Star.
London, England, 1816-10-22 00:00:00

MISS S.EIPARD'S ENIGMA

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Who has net heard of hap
,
i'z.iiv • :
Than lieeKetie:, say Nature lovelier boon;
tin Lease, I ap?reher is very sound
Without a decent Title to the ground :
Ceesseeree attended Peace in days of y:le,
'1 hough new It folloo‘s In Ler train no mare;
And many an empty damn and re:,t unpaid .
Will prove that /if,4l..x.iry 's a thr:ttless trade;
Wllere sluill the rair, .kidet:ry.discover, •
If wanting in the ti,)lther and the Lover ?
To whom shall yoti tavglitstm'ring Star belong,
If not to Jove, the God of Wit) S:ny, i •
And though Renown may merit justtyclains,
kiss Merit e'er secur'd eternal lame!
In this the nser and the Jew agree,
At Lticre'l shrine to bend the abixt knee;
'Though 'cis our modern plan, I sadly fear,
Om. Walit to laugh at, and out Priests to jeer,
It needs small wit to prove the salons true, .
Divieity's alike the Wife and parson's dun„
• .. ve initials place In order, and you'll find
The place where Jou NlO N new and Sawate breath resign'ti•
aua, October 18 1. 1 TCHFIELD:

DI7ELLING 4.104X1

•A party of Gentlemen having lately met together
iathe neighbourho of Edinburgh, over, a, flowing
bowl, becoming a little inebriated from &token re-
peated bumpers that were drunk to the health' 01
Or, gallant countrymen, who so nobly bled and
fought at Waterloo and Algiers, an individual in
company considerol hislymotir openly attacked by,
oviother of the racy,. and reit teuce was immediately
tlacle to the company. k Noti.ing less, however, than
Carter a. la-mode would satisfy the offended Gentleman,
who insisted upon his antagonist immediately swami
to; .but this_ way of deciding at) honourable affair did
rot suit the person in qoestion, who, like. Oliver, WAS
Ike -tightest man ; and who'll, the utter astonishiaant
of the party, immediately produced a brace of pistols,
requesting the Gentleman to accept of one, and de•
tide the matter in an :lonomealle way. Matters being
arranged, And the parties ready to take the field, it
was agreed that the seconds should load the pistols,
who, having agreed to load them with blank shot,
took care to provide themselves each with an egg ;
and,. as the combatants were to fire together by sig.
nal, it was agreed, that on the report of the pistols,
the secondi should send home the round shot along
with the men of honour's grape, which told so effec-
tually, that both lay squat on the ground, roaring
for surgical aisist .nce. Bing moonlight, the
trick was played off with great effect ; each of the i
seceilds ran to the assistance of his friend ; one lay
with a desptrate wound in his right breast,. chi
Vood and gore trickling down,
.while the other
rezeivcd his antanonist's shot on the lelt side of the
head,.and actually believed the half of his head was
gore. It was as agreeable surprise to the parties,
when they recovered nom the stunning effects of the
terrible shut, to find that they were, safe and Kell, and
they were, of couise, very much plcase4 with the
igagsbh trick their frieneis had played on them.


GREAT Stfoqtas.--Cr. Cadiou. has the highest
-Satisfaction in annonncmg the great Success that has
attended the Purchasers at his Offices. On rtiday,
Oftobet 4,' the Lottery finisiitcl drawing, when the
following CAPITAL Finns were all Sold in Shares at
CARAOLL's Offices
No. 7,73. i, a
_Fuze of 5e30,000, in 12 Mares
12,81 0, 1,000, in 12 Shares
1,366, l,OOO, tt 5 Shares
12,530,........... 1,0(0, in 11 Shares
3,020, 560, in 12 Shares
548t4),...
1,860, ...
The fortunate Adventurers may receive the value of
their respective Shares on deroanti.—The New Stwie
Lottery, to be drawn all in One Day, 31st oc-renew,
contains TIIKEE of 1.20,0410, &c. and Only 6,000
Tickets. Tickets and Shares are Selling by CARitol.L.
the Contractor, at his Fortunate Offices, No. /, Cof
bin, and 26, Olford.street, at the following prices;
Ticket - 19 0
Half • ,812 I 0 I Eigettb S 6
• Quarter 65 0 Siveenth.„ ll2 0
In one respect the Brewers have done right in
easiring the porter, as it is shrewdly suspected they ,
eopld not have lowered it I
The dealers in mil, it is said, have imitated the
.Prewere in raising the price of their article, and with
equal reasoning, sear there is as much malt and hops
ip one as in the other
The squabble between the two Barrister:, we trust,
it htinestly meant to bring duel fing into ridicule ; and
from the effect their very edityingicorrespondence has
bad on the public, we doubt not this will be the con-
aeqlsence.
It is usual when the Recorder presents the sew
Ltr4l hlayor to the Lord Chancellor, to pay some
compliment to the old care. What the Learned Gen.
al.eman may do in so remarkable a case at present of
personal identity we know not.
The French are by no means inattentive observers
9f Zaglish politics. In election affairs, particularly,
they seem perfectly to understand all the tricks. both
sif inflaeoce and fraud. Whether the voters have
learned yet to put a price on their services, we have
stoxbeard.
Geni,leman lust returned from France, having
heard the absurd rumour that NAPOLEON had escaped
from 4E. Helena, accidentally nsentioned it, and a
few hours afterwards was waited upon by the proper
itfficor with the Prefect's desire that he should follow
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guide to prison, which obeying, he remained in
durante for two days, and was then desired to walk
out again, paying the jailor one Louis tot his board
atd lofziew
Set,urday evening, about seven o'clock, a horse in
e Iri% took fright at the bottom of Holborn
After coining in contact with a waggon, and break-
;fig the gig to pieces, it.ran down the centre of Fleet
Market, drtgging the ,shafts with it, threatening the
live; of manyjudividnals. It could not. possibly be
atopped,until it arrived in Fleet4treet.. We are sorry
Ito add; that many persons were seriously hurt.
A singtllar accident happened on Saturday, at Seric's
Rowe, in Carerstrect, Lincokt's Inn. The kitchen-rnald, hay-
loft timed the windows, jumped from the window-asst and din
appeared through the stone Soar, where site must have been ref-
loated, Maim a man cook and a porter been in the kitchen,
and extricated bar front her perilous sittuttion, as it appears to
have been ea old well or Cesspool of more that 96 fop bey.
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