Star.
London, England, 1815-08-31 00:00:00

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;O THt MEMORY Or LIIUTENANT.COLONit. 111. 1011IIRT
trl WAWA, K.C.I. LATICCOMMANOINO roaIr•SICCOND
ILOIMENT, OR ROYAL HIOOLANOLILL
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Gallant Soldier ! once the glory
Of thlue own uneonquer'd band!
Shall not Fame, in living story,
Tell the triumphs of thine hand ?
Be her sliver trunipeebound
With the Scottish thistle-fiow'rs ;
Ah I how sweet it then will sound,
Thro his native Highland bow'rs!
Let her fingers add to all
Many a gloomy cypress-leaf;
Emblem of the hero's fall—
Emblem of his country's grief!
" Mark !" She dies, " where eagles war
44 Time' jberla's azure sky ;
" And the Douro's sullen roar
" Mocks the wolf that hovers nigh;
44 Steady as those eagles' flighty
" Rapid as that river's flood,
44 Firm he mingled in the fight,
Si Seeking me in fields of blood!
44 See the Tagus' golden banks,
" Lusitania's vineyards fair ;-
61 There he led his plaided ranks,
" Check'd the Gallic hydra there f
* Thence, mid' Pyrrenesn snows
4' Did his charger fiercely prance,
14 Soaring him, thro' hosts of foes,
44 To the conquer'd fields of France!"
Here the Goddess ceas'd her lay ;
Weak, her wings retard to fly;—
Faint, her voice forbore to say
How boLscasart dared to die!
Be it then to friendship glv'n
• Such a warrior's name to save,
While 'di borne on breeze of Hessen
That he found a soldier's grave!
•
By unequal hosts oppos'd,
Still he prov'd his valour true :
for his bright career was elos'd,
On the plains of Waterloo !

Varxtut.t. G.tunms.—These Gardens closed fer
the season last night. The Proprietor had, with be-
coming liberality, prepared a splendid Gda for the
occasion, to which an over flqwing company did ample
honour. •At the conclusion of the Concert Mr. Dia-
-14 cm spoke the following Neewell Address :
" LADIES AND Gawmeatcst—As these Gardens close this
electing tor the season, I am desired by the Proprietor to return
you his gra:eful thanks for the support he has received, and to
assure you, that uu exertion shall be wanting on his part to re-
- Sam them in that high estimation, which, from your very liberal
and steA4 patronage, they now possess Again, Ladies and
Ger:tient...l, in the name of those who, as well as myself, have
joinly aVOIIrrd to contribute to your entertainment, for all
of them, in ever/ department, I thank you most truly—and for
this we re,pectfully take our lemrst.'
This Address was received with thunders of ap-

plause, and the Perf ,rmers retired amidst the loudest
Cheers, The pleasures of the scene .vere promnrod till
the lamps of night gave way to the more cheering
rays of the lamp of day ; and tae company &pined
with an czprcstiun of vessel that the Gardens had not
still longer. remained open for the reception of the
public.

ENGLISH OPERA, birCEUM.A new Musical After-
piece, entitled The Maid and the Magpie, or Which i:
thelki ? was introduced at this Theatre on Monday
evening, for the benefit of Mr. Fawcarr. It is taken,
as the bills state, from, a celebrated French Melo-
drame, which has had great attracti:in at Paris. and
we think it cannot fail to be equally attractiOe here.
The story possesses .s high degree of interest, and is
told as well as the limits of a short drama will alliw;
the characters are well sketched, and the whole is ma-
naged so at to produce considerable effect. Much,
b iwever, depends upon the acting, and on this respect
nothing was wanting Miss KELLY, who personateA
the female servant accused of stealing arlicles which
afterwards prove to have been stolen by a Magpie,
s tpoorted the character admirably she threw into
it all the pathos and expression of feeling that it re-
quired, without, in any instance, overacting her part.
KNIGHT, who was her lover, deserves the greatest
praise for the style of his acting, which was' through.
out true to nature. Fawcyrr displayed all his usual
good acting, and the rest of the performers gave
every support to the piece. According to the origi-
nal story the woman suffered death before the Magpie
was discovered to be the thief, but the denouement
has been judiciously altered, and the piece terminates
satisfactorily. The performance had evidently a
powerful effect upon the feelings of the audience, who
received and sanctioned the whole with unanimous
applause.—The Piece continues be repeated with
the highest approbation.

