Star. — London, England, 1822-10-23 00:00:00

TO A FRIEND IN DISTRESS. Ob ! say not that thy joys are fled, To bloom on earth no more! What, though thy kindred are all dead Tbey from this world of grief were led, To greet a happy shore! And short the hour that steals from thee Their converse and their smile: - ' Time, like a rough but narrow sea, Bears onward to eternity— Then wait and hope awhile ! And think not that for thee above Hope smiles but to deceive; What though that fairest form has down; And round the universe, not one Thy sorrows can relieve! Hope oft returns to gild the scale Usurp'd by dark despair: And many a bright transparent beam ' May gild thy future path, serene r With joys divinely fair! For thee what new delights may else! What bliss unknoWis . descehdt • Thy woes are blessings in disguise, Sent to allure thee to the skies, Where all our sorrows end! Oh ! say not then that hOpe In vain " Illumes life's ciarksome way What bib) , loss'may be thy gain. And pleisuies free from every pain, • Shall crown a brighter day! J. Z. PRESENT' STATE OF FRANCE. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER. " Pmus, OCTOIIIII 15. " Your Ministerial Prints are quite sceptical, I per "'ceive-, upon the subject of discontent in France. With 'all my heart. Request of them, however,• to . point 'out a single number of any Parisian Newspaper, 'published within the la-t two months. that does not 'contain ..;n account of at r ests, examinations, trials, sen tences, or executions, for political offences. In the JOurnals of this day, even, will be found the con demnation of two soldiers (sapeurs), for uttering se- Ilitious cries; one of them for shouting' Fiver LOtpe rear: the other, ' Vive la Liberia.' Their punish ments may be only just, but I will ask, what must be the state .•f a : -prehension of that Government which deems it criminal for an individual to read a cer tain Newspaper (Constitutio.mid), although the spirit .of all the Journals had already been paralyzed by ty xanuical impositions and restrictions,--nay, which at tempted to prove such a.circumstance as an overt act of treason against a man on trial for his life? How arbitrary or how cowardly must that Government be which inter fetes with a Prelate, and dictates a censure ,neon an u n fortunate Ecclesiastic, for accepting the I.3an of 3 number of the same Journal from one of his Ikek, it being perhaps the only one that is read by any of his pa: isz!aoners? Why are the.eextra-judicial seve rities re te,l va, if the French Government be secut e? If the a: :ily can be •elied on, why resort to such con temptible expe,:ients for • conciliating, or rather for tater ing it, as those with thesight of w !rich we are daily nauseated? If the National Guards are now 1 as Ultra Royal as they were deemed in 1314, when Monsieur entere.l l'aris at their head, in the uniform of that body, why are they now slighted, .o.d the I army' complimented at their expense? If the good City of Pat is can be relied upon, whence the neces sity fi-r a squadron of Lancers to guard Madame wherever she goes, even upon the must unimportant affair—a visit to a jeweller, for example, which was' the case a few days ago ? How ye Citizens or Lon don and Westminster would raise up your eyes in . • astonishment, were you to behold Übe of the. Miss F,'s pmceesJing with a troop of horse to Craft bourne-allev. or to Soho-square, upon any private •business I The Government of fiance • betrays its fears every moment in the day. The Government of 'France must he better infortbed upon the actual state of the country than I can possibly be—pcshapt I have .no other reason for asserting that France is one huge rokano, than the evidence of -their fears ; and even •so is not that sufficiently strong to bear me out?