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6 THE EVENING STAR. Oh I sweetly shines the Summer sun, When Heaven from clouds Is free, And brightly gleams the moonlight on Field, rock, and forest tree: But to the pensive heart of love, Oh ! sweeter than these by far, It is with devious step to rove Beneath the Evening Star! To others give the festive hall, Where wine-cups shine in light; The music of the crowded ball, With Beauty's lustre bright: Bat give to me the lonely dell, Sweeter than these by far, Where pine-trees wave, and waters swell, Beneath the Evening Star ! The days are pass'd that I have seen, Replete with mirth and glee, When Nature, with a brighter great. O'erspread the field and tree; Though joyless not the present day, Vet sweeter than it by far, 'Tis on the past to muse, and stray Beneath the Evening Star ! For all the future cannot give What spaceless Time bath reft, And, Jesse, since thou ceaad to live, A vacant world is left: I turn me to my days of love, The sweetest on earth by far, And oft in thought with thee trove, Beneath the Evening Star! LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS. ASSAULT ON A TOLL-COLLECTOR. Yesterday, John Bodmin, carter to Mr. Richards, wine-merchant, of Mincing-lane, was indicted for as saulting J. Gulliver, Collector of the City Toll, at the end of Giltspur and Newgate-streets. On the day named in the indictment, the'prisoner was in his cart, driving towards Newgate•street, and on the Collec tor's demanding the toll, held out what appeared to be a ticket, but which ke withdrew on the Collector's attempting to look at it. This trick he repeated several times, so that the toll taker could not get such a sight of it as to be able to ascertain whether or no it was the proper ticket for the day, and finding the carter dtiving on, he ran to the horse's head, seized the rein, and insisted on being satisfied. The carter then commenced a furious assault upon him with his whip, but he did not suffer the cart to pass till he had ascertained the ticket to be the correct one. The prosecutor complained to the prisoner's employer, but obtained no satisfaction. The CON; 510 N ;SOW RANT, in charging the Jury, ob served, that very possibly the prisoner, knowing him self to be in the right with regard to the ticket, might intend only to teaze the toll-taker. He had, how ever, carried the jest too far. The assault had been .clearly proved, and it was fitting that these gentle men of. the whip should be taught when they play such jokes they stay be made to suffer for them. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to pay a fine of £3. BASTARDY. A married man, named Heaver, appealed against an order of affiliation, made on the. oath of Susan Gamier, charging him with being the father of an illegitimate child. The female, 23 years of age, was questioned by the Counsel for the appellant, whether -she had not•offered to swear it to one East? She admitted it, but explained it by saying, she was ad •ised not to swear, by her mother, who suggested the time of her confinement would best indicate the proper individual. She was confined last month, and had not seen Mr.. East before the April previous.— To other questions she said, the intercourse with the appellant was procured by his wife, who used to come to her mother, and ask perm►ssion for witness to ►keep with her, her husband being absent, while in fact he vas at home, and they all three slept in one bed.— This was in February, and happened repeatedly.. She had, however,.another sweetheart soon after. • The Counsel for the appellant said, he could pro duce a bosom friend of the deponent's, who had re peatedly heard her w.sert East to be the father ; but he felt that as he could not call either the wife or the husband, the Court must decide on the credibility of the testimony they had heard.—Order affirmed. MA TRIMONIAL LOTT ERY—Monday last, according to custom, on the sth of November, under the will tiC Mr. RAINS, formerly a brewer in Wapping, six maidens, educated in his hospital, in Fawden-fields, Wapping, met at the Treasurer's house to draw lots, tinder the will of the founder, fur a prize of 1:100 as a marriage portion. The husband of the successful candidate must, by the rules, be a mechanic belong ing to the parishes of St. John, Wapping, St. George in the East, or St. Paul, Shadwell ; he must not be a sailor, soldier, or waterman ; and he must have tes timonials of a good character. The young woman must have attained the age of twenty-one, and have lived three years in one place as a hired servant, with strict Iropriety. A very decent and pretty looking young woman drew the prize. COVENT-GARDCC—Last night GOLDSUITII . II fa- vourite Comedy of She Stoops to Conquer, was per formed at this Theatre, when Mrs.CIIATTERLaIt, from the Haymarket Theatre, made het first appearance on these boards, in the character of Miss Hardcalk.