Star.
London, England, 1822-07-26 00:00:00

POETRY.

The following is an extract from a Poem, just published, enti-
tled " Rambo% Rhymes." As the title imports, they do not
effect method, but random shots sometimes tell better than
than those which take premedirated aim :
Mercy may come too late—at least to bless,
If not to save: hart, to that maniac shriek,
Followed by the loud laugh, that awes not less
The pitying listener; and that ederetreheek,
Furrowed—but not with age--it tells a tale
Of tearless grief, which never more shall wet
It's parching paleness! but her prison wail
Sounds from the lattice bar : weep, weep for Liirs.Ssulli!
SONG OF THE COUNTESS OF LAVALITTEI
'II gave my love my cloak and heeid,
To hide his face, and fly, s {;
And in his prison-place I stood,
When be was doomed to die.
They came to fetch my love away,
•
But only found his brimdeb ;
They made a bloody to for NET,
And dug my love's beside !
'4 I heard them dig the live long night,
knew their spades—and screamed;
id was far beyond their spite
Before the morning beamed!!
.3, My love hid gained the frontier lea-
-11 GOD bless the Engksh name!
An"twcre not for their helping hand,
I'd been a widowed dame!
" But Wrisow was a gallant man,
My saving angel he;
And back the baled death.hounds ran—
They
did not come for me.
And Baoce and iluvcriorsow are dear
To my poor memory yet;
But the soul they cheer is dark and drear
Weep, weep for LAVALICITIC !"
'Twas said that with her life her woes were past,
But on biontmartre's height she sings them still ;
And there a wild gliitar speaks in the blast,
And strangers yet hear sweet coinpbinings thrill.
And sometimes with her song, there comes a name
Unuttered long in France—but which may be
Utterable yet, when some young stripling frame
Shah spring—matured to man—from Schoenbrun's nursery free !

