Star.
London, England, 1822-10-31 00:00:00

TEAR •im's FEAR.

FROM THE MUSEUM; OR, RECORD OF LITERATURE.
Oh, bid no more those eyes of blue
Turn on my once enraptur'd sight ;
Who thinks they speak a language true
May gaze on thee with fond light !
Yet he, by sad experience taught,
Mow false, how fickle is thy heart,
The look, that seem'd with kindness fraught,
Shall hate and curse the coquet's art !
But such o'er me thy magic spell,
These lips shall no harsh word express;
My changing looks alone shall tell,
Thy frown and smile can blast or bless!
Then turn no more those spell-skill'd eyes
On Love, that, struck with doubts, is dead;
Lest thou, a witness of my sighs,
Spite of thy scorn, a tear-drop shad !
And, see, it falls !—oh, let me take
This omen of thy heart's distress,
That comes, Love's fever'd thirst to slake,
Like manna in the wilderness !
The crystal drop, that on thine eyes
Now hangs, from Love shall banish Fear,
And thus I drown Suspicion's lies,
By kissing off the tell-truth tear ! • •

Earl SPENCER left town yesterday on a visit to Mr.
and Lady ANN COKE, at their seat, in Norfolk.

Colonel and Lady ELEANOR LOWTHER have arrived on a visit
to Colonel ALoxc►roa, at his seat, Fis3ehead, Northamptonshire,
from the Earl of LONSDALeS seat, Lowther, Westmoreland.

Departures from Warne's Hotel, Conduit•street :—Mr. and
Mrs. UssoaNE, for Worthing ; Mr. and Mrs. STANLEY, for Salis-
bury; Miss BETIMES, and Miss Duuas, for Wrothatu, Kent;
Colonels MILLS, for Blandford.

The Silver Medal of the Inner Leven Golfing Society was
played for on Tuesday, the Ist inst. and, after a keen contest,
was won by Mr. Alexander Wallace, Parkhill ; after which
twenty-five Gentlemen sat down to dinner in the Society's Hall,
and spent the evening In the greatest conviviality.

Sunday se'nnight, a remarkable electrical pheno-
menon was exhibited at Perth, between nine and ten
o'clock in the morning, in the house of Mr. JOHN
RAMSAY, fishing-tackle-maker, High-street. As Mrs.
RAMSAY sat by the fireside, she was disturbed by a
loud rumbling noise descending the chimney. (The
house is three stories high, and Mrs. RAMSAY'S is the
lowest.) Starting back, she was instantly surrounded
by a flame; and an explosion having taken place, the
room was filled with smoke and sulphureous vapour.
The fluid shattered two panes of glass in a back win-
dow, and scattered the fragments to a distance of ten
or twelve feet. The polished wires of several new
bird-cages in the room were covered as if with rust,
by the action of the fluid before it escaped. The noise
was heard at a considerable distance, and threw the
neighbourhood into great agitation. Mrs. RAMSAY
sustained no personal injury.

The good people of Shropshire are in great hopes
of a contested Election for the County, an event which
has not occurred for upwards of a century; the last
contests in that county being in the years 1710, 1713,
1714, and 1722. At present only one candidate has
declared himself, but eight others are named as
aspiring to the honour.
Mr. SCARLETT has declared himself a candidate
for the representation of the University of Cambridge.
Mr. OWRN.—This Gentleman has visited the Duke
of LEINSTER, at Carton, and has had interviews with
several of the Nobility and Gentry in Dublin and its
vicinity, relative to the introduction of his system
into Ireland. A Public Meeting will be assembled
as soon as circumstances will admit, when Mr. Owen
will explain bis views, in a manner, we trust, satisfac-
tory to all who are not viilfully blind.—Dublin Paper.
Last night, at eight o'clock, fourteen male trans-
ports, who are sentenced for life, were removed from
Newgate by the Nelson Portsmouth coach, in order
to be put on board a vessel for New South Wales.
They were strongly guarded, are mostly young men,
and their conduct was very orderly.
Yesterday forenoon, a very impudent robbery was
committed at the house of Mr. James Lahey, Nor-
wich-roads Kennington. The servant girl went out
on some errand to a shop in the neighbourhood,
leaving the door unlatched, and only just closed, andl
during her short absence some thief entered and took
from the parlour a writing-desk, containing 70 so-
vereigns, a 101. note, six silver spoons, and some me-
morandums. The thief contrived, for the present,
most effectually to elude pursuit.

