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London, England, 1816-08-17 00:00:00

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I VW. on its MONT stem seated, a rose,
It Sourishl end Mooned as the pride of the bash;
Around its Mr bosoln many a blossom arose,
Which heighten'd its fragrance and deepen'd ha blush.
Bet the Merciless drousist soon wlther'd its bloom,
•
Pole, pale was the lower u dying it lay,
Its sofeetepening buds need to drop round its tomb,
And, bending, surei wak'd to the splendors of day.
Soon, toward the sky, streaming vapours arise;
The Rose raises Rs head to receive the mild shost`r ;
No mote from its leaves the gay vermilion Wes,
And it blooms once again as the joy of the bow'r.
So Pky's soft voice can allay the keen smart,
Whick•afßicte the poor ORMAN, sad child of Despair !
Pourbaint in the wounds of the sowow-wrung beart,•
And liahten'd the Wroove's affliction and care.
How generous the impulse insisted by thy love,
And the hand, oh how fair! which bestows on thy ums,
Compassion : sweet daughter of Mercy above;
And sister to rity--be cherish'd thy lame !

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MAILLSOROOOU-STRZZT.—dales Sivotreits was charged with
bigamy. Tie prisoner was fint, charged with an moult, and in
the progress of that inquiry, his wife, who charged him, found
that be was claimed by others of the s.ifter see. It turned out
that bemarried the complainant at Bath in December last. and
be etinfesesd having been wedded twice before... He wax remand-
ed for re-examination.
Bow STSIAT.—DAIIIOG itoseeero—Yesterday,atoneo'clock,
the shop of Mr. John Harris, a Unto draper, hi Pickett-street, was
attempted to be robbed publicly at the door, by James Bates, a
well known character ; be was perceived by Thomas Philips, the
almnan, who saw him taking from the doorsome printed cotton:
he ran and caught the pannier in the act of removing it, but it
was not quite removed. He was brought to the office ; and just
as Thomas Phillips, the shaman bad, finished giving his evi-
dent, Mr. Harris, the master, entered the office, and said, he bad
ascertained that the prisoner had been seen in company with other
suspicious characters surrounding his house and that be was a
very bad character, whom hisparents bad tried in vain to realaim.
—Mr. Maas, the sitting Magistrate, regretted extremely that
the charge against the prisoner did not amount to a felony; but
ordered him to be held to bail for his future good behaviour.
Jeiv Clore was charged with attempting to rob the company
coming out 'gibe Lyceum Theatre, in the Strand, on 'l'hursday
admin.—John Bean, a patrols belonging to the parislo of St. Cle-
ments, stated, that at the time the company were coming out of
the Lyceum Theatre, he saw the prisoner, wi:h two reputed
thieves.in the front of the Theatre, attempt to rob several per-
sons. The prisoner, on perceiving hint, beckoned to his Com-
panions, and they went away ; but the prisoner had the audacity
to attempt to pick a gentleman's pocket. , lie had frequently seen
him there before. He was committed.
Catherine Cods, late a servant in the house of Mrs. Pollock, the
eaddier,at Charing-cross, was charged with robbing her mistress
of a variety of articles of property.—Mr. William Potlock, the
son of the prosecutrix.attended, and stated that his mother had
lost a variety of ankles of property, while she was in her service,
which had been discovered by the present servant proving to be
mere honest Lean she was, by refusing to give away bread and
other victuals as the prisoner had been in the habit of doing. A
quantity of tea was found at her lodgiugs. She was committed
for further examination.
Umwm-mitt.e.—Sarah Peak, a girl about fifteen, was charged
by her mistress, to whom she bad beep bound apprentice by the
parish. with robbing her of various erodes of westing apparel owl
divers sums of money. On Easter Sunday last she absconded,
and took with her several articles of wearing apparel belonging to
her mistress ; she also took 15s. in money. Previous to that
time Mrs. Brulst had frequently milled money, but cotild never
be brought to suspect the prisoner, who was always treated with
the greatest kindneosi Since she absconded, however, it had been
discovered that she used to make presents to the children in the
neighbourhood, and in one case she had gone so far ,as to purcloam
a !sat and feather for ens child at the puce of Xi cis. Since she
left her mistress, she had been leadieg a vagrant life from fair to
fair, hi the vicinity of the metropolis and, it is supposed, now
Tanta to Lambeth in her way to attend Camberwell fair. Sher-
gold and Smith, the Akers having previously had ieformatioa
oft the subject of the robbery, took her into custody yesterday
marning, gin she bad been but a few hours ice her old neigh-
bourhood. 'The prisoner confessed having robbed her mistress
frequently before she lett her. She had always, do acknewledg-
- ed,been treated with the greatest kindness, and bad no reason
whatmeer fur going away. Ibe things she teak away with her
she bad pledged. She was committed fer,Oseezatnination.
