Star.
London, England, 1831-06-14 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

GUILDHALL.—WiIIians &dines, a private In the Cold.
stream Guards, was brought before Mr. Alderman /Pima-
BIOTHEIL yesterday, charged with stealing a coat from the
shop of Mr. Stafford, a tailor, In West Smithfield, at the
corner of Long•lane.
The charge having been fully made out by evidence, Mr.
Alderman FARzsaormsa asked the prisoner how he ac-
counted for his conduct.

Prisoner said he could not account for it at all.
" I must commit you to the 01.1 observcd the
Magistrate. " I suppose you know the Old Bailey."
" 0 yes." replied the soldier, without the least concern,
" I was tried there last sessions."
Ald. FAIIIIIROTuza—Indeed ! for what?
Soldier—For breaking a pane of glau and stealing a watch.
Alderman Fanansornza—Then are you not a emitter
from your regiment ?
Soldier—No, for I was discharged from Newgate only on
Saturday : my sentence was one month's imprisonment.
Mr. Alderman Faitaiaornea said he could not divine
his motive, but be must send him for trial.
Bow. s neer.— Yesterday Mr. Henry Bibbert appean d
before Sir H. Busts, to show cause why he should not I e
compelled to pay for the maintenance of an illegimuste
child now chargeable to the parish of St. Paul, Coven:.
garden, and of which a young woman, named Mary Barton,
is the mother.

The circumstances of this ease were it-mitred peculiar
from the facts that the child sought to be affiliated was four
years old, and that the reputed father denied all knos ledge
of the mother, and declared positively that they had nevtr
been acquainted.
Mr. C.lPhill:ps, and a respecable solieitor,appeared to de-
fend Mr. Hibbert, and Mr. Corder, the vestry-clerk of St.
Paul's, Covent-garden, atttnded ou behalf of that parish.
Mr. C. PntgLirs urged that as it was morally impouti-
ble the complainant could have gone 12 months with child,
as by her own showing it would appear she had, the ma-
gistrates should dismiss the case.
Sir it. Bigwig said that certainly the complainant had
made it appear that 12 months had elapsed from the period
of her alleged acquaintance with the defendant until the birth
of the child, and as that was a thing impossible, he certainly
would not think of making aoy order on the defendant un-
der such circumstances.

The complainant declared that she had told the parish
officer who took her examination, that the child was born,
not in December, but on the 18th of September.
Sir It. litaxto said that be should certainly dismiss tie
ease, owing tp the discrepancy which appeared upoo the face
of the informstian, and leave the parish to renew it or not,
'as they should think proper.
blaattLzoost.orricz.—Yesterday an elderly man, of
respectable appearance, named Jailers Brows, was charged
at this office with being the father of an illegitimate child.
Mrs. Brown, Ms wife, folinwtd him to the office, where she
became so outrageous as with difficulty to be restrained from
summary acts of violence.
The facts having b.en sworn to by the mother, Mr. Brown
tremulously said, " I am the father, Sir."
Nothing could exceed the wife's resentment egi hearing
this; and such apprehensions were entertained for ;Op safety
of Mary Kills, with the infant in her arms, and liven for
Mr. James Brown, that the parties were let separately out
from Jae office. ttr
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WICK EDNEII.—A London paper of Sunday
was base enough to advise the savage Chasse to
bombard and destroy Antwerp; and then, says be,
if the Dutch King declares Rotterdam a free port,
he will not hire to regret the loss of Belgium.—
IN'as he well said for this atrocious opinion ?—and.
if so, who paid him r" If the spontaneous senti-
ment of an Englishman, in the name of all England
we disown the wretch.

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LITERATI:RE AND SCIENCE.

SUAKESPEARE ANT) QUEEN ELIZABETH.—
Mr. Thorpe, the bookseller, of Bedford-street, is in
pcssession of a MS. of songs and poems, copied
prior to the year 1631, and including many unpub-
lished pieces, by a variety of celebrated poets.—
One of the most curious is a song in five seven-line
stanzas, thus beaded ;—' Shakespeare's rime which
made at the Mvtre, in Fleete Streete.'
It begins From the rich Lavinian shore ;'
cad sci::e few of the lines were published by Play-
ford, and set as a catch. Another, shorter piece,
is called in the margin,

SHAKESPEARE'S Rims.
Give me a cop of rich canary wine,
Which was the Mitre's (drinks) and now is mine;
Of which had Horace and Anacreon tasted,
Their lives as well as lines 'till now bad lasted.
Many other songs and poems are attributed to
Ben Jonson, Sir NV. Raleigh, H. Constable, Dr.
Donne, J. Sylvester, and others. Particulars of
the death of Queen Elizabeth, collected from this
MS. are curious and interesting', especially the in-
cidental mention of Lord Essex and the ring.
" March 23.-1 was at the Court at Richmond to heave
Dr. Parry, one of her Majesties Chaplens preache, and be
assured whether the Queene were living or dead. I heard
him, and was assured slice was then living. •• • These
were present at his sermon. The archbishop of Cant. the
L. Keep. the L. Treasurer, L. Admiral), L of Shrewsbury,
R. of Wormer, L. Cobham, L. Gray, Sir Willm. Knollys,
Sir Ed. Wotton, &e.
" I dyned with Dr. Parry in the privy chamber, and un.
derstood by him, the Bishop of Chichester, the Deane of
Canterbury, the Deane of Windsor, &c. that hit Majestic
bath bin by fits troubled with melancholy some 3 or 4
monetbs ; but for this fortnight extreame oppressed with it,
in soe much that she refused to eate any thing, to receive
any phisicke, or admitt any rest in bedd, till within these 2
or 3 dayes. Shea bath bin in a manner speechless for 2
.ayes: very pensive and silent since shrovetides, sitting
sometymes with her eye fixed upon one object many houses
togither ; yet she alwayes had her perfect senses and me.
mory, & yesterday signified by the lifting up of her hand &
eyes to heven, a signe which Dr. Parry entreated of hir, that
shoe belecved that fayth which she bath caused to be pro-
hissed, and looked faythfully to be saved by CHRISM me.
rits and mercy only, and no other meanes. She took. great
delight in hearing prayers, would often at the name of.lssus
lift up hir hands & eyes to heaven. Shea would not hear
the Archb. speake of hope of hir longer lyfe, but when he
prayed, or spake of heaven and those joyes, thee would hug
his hand, dm It seemes she might have lived yf she would
have used meanes, but shea would not be penuaded, and
princes must not be forced. Hie physicians sayd she had a
body of a firme & perfect constitution likely to have lived
many yearn ; a royal majesty is not priviledge against
death.

