Star.
London, England, 1827-10-10 00:00:00


Frieda, with capatioot broad brims. gad some con.
stables, entered the ring. They were lIIt ant considered
merely as ausateon, and in a very short time would I
have bees. tailed opon to fiontribete their mite to.
wards the iatended subbcriKton; bat their business was
seal NM made known; for Mr. Swabey, seizing a Gentle-
.adliconnected with the Public Press by *luxuriant cloth
cape or tippet, which bong over hia4houlders to pro.
wet him from the rain—declared Ns intention to take
'm prisoner, as a person active in promoting a breach
of the peace ; and one whom, from the respectability'of
his appearance, it was fit to make an example of, as a ter-
ror to all other hatic amateurs. In vain did the '• Knight
of the Quill" protest that be was in no way concerned in
promoting a breach of the peace, sod that he was a
mere spectator ot the sports. The Worthy Magistrate
leas inexorable; a couple ot constables were called, to
hose custody he was consigned, and thus escorted, he
iras marched, amid the sympathies of his co-offenders,
the scene of action to theßushlnn at Staines. On his
arrival there,Mr.Snabey,in hisM sgisterial capacity, pro.

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...ed to take informations against him. and v. itnesses
were called to depose to his high crimes and misde.
mvanours, white he, poor fellow, expected nothing leso
than to be sent to the Tower as a state criminal. To.his
• great joy, however, the first two persons who appeared to
depose to his prejudice were the worthy Frinds to whom
we have already alluded ; and these s. men of peace"
about to affirm to his guilt, when Mr. Swabey felt him
self under the necessity of rejecting their evidence, a '
inadmissible in a criminal case, unless upon oath. Thi
•as a poser ; but these was still a chance left, and the
Rev. Mr. Gressett was called upon to give his evidence
but he, unfortunately for the object of the worthy Mai
gistrate. was as little available as the gentlt men with t
&road brines,for he could only swear to the prisoner's bei
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the time he He had not seen

on the field at ...cCaMe Up.
previous breach of the peace, nor could he bear testiness*
any thing which was in contemplation. This WWI
complete 04 tie up," as Jack Scroggins would say ; and
if any thing were wanting to increase the dilemma or
MT— Swabey, it was the dEeluration of the alleges,
offender, that he had not attended as a promoter of
abettor of the amusements of the day, but as a simp
reporter for a morning newspaper. He was there in th
discharge of a duty, and all he had to do was to deseri
what ocoarred, and to leave the Magistracy or the publiS
to judge of the fitness of such exhibition,. t' This waS
a horse of another colour," and Mr. Swabey at ones
acknowledged that he was in error ; but seeing. the Kir
loner was one of the most respectable of the multitude
by whom he was surrounded, he thought him the fittest
person to select for punishment, and he had only to re
• t that be had not secured some wealthy inhabitant
county, on whom the law might take its course,
ilti appeal was then made to the feelings of the persona
at to the immorality and improprietyaf the scene which
• had witnessed; but .he declined all discos‘iont
00, under existing circumstances," although. in a proper
ce, and in the presence ofa good bottle of wine, or
es many more as might be brought to assist. the deli-
berations, he should have no objection to givehis candid
opinion on so grave a subjett. The intended tragedy
was thus changed to a farce—the prisoner beeamea freeq
man, and once more breathed the air of liberty, whild
the well concerted plan of the Honnurable Magistrate
and his coadjutors, to strike terror into the pugnacious
fraternity of Buckinghamshire was, foe the want of Dtck
Curtis's generalship, completely frustrated. Whether
they intend trying the experiment hereafter, remains to
be proved. It is but right to add, that these Gentlemen
behaved with great politeness. .
Dick Curtis met with an accident yesterday evening,
on returning home atter his victory. As he was leasing
his head on the shoulder of a friend, the shaft of the
chaise in which they were broke, and he was thrown
out, near Hounslow, but he received no injury, eccepting
that of cutting his hands by the fall.

SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS.
Gambard has lately disioverell a '
small Com sitpat,ed in, one of the feet of Cassiopeia..
It was invisible to the naked eye, and ,appeared to he
approaching the pale with great, rapidity... Porn
observed the same phenomenon at Florence, agent:three
hours after it was seen by M. Ganaliard. , . , • ,
SA? la PLANTS.—A communication. was "sae Some,
time since be, Professor Amici, of Modena, to the Italian
Society. o Asti; established is that City. that in ao
aquatic plant (the chard} he had discovered, by micro-
,scopic examination, a circulation of the, sap between thet
joints, which apparently ascended in the exterior portion
of the stein of the plant, apd descended in the centre.— ~
The reality of this phenomenon was placed beyond
doubt by the very evident passage of certain particles of
one of the currents, which, drawn by that which moved
in an opposite direction, were from time to time carried
along by it. In the month of May latt, this was demon-
strated by the Learned Professor himself` to the Parisiin
Naturalists; and, during his visit in ibis country, the
same phenomena have been witnessed.,
RObIAN MITIQUITIM-I-Al a Meetsag of tyre Cveri-
graphical Society of Paris, the Abbe Anotizß pie in
an account of his travels in North Ariserrea, rti
course of which he stated the fact of a coiarof bromic'
being found is the Valley of Bones, to the Sooth-ivest
of the Missouri, the natives of which declare they had
never seta an European. The Abbe examined the coin,
and found it to be Roman, struck in the coign of
NERVA. He adds, that upon digging a well in Ten-
nessee, there had been found an earthen-pot buried in
the earth, and which coptained a vast quantity of gold
money of unknown character. The Abbe thinks that a
knowledge of the eastern tongues might elucidate the
different dialects of the „savage tribes in America, es-1
pecially those which inhabit the, tthores of the Pacific
Ocean; amongst whom them
.aPpear to be two prin.'
cipal languages, which serve as a universal medium ;1
one is in use in the high, and the other in the low coon-.
try. The Abbe also pointed out a singular analogy
betviseri a trait in the manners of these people and the.
Hebrews, as described in Leviticus. " A savage," be,
lams, marries along' With bin wife ail the sifters she
May have; or, at least, he is btiostd to provide for their.
establishment, that is, their tsaiarix; those of them for
whom he cannot promise busbands, remain with him
as wives." .
&Leg( alvertiet, a-Prussian chemist, in
• . .
making egtierimcnts to improve pruners, ink, has dis-
coveted a'process for producing a, new sped" of black
pigment from hempseed oil. which, For brilliancy and
intensify of colour, far exceeds any black hithirto
' known, and promises to render Prussian black as dis-
arigui.hed a c lour as Prussian blue is at present. The
inventor has not only applied it to improve printers'
ink, but also to other useful purposes, particularly as a
superior blacking for tanned leather.—Loadon Lit. Gas.

Ague is a much more formidable ahape than wr'Pill
ev r known, has visited various parts ,of the kinigdOm
lately. It has not been confined, *stew/ fore,. to low
swampy districts, but has appeared in places where no-
thing like malaria can be imputed.%