Star.
London, England, 1824-09-16 00:00:00

JEMMY DAIVSON.

Shenstrne's pathetic and affecting ballad of " Jemmy
Dawson" has drawn tears fiom every person of sensi-
bility, or possessing the feelings of humanity ; and it
will continue to be admired as long as the English lan-
guage shall exist. 'This ballad, which i, founded in
truth, was taken from a narrative first published in the
Parrot of the 2J of August, 1746, three days after the
tiansaction it records. It is given in the form of a let-
ter, and is as 1,11ows:
" A young Lady of a good family and handsome
fortune had for some time extremely loved, and was
equally beloved by Mr. James Dawson, one of those
, unhappy Gentlemen who suffeted on %Vedoesday last, at
Kennington-common,for high treason; and had he either
been acquitted, or have found the fop, me:cy after
condemnation, the day of his enlargement was to have
been that of their marriage.
44 I will not prolong the narrative by any repetition
of what she suffered on sentence being passed on Trim ;
none, excepting those utterly incapable of feeling any
soft or generous emotions, but may easily conceive her
agonies ; beside, the sad catastrophe will be sufficient to
convince you of their sincerity.
" Not all the persuasions of her kindred could pre-
vent her from going to the place of execution ; she was
determined to see the last of a person so dear to her,
and accordingly followed the sledges in a hackney
coach, accompanied by a Gentleman nearly related to
her, and one female friend. She got near enough to
see the fire kindled which was to consume that heart
she knew was so much devoted to her, and all the other
dreadful preparations for his fate, without betraying
any of those emotions her friends apprehended ; but
when all was over, and that she found he was no more,
she threw her head back into the coach, and ejaculating.
"My dear, I follow thee ! I follow thee ! LORD Jaws !
receive both our souls," fell on the neck of her cam-
panion, and expired the moment she bad done speaking.
" That excessive grief which the force of her resolu-
tion had kept smothered within her breast, is thought
to have put a stop to the vital motion, and suffocated at
once all the animal spirie-."-
In the Whitehall Evening Post, of August 7th, this
narrative is copied with the remark, that " upon in-
quiry every circumstance was literally true."
A ballad was cried about the streets at the titre,
founded on this melancholy narrative, but it can scarcely
be said to have aided Sheostonein his beautiful pt odoction.

Last week a ship was taken on a slip in Plymouth
Dock-yard—lifted on Sir Robert Seppings plan, her
old false keel taken out and a new one put in and fast-
ened, befote the teflowing of the tide !
Dr. Dartwtx, one day at Nottingham, assembled a
large crowd round him, and standing upon a tub, thus
addressed them : " Men of Nottingham, listen to me.
You are ingenious and industtious mechanics. By your
industry, life's comforts are procured for yourselves and
1-amines. if you lose your health, the power of being
industrious will forsake you. That you know ; but you
do not know, that to breathe fresh and changed air
constantly, is not less necessary to preset ye health than
sobtiety itself. Air becomes unwholesome in a few
houts,-if the windows are shut. Open those of your
sleeping-rooms whenever you quit them to go to your
workshops. Keep the windows of your wdrkshops
open, whenever the weather is not insupportably cold.
I have no interest in giving you this advice. Remember
what I, your countryman, and a •physician, tell you.
If you would not bring infection and disease upon your-
-elves, and to your wive; and little ones, change the
air you breathe, change it many times a day by open-
, ing your windows."
At an Indian wedding in the Philippine Islands, the
' bride retired from the company, in order to go down
to the river and wash her feet. As she was thus em-
ployed, an alligator seized her. Her shticks brought-
the people to the place, who saw her between the
monster's teeth, and just drawn under water. The
bridegroom instantly plunged after, with his dagger in
his hand, and pursued the ravisher. After a desperate
conflict, he made him deliver up his prey, and swam to
shore with the body of his dead wife in his arms.