Star.
London, England, 1824-01-05 00:00:00

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THE HOUR OF LOVE.

'Ti, sweet to walk 'rnicctwilight giey,
And watch the awak`iting charms of day ;
And see her eyes, as they unclose,
Drop dewy tears upon the rose;
And hear the early voice of Love,
From ev'ry copse, and bow'r, and grove!
But mote I love the tender power
Of filling Evening's welcome hour;
114.:u her light veil of mist is spread,
And day's last crimson line is fled;
While the first vat's uncertain light
Just trembles on the brow of night !
Evis the loft breezes die away,
And yon sweet moon's delicious ray •
Fails ou my soul from Ilealinisbove,
Like glance from that dear eye I love !
This is his hour—l watch and start, -
Ev'n at the beatings of my heart;
In ev'ry Breath his !Mice I hear,
With ev'ty sound his step is near !
Oh I haste thee—'tis a desert spot
In life, my love, where thou art not
And dewy morn, and noon-day sun,
. And ev'ning's milder charms'ire one!
Nought bht thy foam these eyes can see—
Tor Hems nothing lives—but thee!

CORONER'S INQUEST.

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Saturday morning, at eleven o'clock, Root;
the Coroner for the county of Hertford, assembled
a Jury at the White Horse, Shenley-hill, for the purpose
of inquiring into the circumstances attending the death
of James Grainge, who was unfortunately shot at
RableY-house, on the night of Wednesday. The names of
She Jury having been- called over, they were sworn.
Mr. Roof( e having inquired if there were any Reporters
in the room, connected with the Public Press, and Having
received an answer in the affirmative, he desired to state,
that he felt it his duty as Coroner, to protest against
any minutes of evidence being taken either by the Re-
porters, for .publication, or by anyother persons. He was in-
duced to make this protest in consequence of observa-
tions which had recently fallen from a high authority,
in a case of great atrocity, upon which a Court of Jus-
tice would shortly have to decide. lie certainly felt that
it was of the greatest importance that prisoners charged
with crimes af any soil should proceed to trial as free from
prejudice as possible, and therefore was the more anxious
that the evidence taken before him in a CAW of so scions'
a nature as the present, should be withheld from the
Public till the time of trial arrived. With regard to a
Coroner's Court being an open or a close Court, this
was'a point upon which much differenw of opinion had
existed among Coroners themselves, and no positive or
general decision had been formed ; his own idea on the
subject was, that it was an open Court, and he knew of
no precedent which coold justify hiin in coming to an
opposite conclusion. In this feeling he certainly should
not take upon himself to exclude any particular indivi-
dual from his presence, contenting himself with having
made his protest, and leaving the Reporters to adopt that
course which their own discretion might suggest, and
upon Their own responsibility—open, of course, to
such proceedings as a breach of his order might appear
to warrant •
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The Reporter of the Morning Chronicle, who had an-
swered to Mr. Rooke's first qaestion, said he-should feel
it his duty to give publicity to the opinions which the
Coroner.had thought fit to promulgate. He thought it,
necessary to remark, however, that in his experience, he
had never known an instance in which the proceedings
of a Coroner's Court had been suppressed, or in which
every facility had not been given to the Gentlemen who
attended at such proceedings from the Public Press.—
Many very important cases had come under his obser-
vation, involving,questions of peculiar delicacy, where
the Coroner, although strongly urged by persons of
high rank, had not ventured to close the doors of his •
Court Against any persons whatever; and in some cases
even Cuunsel and Attornies had attended, both for pri-
soners and proscrams ; and these individuals were pot
only suffered to take minutes of evidence, but to cross-
examine the witnesses. He instanced particularly thee,
cases at Manchester; the InqUests on Honey and Francis,
who were shot by the Life Guards during the progress
of the Queen's funeral ; the Inquest on the body of Mr.
Perceval, who was shot by Bellingham ; and ethers of
a similar nature. The Coroner had said that thele'svUs
no tycedent upon which he could act. This was the
fact; and until some such precedent was established,
he, the Reporter, felt it but consistent with candour to
say, that he should rettainly publish such evidence as
came under his observation, subject, of course, to any
consequences to which the breach of the Coroner's pro• ,
test might expose him. He could have no personal
feeling to gratify beyond the dtcharge of the duty
which brought him to Shenley, and he saw no reason
why he should be the.fi; a to establish a prcc'Jent, or
to recognize a principle upon which the opinion of the
Coroners themselves werr.eil to h.! so much at variance. •
Mr. RooKa admitted the candour of this declaration,
and said. that all he was desirous of doing, was to state
his feelings publicly on the ‘tilljert. Whether any pro-
ceedings should follow a breach of his order, was a
crleAlon on which he was not then to determine.
The Rev. Mr. N2WCOI4E, the Magistrate, here re-
marked, that he bad nothing to do with the present
Court, but, as-far as his own feelings went, he was a
friend to the publication of cotrect reports. There was
a precedent, however, in a recent case at Durham, in
which the Coroner had excluded certain persons from
his Court. in c,,nsequence of the observations which had
been made by Mr. Jostice Park, at Hertford, and else-
where. IVith regard to the law on this subject, he cer-
tinlr was-aware that the Judges had intimated their
opinion that a Coroner's Court partook orthe nature
Of -a Grand Jury—it was simply a Court of Inquiry,
and might be kept strictly secret. This opinion was
given after arguments which had been urged to their
Lordships in the ease of Cox v. Coleridge, which in-
volved a question as to the right of Attornies to be
present for prisoners while they were under examina-
tion before Magistrates. He had stated this fact not
with a view of influencing the conduct of the Coroner
edings, but simply-as a point of
:peated, that for himself he was
'ication of tre.th ; but Ott to those
•(cousas which .too frequently
recollect any decided cast in
Coroner -to- exclude strangers
recognized.
shoemaker, was first examineal
of information./ received, I
hAr-past four in the afternoon

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