Star. — 1822-04-09 (London, England)

POETRY. •  ON' THE FACETIOUS MR. II•s• Y D• Y,  • •IMMIIMM•  OF WEST COWLS, tact OT wmur. In Cowes, where pleasures rare abound (At least the poets say), Dwells one who studies liw profound; They call him H•••y Doy I A wit most keen—a humour dry, Especially when mellow, The •ery life of company, A free, good-humoured fellow! No party form'd, no set complete, No circle e'er so gay, No nightly party ever meet, But wish th' approach--of Day! Grave as Minerva's bird, the while The bowl he's freely quaffing, Ik cracks his jokes without a smile, While others die with laughing ! Ilia witty shafts fly harmless round, For punning's his delight, • In Cowes alone, 'tis truly found, Day shines throughout the Inght With law and politics combin'd, A nit—who does not know it; Antko these qualities are join'd The Punster and the Poet! No bachelor of high degree  So welcome to the fair, No beau, Bowe er he courted be, Ileceives so large a share ! Yet Nature's debt he still must pay, When time his strength shall mellow, But many a friend shall sighing say, " We neer shall view his fellow !"  A farthing, of the date 1;.°04, in good preservation, was found in the foot of a horse, by a blacksmith of Southampton, who has it in his pcmeasion. Wednesday afternoon, the wife of a respectable shopkeeper, at the head of aosford's-close, Edinburgh, upon coming to her husband's shop door, dropped down and suddenly expired. A few slays since IV. HariAment was executed on the Castlehill, at Norwich, for having murdered Mr. Robert Baker, of Wells, on the 11th of October, 1817. The culprit was apprehended at Beverley, in Yorkshire, in December last. Saturday se'miight, some villains, as yet unknown, effected an entrance through a window in the rear of a house lately built, and then unoccupied, on the scite of Friar's Mill, Westmeath, and set fire to the building in two different places. The fire was, however, discovered on the following morning, by some persons passing, who immediately procured water, and in a little time the flames were got under. The entire staircase, and the greater part of the first floor, were consumed. Tuesday night, two fields, in the parish of Marshalstown, near the borders of the county Limerick, were entered by a parry of miscreants, who dug up the ground in different parts, leaving it unfit for the purpose of pasture, as intended by the owner. On the following Sunday, the Parish Priest of Mitchelstown, near which Marshahtown lies, addressed the congregation on the circumstance with such effect, that, to prove they had no participation in it, they unanimously resolved to go to the field and repair, as far as possible, the damage done; and they also promised to use their utmost diligence for the discovery of those who had committed it. A letter from Washington, dated March 6, says, —" The Board of Commissioners for deciding on claims under the Spanish Treaty, are most industriously engaged in the business. Important points are occasionally decided. A decision was yesterday announced, which is favourable to the admission of a description of claims embracing a considerable amount, viz. those cases of captures by French priiateers where the vessels were carried into Spanish ports, and the prizes disposed of by the captors without the form of trial or condemnation."