Star.
London, England, 1813-08-27 00:00:00

TO ROSA.

' Like one who trusts to rummer skies
And puts his little bark to sea,
Is he Who, lued by smiling eyes,
• Consigns his simple heart to thee!
for fickle Is the summer wind,
And sadly may the bark be toy;
For thou art sure to change thy mind,
And then the wretched heart is lost I

Mr. WAITER SCOTT is said to be the new Poet
Laureat. .
A Card to Ladies of Fashion, and the Farhionatl•.
Wet.ldat large.—The inimitable LONC STAYS, invented
and Manufactured by MARSTON, 21 and 25, -Holy-
- v, ell-street, Strand, have occasioned considerable asto-
nishment in the circle of Fashion. The unique pro.
perties of the Invention, the superlative elegant
style in which they are executed, the matchless taste
and beauty of the article, have excited general atten-
tion.—Ladies aboutt to have Town are requested- to
notice especially an invention highly worthy of their
notice.

Sunday se'nnight Mr. FARQUHARSON, of the Hope
Tavern, Montrose, accompanied by two men, pm-
ceeded in a gig for a few miles to the. north, with a
horse which had just been broke in. On their return,
at the north end of the lower North Esk Bridge, the
animal became restive, and all their endeavours could
not urge him fore ard. He suddenly turned round,
drove the vehicle against the wall of the bridge at the
moment when Mr. FARQUHARSON had stood up to re-
strain iirn. when he was precipitated from the vehicle
right over the bridge, about 40 or 50 feet high, fortu-
nately f - him at a place quite dry and overgrown
with grass. When found he was quite iasenible, but
soon recovered, and is now almost as w :2.11 as ever.
4n twit garrettcer, boasting to an acquaintance of
the rurally of his lodging, said that his chamber over-
' looked a zrove—rf chimneys in Hedge-lane.
In 44 The prognostication for eves' of Erra Pater,"
Owed in 1565, black letter, is, atnoniibt other wise
remarks, the folloWing :
" If it thondrc on the enday, there will be a great death of
Clarkes, of Judges, and ether pervers people by sigrificlaion."
" A Mery hognostigation," imprynted by Wyn.-
kyn de Worde, is probably one of the earliest attempts
to ridicule almanac makers. It proceeds in this way :
" Because tl'it Saturne is dominator here,
f; ode that they steal be twelve senate' this yore i"
and concludes thus:

• "OF XYNGE3.
What kynges shal do this yore, I cannot tea,
Per in GOD'S secretes I W. 15 never acne SO Well;
But I trust that Henry, our most noble kynge,
Contynualiy in honour shal florysbe and sprynge,
With Kateryne his wyfe, and Prince Edward his son,
Aed as teen still do a; they Lave heihate done."
The following odd extract is made from the Asylum
of the Carthusians, in Which it was written by the late
Lord Baum:, Bishop of Derry :
16 If second thoughts are best, second visits are not
so ; my son and I arrived here on the 18th Decem-
ber, and left it the Monday following. The General
T.fused me a sight of the Library, and the cook the
necessary food ; perhaps I out-staid their liking. I
• return (to use a fashionable expression) more pene-
trated with cold ti an the civility of the inhabitants ;
more stuffed with cr mpliments than with food ; and
when I see two swaggering Capuchins, with their
paunches as full as their wailets, I cannot help think-
ing of the Set ipture phrase, " He hath fill, d the
hungry with good ti:ings, and the rich he bath sent
empty away." As for tie Holy Fathers, they always
put me in mind of Virgil—
" Qualm regent cc tht re in alto,
" Nutt et pa,periem, et duros l erferre !ewes."
Various are the derivations of the word Lamina:-
Some suppose it is called Lammas-day front Lamb
Masse, because on that day, tin/ tenants that held
lands of the cathedral clutch in York, were hound, by
their tenure to hrirg a live lamb into the church at
high mass, on that d y. Others derive it from a Saxon
word, signifying Loaf-Masse, or Bread-Masse, because
on this day, our forefathers made an offeringof bread
from new wheat. The old proverb of • He a ill pay at
Latter Lammas,' is taken from the antient custom of
landlords allowing their tenants to bring their wheat,
in backward seasons, at this period. The indulgence,
however, brink abused, the proverb became synony-
mous, in meaning, with the common one of To-mor-
row come never, when two Sundays come toge-
ther.' Both these were lormeily expressed by Augus-
tus Czsar, in the words e 4d Greta: Calendx,' at the
Greek Calends. When the Spanish Ambassador had
the insolence to inform Queen Elizabeth of the terms
upon which she might expect to be saved from the
threatened invasion, by the formidable Armada then
about to sail, he did it in Latin, and the heroic Queen
answered him extempore, in the same language.
fuller thus translated both speeches, rendering the
?,teen's • Ad Gr.rcar Ca.'n.ts,' by the wcll known
adage of 6 Latter Lammas.'
'flie Threat
• These to you are our commands,
Send no help to the 'Netherlands ;
Of the treasures ti.oh by Drake,
Restitution you must make;
And those abbies build a-new,
• Which your father oyerthreW ;
If fur any peace you hope,
In all points restore the Pope!' •
The Reply s
, • Worthy King, know this; your will
de Lauer Lammas we'll fulfil V
Or, as the Queen expressed it:
• ! Ad Graecai, bone Rex, Gem maadata caiebdas:

AssizEse.

