Star.
London, England, 1807-09-03 00:00:00

THE MARTNER'6 DREAM.

In ^,lm/Nets air trirl.i.lo, rt. • S,iinr.t.ny lay.
Ills hammock fwung loofe at the (port of the wind,
DUI wai eh win it atoll Vet any, his h art, flow aw..y,
AO cation' of happinels dane'd o'er his mind.
He dreamt of his Louie, of his dear natio. howi rs.
Aid plesfore that waited on lifc's merry morn—
While kleioory flood fsilevrays. half cover d with flowers,
And relined every tole, Lint Patted is thorn.
Then Fancy her magical pinions fpread
And bade the young dreamer in t cilacy rife;
Now far, far behind him the green waters glide,
And the c3t of his forefathers blrfies his eyes.
The j !famine clambers in ff tw r o'er the thatch,
And the fwallnw fings fwe, t from the nal in the wall;
All trembling with tranfport, he rages the 13tch,
And the voicts of I wed ones reply to his rail.
A Giber her.d• net bins with looks of delight,
His cheek is intpearl'd with a mother's warm tear;
And the lips of the boy in a lnve kits unite,
With the lips of the maid whom his hofom holds dear.
The heart of the Beeper beats high in his breaft,
Joy quickens his pulfe—all his hardiltips Item o'er,
g
Anti a
Ohmr of happinefs Beals throuh his reft
" Gi•mD thi.o haft theft me, I elk for no Tam C."
And whence is that flame which now hurfts on his eye ?
Ali ! what is that found which now !amens his eat ?
'Tit the lightning's red glare, painting hell on the Bey ;
'Pis the cralhing of thunders, the groan of the fphere!
He fprings from his hammock—he flies to the deck ;
A nsaz-ment confronts him with images dire—
Wild winds and mad waves drive the veffel a wreck,
The malts fly in (philters, the &rots& are on fire!
Like mountins the billows tremendoufly
fwell—
In vain the loft wretch calls on nirrcv, to Pave;
Utile .n hands of fpirits are ringing his knell,
And the death Angel flaps his broad wings o'er the wave !
0, S.,ilor boy! woe to thy dream of delight !
In darknefs dillolves the gay froft-work of hlifs—
Where new is the t inure that fancy tnuch'd bright,
Thy parents fond preffure, and love's honey'd kits ?
0 Sailor boy, Sailor-hay ! never again
Shall home. love, Or kindred, thy wishes repay;
Unblefed and unhonour'd, down deep in the main
Full many a (core fathom thy frame- (hall decay.
No tomb (hall e'er plead for remembrance to thee,
Or redeem form or frame ft n.is the =reliefs (urge.
But the white foam of waves IA thy winding (hut be,
And winds in the midnight of winter thy dirge.
On beds of green fea•fkwer thy limbs (hall he laid,
Armand thy white hones the red coral (hall grow ;
Of thy fair yellow locks threads of amber be made,
And every part fuit to thy niatifilati below.
Days, months. years, and ages (hall circle away,
And Bill tie van waters above thee (ball roll.
Earth Ides thy battery for ever and aye—
Oh, Sailor boy, Sailor-boy ! peace to thy foul!

INTARtSTIAG FACTS AND OBSEkPAT

MADE AND coLLFcryn PRINCIPALLY BY AN EYE WIT-
NIISS, NOW AT HULL, YkRY RECENTLY RLTUINED
FROM THE CON tINENT.