A country gentleman, walking in his garden, saw
his gardener asleep in the arbour-4. What (says he)
asleep, instead of at work ! you idle dog, you are not
worthy the Son should shine on you."—" I am truly
Fensiblv of my unworthiness," answered the man,
and therefore I laid myself down in the made
A person employed by Mr. Wasos, of Hampstead,
to watch his garden, having discovered a man there at
an early hour yesterday morning, presented a musket
with a bayonet upon it at him ; a scu ;; e ensued. in
which the robber was run through the body, and al-
most immediately expired. He bad a bag with him,
c .ntainifig a large quantity of fruit.
Qt EEN-SQUA art.—Yesterday the circumstances re-
lative to the riot at Parson's•green Fair, in which Mr.
Marks, of Fulham, accused several of hit neighbours
with assaulting him, in consequence of his aitempting
to turn several people out of the booths on Saturday
se'anight, as soon as the clock had struck twelve, as
fully stated in our Paper of Thorsday last, was again
entered ;nto ; when it appearing that Mr. Marks, not.
being invested with any legal authority, was the ori-
oinal caase of the disorder, the parties were, therefore,
d missed. Mr. Marks was then-charged by ----.
Cropley, ..of Fulham, with presenting a pistol to
his breast, and threatening to shoot him, some
time after the above riot commenced. without any
alleged provocation.. Mr. Finzinto said, this offence
- called I, “dly for compensation ; and its settlement
was referred to Mr. Dauer. a neighbouring Justice,
with Crop's,' II comes.

MAD HOUSES:
•••••.•••••••
ISETHLEM HOSPITAL.

RXTRACTS FROM TIM EVIDENCE GIVEN BEFORE A COM-

MITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. Richard &ayeley, called in. and examined.
What do yon know respecting the situation of Mr.
James Tilley Matthews, during the time he was con-
fined in Bethlraq—My knowledge of him has been
principally within the last eight years, when, in conse-
quence of his declining state of health, and the suffer-
ings he was labouring under from the manner in which
he was confined, I made application, with another re-
lative, who is since dead, Mr. Dunbar, to the Com-
mittee several times, that he might be removed from
the hospital to be in the care of his friends. I grounded
this application on the information and evidence of two
physicians of the highest respectability, Dr. Birkbeck
and Dr. Cl titterbuck, who authorised me to state to the
o):mtottce, t:iat he WAS not by any means in that in-
sant! state of mind to render confinement necessary to

him ; that his mind was certainly affected on one point,
but that was more on a philosophical point with respect
to an air-loom system,as to which he fancied there were
certain agents employed by the hospital to annoy him
by different modes, and they were of opinion that if lie
was removed from that scene this would cease ;that he

