Star.
London, England, 1828-05-06 00:00:00

THE FAREWELL.

. The following Farewell, which is copied from the N.Y. American,
supposed to have been written by Mr. CONWAY, previous to his
unhappy death, unites the inspiration of Poetry with the deep
feeling and wandering genius of a melancholy mind:

A wanderer doom'd to dwell
On foreign shores a solitary man,
To home's loved scenes lamenting thus began
The parting, sad farewell :
I leave my happy home,
The streams and meadows I have loved so long,
And the fair city, with its joyous throng,
O'er the rude waves to roam
Farewell, thou valved one,
•
Tbou guide and friend of my departed years;
Thou mother of my youth, wiry gush thy tears
In blessing of thy sou?
Farewell ! oh, never more
Shall thy dim eyes behold thy wayward child;
Nay, mother, do not thus, with.accents wild,
Tby bitter fate deplore!
Father, to thee I bow,
•
Asking thy blessing with the warm embrace ;
Chide not the unmanly tears upon my face,
The paleness upon my brow !
Alas ! how, shall I part
From thee, my father, and not wet my cheek
With tears that tell of love, and drops that speak
The sadness of my heart!
But ye, that wonder, so
With upraised eyes to see your brother weep,
Soon, sbali those little lids, sealed up in sleep,
Forget a brother's woe!
And thou, whom neat I love,
Tatbee "dear kindred blood" that ills my veins,
Farewell to thee—augments all other pains
That 1 in parting prove!
But see! the white sells swell,
AJ,! blest companions of my early youth,
Dear objects of my fondest love and truth,
Sweet home, and friends, farewell !—Coso.vay.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S ppm% NAT 5.
IN THE MATTER OF THE CoMMISSONICRI FOR Mtn
• DATING THE CLAIMS OF TIIE FHENGNI LIOyEI94IIIWIT.
Sir J. ScARI:ETT rose to move the court for a tole to
show cause why a writ of ?mandamus ,should not be
issued to the Commissioners for liquidating the,clainss.
of British subjects on the French
.Govereasent, corn-
' :sanding them to pay. over to klessrs. Law- trod,
Chevalier, the parties \in whose be)).011 he epphed.l
' the balance awarded to be due , to' them, by virtue of
their claims against the French Goverpment.under cer-
tain Treaties entered into between the \French and
• English Governments. The LearnedGentlem,in stated,
• that in 1814 and 180 , two Treaties were.entered
into between the French '.and 09,101'Snaants,
relating to the indemnities to be ranted to Britiih,subs-
jectshaving claims against the French accreditors and
other Wise. The first Treaty, provided for the indemnir
fication of British 'subjects claiming to be creditors of
the French Government. on. account of contracts en,
• :tired into during the war. Certain Commissioner: of
Deposit were appointed in France, and to them the
Fiench Government made over 1.50,000 francs of Rentes
...tiespeisielles. The second Treaty. made in 1815, was for
the purposiof adjusting the claims of parties whose No-
.-, : .
• . petty was sequestrated by the French Government en
• the breaking out of hostilities, and,befose the declaration
"'of War. The French Government paid over to the COW.
missioneii a larger amount in Rentes, fin the indemoni-
• fication of these latter claimants, than the former, and
which was ujiimately found 'considerably more than
'sufficient to tines all the demands made on these
fikads ; but the proceeds of thilso,ooo fi aura of Rentes
weielasiffie:ent to satisfy the claitis awarded "Oust it
in favouisnf the brit class of credit Ors. In 1818 further
arrangements were made, and an Act pi essiliement
was passed in the 59 h year of the lasi reign, c. SI, in
the 46th section of which it 'boad be lawful for the
Commissioners of Deposit in kience,to.sell and dispose
of the Whole; or any petted' thefuods,remaining in Omit.
hands, fin' the jade mnificationof horS tit esiilasses of clai;
meats, and to pay over the tn..ney'arising from such sale
int r
,the hands of C,lmmissinners in England. to be in-
vested in Escliequer Ilia., for the purpo,e of liquidating
' Claims arising under the abovementioner4 Treaties.
—ln pursuance of this Act the French Rentes were
sold off, and the proceeds, amounting to a letge sum,
were paid to the Commissioners of 'Liquidation, who
had now remaining in their hands More,thansufacient
' to satisfy all outst,nding cleims_against them.
Lord TENTERDEN said hesupposed the Commissioners
thought that they could not, apply the surplus of one
fund to make good the deficiencies of the other.
Sir JAM as SCARLET? contended that they were Wand'
to exhaust the whole of the funds, in satisfaction of a 4
claims against them, and that they were not authorised'
by tire Act to make any use of the surplus till tt,osel
demands were entirely liquidated. Application had'
been made to them; but ttey had by their Secretary
declined giving any answer.
The courr, after consulting the Act in question, said
that Sir James, might take a tole to show cause why a
mandamus should not be issued, commanding the Corn-
snissioners to hear and determine the claim of the ap-
plicants to receive the balance awarded. them.
.THE SING V. ANNETTE ZECCHER.
The role Nisi in this case for a criminal information,'
.which was obtained last Term by Mr. Barium's m. was
,to-day made absolute. It is for a libel on Sir Richard'
Paul Jodrell, and his mother, Lady Jodrell, publishedi
by the defendant in the Madan Lase -List. Mr. ADOL••
thus, for the defendant, stated that she was not ihe,
author of the libel, and was, now in prison. Mr.'
BaoucinAM said she had refused to.give up the name of
4he author, though application.had been made to her for
that purpose.

