226 Sporting Intelligence. Dehaynes, an emigrant, who kept a Rouge et Nair table, in Oxendon-street, was ordered to quit the country, on Wednesday night, July 16, at three hours notice. Upwards of one hundred anonymous letters were written to Mr. Secretary Dundas, charging Dehaynes with being a Jacobine. He was hurried off without being fuffered to make the leaft arrangement in his af fairs. As the magiftrates knew that this man kept an illegal gambling-houfe, they should have faved government the trouble which they have had. We know nothing of his political principles; but it is likely, that those who have been plundered at his table, have adopted a mode, through anonymous letters, to have him driven from the country. CRICKET. Laft month, a grand match of cricket was played at Old Field,near Maidenhead, Berks, between two felect elevens of England, for 1000 guineas. This match was made between R. Leigh, and E. Morant, Efqrs. R. LEIGH, Esq. Purchase b ditto Hammond b Fennex Fielder not out Bulling b Boxall run out 4 b Harris 20 FIRST INNINGS. E. MORANT, Esq. Fennex fumpt Hammond J. Walker c ditto Beldam ftumpt ditto Small, jun. run out Freemantle & Hammond 2 ftumpt Hammond. 7 c J. Wells 9 7 to Harding not out 14 b T. Walker On Monday, June 30, and the two following days, a grand match of cricket, was played in Lord's Ground, between two felect elevens of England, for 1000 guineas. This match was made between R. Leigh, and G. Louch, Efgrs. Old Father Thames, elevated on his rolling car, drawn by aquatic courfers, was a nouvelle and very attractive fpectacle.-The machinery of this car was on a very large fcale, and confidering it was a firft performance, without rehearsal, it operated well-We are happy in not having heard that any accident happened. An aftonishing crowd of boats, in general filled with elegant company, crowded the river from Weftminster to Chelsea. This was again renewed on Saturday, July 19, when the Swallow arrived firft at the boat moored off Vauxhall and was honoured with the prize. The Sally came in fecond, and ran the fortunate veffel very hard for a confiderable time. The day being very fine, there were an innumerable number of people to view the fcene. The riwer was crowded with boats, and the gardens were, crowded with company in the evening. Our fashionable belles have Lifted a new marine ornament in honour of the late glorious naval victory; it is a gold chain twisted in the form of a cable, and worn loofely round the neck, to which is fufpended a golden anchor. FASHION. to the figure, that nothing can be faid to be completely concealed. Well may it be neceffary to veil the face. a A fine young girl, not more than feventeen years of age, enlifted, about a fortnight ago, in the 32 regiment, at Hampton. She attended drill regularly, and was confidered a very clever recruit. Though the lay with the corporal, who enlifted her, fortnight, her fex was never difcovered, until the difclofed the circumftance to an officer, with whom he was paffionately enamoured. The corporal has been fo ridiculed by his comrades on this bufinefs, that he has requefted, and obtained leave, to quit the regiment. In the church-yard at Aberconway, is the following infcription: Here lieth the body of Nicholas Hooker, of Conway, Gent, who was the one and fortieth child of. his father, William Hooker, Efq. by Alice, his wife, and the father of feven and twenty children. He died the 20th day of March, 1637. Having given the natural hiftory of the whale, and the mode of taking it, we infert the following curious circumftances, which is copied from the logbook of the Henrietta whaler, arrived at Holl: "On the 12th of April, obferved a large whale, accompa nied by a young one; the harThe feminine drefs of the pre-pooner endeavoured to ftrike the fent period, is, perhaps, the moft indecent ever worn in this country. The breaft is altogether difplayed; and the whole drapery, by the wanton management of the wearer in throwing it be. hind her, is made to cling fo large fish, but miffed her, and the weapon ftruck the young one; the dam immediately wrapped her fins around it, and went off with fuch rapidity and force, as to draw the harpoon, by which means they both escaped." PEDES Sporting Intelligence. PEDESTRIANISM. 