Star.
London, England, 1826-10-24 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

This bas been called the golden age of Literature,
and for a few writers the expression has some meaning;
but afflicting instances continue to occur, which prove
that the most sterling abilities, although united with
taste and honourable industry, do not always secure to
their possessors not only a wealthy provision, but an in-
dependent competency. These instances are.the more
painful when they involve age, as well as talent, and we
see the veteran thrown back upon the world, at the very
time when comfort and repose should attend his de-
clining years. We have been induced to make these
observations in consequence of a Prospectus, which
announces that the friends of a Gentleman, advanta-
geously known in the literary and political world, Mr.
TAYLOR, the founder, and, till within a year, the pro-
prietor and Editor of the Sun Newspaper, propose to
publish a volume of his Poems by subscription, and
' solicit the patronage of the public in consequence of
unexpected and undeserved calamities by which he has
been overtaken. When it is recollected that Mr. TAYLOR
is the author of that popular Tale, from which has
sprung one of our most popular afterpieces, Monsieur
Tonto'', and of almost every clever Prologue or Epi-
logue spoken at either Theatre during the last 30 years,
his claim to public support as a literary man must be
universally acknowledged. When it is known that at
a more advanced age, we believe, than 70, calamities
not of hii own seeking have reduced him to begin the
world again, the appeal of his friends must prove irre-
sistible. The Work will consist of Selections from Mr.
TAYLOR'Sformer volumes and many ofhis later produc-
tions, comprising Sonnets, Odes, Prologues, and Epi-
logues, occasional Miscellaneous Effusions, Tales, &c.
and an entire new version of the Odes of Anacreon.

The Gibraltar Papers contain a Proclamation of the
Governor, dated the 23d ult. stating, that vessels are
reported to be fitted-out there under foreign Bags to
carry on the Slave Trade. The Governor warns all
persons against the consequences of direct or indirect
encouragement of this abominable traffic.
Talma's funeral took place on Saturday morning.
The car was attended by his relations and friends, wed
almost all the men of letters, and artists in the metro-
polis. The body as conveyed from his house to the
church-yard of Pete la Chaise, and committed to the
ground without any burial service
One of the men who used to be employed in the cellar
at Liverpool in which thirty-three dead bodies were
found, has been taken into custody, and will be tried
for the misdemeanour at the Kirkdale Sessions.

MANCHESTER, OCT. 21.--There has been consider-
ably less animation in the market this week, particularly
in cloth, for which, in some instances, it has been diffi-
cult to obtain former prices. Nevertheless, there is a
general feeling that business is gradually getting into a
healthful condition. Some people state, that country
buyers are suspending their purchases of prints, from
an expectation that the duty will be repealed ; but we
can scarcely think that this motive has operated to any
material extent.

GLASGOW, OCTOBER 21.—A fair proportion of the
specie (500,000 dollars on account of the Mexican Government, and
700,000 on account of Merchants) and cochineal, value 800,000
dollars, brought by the Hussar frigate from Mexico, is, we are happy
to find, on Glasgow account. The British merchants in Mexico

state in a

made to our Consul General, that their

remittances in future will be specie instead of bills, and they com-
plain of the want of opportunities by ships of war to forward it to
Britain. The Consul has engaged to lay their letter before Mr.
Secretary Cameo, and directions, we have no doubt, will be given
to ships of war to call mare frequently at Vera Cruz.
This is the anniversary of the death of Tycho Brahe,
the great mathematician, in 1601 ; also the death of
William Prynne, celebrated for his writings against the
immorality of the stage, and persecutions by the Star
Chamber, 1669.
FATAL Antsy...An unfortunate rencontre took
place on Saturday afternoon, at Coggeshall, in Essex,
between a man named Goody, gamekeeper to Mr. Han.
bury, of that place, and a man named Horn, a labourer.
According to the account we have received, it appears
that about a month back, some dispute arose between
the parties, respecting a quantity of nuts which Horn
was detected gathering in the woods belonging to Mr.
Haubury. The gamekeeper warned him off, and fur-
ther insisted on his leaving the nuts he had gathered
behind him, which he refused doing. The gamekeeper
'attempted to take them from him, and a regular battle,
lasting, it is said, nearly an hour, ensued, in which
Horn had the decided advantage, and was at last al-
lowed to depart, taking with him the nuts he had ga-
thered. Saturday afternoon, the parties again, by
accident, met in a part of Mr. Hanbury's estate, which
known as Highfields. Whether Horn was engaged
in any illegal act, does not appear ; but words took
blows ensued, and the gamekeeper, with a large
clasp knife is said to have struck Horn a blow on
the left arm, which, penetrating into his side, caused
immediate death. The gamekeeper was taken into
custody slaartly alter, to await the result of the Inquest
on the body.

A Liverpool paper says, " The Corporation are about
to build two Free Schools, one of which is inished !"

Nine foreign, nine Irish; and one Guernsey
'arrived yesterday.

LAW REPORT.

Sittings appointed tobe held in Middlesex and London,
before the Right Honourable Sir CHasLes Anson, Knight, Lord
Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, in and after Michael.
mu Term, 1828.

Ul !rag.

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sinmssitx. Lowno.R.
Monday .
Monday . . Nov. 13 Weantedap
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Saturday . . 25 Monday .
•lIKAL TIRM.
Wednesday . . 29 I Thursday . 30
Sit at half-past Twelve o'clock on the 13th, 15th, 20th, and 224
November; and at half-past Nine on the other days.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, Oct. 23.
This morning Mr. &mum appeared in Court without the
principal part of his forensic costume, namely, his wig. It appeared
that the Learned Advocate had left home in a hurry, leaving his
symbol of wisdom quietly reposing on a block. It was soon after
placed upon the head which had so long given it motion, and all its
power operated again upon the Court and Jury.

