Star.
London, England, 1818-06-26 00:00:00

THE PARTING.

-War while the ship at anchor rides,
While yet no watery world divides,
eth ! why should idle doubts destroy
• Tine few Short momenta of our joy?
Oh ! heed them not :--let those who kneel
In worship which they cannot feel ;
With whom, should one weak spark entire,
The blast tan fan no other fire;
Cdll doze oer tales that absence shakes
The faith it nourishes and makes!
When load—too soon—the signal sail
Calls lingering Love to share the gale
Enough in that dark hour to raise
• The phantom-forms of other days--
Nor think, because no tears reveal
My sorrows, that I do not feel—
Yon passing cloud that e'er us lours,
May bathe some distant plan with showers—
And fears whillt in my presence sleep,
M?y wake in solitude, to weep !

LOCX-111.

POET LAUREAT.—Of this well-known office in the
King's household, Sir JOHN HAwiuNs, in his History
eMusic, observes, that there are no records which
ascertain the origin of the institution in this kingdom,
but many that recognize it. There was a Court Poet
as early as the reign of HENRY HI. CHAUCER, on
Ms return from abroad, first assumed the title of Poet
Laurcat, and in the twelfth year of RICHARD 11. ob-
tainel a rant of an annual allowance of wine.—
JAMES I. in 1615, granted to his Laurcat a yearly
pension of 100 marks; and in 1630 this stipenl was
augmented by letters patent of CHARLES I. to £lOO
per annum, with as additional grant of one tierce of
Canary wine, to be taken out of the King's store of
wine yearly.
°atom OF LITERARY JOURNALS.-...-OR the 39th of;
May, in the year 1665, the first Literary Journal, was
published by Denis DE SALLO, Ecclesiastical Coun-
sellor in the Parliament of Pails, which was entitled
journal des Scorans, a Work which met so favour•
able a reception, that it was not only soon imitated
throughout Europe, but the Author at the same time
had t!:e satisfaction of having his own Journal trans-
lated into various languages. This was the origin of
the present numerous Journals, in which
-- Th. unicarn'd their wants may view;
'fhe learn'd reflect on what bcfore they knew!
PEDESIRIA NISSI.--Itayner, the Kentish Man, and
• Blumsell, the Painter, ran yesterday, for one hun-
dred guineas, ten miles distance on the Rumford road.
Rayner gave Blumsell the advantage of two minutes
and a ,half at starting ; instead, however, of Rayner's
improving upon his adversary, so as to fetch up the
two minutes and a half, he lost 46 seconds in the first
eight miles. Shortly after this period he turned
gt4dy, and fell in a ditch; but he was not long in ez-
trick:mg himself from this situation, and continued
the contest, but soon afterwards gave up the race.
Cute:cur.—The Grand Cricket Match in LORDS'
Ground, betweenthe Mary-la-bonne Club, with BELD-
AM, BENTLEY, and MANN, against the County of
114nts, was decided on Tuesday in favour of ILuats.
A:AT: Y••LA•.E:.RiN 1. tiX/6
Tir Vans - 127 I First Irmitp -
Second ditto

113
109-

E:cood ditto - 94-221 .eeunt
IL-ts won by Line wicket.-5 to 4on Hams at .turtiag,
tit 'muds even bettirg.
E:4l4lRAtios.—The ship Agamemnon cf London,
for Quebec, with two hundred passengers ; and the
brig Ann of Leith, for Halifax and Quebec, with one
hundred and fifty passengers, cleared at the Custun-
Muse, Leith, on Saturday se'nnight ; and the Agin-
court sailed from Leith ltoads on Tuesday se'nnight,
for Quebec, with two hundred and ninety-eight pas-
sergeri
FIRE.—A fire broke out at Berne, on the &gilt
between the 13th and 14th inst. which destroyei, in
a short time, three sawyers establishments, eight
corn=mills, and three bark-mills, in all fourteen ;.ac-
to; irs, in the district of La Matte. Every a,cistance
wa; ineffectual—nothing was saved, even to the ma-
ctine7y on the river. Near 800 sacks of grain or
flour fell a victim to the flames.
llow-;taxer.—Yesterday the time of Mr.BIRNIE
was principally occupied in investigating charges of
robberies and squabbles at the hustings of the West-
filiwler election; and no less than twelve pickpockets
were committed.

UNION HALL—Foriceay.—Charles Scott, a young
man of respectable appearance, was brought up yes-
terday for re-esamination, on a charge of Merrill*.
Forged gates. It appeared in evidence, that on the
oth of May the prisoner paid a note for one pound
to Mr. Plant, linen-draper, in Blackman-street, for
some handkerchiefs which he had purchased ; and on
the Ist inst. he paid four other notes, each for one
pound, to Mr. Barber, pawnbroker, Borough, of
whom he purchased a watch ; and about three weeks
ago he paid away to Mr. Hancock, of Long-lane,
Bermondsey, victualler, another one pound note.—
In some instances he stated his name to be Williams
to Ole parties to whom he uttered the notes ; and at
other times described himself as a Mr. Scott. Mi.
Christmas, the Inspector from the Bank, stated upon
oath that the notes were forged. The prisoner was
committed for trial.
Ruere-aottes.—M. No/end; dressed in the first
style of fashion,
~was charged with uttering forged
notes of the Exeter, Somerset, Bath, and Ireland
Banks. Mr. Copeland, of Birch•street, Oxford-street,
stated, that he went into the sign of the Hanover-,
square, in Bayswater-road, where the prisoner repre-.
seated himself to be min( Sir F. Burdett's Commit-
tee, and boasted that he was empowered to live a
gallon of ruin to any individual who would join In
his cause. He paid the landlord one of the above
sort of notes, and received the change. Witness after-
wards accompanied him to the corner of Duke-street,
Manchester-square, where the prisoner passed ano-
ther of the notes, and received the change. On Wed-
nesday evening witness was going along Oxford-
street, when the landlord of the last-mentioned house
told him the note was forged. In consequence wit-
ness went in search of the prisoner at all the houses
where the Committee meet, and at last received in-
• formation that he had hired a horse yesterday mor-
ning at a livery stable in Crown-street, Westminster,,
• where he waited until his return, and an officer took
him into custody. On being searched, two more of
the notes were found upun him. _The prisoner said,
lie received them at a gal:Wilk-110W iibt..Bizads.
—iternasided.