Star.
London, England, 1817-09-15 00:00:00

.4PPRoACHING AUTUMN.

TheAu• noel 1.•;u1.,0x I.appen.. on the 22d of September, and,
at this time, the 02). a. dui his are equal all over the earth.—
About this reritid, i. avy storms 61 wind and rain are experienced,
as well as at the Venue Equinox
T.. THE HARYIWT

Moon of Hare. si, I do love •
O'er the upiand. n• w to rove,
While thy modest ray serene
Gild* rhr wide surrounding scene;
And to wa'ch thee riding high,
la the blui• vault of the sky,
Where no thin vapour intercepts thy ray,
Bur la iinciouded majeity thou walkeit on tby way !
. Pleasii g 'ti-, oh, modest Moon I
Now the ink• is at her noon,
'death thy sway to musing lie,
While around the zephyrs sigh,
Fanning so t the sun-tanned wheat,
fitipered by :he it:minces heat;
Plot/fir; the ru,tic's joy
When bow:dies& plenty greets bls eye,
At.ci Vaitili!vg scstm
Oh, modest Mono!
How rrany a female eye will roam
A:iang the road,
To ice tl:e load,
The 1, sr dear load of harvest home!
&orris and tempt.:., dards and rains,

Stern despr,ihrr of the plains,
I.l3nce awn, the season fix,
Furs to ligt•-heats
May tio winds careering high,
Drive the choir's along the sky;
Etat tray 311 nature smile with asi,ect boon,
VIIEU ir, the Heavens tlintr sbuw'st thy face, oh Harvest 11,Ti
'Nearb you lowly roof he litts,
The husbandman, with si tep-staled eyes;
He dreams of crow Jed ltarlis, and round

be yard lie hear► the Cal resound;
Oh! may 110 hurricane tivaroy
His visionary views of jny !
Goo of the Winos, oh! bear his humble pray'r I.
And, whie .be MOOD of Harvest ghlnes, thy lihnerlog whm-
wind spare ! tAREL W/1112.

When the harvest is gathered in by the farmer, and the glea-
neva bay, gut all they can pick " ear by ear," then the her,, the
akt ep, pigs, and turkeys, take the " stubble,' or, as ii is some.
tlmes c.:lltd, the " stray " In the oprn fields, in tome of the
.!huge• MI the south-.ashen side of Cambrldgeshir•, it is curious
to •re flocks of many sellers, pet bap, tome hundreds, of tut keys.
7 bey art kept by a events, bent, and either lodged at their re-
spvct tvr littn AM, or, if the herd hag acconnnotiat ion fur them, they
rare loege4l all tr•g• th,r, -.dal the dung is eery vslitable. 'll hey are
kt•rt tilt :teas Chi uttistas, when they are fattened and sent to Lon.
t! ; wh.•u a piwr♦n:an has beet, known to make a guinea a rive,
e :..i, tvrittys in Lestlenin;ll market. Sometimes !limy are dneen
London in large nuchs, the sante as grebe —The hustit:druan
row ••tei•ares 'or seed-time, end tl:e field:, are again plonzhed rep
fee the u niter corn, tye an I wheat, which are sown in Stptem-
bet :.;-..loctulor. be entrants sto bee-Lives are atra!teuvsl, to
/recent the access of wasps and other pil;er,rers.

St. Gibe's Fair, Oxford, which this year ce:ntioncel
Once days, was the Lagest (yes known. A variety
of amos:mtnts andeshibitions attracted the attention
cf all classes, wilts appeared highly .delighted with
the motley scene; and the favour.ible state of the wea-
ther bruifr.t a multitude of v.sitors.
There is now liyirg at Halsted, Essex, a man of
the nan.e a f Smith, in the 70th year °I his age, Who'
is fisher of t 9 eh I.lren. Tlie elder and younger are
now ma's icsi, the to: mer a min, 5? year 3 of .rye ; the
latter a daughter, not yet 17 years eld, but is mar-
r;cd, and has been a nv.,ll:t-r about weeks. He has
0,0 ani 3 great-grand.
etildien, and hi: *:y bOOll to have an inewase. A few
years since, he sat at tatle with his children and their
descendants, anonnting in nen:b,r to 5S persons.

A snottr 1111,DE l r tit:NCING n (MOST To miter...—
Mrs. Water, a widow lady, who, with her family, Oc-
cupies a cottage at Hampstea.l, during the last fort.
night has been much :alarmed by unusual noises in
vnious parts tiller poetises at the dead hour of the
night. At first she was induced to bel'eve these
sounds proceeded from thicarts, but having missed
nothing to confirm her suspicious, this idea was aban-
doned, arid one of a more solemn description found
place in her breast ; namely, that the disturbance
woo from se me supernatural agency, a belief which
was coofu :fled by both her servant maids, who ilifiT•
iced most positively that they had seen things which
bad toe appearance of a human figure clothed so
white, flitting through the garden atter night fall—
The terror arising from the continuance of these suF-
posed visitations Isom the other world, which were
kept a secret from the neighbcurhood, at length in-
duced Mrs. Water to apply to her nephew, alio at
once suspected the cause, and by agreement was se-1
cretly admitted on the premises, in company with a
friend, without the knowledge of the servants, on
Thursday right ; when, taking their station behind
some trees in the shrubbery, they patiently waited the
midrirht hour, being provided v:ith a chile laraere,
in the event of artificial Ight being necessary to un-
savel the mystety. soon dtier one; a figure enve:o•
ped in white entered the g erden frem a door leading
into an adjoining field, ;tad approaching directly to
the house, rattled several of the shutters and doors.—
This tu.ned out to be the signal of his arrival, and in
a few seconds a fertrale came from the haus:: aedl
jained the aerial visitant, which, without much ccte• '
crony, encircled ler, not 'in his shadowy, but sinewy'
arms. While in this state of bliss the friends ap.
preached with as much silence as possible, but not
with sufficient precaution to prevent alarm, and be-
toe they could secere the spita, it had vanished, not
i's.to air, but iwto an adjoining pig•stye, which hap-
pened to be untenanted, and was tilled with dry
straw. The female vanished with as much celerity
into the I. AtsP, avid shut the door, waiting in a state
more easily conceived than imagined the issue of the
untoward interruption to her joys. The friends
hiving approached the pig-stye, exhorted the evil
Spirit to come forth, with every argument of which
they were master`, but in vain, till at lergtli tree of
them very deliberately set fite to the straw, the light
and smoke of which produced the.desired effect, and
to their infinite surprise and amusement out crept a
young gentleman, whose parents resided in the vici-
nagh, and who had adopted this mode of carrying on
an intrigue with the housemaid. It is needless to
say :bat the shame of his exposure, as well as the
daanger which be lead incurred, operated as .t :WE.
ci+ caution to prevent the repetition of similar idic
and mischievous expedients, by which, on more or.
casioas than one, the lives of our fellow cregturcs
have ben sacrificed.