Star.
London, England, 1819-10-29 00:00:00

BY JAMES HOGG.

I like ye weel my wee auld house,
Though high the wa's and flat the rigging,
Though round thy turn the sourock grows,
And rain-draps gaw Lhy cozy bigging !

Lang hast thou happit mine and me,
My head's grow n grey aneath thy kipple,
And aye thy ingle cheek was free,
Baith to the blind man and the cripple !

What gart my ewes thrive on theta!,
And kept my little store increasing?
The rich man never wished me ill
The puir man left me aye his blessing !
Troth I maun greet wi thee to part,
Though to a better house I'm flitting ;
Sic joys will never glad my heart,
As I've had by'the hallan sitting !
My bonny bairns around me smird ;
My sensy wife sat by me spinning ;
Aye lilting o'er her ditties wild,
In notes sae artless and sae winning !

Our frugal meal was aye a feast;
Our e'ening-p,alm a hymn o' joy,
Aye calm and peacefu' was our rest ;
Orr bliss, our love, without alloy !
I canna help but baud thee dear,
My auld storm-battered hamely spieling;
Thy saoty lunsend kipples clear,
I better lo'e than gaudy ceiling !
Thy roof will fa', thy rafters start,
How damp and culld thy hearth will be !
Aa ! sae will soon ilk honest heart,
That erst was bauld.and bl) the in thee !

I thought to cour aneath thy wa',
Till death had elos'd my weary een,
Then left thee for the narrow ha',
NIT lowly roof o' swaird sae green!

Fareweel my house, and burnie clear,
My bourtree bush, and bouzy tree,
The wee while I maun sojourn here
never find a harm: like thee !

SPORTING.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY.

Mc chief betting was on the great match between Mesh.,
out of Pledge, B,t. 10Ib. and Financier, Bst. 7110. the last mile of
the BeSCOII Course, on Monday nest.-2 to lon Meeks.

DEASY.
15 to 1 agst Mr. Pierse's colt 16 to 1 agst Sailor.
by Walton. IS to 1 agst !Noels.
14 to 1 apt Brother to Blucher _co to I apt any other.

11UNTING.

Appointments of the ditferent racks of •Ilounds in Surrey,
for the ensuing Week :
John 31aberly, Esq.'i Fox-hounds meet on Monday next, at
the Half moon, Gtxlstone.road ; Thursday, at Godstone; and
ou Situr.!iy, at Fox Keston.
11-191 We, Esq.'s Fox-hounds will meet on Monday next, at
Box 'HU; ttednes.lay, at the 3t Milt-stun en the CrawkY
Road; and on Saturday, at Shtlwood Common. •
The Ihuricrs meet every day.
PRIVING.

It is well known to all thirit conversant with affairs of the
Turf, that no man ever rmployeti so much time, or more pro-
rrty, in speculative or practical sporting, than Gams, third
Earl of 021,01111. Amongst his Galardi experiments was h;s de-
termination to drive four red 44 cr (stags) in a phaeton, instead
of horses, and these he had reduced to perfect discipline for hi,
excursions and short journies upon the road ; but unfortunstely,
as ha was one day driving to Newmarket, their data were acci-
dentally saluted with the cry of a pock of hutends, which soon after
approaching the road in the rear, immediately caught awn' If ble
fmr-iitehustd, and commenced a new kind of chace with" breast
high" alacrity. The novelty of this scene was titilating beyond
description. in vain did the lordly Jim exert all his charioteer-
ing skill; in.vain did his well-trained grooms energetically en-
deavour to ride before them ; reins, trammels, and the weight
of the collage, were of no effect : off they went, with the cele-
rity of a whirlwind, and this modern PitacroN, in the midst of
his electrical vibrations of fear, bade fair to experience the fate
of his namesake. Luckily, however, his Lordship had been ac-
ct.totm.nl to drive his Ihrliiirustic se: of " fiery-eyed" steeds to
tit: 11.1 m Inn, at Newmarket, which was most happily at hand.
Into the yard they sudd•mly bounded, to the dismay of the
hostler and stable-boys, who seemed to have lost every faculty
upon the occasion. Here they were fortunately overpowered,
and the stags, the phaeton, and his Lordship, were all huddled
together in a large barn, just as the hounds appeared in hill
cry at the gate.

DUEL.—A meeting took place on Bagshot-heath,'
on Tuesday, between Capt. S—s, of Barham-house,
near Farnham, and a Gentleman named BARING,
in consequence of a dispute relative to some opi-
nions, expressed at the late Reading Meeting. In the
first fire, Mr. B. was wounded in the side, and the
ball was extracted that evening. The sufferer lies in
a dangerous state.
MANSION-HOUSE—Yesterday, T. Davison was
convicted in the full penalty of L:2O for having used
a printing-press and types on the 3d of August last,
without any notice to the Clerk of the Peace or his
Deputy, and without being authorized to use the
same, as required by the Act. The placard which
the defendant was accused of thus printing and pnb-
lishing, was the following :
“ GRATIS !—The Address passed at Stnichlleld,of tbe People
of Kr.gland to the People of Ireland, may be had, grubs; of all
But/lowlier* in the United Kingdom.

E. J. M. ILNDI'ORD, Bee.
“ T. Davison, 10, Duke-street, Smithfield."
—The printing was proved to have been executed at
the press of Mr. Mason, of St. John's, Clerkenwell,
by one of his compositors, but,by the direction of the
defendant, and paid for by him. Some ingenious at-
tempts were made by Mr. HARMER, to shew that the
defendant had not used the psis, inasmuch as Mr.,
Mason's workmen used it ; but Mr. WALPORD, for the
prosecution, reminded him, that those who did the
manual operation of the press were not responsible,
but those who employed them. Mr. HARMER made
other objections, which the LORD MAYOR over-ruled;
Mr. H. then said, " It is no matter whether the full
penalty is persisted in or not—it can never be main-
tained—my client will appeal to the Quarter Sessions."
The Clerk to the Solicitor for the Treasury said, there
was another information against the dcfendant, which
charged him with having printed and published a
paper, without the name or place of abode of the
printer attached to it : it was not, he said, his inten-
tion to try that information.—Mr. HA ast ER—" We are
under very little compliment to you for that ; for it
wouM be in direct opposition to the ground on which
you supported the last, and you could not, of course,
expect a conviction."—SOLlClTOß—_" Why, Mr. Har-
mer, nothing will please you : You neither wish to
rand or to withdraw: —Thus the busineuended.