was by no means considered as a dangerous lunatic,
for from the evidence of their own officers who attend-
ed (the different keepers), that for the whole time of his
being there,the man,so tar from interrupting the peace
of the house or creating distorbance, was the man to
whom all parties, whether patients or servants of the
house, if there were any grievances, made their refe-
rence for redress: but there appeared on the part of Mr.
Haslam, which I have told him hithself, and which I
told to Dr. Monro, a violent animosity against this man.
With respect to the circumstance of his being chained,
I did not see him so myself, but had it as reported by
him; it was previous to my having so much intercourse
with him: that arose from his disputing the authority
on which he had been sent there, or Mr. Haslam's
authority to treat him in the manner he did.—
Mr. Matthews said to me, that Mr. Ilaslam said in
reply, " you dispute our authority, (with an oath),
Sir, we will soon let jou knew what our authority
is ;" and the next day he was leg locked. On enquiry
to find the authority by which he was confined, they
informed us it was by the parish officers of Camber.
well. I went to the parish officers of Camberwell,
who were, of course, very desirous of go.ting rid of
an expense which they had been paying fair so many
years, and of relieving their own funds of it, if Mr.
Matthews's friends would come forward and take the
onus on themselves : they attended the Committee of
Bethlem Hospital with me, to state the interview they
had had with us,and todemand that he might be restor-
ed to his friends. The Committee adjourned that day
the consideration of the subject till the subsequent
Saturday ; in the intcrint we took a legal opinion
upon the point, as to the parish officers of Camber-
well, they saying, we certainly are not authorised to
appropriate the funds of the parish to the support of
this man in Bethlem, when his friends are willing to
come forward and relieve us of that charge. We have
the assertions of the medical men, who state that be
is by no means a dangerous lunatic, and therefore we
request he may be given up. Still the Committee
persevered in their refusal. It was then desired that
they should shew by what authoritythey held him ;
that they refused to do, but that they Net e determined
to keep him. The parish offivrs then coosulted, I pre.
sume, with their legal adviser, what courie they should
pursue to be discharged of this expense. They were
advised to attend with his friends at the Committee,and
again to repeat their request, that he should be given
up to his friends ; I requesting it, at the same time, and
the Hospital still refusing. " Gentlemen (they said),
we have nothing more to do with him ; let us know the
amount that is due, and we tender it you iu bank-notes;
if you hold him, you hold him at your own expense."
Finding that they were so very much determined to
keep this man, for a reason that they would not state,
although his friends were ready and willing to
take care of him, I- should mention one thing—the
parish officers stated, st if we ire to biburthened with
this expence, 'idmitting that he is a madman, are not
we authorised to take him, and "put him in our own
strong room at the workhouse? Still the Committee
would not part with him. We then put- the thing into
the regular channel by the affidavits of the physicians,
and we went into the Court of King's Bench, and
moved for a writ of Habeas Corpus to have him re-
moved. The Hospital finding this, had the Com-
mittee of Lunacy from the College of Physicians,
who examined Mr. Matthews. They were with him,
I am not certain whether more than once, but I am
certain not more. than twice, for a very short period
of time. Dr. Birkbeck and Dr. Clutterbuck had seen
him, at our request, at different times for nearly three
weeksor a month,goingtogether,and separately taking
him at any hour when he was not expecting them, and
examining him in all the points they chose ; in their af-
fidavits, w hick were very-strong, they were decidedly of
opinion that-he was not in that dangerous state to au-
thorise his being confined. We went into the Court of
King's Bench, but I presume that on the evidence of
the College of Physicians they were induced to refuse
the Habeas, assigning some grounds or pointing out
some other course, which I cannot immediately charge
my recollection with: it is proper I should state that, in
one of the attendances on the Committee, they desired
particularly to know why we were so anxious to have
Mr. Matthews out? in the presence of the committee
and Dr. Monro, Mr. Crowther, and Mr. Haslam, I
said, we are dissatisfied with his treatment generally, ,
but with his medical treatment, particularly, so much
GO, that we wish, as you refuse to lethim out, to have'
an opportunity of medical men seeing him. We asked;'
' Have you any objection to our bringing in other me-!
dical men to see him ?" Dr. Monro said, it Certainly
not, provided they are men of regular character in their
profession, not empirics." I said, certainly I should
not pass such an insult upon you, or bring such a dis-.
grace upon myself, as to bring in any men bat those,
of regular characters in consequence of this Dr.;
Birkbeck and Dr. Clutterbuck went to sett him; and:
Mr. riaslam afterwards charged me with surrepti-'
tiously bringing medical men to see him, without the,
authority of the Hospital. Mr. Haslam came into.
the parlour when Dr. Birkbeck and myself were with.
Mr. Matthews, and to shew -that there was nothing
underhand in conversation with Dr. Birkbeck, I con.
sternly addressed hint as Doctor, so did Mr. Mat-
thews. His health becoming within the last three
jean considerably worse, his friends were still more

