Star.
London, England, 1822-12-25 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS to be made in fbe COUNTRY.

' Feb. 25, J. Flanders, Atherstone, Warwickshire, booksellers
at eleven, at the Dull Inn, Nuneaton. Jan. 14, New, bit-
ted, banker, at one, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol. Jan. 15,
I). Buchanan, S. M. Smith, *arta F. Ashley, Liverpool, mer-
chants, at one, at the George Inn, Dale-street,
Jan. 15,-J. Gray, Liverpool, merchant, at,one,• at, the George
Inn, Dale-street, Liverpool. Jan. 15, S. Youden, Duvet, car-
penter, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Canterbury.' :11
Hartley, Penrith, CtlmberlanAL hardwareman;at eleven, at the•
Commercial Inn, Sheffield. Jan. 21, T.' Ketland and J. Adatns,
Birmingham merchants, at. eleven, at the Royal Ilotel,•Tem-
ple-row; liirnsingharn. .
CERTIFICATES.—Jatt. 14. , •
11. Oats, Billingsgate,. 6/h-salesman. J. I.lorrocks, Cottons.
row, Ilanoheater, hawker. P. Marshall, Scarborough; grpcer.
T. Moore, lateof Paddington,, salt-merchant. E. Bokon, Bir-
mingham, victualler. T. Smith, Ilamptonwick, timber-merchant.
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.

Candy and-Bond,, Ludgate-street, linen-drapers. • C. Mart*.
sen. and jun. Vintner's-hall, atturnies. Bowsher and Co. Chep-
stow, Monmouthshire, timber-merchants. Bowsher and Co.
Chepstow, wine-merchants. W. Lamb, sen. and jun. Smithfield,
salesmen. Coles and White, Newport, I.le of Wight, linendrapers.
Young and Sharp, Bagie-stteet, Red Lion-square, carpenters,—
Brownell and .Co. Sheffield, cutlers. Parker and Rowe, latent
Duke-street, Orosyenor-square, ironmongers. Heyworth and
Co- 111 commission-merchants. Lumley and Richmond,
Selena:id-yard, coal-merchants. Drury and Co.. Algid-lane,
Southwark, brewers. Pope. and Co. Cheapside, warehousemen.

ON THE FRIENDSHIP OF CHILDREN.

BY M. L'ABBE DB BOUPPLERS.

• If them be a kind if friendship that caves ita origin to custom
dl the thatqu
in childhood seati-
has
and convenience, doubtless it is that which children cherish to-
wudt each
noothoterier loubnellvtieoiiin adeev
estion iii, whether is
'deserves the name of friendship? Foe tomb`, I meat candidly
Mess that it. does net. Children are niseeptibleof almost every
dun; they spring up in their minds sooner or later, accord-
Mgly as they are formed, or as they announie a decided charac-
ter : in observing them with care, we easily perceive they have
antipathies and affections. It is not sulleient,then, that chil-
dinen living together should of necessity is each. other ;it in
eibsoluttip 'memory that they should please une.another. Bat
in infancy, what motive is there to excite a partratiii for One
100111 than another, among companions, especially when the
ode who is releetteis equally pleasing io ulterior, twit may !mil
Seri issperioria appearance? Gratitude, merit, virtue, !maw-
ledge olaeharasterlkaa nothing to do with the choice; therefore,
these must be a kind of itraitbet which impels the feelings toifssi-
one object rather than the other-4 kind of attraction or feeling;
Which is perhaps More vire than any that we admire. .17i.
lkiendship of children may not be:durable, but most assuredly it
:101 Igoe; and truth is one of the principal characteristics of sense-
The simplicity of infancy is at variance with falsehood ; and can.,
dour reigns triumphant, because there !sibs:eh an eetninsusica;
ties with the world to teach hypocrisy. Chi Wees onlikaoso
plea/are; they kyr, not even she alea of -pure happiness, because
Sof have not ridlexioci t they arc engaged only with the present—,
however near it may he, is always tardier= foe their
feeble organs. When an object please, them, they do. not folio.
ser:that it may be injurious; they. behold only. what it is;
-ewes thinking what it May. besome. In a .word,
"ev enjoy all the advantages of friendship, without ever fear-
- "" Happy period of life, when: the
mingled v •ness--whess our
• otajoy tht
;h. of years
, or of pan
deptive us 01
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of either