Star.
London, England, 1822-09-09 00:00:00

LIFE, DEATH, AND ETERNITY.

A shadow moving by one's side,
That would a substance seem,—
That is, yet is not—though descried—
Like skits benrs•h the stream ;
A tree that's ever in the bloom,
liThose fruit is never rife; .
A wish lot joys that never come,—
Such are the hopes of life!

A dark, inevitable night,
A blank that will remain;
A waiting for the morning light,
When waitit.g i. in vain ;
A gulf where pathway never led
To sh.:w the depth beneath;
A thing we kn.,w not, yet we dread,—
'hat &Laded thing is Death!

The vaolte.i vvi,. of puri le sky,
That evo-, e ettends,
That stretches .1 um the dazzled eye,
In spate that never ends;
A rceorning whose uprisen sun
No setting e'er shell see ;
A day that comes without a noon,—
Such is Eternity !

The three waiters who .sent out in a boat, for
pleasure, farm Wortiling, on the evening of Satur-
day st:iiiiight. were drowned. The bodies have been
since fibund.
sennight, as Mrs. Carrington,wife of the
Rev. M. CA rington was preparing some fancy work
at iesidelte of her father, W. Adair, Esq. of
newherton Park, • .near Wellington, soma varnish.
which was heating. caught tire, and the blaze com-
municating to Mr, Carrington's dies,, she was in-
stantly in flames. Mr: Alexander Adair, her brother.
spee•Aily r.in to her a. sistance, and covered his sister's
face with 4.ne of his hands, while with the. other he
endeavoilied to estineuish the fire, which was not
suppressed until Mrs. Carrington was dreadfully
burnt ; and notwithstanding the prOmpt attendance
of eminent surgical assistance, the unfortunate lady
expired on Tuesday morning.
Wednesday last, an Inquest was holden at South
S:oneham, on the boiy of Wiiliam Ha: field, who was
cutting-furze by the side of a lane, on Friday, when
he tell into a ditch, and in the fall the hook penetrated
his upper jaw, and from thence into his head. After
lan;,iii..tinit four days in great agony, he died.—Ver-
dic• . ?ctilleutal beath.

An eec i, character and well-known itinerant
musician. called ;411v R. •lles, died last week at the
New Buildings, Portsmo ut aged 69 years, who was
always supposed v. be in the depths of poverty ; but
in his miserable-looking e crutoire were found be-
tween sixty and seventy pounds in money, and mort-
gages to the amount of nearly £7OO. He had died
without a will. A labourer in the Gun Wharf, Ports-
• mouth, is his heir.

Bon Mt, the on!: Appy convict whose execution was
resp • e a- a ureic. ffe:ed on Saturday last at
Bonham. He a • .0.. • considerable penitence to
the last. There were n ~s., e than 400 present,

amongst whom were counted uproar 100 females

At Ai. Indian med in,. at : • Nlii pi:.e Islands,
the !nide rtti►ed in orJer to go d w . to the river to
wash her feet. W'h►le thus employed, an alligator