'EMPEROR OF FRANCE.
Every circumilance e.,nneeted with the iv Utica
chatafter and condua of Bonaparte, indicates the
molt irnpofing fuperiority of mind ; not, however,
of an enviable kind. It may indeed cx. ite the alto-
nilhment of the wife and good, but is in no refFeCt
calculated to ((cute their chem. In many of his per.
f.rnal habits, Bonaparte carries his temperance and
fell denial to an almoß unparalleled extreme :—lt is
well known, that at TWIT he did not Ileep mote than
two hours in the 24. N►ght after night, at twelve
u'cl.tck, he went, alone, to the refidence of the Em.
peior Alexander, and continued with him until lour
in the mot ning. In this cafe, he was his own nego
eiator , and when two filch heads come into collirettn,
it is eat's, to predict the refult. Bonaparte on every
public oc. ation, manifelts to the world the moll pro.
f d knowledge of human nature and national cha-
tatter, and never fails to turn this knowledge to his
own advantage : It is the compafs by which he go-
verns his pall ical progrefs with undeviating fuccefs
on the Continent. Surrounded by an army, whole
intetelts and views he afreas to affintilate with his
own ; by a fingularly anomalous p 'icy, or tyger-
monkey management of (tripes and carelfes, exactly
adapted t-t the en cumliances of the times and temper
of the penile with whom he has had to 60, he fuc-
cefli‘ely wins over !heir befitted acquiefcence with
I.is ambitious fehemes of univerfal dominion, and
sive, then chains in th•e face of open dey.
During the late negocistions, the Emperor Alex.
ander and the King of Prullia nut only graced his
rides, the one on his tight, and the other on his left
hattds, but an exprefs was difpatched for the Qlieen
of r, ni to attend at Tilfit : She obeyed, and was
efeorted by twit French Mal lbah ; and on her artiste'
on the oppolite tide of the river, Bonaparte immedi-
ately feet a merfage, expi calve of his ferrow that he
could nta wait on her pet fonally, as the was on enemy's
ground ; bet if the would crab the bridge to Tilfit,
he would be pi oud to pay her his relpeets—this the
did, and he was inßantly in her pitlence, and tuani-
felted the greatell politenefs ani attention to her.—
In his exterior appearance, he Areas the utruoit
fimplicity and plainnefs, and whillt his Mai filets are
tticked out in the molt gaudy !tile that can pcably
. be conceived, his own drefs is a plain green coat,
without ornament or infignia, and a plain cocked hat,
with the tri.colnured cockade. In his petcon, he is
about the middle fine, and rather inclined to be ain't,
his countenance exhibits a fickly appearance—the
natural confcqueices of his habits and exertions,
which art Inch, as it might be very reafnnebly con•
eluded, no ph) tical c••nttitution could poLlibly
'FILSIT, RIGA, EYLAU, FREYDLAND SICK
AND WOUNDED, Dec. &e.

On the French foldiery taking poffeffinn of Tilfit,
the town was given up to plunder for two days, and
fcenes of excels, equally thotking to decesicy and hu-
manity , took (lice : Order, however, WAS at length
rellored, and a new fcene nt things opened to the
view of the altonillied inhaisitants ; the French troops
( About 2 5,000 in number) relcafed from the harifbips
of a campaign, undertook to exemplify in a vet y
1111101,a way, that verfatility of charaticr for which
they have long been proverbial amongst their
neighbours : they collcaed in the fuburbs of Tillit,
the wteck of tome hundreds of villages (chiefly wood)
wantrmly deatoyed in their progrels, and with thole
they railed, in about three days, and at, it were by
tntgic, an extensive town, after the German lafhinn,
with many o Teets, and fufficteotly large to accommo•
date thtil whole body ; they neat cut up a very fine
wood in the ueighhuwhood, confining of leveret
thoufands of trees, which they traaported to the
fzenc cf their operatiou,, and plants 4, is ihw lulu.

