Star.
London, England, 1827-09-12 00:00:00

•Wit-11:Jit POETRY. '

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Too oft the Sculptor's art has snatcb'd Irons dust,
And on the medal namp'd a guilty bust;
With abject skill a Statesman's name engrav'd,
• Deck'd with the symbols of some Realm enshe'd,
• Some fenced nation he had help'd to bind
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A • Some succour lent to subjugate mankind : ;Tr
Not such the tribute, CANIMIG, paid to thee! • •
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The pure, spontaneous homage of the free!
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zs '• This medal bears to future time: the date
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4 • When fled the phantoms of " immortal bate !"
A rival nation wove its chic palms,
• And trac'd that legend which her tear embalms ;
A foreign tongue records thy glorious fame,
And foreign crowds repeat a stranger's name.
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. Who mark'd for liberty no narrow space,
but meant the blessing fur the human race;
Shed on no scanty spot one partial ray
tram the full blaze of philosophic day,
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tat gave to moral good an ampler scope,
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.• And call'd the drooping Universe to hope!
Not England solely wrapt for him in gloom—
All, more than England weeps upon his tomb !
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*Ong the sunny shores the Tagus laves,
die where pale Freedom kneels on Grecian graves;
_ 1;lak in the Western World, where Slyer, aim,
haii'd by him, its young Republics rise :
ken is each clime, triumphant or opprest,
Shall bind this medal to his beating breast,
Clasp'd, as a shrine, where France her off 'ring laid,
• And first the sacred rite of Freedom paid!

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

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N 5 N-tTIE MEDAL ORDERED TBE STRUCK
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O PARIS, IN: MEMOEY. OF M OR. CA.NNING.
J BY HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS.

LANCASTER, Sm. 10.
Canwie &Da—Before Mr. Jude, Banat.
Thomas While was indicted under Lord Ellenbo-
rongles Act, for wilfully and maliciously cutting and
stabbing Neil *lmre. 411. /.. '
• 4it. BiAucr•stated the ma fer the prosecution.

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"' *II liMatyre;—l am a weaver. On the 7th of August
wasittanding at the corner of Lord-street, Pres;
did; between ten and eleven O'clock at night ; I was not
quite- sober ; I had been at a bed& I heard a noise
• ham the other side of the road, and went to see What.
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was the matter ; a woman, who had come out of the
house, asked me to go up stairs. She said she bad a
child np stairs; and she was afraid of its being damaged
(murdered). I went up stairs, and she before me; we
went up one story, and I• stood on the Landing-plate,
trod she went into the room on the left hand side. As
soon as I got on the top of the stairs I was caught by
the leg by the prisoner; he caught me with the left
hand, and run something sharp into tny left breast. I
4.• Wel nor hear him say any thing. I might hold of bias
by arm and'et 'away fides hint, and I then foiend
• that I was trounded ; blood was flowing fast' f):l3m aby
14'.'binast, and I called out,'' 1 am stabbed ; I am stabbed!",
• find -John M'Canns came running up ; he stied where
• I was stabbed, and I sheaved' my breast to him, and he
then ran into the house, and brought the prisoner out.
I said to him, " you blood-thirsty —, what did you
stab me fox ?".—He said, " what did you come into my
bed-room for ?" I said m the woman, "did not you ask
me in?" She said, " she did." • It was Thomas White's
wife. I gave the shirt to Thomas Walton. Before I
went up stairs, I beard the prisoner say something about
a thief. I supposed he soli tatting out with his wife and
herson. I wasin the street when I heard him use the
word " thief."
By the prisoner—l was quite a stranger to the pri-
soner. I supposed heowas accusing his wife's son, not
me. I was not quite-sober.
By thejotior.—Tbete were no candles or light in
the prisoner's room. There was no light on the top of
the stairs except from the gas in the street. I don't know
that he could see me, but I could see him. ' "
'John M•Canna corroborated WlTatyre.
Thomas Walton, a constable.—l received the prisoner
in custody on-the 7th August; 1 directed him to be
searched, but nothing was found upon him. I found a
penknife on searching his house ; it was shut, and no
blood was visible upon it. I received the shirt produced
from M'lntyre; it was very much blood-stained.
Mr. John Gilbertson, surgeon, described the wound.
It was a small wound, such as would be caused by a
small penknife, about half an inch in depth.
By the Juomr.--If it had gone to the full depth of the
blade, there,would still have been a greater chance of
his dying than of recovery. If it had been driven up
to the handle, it would have wounded the lungs, and
it might have proved fatal. Isl'lntyre was out the
day after, and went about his ordinary work in about
a week.
The prisoner,raid, that on the night in question, he
was very much put out of the way at borne. In the
course of the day he had tied his drawers about hislegs,
and had taken the knife to cut the knot of the string; he
looked out of the window, and M,lntyre was jumping
up, and saying, " who's a thief ?" He said," go about
your business you drunken blackguard, what have you
to do with it ?" and immediately shut dowa the window,
and went to lie down with the children. His step-son
kept challenging him out to fight, and they rushed upon
him up stairs, and he positively did not know who they
were. When he heard that a man was stabbed, he was
undressed; he never made any resistance, and he had
always been very sorry from the time it had happened:
The Learned Judge summed up the evidence, and the
Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Mx. Justice BAYLlM—Prisoner, it is very dangerous;
you ought never t 3 use a knife in that way.
The prisoner appeared much distressed, and sorry
for the unfortunate circumstance, and shed tears during
the trial.
John Wilkinson was tried and found guilty on two se-
veral indictments for stealing two mares. The case ties-
sessed no peculiar interest. He was found guilty tar
each....-Death. •

IMPORTANT ALTERATkOIeIfItSPECTING EPISCOPAL
CHAPSLS.— By an Act passed last Session (7 and 8 Geo.
IV. cap. 72), it is provided, that when any person
builds a chapel, and permanently endows it, to the Wis.
faction of the Commissioners for building Chttrches,
either with lal.d orzioney in the funds, the right of no-
minating a Minister shall for ever hereafter* be in the
person to building and endowing the same, his beiti
and assigns, notwithitanding no compensation or en-
dowment may be niccle tr or for the benefit of the
Minister et the Church of the parish within' which soli
Chapel shall bebuilt.