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London, England, 1814-10-17 00:00:00

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PROLOGUE

YO THE NEW CoNIEnY, CALLPI) " POLICY, On THUS
RUNS THE WOlti D AWAY !

1111.1TT£N I J. TAYLOR, HQ AND SPOKPN ST MR. WALLACK.
Our Author chose a comorelionsive name,
Since police's 'he utio,erral aim ;
For mark marsh nd. from •nfauee to ace,
Each fondle fancies that ' is arch and sane;
When reason dawna, then int'rest too anicars,
And policy impel• our earliest years ;
Blended with pride it tenints the selfish boy,
By little arta to pain a fav;rite toy ;
Trace him through Ire, in whatsoe'er condition,
'Still is he prone to play the l'olit;cian ;
A purchase or a girt will quickly tire
As wanting proofs of genius, vtour;fire;
And beret., too oft, In vain it moral preaching,
Since tl.ere'• such vanit. ie over-reaching.
New Irv, who search ' .1- Fo-rtine'a bright abode,
Contented tread plain f r aling'a open road;
Each rather bends his own peculiar way,
By urer me:ol= to pounce upon his prey ;
Himself to gratify, he toils for fame,
Philosopher, bud, hero, just the same.
E'en b duty will not on her form depend,
But tr es accomplishments to gain her end,
AUlea with native charms the pow`rs of art,
For poor were rise her conquest in the heart. •
Yet think not we severely paint mankind,
Since private motives all in union bind,
And with the Poet we may well proclaim,
That a tree self-love and social are the same."
Ilan you, then, wonder that our Au•hor too
To-night comes forward with a selfish view ?
lide boasts no worth beyond the common lot,
And strives to win your favour by a plot.
Nay more—we awn each woman here, and man,
Waldo the best to aid him in his plan ;
Yet asay we add, whilst thus we now combine
With eager zeal to second his design.
Via no meat! policy that prompts our zeal, •
Bat grateful ardour all are proud to feel:
EPILOGUE.

•PAITTIN SY T. DISDIN AND SPOKEN IT MIS. sans..
Sic transit Meld. Do I speak it right ?
What follows? Mamie ? No, on Fuesday night, '
Under the unction of your approt ation,
I'll come again to offer a translation.
Sic transit :brig Mundi is, they say,
In other words, " Thus /WU the world sway."
And I most earnestly entreat that you
Will kindly let OOP Comedy rest tow
Be not, good Critics, too severely just,
For if the Play don't run, the Poet must.
Too long the period when fell Discord hurl'd
Her venom shafts, and overran the world;
And tho' with us, Peace points to brighter times,
Reluctant warfare vexes other climes;
The vast Atlantic bears the bat-le's roar
3.ransfered unwilling from Theria's shore,
When late our little band o'erturn'd the boast
Of six times told, the number of their host,
Columbia's prudent Chiefs detlint,i the fray,
And sicr'c exclaim'd," thus rum the world away."
That things are transient, this high honour'd roof
Nightly affords unquerionable proof—
Witness ourselves, who here terislead your senses,
Ti win your favour under tabe pretences;
Till a!most thought to be what we but seem,
§udden we wake from the delusive dram.
So I, to-right, In Fashion's bright array,
Was proud to shew how row the world away.
In Fancy's mirror you beheld a wife,
Martyr to all he snares o: modish life;
Her dear good Isorti, to every foible blind,
You really thought most amiably kind.
Toms no such thing—for be, my heart's best hope,
Pus but that door—was only—Mr. Pope.
Who tho' just here (pointing!. the stage) a most attentive lover,
Said there (piloting behind the laws) at parting, Good bye,
Mrs. Carver.
My two sweet babes, eppress'd by Gloster's power,
Who once a we, k are smother'd iu the Tower,
Not only are alive this Toy hour,
But Gloster's self, with one on either hand,
Oft takes them to a fruit shop in the Strand.
And he who, tor a horse, made sOch ado,
Rides out wit' Ric/mend every day to Kew.
If transient dais our temporary r• ign,
More so the Nerd's, who toiling oft in vain,
Is haply domed to see his best hopes fall
The z resins of a &tow:ling ball.
And oft his" unsubstantial pageant" ends
By fens asraird, nay, sometimes from his friends'
Mi'placed a; vroval, with a well meant roar,
Has blighted repetito•ri by " Ensure I"
" nag rims the sysrler m•ith us—'tis your's to say
Whether it ought to run to see our Play—
A Bard, yet little used to crtic
Depends on you to give Ws effort ige.
Do beam exirence or. a t.inid wieht ;
Crown with your smiles the Poet or tonight;
So shall the fear:ul Muse not sigh in vain,
And all the world will run to DROSS LANE!

