Star.
London, England, 1818-09-30 00:00:00

POETRY.

JOHN DORMAN'. APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC,
111 TEZ NONDIED MID Wets TEAL OF HE AOL

The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sat Ispdhe fire, and talk'd the night away ;
Wept o'er his wounds, and tales of sorrow done,
Shonlder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were wumson!"
Gomm.
Born on the genial soil of Donegal,
When good. Quaint Anai adorn'd the British Throne,
In life's first bloom I heard my country's call,
And made her cause and glory all my own.
With VIIIIXON brave, I croas'd the stormy sea,
When frost cougeal'd the earth in Turavv-cuan.
Proud POZTO Basso felt a blow from me,
And f. amrstaamsa's laurels, too, were mine!
At Derromme I follow'd, undismly'd,
Knto Gsoaas rata fitcoaa, in the field of fame
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While thundering cannon round about us play'd,
And wept the Heavens in sheets of livid flame.
Blythe and Ught-hearaed as a shepherd boy
Attends his flocks upon the flowery plain,
I stood the fiery field of FONTINOY,
While crowds around me felt death's icy pain.
When Catarina EDWARD reis'd his flag on high,
And thousands with rebellious fury burred,
Ready, at Honour's call, through earth to fly,
From German fields to Britain I retum'd :
Then o'er old Scotland's bills, thro' war's alarms,
With Koran COMERLAND I sought the foe,
Till on CULLODM'S plains our conquering arms
For ever laid the rebel standard low.
And when in Europe ceas'd the trump of war,
• Just vengeance on our Gallic foemen huri'd,
I sought, in other climes, from Bane far,
The soldier's bawl ilk an haws Nouns>.
'Midst cannon-shot, and showers of musket-balls,
While burning Cancer fled the torricrsky,
I pass'd the breach, In Po:an:rummy's walls,
Like Wu:A% resolv'd to u.nquer or to die.
Cm.currA's wrongs on Britain's ions repaid,
And England's realm iu HU‘DOSTAN steed,
Homewards my long and weary %ray I made',
for even then resign'd the well worn sword.
The ROYAL Twurrit in ARERDEEN I sought,
And once more join'd with my companions brave,
On glorious filmomes bloody field I fought,
And felt a wound, where others found a grave.
And tithe near SIXTY TEARS are past and gone,
As worn and woundectouid grown old and grey,
I stand amidst a cold wide world alone,
While junior generations pass away
Then soothe " the sorrows of a poor old man,
Whose trembling limbs scarce bear lain to your door,
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span,
UR; wee at.t.tsr, and Ilzteets will bless your store!"
Li ford, September 8, lilt.
NOTES. - -

Stanza I. line I.—Born in the genial sail of Donegal.--John
Dorman, now residing near the Church sf Stisbane, count, of
Tyrone, was born at Burgh, in the parish of Clunke, or Lord,
it the county of Donegal, un the filth of August, 17ins. His
great age is well known by many very old persons in this neigh-
b.,urhuud, who were children_when he feturacd from the army
t 3 Strabane, in 1760.

Stanza ii. Hue ranee, the year 17:19 Dor.
man was drafted with others, from the 12th Regiment of Foot,
and sent with this gallant Admiral to the, coast of Spain. He was
p_rcient, attd engaged, at the taking of Porto Bello, and the bom-
bardment of Carthagena.
Stanza iii, line I.—.Detti ageit...-In the y,!ar 1743, this man
haring returned to the 12th Peeler-tit, was. with it, engaged at
the rmmotable tattle of Dttliagen, in smith the French lost
60t.:0 !Iwo, and a multitude of Officer,,...M would have lost twits
the number if they hail been vigoroii...ly pursi.ed.
Stanza iv. flee 3.--nteltey.--Oa the .nth April, 1745,
John Dorrilter wws prc3,,nt, and engaged at the battle of Foote.
Doty, in which the En,weli bad the misfortrice to lcse 12,000
men, and the French, who claim.:d the victory, nearly an equal
nuttier. Dorman was the hottt.ft vart of the battle, and
escaped with'a slight wound on the ri;;..it shoulder.
• Stanza vi. line 3.—C tidedert.—Dormaii was at the battle on the
16th of April, 1746—bad occasion to Me only one sit ,c at it.—
He was one of the guards over the Lards Balmeti.lo' Kilmar-
nock, anti Cromarty, who were given in charge to Capt. Eyre,
afterwards Governer of Galway. Ile reports, that a peivou of
the name of Mackenzie, nephew of Lord lialuierino, and an of-
ficer In Sir John Rruce's battalion, conceiving that his uncle /ad'
been harably treated on this occasion by Captain Eyrc, followed
that rtfficcr to Galway, a conzitlerable tine afterwards, and re-
mained there for sonic months, endea,!auring, in vain, to get a
g t at bins. _ _

