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it2th, the news of his MaissTY Irkving gone on board the W I N DSO R CASTLE, but took care to hinder it from becoming public, lest it should be supposed that some violence had been offered to his MAJZSITV, which might have produced disturbance. 44 I took measures," says he, " that none should receive before myself, the n ews which the mail would bring on the 13th, in order to prevent the consequences. In the midst of hope and fear this happy day arrived ; at five in.the morning I r e. eeived his MAJESTY'S Decree, the Proclamation, and the notice, which your Excellency ordered to be published." The General then states that he called together the Bishop, the Magistrates, and the Commanders of the Cor p s; orders were issued for the troops to assemble in the principal square, where the official documents above zentioned were read to the troops, and an immense vowd of the inhabitants, by all of whom the good rxws was received with an enthusiasm and transport Lot to be described. The city was generally and spon vi„eotrily illuminated. Expresses were immediately di,patchea to all parts of the Province, and to the Ge tarals in Minh() and Tras os Montes. A letter from Viscount PESQUEIR A, Governor of Minho, dated the 13th, informs the Marquis de PA L SIt.I.LA that he has published the orders sent by his I:,, c ellency, dated the 10th ; that the Province is per fectly tranquil; and the troops and their Officers, always faithful to his MAJESTY, protest that they recognise no other authority. The Gazette of the 21st of May contains an account of the tejoi6ngs at Odorto on the KING'S birth-day. By the arrival of a Jamaica Mail with Papers to the `2oth of April, and New York Papers to the 3,1 of May, ►ve have a mass of intelligence from Col►►tnbia. The news from Bogota is to the Bth of March, and is deci sive as to the fate of at least one of the Republics of South Amelica. -- - The British Commissioners who sailed fro n Ja maica in the Iris, reached &Teta on the 21st ult. and, on the Sth instant, were presented to the Vice-President SASTANDER, by the Minister of Foreign ltektions. His EKcellency received the Commissioners in state ; he was surrounded by all the other Members of the Executive, and by all the Civil and Military Officers; the Minister from the United States attended x% ith his suite. The peech of the Vice-President, in welcome of the Com missioners, was much in point for an occasion so honourable; and now we can congratulate our Readers on the rise of Colombia to the sovereign rank of nations. Colonel HAmit.•rov. in a most happy choice of word;, then presented to the Vice-President, in the name of the KrNo of ENGLAND, a splendid gold snuff box, enriched with diamonds, stating that he had x present also for General Boi.tvA a. The Colonel concluded by assuring the Vice- President, that no Foreign Power on earth :bold interfere with the political situation of Colombia. Congiess had not met, but there wanted only the arrival of two more members of the Senate to complete the number prescribed by the Constitution, in oi der to commence the sittings. Mr. HENDFRSON, the Consul for Colombia, had not arrived at Bogota. Such is the intelligence from Colombia, in the Jamaica Papers. A New Yo►k Paper, of the 2.1 of May, gives, on the autho rity of advices from Porto Cabello, via Curacoa, the following intelligence: Mimi and LENO GA LLORADO (both coloured people) being dissatisfied with BOLT VAR and the other Chiefs of the Republic, had, in connection with a number of others, laid a plan fur a revolt. Haying confidence in General PAEZ, the abovementioned persons communi cated their designs to hint, when he informed them that if they would state the reasons of their discontent, and the names of the individuals concerned, he would re present their case to Government, and obtain redress. A list of the leaders was handed to him, when he had them all immediately taken up at Caraccas and sent to Calabozo, where they were all executed, including Thzu and G A ta.onano."—A vessel had arrived at King ston from Alvarado (Mexico,) having sailed from thence on the 27th March, at which time no event had occurred to interrupt the tranquillity of that part of Mesico. No advices appear to have been received from the capital. Some reports have been circulated that CAN TAitAc, the Spanish General, was likely to gain the ascendancy in Peru; but they are entitled to little no tice, as they are found to depend solely on oral infor mation, and mention nothing of the situation of the two ai mies. The last advices from Lima, at all to he de pended upon, ate dated the 20th of December, and it was then stated that the campaign, owing to the situa tion of the Country, could not commence before the be ginning of March ; in which interval, on account of the well-known attachment of CANTARAC to the Constitu tional cause, it may be expected, as soon as he should hear of its overthrow in Spain, that an arrangement lietwecn him and BOLIVAR would take place. It is :aid that Generals CAN TA RAC and LA SER N A had called a meeting of the principal Officers under them, when a resolution was passed never to recognize the absolute gmernment of Spain. Immediately after this military ctuncil,a