Star.
London, England, 1821-10-18 00:00:00

COMPARISON OF WORLDLY GLORY WITH

A WATERFALL.

PROM ROWRINO'S TRANSLATIONS ON RUSSIAN PONTIT.

Oh, glory! gay! mighty one on earth!
Now justly imaed in this Waterfall!
Bo wild and furious in thy sparkling birth,
Dashing thy torrents down, and dasslirig ID,
While hurrying thus sublimely from thy height,
Majestic, thund'ring, beautiful, and bright !
Now many a wondering eye is turn'd to thee,
In admiration lost !—short•sighted mks!
Thy furious wave gives no fertility;
Thy waters rolling fiercely through the plain,
firing nought but devastation and distress,
And leave the fiow'ry vale a wilderness!
0 fairer, lovelier, is the modest rill,

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Watering with steps serene the field-4he grove:
Its gentle voice as sweet, and soft, and stab
As shepherd's pipe, or song of youthful love!
It has no thundering torrent, but it flows
Unwearied, scattering blessings as it goes!

INDIAN EtoonExcr.—The following specimen of
elegiac pathos was delivered by an Indian over the
contiguous graves of her husband and infant :.14 The
FATHER OF LIFE AND LIGIIT has taken from me the
apple of my eye, and the core of my heart, and hid
them in these two graves. I will moisten the one
with My tears, and the other with the milk of my
breast, till I meet them again in that country where
the sun never sets r
CORONER'S INQuEsTs.--;-Yesterday evening, at
seven o'clock, an Inquest was held at the Examining
Room, St. Thomas's Hospital, before T. SHELTON,
Esq. Coroner for Southwark, on the body of Anu
Monis, a child aged about six years, who unfortu-
nately, during the absence of her mother, fell into the
fire, as we stated yesterday. Verdict—Accidental
Death.—Another Inquest was also held at the same
place before T. SHELTON, Esq. upon the body of Mr.
Joseph Hackton, who dropped down dead upon Lon-
don-bridge on Tuesday morning. Verdict—Died by
the Visitation of GOD.

Thursday se'nnight, a poor woman, with her in-
fant child, about nine months old, lying dead by her
side, was found in a most deplorable state of misery
in a hovel near Guy's Cliff, Warwick. The following
day an inquest was held on the bah of thechild before
JOHN WOODCOCK, Esq. Coroner, and after several
witnesses had been examined, adjourned till Tues-
day, when further evidence was heard on this truly
distressing case. It appeared that the wretched mc-
ther had principally resided for some days previous
in the Place where she was found, with scarcely any
food either for herself .or the child, and without
money to procure it. Her allowance from the parish
to which she belonged was only 2s. per week, and
being unable to work, she was compelled to wander
about the fields gathering wild berries, &c. for her
sustenance. It was evident that she had neglected
no means which parental affection could suggest to
preserve the life of her child, and amongst other
proofs in support of this, the following affecting in •
cident was mentioned :—One of the witnesses had
even her some beer in a wood bottle, of which she
wished the child to partake, but being unable to
drink it from the bottle, she filled her own mouth
with the beer, and applying k to that of the child,
thus administered the means of prolonging its exist-
ence a few hours longer. The Jury, after hearing
the whole of the evidence adduced, expressed their
conviction that the death of the child was not occa-
sioned by any negligence on the part of the mother,
and returned a verdict of—" Died by the visitation
of GOD." After the inquest, the Jury subscribed a
small sum for the poor woman, and she was for-
warded to her parish.
A MAN or BUSINESS.—A most audacious robbery
took place in the neighbourhood of Leicester on the
morning of Saturday last. Between seven and eight
o'clock a young man, dressed in a smock frock, en-
tered a close of Mr. Gimson, of liistall, and drove
thei efrom eighteen sheep, which he brought to Lei-
cester market and sold to Mr. Brown, a jobber, of
Blaston, before nine o'clock the same morning. After
he had disposed of his ill•gotten booty, the depredator
went to the Lion and Lamb inn, where, having un-
disguised himself by pulling off his frock, he par-
took of breakfast with the utmost composure, and
then disappeared, and has not since been heard of.—
Mr. Gimson had seen the sheep on the usual place at
seven o'clock in the morning; so that it would appear
that the audacious thief had entered his close, stolen
his sheep, drove them two miles, got a purchaser,
received the money for them, regaled himself, and
got clear away, in little more than two bouts!
APPREHENSION OF THREE RESURRECTION
Sunday, the 7th instant, three men, with a spring
cart, were observed to go through Seal and East
reckham; and on Monday, in the forenoon, they
came back, and went on to Riverhead, and put up at
the White Hart, where they had their cart locked up,
in which was perceived a large basket. Soon after
their arrival, they told the landlord they were going
to see some friends, and if they did not get back in
time, he was not to sit up for them, as they could
call u.g the ostler. This, and other circumstances,
raised suspicions in the landlord's mind. He and his
neighbours resolved upon watching their motions,
and accordingly went some distance on the road for
this purpose, and laid up in the hedge. At night one
of the men went back to the White Bart and got the
cart, while the other two walked on the London-mad
till the cart overtook them, when they got up and
drove on till they came to Dunton Green Pay Gate.
Here the persons who had waylaid them stopped the
cart, and insisted upon knowing what was in it: the
three men immediately jumped out, and made off.
Upon searching the cart, two bodies were found; one
of them of a young woman, about eighteen years of
age, who had been buried in Seal church-yard on the
Friday preceding; the ,other was that of a robust
man, apparently about forty years of age, of a dark
sandy complexion, with one of his feet turned in-
wards; from whence this body was taken, has not yet
been discovered. A pursuit after the men immediately
took place, and they were overtaken at Farnborough,
and brought back to Sevenoaks, where they under-
went an examination, and were bound over to appear
at the ensuing Quarter Sessions.