MR.: BUNT. LiBEBATION.
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=TRACT OP A LETTER FROM ILCHISTER,
TWILLVZ O'CLOCK, TUIDIDAY NIGHT.
The term of Mr. Hunt's severe imprisonment has
at this hour expired, and as the last sound of the
Castle clock had tolled twelve, the stir was illumi-
nated by a volley of fireworks, rockets, &c. which
were discharged from a field adjoining this town, and
gave a signal to Mr. Hayward, of Mudford, a place
four miles digakt, to make ltis neighbourhood re-
sound with the glad tidings, as loud as the roar of a
few cannon planted on his demesne could effect that
purpose. Cannon, it was said, would also be dis-
charged in this town, but an imitation of their noise
was only conveyed by the explosion of some gun-
powder which was plugged in the hollow of an anvil.
Notwithstanding the expected assemblage of persons
to grace to-morrow's procession, present appearances
do not indicate any great popular effervescence. Sir
Charles Wolseley, and Mr. Northmore, of Exeter, ar-
rived early in the day: they are the sureties of Mr.
Hunt, and will accompany him in his barouche
to-
morrow. It was expected that the principal would
have left the jail at midnight, as Sir Charles Wolseley
did at Abingdon; but he will not, however, quit his
prison abode until eight o'clock to-morrow morning.
Various rumours were afloat in the course of the
evening, of expected detainers for debt against him,
the lodgement of which would impede, if not alto-
gether obstruct, the arrangements for the procession
to-morrow, as the Sheriff resides sixteen or seventeen
miles from the town, and the intervening time would
not admit of the necessary communication with him
to relieve the prisoner from the present operation of
legal process. But for these rumours it would seem
there has been no foundation; for when the doors of
the jail were locked at ten o'clock this night, no de-
tainer was lodged with the keeper, Mr. Hardy, and
nothing but a regular caption can impede his exit
from the prison at the regulated hour in the morn-
ing. At half-past eight o'clock he will be drawn
from the jail to the Castle Inn in a barouche, where
he will partake of a public breakfast; after which,
with banners and bands of music, he will proceed in
full procession to Somerton, where he will stop, it
seems, and inspect some ingenious clocks manufac-
tured by a resident at that place. He will then open
his Court Leet, and put Mr. Northmore in possession
of some lands upon his manor, which confers a right
of voting in the county, and he will afterwards par-
take of a public dinner at the George Inn.
On Friday morning he means to proceed through
Shepton Mallet to Frome, and from thence through
Warminster on his road to Middleton Cottage, near
Andover. Several Addresses will be presented to
him in the course of his journey, and a large silver
flagon and salver have just arrived at the Castle Inn,
the elegance of the workmanship of which was most
striking. The following inscription, emblazoned on
their surface is not less elegant:

" TO Tilt PATRIOT N. HUNT, 131 Q.
" The inflexible, the persevering, the undaunted champion of
the tights and liberties .f his fellow men, this flagon is presented
by the people .f Somerset, on the S•th of October, 1822, the
joyful day of his liberation from a cruel and unjust incarceration
.f two years and six months in the county jail of Somerset, since
appropriately named Ikhester Bastile, as a great memorial of the
just sense they entertain of his unparalleled and successful ex-
ertions in the cause of humanity and freedom—exertions which
brought to light the most fiend-like practices, and the most diabo-
lical acts of persecution and torture, together with the most
wanton and wasteful expenditure of the county money, long
sanctioned by the Court's negligence, whose duty it was to have
protected a prisoner from cruelty and imprisonment, and the
rate payers of the county from plunder."
Signed by the Committee.
The inscription on the salver is—" To the patriotic friend of
the people, H. Hunt, Esq. this salver, belonging to and accom-
panying the flagon, is presented by the undersigned Committee
on behalf of the People of the County of Somerset, on the 30th
of October, 1822, the day of his liberation from Ilchester Bastile.
On it they proudly record their just abhorrence of the cruel,
vindictive, and oppressive sentence which consigned him to a
dungeon for two years and six months, and to which unjust in-
carceration were superadded by the local authorities, restrictions
at which humanity shuddered, the sympathies of the people were
roused. At the sound of their indignant voice the inmost door
of the dungeon flew open, the jailer was dismissed, disgraced,
abashed, and confounded ; the jail was ordered to be razed to the
ground, and Somerset redeemed her character."

Very few persons have arrived here tonight, but
bonfires are now blazing on the hills, and it is an-
nounced that numbers v►ill enter the town to-morrow.

A partial illumination took place last night, in the
neighbourhood of Whitechapel, in the houses of the
friends of Mr. HUNT, in consequence of his liberation
from prison.
Saturday night, some sacrilegious fellows entered
the interior of St. Werburgh's Church, in Derby. and
committed the most wanton and extensive mischief.
The Bible on the desk of the Minister, which was a
handsome folio, nearly new, was cut through the
back, the leaves cut and torn out, and on the front
of the cover an expression of gross indecency was
scored, apparently with a knife or other sharp instru-
ment. Both the Church grayer-books were mutilated
in a similar manner. The pews in the galleries were,
almost without exception, stripped of their linings,
which were cut and torn in the most shameful man-
ner; the hassocks and cushions were cut open, and
their contents strewed in all directions ; and the
Prayer-books, Bibles, &c. destroyed, and thrown
about in the greatest confusion. The curtains of the
pews were also cut in pieces, and left hanging in tat-
tered fragments. Various other depredations and in-
decencies were committed, and the whole presented
a perfect scene of devastation. No trace has yet been
discovered of the perpetrators of this act of wanton
profligacy.
Late on Tuesday evening, as Mr. JASPER JONES,
a Serjeant in the Guards, was proceeding across
Hyde Park from Cumberland-gate, he was attacked
by some women, who managed to rob him of his
watch and seals, with which they succeeded in making
their escape. Information of the robbery, and a de-
scription of the thieves, were lodged yesterday before
the Magistrates of Marlborough-street, to whom it
was also stated, that the greatest excesses, and the
most daring outrages, are nightly committing in the
Parks and at Cumberland-gate, by strong bands of
the worst description of prostitutes, who defy the
watchmen, and actually before their faces commit
the most indecent nuisances and outrageous assaults,
as they can escape with great facility through the
opening where the new grand gate is building, from
Oxford-street into the Park, and should they by any
, chance be pursued, by dodging among the trees they
succeed in getting clear off.