" Much 24. This morning about 3 at clocke her Ma-
jestic deputed this lyre, mildly like a larnbe, easely like a
ripe apple from the tree; rum Levi quadavi frbre, abag.
ge►aitu. Dr. Perry told me, that he was present, &sent
his prayers before hir mule ; & I doubt not but slice is
amongst the royall saints in heaven in eternal' joyes.
" April 4. Dr. Parry told me the Countess Kildare as.
sured him, that the Queene caused the ring, wherewith she
was wedded to the erowne, to be cutt from her Boger some
six weeks before hir death ; but wore a ring. which the E.
of Essex gave her, unto the day of hir death." i. 337. 8.
The following well illustrates the personal vanity
of Elizabeth :

" At this date [1584] Elizabeth, never very en-
gaging, uas 51 years old ; but nothing can place
her personal vanity in a more ridiculous light than
the following extract from the Registers of the
Privy Council, dated 30th July, 1596, when she
was twelve years older, and when her ministers,
for the second time, were called upon gravely to
interpose their authority to put an end to the dis-
tribution of unfavourable likenesses of the Queen,
offensive to her self-conceit.

SO July, 1696.
" A warrant to her Majesties Sergeant Painter, and to
all publicke officers, to yielde him their assistance touching
the abuse, committed by divers unskilful artisans, in un.
seemly and improperly paintinge, gravinge, and printinge of
her Majesties person and vysage, to her Majesties great of.
fince, and disgrace of that beautyfull and magnanimous ma-
jesty wherewith God bath blessed her. Requiring theta to
cause allettche to be defaced, and none to be allowed, but
such as her Majesties Sergennt Paynter shall first have sight
of. The mynute remayning in the Counsell Chest.' "
ii. 447.8.

Marine shells have recently been found in the
. diluvial gravel on the summit of Moel Tryfane,
near Carnarvon, one thousand feet above the level
of the sea.

M. DUPF.TIT-TIIOI.7ARS, the French botanist,
died lately, and his decease leaves a vacancy in the
Royal Academy of Sciences.
TORTOISESIIEI.L. It is a most horrible fact,
that the handsomest shell, and, consequently, the
most valuable, is stripped from the animal while
living ; the shell becoming more and more opaque
and dull, as the animal is dying. This exceeds
our plucking geese alive, boiling lobsters, or
skinning sheep, &c. before dead.
A CHINESE BRIDE.—The son of our host bay-
ing been married a few days before, we were hon-
oured (according to the usage of the country,
during the honey-moon,) with permission to look
at his wife, as she stood at the door of her apart-
ment, while we were passing out. The lady wts
surrounded by several old women, who held
tapers and lamps above and about her, that we
might have a more complete view of her figure
and attire. She was a young person, (perhaps
se►enteen years of age,) of middle stature,
with very agreeable features and a light com-
plexion, though she seemed to us to have
used paint. She wore a scarlet robe, superbly
trimmed with gold, which completely covered her
from the shoulders to the ground. The sleeves
were very full, and along the bottom ran a beauti-
ful fringe of small bells. Her head-dress sparkled
with jewels, and was most elegantly beaded with
rows of pearls, encircling it like a coronet ; from
the front of which a brilliant angular ornament
hung over her forehead and between her e3e-brows.
She stood in a graceful and modest attitude, having
her eyes fixed on the floor, though she occasionally '
raised them, with a glance of timid curiosity, to-
wards the spectators. Her hands, joined together,
but folded in her robe, she lifted several times to-
wards her face, and then lowered them very slowly.
Her attendants, presuroing that tits guests would
be gratified with a peep at that consummation of
Chinese beauty, the lady's feet, raised the hem of
the mantle from hers, for a moment or two. They
wore of the ihost diminutive kind, and reduced to
a mere point at the toe. Her shoes, like the rest
of her bridal apparel, were scarlet, embroidered
with gold. In justice to the poor creature, during
this torturing exhibition (as wh imagine it niust
have been to her), her demeanour was natural and
becOthing ; and once or twice something like half
a smile.-71yerwian's Travels.
Burn's-ETC VIEW OF CANTON.—From the
platform of the roof of Sir James Urmston's house,
. is cassidei ably elevated ,we obtained a bird's•
vie* of the city of Cautco, and the adjacent
The former is exceedingly crowded with
in and the latter neither picturesque nor
a the roofs of the houses, which are
end tiled, and arparently It-Letting end'

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