Star.
London, England, 1822-12-31 00:00:00

TtE NEW 'YEAR.

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BY Mn. COTTON.

listk! the cock crows, and rift bright star,
It,Us vs the day hiniself's not far;
*And see where, breaking from the night,
He gilds the western hills with light!
:Neigh him old Janes doth appear,
Peeping into the future year,
With such a look as smuts to say,
The prospect is not good that way !
• Ilttu's do we rise 11l sights toaee,
Ard 'gainst ourselves to prophecy;
When the prophetic fear of things •
. A more tormenting mischief brings,
• More full of soul-tormenting gall,
Jltan direst mischiefs can befall.
• )3ut stay! bet stay ! methinks my sight.
Vetoer intom'd by clearer light.
lkscerns.sereneness in that bra*
That all contracted seem'd but now;
Ills averted fate may skew distaste, j
And frown upon -the ills are past:
• ..hlut that which this way looks is clear,
•Aud smiles upon the New-betivt Year!
.• He looks ton from a place so high,
The Year lies open to his eye;
And all the moments open are
To the exact discoverer; •
.:fist more and more he smiles upon
The happy revolution !
• 'Why should we then suspect or fear
The influences of a year.
'So smiles upon us the first morn,
.And speaks us good so soon as born !
,Plague on't ! the last was ill enough.
This cannot but make better proof ;
Or,. at the worst, as we brush'd through
The last, why so we may this too;
And then the next in reason sbou'd
lk superexcelkntly good :
For the worst ills (we daily see)
have no more perpetuity
Than the best fortunes that do fall;
Which also bring us wherewithal
Longer their being to suppert,
Than those do of the other sort ;
• And *he has one good year in three,
:And yet repines at destiny—
Appears ungrateful in the case,
• Abtrmerits not the good he has.
Then'litus welcome the New Guest

:iiVith lusty brimner, of the best ;
lilisth always shuuld good Fortune meet,
And render e'en disasters sweet ;
•And though the Princess turn her back,
Let, us but line ourselves with sack
•
We better shall by far holdout,
Till the next Year she face about!

A fire was discovered on Monday se'nnight, at
•Brynkinhault,. the • beautiful seat of Lord Viscount
Duirarinota, near Oswestry, occasioned by the cook
making
tuse of an old oven, for the purpose of baking
some large Christmas pies, &c. The fire.copmuni-
eated with some timber in the building, and thence
to the pantry and rooms adjoining; but the injury
sust3ined is not extensive.
Wednesday evening, shout eight o'clock, the stable
of Mr. Walker, at Palk Lane, near Hatfield, was set
on fife, in consequence of the lads incautiously using
,ligfated straw. fur singing the.liorses' legs, the flames
of which communicating with the litter, the place
was almost instantly on a blaze. Belore assistance
could hesroculect three horses were burnt to death.
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Wednesday last Henry. Miereh, of Gateshead Fell,
butcher, performed private penance in the parish
church of Ovingbam, Newcastle, for defaming the
character of the wife ?flak brother Joseph March.
JOHN WESLEY quaintly observed, that the road to
Heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels r
and. that to lide in a coach here, and to go to Heaven
hereafter, was a happiness too much for man. Jona:,
however, rode in a coach before he died.

dguitas, the artist, having succeeded happily in
.copying (he drought, in surpassing) a picture of Ts-
TIAN, looked first at the one, then at the other, and
then, with parental complacency, cried, " Poor little
Tit! stare!'

Taasst.aroas.—A Dutch translator styles Brutus,
and. Collatinus " Burgomasters of Rome !"

VAT TYLER AND SIR WILLIAM WALIVORTH.-.
Win., when in servitude,• had been beaten by his
master, IiteHARD Lin.-Ns, a great merchant of wines,
—anA a.Sheiiiy of London. This chastisement, work-
ing on an cvaLlisposition, appears never to have been
forgiven ; and when this Itadical assumed his short-
lived dominion, he had his old master beheaded, and
his 'sail cato4l)?efore him.on the point of a spear
tio,GiterTop,iells.us, to the.eternal obloquy of this
arch Jacobi n, vain 0, was a crafty. fellow, and of an
texcelleet.wit, but wanting grace." I would not sully
the. of the patriotic blow, which ended the tel
belliop4.vith,therebel, yet there are secrets in history;
Sir WILLLAMWALWORTH, " the ever-famous Mayor
of Lomlou," as STowe designates him, has left the
iplinfir!iflity Of his:nilineto.one of our suburbs; but
whhen I discovered in !Etorve's Survey that W*z.
waxy! WAf thelend lord of the:stews on. the Bank side,j
which he.farmed out to the Dutch crows, and.whicif
WAT pulledschiwa, I am inclinetto inspect tha4
;vate..teCring,fist.,k' ked.dOwn the saucy tibalclJ

Frl~ :r..dOwn the
and then thrust him thisitgh and through with. his,
dagger; and drat thine was as much of personal wen!
geance asipatilotism, which raised-his arm to crush the
a,so,ffi Lich Valuable property...—D'Anyeii.
TIM • ORIGIN Or •MzstmAzDs.—The fish called
Thirclie4ms, or the Sea. Cow, in-Zoology, is a genus
of .sea,aniiniafs,.ii, the Order Of plagi un-, the characters
of which are, that it.possesiei teeth both jaws ;-r-
-there is no fin upon the back, .at•id the skin is . very
tough; firm, and hairy. There is but.little doubt but
,this creatige Seems to be the.link uniting
,the fish and
quadruped tribe,,-as the bat does the quadrupeds, and
birds. The females of this animal have .between the
"pectoral fists two large round breasts and navel, per.:
TectlY.resemblingthose of the. human species, which
maintain a.ykry.toycible argument, that all the fables
concerning these imaginary animals, Mermaids,i‘ler-
men, and Spells, supposed to be half human half fish,
took theiryise frOin an imperfect view of this animal.
SOU:HAMPTON, DEC. 28.—We-have a numerous
party of French fishermen perambulating our streets.
lave come over for the purpose of purchasing
betringc tram the lichen Ferry fishermen, who have
already reapisl an abundant harvest this season.—The
flaks'uf'svild-fowl which have appeared in this neigh-
boUrhood ate'much more numerous than we have seen
for stianx yeas Solon geeSe particularly.—A mannamed..ktfichols,. tad his hand literally.blown to.pieces
by the bursting:of a .guts, with which be seas amusing,
himself in shouting small birds.