Star.
London, England, 1816-06-18 00:00:00


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POBTRY.

TO TIM WIDOWED MOTHER OVA YOUNG SOLDIER,
SLAIN AT WATERLOO.

When, bi the battle's onset dread,
-' The plumed Chieftain bravely dies,
What funeral honours grace the dead?
A host's applause_a nation's sighs!
For him the mausoleum rear'd,
To distant times records his. fame;
for him the Poet's lyre is heard,
, . Whose strains immortalise his name!
Each tribute of regret and praise
The living to the dead can taint
Is by a grateful country paid,
To soothe the Warrior's fall,.and gratify his shade!

Bat when in lowlier station placed,
The gallant soldier sinks, teertiarown,
His bier is by no trophiei graced,
His name forgot—his deeds unknown
The with a hero's spirit warned,
That toweed above his abject state,
He first the serried phalanx named,
And purchas'd Victory by his fate—.
Sunk 'mid the general mass, he tale;
No tongue his memory recalls:
Save when some widow'd wife deplores,
Or hapless orphan child his fruitless sorrows pours!
Or when, as Thou, of all bereft,
Unhappy Matron ! bent with years;
A childless widow sadly left,
Mournest thy son with cosseless teats t
The only solace of thy age,
For ever ravish'd from thine eyes ;
la foreign climes, by hostile rage
• SlatighteAl—uowept, unburied lies !

Oh I what to thee avail the deeds •
Of heroes; when thy darling bleeds P
To Thee, one joy can conquest yield.
Whose life's sole hope lies slain on Victory's sanguine geld f
To thee what hoot the liberal sums
A nation's grateful bounty gives ?
Ain! the thought thy mind o'ercomes,
“ Thy boy no more to share them lives r
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And keeuer still the pang succeeds
To dash with gall each proffer'egnotl;
That, wh:le thy child unaided bleeds
The boon is purchaid by his blood!
Oh! aim—benevolent in vain,
To soothe with gifts a parent's pain!
The heart, such sorrows doomed to feel,
No recompense can pay—no alchymy can heal!

Yet weep DOI still with vain regret
Thy son—though slain in lilt's fair spring;
Nor scum of gratitude the debt, •
His country's grief, and pity bring !
Awhile—thy wors it may remove, •
From want thy closing years may save;
And, if from happier realms above,
Where live the wise, the Food. the brave,
Thy son the blest effect can know,
That from his blood thy comforts flow;
His filial shade shall hail hts doont,
Not envy Chiefs of Fame their laurels, or their tomb!

SPORTING ;NTELLIOIOTCE.

41•1•mmollOMID
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BETIING—JUNZ 3'.
The match between Sir Thomas and Pointers--even betting,
one shilling for a guinea for the choke.
The Match between Nector and Gre7skin-4 to 4 on Nector.,
THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER STAKES.
4 to i apt the Duke of Lepds's f.olt, by Brownbread.
31 to 4 apt Waterloo. •
- 31 to 1 alit Polet.
12 to 1 agst Town Tit.
• 1$ to I apt Mandan,.
16 to I apt Duchess of Leven.
17 to 1 asst any other.
THE NEWMARKET ST; LESER STAKES.
I to 4 the field apt Mr. Lake's Fiedler c. P. Leopold
Sto 11,agst any other. •
THE DERBY STAKES. FOR 1417.
10 to 1 apt Duke of Grafton's Waterloo.
. 12 to 1 ages Sir C. Buebery's brother to Smolensko.
to 1 apt Sir COlunbetry's two winning, pp.
20 to 1 apt any other winning.
Even betting the Add apt any seven.
The great match between Cattotrand Pilho da Pate for IOOp.
at Doncaster is even betting; one Wiling for one guinea for the
choke of horses.

SOUTH SHIELDS MEETING.
61101/CDAT, JOSE S.
Sweepstakes of bp each, wkh £5O added by the Towa, for
'Maid= horses, &c. three year olds 7st. four est. five Sot 71b.
. Mares and geldings allowed sib.--Three miles.
Mr. J. Harrison a b in by Dick Andrews. 5 yrs - 1
Mr. Hodgeon's br g by Dick Andrews, 4 yrs . 2
A Purse value £5•, for all ages ; three yr olds, yet Sib ; four est.
gia, en Sib; Ida and aile.i. list ;41b.—Mares alluwol 31b.4--
Heats, two miles and a half.
Mr. Oarl•utt's br g Traveller. aged 0 1 I
'Sir C. Heron's cb iby Cervantes, 3r. a 2 2
Mr. Johnson's cb. g. Deceiver, aged 4 S 3
Mr. 'epilog's L c. Willy Wabble, 3 yrs 5 &
TUESDAY, JUNZ 4.
The Loyalty Gold Cup, value luugs, free for any horse, &c.
three•yr olds 7st. four Sst. five Set 71b. six and aged, Ist.lolb.
'1 love miles.
Mr. J. Harrison's b m. by Dick Andrews, 5 yrs 1
Mr. Hodgson's hr g. by Dick Andrews, 4 yrs - 2
'Mr. Win. Thompson's el, g. by Shuttle, aged .. S
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Fifty Pounds fide horses, ace. H
eats, two miles and Allan:
Mr. Dick's ell f Win-if-ebe•can, 4 yrs, 7st 41b 1 1
Mr. Garbutes br g. Traveller, aged, sit. 41b 3 2
Mr. Metalft's b g Little George, 4 yrs. 7st 41b. . 4 3