— The troops, and the priests, and the Bens-cr4rmes, 'and the hundreis of expectants 'connected with these different classes, are said to'vociferate enthusiatically —"Five le Roi—vivent le Bourbons,' on all possible *ckcasibits. I have been at Church ceremonies, at military reviews, at theatres,wliere the cue was given •to cry Vive le Rol,' and, on my conscience, the re ception it met with was precisely that which the Citi zens of London accorded to Buckingham'. "GOD 'save King Itichat d !" • "Some dasett of mine •wn followers at the lower end of the hall, &c. . . Belton was a marked man, so was Caron : they were accused on former occasions, but escaped for it time : sitaLe, were laid for both : they were hunted . into the toils: they are dead. But )ou will observe that the .thirst of yeni,eance has not been satiated by the death of the nnforxunate Caron ; his wife and two or three of those implicated with him, and who have been ari ested since his execution, are about to receive new pools of the clemency of Government. A Lon eon P.o.:er calls this a tirpr:Administration ; and cer tainly if unrelenting persecution, if revelling in blood constipte firmne ss , the present 'government of France posse ses, that qteility in! a high de ree. , But will it 1 be said that ibeie. measures of firm ess,. which some call severity; will have produced, tranquillity, of rendersfr,France more 14yal ?' An *ticlefrom Metz, in alEtlic Joui Nati Of th s dui, affords an answer to this question; for you ill fiad - th:4 there have been latelyleited a number p?ni4rds,;eaucsl v s i m il ar t o thoseyasitss‘d by the ' conkers de la . Liberte—the consPiratots - of Thoilart, and La 'Rochelle (Bories, Gonbin, Iltcr lhat irrefrakable testimony of return ing (tranquillity 'sled itiyaityr Friday evening; the bankiili Office of the branch of the Corn ii.ercial lippking Coniplini of Scotland at bunkeid, was .robized 4C a bole, containing a con.' siderable ,um in batik-nores;restuantitty of gold, sil veroind eppper.ceiu, and carried' off, The box was afterwareli iound; empty, , at the south end of Dun keld-bridge.' 'le'sdiEredators, it appeared, had fOl-ced one of the,yrimclgWVoi: tie office, from the oat-' side; .by sorge-isuplesseets Ouch were found on the premises exit morning. The thieves have as yet eluded detection. INTELLIGEWE. COURT OF ICING'S BENCH, OCTOBER ESL WITTE AND ANItTHER -V. HAGUE AND TOPHAM. Tois was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are resident in Well-street, Wellclose-square, to re cover a compensation for the injury done to their premises by the explosion of an engine for boiling sugar by steam, erected by the defendants. It appeared in evidence. that the apparatus in ques tion 'was erected by the defendants on the premises, and by the desire of Mr. Constant, whose premises adjoin those of the plaintiffs. In a few weeks after its erection, and beltne it was brought into complete use, it exploded, and did great damage to all the sur rounding buildings. It was clearly proved that the boiler was not of the proper thickness, and was there fore liable to accident. It was also proved that the parties, who at the time of the explosion managed it, woiked it without adequate skill. The - amount of damage was not. investigated, • as it was agreed to settle it out of Court in case the verdict should be in favour of the plaintiffs. On the part of the defendants, it was contended; that in point of lair, supposing the engineers had ens tirey resigned the controul of the apparatus to Mc. Constant ? , the present plaintiffs could- not recover for any defect in the original construction. And, in pointl of fact, it was urged .that the boiler was entirely un der the controul of • Mr. Constant, and that the de-. fondants had no responsibility for that carelessness' which had been quite sufficient alone to account for the explosion. • Evidence having been called to this point, and Mr. GURNEY having replied, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the case to the Jury. He requested that, if .they thought the boiler was in itself defective, they would find for the plaintiffs, but would further communicate to him their opinion on the point of fact, whether, at the time of the accident, it was worked by the servants of Mr. Constant or of the defendants ; because, if they thought it was still under the controul of the latter, no point.of law would arise; but if- thee thought it had passed into the care of Mr. Constant, then the point raised for the defendants would. beifairly open to future inquiry. . • The Jury found a verdict for -the plaintiffs, and expressed their opinion that the boiler was under the controul of the defendants; so that the pHint of law will not arise. