Star.
London, England, 1805-09-06 00:00:00

!OR THE STAR.

2nNAPAP.TE, OR THE PROPHECY OF VENGEANCE.
MY WM. CAtir.

(Continued front our laft )
(The Avenging Spi►it ►rptin
" Lo! the MIGHT? n0v101024.3 SOU
The career of woe has run

AU—your gloomy brood obeyed,
Uttered bt the Infernal (bade :

11 Vroin his pious grarethey tore,

Deeply Italord with facred gore,

i
l 'Jn a black and ltorrny hour,
• 10. Sciure, crown and regal power,
Kingdom, fubjecla, children, wife,
All :hut ;arc a joy to life :
Z. 1.11742t,tal tyn blood was Med,
W-I ...:__ 1 uric' fluote Ma head,

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Loyalty and kindred Love,
Mercy, Juftiee. Pity, (trove .
The devoted King to rave,
But—brink:lves ;nth Grave /
" Meffenger of human weer
'1 he (a) SUPREME DiSTILOY 11l rule ;
I.alt begot en Son of Heil,
Sent the guilt of Man to (well,
The foundations of the Earth
Trembled at the monftrous birth ;
Nature, faudderiug, from the view,
Her affrighted eyes n ithdrew ;
At his foul appalling look,
Thrones and proud dominions ihook ;
Mid his &rotating frown
Cait oppoling Nations down.
As o'er hunshled Realms he firoJe,
Order quitted her abide ;
Difeord reared her hideous head ;
. Peace and Hope and Mercy fled ;
' Burning with volcanic roar,
Conflagration flamed before;
While his imprecating voice
Bade the kindred fiends rejoice,
And, amid the general groan,
Turned the heart of man to none ;
Cities crumbled at the found ;
War and Carn-ge raged around;
From his parricidal brain,
!trued a difaftrous train
Of abhorred malingant crimes,
Unknown In the elder times :
Stretching over teas and lands,
His ten hundred thoufand hands,
The outrageous ANAZOK hurled
Death and Havoc round the world."
" Not the anointed Pavia alone
Vattifhed with the regal throne;
Fallen from her Stare fublinte,
In the glories of her prime,
His aug it, i• aperial qtreen
reriCaed, on the tragic Cecile.
-- Rich in eve:), female grace,
Gemmed by all the arts of Peace,
Gentle, ini:ocent, and fair,
Mourning o'er the royal Pair,
land, eolleding all her mind,
To thcfl.rcke of death refigued,
116 betove:l lifter boWed,
To the marble-hearted crowd.
Who, extiltirg in the Ihow.
Saw her blood in torrents flow."
" Fall, the regicidal Crew
Nahles,Prisfts, and Matrons new ;
Beauty, in the bloom of years ;
Age, with unavailing tears ;
Lovers, in the bridal hour ;
Boyhood, like as: opening flower;
Hufbands, with their weeping wives;
Science, who the gave furvives,;
Friends, by holy bonds allied;
Senators, their Country's pride;
Poets, co: immortal name ;
Heroes, chrorieled by Fame;
Parents, with their children doomed;
Families, at °zee entombed ;
Multitudes, in triumph led,
On the fmoaking fcaffolds bled;
While, in grin: caroufal, round,
Dancing to the dreadful found
Of' the dyitt; Vidim's cries,
Demons fed their greedy eyes;
And, rele..fed from every awe
Of divine and human law,
Altars, temples overturned ;
The eternal mandate fpurncd ;.
And, with mad rebellious pride,
The 01:4511POTINT defied!"
Nine times, round the radiant Sun
The revolving Earth has run,
Since the great Deftroyer firfl,
Raging, fhewed bleform accurft ;
Nine fueecinve fprisit have teen
Slau3hter dye the faded green ;
And as many Summers viewed
Europe with the vidlints Ilrewed ;
While her frighted Rivers ran
Potpie, with the 14,04 of man 1 •
• ss..nd her Scaa, fracs fhore to ',re,
Echoed to the battle's roar.
Or unhappy Autumn Dram' I.
i!elds unrean'il and har*ells burned;
0:..., :raid the die:: alarms
Of tili cl:Aing world in lens,
Saw the Royal Powers unite,
Marching to the notepad fight ;
And, in terrible array,
Marlhailed m the dawn lf day,
Viewed the long embattled line,
Of the proud Apabfic thine ;
These the bloody tempeil raged ,
There &almighty Hefts engaged ;
And the roVied li.:htnivir flew,
'l5ll the evening Sun withdrc..e-.
From his ftormy hills in vain,
Winter (wept the frozen plain ;
The inclement Tyrant's breath
Pauf.ell.ta the career of Death;
Fury no cffation knew;
hhhikl.luier Rill the trumpets bl c w ;
And, amid the wane of fitows,
jade the renting Armies clofe.
(3) The Rerulaiton.

