Star.
London, England, 1822-04-09 00:00:00

POETRY. •

ON' THE FACETIOUS MR. II•s• Y D• Y,

• •IMMIIMM•

OF WEST COWLS, tact OT wmur.
In Cowes, where pleasures rare abound
(At least the poets say),
Dwells one who studies liw profound;
They call him H•••y Doy I
A wit most keen—a humour dry,
Especially when mellow,
The •ery life of company,
A free, good-humoured fellow!
No party form'd, no set complete,
No circle e'er so gay,
No nightly party ever meet,
But wish th' approach--of Day!
Grave as Minerva's bird, the while
The bowl he's freely quaffing,
Ik cracks his jokes without a smile,
While others die with laughing !
Ilia witty shafts fly harmless round,
For punning's his delight, •
In Cowes alone, 'tis truly found,
Day shines throughout the Inght
With law and politics combin'd,
A nit—who does not know it;
Antko these qualities are join'd
The Punster and the Poet!
No bachelor of high degree

So welcome to the fair,
No beau, Bowe er he courted be,
Ileceives so large a share !
Yet Nature's debt he still must pay,
When time his strength shall mellow,
But many a friend shall sighing say,
" We neer shall view his fellow !"

A farthing, of the date 1;.°04, in good preservation, was found
in the foot of a horse, by a blacksmith of Southampton, who has
it in his pcmeasion.
Wednesday afternoon, the wife of a respectable shopkeeper,
at the head of aosford's-close, Edinburgh, upon coming to her
husband's shop door, dropped down and suddenly expired.
A few slays since IV. HariAment was executed on the Castle-
hill, at Norwich, for having murdered Mr. Robert Baker, of
Wells, on the 11th of October, 1817. The culprit was appre-
hended at Beverley, in Yorkshire, in December last.
Saturday se'miight, some villains, as yet unknown,
effected an entrance through a window in the rear of
a house lately built, and then unoccupied, on the
scite of Friar's Mill, Westmeath, and set fire to the
building in two different places. The fire was, how-
ever, discovered on the following morning, by some
persons passing, who immediately procured water,
and in a little time the flames were got under. The
entire staircase, and the greater part of the first floor,
were consumed.
Tuesday night, two fields, in the parish of Mar-
shalstown, near the borders of the county Limerick,
were entered by a parry of miscreants, who dug up
the ground in different parts, leaving it unfit for the
purpose of pasture, as intended by the owner. On
the following Sunday, the Parish Priest of Mitchels-
town, near which Marshahtown lies, addressed the
congregation on the circumstance with such effect,
that, to prove they had no participation in it, they
unanimously resolved to go to the field and repair,
as far as possible, the damage done; and they also
promised to use their utmost diligence for the dis-
covery of those who had committed it.
A letter from Washington, dated March 6, says,
—" The Board of Commissioners for deciding on
claims under the Spanish Treaty, are most industri-
ously engaged in the business. Important points are
occasionally decided. A decision was yesterday an-
nounced, which is favourable to the admission of a
description of claims embracing a considerable
amount, viz. those cases of captures by French pri-
iateers where the vessels were carried into Spanish
ports, and the prizes disposed of by the captors with-
out the form of trial or condemnation."
FROM A LATE CHARLESTON PAPER.—A corporal
of the 22d British regiment of Infantry, named
Brody, entered the service of Pinter Ithadhema, of
the island of Madagascar, some years since, who is
a singular specimen of original genius; without being
able to read or write he has been enabled to disci-
pline the army of Rhadhema, whose Generalissimo
lie is, quite a eile4gois. A body of 1,000 men have
been as well disciplined and go through every ma-
Louvre, even to the forming of a square, as well, and
by the same words of command, as a British regi-
ment of the line.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—ACCIDENT BY A STEAM-EN-
GINE.— An Inquisition was held at Old Ford, on the
body of Richard Price, engine-worker to the East
London Water Company, who met his death on Tues-
day last, at the Company's works, at Old Ford. It
appeared from the evidence of the son of the deceased,
and other witnesses, that about four o'clock on Tues-
day last, the deceased and the witness were standing
near to each other, on a platform close to the man-
hole (as it is called) of a boiler, the cover of which
they wet e taking off to cool with water. The instant
the bolts were loosened, there came out a rush of
steam and water, which forced open the manhole of
the boiler, and drove the deceased from the platfcrm,
and precipitated him into the stoke-hole below, a
depth of about nine feet. The cloud of steam was so
great, that it was some time before the deceased could
befound. He was taken up nearly senseless, when
Mr. Wallace, a medical gentleman, attended, who
found him dreadfully scalded about the upper part of
his Person, and his head much wounded. He died
the next day about two o'clock. Mr. Joseph Steevens,
the engineer of the Company, deposed that the boiler
was nearly new. The engine was in perfect repair,
made by Bolton and Watts. Deceased was employed
in the same business for 12 years past. No accident
of this nature had occurred before. The disaster arose
from the manhole having been opened earlier than
the state of the steam would safely admit, which oc-
casioned the violent rush of steam which carried all
before it. TheepttoNza briefly remarked, that the case
was a most melancholy one ; but as the deceased had
been so long accustomed to the management of steam,
he must consider it as one of those vicissitudes to
which human nature is subject, and against which
human prudence cannot always guard. Verdict—
Accidehtal Death.
now STILEKT.--YeSterdAy Aleph Striven, Henry-Balta., kiwi
Corbett, and John Lambert, underwent an examination before
Sir lUcn*xo Limas, charged with a daring outrage and rob-
buy on the persons of John Cletupson Squire, of St. George's-
row Bayswater-road, Paddington, a butcher, .and his wife,
whom they attacked in the shop on Saturday night about eleven
o'clock. mt.. Squire had just left the shop, and was going to
bed, but on hearing hi. wife scream, he instantly returned to
her assistance, %. hen he was adz() attacked by the prisoner., and
received a miolent blow on the side of his head from the prisoner
Striven, who then robbed hint, and they made their escape, but
wet,: afterwards taken by a party of the ratsoL—Remandcd.