Star.
London, England, 1827-04-17 00:00:00

TO THE MOON.

• INSCRIBIID TO EVA. •
Light of the lonely—beautiful star
That goidest the pilgrim's will;
That ,cheerest the wanderers hearts, when far
From the scenes of their youth they stray ;
Light of the lonely, whose radiant beans
' The lover and heed regard; •
Theme of the poet's earliest dreams,
The lamp of the aage and bard—
My heart would address thee, while beaming above-.-
Attend to its wishes, thou sweet light of Love.
Thou west that heart—it Is open to thee—
Thou readest without controol,
The wishes it whispers silently,
They sprang from my inmost soul ;
Thou readest my love—its warmth and its power—
How my heart for F.va beats:
Oh ! while thou art brightly beaming this hour,
When her gaze thy radiaatce meets—
Do thou, in thy pity and kindness, discover—
How truly—how warmly—how fondly I love bee!
Be thy beams pages where Eva may read,
Those wishes my heart would tell—
It witbets and fades, since fate decreed
That apart our hearts must dwell :
Oh! tell her, tho' lonely its beatings are,
How faithful that heart can be •
Thou light of the lonely—beautiful
Oh! let her these whispers see— •
•Iklay Eva them real in thine every beam,
Thou light of the I aver—thou minstrel's theme ! .J: B.

i UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
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INSTALLATION OF MR. CAMPBELL AS LORD RECTOR.

ASSIZE INTELLIGEPCE.

learning altogether. Some pebple would have it that '
" a little learning i.s.a dangerous thing ;" but he thought
this equally ridiculous with saying that it was dan-
gerous to have a little virtue or a little honesty. Every
individual had great reason to be gra,efol for even the
smallest degree-of educati .n ; hut so long as there was
a road to farther improvement, he would not quarrel
with them for being as discontented as they pleased
with the smallness of their stock of intellectual infor-
mstion. It a man wished himself to be useful, he must
devote himself to one great department of study; but
this would.be promoted by his occasionally applying
'himselk to other branches of learning. He allowed that
the mind might be distracted and disturbed by too
many pu.sui!s ; and it was not possible, perhaps. for the
human mind to embrace pursuits diametrically oppo-
site to one another ; but he was not convinced that a
grasping and comprehensive mind might not overcome
mighty difficulties. Let science witness how many dis
overies awl improvements of the most opposite desctip-
tion have been made by the master-minds of some of
those intellectual spirits. He might compare the dif-
ferent sciencestto hues and tinges, which, when brought
together in the mind, were at last blended and mel,ed
into the white and pure light of inspiration. After'
much valu.ble instruction and advice to his audience,'
Mr. Campbell concluded as follows :—I rust, there-
fore, for the present, bid you adieu, with a warm heart,
and I pray that the blessing of the Gtver of All Good
may be with you all.
The most rapturous cheering, waving of hats, and
cries of t, Campbell foy ever !" followed the conclusion
of the speech. Mr. Campbell afterwards dined with
the Professors and a distingui'hed party in the Hall.