Colonel was dispatched to the Congress of Peru. It is stated in a letter from Lima, of the 19th of Ja iy,tary, that BOLIVAR, with the approbation of Congress, Lad dispatched the Conde DE SAN DENA with proposi tions to the Spanish General, in the hopes of an amica ble at i angcment. The Baltimore American says,-- '• the brig Torpedo, which has arrived at Baltimore, •l days from Rio Janeiro, we learn that tl►e frigate United States ars ived at Rio on the 10th of February, and saiiesl on the 17th for the Pacific. Three Brazilian ships of war sailed about the Ist of March to blockade t:ie port of Pei nambuco. An English 80-gun ship saled on the 10th of Nlarch for Lima ; a French fri gate sailed at the same time. There were in the port of R 7 o an English 74, and five French frigates and sloops of war." Government have received Dispatches from Jamaica, but not of so late a date as the intelligence by the Mail, being only of the 17th of Api il, at which time the Island was perfectly tranquil. TILL' ALGERINES. It appears, by the following extract from a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Genoa, dated the 21th May, as well as from a statement in the Piedmontese Gazette of the 22d of May, that our convoys had fallen in with some Algerine cruisers. a GENOA, MAY 24. " We have now to acquaint you, that Stefana Capola, master of the brig N. S. del Carmina, under the Sardi nian flag, who a! rived here lately from Girgenti, has reported to us, that on the 30th ult. from the heights of that place, was discovered a num2rous convoy of ves• sels ; and that on the Ist instant, about five o'clock A.M. the report of sundry guns was heard, which at first was token for a salute; but as the firing of cannon became more fr equent, and the report of several broadsides wer e distinctly heard, they supposed it to be an action fought by some men of war, but could not discover of what nation, as they were too far distant; they could only see the smoke in a southerly direction ; the wind was S.S.E. The report of cannon lasted for about four hours, but could not learn any result. The same Master aids, that by the arrival of a sperowara from Malta, they learnt that a convoy of seventy sail of vessels had sailed from that port to the westward, under the escort of a brig of war, and that soon after two frigates had likewise made sail, which made them conjecture that the convoy had fallen in with some Al gerine men of war." The Yied►nontese Gazette says information had been received, that on the 30th of last month some vessels were seen near Girgenti, but they were at too great a distance from the coast to distinguish what nation they belonged to. At day-break, on the Ist of Maya heavy cannonade was heard, and the people on shore thought they could count 100 shots and five broadsides; after this combat, which continued from sun-rise till half an hour past seventeen (Italian time), the vessels sheered towards the west. We have not learned any further particulars. COVEAT-CiARDEN THEATRE. After the new Comedy of (.'lades tlw &anal, or the Merry Mo narch, a Meloslrame was produced for the first time, entitled, Tice Castellon's (lath. The scene is laid in Poland, and the outline of the plot is as follows: Winceslaus, the former King, bad deposed his elder brother, Otho, but on his death bed he repents, and requests that his bro th ther's son, Albert may succeed him. This, however, is frustrated', by his own son, \Vinceslaus, who causes Allicrt to be confined in the , Castle of the Castellan of Lemberg. The Castellan, however, ' favours the Prince, and his wife procures his escape, but he returns to voluntary confinement on finding that his absence was likely to ! cost his protector's life. A set of patriotic Robbers, however, un dertake to rescue their legitimate Prince, and the piece concludes with the succc s of their enterprise, and his restoration to the Throne, amid , t the shouts and plaudits of as miserable a crew as ever greeted a Monarch, not excepting even Wat Tyler and his men-at-arms. The house was exceedingly crowded, and the Piece was very favourably received. ROY AL YACHT CLUB. COWF JUNE 4. At a Meeting of this distinguished Society, on the let instant, at Cowes, six new Members were added to the list by ballot. Two candidates were unsuccessful, from their qualifications being defec tive—one yacht being tinder twenty tuns, and the certificate of re gistry of the other bearing Leo names as owners, instead of one. The Honorary Members were three Admirals and 18 Captains. The im portance of the Royal Yacht Club, independent of the Royal and dignified names in the list, may well be estimated from the known fact, viz. that dte aggregate tonnage of the yachts amounts at this time to nearly 5,000, and that 500 seamen are employed in navi gating the sante. The Pearl Cutter, for the first time since her new outfit, with the Marquis of Atint.Estv on board, appeared in Cowes Roadstead this morning, in the full plenitude of superior beauty and appear ance, having all sails set, with a gentle breeze front the N.E. The Sabrina, Jamas Maxsz, Esq. is nearly fitted, and will go out of harbour and proceed to London, to take her owner on board, in a few days; and THOMAS A. SMITH ' Esq.'s Jack-a-Ltntern, is ex pected front Hastings