Star.
London, England, 1823-09-24 00:00:00

TRANSLATION OF THE NINTH ODE OF ANACREON.

THE DOVE.

Whither, lovely carrier, say,
Whither Sy so swift away?
Ten to whom thy downy plumes,
Waft so exquisite perfumes?
Do thy chymic wings prepare
Sweets that fill th' ambient air?
Pert enquirer (coos the Dove)
Bearer of Anacreon's love,
I my master's am'rous lay
To Bathyllus lov'd convey ;
Bathyllus, who'se unrivail'd charms,
Fill each maid with love's alarms !

Venus for the Poet's lays,
(In the beauteous Goddess' praise)
Scarcely plumed, her willing bird,
On Anacreon confered ;
Happy as Anacreon's slave,
I no pruffer'd freedom crave !
Better far fur me to share,
Kind Anacreon's pleasing fare,
In secure and peaceful home,
Than abroad for food to roam;
Sweeter sink to soft repose,
'Midst the fragrance of the rose,
Than on homely berries fed,
In wild woods to make my bed;
As Anacreou's envoy, I
Feel no want of liberty :
Oft rich Cretan wines I sir,
From my master's honied lip;
Or. while at his board I stand,
Feed delighted from his hand,
And upon his throbbing breast,
Sink 'midst softest sounds to rest ;
But no longer let me prate,
Of my happy envied state,
Lest my friend, you laughing say,
I'm become a chatt'ring jay ! VENATOR.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

Yesterday, Charlotte ?homes was indicted for stealing
a blanket, a pillow-case, a pair of stockings, and other
articles, the property of John Gifford, of Muswell•
hill, Hornsey.
It api,eared from the evidence, that the prisoner had
been in the service of the prosecutor, and after she left,
that situation, the property mentioned in the indictment
was missed. The prisoner's rest eat was discovered, and
the property found there.
The prisoner being called on for her defence, said,
that the protecutor had taken her from her friends in
Wales, nntier an engagement to return her thither when
he should no longer require her services ; instead of,
which, however, lie had turned her out of his house at
a moment's notice. She also stated that the prosecutor
tad vowed that he would cause her ruin. _ _

The prosecutor was asked by the Court Id/ether he.
had acted in the manner described by the prisoner ?
ai)d he solemnly declared that he kad not.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty ; and the Court,
after Temat king that she had aggravated her offence by
the base conduct which she had molted to her former
master, intimated that she could not be sufiered.to re-
main in the country. _ _

George Keonin: was put to the bat (having been out
on bail) charged upon an indictment, that he, on the
21st of July, did receive 50,000 wooden staves, value
one bunched pounds, the property of Mr. Wilkinsifrom
a certain ill-disposed person, he knowing the said
staves to have been stolen.

r. A x1)11E/ire opened the case for the prosecution,
and having stated the facts, proceeded to call the fol-
lowing witnesses
Mr. James Wilkins said, he had no wharf if his own,
but his goods were warehoused at Waterloo-wharf. Oe
the 11th or 12th of July, an application was made to
Lim to sell some staves. A person came to the wharf,
who represented himself as the cartain of a vessel.
Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. BRODRICK, as Counsel for
the prisoner, here interrupted the examination, object-
ing to any evidence being given of a conversatiOn iu the
absence of the prisoner.

