Star.
London, England, 1822-10-31 00:00:00

NEW NOVEL

This day was published, in Three Vols. 12m0. price 21s. boards,
OSMOND, a Tale.—By the Author of " THE
FAVOUR= or NATUILL"

Printed for Q. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-lane.

The characters are drawn with natural ease and correctness ;
the incidents are probable, and often striking; the language is
chaste and nervous, and the interest of the Tale well sustained
from the beginning to the denouement. With such claims there
can be no doubt of Osmond' becoming a great favourite with
that large portion of society—the Novel-reading Public.—Lite-
rary Chronicle, Oct. 26, 1822.
Also, lately published,
Tae Fwotretre or Naruou, a Novel, in three vols. 12mo.
Third Edition, price 21s. boards.

THE CORDIAL BALM of GILEAD relieves
those persons who, by an immoderate indulgence of their
passions, have injured their constitutions, or are affected with
any of these previous symptoms that betray the approach of for-
midable Debilities, as the various affections of the Nervous Sys-
tem, Irregularity or Obstruction of Certain Evacuations, &c. Also
the Valetudinarian by birth, who has received the inheritance
of a diseased and unprolific frame; the delicate Female, afflicted
with the symptoms of a Nervous Habit; and the Man of Business,
whose mind has been overstrained by anxiety ; to such as these
the Cordial Balm of Gilead affords the most satisfactory relief,
and contributes to restore them to the enjoyment of the coin-
forts of life.
-It is sold in bottles price 11s. each, there are also bottles 3.15.
each, the latter containing the Vander of four bottles at 1 ts.—
Saml. Solomon, Liverpool," is engraved on the Stamp, to imi-
tate which is felony.
Sold by Mr. Johnson, 68, Cornhill; Mr. Sanger, 150, Oxford•
street, opposite New Bond-street; and all Medicine Venders.

THE DEAD ALIVE!
OR, THE TOPER RESUSCITATED.
AToper, who yet in his dress found delight,
Array'd himself once in a pair of bright Boots,
By Warren's Jet Blacking that seem'd the pursuits
Of devils displaying; they shone on the sight
The shades of resection, and skipp'd to and fro,
Like frolicsome Imps in each Boot's jetty glow!
Asleep in the Alehouse, this Toper, and snoring,
The guests were alarm'd, for the Imps seem'd encoring,
And joining in chorus, in mirthful pursuit,
The strange serenade, as it sweli'd from each Boot
A fellow now slipp'd o'er the Sleeper a sack,
And raising him, devils and all, on his back,
Away to a noted C,onyeyanner bore bim !
" A subject !" he said, on the floor as he laid him ;
And just as the price of the body was paid him,
It sprung from the sack, and cried out in terroreus
" This man is alive ! (cried the dealer) by Gen I"
" He is !" said the other—" 'tis cursedly odd!"
And gaining the door—" in the Cellar then plant him,
And there you can kill bliss, you know, when you w.mt him !"
Enrag'd at tip hoax—" Should these devils appear—
He said—but the sentence remain'd incompieted,
For Devils appear !" now the Toper repeated :
The Dealer then, lost in amazement and fear,
His image descried in each Boot, and he thought
The Toper's command these young devils had brought !
His speech underwent a quick paraly cation—
° No mo-nro-mo-ntore saran-a-a-aation !"
Thus scared from live subjects, when dead ones attacking,
He thinks of the visions in Warreres Jet Blacking !
This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by

MODERN GALLANTRY.:-

FROM THE LONDON MAGAZINE.
In comparing modern with \ancient manners, we
are pleased to compliment ourselves upon the point
of gallantry, as upon a thing altogether nnknottn•to
the old classic ages. This has been defined to consist
in a certain obsequiousness, or deferential respect paid-
to females, as females.
I shall believe that this principle actuates our cim-,
duct, when I can forget, that in the nineteenth cen-
tury of the era, from which we date our civility, we
are but just beginning to leave off the very frequent
practice cif whipping females in public, in common
with the coarsest male offenders.

I shall believe it to be infinential, when I can shut
my eyes to the fact, that in Elgiand women are still
occasionally—banged.
I shall believe in it, wheeactresses are no longer
subject to be hissed off a stage by Gentlemen.
I shall believe in it, when Dorimant hands a fish-
wife across the kennel ; or assists the apple-women to
pick up her wandering fruit, which some unlucky
dray has just dissipated.
I shall believe in it, when the Dorimant in humbler
life,who would be thought in their way notable adepts
in this refinement, shall act upon it in, places where
they are not known, or think themselves not ob-
served—when I shall see the traveller `for some rich
tradesman part with his admired Emx-coats to spread
it over the defenceless shoulders of the poor woman,
who is passing ts 3 her parish on the mot' of the same
stagecoach with him, drenched ;in the rain—whea I
shall no longer see a woman standing np in the pit of
a London Theatre, till she is sick and faint with the
exertion, with men about her, seated at theircase, and
jeering atter distress; till one, that seems to have
more manners or conscience than the rest, signifi-
cantly declares, ig she would be welcome ,to his seat,
if she were a little younger and handsomer." Place
this dapper warehouseman, or that rider, in a circle
of their own female acquaintance, and you shall con-1
fess you have not seen-a politer-bred man in Lothbury.
Lastly, I shall begin to believe that there is some
such principle, influencing our conduct, when more
than one half of the drudgery and coarse servitude
of the world shall cease to be perforrned'by
Until that day comeo, I shall never believe- this
boasted point to be anything more than a conven-
tional fiction; a pageant got up between the sexes,
in a certain rank, and at a certain time of life, in
which both find their account equally.
I shall be even disposed to rank it among the
salutary fictions of life, when in polite circles I shall
see the same attentions paid to age. as to youth, to
homely features as to handsome, to coarse com-
plexions as to clear—to the woman, as she is a woman,
not as she is a beauty, a fortune, or a title.
I shall believe it to be something more than a name,
when a well-dressed gentleman in a well-dressed com-
pany can advert to the topic of female old age without
exciting, and intending to excite a sneer :—when the
phrases if antiquated virginity," and such a one has
overstaid her market, pronounced in good com-
pany, shall raise immediate offence, in man or woman
that shall hear them spoken.
Joseph Paice, of Bread-street-hill, merchant, and
one of the Directors of the South Sea Company—the
same to whom Edward:, the Shakspeare commenta-
tor, has addressed a fine sonnet—was the only pat-
tern of consistent gallantry I have met with. He
took me under his shelter at an early, age, and be-
stowed some pains upon me. I owe to his precepts
and example whatever there is of the man of business
(and that is not much) in my compo.,ition. It was
not his fault that I did not profit tnore. Though bred
a Presbyterian, and brought up a merchant, he was
the finest gentleman of his time. He had not one
system of attention to females in the drawing-room,
and another in the shop, or at the stall. Ido not
mean that he made no distinction. But he never lost
sight of sex, or overlooked it in the casualties of a dis-
advantazeous sititation. I have seen him stand bare-