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THE BELLY AND THE LIMBS. -

The rich and the poor are each other's fupport,
And depend on each other for health and for food;
To prove it, my Fahle, (though not very Ion)
Will, I truft be allowed to be 'ireful and good.
The hands, and the feet, and the teeth and the tongue,
Determin'd to wait on the belly no longer;
'Ti, true they were alive, and healthy, and ftrong,
But the Belly was idle, yet fatter and itronger.
Said the Feet, " We convey him where gardens produce
" Fine grapes in large clutters, all ripe and inviting :"
0 Which wc," faid the Hands, Tongue, and Teeth," fur his ufe
" Arc incefiantly plucking, and tailing, and biting.
' While dull and inadtive, the Belly remains,
" For whom we unthinkingly make inch a fufs;
" 1 o provide for itllll, it ne'er takes the Icaft pains,
" But its healthy appearance depends upon us."
If fo," laid the Feet, " fupport him no more;"
" If fo " laid the Hands, " I'll no longer allift him :"
So the Teeth and the Tongue made the Mouth ihut her door,
And thus they from all future fervice difruifs'd him.
rhis ttrange refolution, ah! loon they bewailed;
For (tiff grew the tongue, and the teeth could learn chatter,
The hands could not move, and the legs and feet fail'd,
And attoniflid, they cried out—" What can be the matter ?"
" Ye fools !" cried the Belly," the plan ye ~nrfue,
" With your frail conftitution will never Agi .e;
" For 'tis plain, tho' I owe my exifteoce ttryaa,
" You croft to azi equal dependence on me.
" I gratefully feel the affiance you give,
" And a grateful return to you all I impart;
0 For while by your eonitant attendance I live,
" roar vigour and nourifliment flows him the bean."
" Alas! 'tis molt true," anfwered faintly the tongue ;
" But timely exertion our arength may reftoft;
6' Unthinking companions! we all have done wrong,
" Then be quick to amendment, and do fo no more:'
Awake to the funimons, convined by the truth,
United their utmoft endeavours they tried;
And form, with the„bloom and the beauty of youth,
The Limbs and the Belly each other fupplied.
'Tis thus in the world: the indultrious poor
Receive from the rich the reward of their labour;
Then baidtb. ye wealthy, talk pride from your door,
For every man living owes much to his neighbour !

SURREr ASSIZES.

• EINGSTON.—VOLUNTEER CORPS.
Daaw w. SMITH, Esta,—This was an anion brought
by the plaintiff, a tradefman, refiding at Richmcnd,
againft the defendant, for an affault and falle impri-
fonment ; to which the defendant had pleaded, fira,
that the plaintiff had committed the firft affault ; and
fecondly, a juftification ; inafmuch as that plaintiff,
being a Serjeant in a Volunteer Corps, had refufed
to obey the defendant's orders, as Colonel of filch
corps, and had conduned himfelf in an unfoldierlike
and impudent manner to defendant, his Command-
ing Officer.
Mr. Serjeant PiPiT, in a mon eloquent addrefs
to
the Court, Rated the cafe, which he reprefented r f
the laft importance, not only to the whole of the
Volunteers of the United Kingdom, but to the pub-
lic in general. Same time fince, the corps had re•
ceived orders to attend a general mutter before Lord
Onflow, the Commanding Officer of the diffrin ;
and the defendant having expreffed a defire to fee a
full 'twitter, the plaintiff, although only two days re-
covered from a fit of ficknefs, attended. During the
courfe of the evolutions, the plaintiff received the
thanks of the Colonel for his prompt performance
and attention to his duty ; it happened, however,
towards the dole of the day, that, from over exer-
tion, the plaintiff felt himfelf confiderably exhaußed,
and that in wheeling his company into line, he be-
came fo faint and overcome by fatigue, as to be un-
able to keep np with the company he commanded,
upon which the Camel defired him to " Rep out."
The plaintiff declared he could not, and that he was
ill ; upon which the defendant Paid, " then you had
better go home." Plaintiff replied, "If that is your
pleafure, I will" This gave the Colonel (who, it
was Rated, was of an irritable difpofition) great dif-
pleafure ; and going up to Serjeant Drew, he in-
formed him he did not chute to be replied to in loch
impertinent language, and that he would put him
under arra. The Colonel then defired the plaintiff
to deliver his halbert and (word ; the plaintiff raid,
" there is my halbert, take it, that belongs to the
King ; but as the fword is my own property, you
(hall not have it, unlefs you take it by force ;" upon
which the Col )nel feized the plaintiff, and in attempt.
ing to wren the fword a fcuffle enfued, in the courfe
of which the Colonel retreated a fhort diftance from
.the plaintiff, arid exclaiming that he would cut him
down, if he further refined, drew his fabre, and
ftr'uck him two violent blows with the flat fide. One
of theft, according to the Counfel's ftatement, was
aimed direnly at the plaintiff's head, which, but for
the fortunate interpofition of the plaintiff's arm, might
have deprived the plaintiff of his life, and fubjened
the defendant to a charge of murder. After this,
the defendant got behind the plaintiff, and cutting
the fword belt in two, fecured it. The plaintiff was
then marched by a file of men to the parade of the
corps, and told by the defendant, if he did not apt)•
logite for his ill conduit, he would confine him in
the black hole for that night. The plaintiff, finking
with fatigue and illnefs, and under the influence of
the threat, confented to make an apology. His fwort:
was placed on the ground, and the Colonel told him,
be might take it op and depart. The plaintiff, as he
took it up, exclaimed, " I thank you for what is my
own." Upon which the Colonel laid, if he did not
hold his tongue, he would ltilff a pocket handker-
chief down his thraat and as the plaintiff left the
parade, the Colonel laid he was a vagabond, and a
difgrace to the cloth he wore. The plaintiff reached
his home, and was confined for feveral weeks.
:ieveral privates in the corps proved the cafe.
Mr. GARROW, in a very able fpeech, enforced the
propriety of a rigid difcipline in the Volunteer Corps;
and contended, that whet the Colonel had done, he
was of neceflity compelled to do. The plaintiff arid
defendant were at illue when the former refufed to
give up his fword. and that it was abfoluttly tweet.-
far y, as an example to the whole corps, that the
plaintiff fhoulti be made fenfible of Ws improper
tendon. He alfo infilted, that whether Volunteers

