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FAREWELL TO THE MUSES. And Is this the last off'ring I place on a shrine, Which the tribute of sages has render'd divine? Altkat the harp sleep in silence, nor wake to deplore, That the nymphs of Castalia behold me no mire! My heart's brightest glow was in Poesy breathed, And that chaplet the fairest by Poesy wreathed, That jar, the sincerest, which Poesy Erns d, And that tear the truest which Poesy warm'd! Adieu, ye Immortal, ye ever-dear Nine ! The last chord is broken, the reed I resign; • And exiled from. Eden., the Eden of mit* Itelu,:tatit I leave, as the first of mankin4! When in childhood I stray'd through the vale of delight, Nor knew that the day-spring of bliss had a night ; When in youth 1 still dreamt on the roses of morn, kor felt that the pathway of life had a thorn! th 1 then 'twas the Muses that heighten'd each thought, Andsweet were the studies that Harmony taught ; Revered be the lessons that gave to my mind, A rdy that no cloud, and no darkness can blind! Whilst Time in its changes oft sadden'd each scene, And steps could but trace where life's day-star had been; But where again never, 0, never would roam, The friend of my bosom, the light of my home ! The sigh in its breathing, the tear as it fell, itttlanse shades where the pensive salute Philomel, Made "acted by feeling the Muses received, Add *Empathy's concords were sweetly believed! In thC 'verdure of Spring 'twas the Muses that smil'd, That charm'd in the'desert and blootn'd in the wild ; Ili the richness of Autumn the Muses appear'd, And in Winter they brighten'd the.hearth they endear'd! When falsehond deceiv'd, and when ingrates forgot, When sadness oppress d, and when gladness was not ; When, disgusted, I've turn'd from the world to pursue Those jays that Retirement still can renew ; The soft voice of Sympathy cheer'd my retreat, AEA the waves of disquietude broke at my feet ; If deserted and lone, yet 'twas rapture to feel That the heart had no pang but the Muses could heal! Then where is the Minstrel but gratefully lends The !tarp's sweetest cadence to long-valued friends? And where is the heart that could coldly reply, When a tear dews the lyre and love breathes a sigh? Ye charmers of life, gentle Muses, adieu! The pathway of song I no longer pursue ; Ent the harp's latest tune to the friends of Thy youth, Is the tribute of friendship, of feeling, and truth! August 4, 1821. M. _ ASSIZES. CROYDON, AUGUST rt. Trigdule, J.ohn Casey (aged 15), and Job Ouington, were severally found Guilty—Death, fur tittertug forged noses, purporting to be of the Go vernor and Company of the Bank of England. FATAL PUUlLlsll.—Cooper, the gipsy, who killed O'Leary in combat, surrendered before Nit. Justice BURROIIGII, to take his trial. After the evidence produced before the Coroner's Inquisition had been gone through, the Jury pronounced the prisor.er Guilty of Manslaughter. The Judg e immediately sentenced him to six nionthi impraionraer.t in liorsemonger-laae jail. AUGUST 23.—stuamm. At eght o'clock this morning Mr. Justice Bun. aoucAt came into Court, and shortly after David Thomas v.as put to the bar. The indict. men: charged him with having, on the 21st of July, at Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, he .being in stigated by malice aforethought, inflicted upon the belly of ot.e John Mathews a wound with a certain sliarp instrprneia, by which he languished for thirty three hours i.i Guy's Hosiital, and then died. Mr. Law appeared in behalf of the prosecution, and called the following evidence: The first witness examined was Mr. Mengay, a sargeon belonging to Gay's Hospital ; he deposed that deceased was brought into the Hospital about six o'Llock in'the evening. Witness then examined the wound, and it was about an inch in depth, and in flicted on the lower pai t . of the abdomen; the intes tines had been injured, and part of them protruded through the body. The wound, in his opinion, had been given with a knife, and was what is termed a ripping wound. Witness was of opinion, that had skilful and immediate assistance been given, the dan ger a the deceased would have been very materially diminished. At the time he examined the %errand he considered it dangerous, but did not communicate his opinion to the patient. Jeremiah Bryant stated, he was a fellow-workman with the prisoner and deceased, at Mr. Rutter's mus tard -manufactory. Lambeth-butts; recollects the day named in the indictment ; precisely as the six o'clock bell was ringing, observed the deceased come from the manufactory and go towards his own house; he l was stooping, with his hands placed on the bottom of his stomach, and aepeared in great agony—(The further examination of this witness was postponed to a more advanced stage of the trial). John Jones was a foreman in the employ of Mr. l Rutter; on the day of the unfortunate occurrence, lie saw the prisoner and deceased standing together in the mill ; they appeared to be talking ; saw a pot of porter standing, but did not see either of them drink ; 1 1 they were talking across a pair of mill stones