Star.
London, England, 1811-12-26 00:00:00

• F'

TO THE LOVELY WIDOW.

Full many a maid, possest of beauty's charms,
Has pin'd in ?octet for a cruel swain,
Who all-unconscious of soft Love's alarms,
Nor feels her passion, nor regards her pain.
Thu,, like a rose, which parching suns consume,
When its mild aid the genial show'r denies ;
The tender Nynsph, fast with'ring in her bloom,
Too soon neglected droops—then fades and dies.
Thrice ha; pier lot, the Widow's, whom I sing,
The lovely Widow—to whose favor'd name
Each youth pays homage, and whose praises sing,
Melodious, thro' the joyful courts of fame.
For beauty, elegance, and tasteful art,
'I he Widow without rival Is coolest;
Her graces her snii:es, have won each ca?tive heart,
And Each fond youth is dying to be blest.
Thrice happy Widow ! hal•piest of the fair!
Command! and, lo ! the yowl ful train expires;
' Smile—and they live !—Oh ! blest beyond compare,
NV hum swains adore, and all the world admires!
s r moon.

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• Hoax.—Extract of a letter, dated Lisbon, Ith
December :--a. OA the 2d instant it was given oei•
that an Englishman was to start from Belem. Castle,,:
and walk across the Tagus,.in cork Wets, to the op-
pisaite mountains. From ten in the morning till four..
in the afteintion, the road from Lisbon and various
'pasts was crowsliati with carriages, horsemen, and fart
passengers, an the 'raps was covered with -boats,
for Watch 'wisp e were fools enough to pay 15 &tart.
They. waited vet/ patiently till four, when they re-
turned iu much Letter humour thatr Jelin Bullwould
*have been at such en boat. It is computed that there
were not leis than 100,000 people lesent."
. •
• Batista...A most resolute and etermined lottched
battle was fought in Islingion s. oa Tuesdeys,
be-
metes) ley,. so celled, a hacknei. coachman, and
George Fauldiug, driver of a cold :waggen, in
consequence of a dispute is 'sassing each Other in Si.
Martin's-le-Grand, on Mend:9, vaen, after a shOrt
turn sip by Candie-light, they ntatched themselves for
/vapory: each, two deposit; andlhe company at the'
ring subscribed another five guineas for the whaler.'
The battle lasted 57 minutes, and-was as courageous*:
maintained as that between- Big Ben and JuhesonAiri
Gully and Cresson at Newmarket, but with lens'
science than either.
.41 itey stood "and hit half-rotinds•
at the head while fresh, but were unable to ninvi
each other. The coachnian had a straight 'left,
handed hit, which broUght hint through his .tesk, but
although he won he received si sore a beatink as can
well he conceive&
,abs Right Howourable, who was an
amateur on the oceision, presented the loser with A-'5.
Wednesday a hawker, from ,Gloucester, was corn.
znitted to-York Castle, forbuyiag two grimeas at Sher,
fiehl, fdi`which he-had given 47i. He is to-take his
trial at the ensuing Assizes for the misdemeanour.
Sunday, part of the wing of Stambtook.lionie,
Powick, near Worcester, was consumed by file, tsgei
they with some valuable•fernittue.
Tuesdaieveerp' g, at the Pantheon Theatre, seven
persons fell from the scaffolding erected neat the
tiding over the pit, one of Whom, of the. name ofTeei-
. eerton, war killed. Thefothers miraculously escaped
with their hies, and sustained but little injury..
On:Saturday last John Deer, a quarryman, unfor.
tnrately-losi his sight,,wl.tmin the act of blowing a
rocket Poudlett, rteir Plymcnith, in consequence of
the powder exploding before he was aware. The
rock burst, and independent of depriving him of. his
sight, cut him 'very much.
Another inquest was held on the same day, at the
David .and Harp, Limeliptise, on the body of • Wo-
man, apparently about 50 years of age, found drown-
.' ed the same morning, abort seven or teghto'clock.—
No marks of violence appeared on her person, net was
k known who she was.—Verdict—Found drowned.,,•,
•An Inquest was taken on Tnesday morning, before
. W.• Us:woo, Esq. Coroner for the county of Mid-
• • dlesex, at .the House of Correction, on the body of Jo-
seph Kidd, who had been committed as a vagrant, a
le*. days before, in order to be passed to his parish ;1
he was 75 years of age. Mr. T, Webb, the Surgeon of
;7-the House, deposed, that when he saw him at noon on
Saturday last, he appeared to have no complaint or
• illness ; and that, from his advanced age, he supposes
his death proceeded from water in the chest.—Died
by the visitation of Goo.
On Tuesday morning, as an. officer of the army
was passing through Ffeet-street, he was stopped by
Mr. Croft, a tailor, of that street, who challenged a
very elegant fashionable blue military great coat,
lined with silk, ornamented with frogs, silk cord, &c.
as .
beings his property, having been stolen from his
• shop about a month since. The. 'Officer stated very I
'teadily, that he purchased it at Mr.• Hornbuckle's
shop, in Ayr.creet. Piccadilly, about nine pr ten clays
* ace, for siststtineas. At the time he purchased it, I
*the 'yeung M'4lll in the stop told hint: therhad.aiirge
connection with master tailors, and the cloaths
sold were principally misfits. All the.pmiiii
.• • dad at the Bow-street Office Wore Mr. Grah,tra.and
• Mr. Birnle. Mr. Croft stated, that he could not tell
• 'by what Means the coat had bzen stole:losec. Was po-
sieve to its being his property. The Magistrates en-
quired Of Mr. Simpson, the nephew of Mr. Horn-
buckle, who bought the coat, what he
.gave for it ?
' his kndwledge of the man be bought It of, &c. He
replied, he gave two guineas and a half for it ; he did.
not know'the man's name or where he lived, but said
'he Irtdi bought severallhings of him before. He ac-
knowledged that it was not their custom to ask peo-
• pie, Ulm came ro sell clothes, who they were, or j
`. where they'got the. Clothes ? The Magistrate se-
sanely censured thiemode of doing business, and said,
• if there wefe not such easy modes of disposing of
• pyeaserty, there would net be so much thieving ; and
nth this case, bethought his conduct extremely repre-
hensible, the Coat being entirely new, never having,
been worn ; the thief irked but three guineas for . it,
'hut only two' puinea.s and • a half were paid for it,
• iind, in about a fortnight afterwards, not less than six
guineas would be taken for it, the officer having bid
£O, which was refused. Mr. Croft said the cloth in
it cost £l, and in the state it was, he should not have
sold it for less than twelve guineas. Mr. Simpson
was, in consequence, ordered to find bail to answer
for a misdemeanour, on a charge of buying the coat,
knowing it to have been stoke.