Star.
London, England, 1810-04-23 00:00:00

VERSES ON THE SPRING.

redeunt tarn grand= outwit,
A rboribusque corns.—Hou.

The snow-drop and daisy appcar'd on the p!ain,
And embryo blossonu now swdl'd in the grove;
When Frost with his legions, a chill hoary train,
Usurp'd the dominion of Flora and Love.

The Muse, too, decely'd by the ensigns of Spring,
On Ken's winding margin had waken'd her lyre;
But, sweet while her numbers yet thrill'd on the string,
Lo ! Nature was wrapp'd in her winter attire 1

The lark, high In ether, his pinions dispbfli,
The glad womlhnd choiristers rivalrd his lay;
But dark driving sleets made the minstrels afraid
That dead was the Spring, and eminguish'd the day.

Thus thick buds of Freedom, all fragrant and fair,
Through Europe's wide continent lately were seen ;
But cold on the Spring fell the frosts of despair,
No garden now blossoms, no woodland is green !

Where bold Guadiana rolls on to the tide,
Some germins of Freedom are yet seen to smile,
The l'atriot's eye there reposes with pride—
As pores on his verdure the Genius of Nile !

But see ! crown'd r ith garlands of primroses sweet,
Mild Spring now regains her insulted domain;
See! now, where lay cheerless, the cold snow and sleet,
The crocus and violet deck the green plain !

Yea! so shall thy empire, sweet liberty, rise,
Where spreads proud NAPO! EON'a soul-freezing sway,
And there shall perfume, with her fragrance, the skies
Where Slav'ry's fell night-shade now poisons the day.

From yon gloomy dungeons, where languish the brave,
The dawn of thy morning gleams full on my sight;
From dust that once bled thy dominion to save,

The germs of thy spring will yet burst into light !

Germania's forests a'.l sigh to my song,
Deep groans mighty Danube and chafes on his strand—
The cliffs of Corunna the echoes prolong,
And Hoffer'sf pale ghost cries "The Spring is at hand !"
Vale of Nith, April 4, 1810. ;. w.
t The famous Tyrolese Patriot, who was condemned to be
executed by a Military Commission.

A young man in Bewcastle, Cumberland, who
w.ts not on good terms with his wife, resolved a few
days ago to dispose of her by auction. Not being
able to find a purchaser in the place where they re-
sided, she persuaded him to proceed to Newcastle for
this purpose. Accordingly they set out, and this
modern Dalilah laid her plan so well, that, immedi-
ately on his arrival, a pressgang conveyed him on
board a frigate preparing to get under-weigh for a
long cruizc.

On Saturday, B. Case, a bargeman, was admit-
ted to bail, at the Thames Police Office, charged
with wounding M. Armstrong, a mate of a ship, with
a boat-hook, across the loins, in a dispute, on board
a ship lying off Shadwell.
For some years past, since Macmanus, Townsend,
and Sayers have attended at the Bank, at the time
the divide ds are paying, no persons have been rob-
bed in the Bank, as used to be the case before. Last
week a new scheme was had recourse to upon persons
who came out of the Bank after receiving their divi-
dends. A man ran up to them with a pen behind
his ear, in apparent agitation, pretending to be a
clerk in the Bank, saying they had received wrong
notes, and asked to see them ; the parties, naturally,
without thought, took out their notes, and the rob-
ber, observing a £2l note, said they should have
had a 15 note instead, and snatched the ag2 note,
saying he would return directly With a R 5 note.—
One female, who was served this trick near the Ex-
change, returned to the clerk, whO had paid her the
notes, and told him of the trick ; hut said she would
not tell any of her friends, as they would only say she
ought to have known better, and laugh at her.
A few nights since a fracas took place in Carr's-
lane, Birm►ngham. Some young men were passing
down the lane, with two girls of the town, when
some insult was offered to them by other young men,
when Ellis, one of the party, drew a dagger from
his cane, and stabbed G. Austins, in the groin, who
died on Tuesday morning. Another man was also*
cut and maimed about the head. Ellis is now in
prison.

An affecting catastrophe happened at Armath-
waite, in Cumberland, on Tuesday last. William
Sewell, mill-wright, and James Slee, aged Is, his
apprentice, both of Kirkoswald, went from thence
to their work at Armathwaite-mill, where they got
the miller's boy to set them across the Eden, in a
boat. Towards the middle of the current the boat
upset, and all three were drowned. Mr. Sewell has
left a wife and three small children to lament his loss.
This river, on Tuesday, was considerably enlarged,
from a sudden fall of rain, and the men incautiously
undertook to navigate a boat across the river with two
poles. When they had got into the centre of the
current, the boat became unmanageable, and they
• were, by the irresistible impetuosity of the water, im-
pelled over the waterfall, and fell a height of twenty
feet. In the fall the boat was upset.
On Saturday se'nnight, the new Lincoln Post-
coach was robbed between Peterborough and Deep-
ing. The Guard happening to be on the coach-box
with the coachman, a man got up behind, and cut
the rope by which the luggage was fastened on the
top ; when, running after tie coach to catch every
article as it dropped, he was discovered by a passen-
ger hearing some of the luggage fall. One trunk,
containing property to a considerable amount, be-
lofting to a passenger, vats found the next morning
in a field by two boys, not far from the spot, with the
bottom knocked out, and the contents gone.
Four persons were lately found dead in a. house
which they tnhabited at Killoteram, county of Wa-
terferd. From an attentive examination of their bo-
dies, and the situation of the building, it was ascer-
tained thi.t they had been suffocated by the mephitic
-vapour arising from the adjoining lime-kiln, and
which had been driven by a particular wind towards
the house.

lioursT.—Sattirday, an Inquest was held, at the
sign u the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on the
body Of a child, who died, in consequence of its
clothes catching fire, when left aloe in a room..
lental death.

Vendict—Accidi