situated ' there; should suppose the stones to be about five feet in diameter ; did not perceive any quarrelling, nor notice any noise, until he heard Mathews call via Murder! murder!" On going up stairs into the finishing-room, the prisoner ran by him ; upon which witness laid hold of him by the arm, and asked him what he had done? Prisoner exclaimed—" I. want my knife; where is my knife?" Another work man, named Chappell, at this period, came up stairs, and laid hold of the prisoner's other arm. Shortly after, Smith, a constable arrived, when lie was deli vered into his custody. Cross examined on bchayqft he prisoner by Mr. Ax insWs—llad known the prisoner for twelve years; . Was the same countryman as witness (a ‘Velshman); knew him to be a most kind-hearted humane man ; hz took a delight in doing acts of kindness. The mill being at work, occasioned a considerable noise; that would have prevented his hearing any quarrel ling, had there been any taking place; if any push hard been given to any one, so as to occasion his fall ing on the stones, he would run great risk of being crushed to atoms. Ile-examined by Mr. Law.—Did not observe any scuffling; or any other appearance of quarrelling. John Chappell, the workman above alluded to, corroborated the statement of Jones; he also bore testimony to the kind-hearted and humane disposi tion, of the prisoner. William Mathews, a youth about fifteen, son of the deceased, was at the manufactory on the day of, the unfortunate occurrence. The prisoner, in the afternoon, came to me twice, and asked " Where my father was? he wanted to have some beer." Soon after, my father came io; when I told him that David Thomas wanted him. He went down into the mill. I had occasion to go to see what it was dclock ; my father was then talking to Mr. Jones. The prisoner shortly after came in ; he had a pot of porter in his hand; He asked my father what he had been talking to Jones about? My father replied, that Mr. Jones had been talking about cutting throats—(This was explained to be a bye-term used• amongst those em ployed in the manufactory for back-biting).—" Has he?" replied the prisoner; 66 I understand you have been cutting my throat for me; Mr. Rutter told me so yesterday, at dinner time."- 0 Did he?" said my father ; " he is out now, but when he comes in we will see about it." I then left the prisoner and my father togethei. At a few-minutes_before six I saw my fa ther again ; his hands were placed on the lower part of hivbelly, and there was the appearance of blood. Catherine Mathews, the wife of the deceased, stated her husband to have come to his house, which is about fifty yards from the manufactory ; he was wounded in the lower part of his stomach. Mr. Young, a surgeon, was sent for, who recommended that her husband should be taken to the hospital, and he was conveyed there on a shutter ; she had se veral conversations with him about what had happened. Here Mr. ANDREWS took an objection to what the deceased had stated being given in evidence, as it was not, the Learned Counsel said, proved at the time the unfortunate man considered himself dying. ..... _ _ The Learned JUDGE overruled the objection, and The witness resumed. She believed her husband to be impressed with the idea that he should not sur vive; about two hoUrs before he expired she asked him if he had quarrelled with David Thomas ? he re plied no, unless it was by drinking the King's health in the morning, when they went to have a pint of beer before they began work ; the prisoner was in a great passion at it, and swore Until he foamed at the mouth. The toast was, " Prosperity to King George the Fourth, and may he contented be, whether he is bound or free." He expii el at four o'clock on the Sunday morning, having a short time previous ex pressed his fears he should never see his children again. The examination of Jeremiah Bryant was now re sumed.—lle assisted in conveying the deceased to the Ilc.spital ; he expressed great reluctance in going, and said if I,e went to the Hospital he should never see his wife and children again ; he appeared in great pain, and frequently ejaculated*“ !oh!" a con siderable quantity of blood was on the clothes of the deceased. This witness was cross•examincd by Mr. ANDREWS, and gave similar testimony to that already given as to the humane disposition of the prisoner. John Chappell was again called.—He was present in the public-house ; it was the Coach and Horses, at Lambeth•bvtts ; he remained with the deceased and prisoner from sic till eight o'clock ; did not hear any toast giien,• nor observe the prisoner to be in a passion ; thinks if the toast had taken place he must have noticed it. _ _ _ Here the case for the prosecution dosed. Mr. Justice BURROUGH then addressed the pri soner, and told him the. period had now arrived when, if he had anything to say, lie ,must submit it to the Jury. t t Prisoner.