Star.
London, England, 1817-04-22 00:00:00

A NEW COMET.

THE ROSE BUD.

Say I weer set the (OW lower
Freer of ks tester spray;
Beim. 'twill bieem bet am Owe fir•
'Twill wither and decay.
Its balmy fragrame—edema serese4;6
Now meat the Zephyr's sigh ;
BM le thy bosons's flukes beat,
'Twill droop, despair, sad die I
So, /may b lower that blooms gay.
Awl vines life's parterre,
Would Worn and grow the livelong day,
Deligbtful, sweet, and fair !
But same rode spoiler grasps its charms,
And steals its fragrant breath;
Then Sings it, faded, front his arms§
To morn, magical and death! aarcoct•

Dakar-LANE THEATRlL—Yestetday evening Mr.'
Kean made his reappearance, after an absence of
some weeks, in Richard 111. He was welcomed by
three lucid peals of applause. He sustained the cha.
ratter with his wonted excellence. The house was
filled in every part. On account of the indisposition
of Miss Kcu.v, the after piece of Frightened to Death,
was substituted for that of the foraireiter's Dam:ker.
Pilau:AN FAEDIONS.--The rim of straw bonnets is
MOW worn notched, and the ribbands are either two
oe ui-colour. When flowers are added, they are
made to ink the buss of the ribbands. Hence it
happens that ragencuke, tulips, nrignionette,lilac;
Narcissus, • Ids. field flowers, and even ovetlideiergs,
are at once in fashion. Among fancy flowers, honey.'
cackle dyed lilac is frequently seen. Some fashion.
shies wear a velvet Collar to their coats, and both of
the same colour. The fashion ef small clothes that
button aver the knee is once more revived.
Mae. blatant' Roor.—This fashionable Lacii@pen-
ad her splendid mansion in Pcstman-square on. Fri-
- 'day night to the gay wall It was a party atten-
ded by about three hundred fashionables. Five rooms
were thrown open, furnished in a style of elegance
which surprised even those accustomed to behold
daily improvements in interior decoration. The com-
pany be: an to assemble together at ten o'clock: they
de at one. In the click were the following :
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aod Countess of Plymouth, Lord and Lady Bridport,
Lord iledersiffe. Conatess.ot Maiden, Sir rbontas and Lady
Wave, Lady Sheffield and the Dowager Lady Sheffield, laird
Chetwyerd, Lady SW, Lady Mary and birsa Drummond, Lady
Finch Hatton, Lady and MissOlvune, lady and Miu itnntd:y.
Mr. Charles and Mr. John Mills, Mr. Horace Beaton!, Mr.
and Mrs. oreoult, Earl of Errol, and Lard James Hay, Miss
Montague Burgoyne, tilt I. and Lady Pecbell, Mr. and Mrs.
Hawkins Browne, Sir Robert, lady, and• Miss Buxton, Mr.. and
Miss Seausnoat, Mrs. Balker Mrs. and Mias Cameral, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Windsor, 1,,51y and Miss Midway, Mr. nee.
rut, Mr. and Mrs. Lharks Buller, Sir Chutes and Lady Hulse,
Captain Digby, Mr. and Mn. DOITICII. Mr. and Mrs. St. Lein.,
Captain and Mrs. Clive, Hun. Captain Talbot.
LADY 1511OWNLOW'S BA.LI,—A Ball of singular
Magnificence was given at the Dowager Lady aILUWN
. LOW-I on Friday evening, .in Hill-street, Bet keley-
square. The three drawing-rooms were brilliantly
ilhiminated by chandeliers of matchless beauty. The
company was composed of all the leading families in
high life, exceeding go the aggregate duce hundred
persons. Dancing commenced at eleven o'clock with
iszeetspirji. :I'S younger kranehes o( the noble
of MARYMOring LaSO4; tORNWALLISYFUII•
:sees, MONTACIIMHARJUNGTOUp apd Motail Enos-
ct:itss, took the lead. A supper followed. The
glancing leas afterwards resumed, and kept ap till
four o'clock. Also were rem% •
Sir James and Lady Langbam, Lord Browolow, Sir J. acid
Lady sandgetd, lady Allenborough and Miss Law, Lady Rod-
ney, Lady l'heudosis Vyner and Miss Vyner, Countess apart.
south and Lady Legge, Lady Arden, Lady C. Macdonald, Lady
Llizsbah Poch Hatton' and Miss Hatton,.
A more than usual attention to dress was observable
in this assembly s in short, there was every thing to
gratify the senses and
_please the imagination.
.Tult COUNT/gas or LOttaStOlies BALL.—Thor first
party for the season in Dover :et was a quadrille
party, held on Thursday evening. It was given to
a juvenile circle. which assembled at ten o'clocb,and
brokte up as two. Refreshments were provided, con.
sitting of every delicacy. TM company were highly
Ideligh they ted; of course, did not separate Wiiihkg
Vth
OSe persons who radial the Lottery Schemes
of he last. Frfty or Sixty rears. and have read of.
those of• the preceding Catonr—G. Watt begs leave
to ask a few questions—Do they remtitior, "or did
thsy ewer hear of any Scheele that was more really
advaltaneees to adventurers, than that of the Pram
Late"? Cold they in airy Lottery. foe the last to
itemises, borsht a. Whole Ticket for -IS Guineas,
eta Sixteenth for IS Sbilliari Ass aer obe Tickets
, 1411ia LOtterthuriosicallt gird it irdbdise *ape of