The Sale of the Capital Prises in the late Lottery,
in so many Shares throughout the Kingdom. has pro.
duced a spirit for adventure, which the limited num-
ber of Tickets in the present Lottery is but ill calcu-
lated to supply. The two Prizes of £30,000 were
sold, one by Bun, the other by Walla, and were dis-
tributed as follows :

One Quarter to a Tradesman residing in Westminster-
road, near Astkyse.
One Quarter at Newcastle.
One Quarter at Huddersfield.
One Eighth at Norwich.
Two Sisteenths at Ealithurgh.
One Sixteenth at Newcastle.
One Sixteenth at Bath.
Ono Sixteenth at Bristol.
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Out Sixteenth at Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
One Sixteenth at Horndean.
One Sixteenth at Walthamstovr.
One Sixteenth at Aylesbury.
One Sixteenth at South Shields.
One Sixteenth at Newton Abbot.
One Sixteenth at Dublin.
One Sixteenth at Bradford.
One Sixteenth at Peterhead.
The remaining Shales were sold in London, but not
registered, and have fallen, as we are informed, into
very deserving hands. It is no wonder that the Of.
flees of Buss and Wana should command, as they do,
the pre-eminence in the present Lottery, which will
be drawn on the 25th instant; nor can we be surprised
that adventurers should look to a continuance of that
great success which has attended those who have fa-
voured there with their commands.

The soldier lately mentioned to have been brought
on shore at Portsmouth afflicted with catalepsy, which
has now continued nearly five months, still remains at
Plilbea, in the same state. Several consultations of
Medical Officers have been held on his case. He is a
native of Wimborne, in Dorsetshire, named William
Drake, and was sentenced 'to be transported for
poaching, connected with other crimes; but which
sentence was afterwards commuted to his serving in
the African Corps for life. Being conveyed to Guern-
sey, which is the depot of that Regiment, he soon
after discovered these signs of catalepsy, or insensibi-
lity, and he has hitherto withstood all the efforts of
medical persons to rouse him frail it. A Board of
Medical Officers is directed to be held upon his case.
The Esau:Awl sloop of war, Captain JACKSON
(acting), arrived on Thursday at Portsmouth, from
the Jamaica station. She left Port Royal on the
27th of April, eleven days after the last packet
which arrived. The ONYX, Captain STRANCIRWAYS,
was to sail in ten days afterwards. The Astoxes,
Paissaoss, ONYX, and Balsas, arrived at Port Royal,
on the 26th of April, in fifteen days from Honduras,
having the 7th West India Regiment on board. Tie
Jamaica papers state, that the Comet, commanded
by the noted pirate ITCHILL. which was seized by
the American brig Borer, when going into the Mis.
sissippi, had on board 100,000 dollars, and other
valuables, which were plundered from the inhabitants
that fled from Carthagena, at its capture by the
Royal Spanish army.—The Euvrovs has brought
200,000 dollars, merchants' property. She is to be
paid off at Deptford.
The ENTERPRIZZ receiving-ship for impressed sea.
men and volunteers, off the Tower, has been paid off
and removed to Deptford. The situation of regulating
Captain, however, is still continued at Tower-bin.
By a late arrangement, the situation of Mate in the
revenue cruisers is open to Midshipmen and Masters'
Mates, who are qualified for the rank of Lieutenant,
and also to second Masters, or those who have acted
'as Masters in thoNstvy. Their pay is to be as follows,
independent of their victualling and proportion of
the value of seizures s—First Mate, in a vessel of 140
toss and upwards, AO ; in a vessel of 100 tons and
upwards, €7O; and under ,100 toast £6O per annum.
Second Mates in the first class of those vessels, 445,
and in the second cyiss £4O pee annum. Persons
serving as Mate in the revenue vessels are to be allowed
•the time served in that capacity as so much rated
time in the navy, to the /latent of three years of the
five required to entitle them to halflay on tbeirbeing
subsequently confirmed as Masters, provided the other
two years are actually served in any capacity on board
one of his Majesty's ships, not • guard Eip. They
are to be
.appointed by the Navy board.
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.
Lieut. Ws D. Priam, to tio Promothsta. Via ialelet• eiehm.
NeGodfrey Immo, webs iosi Cloolotio.
rri Lysol' to bo Mow ot tbilfolooos.

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LAW DMILLIGENNI:
IN.M.MIIIMMO
COURT OF ICING'S BINCH,,IIINE
Mr. Justice Awry was absent from Couft to-day.
having gone to the Isle of Ely as a Special Commis•
sioner, to try the rioters in that part of the country.
A person of the name of Dixon, a mariner, was
sentenced to pay a fine of fifty pounds, for having
forged his name, as Master of a coasting vessel, on
the back of the ship's papers, to protect himself from
the impress.

ATTACIINEtiT.
Mr. GAMEY mowed for a Rule to :hew cause why
a writ of attachment should not be issued against the
Port Admiral of Portsmouth, for negligence in' not
complying with a writ of Habeas Corpus, directing
him to send up the bodies of certain prisoners in the
custody of the Admiralty. Mr. Gazetey stated-, that
the object of this motion was to expedite the move-
ments of the Admiralty, who were in the habit, upon
such writs being issued, of waiting to send up the
prisoners till the next convenient ship sailed from the
port near which they might be confined.
Lord ELLENSOROUGH granted the Rule, and ad-
ded, that it might be attended with a good effect.