Star.
London, England, 1823-11-10 00:00:00

LA JUPE ROUGE.
TO MISS J. • •

aliusque et ideni.— titmice, Ca-. Sec.

Sweet Moro tells us, in his second book,
• Venus ch.ingect form, by tenderest pity won ;
But soon a word unconscious, sntl a look,
Iktrayed the goddess to her sorrowing son !
So thou, dear girl ! of pure and gentle mind,
Thou,;ll clad with ju;s rouge, in fond disgui,e,
Who, Li the name of bliss, so cold, so blind,
As to mistake thy charming lips and eyes?
• Those lips to me are sweeter far than May—
Those eyes, from flower to flower, that bee-like rove—
Ah ! could they, would they, might they once but say,
lac Tasso's dove, " I love, my life—my life, l love !”•
Southampton, Nov. 7, 1823. • • •

•-V-Aminta,'Atto primo, Sceria prima.

LITElik VItE.

Points of Misery ; or, Fables for ilankind. Prose and
Yrrse,chitly ()righted. By CHARLES WEsTmAcor. r.
Illustrate with Twenty Designs. By ft. CRUIKSHANK.
I oval Bvo.
In works of a graphic description, particularly those
•approaching to caticatute, it has been t,o much the
custom to leave everything to the qt tiq, and to take
little pains v ith the literary department. This, how-
ever, is not the case with the woik before us, for there
seems to have been a geneious emulation between Mr.
Westmacott and Mr. Cruikshank to give as much
point at possible to the nine miseries which are here
described and illustrated. The subjects are well chosen,
and the tales relating to them well written. The last
point of Misery, entitled " Tom Tick; .or, the Modern
ltake's Plogress," is an original tale, in verse, which
eoes much credit to the comic muse of Mr. WEsTMA•
coTr. The designs are full of life and humour, and
yet not without a moral. The work is " got up" in
excellent style.

POLICE INIELLIGENCE.

UNION-lIALL

Arrsurr To Mraore.—Satursiay a young woman of an engaging
appearance, was placed at the bar, and charged with maliciously
shooting Mr. Charles Arnold, on Friday evening, in the shop of Mr.
Sentence, a grocer, of the Borough. On beige; brought before the
;Magistrate, she instantly fell into strong convulsion fits, which lasted
during the whole of the time the evidence was being taken.
Mr. Sentatice stated, that the wounded man, Mr. Ches. Arnold,
had been in his employ operate!" of ten years. lie (Mr. Sentence)
was sitting in his counting-house, on Friday evening, about a quar-
ter after seven, when be saw a young woman, whom he thought
was a customer, come into the shop, and go up to a desk where
Arnold was writing. Within two minutes after, he heard the report
of a pistol, and looking into the shop, he saw Arnold falling front
Lis seatovith his hand up to his face. Arnold, on recovering him-
self, ran out of the shop to Dr. Kent's, who instantly dressed his
face, which was perforated in a number of places by shot. The
young woman, directly she had fired the pistol, tell down, appa-
rota), In a fit, and when he first saw her she was lying on the
grouud with the pistol by her side. On the return of Arnold, he
asked him the reason of her shooting him, and he replied, he did
not know, but that he had been ac•ivaipted with slier fur more than
two years, and meant nothing but what was honourable towards
her, until he discoverd that she bad been carrying on a correspond-
ence with a person named James Beardaill, of Nottingham. Ile
then, having satisfied himself by going to Nottingham, that his in-
formation was correct, declined cuatinuing the intercourse, and re-
tented her some presents which ehe had given elm.
Aldred Hall stated that he-lied with his uncle in the Kent-road,
in whose house Miss 'faylor, the young woman, was 'a lodger.
About a fortnight or three weeks since, Miss Taylor told him that
she had had several frightful dreams, and requested hint to lend her
a pistol, as she was always under the apprehension that some one
eves under her bed. He did so, and in a few days she returned it ;
she borrowed the pistol a second time ; and she then s. id it was to
frighten some girl, and asked him to ahew her how to load and fire
it off, which he did on the sth of November. The pistol found by
the desk in Mr. Sentatice's shop was the same that he had lent her.
Mr. Kent, the professional Gentleman who attended Arnold,
'tatted, that one of the shots had completely p.tesed through the cheek
boat, and fallen into the mouth. There were several others in the
face which had not yea been extracted. At present it was not safe
to remove him, nor would it be so for several days to come.
Miss Taylor was too much convulsed during the whole of the
examination to attend to what was passing; the evidence was not
therefore gone into further than was sufficient to warrant her deten-
tiOn. She was, we understand, one of the principal females em-
ployed in the hat-manufactory of Messrs. Christy, at Bermondsey.