Star.
London, England, 1804-08-25 00:00:00

AMERICA

Some weeks ago the Bolton Humane Society cele-
brated the Arniverfary of their Inditution. After the
sleEtinn of Officer, and other bufinefs of the Anni.
rertary, the Society went in proceffion to the Chapel
Church, where, after prayers by the Rev. Mr. OILY,
a fcientifie difcnurfe. embracing the great objeas of
the Society, was pronounced by Dr. Jona C. How.
; and the following original Ode, written by R.
T. PAIN a, jun. Efq. was lung in an admirable Ryle
by Mrs. Jos's.

• SPIRIT OF THE VITAL FLAME!"
AlR—Amtwo.

OW the ford!-bowleg Strewn, as the Tree brake In air,
Kuril s Torre In the tyrannous wan;
No ear beard bla &rick ; faint wit► toil and defpair,
He funk, and was wheined in Ids gran ! .

ILLCITATITZ.
See Hu win trt's Angel alight en the kens !
Tito' the Shadows Of Darr n have ditienthissi his nada ;
Src hls coast is redeem's! from the litteanis icy bed.
And a MOTUBIe• wild grid Ovid, " outs! na u utast !"

AIR-LARGO lIIARWTOIIO.

SPIRIT OT Tilt VITAL TLADAII!
Toed with Bfe his marble frame!
From the DAT-/TAIs radiant choir
liaise, thy torch el immehlefe llray
Auat bid a hiether's hope ni‘ase I

Hither SPARKLING eaten,. Sy!
P 4, roy'a ►ersUl, dove the I
To boom parer benignant Haven
Tie Meet *leg of tlfe barn gives e
And SKIL ca, vridk her ere explores
*bet power die dormoat'nave rebates,
Mugs the Cloostair, asd adores;
AM a tr, sbe brft of glary', deb
Prodded, woe sAea • w teaw!

AMON.
Spina of the *album
Teed' aide Ma Matt* Rime!
bri due remit saw reran. a
"111 the aia/Ary rye Nem
A Maw% tears wits reptereeara!
AMU
afield. the racks:gag Smarr raNe
The frailly Gni, the wimmisrit gem
bar:war Moe l idareat *able!
Taeviert Rode aald eedeAlea *take a
Ewe-. failley;k2t.
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Agawam Piliva. Tir wawa w sue !
1:4 soilsaitifor daeSowe' ty's awls lets haildfojae.

-Pt9LICAr,

Susie Ovum. Bow Ttrarfilay
sensing, 71www0'Leary- was brought before laity
Want, and Rana. Eke: the Sitting Magi..
Armes, charged with unlawiltaly abfenting !timid(
from the ferrite of James Boyle, Law Stationer, of
Tooke'. court; Carey-nee*, to whom he was an op.
premier, without his eemfenr, and contrary to Maio.
denturesou the ssd
It immured from the antenna of Mr. B•yle. that,
the Prifimer has been his apprentice for near hem
years. During the laft four • years he condwaedisims
fell in a very improper manner, and it coflltim seer
fel. for expellees of protestations againli him dining
that time. About four years fines he left his foreign
nod was ablest &beets fag mouths, he a-. length traced
' him to Sheffield, where he bad conned into the re.
rinsed of Sonserfet Light Dragoons, end followed
him to Huntingdos. to winch pram dfureginvent had
ararehed. The Colonel of. the regiment being in-
limed of the Prifoner being an apprentice. be ga's
bits up, and Me. Boyle brought him to London with
him, and was about to take him before a Msgifirate.
but en his making great coseeffions for his pea con-
dull, and promiftog in the fironget terms poffible to
caudal bintfelf properly in future, Mr. B. took him
home to his fainlyland treated him with the greaten
hindnefs; but having formed a connellion with a
number of diffipated young wen, who tempted him
to neglea his mailer's bufinefs; he has been impri-
Coned- twice in Tothilfirlds Bridewell, and once in
the Houk of Coireition ; it was only about a week
fince when he was liberated from his laa confira-
luent, before he abfeoted bine& again, and he was
taken by-his mailer on Wednefday in Parliament-
flreet, in confequence of a letter written by him (but
tinder a. feigned hand) being intercepted. On this
natement he was about to be committed again to the
Houle of Coneaion. on Thurfilay evening; but on
the interceßion i f himfelf and mother•in-law, it was
agreed to let it Rand over till the day following. The
final determination was poßponed till yeßerday morn-
ing, when it came on to be heard before NICHOLAS"
BOND. and RAAO, Efq. when the taifinefs took
another turn Mr. Ks tee attended for the mailer,
and NI,. Ac•a and Mr. FITZ° for the ap-
prentice ; the latter Gentleman tank an objection to
the Mateillrates proceeding any farther in the hutirefs
up as a defence, that the apprentice was
above twenty-one years ot age, ain.l was not liable to
be had by an indenture, althonah the time of his
apptebticelliip had not eepired, as he had bound him.
fell, and an p' fon covenanted with him, and they
unded their ohjeCtions nn a cafe which came before
LoLrd Keeton, in the year 1794, in the cafe of a fe-
male apprentice, who had attained at years of age,
when it was held by the Judges to be the common
law of the la-ad, that no perfbn could be bound to
any aft, by common indenture, after they bad at.
tained s t years of age, and the Magiftrates agreeing
to this duarine, as laid down by the learned Gentle
men, agreed, if it could be proved that the upper.-
tice was at years of age, they mutt ditcharge him,
and the Leatr.ed Gentlemen proceeded to call evi-
dence to move his age, bat the witeeffes confining
of hi, mother end friends, who could only nate from
recolkaion the time he was born, which was objedted
tr by Mr. Knave as not the ben evidence to prove
his age, and that the certificate of his balsam ought
to be produced. which kin agreed to by the Ma-
gißrates,tliey rehired to liberate him on this groood.
and were about to commie him under the Aa of
Parliament paged in the oath year of his prefect Ma
jelly, whereby apprentices are compelled to reeve the
log lime during their appeenticethip after their in-
dentures art espied, ot maks Inch to