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCTOBER es. •, THE KING V. SMITH. In this ca;e, which was a prchecutim on the part of a Gentleman named Coil, against the defendant for perjury, Mr. ALLEY moved, on behalf of Mr. Smith, that the recognizances be respited until next Sessions. He made this motion upon an affidavit, which stated, that through ignorance of the practice of the Court, the defendant had neglected to give due notice of trial until after the day prescribed by law. The trial had been by consent postponed until the present Ses sions, and the defendant had been misled by an old edition of Mr. Dickenson's work. tinder these cir cumstances it was hoped that the.recognizances would be respited. Mr. C. PHILLtra, on the other side, Maintained that, both in - point of law and jittice, dhe recognizances ought to be cstreated. The defendant having neg, lected to give notice of trial within the specified time, ought not to be allowed to turn round and declare that it was merely through ignorance that the error was committed. He might have been misled by Mr. Dickenson's book, but that was no season why the recognizances should be respited. The CITA IRMAN Observed, the notice had been served only fifteen hours too late, and thought that some in dulgence ought to be given fur ignorance of the prac tice of the Court. Mr. PHILLIPS thought, that under such peculiar circumstances the recognizances were never respited. In this case there were above thirty witnesses, and it was one of considerable importance. Mr. ALLEY only wished to observe, that the de fendant was a very old man, nearly eighty years of age, and ought to meet more indulgence than might otherwise be shewn; but he maintained that recog nizances were frequently respited on such grounds as those' upon which he now rested his present motion. Mr. PHILLIPS wished to know what rule the Court laid down in cases of this kind, for its future guidance? TheCHAIDAAN said, that the only rule which seemed to have been hither to laid down was to pay no re spect whatever to the judgment of the Court. Mt. PHILLIPS.—What, then, is the judgment of the Couit ? The CHAIIIMAN.—That the recognizances be re spited. In common fairness, no other decision ought to be given. Mr. PHI LLIPS.—Then the motion shall be submitted to the King's Bench. • Mr. ALLEY wished to know whether the recog nizance, were to be respited until next Sessions, or the adjournment day ? Mr. Putl c ktes said he would not decide, as he should submit the motion at die King's Bench. Samuel Johnson was indicted for assaulting John Davis. There were two other indictments involving the same transaction ; the one against Charles De. vereux and John Bohan, watchmen of St. Giles's, for assaulting James Hicks, a police officer ; and the other against John Davis, a patrol, and John Hicks, for assaulting John Jones. • . The transaction which gave rise to these variciui indictments took place near the Black Herse public house, Tottenham-court-road, on the night of .the 24:h of June, about twelve o'clock. The evidence on both sides was as long as it was contradictory, and it would be impossible to give even an outline of the facts, without occupying more space than the case is worth. It seemed to be a contest between police officers and watchmen, and the endeavour seemed to be which could give the hardest blows. Ultimately, after an investigation of some hours, the Jury found Johnson guilty, and acquitted all the other defendants. The CHAIRMAN, in his charge to the Jury, deeply lamented that such glaring perjury should have been committed by the witnesses on one side or the other. It was to him extremely distressing even to be com pelled to listed to such testimony. The judgment upon Johnson was postponed. LONDON SESSIONS .• astscoanuoT 01 STAGEAVACHMEN. Yesterday a powerful man, named Laxgridge, a stage-coach-driver, was Wed for having assaulted I Clay, also afraehman, on the 7th of July last. —lt appeared 'r am the evidence adduced by Mr. BOLLAND for the prosecution,. that the parties are Blackheath .coacbmen, and that, from.the peculiarly civil and good conduct of the prosecutor, he had been set up Kith a coach and horses, and had been strongly patronized and recommended by the Gentlemen of Blackheath. This excited a violent animosity and oppositicin on the part of the other coach-masters of the same place, who bad not the same recommenda tion to patronage. Every means were resorted to by them to prevent the prosecutor from getting passen gers, and " cads" were placed to intercept persons before they could