seized her : her shticks brought the people to the
place, who saw her between the monsteT's teeth, and
j ist II Wider the water. The bridegrcom instantly,
w:th his ..urger ii, his hand, pursued the monstel,
After a .tr, ra e c..nfliet, he made him deliver up his
prey, a sd SWAM to the shore with the body of his
de.id wife in his alms!
'A very prettv'mndest girl brought a writ in the
Court at New York, against a faithless swain, for a
beeach of promise of marriage; damages werelaid at
2,000 dollars. She accompanied the officer to iden-
tify the defendant, a young mechanic; but the holiest
officer, instead of carrying him to the prison, carried
him to a parson, where, both parties being willing, he
stmd for groomsman, and saw the parties lawfully
married, and the writ cancelled. " Blessed are the
peace-makers!"
A few days ago, at Ballan, County of Carlow, a
poor woman o; the name of Nowlan was delivered
of five children—three males and two females. They
lived for three days•—were baptized--and were buried
in one grave. 'The mother is doing well.
SHOW! M SmoitY.—The Lady of a new-made City
Knight lately found herself in a large party, some of,
which we: e of a higher order than any to which her
customary circle of society had hitherto introduced I
her. Wishing to enter into conversation with a lady of
some fashion who sat next her, after observing that
the weather was very warm, she asked, " Pray, are
you married ?"—" I am," replied the lady. " Pray,
have you any family?"—" I have three children,
she answered very politely. The entrance of other
company separated them for some time, but in the
course of the evening accident again placed them next
each other, when the Lady of the City Knight ob-
served to her, that " The rooms got very hot"—
" Yes," replied the Lady she addressed, " they are
oppressively warm." Forgetting that she had put
the same questions before, she proceeded to ask—
" Pray, Madam, are you married ?"—" I have been
married several years."—" Play, how many children
have you ?"—" Not having had any increase to my
fluffily," she replied, " since you did me the honour
to inquire, I have still but three."
KIDNAPPING IN A MERICA.L=The Baltimore Morn-
ing Chronicle, of the 6th or/K.l, st, states, that on the
25th of July last, a free Wick. Man was kidnapped
in the streets of Baltimore. He was knocked down,'
and.while in a senseless state bound hand and foot.
When he came to himself he was in the possession of
two white men, who nearly strangled him on his cry-
ing out. These kidnappeis carried him to a house on
• the north side of Pratt-street, and 'after being con-
fined an hour, he was placed in a carriage with two
other black men, and carried during • the night to
Washington City, and there imprisoned as a run-
away slave. After a confinement of two days, he
informed the jailer that be was'a free man, which he
iiroved by papers concealed in his clothing. He
%vas thereupon discharged. The white villains hid
robbed the black man of seven dollars, but • fiktift
natcly did not obtain his papers proving his freecloin:

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INSOLTENT DEB- TORS''COURT. -

'Saturday, ',Acta Clive Grey, an apothecary, late
of Wivenh..e, was brought up for judgment. having
been remanded an a former day. The COURT se-
verely animadverted upon his conduct in taking a
furnished hothe of Miss .Ilobum,Caroline street, Bed-
ford-square, at five guineas per week, at a time when
he was not solvent, and when he had left his business
at Wivenhoe in the hands of another person. He had
also matie an assignment to some of his• creditors'
without the consent of the others, and without their
knot' ledge. He was ordered to be imprisoned for
'the term of twelve months. •

John 7'aylor was opposed by Mr. PPLLOCK on be-
half of Messrs. Sanders, Parkes, and Co. and Mr.
Fullagar. On his examination he stated that he owed
Mr. Bourdillon, £l5OO, but did not put him in his
schedule, because he had insolvents bond for the pay-
ment. He subsequently suld all his property to his
son-in-law, Mr. Luck, for £2074. An action had
been commenced against him by one of his creditors,
who had in consequence been put to a very great ex-
pense, the insolvent having defended the action to a
writ of error : indeed, he 'had carried it as far as it
was possible.
John Oakley, clerk to the attorney employed in
this action, proved the extent of these vexatious pro-
ceedings. The COURT ordered him to be imprisoned
for four months.