Saturday morning aLady,going along Brook-street, I
had her eye unfortunately knocked out by the handle'
of a butcher's tray. She was taken into an apothe-
cary's shop, and the fellow, finding what he had done,
effected his escape.
J. Jl'inwood, a waggoner's boy, has beets committed
to Worcester gad for one month's hard labour, for
beatirg a horse in so brutal a manner that he lost his
eye. We hope this salutary instance of punishment
will have a proper effect.
A NECESSSARY CAUTION AT THIS SkASON OP THE
YEAH.—A young woman, of the name of HARVEY,
aged 18, who resided in Avon-street, Bath, whilst
eating nuts, swallowed one unmasticated, which, ac-
cording to the common term, went the wrong Way,
and caused her considerable pain. Every effort to
remove it teas tried in vain by eminent professional
men ; the parts became inflamed, and she died in a
few da) s. Being much respected, her funeral was at-
ttnded on Wednesday last by numerous followers,
who testified their esteem for the deceased, and regret
Mr the accident. Previous to interment, a Medical
Gentleman opened the body, and ascertained that her
death was the consequence of the obstruction as above

Gentlemen and others who, having passed a life
of gaiety, are about to obtain the domestic comforts
.5: a conjugal state, will do welt to consult Messrs.
COO PER and Co. Surgeons, of Charlotte street, Black-
f. previous thereto. Few persons are aware
how too often ate latent seeds of an infectious Disor-
der have lurked in the system, and never manifested
themselves, but through the finer cartileges of their
little unfortunate and unoffending offspring, the va•
riotts aff, ctions of which are too often the result of an
111 cured contagion in the unsuspecting parent. Sur.
won Cooreu and Co. profess to eradicate every atom
of the Miasmata, thereby rendering the constitution
perfectly stnnd ; those whose sr tem are become de-
bilitated, either from juvt nile in,iscretiens or impro.
per tse4tmertt, need not dtspair ; and those whom
distmice et delicacy easy prevent from making perso-
ni.l Applicatin, may be advised by letter, and per-
tect:.y reliev.e.l, on staling candidly their cases, enclo,
sing a ter. directed* t, Conran and Ca. Surge“ns,
Co tte-stree , illacle,i4rsonfd. They also pledge
eh u,64;lves cure the I' le, an F stot.i withuttt cot.
however imetetain of ammitudited.