— This Lady's vise in her profession has been progres sive, from her first appearance at a Minor Theatre to die present time; and she now holds a very pro minent station in the line of characters which she takes. Her reception last night was highly flauerin, and her performance such as justified the audience in the approbation they bestowed upon her. Her ir.- tcrview with younli Marlow, whilst he labours under the error of supposing her a bar-maid, and in which he boasts of the rank which himself supported in his female circle, where he was known as the agreeable rattle ; and the iirchness of her manner, when dis covering herself to him in her real character, were finished pieces of acting; and the impression which her whole performance made was extremely favour able. LISTON'S Tony Lumpkin was excellent, as usual. The House was well tilled, and the Flay went off with &OIL —The Farce of Brother and Sister followed, in which Miss HALLANDB played Deese hadordlorthe second time, and was again rapturously encored i n semi of her sour. POLICE. 11...... TIRE GAMISTERS.--.A. Barnett, at whose honsfethe l hazard, and rouge et noir tables were discovered by the Police on the night of Saturday, the 27th of October, appeared with Counsel, yesterday, at Union-Hall Office against the information, having been admitted to bail for that purpose when first brought before the Magistrate. Two informations exhibited , by Mr. Reeves, the Chief Clerk of the Office, were read.— The first charged the defendant with having set up and maintained at his house, No. 14, Lambeth-road, a certain fraudulent game, to be determined by the chance of dice, called hazard, which the informa tion stated Mr. Reeves was ready to prove by a cre dible witness. The second information charged him with having played at the abovementioned game. Mr. TURTON, Counsel for the prosecution, stated, that Mr. Reeves, in exhibiting the information, was solely actuated by a sense of duty to the Public, and a desire to suppress the highly immoral practices that had taken place at the defendant's house for a length of time. Mr. Reeves, he added, would not take any part of the penalties. Mr. CHAMBERS, one of the Magistrates who sat upon the occasion, said, that he had requested Mr. Reeves to endeavour by every possible means to have the intolerable nuisance caused by the defendant's house put a stop to. The worthy Magistrate said, he had done so in consequence of various letters he had, received from parents, statiag the existence of the, evil, and deploring the injuries they sustained by it. Mr. TURTON proceeded.—The case, he said, did not require any argument. The information had been copied verbatim from the case of the King v. Liston," which had been decided by Lord Kenyon to be clearly within the meaning of George 11. by which the penalty for keeping a hazard-table was 02,00, and for playing the game, £5O. Mr. TuirroN, to prove his case, called Joseph Mil ler, a yoeng man of genteel appearance, who was one of those taken at the defendant's house when the officers went to pet form their duty. The witness stated, that he knew the defendant's house, No. 14, Lambeth-road ; was there on the 26th of October front ten till twelve; saw a rouge et noir table in the room he was in : there were several per sons present, and hazard was played while he was there. Callaghan was the groom-porter of the night, and regulated the game, which was played with box' and dice. He did not see any one act as master, the defendant sat at the table and played himself. In reply to questions put to him by Mr. Coma- I IRKS (the Magistrate), the witness stated, that when rouge et noir was played, the defendant paid the winnings and drew the losings. The rouge et noir table in the early part of the night was placed over the hazard table, and was generally removed about nine o'clock to allow hazard to be played. The rouge et noir table was removed by defendant's direction. Mr. ADOLPHUS, Counsel for the tefendant, con tended that there WAS no evidence of his having set up and maintained a hazard table ; indeed, the in ference was the contrary, for it was proved that he was one of those who played at the table in question, between which and setting it up there was the same difference as between buying a leg of mutton and keeping a butcher's shop. The Magistrates, after a short consultation, de clared that the offence was proved, and the defendant was liable to :he penalty of £2OO, which the Act did not allow them to mitigate. Mr. Anot.enes said it was the defendant's deter mination to appeal to the Sessions. The second information against the defendant for having played at the gan:e of hazard. was then proved by the same witnesses, on which he was con victed in the penalty of 1:30. Mr. Anosenes Stated, that the defendant would also appeal from the second conviction ; and he irs consequence gave bail in the amount of £6OO, to abide the eveat of the appeal. Two persons who were present at the, time the an. cers visited the tables, were also convicted in penal ties of £5O each, for having played at it on the night they were taken. MANSION-HOUSE.