. E•oracz.
Bow-eritinipe..-A Gentleman, who bad lost a tonsidersble sum
at NO. 33, PslNnari, having laid an inferawilhoh nt Aldo o,ices
went on Treiliwitlay night to ap-
t:riel:illimienh:ndwfaioultihopefiwrfedteesowne udstaGefounnddeni:nantheinh,Ouansed.,
from
thsollibold7zot:it.hol
cc-
which they entered, the daonrad-keeper
arc supposed
eadedto weretheyysritjeor,
orainted with the house,
where they found a number of persons- round a table, who con•
littueel their play till Smith announced his errand, 'and 'wiled a
little box with 531. in notes, 130 Wedgies, Ind ti minsber of
tokens, cards, &c. The other party of Men bad then also
gained an entrance, and went to other monis lit site hoist ; and
the uproar that ensued in attempting to eseapt, the Others and
gamblers being together about forty, may be conceived. Some
of them got over the roof ; the alarm was caught at the next
sues, also full of gamblers, who ran into tbi street. -Theft
however, were observed to return after the prisoners had bean
taken to the watch-house. ' The pendia, who were reared,' SO
is number, were mostly foreigners.Mery hl7 The
scribed the situation in which they found the parties, di;
the
gambling instruments, which they produced,
Mr. Ataxy far the prisoners, condemned tube practice
issuing generdwarrants, and contended that no case of gambling
had been proved. " At all events," continued the Mined Qtr.-
deman, " I have no doubt that, under your kind ndstioaddelln
the parties will not be found there again."
• Sir Rscamus Bittatta--" It I thought say admonition would
have any effect, I should be happy to-give it; bet I fair k wauld
be thrown away. For myself, I can say, that lam entirely ig-
nolint of gaming, and never risked a shining, •
even in a' sober
game at whist:*
After some further conversation, Messrs. Parry and Aches
were held to bail for their appearance at the ensuing Quarter
Seuions, each of them in ROM and two sureties of 1001. The
others were told they might depart; •and the whole flock, rooks
and pigeons together, rushed peil-mell out of the Office instantly.
In consequence of repeated complaints of a number of Gen-
tlemen and respectable persons, travelling on the road from Lon-
don to Uxbridge, of the constant danger they were in of their
lives, their horses, and carriages, from the gross neglect 'and in-
attention of drivers of carts, &c. arising from their sleeping
is
their carts, riding on their carts' shafts and horses, fourteen drivers
of carts and waggons appeared yesterday to summonses, charging
them with offences of this description, upon which they were
convicted with costs.
John Rhodes, the driver of a Hammersmith coach, was eats-
victed of carelessly driving and upsetting the chaise of Mr. Law-1
rence, by which the chaise was broken to pieces, and Mr. Law-
rence and Mr. Stone, who accompanied him, were thrown Olt
and severely injured.
Alansion-Housx.—Two persons, genteelly dressed, were yes-
terday held to bail for having taken part in a riot opposite the
Mansion House, on Wednesday, occasioned by the resistance of
the multitude to the Peace, Officers in their efforts to enforce the
City regulations to the Blackwall stages.
Mast-ta-sowne Orricn—Yesterday Mr. Barry O'Meara, the
Gentleman who has lately published a work, entitled " A Voice
from St. Helena, or Napoleon in Exile," accompanied by Mr.
CHAILtIi Pleura, the Barrister, appeared before Joan Raw-
unsow, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate, in consequence of a war-
rant issued against him on the complaint of Mr. William Walter,
for an assault. It appeared that the charge was preferred
against Mr. O'Meara by Mr. Walter, fee a personal chastise-
, ment inflicted on him on the 22d instant, through mistake, Mr.
O'Meara having supposed him to be Mr. Johns Walter, of The
rinses Journal, in which animadversions on his work, person-
ally offensive to him, had appeared. Before the case was
entered into, all the parties being in attendance,
Mr. ninnies addressed the Magistrate, and said no person
could lament the circumstance which had given occasion to the
complaint more than Mr. O'Meara. It had occurred by mis-
take, -he having unfortunately mistaken Mr. William Walter
for another Gentleman. Every wish, on the discovery of his
error, had been immediately manifested to make an apology;
and, as the Gentleman offended had expressed a wish to adjust
this unfortunate' affair, a meeting of himself, Mr. William Wal-
ter, and another Gentleman, had been held on the preceding
evening, with the view to an arrangement.—Oa that occasion,
a disposition to adjust the matter was manifested, and for the
offence which his client had committed, he was most ready to
make a public apology, never having intended anything calcu-
lated to give pain to Mr. William Walter. That Gentleman, he
understood, had partially consented, and another meeting was
to be held to draw up such an apology as would be deemed
satisfactory to his feelings, in consequence of which, under an I
the circumstances of the case, he had consented to forego far-
ther proceedings on the warrant. •
Mr. William Walter said something to the Magistrate in a
low tone of voice. We understood he said, his only object watt
an apology in the newspapers.
The 3lagistrate (Mr. Rawintson) observed, he did not wish
to press the proceedings, as Mr. W. Walter had thus handsomely
consented to forego them, but he thought proper at the same
time to state, that although the judicial investigation would be
abandoned, yet, for the preservation of the public peace, he
should find it his duty not to allow Mr. O'Meara to go at ego
without his holding him to bail, as be might yet fulfil his intim.
tions with respect to Mr. John Walter; and as it became, there-
, fore, necessary to guard against a repetition of the offence, it was
highly requisite that he should enter into his own recognizance..
Mr. Pnixure then observed, that his client 'had now no in-
tention of molesting that Gentleman, and wished it to be under-
stood that he was extremely sorry for the assault committed on
the person of Mr. William Walter.
Mr. Itawuttsort here observed the warrant could not yet be
disposed of, as the case was not finally settled between the
parties, and in the interim Mr. O'Meara might enter into his
own recognizance to keep the peace.
Mr. PHILLIPS said his client was present, and had no objection.
Air. O'Meara then stepped forward, and entered into his own
recognizance, in the sum of 5001. to keep the peace towards Mr.
John Walter.—The parties then left the office.
Naives--Gaansx.--Yesterday, George Porter, Edward Wray,
Samuel Williams, Richard Blake, Robert Pritty, and James Hadley,
six athletic young fellows, bargemen, in the employ of Messrs-
Pickford and Cu. the carriers, at the Regent's Canal, were
brought up,. after a desperate conflict, on the charge of conspi-
racy, combination, and riot. It appeared from the testimony of
several witnesses, that 28 boats were lying in -the basin, to con-
vey 800 men belonging to the 3d Regiment of Guards, from
Paddington to Liverpool. The boats were to leave the basin at
half-past eleven o'clock the preceding night for Paddington, at
which place the troops were to embark at one o'clock next morn-
ing. Each boat had a crew of a Captain and three men, making
104 men in the whole number of boats. All appeared perfectly
quiet till the tittle appointed for the boats to leave their moor-
ings in the City-road basin-had arrived ; when suddenly the pri-
soner Edward Wray cried aloud, " Now my boys—this is your
time !" and in an instant between 70 and 80 bargemen, who had
been lying in ambush, sprang front their hiding places, and
shouted, " Beam! Edward Wray for ever." And the whole
body of them declared that unless their wages were advanced
to ten shillings a week, note man or boat should mole from the
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basin. (The wages at present are only eight shillings a week',
besides their maintenance to each than, except the Captain, and
he is allowed 10s.) Some of the rioters took posiession of the ba-
lance beam, at the lock, to prevent the water-gates being opened,
so that boats could not pus up the canal; they likewise cut the
. towing ropes, and precipitated two of the !Hirst:eh:no the water.
—The rioters having accomplished their design thus far, then.
searched the cabins of the boats and their stowage for the men
who were-employed to work the boats to. Liverpool, and Who;
were satisfied with their wages, and having found them', they.
were thrown overboard into the canal by the rioters, because they
refused to join them, and bad nearly met with watery graires
#y 12 o'clock, a communication was sent to this Office, for the
assistance of the Police, but before their arrival the rioter, hid
collected heaps' of Sint stones on the towing-path, with Which
they armed themselves. On the approach of the.officers,,assisted
!by-the Weak:men, and such of the bargemen who had refused to.,
. join the conspirators, a most desperate • conflict ensued between
the two parties, and several were desperately wounded in the
, rencontre. However, the Police courageOusly attacked the eon-
Spikier., and niceeeded In putting thins to fight, 'eepteliog the
at: prisoners. •
• The embarkation of the troops was delayed for Ave hours in
consequence of the riot.-k , ' • •' ' • • . ' . -
The prisoners, on being called upon for. their defence, told the"
litnikatatelliat they had been instigated to commit the slant*
.by the captains of the lents. .'.' • •
I The Magistrate said, they had actedisinst the laws of their
cotintry, and ther must abide the cdn ritheesl=-111eprisebets
', witeetieet bald bail; add werecadvey to prison till charlotte-
1. ties weseiutalred into.

