Star.
London, England, 1802-08-20 00:00:00

FOR THE STAR.

MR. EDITCR-.—AS I find that a fet of fublime
NewipAr.fr Poets are employing themfrlves in an
Eng:illt vcrfinn of a celebrated gem d'ljiwit,
NIARTIAI, I fend you a translation more fimple
and be:ter .11apted to the talk of the age:
When AR atm an of 1.11,1, wife,
Afttr flicking herfelf, gave to Ps ru 9 the knife,
c.i'd, " My dear liubbey, thin can't make me tick,
It can wily hurt me, when in you it (hall flick."
Yours, JACK JINGLE.

The Gardners have given themfelves Tome claf-
fie 11 credit in inoculating their flowers with the
name of NELSON. The Greeks made the fame tile
of Chet of ifjax, who, according to Hom,r, (I;feiid•
ed a fleet from the flames of Holor. almoll as well
a. his Lorellhip attacked one Wit his own.
At the annual Goofeberry Isl:cing, held at
Chefler,on the Gth init. Lord Hood was the largeti
green goofeberry produced upon the occa'llon, and
As fuch obtained the prize.

At the late Floral Meeting, at Leicetler, tl'c
Duckft of Riitland,,btained the prize from [di,
hyamond, and Pope's Defiance beat King Gm-gr.

A Paris paper attributes Jou s Dv Li.% ill-natured
prupenfities to his eating Pef and drin!:ing
The editor little knows that thef: arc things that
keep him in good humour.
The tame of Paddy Blake's echo has tempted
Lord and Lady Hairowi era to virk
Lake cf Killarney. We are told, that wirrri any
body theta fa) s, How it you do, Paddy Blake i"
the echo mowers, " Very w:11, I thank you."
CA SIBERW ELL-FAIR, this year, owing to the fine-
' nets of the weather. has to boaft of a greater al-
femblage of oil !ids of cimpany than was ever
known on a tiorilar occahon ; and this evening
will be a bufy one with Punch and all his crew, as
their Liners mutt be wallied, dried, r.ol ironcd,
ready for tc.mor row, when Ka AM-FA:it b..gins.
Earl: on Saturday fe'nnight, as two men
were going from Doncaller towatds they
obit: ved a bundle on the road lid:, th•.:v
fuppofed had been loft, when each ai, d fv.eca
to obtain the prize ; but on reaching it, their arto-
nament was excited at the of a n:w born
female child, wrapped up in a Lvit pieces of old
blanket. Neither of them preferring his claim to
fo unexpected: prize,infor :nation was immediately
given to the parifli offic,:r,and dr.:infant takcn c;:m
of. We underhand k is likely to live ; but du tn.,.
I hear that the rnothtr has been dlicorere.l.

The 22d and 34th regiments cf font, at the
Cape of Good Hope, are under of tiers to embark
for India, the former upto the iktl7;ll, and 1112
latter upon the Madras Dial) men% Pravious
to their Ailing, they are to be complt:te3 to loon
rank and file each, by Oraft from the o•her regi-
ments of Infantry at the Cape, whq ;at: to return
home.

The iflth Dragoons, on titer route for Yolk,
received a counter-order at Doncailer, a few days
ago, in confequence of which they marched to
Halifax, Wakefield, and Barn!lcy.

Colonel MANN INGHAM'S Cores of Riflemen
marched into Chztham Barrack.; on Saturday, and
were yefierday followed by the frit of a
battalion of the 9th regiment of Foot.
THE LATE LORD GROSVPNOR..By the death of
Earl GROSVENOR, the Turf lofts ore of its oldet
and great& fupporters. His training (tables con-
tained more horfes than thole of any other fportl.
man, and were all of his own breed indeed fO
great was his flock, that many other.. were rupplied
from his find. He had named no l^ts than/ix torts
(by oar horfe, his favourite, John in the Derby
'takes next year, and his nominations were equally
numet ous in moll of the great Sweeptiakes and
Subfcriptions at York, Arcot, Brighton, Lewes,
Stamford, and Newmarket,where his ergr.gemmts
continued for many years, all of which mutt now
Of cotsrfe be void. It was in a match btaween his
Lordfhip's colt by Gitnerati, and the lat. Earl of
Astscoon's Cardinal Fori, that Mr. awl.% is
reported to have lent the late Nobleman three thou-
irndguineas to make his flakes: the bets were reveal
to two in his favour, and he muff have permitted
his antagonift to have nualied over, but for the un-
folicited munificence of the ntific, who, on his re-
ttir" from the courfe. frrAmhi..4