Star.
London, England, 1830-11-22 00:00:00

SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.

Saturday information was received at the office of Mr. Payne, the
City Coroner, of the following melancholy case of seduction and sui-
cide :—A short time ago the daughter of Mrs. French, of No. H,
Sherboume.Lsne, City, formed an acquaintance with a young man who
paid his addresses to her. Her mother and friends were quite ignorant
of the circumstance, and latterly they observed a considerable change
for the worse in ha mind and manners, which were originally mild,
placid, and serene. On Friday night, after having received a letter,
she left home, and had not long been absent whets she returned in
haste, much agitated, and sat down. A young man entered, and
called Mts. French, the mother of the unfortunate young lady, and de-
sired her to search her daughter's reticule as it contained poison. The
deceased denied it, but, after retiring to rest, her groans disturbed the
hourn—assistance was called in in vain, and she expired. It appears
that the young man with whom she ;kept company is a manid man
with a family, and having made pre to the deceased which weld
not be manes* et legally ralised, she resolved on eeltdeameedes.

LOUIS XIV. AND HIS MISTRESS, MADAME DE MAIII•
Tzuorr.--The King lived in a perpetual violation of may vied duty s
but during his effective reign of 56 years, be never Me mese en a fast
day but when ill, and never was absent a single dos from num but
once, on a very long march of his army.—MaL de mecum.
lated all the outward mew ef hum= sujelnumt. Amending to the
estimate of the world, she was the meet gewgaw Omens& But het
own descripdons betray the dame* between prosperity and happiness.
In looking Into a fish-pond at May, she mid to a ]you
se
how languid the carp are. They are like me ; they rep* their mud.*
" What a punishment 1" she oh , m bitterly =claimed, it is to have
to amuse a man who is no longer amusable !"
QUEEN ELIEABETH.—The Queen did once ask my
wife, in merry sort, bow she kept my good will and love, which I did
always maintain to be truly good towards her and my children. My
Mall, in wise and discreet manner, told ha Highness she had confi-
dence in her husband's understandi4 and courage, well founded on her
own stedfastness not to offend or thwart, but to ehaish and o hereby
did persuade her husband of her own affection, and in soloing did
command his. "Go to, go to, mistress," sails the Queen, " you are
wisely beat, I finds after such sort do I keep the good will of all my
husbands, my good people g for if they did not rest assured of some
special love toward than. they would not readily yield me such good
obedience." One Sunday (April last) my Lord of London preached to
the Queen's Majesty (Mimbeth), and seemed to touch on the vanity of '
decking the body too finely. Her Majesty told the ladies, that if the
Bishop held more discourse on such matters, she would fit him for
Heaven, but be should walk thither without a staf4 and leave his mantle
behind him. Perchance the Bishop never sought her Highness's
wardrobe, or be would have chosen smother text.—sir John Marring-
Sou'r Notes.

A STRANGE 1011 A Or A MANIAC RIINOVED HT STRA•
rAesx.--Ons of the moat eminent watchmakers in Paris became de.
ranged, from prosecuting the idea of perpetual motion. His derange.
meat was characterised by this singularity ; he believed that he had
been guillotined, that his bead had been mixed with those of some
other victims, and that the judges, repenting of their cruel verdict, had
ordered the heads to be replanW on. their respective bodies. By some
mistake, be conceived that the bead of one of his unfortunate comps-
nions bad been placed upon his shoulders t and this idea haunted him
night and day. A convalescent, of a lively and jocular turn, was en.
gaged to play the following trick upon the artist:—Their conversation
was directed to the celebrated miracle of St. Denis, who carried his
had under his arm, and kissed it as be went along. The watchmaker
vehemently maintained the possibility of the fact, anti endeavoured to
confirm it by an appeal to his own case. His companion burst out into
a loud laugh, and said to him, In a tone of mockery, " Why, you
fool, how could St. Denis contrive to kiss his own head? was it with
his heel ?" This unexpected repartee struck the lunatic forcibly : he
retired quite confused, amidst the laughter that it produced ; and he
sever after spoke of the misplacement of his head.—.ilr. Pine: oa in.
stutity.

LAST MOMENTS or Till PONT BU ANS.—From the
day of his return home till the hour of his untimely death, Dualities
was likes besieged place. It was known he was dying ; and the anx-
iety, not of the rich and the learned only, but of the mechanics and
peasants, exceeded all beliet Wherever two nr three people stood to-
gether, their talk was of Burns, and of him alone; they spoke of
his history—of his persce—of his works—of his family--of his fame,
and of his untimely and approaching fate, with a warmth and an en-
thusiasm which will ever endear Dumfries to my remembrance. All
that he said, or was saying—the opinions of the physicians (and
Maxwell was a kind and a skilful one) were eagerly caught up, and
reported from street to street, and from house to house.—His good
humour was unruSed, and his wit never forsook him. He looked
to one of his fellow-volunteers with a smile, as he stood by the bed-
side with his eyes wet, and said, "John, don't let the awkward squad fire
over me." He was aware that death was dealing with him ; he asked a
lady who visited him, more in sincerity than mirth, what commands
she had for the other world—he repressed with a smile the hopes of
his friends, and told them he had lived long enough. As his life drew
near a close, the eager yet decorous solicitude of his fellow townsmen in-
creased. He was an exciseman, it is true—a name odious, from many
assosiodons, to his countrymen ; but he did his duty meekly and kindly,
sad reposoosd rather than encouraged the desire of some of his comps-
nisns to pooh the law with severity : he wu therefore much beloved ;
and t e palm of the Scotch for poetry made them regard him as little
lower than sOh inspired. It Is the practice of the young men of
%Weiss os meet In the sheets, during the hours of remission from
Maul and by these mesas 1 had an opportunity of witnessing the
rigsolicitude of all ranks and of His dWerenees with them
nlet holmium points of hums agssaLtYm and religious hope,were
rowan egg hates ; they eshisylet only ethis genius—o the delight
his eompaldass they talked of him with the same
awe as of maw aqsankig off, who Woe was to them no
more. Ifh lam mormata low never ben ascribed s edged laid his
baadadaih, se endow mark' dhoslitiots, when his attendant re.
Nor bis nadir's, and field the cup_ to his t lip. He started
wodderap,dadasd the SW at a gulp, threw Ms hands Wore him like ill
a raaa t min, aag grows ltoro head to foot of the bed-.-fell
with his face dorm, and esplsoirwith a groan.