Star.
London, England, 1807-02-02 00:00:00

i!'►RIN BY MR. TILL.

The Ireftive year enjoins us to renew
Ow Clade Scene and hail the generous few,
Who here, oft 'likening to the Orphan's tale,
Have learnt at once to fuccour and bewail.
Hard is the tat, when Striplings dare afpire
To wake, in Grecian ',trains, the tragic fire ;
Beyond their native Mures haunts to roar,
And reek the rougher paths of ancient lore.
Our weak attempts, yet unadorn'd by art.
Derive their only merit-.from the heart !
What time immortal bit t. son's fquadrons faw
Their thunders ftrike the foe with yielding awe.
How many fad furvivors mourned the brave
Entombed beneath the blood-Ail-colored wave !
A NATION% liberal FUND their want* rupplics ;
On private griefs we turn our pitying eyes ;
Nor in a trivial elide your favour claim,
But plead, in Meacv's eonfeerated name.
For Iftiviers indigence we dare appear,
And truft her voice will meet a fanaion here..-a
Weak is the arm, which Arm protedion gave,
A finking family from want so !live ;
And faded is that cheek, once wept to glow
With fympathetie zeal for others' woe ;
Fele Sicknefs o'er the languid Ramie is (peed;
Yet Mcd'cine's power (hail wife the drooping bead.
By Virtue's Eons a pious fabric reared
Hat fofteued forrow, and aftlialon cheered :
There the (wilt progres of difesfe is (Laid,
And new-boni Health reveres the generous aid.
If fort Humanity from Valour draws
The nobleft aim that dignifies her elute,
BRITON a, attend ! 0 may that patriot band,
Who fought and conquered in CA LA as lA% land,
By their fair deeds your kindred bofoms move
To efts of Charity and public Love !
Yes*, who o'er 0x ro D'S peaceful feats prefide,
Of every Mufc the guardians and the pride.
Tie yoar's to bout, that 'midft the fretted towers,
By Learning media Academic bowers,
Fair CITA ally her hallnw'd fire (applies.
And bids her glad Afylum t court the ties !
Scienee,with you,not Allied in torpid frog,
Nor in a mazy round of mufings loft,
Difilains in floshfhl apathy to m..ve,
But melts the heart, and prompts to deeds of love.
Of weary age to cheer the drooping heart,
To weakners ftrcngtb, co ficknefs cafe impart,
Snatch the pale youth, pfi finking to the tomb,
And chafe his mournin, partner'. anxious gloom ;
Such be your praife : and if, with kindred fire,
•ur youthful Lams humbly would afpire,
With healing draughts front fair ILTSSUe ftream,
From pain one fainting brother t. redeem,
With cleric wreaths intwine (oft Pity's brows
While Drift& hearts with Grecian ardor glow;
If ruch our aim, then let your favorite caufe
The Critic (often, and furpend his laws :
Teach us,by your approvingfmiles, to know
This lured truth—enough for Man
Learning and Virtue for one end were giv'n,
To biers Mankind, and point the way to Navin I
• The Triennial Villtora.
t The Oxford Infirmary.

LAN INTELLIGENCE.

coußr OF KING'S BENCH, JAN 3t.
ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.
THE KING V. HENRY Lurr.—The defendant was
the reputed father of a ballard child, of the body of
one Mary Taylor, the wife of one Henry Taylor,
who was abfent from his wife, and had not accefs to
her at the fuppofed period of the procreation, hut
who returned jull previous to the birth of the child.
Two Jallices made an order of baftardy againil him,
and upun appeal to the Seffions the fame was con.
finned. It was now moved to path the order of
Juflices, and the order of Seffions, upon the follow.
ing grounds—ift. That it appeared by the order that
Mary Taylor had been examined to prove the non-
accefs of her hut:band, which by law (he could not
be admitted to do. Secondly, that the fiatutes 6 Geo.
11. C. 31. and t 8 Elizebeth, which gives the Jullices
power to make an order of affiliation, do not apply
except as to cafes where the ballard is born of a fin•
dle woman ; and laflly, that it appeared by the r .
er in terms that the hufband had accefs to his wire
, during a part of the period of her pregnancy, and
therefore by the law of England the child was not a
ballard, but the legitimate iffue of the hofband.
The material words of the order, upon which there
quefiions occurred. were—" Whereas it appeared
tr. us, as well upon the oath of Mary Taylor as other-
wife, that the raid H. Taylor had not acceli to her
from the 9'h of April, 1804, till the 9th day of
June, 1806," the child being born upon the 13th day'
of July, tBc6, being about a fortnight after the lc
turn of H. Taylor to cohabit with his wife.
The cafe was argued 1.). Mr. ST( ICES, Ifor the
Refpondents, and Mr. WILSnN, Mr. A LDi vox, ae,d
Mr. KING, for the Appellants, and the following
cafes were cited—Rex v. Albei ton, 1. Lord Rayne's,
395 ; 2. Salk. 483 ; Rex v. St. Brides, r. Str. 5 ;
Pendrel v. Ptlldrel, 2. Sir. 925 ; 2. Bait, 447 ;
Rex v Bedall, z. Str. 1073 ; Thomfon v. Saul, 4.
Term Rep. 356 ; Rcx v. Reading, Ca. Temp.
Hard. 79.
Lord ELLENROIOUGH, C. J.—Three oblations
have been taken to this order —Fir% that the wife
is fuppofed have been examined generally upon
oath as to the fad of the non•accefs of her hulband,
and that the convidion is founded upon the evidence
of the wife alone. Whereas it is laid down, that an
order of tbi, kind cannot be made on the evidence
of the wife alone, but there mull be other evidence
of the non.accefs. The next obje&ion is, as to the
flatute.; of the 6 Geo. z. c. 31. and the i 8 of Eliz.
The order is founded noun one of thofe Rotates, and
it is now made a quell ion, whether this cafe conies
within them ? and next, that this is a legitimate child
born within lawful wedlock, inafmuch as it appears
that the father returned within a fortnight before the
birth of the child, and it malt, by law, be taken to