riant foliage, in avenues in every greet cal ;his New 1
Pandemonium ; and to curntsleae the whole. every
man who had any thing like a 1. Stock in Trade,"
opened a (hop. On Bonaparte's enreling Tilly, he
took lip his abode in the tintile of a person 'IT-epee.
tability, who expreffed his regret, that, itic..nfecptenee
of the plundering of the place, he had it not in his
power to accommodate him in a fnitatde :tile, a fill
dier having (lolen all Iris plate ; the Emperor exp-ef-
fed himfeif quite fatisfed with his fitnaticin. His hnfi
took the liberty of introducing the fithj; et of his Itolen
plate a fecond and a third time, in hope; of having it
related ; at lafl the Emperor fileneed him by a
contempritous anfwer. At (upper, the Great Man
asked for Come particular kind of wine ; his hollers
fent in a very fubmi(Gve mefrage to ittfoim him, that
they had been plundered 4 that wine ; he laid, it ninft
be forthcoming. Perfons were initantly eifpatched
through the town to procure it, but returned without
fuceefs ; he then ordered them to fend to a perfon,
whom he named, to a patfcular Itreet and hrufe,
and they would find what he wanted ; this was ac-
cordingly done, and the wine was procured. During
the period of the negocial ions, the two Emperors and
the King of Pruffia dined together almoil daily, and
were feldom feparated. Some r f the parry appeared
determined to enjoy every loam y, whillis at the fame
time, their armies, and efpet hilly the wretched and
unfheltered inhabitants of the fuirounding country,
were experiencing all the hotritts of famine. In
Tilfit provifions were enormoutly high ; amhngll the
Ten, lump fugar was he (billings per pound, and
porter five (hillings a bottle ; forage was neatly ex-
handed, the little hay which was left, fold at one
(hiding per pound, and the French dragoons feel
their hotfes with rice.
At Memel, every thing was crnftifi-n and difirefs;
all the churches (one excepted), were filed with the
lick and wonoded foldi:rs, and the wood work torn
up and converted into foci, which was exceedingly
fcarce and dear. And at Riga, ft r many days,
hundreds of fnal' waggons came in, laden with the
Ruffian folefiery, lick, or laving from wounds ;
there were c;cpttfred on the beach, in order to their
beirg (hipped for their own country, a:.d, in this fl-
tuation, they lay expofed to the fern ciii,g rays cf the
sun by day, and the chilling dews by 'siert ; very
few of them had a hat, or any ocher covering than a
worn out watclnchat, and feateely a drelliog to their
wounds i in this ft nation they continued three days
and nights, doling which th trt period no I.ls than I
forty terminated their n ifertes in death, and were
tuceeffively thrown into large in les, dog in tl.e land
for the psi' pole. One of thefe wretched beings, on
being placed in the grave la ith hi. I.lelefs companions,
made a firtigg'e to exti'eate hit-dell fun prematute
inteiment, and was taken out, and furvived long
enough to be carried on board a tranfpott--anothet,
trout the arny be luffeteel, was induced to beg, for
pity's fake, that he might he lurid afire; wMch was
aectjrdingly complied with ! The fur Wlvors had no
oth..r fuflenanee' than bread made of the worst part
uf rye, fo hard, that it could not be eaten, and
.fir
coarfe, that the French foldiers declared it was only
tit fur itsilficanr and Horror. In fur veying this fcene of
lupreme wietcherihefs, in company with a Ruffian
gentleman, our informant was accosted by one of
chefs nitietable beings, apparently in the haft agonies
uf death, but ignorant of his language, he am lied
to his compati n for an explanation ; the answer
was, " He begs yt u, for CHsttaT's fake, to give him
a gros to buy a little frelh bread." Affelling as fuch
a reene mutt be to a mind ptiffelfeel of the least fpaik
t,t humanity, the fun ohndin4 nsuititude lurveyed it
with the moi lltipid and unfeeling indiffer vice ; and
our informant enn.haticaliy declared, that an Ehg
liihman whim' not have
ileAttd his nog with that in
humanity, which the brave Ruffian [oldie's expe-
rienced ft om their countrymen and ireiglib.utts.
With the ciicumitances and refult i.f the battle of
Fteyaland, the pubfi.; ate already pretty well ere
(painted. It appeals to have been fanginnary alrnolt
ueyottei example ; it continued until both
if limiur !buck, and by mutual cunfent, ceafcd
from the wink uf deft utlion, arol fiend gazing on
each other, in awful 'lichee, I.r a eollllJerable Lime;
on reileviing the coined, the Ptuflians gave way,
a .d Bonaparte, with hi, ufnal promptitude and pie.
knee cf mind, initantly turned them, and gained a
dear bought, but &calve vieloty. Another filch
would have been his ruin, for it is well known, that
he has drawn out of France, flute the commencement
of horiiiities with Pi ullia, at lean 200,c00 native
Frenchmen, &steely 25,000 of which will ever re-
turn home. About lix weeks alter the battle of
Eylau, an Englifir gentleman was led by coritdity to
vilit the place, which was almoil deferred by its in.
habitants: the front was jell breakir.g tip, and the
Ur Leta pielented a fcene which chilled him will hot-
ran ; they were covered with hundreds of the (lain,
molt of which were naked, and exiiihited the des
Itruflive effeCts cf the bullet, the bayuitet, and the
habit. The countenances of many were marked
with all the fiticeirefs of favage, and the agunies of
expiring 'admits—one uncommonly nail and athletic
man, he oblei Yes), had had his ikuti cloven by the
Mc ke of a fibre, which was not flopped till it
' reached the lower jaw: he refloat ked, that ii.e Ruffians
and French were tardy dittingudhable by the difference
in colour. Atter the battle, the Fieitch cue large
holes in the ice, and threw hundreds i I their dead
into the river ; there, on, the breaking up uf the lien,
floated, and tendered the river a acme
of horror,
equal with that uf the Meets.