or Regulars, it was neceftary the Commanding Offi-
cer lhould compel obedience, without which the
Volunteer Corps would rather be a burden than a

fervice to their country.
Several witneffts, principally officers in the corps,
were then called, for the purport of proving the firft
affault to have been committed by the plaintiff ; but
it appeared from the whole of their flatement, that
the plaintiff had only refilled the Coknel, by pulping
his hand down when be attempted to take the plain.

tiff's fword.
The reply of Mr. Serjeant BEST, in as animated a
fpeech as we have ever heard, reprobated the conduit
of the Defendant in the ftrongeft terms ; which ten-
ded, he laid, not only to fubvert the Volunteer fyf-
tem, but regraded the charaiter of a Britifh Officer.
If the fpirit of an Englifh fubjet, who volunteered
his fervices for his King and country, and to defend
thofe laws to which the Plaintiff had that day ap-
pealed, was to be broken by fuch ails of tyranny and
oppreffion, he was perfuaded that few would be found
to come forward in their defence ; he hoped the Jury
would confirm thAt ftatement by their verdict.
Mr. Jullice HEATH, after recapitulating the evi-
dence, remarked, that there feemed to be two parties
in the regiment, one of the officers, and the other of
the privates, which accounted, perhaps, for the flight
variation of the evidence. It had been proved by all
the witneffes, that the Defendant had (truck the
Plaintiff twice with his (word, and that he had been
obliged to (lep back in order to draw his fword. The
Al of Parliament has fpecifically ftated the puniPa-
ment Commanding Officers of Volunteer Corps were
authorifed to inflict, namely, to put the offending
party into confinement during the time the regiment
was under arms : the fpirit of men was not to be
broken by loch degrading conduit as had been [hewn
to the Plaintiff ; and that no Commanding Officer,
even in a regiment of regulars, was to be juftified in
the ail of linking a private under arms. The laws
of the army required the offender fhould be brought
to a Court Martial. The Defendant had threatened
to fend
sthe Plaintiff to the black hole ft.!. the night,
nnlefs he made an apology for his conduit ; which
he had no right to do, as he could only confine him
during the time the corps was under arms. The
Plaintiff being ill, was induced to comply, and was
then (offered to take his fword. His Lordfhip added,
that there were Come of the firft men of rank and
fortune ferving as privates in volunteer corps, and if
they were to receive fuch treatment and difgraceful
epithets as had been applied to the Plaintiff by the
Defendant, particularly Inch as, you are a (Ware to
the cloth you wear, it would be the means of depref-
fing, inftead of exciting, the zeal of individuals, and
uld ultimately deftroy the volunteer fyftem alto-
gether. His Lordfhip concluded by faying,the Jury
would take the whole cafe into their confideration,
recollecting that Volunteers were not to be treated as
privates in the regular army, and give fuch reafon-
able damages as would be the means of correcting
uch conduit in commanding officers in future.
Verdict for Plaintiff—Two Hundred Pounds.
LANCASTER ASSIZES.

Townson v. RAYNFORD.—The plaintiff kept a
public huufe at Prelion, and fought for damages from
the defendant, a tallow-chandler there, for the lots
of the Cervices of her daughter, whom he had (e-
-duced. An ineffeaual attempt was made, on the
crofs-examination of the latter, to prove the had been
guilty of Tome little levities. It however appeared
that the mother had not allied in the moll prudent
manner ; and the Jury brought in a verdia of twenty
pounds damage:.
RAYTIVORD o. Townson.—This was a kind of fet-
off to the above ; the defendant in that caufe becom-
ing the plaintiff in this, and Mrs. Townfon becom-
ing the defendant, who, it was alledged, had com-
mitted an affault on the plaintiff, by throwing a (lone
at him, which, however, it appeared, never touched
him, and the Jury give him On: Farthing damage.