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CRICIASFORD, JULY M. '
nunift Bk‘ititeld was indicted for.fekniconsly
ting fire tps certain corn stacks, belonging to James
Page, in the Parish of Great Clackton, in this Onsoiry
on the drtli of February last.
Mr. Annaxwa stated the case for the prosectitipp..
The Prisoner had been employed by a person named
Stitith as' alabourer husbandryi end in'the inter-
val' tietereen quitting his service and seeking anther
enttp)Oyment, he applied to the Overseers of the Parish
of Great Clackton, to winch he belonged, for tem-
,porary relief 'the Overseeri, of whom Mr. Page,
the prosecutor, was one, not consideiing *him, a fit
object 11;trelief, 'refuse. d to render him any assistance.
The prisoner;on the lame day, ipo,kete his next doci
neighbour,- a man named Webster, and complained
that the Overseers had refused to relieve hi a, and said
he would blue some of them. He was asked by
Webster what he meant by blaring' sortie of theM ?
—la reply, he said, le he should set fire to Master
Page's stacks—he would he even with hint when-
ever he found him'' from borne I" It appeared
that Mr. Page had occasion to leave home about
four days afterwards—namely, on the 4th February.
About six p'clock on the evening of that day the pro-
secutor's stacks were found on fire, and considerable
damage was done before the flames &add be extin-
guished. To fix the guilt upon the prisoner, in ad-
dition to the threat abovementioned, it was proved
that he had watched the prosecutor in going from
home; that, just before the Ere broke out, he was
seen running towards the prosecutor's house; that,
just after the fire began to blaze forth, a man re-
sembling the prisoner was seen skulking under a
hedge, running from the fire; that, soon after the fire,
the prisoner was seen standing in a field near the
prosecutor's premises, and looking on; that the pri-
soner having been taken up on suspicion, the shoes
which he wore corresponded with the impressions
made by the feet of the person who was seen running
from the fire, and with the foot-marks of a person at
a spot where a tinder-bur was found, close to the pre-
mises, with the exception.that in the prisoner's shoes
were some nails, which, it appeared, he had himself
driven in a few days after the fire. At first the priL
soner was discharged by the Magistrates, it being
considered that the nails in his shoes was a favourable
circumstance, demonstrating his innocence, inasmuch
as the impressions seen on the ground had no nail-
marks; but upon its being discovered that he had
himself put in the nails after the fire, and the shoes
otherwise corresponding exactly with the impressions
on the ground; he was again taken up, and upon the
evidence then adduced, committed for trial.
On the cross-examination of the witnesses for the

