Star.
London, England, 1817-12-02 00:00:00

ON THE DEATH OP Hit LATE ROYAL MOHNEN'
THE PRINCESS CHARLOT Fl.l OF WALES.

Of blasted hope I sing, and whistled joy
Sad fun'ral numbers, now my Muse display;
Our glury is departed from the land;
Our expectation wreck'd upon the at:Wadi
With hopes how high did we await the day !
Talk of the protnied child, rejoice and ay—
The Mother's heart will glory in its charm.,
The Father clasp it In Ms longing arms I

The day arrives, alas! ton fatal proves,
And from the natioa all its hope removes;
• Is danger here r ehe said, with fainting breath—
Clasp 'd her lov'd Consort's band, and sunk in death!
ln vain the Sun beams forth, in vain'dads shed
Its cheering influence o'er the Mourner's head;
Alike to hint the clear meridian light—
Alike the tv'uing grey, or deepet shades of night I
Come mingle grief with bits 'whose tears are shed
O'er the cold relics of the lovely dead!
No more the heart that shied Lis bosom's pain,
Shall throb to sham Nur shall beat spin !
Wednesday Evening, Nov. 19.

A. t.

PRINCESS CIURLOTTE.

Among the funeral discourses delivered at 'Bristol,
or. tt,e late melancholy 'occasion, that cf the Rev. W.
THORPE is mentioned as having been particularly dis.
tinguished for its feeling and eloquence. Adverting,
says the Bristol Mirror, with the utmost delicacy, to
the feelings of the different branches of the Royal
Family at this awful moment, and having mentioned,
among the rest, the name of our revered Sovereign,
the feelings of the speaker were greatly agitated—te
seemed overwhelmed with sympathetic emotions, and
ritng °tit of himself, he pathetically exclaimed—
"BUT 0 THOU MY BELOVCD AND VENERABLE SOVE-
REIGN 1 who can do justice to thy virtues ?—who can
conceive the greatness of thy calamity ? How melan-
choly the change that thou hast experienced !--how
awfully inscrutable to thee, my Prince, are the dis-
pensations of Mayas' ! Osca,.mild and amiable—
just and merciful ;—enthroned in the hearts ei, a
free and enlightened People, for snore than half' a
century HE ARBITER OF EUROPICTIIE GUAR-
DIAN OF LIBERTY--THE FATHER OF MILLI MS—
AND THE FRIEND OF TIIE WHOLE RACE OF MAX
I
N.tw shut up in dal bless and solituee, cut off Iron,
rational intercourse, and dead to all worldly grandeur
—thou art unconscious that, at this moment, and not
far distant from the place of thy seclusion, the Heads
of the Nation are conveying to the tomb a here Ma.
jetty lies in ruins, the remains of thy kekved grand.
child and her babe, the pre:uniptive successors to thy
glorious realms! May OMNIPOTENCE .be thy Guar-
eltan I May the wings of the holy Cherubim cover
thy hoary hairs I May the MA.lE:ire of HEAVEN
smile and shed a glory JII thy latter days ; and when
thou passeth the gates, that interpo.e between Time
and Eternity, from his exalted Throne, may His
everlasting arms receive thee among the doinitif-As
and principaiities of Heaven, and place upon thy
brad the Crown of Righteousness that ladeth not
'nay ! "

Ma. Emon—The sudden death of the Princess
ettatitot to having diffused wiiversal grief through
the nation, is a more striking test of her departed
worth, than can be exhibited by funereal pomp, sculp-
tured marble, or the pen of panegyric. In this sad
and awful event we have, indeed, cause for mourning.
Though youth and Royal birth are great allurements,
and prepossess men mightily in favour of the early
age of all Princes, yet when they are crowned with
intellectual accomplishments and the virtues of the
heart, the prepossession grows into an emotion of ad-
miration, and a feeling of ardent love. Such were
the youth, the Royal birth, the rare accomplishments,
dile modest virtues, and the future prospects of our il-
lustrious Princess, that individuals were justly san•
guine in calculating upon the salutary influence of so
amiable an example. It may be truly and feelingly
observed of the Princess, that she manifested in Cal ly
life such good dispositions and dignity
.in her be-
haviour, that she commanded and obtained more
respect than stony of riper oge. wisdoms, and experi-
ence. Neither her high fortune, nor her youth,
seduced her into the toils of pleasure. The cul-
tivation of her mind, filial affection, conjugal en-
dearments, and the domestic charities, might have
bees her sole passions. She seems to have nourished
a perfect and praiseworthy contempt for the little
Breit, and to have extended her patronage and foster-
uig hand to tie great fink. 'The Public. have, there.
info, every reason to deplore the death of this accozn-
plished Princess, not only for what she was, but ss hat
she was likely to become. Iu a word, the conjugal
virtues have lost in her a most illustrious example,
society ice fairest ornament, and Britain its brigliteA
hope. Having paid this poor, bat heartfelt tribute of
sorrow to the memory of a beloved Princess, whose cha-
racter would have shone brilliantly, even without the
adventitious polish of high birth, rank, fortune, and
beauty, I remain, &c. Sir, your obedient servant,
RICHARD TURNEI4.
Blacking Manaratarer, 114. London-teal, Soinhvark.

There are at present two rooks.' nests in the planta-
near the Hoe. Wat. Noses house, at Keeton,
which huge several young birds, receiving the
:tendon tram the old ones as in the Spring.
Gentleman in the neighbourhood of Castle
►s, has completely ascertained, by experiment,
ity and extent of the advantage at stripping
A ot their blossoms. The experiment was
On two acres and a half, planted with three
kinds ot potatoes, viz. Clenachant, pink-eyes,
,ues. He took the blossoms of sir alternate
of the first kind, eight of the second, and ten
third I and for two weeks afterwards nipt off
/ new blossom that appeared, every second day.
potato's were accurately measured as taken up,
result was, that amongst all the different
potatoes, and in coskiderable varieties of soil,
produce of those which were stript of their bins-
- was to that of the rest, uniformly as 17 to 16,
, pecks of the forger to 16 of the latter.—Dow.
Coorkr.

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