James Piper, who bad been examined on a former
day, came up for judgment.
The Cuter COMMISSIONER, in pronouncing the
judgment of the Court, recapitulated the facts of the
case. The insolvent, he said, had lived in Kentish-
town, from whence he removed to Wandsworth, taking
with him furniture, which he valued at £B5, and
which he swore be afterwards sold to a pc: son of the
name of Dixon for £35, which he paid for rent to a
person of the name of Platt, in whose house he lived at
Wandsworth. A short time before the insolvent came
up to the Court to take the benefit of the Act, this
'furniture was removed to a house in Kennington-lane,
which was occupied by the insolvent'S wite and fa-
mily; the insolvent swearing that his son had re.put-
'64*d the furniture from Dixon ; but on further eta-
oinititni it appeared that the son had no property,
and was dependent on the insolvent for support. And
it could Pot be overlooked, that Dixon was in Court
on the insolvent's first examination, and his Counsel
'dial not examine him to prove .he purchase of the
furniture from the insolvent, and the resale to his soil.
Under all the circumstances of the case, no one could
entertain a doubt that the insolvent was guilty of a
gross concealment ofproperty,which he attempted to
bolster up by perkily. In order to mark the sense the
Court entertained of the insolvent's fraudulent con-
duct, they, adjudged that he should be remanded for
eighteen months.
The Cam COMMISSIONER, in the course of the
day, took occasion to mention, that the Court wished
it to be generally known, that under the late Act of
Parliament the Court were empowered to charge an
assignee, who employed any money received on ac-
count of an insolvent's estate, or who delayed to di-
vide it, interest at the rate of 20 per cent—a power
which the Court would exercise whenever a case should
arise to call for it.

Robert Low.—The judgment of the Court wasp,
given this day. The Chief Commissioner stated, that
by the insolvent's schedule, it appeared he had but I
two creditors—Mr. Mead and Mr. Powell. In the
year 1818, .Mr. Mead lent him a sum of money with-
out security, only receiving a memorandum for it,
and in this state that debt remained until the year
1821. In the beginning of that year a warrant of
attorney was given to Mead, but sometime before it
was flit into execution the creditdrs were called toga
the, and a composition of Eve shillings in the pound
was offered. To this condition Mr. Mead agreed.—
Mr. Powell, the opposing creditor, however, declined
signing the composition-deed, and brought his action
for h►s money; a verdict was obtained in his favour;
but shortly atter, Mead, who had waived his right to
enforce the warrant of an attorney by agreeing to ac-
cept the five shillings in the pound, put an executio❑
into the insolvent's house, and took away all the
goods,• evidently, according to circumstances in the
evidence, for the purpose of keeping possession of the
property for the insolvent till the time he should be
liberated from prison. The Court were decidedly of
opinion that this was a f audulent transfer of property
by warrant of attorney, and that this case was one
which called for severe animadversion by this Court.
The judgment therefore was, that the insolvent should
be retained in custody at the suit of one or more of
his creditors for a period of eighteen months, to com-
mence from the date of filing his petition.—The Court
adjourned until the 21st of October.

Sunday se'nnight a most malignant destruction of
property was committed upon the premises of the
Rev. J. G. LIMOCK, Rector of Uppingham, it :s sus-
pected by three young men of dissolute habits, who
have before been detected in window-breaking and
other nightly depredations. The depredators com-
menced the work of destruction by plucking the apples I
from several young trees, and pulling them up by the
roots ; they also broke and pulled up several other
shrubs and trees, broke several hand-glasses used for
gardening purposes, and a number of flo‘. er-potc
containing exotic plants ; cur off the ears and tail of
a pig, stabbed it in the side, and left it to a lingering
death ; broke open two out-houses, and stole seven
tame rabbits. From thence they proceeded to the
church-yard, and there threw off the tops of two
tomb-stones. The depredationu pon Mr. DIMOCK had
been preceded by several anonymous letters, con-
taining threats of mischief in the most abusive and
indecent language.

Friday evening, about eight o'clock, during a vio-
lent thunder-storm which raged in the neighbour-
hood of Lincoln, the lightning set fire to a hovel in
the farm-yard of Mr. COOK, at Burton. Being covered
with furze, the hovel was soon consumed, and com-
municated the flames through a hole in the wall to
an adjoining barn, which was destroyed to the bare
walls, with about 50 quarters of new wheat, a wag-
gon, &c. An extensive range of sheds were also burnt,
and considerable apprehensions were at one time en-
tertained for the numerous stacks of hay knd corn
which closely adjoined, several of which were partly
,on fire, but the flames were extinguished by the vi-
gorous exertions of the neighbours, who assisted.

