Star.
London, England, 1813-07-13 00:00:00

POE"' Rr.

LTIFER ON SOPHIA, LATE DAUGHTER OF DR. SOLONION,
AND WIFE oF s. J. TOBIAS, lista. WHO DIED THE 21ST
OF JUNE, 1813. AGED 21 .
Could Wealth'or Beauty stay the fleet'ng Breath,
, Ur Vied'ente's Charm arrest the Hand nt 'tech,
1 he young and virtuous t•OPICIA had not
Nor 16::11 •1 OBIAS for his Consort sigli'd.
Wear Beauty, Youth, an Vir•ue's Charms prov'd vain,
'1 be -riugg iug •-p ra longer to detain ;
Asti•M‘trcine could not trim the Lamp of I if.,
Nor sae, f^om Death the Daughter and the Wife. •
1,! opot. the Couch—Behold kr lie
Embolm'd whiner: from :Immix: Eye
11%ette is that Voice which cat cdt'd Song Divine,
.And dun thobe Eyes that late were wont to shine ;
Cus',: are those Lips that never utter el Guile,
And w •en they open'd—nrn'd w th a Smile I
The ling-ling Graces weep a last Adieu
To the . ale Cheat that glew'd with crimson Hue;
The Lerves. the Graces, and the Smiles ate fled,
• Ilk's Pulse build.still.-and sweet :•,oPhillei dead !
14(.1 evlu thy • Balm of co td prolong,
! the Subjict of my Song !
I).y `• Ades of Gilead: which was wont to heal
• lit io'ry Clime—and seldom known to fail I.
The .valhig Virtues in sad Hour are Bed.
Life's Put•e stands thy Sonata's dead !
No Meu'cine can the vital Spark re,tore,
And she n ho liv'd to please, shall please no more
So when a hose, upon its fragrant Bed,
Nipt by untimely Frosts, droops down its Head,
'll.t- ••••••des grow lain!, in which it was array'd,
Atol al. its short-iiv'd e.eauii.s fade;
Nu id', Art back to ha Fold can bring
The oau-liing tints—or cause a second Syring
Macclesfield; aitiErs.

Thursday set off trout Dumbreck's Hotel, Edin.
but
.0) Lord FitcoetticK Ca metat., tor London ;—.-
Lcrd i%i•DONALD, 101 the Ible 01 Sky ; Mr. SHAW LE
FEVIIE and party, on a tour through Scotland ; the
,Earl and Countess of CA•sit.us, for Dun ; and the
Earl GeAcE[l, to Dunrohin Cacti

The Silver Bowl, given by the Royal Company of
Archers, v..ts shot for, at Edinburgh, on aitnrclay
sesinight, and w,,n by JOHN WiMON, Esq. The
keenness with which this prize wits contested is rather

remarkable, it hat, tug been shot for every Saturday
since May the Ist , and only decided on tht. above day.
The PRINCE REGENT is said to have r: njected
grand National Fete, in honour of Marquis WELLING-
TON'S Victory ; to he given at Vauxhall Gardens ;
and to Consist of D imer and PicalOP ,etween which a
grand Cde to Vict' ry to be performed ; Ladies to be
ad r. itted after the dotter ; the Duke of YORK to pre-
side ; Otte Hundred Stewards, selected from all ranks,
to super:wend the grand entertainment. a
The new Harlerptinade, produced last night for the
Hirst time, iit the Surrey Theatre, is, in its story, simple
and eflective ; in its scenery dnmes:ic and interesting ;
-and in its incidents various and hunionrons. • The
Pantomime and the Do Gelert drew au overflow in all
parts of the Theatre beteie the thing of the curtain.
l'ru,a.stri,LeN MATCH —lllouday senn:glit Abraham
Wood Matted at three o'cioek on Heath Common, near
W tki field, to ran twenty miles in two hours and ten
minutes. The ground is one mile and eighty yards
in citcumterence, and he performed the first ten rounds
in one hour and two minutes. The next five I e kept
his time very steadily ; on the 16th ronnd he relieved
himself by walking about forty yards, but the odds
were still in his favour; the 17th round he ran in less
th.nt eight minutes, but sweat profusely: the betting
now became even. In the 18th, he exceeded eight
minutes ; still even betting. In the 19th, and last
round, he seemed a good deal exhausted, and he did
not attain the goal till two minutes and a half alter
the time allowed, having occupied two hours twelve
Minutes and a hilf in the performance of the task.•
A ttadesm •n at Deal undertcnk, for a considerable
wager, last Friday night, to go nine miles on the
turnpike-rt.ad ithin an hour. He started at half
past seven in the evening, and cempl,nd his task
twenty-seven minut s past eight, being three minutes
within the given time, apparently considerably op-
pressed with the exercise. He went the first four
miles in twer ty-two minutes.
!qr. William Hunter, farmer in the parish cf Sora,
Ayrshire, was killed by the kick of a stallion, at
hlauchline fair, on Tuesday last. _

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During the illuminations at Brighton, nn Tuesday 1
evening last, a hand-rocket or serpent, by accident,
found its way into a little green shop, in Carlton-
street, which unfortunately communicated its sparks
to a box containing gunpowder that happened tp be
helical:ft the counter. The explosion that followed
was dreadrul—the shop was torn to atoms, and the
premises at one time appeared on fire in two or three
places. By the timely assistance, however, of the
people in t! .e s: rect, the flames were soon extinguished.
rhe pair woman who kept the shop had her clothes
rent and set file to in many places, and her face and
hands much scorched, but did not receive any very
dangerous i nj tit y.
'1 i.nrsday I.:..e..enant HENRY R.JCE, of his Majesty's
shipeVengeur, \...ts tried at Portsmouth, by a Court
Martial, for un-officer-like behaviour towards Lieu-
tenant GOWAN, of the Soth Regiment, and for striking
him, when in command of a detachment of that Re-
giment, on hoard a transport, which was boarded by
Lieutenant RICE. lle was sentenced to be dismissed
from his Majesty's service.—Cornelius Cadogan, sea-
man of the Albany, for mutinous behaviour, was sen-
tenced to receive 200 lashes.
At Vortsaiouth Quarter sessio4s, which commenced
on Ti.uisd.iy,- Martha Cham lain, who resides in
Lciee-1 ine, Portsea, was convicted of fortune telling;
and the case exhibited depravity and ignorance in their
most pernicious forms s—The prosecutor was a poor
silly servant girl, who, though re 'ding at Gosport,
heard of the fame of the divinerX, and came thence
to obtain that knowledge from her which is wrapt in
impenetrable darkness irom common minds ;—for
Wilich she paid her 3d. The girl went a second time,
to have a particular question solved, when the hag
suspended ere Bible to a key, and, as it turned, she
told the girl it sic as in htr favour ! She thereupon de-
sired her to leave her nilstress, and come and live
with her, until the Captain, who was to marry her,
came back from London ! The girl did as she told
her, but she had not lived many days with the wretch,
*hen .she prevai., d on her to give herself up to pros-
ti: IA ion ; aii‘i in this course of life she continued five
' moniks, vi hen she necame the subject of misery and
• Flu. 'llls was one of several similar cases which
the Come heard with horror aia:l indignatit n. She
was t,rsitynce4.l to be invisoned 12 months, and to
stand in the piliory once its edUz quarter during her
• coutiiiement.
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