Star.
London, England, 1809-12-02 00:00:00

'BUG SCII( OL.

Nunc est vivendum, nune pede libero
Pul4anda tellu): nunc Saliaribus
Ornate pulvinar D.!orum.
Ttmipus eras dapibus, sodales. HoR.

Let the song and glass go round !
Let the hours roll on in glee!
Fill your bumpers to the brim—
Briounnia's Jubilee'.
See ! a free-born People rise
Round their venerable King!
Bark ! with shouts of heart-felt joy,
The vales of Albion ring !

Does Europa 's Tyrant storm !---
Albion'6 sons he can't alarm :
Tho' he rules a world of slaves,
Freemen in.)ck his puny arm.

fgypez thirsty soil they drelxh'd
With his plund'ring legions' gore
A toil-worn band repuls'd his hosts
On Corunna's glorious shore—
on was the roar of Freedom's thunder,
It 'whelm'd his navies in the deep ;
The sev'n-mouth'd Nile recoil'd for feat
It s!ook Trafalgar's far-fani'd steep
Let the hymn of praise ascend
• To the Pow'r that guards our isle;
Let% be grateful, just, and good,
And that Pow'r will ever smile.

He will nerve the warrior's arm
To sweep invasion from our shore ;
He will keep the British nation
Free till " time shall be no more r
Nlontrose, November I 8, 1809.

RIW.-STII Et:T.—Wednesday evening, Johq Morris,
a clerk belonging to the Warrant-Office, Somerset-
place, was charged with assaulting Mr.Carpentez, in
the pit Jf the Theatre. •
Thomas Carpenter, New-street, Covent-Garden,
deposed, that the Prisoner had, several times, during
the performance of the Afterpiece at Covent-garden
Th.:atre, in the pit, pushed another person against
him in a violent manner. He asked him what he
meant by pushing another person against him ? He
denied he had done so ; on which the witness told
him it was a lie, for he saw him in the act ; on which
the Prisoner challenged him to fight.
James Osborne, builder, Aldersgate-street, corro-
borated the testimony of Carpenter.
The Prisoner was ordered to find bail, which he
ri mr,diate'. y complied with, and was discharged.
i The Magistrates, last evening, came to a determi-
nation not to receive any charge from the Theatre
after nine o'clock, as those whose conduct made
them liable to be taken into custody, could be con-
veyed to the watch house, and be brought up to the
office in the morning for examination.
Sr. PAUL'S WA WM-HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN...—
Jan Thomas, of Argyle-street, Oxford-road, was
charged, by Mr. Brandon, with making a noise in the
pit of Covent Garden theatre, by exhibiting a large
0. P. in the front of his hat, and brandishing a large
stick over his head, as if' to protect it, which created
so much noise in the house, as to prevent the perfor-
mers from being heard The prisoner was detained in
the watch house.

MANSION Housz.—Yesterday the Stewards of a
Benefit Society, were summoned before the Loan
MAYOR, by a woman named Wingate, the widow of
one of their Members, to shew cause why they should
not continue to pay her an annuity of twenty pounds'
per annum, according to the Rules of the Society.
Mr. ALLEY attended on the part of the plaintiff,
and Mr. •HOLLAND for the defendants.
The facts of the case were as follow :—The Ar-
ticles of the Society provide that the widow of a mem-
ber, so long as she continues a widow, shall be entit-
led to an annuity of £2O, and on her marrying again,
and producing the certificate of such marriage -to the
Stewards, sheshould receive £'2o in advance, and the
Society be released from all further claim. The hus-
band of the plaintiff had been dead upwards of five
years, and she had received her annuity during four
years of that time. At the end of four years, how-
ever, she married a man named Strick, when, on ap-
plying to the Stewards, and producing the certificate
of the marriage, she received £2O, as regulated by the
articles. It afterwards appeared, however, that Strick
had a wife hying at the time he married the plaintiff,
and that he had quitted the plaintiff, and returned to
the fortunate object of his frit choice, who lives at
Penzance, in Cornwall. Upon this desertion, Mrs.
Wingate, alias Strick, appLed to the Stewards, to be
again placed on the books of the Society, as a widow;
but they declined recognizing her in any other cha-
racter, than that of Mrs. Strick ; a refusal, in which
it was contended, they were justified, she having re-
presented herself to them as a married woman, and
as such, received t2O, and given a receipt, releasing
the Socit.ty from further claim.
Several witnesses were called on the part of the
plaintiff ; v ho, proving that Strick had a wife living i
at the time he married she plaintiff, and that she was
s;il living ; his Lordship, and the worthy Alderman,
C. Sum:, who sat with his Lordship, were of opi-
nion, that she ought to be reinstated on the books of
the•

.AI A n La; ourai-sracrr.—We lately mentioned that
several sheep had been killed in the fields, near town,
a.nd their fat taken away. On the 14th tilt. five were
k;th•Li belonging to Mr. Hall, at Neasend, on the
i.:d?,eware-road, and the fat, worth about 6s. Bd. each
sheep, taken away. Yesterday Thomas Cross, who
was formerly a servant to a person who had suffered
by this barbarous species of robbery, was examined,
on suspicion of being the perperator. He was detec-
ted offering for sale a quantity of fat, at an inferior
price, to Mr. M'Kinder, of East-street, Manchester.
square, and in his pocket was found a slice of the
belly part of a sheep, which fitted the mutilated car-
case of one of the sheep killed ; several other strong
circumstances also appeared against the prisoner, who
was committed for re-examination. It appeared in
the course of the investigation, that many of the sheep
thns baxialuously treated were left half dead in the
fields all night, the perpetrator not having the huina-
ity to kill them in the usual manner.