Star.
London, England, 1826-11-09 00:00:00

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS.

folkneing animated description of the Battle of Algiers, under
Lord Exmoor*, is from the pen of the late unfottunate Juni
Macau, alias " The Sailor Poet :*
High rolled the day—all smiling seen,
With beams and bowers of ever-green,
Lay stretched in light the land;
Blazed to the Sun's unclouded glow
The billow. breast, whose heaving. slow,
Came parleying towards the strand;
As if in reconcikmrat sweet,
To clasp and kiss the dark rock's feet,
-And pardon and oblivion pray
Far rude assault of stormier day.
The signal Ready," instant lies,
Ship answering ship, with ardent breath,
Rang ant the prelude note of death,
And" Ready" all the line replies.,
'To quarters stood in lion mood,
The Christian rulers of the good. j
Throbli'd every breast ;—each thong,* that tame,
Was thought of duty or of fame;.
And reckless brow and burning eye,
Spoke careless choice to live or die!
The thrilling pause which battle knows,
Ere havoc hails the earthquake close,—
Such grim and deadly pause did passe...
'One shot the Moslem lent ;--again,
And hushl forth—furnacing amain,
Twice, thrice anbundred throats of brass,
Llke thunder-clap and hurricane,
Fling biasing fire, and shattering shower.
/Round mole and rampart, mosque and tower;
Trembles the firm earth, based on rock,
Ileneath the huge projectile shock;
As Etna's self.whirled high this)* air,
Had pour'd his broiling entrails there
In lands of flante--such lame as rell'd
• O'er Canaan's titles swain, of old;—
leap from their seats the alarmed hills,
With all their woods, and cUts, and rills;
And the wide welkin, sea and shore,
Ilentaltiply the hollow teat.
The battle deepens, heavier mull
Envelopes man, and mast. and wall,
Like the tall palm beneath the axe,
Staggers the battlement and cracks ;
Down, down the loose stouts whirling goi
Crushing the Arab, screen'd below.
Above, beneath, new thunders swell.
While under cope of smoke and shell
The Moor above his rampart's wreck,
The Briton on Ms reeling deck,
With equal daring, one and all.
Cheer to the volley—cheering fall!
Encounter spheres of living fire.
From their host alternate driven,
,Through clouds careering disk and higher,
Clash, burst, and thunder In mid heaven !
And the red fragments war the sight
With forked hideousness of light

NEWCASTLE, Noviiina 7.
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Yesterday a highly respectable meeting of the Coal
'Owners of the Tyne. and a deputation of the Ship
Owners, was held at the Assembly Rooms in this town..
Matthew Bell, Esq. M.P. was in the Chair. As the
public were not admitted, we are unable to state pre-
scisely what passed, but as it appeared to us a matter of
some consequence to know, we have made diligent in-
quiries, and understand that the principal resolution
come to was, to make a representation to the London
factors not to bring their coals to market so rapidly, as
they have lately been doing. Both the Coal and Ship'
Owners, it must be admitted, have suffered greatly
from the recent low prices of coals. How far this plan
will improve their condition, time will spew.
The capture of partridges, ac. in the public streets
still continues to be singularly frequent. On Wednes-
day evening last, tour partridges were caught by some
boys, in Coronation-street, and two in Sans-street, Sun-
derland. In this town a covey of partridges has for
some nights roosted in a shrubbery, close to a public
road ; and a pheasant has been seen, we are told, in the
Forth. As a Gentleman was going out a coursing, a
few days ago, he met a hare in Westgate-street, which
was pursued by his dogs, and killed in Thornton-street.
A melancholy accident happened in the Jane I'it, at
Hetton colliery, on Monday week, when two men were
killed instantaneously, and three others most dreadfully
bruised, by the fall of a quantity of earth and stones
from the roof of the mine. The names of the unfortu-
nate persons who lost their lives, were Thomas Harling
and Matthew Forster, the former of whom has left a
wife and four children.

There was a very mortifying instance of the manner
In which people may be imposed on by tricky horse-
dealers, afforded in the Horse-fair in this town on Tues-
day last. A man parted with a really good horse for
a very showy animal, and some money to boot, to one
of these gentry, who warranted his showy charger tote
perfectly sound. The moment after the less knowing
countr) man had finished the bargain, be discovered
that the horse he had got in exchange was worthless,
merely fed up to look well, and he sought to have his
own restored. To this proposal the horse-dealer, of
cuurse, would not accede. The police were then called
in, but they could not interfere, and properly told the
per-on who had been duped, that his only redress was
an ction at law. -

At the late Bristol Sessions, a man was indicted, and
sentenced .to thiee months' imprisonment, for having re-
ceived ss. awl sometimes 7s. 6d. a-week, as a paupent+
when he was, in fact, in the regular receipt of 12s. a•
week for his lationr.

Early on Sunday morning last, the house of Mr.
Kirby, furrier, No. 54, Newington-causeway, was en-
tered, and a quantity of fuss were stolen out ohs articles
were as under :—Forty muffs, consisting of black fer-
rets, brown sables, mini, fetch, squirrels, squirrel backs,
mock ermine, &c. also 12 mock sable flounces, two
squirrel flounces, two squirrel tippets, sir ferret tippets,
and various other articles, all of which have a private
mark, and can be sworn to. The goods were all fresh
made, and fit for immediate sale, chiefly lined with
crimson silk.

In my youth I often saw Glover on the stage : he
was a surgeon, and a good writer in the London pe-
siodical Papers; when he was at Cork, a man was
hanged for sheep-stealing, whom Glover smuggled into
field. and, by surgical skill restored to life, though
the culprit bad hung the full time prescribed by law.
A few nights after, Glover being on the stage acting
Polonius, the revived sheep-stealer, full of whisky,
broke into the pit, and in a loud voice called out to
Glover, “ Mr. Glover' you know you are my second
father ; you have been the means of bringing me back
into the world. Sir ; so, by the piper of Blessington, you
ate bouud to maintain me." The Sheriff was in the
house at the time, but app:ared not to hear this ap-
peal ; and on the fellow persisting in his outcries, he,
through a principle of clemency, slipped out of the
Theatre. The crowd at length forced the man away,
telling hint that if the BlsesW found him alive, it was
his duty to hang him over again.—O'Kedys Ro;colke.