MIDWOLDA, AML 13.--Yesterday evening, about
fifteen minutes platten o'clock► a Comet was seen in
the West, but on accbnnt of the dark clouds it was
not viable above three minutes. Its light outshone
the-other stars, se that jt was not easy to determine
peechely in what constellation it appeared, however,
in was in or near Gemini.

The Hots. Joins Wm. Want, alive to the distresses
of hii countrymen, has lodged at his banker's MOO.
to be applied to the relief of the suffering poor. Ex-
tending his charity beyond the limits of his father's
neighbourhood, he has sent *SO to the Staffordshire
Committee for the general use of the labouring poor
throughout that county, to be distributed at their
discretion.

Sunday sennight, the new Episcopal 'Chapel, in
Durnfries, was consecrated by the Right Reverend
Bishop SANDFORD. of Edinburgh, after which, he de-
livered an excellent sermon to a crowded and select
audience.

Saturday se'nnight. John M'Straflic, weaver,
Havannah-street, Glasgow, while stepping from one
steam-boat to another, at '.the Broornielaw, tell into
the river, and was drowned. A young man was
suffocated in Bridgeton, Glasgow, by a piece of beef
sticking in his throat.—Same night, a woman be-
longing to Tradeston. having gone to l'ort-Dundas,
fell into the canal, and was drowned'
Friday se'nnight, some querriers employed by
CHARLICS CAISPIIELL, Esq. of Comby, near Oban, to
repair a breast-work, had put in icharge which did
not go off, and when employed in claming the touch-
hole, it suddenly exploded ; one min was killed and
another dreadfully burl.
Saturday se'nnight the dwelling-house of John Ha-
milton, farmer, Highkes, parish of Dalsert. Lanark-
shire. together 'with barn, cow-house, 'Wile, ten .
stacks of corn, 30 bolls potatoes, five yearlings, with
nosey the whole household furniture, {cc. were con-
limped by fire. -
Tuesday morning, about seven o'clock, a flue was
discovered in a barn at the Stoop, near Dumfries,
which having communicated to the premises adjoin-
ing, totally consumed the whole range.
Wednesdiy night, about eleven o'clock, the poor-
house in Houghton, Staffordshire, was discovered to
be on fire, and before any assistance could be pro.
cured, was completely enveloped in Ihnlebi and soon
reduced to ashes. Unfortunately, four adjoining
houses, being covered with thatch, shared the same
fate. The cries.of the unfurtimate sufferers, height-
lined by their anxiety, not only for their property, but
for their children, afforded a spectacle truly *WWI and
impreisive. Toe strenuous exertions of the inhabi-
tants, however, succeeded in arresting the flames,
wuen threatening the almost entire destruction of the
vi &Lige.
Sunday se'nnight, as a Xerjeant *as going from
Marlborough so Devizes, he was stopped by two
sailors and a soldier, abosit five miles from the latter
place, who knocked _him down, and the soldier put-
ting his foot on the serjeant's breast, they robbed him
of his watch and A 4. Os.
• A distressing occurrence took place on.laturday
se'neight, in the yard of the Woolpack Inn, at War-
wick. A respectable and elderly tradesman of the
Metropolis, while 4legapied in preparing his gig for
departure, taith sff 4iiconstdeeirdnellibrelthigtiest.
degree censurable, snapped adonble barrelled pieta
that he imagined unloaded, at in assistant ostler,'
which going off, lodged twn balls in the shoulder of,
the poor matt, who continues in a dangerous and
uncertain state. _ _ _ _

