Star.
London, England, 1818-07-24 00:00:00

DRYFE WATER.

nossaT CARRUTHERS.

" Let spades and hoots-do what they may,
" Dryh will carry Drysdale klrityard away!"
Old Tradition.

tterrily hies the mirriage band •
O'er muirland, moss, and heathery brat;
Igor la:ks their speed from horse or hand,
Or mirth free the gude companie!
Eat they maun cross o'er the foamirg itryfe
Ere the true love-knot can be tivd—
rxe the twasome be wedded man and wife,
Or the bridegroom meet wi' the bride !
Lt what trnikei the bridegroom utter a coats,
And ate bridegrootn's man turn pie ?
And 4bAr it't the rest loot sae steadily oh
As the women kab and wail? •
Dr; :e Waters are high. Dryfe Waters are loud-
- They've washed aff the !stools o'the grave,
They've parted the dead and the deadly slrroul—
The coffins ride by on the wave !

! sad, sad sled—father, =oda* and wean,
Grainless, sluvudless, and bsrc
tins/aping 'Orbs appearing spin
On this world of tro4bld And care.

4 Step here a while—lee u. here check eer speed,
Drag ....ads coffin and corpse to the shore
It ye w Ls% that your bairns should respect $e when &nal
Mita &rise who have trivell'd brir:."

Tate the tidegrotin lap ':nid the foaai e the stream

Ard. a colts he pies to his side—.
trembles ar4 shritis as ....odenta'd in a drewal,
' he thinks oa his bonny Twurg

tfAllle, 0 Ailia—fad groeting--aid day !
It': my nation I wee—
Tfte waters hae spared her though faded to -!ay,
'fhaughoie rnair she smile' joyfu on.rte:
In the earth shell be laid ere a wedding be voired-
TI/F: bridegroom turn mourner again—
T.:, wedding clothes serve for the burial suit.
And the patty t' !serial traM !

Teitcrday morning a patty of young men u-ho had
1.i.-ed a boat for a day'..pleasure on m
en ho
when rowing off the lowrr, by their tiliskilfuhies.s
up:et the boat, and all were preciptated into the wa-
ter ; several boats put. off to their assistance, and
roe:ceded in picking UP fonr ; two ream to sleeve,
bs; a rung man of the Larne of Taylor was drowned,
hie. body wasfoind abeit three hours artery: licit.
Y•niterdzeselinight, while tern boys were batl tit%
• at Gillingham, one of their, Who could not swim,
got oat of hit aeptb, and bei in danger of drown-
ing, his CCATIVIL*OII, who toad swim, went to his
a.iszttiice • When die first seizing fast hold of
savedhsr/dt, butt i-w
t dired his fi rend.
Sauday morning, between oac and t*o o'eloelt, as.
Ira' aged couple; named iota, were asleep in their
cattage,.at Fatine-, near Waltham Abbey, the tic'
etas arottsed by a nsise at her bed4oorn
She ,inmediatel? 'arose, and perceived a man on the
outside endeavot -ing to lift up the sash. She cier-1
ted ;d1 her. strearth to prevent his entrance, hut her
attempt Was inellactual ; the villain forced open. the
window:, plunged in, and put a case knife to the
throat of the terrified female : happily in her straggle.
she knocked the knife from his grasp, and it fell to a
distant par: of the room. She was, liciweker, unable
to rise front the 4.:t where the wretch had knocked
isTr dAvrr. and .a.e.inpted to perpiarate the nitird?r.—
Iri the tr.eana bile Mr. Hunt, who is S 4 years of age,
came from his bed, and contributed his feeble assis-
tance- for the preservation of his wife ; but the claiing
ribber disabled him by a single blow-, which stretched
hint on the floor, front giving any effetteal aid. The
perceiving that he had nothing to apprehend
from Choir further reAstance, detiberetely rifled the
pockets of Mr. Hunt's small.clothes, in which was
stun of try in bad.. note:, the interest of 000 3 per
en'it. Consols for IS months, which the poor old man
hoed 'received at the 'tank on Sattmlay, and then esca-'
ped thratigh the same vAndow by which he entered.
The height from the ground is tvialve feet, and to
facilitate hit entrance, he head broker' off the arm Of a
large tree, and rlaced kin such a direction as to form
a petits Of 'ladder. A detailed account of the trail-
Action was sent to the Magistrates at Union Hall,
11* J. thee, Esq. of Leonard Farm, near the cot-
tage}} end Vennon,4"roff, and Hall, hist boen
diis-
patched rot the pciTiniie of pinenting further ink. rya-
thin. :kill to cfiscover the tobtier.
+drra.•'—'itt. the Es..ex. Assize:, 'lnn-
dn.*, •TriliA Price was indi.:.o:d fin feloniously ktt
lie and :lariat; hob* Horsehair% at Wdltharestow.
• ;imam:stances etridence were therm
The nrismier and the debetsedhadbeeniPendingthe
4:iint agt h Walthamstow, on the'
:nil °.arch, and kittnither of ether young rople.
of beth Saes Wink prit,ento the? Pined in a dance to•
the music dent of *the ...party who could play the
note. Iltrint offence having been given by the de-
t'vivied tithe'feniala cousin of the prisoner, the latter
ir'esitedit with all the gallantry becoming the.situa-
tilt' in which be was placed, as the protector of his
relative, When some high words passing, the prisoner
nWs indeed' y the challenge a the deceased to settle
fhe affair in a bruising-march. The prisoner refused
for-some time to settle-the-affair in this manner; but
the 'first offence being aggravated Ly personal Inu-
its-4re tif'itidiintity,:he accepted the challenge, and
the[combarants adjourned to the yard of the public-
heisie to fight -it out. The -I...mid:lord, hOwever, se-
(triefl-ra permit the contest to be determined on his
tireinises.; and consequently-the combatants and their
sr:onds emsied the river Lee, and there the fight
proaeeded in due form. After a battle which lasted
need yait hbar, •in which both cemibanuttsvectieed
seine 410latithl blots% the deceased fell seteeless to
-in consequence .of a finishing blow from
h4'arttriternist. He was carried off the ground, end,
etitscidasta,nding every effort to restore him, he ea-
Vitaits'n 'quarter of hour. The witnesses for the
• it/Qon'admitted that the 'prisoner was a very
peaceable and inoffensive young man, and that his
edilatrci ilie-ground Was perfectly fair, he himself
having received a dreadful beating.—The cause,
under the direction of the Learned Judge, went to
tho Jury, who found the prisoner Guilt g, and he was
seatei.Qed to four months imprisonment.