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WOODMAN V. SMITH.
Mr. GURNEY, with whom was Mr. COMTN, stated,
that thiswas an action brought by the plaintiff, a widow
Lady O.V years of age, against the defendant, who
--was,6olears of age, for br eafh, of promise of.roarriage.
- -The.plairktiffhaditept a coffee house in Clare-market,
• • • andiist 1825; when the defendant paid his addresses to
• her, and promised•to Warty her, she sold the lease of
• ; her house, and gave up•her business. Afterwards the
••• • defendant, who was a man of considerable property;
refused to perform his promise. He did not mean to:
.4•• my that this was a case in which 'the feelingr were.
• • • much concerned ; but the defendant had no right to
'.11•4 trifle with the plaintiff in such a matter as this, and
• •••• AK bound at least to make -her compensation for the
-, pecuniary injury which she had sustained. He would,
without further remark, proceed to call his witnesses.
George- Woodman was a son of the plaintiff, and in
llnsinen for himself ; the defendant was an intimate
acquaintance of his mother, as long as witness temem-
- isered; defendant's wife, Mrs. Smith, died in 1825, and
- then Smith paid particular attention to witness's mother,
• and informed him in•her presence that he intended to
marry her; that was in the spring of 1827; he often
heard the defendant say that he was going to marry his
• mother phis mother cdnied on the business of a tea and
miresionairiinapet, in Clare-Mai let, and the defendant
Ivo 4 ,hlitetaillith -to his •Majestrt- his mother made

purchases witS.Xiivi.iii7th4-nialliage, and diSpwed of
leaseof her honer, art t12:5, to a Mr: Clarke, a baker.
Cross-examined by Sir ISCARLErr,--1-lis eldisit bro-
ther was about thirty years of age; his inotherhhd eight
children, besides some that she had lost; she was not so
old as filty-seven, and bad not made any arrangements
for quitting her business before the death of Mrs. Smith;
at the time when Smith was ill his mother lived in the
house with him; that was only for a week; it was some
rim- after Mrs. Smith's death that Smith met with the'
accident which confined him ;'Smith had relations of his
can; witness's father died in 1824. • .
Re-examined—Smith was a person of great property.
Louisa Norman was a daughter of Mrs. Woodman;.
married in 1825; lived with her mother till she mar-
ried ; defendant, in the beginning of 1825, frequently
visited her mother, and informed the witneis that he
was settling a secret with her mother—that her mother
was going to run away on a Sunday—and that her
mother would tell her the secret ; defendant afterwards
asked her whether she would.llke him.for a father ? she
answered yesand called him, father in joke, and was
:clucked by tier mother Llint dekndant.satfl Otis sight,
as he was going to many het -mothers
Ciois-examined by Mr. Bitpuonum.Liked the bust-
ness of serving coffte very well.
Dlr s, R Iwlinson, another daughter of the plaintiff. and
William Woqdman, another of her sons, iave evidence
to the same effect.
Sarah Dawson, pliiintiirs servant, deposed to the
frequent visits of the defendant.
• Crow eitasnined—Xlainiiff was a good looking woman
for her Age.; .witness.lkad pot
.got married defendant
cid Os visit the house on, wittiess's.accotint.
Ann Sliewerden, in October last, waited on defendant,
at.plaintifrs request, to desire him to perform his pro
mise, and he saidthe family was too large for him, and
he would,not marry, the plaintiff; .wimeks tpld him that
he knew the family before, and.had;behaved very un-
handsomely.
Sir JAMBS SCARLETT, for the defendant—The t onnanee
which usually attended these case., et* dut..ol the ques-
tion here, for the plaiiitirenuld not beconsi4ered:us the
victim of a disappointed affection: She had.,sixteen
-children, of -whnrweiglit.were now, Miring aucksettled.in
the world. This ',inject was rather that of the chil-
dren than-of ther-mother:. end.they weie disappointed
in•the expectations _which -they .had for medircun the
defendant's wealth vinat this was a disappointment for
which the Jury-ought not to allow a single farthing of
damages, even if they should think that there had been
any serious promise Of marriage at all in the case. It
was clearfrom the evidence that th•e4rbisli was, a Ilea,
and that there never had been; intention of
marriage between ,theserifd.people. •
lilltatTanDEN—Theprintiplet on which *slaw
allowed aetiuns'of this kind was, that the injured VARY
had, by breach of the pronifie,,lost a-virlUAble settlement
in life. -11 th y,believed th'at.thedefensiant did serintisly
prosilse to merry theplaip!iff, she WM entitled to their
.
verdict, but tt ey would estioiate the damages .'c.ard-
ing to the.ciscuntstantes.
The Jury eonsukad,fot i shoevtime, and Then funk&
',or the plaintiff—Darmiges,-1501: '

