Star.
London, England, 1815-03-31 00:00:00

SPRING:

Come, 0 come, young virgin Spring,
On thy frost-encrisped wing;
Show thy pure enamerd face,
Steal tiom Wiuter's cold embrace;
Come, with thy tender bosom rising bare,
Thy infant Sowers, I nee them springing,
Softening dews and odours flinging,
On the gay binshing morn, and sweetly smelling airs
Winter lingers on the lull,
Softly stealing on the rill:
Xnd when the tender flowers begin to blow,
lie strews their virgin vests with wreaths •of falling snow !

Nnw the snowdrop lifts his head,
From his snow -be-prinkled bed;
Now the yellow daffodil
Springs blut.hing front the lawn,
• '1 he prinnose, too, beside the rill,
Opens to the morning dawn;
While every bird, with tender note,
Quivers his softly warbling throat,
And rising ss ild front hoary Winter's urn,
y hail front every bough tby kind, thy bleat return !

See the East bright streaming glows,
?Worn his golden mantle throws,
On the distant moorland *void;
The Adders spring in wreaths of gold,
See, in speckled folds they play,
Beneath morn's life-inspiring ray,
Brisk from the fog•enwrapped
The Bees their notes soft-bumming
From every flower and oaken bough
They sip the drops of honied dew !

While Labour, jocund, with his team,
Smiles at Spring's soul-reviving beans ;
lu Sorrow's breast she stops the sigh,
And wipes the rears from Misery's eye.
She on the Poet's soul a nameless transport flings;
And where the fleeting sunbeams dance,
He darts his Nature grasping glance,
And sweeps with Heaven-ward eye the hares wild
warbling strings!

O thou! who to the rustic heart
Such nameless bliss caust give,
And to the sonl such sweets impart,
Who bidst Creation live;
Now thro' the sweet descending shower
Thy renovating influence pours
And throw o►► Winter's gloom thy flower•enamel'l wing.
Sure thou bast stolen from Heaven away,
Where Peace smiles in eternal day;
I kneel low to thy Heavenly form ! sure thou art more
than Spring !

HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

A DESCRIPTION OF TIIE.LOVERS' SEAT, NEAR

HASTINGS.

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After passing through the Dripping Well, at the
distance of half a mile, and two miles from Hastings,
by turning immediately to the left of the gate, conti-
nuing to walk at the side of the field contiguous to
the hedge, and gradually winding. round the upper
part of an extensive wood, filled with towering trees,
crossing the angle of the adjoining field, you suddenly_
and unexpectedly descend the precipice to the Lovcre
Seat, situated underneath two pieces of semicircular,
rocks, produced sind suspended by nature, and an-
swering the purpose of canopies. About 25 years ago
this spot was resorted to by two lovers, from which
circumstance it acquired its notoriety, and since that
period by innumerable other persons, both young and
old, the gay and the serious, no doubt on the same
errand and pursuit, or to bring to remembrance for-
mer attachments, bring well adapted by • its rural
and ri,maniic beauties of wood, sea, cottage and rocks,
aided by the melody of birds, the distant sound and
tinkling of the sheep bells, the fineness and mildness
of the atmosphere, with the pleasurable variety of the
walk, havirg a tendency to afford health to the body,
cheerfulness to the mind, and to excite and increase
the tender passions, particularly when accompanied
with the agreeable and captivating snc:ety of some
favourite female, cannot fail to. terminate in love or
friendship : many of the frequenters of the Lovers'
Seat have inserted the initials of their names on diffe-
rent parts of the rocks, most probably emblematical
of their affections, which the hand of time having
nearly obliterated, merely to make a greater impres-
sion and to be more strongly engraved on their hearts.
And happy they ! the happiest of their kind!
Whom gentle stars unite, and in one the
Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend.
ins nut the coarser tie of human laws,
Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind,
That binds their peace; but harmony itself,
Attuning aU their passions into love;
Where Friendship full exerts Ler softest power,
Perfect esteem, enliven'd by desire
ineffable, and sympathy of soul;
Thsught meeting thought, und will preventing sill,
With boundless confidence : fnr nought but love
Can answer love, and reader bliss secs .c!

The following is a genuine, serious advertisement,
taken liter-atlas from the American Raleigh Star, where
it stood placed with the figure of a running away
negro prefixed to it :
" Twenty-five Dollars Reward.

