The female part of the Royal Family to resort, in the bathing season, to Queen's-ferry-the male to King's-ton-upon-Thames.

The Maids of Honour to the Queen, to Virginia water. Tax-gatherers to bathe at Long

reach.

The Venders of Quack-medicines to cleanse themselves in the river Ills.

Gamblers may bathe at Dicequay. But, should any of them, in consequence of inability to discharge their debts of honour, be obliged to fly the country, they are at liberty to make use of the river Maine.

Insolvent Debtors to bathe in the river FleetShould any of them go abroad to elude their creditors, the French river Durance is to be devoted to them.

Ladies of easy virtue to bathe at Porto Venero, in the Serpent-ine river, or the river Amour.

Professors of Music to be restricted, in the watering season, to the river Tone and Newfiddler

unmarried, to bathe in the river Amazons.

Spirits, as in "th' olden time, to be laid in the Red-sea. This is an excellent regulation, since, of late years, the publicans have been in the habit of laying their spirits in any water within their reach.

Such, Sir, are the principal provisions of the new Bathing Bill The general rules which it lays down, and the specification of particular places, at which various classes of society are to bathe, must, I am confident, be produc tive of great public benefit. I reAQUARIUS. main, yours, &c.

Water-lane, July 12.

P.S. I had almost forgotten to state, that it is not yet determined by whom the Bill shall be introduced. Some of the parties interested in its success, are desirous that it should be brought in by the Member for Water-ford-while others think it would be more proper to confide it to the care of Mr, Bath-urst.

AERIAL CHASE.

THE Sieur Krons, an ingenious

German, has for a considerable time past exhibited characters of a Russian Bear, a Dog, Henry IV. Alexander, &c. &c. in Piccadilly. These characters are stated to have been exhibited before Louis XVIII. and the Allied Sovereigns, at Paris, and have been a long time re-preparing to gratify the curiosity of English spectators. They are made of goldbeaters'-skin, and when painted and inflated with common air, weigh no more than half a pound, although in stature they very far exceed that of the human species.

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We understand that M. Krous had made many applications to several persons connected with the disposal of eligible situations, to exhibit this ingenious invention, but all in vain; and, at length, he was induced to announce the exhibition at, the Angel Gardens, Lambeth-walk. Monday, the 3d instant, being the day appointed for this novel display, the neighbourhood of Lambeth-walk was crowded with individuals, who were anxious to behold the experiments, at a cheap rate. We are sorry to say, the paying visitors were much less numerous than the novelty of the exhibition, or the ingenuity of the artist, deserved.

Soon after three o'clock, a small (or pilot) balloon was set afloat, for the purpose of ascertaining accurately the direction of the wind, which blew from the north-east. At this time a small dolphin was launched into the air; it took refuge in the branches of a tree, and an unskilful spectator, in endeayouring to extricate it, perforated, with the ferula of his umbrella, the gold-beater's skin of which it was composed-it was, of course, rendered useless.

About four o'clock, the wind blowing briskly, a boar, of an enormous size, was permitted to take the air. He never lost his equilibrium, but held his course straight forward, until he faded on the sight.

Some time elapsed before bis pursuer, a large dog, appeared, who mounted the sky, with wonderful velocity, amidst the shouts of the multitude. In each instance, the figure maintained a position completely perpendicular.

The populace, on the northern side of the garden, who were most impatient to behold the means by

which M. Krous dispatched his couriers to the upper world, now begun to shew strong symptoms of discontent and riot. They could not brook the idea of being excluded from the secret of inflationand, being puffed up with rage, they commenced an attack on the temporary paling by which they were excluded from a sight of the preparations, and very soon levelled it with the earth.

This piece of wantonness and cruelty cannot be sufficiently reprobated. The destruction of the paling, and the subsequent trampling on a kitchen garden, created an expence much greater than the receipts will answer. We are particularly sorry that such an occurrence should have taken place, since the conduct of the inhabitants of the French metropolis, when the Sieur Krous exhibited his aerial chase at Tivoli, near Paris, in September last, was peaceable and respectful. They permitted this ingenious artist to proceed, unmolested, with bis scientific process-they witnessed, with pleasure, the success of his exertionsand they sent him away liberally rewarded.

About six o'clock, Henry the Fourth ascended-above his head, for the purpose of maintaining a just equilibrium, a small balloon was fixed. The horse and his rider ploughed the air in a perfectly upright position, following the course of the dog and boar, and very soon disappeared.

Two of the aerostatic figures were found and returned to Sieur Krons. King Henry the Fourth was found on Wimbledon Common; and the dog was discovered in a wood in the park of Sir John Frederick, at Burwood, near Walton-upon-Thames.

A TREATISE on the Breeding, Training, and Management of HORSES, with Practical Remarks and Observations on Farriery, &c. To which is prefixed, the Natural History of Horses in general, and the Antiquity of Horse-Racing in England; to gether with an Appendix, containing the whole Law relating to Horses. By W. FLINT, an old Sportsman, well known on the Turf and in the Chase.

