Star.
London, England, 1824-12-01 00:00:00

AIIDDLESEX SESSIONS, NOV. 30.

Ann Faulkner, a Lady of respectable appearance, re-
siding at '22, Upper Phillimore-place, Kensington, was
indicted for assaulting Ann May, her servant.
The CHAIRMAN left the case in the hands of the Jury,
when they found the defendant Guilty, and she was
fined Hs. 4d.

William Alexander, a demure looking personage, was
indicted for wilful and corrupt pet jury, with intent to
injure Thomas Williams.
The case arose out of a trial for an assault at the West-
minster Sessions, on the Ist of April last. Alexander
had been formerly acquainted with a person named
Williams, and his wife, and Williams having followed his
wife to Alexander's house, and suspecting that they had
formed an improper intimacy, he waited until Alexander
came out, and then gave him a sound thrashing with a
stick. For this assault he was sentenced to pay a fine of
£5. On Alexander's cross-examination he swore to cer-
tain circumstances which were afterwards charged to be
false, and for which Williams subsequently indicted him.
'The CHAIRMAN regretted, that persons daily appeared
in the Court, and perjured themselves in common assault
cases, and he agreed with Mr. Alley, that it should, if
possible, be put an end to. He, however, allowed the
objection to be fatal, and the defendant was acquitted.
William Welling and John Longhurst, two officers of
the Tower Hamlets Court of Requeits, were indicted
for assaulting Lydia Gogay.
The Jury acquitted Welling, hut found Longhurst Guilty.
Mrs. Goodhall, the Landlady of the King's Arms Ac-
ts n, was indicted for assaulting Abraham Bates, a tailor.
Mr. BARRY appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Ptitr.t.tes for the defence. Jr appeared that the prose-
cutor chose a birth in a return chaise from Ealing to
London, and the driver stopped at the King's Arms to
water his horses. The prosecutor sat down with the
driver to drink some beer, and after the first pint had
disappeared, he called for a second. He said, that on
giving this order, it was not obeyed, nor did they attend
when he rang the bell. At length " Mine Hostess"
condescended to appear, and in a very uncourteous man-
ner, she demanded why he made so much noise in the
house; gave him a sharp blow under the ear, and
finally brandished the kitchen poker over his head, de-
claring she would annihilate him. The defendant did
not deny giving the prosecutor " a box on the ear," but
she denied the foul language imputed to her ; and said,
that having other persons to wait upon,. the prosecutor
b. came noisy about the pint of beer, called her a certain
name, to which she retorted by styling him a dog. He
then emptied his pocket of a quantity of sovereigns,
and asked her whether a Gentleman in a post-chaise
could not pay for a pint of porter? He also, as the de-
fendant said, stood with his face very impudently op-
posite to her, when she gave him a well-met iced box on
the ear. The post-boy corroborated this statement, and
alt the witnesses were of opinion that' he prosecutor
was drunk.
The Jury

found the defendant Guilty, and she was fined is.

COURT OF ALMRMEN.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor held his first Court of
Aldermen. The Lord Mayor shortly addressed the
Court. The thanks of the Court were voted to the late
Lord Mayor, and ordered to be advertised. The She- ;
T itri delivered in the state of the several gaols. The
Glass-sellers' Company piesenteJ a memorial, .praying
far an increase in the number of their Livery ; which
was referred to a Committee of Privileges to consider
inJ report. Several persons were sworn and others al-
io wed to be admitted brokers. Mr. Fosett was sworn
.t Ruler of the Water men and Lightermen's Company.
Licenses were granted to Coal-undertakers. The In-
quests of Bridge Ward, St. Andrew's, Holborn, and St.
B:ide's, attended with .presentments of non-freemen,
which were referred to the Chamberlain. The Inquest
.f St. Bride and the homage Jury of Duke's•place, also
presented various ruinous houses, which were referred
w the Solicitor, to put the Act into execution. The
Court appointed the several Committees for the year
ensuing. A petition Irons the inhabitants of St. 13ride's,
ibr the appointment of an additional number of con-
.tables, was pre,enzed, and reterrcd to a Courfnittee.

THE LATE MR. FAVNIiEROY.

The following-lines having been transmitted to this
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unfortunate individual by an unknown hand, he nerved
them to a friend, speaking of them in terms of 141.. wartu ;
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'sniration; u copy being requested, be sect it with the
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'subjoined note
My dear Sir—What is prayer? I send you the above.: it has
been read over and over again by me with gteat delight.
Your's, very lincerely,
HEN ItY FAUNTLEROY.
WHAT IS PRAYER?
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
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Utter'd or unexpress'd—
The motion of a hidden fire,
That trembles in the breast!
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear—
The upward glancing of an eye,
When none but Goo is near !
Prayer is the simplest form of speech
That any lips can try;
Prayer the sublime st strains that reach
The Masons- on high !
Prayer is the Christian's vital breath,
The Christian's native air;
His watcbward at the gates of death,
lit enters Heaven with Prayer!
Prayer 1: the contrite sinner's voice,
Returning from his ways,
"While Angels in their songs rejoice,
And say, " Behold ! he prays !"
The Saints in prayer appear as one,
In word, and deed, and mind,
When with the FATHER and the Soo
Their fellowship they hod !
Nor prayer is made on oirth alone—
The Holy Spirit pleads,
And JEsus, on the eierual throne,
For sinners intercedes !
Oh, Tatou, by whom we come to Con,
The lite, the truth, the way ;
The path of prayer THYSELF haft trod,
Lott u, teach us bow to pray !

November 17.