Star.
London, England, 1809-11-17 00:00:00

THE MUFFLED DRUM.

Lit roe! how sorrowful and slow,
With arms revered, the soldiers came—.
g trumpets, full of woe,
A:id, ad to bear, the Muft.ll Drum!
Advanciiig to the House of Pray'r,
Still qadder Bows the doiesome strain;
E'en Industry forgets her care,
And joins the melancholy train!
0 er all the tolls of war, •
How blest the brave nan lays him down!
bier is a triumphal car—
His grave is—glory and renown !
What rho' nor friends nor kindred dear,
To grace his obsequies, attend!
His comrades are his brothers here,
And ev'ry• hero is his friend !
See Love and 'Frutli, all woe-begone,
And Beauty drooping in the crowd--•
Their thoughts intent on him alone,
Who sleeps for ever in his shroud !
AT:Cr, the trumpet slowly sounds
The Soldier's last funereal Hymn—
k;ain the Muffled Drum rebounds,
And ev'ry eye with grief is dim !
The gen'rous sued, which late be rode,
Seems, too, its etas: er to deplore;
And follows to his last abode
The warrior—who returns no more!
For him, far hence, a mother sighs,
And tarciec comforts yet to come !
He'll never bless her longing eyes—
She'll only hear the Muffled Drum!

J. DIAVNE.,

Captain BAnn. AT, of walking celebrity, lately drove
the mail-coach the whole way from London to Perth,
without any intermission or rest. On his arrival at
Perth, he set off to walk 17 miles farther, to the place
of his destination.

Mumma !—A barbarous murder was committed
near Ballinrore, (Ireland) on Monday se'nnight —A
mend•cant, in a sailor's dress, came into Ballinrore,
on Monday.' from Castlebar, seemingly deprived of
the use of one hand, accompanied h; his wife and
infant, soliciting charity; about nine o'clock they left
the town to return to a village, called Rahoreen ;
shortly after the man stabled his wife in her belly,
and inflicted a wound sufficiently large to allow her
bowels to fall out ; afterwards he returned to the
nearest house on the road, and said that two men had
attempted to violate his wife, and, being unable to
succeed, murdered her. Several people gathered to
where the woman was, and considering the conduct
of the man suspicious, they looked for him, for the
purpose of securing him. Finding that, he made off,
but was pursued by the Rev. Mr. Shanly, the priest
of the town, a Serjeant of the South Mayo Militia,
and several other persons, and secured. The poor
woman was brought into town alive, and continued
so until about fur o'clock the next morning, when
she expired. Before she died, she declared it washer
husband who stabbed her. He has since acknow-
ledged his guilt, and says he was actuated by jeakusy.
Ile was sent off to Castlebar to abide his trial.

MANsION HOUSE. Yesterday Thomas French, a la-
bourLr in the warehouses of the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany, was charged before the LORD MAYOR, with
stealing from the warehouses ten skins. The foreman
of the warehouse stated, that many valuable skins had
been stolen, and suspicion falling upon the prisoner,
he was detected with two skins concealed in his hat,
and explained .he prisoner's confession of guilt, and
told the name of the man to whom he had sold skins
et different times, fur fifteen and eighteen-pence each.
The value of the skim were from three to nine shil-
linFs each. Two of the other warehousemem proved
their finding the-skins in the prisoner's possession.—
He did not deny having the skins in his -hat, but pre-
tended not to know how the skins came there.• He
was remanded I.r further examination.
.1;lin Gall, an assistant ostler, was charged on sus-
picion of wilfully or carelessly jnjuring a horse so as
to occasion his death. Mr. White stated that the
horse was a very valuable one, the property of Mr.
Kirk, which the prisoner had the care of in his sta-
bles, that the horse's tail being severely cut and las-
cerated, he died.
Mr. Kirk said, the farrier declared the horse's death
was occasioned by some severe treatment.
The prisoner in his defence said it was accident,
and explained, that he and two others were in the
stable at the time ; that he was standing behind the
horse with a two-pronged fork in his hand, with the
handle uppermost when by accident a boy drove the
kindle of the fork from his hand which nested below
t.r about the tail of the horse, who began to kick very
furiously, and the prongs of the fork nesting between
the stones of the floor he could not at that momeet
take it away, and did not discover any injury till he
was taken out to be dressed, when he saw the blood ;
he called the other two, who corroborated his state.
went.

His Lordship told him the dangerous situation he
would have been in, if there were any proof of his ma-
liciously injuring the horse, and hoped it would be a
warning to him ;if the pitch-fork had been wantonly,
or carelessly, put behind the horse, to be more careful
in future, and ordered him to be discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-srnEET.—Yesterday 8. Marlin and
four women, were committed for re-examination,
charged with robbing Mr. Jones of his pocket book,
containing £l6O in notes. The utor had been
collecting, and returning up tEvsEcdgeware-road,
somewhat inebriated, was prevailed on by one of the
females to go into a public house, where they were
joined by the others ' • soon after which the book was
taken b:- one of the females, and given to Martin.—
The prosecutor rcpaired to Mary-la.hunne watch-
house, where the prisoners had just been taken as dis-
orderly, and part el the property was recovered.
Wousin nEr T. Yesterday, Reuben Chaplain, 12
years old, was Ivlly committed, charged with robbing
his master, Mr. Govitt, a casbmaker, of various sums
of motley. As was R. Bullet:field, for receiving the
same.

GARDlM—Yesterday, Me:stager was
fully committed, charged with stealing a quantity of
iron from the foundry of Mr. Boron, to Clerkenwell,
Avkich be um: employed.