" Run away from Raleigh, a month or two ago, a mulatto
man, named Anthony, well known in Raleigh, and many parts
bf the State, as having been for several years the body servant of
General Jones, and mine lately as a pressman and news carrier
in the Star Office. Anthony is about sts or SG years of age, five
feet s or 9 Inches high, is a mongrel white, has a tolerably large
aquiline nose, bushy hair, a scar on one of ha cheeks, when in
good humour has a pleasing countenance.
. , • "He works and walks fa't, is lively and talkative, full of
anecdote, which he tells In Character with much humour; is an
excellent pressman, indifferent at distributing types, a tolerable
• carpenter and joiner, .a plain painter, an excellent manager of
t horses, drives well and rides elegantly, having been accusomed
etp• race-riding; is fond of cock-fighting (and of man-fighting
*ben drunk), and is said to heel and pit with skill ; he can bleed
atirApull teeth, know, something of medicines, is a rough barber,
• kirast,but concei.ed cook,a good sawyer, can lay brick,has worked
In.dreicomfield, and canscratch a little on the fiddle.
ttlile can do many other things, and what he can't do be fre.
Sear td have a knowledge of. His trades and qualities are thus
detailed, because his vanity will undoubtedly lead to a display of
them. His muter-vice or rather the parent of all his vices, ls p ,
fondness for rtnik; ogles. His clothes cannot be described, but
be carried away few or none, and 'els expeeted will appear shab.
bily, He is an artful fellow, and if . taken up will tell a west
plausible story, and possibly thew n forged Raw."

Poi JCL.

