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Sporting Intelligence.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ON Saturday evening the 31ft

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of Auguft, as two gentlemen were returning from Kefwick to Cockermouth in a poftchaife and pair, one of the hotfes (which was young, and not fufficiently broken) took fright at the top of Lorton brow, where the road lies almoft upon the edge of a precipice, feveral yards in height, and nearly perpendicular, and against which there is no fence but a low hedge or wall. The unruly animal, dragging his companion, took a fudden leap over the hedge: providentially for the paffengers, the violent dafhing of the carriage against the hedge broke the harness; and, not lefs fortunately for the driver, who happened at the time to be fitting upon the fprings. -The carriage was of course left upon the road, and the paffengers and driver received no other injhry but from the fhock and the confternation natural to to terrifying a circumftance. The horfes rolled down to the bottom of the precipice, entang led in the harnefs. The fpirited horfe, which occafioned the mif. chief, beat upon his feet, and fuftained no hurt; the other fell upon his back, and died in a few minutes.

FIRST OF SEPTEMBER.

Yesterday, numerous detachment of Sporting Cocknies marched out before day-break, by ftatutable authority, and, according to annual cuftom, waged war against all the poultry race within the purlieus of the metropolis! All the preceding day, being Sunday, was devoted to the pious work of collecting curs, ponies, guns, powder-horns, flints, hot, bags, VOL. IV. No. XXIV.

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touch-hole prickers, and other implements of deftruction, for this univerfal warfare. The young ladies of Cheapfide were bufily employed in cutting paper to hang at their brothers buttonholes.

Several of the most determined hots, who have been on fervice before, fept on their arms the night before, that they might not be caught napping by their more vigilant affociates: the cowkeepers and little farmers in the neighbourhoods of Hackney, Iflington, Clapham, &c. very prudently drove in all their pigs and poultry, to prevent their falling into the power of the common enemy! The platoon-firing commenced with the dawn of day, through the free-warren of Lambeth-marsh and Cold-bath-fields, when the whole line round the fuburbs went to it pell-mell, keeping a running fight till broad noon day, when the fire-flackened, and the dextrous rifle-men, Aluflied with victory, marched into cantonments in the circumjacent public-houfes !

We are forry to hear that fome old women were frightened to death, under a tale idea of a French invafion. Thofe who had little children to fpare, very pa. rentally fent them out early to pick flowers in the fields, as the fureft means of having them provided for.

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Mr. Walliam's gr. h. Ruffian., and a fine he ass, belonging to a

This race, upon which confiderable bets were depending, was well contefted, and won with difficulty. We hear the above whip will be run for annually, the first week in September, by horfes belonging to the gentlemen of the Ampthill hunt.

Sept. 11, On Hackney Downs was decided the pigeon-fhooting. match for ten guineas, Meffrs. Hoole and White against Meffrs, Tomlin and Littleton, at ten pigeons, which was lost by the latter gentlemen, the adverfe fide killing every bird. The fport afforded entertainment to a genteel company, Among the num. ber of good hots prefent, were Mr. Vernor, Mr. Bottomley, Mr. Childs, &c.

John Ward and William Treble, two well known pugilifts, returning to town a few nights fince, in a chaife cart, were stopped near Acton, by a fingle highwayman, who demanded their money; and notwithstanding Ward told him who they were, the robber ftill perfifted in his demand, faying, he paid no refpect to perfonages, and obliged thofe two mighty heroes to

deliver the contents of their pockets, which amounted, on the part of Ward, to half a crown and fome halfpence, and on that of Treble, to one guinea and a filver watch. They had proceeded a very little way farther, when they were attacked by three footpads, who, on being informed they had just been Spoke to, permitted them to go on.

The Doctor Grigbys of the metropolis, have not been veryfortunate in their sporting perambulations, except a few geefe

man in the neighbourhood of Ratcliff-highway, no other game. has been fprung between the Tower aud Limehouse; not one partridge has been feen, even amongst the ruins of the late fire.

Lately, a compleat fet of changes was rung at Winflow, Bucks, by a fet of ringers who have not been together fince the year 1755. One was abroad in the years 1759 and 1760, under the Prince Ferdinand; another has been abfent many years; the affistant to the tenor was likewife with them; and many gentlemen went to fee thefe veterans exhibit. They are, one with another, about 59 years of age.

At the late Machynlleth races, the gol. purfe was won by Dr. Evans's horfe I'm Quick, beating Mr. Lloyd's ch. m. Stop_till I come, and Mr. Vincent Evan's horfe I'm done for.

PONEY RACE AT NORTHAMPTON
BURING THE RACES.

Mr. Odell's black poney Kitty, beat Mr. Benton's bay poney, Te-totum, at two 4-mile heats This was a moft extraordinary performance; for the highef of them (the black poney) is only 13 hands 2 inches, and the other

barely 13 hands; they ran the

first four miles, carrying 14 ftone each, in twelve minutes; and the fecond, (which was allowed to be a moft capital heat) in 131 minutes. And though the odds before starting the last time were 8 and 10 to 1 in favour of the black poney, he won but by about half a length. The winner has been in conftant meat for two years; the other had been but three weeks from grass.

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Sporting Intelligence.

