Star.
London, England, 1822-02-13 00:00:00

TO Tax EDITOR OF THE STAR.,

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sup—lf the following lines (written after reading the aifemingl
narrative which appeared is yotir valuable Paper on the 24th
of Idaria &Mame, eight years of age, daughter of S. Rathbone,
of Ilenbury. near Macclesfield, who had been sent on Pa errand
by her mother, and loit Im way, on the 10th of I.3enamber,
and was found lying deadleader a willow-tree on the 14th nit.)
should meet with your approbation, by insetting them you will
confer an obligation on, Sir, your's, ace. a W.

Poor wandering Innocent, thy hapless fate
Shall no lamenting Muse in song relate?
No withering flower of poesy be. spread,
Frail as thyself above thy narrow bed ?
Yes, to that' spot shall Fancy's feet repair,
And Pity bend a weeping pilgrim there.
Ah! who can tell, when e'en the artless tale
Of innocence Itself could not prevail?
What woes were thine, whose weary feet could find
No house to screen thee from the winter wind !
No mother's voice, which ev`ry scene endears,
To bid thy sorrows rest, or bush thy fears!
As from the hoary willow, darkly spread,
That wound its leafless branches o'er thy head,
The last lone redbreast, to the landscape dim,
Pour'd at the shut of eve his parting hymn,
And day withdrew it's last inspiring beam,
*calling hence the distant tinkling team;
Bow must thy infant thought have wandeed o'er
Scenes lost to thee, and hope for evermore !
In that false light which Fancy's power employs.
The simple home with all its little joys,
Might, through the gloom deceive thy weeping eye,
And make it still the hardest thing to die;
The plaintive murmur of the twilight stream,
The passing wind, the star's reflected beam,
Blight at each dreary interval recal
The varying thought to that last scene of all,
The loveliest and the best through life's brief day,
A home for ever lost and yet not far away;
There by the evening fire thyhair is seen
Vathout a tenant—there, too, every mien
Is chang'd to sadness from it's wonted glee,
And tears are shed, and sighs are heav'd for thee!
One only hope survives thy wither'd form,.
Like distant sunshine from the passing storm—
That poor Maria, from these circles driven,
Ltas found a parent and a home in Haas= !
Or ford, Feb. 6,1822.

Saturday, a Gentleman from the Surveyor-General's Depart-
mom attended in St. James's Park, and marked out the ground
upon which the stupendous Military Monument, in honour of
the Peninsular War, is to be erected. The spot chosen is directly
at back of the Admiralty, about half-way between the Egyp-
tian cannon and the Horse Guards, and comprises a circle of
between forty and fifty feet.
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The KING has purchased the whole of the land formerly held
on lease front WILLIAM SrAltvv, Fsq. (the eminent Barrister),
comj rising the greater part of the Royal Gardens a: Kew, and
inch& ig that on which the Pagoda stands.
Ili- Maarsve has also begun to enclose that part of Kew
G:eeis ceded to him by the inhabitants, and contiguous to the
r-an inn he purchased of Mr. Herne. This affords the pros-
rec• of much pleasure to the whole neighbourhood, as there is
eve 4 reason to expe:t that the Gardens of Richmond and Kew
w.. 1 be restored by our gracious Monarch to their pristine state
of beauty, and accommodation to the Public.
G arrsa lacv. '=Aturday se'nnight, a couple of lovers, from
S Mord, Manchester, arrived at the Coffeehouse, Carlisle, in a
chaise and four, in great haste, on their way to Hymen's altar,
at Gretna Green. The Gentleman, a Clegg, and his fair
fugitive, were pursued by two Gentlemen and a Lady, in a
chaise and four, who arrived at the Bush Inn—but, alas', the
ings of love—allpowerful love ! were too fleet to he overtaken
—the lovers being . ight hours in advance of the enemy.
The Annual Meeting of the Scottish Borderers was held on
Friday, the Ist of February, in the Royal Exchange Tavern,
Edinburgh, and was numerously and respectably attended, Mr.
Glarnece floes in the Chair, Dr. Amen Croupier. As might
have been expected in such a mectinr„ the greatest enthusiasm
prevailed, and the affecting tributes paid to the memory of the
" mighty dead," and the eloquent and animated eulogiums on
the " illustrious living" of this celebrated and romantic land,
g tve a zest and charm to the meeting which those who were
pres;:nt will not soon forget. The company did not separate till
a late hour, ani the whole business of the evening passed off in
a manner worthy of the olden time, and with that spirit which
b-longs in an eminent degree to Scottish Borderers.
During the hurricane of Saturday se'nnight, about midnight, his
Majesty's ship NoarnussaeaLaxn broke feign her moorings in
site Medway, and, her anchors not bringing her up, was driven
with great violence on the banks of the Isle of Grain ; but by
the most unparalleled exertions, she was enabled to run haw-
sers out, and warp off the shore, before any birds from Sheer-
ness could ger to her assistance. We hear that she has received
no damage whatever. The G BIWA lyins at Sheerness, lost a
boat and two men.

