Star.
London, England, 1821-10-13 00:00:00

POETRY.

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TIIE CIIURCILYAILD.
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I-Tow ft i.7,14.fUl :he grave! bow deserted and dread
With. the Hcw•!s of the stocra-wind—the creaks of the Net
.kr.ll the white bouts all CIA taicther! .
How peaceful the grave : its quiet how deep ! .
Its aeparri breathe cakiiiy, awl soft is i.e sleep,
And ilow'rets Ferfome it with ether!; •
EMT VOICE:

'There riots theitlood:eresttid worn cm the dead, • •
And tke yellow skull sums abefoul toad for a beds .
And snakes in its nettle-weeds lass!
SUOMI TOICI.
How lately, low lone the repose of the tomb!
No tempests are there:--but the nightingales come
And bins their soreet.clionts of Wu!
I LEA t VOILE.

'Me ravens of night Bap their wings o'er the grate:—
n-1s the vultore's abide tis the wolf's dreary cave.
Where they tzar up the earth with their fans !

SWORD VOICE.
There the coney at evening disports with his love,
Or rests on the sod ;—while the turtles above,
Repose on the bough that o'erbsuigs
FIRST VOSCE.
There d4rkress and dampness with poisonous Meath.
And loathsome decay, fill the dwelling of death.
The tries ate all barren and bare!
sac OND VOICE. •
O soft are the breezes that play round the tomb,
And sweet with the violet's wafted perfume.
With lilies and iessandne fair!
FIRST TOICE.
•
The pilgrim who reaches this valley of tears,
Would fain hurry by, and with trembling and fears,
He is Jaunch'il on she wreck-coverd river!
• SECOND VOICE.
The traveller outworn With life's pilgrimage (heavy,.
Lays down his rude stiff, like *me that is weary,
•
And sweetly repese-s for ever!

POLICE.

• GUILDITA tr..--,..Yestet•day, the parish' officers of St.'
Dunstaq's-in-the-West brought up two individuals
before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Cox, of
dissimilar character and description,-although
tattle'. of them charged with the same species of of-
fence,' viii, deserting wife and family, tvhereby
tbeythad become burdensome to that parish. The
firscuamed David Jones, was an honest hard Avork-
inr Welehmatvia it comfortable situation, where he
lot twenty pounds pee annum, besides his board and
to4ging, to whose character his employer attended to
bear testimony, and to do him all the service he'
could. The poor young fellow had, it seems, 'soon
after his coming to London, got entrapped into a
marriage with a woman much older than himself, and
of very loose character. He soon discovered his folly,
and would • not cohabit with her; she threw herself
upon the parish ; Jones was, in consequence, brought
before the Magistrate, and an arrangement made that
he should allow 'her two shillings a week. About a
twelvemonth ago the wife proposed to him that if he
would give her in one sum the. amount of three-years
allowance, she would release him from the payment
of the two shillings a week for ever after, and never
come nigh or trouble him any more. The buying tip
of an annuity of £5 4s. for the life of a healthy A;CO.
man, for the small sum of £1512i. with so desirable
. a condition annexed to the purchase, was toe good a
thing to be missed, however it might distress him to
raise the nece.ssarf sum. He-accordingly disposed of
everything he could part with, and by pawning his
clothes, and borrowing frOm his friends, made up the
money ; and before he paid it to her took the pre-
caution of having a format written agreement -of se-
paration drawn up, and signed by each of them.—
The wife was not, however, so easily got rid of. Poor
Jones's rib had no sooner spent the money than, she
attain throw's herself for relief on St. Dunstan's parish,
with a very fine boy in her arms, which she did not
hesitate to declare her husband was the father of,
though it was notorious she had been living with
another man. The supposed deed of separation was
unstamped and of no legal avail, and the Parish being
bound to relieve the woman, her settlement being with
them, now-brought up Jones before the Magistrate.
_-Mr. II ic kin, the Vestry Clerk, coincided. as to the,
good character given to Jones, and allowe,d the hard-
Ship of the poor fellow's case.. The woman, however,
was actually burdensome to their patisli,.and the hus-
band was the only person to whom they 'could look
for a compensation, his Wife having been passed to
them last week under an order of,removal by iMa-
gistrate. There being no means of relieving him
from the penalty of his folly, the Magistrate 'directed
that in future he should allow his wile fs.6d.a week,
with a caution to pay the money into the'hands of
the Overseers, who would be rather too.kppwing to
speculate in buying up the annuity. .
The second case was that of a drunken fellOw, of
the name of Saunders, a waterman to a hatictiey-
coach-stand. Tho Ugh formally charged with. desert-
ing his wife; the real accusation against him was that
Of sticking rather too close to her. Although he never
brought liertonie any money, he never- failed to
bring himself home, hungry at meal-time; and drunk
at night. All the industry of his wife, a very decent
looking young woman, was insufficient to support
herselt and five or six children, and supply the wants
of a dissolute husband. She had therefore been fre-
quently, and almost constantly, in the receipt of pe-
cuniary assistance from the parish ; no part of which
it ever entered into the head of Saunders to rePay.—
This, however, was not the immediate cause of his
being brought before the Magistrate. Had he been
contented to use bis wife well, while she was support-
ing him in idleness and drunkenness, he might have
tun his race a little longer; but he was passionate
and violent in his cups, and had threatened to sell off
all the little furniture his wife had, the alarm of which,
had compelled her to claim the interference of the
parish officers, who now required, if npt to be reim-
bursed the sums expended by them in the support of
his family, at least to be guaranteed against a repeti-1
tion of such demands for the future.—The Magistrate
ordered him to allow his wife and family for the fu-
ture ss. a week, and assured him, that unless it was
regularly and punctually paid, he should be treated
as a rogue and vagabond, and punished with the ut-
most severity of the lam, agreeably to the Statute
provided for such cases.
MAl:slow-House=..—Yesterday, an aged Medical
Gentleman was summoned by his female servant, who
charged him with a most violent and unprovoked as-
gash upon her person. The girl stated, that, while