—A warehouseman to Mr. Kemp, wholesale grocer, in Distaff-lane, was charged on suspicion of being accessary to robbing his master to the amount of £2OO. Mr. Kemp stated, the prisoner locked up the inner door of the collar, as usual, , and he himself had locked the outer. Next morning, it appeared, the bar of the outer-door had been forced, and the inner-door had been unlocked. A locksmith declared that the lock, which was a patent one, had not been picked, but opened in a regular w ay, and as the prisoner had the key in his possession, and did not come to the warehouse at his usual time that morn ing, suspicion alighted on him, and he was appre hended. Turupenny, the officer, searched his lodg ing, but could not find anything to corroborate the suspicion. It was ascertained that the goods had been taken away in a cart, at seven o'clock in the morning, and that they had been removed from the cellar by a crane, in the regular way. Tire prisoner protested his innocence, and urged his former irre proachable character to corroborate it. The LORD MAYOR did not think the evidence sufficient to detain him, and he was discharged. It is but justice to add, that some circumstances subsequently came to the complainant's knowledge, which induced him to reinstate the defendant in his situation. A person appeared to answer the complaint of the Captain of a Dutch vessel for detaining his papers. It was stated by the Captain, that the defendant went on board his vessel on its arrival, asked him who was his broker, and on stating that he should employ his countryman, Myers, the defendant said he would do it much cheaper than Myers, and the complainant gave up to him the ship's papers, under the supposition that he was a regular broker ; but he had discovered that he was a mere agent, and wished to get his papers back. The defendant said, he had acted as agent, and never represented himself as a' broker; be had paid the dues of the vessel at the, ,Custom-house, and discharged the pilot at the Tri-, pity-house, and had done that business which was done daily by agents : but some one told the com plainant that they would do the business a few pounds l cheaper; when he brought the matter before his: Lordship with the view of getting bis papers back, without paying any of the money that - bad been ex- 1 pended for the vessel. He was ready to give up the Mpers on the legal dues being paid. The LORD AYOR dismissed the complaint, as the dues was unpaid. The Chief Clerk observed, that the com- Ohba: of persons usurping the business of brokers, by obtaining possession of papers against the inclina tions of the Captains, had been so frequent of late as to call for some interference from the Corporation,{ for whom it would be a question, whether persons, who under another name performed all the business of brokers, were not liable to heavy penalties? MARLBOROLIGII-STREET.--A Jew, calling himself Josephs, was charged with a fraud . — K. Slaney, por ter to Lord W. Gordon, stated, that he was standing at his master's door, w hen the prisoner informed him!, he had lost all his money at play, and had nothing left but his watch, which cost him £lO, but he would now sell it for £5. The prosecutor, after some chat tering, gave him £4 10s. but subsequently found it, was minus in value IS of the latter sum. It ap- i peared, however, that a friend of the prisoner had cons trived to get the watch returned to him after he was, apprehended, which of course stopped proceedings. Bow-Sracm—Yesterday, Richard Wood, a boy , 15 years of age, was charged with having stabbed Charles Setchel Mattock, his fellow-apprentice. The latter was brought into the Office by his father, and appeared to be in a very weakly condition. He re mained sitting whilst being examined, and seemed, through want of strength, to experience considerable difficulty in answering Sir Bierman BIIINIE'S ques tions, which were as kw as absolute necessity obliged him to put. It appeared horn his evidence, that the two boys are apprentices to Joseph Bartholomew, a hearth-rug weaver, living at 49, Chur. h-street, Beth nal-gieen. Between two and three o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday last, an altercation took place between the two boys in their master's workshop, re lative to some worsted, which each party insisted , upon getting possession of; upon which a scuffle en sued, and some blows were exchanged. The prisoner then drew his opponent close to the loom of their employer, who happened to be out of the way at the moment, upon which were lying a pair of scissors;' and snatching them