A gill, aged 14, has had, tor the hit feven pre-
ceding years of her fife, Iciophulous trims on her
arm►, neck, lisle, and breatts, attended will peat
difcharge, particularly at the periods of Spring
Tlie dileafe bait:a every means employed, when the
tried SPILSBURY'S Patent Antircorbu.tic Drops, and
at this time the has taken five bottles ; the fmaller
ulcers are all healed, itid the taiga ones niakior fair
advances to the time favourable termination, which
we are juititied in concluding tz.iin her mended Bate
of health, probably aiding irons the good health of '
the fecreting glands. Mrs. Dancer, York, will give
further inforniation op application ; and the original
letters may be leen at the Difpenfary, No. Is, S•'ha
Square, .London.-111x. Brit.sausY is not accounta-
ble 14 any mixture fold, unieis the words " By the
King's Patent" are iiikrtcti on the bill of diredions,
bottle, and -wrapper ; the !tamp (,he
duty) is prinfid in black instead of reJ into. Bottles
kj. • double ovules so« j +a4l lamer AL as. duty
=lutist/.

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.ASS:ZE.3 •

The following plifoners have taken their trial. and
received fentence at Chefler Atlizes, which conduit('
on Monday fe'onight, viz. Thomas Dean, for Heal.
ing bacon and cheefec. at Macclesfield—Guilty—
' Death. John Downes, for a fimilar offence, at Mac-
cle,field—Aequitted. John Cotham, for Healing
.goods at Marple—Admitted evidence. John Dick
enfm, for a finsilar offence, alfo at Mar ple—lmpii•
coned two years and kept to hard labour. Mary
Lynn, for uttering counterfeit money—lmptifoned
one year and fined fnretiee. Daniel Maetlay, ft r
manflanghter, at Knntshtrd—lmprifoned one month.
Charles Bradbury, for a fimilar offence, at Mobber-
ley —Acquitted. Thomas Hine, for Healing money
at Little Budwotth —Acquitted. Thomas Done and
John Holland, for Heating geefe. at Ruacorn:—Done
acquitted—Holland admitted evidence. Jofeph Silly,
for Healing wearing apparel, at Macclesfield—lm
ptifoned one month. William Liles, for Healing
goefe, at Dodlellon— ImprifOned three months.
Benjamin Dean, and R. Sidebotham, both from
St, ckpet t, for burglary—Guilty—Death. Richard
Bond, for receiving (*den goods, at Stockport—
'Accptitted. J. hn Smithard, fl.r Healing fah, at
Andetton—lmprifoned three months. Samuel Cade,
for a funilar offence, at the fame place—No true
bill. Betty Ward, for Healing money, at Stockport
—lmptif,ned one month, William Siddall, j..htt
Weld, and John Swindells, for a confpitacy at Brin-
nington—No true bill. J. B .othby, from Maccles-
field, for bigamy—linplift.ued three month..
The three prifonets fentecced for death, were re•
prieved before the Judges left Cheiler.