The COMMON•SEAJEANT overruled the objection.
Mi. Wilkins's examination was then continued. The
Captain said he was the owner of a vessel lying at
Black wall. He asked for some staves, and witness said
l:e had sorre. The Captain then went away, and re-
ttamed on the Saturday following with a roan of the
name of Francis. Francis looked at the staves, and said
he would give an answer in a day or two. Witness said
the money must be paid before they were delivered.
Witness was . to send them away in barges, to be fur-
nished by Francis. The contract was entered by wit-
ness in his books. lie then read the words of the con-
tract: g 4 Sold to Mr. Francis 50,000staves, at ‘31.125. 6d.
per thousand, to be paid for before the goods are re-
moved horn the what f." There were two entries of the
kind. The first entry was made all at one time. On
Thursday, the 17th of July, some lighteimen, the name
of one of 'whom was Hamlin, came for the goods. The
barges would not float after the goods were loaded,
until Smithy night or Monday morning. The barges
were sent by Francis, and Hamlin was employed by Inni
(Francis): After he found the first barge was gone away,
witne,:s told Hamlin not to remove the staves till further
orders from him (witness). This was about lralf-past
nine on Monday morning. He went in quest of the first
barge, and returned on Monday evening. He then
found that Hamlin bad gone away with the second
barge. He went in search of that barge, and found her
at the Regent's Canal. Hamlin was not there. The next
day but one, he found the barge at Kenning's wharf.
Part of the staves were landed, and stowed in a ware-
house upon the wharf. He asked for the defendant, but
did not see him. On the Sunday following witness saw
him., He told him—" You have got some staves which
were taken from my wharf." The prisoner answered,
that he had purchased them of Mr. Francis. Both
barges were at Kenning's wharf. On the 2d of August
witness went to Union-hall, and applied for a warrant.
A few days afterwards he obtained a search warrant
against Kenning. Witness had never been able to find
Frincis or his companion since.
Cross-examined.—He never knew Francis before, and
never had'any references as to his character. A paper was
handed to witness. It was his hand-writing. The goods
were delivered before he wrote this paper, but the barges
had nut left the wharf. Francis's house was N 0.7,
Queen-row, Walworth. He never asked Mr. Francis to
buy the- staves. There was a young woman. /ho came
with Francis. He did not know that she was Pi daugh-
ter. One barge was taken away before the other was
loaded. He ordered the men to proceed with the load-

iog of the second barge. He never delivered a paper
to the young woman, but to the captain. He never de-
livered any paper of this kind at Mr. Francis's house.
The first barge went away on Sunday night or Monday
morning, the 21st of July. The bill for the goods was
dated the 21st of July. The defendant's wharf was at
Wapping, a few paces from the Thames Police Office,
Thirteen days transpired before he made any applica-
tion for a warrant, and the Magistrate, on the first ap-
plication, refused to grant a warrant. He never said,
to Kenning, I have sold these goods to Francis, and
if he does not pay me by Saturday next, I'll sue out a
writ against him." •
Re-examined.—He delivered the bill of parcels to the
captain, at Waterloo-wharf. One of the barges was gone,
an the other was there.
Mr. ADOLPHUS then proposed that the bill of parcels,
although forming a part of the evidence for the defence,
should be now, read by the Clerk of the Arraigns.
Mra ANDREWS objected to the reading of the paper,
as it would be an interruption to the course of the evi-
dence for the prosecution.
The COMMON-SERJEANT, however, thought that there
coitld be no objection to the paper being now read.
The bill of parcels was then read by -Mr. Shelton. It
was dated Tuesday, July 21, 1823. Mr. Francis,
debtor to James Wilkins, for 13,000 staves, at 91. per
thousand, and 50,000 smaller staves at 21. 12s. 6d. per
thousand, 2601. 1 ls.—Dinount, 101. 7s. 9d.
Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. Bnoniticx here contended
that the bill of.parcels was fatal to the case, as it proved
that there was no larceny in the case. . . .

Mr. ANDREWS, on the other side, contended that the
whole of the facts and the circumstances must be taken
together, to prove the felonious intent of the party. He
cited the case of Reading, in which facts something si-
milar to the present were proved in evidence.
The Commos-SkRJEANT expressed his unwillingness
to stop proceedings of this nature at this stage of the
investigation. If, however, no witnesses were called to
alter the nature of the testimony now adduced, he corn
fessed that it appeared to him that a direct sale of these
goods had been made to Francis.
Mr. ADOLPHUS said he was always most anxious,
when such long and intricate investigations came under
consideration, to save the time of the Court, and to
prevent those established and firm foundations of jai-
rice, the result of the experience and wisdom of ages,
Trom being shaken.
Mr. AfDREWS was ready to admit, that no further.
evidence he could bring forward would alter the nature
of the testimony already adduced.
] The Jury was then directed to find the defendant
Not Guilty.
There was another indictment against the defendant,
but it was not persisted in, as the same legal objection
would prevail against it.
The defendant, who appeared to be a very respectable
man, was then removed from the bar. The Court was
crowdcd during the trial, and a great number of his
friends were present.