up, he grasped them (closed) by the middle, and plunged the point into Mattock s, breast ; who then seized him from behind, and en- deavoured, by pinioning his aims, to prevent him from repeating the blow. The prisoner, however, changing the position in which he had held his wea pon, opened it, and getting his finger and thumb into its bows, he continued to stab his antagonist until he inflicted no less than nine wounds on his arm, and one upon each of his thighs, which, with the one in Jiis breast, made twelve in all. Their mistress hearin* the struggle, called out to know what was the matter.' to which the prisoner replied, " I hope I have done for him." The prisoner, when asked what he had to say for himself? gave pretty nearly the same account of the origin of the quarrel ; but added, that Mattock began " clawing and biting of him r upon which he (the prisoner) said, " Why don't you fight me fairly? Then if you play foul, I shall play foul," and then had recourse to the scissors. Their employer stated, -that the prisoner had been two or three years in his set vice, and he had never known him to be guilty of anything of this kind before. He was a very well behaved boy, as also was the other. They were both equally well conducted boys. Mattock's father re quested Sir Rimini) Biome to ask him if the pri soner was a Sabbath-breaker, or kept late hours? or whether he would intrust his property to him in the manner in which he would intrust it to his son? The witness replied, that certainly lie should not like to intrust his property to him as he did to Mattock.— , Sir RICHARD BIRNIE asked him if the boys went to Church regularly ?—tfe said they sometimes went, hut not always. Sir Bien A liD BIRNIE: Do you not know that it is your duty to see that they attend Church regularly I"—The witness replied that he he lieved it was. The father asked Sir RICHARD if be thought it ailvisable to have the boy's clothes which he had worn upon that occasion, forthcoming ?—Sir I RICHARD BIRNIE thought he ought to preserve the clothes in the same state in which they appeared after his son was stabbed.—The prisoner's mother, a wretched-looking widow woman, asked if her son might not be bailed ?—Sir lticitA no MIME informed her that the circumstances did not justify his receiving bail in this case.—A young lad, twelve years of age, also a fellow-apprentice of the prisoner, stepped for ward to describe the affray, at which he said he was present. He stated, that before the prisoner had seized the scissors, be saw Mattock's hand inside the prisoner's collar, but whether he was scratching him or not, he could not say.—Being here asked, if he (the witness) had not had a quarrel with Mattock, and stabbed bins with II pair of scissors twice in the back, although the other had the generosity to make no complain: of him? he admitted that he had, but lie had asked his pardon, and he could have done no more. The fact was, that Mattock never would fight fair. The witness, however, expressed his'regret for what he had done ; and, receiving an admonition from Sir RICHARD BIRN IE, assured him of his deter mination never to repeat the offence.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial. J. Birmingham was charged by Mr. Dunn, the Treasurer of Drury-Lane, with causing a disturbance at that Theatre on the preceding evening, by forcing his way in without. paying. The prisoner, who had been in the watch-house all night, described himself as a student, residing at present at the Turk's Head, in the Strand ; and said, that having dined with a friend, he had taken too much wine, and consequently did not know what he was doing. Mr. Dunn, not pressing his charge. against him, as he was only anxious that the property of the Theatre should be protected from the invasion, in innumerable ways, to which it is exposed, the prisoner was discharged, with an admonition from Sir RICHARD BIRNIR, to avoid getting drunk in future, which was no excuse for misconduct, and was a bad mode of pursuing . one's studies. Susan May was brought up for further examina tion, on a charge of robbing her master. Sophia AUen stated, that the prisoner had been living, as a servant, with her father, who keeps the Portland Arms, Great Mary-la-Bonne-street. On the 80thiof October, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, hay. lag asked leave to go out, she went away and never returned. In the evening of the same day, the wit ness missed a watch, a pocket-book with some silver in it, and severaelpffrartic l es Jeffries, of fl af te r a a h roo er searm sis c t w e h r i ' t s ohf w heso e r a m ri ni n eo g dthi a .ffie p : - r c p ul a Tt, found James J efl'rie s, af te r a search of some d i - culty, found th e in King David's-lane, Wapping, and the stolen arti cles in her possession. She acknowledged to him that she bad taken them from Mr. Alkn's.