Star.
London, England, 1825-05-12 00:00:00

" That every man might keep his oWn possessions,
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Our fathers lived in reverent processions,
(With zealous prayers and many a praiseful cheers)
To walk their parish limits once a year;
And well-known marks (which sacrilegious bands
Now cut or break) so border'd out their lauds,
That very one distinctly knew his own,
And many brawls, now rife, were then unknown."
In Lyson.s Environs of London, in the Churcht:
warden's books of children, here is the following sin*
gular entry : •
1670, spent at the perambulation dinner ;e3 10 0
Given to the buys that were shirt 0 4 0-
Paid for poynts for the boys 0 2 O.
The mist •m of beating the lrundaries, an Ascension.
Day, prevails in sevt.ral large tow's in England, as wet'
as in Lon.!on.
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Among the dens of infamy which surround the two,
reit %inter Theatres, is a public-house in Long-acre,
known by the sign of the Queen's Heal. In this hotear•
gangs of male and female thieves rendezvous every
night, 1, screwing their courage to the sticking-place,
With gin, ribaldry. and tobacco, until the breaking up-
of the Theatres calls them forth to plunder. The Ma—
gistrates have frequently cautioned the landlord against •
harbouring such gentry; but Boniface has always ex;--
, cused himself by saying he did not know a thin fiona
an honest man; and it was not for him to ax a &minas;
for a certificate of character before he ventured to chaste
him a glass of gin—public-houses were public-houses;
and as long as folks paid for what they drank, he did
not see what business he had to trouble his head about
their characters. At length the Magistrates being de-
termined to put some check
.upon the thing, -issued an
order for a general clearing put of mine host's rookery;
and the execution of this order was intrusted to Pcrr),
Nicholls, and Morris, with the parties of patrol of'
which they are the conductors. They entered the hou e
en masse, about eleven o'clock, on Tuesdiy night ; and
in a back room, which has a communication with aos
obscure Court leading into Hart-street, they found
twenty-three •men and women drinking, singing,
and swearing, amidst a 'cloud of tobacco smoke, so
dense, that the walls of the room were invisible. -A.
coup le grab was immediately effected wl!hout mock
trouble, and the whole company was transferred to
the watch-house.
Yesterday mm fling they wee brought before Sir
Rion tan BIRNIII and 'Mr. HALLS, when sixteen of-
them were committed to thellouse of Correcti" as
known thieves by profession; and the other Seven, whose
profession was somewhat doubtful, were discharge Iwith .
an admonition for their future government.
After they had be thus disposed of, the la Alcird
olthe house, who had been summoned to atteni, was
" hauled over the coals," ashe called it, and though he
contended, as usual, that it was 4, none Of his business
to be prying into folks's characters," the Magistrates
convicted him in the penalty of 51. for harbouring
thieves and prostitutes, which conviction he liery pathe-
tically denominated a burning shame."
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The King of Nart.es has jutted a Decree.wisich
joins all the Officers in his Atmy and Navy mho live •
in a state of concubinage, or have natural children, tri •
contract marriage immediately with the mothers of
those children, or to consider themselves dis:harged
from his service.
Brussels and Ghent Papers to the 8 h instant have
reacheJ us. They contain a curious ankle on the at-
tempts which it seems are about to be made in Amster
darn to raise a Loan for the Spanish Government, ail.
'Paris and London have been tried fruitlessly. Fentofri
NAND is perhaps determined, upon the strength of the'
ancient reputation of the Dutch (who are said at Her.
gen-op-Z torn to have sold powder to their besiegers).
to try whether by a new Loan they can relieve him
from the necessity' of acknowledging the old ones. We
see by these Papers, that at Antwerp the rare of ex-
change has nude gorse a slight change in' favour of this
country. On the 29th of Aril the exchange on,Lons
•don was quoted. at. 39.4.. short paper; on the 6th May
'lt was 39. Si. to 6.