, I care not ! As we approached Romford, I saw several fields of turnips (no Swedes !); and there were some poor devils niggling at them with hoes. They appeared happy enough, such is the baneful influence of habit and of an artificial system of prices. The turnips, however, were poor, very thin; the fly appeared to have been at them. The crops would not pay ; but why should I grieve? It serves the man right; if he wanted to have good stock for his cattle, why.did he not plant Swedes? Others may pity him; I shall not. We passed the Cast/if/over Inn. This sounds some thing better than your " Duke's Head," your " Red Lion," or your " Cannon;" such signs only give people lofty notions. They get thinking about war riors, foreign countries, and battles; leave such things to " our betters." Give me the " Hampshire Hog," or the " Cauliflower" for a sign. It is three-and twenty years since I first saw the" Cauliflower." Ah! how many changes have taken place since then ! How have I struggled? Twice have I crossed the Channel to Calais; once have I been in Paris ; I have mounted the Pare de Vendome, but the statue of Bonaparte was gone; I have attended innumerable County Meetings; I have been opposed by rank ene mies and deadly hostility; but 1 have surmounted them all, and here I am, alive, hearty, and strong. Temporary or apparent defeat has only given me breathing time. The crops everywhere look well, on to Chelms ford thence to Bocking. In many instances the cut ting of the wheat was begun. Just through Chelms• ford in particular I saw twelve men in one field. The wheat was uncommonly. fine. The ears were ripened a good colour, and the straw was well dried. With very few exceptions, and those were where the bines and weeds had got rather strong in consequence of the frequent rains, the fields had a rich, bright appear ance, and the wheat, too, was full in the ear. If this glorious weather continue (for we have only had some showers), and as the men have got generally into the wheat fields as far down as here, there will be an ex cellent harvest, for there is this year an amazing deal of wheat on the ground. Should the sun shine on, the Broadbrims will lower, and Mark-lane look un commonly sulky. The oats are rather poor; but the beans in many instances have recovered froin the vermin. I have now not many fears and then down will gallop prices.. WILLIAM CROCKERY. FLAX GAMIN-G.-Mr. Bernard, of the Linen Board has been directed to proceed through the pro vince of Ulster, with the Dutch flax farmers recently brought to Ireland by the trustees of the linen manufacture, for the purpose of sheaving the mode of pulling and steeping flax as practised in the Ne therlands. In Russia, and every part of the Conti nent, flax is deprived of the bole before steeping, and it is a fact well known, that Irish flax, generally speaking, is the most irregularly prepared for market of any in Europe. The mellowness and evenness of every description of continental linen, so well known and admired by those acquainted with that manufac ture, is considered to arise from the superior quality of the flax of which it is composed, in the prepara tion of which the greatest pains are taken. Viewing the treatment of this valuable plant in the Nethet lands, in all its heal iogs, it seems, that the great art (if such it may be called) of producing it of better quality, and in a more merchantable form, than it is done in Ireland, rests solely on a well-regulated sys tem, from which no person deviates, from the sower of the seed to the export merchant—a practice wor thy the imitation of every person concerned in the cultivation of flax in this country. Wednesday se'nnight, Joseph Dale, one of the per sons suspected of the' murder of Mr. Wood, near Disley, was apprehended at Liverpool, a here he had been lurking since the murder. He had endeavoured to enlist into the service of the East India Company, but WAS rejected. He is committed to Lancaster for trial. ASSIZES. LANCASTER, AUGUST 16. DEATH FROM FURIOUS DRIVING. Mr. Brotherton, a coach pro . prietor, was indicted fox having slain Stephen Robinson, by driving over him the Bolton mail coach, on the evening of the 12th of April last. John Rogerson was on the road between St. Helen's and Prescot, when the mail coach passed. It went at the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour. Mr. Bro therton drove. They continued at that speed while he saw them. The coachman was whipping the horses. Knew the man that was killed. He was old, deaf, and wild in his intellects. Henry Alcock was with the last witness. Had no notice of the approach of the coach, until it came within a few yards. Saw them only a few roods, in consequence of a sharp turn in the road. Found it difficult himself to get out of the way. Wm. Auderton was working near the road when the mail coach passed ; it was going at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour. He had not seen Robin son before, but heard a shriek after the coach passed. In a few minutes after Mr. Brotherton came to assist the old man. His legs were broken, and he was bruised in the head. An outside passenger, who sat behind the driver' on that day, stated, that, in his opinion, the horses were going at from eight to nine miles an hour. They were in a canter. The horse's breast took the old man's shoulder. The coach had gone ten or fifteen yards before it stopped. The passengers hallooed out when the coach was ten or fifteen yards from the de ceased. The guard did not blow the horn. Mr. Bro therton, when the accident happened, could not pull up the horses. Deceased was in the middle of the road. The coach turned a little from the man, but he having stepped the same way, the horses struck him. Cross-examined.