Say what meek, black-eyed pair with grace and vanity
Whom many a one surveys with sidelong glance?
Too little known to meet the praises due,
The names commencing with a W
A sable form evokes the next remark,
With laughing lips and eyes, and ringlets dark;
A dancing widow this - a waltzer she,
Who flirts with each gay beam alternately,
Yet should there be on favoured more than all,
It would be found in so, a monument tall
A flippant coxcomb, vain of certain lore,
A mere gay flint, upon this southern shore
Now here's a gallant beam I fain would share,
With countenance good humoured, sound & fair,
In memory of his grandsire's deeds and fame,
Who at Quebec immortalised his name
And hither comes a thoughtful sone of truth,
Whom some may say has lost the bloom of youth,
His soft, persuasive eloquence is known,
And yet he quits the scene of Beauty throne,
Ere half the evening hath time to wane,
As though our company he would disdain
Another of the cloth appears in file,
Who would with supplicant looks the fair beguile
But, oh! beware! From one he goes to two
Anon for S. he quits the W.
Thus might my pen flow on from rhyme to rhyme,
Till, I'm afraid I should exhaust your time;
And, lest satyrie you may judge me too,
I'll for the present say. Farewell! Adieu!
More Smuggling Ventures - Suicides
Although the smugglers made several successful runs during the year, they had also a considerable number of losses. On the 31st of March one of their boats, containing a large quantity of tobacco, was seized by Lieutenant Newman, and another seizure was made on the 22nd of April, when the boat "Dove" and 35 tubs of spirits fell into the hands of Comptroller Bevill and his crew. The smuggler's plans in this case were believed to have been disarrayed by the tempestuous weather on the two preceding days. The successful run at St. Leonards has been described in its proper place, but another loss has here to be recorded. The ever active Soloman Bevill on the 29th of July, captured the boat "Fox" with two men and 26 casks of spirits. Again, on the 16th of October, this vigilant Comptroller or Tide-Surveyor, seized a boat with five men and 106 tubs. On the 5th of December there was a conflict on the Marine Parade between the preventivemen and the smugglers, when several pistols were discharged, but no one was hit. Some of the goods were got away and some were left in the hands of the assailants. Three days later, Bevill and his men hooked up at sea 66 casks of spirits, which had been thrown overboard by the smugglers.
A fatality occurred on the 1st of March by a suicidal act at the back of Gloucester Place, as described in the "Postman's Reminiscences", thus:-
March the first of Eighteen-thirty
Saw a maiden fall from rearward hill,
Her mentality insanely flirty,
Urging on, poor girl, herself to kill,
Shuddering though to see a mortal flyer
Rashly, madly, to the arms of Death!
Painful, too, the scene of two days dying
Ere the final giving up of breath
Another suicidal act was that of a young married woman who on the 3rd of May, was found by her husband, when reaching home to breakfast, with a wound on her throat.
A third case of sudden death was that of a Brighton youth, 15 years of age, named Morris Dunn, who, on the 13th or 14th of August, was drowned while bathing.
Curious Fatalities and accidents - Political enthusiasm
The next lamentable fatality occurred to Sir Frederick Baker, who was staying at a house in Wellington Square. Having gone for a ramble to Fairlight, he ascended the steps to the mill-stage belonging to Mr. Edward Milward, for a view of the surrounding country, when the miller, not knowing of his presence, set the -
