Star.
London, England, 1821-12-20 00:00:00

THE TEAR OF SYMPATIIY.

how lovely shines the liquid pearl
Which, trisiding from the eye,
Pours, in a suW'ring brother's wooods,
The Tear of Sympathy I
It's beams a fairer lean yield
Than richest rubies give;
Golconda's gems, though britt, are aid--
It cheers, and bids as live!
More dear than tribute of a sigh,
The offering Pky brim—
Thas an the sweets which Easters plea
Bear oar thek golden wings!
Softer the tones of Friendship's voice,
k's word move kindly lows;
Unto grated lake simpkst la;
Than ail which art bestows!
When meting Angedsit tasks the seal,
When Sorrow points its dart,
When Death, seeming, aims Ike blow,
Which cleaves a brother's heart!
Thee, Sympathy ! 'tis dame to la
The stirrer a soul to rest;
To fed each pang—to share each gush,
Aturease his troubled breast!
"Tier thiste to aid the sinking frame,
Te•raise the feeble hand ;
To bind the heart by anguish terra,
With sweet Affectioa's hand !
'Tis thine to nvrwre Hopes fond walk,
To chase Affliction's gloom;
To bYart the cruel thorns which crawl
Oar passage to the tomb!
Then give me, Ii vat the sad to fed,
The band to mercy prone;
The eye, which soft effusive Sows
For sorrows not its own!
Be mine the cause of hfisery's dad,
My warmest, tend're* care,
To pluck the *ling that wounds lab hremr,
And heal it with a deer f

Poor old Melte haslet, whose death, ut the ad-
vanced age of II I years, we mentioned in the Sian
of Saturday, had many years past been a pen-
sioner on the bounty of the Etna. Thee:urine age
of poor *lnaba, and being et posed in all weathers and
at all seasons is vending fruit on the open road, near
the Steps% bad 'endued her as object of notice, for-
tusately for her, to his Majesty. She was then about
100 yers of age, and her employvhent being found
to (nig:nate is necessity, she was desired to name
what weekly sum, is addition to what she already
possessed, would release her from labour, and make
her comfortable for the remainder of her days.—
Pheebe replied, hall-a-guinea, cad that sus has been
regularly paid to her since, with the ersnise of more
the instant that she should say she was in need of it,
front her Sovereigu's purse. But Fische had ample
in the Royal allowance, as she was not without pro-
perty of her own for all the comforts which her situa-
lion required: she; therefore, never asked for snore.
She delighted on all occasions to name her benefactor;
her Ring, and the debt of gratitude she owed him,
were almost her last expressions is the agonies of
death. She had completed bet one hundred and
eleventh year, when she resigned her spirit to hue
who gave it, on Wednesday se aright. Her remains
were interred in Brighton Church-yard with respect-
ible funeral pomp, on Sunday.
Monday evening, as Mr. Cs.aatts, plane-maker, of
. Southampton, was on his way borne from a friend's
house in that neighbourhood, he fell into a pond,
. called the Town Pond, and was drowned. He has
• lefi a large family, now fatherless and motherless.
....Yesterday, an Inquest was held at Guy's Hospital,
an the body of Mrs. Dart. The deceased was the ,
Wife of Mr. Dart, Turner-street, Borough. She was
between 60 and 70 years of age, and went to bed last
Friday night before her husband, when it it supposed
she fell asleep, forgetting to estiogatish the candle,
which set the curtains and the whole room in a blare.
The flames and smoke attracted the neighbours to
the spot, and they experienced some difficulty in ex-
tricating the deceased, who at last was taken Out
, .dreadfully burned, and carried to the Hospital, where
'the lingered in aray till Monday, when she expired.
Verdict—" Accidental Death."
yesterday an inquisition was taken at the King and
Queen, Hare-street, Betirnal-green, before Mr.UNwt
en the body of Mad. Meads. It appeared in evidence,
that the deceased was a respectable weaver, residing
at Mile-end. On Sunday last he attended the funeral
of 'a particular friend, at the burial-ground of St.'
Matthew, Betlanal-green. On his return home in the
evening, across Hare-street-fields, leading from the
workhouse to Mile-end, he stumbled and fell into a
quantity of filth, the refuszs from the gas-worts, which
had been emptied from the carts at various times,
near the foot-path, from which be could oat extricate
himself, and it was supposed he had been suffocated.
The body was found next morning,. by some boys
who were playing.' The Jury, in strong terms, re-
probated the practice of shooting the refuse of gas
near the public foot-path; and desired the summon-
ing officer to represent the matter to the Vestry, in ,
order to ascertain what steps could be taken to pre-
vent-Its being shot there :a future. After a short
deliberation, they returned a verdict of—" Accidental
Death, from Suffocation.*
Yesterday morning, the following very melancholy
circumstance Decanted a short distance from London
bridge :—A large barge, heavily laden, had passed
under one of the side arches of the bridge, the current
at that time running strongly down, when a small
wherry, in which were two men and a boy, endea- •
Toured to pass ; unfortunately the barge ran down the
boat, which, together with the unfortunate individuals
on board, were out of sight for some minutes, having
been driven under some large craft moored off the
Tower. The boat shortly after appeared, but every
effort to recover the unfortunate persons proved abor-
tive. The names of the men ate Haar and Easton ;
the boy is one of their sons.
A Tinter TAKEN I W A Rat-tads.—Yesterday
snorning the maid servant of Mr. Hassey, stock-
broker, in bToblesstreet, Goswell-street, being absent
from the kitchen,. attending on her master and mis-
tress, a boy sneaked down stairs with a bundle of fire
wood in his band, and, finding the cupboard door
open, he commenced his work of plunder, but in his
hurry he overlooked a large rat-trap that was set on
one of the shelves, and his hand was caught in it;
the pain he underwent caused him to scream out
viand, and in endeavouring to extricate his hand, he
t*tew down several plates, Inc. The noise caused
his apprehension, and he Was committed for trial.