L.IIV INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST 9.
stAYnovr V. RAYBOLT.
The Plaintiff is heir at I.tw of Thomas Coofisher
Raybolt, and the Defendant is the widow of that
Gentleman. The Defendant had brought (carrot
aftions in ejeament againft the Plaintiff, and the
prayer of the prefent bill was for an Injunaion
againft thefe proceedings at law.
Mr. Romney, for the Plaintiff, Paid, that the hif-
tory of the tranfaaions to which the prefent applica-
tions to the Court referred, were very extraordinary.
The Defendant pallid, formerly, under the appella-
tion of Hancox, having lived with a perfon of that
name; but whether the was contraaed in the ho.
nourable bands of matrimony, on whether it was a
lets authorifed connellion, it was not neceffary to de-
termine. It teems this Lady had contrafted an af-
feftion for the Gentleman in Worteaerffiire, whom
this Plaintiff reprefented. On the death of Mr. Han-
cox, regardlefs of thofe ceremonies which the habits
of fociety have ellabliffied, the wrote a letter to
Thomas Coomber Raybolt, in the following terms:
a Dear Sir—Yon will he furprifed zt hearing from a porton of
wham you, perhaps, recoiled nothing, and with whom sou hive
had uo intercourfe for a to ry long period of timedluThe Public
Papers will, perhaps, have informed you, that Mr. Haueox. with
whom I was allied, is lately dead, sod you arc now Ppprifed, tint
it will be a peculiar gratification to me, if you fhould favour me
with an aufwer to the intimation this knot is intended to convey.
My addrels is at No. 90, Edward-row, Paddington. Your's, Ste.
" ANNL gANCOX."
This letter was in itfelf rcrnarkable, but the ins-
prtffion it produced was yet more unexpefted. The
poor man was fo dittutbed at its reception, and the
angularity of its contents, that he fent it to his At-
torney. The Attorney perufed the letter, looked
contemplative, Paid it was cf a very fufpicious charac-
ter, and recommended to his client to take no notice
of it. It this lituation of fufpenfe, matters remain-
ed for a very fhort interval ; in a few days a carriage
flopped at the door, from which a lady alighted,
who was received with the civility to which a (hanger
was entitled, until the motive of her' vifit was ex.
plaint/ Some little telaircipterst took place, which
was fo diffatisfaamy to Mr. Raybolt, that he again
had iecourfe to his profeffional friend. In the mean
time birs. liancox took up her refidence at his houfe,
and, with very great difficulty, lee lved from this
coy gentleman what was due to her lex by the laws
of hofpitality. The Solicitor nor his principal could
urge any arguments fufficiently forcible to induce the
lady to quit the dwelling. A confultation was then
held among his friends, on the difficult and delicate
lituation into which he was thrown by this fair in-
truder. The influence of numbers produced the ef-
fea which difappointed the efforts of cold reafoning,
and at left the lady left the manfion. She, however,
did not.proceed far ; (he obtained apartments in the
neighbourhood, and Mr. Raybolt was under conti-
nual apprehentions of fume new attack. His fears
were not ill founded; the carriage again drove up to
the door, but the lady on this occafion was not un-
attended, as fbe had been on the former occafinn.—
This gentleman laboured under the calamity of fn-
. quest parosyfms of infinity, and a keeper conftantly
attended upon his perfon. Mrs. Hancox was of a
temper too adventurous to be impeded by fuch an op-
ponent ; a man armed with a piftol accompanied
her; the weapon was applied to the head of the
keeper, and the unfortunate captive was reigned.—
He
was forced to afccnd the Reps of the carriage ;
the driver was prepared with his intim/lion', and the
itinerants loon difappeared. During the alsfence of
the Gentleman, he was united in the folemn ties of
wedlock with his fellow-traveller ; they loon return.
ed. all the fervants were inftantly difcharged, all the
fyflem of economy was immediately changed ; and
that a fuitable publicity might be given to their mar-
riage, the awful rites were again performed.
After thefe ceremoniah, the ardour of her attach-
ment began to abate, and the difpofed of him in the
mo!t rational way—the fent him to a mad houfe.—
Afterwards, are would nut admit the impreffions of
private affeftion to interfere with the advantage he
derived from retirement and folitude, and he never
returned to his houfe, excepting at Midfummer and
Chriftmas, not to join in the feftivkies of the feafons,
but to fign the receipts of his tenants, that the pro-
duce of his eflates might devolve into the hands of
the lady. It was not the felicity of this marriage to
be (succeeded by any progeny, and in the year 5804
the gentleman died. The fame difcretion Mrs. Ray-
bolt had employed in ether refpeas, was equally
confpicunus in the will of the deceafed. He left the
whole of his property to his dear Iv y& All the ellates
and all the perfonal property, were conveyed to her
for life. In this lituatiun of things, Mr. Thomas
Raybols, for whom he (the Learned Counfel) ap-
peared, had taken poffellion of the eftate. In conk-
* uence of this Rep, numerous aftions of ejeament had
been commenced, and Mrs. Raybolt having poffef-
fion of all the deeds and inftruments by 'Which the
rights of the heir were to be fupported, reference was
now had to the Court of Equity, to procure the de-
pofit of the deeds, and to obtain the appointment of
a receiver of the rents and profits under the authority
of the Court. Vat itms quellions were connefted with
the prefent bill of difcovery : the firft was, the Cane,
or infant condition of the •Defunft at the time when
various deeds were executed, recognized in the will:
next, if the teftator were cm** mentit, at the time of
the fettlement of the jointure : thirdly, if he was fo
at the period when he made his will. The debts due
from the deceafed amounted to about 70001. The
' Court would at Ina interfere to impound the perfo-
nal effeas, %ill the claims of the creditors were slit-
ch irged. A will was made prior to his lag tefta-
mcnt, and as early as the year 1785 ; the teftator
was then of found mind, and his property ought to
be difpofed .of according to the direftions in that
inftrtinient, which was now before the Eccletiallical
Court.
Mr. RICHARDS, for the the Defendant, Paid, that
I this application was one of the molt extraordinary
ever made in a Court of Equity. It had two oh-
' jeas ; the one was an injunftion to obarua the
proceedings at law ; the other was the appointment
of a Receiver, under the fanftion of his Lordfhip.
Perhaps it was the &ft inttance of the nomination of
a receiver being fought by the perfon who was him-
felf in poffealon, and himfell, of courfe, the receiver.
A very pleafant (tory was told ; many particulars of
which, however, were wholly unfupported in the alle-
gations in the bill. Whether thefe fats were.related for
• the amufement of the Court, or whether they had any.
foundation of truth, the learned Counfel had no

