Star.
London, England, 1829-01-31 00:00:00

ON BURNING A PACtET 0t 141ITTER3.
ALASIC A. irmfts..

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Rest= if km, end life's ettettwited sprint.
Of hope bons, rainbow-tike, of smiles aisdahrs;
With trembling band do 1 unloose the ats&
'wined round the retard of my youthful years!
Yet why Jormerve memorials of a dream
'too bitter-eweet to breathe of aught ;attain!
Why court fond amatory for a Adel gleam
Of faded bliss, that cannot bissm again!
The thoights mid feeling, the.. old relies bring
Beek on my heart. I would not now recall:
-Sin ee gentler ties around its pulses ding.
neU ipelle less hallowed hold them still is thrgl?
Can withered hopes that never came to lower,
Hatch with afxttens leas and dearly tried !
Lose, that has Used through many a stormy boor.
Through good and ill—and time and change defied!
Perish melt record that might wake a thought
That would be treason so a faith like this !
Why should the spectres of past joys be brought •
To ling their gtadows o'er my present buss! -
Yet,—ere we part foeSver—let me pay
A lut.food tribute to the sainted deed.;
Mourn o'er Mese wrecks of passion's earlier day,
• With tears as wild as sate I used to shed!
What gentle words are flashing on my eye!
What tender truths in every line I trace !
Confesalune-.-penned with many a deep-drawn sigh—
Hopes—like the dove—with hat me resting-place !
How Many a feeling, long—too long—seprest.
Like autumn-flowers, hem opened out at last !
How many a vision of the lonely breast
Its cherished radiance odithese leaves bath elm!
And ye, pale violets, whose sweet breath are driven
'Hick On my soul the dreams I fail would "Pell;
To whose faint-miens* such wild power Is Om,
To call of etsions—only loved too well •
Ye too must perish!—Wherefore now divide
• Tributes of love:-‘61.4 offerings of the heart—
Gifts—that so long have alUnibered side by side;
Tokens of feeling—never meant to part!
A long fareweU :—sweet flowen. sad setoffs% adieu!
Yea. ye shall be compantoos to the last :
So perish all that would revive anew
The fruitless memories of the faded past!
hut, IA! the lames are curling *Wirth, 'round
Each fairer vestige of my youthful Teat* ;
Page after pige that searching blase bath found,
• Kees whilst I strive to trace them through my tears!
Thb Modem widow, in affliction strong,
Dime by her lord, and keeps bar faith unbroken:
Thus perish all which to those wrecks belong.
The living memory—With the lifeless ideal! •

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
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COURT OF COM— MO PLEAS. aste. 30.
This being the annivetsarY of the martyrdom of King
Charles, it was observed as a holiday at Court„ except
that one 41 their Lot dships sat for a few minutes to take
motions in ju-iification of bail.
COURT OF COMPENSATION. Its. so.
A:Jtv y was summoned this morning at the Sessions
House, Westminster, before ARTHUR MORRIS. E-q. the
High bailiff, and SMITHERS. Esq. his Assessor, to
determine the compensation due to Mrs. Margaret Price,
fot•two• house., Nos. 22 and 2S, in Chandbs-street.
The .JUry having been Swath proceeded to view the
premises.
Mi. Ratmostale, On their return, addressed the jury
fdr the -plaintiff, and said that it fell to him to state to
thi m tee grounds on which Mrs. Price claimed consi-
derably more.than had been offered by the Crown. He
would reimod the-Jury, that the only question for them
to consider was the present value of these remises ; and
in addihati to that. the compensation which his client,
wes'eniit;ed tn ‘f,r being forced to give up ber.propetty, I
whether :willing 'or not. It 'consisted of a large house,
in '•Chatsdos greet, known by 'the nan.e of the Key
Hotel, about Wiieh they would hear, no doubt, a
great deal from his Learned Friend Mr. Harrison,
for 'the Crown, but that was a matter which they
would etui4ely dismiss from their minds. To show
how• int-le was this nhpctien, he should state, that
r! e Iptojetti fotshetly belonged to the Reverend Mr.
Nod,. a Clergyman of the Church of England. in
1806, when it ens burnt down. on which occasion a
lease wikhr 70 years granted to the resent tenant, with
a covenant under which 7,0001. were expended in re-
building the premises. There were 48 years of the lease
now um ;spired, at a rent of 701. per annum, which was
from the circumstances most punctually paid. The
Jury would therefore have to consider what any man
of capital would readily and willingly pay for such a
property as this, subject to no deductions*, risk of bad
crops or seasons, but paid as regularly, and with es
much clot linty, as the half year's end cams. troiniolitt
for the loss of a single year's rent—no lawyers' bills to
pay—oo decline in the value of land-4--no uncertainty of
the coro laws to be considered. it could not be worth
less than SS years purchase at the luwest*; and be
might say much more. Then, with respect to the se
version alter these 48 years were expired, when be took.
into coati .eration the improvements that must of neces•
sky take place, independently of those contemplated by
this Act, he might safely venture to leave it with the
Jury, without calling a single witoess, and they would
give him double the present value. Lastly, they wan
to Sas whet his client was entitled to for being compelled
to give op those premises whether she would or no, by
the power bf the Legislature, which was omnipotent,
and could make two and two 'five if it pleased, and
fnrced her to give up her bargain, although she had
no wias at all to pot with it. There was also an oil
shop, r I the largest business in the neighbourhood, for
Which Mrs. Pike also claimed eornpens Von and which
was let at the low rent of 32thut was well worth 1051.
a-year,
_'the Jury could not give less than 2,560 guineas
for this, and I.e should leave the case in that bands.
satiseid drat they would do foil justice between the
parties. •
•• Price, son of' the claiMant, said he purchased the
property in question for her; one .of the houses was,
' called the Key Hotel, which bad 41-feet fteutage ; -the I
oil shop was 25 feet in front ; the net tent of the -Key
Was.7ol. the tenant insuring and paying land tax ; I
was very substantially • built, and the rent ass as re-
gularly paid as a batik-once; it would let for 4001. a
Yoars if now vacant ; 'the -oil shop,' was let fbr 521. :A
tenant would now. give 100 guineas a year for them;
she lease would be worth much more without the iroviso
is give np if wanted for public improvements; gave,
notice to Mr. Armstrong, the tenant, to-quit at Chttat-I
Mailed; had estimated the preSent 'value of the Key;
it was 2,4001. at 3 per cent. There was ground enough
to build six houses' upon, which would Produce 2.0001.
inmate value,-otter the eapiration•ef the lease ;•tbensi
atop was Worth 3.0791
Cross-examined by Mr.:HAtiatefm—Was a SUrgelen,
but not in practice; gave 9001. for the house, subject.
also, to the payinEet of several incembrances in the
shape 'of anniskles for lives, one of-which was ;anisette=
stow; they 'amounted to 2601. *pertinent* ; tberevristi
very few bidders for ifte'property. riniccutirit Of the In-
cumbrance ; it had cost a great deal mote than:2;sool
to Mts. Pike; these was a loss of above 3601. by the
fall in the stocks during the interval •between the
isifte lend the tompletiOn Of the piichaso; the house
N.). '22 WAtlld-AbW lit fbc the'surn of 4201. a ',oar
for a family hotel; could not say *bather it