get to his coach. On Sunday, the 7th of July last, the defendant was employed with another in " working" against the prosecutor, by in tercepting passengers. A lady with a child in her arms went to take places for four in the prosecutor's coach. The defendant stopped her, and told her not to go with the prosecutor, who was an infamous cha racter, but to go with him and encourage honesty. At the same time, the , defendant's ." car took the child out of the lady's arms forcibly, and without ce . remony-placed it in his employers coach, judging that the mother would follow her infant. The lady, hoWever; would• not submit to this treatment. She took her child out of the defendant's c-iach, and, with her party, went into that belonging to the prosecutor. The defendant could not contain his rage at the loss of the passengers, and began to vent it upon the pro secutor, whom he abused in a most horrible manner, and set upon him and beat him furiously, until some bystanders interfered, and prevented further violence. • The Jury found the defendant Guilty. The REcohnza said that the Magistrates were de termined to put a stop to the practice of coachmen in contending for passengers. It was not to be en dured that any persons should take upon themse'ves to say to the Public what coach they should go by. The Court sentenced the defendant tube imprisoned for six weeks in the Compter. For the security of the Public, the next offender would he punished much more severely. • SURREY. SESSIONS. Yesterday James Collings; a sailor, as tried for having robbed his shipmate, %Wain Wood, of ten sovereigns and. thirtieu:,shillinge ! : The Airy found the 'prisoner Gay, but they re commended rum to mercy:. . The Cn AIMg AN said, it -only in cotrsiderstion of his former good character, ana the teconinenda tion of the Jury, that the Court Aid not. punish the atrocious offence by sending him out of the country, but as- it was, they sentenced him to be imprisoned for twelve months to Jiaid labodr. Two young . men named_Snrigt and _Hayden, were charged with. having robbed Mr. Carter; a . solicitor, residing in the Borough, of some watch seals. 'On the 9th of September, Mr. Carter was passing down High-street about nine in the evening, when on his passing the end of Chapel -court, the prisoner Haydon, who was standing with Smith, ran out and snatched the prosecutor's seals and made off up the emit, which is dark, and for a time made his escape. Smith, his companion, walked up to Mr. Carter and asked him what was the matter? when the latter in stantly charged him with being an accomplice to'fhe thief. Mr. Carter obtained the assistance of Wilkin son, a constable, and he, found the pi isoneis a short time afterwards at the sign of the Distiller's Arms, which-house has been since suppreised, at supper to gether upon beef steaks. A hair-dresser, who resides at the entrance of Cha pel -court, stated, that knowing the two prisoners he watched their motions and saw Smith give a word of command to Haydon, who darted out on Mr. Carter, snatched his seals, and made off up the cow t. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty. The COURT, upon inquiry, found that they were part of a gang of thieves, who made it their practice to shelter in the court, and sally out to corn nit de predations upon passengers. The CHAIRMAN there fore sentenced the prisoners to be transported for life. CORW'.ERS' INQUESTS. Between one and two o'clock yesterday, an inquiry took place before THOMA S SHELTON, Esq.% Crawler for London and Southwark and a very respectable Jury, at the Coach and Horses Tavern, Noithum herland-alley, Fenchurch-street, to9chrlig the death of Mr. Moses Aaron, a Gentleman of the Jewish persuasion, who died worth considerable property.— It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased, though possessed of large property, had lived in a penurious manner, so much so indeed, that he did not allow himself sufficient nom ishment to support nature. He was found dead in his bed-room (which had a mcst wretched appearance), on Sunday morn ing. He has three sons, all of whom he has cut off, leaving the whole of his property for charitable uses. Verdict—Died by the visitation of Goo. An Inquest was held at the Turf Tap, Grosvenor place, on the body of J. Hawks. The deceased had been a gentleman's servant, and married hi, master's daughter, who had 5001% a-year ; during her life he lived up to his income, but the property teasing at her death, he was about 'to return to his own pro fession, and for that purpose called on an acquaint ance,.a footman in a Nobleman's family, who treated him liberally with his master's ale, and in going home he fell, broke his leg, and was conveyed tO the Hospital, where.ht.died. Verdict.