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' le)cic
Yesterday evening, oboist nine 0 . ,the
hood of St. John•street, Verkeuvrell, was tfrowrf.ifitt“
great consternation by the altplosion .of the gair.inain-
pipe connected with Manchester House, occupied :14
Mr. Pemberton, opposite A y leshury-stteet. - The pre-
-1 mires ale lighted by neatly t sear large bitiner,e, and
atter tie gas had been turned on a short
,tim i the maid
p:pe explo.o4; And despolitied thetnewsl ymected front,-
and the shop becsme,u,hisse of ,sp:pheric_light, which
however was extinguished without going mochidani ge
to.the stock. .
Last Thursday eveolog the factory of .Mew ti. Beckett
and. Maya% of Lees, *as strack. brlightning. The
;chimney, the top of which was of ircin,was tirst struck ;
the iton'part was 'shivered to AtOffiS; bricks :were scat.
tered. in tvrry direction, and petite of dtArii were thrown
to the distance of 2QO yar.dt. VeiMy at the saute in.-
slant, the greater..nunsber of tbernoms'in the building
. were stet •on fire.- %immediate - efforts-wete 'snide to 'ex-
tinguish the flames..bur, in spite of every eiertiois, one
half•ol the 'building was burnt down, Sine of -the
rooms in the.pkitdestreyed wete let to difereutipdi4
vid Oals. 'The. total loss is calcadated at ft Uni 2,000. . !
3 0001. We have.noi,hetici of any pperson being hurt.;
,Manchester Gazette. •
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HINT TO SHAVERS.-=A person notfar from Torring-
ton, whose face, 4plnewhat AbOIIe +he ordinary dirrea-
'ions, has been waited on and shared by i 1 certain .trittL.
every day for 21 yelys, without coming to any regular
settlement. The tradesman, thinking it time to wird
np*the accounts, carried in hip bill, charging one penny
per,slay,.whith.amonnted to 911.9 s 2d. The gentle.
man thinking this rather exorbitant. made some smirk
about payment, when the tonsor. proposed, if his
customer thought proper, to charge by the acre, at the
rate.of 2001. ;
,tbis.wacteadily agreed to, and, on mea-
suring the premises, 192 square latches proved to be the
content, which, .traversed over 7;670 times, would
measure 1.412,640 of an acre,' the charge for ,which,
would be 461. 19s. Id., being 151. Qs. lld.: in .favour of
. ,
ckin.su rvepap,-. Devonshire Paper.
ACOUTCHTRAVELLea.—Thefollowingextract paints
0 With traTeller selio had seen 'LondOe.and between`
m, an Bliglishman the following conerrsation
slues pleee;w '. ov have been in Loia4on? •Y 4 ri
rePliCd .klii:Ahefie to ibis interrogatot y assertion. 6 And-
millet do you thick of•St, - r Ido net month see.
in it." v,WeAminfier Abbey, then F*o Stifficienily w 41.!
bid you ee,tthel'hapies,ti`tebridges, and the cn y riads
of.veaal:ot AL nations, that am in the fr...rttif.Lundon?
1 do tink dere is li,thr water vary in de, titer: '4134-
you ace Covent Garden and bruky,4itke Th4j,tos, add
the, Opera•heire, and. the btilf iait Onspany.asienilged.
there?' .*Ya,t4ft the stage is small mnry: • 6 Were, you
at any large par ties at the west encrof the teklimr 40h;
ya?
.hot vary, "full sary,tired wary: Apd ph ht do
you think, of ftie.4glish warned' 41,000944. Oh,
ho l .1 wish. lay wife:acis here!' • • •-•
Tear Acts,—;rheso. which re-
vile Aver y perinii.piholAis a pitrit, erukr.Citivernment,
or a. Commisaioo iothefbiauty or Army, to-qualify-16m-
4s:f •for ,his -office,: kyitemisimg .the-15..crainent of the
LORD. Supper, mend.. occasion soo...sin, men were
,geuesOly,infllenced by.the fear_o( goo, or, even by a
;,pri9cies •of irifeigifit. 'rhea wt+nl~, .rather declinei
places of honMirOr 'profit, than incept of them upon,
jsuch terms, if they Were conscious that their sentiments
or conduct were .reppgnant to the design of that
insti-
tution. But as thi ease stands lit .proentb:*bikejgain
is preferred to godliness, and the lore of 'diltinCtiork or.
lucre is ,stronger than the dictates of obascienceowe
frequently see jaetesitat Lhfideis and, itAiriqq.s,lillyitipes
approach , dse u,pi metier of course,,,,e4
prostitisting the qua MIMEO *Ordinance of christiar3it;
to their ambition, 01%interests :The pilister,inst ireqftY
• "
Pr: I,PPOWPI•fPts,i
Attls• 1110,7462 r;:„.
legally pttewe'
enormity almost mimetic licit is.beleaus.--ifittlialiap