229 ring act, directed his boat toMr. Jonathan Studholm, of wards the fame arch, through Aketon, near Wigton, who is be- which he imagined his defperate tween 70 and 80 years of age, paffenger would be carried, enwalked, a few weeks ago, from tertaining but little hopes of his Aketon, a village, near Kendal, | fafety. in one day, (a diflance of more than fifty miles), and, what is ftill more remarkable, without any confiderable fatigue. He has often done the fame thing, and, is in the habit of walking jouneys of equal length. There is alfo another inftance of extraordinary activity at another village near Wigton. A person of the name of Stothard, walks once or twice a year from hisdwelling to Whitehaven, where he purchases flax and other articles in the way of his trade, and returns home within the twentyfour hours! The journey is more than fixty miles, exclufive of what his business may require him to walk in Whitehaven. SWIMMING. A black fervant belonging to Mr. Jay, who lately arrived in this kingdom, for the purpose of fettling the mifunderstanding between this country and America, took a boat a few days ago, with the intention of going below the Tower. When he came to London. bridge, he interrogated the wa terman refpecting the fafety of jumping into the river, and fwimming through one of the arches. The man told him that fuch an attempt would be attended with the moft imminent danger, the fall of water at that time being very great. This information by no means fatisfied Blackey, and, taking off his cloaths, he, on the inftant, plunged into the roaring tide, The boatman, ftruck with terror and amazement at fuch a daVOL. 1V. No. XXII. To his aftoniment, however, he had no fooner gained the other fide of the bridge, than he beheld the black head of Mungo above water, in the midst of the strongest part of the current, the eddy of which frequently carried him down beneath the furface of the ftream in fpite of his utmost endeavours. He was, however, at laft taken into the boat, and from the account which he has given of the difficulties he had to encounter when in the water, we may reft affured that he will not again bẹ fond of venturing upon an expe riment which carries with it fo much real danger. A few days fince, at an ale. houfe in Cork, a porter undertook, for the trifling confidera tion of half-a-crown, to fwallow a pint of lamp oil of the most rancid quality that could be procured, which he not only performed, but afterwards eat a roll foaked in another portion of the stinking oil, with great apparent relish. July 22, a battle for ten guineas a-fide, took place at South Molton, in Devonshire, between John Grenway, a Smith, of that place, and the noted William Snokell, of Dartmouth; Sidaway was fecond to Grenway, and Croweder to Snokell, on whom the odds were 7 to 4. Grenway gave the two firft knock-down blows. In the fourth round Snokell caught him by the hair, and gave him feveral unfair blows; at length Grenway having extricated himfelf, ftruck him fo defperate a blow on the left fide, and followed that with another on the bead, that he was car of five guineas for the difcovery of the perfon who killed his dog. A fine filver eel of an uncommon fize, was lately taken in Lewes river, near the Pier-head, by two gentlemen who exercised more than ordinary ingenuity to fave this extraordinary fifh, which they firft dexterously pierced between the tail and vent, and then introduced a rope through the orifice, and by means thereof hauled it into their boat. The above eel measured in length four feet and an inch, in girth twelve inches, and weighed eleven pounds and a half. It was next day fent to camp, as a prefent to Colonel Pelham, and introduced at the mefs difhed up in a manner that would have feafted the most dainty epicure. A few days before an eel of nearly the fame dimenfions and weight as above, was caught in the fame place; and the two are fupposed to have been male and female, and very old inhabitants of that part of our river. COCKING INI ELLIGENCE. URING the late races at ried off the field fenfelefs, which D Stamford, the main of cocks terminated the battle. LEWES, JULY 21. A valuable white pointer-dog, belonging to Lieut. Wharton, of the Royal Lancashire Militia, has been lately maliciously and wantonly killed, 'tis fuppofed by fome of the foldiers at camp, as the dog's carcafe has been found in a field near Shoreham, with feveral bayonet wounds about it. The lieutenant offers a reward fought between the gentlemen of Lincoln and Liecefter, was a drawn one. The main of cocks fought between the Duke of Hamilton, (Small, feeder) and James O'Callaghan, Efq. (Sunley, feeder) at the late races at Newcastle-uponTyne, was won by the former, 5 a-head. His Grace winning 19 main, and 3 byes, and Mr. | O'Callaghan, 14 O'Callaghan, 14 main and 9 byes. POETRY |