During the latter evenings of last 'week, the Me..,
thodist Meeting in High Holboin•(fortnerly the Wel-'
lington Baxaar), bad been infested by a gang of idle
and dissolute young men, who• practised all manner
of tricks to annoy and disturb the •:congregation, un-
til at last the proprietors were compelled to engage's
number of • constables, with a view of keeping the
peace. On Saturday night, whilst the congregation
acre assembling, a gang of loose characters stationed
themselves round the doer, and accosted every person
who went in with 16 Buy a bill of the play"—» Walk
in, sales on," &c. An elderly Gentleman ventured to
expostulate, but his admonition only drew doww de-
rision and contempt, and one of them watching an
opportunity, tripped 6p his heels, upon which the rest
surrounded him, pretending to give assistance, but
for no other purpose than to screen a person who was
then rehiring him. The noise they made brought Mt:
Claike, the constable, who imnicdiately seised one of
thWtillaine, but was as quickly knocked down by the
rest, and the (allow rescued from bis custody. The con-
stable then called several persons to help him, but the
thieves evinced a disposition to resist, and aceordingly
began ty throw stones and bricks witbodt inuAnissfen,

POLICE.

xHOCSE.--PIIMALE
day women, named linikr, Fed, and Steely,
were charged with threatening to murder another fe-
male, named Phillips, or to do her some bodily harm,
and with having thrown upon her aquantity of dele-
terious liquid, by which her gown, a valuable shawl,
and other articles of her dress were burnt and de.
stroyed. The patties, it appeared, all resided in the
neighbourhood of Brooke's Gardens, and some words
having arisen between them, the prisoners uttered
the threats mentioned, waylaid the prosecutr;x, and
committed the offence staietr.---The LOUD MAYoa
said, theoffence was of the most serious nature, and
a felony by the Act of Parliament. Remanded.
Quezu-aottans.—Yesterday Mr. Thomas Heaviside,
residing in Ait-street, Piccadilly, was brought up in
the custody of two &leant', a Corporal, and a pri-
vate okthe lit Regiment of Foot Guards, and exa-
mined before PATRICK COLQUunuar, Esq. under the
following circumstinces I—Capt. Drummond stated,
he was on duty about ten o'clock yesterday, to com-
mand the Guard of Honour for the Prince's Levee.
The men were formed in the Tilt Yard, at the Horse
-Gu-rds, and observing the prisoner having an alter-
cation with the Corporal, he told him to move back,
and the soldiers would not touch him. The prisoner
called him several times an impudent puppy, saying
he would not move fcr him, the soldiers, or their
master.—The prisoner acknowledged having used
harsh language, but not the words 44 impudent
puppy." He ultimately agreed to in eke an apology
to Captain Drummond, and to say that he was sorry
for having interfered with. the soldiets on duty. lie
was discharged. .
HoutJut. who sta.ed he
was born in Flanders, but bad set ved eight years in
the Royal Buffs, was charged with picking the pocket
of George Sinclair, Etq. en Saturday night. in com-
ing out of the Operl House. of his picket-bnok,
containing re 2, a 16th of a Lottery Ticket, and some
papers.—Mr. Sinclair said; he walked with Lady
Dudley and Ward from the Opera House door to
her carriage, which was drawn up at the top of the
Haymarket. Toey were followed by a gang of sus-
picious persons ; one of them approached Lady Dud-
ley, asking charity in broken French, by which, she
was alarmed, and his servant, slim carried a link be-
fore her, distinctly saw the prisoner. Having put
her into the carriage, Mr. Sinclair thought to pull out
his hindkerchief, but found the pocket cut off, and
his pocket-book stolen. He returned back to inform
Lavender, and the servant met the prisoner, whom
he instantly recognized. Lavender took him into
custody, but only a lady's pocket-book was found
upon him. Remanded till Friday next.
MARLIOttcI:OH-STAM.--Detirio. against tally Bdl
at a Watch hone —Maria Hamilton ctmplained to
the Magistrates of baying been violently assaulted in
Piccadilly on Saturday night by two young men
/leased as gentlemen, without provocation. She'
charged them in custody, and they were taken to the'
s:atch house. The constable of the night suffered
them to depart on leaving are for their appearance at
the Office yesterday, but they did not appear. The
coastable of the night acknowledged the transaction,
and that after they were released from the watch-
house, they returned back and assaulted thW watch-
The Magistrate repriostodesi the constable of
night for taking bail, as such was illegal. The
cider had been repeated over and over, that what a
person was charged at the witch-house, they should
lie keptio custody until taken before a Magistrate.

