Star.
London, England, 1817-04-05 00:00:00

POLICE.

THE HALF•PAY OFFICER.

T.aark well lgat haggard eye, that biow of care,
Where Pride seem. nobly striiitOirg with Derivate;
That sullen look, that dignity 14 mien.
WO e'en those faded garments faillit,r. screen;
Such is the man who lately led hi. clew
To Oght, to cunquer, and to bled, fur you!
Such is tire man, who, late in ; rood stay,
.hone with the. Pratt& the Great, the Fair, the Gay!
But Wit?, 310! 1:11W >cats Moltii wary t.ye
Latch group, each equipage that paw... by,
Alert to mil), if I.J; ly he Ao‘uhl meet
note tvLont hii 1 tree turti.,l4 I, w now t,) greet
The :meagre wretch who h-gt front di,or to i;ciar
la Lir, sr, cumpaisd with toe zoo' cAly ve.ir;
kr, stubborn pride &sear,. Isis callous breast,
Wu thoughts of past d;o:tiill his nightly rest.
• The cottager, his daily Maur o'er,
Iles sail; the Wrings of a home in rola:
Though raw that hem*, thmigh scanteml teary- Ws fare,
His Wife's, his children's rwlea await h. it The:e.
Not so (or him •sLoearly leaves his
Throus,h bound ere seat ar.d foreiia ditties to roam,
Instirl Sy stal:di4ow and death to dare,
To Elrod CIO wealth he etc :•r, alas! must share t
li's its, beau receives Lie wise d form,
No wife to greet, no lisping babes to charm;
His meal before him rot un.a.ted lies,
While tears of hitter tare b.:dictr his eyes:
Tu him, alz..! role only I ore is given—.
A page in Ilia: ur ) a place in !leaven! .
Is this, my country, novrthe chill reward
Fur these the boasted, darling sons, wined ?
These, w..n so oft thy blood-red nil untuji'd; •
Who Ez.l thy Empire o'er flee scary weld ;"
who first chivied tbe mighty Tyrant's swan
First op'il for WILLINGTON his glorioui way;
This the reward ? —Alas ! too plainly tine;
Yet still they , bleed, the sane for you!
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PdatISLIN FASHIONS.

lA'ffite roses are beginning to be disi4syt d in front of the Nel-
ms a la B.:Aantr, but chiefly on thew of 04*, or tie
Naples bonue•s. Ilesidre the ptall ribbon. tr4firniny,i of
or taffrty, or of pea colour and waterer! ribbon, are Much wort,.
these bat are commonly of I'M,/ colour. I lee trs at 0,:ov
jr are ibourctinirs vrit,k. &trial reAtiles ado! i.•
wry fail; 41,0 t ot bow or 1114v:440t ends
are [cut unequally; and lall doa•uwatds searbraya. In some
Instances theft bows, formed of •ro:e et,tout or lilac rib',in•. are
attached to whim was, hats wi h ro-e colour ur lilt bonier..
Some he asi-dr. sac s are formed of a plail elk handkerchiefs rolled
and stuck upon the Lead in the manner of a Itsbe straw font
Numerous rapers are made entirely of or :scot., tttlf.: to
them, flatineLs Rr puffs of mu,lin, as worn at the bottom 44 robes,
between the bands uf wurkedperiale,art autattimes attached.

There is a new Ballet A!.d a new Dirritisement is
preparation at the Opera Hoose, w!ticli will endwise(
the whole bailer cm- Fs ; and theJavoutite English
artists,. hires and Mr. 0:-CAli BYRNE, will have
very prominent tiiruAtioils in them.
Mr. HOWARD PAYNE's appearance at Covent Gar-
den, which was anaoupced some time since, has been
4.:layed only in consequence of Miss O'hltutes in-
disposition.
Miss O'Nett.t.'s health is now considerably
• Roved. Her eyes were very much affected by the
. t cold which contiibuted not a little to produce her
recent illness. The character she is to sustsin in
Mr. Smat's foithciming Tragedy is one, we under.
stand, peculiarly adapted to the display of her rm.
pieiaive powsrs.
The Duke of MECV.tNUURO STRELITZ was betrothed
to the Princess Many, second daughter of the Land.
gristle Frreptuucit, on the 19th ultimo. The ceremony'
tool place at Oassd, in the apartments of the Elect.-r.
The Marshal Prince of Licareasvetu is ab-iut to
quit Vienna, to pass some months'in Switzerland and
Italy. He travels under the name of Monsieur de
Fatness°, and will preserve the most strictinc-gnito.
He will return, at the latest, in :lie month of jab.
pt, to Assist At the martiage of the Princess MARIA,
Ilk eldest daughter, who will m..try Colonel Coma
VINCENT ENTEIIII.IZY, scan of the Count CIIARLIVi
IMIRIIAZE. The Prince LicirrzNiar:is will yield to
the new-married couple his cbiel estate r,f GolanthaL
the inccme of whi:h antou:its to 11)0,009 florins/
Thursday, upwards of 71X) of the housekeepers of
the Parish of St. Pancras, were ,titnrno,:ed 1), fore W.
Warrou, Esq. one of his M ije,ty's .I.l.tices of the
Peace, for the Poor Rates due at Mici:aelmas last.

