Star.
London, England, 1811-08-31 00:00:00

TO THE EDrCOR.

Sta...-Among the readers of verse there subsists a
prejudice against Acrostics
_; if you think the follow.
mg is rather in a better taste than Acrorics usually
are, you will oblige an old correspondent by inserting
it in your Paper. The lines were writtenseveral years
*lce on, a promising child of five years old, nephew
eta much valued friend:
Joyous youth is like the rose
On a sunny summer's morning;
High its blushing head it shyers,
Nitrure's cheerful face adorning :
But when winter wild appears,
Each flowret small it's beauty loses.
Alas! 'tis thus with roiling years,
Unhappy man's existence closes:
More blest the flower, by Mutinies decree,
Aagain the rest nay bloom—but he
No second spring can hope to see.
Swan Thom near St. Martin's lane.

MARQUIS or TOWNS!: N WILL.—The following
will be found to be the princip.il bequests and legacies
made in the List Testament of this Nobleman, viz.

The family estate of Rainham Cie entail was cut off
about four years ago), with all the furniture, ',late,
pictures (including the Bellisarius, by Salvator Rosa,
yaltied at 10,000 guineas), to his second son, Lord
CliA 1.13 TowNsus:ND. To his Lordship's two daugh-
ters, £15,000 each ; and to Miss WALCUP 1.40,000,
,and his house, library, and furniture, at Richmond.
The family estates in Warwickshire, and other court-.
ties, to the amount of nearly £lB,OOO per annum, re-
maining entailed, go here& tarito the present Marquis,
but who it is generally understood is not once named
in the with

Our gallant heroes, car Wellingtons and Grahams
may now know that there is something more terrible
In the creation than a French army—something more
dreadful than its well-plied artil:ery—the Common
Council of Lond9n !

King Lambert, although his proclamation may be
laughed at, really begins with more capital thin Bo-
naparte. He begins with fifty acres of lam!, which
is about fifty times as much as Bonaparte's whole fa-
tally ever possessed—in an honest way.
At Mentz there is now-exhibited an elephant of

surprising intelligence. The musicians of the Theatre
gave him a concert. The first piece produced a deep
sensation ; but a solo on the horn transported him.
He WAS much agitated, beat time with his trunk, .nd
accompanied the instrument with certain sounds. It
is reported that he is engaged . for the next season at
one of the winter Theatres, and makes his first ap-
pearance in a duet with a Bear!
The Rev. H. B. Witson, B. D. is preparing for
the press a History of Merchant Taylors' School, London,
from its foundation to the present time, including the

lives of the eminent men who have been educated at
It, to be comprised in one volume, quarto, 'mice two
guineas, in boards. It is designed to embellish the
work with enfraved portraits of Dr. William Juxon,
successively' Bishop of London and Archbishop of
Canterbury ; Sir William Dawes, Baronet, succes-
sively Bishop of Chester and Archbishop of York ;
Dr. Hugh &ther, successively Bishop of Bristol and
Archbishop of Armagh ; and (in proportion t t the
degree of patronage conferred upon the undertaking)
of other distinguished Scholars of the School. Bet as
it is not intended to print more copies than shall be
subscribed for, Gentlemen, who design to patronise
the publication, are requested to signify their inten-
tions to the author, who takes this opportunity of so-
liciting a communication of biographical and literary
notices connected with the subject.—No money to be
paid till the delivery of the book.—No. 3, Laurence-
Poustary-1411, August, 1811.
The signal stations on the coast from Yarmouth to
Southend. and from thence to Sheerness, under the
charge of Lieutenants of the Navy, are undergoing an
alteration, on a plan taken from the French, which
is much improved ; in future they are to be worked
by levers instead of balls.
A chain bridge has been cast over the Merrimack,
three miles Attie N:wbury Port, in the Stare of Mac.
sachusetts. It consists of a single arch of 244 feet in
length; the abutments are of stone, 47 feet long and
97 high ; the uprights, or framed work which stand
on the abutments, are 35 feet high, over which are
suspended ten distinct chains, the ends of which, on
both sides of the river, ar. buried in deep pits and se-
cured by large stones ; each chain is 516 feet long,
and where they pass over the uprights, and where
the greatest strain rests, they are treble, and made in
short links. The four middle joists rest on the chains;
all the rest are suspended to the main chains, to equalize
the floor. This bridge has two passage ways, of 15
feet in width each, and the floor is solid as to admit
of horses, carriages, &c. travelling at any' speed, with
very little perceptible motion of the floors.
A Commission was lately held at the Moot-
Hail, Ipswich, to enter into a further investigation of
the defalcations in the Excise Duties in that town,
when a_sum amounting to Z 8,598. 1.55. was levied
upon one defaulter. Several more cases remain yet to
be tried.
Trrass.—At the Sussex Assizes, a cause of consi-
derable importance to persons interested in the pay-
silent of tithes, and which excited great interest in
the county, came on to be heard before the Lord Chief
Barns. It was an action brought by a farmer against
the impropriator, for not taking away his tithes when
set out ; and the principal question was, whether the
parson was bound to take the tithe-lamb, when it was
fit to live whiteout the darn, whether the farmer weaned
his own lambs or not ? In this case the farmer did
not wean his own lambs; butt, after setting out the
parson's tithe, returned the nine parts to the ewes to
fatten for sale. The cause being called on, and the'
Plaintiffs Counsel having stated his case, the Judge
recommended a reference,, which was acceded to by
ill the pasties—his Lordship first declaring the law
of the case, namely, that the lambs are weanable when.
they can thrive on the same food that the dam sub-
sists on, and that the farmer is bound to treat the
patson's lamb in the same manner that he treats his
own. This doctrine gives the parson the right to, the
10th fatted lamb, and establishes a criterion upon the,
subject of tithe:lambs, and which never can be pro-
ductive of litigation, inasmuch as the time of tithing
is rendered certain, and the farmer has his option.to
1_ wean his lambs or not.