The prifoners in the feveral gaols of London and •
Middlefex were yeQerday removed to Newgate, pre-
paratory to their trials at the Old Bailey on Wednef-
day next ; the Calendar contains near 80, fome of
peculiar atrocity.
Three of the fix perfons, who have, for a week paR,
been under charge for purloining paper flora an
Office in Somerfet Place, are difcharged out of cuf-
tody ; the other three are fully committed to New.
gate for trial, at the next Seffions, that will begin on
Wednefday next.
On Friday laft, Robert Stafford, conviCted at the late
Affixes for Northamptonfhire, of admini(lering poi•
fon to his wife, was executed at Northampton, pur-
-1 fuant to his fentence. He appeared to be about 26
years of age, and was born in the parifh of Yelver-
I toft, where he followed the occupation of a labourer,
and had two or three children by his wife, with whom
he lived happily ; but unfortunately getting ac-
quainted with a young woman who lived in the fame
place, and who it appears is now pregnant by him,
he formed the horrid refolution of poifoning his wife,
that he might the more readily carry on his criminal
intercourfe with the objesl of his mifguided paffion.
The means he employed for this purpc,fe were mix-
ing arfenic in the flour which he knew his wife in-
tended to make into bread ; alto in tea, &c. by
which means the lives of feveral other perfons were
likewife greatly endangered, though providentially
none have died from the bad effeEts of the poifon.—
. The infatuated man, after condemnation, behaved
penitently, and at the place of execution exhorted the
fpeaators to avoid fabbath-breaking and vicious con-
, , neetions.

Isopesv.—Laft Saturday morning David Gran.
nell, who flatted himfelf to be a Proteltant Clergy.
man, and a native of Ireland, was found dead in his
bed, at the Pelham Arms, at Seaford, Strife:. An
Inqueß was held the fame day, on view of the body,
bef,:re Jamvs Coox, Efq. when the Jury returned
their verdiel—Died by the Vifitation of GOD. The
,deceafed was a good looking man, and being of the
fraternity of Fretmaions, f,licited and received relief
of the brotherhood they e, not many days before his
death. Several papers were found in his pockets, but
none that led to a difcovery of his friends or connec-
tions. Among them was a note from the Earl of
Moira, dated laft February, in which his Lordfhip
Rates, he is forty he cannot provide for him the ap-
pointment requefied, which, from the converfation
probably had with him., was a Chaplaincy in fume
regithent.

DIVIDENDS.
April 4. John Lewis, of the Old jevory, London, wareboufeman,
at ten, at Guildhall.
May 5. Martin Rohinfon and John Ihisetfon, of Drury lane, Mid-
&cies, grocers and copartners, at ten, at Guildhall.
May 1. Thomas Levingtone, of St. Catherine, near the Tower,
Middlehx, 2opfeller, at one, at Guildhall.
May 19. George Bridgman. of Dartmouth, Devonfbire, money-
ferivener, at ten, at Guildhall. London.

BIRTHS
On the Bth ult. at Holyhead, Anglefea, Mrs. Dorfct Feßowes,
Lady of Captain Fit!owes, of a fon.
faturday, at Yew Cottage, Denham, the Lady of Lieutenant
Rowland Money, (R. N.) of a daughter.
In the neighbourhood, of Frome, within a few months, five wo
men of thirteen children : the firft of four, the next of three, and
the remaining of two each, all of whom are now living.
At Brampton, the Lady of Captain J. Brenton, of the Navy,
of a fon.
At Invernefs, the Lady of Col. J. Munro, of Poyntzfield, of a
fon.

MARRIED.
•
Lately, at Newry. Ireland, Lieutenant Wilfon, of the 67th
Regiment, to Mifs Gillcfpy, of that town.
At St. James's Chutch, Bath, M. F. Lawrence, Efq. of Chaldi•
cot Hill, Hereford, to Mifs Jane Halliday Miller, eldeft daughter
of Wm. Miller, Efq. Surgeon of the Royal Hofpital, Greenwich.
At Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr James Somerville, minifter of
Symington, to Mifs Caroline Wclfh, youngeft daughter of the late
Mr. Alexander Wellh at l'utervan.
At St. Uunftan's, George Wright, Governor of Dover, Kent,
Efq. to Mi:s Emma Frances Waller, daughter of John Waller, Efq
of Perry Court, Favtrlham.
At Edinburgh, Wm. Mackenzie, Efq. of Strathgawe, Surgeon,
Fifth Regiment, B. Militia, to Mifs Ann Williams Mackenzie,
only daughter of John Mackenzie, Fig. Middlefield, and late of
Kingfton, Jamaica.