Star.
London, England, 1802-11-09 00:00:00

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Oh lovely Free 'om, in thtfc happy Isow'rs
Exalting oft I trac'd thy fronive
And law thy .air hand Brewing fragrant flown
Along the vac, and on sly nativr height.

Thy very (bade is fled—no more I fee •
The form that sthartn'd me, or the (mile that flea;
A fair but fatal Spirit chafes thee,
By cruel china of blood and pow'r
Adieu, fweet Country, lov'd tho' loft to me!
At thy fuccefs, how warm this heart has glow'd
With gen'rotts joy, when oft to fuccour thee
My gal'ant children's precious blood ha, tlow'd!
Oh friends etiflav'si, but clear, I filth farewell !
An exile, reeking freedom o'er the wave.
Bence h the Gallic fcourze I will net dwell;
But live with Liberty, or [hare her grave

POLICE, &c.

THE HELVETIAN'S FAREWELL TO HIS COUNTRY.

HAT TON-GARDEN.--Ydlerday George Savage,
porter to a ltationer in Holborn, was charged
with having frequently purloined goods out of
his matter's (hop, fuppofed to a great extent, as
upon an inventory being taken there was a defi-
ciency which could not be accounted for, till at
length the prifoner was deteded carrying away
fome property. He was committed for trial.
WOASIIIP-STREET.—YeilerdAy a boy, of the
name of Raymond, was charged by his mailer, a
weaver, in Gun•ftreet, Spitalhelds, on fufpicion of
having nolen a quantity of bobbing and other
materials, belonging to the weaving trade, and
was committed to the Houfe of Correetion.
On Saturday Judith Sullivan, and a woman of
the nome of M,Garthy, were charged with flealing
from the fhop of a linen-draper in Bilhopfgate-
ftreet, four yards and a half of cambric, value!
sBs. They went into the (hop under pretence of
purchafing a gown piece, but not agreeing for
Nice they left the (hop ; the cambric was miffed,
and the women were immediately purfued and
taken into cuftody. The property was found on
the perfon of the former, which was produced and
identified by the profecutor. They were commit-
ted for trial.