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Stanza vii. fine 3.—Nnfiererrj.—After the Peace of Aix-la-
Chapelle, Dorman was drafted from tl.-• 1.16 regiment of the
line into the 11, r v a of the East India Company, and sailed to
Madras in ore of eight transports filled with troops, sent out tp
reinforce the British army there. In the course of this war oc-
curred the cruel suffocation of 1!3 British prisoners in the black
hole at Calcutta. D,rinan was at the taking of Pondicherry.
The success of our arms in India at this time laid the foundation
of the present amazing extent in riches and territory which the
English possess in that quarter of the globe.
Stanza ix. line s.—ln the year 175!, DorMan returned to
England with £5O in his pocket, the amount of his share of the
prito-morey he hail gained in India. lie then rejoined his fa-
vourite Rigitrient, the 12th Foot, at Aberdeen, from whit h place
he again went with it to Germany, and way severely woended
one of his hands at the battle of Mimic's. Ile was then dis-
chawd, watt a pension of 47 18s. a-year, and returned to Sire-
bane, "'heretic has lived ever since. In the year 1771 he, with
other pentiontrs, was ekamained by a Staff Surgeon, and ordered,
on Lis report, to repair to a Depot in England, on pain of for-
feiting his pension. Dorman was then settled in the baking bu-
siness, sand found it so profitable that he declined removing from
it, and As consequently deprived'df his pension. For many
years he dilVnot feel the loss clan annuity which he had earned
to dearly. BA :u the vicissitude of human affairs, and, perhaps
by his own imprudence, he was at last reduced to extreme po-
verty, and is now, in his 110th year, begging his bread from door
to door, which, in justice to the charitable inhabitaLts of Stra-
bane and its vicinity, be confesses he need not do, if he could
coatent himself wish a weekly allow:ince, which they were wit-
hag to pay him—hut he naturally fond of tellingils own story,
and inclined to recount hi' former exploits, to gratify, as well as to
recruit his finances, he has prepared his short and simple annals
for the press, and hopes they sell meet with a favourable recep-
ti.so from all his old friends, and from many others who have
never yet heard of him.

Thursday se'unight, Alexander Watlon, and John
Mann, quarriers, were unfortunately killed .by the
explosion of a stone, while charging it, in the intend-
ed graving dock at the North charging
of Peterhead.
Yesterday a Coroners' Inquest was held upon the
body of Thomas Lloyd, a watchman of craft lying at
Horsleydown, who fell into the river as he was re-
moving some bags of seed from one barge to another.
Verdict, Accidental Death. •
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A few days ago a fishing boat bclongingto Stone-1
haven, when under sail between the Donnypoint and
the Castle of Dunnottar, was upset by a sudden gust,
by which the crew, consisting of three brothers, were
thrown into the deep. The boat righted again, and
they had nearly got into her, when she was again
upset ! They still clang to her ; but the eldest having
bad a pair of large fishing boots on, by the weight
of water in thein became quite exhausted, and after
hanging by the boat upwards of an hoar, lost his
hold, and clinging to the second brother, both went
down to rise no'rnore 1 The youngest brother kept
his hold, and was saved by a Fludon boat, having
beets nearly an hour and three quarters in the water.