—l will leave it entirely to my Counsel . Mr. ANDREWS then called Mr. Marchant, Mr. Smith, Mrs. Jeffreys, and several other respectable inhabitants residing at Lambeth-butts and its neigh bourhood, who gave the prisoner a most unexcep tionable character for kindness and humanity of dis positict ; many of them had known him for twelve, none less than seven years. Mr. Justice Buancorm then proceeded to explain the law as-applicable to the case, stating that a mur der had been committed, and it was for them to ray if it had been done by the pis -oiler; he considered himself bound to state to them that the offence could not be manslaughter, as the evidence had negatived in the most complete manner the ide.t that had been' suggested of the parties having had any quarrel at the intermediate time the unfortunate occurrence took place; he then recapitulated the evidence, and The Jury, after about five minutes' consultation, returned a verdict of—fjuilly of Wilfut Murder, but recommended him to mercy on account of good character. Here the prisoner, whose demeanour during the t rial had been very calm and collected, became dreadfully agitated. On Mr. Knape, the Clerk of Arraigns, putting the usual questions to him, as to anything he might have to say in the bar of judgmeat, he exclaimed--- ,, My Lord, I am innocent as a child born to-day ; that woman has sworn falsities against me ; I know nothing about the toast or the accident at the time it happened." Ilene his utterance failed him, and he appeared absorbed in the greatest grief. Mr.Jnstice BURROUGH proceeded to pass the awful sentence of death, and lamented that in this last stage of the proceeding the prisoner should manifest the temper of mind visible in his conduct. No man could doubt that his was the hand which inflicted the fatal wound; to deny it, therefore, was preposterous. llis Lordship never saw a case more clearly made out. The prisoner must prepare for a speedy death; and his Lordship conjured him to make the best use of the few hours left him in this life. The sentence of the law was then pronounced, and the unhappy prisoner was ordered fur execution on Thursday. The prisoner, in a paroxysm of grief exclaimed— " I am innocent ! innocent !" and was removed from the Bar. Ile was a well-looking young roan, and was considerably affected during his trial. DURHAM, AUGUST 21. GREGSON AND GREGORY versus ROBSON. Mr. SCARLETT stated, that the plaintiffs were sur geons and apotheciries in Monk-Wearmouth. A pauper, while employed in conveying an anchor to a boat, had been thrown into the sea, and most dan gerously bruised and hurt. It had been thought =possible to save his life, but one of the plaintiffs, who happened to be passing, gave him surgical at- I tention, and the recovery of the man formed an ex-1 traordinary proof of his humanity and skill. Though I Mr. Gregory was not surgeon for the parish, yet his I , attendance in this case was adopted by the Overseer. The pauper was, after his recovery, sent to his own parish, which was in Durham. But he had previ ously received relief from the defendant, Overseer of I#olopii-Wearmouth, who had also sent to the plaiatiffs for their bIU. The bill sent amounted to £27 17s. 611 The defence, he understood, would be, that Mr. Gre goryl was not the _parish doctor. This was admitted. But the parish doctor had been so far away, that the man's life would have been lost if the plaintiff had not attended. Lord Ellenborough had held, in Lamb and Budd, that if the Overseer see the surgeon at tending, and does not say that he will not pay, he is liable and bound to pay. But Robson, the defendant, had actually sent in this case for the bill.—Several witnesses were called on the part of the plaintiffs. John Crowders, a surgeon, spoke to the reasonable ness of the charges. By Mr. TINDALL—For operations the charge's were the same to a man of fortune and to a pauper. Al lowances were often made, but they rested always in the breasts of the surgeons. He heard Gregory state this case to the profession as important, and ask as sistance to conduct it, but he did not succeed. He heard that Gregory had been parish doctor three years ago. Mr. BROUGHAM now appealed to his Lordship upon the law in this case. In the case cited by his Learned Friend there was this trifling differencethat the parish doctor had been the person who attended. Here another person had attended : ir•. him it might possibly have been an act of charity, and an act of moral duty ; and probably he might have looked to Freeman or to Lumsden for remuneration. • ..... Mr. Justice 110LROYD referred to several cases in. which a moral obligation to pay had been held to arise from the knowledge of the Overseers. Mr. BuouonAm said, that as he had no wish to waste the time of the Court, he would state what he was prepared to prove. Ile could prove that Dap per was the regular parish doctor, that Gregory knew this, and that in the case of another panel-, Cire3oty, when applied to, referred to Mapper as the parish doctor. Korn these facts, which could be fully pi urea, he submitted that the inference was, that Gregory in this instance had expected payment elsewhete, arid not from the parish. Mr. Justice HOLROYD.