The National Register.
London, England, 1819-02-21 00:00:00

STATE OF THE POLL.

Al THE CLOSE IaST4DAT.

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POETRY:
EPIGBAMS.
(imols Tine !RENCK.)
Yon ssy, wheneer abroad you roam,
You meet with none but fools and asses;
►►'ould you avoid them, keep at home;
But, hark ye—break your looking-poses.

TILE BOOK.
A poring wight, wM, t^,rin,g wed.
Was always mailing in his bed.
Ilia wife adilress'il with gentle look,
And said, " I would I were a book !"
" Why a), good (Lune ?" die sage replied,
" Because you'd love sae then," she cried.
" Why, that might be," he straight rejoin
" But 'twouldri.pcnd upon the kind—
" An Al nanack. for instance, dcir,
To have ri new one every year."

Charlotte Hill was, or, Tue3tlav, convicted at th •

Middlesex Sessions, of having drewlfullv abused her
niece, Prunelia, a child not five years of age. The
evidence -detailed a series of shocking cruelties. One
of tha Jury was so much affected at the repztition offs
by the Chairman. as to be obliged.to leave the Court
for some minutes. The chili died soon after the scenes
described took place ; aad a bill fur made: was pre-
sented, but thrown out by the Grand Jury.. The •
cruelty exercised towards the child was, drenAing it
with water, making it stand in the yard naked, and
beating it severely. The Chairman sentenced ber to •
six months imprisonment.
DARING RODIICRY.-Mr. CornLy, of Beddinoon,
Surry was attacked by a gang of seven or eight pc:- •
sous, early on Thursday evening, on the Eastern side
of Bhttkfriars read; between Rowland Hill's Chapel
and Dover street, and robbed of 171. his watch, and
his hat. He was attacked by a violent blow upon the
neck, whiJh levelled him, and his property was gone
in a few seconds. These ruffians are part of a desperate
gang, who turn not from their vile haunts in St.
George's-tields, nightly, and parade the upper past of
Blackfriars road, in defiance of the watchmen.

C. Smith, a teacher of fencng in Carrabber's Close,
Edinburgh, was lately charged as being the miscreant,
whose conduct has for some time back been so grossly
shocking and annoying to numerous femal s in various
places in the vicinity of that city. He was clearly iden-
tified by a number ofynung Ladies, as the pez..an wlto
had behaved Wear& them in •a manner too indecent to
describe ; and the Sitting Magistrate, Considering it a
case desetring of more severe punis'ament than he was
warranted to inflict, set-Mut:l it tg the Sherid:
Sante doubts have arisen as to the best situation in
which to place the ina.sterly .east of the fine Colossal
Statue, by l hldias, sent as a present from Rome to the
Teince Regent. Waterloo,placa was at first fixed upon ; -
bat it has since been suggested, .hat the centre of the
new Circus, is wilL4litTlay this alnltirsUL,
work of art to the best advantage.
NVednekalay a Couat of Directors was held et lize Fas
iudia house, when the following ships were tiles stu-
timed and timed, viz. the Bridgewate., Marquis of
Fir, and Larkins, for St. Helona Bud China; a 4 .
el}r aloe Cornwall, and Nlaildo,• for China ditect, a .
.he ?Rod en the ‘23d inst.; sail to Critvesend on the-Ist of March; stay there $) daps ; au! be in the •
Dawns oh the 10. h of April.

INDEN.LNDENcE.—IiateIIiAI the richest of Abe Arabiw:.
and at the same thee Or most librral ; he every day wade
large donations to those who applied at the gate for rilirf.
°nee( his friends praising his liberality ...aid, I think .
mere neser eras a 61.,•1 of 50 !milk a spit rt." " I beg 'soar
pa. dVri'eaid plait ull tat ** I nut inalg flirt a poor IcGaw -
staggering under a bundle of thoi ua which lie haul Levu
remit,: (au fin wood. Seri;q: ki• poverty, I Liked hint nay
instead 'of labaniiiig so bald, he did poi go the
Ilaienstai for tenet.. Ile entwined, the 'nen that ear trill/ a •
tnersel-uf nread by his nwn lahonr. has no. nerd to be oteigeal I
al Miteintai. men's in ail :V•l4 Ifdiy 11051 C.