----Was in the habit of being driven by Mr. Brotherton for the last ten years, and always consideied himself very safe with him. Saw no un steadiness in his drivin that day froarLiverpool, and he was perfectly sober. All the passengers called out when they saw the old man. One got up on his legs and shouted. If the old man had stood where he was, he would have been perfectly safe. In his judgment, it was an inevitable accident. lite pri soner stopped the coach, and directed that a Dtlctor should be sent for. The Constable of St. Helen's deposed, that he was In company with the prisoner after the accident, and heard him say it might be possible that he was driving from nine to nine miles and a half an hour. He added, that they had so many bags at the Post Offices, they were sometimes obliged to drive faster. The surgeon who attended the deceased by the prisoner's directions, proved the nature of the injury, and the consequent death, which was caused by a mortification in the leg. This proceeded from the frac ture caused by the wheel of the coach passing over it. Mr. Brotherton then addressed the Jury. He regretted the occurrence of the accident, but he would conscientiously declare that it did not proceed from negligence. He was well known in the county, and could'appeal to the many Gentlemen wLo had tra velled with him, whether his conduct was not al ways careful and attentive? John Ravald Stokes, a Solicitor, and who was an outside passenger, deposed that he and the prisoner called to the man to get out of the way. He then endeavoured to check the horses, but not being able, he turned them upon the parapet. Mr. Brotherton was perfectly sober. He did not think him to blame, and no one could have behaved with greater propriety. Johti White, the guard of the mail-coach, exa mined.—The coach between Liverpool and St. He len's was behind its usual time ten minutes. It was behind between Liverpool and the place where the accident occurred; at the time, the coach was going at full speed. By the CoußT.—By full speed I met to keep time. It had got beyond the first corner about fifty yards before the accident happened. You don't get in sight of the house where the accident happened till that corner is turned. It is a pretty sharp corner. I blew the horn about 200 yards before coming to the first corner. William Acres—Superintendant of mail coaches in this district. In the paper there is a return of the horses going at full speed, by which is meant keeping their regular time allowed. They must go up and down hill 8 miles from Liverpool to Bolton. Richard Lee was passenger upon the mail, out side, in front. The driver drove as orderly as usual. He was sober. Saw the accident happen—could not say how far the person was, at the time, perhaps it was about ten yards. I called out, but the driver called out before me. Brotherton, on seeing the man, tried to pull up the horses, and turn them on the foot. path. The coach went on the foot-path, and ran near the wall, by which I was nearly thrust off. The man was in a stooping posture at the time the acci dent happened. - He rather supposed, that instead of the man looking up, he walked backwards in a bend ing posture, by which the rein horse and he came in contact. If the man had moved forward, or stood still, he would have been safe. I saw, no want of care on the part of Mr. Brotherton. I never saw the horses gallop to continue. One of the horses might have galhipped, but the rest were either in a trot or a can ter. I have often travelled with Mr. Brotherton, and I always saw him use great care. I have travelled with him for 24 years. -As soon at the accident hap pened, Brotherton stopped the coach, and desired us to get off, and carry the man to a house. As_ we were going, we met some neighbours, who told us where he lived, and they carried him home. Brotherton was very sorry, and said he would rather have given 1 .5001. than the misfortune should have happened—l said, you could not help it; it is not your fault—he said no, I don't think it is—l did the best I could to • prevent it. Several ether witnesses gave_him an excellent cha racter for sobriety and attention. Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in charging the Jury, said, he had no doubt, from the character of Mr. Brotherton, that•he was perfectly sober at the time, and that he did not intentionally do the injury. It was certainly incumbent upon coachmen either to give sufficient' Warning to the olAl and feeble, that they might keep out of,the way, or they should ive their horses at 'such a pace, that they could easily stop them, if ne cessary. Though the accident might have been i n . evitable at the moment it happened, still that was no excuse, if the prisoner h'ad' previously put his horses into such a speed that lie had nn curb over them. • The Jury, after a few ni , nire: dellieration, re turned a verdict—A o 2 A tt ue bill was fimnd agait, t Andrea, kddieg; for the attempt to as-assinate Mr. Hnrr.cks. SEDUCTION.WITif Alt V. 81111114. This was an action to recover comi . rensatidn in da mages for the loss of his ciatWiter's services, sus tained by the plaintiff in consequence of her seduc tion by the defendant. Mr. Bnotrctressi stated the case ; and Mr. SCA RLETT, in the course of the examination, de•ired the defend ant to come forward and strew' himself, " :rich created much merriment. He is a dark, vulgar, emaciated, aged man. Miss Witham, who gave her evidence in a very flippant and unreserved manner, is a smart in teresting girl, about 17, and appeared to be perfectly au fait throughout the business.— Damages KlOO, costs 40s. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MA n a OROUGIIfr n EST.