Star.
London, England, 1824-12-14 00:00:00

DOVER, DECEMBER

TO AN OLD GLOVE.

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Old friend! methinks thou look'A the worse for wear,
!Ake dim who wore thee. Time wears everything;
With him stern Ituin's always on the wing,
And nothing in his passage will he spare.
Then wherefore fret ourselves with bootless care,
• Or at our common lot be murmuring?
Old Gum ! Jib& thou cunt not now expand
Thy fractured shield, to guard thy master's hand
Against the shafts of Winter's piercing weather,
No other shall thy services command.
But since we've jogg'd thus far through life together
(Still" hand and glove," like fowl of the same feather)
Beuteforth thy duty I'll no more require—
So to thy resting-place with dignity retire!

NOVEMBER TIMINDER.—On the evening of the Sth
November a thunder storm was experienced in Boston,
which destroyed a barn in Franklin, with eight tons of
hay and a pair of oxen. The same storm was felt in
Philadelphia, in the forenoon, and in New York, p.u.
where it struck several houses.
The seventh visible star of the constellation Pleiades,
etas been of late found to be a periodical and revolving
star, which accounts for the constellation being de-
scribed by some writers as consisting of six, and by some
as being composed of seven stars, to which Ovid alludes
n risterks gum did sex tames ease soleat."
A general search for arms was made on Tuesday
sennight, in the Barony of Tulla, tonnty of Clare. Such,
however, is the precaution and system existing amongst
the peasantry, that the utmost diligence exercised was
ineffectual in discovering more than a few stand of arms,
some swords, with the stocks and barrels of guns in a
forward state of preparation; and even those were con
cealed in the most intricate places, such as corn•stacks,.

turf-clamps, Sec.
His MAJESTY'S most gracious pardon for Harris,
who was capitally convicted, but subsequently respited
generally, has been forwarded to Hertford jail from the
Home Department. The case of Davis, who was
also capitally convicted, but respited till January, is
not determined.
Tuesday, at midnight, Writ. Clark a bankrupt, not
appearing to surrender himself to the *Commissioners
- for his final examination, was proclaimed before the
Dog and DuckTavern,Hull,according to the usual forms.
Two horses, stated to have been stolen from Brigg,
in Lincolnshire, were last week found at Askern, near
Doncaster, eating at a hay stack, and a man who was
concealed near thosame, has been committed, charged
with the felony.
An unfortunate accident occurred on Wednesday
last, on board the brig Fisher, lying at Howden Dyke :
a sailor of the name of Jacob Mitchell, a native of
Bessie, while performing some duty in the foretop of
the said brig, accidentally fell therefrom on the deck,
and was killed on the spot.
The plague, which has lately broken out in Buchireit,
is n'.t very dangerous, and, the measures of precaution I
already taken make it probable that it will disappear I
before January. A little alarm, however, prevails, and
several of the inhabitants, particularly some of the
Boyards, wished to leave ie town, to retire to their
estates, or to the frontiers of Transylvania.
AWFUL Ciacumsrance..—Mi. Wright, the surgeon
who attended au Inquest in Holborn, on Friday, re-
lated to the Jury a very remarkable case of sudden
death. He hid been called upon the other evening, to
attend a Gentleman, a friend of his own, who resided
in Brunswick-square, who, he was informed, was sup-
posed to be dead. Witness instantly . repaired to the
house, and on entering. the drawing-room, he found the
deceased Gentleman sitting is his at in chair, leaning
back, with his bands in his breeches pockets, and had
all the appeal ante of being in a comfortable and serene
sleep. On examination, be disCoiered him to be quite
dead from apoplexy. He bad dined with good appe-
tite and much cheerfulness, and after dinner be sat
down with his wife to reading. She observed him re-
clining backwards on the chair, but had not the least
conception of the awful nature of the visit ; but thought
he was merely falling asleep. Under that impression
she buffeted him to remain for a considerable time with-
out speaking to him, but when she went to arouse him,
she discovered that. be was a corpse.
. A few days ago a deputation of -Raatiers applied to a
Protestant Gentleman in the country for a contribution
to their funds. " I regret," said be, " Gentlemen, that
I have no money to offer you ; but I hope you will ac-
cept, in lieu of the penny, a piece of tough Swedish
iron, that I have lying by in a lumber-rooni ; it will
snake three or four pikes."—Dublin Star.
A Put.—Two sailors, who lately called at the Ad-
Miralty, began, while waiting in the ball, to talk about
the alterations in the building. " They have changed
it quite since I've been away," said Jack, " and set up
a taunt-mast temp of the house." " Mast," said his
-companion, " there's no mast there."—" Why, what was
it I seed set up there, then ?"—" That," said his friend,
" was the SEMAPHORE:—.." The sante afore," cried Jack,
" —if it was, there was two dollygraplis up there
wheat I e ent to logy."
A Gentleman, ttho had neither voice nor skill, once
attempting to sing in company, when he had come to
a conclusion, BANNISTER said, "Your song, Sir, is like
the small pox." " How is that?" said the company,
" explain, explain." " Why," rejoined the wit, " a de.
•vdish good thing when it is over.
it is stated in letters from Sweden, that a general
belief prevails that the King, CHARLES JOHN, has the
intention of resigning in favour of his eldest son, Prince
OSCAR. The motive that is assigned for this determi-,
nation is the fear entertained by the Monarch of the in-
trigues of the Holy Alliance for the reinstatement of
the family of the deposed GUSTAVUS, and a belief that
a part of the enmity towards the new dynasty may be
removed when it has assumed, by the lineal succession
of the new King, the air of legitimacy. SHARSPEARE
makes HENRY IV. say to his heir, speaking of the
crown, which be had won—
" To thee it shall descend with better quiet,
Better opinion, better confirmation ;
1:or all the soil of the achievement goes
With me into the earth. It seem'd in me
But as an honour snatch`d with boisterous hand,
sli.d I had many living to upbraid
My, gain of it with their assistance;
--...... What in me was purchas'd,
Fans upon thee in a more fairer sort—
So thou the garland wrar'st successively !"
---%BEILNADOTTE has hides to managed matters with
great skill. lle is the only one of the Generals of the
Fiend) Revolution who has preserved a sovereign
poser. Lle was one of the first Mho attained mid
; he was Minister at War wider the Directory.
The first Almanack printed in Constantinople was
(t 13L19.

