Star. — 1821-09-01 (London, England)

MODERN LEANDER.--Thomas Morgan, a seaman . of his Majesty's ship Etinva Lys, had frequently swam 1, from the ship to the shore in the night, to visit his sweetheart. On Friday night he was drowned in the attempt. " The Courier has been for some time in bad odour with the more moderate, or sensible, or accommodating part of the Administration, on account of his violence, and they disclaim him as an auxiliary. They have too much good sense, and, we hope, too much probity, and let us add, too much regard for the blessings of a limited Government, not to reject the services of a Paper, which, in every case of perplexity, grave or trifling, in which the Ministers of a Constitutional Sovereign- happen to get entangled, knows and recommends no other mode of extricating them, than by cutting the knot with the sword. This might do well enough in a country where liberty was really a nuisance; where it produced only unmitigated ills; where it left no monuments of its utility ; and where, in consequence, the wishes of the wisest men in the nation inclined to a despotism, as a hard refuge from the greater evils of the former. But, in England, where everything attests the vivifying force and the great moral effects of free institutions, to recommend the maxims of tyranny, shews so much perversity and folly combined, that no one can be surprised at the disgust with which it has inspired some of his MAJESTY'S Ministers. The Courier, therefore, has been able, fbr some time, to communicate such intelligence only, as he can glean by his industry. No exclusive information now appears in his columns:— Public Ledger). Government, yesterday, sold by auction, at Greenwich, 1,5(X) casks of provisions, two years old. The beef averaged 90s. a tierce, and the pork 60s. A melancholy accident occurred on Thursday evening, between five and six o'clock, which has involved a whole family in the deepest affliction. The .two sons of Mr. CoopEn, of Stamford-street, the elder ten years of age, the younger just turned seven, slip.. ped away from home, their mother within the last few days having been confined. The elder boy, having a toy boat, went down to the river side above Blackfriars-bridge, to sail it, accompanied by his brother ; they got on board a barge at its moorings, and occupied themselves the one putting the toy boat into tke river at one end of the barge, and the other catchlig it at the other end. The younger boy, an interesting child, lost his balance, pitched over, and sunk to rise no more. The elder brother called out to three watermen, who were close by, when they tendered every prompt assistance in their power, but they could not recover the body before the vital spark was extinguished, never to be recalled. The great Sessions for Montgomeryshire commenced on Thursday semnight, at Welsh Pool. John . Davis was capitally convicted of highway robbery, and received sentence of Death.  Two witnesses had their pockets picked in the Court, in York Castle, at the Assizes, at the very moment Mr. Justice HOLROYD was passing the dreadful sentence of the law on Ann Barber, for the murder of her husband !  Exminim—Thursday Frederick Johnson, Emanuel Willis, and John Cable, capitally convicted at the late Kent Assizes, were conveyed to the usual place of execution on Penenden Heath, and about noon suffered the dreadful seuteace of the law.  MS