—Yesterd a y James Clark was brought to this Office, before Mr. DYER the sir. ting Magistrate, charged with as extensive robbery committed on his master, Colonel Meyrick, of the Third Regiment of Foot Guards, re s iding at N0.:37, Berkeley-square. It appeared that the prisoner, who lia,l formerly been if. the bard of the 21st Regia.ent of Foot, has been for the,last two years in the service of Colonel Meyr ck, as footman, and his conduct was ucli as to gal. - . him in a great degree the confidence of his mas ter. On the 13th instant, however, ‘k lute the family of Colonel Meyrick were'at dii.ner, he toi k an oppor lUnity of going up stairs to a private room, where there was deposited a rosewood box, Cora:tilling a large quantity of jewels and other valitahlcs, to the amount of nearly one thousand pounds, witlt which he absconded. Since that time Scofield and \Vest cott, two active officers of this Establishment, have been constantly employed in endeavouring to tine out his retreat, but in vain. Colonel Nleytick dis patched die necessai y instructions to all the out ports cf Eagland, Wales, and Scotland, with a de scription of the pi isoner's person. Throagli, this means the officers at Brighton were on the alert, and on Monday evening they received information that he had passed through that toss n to Portsea, whither two of them pursued him, and ar. ived close at his heels. When they got to the house where he put up at, they knocked at his room door, but he wouLi not open it, and hearing that he was well armed, they deter mined to act with caution, and accordingly sent up one of the persons of the house to him with some thing that he required in his room, and the moment he opened the door the officers rushed in, one of them armed with a pistol. The prisoner, however, forced the pistol from the officer's hand, and was in the act of aiming it at his head, when the other instantly knocked him down, and after a desperate struggle, both succeeded in handcuffing him. The greater part of the stolen property was found upon him; other parts he had pledged at Chatham ane other places. In the meantime Westcott received information of the route the prisoner had taken, and was proceeding with Colonel Meyrick in his at I riage lowa' d. Brighton, when the officers of that town, with the prisoner in custody, passed them on the road. The prisoner im mediately said, " that is my master's carriage;" upon which Colonel Meyrick was stopped, and the whole party returned to London, and lodged the prisoner in St. James's watch-house yestei day morning at an early hour. Westcott then started with Colonel Meyrick forChatham, to seek out the propert y pledged there, and returned to town at three o'clock with the necessary information. Westcott then brought the prisoner handcuffed from the watch-house to the Office, where he underwent an examination, and was remanded.—The prisoner is a very fine looking young man, genteelly dressed, and of a powerful appear ance. I - Ic seemed to feel very strongly the situation in which he was placed. Bow-Smsert.--Yesterday Michael Darter, a green-grocer is Newman -street, Oxford-street, was brought up a second time on the charge of having beaten his horse to death. The defendant on Saturday denied the charge altogether, and produced what be called " a certificate" from one Walker, a knacker, stating that the horse died from internal decay, and not from cruel beating. The Magistrate of course disregarded this certificate, and sus about to convict the defendant, when the latter begged a post ponement, alleging that he should he able to bring witnesses who could completely clear hint from all blame. This was consented to, and yesterday the case was again called on, tut the defers dant was net prepared with any evidence to rebut the charge. He said several persons promised to come forward, but they had not appeared, and he had no power to compel their attendance. In behalf of the prosecution, Wm. Staniland, Esq. of Dalston and London, merchant, was called, and deposed that the treat ment of the horse was the most inhuman that could be con ceived ; and that the poor animal at length fell down, gave a violent plunge, rolled over, and expired. Mr. Hotta, after sonic suitable remarks upon the savage con duct of the defendant, convicted him in the full penalty of £5. He said he was unable to pay ss. and was committed to the House of Correction for three months, there to be kept to bard labour. Woasair-Svaarr.—Several persons were brought from the watch-house, charged by Hanley, the officer, for attempting ro pick pockets at the time of the balloon's ascent, at White Conduit house. Thcy were held to bail. Tht proprietor of the Tavern at White Conduit-hcuse at tended to state, that although great public disappointment had arisen from the failure of the balloon's ascent, it was not to be attributed to any intention to deceive, but to the material being of lawn instead of silk. • . BIRTHS. August 16, at Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, the Lady of the Rtv. T. C. F. Tufnell, of a son. Mary Pinces, a poor woman, residing at Mrs. Cinp,ell's, in Host-street, Bristol, was on Sunday morning safely delivered of three children, twq girls and a boy, who, with their mother, arc as well as can be expected. MARRIED. This morning, at St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, Mr. Joseph Carpenter, of Regent.street, to Miss Sarah I ladland. of Holborn. August 16, William Patten, Esq. of Ludgate-hill, to Mire Pursell, of Itickmansworth. DIED. On 1116nday, the 18th iost. a Welling, Dorothea Grabs's, wife of the Rev. Richard Davies, Vicar of Erith, Kent. 'HIS DA . ALA ILS.. A RP- DEM ••111. Dye. Dublin 1 0 France 0 0 Wa:,:rford 0 1 Hamburg's 0 2 Guernsey and Jersey 1 0 Flanders 0 0 I ast•on 0 0 Malta 9 0 Holland 0 0 Gotienbtirgla 0 0 HIGH- W ATER at LONDON-BRIDGE TO.MORROW. Wm:fig - 47 I:mute. Ile' 1 Afteritir A 4 9 minutes alter it • - - ---------"r"—"r'—'77v --_,..—..---7. LON DON : Printed and published, by Levu Ass; Pickett. Plane, Temple-Dar. i I .~ .$ t