Wednesday night, a melancholy accident happened on board
the Geiaua, outward-bound for Berbice, lying at Greenock :
The Second Mate, a young man belonging to Glasgow, having
gone upon deck is trim the binnacle, was carried away, it is
supposed, by the storm, and perished unseen and unheard, as it
was only by his continued absence that his untimely fate was
discovered.
Friday, at Mr. Pilcher's Mill, at River, near Dover, one of
the millers discovered his son, Wm. Croft, aged 13, entangled in
the works ; the utmost expedition was used to stop the machinery,
and, when effected,' the unfits tonate lad was taken out a dread-
ful spectacle, his head and legs being crushed to pieces. It is sup-
posed that the sleeve of his gabardine having been caught by a
key on the spindle of the spur-wheel, he had been drawn by it
between the works.

Saturday, George Dyson. a boy thirteen years of age, who was
employes' in filling a carding-machine at Armley Mill, near Leeds,
unfortunt, tell got entangled in the machinery ; by which accident
bis thigh was severed from his body, and he was in other respects
so dreadfully injured as to occasion his death shortly afterwards.
Saturday, the body of a woman was found in the canal, at
Paisley. On Friday evening, about nine o'clock, a cry was beard
from near the place where the woman was discovered, notice
of which having been given to a police officer, be went to the
spot and there found a soldier lying on the bank of the canal
asleep, with a woman's cloak under him. which turns out to
have belonged to the deceased. The soldier has since been ap-
prehended and committed to jail for farther examination.

Inwssr.—An Inquest was yesterday held at the White Lion.
opposite St. Giles's Church, on the body of Mary Lee, alias
Thiggon, the cause of whose death was imputed to Wes. Abbot!.
'five female lodgers in the house stated, that Abbott continued
at intervals to beat and kick the deceased violently from eight
°Wick on Saturday night to four on Sunday morning, and at
eight o'clock she was found a corpse. Morris and aidford,
men who also lodged in the same horse, gave similar testimony,
end that the prisoner on being informed she was dead,
mid be should only be hanged for her. Mr. Ogle, the Parish
gargeon, opened the body, and his testimony negatived the ex-
cessive beatings, &c. sworn to. Upon as external view of the
body, there was no mark of violence, with the exception of a
digit contusion on one of the eyes. On opening the bead, there
was a rupture of one of the vessels of the brain, whit* had pro-
duced a saucer full of extravasated blood, and brought on apo-
plexy, of which she died. There was no el Injury
on opening the body, which was free fromid se.sa. The rup
ture might have been occasioned by passion, or by bodily es p
er
or by drinking, which did not appear to have bees theme.
Either would tend to accelerate death by apoplexy. The blow
dis the eye must have fractured the bone to have caused the
symptoms described. Mr. Davis, Assistant to Mr. Ogle, cores.
the above testimony, and proved that apoplexy was the
death. The Jury, after deliberating moue tinier retuned
14 irilat attar Wad Wl* AAA