The covies of patridges are more numerous this feafon than has been remembered for many preceding years, and the bird's are already in full ftrength, owing to the uncommon drynefs of the weather at the time of hatching; but the nides of young pheasants, it is feared, will be much injured by the late heavy rains.

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and even joined hands with her niece, another pure, blooming virgin of about his own age.

MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY.

A few days ago, at Richmond in Yorkshire, a maiden lady, aged 67, to a young gentleman aged 22; majority on the fide of the tender fair one, 45.-The gentleman had feveral thousand fubftantial reasons for this step.

THE ESSEX SPORTSMAN.

The ftables of the Margrave of Anfpach have at this time, at his villa near St. Albans, four score of the finest English hunters this country can produce his Highnefs keeps this immenfe ftud merely for parade, having feldom, if ever, mounted a fingle horfe fince his refidence in Eng-of a deer, after two days and a

land.

A young nobleman, recently enlarged from his confinement in tKing's Bench Prifon, paid a vin fhortly after to a celebrated house in St. James's Street, out of which he came minus feventeen thousand pounds.

The equeftrian promenade of the Turkish Ambaffador's fuite is from the Circus turnpike to Blackfriars bridge, and back again, on fine days. They ride on the great Turkish faddle, and at a pace of about a mile an hour with pipes in their mouths. The heads of their horfes, which are beautiful ftallions, are ornamented with crimfon taffels, and the ftirrup, covered with Morocco leather, is large enough for a cradle for a child in the month.

A few days ago, a pure Effex virgin, in her 75th year, actually died in a fit of the utmoft anguish and defpair, for the lofs of her inconftant lover, a thoughtless roving youth of 60, who, it appears, had given preference to,

A game-keeper and ranger, not 100 miles from Terling, laft month, in bushing fome fields for the prefervation of game, they by chance fell upon the flot

half hard traverfing, for thirty miles round the country, floted him into a field belonging to a Mr. Ely, and after collecting a number of idle hands, they befet the field around, and brushing. the fame, to their mortification and aftonishment out, brushed an aged old ram, which left the deluded sportsmen to retire without their prey.

GAME LAWS.

The following inftance of oppreffion and injuftice attending the remains of the Feudal Syftem may be relied on.

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A farmer renting a freehold had the misfortune to kill a hare upon his own grounds!, The lord

of the manor, inftead of being
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which he might have done before,
a juftice, was cruel enough to
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tion for debt and cofts, amount-
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and thrown into the King's Bench
Prifou, where he lay upwards of
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11 years;

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Sporting Intelligence.

11 years; and was only releafed by the operation of the late infolvent act!!!

An English lady of fashion, dreffed in the prefent ftate, is, literally fpeaking, no-body; and frange to tell, the full grown Miffes, naturally prone, as we might fuppofe, to matrimony, feem determined not to have any body. It is prefumed, however, that this determination will not laft long, and that, by next winter, at fartheft, they will have fome-body.

Amongst the prudent papas, the favourite toaft at this time is, The prefent fashion, of Our wives and daughters, viz. No wafe."

The dupe who keeps a blue chariot and equipage for his miftrefs, is the fcoff and ridicule of all the dafhing blades at the weft end of the town. The lady ufes no hypocrify in her infidelity, as before her ftupid paramour, The invites every day fome fon of Mars, from the fruit fhops or gambling houfes in Pall Mall, or St. James's-Street, to a jaunt in her lover's carriage.

Mrs. Eften has been delivered of a boy at Gordon Cafile; when the exprefs with this happy intelligence was fet off from Scotland to Duke-freet coffee-house, Edinburgh was not illuminated.

An unfortunate accident happened at Ludlow, the laft raceday: A fon of Mr. Lewis Coo· per, a fine youth about ten years of age, being on horfeback, the animal accidentally took fright, threw him, and fractured his skull in a most skocking manner; He was trepanned in three places,

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by Mr. Williams, and there are now very great hopes he will

recover.

In the lift of perfons guillotined at Paris on the 23d ult. under the direction of Robefpierre, we find the name of T. Ward, a native of Dublin, exgeneral of brigade in the army of the north. This gentleman was well known in the fporting circles in England, by the name of Captain Ward.

Some weeks ago, a dog belonging to a perfon of Wetheral, near Carlife, went mad, and bit his horfe, for which, after fome delay, the owner procured fome of the medicine ufually prescribed to fuch animals. This proved ineffectual; for the perfon having occafion to go to Carlisle on Saturday the 16th inftant, his wife, (in preparing the horfe for his journey) received a bite on the breaft from the animal. Not withstanding this, the man rode his horfe to Carlife, and turned it loofe in an inn-keeper's ftable, amongst a great number of other horfes; the confequence of which was, that feveral of them were bit; pads, faddles, &c, torn; and it is greatly feared, that most, if not all, the horses in the ftable were bit. The oftler was amazed at the unrulinefs of the horse, and though he did not fufpect the caufe was at length induced to confine him. The owner, finishing his bufinefs, ordered his horfe, and returned homewards; when the poor animal, labouring under that dreadful difeafe, pufhed forward in fuch an unusual manner, as to convince his rider at laft, that he was really mad. The animal was hot the next morning.

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