Star.
London, England, 1805-09-07 00:00:00

Amid heaps of tangled dead,
The furviving Gaul.. wit (heal,
Saw their bravelt chiefs cryire,
And their leading Clips on fire."
F:C/111 the (bore, the Invader viewed
His grand armament fuhduerl ;
And, from the terrific fccne,
Hurried with fem.-ions mien.
Letting loofe his verrefu! horde
To derpoil with fire and (word,
Wbik viaorim, at their head.
Their defiroyimt mm eh h.: led,
Changing to a frightful den
he long f, t tied haunts uf Men.
Smacking ruins pointed where
Cities lately flourillied fair.
Gis.ftly codes ftrewed the land
Slauilitered by his ..ire command.
Oft, the vanquifhed natives mourned,
A.d for Opal vengeance burned.
Until AU.ios, prompt to aid,
Her triumphant Bag difplayedg
And her fans, a ftarlefs band,
Haftened to defend the land.
With the love of Glory fired,
Ey thcir.zat:ant CL.Vinfpired, (7)
They, in an aufricinus hour,
Broke the rutblrf, fpniler's power ;
Forted him to re:re t with Chime,
Psified by the Britifh name ;
And, completing his drfpair.
Thundered on his flying rear.

(7) Sir SYDNEY SIIITII, the hero of St. jean d'Acre, the de•
tails of whelk p.owefs hear a greater refembLuice to the fables of
ancient romance than to a narrative of fads in modern times.

DR.
.74.11 ES CURRIE.

On the 3:it ult. died JAMES CURRI M. D. who
had lately become an inhabitant of tl,is city, and who
would have graced any place or fociety to which he
belonged. He bort great pain and uneafinefs, for
leveral years. with calmnefs and relignation. and
fini(hed his courfe, with affording an esain:Ae of that
patience and fortitude which fo eminently din inguifhed
his chara&er through lite. His medical abilities were
confeffedly very great. Perfeverin7, i:-.genions. and
penetrating, few circumflances efcaped his throw:l-
-lion; and his talent of applying to pratice the faes
which he had obfcrved, was feldrun equalled. He
was Alb a remarkable intiance of the improvoment
which the cultivation of the motal duties pr,•drices
upon the underftanding. His judgment ua• not
clouded by jealoufy, or cis view of the cubit a or
cafe an queltion obfcured by paitiality, or darkened
by prejudice. Equally ready to adopt the fuogef-
tions of others, as he was thole of his own judgment,
be never deviated from the point aimed at, bre:lute
the whole of the path was not traced out by himleif.
Superior to Inch confideratiuns, which never prevail'
in exalted minds, he Tara his charaCter on higher
grounds, and the dfcerniug part of mankind (it n
became lenfible, that futh acquiefcence, when it met
his own unprejudiced ideas, WAS an honour to his
charaEler. Candour and benevolence were the
guides of his conduCt, and led him to eileetn and re-
putation in the preterit world, toftened his paffage
to the tomb, and in hi. last moments, difarmed the
dart of death. 01 iginal however, in his ideas, he
was better fuited to point out the way. than to fol.
low the fleculations of others ; and what he advifed,
obtained a kind of involuntary preference, which no-
thing but a confeioufnefir of merit in the advifer
could have &cured. His counfels, though dellitute
of the recommendation of peremptory alferrion, or
lavifh difplay of pretended fuccefs, which fometimes
overpower, when they do not convince, carried with
them the more powerful charms of fenfe, judgment,
refleslinn, and acquaintance with the lubjett, and
were accompanied with a molt amiable and fatif-
faaory manger nf,manifeiling thefe admirable gal-
lifications to the underflanding of thofe..with wh'im
he converfed: Nor did pain and &knee, however
embittering they were to the enjoyment of life, cloud
his faculties, or diforder his temper. He refigned
life with the fame benevolent difpofition of mind in
which he had lived, and with undimin fhed powers
of underaanding. The faculties of his mind were
not, however, confined to profeflional fobjetts. Well
veiled in elegant knowledge, he combined the pur-
firits of ornamental literature with thole of the le-
veret findieg. Poetry, hittory, and other branci:es of
knowledge that improve the underflanding, and ani-
mate the mind to exert itfelf in every capacity, were
held by him in high efleem, and were favourite ob-
jefts of_ his attention. On thefe models, feleCted from

the bell authors, he formed his own 11)1e of writing,
which was pure. elegant, and corred ; and often
adorned with paittges which, in beauty of langnage,
and delicacy and propriety of fenriment, yield to
none of which our country can boatt. The lavers
of fcienm might with his life to have been longer
prntrafted ;in which with all the friends of the coun-
try, who knew him, would willingly join ; but wirer
Fate lays No and Reficaion Reps in and warns us,
that s' his warfare is accomplifhed ;" and that we
me:11 not, from partial, or interefled, or indeed any
human confederations, prefume to with the prolonga-
tion of fuffering to him, who had fo long, and fo
eminently flruggled with pain and mifery—and, in
the midi of there painful exertions, uniformly labour•
ed for the benefit of mankind. •
Bath, Sept. 3. WILLIAM FALCONER.

Berwick upon Tweed, we undernand, is in future
io be under the orders of the General commanding
the Eallern Military Diilriet of Scotland ; in which
cafe, Lord MOIRA has exprefreS his determination of
keeping up a *permanent and efficacious pram in
that rown, much to the fatisfaCtion of the inhabitants,
who hire bitpertp, cppfidering the critical situation
thOiriiii, iltgagh
At theipfelves overlooked.
istrin 14 years ago, a farmer, in the patifh cf
WiriCyle; tfunhe, loft his watch in a field. As he
was &Molt cptaip he loft it there, he caufed the field
t‘i be phugcled .orer, harrowed, and afterwards dug
with rparics, but the watch was not to be four.d. To
his great furprik, however, when the land was
ploughed lalt lealon, the watch was turned up, per-
fatly entire, excepting the iron and ftetl, which were
crumbled to dull.

Monday as Mr. MEAD, of Rocking-water mill, in
Effex, was oiling part of the machinery. arm was
drawn in, and f dreadfully mangled as to render it ne-
ceffary to amputate it entirely from the lhouldet.