CII4RGE OP POISONING A WHOLZ FAMILTHATTON.
CARDpS iAwning, cook to Mr. Turner, of Chancery•lane, was re-examined, charged
with serving up a poisonous composition for the fa-
mily dinner. Mr. 0. Turner stated, is that on the
21st instant, on returning to town, he dined at his
house, with his son and daughter-in•law ; and had
for dinner some yeast dumplings„ with rump steaks :
We had nearly dined when Mrs. Charlotte Turner,
finding herself extremely unwell, retired to her room
and complained of violent sickness. Mr. R. Turner
immediately went down stairs, and I shortly after
followed him, when he informed me he had been ex-
tremely ill, and brought up all his dinner ; in about
ten minutes afterwards 1 was taken very ill and vo-
mited dreadfully. My apprentice, B. Gadsden, went
into the kitchen, and was desirous of eating a part of
the dumplings, which the prisoner endeavoured to
dissuade him from, bk saying, they were cold and
heavy, and would do him no good : he, however, did
eat a small portion of them, and was afterwards
seized with violent vomitings. The prisoner made
no enquiry, nbr did she do any thing to assist ; but
partook afterwards of the same dumplings, although
she had had her dinner before, and was in conse-
quence seized with the same symptoms. I having
suspicion, endeavoured to find arsenic in the house;
but could not, though a quantity had for many
months been deposited in a drawer in the Office, tied
up, and written on, g arsenic, deadly poison.' Wit-
ness then went into the kitchen, where seeing a dish,
in which the dumplings had been mixed, with water
in it, he examined it, and discovered a powder at the
bottom. He then kept the dish, with its contents, for
the examination of Mr. Marshall and Mr. Ogilvy,
two medical gentlemen."—Mr. John-Marshall, a sur-
geon, in Halt-moon-street, Piccadilly, was called in
about nine o'clock the same evening, and found the
prisoner lying on the stairs apparently in great agony,
and was informed she had vomited much. After at-
tending to her lie went up stairs', and found Mr. K.
Turner and his wife in bed, each of them retching
violently. Mr. T. complained of extraordinary pain
in the stomach and abdomen—on examination, he
found the bowels in knots, and rubbed the abdomen
with warm flannel and laudanum, which gave tem-
porary relief. He was satisfied, from the symptoms,
that Mr. and Mrs. R. Turner, Mr. 0. Turner, the
prisoner, Feinting, and the apprentice, were affected
by poison, he believed arsenic. He examined the
dish and its contents, and found a quantity of arsenic
at the bottom of it, which he separated from the
dough by the usual method. The arsenic he . has in
his possession.—Charlotte, wife of R. Turner, said,
the prisoner lived witlarr about sii weeks, as took.
About three weeks ago she had some dispute with
her, ou account of some indelicacy in her conduct,
and gave her warning to quit ; but she afterwards
took compassion on her and changed her mind. The
prisoner had frequently, within the last fortnight,
teased her to let her make some dumplings for din.
ner ; aVing 66 you cannot tell how well I can make
them !" The day preceding the fact, she said the
brewer brought some yeast, in consequence of which
I ordered her to make the dumplings she had been
so long talking of, for next day's dinner. She made
a beefsteak pie for the servants' and apprentice's
dinner, at two o'clock, and the dumplings for our
tatnner. I saw the dough otter she mixed It, and
firmly believe the deleterious ingredient was then
mixed in it, from its appearance being flat, black,.
and heavy. The remainder of this witness's evidence
went to corroborate that of Mr. 0. Turner.—Marga-
ret, wife of Mr. 0. Turner, deposed, that on the
evening of the above day she was sent for, and found
the family as before described. Witness seeing the
prisoner at the stair-foot, expressed her regret at the
melancholy consequences which had followed eating
the dumplings, when she observed that it was not the
dumplings, but the milk with which Mrs. it. Turner
had made the sauce, adding, that Gadsden had not
eaten a bit bigger than a nut, but had dipped some
bread in the sauce-boat, and thereby eaten three parts
of a boat full.—Mr. R. G. Turner corroborated his
father's evidence, adding, that he was worse than any
of them, though he had not tasted any of the sauce.
—R. Gadsden, the apprentice, corroborated Mr. Tur-
ner, jun.'s evidence.—Sarah Pearse,. the house-maid,
recollected the prisoner saying, atter her mistress gave
her warning, that she should never like her any more.
Witness, by desire of the prisoner, brought her a
halfpenny-worth of milk to make the sauce, as she
said she had not enough. She never entered the
kitchen all the time the prisoner was getting the
dumplings ready, being busy up stairs ; the servants
and apprentices dined at two, atter which the witness
brought up the dinner, as handed to her by the pri-
soner, but never tasted the dumplings, as the went
out when the family sat down to dinner, and did not
return until nine o'clock.—W. Thistleton, the officer,
searched the prisoner and her box, but found nothing
of a suspicious nature. She told him in the office,
that she believed it to be in the yeast, as she perceived
a white sediment at the bottom ; or that the other
girl, who was very sly and artful, might put it in the
milk. She was fully committed.
GUILDHALL—Elizabeth Young, was re-examined
on a charge of robbing Mr. Dimes, of Holborn, of
silks, &c. to a very considerable amount. Mrs. Lintop,
who had received two pieces of satin from the priso-
ner, which she afterwards confessed to have burnt,
attended; and, after a suitable admonition from the
worthy Alderman, was discharged. Two pawn-
brokers attended with pieces of lace, which were iden-
tified by Mr. Dimes, which one of them swore, and
the other believed, he had received from the prisoner,
She was fully committed.
Mmestox-nouse.—Yesterday A. Gwell and J. Ro.
cas were charged on suspicion of stealing a Bank.'
note for e 610., the property of Mr. Smith, draper,
of Aldgate. The prosecutor stated, that the prise-
tiers came into his shop on Wednesday evening, and
desired to see some handkerchiefs. After some hesi-
tation, they selected two, for which they tendered in
payment aEI note, and received the change. The
prosecutor was positive that he placed the note over
one of 410. Before they left the shop, however,
they demanded to look at the note they had given,
observing, there was a mistake. One of them ac-
cordingly put his hand across the counter into the
till, end apparently, pulled the Al note only forth ;
when.after looking eta for some time, it was returned.
The prosecutor being then hurried, did not think of
the £lO, but soon atter, going to the drawer, be dis-
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'wand it was gone. deseriptinn•behig liven br
their persoos, they were secured in the afternoon, and
considerable property found %spoil theth. None of
'which, however, led to a confirmation of the charge ;
but many suspicious circumstances appearing against
them, they were remanded.
Bow-maim—A man of the Dame of Cartridge,
a taylor, was yesterday charged with cruelty and
usage to his wife, to whom he had been married not
more than three wteir ! From the statement of Mrs.
C. it appeared that the usage was bad not only to
her, but to a female servant. The latter was corn-
pelled to jump out of the window to etude the vio-
lence of her master. Mrs. C. exhibited various bruises
on the body ; and it was stated, that this ungallant
husband had allowed his wife for sustenance on a cer-
tain day, a distillation from tripe, which was termed
" tripe water !" There were many other circum-
stances of ill usage mentioned ; but Sir N. Conant
was of opinion, that Mrs. C. should be left to her re-
dress at the Sessions.
QUEEN-SQUARE.-Yesterday, J. Strange, a private
in the Coldstream Guards, was charged with robbing
Mr. Millsom, of a gold watch, in Hyde park, in
April last. Mr. M. was crossing the Park late in the
afternoon, when he was accosted by the prisoner,
in company with Marony and Ashton, who were al-
terwards executed for the fact. Strange, however,
deserted on the night of the robbery, and was lately
apprehended in the country. He was fully cont.