means to difcoter. The bill was. Mad on the 24th
of July laft, the fubpccna was ferved on the loth of
the fame month ; three hundred fheets were to be
perufed, containing an infinity of averments to be i
anfwered by parties now reading in Staffordfhire
and it was impoffible, by this time, to prepare a re-
ply that would be fatisfadory to the Court, whatever
Igrofs and palpable falfehoods might be obtruded on
its files. The rule of the Court, on a fubjed of this
kind, had been lung eilablilhed ; it wouldnot flay a
trial at law, but in confequence of a former Rep,
flaying proceedings at law generally, the ejeament
was brought two months fume ; and it was to be rob-
ftruaed on this rx park Itatement. The Learned
Counfel was provided, however, with one affidavit,
by which it appeared that the will, inflead or being
wholly formed by the Defendant, as had been inti-
maed, merely put in effea deeds of the year 1792,
copies of which were communicated to the Defen-
dant two years afterwards. It was abfurd to attempt
to interpofe with refpea to the faits at law ; the ob.
jet of theft fuits was to decide precifely what the
-Plaintiff walled to be determined if the deeds, in
the firil inflance, were void ; fecondly, if the will
were vitiated : there mutt be referred to a Jury, and
no opportunity c: old be more beneficial to all parties
than that which was now afforded for the determi-
I nation With regard to the perfonal came, the
Court might think tit to interpofe, and the Defen-
dant would be difpofed to raife no objedion to its in-
terpofition.
The Loan CHANCELLOR—" lithe heir at law had
Rated that the deeds were out of his poffeffron, he
would have had claim to a difcovery of what was
neceffary to the fupport of his title. He would have
a right alto to be inflruded on all the circumaances
under whiz!' the will in 'quellion was obtained It
has been laid that the Plaintiff is in poi:Aft:ion ; but
the cafe has this fingularity—that nobody feems in
poffetlion, for the tenants withhold the rents from
both parties. It is admitted, that a conteft at this
time prevails in the Ecclefiaaical Court, during
which a receiver mull of need:thy be appointed, and
then the Court is to confider if this be not that kind
of blended cafe, in which it will not permit that the
trial at law fbould proceed, until the parties are pro-
perly prepared. If the Defendant should obtain a
verdia, it is highly probable that this Court would
not admit it to Rand, for the Plaintiff might meet
with difficulties in the way of his title, which he
could not remove, and nothing but a Court of Equi.
ty could, under the circumaances, acquire for him
a fecund trill. Suppofe when the anfwer to the bill
than appear, that it fhould be evident your ejeament
was well brought, the Court will in that cafe have
railed no obarnaion it cannot remove ; for it will be
in its power to leliver over to the Defendant imme-
diate poffeffion. Upon the whole, I thistle it isA floe.
cial cafe, to which an anfwer fhould be put in before
a verdia is found. The confideration of Goa: may
be teferved."

