Star.
London, England, 1826-08-08 00:00:00

POETRY:

The moon is on the silent lake
I loved so much of yore—
And, as in other days, I stand
Beside its willowed shore !
It is not changed :—the quiet wave
Glides in its beauty on;
'And not a bud, and not a leaf,
Seems from the green tree gone!
Lilee.hlre.itenta dm' lilies spread
Their wkitiiisings to the air ;
Those Sowers; so lovely ind so frail,
Still are are 'floating there!
It cannot be that years have passed
Since last I saw the place...-
For years bring change, and here is not
Of any change a trace !
Sing me down on yon green bank,
And dream my dreams of old—
Drink Hope's Pactolns-drenghts again
From starry waves of gold!
0 no! Ono! my heart's awake—
I cannot sleep again;
I know Hope's golden sands are dross—
I know Life's dreams are vain !
I would there were some siva of change
Upon the scene around :
'Tis'sad to think in mine own heart
Alone that change is found!
Like birds and winds that pus away,
Our hopes and joys depart;
And Nature has no desert place
Like the tone human heart!
Fur there are thousand flowers that rise
Fait from their winter tomb;
But hopes are annuals, that know
No second spring oebloom! L. D. D.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

PARTIES.

The Dowager ISfarehione;sof Salisbury had a dinner party on
Soaday, and a select party in the ereniny, at her hones in Ar-

lingtou street.
The Countess of Essex bad a card party yesterday esvoing, at
her house in Hill street. Berkeley square.

MOVEMENTS.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond have left Brighton, for
theft. seat. Goodwood, Sussex.

The Duke of St. Albano has arrived in town frost the seat of
Sir Gilbert East, Bart. in Berks.
Tke Doke of Bedford left town yesterday, for Casklobory Park,
on a mit to the Earl of Esser.

The Marquis and Muchioaess of Camden left town yesterday.
for their seat, the Wilderness, Kent.
The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury returned to town on
Saturday, from the seat of the Marquis of Downshire, in Berks.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton bare, arrived in town from their
seat. Stolid Farm, Berks.
The Earl and Countess of Daribigton and family left town yes.
terday. for York.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Winchester and Ismer hire
left town, for their scat in Hants.
The [lon. General Taylor has left Harrourgate, for kalwiL
Charles Tufton [Macke, Esq. bedsit his house in Rqintineelle,
for Brighton.
Mrs Nesbitt has left the seat of Sir Henry Davis, in Devonshire,
for Slr Robert Browning's, Bart. in Wales.
W. Bowles, Esq. left town yesterday, for his seat In Berks.
The Hon. Thomas Grenville has left the seat of the Duke of
Buckingham, Stowe, for Glastonbury, Sontersatshire.
A. It Stewart, *sq. and Lady Stewart left town yesterday,
for Cheltenham. _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Colonel Anson left town yesterday, for the Isle of Wight.
Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, &. James's street—Lord and
Lady Catbenel, from Paris; C. Campbell, Esq. front Bath; and
Tbbmas Monroe, Esq. from his seat in Oxfordshire. Capt. Milner
has left ditto for Worthing.
Departures from Jordan's Hotel, St. James's street—Lady
Barker and Miss Culthurst for Itainsgate • Mrs Borden and son,
on a tour; and G. Roebuck, Esq. for Cheltenham:
lord Robert Spencer has left town, for his seat, Woolbeding,
Sussex.

The Rev. Mr and Mrs Palsford left the Waterloo Hotel, .Ter.
snyn street, yesterday, for Sir Davidp Gooki's seat In Herts.
Mr and Mrs John Drown left the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle
street, yesterday, for the Continent; and Henry Byre, Eeq. for
Southaroptou. Lord and Lady Cranky have arrived at ditto,
front Paris.

FRENCH ASSIZE.

Peter Durnont,who returned about vie years ago from Algiers,
where he had been a slave upwards of thirty-four years, was charged
with stealing a watch from one of his fellow workmen. The evidence
against the prisoner was strong, but the following appeal from his
counsel, M. Sylvestre de Sari. procure/ his acquittal:" Will you
overlook," said 31. de Sacy, " the thirty-four years of suffering of
my client under the yoke of the Moors, when, a martyr for his Goo,
he preferred slaver, to liberty and opulence, which were offered as
theprice of abjuration? Ah. Gentlemen if. after so many years of
heroic courage, he is to be again punished with imprisonment, let it
not be in the prisons of !disown country, with the refuse of society I
Send him rather to Algiers, where he may bear with patience, but
not with disgrace, the evils of his fortune."
A very genteel-looking man, named Leroy:, and two women,his
accomplices, were charged with having stolen several diamonds and
' other valuable articles from jewellers. The mode of theft ad . • •
by Leroux was novel and ingenious. He carried in his hat a nuns-
bar of cards, with patterns of brooches, &c. on which was spreid a
quantity of bird-lime; on laying down these cards under pretence
oi comparing the patterns with the articles exhibited, he y
...contrived to carry away at least one diamond which ered to
the birdlime. One of the witnesses deposed to-laving lest a
very large diamond in this way ; on the occasion of Lereux's
visit to this witness. be said on quitting, after having purchased
end pal/ for an article of trifling value, " If I am satisfied with you,
I shell return and take something more." .This evidence excited a
laugh, in which the witness and Leroux joined heartily. Leroux
was condemned to seven years' solitary confinement, and his ac-
complices were acquitted.
The Metropolis swarms with juvenile pickpockets.l
This arises in a great measure from the persons who are robbed de-
dining to be at the troutde of prosecuting, although the thieves are
caught in the act of thieving.
Whilst the Lancashire manufacturers are said to be
in extreme distress for want of employment, harvest
hands are so scarce in the Fens of Lincolnshire, that at
Doningten, last Monday, shearers of wheat were hired
at 131. per day, besides their ale.
At the Isle of Ely Assizes, an application was made
fur the discharge of Bathsheba Freeman, who had been
committed for one month for marrying from the service
of Mr. Wright, fellraonger, of Chatteris, without his con-
sent 1 but the Court refused to take cegniz tnce of it.
Application was afterwards privately made to the Ma-
gistrates on the Bench, Mr. PEYTON. Dr. CHATFIELD,
Mr. ORTON, and others, and such a sensation was pro-
duced, that Mr. Sewell, the Magistrates' clerk, was
called, and upon a hint, he pledged himself that she
should be liberated the next morning.
CAUTION—A few days since, a man genteel y dressed,
called at th'- house of Mr. Nelthorpe, Collector of the
I.lmbeth Water Rates, in Temple-place, Blackfriars-
toad, and being informed be was from home, requested
admittance to write a note, which the servant impru-
dently granted ; while doing which, he asked her if she
was not baking some pies, when being answered in the
afErmative, he observed that by the smell they were
burning ; to see t.) which, the gill left the room, when
the fellow decamped, having first taken 521. from a desk.
Thursday, the 27th ult. a thief who had been three
hears in prison at Pulsar, escaped, and in less than an
our afterwards robbed a Gentleman of 1,500 francs un
the high road. Another hour after this, the prisoner at
large was captured by a gendarme, and replaced in his
el., guar:ars.