Star.
London, England, 1820-03-13 00:00:00

TO A BEAUTIFUL GIRL" WEEPING.

The tears are pth'ring in that eye—
. It brightens ev'ry minute,
As sunbeams on a wat'ry sky
Will form the rainbow in it !
It beams with ev'ry mingled hue,
Upon this earth of. sorrow ;
It melts—but leaves a brighter view"
To cheer us on the morrow !
'Tis Pity's sacred pledge to man ;
And, o'er the dark cloud stealing,
It heeds not where the storm began,
But comes, a calm revealing !

Oh ! woman's eye and woman's tear,
Can soothe e'en Passion's billow,
Can sweetly chase the clouds of fear,
And bless the lonely pillow !

• ASSIZES.

ESSEX.--CIVIL SIDE, BIARCH 9.

JAMBS BREWSTER, ESQ. V. SEWELL AND SYMGOTY.

This was an action for a libel. The declaration
stated, that before the grievances committed by the
c!efendants therein aftermentioned, the plaintiff had
b2en insured in the Essex and Suffolk Fire Insurance
:;:icinty, for his house and premises, and that a fire
having happened thereon, he had received a com-
pensation .for the same rom the said Society, and
that the defendants contriving and intending to in-
jure him, Ste. published a malicious libel of and con-
cetain3 him, imputing that he had falsely stated his
loss, and had received a greater compensation than
wfts fairly due to him from the said Society.
The defendants pleaded, first, not guilty ; and se-
con], a justification, that the supposed libel wastrue.
The plaintiff replied, that the defendants had pub-
lished the libel of their own wrong, cn which issue
was joined. The damages were laid at £5OOO.
This case • excited very general interest in the
county, on account of the opulence and respectability
of both parties. At the last Assizes .the case was
tried btfoie the same Learned Judge, but the plain-
tiff was nonsuied upon a technical point, totally in-
dependent of the merits. The Cow t of king's Bench
having granted a new trial, the case now came on to
be disposed of upon the merits.
The cause was called on yesterday afternoon about
one o'clock, a..1c1 after the Court had been occupied
uaitil nearly eight in the evening, the farther proceed-
ings were acln.-ned until this morning, when the
trial was resumed, and it did not come to a conclu-
sion until about four o'clock this afternoon.

The Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages 1:2001

CROWN SIDE.

Camp MunDEß—Rosalie Carched, an interesting
fc:anle, of great personal beauty, a native of Swit-
Lerland-, was indicted for the wilful murder of her
*Ls .v.horn male illegitimate child, at Barking, on the
tith of December last.
The circumstances of -this unhappy case were pe-
culiarly affecting, indeed pathetically r9mantic, and
excited universal sympathy. The prisoner, a lovely
and interesting creature, was, the daughter of a highly
ro;opectable. family, at Lausatute, in Switzerland. A
eoung Gentleman of that town had paid his ad-
ciresses to her, contrary to the wishes of her family,
who had forbade him the house. His attentions,
however, were clandestinely continued for a consi-
derable length of time, until Mademoiselle Curchod's
health becoming set iously affected, her friends gues-
s•tlg the secret, determined to remove her far from
ee cause of her indisposition, hoping that by change
of scene and absence, her health would he re,tored,
and that she would forget the object of her attach-
ment. England was resolved upon as the place of
her sojournment, and she was placed at the boarding-
school of a Lady named Siff kin, at Barking, in.the
capacity of a French teacher. On the 20th of De-
cember the pains of parturition came on, and she
was delivered of a male infant, unknown to the fa-
mily. In three days afterwards the consummation
of her unhappiness was accomplished7—wha; had
happened was discovered, the dead body of the in-
fant was found in a pan in her bedchamber, and in
the result, aftr= a Coroner's Inquest, she was
.con-
signed, in the prime of youth, beauty, and finished
accomplishments, to the horrors of a dungeon, to
await the doom of that Divine Law which proclaiins
the most penal denunciations against the crime of
murder. The author of her sufferings, a young man,
equally conscious, as it should seem, of unhappy
situation in which she was placed, had been informed
of the consequence of their illicit intercourse (but be-
fore they became exposed), and had set out for Eng-
land with slender means, intending at all.hazards, to
unite his hand to hers in marriage. He had arrived
at Paris in pursuit of his journey, but his pecuniary
funds being exhausted, he was detained so long, that
he did not reach England until three days after the
wretched victim of his attachment had been com-
ntitted for the offence charged in the indictment.
Friday being the day appointed for the trial, it is
impossible to conceive the interest the case excited.
Mr. Daniel Moore, a surgeon of Ilford, was the
brit witness examined,.and he deposed as folloWs
In the month of December I was called to attend the
prisoner.. On the 23d of that month I was shewn a
male child. I opened it two days after, and I found
the lungs healthy ; they floated in water. From that
alone I judge that the child was born alive; but this
is a very fallacious text—nothing more so.
The CHIEF BARON here interposed, and said, that
the prisoner must be acquitted. There.was no proof,
that the child was born alive.
The Jury immediately found the prisoner—Not
Guilty, and also acquitted her of concealing the birth.
The verdict seemed to produce very general satis-
faction, and immediately afterwards the prisoner was
restored to the care of her friends.
The Assizes finished on Friday evening. Twenty-
one prisoners received sentence of death. Two sheep.
sr,alers were left for execution.

Blackwell-hall, adjoining Guildhall, which had for
so many years remained in a ruinous state, is at length
3-weed to the ground; and on its scite is immediately
to be erected a noble building, in which is to be the
new Court of King's Bench for the City of London,
apartments for the Commissioners of Bankrupts, and
several other Civic Offices.