HATTON Cualtlatlit.—ClAßOZ 01 MORD ta.--Yererday
Tens, landlord of the ,Baldtaced Stag public-botose, on Enfield
Cho:nide, between Enfield and Barnet, was brought up, charged
with the wilful murder of Mr. John Draper. an officer belonging
to the County Court of bequests, in Enfield, whose body was
found drowned in an unfrequented old draw well, In the rear of
the prisoner's house.—Brown, the officer, stated to the Masts-
• tato, that the Capone( was to bold a fresh Inquest that day on
.4 the body, in *miasmata...of which the prisoner was committed
, fur further examination.
do Quin N-142UARL—PoOR RATlLS.—Charier WitrrOW, a beater
in Westminster, charged William Baehr, the oweer of two small
houses in Cottage-place, in the parish of Sr. John, and inhabiting
one of thim, with an assault. Prosecutor stated, that being em-
ployed by Mr. Sohn Scent, collector of the poor-rates in the said
parish, to make distresses under the Justices' warrant, he went
foe that purpose to defendants house. On knocking at the door,
which was shut and locked, two women looked out of the cham-
ber Window, and mid Dim William Barker was not at home; be
desired them to open the door, saying it was not Barker be
wanted, hut to rots into the house to levy a distress for the rem.
They Inform' d Nse be should not come in, and set him at defi-
ance. He a cities I, however, to get in at the window, when
they both assailed Linn like two lionesses, but he warded off their
attack nocothy stratagem than eirength, whickhio foetid far less
powerful than their united tury ; so. like an able General, he
retreated towards the street door, and while with one hand he
endesioured to ward off the pitiless storm of blows they levelled
in him, he made shift with the otber•to open the door, and let in
to his astirance the beadle of the parish, and Mr. Stent the col-
lector, who bring both stout able-bodied men, the two Amazons
thought it prudent to retreat in their turn, and locked themselves
into the chamber. Being now in peaceable possession of the
• ground-work of the citadel, witness sat down in the parlour to
fill up some necessary papers; and while he was in this act de-
fendant returned home, appeared exceeding wrathful at seeing
whiten where he was, and demabding to know his badness,
Sew &aim like a tiger, seized him by the collar, and tore his
shirt very much. Delentlant their struck him several times, after-
• wards retreated up stairs, and locked himself into the chamber.
—Mr. Stent confirmed ,the evidence of last witness as to the
assault ; and stated further, that defendant was not coon= with
having refused to pay the poor-rates himself, but he had also
persuaded all his neighbours to do the same, and there ware now
a great many sanded persona who, following his example,
Asted the execution of distress warrants by barring their doers
--Prisorer saikin his defence, he was a man 75 years old, and
though he had built the two houses many years ago be could net
afford to pay the
.pooe-rates without bringing himself to the
parish.---The Magistrate (Mr. Pacoima) most kindly pointed
out to him the great imptudence as well as the illegality of his
conduct, and ordered him to find bail; or be would certainly seed
hist° prison for the assault.
Woasnie-sraerr.--Fessiaz Hoosealeazze.,--Bared Pea.'
ailell,i woman well known at the odic*, was charged with cow-
• nutting a burglary at the hone of Mr.HodgeslinWorship-street.
Joshua Armstrong said, he saw the prisoner with a large bundle,
illtotif ten o'cloch it night, and conceiving it was not her own, he
detained bet; on ezatuininithe bubdie, it contained a miandty
of house linen., Next mooing he received infurniadou that the•
house of Mr. Hodges had been robbed of similar articles to-Wbut
the bundle confined. Mr. Hodges attended, and Identified tbe:
articles produced by the dater, and said she street door bad beer
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