Thursday, THOMAS CAMPBILL, Esq. author of
Pleasures of Hope, was installed Lord Rector of the.
University of Glasgow. The Common Hall of the
College was crowded to excess before the an of Mr
Ceases&Lt., who, on entering, accompanied by the Pro-
fessors in their gowns, was received with the most una- GLOUCESTER, Anti. 13.
nimous and cordial applause. The Judges attended Divine Service this morning,
After prayers, and the administration of the customary
and afterwards went into th- it respective Courts.
Oaths, Nit,. CAMPBELL delivered a most eloquent and ap..
Louisa Bissau, a ged 18, was indicted for being a
piopriate speech, with all his characteristic animation
commonh
ed the utterer of false and counterfe t coin. A second
and feeling, ire the course of which he was rapturously
count c grg personae with a single uttering,
applauded by hi. hearers. The following is an outline
of it. He began by offering his warmest acknowledge- Mt. SUIPHERD—The prisoner is indicted for utter.
:news lot the kind and hospitable reception he had re- ing two counterf it thillings, on Saturday, the 24th of
ceived since he came to Glasgow; and also with return- March last, to Maria Nicholls, and with uttering on
ing his best thanks for this, the greatest honour that had the same day two tithe, crunterfeit shillings to William
ever been conferred on him. Whets he entered this b ill Warfield, knowing the same to be counterfeit. If' I
and looked our on the surrounding scenes, and recol. can prove this, the law makes her a common utterer.
lected the associates of his youth, some of them the fa- Her mode was in each instame the same: she went
titers of his present auditors, he could not help express- into two shops, bought trifling articles, for which she
ing his delight at the manner in which he bad been offered a goodhall-crown, and received in change two
elected to this distinguished honour, and he could not shillings and some haltpence. Then she said she found
tell how warm were his feelings towards his young sF e had got halfpence enough to pay for what she had
friends who had made him the object of their choice. bought, and request: d to have her half-crown again,
Ile trusted this language would not be mistaken for and gave two bad shillings in the place of the good
overweening self-complacency. Never could ht forget ones. To shew further with wt.at intention this was
the associations of former days. The images of his re- done, I shall prove she did the very same thing in *DO
vered instructors, those great departed men, were for then shop on the same day; but as that was In ihe city
ever hallowed to his memory. No one could be better of Bristol, and not within the county of GI =ester, it
persuaded th.n he was of the partiality which had called is only evidence of the guilty knowledge, which is the
him hither; but he could nut but be proud at being the gist of the offence. •
chosen object of their young unfettered heat ts; they had Maria Nicholls—My husband is a butcher at Kings-
cc:mimed lan him an honour which could not be pur- down. On Saturday evening, the 24th of March, before
'chased with wealth, nor bought with power. Mr. C. eight o'clock, the prisoner came into my shop, and
said he could speak with feeling and cordial fellowship bought 2d. worth of lights. She gave me hall a crown.
of the hopes and fears of. the young and aspiring stu- I gave per two shillings, and whilst I was counting out
.dent, but it might be thought an act of supererogation the halfpence she said she would not change, and I
in him to offer any advice on the subject of their gave her back the half-crown, arid. she gave me two
-studies, when they were. supplied with so many ea- bad shillings, which I put in my left hand pocket, where
eellent and able instructors, and its a place which had there was no money extept a crooked s•xpence. I dis-
be n so long famed for illustrious and enlightened covered they were bad in about a quarter of an hour
teachers. He sincerely congratulated the students afterwards. The shillings I had given were good.
on being denizens of so ancient and respectable a took the bad shillings into the parlour, wrapped them
University. Mr. Campbell then :went on to dilate up in paper, and put them on the mantel-piece, and
on the advantages which had been conferred on Europe left them *ntil last Saturday, the 7th of Apt il. I their
by the different Universities, and described them as the kept them myself. I did not mark them. They are
rallying points of human learning during the period of infamous shillings—[Witness produced the shillings.]
the Reformation. He did not mean to make any in- lam sure they are the same shillings the prisoner gave
vidiotes comparison with the English Universities, nor me. I never %hewed them to any one My husband, my
with the intellectual heroes of England's majestic race son, and my daughter, only live in the house. We have
of men; but among their own teachers they could no lodgers.
enumerate names, which were as much above all praise, Mr. Baron VAUGHAN—This evidence is very loose.
as they were free from ail reproach. He observed that You had better, in similar cases, lock up by itself the
it would be easy to invest the topics he was discussing money you take. Is there any thing you know them by ?
with blooming interest, but this would be unnecessary
Witness—The mark round the inner circle is very