(Continued from page 117.)

SAYS our author, pa. 39, "By reducing the superfluous breadth of the shoe, their thickness may be increased without making additional weight, which to horses of good firm soles is a great advantage, particularly to hunters; the narrow shoe prevents him slipping; the broad one sucks or takes too great hold in wet ground: but certainly let the form of the shoe be on whatever plan it may, it ought, on the fore-foot, to be well nailed round the toe, and not at the beels, as it prevents expansion; but on the bind-foot it is of little consequence. All shoes ought to be considerably thicker on the outer quarter, it is a pretty certain plan to prevent cutting, which is not only painful to the horse, but dangerous to the rider, particularly if he speedy cuts. The cause of many fair goers cutting, is from being overweighted. It is a false notion to judge of a horse's power to carry weight by his size. A long stretched horse can never go through heavy ground, or face a hill with a close compact horse, with the same weight, although they may be equally well-bred.On the other hand, he has the advantage in leaping. I know an

instance, a striking proof of the correctness of this argument, by a trial of strength over York course, between two horses, the one a large powerful animal, considerably above sixteen hands; the other well proportioned, and scarcely fourteen hands and an half; the weight to be named by the owner of the large horse, who, to the astonishment of all present, fixed the weight at thirty stone, or four hundred and twenty pounds. They started with this cruel enormous weight, the little horse kept a steady pace the whole four miles, beating the other at least half a mile. Twenty to one was the betting against the winner. Another instance in favour of small horses carrying weight, is a horse of my own, only fourteen hands and three inches, who carried me three different four mile races in less than eight minutes and a half. I rode thirteen stone and two pounds. The numerous instances I could mention in favour of horses about fifteen hands, induce me to recommend that size for to bear fatigue.

"Faults and Defects.-A horse's shoulder should not be loaded; if he has a heavy shoulder, he can never move well; and a very thin shoulder, with narrow breast or chest, though he will have good action, is generally weak and more liable to be shook in those parts: a narrow chested horse turns his toes out, crosses his legs, and frequently cuts; by his unsteady motion he is as liable to stumble as a thick shouldered one, though not so liable to fall. If a borse is lame forward, it is generally said to be in the shoulder; but in my opinion, he is less liable to be lame there than any other part. Always examine the coffin joint and feet;

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but horses are more subject to be lame in their hinder limbs. The most certain rule to discover disease or lameness in the shoulder, is the motion of the fore arm. A horse may be hurt on the withers, at the point of the shoulders, or really shook in his shoulders; swim him frequently in very deep water; afterwards keep rowels in him to prevent humours from fixing, and turn him out, as rest is most essential for his cure.

"The principal colours of horses are the black, the brown, the bay, the chesnut, the grey, the roan, and the cream colour. Not any one can judge their perfections by colour, the choice is governed by the eye without any rule; for it is a very true saying, a good horse cannot be of a bad colour, though I think dark bays and browns with black muzzles, legs and feet, are certainly the most hardy. White legs and feet are a great denial."

Mr. F. counsels us, always to examine the coffin joint and feetthe latter we can examine, but how the former, placed as it is and concealed in the interior of the foot?

We suspect a deception in the plan of weighting horses in training, exercising them in the weight they are intended to carry in their race, and increasing the weight gradually. What difference such a practice may make we will not undertake to say, but believe, if any, it would be against the horse, whose strength and speed, we apprehend, are increased by the lightness of the weight carried during exercise. Suppose a horse in training for a twelve stone plate, or even for a race at twenty stone, it would scarcely be a hedge to either him or his proprietor, to

rattle him over the ground daily, with such, or any nearly approaching weight! This appears to be a mere copy of the old fallacy of shoes of advantage, of which we read in Christopher Baret and the ancient writers, who supposed that to train horses in thick and heavy shoes, must necessarily and wonderfully increase their speed, when they found themselves disincumbered, and in light plates upon the turf.

The carrot and liquorice mash is an aukward and useless superfluity, far more likely to disgust the palate of the horse, than to confer on bim any additional benefit. Nothing can be superior to the old malt mash, and as a strong recommendation, nothing more agreeable to the horse's relish. Chalk, 'moderately used, is good for the purpose, as recommended, as also ent chaff, but too much, or probably any clover chaff, may be improper for racers. The grinding corn for horses, has long been a disputed point. Beyond all doubt, the horse which does not sufficiently chew and masticate whole corn, will do so still less with that which is broken, but it may be urged, that the need of mastication in the latter case is not so great.

Orthography has not been well attended to in this publication. As one proof, the author writes, p. 46"rectabago, or Swedish, commonly called yellow turnip." Now such is both vicious, indeed very curious, orthography, and lame definition. The Swedish name of the turnip intended, which is rutabaga, is, at no rate, commonly called yellow turnip, although the yellow Swede be the best. The Scotch is generally called the yellow turnip. Linseed indeed might soften the lungs, could it get at them, whilst

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