Star.
London, England, 1823-09-26 00:00:00

HAPPINESS.

Qal fit, Motsenas, ut nemo, quints sibi wheat.
Hon. fri&a. Sat. I.
0 Thou, our ant and chiefest care,
The object of each wish and pray'r,
The end we all pursue,
How shall I trace thy secret road?
Where find thy ever-blest abode.
Reveard, alas! to few? •
Can wealth, or power, thy favour claim ?
Can virtue, or exalted fame,
Attain thy smile or love ?
Shall I pursue thee to•tbe cell,
Where venerable hermits dwell,
In cool sequester'd grove ?
Art thou (0 tell me !) a Ue found
Amidst gay Pleasure's giddy round.
That mirth and joy ehtviine?
Or don thou plate thy blissful seat
In solitude's belov'd retreat,
Thou plant of seed divine/
Shall giddy youth, of silver age,
Thy envy'd Proteus form engage.
Or subtile 'deuce please ?
Or dost thou shun the learned stores
Enraptur'd knowledge still explores,
For indolence and ease?
Or dost thou rather fill thy throne
In the contented mind alone
Which truth and honour guide ?
I see thee, in thy beauties drew,
' In virtue's lovely form coolest,
Associate by thy aide!
Then let me rest, and here reveal
Tb' unerring dictate which I feel,
And each alike may Ind;
That Happiness to all is known,
Who seek with bumble heart the boon,
To no one spot confin'd !
Jail—Morpeth.

MEDICUS.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

Yesterday, John Hanuchel, a lad of the age of 16,
a native of Prussia, was indicted for stealing a watch,
value f'd. 10s. from the shop of Mr. Harris, a watch-
maker, living at Shadwell, and Jacob Levi was indicted
for receiving the watch, knowing it to be stolen.
The facts, as proved against the prisoners by evi-
dence, were these :—Hanischel went into the prosecu-
tor's shop under the pretence of buying some beads, and
Levi was observed peeping into the shop window while
the other prisoner was inside. Ilanischel did not at this
time succeed in the theft, but on again entering the shop,
he asked for the beads, and at the same time pulled out
his handkerchief, and placed it upon the counter, cover-
ing a silver watch svhicb was upon it. He then toek up
the handkerchief and 'etch together, and put them into
his packet. tie soon after Lett the shop undiscovered.
The theft being subsequently found out, the prisoner MU`
rifchel was apprehended, and Levi was soon after taken
into custody. At first Levi denied all knowledge of
the business, but afterwards admitted that he had
buught the watch for 18:.
The Jury retired, and found both the prisoners--.
Gui'sy. The younger prisoner was recoillmended to
surrey by the Jury.
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The Beconnen, in sentencing Levi (a Jew with a
very fetocious countenance) to transportation for four-
teen years, told him that he was a very hardened cha-
racter, and was very unfit to renpain longer in this
country. He had probably been the means of insti4
gating the lad to the commission of the offence for which
he had been found guilty.—The Count intimated that
the recommendation of the Jury *unit certainly have
its effect with respect to the younger prisoner.
• Thomas Wilson, a very respectable-looking man, and
whose appearance and manner were far above those of
a common thief, was indicted for stealing a coat and
other articles of apparel, the property of L. Neal.
The prosecutor was a working man at an empty
house near Bayswater, and kept his clothes in one of the
rooms of the house. The prisoner was observed to
enter the house, go up stairs, and presently return-with
a bundle under his arm. The room in which the
clothes were deposited was locked. The prisoner, when
he elute down stairs, perceiving that he was observed
by one of the labourers, immediately asked the man
where his master was The labourer answered, that,
his master would be there presently. The prisoner then'
told him to tell his master when he came, to go
to a public-house over the way, as he (the prisoner)
warted to speak with Mast The peiscuser then left the
house, but instead of going towards the public-house,
turned to the right into some fields. The labourer, sus-
pecting he was a thief, followed him, and took him.—
Upon opening the bundle, it was found to contain the
prosecutor's clothes. The prisoner was afterwards
searched by a constable, and twelve shillings were found
in his pocket. Upon =akin a further search, a skew,
leton key wss found concealed in the sleeve of his coat.
The coat he then Lad on was a very good green co-
loured coat, but the coat he now wore was black. Ott
being first apprehended; the prisoner begged hard for
mercy, and promised to commit no more thefts.
The prisoner strictly cross-examined the witness with
much acuteness, and slrewiag evidently that he was a
ioan of education. %Viten called upon for his defence,
he declined saying anything. lle held in his hand, at
the same time, a written paper of some length.
The COURT then asked if he had any wttuesses ? The
prisoner said his friends were known to be highly re-
spectable, but they lived at a great distance from this
town. A high atrtlmrity in this Court, he said, was
well acquainted with his family and friends,
The RECORDER said, the question skas not vJiether
these friends were respectable, but whether they were
present to give him a' character ? The prisoner ad-
mitted that be certainly had no friends here to give him
a character.—The. Jury found a verdict of Guilty.
The RECORDER said, he had reason to know thatthis
was not the first offence the prisoner bad committed.—
The houses irt the neighbourhood of Bayswater had been
_
pilfers
thief had

