Star.
London, England, 1809-11-25 00:00:00

AND WINTER.

Qui pror%)eat Loram,
• Rusticus expet.,at dum &that amnis; at ills
Labitur et labetur in omne voluiailis :awns. Hoa.
I. AUTUMN ! I Laird thee, and with tapture view'd
• Thy ripen'dproductesweeping from the vales
And uplands, echoii-i with the chi :mg shouts
Of HARVEST HOME. Then did the Peasant reap
The sweet of all his lab Ours. Well he knew
That they must toil who would partake the fruits :
And he no hours to dull inaction gave.
He, amid snows, frost, storms, and summer heats,
With folded arms was never seen--his arm,
H•gh strung by generous exertion, much
Improv'd the passing hour—and oh ! ye many
Who visionary wish in Autumns vale
To realize a golden harvest, whets
Full wel ye know your earlier life slid on
• An --unproved void—why will ye hold
A hope so fts,ilc ! Did the wary Bee,
Who, buzzing from his hive, at peep of day,
Seens'd e'en to chide the Chariot of the Sun,
Neer warn you, saunt'ring on your thoughtless round!
Did you reu see the insect Chyndst work,
♦s tf the flying Summer were too short
Amply to store his " sightly hexagon!"
Ah! would he, letting Spring and Summer dip,
At Pleasure's call, roving from flower to flower,
enacious only of the present,—to the future
Careless, fonet expectations crude as yours?!

r SrLN WINTER comes at last, and shuts the scene;
Fled are the lovely prospects which of late
Gttlien'el the eye. No more the flow'ret's bloom,
Avd breathing incense, now no mere the zephyst
F,12 the soft ringlets of the Virgin's lair.
Eot now the North winds, hots ling as they pals,
Sperad desolation o'er the prOurate Globe.
islrn k the y ride of Sum r ms too,
Vial all its golden harvests, is no mote !

Pie I.es its wird:rem, and dreary Age
NNW fast intrue upon the flatt'ring days
Of Youth and Manhood,—then thb closing scene
(Exit glittering prospect past) shall dim the eye
Health beaming once.—Ah! who that scene shall try
Brt nuich shall wish that he had better tts'd
lte precious moments of a life so short !

Piritourb-Dock, Nov. 16, 180 g.

NEItV.IBTLE, NOV. 21.

On the night of Thursday se'nnight, as the wag.
and carts of Messrs. Howey and Co. carriers,
t. ere going into Morpeth, close by the dlurcli-yard,
r the entrance of the town, some villains purloined
from one of them, unperceived, a bale of woollen
cloth, of about £l5O value. The theft was not dis-
covered by the di iver till he had occasion, at the des-
cent of a hill, to go to the other side of the waggon,
to put on the drag. • Although every endeavour was
made for the recovery of the property, yet no intelli-
gence of it could be gained till Saturday the I lth in-
stant, when tke greater part of it was accidentally
found deposited at the top of a neighbouring hay-
stack, belonging to Mr. Hepple, banker, Morpeth,
from whence it was immediately taken, and more
safely deposited in the Northumbei land Bank. Part
of the cloth is considerably injured, having been
much cut with the hay spade, by the man who broke
ilto the stack, before he discovered the cause of re-
sistance. It is believed that the offenders are part of
a numerous gang (it is
.said to the numba of about
two hundred), who ate dispersed over the different
c innties of Cumberland, Lancashire, and Northum-
berland, in pursuit of their predatory system, which
they have but too successfully reduced into practice.
Some of them assume the character of commercial
.travellers, and 131 such plausible artifices, are ena-
bled to vend their spoils without suspicion. The
Carlisle waggon, belonging to Messrs. Wright and
Co. was lately robbed twice of about ,0600 worth of
property ; and. the waggon of Messrs. Wel& and
Polston has, in like manner, been plundered of more
than .56 stone of goods—no doubt by some of the
acting partners of the same concern.
On Wednesday last, a child belonging to Mr. Jo.
seph Taylor, of Gallowgate, in this town, smith,
being left alone in the hopse, got. to the fire, and was
so much burnt that it died in a few hours.
A fraudulent practice was ]etected on Thursday,
at South Shields, which had been carried on .for a
number of years :—lt being customary in ore of the
glass-houses there to give tickets to the workmen to
receive their allowance of beer at a public house, one
of the men, who had learned to counterfeit a late
'clerk's writing, by this means got what beverage he
pleased, but the uew clerk differing from that of his
predecessor, the man could not get bit clay moistened
as usual. However, on the above day he received a
ticket for two pints, to which he took the liberty of
adding a cypher ; but the landlady thinking 20 pints
an unusual order, sheaved the ticket to the clerk,
when the whole was detected. The man, who had
been upwards of twenty years in the employ, had a
handsome salary, and made a profession of superior
sanctity. When questioned by the Magistrates as to
what could induce him to commit such a crime ? he
laid the whole blame on Satan!

A daughter of Mr. Soan, a mealnian, at Shepley-
Mills, Surrey, WAS drowned in sight of two of her sis-
ten, on Monday last. She was leaning over a rail
at the Mill-head, when it gave way, and was plunged
into the water. She was in a moment entangled in
one of the large wheels of the mill, and her body was
racked in pieces, so that only part of her remair were
found. The deceased was 17 years of age.
Mrs. Merchant, No. 3, Middlesex-street, Som-
mers-town, has experienced the good effect of the
AMERICAN SoOTIHNO SYRUP : her infant was so re-
duced that she thought he was in a consumption, and
*as several days in convulsions with his teeth; to all
human appearance would have died, without speedy
relief, when fortunately a friend gave her part of a
bottle ; she no sooner rubbed it on his-gum. than he
bicgan to mend, and had a ;;cod night, which was
weeks, and is a tine child,
the first he had for three
though he was quite tai.-en off his feet.—To be had
of the proprietors, J. JOJINSON and Co. r 4, New-
maw.treet. Oxford-street, and retail of Mr. Goi.n.
NC, 414 Cumbill, and all the principal Medicine
1' enders in to and comnry, at 2s. 9d. a bottle, for
wady raoney.

AUTUMN

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