rORKSIIIRE SUMMER ASSIZES.

Frauds Barcelona flood charged with having mur-
dered George Plummer, the keeper of the Houfe of
Corration at Beverley, by finking him on the head
with milk pot, of which wound he languillied for
feveral days, and then died.
The Connfel for the Profecntion opened the cafe
by tieing that the prifoner (a native of Italy) was,
in the month of June laft, committed as a vagrant,.,
to the Houfe of Correftion at Beverley, and Amu
during his confinement he manifefted proofs of ex-
treme impatience. The Counfel then proceeded to
gate the fafts developed in the following evidence:
William Hatter, the firlt witnefs, raid, that the
prifoner was committed in June to the Houfe al
Correllinn, and that, on the 24th of the fame month, ,
Mr. Plummer visited him in his cell ; that the pri-
foner, during his vifit, behaved in a molt outrageous
manner, holding a tub towards the deceafed in a
threatening manner, but did not aflually alLult him.
The witnefs proceeded to nate, that about two o'clock
the fame day, the deceafed again vilited the prifoner,
who, as loon as he Taw Mr. Plummer enter the cell,
threw at him, with great violence, a milk rot, which
(truck him on the head, and knocked bun on the
ground : the prifoner then feixed n pair of iron
tongs, and ran' towards Mr. Plummer, with an in-
tention, as the witnefs fuppofed, of Itriking him as
he lay un the ground, but WAS fecured by the wis-
nefs before he could etre& his purpofe. He further
added, that previous to this alfault, Mr. Plummer
was in a good (tare of health.
Thomas Cooper was then called, and depofed,
that he was beadle for the town of Beverley, and
was fent for to the Houfe of Correflion on the 24th
cf June, and on his arrival found Mr. P. bleeding
from a wound in the head, and that Mr. Plummer
defined him to put the prifoner in irons, which lie ac-
cordingly did.
Mr. -Henry Gill, furgeon, was next examined,
and (hated, that on the 24th of June Lilt he was call-
ed in to attend Mr. Plumtner, whom be found bleed-
ing very confiderably, in confequence of a fevere cut
in the head ; but that, upon examining the wound,
it did not appear in the halt dangerous ; on the
contrary, it continued to exhibit every favourable
appearance, until the third day, when fymptoms of
a paralyfis began to manifeft themfelves, and the
l
diforder continuing to increafe, terminated in his
death, on Sunday, the 7th of July.
The Junos here inquired of the witnefs, if he fupy
pefed the death of the decesled was occafioned by
the woumi in the head ? to which be replied,,that it
was not ; but that the paralylls was produced 4,F.
concuffion in the brain, occafioned by the frill, Ilia,
Lordfhip here interfered,. and (aid, that 'it ,pas cei-6
dent the indifttrient could not be fiabltanti4ted, as
Mr. Plommer's death was, in the indiatneilt, de-
clared to be -occafioned by a mottal wound infliaed
hy"the prifoner with an earthen pot, which' hvei-
ment was completely removed by the evidence trf
the furgeon ; indeed, if the death of the deceafed
Should have been proved to be occalloned by the
wound, it would not have 'amounted to more than
man flanghter t, and the heavielt puniflunent the
law in this cafe inflifts, is a year's imprifonrnent.—
But, Mould the prisoner be acquitted, as he mutt be
of courfe, his violent and outrageous behaiiour.ren'-
dered it unfafe fur him to be at large; he fhould, there
foie, order him to be detained until he etmld 'find
fureties for his future peaceable behaviour ;and,inthe
prefent'innance, there would be eofailtde &Mau-
tial jullice. His Lordlhip concluded with diseaingtbe
jury toacguit the pr ironer.? which wasascordiugly done.