Lydia Bates deposed, that she was the daughter of
the prosecutor, who resided in Butcher-row, East Smith-
field. Prisoner came there to lodge three weeks pre-
vious to the 28th of July, on which day he quitted the
house, and did not return. The prisoner not coming
back', witness examined his mom, and found all the
things in his room, that had teen lent with the apart-
ments, were safe ; but on going into the chamber op.
posite to that whisk the prisoner occupied, she signed
two sheets.

Tbeasumanza abseried, that this charge must fail,
as the indictment imputed to the prisiner the robbing
of his furnished lodgings of two sheets which were lent
to Mm for his use ; and that was not the fact. _

The prisoner was, in consequence,. *quitted.
Woods and Fearby were indicted for steal-1
ing five sovreigns, one five pound note, and two ten
pound notes, the property of Thomas Harrington.
The following is the substance of the evidence of the
prosecutor, who appeared to be a simple country fel-
low :—He was bailiff to Earl Cowper, and lived at his.
Lordship's seat in Hertfordshire. On the 12th inst. he
came to town on business, and the prisoner Woods came
up to him near Smithfield, and entered into conversa-
tion with him. They went together to two or three pub-,
lic-houses, and drank beer. At length they entered a
public-house which- the prosecutor supposed to be in the
New-road, because the Paddington stages were passing
and repassing. Whilst the prosecutor and Woods were
in this house, Fearby and another man, whose name
the prosecutor did not recollect, entered, and, without
seeming to know Woods; entered into conversation with
him and the pPoocutor. Fearby mentioned, as if acci-
dentally, that his b. other had dislocated his ancle, and
ol4.served, that it was an infortunate event. Woods said
these was no such word as " infortunate" in the English
language, and offered to back his opinion by a wager of
a pot of beer : the prosecutor also offered to bet a pot of
beer against the correctness of 'Fearby's notions of or-
thography. Fearby accepted both wagers, and Johnsoris
Dictionary being produced, he shewed, sure enough,
that it contained the word 44 infortunate.l.! Fearby then
offered to bet one pound that the prosecutor could not
produce ten pounds. The prosecutor said he had no
money at that time (twelve o'clock at noon), k2t he ex-
pected. to receive at.) by post in the course of the day,
and he agreed to bet one pound that he would produce
ten before two o'clock. The prosecutor then left' the
house in company with Woods, and proceeded to his
lodgings, but finding that the letter which he expected
had not arrived, the prosecutor went to a friend in Tot-
tenham-court-road, of whom 'he borrowed five sove-
reigns, two five pound notes, and one ten pound note.
He hastened back with Woods to the public-house where
'he had left Fearby and the stranger, produced ten
pounds, and received one potmd, the wager, from'
Fearby. Fearby then betted one pound that the pro•
secutor could not produce ten pound more ; the prosecu-
tor exhibited his £2O, and received another 11. of Fearby.
The whole party, viz. the prosecutor, Woods, Fearby,
and the stranger, now sallied forth to see Mr. Graham
ascend in his balloon from White Conduit Gardens.
After the sight was over, they adjourned to a tavern,
where IVoods introduced cards, and he and Fearby
played at 44 all fours." Woods had won four points,
and Fearby only one, and the cards had been dealt for
the decision of the game, when Fearby left the room for
a few minutes, desiring that nobody should look at his
cards in his absence. %Vhilst Fearby wils away, Woods
looked at his own " hand," and said that he was sure to
win the game. The stranger also made the same asser-
tion. Fearby, when Ve returned, declared that he would
play against Woods' " hand" fur 601. lle immediately
placed, as the prosecutor supposed, 601. in a hat, in
which the prosecutor deposited his 201. and Woods and
the stranger pretended to place the like sum each, as it
was agreed they should go shares in the wager. The
prosecutor was induced to play Woods' " hand," for he
was told that'" a child must win it ;" but he neverthe-
less lost the game. Fearby immediately took the stakes
out of the hat, and left the house, and shortly after.
wards Woods and the stranger followed him, leaving
the prosecutor to deplore the consequences- of his cre-
dulity.—Mr. ADOLPLUJS cross-examined the prosecutor:
You know how to play at" all fours," I suppose?
Witness—No, I don't.
You know all about 0 high; low, Jack, and game r.
Witness—l know very little about than.
Why did you play, then?
Witness—Because they told me, that let me lay down die cards
as I pleased, I must win.
Sly the Cooar—Did you think you had lost the wager T—Yes.