Qunetz-souAnz.—Saturday John l9oison, col.
lector at the Bayswater Gate, was summoned by Mr.
Wood, coal-merchant, for unlawfully demanding toll
of him on the 27th of September, the said Wotton not
having his name in letters not less than three inches
in height placed on• the toll house in a conspicuous
part, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of last
Session of Parliament. This is the first case of the
kind under the Act. Mr. Wood stated, that he had
to complain of the existence of many abuses on this
trust (the Uxbridge-road) particularly of extortionate
demands of toll, generally eighteen-pence instead of
a shilling ; and as he -seas daily sending waggons of
coals along that road; and constantly travelling it
himself, possibly paying every year more than £esoo
for toll, fifty per cent. difference from what he was
bound to pay, ultimately became a matter of serious
consequence to him. Wotton said, Mr. Wood must
know that his own men often robbed him of toll as
well as of coals. Mr. Wood replied, that he was
now complaining only of what he knew of his own
knowledge. He had taken out several summonses
against gate-keepers when so successful as to get their
names, but even then he had been defeated, for the
men were instantly removed, and afterwards not
to be heard of in any direction. He. complained,
that on the 127th of September, after considerable
search about the toll house, he found Wotton's name
written in letters about an inch and a half long,
placed, or rather hidden, under the weather board-
ing, over the door. Mr. Wood added, that he had
long since given notice on the road that he would
thus proceed if the abuses were not corrected ; and he
did not take the present step till he had been. set at
defiance ; but except the lessees came forward and
gave up the men, he would apply to the Court of
King's Bench on the subject. Mr. COLQUIIOUN, who
heard the promises of the lessees a week ago, said that
they were very reprehensible for not attending, and if
such a system prevailed as that of removing the men
out of the way of justice, after they had made them-
selves obnoxious to the public, and it was MISCII to
be feared that it did prevail, it was highly discredi-
table to the lessees. Such conduct could not be men-
tioned with too much opprobrium. As to the com-
plaint before them, it was fully established ; it was a
penalty not exceeding 85 for each offence • but in the
hope of its operating beneficially, the ilagistrates
would only convict in the penalty of 20s. and costs,
Mr. FIELDING expressed the hope that Mr. Wood
would apply to the Court of King's Bench for an in-
formation againt the lessees, if they continued to
screen their gate-keepers from justice, being sure that
the Court would instantly grant it.
UNION HALL.—Our Readers will remember, that
In June, 1813, Mr. o.ikely, of Kennington-lane, was
shot at with a blunderbuss, and desperately wounded,
one night, as he was passing through Weymouth-
street, Newington, at a late hour, on his way home.
The person accused of having fired _the piece went to
sea in an Indiaman, and did not return till within
these few days. Sn.,w, the officer, succeeded in dis-
covering and taking him int, cus'ody on Friday.—
Saturday he was brought before Mr. EVAN CE, ai:sl
committed for re-examination, when Mr. Qakley will
attend.
GUILDHALL—On Saturday John Earl and Charles
Earl, the elder 14 and the other 11 years of age, who
were remanded on Friday on a charge of stealing
pigeons from a stall in Nengate market, were re-exa-
mined. One of the City Marshals had seen them in
the Act. The mother of the boys appeared in Conti,
and said chat their lather t%a, an indosto ions labourer
at Stratford-beyond-Bow.—That neither their father
nor herself had any suspicion of their being inclined to
such an act, and was sure they must have been se-
duced to it by s me wicked person ; she, theretore,
hoped they would be forgiven on account of their
youth. The Alderman sa,d, that with respect to the
youngest he readily acceded to her request ; but as
the elder boy was of an age to know what he was
about, he thought a short time in Bridewell and
good whipping might he of service to him : but the
mother promising to watch over their conduct, and
to take care tha _ they should never be guilty of such
an offence again, the Alderman told her she might
take them both home. _ _ _

Charla Cati!field, who had been twice remanded for
taking a sheep from Newgate-market, was re-examin-
ed, and many respectable persons appearing to his
character, the owner of the sheep declined any fur-
ther prosecution, and the prisoner was discharged.
.Bow-srunt.—Saturday, Robert Hilton and John,
Crowley were brought up by Smith, the officer, charg-
ed with being in the passage leading to the pit of,
Covent-garden Theatre, on Friday evening, for the
purpose of picking pockets. Smith stated, that when
he first saw the prisoners, they were in company, but
on perceiving he had noticed them they separated.
Knowing them to be suspicious characters, however,
he followed them ; and on searching them, a silk-
handkerchief was found in Hilton's. possession ; this
he slid he found in Round.court. This account not
satisfying the Magistrate, and both the prisoners being
well known at the Office, they were commuted as re-
puted thieves.
A singular application was made to the Sitting Ma-
gistrate, byan aged matron, named Plank, who stated
that being parted from her husband five years, on ac-
count of ill.usage, she received into her apartments
in Lees's-mews, Grosvenor-square, her son,;who was
about 22 years of age and very ill. She supported
him for 26 weeks, when he died. She had him put
into a coffin, and deposited in the room of a friend.
The preceding night her husband forced his way into
the house, with four men, tore the dead body out of
the coffin, and placing it in another which they had
brought with them, carried it off. She wished the
Magistrate to order the dead body to be restored to
her, that she might see it decently interred. The Ma-
gistrate expressed his regret that he could not inter-
fere, as the husband was intitled to bury the body.
Friday evening a Cyprian, fl the first order, was
charged with assaulting and beating Mr. J. R—, a
gentleman well known on the turd. Mr. R. stated,
that his son had made off from him with a considera-
ble sum ; that he put sued him as far as Bangor,
where he found the prisoner had been cohabiting with
him, but his search was vain. He returned to Lon-
don, where having learnt that his sou was going to be
married to the prisoner, he called ut her house in
Mary-la,botine, to enquire after him, but could get
satisfactory account. He called a second time,
wheal toe prisoner denied our knowledge of where his ,