Star.
London, England, 1820-03-07 00:00:00

LINES
ON THE LA)IENTED DEATH OF GEORGE in.

Let the Muse twine with cypress her high-sounding lyre,
When the accents of Sorrow her tribute inspire;
While the tears of Britannia shall hallow the tomb,
Where her Monarch's pale ashes in silence consume !
.The death-knell was born* on the wing of the night,
And the sepulchre gleam'd with the torch's red light—
sound met the ear but the minute-gun nigh,
Or the bosom that struggled to stifle the sigh ;
To that sacred feeling that moistens the cheek,
All expression is futile, all language is weak;
Where the grief of the mourners that follow his bier
Is only express'd by the eloquent tear !
The pompous procession, the trappings of woe,
Ah! *hat on the doad can the pageant bestow?
More grateful to Ileav'N are the tears that prevail, •
Than these ensigns of mourning that float on the gale !
We lament not a tyrant, whose monarchy stood
On the base of injustice, cemented by blood, •
Who supported his splendour, and strengthen'd his store,
By the spoils of the rich, and the blood of the poor ;
But the blessings of Ilx.tv's have been shed on our Isle,
And Truth, Love, and Mercy, b,ade Poverty smile!
We lament net a Monarch, whose high-soaring pride,
The dictates of feeling and nature denied;
On whom, though a crowd of gay courtiers attend,
He looks round the circle in vain for a friend!
Ah, no! by the sighs that our sorrow bespeak;
By the tear of Affliction that moistens the cheek,
We lament not the tyrant whose monarchy stood
On the base of injustice, cemented by blood ;
We lament not a Monarch whose high-soaring pride
The dictates of feeling and nature denied ;
But we mourn a fond parent, whose cherishing hand,
Bid the blossoms of Liberty freely expand ;
The hearts of his subjects supported his throne;
Their joys and their sorrows he shar'd as his own;
While around hlcn, like children, we crowded the Isle,
Ile rewarded our duty and lcee with a smile !
Such a 3lonarch, ye Britons, ye now may deplore,
llis virtues can now he your pattern no more;
But, oh! let the maxims those virtues impart,
Be the theme of eulegium cngrav'd on the heart!
And while, in mute sorrow, surrou:iding his bier,

The breast heaves the sigh, and the eye drops the tear,
Round heart may the blossoms of Loyalty twine,
To honour his ashes and hallow his shrine !

Tilington, 4th March, 18'20.

F. G. B.

LAIV INTELLIGENCE.

count or CIIANCE:tY, MARCH 6.

SF:,.;;;ISSON T. SERGIssON.

Mr. WisortEt.r statel, that the circumstances of
this case must be in the recollection of the Court.
Ills Loidship had directed an issue to try the legiti •
macy of Miss liiheabeth Harriet Sei,,-.,risson, the sup-
posed daughter of the late Colonel Sergisson, and it
had been directed that the Trustees of Miss Sergis-
son and her mother should be the plaintiffs in the
action at law. tle.had now only to trouble his Lord-
ship on a single point : the time having elapsed for
the trial taking place, lie had to ask that it should
be enlarged, and that a variation should be made in
the minutes to exclude Mrs. Scrgisson front being a
plaintiff the action, or having the management of
it ; and in case the Court should not think proper to
grant it, that the Trustees might be at liberty to
withdraw themselves front beini co plaiatid-s. He
moved this on the ground that Mrs. Scrgisson had
iaterLn-ed in the management of the suit, and was
tryin•.: to take it cut of the hands of the Solicitor
who 1:a1 hithei to car, ied it on for the benefit of the
in,ant. It was the wish of the Trustees to have the
c,nesjon so that lt night be put an
end to at once by a verdict of a Jury.
Mr. HART, Counsel for the defendant at law, said,
he was aware that the Court could not oblige the
Trustee; to be pl,intitrs unless they thought proper
Ile slv,uld, however, have expected that some honest
reason, would have been assigned for excluding Mts.
sergi;,:on from be:ng a plaintiff. Ile could only sup-
pose that the intention of the Trustees was to get I*
out of the action as a party, and not to examine her
as a witness on fte trhti, but leave it to h:s client to
call her, which would make her his own witness,
put it cut of his power to impugn her evidence ; and
in case his. client did not call her, the Counsel for the
Trustees would turn round on him, and say, you would
have called the mother of the child as witness hau
you not known h: would weaken your ca,e.
Mr. FARRAR followed on the sante side, and con-
tended that the application ought not to be granted,
as it would tend to increase the expense of the par-
ties, which had already been very considerable. The
Trustees might on the trial prove a primaji;cie case,
without the evidence of Mrs. Sergisson; but if a ver-
dict were given against them, they might apply to
his Lordship to direct a new trial en the ground that
the most material witness had not been examined.

The LORD CHANCELLOR asked if Mrs. Sergisson
had been served with notice of this application. and
not receiving a satisfactory answer, his Lordship
observed, he would not leave the mother of the child
out of the case without her consent. If she was left
out of it as a party, and did not come forward as a
witness on the trial, for which purpose either party
might call her, he would immediately stop the al-
lowance of the young Lady. The motion com-
menced by saying, that there was a difference of
opinion between the Trustees and Mrs. Sergisson, and
afterwards he was asked to believe that she had con-
sented to the application. If she did consent, then
it would be for him to say whether it should be
anted ; if she did not consent, then it would be too
much for him to say that she should not take an in-
terest in it, when she says the young Lady is the
child of her body. But if there had been any impro-
per conduct on her part, which made her unfit to be
a plaintiff, it must be stated to the Court, as it might
make it unnecessary to try the issue at all. He there-
fore directed the motion to stand over until Thum
day, and, in the meantime, notice of this motion
was to be given to Mrs. Sergisson.