to make them pursue their studies with ardour and de
remarkably black.
votion. The loss of opportunities for improvement was
ever to be regretted, and if they were neglected, those William War field—On the 24th of March, the pi
who were thus guilty, must be haunted with the ap- soner came into my mistress's shop. Before coming in
palling thought of dying in the shadow of neglect, and she wits with another girl, but came in alone. She
being buried in the shroud of oblivion. All who wished asked what bread was a quartern? I said, 71,d. She
asked for half a quarter) loaf, and put down half a
to attain knowledge must do it solely for its own sake,
•for learning was a proud mistress, and was not to be crown. I took the half crown to Mrs. Clarke. who keeps
counted for any selfish or pecuniary motive, but solely .the shop, who.was in the inner room, and she gave me
-for. her own sake; and the utmost ardour and de. 2s. and some halfpence, which I carried to the pri-
logien was necessary to crown the wishes of the soner. I looked to the 2s. I received from Mrs. Clarke.
aspirant to her favbur. The love of learning was They were both bright and clear, and one had a lion
natural to man, but it was not to be expected that she and crown upon it. I carried the money to the prisoner,
who was standing close to the door with one foot out,
should spring up to terfection without being thoroughly
cultivated and matured. At first the duties of the student and gave it to her. She said she had rather have the
might appear irksome and tedious, but they mig half-crown again, for she found she had halfpence
• a rat
assured that in a very short time, instead of considering enough to pay fcr the loaf, and she put two shillings
them in this light, they would be regarded as both de-
and the halfpence in my hand. I went back to Mrs.
!rightful and pleasant, and would ultimately repay them Clarke, gave them to her, and she gave me the half-
in a manner of which the yining imagination could
crown ; but before I could reach to give the half Crown
to the prisoner, Mrs. Clarke ran out, and said, "This is
have no adequate concep•ioa. :It was general prin-
ciple, which could not be disputed, that learning was not my money ; what I gave were good." The prisoner
advantagerms. It was now a received axiom, that ' I'll swear it was.i had no other money about me."
. knowledge of every kind was power. Julius Sca. They threatened to send for a constable. The other
tiger did not enhance his tame by lsis bitterdiatribe girl came into tae shop, and asked for a pennyworth of
against mathematics, nor did Johnson or Swift biscuits, and asked what was the matter? My.master
asked her it she knew the prisoner? She said, Yes,"
add much to their reputation by declaiming against
and took her biscuits, and went out passing close by the
natural science, for their conduct only served to exhibit
in monstrous conjunction the pride of learning with the Prisoner. Two pliillings were produced to the witness.
envy of ignorance. He exhorted them not to trouble These are not the shillings I received from Mrs. Clarke,
one of those I received from Iscr had the lion and
their minds with vain disputes, and advised them
strongly to giv.e all their attention to those studies at crown upon it.
which they were engaged. lie did not wish to damp Mrs. Chi; ke—l gave Warfield two shillings and two-
the ardour of the youthful mind, he trembled at such pence farthmg. One of the shillings had a crown and
a thought—for he had always thought that the young lion. Warfield brought two shillings back, and the
student should be like the young soldier—bold, dash- twopence farthing. I gave him the half-crown. I saw
ing, and daring. There was oftentimes a feeling of the two shilling, were bad, and ran into the shop and
distrust of his own powers in the breast of the learner, said to the prisoner This is not the money." I told her
and this distrust of the capabilities of particular persons she had a parcel of bad money about her, and I would
was often felt by tl eir instructors; but thisswas by no send for a cons•able. I was present when she was
means a sure criterion to judge by, and should not al- seethed. No money was found upon her. The other
ways be set down to the entire Want &ability. Let girl was nie searched. I had no suspicion rif the other
their minds he fairly cultivated, and let thim be art- girl, and sh -win away as soon as the .biscuits were
eouraged by their teachers to peesevetance;• for they gsven her. I asked the prism) r who she was, andashere
mould, by p contrary conduct, be acting the.part of the she lived? She would not say at first, but told me,
. "ratting physician, who, when he found be could roe liter t had detained her hall'an hour, that her mistress
entuelsieute his patient, thought the men IHOf Cr Orr was %%litho, and lived round the corner, and she
would be-r 2 shsprcis him altrigt they. He (Mr.Canip. said rik shodld lose her place.. There is no person of
bill) hove& it would not be necessary here to-guard that name in my neighbourhood. The two bad shit
-agaia,t a riefudice which existed sonless h le, that be. lings sere produced. I have kept them ever since by
cause it:diviOsals were not qualified for attalsing to the themselves.= I never afterwards saw the two shillings I
very hiLhebt rattles in literature, it veal better tia want gave the prisoner. 1 kept the h ill•crOWn. I lire in