STANZAS TO MY OLD HOUSE.

MY poor old Habitation, fare thee well!

Beneath thy roof eight winters I have pass'd,

And now I close thy doors and shutters fast,

Leaving no living thing in thee to dwell: Save mice and rats,

That will with freedom rove, unscared by ruthless cats.

With ling'ring step thy threshold I descend,

And seem reluctant from thy walls to part,

Small, inconvenient, it is true thou art,

I ask'd no more;

The house that holds a friend contains an

ample store.

But thou wast much too paltry,—much too small

To please the glitt'ring world's fastidious eye.

My richer neighbours, riding careless by, Look'd up and saw thy narrow stateless wall,

And measur'd me,

My learning, genius, wealth, wit, wisdom, all by thee.

Content,-1 heeded not,-I saw the

news,

Studied at home the manners of the age; Sometimes I read the philosophic page; Sometimes I trifled with the sportive muse,

For she has charms

A stranger-and alone?
Nor did those eyes in sorrow weep?
Nor did his spirit moan?

And did not then a sigh,-a tear,

His parting sorrow tell?
And could he leave his kindred here,
Nor breath a last farewell?

And was not then a Mother's gaze,
A Father's blessing given?
And did not he in silence raise

His hands in pray'r to heaven?
And were his smiling Sisters then,-
His Brothers,-all forgot?
And could he calmly leave them-when,
Alas! they knew it not?

And did his bosom feel no pain?

No dreary thought oppress, That he might ne'er return again, To share their fond caress?

alarms.

Where boyhood's days were past? And could he leave so hastily,

So silently, at last?

And was there not one parting word,-
One tender look bestow'd?

And was there not a pray'r preferr'd
To bless that lov'd abode?
No:-with the star of day he rose
And launch'd upon the deep!
And they, who smiling did repose,
Awoke at morn, to weep.

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chester by the Prince Regent. The new Speaker presented to the House of Lords. More documents proving the existence of treason and sedition submitted to the consideration of Parliament.

4. The King reached bis 79th, and entered in the 80th year of his age.

6.

Wooller tried for a Libel on his Majesty's Ministers. Doubts arose respecting the validity of the verdict guilty, there being ground to believe the jury were not unanimous.

9. The State Prisoners, Thistlewood, Watson, Preston, and Hooper, conveyed from the Tower to the Court of King's Beach, to be tried for High Treason. Watson was the first tried. His trial lasted seven days, and the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The Attorney-General gave up the prosecution against the others, who were acquitted.

10. Scroggins beaten by Turner.

11. Alderman Wood, Lord Mayor, baving been elected one of the Members for the City of London, in lieu of Alderman Combe, deceased, was this day introduced to the House of Commons by Messrs. Ponsonby and Calvert.

12. Intelligence received of a seditious spirit having manifested itself in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire.

The Secret Committee of Lords made their Report, stating the existence of designs, in various parts of the kingdom, hostile to Government, &c.

13, Lord Sidmouth brought in a Bill for the further Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.

16. Sir F. Burdett called the attention of Parliament to the conduct of Oliver, the spy, and others, who had excited distressed persons to iot.

18. Waterloo Bridge opened to the public by the Prince Regent and Duke of York, amidst the discharge of artillery.

Mr. Hone pleaded Not Guilty to three informations filed against him by the Attorney-General.

19. A new trial ordered in the case of Wooller,

21. The House of Commons received the Report of their Secret Committee, stating the proceedings of the disaffected in the North.

23. Kemble took leave of the stage, 25. The Freeholders of Middlesex held a Meeting to petition against the renewal of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.

6. The Election of Lord Mayor terminated, and Alderman C. Smith returned Mayor elect.

7. Scroggsns beaten by Turner, at Shep. perton Point,

8. Earl Talbot, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, landed in the Bay of Dublin. He succeeded Lord Whitworth,

9. The prisoners convicted of the mur der of M. Fualdes, at Rhodes, having appealed to the Cassation, the appeal was heard, and the whole process against them set aside this day, on the ground of informality. They were, however, detained, to be tried again.

15. The State Trials commenced at Derby.-Brandreth, Turner, Manchester Turner, Weightman, Ludlam, sen. Ludlam, jun. and others, were brought up to be arraigned.

18. Brandreth found guilty of High Treason.

20. Mr. Raymond, the Comedian, died. 21. Dreadful Hurricane in the West Indies.

22. Four Derby Rioters found guilty, and those who pleaded guilty received sentence of death: they were twenty-three in number, twelve were discharged, as the Attorney-General declined prosecuting them. The number in the first instance was thirty five persons.

23. The William and Mary Packet lost in the British Channel; many passengers perished.

30. Bulletins began to announce the

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state of the Princess Charlotte of Wales's health.

NOVEMBER.

2. The third Jubilee of Luther's Reformation observed at the German Lutherian Chapel in the Savoy, London.

Brandreth, Turner, and Ludlam, informed in their cells at Derby, that they were to suffer death on Friday next ensuing. 3. The Queen this day arrived at Bath; ber first visit, we believe, paid to that city. 4. Her Majesty appeared in excellent health and spirits, enjoying her customary exercise. Other branches of the Royal Family arrived at Bath.

At three o'clock this morning the Princess Charlotte was in labour, at Claremont.

6. The amiable and accomplished Princess Charlotte, consort of Prince Coburg, and daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales, died, soon after she had been delivered of a still-born male child. The melancholy event was considered a national calamity.

SATURDAY, DEC. 27, 1817. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 27. RDERS for the Court's change of

of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Secretary and Keeper of His Royal Highness's Privy Seal and Council Seal, in the room of the

nuary next, for Her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta, daughter of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and Consort of His Serene Highness the Prince -Leopold of Saxe Coburg.