prosecution, by Mr. JESSOPP, for the prisoner, their
evidence was not quite consistent. A woman, whb
said that the person she saw running from the fire
under a hedge, had on -a white coloured frock, ad-
mitted that it was a dark coloured frock. The wit-
ness, Webster, to whom the prisoner was said to have
used the threatening language abovementioned re-
specting Mr. Page, admitted that he did not say a
word about the matter to any human being until last
Friday, and then only after a reward of £l5O had
been offered by the Parish Officers for the discovery
of the offender. One witness gave the prisoner a
good character. •
The LORD CHIEF BARON summed up the case for
the Jury, and pointed 'out to their attention the dis-
crepancies in the evidence, and particularly remarked
upon the conduct of the witness Webster, who had
not disclosed a word of the threats imputed to the
prisoner, until a hand-bill, offering a reward, had been
published. Considering the heinousness of the offence,
and the certainty of execution upon conviction, the
Jury ought to be perfectly satisfied of thetruth tithe
evidence they had heard ; and, in such a case, ifthere
. was any rational doubt, the prisoner was entitled to
the benefit of it.
The Jury
.deliberated for about ten minutes, and
found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Philip Martin and Thomas Rist French were in.
dicted for assaulting John Cook, in the parish of
Steeple Bumpstead, on the 4th of April, putting him
in fear, and taking from his person a £1 note, and
ss. in silver.' •
The case was opened by Mr. DOWLING for the
prosecution. The prosecutor was a schoolmaster,
and on the day mentioned in the indictment, had
been attending an annual meeting at Stambourn, of
an Association for the Prosecution of Felons, for
which he acted as clerk, and after receiving his an-
nual salary, he was returning home in the evening,
about nine o'clock, when he was overtaken by the
prisoners, who dragged him down on the ground in
a bye footpath, and demanded his money. Ile begged
for mercy, and cried out for help. One of the pri.
soners thrust his handkerchief into the prosecutor's
mouth, whilst. the other rifled his pockets of twenty-
five shillings in money, and both then ran away.
The prosecutor knew one of the prisoners from the
circumstance of his having been formerly a scholar
of his; but he positively swore to identity of both.
He was corroborated by the testimony of two wit-
nesses, one a constable, who overheard a conversation
between the prisoners when in custody, in which they
talked the matter over, and declared that nobody
'could say anything against them if they kept their own
counsel. The prosecutor did not take the prisoners,
up until fourteen days after the alleged robbery.
Mr. JESSOP, for the prisoners, cross-examined the
witnesses with considerable acutenesi and called some
witnesses to prove an alibi; but on their cross-exami-
nation there was a good deal of contradiction.
,The LORD CHIEF BARON summed up the evidence
onloth sides, and left it to the Jury to say to which
class of witnesses they would ascribe the greatest credit.
The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found the
prisoners both Guilty—Death.
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 23. •
Robert Smart pleaded Guilty of having committed
wilful and corrupt perjury in the same Court, at the
last Assizes, on a change of rape, in order to excul-
pate the accused party. Transported for seven years.
James Ridgley, aged 69, who was brought up by
Habeas Corpus from Horsemonger-lane jail, Surrey,
charged with bavinii, in the parish of Bermondsey,
feloniously counterfeited and forged a certain stamp
ordered' to be used bj, the Commibsioners (ibis Ma-
jesty's duties of Excise, for marking anJtamping of
hides and skins, with intent to defraud hislqatetty.
The Jiry &mid him Guilty, but, on account of his

