Star.
London, England, 1807-12-04 00:00:00

THE BACHELOR.

How weary and how woe begone at eve,
Sits the lona Bachelor, and on fah mind,
Save where a cheerful fire imparts its beam,
No ray of varied happinefs fteals in !
Far luckier wight, who proud of youthful grace,
Ambles at evening with fume fportive nynn.b,
By lamp light freqm:nt view'd with draggled tail,
Sempftrefs, or milliner, or ferving-maid,
But he more bleft who wait' the poltruati's knock.
Prompt to decypher hieroglyphic (crawls,
In lovely charades., by his fair one feats
Cupid entangling every mazy line,
Till forth he flies to know her tweet Intent :
When happly met, they interchange loft look.,
Vow, ere they part. eternal conftancy.
Nor dream a fortnight is its lorugeft date.
And trav'lling farther on life's thorny road.
lieliold the married man—vagaries gone.
And all the pride of youthiut folly rpm,
Hair breadth &apes, and quarrels nightly Wee
Jufticial admonitions, fly intrigues,
Lanterns defpoitd, and !entry-boa laid fiat,
And hobbling veskan in the kennel rolVd,
All vanilb'd like " the fabric of a dream,"
He fits him down the l'apasiill man on earth;
Tin thoufand cares all dancing in his brain.
Blctt with a tender, loving, fcolding wife,
Five children here—there 6'ty debts unpaid,
Duns, dodo, s, ed..c ition, matters books,
Taxes and petticoats, and taylors' bills,
And all the plagues they call" dsose/licftwer: ,"
At time returning to his homely fare,
In fancy 'limiting o'er a favonry chop,
With pickle.' drelt, and ferv'd on cleanly plate,
AlliaZ.4 he fees his honk into Iv'd in fm.the.
From gaping copper, rais'd in murky clouds;
I-7e bun its 011 in Parch of babes and wile,
And hear. her warbling ditties at a tub,
Immered in froth, the deity ef fuds.
In vain his ftomach cries for eatables;
Stearn'd out and dripping like an unwrung Caret,
He hies him to hone akhoufe fire to dry.
Yet are there plesfures in the married hate,
And I the Taft tht.t would decry their worth,
Though clouded, yet at leaft fuperior decm'd
To uniform and (allele!. celibacy ;
Where the few " virtues walk their narrow Ti and,"
Woe-thief-a without the fans% u of the fair.
How lucklifs he who loiters by the Stream
Till the belt chant, of pleafure Is gone by,
And his frail bark links in the rufby flood

GLASGOW, NOVEMBER zB.

The weather has, for the ha fortnight, been in.
tegfely cold. The thermometer, at eight o'clock la
the morning, has more than once indicated a degree
of cold in this place i z degrees below the freezing
point. "l'his morning it war 16 degrees below freez-
ing. The Clyde has been completely frozen over all
this week ; an event which the olden perfon here does
not remember to have happened before, in the month
of N.)vember. There have been great falls of fnow
in the neighbourhood ; and twice during this week
the fall here has been conliderable.

DittllY Law e.—The Opera of Fall; Awns was
last bight performed, for the WI time this feafon.
A new long was introduced by BRAMAN, the air of
which is the compofithn of Mr. ADDLSUN, and it was
much applauded. The Melo Drama of tiles Rafraterg
followed ; a piece which dill pleafes more on repeti-
tion than at brit fight.
Covasr GAILDIOI.—.-The Opera of Two FaCtl oar&
a Rood was performed; and Mrs. Mottoes, who is
recovered from her indifpofition, fupg charmingly,
—The intereding Drama of the 174nd Al was per-
formed, for the third time, with increated faced's.,
It was greatly applauded.

A new Pantomime was rehearfed, yenerday, at
Drury-lane Theatre, which will be ready for repre-
fentation as loon as the popular Entertainment of
Eta Rofiaierg abates in attrattion.
The Annual Theatrical Performances at Wetimia.
tier School have commenced. The charafters in
Tunics's Fut:yaw were well fuliained Meflrs.
BULL, PRISTeII, VERNON, RICHARDS, SALTER,
CHILL, RALD LPN, GRIFFITH, MURR, LIFFUILD,
and SANDILASIDS•
The Archdeacnnry of Winchefter, vacant by the
demife of Dr. WOODFORD, has been conferred by the
Efts sp on his fon in law, the Hon. and Rev. Tn °Nal
DR Gam

In confeepumce of the infirm Elate of health of the
veneratle Earl of Covsnrav, Lord Lieutenant of
Worcettertbire, Lord Des a H ties? has been appointed
Vice Lord Lieutenant, in order to trantaet the buff.
neg..; of the Lieutenancy.
Saturday night, Ain Harrifes, under fentcnce of
►ra liport ation, e'caped from Glouceiler city gaol.
A ferhus dilturbance occurred yeflerday morning,
in confer:peace of two foldiers having made their
appearance in a brick field near Battle Bridge, in
tcarch of Mahony, a deferter. The man was found
by the foldiers, and contented to go with them, but
after he had left the field about eight of his fellow
labou:ers followed, and commenced an attack on the
foldiers in Gray's Inn Lane, in order ►o refcue their
prifoner. A ferious conflia enfued, and after an
affray which tatted fame time, during which the fol.
diets procured other *Mance, Mahony efcaped.—
Two of the labourers were conveyed away by their
companions much bruited, and a young man, of the
name of Howeil, a flonemafon, who interfered for
the foldiers, was taken to the Hofpital with his head
cal, and otherwife much bruited.

The Confujnn of the Philofeger Square, on king drfco•
vered by yones in Molly Sear:net Garret.—A Print from
this fulled, engraved by HEATH, from a maßerly
Painting by De sits, adorns the Third Part of the new
Monthly Edition of Tom Jones, Which was publithed
on Tuefday laa, price 2s. 6d.
THE Cowlitz. --ikastacit, Nov. 25.—1 t was only
owing to the bright moon-light that the Comet was
I .vifible for a few nights, for it was perceived again
on the evening of the zoth inft. and on the 2 tft, at
7 ht sirs 35 min. P. M. mean time; its.dillance from
Lyra was t deg. 4.0 min.. the Comet being imme-
diately under Lyra, the coma extending weakly to
Lyra, and nucleus faint. On the 22d, at 7 hours,
14 min. its diftance from Lyra was only 48 min. in
the vertical, whole azimuth is nearly %V. by N. and
at 7 hours, 33 min. mean time, P. M. fame evening,
i is right afcenfion was 277 deg. 20 min. and its de-
' clination 47 deg. 52 min. 26 fec. North, fo that it
never let, in this latitude. On the 23d, about 5
hours P. M. the Comet palled by Lyra, dillant about
15 min. at the nearefl approach. On the 24th, at 3
hours, 25 min. P. M. mean time, the Comet was N.E.
of Lyra, and diflant from it t dcg. 36 min. 20 fec.
The dirtaion of the Comet is now towards our
zenith. -

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31.10T1C IL ISTBLLIGEIVer.

MAILS—:Wind W.
Alt. Dor. Aut. out.
Dublin - o 1 Lifbon - o 0
Wart.tionl I 1 I Gottenbnith 0 3

PLYMOUTH, DEQEMBER s.

Came in, the HIWDOSTAW, of 5o guns, from the
Down., with feveral tranfports under convoy ; the
Rost, of t 8 guns; from a cruize. Sailed, the Eii.
weavoua, of to guns, with a fleet to the Weftward,
but put back agaih by contrary wind ; and the
PICKLE, of to guns, with a fleet under convoy for
the Downs.