Star.
London, England, 1809-08-23 00:00:00

RESPECT AND LOVE.
A TALE.
M L'amoar et le respect s'accordent mal ensemble;
ga Vous eel clevinerez bien la raison—
" Celt qua Fun tue l'autre, et dc.que ]'amour tremble,
C'en Vat fait, it meta: du frison."

Cyntlin, the serious and the gay,
In sportive mood us'd oft to say,
The man, who SN edded her, must prove
The type of both respect, and love;
And...s het beauty all acnied,
ho emulation all inspied.
Oft, kneeling at her crowded shrine,
The Swains still %void the Nymph daYine+
In vain—tor none she could approve,
Their crime, alas ! was too much love—
Nut love, that's gentle, and reppectful ;
But furious love, of forms neglectful,
Too soon their hapless suits denied,
Poor souls ! they pin'd, despair'd, and died!
At length, two vent'rous suitors came,
Who swore they felt au equal
When both ler favour tried to move,
And both essay'd respect and love :
But he, who lov'd, would fain conceal
The ardent pangs, his looks reveal,
I.:tiering he spoke, and scarce supprest
The sighs that struggled in his breast.

Next, pure 'lisped., with aspi.ct cold,
His even tale, unrufird, told,
No fervor in his features beain'il,
Which now yet cold, and colder scenic!,
rut, ah ! poor Love, with pale affright,
Trembled and sicken'd at the sight,
Ills pulse beat quick, be hung his head,
hO dews of death now o'er him spread--
Recpcct ! your chilling frowns, he cried,
Have hard me—thus he droop'd and died !
Cynthia, in tears, laments his fate,
And grieves that she has learnt too late—
Love freirn restraint must still be free—
Respect, and Love, can nc'er agree!

R. 5.

LEWIS, AUGUST 21.

The Lewes Annual Prize Melon Show, at the
Crown Inn, on Wednesday last, furnished ,a delicious
feast of melons to about forty horticultural amateurs.
The first prize was awarded to the gardener of the
Dowager-Countess of Chichester ; the second to the
gardener of Henry Manning, Esq. of Southover ; and
the third to Lord Hampden's gardener.
The hops in this country have greatly improved
within the last three weeks. The hop assistants
were appointed to their several districts on Saturday.
The wheat crops, for the most part, fall heavy
upon the sickle, bat the weather continues unfavour-
able to the harvest.

Partridges are, this season, generally numerous
in this county, and the birds are strong upon the
wing ; but the coveys are not so large as they were
last year. Pheasants have suff•red considerably
from the wetness of the breeding season—The
yonnq of many nides have been literally drowned in
the woods.

Some few days since, as the Bishop of Ereter was
stooping to inspect the heels of one of his saddle-
. horses, and giving directions to his groom, he received
-is kick on the temple, hut happily without any serious
gonsequences, us his Lordship was but barely wthin
• reach of the animal.

On Sunday, a wherry with a sail, in which were
Mr. Johannot, of the Royal Circus, and another gen-
tleman, accompanied by a waterman, was upset im-
mediately opposite Somerset House. The boat soon
righted, and in that condition floated, although full of
water. Luckily they all escaped being struck by the
mast, and had the presence of mind to catch hold of
the side of the boat, by which they sustained them-
selves above water. In this situation they continued
several minute.-, during which the boat was percepti-
bly settling down, and must inevitably have sunk in
very short time, when they were discovered by a
Gentleman in a small skiff, who immediately went
to tipeir assistance, and by whose exertions their lives
were preserved. The construction of the Thames
wherry, narrow as it is, and calculated solely for a
quick passage, through smooth water, renders the
use of a sail extremely hazardous in foul weather ;
and at no time should so great an act of indiscretion
be-committed as that of making fast the sheet-rope.
Friday evening cast a most daring robbery was
committed by a single footpad, in the vicinity of Bow.
'An opulent Essex farmer, named Yates, was return-
ing home to his residence, after disposing of tome
live stock at Smithfield market ; and shortly after he
_got on tl:e other side of Stratford bridge, -a ru(lian
seized the bridle of his horse, arid demanded 'his
money. Mr. Yates, who is rather diminutive in
stature, prudently abstained from making any resis-
tance, but attempted to spur his horse on—in which,
h,wever, he was pre7ented by the fellow's immedi-
ately presenting a. pistol to his breast, and vowing
vengeance if he did not instantly deliver. By these
means, the ruffian extorted from Mr. Yates, about
-8-)1. in bank notes, about 501. in bills of exchange,
with which he escaped. It is a most remarkable cir-
cumstance, that there were not a few eye-Witnesses to
this violent outrage, none of whom ventured to in-
terfere !

WiMarl N2/1, a boy between fourteen and fifteen
Tears of ase, was lately commited t) Heretord
gaol for having forced the end of a cart-whip into
the body of a mare belonging to Mr. T. Hartland,.
of bodenham, which occasioned her death in a few
hours. This young savage had treated a mare in
tool in the same inhuman manner, and also endea-'
voureei to cut out the tongue of a horse, both the
property of Mr. Hartland.

At 15reco‘k Se ions, which commenced on Satur-
ci ty, W:1!, only one prisoner for trial, viz. David
~Ilstispici:Ai of having, in the month of April
w;14.11',:f maliciously set on fire eight stacks
of h t),7, tit, property of Mr. SAMUEL which
stood (.n farm. in the parish of Llagamarch.
The pi n-as indicted as the principal in this di-
abolic.a
AT.;!. bat the Court being of opinion th:tt
the evidc:.,_ \vent to prove the prisoner only an ac-
Geribary—lll Jury accivated

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