William Mole was placed at the bar, charged with
robbing James Bennett, his master, on the 4th of Au-
gust, of one bat, value 10s. and four sovereigns, in the
parish of St. Mary-la•bonne.

The prosecutor deposed, that he kept a hatter's shop,'
at 31, Oxford-street, and another in Fleet-street ; the
prisoner was his thop'suan in Pet:ld-street. On the 4th
of August he went from his shop in the city, where he
lived, to Oxford street ; on arriving there, prosecutor/
found only the errand-boy in the shop, who told hien
the prisoner had gone out.with a new hat upon his head.,
and bad left his old one behind. 'Prosecutor, in.sonas,
quence of this information, went, to the till, which he
found empty; witness bad' placed N. in the till that
morning: Pt osecutor immediately applied t( an officer,
who accompanied him to the prisoner's lodgings ; he
was not at home, but witness saw his wife; witness re-
turned to prisoner's lodgings at two o'clock in the morn-
ing of the sth of August, and then found the prisoner
at home. The otliCer searched him in witness's presence,
and found in one of his breeches pockets four sovereigns.
and a pound's worth of silver; and in the oilhei pocket
some loose silver was found. ek
Robert Needham, a constable, took the prisoner to
the watch-house.

The prosecutor begged to state'to the Court, that the
man was very much intoxicated at the time when he
was apprehended, and he thought he might hare taken
the pioperty to take the better care of rt, as drunken
men generally thought themselves very wise.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the prisoner, highly complimented
the prosecutor on the humanity of his observation.
Tbe Recount:a shortly summed up, and the Jury;
witliout hesitation, acquitted the prisoner.. _ _

Jane Vance was indicted for stealing, on the 9th of
August, in the Parish .of St. Dunstan in the East, five'
caps, one gold ring, and various other articles, the pro-
perty of George Huggitt.
The prosecutor's wife deposed, that the property was
safe on the 22d of July, and she had.not seen it since.
The prisoner was in the habit or working at the prose-
cutor's, in the first floor, whereahe articles were kept.
Witness believed it was distress had driven the prisoner
to commit the iobbery. She had a blind mother, whom
prisoner supported.
Charles Reed, an officer, produced the property,
which lie found in the prisoner's lodgings at Stepney,
and which the prosecutors wife proved to lie that of her
husband. The officer said that there was scarcely an ar-
ticle in the house, with the exception of the stolen caps:
The COURT, and the witnesses who gave testimony
against her, strongly sympathised with the prisoner.
The Jury, under the direction of the Ritconotia,
found the prisoner Guilty"; but strongly recommended
her to mercy ; which recommendation the Court at the
instant attended to, by fining the prisoner is. and or-
dering her immediate discharge.

Mr. JACKSON, the British Commissioner under the
Article of the Treaty of Ghent which relates to the sur-
render of captured property at the close of the war of
1812, and Mr. Cuzves, the Commissioner on the part
of the United States under the same Article, arrived at
Washington on the 22d ultimo.
The quantity of red mullet caught in Southampton
river this season has been greater than was ever known,
and they have sold in the market at 2d. each.
The capitalists in these manufacturing districts have
reaped a rich harvest by the rise in the price bf cottons.
It is confidently stated, that a rich house in the neighbour.
hood of Blackburn, has realized upwards of £40,000
by one speculation. This rise is attributed to the
increased demand for our manufactures in foreign
countries.—Maccle4eld Courier..
Colonel WILLIAM Thorson, on his arrival in Ireland,
made an abatement of one-third part of his Antis go all
'arrears due up to the 23th of Mardfilist, to hia tialinuf
At Bulinaclogh, in the county of Tipperary.