Star.
London, England, 1814-12-20 00:00:00

THE DYING PENITENT.

Stretch'd on a bed of penitence and care,
The Wades of death in ev'ry look pourtray'd,
And mark'd with characters of deep despair,
The friendless, suffering Penitent Is laid.
Her eyes fast closing front the light of day ;
Her cheeks with IMd paleness overspread;
The smile enchanting, and eke song so gay,
Are sunk in silence, and in sorrow Bed.
Her heart, which guilty tumults ever seiz'd,
Droops in despondency and sinks in fear ;
And ev'ry thought seducing flattery ;rimed,
I.ives but to draw the sad and frequent tear.
Here, man, behold thy victim; pale in death,
And agonied six lifts to Hearewher eyes;
And while convulsion chokes her fleeting breath,
Pleading for mercy with her tears, she dies!
Nl-here are the charms that won away thy heart !
Those sweets of innocence thy treachery stole f
Canst thou new boast the triumph of thy heart,
And feel remorse a stranger in thy souls
By thee to Infamy and shame betrey'd,
To reason lost the paths of sin she trod,
An outcast wretch upon the world she stray'd,
Abandon'd virtue, and forgot her Gots.
Tet may his rays of mercy, ever kind,
O'er all her-errors, all her #uffertags live;
For penitence sincere, tho' late, will find
The GOD whose frowns are dreadful, can forgive!

The Countess of Rodismunr sojourned at the Old
Ship tavern, in Brighton, three days previous to her
departure, with Sir H. MaimAy, for the Continent.
She came from London in a carriage and four, and
during her stay at the inn observed the utmost seclu-
sion. She had two female attendants, who stiled her
" my lady," but in other respects she Was perfectly
/meg. Sir H. MILDMAY arrived the third day, in a
post-chaise and four, and was known at ,be tavern
only as Mr. St. John. On the following day the party
set off for Newhaven, and took their passage on board
the Wellington packet for Dieppe.
Saturday se'nnight the following afflicting accident
happened at Moughtre, near Newtown, Montgomery.
shire. By the ridden slipping of a quantity of earth,
loosened by heavy rains that had fallen during the
day, a poor cottager's house, built udder a steep
bank, had its walls beaten in, and himself, his wife,
and five small children, were instantly overwhelmed
by a torrent of mud : two of the children were suffo-
cated; one of them was an infant at the breast of its
mother, who suffered the indescribable agony of feel-
ing its last struggles without the possibility of afford-
ing it the least relief : she herself was forced upon the
fire, by which her legs were severely burnt, and her
husband was driven outside the house, and there fixed
in the surrounding ruin, a distressed spectator of the
sufferings of his family, without being able to stir to
their assistance.—The most prompt exertions were
made by the neighbours, but they were unable to re-
move the sufferers from their perilous situation in less
than two hours.
Sunday se'nnight, a man of the name of Burkett,
a joiner by trade, was found dead in Goafitdang
near Denby, supposed to have perished by the incle-
mency of the weather.
Saturday se'night, a young mass called Dyson, was
drowned, in attempting to drive a butcher's cart
through a small brook between Honley and hfeltham.
Thursday, William Hanson, a potter, of Keighley,
fell frOm a cart, and it is supposed injured his spine :
he languished till Saturday morning, when he expired.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Saturday an Inquest was
held at the Ropemaker's Arms, New-street, Dept-
ford, on the body of John Murry, a child four years
old, and Mary Norton, about three years old, who
died last Friday, through taking a large quantity of
'ratsbane. The father of said Murry deposed, that
be and Mrs. Murry were obliged to go out on busi-
ness last Thursday, leaving the deceased and his sister
in their shop. When they returned they found the
boy very ill. They sent for a surgeon, who sad the
child was poisoned, and past relief, but he would
send some medicines. Mrs. Murry recollected they
lately had some ratsbane from a rat-catcher. The
child confessed, that thinking it was sugar, he eat of
it, and gave some to Mary Norton, and also offered
his own sister some, which she refused. He lived
only till the next day, and died in the greatest agony.
G. Norton, father of. Mary Norton, deposed, that his
children daily played with the children of Murry, and
on Thursday evening last his daughter came home as
usual, and shortly after complained of being very ill.
lie sent for a surgeon, who said that she was poi-
soned, and that medicines could be of no use, but
would send what was proper : the child died next
day. Mr. Badden, surgeon, King-street, Deptford,
was sent for to see both the children, and found they
had every appearance of being poisoned. Verdict—
Accidentally poisoned.
On Monday se'nnight, an Inquest sat at Havant,
on the body of an unknown man. Verdict—Died by
the Visitation of GOD. The circumstances attending
the removal of this stranger were very strange and
;Alumni. On Saturdat hat (a very wet day), as
sir. Smith's carter, of We*bourn, wan unloading
corn near the Halfway-houses, Portsea, a woman
came to him from or near Surrey-street, and asked
him if he would convey in his waggon, a man to Ha-
vant, adding, that be had a sister living there, he
Wished to see. The man consented to take him. She
pawned in a short time with a man in a cart, and
actually dragged him from it into the vegans, in a
very unfit debilitated state, while the carter was In
the house taking some refreshment, who imew not
his passenger was a sick man, as no conversation then
or afterwards passed between them. At &entrance
of Havant, the carter bearing is mind what the wo-
man had told him respectiog the sister, thcarght it
prudent to apply to him, and ask him whete he would
down, when, to his great satoaishenent; he found
6 a corpse. Mr. Hicks, the medical gentleman
attendant as the parish, attended, but he was too late.
On examining his pockets, two discharges were found,
the we from his Majesty's ship Dryad, the other
from the Shannon, of Jamie Pittman, which name
eras written oa his left arm in Indian ink : also in cash
wo shillings and ninepmce.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUINTANCR•FOT three weeks
previous to the 26th of November, the doors of York
Jail were daily thrown open for free egress and re.
mess, there not being a single prisoner toufwed within
a, wail% fog citiba debt Of 4,06