—She was committed for tEial. :r_- :. AMERICAN CIUM. CON. or NEW YORK COMMON PLE AS. JOHN FERcesOH V. THOMAS THoMPSOv. This was an action tried before Judge lim,c, a ,, the 25th of September ; which action wa s ti , ( , by one Ferguson, a Very decent young man of ol)"7ou.f, against the defendant Thompson, a stag e -d r i ver rather a " darker hue" than the plaintiff, an d ' wane. what " declining in the vale of years." It appeared that the plaintiff sought to reen vecda. mages from the defendant, an old and experi enced beau, for the seduction of the plaintiff's wif e , n. hd was proved to be very handsome; and also r oc de. stroyiog the plaintiff's comfort, affe ct i on , and Kits o fof mind. It was clearly made to appear, on epfrn of the plaintiff, that the acts for which th e def endant was charged, were three, and attended with aura; vating circumstances. The actual mar r i age of the plaintiff to his wife was proved, and lik ew i se that they had lived affectionately together as such, f o r some considerable time, and that the is Emit of th6i union" had been the " happy production" of a rif fling child, during the conjugal association of 11. e plaintiff with his wife; " he was robbed of tliat Which was moot dear;' she, whom he thmight his bosom 1 friend, and confident, was clandestice,y " sr,luce: from his arms by the lascivious and wanto n d e f end. ant. She, probably not regarding the saved Lin she owed the plaintiff, and flattered perhaps with t! f idea and prospect of moving in lather higher ar.4 more splendid circles, did abandon her busbar4 child, and home, and fled with the deteudant. A t ., cording to her expectations, :he has, since her + iv . meat, in some measure had her appetite g . ratisi4 : for she, as it appears, has had the pleasure fit tnaki,. a tour to the " Sprin:!,s ;' and as occasion requor, her " Beau N.vli" drives her round and thros ; Newark, in a joli.,l:ed ^ig .• unidem," with a retiL, that would do honour to a Queen. It appeared is evidence, that the defendant possessed of property to t cern iderable amount, ar . . . . sufficient to keep tile amonyis laoy no,ving high life, and have a I:tiTe balance rea a;i.in g . His defence to the action was, tint, to the form _ the action ; and, secondly, that the plaintiff had use his wife very ill, and had partially separated; ina much, as she was nut living with the plaintiff at time she was seduced away; but living out at sets as a servant, in this city ; also, that the u!aintiffbi .self had had criminial ctarnexion with other wonea The evidence adduced in support of the def... • though notwithstanding they v. ei e numerous, anda respectable set of blacks ;" yet its bearing ruff very little avail. The case being in its nature somewhat novel and interesting, furnished a good opportunity to the Ow. sel concerned, for a - fair display of their talents, which was embraced with much enthusiasm and warmth. Judge litvi so gave the Jury an elaborate c::atie, and expatiated upon the case at considerable leso. He considered, in the first place, that the action properly brought, and that an actual criminal cut. nection had been made fairly out ; and then the corM deration was, what damages ought to be given. thought that if the plaintiff had turned his wile arra or acted improperly towards her, the Jury oughts consider that, in mitigation of the damages; bu he had acted properly as a husband, and had cc* ducted himself with propriety, the amount of da.l macs would rest with them. "I he Jury retired, and was out a considerablelength of time, when, at a late hour, they returned into Coat with a verdict in favour of the plaintiff, of 252 Ulan damages, and costs of suit. The following Advertisement is literal ttiti from a New Jersey Paper: " To be sold, on the Bth of July, one hundred and dived !mils a! lam, the pi operty of an eminent attorney, ab, from business. Note—tlie clients are rich and obstialle Sunday afternoon, a boy, about twelve yearsciv, named Robert Wright, of Lambeth-street, V 1 chapel, called at the White Horse, Mile-end-road ai for a wager, in the space of a few minutes, he Ow off, in two draughts, half a pint Of strong raw 7,1:, and an equal quantity of rum. lie left the Int smoking a pipe in his way ; but he had not procedd far before the liquor pressed upon him : he bet insensible, in which state he was carried home,. j remained so till the following night, when he esp MARRIED. Oct. 29, at Cairnsmore, the Rev. David Wilson, Strauraer, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late Peter Sao Esq. of Cairnsmore. DIED. On the 2d inst. at Weymouth, aged 22, Cornet GeorgelhA of the 22d Light Dragoons, only son of Captain Feat!, II" Kent. Oct. 25, in Bridge-road, Lambeth, Sophia, wife of M Allan, Esq. Deputy-Commissary-General to his Majesty's IA and of Porto Bello, near Edinburgh. 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