Star.
London, England, 1824-12-30 00:00:00

LIFE'S WANDERINGS.

A stranger in a foreign clime,
wander'd forth, at will to roam
No length of way, no lapse of time,
arcalra to me a thought of home :
Till on my pathway, wild and lone,
I saw a deepening shadow fall ;
The azure light of lleav'n was gone,
The tempest cloud had darkened all!
From raging winds, and threatening skies,
My trembling spirit sunk in fear;
ISly slighted home I learnt to prize,
And wished its humble shelter near,
Bur, how return ?—bewilslered, mazed,
While rose the storm each moment higher s
Hopeless, my tear-dimm'd eye I ra'ze'd,
And saw—oh, bliss!—the village spire!
Perples'd by various doubts no more,
(inward with eager foot I prest ;
And soon, my toils and dangers o'er,
I reached my home and was at rest.
Thus, while we wander here below.
If holy Heaven will be our guide
Through every scene of guilt and woe,
The storms of Fate may be defied!

WISI.EIt ASSIZES.

KINGSTON, DEC. is.
JUDGE BUItROUGII AND THE PUGILISTS.
" Let the constables of Moulsey be sent for, Gentlemen," said his
Lordship, 0 and if you should find one witness to a breach of the
peace, you may and ought to find a true bill against those identified
by such witness, as aiding and assisting therein."
A few hours will enable us to bring the constables from Mout-
sey, my Load," replied Mr. liolme Sumner, the Foreman of the
Surrey Grand Jury.
In a few minutes expresses were dispatched for the
constable, but the disappointment of the Gentlemen of
the Grand Jury and his Lordship may be understood
by the following peep behind the curtain :—The terry
at Hampton is rented by a man named Henry Snell,l
and on the occasion of a fight at Moulsey, the proceeds
are of course considerable. About a year since, the
right of Snell to the exclusive profit of the ferry was in-,
vaded by John Kemp, a fisherman of Teddington.!
Snell therefore summoned Kemp to Waterman's Hall,
-where he was convicted in the penalty of four gtfineas.,
In addition to this payment, he was obliged to refund
the complainant his expenses, which amounted to: a
guinea. This appears to have galled Kemp in no ordi-
nary degree, for he immediately announced his inten-
tion of revenging himself upon his successful opponent,
in a rather singular manner, viz. by lodging informa-
tions with a Magistrate on every occasion of a fight at
Moulsey Hurst, until the ferryman should be convinced
of the propriety, or rather policy, of refunding the fine
levied on Kemp, at his instance. From the period of
this threat, every projected fight has been the subject of
information on the part of Kemp. until that recently
fought between Jem Burn and O'Neale. The Magis-
trate selected by him from the many of his neighbour-
hood was, in each instance, Charles Nicholas Palmer,
Esq. late Sheriff for the county, who, acting up to the
spirit of his duty, gave due orders to the only consta-
ble of Moulsey (Thomas Phillips) to prevent the breach
of the peace meditated by the pugilistic fraternity, and
informed against by the much-injured fisherman Kemp.
Phillips, in each instance, sent the " rabble and bad
men of London" (as Justice Burtoug,l) terms the pug-
nacious gentry of the metropolis) home to their families
without the gratification of the anticipated mill. Phil-
lips, carrying on the trade of a carpenter, and having a
family to provide for, was not displeased at being thus ,
enabled to earn twenty shillings by the devotion of four
days in a twelvemonth to the extra duties of his office.
This claim for services rendered the peaceable portion
of the community, although not disputed, has never
been discharged, the parish of Moulsey chatging it to
the county, and vice versa, the county alleging that the
parish should pay the demand of the parish constable.
—As Phillips had not received finer) Mr. Palmer his
usual notice, to prevent the recent pugilistic encounter
between Burn and O'Neale, and was too poor to rob
his family of a day's labour, without a probability
of remuneration, he did not impede the " rabble and
bad men of London" in their progress towards the re-
nowned Hoist of Monkey. Mr. Palraer, it appears,
had not given the usual notice to Phillips to prevent the
late fight, for the very sufficient reason that it had not
come to his knowledge; Kemp having declined in this
instance to lay his customary information. This man
hai all along avowed as his object the restoration of
the five guineas paid by him, at the instance and through
the prosecution of Snell, the ferryman. On the morning
of the fight, Kemp resorted to the great scene of pre-
paratory bustle, Hampton. The lied Lion and Bell
Inns, in that place, were the respective head-quarters of
Jett Burn and O'Neale, and in front of them, and in the
immediate neighbourhood of the ferry, the yet unsilen-
ced fisherman proMulgated his intention of forthwith
spoiling sport by the aid of the Magistrate, if the par-
ties interested should not induce him to pocket the af-
front of Snell, and blink the threatened breach of the
peace; all was immediately in confusion. Mine hosts
of the Red Lion and Bell consulted and were consulted
—congratulation was the order of the day ; and the re-
sult a subscription of five guineas as a mos,. Kemp's
e,
vengeance was appeased, and Mi. Palmer s repose un-
distal bed by an anti-pugilistic information—Phillips's
tuff hung quietly over his mantlepiece—the Hampton
Charon totic led hi • pence, the tight was fought, and Jem
But n bossed the ur willing neck to the yoke of O'Neale.
11 ALF vasT au:vim—The high constable and head-
howlighs have been below the Grand .lury us lessly,
no witness being found to identify the pugilists and
their bits kers.
George Young. a youth ;If 16, was indicted for felo-
niously killing and slaying John Nixon, at Farnham, on
the 10th November.
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner and the de-
ceased were apprentices to a blacksmith at Farnham.
There was no proof of the circumstances under which
they had fallen out, but on the day abovementioned
they met to fiAllt in Farnham Pat k. Seconds were
chosen, and alter a fair fight, which lasted an hour and
ten minute,, the deceased fell senseless on the ground,
and died at ten o'clock that night, in consecptence of the
ruptute of a blood- vessel on the brain. Sevetal wit-
nesses gave the pt ismer the character of being a quiet
inoffensive youth.
The Jury found him Guilly, but recommended him
to mercy, on acclutit of his good character.
Nlc..lustice ilunicluctt expre,sed his strong disap-
ohatiott of pugiliszic contests. lle was happy, how-
ever, to s.ay thAt the present case was not marked by
guy of those circumstances attending prize fights,which

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