Thursday Joseph Lan; and Charles Preston were
.committed to Oxford gaol, charged with having
broken into one of the Aviaries in Blenheim gardens,
and .feloniously stolen thereont upwards of twenty
.pheasants, the' piNiperty of his Grace the Drake of
MAILLIMOUOII.
Mond ,y last, iihont ten o'clock in the morning, a
most destructive fire was. J;sci,vered upon the pre.
mixes of a f um, in the eccupation of Mr. .1 iItUAS
Beta., situate upon Cray's Hill, near Birericay, in
Essex. The maid-servant, it appals's, been wing
bean straw up, u the coal hearth, oh:cb she obtained
from a Leap set near the back door f it that outpace ;
,after hiving been repeatedly to the heap, st:e d4o-
..vered it to beain fire, accaiiiitied, it is arprehe: ded,
by a train dropped from the fireplace. So rapid
were the flames, that in Maoist an hoer,
house and other buildings, with fences ar.d stacks,'
were levelled with the ground, and altli,aigh the
greatest activity was used, no; so much as the wag.
gout, with many utensils, could be got out of the
• fridges, but wete all consumed.—One barn contained
a considerable vicinity, of wheat.
• Extract frool a private letter, dated Boulogne sur-
lier, March 80:—" One of the murderers who have
infested this neighbourhood for some time past, has
been taken last week. He has confessed to seven
murders; the last was about a fortnight since, of a
farmer returning from the market here. He was
• met on hie way home, robbed and murdered, and
then put into his own earl, covered over with a
cloth, and put into a bag,and the horse, turned loose
on the road, brought him borne. Yru may conceive
the
_army of his wife and family an the occasion.
On Thursday las; he was taken from tie gaol here,
thained ins cart, escorted by a party of g.ns-d'armes
• to ,Samis, where the body bad been buried, which
sags dog op no the occasion, and produced to him.
What the use of such a ceremony was I know not, for
the purse of the deceased and some other articles, his
property, were found ott hist."

HATTON Gantmen.—Thursday evening N. Struitsa.l
Beadle of Islington parish, a hoary veteran, '7O 'ears
of are, was charged by Ann Davis, a married svo.,
man, with taking indecent liberties with het. Shit
stated, that the prisoner accompanied her, a few days
ago, in a hackney coach to Worship-street, on parish
business. On their way the prisoner began to take
very indecent liberties with her, putting his hand
down her bosom, and under her petticoats, and pul-
ling her about in a very t'nbecoming manner. The
charge 6, i •,i), sworn to, the prisoner was ordered
,find bail, to answer the assault at the next Sessions.
Swint rt. Orrice.—Thursday Iklr,. Hugh:, of
•Welis•strect, Ratcldf, was examined at this
charged with stealing.* ten pound note hoar a sailor
named Smith, who lodged at her house. During the
examination the following discovery of chili sunder
was developed s —About a fortnight ago the sailor
ev.,s paid off, and he came to !Loaf to inquire for
his •• ife, whose maiden name is Eliza 'Blundell, he
triter,' hr r to the house of Mrs. Hughs, the prisoner,
aid to his astonishment she icceived km, after an
ala,. Lee st-vetal yeals,.very coolly. This he attri-
'lutes:flu the distress of the times, and his ,wants of
m•.nry, but he-consoled himself with the idea that
she would be more kind when he received what was
due to him ; he madt isnmefiate k
_pvcaten to his
agent, who gave him sonic money, and amongst the
rest a selOnote. He came Mrs. Hughs' house,
where the sele was stolen, and Ire accused her of it.
;he strongly denied it, and he was compelled to ap-
ply to the,police for redress. Mrs. Hughs, on his in.
formation, was taken into custody for the robbery,
when she implicated the sailor's wife, declaring
_Cie
was a most abandoned and wicked woman, who
would do.any thing; that she was pregnant, and on
hearing her husband had arrived, fear and shame
bronght on labour, and that she was delivered of a
child, which she murdered, and this was the cause of
oer affected ccolness towards the husband. On being
t IJ of the enormity of such a crime, and how cliabo.
lical it was to make a false accusation of so danger.
oils 4 tendency, she declared most solemnly what she
irsseiied to br the truth ; that she could chew where
t) e hotly was buried in her garden, and that a privy
w..s b..ilt over it. The officers, were dispatched to
accompany her to the spot, which she pointed out,
and the body 01 an Want was found there buried as
she stated, consequently the sai:or's wife, the alleged
m ither, was immediately taken into custody, an:,
alter a short examinati•in, they were both cJinmitted
till the result of the Cortiaer'a Inquest be known.

