Star.
London, England, 1829-11-19 00:00:00

THE CAPTIVE.

They chained him on a desert rock,
And left him, like Paomantaus, there,
To bide the worse than vulture-shock
Of a mind battling with despair :
But not a groan from that ifx-Kmo
The chemistry of bate could wring.

The strident sea-fowl o'er bim sounded,
With circling flight and plangent scream;
Before him the free waters bounded—
Oh, had he built his throne on them !
They had not girdled so, I guess,
• The dwelling of the sceptreless.
Aye—dash your salt sprsy o'er his keep.
Ye; elemental warders, do;
Ire tenant is too sound asleep
To wake—sibs was wont—at you :
Rave, elate eternally ye must—
Ye do but canine! the dust.
Convict, or Geocettror—no matter.
Through each viciesitude be past;
The tropic hurricanes may scatter
His ashes--but hisfone shall last.
For o'er his tomb, and o'er his prison
The star of Hisrosv bath arisen!

MRS. HIXON TO COLONEL CUST.

Cam's Us, Mosses, Nov. 14, 1129.
Sint,—A letter relative to me and my claims upon the
bounty of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, and pur-
porting to bear your signature, has been published in the
Globe, and other newspapers, upwards of JI week ; and,
but for accident, should I have remained in entire igno-
rance that you had condescended to notice the subject.
You will be pleased to accept my apologies for intro-
ducing the subject so abruptly; but as you have not
hesitated " publicly" to insinuate that the statements
which have been published relative to the allowance of
241. per annum by her late Royal Highness the Princess
Charlotte are false, I take the liberty to reply, " that so
far from being tinged with falsehood, I am ready and
willing to verify them upon oath," and must, in justice
to myself, add to it, " that what you have published in
the main is unfounded." In saying this, I must be un-
derstood to mean that you have been wilfully misinformed,
and that you have written only what you believed to be
true ; but I will go at once to the subject of your letter.
William Smith was coachman to her late Royal High-
ness Princess Charlotte, but was not discharged by his
present Majesty. He was incapaciated, by the serious
injuries he received in his fall from the box, and from
confinement to his room for many months to perform his
duties.
It never has been asserted that my name of Smith, or
Hixon, was on the pension list of the Princess or Prince.
The word " pension," instead of " allowance," was
used inadvertently. When the accident happened to
Smith, her Royal Highness regretted that she was not in
$ situation to pension him, by reason that she had not
arrived at her full allowances, but commanded that an
allowance (if such must be the word) of 241. per annum
should be made to me and my children, and a situation
procured for Smith when he was capable of taking one ;
and this was done in the Customs.
It has never been asserted that my daughter, Jane
Smith, had a pension ; and although the allowance was
appropriated to the education of my daughter, if you
will take the trouble to refer to Mrs. Campbell's letter to
my husband, dated Cntnbourn Ledge, Jan. 11, 1815,
already published, you will find that the allowance was
not so considered to be made. Mrs. Campbell says,
" Her Royal Highness has directed me to write to Mr.
Willis on the subject, and to say it is her wish that the
money due to her should be paid."
With regard to Mrs. Campbell's communication to
Mr. Ammerschubers, I know nothing ; bet this I know,
when 1 la.* •

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and fearlessly and truly assert it, I last applied to
that gentleman for the usual payment, his words were,
" Madam, His Royal Highness can no longer afford to
pay you." So much for the reason of its discontinuance,
whatever may be the thought of its absurdity. With
respect to my signing " receipts"—.." allowance for my
daughter Jane Smith's education," I may have done so ;
but I did not apprehend that the allowance was to be
discontinued after the period of her schooling should
terminate.
It is because I am in the decline of life that I so seriously
feel the loss of her Royal Highness's bounty, and the
difficulties I have to struggle with in placing a fatherless
son and daughter on the world in decent situations, or the
public and his Royal Highness would never have heard
of me, after Mr. Ammerschubers' communication. I
trust I shall be excused for importunity for the foregoing
reasons, as well as by the knowledge that truth very
seldom reaches the ears of Princes when interested
foreigners are the organs of communication.—l have the
honour to be, your very obedient servant,
SARAH HIXON.

To Colonel Cost, Mulbogougb House, PaN-moll.

The East India Company's ships Buckinghamshire
and Herefordshire left Bombay for China on the 2d July.
Colonel Coot BURN has left town for Honduras (of
which Colony he has been appointed Commandant, to en-
ter on his official duties.
It is said that PHILIP DAVIES COOKE, Esq. of
Owaton Park, in Yorkshire, and Gwyaanay Hall, Flint-
shire, is shortly to lead to the hymeneal altar the Hon.
Lady HELENA KING, the accomplished daughter of the
Right Hon. the Earl of KINGsroN, Viscount KINGS-
BOROUGH, &C.
One of the first motions that will be made in the House
of Commons, on the Meeting of Parliament, will be for
the passing of a law, in reference to the already bur-
thened state of the country, prohibiting the reception in
Great Britain or Ireland of any of the Royal Family of
France or the Clergy of that country, in the event of
their being again driven from France.
A measure founded upon the Report of the Com-
mon Law Commissioners, for the improvement of the
system of Welsh Judicature, is at present under consi-
deration. Some alteration in the Circuits is in contem-

plation.
LORD Rzar.zzw.—This popular young noblemen at-
' tended at the great market of Drogheda, on Saturday,
and his reception, by all classes and denominations, was
most flattering.
WATERFORD ELECTION.-+We'luilfe reason to think
arrangements are in progress which will secure the ex-
clusion of a Berosford from the representation. We
shall recur to this subject.—Pilot.
RESTITUTION Bloway.--The Catholic Clergymari
who has, in the discharge of his ministerial duties,
been instrumental in restoring to Government the sum
of one hundred ds, is the Rev. D. B. D ea* iv v, of
Church-street Chapel---a gentleman of most exemplary
zeal, piety, and devotion. It may be permitted to us to
add, that the Rev. Gentleman is a Friar, and conse-
quently, comes within the act of proscription which ac-
companied the Relief Bill.