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POLICE.. , • : •
ounonau.--41 decent female, far advanced In pregnancy,
was charged with procuring fehmitrisly the necessary Materials
for baby linen. She was detected by the 'aborts= at Mr. Gibbs's
linen-draper, in Great Surrey-street, in, purloining a piece of
cambric, and on being searched, other property was found on
her, and she was detained. The owners of the latter were dis•
covered in the persons of Mr. Bycott, in the same street, and
Mr. Oliver, in Skinner-street; and Mr. Oliver identified part
et the property found upon her as his. The prisoner made no
dofence, and was committed.
Abigail Callnithan,who had an apple stall in Bartholomew Fair,
Was detected in the act of passing's counterfeit sixpence, for ad-
adagio° into one of the strews; and on examination at her stall,
which she had left in the care of her son, a child eleven years
old, other counterfeit money was found. She was COMMiita
Bow-STILIM—The neighbourhood of this Office was in a
great bustle early on Saturday morning, in consequence of 25
individuals having been apprehended at a gaming-house in King-
stree, St. James's. On the case coming before the Magistrate,
Smith the Officer, stated, that having a warrant to search the
louse in question, be went the preceding night with a party of
Officers, and he took the advantage of passing in at an outer-
door, when some Gentlemen were entering. Their progress was,
however, arrested, by an iron door being closed against them;
and he and his brother Officers were obliged toget hammers and
other Implements to force it open, which occupied them nearly
half an hour before they effected their object. They then went
into the play-room, where they found-the tables and iinpiements
of play, but the bank was empty; and the persons now in cus-
tody were found secreted under the beds, and in various parts
of the house.
Mr. Aurr and Mr. Annum:a attended for the prisoners, and
they contended there was no evidence to affect the prisouers in
as much as they were not found at play, and the presumption
was there bad been no play, because no money was visible.
Mr. Henson, the Attorney, then said be would produce evi-
dence to skew that the persons had been in the habit of playing,
but after leaving the office fur a few minutes, he returned, and
said his witness declined attending; whereupon, the Magistrate
dismissed all the prisoners, without calling on them for bail.
A waggoner was fined los. for carelessly drifing against Mrs
Harmer's gig, and using abusive language.
Wonsmr-srassr.--David Fort, a weaver, and his wife, were
charged with Ilarriet Wilkins, eleven years old, their
apprentice. The case was before the Bench a few days since,
when the indentures were cancelled ;but since the child has been
freed from the terror of her master, she has told a tale which
was considered worthy of further proceedings. She stated, that
she had been kept without victuals a whole day ; when her mas-
ter and mistress went out fur a day, they used to fasten up the
doors and windows; scarcely a day passed without her being
beaten. Mr. Parkinson, the Surgeon, said there were yellow
marks on her body denoting former injuries; and on her legs
purple spots, which might have proceeded from want of food ;
there were excoriation' on her shins, and her head bore marks
of recent injury. The Magistrates thought the case a proper one
for a Jury, and the Overseers undertook to prosecute.
MARLBOROCGIf-STRETT.—Saturday, formerly of St.
James's-street, jeweller, was rem.M.led, charged with obtaining
two diamond crescents from Mr. Jarman, of Albemarle-street,
under the pretence of "hewing them to a Lady, and pawning
the same.

Alexander, the Jew dealer in trinkets, who bad sold some
of the property stolen from Mr. We:to/Oars, in Soho, to a
jeweller in Oxford-street, in whose window it was discovered
by Mr. Westwood, was brought up, when he stated that be had
bought the articles of a man named Solomons, whom be had
caused to be apprehended. 'lwo of Alexander's sons and a young
woman, who was present when Solomons brought the things to
Alexander, confirmed the statement, and Solonions and Alex-
ander were remanded.