—That would have been a good defence if Mr. ltob-;on had not adopted the at tendance of Mr. Gregory. If there had been no adop tion on his part, he would not be liable. But it was in evidence that he had inquired who attended—that he had known it was Mr. Gregory—and that he had desired the bill to be sent to him. This shew•ed that the Overseer had adopted the act of Mr. Gregory; and it might be, too, that he had had conversations with Mr. Gregory on the subject. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £27 I7s. 6d. CORNWALL, AUGUST 21. DOE, ON &ENI ISE OF SHERWOOD, QUILT SYMONS, AND OTHERS, V. PARKER ANT) OTHERS. A more extraordinary case than this has seldom occurred. To make it intelligible it is necessary to travel backwards. In the year 1763 the head of a most respectable family in this county, of the name or Symons, whose residence was at Hatt-court, near Calington, made his will, leaving his estates to his eldest son William, with remainder to his second son Nicholas—remainder to his two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary Anne, (the two defendants in possession), with renfainsler over to the right heirsof the testator. The testator died in 1766, when his son ‘Villiam suc ceeded him. The second son, Nicholas, was about this time articled to Mr. Charles RashJeigh, a most respectable attorney, residing at St. Austle, and had, during his clerkship, conducted himself with such propriety, that at the expiration of it arrangements were forming for a partnership between him and • his master. Nicholas Symons, however, had unfortu nately become attached to a young woman of St. : Austle, in humble circumstances, and had intended to marry her; but this being violently opposechby his family, as well as by Mr. Itashleigh, h.: was induced to promise he would not so commit himself. In the latter end of the year 1789., Nicholas Symons went to London to be admitted an attorney of the Court of King's Bench, and a solicitor of the Court of Chan cery. He was there received with every attention by, Mr. Rashleigh's brother, and corresponded from time to time with Mr. Hashleigh himself. But his un happy passion still keeping possession of his mind, and the then supposed melancholy circumstances of his untimely end, led Mr. ltashleigh to destroy all his letters except the following : " December, 1782. " DrAR Sta—Your favour of the 19th ult. I received in due time, for which I return you my most, sincere thanks. The contents I perused with very great attention, and was, as you may suppose, amazingly hurt on finding that the matter you alluded to was not settled ; and, my dear Sir, what is still worse, you will be astonished to hear, is that I cannot by any means compose myself or get rid of that love or passion, as you may please to terns it, I professed for the abject, notwithstanding the interval of time, the distance I am removed from her, and the advice of my friends and relations. The latter are in possession of all the facts, and their astonishment and displeasure they have expressed to me. My situation I cannot expect you or any of my friends to pity. I have been my own enemy, and have brought all my misery on myself, and my conduct I am sensible every person must condemn. My reflections are almost too great to bear, and grieve me beyond expression, whets I com pare my present situation with that of three months since. Then I anticipated the greatest pleasure, and had nothing in view but happiness now I have nothing but misery, having already for feited the little respect my acquaintance had for me, made the world entertain the meanest opinion of one, and gained the dis pleasure of my friends and relations, all which, 1 am satisfied from the hints I have received, I have incurred. From these assertions you will probably suppose that I mean to break the pro mises I made you before I quitted St. Austle; but you may rest assured that I will not, and all I have to hope for is, that satis faction may be made to the party injured ; if that is done, it will in a great degree make my mind more easy, though 1 am con vinced-I shall never experience happiness more; but out of re spect and gratitude to my relations, I am in duty bound to fulfil my promise, whatever may be the event. Now, my dear Sir, believe me when I assert that I am one of the must miserable beings: what to do, where to go (for am determined to quit town in a day or two), or what will become of me I know not. To return to St. Austle, or even to Cornwall again, I am much afraid I never shall have resolu tion to do; and, after what pass e d, I d on ' t t hi n k myse lf wort h y, nor will itbcpossible, for me to embrace the offer made by you, and to form that most desirable and honourable connexion which I flattered myself woultiehave made me happy ; indeed, every person, from this declaration, will certainly think nag insane, not to forget all that has passed, and to pursue the path pointed out to me, but sorry am ' I to say, that I cannot prevail on myself so to do, and that I should make such an ungrateful return fur the many favours conferred upon me, and the very I great friendship I have ever experienced from you which, with I the many other obligations I am und e r t o y ou , I