ilisitneeri years, helms siatented oily one year's
ilisprisonetseatjts the Coq)Aty Sail, to pay. a 6ne of
501. to the.iChig, ibd, further. to Ride security to
keep the peace, tiinself in 2091. and two sureties in
int each.
John Isaacson, aged 89, Maim Gilbert, aged 40,
and William florae, aged 40. were coarieted of sacri-
legiously breakiiig into the Church of Wicken, and
stealing thereout certain saderdotallobea; etc.—Dead.
EdMard Srritti4, aged 26, fliMlecomb, ned
21, and Atiathese keeder, agedV, were convicted of
bUrglarionsly breaking into the dweliiiig-house of
thomai Thorlet.—Deoth.
james.l7Mdbam, for receiving the goods stolen by
the above, was 'sentenced to be transported, 'l4 years.
William. Collis,' aged 22, and Join Wlsliby,
were convicted Of burglary, on the evidence of darnel
Peter!, an acconti4ice. .Guilty—Death.
The JUDGE then passed sentence of death on eigli
individuals., fie hoped they would all prepare to
quit this world; but, addressing 'BOA and Minds:
como, he implored them not toexpe,:t any niitigatieik
of their sentence.—the prisoners wept bitterly.
LvsOLFENT b£B7,'ORS COURT.

John Canter came up to be heard on Isis petition to be discharged,
and was opposed by Mr. Hearn fot 1111: itr. Pelham.
The insolvent stated that be 'had i lease for 31 years of tbe
house fn which he lived in Great St. Andrew's-street, which be
mortgaged to a perspo of the name of Roche, for money he had
borrowed from hiin at 'different times for several years past. R.a
gave the mortgage a short time before he went to prison, be
was not to get the house back unless he paid the money. ebal
a lease of three houses in King-street, Soho, a moiety Of whiA
belonged to Mr. i'elham. He did not put them in his Iched.ile
because Mr. Pelham came to him in the iting's Bench, and de-
sired him not to put them In, and they Would have them as ht.
fore after he got out. Ile had another house, which he did rm
put in his schedulP, because it was in Chancery, and he only held
it' under the receiver appointed by the Court, without any les,e;
he paid 401. a year, and let it fur 601. He had some property no
his premises when he made out his schedule, but did t,,,t think
it worth his while to mention it, becauie he knew his landlord
would take it.' His wife received his rents white be was in prim
.Ruche, to whom he mortgaged his house, visited him in prime,
but be did not know where he was now to he found.

Mr. Pelham stated, that be had a moiety of three houses in
King-street, the other moiety of which belonged to the insolvert,
in whose name the lease was made out, who had not paid
any part of the improved rent for the last year, and had refused
to make over to hi n the interest in the lease to which he wits rn.
titled, in consequence of which he called on him in the k,!.g's
Beach, and asked him what he meant to do with the hoeses?—
The insolvent replied he would take no notice of them. He a!to
told him he had made ever kis own house to Roche, to keep for Inut
till he got out, and that be had left other property with his landlord
for the same purpose. Witness denied suggesting to the in.olvtat,
or advising him, to leave the houses out of his schedule.
Mr. HSATM addressed the Court in aggravation. The insolvent
had presented a schedule to the Court which was a pert. t t bLuik
with respect to any property to be given up to his cred:t,.:., al-
though it now appeared he had sufficient to pay them in
the pound. The Court would not consider the dig-over: u: the
property by the opposition made to the insolvent's diszliarge as
any atonement for his offence ; they would not hold out a I. sn7.l
to fraudulent insolvents, who would say,—" We will take ea
chance for concealing our property; if it shall be discovered, :he
worst that can happen is to give it up."
The COURT said, it was quite manifest the insolvent had deter.

mined to defraud his creditors of thew whole debts, by concealirg
all his property,which, it was probabk,was sufficient to pay al fa
amount. There could be no doubt that, had he not been oruft-el,
he would have sworn to the schedule in the manner he pre,i

it to the Court. and would have eft*: cted a gross fraud be nieun
of deliberate perjury : such ccnduct called far severe pilni.hmert;
the judgment of the Court therefore was, that the insolvent sh %IA
not be discharged before he should have been in prison two years
from the date of his petition.