. . .
, At the Middlesex Sessions, held yesterday, Mtn-
'pi Maio was indicted for having unlawfully pro-
Mired 0100, false and counterfeit pieces, of the like-
Novo/ a sixpence, and having uttered and put in cir.
**fon the same, in order to defraud his Msjesty's
subjects. The evidence to prove the facts
d in the indictment, was to this effect : The
er came to town an Lk& roof of the Union Bir-
mingham coach, accoutered in a rough great coat ;
M conduct excited suspicion, particularly when the
teach was going up a bill, by holding at the back of
file carriage, and appearing as if he had something
mar ander his coat. When the coach arrived at
Abe Old Hats, near Ealing, two police officers were in
Waiting for another person—when he pulled off his
coat, threw it on the roof, and tan to the privy.
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is excited suspicion, and they secured the prisoner,
'and on searching the premises they found three par-
' cell, containing 99 dozen of counterfeit lt. 6d. pieces,
and 1500. sixpenny pieces, the subject of the present
ittdictsnent. The Jeri found hiM Guilty, and the
Court sentenced him to be imprisoned for two years.
I. N. asnrigtos, head Clerk in the Post-office of
Bristol, was, at the bun Assizes, sentenced to seven
fraudulently pocketing the
capacity of agent. Tim
receipts was abandoned by

Hall was sentenced to
towl steeling.
Newbury, A. Cochrane
for an assault on
of Hongerford. It ap-
prisoners, privates is the
,eir comrades, had been
of the Battle of Bayonne,
They had been drinking
;erfor4l, till half-past six
offered to them by a
spoke conteimptuousl:.
affirming that '• he and
Begley escape from Ella,
soldiers vindicated theii
warmth, which provoked
crotch and attack them.

Alexander wat sent for to
tthority was despised; his stair
his hands; he was struck
buttes& of their bayonets,.
the delinquents were not
persows had received severe
and a colored* who was
evident marks of the se-
Jury found the poisoners
emendation of the Court,
highly of their stneral con-
matter with the party ag.
therefore, only fined one shilliug
tot: ion of caking a pub-

fin gtass.: LOtter
former y'ittrinisicteri—ell&witzreispaistothaa. .
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member any Ofiias that, bad oat were r3st ee ptdeetaidaapct ofiZo
who were talamig Ini,,n
to :igipip:m► years transpo
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sn in fraud
they
capital charge of forging real,
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