Mined.
Ann Gilbert. a miserable looking old woman, was
charged with robbing Neave, a Chelsea pen-
sioner, of £lO3 in Bank-notes. It appeared that a 1,-
gacy was recently left to this old son of Mats, and
and that since the receipt of it he had been in the
habit of carrying it about with him in a pocket-book.
A few evenings since, the prisoner contrived to en-
gage him in convei sation, arid after they had sepa-
fated, he discovered that sit= had succeeded in despoil-
ing him of the above property. She was so ignorant
of what she possessed, that the ten pound notes she
offered for one's, and behaved altogether so strange-
ly, as to cauce inquiry to be made into the manner
in which she became possessed of the property, which
led to her discovery. She was remanded.
WORSHIP-STREET.—Vesterday, Sophia Bailis, and
Phelia Esman, were charged with stealing a quanti-
ty of linen, from the Society called The Refuge for
the Destitute. It appeared, that the prisoners had
followed the most dissolute habits, and bad been
sent to the House of Correction • but their conduct
was afterwards such, as to gain them admission into
the above Institution : when they were but a short
time there, before they ran away, and took with them
a quantity of linen and wearing apparel. They were
fully committed.
UNION-HALL.—Margaret Ryan, a milk-carrier, in
the employ of Mr. Stratford in Stoney-street, 80.
rough-market, was brought to this 011ie?, charged
with an attempt to destroy a female child, of which
she delivered herself secretly on Wednesday morn-
ing. It appeared that the prisoner was repeatedly
accused of being with child, which she as repeatedly
denied ; however, about seven o'clock an the morn-
ing in question, she was observed to go to the privy,
and remained there some little time; about half an
hour after, her roi,tress, as usual, went to the water
butt, to fill the kettle, and was alarmed by the cries
of an infant , alto instantly osallo.l her husband land
son, who went to the privy, which is ten feet deep
before the soil is reacheJ, when they discovered a bun-
dle, from whence the cries arose. Mr. Stratford
instantly tied a rope round his son's body, and lower-
ed him down, when he discovered the bundle to be
a blue apron with a fine female child alive; but it is
supposed it cannot survive the effect of the stench of
the soil, and the bruises it had received in the fall.—
She is committed for re-examination.

At the Wexford Assizes, Bridget Walsh, for trans•
muting water into whiskey, was sentenced to be trans•
ported for seven years. She went, some time since,
with a jar, which she carried under a long cloak, to
have it filled with whiskey ; aud, having receiv.al it,
pretended to examine her pockets for money, of
which she said she had not sufficient ; she then dex-
terously handed another jar, of a similar size, to the
shopkeeper, desiring him to seal the cork, and she
would return immediately for it. The jar having lain
in the shop some time created a suspicion, and on ex-
' amination, it proved to have been filled with water.
She was detected in endeavouring to practise a simi-
lar fraud in another part of the town.
At the last Chelmsford Assizes the following action
was tried : •

•• - DIRTH. '
Marcia 20, tt Viewfleltl, In the v,cinity of Invernes, die WI
of Major M`Kay, 93d rest:neat, of a daughter.

MARRIED.

At St. George's, Harover-square, the Rev. Thomas Auks-se,
Rachel!, fifth daughter 9f the late Mr. Bright, of Mst&n.
Rev. .rhos. Bane, of tiotte ley, SuroA, ellopliin in to-iit
to his Majesty, to Sarah, daughttr of the late Hog. and veil Rim.
St. Andrew St. John,l)ls. Dean of Worcester.
Rev. Thos. Allies, of fienbury, to Caroline, Weasel-6w l'te.3.
of J. M. Hilhouse, lisq of littstol.