LAW INTELLIGENCE
COURT OF CHANCERY, FEBRUARY is.
LORD BYRON'S CAIN."
MURRAY V. RINDOW AND itNOT1181:
'The Loan CRANCELLORe-ra I have read this book,
'Mr. Shadwell. This Court is not in the habit of in-
terfering in literary piracy of this nature, without it
is convinced that an action at law could be sustained
for it. Ido not give my opinion as to the merits or
morality of the work, but I have sufficient of reason-
able doubt that an action at law would not lie; and
if so, this Court ought not to interfere by the sum-
mary mode of injunction. It may be thought strange,
if the morality of the work is doubted, that this Court
will permit several different copies of it to be. pub-
lished, which will tend to spread the poison. That'
is a thing this Court cannot help. It has not the ju-
risdiction to prohibit the publication, it belongs to
another tribunal, and those persons who publisli the
work will do so at the risk of what may be the con-
sequences.",— Motion refused.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEBRUARY is.
Tut KING V. RIVERRND W. J. JOLLIFFIL, MAYOR OF

PETERSTIELD.
Mr. COLTMAN moved to make the Rule Nisi for a
yo warrant° information which had been obtained
in this case absolute, which was granted.

•
THE LINO V. ROGERS..
Mr. TAUNTON shewed cause against the Rule ob-
tained some time ago by Mr. JARvis for a quo war-
routo against the defendant, the Mayor of Chester.
Mr. JARVIS and Mr.Wswasts were heard in sup-
port of. the Rule, but it was discharged, as it ap-
peared that the commonalty of Chester had acquiesced
in the election of Mr. Rogers as Mayor of Chester fur
the present year.
REDFORD V. BIRLEY AND OTHERS.
This was an action against the defendants, who are
members of the Manchester Yeomanly Cavalry, for.
an assault during the riots.
Mr. LITTLEDALE moved some days since for a
Rule to shew cause why the plaintiff should not give
the Attorney for the defendant an account of his re-
sidence. The question came on this day for argu-
ment. , The application was ably enforced by Mr.
ScaaLrrr, and the Court made the Itule absolute.

JOHNSON V. JIRLEY AND OTHERS,
Mr. EVANS, on a former day, obtained a Rule to
change the route from Lancaster to .Middlet.ex, and
this day the Rule was discharged.

INFORMATION..

Mr. CAMPBELL moved the Court, why a Criminal
mformation shoul.l wit be filed against a M.igistrate
of the county of Stafford, for having acted be) and
the letter of the law. The circumstances were con-
tained in an affidavit, setting forth that on the 12th
of January last, a Gentleman, of the name of Lloyd,
sent his waggon laden with corn to market, in charge
of a servant, named Jones, and a boy. Mr. Owen, a'.
Gentleman residing in the county, coming up, found
fault with their riding on the shafts.iThe boy, as de-
sired, jumped down ; hut Jones did not ; upon which
Mr. Owen came up, and collaring Jones struck him.
Jones returned the blow, upon which Mr. Owen
struck hint again, and rode off. Jones being after-
wards summoned before the Magistrate, attended,
accompanied by his employer, Mr. Lloyd. It turned
out in evidence, as already stated, that l‘lr. Owen had
committed the first assault ; notwithstanding this the
Magistrate ordered Jones to pay a fine of Li, on pain
of imprisonment. Mr. Lloyd offered bail, which the
Magistrate refused ; adding, that Mr. Owen would
have been justified in knocking off Jones's head.
CHIEF Jusztrr.—Yon have stated encugh to en-
, title you to a Utile to shew cause.
Tile Court, as usual on the last day of Term, sat
to a late hour.

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