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WRITTEN IN TUX FIRST LEAR Or AN

White vested Goddess, that doth smiling live
Where the light woodbine twines in amorous folds,
Weaving a shadowy Lower, whose fresh green bolds
An sw.•ets that pansy, rose, or violet give !
If souls be dear to thee of gentle maids—
Souls that reflect the pure and tranquil hues,
Thy nature loves-0 ! quit thy springing shades,
And here awhile a grateful duty choose !
For, en these spotless leaves, a ready crowd
May proffer friendship, honour, love, and truth;
Keep thou the book, nor let thy Catharine's youth
Look on the flatteries of the vain and proud.
She is thy votary, thou her guardian be,
Meek, gracious, Ileavenly-ey'd 511111.1.101 Y

POLICE.


CloglgX-SQUAaa--Geerge Practoro a niiserabielook-
in. man, with scarcely a covering, and. without a
sent, was, yesterday, brought up to thil Office, by a
Berjeant of the 2d Regiment of Foot Guards, on a
charge of selling bilk of a seditious tendency. The
f3erjesat produced a bundle of the bills he took from
him; they were only extracts from the Morkiug
Papers of Tuesday, and a copy of Mr. Hunt's Lester to
Lord admouth ; he said the man had been followed
about the4reets by an immense mob, whom he was
haranguing in very improperlanguage, declaring that
Mr. Hunt ought not to be in custody, and boasting
of his triumphant liberationo,accusing the Govern-
ment of cruelty to his Majesty's subjects, and the ne-
cessity of opposing the Ministers with energy, and
supporting the true rights of the People.—The Ma-
gistrate, on perusing the bills, declared that he saw
nothing improper in them ; and told the prisoner, if
he derived any trifling profit from the sale, he was at
full liberty to condone it, but cautioned him, at the
same time, against making any improper use of his
tongue. He commended the Serjeant for his loyal
conduct, and the prisoner, who shed tears, was then
discharged.

MA ItLEOROTICIIII•ST MIL KT. BEN EP IT SOCIILIMr.
Yesterday John Cunningham, a taylor, 70 years of
age, summoned the Stewards of a Benefit Society,
called The Hope, held at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Cambridge-street, Golden-square, to shew cause why
they refused to pay him sixteen shillings per week,
having declared, through infirmity, on the Club. It
„Appeared in evidence that the Plaintiff had been a
men formerly in very opulent circumstances, but
bid been driven to distress, which caused him to
elleir the Seciety,to which he had tendered the usual
pityrnsets for several years, and was one of the oldest
teunberi belonging to it. In consequence of an at-
tack of the gout, which deprived him of the use of
his hand, he claimed the assistance of the Club,
which was granted. Shortly after he was visited by
the Stewards, who found him with a skein of thread
in his hands, which caused them to scratch his name,
and refuse paying the money. Plaintiff stated he
I had a man at work, and was in the act of taking him
the thread when they happened to meet him, but he
was not at work himself.—The Stewards persisted
that he was at work, that they even saw the coat be
was making laying on the table, the goose was hot,
the thread was on his shoulder, and, on examining
his angers, the marks of the needle were on them,
and he appeared very much confused.
Magistrate--That makes not the least difference.
If you even saw him sitting cross-legged, with 'the
needle and thread in his hand, unless you actually
saw him at work ; there is a deficiency in the evi-
dence, and I could not order him to be dismissed
from the Club. You must swear positively that he
was at work, making the garment, to gain your object.
Steward—That's rather *harp upon us, your Wor-
ship; bat to keep some order in the Society, we wish
to come to some decisive point—the goose was hot,
ready to press the coat with.
The Magistrate decided the point in favour of the
plaintiff; and ordered him to be paid up to the next
luarter, the neglect of which, he said, would autho-
rise a distress warrant to be levied. •

MANSION House.—Yesterday a young man and
his wife and two children, were brought before the
Loop MAYOR, by Martin, the. officer, under the cir-
cumstances stated in the following account :—Mar-
tin, Branscomb, and Merchant, the officers, were on
Monday evening looking out for squalls, and having
occasion tor into a public-house, observed a whole
family passing by in the most deplorable condition.
A woman appeared bending under the weight of an
infant she had scarcely any covering upon her, and
seemed to be in the very last stage of pregnancy.—
Upon her feet were no shoes, and, of course, no
stockings. The child in her arms was filthy and al-
most naked, and was quarrelling with the breast,
which seemed to have lost the power of giving
nourishmentby a long series of privations and misery.
Her husband presented a picture of distress scarcely
less appalling. He was in tatters, and carried ano-
ther child, who joined its father in lamentation. Bread
was the cry of this wretched family. The officers
called them in to give them something to eat, and
the woman seized a piece of bread with greediness,
and began to devour it. When the man was about
to do the same, Allen, the street-keeper, entered, but
the mement the father of the family saw this sudden
visitor, he took to his heels, and left his wife and
children. The officers pyrsned and seized him, but
it was with great difficulty they succeeded in bring-
ing him back. He resisted in the most powerful
manner, tumbled the officers about, and attempted
to bite them. The wife and children set up the most
tremendous shrieks, and the populace gathered about
them, full of compassion for the family, and of in-
dignation towards the police. The officers searched
the man, and found upon him a bag containing £9,
in half-crowns and shillings. Convinced that he had
made this sum by the practices of which be hid so
lately given a sample, they took him, with his, fa-.
mily, to the Compter. The difficulty in doing so
was increased by the conduct of busy persons, who
raised a cry against the officers, and said they were'
acting merely from a motive of pecuniary advantage.
The officers complained to the LORD MAYOR that
this habit had grown into a most serious injury, for
all assistance was refused upon cases of emergency.—
The LORD MAYOR desired, that the officers should
not attend to any clamour, bat pursue their duty, and
act with their usual propriety.—The scale prisoner
said he had got the money pertly from his mother,
and partly from a strange gentleman. He had told
the officers that he received it from the Scotch So-,
ciety. The officers added, that although the family
igst their other property
A said, he should have
punished, as an example
le began to cry bitterly,
•ould be obliged to go to
LORD MAYOR was in-
family about theil- business,
manner. It, however,
:es of pregn 11)44 might
the wile of one of the
experirneist„ After 1 little time
LORD MAYOR that the woman
pregnancy, but that she was no
s gor.e, and had a'sack
-thrce lido; times, so,