EVANS V. WARD.
Mr. ScAttlarrT said that this action was brought by
his client to recover damages for the non•performarcel
of an agreement. The defendant was a merchant of the
City, and in the early part of the yea(lB2s the plaintiff
bought a cargo of whalebone of him. The bargain for
the purchase was made between the parties by a broker
of the name of Linthorne. The broker had, however,
made a previous sale of the commodity to a Mr. Fergu-
son.: This latter Gentleman failed, and by the wish of the
assignees the contract was cancelled. Mr. Ward agreed
to this, and at the same time told Mr. Linthorne to sell
the whalebone to some other person. A sale was then
made to Mr. Evans, certainly not by Mr. Linthorne
himself, but by his clerk, who, he should prove, was
fully competent and authorised to act for his master.
Two days after the sale was effector], it appeared that a
considerable advance had taken place in the price of
the commodity, and then the defendant refused to con-
firm the contract with his client. This action was con-
sequently brought to recover damages for this breach
of contract.

From the evidence it appeared that at the time of the
second sale, the broker, Mr. Linthorne, was out of town,
but that his clerk, having authority from Mr. L had
effected it, and Mr. Ward, the defendant, had on the
afternoon, after having received a copy of the contract
from the clerk, refused to ratify it, upon the ground, as
be stated, that Mr. Linthorne had no authority to sell.
A Mr. Penny, an extensive broker, did not conceive it necessary
to apprise the principal before the sale was effected ; he considered
that after the bargain was made, the contract was binding.
Mr. ALDERSON addressed the'Jury for the defence:
The Loan Comm -Armco summed up. The only
point for the consideration of the Jury was, whether they
thought by the evidence that Mr. Linthorne had been
authorized to make the sale oI the cargoes io question.
If it did not appear that he had been, then certainly the
principal (the defendant) was nat liable.
The Jury, alter some consultation, returned a verdict for the de-
*dant.
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Om 23.

These Sessions commenced this morning, Mr. MAR-
RYAT presiding in the absence of Mr. CONS; who is still
confined by indisposition.

John Townsend, an itinerant bookseller, was con-
victed of an indecent assault upon a young man, the
apprentice of a shoemaker. He was sentenced to six
months' solitary imprisonment.

Thomas Toms was convicted of keeping a disorderly
house in Thornhaugh-street, and sentenced to 6 months'
imprisonment in the House of Correction.

John Cooper was indicted for assaulting J. Parker. It
appeared that on the evening of the 27th of August
last, the prosecutor, who is clejk to Messrs. Burnet and
Co. distillers, was driving in his gig along Vauxhall-
bridge, and, being as he described hinasell, neither
drunk nor sober, he passed through the toll-gate with-
out paying the toll, under the supposition that he was to
pay it at the other end of the bridge; whereupon he
was followed by the defendant, a constable, stationed
on the bridge on those nights on which the gardens
were open, who seized his horse by the bridle, and
caused it to back in a violent manner. The prosecutor
got out of the gig, and a scuffle took place, in which
each party insisted that the other was the first aggressor.
The Jury found the defendant Goity,and
The Couar, in consideration of his having a good character as an
officer, only sentenced him to pay a fine of M. 4d.

Robert Reece, the driver of a Richmond stage.coach,
was indicted for assaulting a rival coachman, named
Manse who stated, that seeing the defendant coming
after him, at his utmost speed, with the evident deter-
mination of passing him, he put his horses also into rapid
motion to prevent him ; but at the request of two of his
female passengers, he pulled up, and made the defend-
ant do the same, upon which a female who was on the
outside of Reece's coach, immediately endeavoured to
get off; to prevent which, the defendant lashed his horses
forward, although the poor woman was at that moment
hanging from behind, merely by her hands, and upon
the prosecutor going to her assistance, the defendant cut
at him with his whip.
It WM urged in defence, that the prosecutor had endeavourkd to
seduce his passengers from him ; and witnesses were called to swear
that the defendant had never struck him.

The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The COURT observed, that the_misconduct of stage-
coachmen in the neighbourhood of London had become
such a nuisance, that it called loudly for punishment ;
and, therefore, to make an example of the defendant, he
was sentenced to four months imprisonment in the
House of Correction.
SUR/tEY SESSIONS, OCT. 23.
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These Sessions commenced by adjournment this day at Horse•
monger-lane, before ROpEtT Houma, Esq. Chairman, and a full
Bench of Magistrates ; but the business was confined to a common
assault case.

Sunday morning early, as G. Byers, coachman to T.
Berry, Esq. was proceeding through John-street, Bed-
ford-row, he was alarmed by the cries of a female from
a cellar, and having knocked repeatedly at the door,
he, with the aid of some persons passing, forced open a
shutter, and still no person appearing, they entered the
cellar, where they discovered, that the stones which co-
vered an old well had given way, and that the female'
servant had fallen in. The well appeared to be about
twenty feet deep, and was half full of water, but provi
dentially the poor girl had caught hold of a projection
in her descent, and had thus contrived to sustain herself
till assistance arrived, when she was with difficulty ex-
tricated, with no other injury than what resulted from
her fright, and a few slight bruises on her back.
A violent schism is said to exist among the choristers
of Westminster Abbey, and to such an extent is this har-
monious warfare carried on, that it was with great diffi-
culty that on a recent visit of an illustrious female, a
sufficient number of singers could be got together to
perform a full anthem.

Some days ago, at Stourbridge, a young man drank
such an excessive quantity of spirits, that death ensued.