anxious, Yd 'easstaitly.tard.the Hospitalta let him
be discharged. He had very bad abscesses' in hi-
back, all of which* attribtrtestto,alre. cell that It
had been originally paced inonti damp of thtlonse,l
which, he said, afflicted'most of the patients in the
same way, beginning with a numbness abaot- the
thighs, and the lower pan of the back, and treqiientl)
terminating in death. The Hospital finding the situa-
tion that Mr. Matthews's health was in, I believe were
a little alarmeJ, and he then became a patient of the
surgeon, Mr. Crowther • who stated to the Commit.
tee, that he considered Mr. Matthews, state of health
to be such, that it he was not allowed to have change
of air, or a different scene and treatment, he %sot&
not answer for his living over the winter. In con:.e
quence of that, on.an application, Mr. Crowther.canie
to me and stated, 64 If you will go to diet:minutiae.
and state, that, as a relation of Mr. Matthews, you
are very desirous of giving him a chahge, I !rave a
place near town where he can go, if you propose to,
pay one half—let them bear the gther—there is a
certain allowance made by Government for Lim,
and there will be but little more expense incur-
red." They granted k, and he was removed.—
He was considerably better at first, as Mr, roa
will state, for the first eight or ten weeks, but tfle
abscess in his back continued to gain ground :
the last twelve months he fell off very much indeed,
and died in January List.
There is one circumstance very extraordinary, sta-
ted in an affidavit which was afterwards made, that
Mr. Haslam stated in a public coffee-house, where
Mr. Matthews's case was spoken of, having attracted
a good deal of attention, that Matthews was as well
as he was; that he had no right to be there, but he
should keep him. This was in the hearing of Mr.
Dunbar, my relation. When this came before the
Committee, Mr. Dunbar said to him in the Com-
mittee, 66 Mr. Haslam, on what grounds can you re.
commend to the Committee still to persevere in the
keeping Mr. Matthews, after your assertion in the
City of London Tavern, at such a time, that he was
as well as you, and there was no more right to confine
him within the walls ?" Mr. Haslim made no an-
swer to this. Mr. Dunbar stated in the Committee,
I have no objection, if Mr. Haslam disputes it, to
make an affidavit of it." Mr. Haslam sat perfectly
still, and never attempted to refute it. .
You say you repeatedly aw the Committee at Beth-
leem ?—Yes.
What number generally composed that Committee?
—Sometimes I have seen them when there have not
been more than four or fiieot other times there ha% e
been from ten to a dozen there have been in attend-
ance always the steward, Ivir.Crovnlier, and Mr. Ha-
s Dr. Monro was in ill health, and was not al-
ways in attendance.
Did Mr. Matthews inform you, during the .course
of your visits for the last eight years, that chains had
been applied as a punishinent' to him in the first part
of his confinement ? He did.

Did you ask any one of the keepers, whether that
hid been the fact t-t-I have asked tl:e keepers, whe-
ther or no Mr. Matthews was in that situ,tion that'
should render it necessary to coMine or chain him :Is'
Mr. liaslarn had ; the invariable answer I teceieeu
was, that so far from his being a disturber of the house
he was the peace maker.
Did they admit that the chains had been applkd ?
—Certainly ; after we had gone into the Court of
King's Bench the treatment of Mr. Matthews was
very different indeed from what it had been before,
for he then was allowed a room to himself.

The amount of Mr. I3outiroN's purchase in Oxford-
shire, has been incorrectly stated at £120,000, by se.
veral of our dintemporaries ; the fact is, he purchased
it by private contract, at £171,000, and it is con-
sidered to be the best purchase that has been made fur
years.
BUTCHEIA Mier.—A contract, within these few
days, has been made to supply the garrison in the
Tower with the best .ox beef and mutton at a price
under 4.d. per pound.

' PRICbS OF GOLD AND SILVER.
Portugal Gold in (An, per oz. £4 lOs Od.
Foreign Gal in Bars • 4 lOs Od.
New Doubloons £0 0 0 I New Doliars Sr 7d. .
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DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.

_ .
Cheerly, for the Hoppet, to-morrow, at SW, Arundel-street,and
there recalled.
Blossom, for the John, same day and Flare, and there recalled.
Geree, fur the Ranger:this day,at 6, Thatiet-place,'Femple-bar.
Recalls every '1 uesday and Saturday.
Crescent,for the Eldridge Gerry, and the Jane, this day, at 5, I
Lawrence Pountney.htil—recalled every Wednesday and Friday,
Ringdove and Gleaner, for the Magnet, at 6, Thanet-place,
Temple-bar, and recalled every Tuesday and Saturday.
Persian, for the Speculation, Syertradt, Aune Maria, Twende
Broiler, and two mastet boats, at 16, Devonahlre-sivare. Recalls
every Monday and Wednesday.
Guerriere, for the Nautilus, at No. 10, Layton's•-buildlnp, Bo-
'rough. Recalls( every Tuesday and Saturday.
Havannab, fur 1.7 gun-boats, at No. 9.9, Great Surrey-atreet,
Blactfriars. Recalls at Frankfort-place, Plymouth, on Tuesdays
and Fridays.