The COURT then stated to the Jury, that the conduct
of the prisoners, ,although extremely wicked, did not
amount to a felony. They appeared to have had a fool
to deal with in the person of the prosecutor: he had
swallowed the bait greedily, and afterwards acquiesced
in his loss. The prisoners might be made to answer for
their conduct before another tribunal; if not, it was pro-
bable that some other guilty act would cause them to
be again brought before that Court, and then the pre-
sent business would not be forgotten.
Fearby said, " 1.11 take care you won't, see me again,
my Lord."

The Jury, after expressing their regret that the psi-
*nets must be permitted to escape unpunished, returned
a verdict of Not Guiltip

After some conversation with the Clerk of the Ar-
raigns, the Court directed the prisoners to he detained
until next Sessions.

An officer who apprehended the prisoners produced
to the Court some articles which he found upon them,
namely, a pocket edition of Johnson's Dictionary, some
flash notes, and bright farthings, which they had made
the poor countryman believe to be sovereigns.

BAPTISMAL IMMERSION OF AN INFANTr-•••StIllday,
the.llth instant, was baptised by his father, with
trine immersion, in the font of Littleham church, after
the second lesson at evening prayer, FONTELAUTOS,
first-born son of the Rev. Prebendary DENNts, B.C. L.
This is probably the first instance of the scriptural and
primitive mode of administering church baptism since
the Restoration.

Friday night. at eight o'clock, a beautiful meteor was
seen by two Gentlemen at Sauchithall. It appeared to
be from eight to nine feet long, if light-blr colour,

DIED.

Lord Yarborough. His Lordship i
eldest son, Charles Andanon.

At Bangor, the Rev. Henry Ward,
the Rev. H. Mahon, of Killogally, Ik
Sept. 11, in Newcastle, Mr. Geri
the elder brethren of the Trinity Ho+
Tuesday (9th April), in the Ursa,:
States, Mrs. Mary Magdalen .7. Ryan
community. This young Lady, a nat
that city some years back with her tl
founding in Boston a Convent of the
Thursday sennight, Henry Etty, ag
liam Buy, wine-merchant, at Milton,
this fine boy was occasioned by his r
vent, as she. was carrying a tea-pot fi
kitchen to the sitting-room, and mud
water upon him, which scalded him*
second morning after the accident.