Star.
London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

Br W. D. W. IL SOM F.R V 1 L LE, .14e; *unceorr.'

'Ts good, at this sweet hour, to roantSibroad
Anil look through Nature, up to Nature's GOD!
The rising Sun proclaims his Matee's praise,
As bursting forth esp and his cheering rays:
The lowing heeds their gratitude express,
And bleatieg flocks Ills providence confess:
The feather'd tribes their earliest matins sing,
Ant', joyful hail the firet'approach of Spring:
And, even though silent in the shady bower,
The leafy trees proclaim the ALMIGHTY POWIR
With voice as strong as on the sea-beat shore,
The rolling hiilews with the tempest roar;
fiewinrtides, obedient to Ills call,
By His command are made to rise and fall!
Shall man, vain man! whose knowledge reads the skies,
Made in llu image great, erect, and wise,
Stil: yield himself to vice, a willing slave,
And cease to praise Mu with that mind he gave?
0 surelysno! since more to man is given,
More Is demanded by the: Gun or I Caere+ !
And his it is, with earliest dawn, to sing
A flymn of Praise to Hearse's rrERNAL Kato !
To join the choristers in every grove
In songs of praise to the thaw Don of 'Lou!
Whose power created, and whose goodnep pill
Freiervei all Nature subject to his will;
And who, when al.: by disobedience fell,
Still wrought to save him from the pains of Hell!
Then, above all, adore redeeming love,
Who left his FATHER'S blest realms above
Fall'n man to save, Himself did freely give
A willing sacrifice, that man might live;
From justice sav'd us, by the atonement given,
And gaiti'd fnr all a sure abode in Heaven I
0! may th GOD OF Nalverr, and of Gitace,
Whose presence fills with Majesty all space,
Likewise the SON, AIEssIAH, GOD, and MAW,
Was with the Pasta ere the world began:
To whom, let us make man, the ALMIGHTY FATOIS said,
And by whose ptexer the world itself was made r
And, ton, the Huey GHosr desc.'nding still
To renovate our natures by his will—
Thris.e glorious TRINITY ! for evermore
lie ntan's chief-end—to worship and adore!
Whitcroft House, July 22, 1822.

OLD BAILEY SELSIONS.

Saturday, Banner, Samuel Medland, and
Jvseph Murrell, .ere indicted for stealing a bag con-
taitimg 74 ounds of feathers, the property of F.
Gardiner and others.
The prisoners had all been in the employment of
Messrs. Gardiner and Co. who are extensive feather
dealers, in Were-street, from whom the bag offeathers,
tated in the indictment was stolen.
Mrs. Wely:ter was the first witness examined ; she
stated that she keeps a broker's shop in Holles-streer,
Clare-market ; on the 17th of July the prisoner Med-
land came to her shop and enquired whether she
would buy a bag of feathers? which he said belonged
to a friend of hi,. She replied that she would; soon
after which Banner came, and said he was Medland's
friend, who bad the feathers for sale, and produced a
sample. Witness offered to go and see the leathers,
but Banner objected, and said he would bring them
at eight Cckck that evening. The price he asked was
Is. 4.d. a hound, which I-?ing much under the value,
excited the witness's sus,-iicions. About eight o'clock
the feathers were brought by Williams, a porter, and
Banner and Medland came stop after to be paid.—
Witness a4;cd Medland, of whom she had some
knowledge, a hether it was an honest transaction ?
and he assured her that it was, for he knew Banner
well. Witness gave them ss. on account that even-
ing, and appointed the next evening for their coming
again ; but strongly suspecting that the feathers must
have L .n stolen, and knowing that Medland worked
with Messrs. Gardiner, she communicated her sus-
picions to them ; in consequence of which a Bow-
. s reet c tl-icer was sent to her house, who arrested
'Loner and 31edland when they came for payment the
next evening, and also Murrell, who was apparently
waiting for them outside the house.
The daughter of this witness proved that, on the
evening Medland and Banner (:roughs the feathers
and received the .ss. she watched them on leaving the
house, and.saw them join Murrell in the street, and
go with him to a public-house.
Williams, the porter, proved that he brouht the
feathers from Medland's house, Clement's-lane, to
Mrs. Webster's.
Messrs. Gardiner's clerk proved that all the pri-
soners were in their employment, and that Banner
locked up the warehouse when the men left off work,
. and had access to the feather lofts when he pleased.
The witness identified the bag in which the feathers
were taken to Mrs. Webster's, as Messrs. Gardiner's
property. It was impossible to say whether any of
their feathers were deficient.
Mr. Gaidiner proved that the feathers in the bag
were the same as his, and were worth Ss. a pound.
The case for the prosecution closed here.
Mr. ALLEY, for the prisoners, took art objection
in point of law, that it bad not been proved that any
:abet s had been stolen.
The lteeintoza said it was unnecessary to consider
it, particularly as the bag was identified as the pro-
ps ty of the prosecutors, and was very properly made
part of the charge in the indictment.
Several persons gave the prisoners good characters,
anti the Jury, after a short consultation, found Banner
and Medland, Guilts—Murrell, Not Guilty.
James Green, Joseph Murrell, William Banner, and
S. Illeelland, were tried on two other indictments, for
stealing various articles of plate (such as spoons and
ring.), the property of Francis Gardiner. It appeared
that the prisoners were all working men, in the service
of Nll.Gardiner, a working silversmith. Between the
month of August in the last )ear, and the month of
February in the present year, the prosecutor was ale-'
sent from his residence upon business. On his return
he missed a considerable quantity of property. Upon
instituting an inquiry amours; his workmen, the pri-
soner Gwen confessed that-he had robbed Irim'from
tine to time, and implicated the other prisoners in
his guilt. 'The other prisoners were , apprehended,
and trom their own account of their conduct, it was
quite clear that they had been guilty participators in
the robbery.
The Reconuen summed up the evidence, and the
prisoners were all found—r Guilty. They were sen-I
teoced, to be imprisoned each two years.in the Hou..e
of C Trection, and kept to hard labour.
- Jahn Clash? was indicted for stealing a half-crown,
two shillings, a sixpence, and:12(11131f pence, the pro-
'i.e'rty of Isaac lioyle, on the 14th lust. in the pa:ish
of Si.. Matthew, Bethnal-green.
'The piosecutor, a corn-chandler b 7. trade, proved,
01l the day meationtd in the iad:cur.eut, the