Star.
London, England, 1817-01-01 00:00:00

TIM JUDGES.

The duty of a Judge in England is no easy task.
The business of the Terms occupies nearly 90 day► in
the year s the long Circuits nearly 76, and the inter.
•vals of Vacation are occasionally filled up by the extra;
business which is done at Chambers. and the Sitting,
on-criminal Trials at the Old Bailey. The learning•
absolutely necessary to the making of a tolerable spa
pounce upon the Bench in England, is such, that so
Lawyer in fall peactice has attained it much helots
50 years of age, and latterly, few have been deemed
adequate to the task who have not passed that age.
With a judgment of competent maturity, it is not al.
ways to be expected that vigorous health should be •
united after 25 or SO Veers' service in a laborious
profession, which, daring the whole time. has kept
all the faculties of body :aid mind in hilltexertion.—. •
Yet such is the happy dispensation of Pit IDENCC to.
wards industry and activi:•, that we have seldom
found bodily in&eility attack our greatest lawyers at
an immature age. Lord MANSFIELD Coatilnird on
the Bench thirty-three years, and died at the age of
The late Chitt Justice of the Common Peas is
still in full possession of his faculties, and walks mil
tide► with much vi;rour at nearly the, age of eighty;
and we have several Jmlges on the Bench, who have
long passed the grand climacte: ic, ye; in whom we
have never perceived any diminution of that energy
which is necessary for the functions of their office. •

, . . THE BRISTOL MEETING.
saii.allr.lll.s.as. 'Rog i-settees. it rettAPIN4 -
BUTES:IL., DECEMBER, U. . .. .
ce Thom are one or two little anecdote, whizli oe.
altered storing the day, chat are work recording. ' . ":
FUMY, 011 his approach to the *fib thiough one of
the most violent showers of rain that perhaps ever .• '
fell, stopped at the Saracen's Head Inn. Terfiple-gate. P
to know if be could be accommodated with a diluter •
eo his return. The Jaadlady very indignantly told •'
him that he could not. for her house was already filled • '
with a troop of horse, Iphich his evil spirit had been
the means of being•qtartered upon her. Barg in i
the bar, however. he desired something to drink, anil • ,
she gave him a glass of wine; at the same time, she
stepped to the front doer. which she locked. declaring ' ..
that he should not depart the way that he tame in, "
for that the tars door wit only worthy of such fellows;
and from the back door only could the orator get
away. And here it was that the suing of morti6ca.
nom began which pursued him through t!* day. It
was at this resting-plicetno doubt, that he *first es.
petted the greetings of lot friends. Bot knead of the
hundreds which have heretofore met him at Totter.
down, he made his entry into the city in his, mu al
vehicle. a tandem. in winch he proceeded to Brandon-
hill, not more than 21 boys running by the side of him .
to the place of meeting, and about three hundred fol.
lo stag him from it; mad on his rerero, in' past-
ing by the Commercial Rooms and oar k:tchange, the
former seene of his orates' y, the hisser. of hundreds of, •
our fellow citiiens saluted him, and he was ob:igtd
to leave the city, as c ampletely mortified and chop.
fallen, as such pests of society, ever deserve to be.._
It is honourable also to the City, that not a Rainer
could be found to publish the bills which called t'le
Meeting. The RequOtionists were compelled to send
to Bath ftir them.—So well was every thing concert. %
ed by the whole ci( the Military, that though thane i i
was a commanding force stifiicient to quell even the ' •
must formidable dot, duridg the Lime of the ha rang Ts j* I
on Brandon-hill, not a soldier was to he wen pared- ..) * •
ing the meets.; and we defy Mr. lit;t: r, or hi,: so iti,
..i
to say that the slightest obstacle was thr.we in i.;s
way by either the civil or the military power (which 'ir
it was thought necessary to be at hand to protect our .
property and lives), that could is the slightest degree •
tafluente the object of his meeting. The men belong- .
ing to the different Fite Offices were also sworn in as -,-
special Constables, and ready to act if occasion ee. •
quired.; as, were likewise several Shipwrights from
our Dock-yards. HisWurship the Miami sent invit.:.
tions to dinnel; to all the different Officers of the Re.
giments in •attesidance, and the evening passed off II
the most perfect tranquillity."

- ?-•
Mr. J. Wavtert, a German chymist, retired last
summer to bis house in'the country, there to devote
himself, withoutnbeing diiiterhed, to the study and
examination tpf poisonous' nahstances. Mr. Wthei
tried his eoitipas upon. !rims*, and appeared ipsen.
sible tri the 'great alterations, which such diageroul
uials produced upon lilt heitib. 'At the Fitter era
of the month of o:tdbci.he Invested-emu
poisonous mixturv, aAd Vrishe.l to .eseurtidissonlf •
its effect. • The followingii tbsr imipinftwit which tie 7
Oki of it in the last page of 11% ni4o9eripc ;,.-44 A
poqon composed of (here the substances are riarnW,
-aad the doses indkated) is atonal aLrl tht poet af •
ui shatlamd):ng:,