The Court to change the mourning further on Sunday the 18th of January.

And on Sunday the 1st of February next, the Court to go out of mourning.

The Gazette also contains fourteen addresses of condolence to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, upon the death of the Princess Charlotte; and twenty-one to His Serene Highness the Prince of Saxe Coburg, from different parts of the United Kingdom.

SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1818.

This gazette contains an Order in Council, authorizing the importation into the island of Newfoundland (for the ensuing season only) of bread, flower, Indian corn, and live-stock, from the territories of the United States, in British built ships, owned by British subjects. Also announces the following appointments:-Dr. Gilles and Dr, W. Beatty, to be the Regent's Physicians Extraor dinary for Scotland, and Dr. George Bell to be Surgeon in Ordinary. James S. Douglas, Esq. to be British Consul-General ip Morocco.

resigned.

SATURDAY, JAN. 17.

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This gazette notifies the appointment of Sir Richand Bickerton, Bart. K. C. B. Admiral of the White, to be Lieut.-General of

His Majesty's Marine Forces, in the room of Admiral Sir Richard Onslow, deceased; also of Sir George Hope, K. C. B. RearAdmiral of the Red, to be Major-General of the said Royal Marine, Forces, in the room of Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, promoted. Also, John Stockdale, Esq. to be Standard Bearer to His Majesty's Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, vacant by the resignation of Thomas Nicholl, Esq.

HE Secretary to the SOCIETY of

of TRADE against SWINDLERS and SHARPERS, held at No. 36, Essex-street, Strand, by a Circular has informed the Members thereof, that the persons undernamed; viz. COLONEL GOOLD, of No. 23, Lower Grosvenor Street West, near Grosvenor Place, is in the rules of the Fleet; CHARLES HENLEY BLUCK is at No. 24, Essex Street, Strand; that the present residence of WILLIAM HAWKINS, (lately mentioned) is Misdon Green, near Bayswater Turnpike.

ANTHONY POWER, so well known, is now going round the town to solicit subscriptions for a Poem, which he states, is intended to be published under the name (before used by him) of A. P. BEST; and that the persons undernamed of using the firm of WILLIAM NIHILL and Co., 18, Little Carter Lane, St. Paul's, and WILLIAM PHILLIPS, alias TODD, late of Hammersmith Terrace, and since of Southampton Road, Paddington, are reported to that Society as improper to be proposed to be ballotted for as members thereof,

The secretary is also desired to state that a person calling himself Captain CHARLES BULLEN, of 14, Mark Lane, lately endeavoured to agree for board and lodging with a family, with whom he left a bill of which the following is a copy.

£84.

Rotterdam, Dec. 4, 1817. Ten days after sight, pay to Captain CHARLES CULLEN, or order, the sum of Eighty Four Pounds Sterling, being for goods delivered by him, on his own account, to the house of BERTRAM RYN, from the ship Jane, of St. Kitts, and place the amount to your humble servant,

FRANCIS BERTRAM. To Messrs. Brooks, Son, Dixon, and Co. 25. Chancery Lane.

The Bill was written across, Accepted, Dec. 11th, 1817." On applying at Messrs. BROOKS, SON, DIXON, and Co., they are entirely ignorant of the parties, and this Captain CHARLES CULLEN is found to he unknown to the inhabitants of No. 14, Mark Lane,

He also cautions the members against a jew-looking foreigner of genteel address, speaking broken English, bad French, and sometimes Dutch, who has lately pilfered from various silversmiths, pieces of foreign gold coin, by means, it is supposed, of wax at the ends of his fingers, while pretending to make purchases of articles of that nature. And that a woman of rather genteel appearaoce, tall, with a sallow complexion, and dark eyes, and dressed in a green pelisse,

trimmed with light fur, and a straw bonnet, lately called upon a lady, at the West end of the town, saying, that she was sent by the wife of a respectable tradesman in the linen trade (a member, of that society) to receive the amount of her bill, when she produced a receipt, partly written, but the sum not inserted. This however was supplied by the lady from the bill, and the woman signed the receipt,

For (the member's name)

"ANN HAYWOOD." The present residence of SAMUEL HOPLEY is at 30, Brewer Lane, near Craven Street, Strand.

AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-This day, at 12 o'clock, the President of the United States transmitted to both Houses of Congress the following Message, by Mr. Joseph Jones Monroe, his Secretary:

"Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives,

"At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country. The abundant fruits of the earth have filled it with plenty. An extensive and profitable commerce has greatly augmented our revenue. The public credit has attained an extraordinary elevation. Our preparations for defence, in case of future wars, from which, by the experience of all nations, we ought not to expect to be exempted, are advancing, under a well digested system, with all the dispatch which so important a work will admit. Our free Government, founded on the interest and affections of the people, has gained, and is daily gaining, strength.-Local jealousies are rapidly yielding to more generous, enlarged, and enlightened views of national policy. For advantages so numerous and highly important, it is our duty to unite in grateful acknowledgments to that Omnipotent Being from whom they are derived, and in unceasing prayer that he will endow us with virtue and strength to maintain and hand them down in their utmost purity, to our lastest posterity.

"I have the satisfaction to inform you, that an arrangement, which had been commenced by my predecessor, with the British Government, for the reduction of the naval force, by Great Britain and the United States, on the Lakes, has been concluded: by which it is provided, that neither party shall keep in service on Lake Champlain more than one vessel; on Lake Ontario more than one; and on Lake Erie and the upper Lakes, more than two; to be armed each with one cannon only; and that all the other armed vessels, of both parties, of which