Tuatsss•Orricv.—On Saturday a great num-I
ber of daring offenders were charged with having
in their poffeffions a large quantity of foreign pro-
duce which they could not account for, and were
confequently conviaed under the Bumboat At.
WHITECHAPM—Yeaerday Vona: Hutchifon
was charged on fufpicion of ftealing a watch,
which hung up in the parlour of a baker in Wap-
ping. He was committed for trial.
On Satin-day fe'nnight, between fix and feven
o'clock in the evening, as Mr. Smith, farmer, of
Haregreen,ldon, was returning from Reading
market, he was attacked by two footpads at Nor-
cote-lane-end on the Pangbourn road, who knock-
ed him off his horfe, and robbed him of three 51.
notes, and call, amounting together to 351. and
his watch. They beat him a great deal about the
head as he lay:on the ground.
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On Saturday night a fervant belonging to a
furgenn of the Artillery, was (lopt near the Hang-
ing Wood, this fide of Woolwich, by two footpath,
who prefented a piftol to his breafl, and demanded
his money. He had only a few halfpencee, which
they took, after which one of the villains fired at
bun. The ball 'palled through the palm of his
right hand, and lodged in his thigh. He !trove to
proceed, in the defperate !late in which he was,
until he reached the Ship public houfe in Green-
wich. He marked every Rep which he walked
with his blood : the ruffians immediately made
their efcape, thinking that he was fhot dead. It
h to be hoped they will be foon apprehended, as
they are well known in that neighbourhood.
On the evening of Sunday fe'nnight, as a man
was walkinli through a piece of ground in the
neighbourhood of Piercefield, Monmouthfhire, he
got entangled in a net which had been fpreact by
poachers, for the purpofe of de ftroying the game ;
and while he was endeavouring to extricate him.
felt, three fellows fprang from behind an adjoining
hedge, and attacked him in the moft inhuman
manner. After wounding him with the greaten
ferocity, they dragged him to a very high preci- ,
pice near the fpot, and threw him from a cliff pro-
jecting over the river. His defiruClion was only
prevented by his falling into a piece of water, in
which, being !hallow, he remained the whole of
the night, and part of the hext day, totally unable
to extricate hinifelf. He was at latt difcovered,
with his thigh &flowed, and other-wife dreadfully
bruifed ; but by the humane attention of Mr.
Wells, the worthy proprietor of Piercefield, who
i Randy procured medical aliiitance, the poor man
Is in a fair way of recovery.
A molt daring and dexterous burglary was com-
mitted in the night of Mond.ry le'unight, in the
counting houfe belonging to Mr. James Berwick,
tobacco manufaCturer in Leeds. The robbers, it
is thought, found means to enter the dwelling.
borate in the evening, and had concealed them.
felves till the retired, as Mr. Berwick f I up-
pored that he heard fomething liir under his bed
form after he got into it, btu the noife immediately
ccafing, he concluded that he mutt have been '
taken ; having taken the key cf the tale from the
drawer in Mr. Berwick's room, the villains pro-
ceeded to open the counting houfe door, unlocled
the fare, an: plundered it of cafh and bills to the
amount of upwards of 4ecl. and after again lock.
in;,; all the doors they clecanytd. In the morning,
tie till, conmining a pair of gold balances, was,
found at the bottom of the tare.
On S tturday fe'nnight a boy, not more than 12
sew s of age, of the name of Matthewfon, belong-
ink to 13ersvick upon Tweed, but having of fate re-
- fidel chiefly in or about Newcattle, applied for
employment to Mr. klogg, miller, of Edenton, in
wick ihire, who, moved by :4 very plaufible and
ag...“.!, tie 1 ILA V rate of his diarcirec_. (acted him loclg-