—Accidental Death. • Last night an Inquisition was taken at the. Arc hway Tavern, Highgate, before Titostas STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, on view of the body of John Clayton, who was accidentally; killed on Saturday morning, as stated in the STAR of yesterday. The first witness examined was John Clay, who having been• sworn, deposed, the deceased' was at work under him for about seven weeks, excavating some ground on which _it is intended to build some almshouses near the Archway, which are to be deno minated 44 . Whittington:: College." Witness and the deceased were at work there on Saturday morning ; the deceased was engaged filling a wheelbarrow under what is termed a face of earth, of great height: At the moment the deceased was filling his barrow the earth gave way, and the deceased was buried under it. Several other labourers, working near. the'deceased, narrowly escaped with their lives. Witness had exa mined the earth only five minutes before, and then no danger appeased. The falling earth struck de sealed on thelip with. such force as to throw him a considerable distance from the place where be stood. He was dug out as soon as possible. He was sensible, 'and complained of psitta in hit thightandbreast. 11- was conveyed to the Archway Tavern, and thelical assistance provided, but he survived little more tha n an hour. The deceased has left a wife gnd four chil dren in a state of indigence. Mr. John Roundtree, assistant to Mr. Snow, stir geon, of Highgate, deposed to the nature of the injury deceased had suffered. He survived about an hour. The Jury consulted for a short time, and returned their verdict, that the death of the deceased was o c ., casioned by accident. F-rtraordinary Sudden Deaths.—Abraham Davis, a Jew, 97, Old Gravel•lane, Rateliff Highway, died on Sunday night about twelve o'clock, and his wife about sir o'clock on Monday morning. It appeared that Mrs. Davis had been ill for some time: on S un . day night she asked her husband, Abraham Davis, if he would get her something she fancied? he roil her she was always wanting something: he .%i-hed she was stiff in her grave. About half an hour after wards he was taken very ill and died, thus preceding his wife by only a few hours. The potatoes this season have been most abundant throughout Scotland, particularly in the county of Fife; the quantity averaging from 65 to 80 boils an acre. On the farm of Kingsbarns, there was pr o . duced the extraordinary quantity of 100 bolls per acre. • The herring fishing is now about over. There has been a considerable falling off in the take ufherrings this year. There have not been quite two-thirds of the usual quantity taken on the Caithness coast. The fishing season has entirely failed at Dunbar and the opposite coast. The fishers have also met with little success in the West Highlands. PRESERVING FISH.—Dr. ll‘CuLtocrr, of Edin burgh, has ascertained that the antiseptic quality of sugar is sufficient to preserve fish in the most excel lent condition. He states that this susstance is so active, that fidi may be preserved in a dry state, and perfectly fresh, by means of sugar alone, and even with a very small quantity of it. He has thus kept salmon, whitings, and cod, for an indefinite length of time ; and by this simple means fresh fish may be kept in that state some days, so as to be as good when boiled as when just caught. —lt added, that if dried and kept free from mouldiness, there seems no limit to their pre servation ; and they are much better in this way than when salted. The sugar gives no disagireahle taste. This process is particularly valuable i,i making what is called kippered salmon ; and the ash pre served in this manner are far-superior in quality iiva flavour to those which are salted or smoked. 