Between sir and seven o'clock in the evening of
Thursday ten:tight, Mr. Brett, a Silesia's officer,
was attacked and robbed between the Chapel and a
-place called 46 Thieves Bridge," in the parish o:
South Runcton, in Norfolk, by two men dressed in
light coloured great coats, both armed e. ltls hoes.
.Alter knocking Mr. Brett off his horse with a blow
from a hoe, they belt him most unmercifully about
the head and arms; broke one 61 his singers, and hi-
ll ctrd seatrat severe wounds or. various pails o: Lis
body. They then rifled his pockets of a gold watch,
chain and seals, a guinea in gold, a Spanish doper,
an eighteen-penny piece, an four silpencta, left him
for dead and made off, overlooking a plic:et-hasik
coi.tationg £27 in Bank notes, which was in the
breast p-cket of his coat. In this do ddivl situation
Mr. Brett was found shortly after by two travellers
from London, named Bransconot.e arid N...wmati,
who were led to the spot in cc usequence of meeting
Mr. Brett's horse running along the road, with
and saddle on. They had him removed, and medi-
cal a.sistance procured. In a little tiow he r, covered
so tar as. to give a minute description of the robbers,
and the description answering that of James and
ficitry Eggert, cousins, both bad characters, living
at Totton-hill, about a mile distan', an. itornedi:le
search was made, and they were both taken into cut-
tody and lodged'in gaol. The one is only 19, and
the other 25 years ut age. On being searched, the
watch chain, and other articles taken from ;:ire Brett,
wrte found on them. James Eggett's coat was know
in the Deem at his father's, where it was pot to dry
after being mashed. Het.ry Eggett's great coar and
trowsers were found at his father's concealed, rolled
up, and wet through with blood, also the hue with
which the wounds were inflicted.

A few days back the h..ube of Mr. Tissusa, No.
8, St. Ana's-court, WAS leloniou.ly entered, and rob-
bed of four pieces of mount, three satin dresses, a,
quarti,y of tuazarine blue lutestring, and sonsega-
luable silk shawls.

A DISPERATIL FOOTPAD.-•-A most daring attempt
was made by a footpad, yesterday week, to ,rob two
Geittlemt•ii in Kent, and which was attended with
sonic extraorc.ii.ary circumuancer. Mr. Baoww, a
surgeon, in company with his brutter.in•law, quitted
the coach which" had conveyed them from town to
the neighbourhcod of Lewisham, in order to proceed
by a footpath. across the fields, the neared way to
that village, where one or both of lite Gentlemen re-
, side:f. Theroad they had to pau lay close to the
river side, on the banks of which were growing some
large bushes : from behind one of them a entLin sod-
dray sprung, wno, withmit uttering a word, snapped
a pi.tol at Mr. Banter, which fortunately missed fire.
At the same moment Mr. B. Mud the villain, and
in the violent struggle that ensued they both fell into
the water together 1 Mr. Bnowwendeavocred to keep
Lib hold of the robber, and he as reialutely fought for
his liberty. Mr. 'Biowit's brother was prompt in at-
lording assistance to his relation, and having hastily
snatched the first weapon he could find, he began to
lay it lustily about the ears of the villeins when the
lator deliberately observed, 14 If you do am leave me I
alone, I shall drown your friend, tor I have him snug'
enough under dm water." With Ibis the villain made
another effort, disengaged himself from Mr. Baowu,
and scrambled down the river to some distance be.
fore he ventured to gain the land. Just as be reached
the bank, and Mr. BROWN% friend in pursuit, a coun-
tryman came in sight, having on his head a baske4
of eggl. The brother called to him to stop thief,'
but in attempting to obiy him, the villain upset him,
eggs and all, into the river, and got clear off. • Mr.
baoww, by this time, had been assisted on shore in a
mangled end exhausted state. The villain was a
stout fell° a, and, during the contest in and out of the
water, he had beaten the face of Mr. BROWN of
violently, and had broken one or two of his ribs. Mr.
Blown is, however, in a fair way of recovery, but'
hitherto the villain bus escaped detection.
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RAW 1111):;3.

Best Heifers and Steers (per Orkimary Is Si to Is 10.1

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since)its 41 to its 101 Market esti 75. eaelt.
Mik!*!: :Iv 21 03 to gs t.,!! j gltx Home Pi Ed to
4.4. to is 01.--D./..13 4s thi to by 01.

?Rare. oF l•e.tTHLit. 1;4 1.d..111/14Nii ALI," l'ltEli I'.
Burs, 50 to im:bs ~:01 tft:4: Calf Ski" 35 to 4001.17. 19i1
Intro, 55 -o 6511 n 1t33 2Li s.sitto 50 to Mb, 401 u3I
111erchatits Backs 004 00.1 Ditto 70 to tiolba Ito4l 434
Dressing 111.1... 13 i 15d i Susan :kids Orisenland 44d ltsi
Fine C. il eh Hides 151 I7d 1 lairiar ditics,per doz. rt‘ 1101