their matter's favourite mart, which it appears
young Tea fir, had decamped with at an cal ly hour.
tic was traced through Berwick, and feen
aCter-
war.ls'.nthe NVonler road; and though Mr. Hogg
hinifell was but a few hours after him in the pur-
fait, we have not heard that he has yet been taken.
The week before laft, as Joe Cooke, who drives
a hackney coach for Mr. Leeds, in StrattonAreet,
(fond in the coach rank in Howland
-
area, Fitzroy-11111am he was .ordered by three
f blot sto drive them to Kentith Town.. When they
got btrand Mnther B ack Cap's, near the ponds,
one of them called to him to flop, which he did,
and the three got out; one of them afked him
whether he had any change ? The coachman
anfu eyed, that he could change him a fcven fhil-
ling peace, or half a guinea ; on which one of the
villains ilepped up, and cried ," Damn you and
your Care—y int. money we want !" and with that
knocked him down,androbbedhim ofabout eighteen
fhillings, and afterwards beat him in a moil un-
merciW manner all over his body, particularly
about the head ; the poor man was confined to his
honfe through the beating all laft week ; the vil-
lains got off undifcovered.
Monday fe'nnight a fire was difcovered in a
houfe belonging to a brewery at the head of the
north back of the Canotigate, near Paul's work,
Edinburgh, which was very fpeedily got under,
without doing much damage.
On Sunday fe'nnight, about eight o'clock in the
evening, a fire broke out in a bakehoufe, in Ha-
vannah-ftreet,
Glafgow. By the aiftive exertions of,
tht lire men, with the engines, it was got under
ithout doing much damage ; a party of the 92d
regiment from the guard-houfe attended, and were
highly ufeful in preferving order.
Wednefday part of a new building, head of
Leith Walk, fell down, by which one man was fe-
verely hurt.
A fire-balloon was, on Wednefday night, let off
at Ipfwich, which fell within twenty yards of a far-
mer's corn Racks. On application being made to
the Magiftrates, the common crier on Friday pro-
claimed, that proficutions would in future be inili-
tuted againft any perfons guilty of fimilar praftices.
The following remarkable inflance in ercefs of
drinking, not long fince took place at Hartlepool :
three jolly topers, not having indulged Bacchus
for a long time, and being determined to have a
thorough foaking, fet to it one day, and drank 57
quarts of Upright, (viz, a quart of beer with a glafs
of gin in it) within the fpace of feven hours and a
half. On taking their leave of each other, one of
them declared he was Rill thirfty, and, flopping,
fmoaked a pipe, and drank a pint more to himfell !
Lail Friday feveral riling women according to
annual cuftom, (under the direftion of the will of
Mr. RAINE, formerly brewer in Wapping) having
attained the age of twenty-one, drew lots for tool.
as a marriage portion, having produced teftimo-
nials of their moral charafters, as well as their in-
tended hufbands, who mbft be mechanics and
members of the Eftablifhed Church, and not be•
longing to the army or tea.--On the tft of May
the fame ceremony takes place, and is to continue
in force for ever, for which he laid out an adequate
fund. The unfuccefsful candidates were entertain-
ed with a good dinner, and are at liberty to draw
lots every half year, if they do not marry in the
intervening time.
On Friday laft, in commemoration of the Gun-
powder Plot, the Weftminfter Scholars prepared a
large effigy' of the incendiary Faux, who was
doomed to his annual fate ; but in order to aug-
ment the glory of the fpeftacle, they had recant-re
to a conduit not wholly founded in jnftice—this
was paradingthe ftreets in the vicinity oftheirfchool,
armed with flicks, and feizing upon every Guy
they faw ; tearing him by force from the various
juvenile parties, till having made a large collection,
they retreated to their head-quarters, in order to
celebrate their triumph. This hoftile manceuvre
being made known to fome heroes of Tothil-fields,
the latter prepared a gigantic Faux, and in the
evening marched in dread array, armed with
bludgeons and torches, to give battle to the fcho-
lars. Their warlike bent, however, was difap-
pointed ; the future hopes of the Nation having
ended their ceremony, and retired in good order
to their homes. The Tothil youths, finding the
field their own, proceeded to the execution of
their Criminal, and to encreafe the conflagration,
made free with the timber of fome old houfes in
the neighbolirhood, committing, at the fame time,
Inch depredations and tumults, as obliged the in-
habitants to arm in their defence, which they did,•
and after Come (kirmithing, totally routed the
myrmidonian Crew.

The 29th of IL:, month' the Engin State Lot-
tory begins Drawing.
SCHEME.

_
I • of Z.z.,,,0n0 _ _
g of ,Csco
3 of 10,000 22 of ion
3 of SACO 44 of 5,3
6 of 1,000 & 9,400 of 19
N. B. Only 31(x)oTicka, inftcad of 60,000.
The Tickets and Stamptd Shares that may he
entitled to the above Capital Benefits are on Sale
at Nli iIOLSOh'S Fortunate Office, No. tti, Corn.
hill : where, in the prefent Year, Two Prizes of
20,0001. and 5,0001. each, were fold, divided into
Shares, and one of 20001. in Whole Ticket
44,11 1k careful to fee that every Share is figned by
the Public's moil obedientaud much obliged hum•
ble fervant, w. wictint.soN.

MkotctmE ACT, which took place on Sept. 1.
tgc2,—As by the new aft of Parliament every
Medicine of the value of 4s. and as high as 9s. I id.
is obliged to have a Stamp of is. value, the fmall
bottle Of IiriLSBURY'S DROPS mull be advanced to
5.b. 6d. therefore, to make it lefs bartheit',-tmle to
inch people whore complaint renders it necefrary
for them to take more than one battle, the proprie
tors have procured a new bottle, which contains
the quantity of two of the fmall ones, the price of
which will not exceed 9s. and with is. Ramp make
it tos. the bottle, the fame as two futall bottles al.
ways were ; of courfe, will fave. L. as the. two
anal' ones will in future: be. B. The Imislt