Yesterday, his Excellency Prince Polignac and suite
arrived at Wright's Hotel, from Lundon, and shortly-
afterwards embarked on board his Majesty's packet the
Spitfire, for Calais. The same packet returned this
morning, with about 30 passengers.
Arrived last evening, the Britannia stiam-vessel,with J. Gurney,
Esq. M.P. and other passengers, from Boulogne.
Sailed this morning, the Medesa steanwressel, with passengers,
for Calais.
Came in the American brig Dove, of Newbury, from Bremen
to St. Übe's.
Amongst the departures within the last few days from Wright's
Howl, on their vAty to the Continent, are the following :—Lord
Hotham, Sir C. Bagot, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Rev. Mr. Dalton,
lion. Stratford Canning and suite ; Earl Bruce, F. Hall Standish,
Esq. --- Taafe, Esq. Captain Otway, Lard Northland, Count
Freytag, Bankhead, Esq.

THE METROPOLITAN LAW SOCIETT.—This Society
celebrated the Anniversary of their Institution on Sa-
turday, at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. The
company was highly numerous and respectable, and,
since last year, has obtained a large accession to its,
numbers. After the report was read, the evening was
spent in great harmony, and the company did not break
up till a late hour.
Thursday night, Mr. Cohen, of Bishopsgate-street,
was robbed, in the pit of Covent-Garden Theatre, of his
purse, containing ten sovereigns, and his pocket-book.
The recent rains have so swelled even the waters of
'the Serpentine, in Hyde Park, that the cascade at the
eastern extremity has become an object well worthy of
the attention of those who have not witnessed larger
waterfalls.
SROCKING ACCIDENT.--AbOut fouro'clocfc oa Thurs-
day afternoon, a green-bodied chaise, drawn by a high
spirited horse, with an elderly gentleman sitting in
it,. was seen proceeding with furious speed along the
Edgeivare-road: and, as it was obvious from the man-
ner of the occupant, that he had lost the presence of
mind necessary for checking the horse, anxious fears
were excited for his safety. Several attempts were
made to stop it, which, proving unsuccessful, only had
the effect of increasing its speed; and entering Oxford-
street, from Tyburn Turnpike, it continued its furious
career. - When opposite Old Quebec street, the Gentle-
man was seen to throw himself out of the chaise; but
his foot, or part of his dress, becoming entangled with
the reins, he fell on his head with considerable force,
and was dragged, with his head dashing against the
stones, a distance of nearly 100 yards, before the horse
could be stopped. He was instantly conveyed to
a surgeon, residing on the spot, when it appeared
that the skull was dreadfully fractured, and part
,of it pressed inward upon the brain. He was to-
' tally insensible, and expired in about a quarter of an
hour afterwards. SOME silver-was found in his pockets,
and from his dress and equipage it is supposed that he
is a country farmer ; but no certaid. information has
been obtained as to his name or residence. The body
was carried to the Delawar Arms, Oxford-street.
Munnza.—Sunday sennight, a farmer of the name
of D. Connell was murdered in his house near Bilboa,
county Limerick. The murder was attended with cir-
cumstances of peat barbarity. Soon after the family,
consisting of six persons, bad retired to rest, the door
was burst open, and the house entered by eight or nine
men, armed with scythes, swords, and guns. They en-
tered the room where their victim, Daniel Connell, lay
in bed with his cousin Michael. The unfortunate men
attempted to defend themselves, but were speedily cut
down ; five or six of their butchers continued ferociously
cutting at them with scythes until they lay motionless,
covered with torrents of blood, D. Connell being quite
dead, and his bead so disfigured that no trace of a fea-
tare was discoverable. His unfortunate companion re-
ceived not fewer than twenty-seven deep cuts on his
head and body, one of which broke his arm, but he
yet survives. The sister of the murdered man, in her
exertions to defend him, suffered most inhuman usage,
and one of her legs was nearly cut off by a stroke of a
scythe; The murdered man entered on the premises
about six weeks before, and soon after received a
-threatening totice to quit. An Inquest was held on the
body of D. Connell, and a verdict of Wilful Murder. re-
turned. Four men, persons in comfortable circum-
stances, have been since apprehended by the police, on
I'suspicion of being concerned in the murder.
The Leicester Journal says—" On Tuesday evening
last, the village of Broughton Astley, near Cosby, was
thrown into the utmost confusion, in consequence of a
I female, whose head was nearly severed from her body,
rushing into a neighbour's houses reeking in blood, and
there falling on the floor. The follow;- -is a brief out-

