Star.
London, England, 1825-08-01 00:00:00

IPIIIIIF-11.r"d.

Nit. kHICHErS NEW POEM.

Now have I Boated on thine infant smiles
At morning, when thine eyes unclosed on mine;
/low, as the months in swift succession rolled,
I marked thy human faculties unfold,
And watched the dawaing of the light divine:
And with what artifice of playful guiles
Won from thy lips with still repeated wi!cs
hiss after kiss, a reckoning often told.—
Something I wren thou know'st; for thou bast seen
Thy sisters in their turn such fondness prove,
And felt how childhood, in its winning years,
Th' attempered soul to tenderness can move.
This thou cati'st tell; hut not the hopes and fears
With which a parent's heart sloth overflow—
The thoughts and cares inwoven with that love—
It's nature and it'. depth thou-dest not, cadet not know!
The years which since thy birth have passed away,
May well to thy young retrospect appear
A nteasureless extent ;—like yesterday.
Tu me, so soon they filled their short career.
thee, discourse of season have they brought,
With sense of time and change; and something, too.
Of this precarious state of things have taught,
Where nut► abideth never in one stay ;
And of mortality, a mournful thought.
And I have seen chine eyes suffused in grief,
When I have said, that with autumnal grey
1 he touch of old hath marked thy father's bead ;
That even the longest day of life is brief,
And mine is failing fast into the yellow leaf !
Thy, sappy nature front the painful thought
With instinct turns, and scarcely cau'iot thou bear
To hear me NMI the grave ; thou knowest not

How•largu a portion at my heart is there!
The faces which I loved in infancy
Are pone; and bosom farads of riper age,

With whim I gladly talked of years io conic,
Summoned before me to their heritage,
Are in the better world. beyond the tomb.
And I have brethren there, and sisters dear,
And dearer babes. I, therefore, needs must dwell
Often lu thought with those whom still I love so well !
Thus wilt thou feel in thy maturer mind; •
When grief shall be thy portion thou wilt find
Safe consolation in such thoughts as these—
A present refuge in afilledon's hour.
And, if indulgent Heaven thy lot should bless,
With, all imaginable happiness,
Here shalt thou have, my child, beyond all power
Of chance, thy holiest, surest, best delight.
Take, therefore, now, thy father's latest lay—
Ikoluips his last—and treasure in thine beast
. The feelings that its musing strains convey;
A song it is of life's declining day,
Yet meet for youth. Vain passions to excite
No strains of morbid sentiment I sing,
?for tell of idle loves with ill.epent breath :
h reverent'effering to the grave I bring,
:Abated:le a garland for the brow of:Death!

The following beautiful stanzas are from Mr. Sonnies unpub-
lished Poem of " A Tale of Paraguay;'—and. are a part of the
dedicatory lines addressed by the Poet to his Daughter.

MAILS'!" AND CO.'S BANICRUPTCy.
. .
Saturday, aMeeting of the Creditors was held at the
Commissioners' Rooms, in Basinghall-street: a great
number of debts were admitted to proof, and the ut-
most anxiety was manifested, it being generally sup-
posed that another dividend of Ss. 41. in the pound
should have been declared, and that the Bank of Eng-
land would have waived its claim on the estate. The
application which had been made to the Lord-Chancel-
lor to restrain this payment, excited consithwattle ap-
prehension, but as his Lordship always takes due time
for consideration, the . creditors thought they should
steer clear of the Bank claim and receive the dividend
'of thtee shillings and fourpence in thepound.. In this
state of uncertainty Mr. Montague entered the r00m...,
silence was immediately obtained, 'and every one felt'
anxious to hear his observations. Mr. Montague said,
the Lord Chancellor had ordered that the meeting
should be ac'journed till Tuesday se'rutight, and' n the
meantime bus Lordship requested that the Commit
sioners should examine each claim which aliouldibe
wide by the Bank of England ; and his Lordship also
requested that the assignees would report to the Com-
missioura s whether there was sufEcient outstanding pro-
perty to meet the claim of the Bank, in case p decision
should be made in their favour? This proceeding must
necessarily occepy a considerable time, as the accounts
are very voluminous. ' • -
atuflifolc===as
Mr. C. KEMILE, it seems, is on the eve of departing
for Germany, to forage for dramatic and musical no-
veltirsoince the German Muse has become so attractive
in this country.
Information was received at New ()deans on the Btb
ult. that three shipsifrom England bad arrived at Tam-
pico, within three seeks, bringing several engineers,
=ay misers and a large quanuty of 'machinery for
working the. i'lexican mines.
Friday the-new road leading by Staugate to Lambeth
Palace was thrown open to the Public, by pulling
down the wall'which formed the garden of the Saw.
yen :public-house. The road will be continued over
the back grounds of the Palace. Part of the wall in the
Bishop's: Walk is tO come down.
LIVERPOOL COPTON MARKET, JULY. 26.—0 n Wed-
nesday last about a,OOO Egyptian were taken on specu-
lation. The nen ket has been since in a very dull and
declining state, the total sales amounting is 8.200 bags
only. To-day the announcement of 10.000 bags of
American' for public sale, 'vn Friday next, tended to
depress the market still further, and to put a stop to
business. lmport•-d this week 3,000 American, 1,700
Brazil, and %Sal Egyptian.
In cases of drowning nothing can be more injurious,
cr more likely to destroy any remains of vitality that
may exist, than the practice of suspending persons by
the heels, which is never resorted to but by the most
ignorant. Ti;. most active and useful practice is to
endeavour to restore breathing, by pressing on the chest
as to excite its natural action, after drying the pa-
cent, and placing him in an horiz intal position in beck
b..t ween two blankets, applying warmth in the quickest
and most convertient possible manner, both-to the pit
of the stomach • and to' the feet...tubbing the hands,
a: m-, legs, 80, either with the band or flannel, and
persevering in this manner until. Medical. aid can be
obtained; even if no symptom. of vitality should appear.
Alany individuals 'Jose their.
raising their arms above te:
of which depress the head.
1. otion• her -ability to act in a .
tore saint trapitally. %%en
water., te gerittalirrises tcr the
. there if I.e does not -Oletrate. b'
move_ his hands sunder water
firs head wid rise so-high as,
to brach.; and if :he Wives
wa
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iking (or rather as if liijilktng
will rise above. water, setbai.heima•
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few. plain directions arereco.
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