1f de sired, as much salt may be used as to give the tai , ,e that may be required; but this substance does not conduce to their_preservation. In the preparation, it is barely necessary to open the fish, and to a r piy the sugar in the muscular part, placing it in a horizontal position for two or three days, that this -übstance May penetrate. After this it may be tined ; and it is only raither necessary to %% ipe and ventilate it oc casionally, to prevent mouldiness. A table spoonfll of brown sugar is sufficient in this manner for a sat mon of five or six pounds weight; and if salt is de sired, a tea-spoonful or ii.ore may be added. L .lt petre may be used instead, in the same proporticr., if it is desired to make the kipper hard. BIRTIIS. • Saturday, in Portugal -street, Growenor-square, the Lady of Lieut.-Colonel Packe, Grenadier Gu.atts, eC a daughter. Oct. 16, at voila') Park, Carmarthen hire, the Lady of Cap. tail' Mears, late of the 2(1 Life Guard:, of a ion. Oct. 12, at Kuck vale. Fife, the Lady of Major DoJii, of a son. Oct. 19, at the Ii ctcry, Little llasiingliam, Norfolk, the Lady of the Rev C. D. lireteton, of a con. Oct. 6, at Englefield-Breen, Lady Elizabeth Tollemache, of a daughter. MARIITED. Oct. 14, Lieut. Bogle, It. N. to Alison Dickson, only daughter ofthe late Thos. Brown, Esq. merchant, Edinburgh. Oct. 14, at Sprinfield, L:iq. to Mary Anne, second daughter of Mnr..ugh O'Brien Balar, of 13.in t sagh, in the county of Tipperary, E q. WED. At fluting% on Sunday lag:. tie 20th instant, J. ff. Smitb, Esq. M.P. for the Univer,ity of Cambridge, and sort-in-law to the Duke of Grafton. " Sunday, at It ennington-place, Vauxhill, Philip Henry Savage, Esq. late Captain of the 52d Regiment, and of his Majesty's Ist Regiment of Life Guards, aged 55. Sept. 27, at Soethwell, Notts, Lieut.-General Waldegrave Pelham (lay. Oct. 16, at Charlton, Somersetshire, George Page, Esq. of the Lancers. late of the 4th Dragoon Guards. Oct. 17, in the 87th .year of his age. Mr. Christian Kellner, 42 years musician in his late Majesty's private band. • Sept. 13, at the Parionage, Narraghmore ' county of Kildare, in the.sixteenth year of her age , Miss Anne Torrens, the ietond daughter of the Archdeacon of Dublin; and on the 15th instant, at the same residence, in her eighteenth year, Miss Catherine Torrens, the eldest daughter of the same Clergyman. In Lisburn, at the advanced age of 95 years. Mr. Wm. Raven bill, the oldest landholder on the Marquis of Hertford's estate, and the oldest freeman of Carrickfergus, one only excepted, who is said to have attained the age of 107. March 10, at Calcutta, aged 22, Helen, the wife of Captain John Barclay, 4th Bengal Native Cavalry. ' • Oct. 4. at Aberdeen, after a'tedious and complicated illness. William I.lvingston, M.D. Professor of Medicine in blarischal College and University of Aberdeen. Wednesday, Mrs. Jane Cornthwalte, of Bridge-end, in Old Hutton; aged 87. She had six sons and five daughters;' all of whom she saw married and comfortably settled in life. She was grandmother to 87, and great-grandmother to 37 children ! In fact, her off•pring are dwelling in three quarters of the globe, viz. Europe, Asia, and America. She was 43 years a wife, and 24'k widow. She died in the same month, and on the same day of the month, on which her . husband's mortal remains wera committed to the grave 24 years before. Oct. 4, at Grahomston, Glasgow, William Gordon, aged 97, who was buried on Thursday following in the Anderston bury ing-gtoUnd. This singular Individual, who had for ten years past worn the same coat, patched and mended, and who is said for /even years never to have used soap in washing himself, left be hind him an immense quantity of keys, old and new, highly bur nished ; a hatful of pins, 15 large screws, from 90 to 100 ham mers, adzes, and giniblets, a great quantity of bottles and jars; 'and what may appear most singular, a roomful of buyi' tops, peeries;irsthips, &c. His collection of sticks is curious. .These, with gold and sliver watches, are in the possession of his eaten tor. For many years he wore a polished key on Ms thumb, a gold. watch lin one pocket, and a silver one In the other. • ins: Us. France 07 a Hamburg's 0 2 Flanders 0 0 0 0 I Malta 0 0 MAILS. Asa. nun Waterford 0 1 Guetnscy and Jersey 1 0 _ _ Lisbon • 0 0 Gottenburett Leeward lalaads 0 0 0 1 0 HIGH-WATER at I.ON DON TO- MOH Mcrning • 42 minutes after:7 • Afternoon - . 4 minutes after . II LONDON: Ptinted and publkhed by Livia. 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