Star.
London, England, 1822-07-30 00:00:00

POETRY.

ON BEING SHE'S SOME BEAUTIFUL SPECIMENS
OF ORNAMENTAL PORCELAIN.

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FROM THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Since to clay we must tura, 'tin consoling to know,
That to objects u lovely as these they can mould us ;
And, wherever this frame may be destin'd to go,
In its relics our friends need not fear to behold us !
This rose we may fancy, its delicate hues
So faithful to nature, when living composed
The Bosom of Beauty adored by the Muse,
Where Tenderness sigh'd, or Affection reposed!
The form that so gracefully plays with the dart

Which the blind little god in his archery uses,
Was one of those nymphs who imagine the heart
/day be played with unhurt till the moment she chooses!
Yon shell was a Poet ; but where is his fame ?

The verses he destined to live are unknown ;
Yet he dreamt in his time he was leaving a name,
And as idly are dreaming the bards of our own! •
That gardener, smilingly gazing on flowers,
Which welt as if breathing their odours around,
Was a lover of Nature, Oat dwelt in her bowers,
And rear'd her young sweets as they sprang from the ground!
Foe me, when Eve pass'a through the change that gives birth
To a substance like this, and again see the light,
May the artist thus gracefullj form from my earth
The lamp that•some nymph loves to read by at night!
For then I may watch the emotion that plays
In her eyes, as the lines of the minstrel they trace,
And receive, ere in slumber she closes their rays,
The last parting beams of expression and grace!

A vast concourse of persons assembled at Qum!).
don, near Loughborough, on Sunday. sennight, to
witness the baptism, in the river Soar, of twenty-one
or twenty-two persons, all grown up, belonging to
the sect of Primitive Methodists at that place.
Thursday, Elizabeth Read, a pauper, of Wood.
cotts, in the parish of Handley, Dorsetshire, was safely
delivered of three female illegitimate children, who
were baptized by the ntmes of Faith,Hope, and Charity!
A few days since, as Edward Osborn, of Hope,
near Kingsbridge, was standing on the cliff, near the
sea, he observed a swarm of bees flying underneath
him ; he immediately descended, and followed them
a quarter of a mile, when the wind drove them back.
The tnan stood still, and the bees all pitched on his
leg, and soon crept under his jacket, and up his side
s td arm. After this, he walked home to Hope, where
he shook the bees into a butt without being stung ;
and they are now doing well.
Saturday Sir RICHARD BERNIE inspected a party
of Horse Patrol, near the five mile stoue on the Har-
row-road.
At a Parish Meeting, held in Manchester, last
week, the salary of the Deputy Constable, Mr. LA-
VENDER, was increased to £6OO, with a proviso that
some of the indirect emoluments should be given up.
Bow-Sraerr.—Muanel or Mae. DoNArry.—After the great
exertions which have been made in various quarters to discover
fie murderer of Mrs. DONATTY, there is at length reason to hope
that a clue is obtained to trace the villain, which was ascertained
yesterday in a private examination before Sir Riculten BIREig.
Harrow GAanata—Yesterday Thames Maxwell, otherwise
Bedouin, Thomas Owen, otherwise Slaver, William Pickering,
otherwise &inner and Peter Hand, better known by the, name
of Peter the Botta, and six more of the bargemen who were
charged with being concerned in the riot and combination to
raise their wages on last Thursday morning, when the 3d regi-
ment of Guards were to embark at Paddington, on board N of
Mears. Pickford and Co.'s boats for Liverpool, were brought
up for examination.
The prisoners in defence stated, that they were compelled,
under a threat of being thrown into the water, to join in the
riot by the rest of the bargemen, particularly by Owen,
Chester, Worsel, and little George, (nick names) their real
names they did not know, none of whom are yet in custody.—
The Magistrates being satisfied with the proof against the pri-
soners, committed them, to take their trials at the Session.
UNION HALL—Yesterday a young female, of interesting ap-
pearance, named Catherine Sine, was brought up in the custody
of Rice the officer, tharged with stealing from a letter a banker's
cheque for the amount of ,E 96 125. 6d. the property of her
master, Mr. William Ford, a maltster, at Nine Elms, Battersea.
The prisoner in her defence said, that as she was carrying the
letter to the Post-office, the child that she took with her cried
to have it, and in ordey to pacify it, she gave the child the letter,
who broke the seal, and the cheque tumbled out. She was fear-
ful if she made it known to her master he would discharge her,
therefore she tors the letter in pieces and kept the Cheque by
her. She declared she never had any notion of procuring the
money for it.
The Magistrate said the charge was sufficiently mcale out
against her to authorize him sending her to take her trial for the
robbery, and she was committed accordingly.
Ma ni.aoßoucx-STasyr.—Yesterday a rather singular applica-
tion was made before H. M. DYER, Esq. the sitting Magistrate
at this Office, by Mr. ALLEY, the banister. After some police
business, in which that gentleman was professionally engaged,
had been disposed of, be begged the indulgence of a short hear-
ing, until he should be enabled to state an affair which, as he
conceived, most materially concerned him.
'the Magistrate was most ready to hear what the Learned
Gentleman had to observe.
Mr. ALLEY then drew from his pocket a Sunday News-
Paper, and said he only wished to call the Magistrate's attention
to a paragraph which had appeared in that Paper, and which be
most undoubtedly conceived in some degree applied to him. He
conceived himself the more fortunate in making this application,
as the chief clerk, the officers, and the solicitor, who were all
present at the examination, were also now before him, and they
could, he was sure, support him in what be bad to say, and if
not, they could as easily deny it. Before further proceeding, be
would read the article of which he now complained ; it was
contained (as stated) in a letter from Mr. Parkins, and was in
substance this—" Mr. Parkins states the bail to have only been
d'soo, and two sureties in 250 each ! But why have we not,
as in othjr cases, the names of the two tradesmen? Were they
trad. sawn' ? We do not believe it—we have heard tee con-
trary ; we hear that the bail belonged to a profession not usually
very fond of becoming bail. However, all mist come out at
fast." Mr. Alley then continued :—" Now, Sir, when this
person insinuates that a professional man was the bail, he
must mean me i" and from the subsequent circumstances
the Magistrates would most fully acquit him of that, u in his
opinion it was inconsistent with the etiquette of his profession
to bail any person ; and should any individual have asked
him to bail that unfortunate gentleman, be should have refused
with indignation. But no person certainly dared to ask him, and
he could nut help saying, that in that Paper which pretended to
give an account of the- infamous transaction, remarks the most
scandalous were tutu, which he could not help noticing. He
wished now to ash—was he bail for the Bishop ?
The Chief Clerk.—" Most decidedly not." -
The Magistrate said, what had been stated in the paper was
certainly false, and whoever had written it must have been se-
mated by malice, which could be attributed to no other age
than the general desire et certain parties to overthrow *
Wished authorideb of the country, and they no doubt laid Mil
of this lunentabie transaction as a handle by which they ndshe,
were it possible, effect their wish. At all dined the misdate it
Mr. Alley Mid beet upright and respectable. Before this nth-
. pct was disposed et, he must observe, that he was boend to take
bail, the came. only being a misdemeanour, and that it mks
contrary is all rude to give up the names of the MIL
Mr. Amur interned the Magistrate thetas, and said bail was
certainly obliged sipwe taken, as, if not, the Magistrate was alb-
.„lest to mina for tales *plowmen!. s .