• NORFOLK.
These Assizes commenced before the Lott/POWs.
finuoN on Tuesday last, when the following priso-
ners took their trials

James Maxey stood charged on two several indict-
ments with having feloniously murdered Dinah, his
wife, and Elizabeth Smith, single woman, her dough.
ter by a former husband, by administering poison to
them on the 20th .of May last.—After a long and
patient investigation of all the circumstances connec-
ted with the deaths of these unfortunate women,
which were clearly proved to have been occasioned
by poison, and an able charge from the Judge, who
gave it as his opinion, that those circumstances did
not amount to such evidence as to justify attaching
guilt to the prisoner—the Jury, in a few minutes,
found a verdict of acquittal.
John. Codling, charged with stealing divers articles
from the man coach passing through Thetford, the
property of the proprietors of the said mail coach,
pleaded guilty to the .indic:ment laid against hire,
and was sentenced to seven years' transportation.
7 homes: Mewling, for receiving the said property,
knowing the same to have been stolen, also pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to 14 years' transportation.
William lAA for stealing ten geese from oft tl:e
premises of Benjamin Redhead, of Great Melton,
was sentenced to twelve months hard I..bour in the
House of Correction. The depredations of this man
were detected, and himself brought to justice, through
the sagacity of the keeper of the Colsey toll gate,
Nathaniel Plumpton, who noticing that the prisoner
was in the frequent habit of passing the gate late at
night with an ass and panniers, and returning with
them loaded with fowls at an early hour in the morn-
ing, acquainted a neighbouring Magistrate (Mr.
Postle) with his suspicions, by whose direction pro-
per steps sere taken for the apprehension of the pri-
soner, and for fully proving him guilty of the robbery
in question.

John Roger:, for stealing out of the pocket of Sa-
muel Calendar, labourer, at Upwell, 10s. in silver
coin, his property, was kentenced to one month's im-
prisonment, and to be once publicly whipped.
illiam Carter, for stealing 134. 10s. 6d. in silver,
out of the dwelling-house of James Moore, of Wort-
well, was sentenced to two years, and Robert Brt.zc,
for stealing a watch, the property of Mr. Anthony
Salter, of Whinberg, was sentenced to one year's hard
labour in the House of Correction.

Elizaleth Sn:ith, charged with embezzling a £5
bank-note, with which she had been entrusted by her
master, Mr. Charles Pinching, for the payment of
tarts, was convicted -of the offence. His Lordship
observed, that it was a clear case as to the embez-
zkment of the money, but that he had great doubts
whether the Act of Parliament, on which the indict.
ment was framed, was applicable to a woman, and
he should therefore reserve it for the opinion of the
dges.

Samuel Mil: and John Root were charged with hav-
ing stolen and carried away oysters from an oyster-
bed within the limits of the port of King's Lynn, the
property of the Mayor and Burgesses of the said bo-
rough. There was a second indictment on the same
case, for a misdemeanor. The trial on the first in-
dictment, after Mr. BEST had made his opening speech,
was stopped by his Lordship, on the ground that the
offence charged was not a felony, there being no pos-
session to be proved on the part of the prosecutors.—
On the second indictment, a great deal both of pa-
role and written evidence was brought forward,
chiefly for the purpose of shewing the limits of the
port, and of proving the exclusive rights of fishery
on the spot in question.
The LORD CHIEF BARON animadverted on the pre-
sent prosecution in terms of much severity. He.said
it was a disgrace to the Corporation of Lynn to have
tried thii question in the manner they had done—that
it was in tact nothing more than an action of trespass,
to ascertain a right, brought in the shape of a crimi-
n.il indictment—and this on a principle which, if
pushed to the scandalous extent it was capable of
reaching, would make a man liable to very heavy
penalties, who should take a single oyster away from
the grounds in question, for the sole purpose of shew.
ing that he did not acquiesce in the right of fishery
claimed by the Corporation of Lynn—a right, his
Lordship added, in support of which they had not
adduced such evidence as was at all satisfactory to
his mind ; and lie must therefore direct the Jury to
acquit the prisoners, hoping that he should never have
such a cause come before him again. To punish.
men by a ten weeks imprisonment merely for the
of trying an experiment was pursuing a course
of which, his Lordship observed, he could nut but
express his disapprobation.
The Jury accordingly brought in a verdict of Ac-
quittal—as they did also in the case o 4 Macpherson
and ethers, under similar indictments.