Cb; IZN-SQUA Fu a inn s Dansito.—Somitei Greenstood, a car-
man in the employ of Jonathan Ford, grease-molter, of Cow-
cross, appeared on a summons to answer tile complaint of Joseph
Cooper, of this Office.
Mr. White, of Bridge-street, Westminster, stated, that on
Wednesday, about eleven o'clock, he saw the defendant sitting
in a cart drawn by a very powerful and spirited horse, which be
was driving at a very quick rate down the Strand. At the shop
of Mr. Minier, the seedsman, near Adam-street, stood a wag-
gon which was unloading, and a Gentleman in a gig was pass-
ing it, who held up his whip as a signal to the defendant to stop.
Th.: latter, however, regardless of the motion, drove furiously
on, and struck against the gig with such violence as to throw the
Gentleman from his seat into the bottom of the gig, and then
whipping his horse proceeded at a most furious rate down the
&rand. The people called to him to stop, but looking round
he put his hand upon his breech in defiance, and continued
his career. Mr. White saw him turn down into Hungerford-
street, where he drove against Cooper, who must have .been
thrown down and run over but for the interference of the driver
of a coal waggon, who, catching him by the arms, drew him on
to the foot pavement ; he was then stopped, and being much in-
toxicated, conducted himself with great violence.
The defendant said he was very sorry; he was " tipsy" at the
time, and his deafness prevented him from hearing the call to
stop.—He was convicted in the penalty of 10s. and Ss. costs.

Captain OwEN, since the attack made on him by
the convict on board the BELLEROPHON, has been in
considerable danger, though the symptoms, by the
most recent accounts from Sheerness, are represented
to hive become less alai ming. The following are
the particulars of the most unprovoked attempt on
his life p—" Hartley, the man who is suspected to be
a participator in Mrs. Donatty's murder, ttas re-
moved from Maidstone on board the BELLEROPHON
last Monday week, and on the following Wednesday
he was called to work with the other men, which he
excused himself from by pleading illness;_ and on the
Thursday, when he was again called, he refused to
go; upon which Captain Owen had him brought
up, and remonstrated with him in the presence of the
other Officers. Hartley declined he would not work,
but had rather be executed ; and wished he had been,
in preference to being sent there; to which Captain
OWEN replied, that he was an ungrateful wretch,
both to thin and his King ; the one for bearing with
him so long, and the other for sparing his life; when
the fellow drew his hand from his bosom and snuck
Captain Owen with the knife, as before stated.—
' It appeared that he had taken some trouble to rub up
the back edge of the knife, and it is supposed that the
Chief Mate, whose duty it was to set them to work,
was his intended victim : it is not known by what
means the knife came into his possession. Until Mon-
day, Captain OWEN went on very well, when pain
came on slightly, but nothing unfavourable appeared
till Tuesday morning, when so great was the inflam-
mation in an hour and a half, that the surgeon took
.eighty ounces of blood frcon him at once, and -soon
after ten more, besides leeches, which entirely sub-
dued the inflammation; and from that time till
Thursday morning he was mending, when he was
seized by a violent attack in the bowels, attended
with most severe pain, which continued till late at
night, and from his low and exhausted state, fatal
consequences were dreaded ; but towards morning he
obtained some very comfortable sleep, and at eight
o'clock on Friday morning was left much refreshed,
and, in the opinion of the doctor, altered for the
better. The culprit was still in the black hole' on
board, hardened and Sullen."
ECONOMY IN MANAGING THY POORE' RATES.—The
parish of Minster, in the Isle of Sheppy; which in-
cludes the populous town of Sheerness, have recently
adopted the plan of having a permanent Overseer, by,
whose active exertions, together with the low prices
of provisions, the claims upon the parish funds have
been less by 1,2301. 10 d. during the last year than
the preceding one, clearly demonstrating the benefit
resulting from a spirited individual giving undivided
attention to'the management of the poor. •