_owing
line of this horrible affair:—Abraham Billion, the hus-
band of the deceased, had been for some time previous
on very bad terms with his wife, who, fearing the con-
sequences incident to passion and revenge, caused him
to be bound over to keep the peace ; but this appears to
have further exasperated the unfeeling wretch, for, on
the day in question, after spending the afternoon in a,
public-house, he returned home, and commenced a
quarrel with the poor woman, which terminated in his
striking her a violent blow OR the side of her head, and
she reeled tothe ground. He then effected his diaboli-
cal purpose, by cutting her throat, seven inches-1n length,
and two in depth, with a razor; two of her fingers
were dreadfully lacerated, in attempting to extricate
herself from the assassin's grasp; in this state she actu-
allti► ran from the house to that of a aeighbour, a
distance of nearly fifty yards; and falling, in a gore
of blood, expired without the possibility of giving ut-
terance. The prisoner then secreted himself in the house,
but an entrance was effected, when he escaped at the
back of the premises; he was, however, closely pur-
sued over four or fivefields; and at length secured. At
first he denied all knowledge's:if the murderous ttansac-
don, till his eldest son, a lad of about eleven years of
age, and who was resent when the dreadful affair took
place, stated his father to be the murderer.—An Inquest
sat on the body, and after going through the whole of
the evidence, of :which the boy mentioned was the
principal witness, the Jury pronounced a verdict of
Wilful Murder against the wretched husband; The
prisoner was conveyed on Thursday night to the County
Jail, to await his trial at. the ensuing March Assizes.—
The poor woman has left four children, the eldest is
only elcvcn years of age. The prisoner, after the ver-
rdict of the Jury, expressed a wish to see the mutilated
remains of his wife; this the Coroner left to the option'
of the officer, who granted the request. The scene al-1
most baffles description; the appalling corpse lay
stretched on the floor, %high he no sooner beheld than
he fell on his knees, and kissed-his victim several times,
without shedding a tear, but apparently in the deepest
anguish. He was reluctantly forced from the spot, and
conveyed to prison."
The jail of Mullingar is so crowded, that four pri-
soners have to sleep in one bed.

AMERICAN FISHERIES. • •
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It is astonishing, says a Canada. Paper. to what effort
the Americans carry on fishing in the Gulf of St. Law-
rence. They appear both to fish themselves, and to pur-
chase fish from British subjects established in the dis-
trict of Gaspe, the Magdalen Islands, and the Labrador
Coast; and we conceive that they carry off by far the
greater part of the fish caught in those waters It is
difficult to tell whether this is owing to the superior en-
terprize and intelligence of the Americans, or the better
markets which they cannot fail to find by having inter-
course with all parts of the world, and the higher
prices they can afford to pay in consequence, or to
many of the articles they exchange, such as bread stuffs,
India goods, and tea, being obtained by them and
given cheaper. It is certain, however, that they do
almost monopolize this trade—that it is not unusual,
through their means, to introduce illicitly into Lower
Canada, both teas -and India goods, as well as brandies,
French silks, wines, Sec. obtained from St. Peter's and
St. Paul and the United States, to a great extent; and
that, independent of their taking our fish, and furnishing
the supplies for the subsistence of our fishermen, which
we ought exclusively to supply, they rob the revenue of
the Province, and ensure and maintain smuggling from
this quarter.

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