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SPORTI.VG INTELLIGENCE.
NE*AIARKET THIRD OCTOBER OR HOUGHTOR
MEETING, 1 EMIL

IVZIMEIOAT, ocrossa 30.
Subscription Plate of £5O, for 2-yr-olds, carrying 611. lib. and
5-yr-olds, ilsti 101 b. T. Y.C.
Mr. Wyndhasn's b. f. by Bustard, 2 yrs old - - 1
Colonel Synge% b. f. by Whalebone, 2 yrr old - 2
Mr. Roger.'. br. 1. by SeUm, 2 yrs old - - s
Mr. Crockford's b. c. by Selim, a yrs old - • 4
6 to 9 agar Mr. Wyndham's f.
Lord Jersey's Prophet, Sit. 61b. beat Mr. Williamson's Hu.
riet, Sit. T. Y.C. 100 gs. h. ft.-6 to 4on Prophet.
A Gold Cup, value 630 gs. by a Subscription of 15gs, each, for
3-yr-olds and upwards. T. Y.C.
Lord Exeter's Athenian, 5 yrs old, est. - . 1
Lord Jersey's Prophet, 4 yrs old, Sat. - _
Mr. Wyndham's Robin Hood, .5 yrs old, est. Sib. - 3
Mr. Udney's Bumeelde, 6 yrs old, Mt. 131 b.
Mr. Crockford's c. by Selim, 3 yrs old, fist. Sib.
Mr: Williamson's Harriet, 3 yrs old, lit. 81b. . p 4
The Judge placed but three.
2to 1 apt Athenian-3 to 2 apt Prophet-2 to 1 apt Robin Hood.
THE WELLAND HUNT RACES—Ocv. 29.
Hunters' Stakes of 15gs. each, to be rode by tientlemen Owners,
carrying 126 t. Two miles.
Major Harrison's Dipthong
Mr. Joliffe's Louisa
Mr. IL MeUhles Frantic

Mr. Roger..' Dreadnought
Mr. Pearson's Gambler

6 to 4 on the winner.
Sweepstakes of sgs. each, with 20 added.
Mr. Coulson's Frederick - -

Mr. Harrison's Goldfinder

Si: started ; no betting.

1 1
5 2

5 3

2 4
4 dr

THE TWO TROTTING MATCHES FOR THREE
HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS EACH.

Mr. Wxu.s's roan mare, of 16 hands, started yesterday in Ash-
ted Park, to trot over a two-mile circle, sixteen miles and a
half, in an hour, carrying feather weight. The mape performed
as follows: min. sec. min. sec.
First two miles - 7 10 Seventh - - 8 54
Second - - 7 20 Eighth - - 8 12
Third - - 7 14 Half Mile - 4 50
Fourth - - 7 22
Fifth - - 7 50
Sixth - - 8 0

T•tal

59 0

The next Match was to do eight miles in half an hour over
the same ground, with a galloway under 14 bands, belonging to
Mr. Furzeman. This was won easily, with more than two mi.
nutes to spare. Betting was sto 2 against both winning.
SPORTING EXTRA.

The following match, for 500 sovereigns was made at the
Lambton Park Meeting, between Mr. WNIHAII and Mr. Joists
:Slims. Mr. William's Hookey Walker, rode by Major HRALIT,
against Mr. Alu.ts's Little John, rode by the owner, three miles
across the country, the first open day in February. The ground
to be chosen by any Gentleman named by Mr. WITHAM, out of
the county, within eight miles of Melton; but not to be nat.ied
to either of the parties until the morning of running. Day to
be named by Sir DILLINGHAM GRAHAM, Bart.
At Holywell Hunt Meeting Sir T. !dorm, Bart. refused 800
'guineas for Princess Royal, by Castrell, four years old; and 500
guineas for Mercandotti, by Maley, two years old.
KILMANY COURSING CLUB.—FI FE v. ANGUS.
The matches taken on at last Kilmany Meeting were decided
on Wednesday, the 16th inst. when Mr. G. Aitken's black dog,
Wellington, beat Mr. Douglas's yellow bitch, Lady ; Mr. Mel-
drum's black dog beat Mr. Douglas's white dog. The matches
were thus decided in favour of Fife.