shall never j forget, bur always . Tytain with a due sense of esteem. All I have to add e desiring you and Mrs. Rashleigh to accept my Asia I • ilks 'for the many-favours so undeservedly. I conferred otni,itie: . . y good wishes and sincere regard to you j and your% an. to lasembered to all that think it avort:rs. their while tif Oter me. Ina week or ten days you may expect arbegil • 'go tiepune of, dear Sir, your much obliged " NICLIOLAS SYMONS.' • and vepilwbfi seilhet, I From thi recess of this letter, Nicholas Symons was never heard of more; and h was supposed thin he had been his own destroyer. But in the early put of the year 1783, a stranrer appeared in Liverpool, calling himself Nathaniel Sherwood, who purchased a chariot and horses, had established'the first public conveyance in that city. Sherwood succeeded so well by his attention and civility, that he enlarged his concern, and set up a diligence from Liverpool to the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal, near Warrington, and was getting rapidly forward in life when be was un fortunately drowned in the ferry-boat from Liverpool to Runcorn-gap, in the month of July, 1802. He had married a servant of the inn where his diligence put up, and bad several children, the eldest of whom was the lessor of the plaintiff. In 1805 his widow ntaP ried a person of the name of More; and about that time a chest of Sherwood's was looked over, but no notice was taken of its contents. The lessor of the had not been so fortunate as his father, b u t had become bankrupt under circumstances not very creditable to him ; and his assignees also laid a a,.. ; mise, and now contested Isis rights. In 1817 chest was again examined .by the son and his si,te r , and among other things were discovered, the adn:i,- sion of Nicholas Symons, as an Attorney, and his ad mission as a Solicitor ; an account between him and his mother during his minority, and other papers, which ultimately led to an inquiry, which terminat:ed in the belief of the identity of Nicholas Symons at..l Nathaniel Sher.wood ; and in 1819 the present eject ment was brought against the defendants, who lrld been in possession of the property ever • since the month of May, 1502, when William Symons Nathaniel Sherwood having been drowned tire months, subsequently. To connect Nicholas Symons, who disappeared is 178'2, with Nathaniel Sherwos , d, who die,' in ENO?, .was apparently no very easy task ; but Mr. itashleigh and others, who had known Nicholas Symons is Cornwall, described him as a gentlemanly youag man, five feet five inches high, dad , : compleziosi, light hair, with dark thick eye-brows, which gave him a remarkable appearance: they alsosaoke t o hi s habit of biting his nails. Several witnesses were tla:a called, who knew Nathaniel Siserwoot! at Liverpool, and they gave the same description of him. Bathe most important piece of evidence was the hand. writing ; the Cornish witnesses deposing that the papers produced from Liverpool, as the writing cf Sherwood, was in fact the writing of Symons, and the Liverpool witnesses declaring the letter before given, and other things, to be in the hand-writing cif Sherwood. One of the witnesses also spoke to the fondness of Symons for horses. Mr. Scrjeant YELL, for the defendants, called no witness, but rested his case upon the improbability of a man of so delicate a turn of mind as Symons, so degrading himself as to become a hackney-coach man, and to suit himself to that mode of life. lid also Urged the improbability of the papers in the chest having so long remained untouched, when they had been examined in 1805, and Contended that it was a conspiracy on the part of Sherwood's family, animadverting .very strongly-upon the evidence of Boore, the second.husband.of.Sherw.oad's wife, who. had successively been 'a-Nlidshiprria76-4 +et:Navy, at . the head of a press-lang, an upliblgererat pool, a publican at Bang:Ly, in SuLlk, a fishmon ger in Liana:Ude, *Senitiikerd s _again • a ptiblican Queeta : strees s Lincolris aad now residing 'at Ityde r isi.the4sle ef- Wight, under the name of Short -This tatter Circumitiltee Bow accounted for, Ile had becoiiae security for the aps rail* of his-son-in-law, who atas indicted with others for a conspiracy to effect. 'a fraudulent bank ruptcy,Thsd that-he was afraid . of the consequences. Jnstice * Mst irimnied up very strongly in fa*. your of 'the claims of the plaintiff, in whose favour the Jury, after a careful examination, of-the several , writings, returned a verdict. • • •••• The property thus recovered is . of 'the value 'of 'we've hundred ponufs a-year. Major-General Sit-Jamr.s LYON, arrived on • Saturday morning at the •Lieutenant•Governmetit House,. Portsmouth, to assume - the command. The naval command .at Cork is, it is said, to be reduced on .the expiration of •the time for which Ad miral Sir Jostas llowr.Ey was appointed, and a fri gate instead of a line-of-battle ship to bear the flag of the Commander-in-Chief. ;Admiral Lord Cotvittx, it is added, will be the successor of Sir J. Itowter. 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