next week. The Duke of Noiroi.es Swal low has not yet made her appearance, but is hourly looked for, his Grace having taken the King's late house at Cowes for the summer. The great arrangements making for the Regatta, now fixed for the 18th cf August, bespeak a very gratifying display, and front the private contests that are to take place, the whole aquatic business this year must prove unusually interesting. COURT OF KING'S BENCH-THIS DAY. LIBEL.THE KING V. COWLING. Mr. TELFORD opened the pleadings, and stated that this was an indictment brought by the plaintiff, Hilton Jolliffe, Bs* the Mem ber of Parliament for Peterstield, against the defendant for a most scandalous and malicious libel, reflecting on his (plaintiff's) charac ter, in a placard of which the defendant did not deny being the author and publisher. Mr. John Wells sworn, examined by Mr. Scartarr. I saw the defendant in Russell-street, Bloomsbury, and asked him how he got on with Mr. JoMile, he said he had been annoying bins with diffe rent letters, and if 1 would go with him, be would give me one, adding, that he had distributed several of them. Cross-examined by the Defendant.—Upon your oath did you not come tin purpose to obtain that bill from me? Witness.—Cer tainly not. I have heard defendant say that Mr. Jolliffe had op pre,ed him and his family very much, but never heard that Alr. Julie: offered to allow him a certain suns per annum, but heard the defendant say so. Defendant—Now, candidly, say whether you have not heard it, at various times, irons different persons, whether I was not the most injured man in the kingdom ? Witness—l have heard it from others, but don't know it as a fact. _ . . Detendant —What do yea receive for coming here to give evi dence ? Witness.—What is necessary on such occasions. The defendant then addressed the Jury from a wtitten paper, which was couched in the most vindictive language against Mr. Jolliffe; it accused him of perjury, in getting possession of the estates, which, he maintained, belonged to him, as the heir descen dant; and also that Mr. Jolliffe had nude about 50,0001. in selling seats in Parliament to different ambers. _ Mr. Justice LlTTLi.nacs summed up the evidence, and the Jury, without hesitation, found the defendant Guilty. WINDSOR, JUNE 4.—The KING took an airing in his phaeton this morning in tae Ride in the Park. His MADZSir stopped at the Royal Ledge for some time, the alterations in which are nearly completed.—A new grand gateway and entrance to the Castle front opposite the Long Walk, is beginning to be built, ' which, when finished, will have a grand effect. His Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE, during his aquatic excursion to Plymouth, in the Rotel: Sussman!: yacht, has inspected the Breakwater, the Dock-yard, the Citadel, and other places, std reviewed the Royal Marines and the 77. J Regiment of Foot and 711 Regiment of loot Guards. On Tuesday his Royal Highness partuA of a most sumptuous dinner, given by the M eer, of that Regiment, at the Devonpurt Hotel. The dinner was served up in the best style, with every delicacy the season could afford ; the room was elegantly decorated—the company amounted to about 50, amongst whom were Sir JAMES &LUDLUM/ (Port Admiral), Sir Joan CAMseON (Lieutenant Governor), Captain FIT/CLARENCE, and several other Naval and Military fficers.— On Wednesday his Royal Highness dined with the Members of the 'Plymouth Royal Navy Club, at Whiddon's Royal Hotel. His Royal Highness sleeps on board the yacht. and !loyal salutes are dyed at each embarkation and disembarkation. THE ARMY. Orders hive teen recently issued from the Recruiting Depart ment, in Westminster, to the different recruiting parties through out Great Britain and Ireland, to discontinue the further enlist ment of men for the new levies, these Coips having completed their respective establishments. The recruits belonging, to the new Regiments, which are at pre sent in Ireland, are ordered to embark forthwith at Cork and Dub lie, for England, for the purpose of joining their respective Corps. The new Regiments, it is understood, will proceed, in the Spring of the ensuing year, to foreign stations. A detachment of recruits marched this day from Westminster, to Winchester, Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight. The 2d (or Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot is ordered to ens ' bark for England, on board the transports that conveyed the 54th (or Cumberland) Regiment of Infantry, front Portsmouth to Dub lin. The second division embarked on Tuesday. It has been rumoured that Lord COMMER3tEIIt is to proceed to. India as Commander of the Forces in that country ; and that Sir TimmAs Hrst.or is to succeed to the command in Ireland. The 2d division of the ilst (Highland Light Infantry) Regiment has embarked on hoard the Cato and Prince of Orrnge transports, and sailed from Cork for Canada. NATAL I.'l I.I.,LItiE.N'CR. Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Pernambuco, dated 9th April :—" The Oporto Packet arrived from London oi , the 7th inst. The munitions of war will be taken from the vessel, and then allowed to enter the port. The togniac Packer, from Liverpool, was warned off yesterday, and proceeded from Bahia. The Commodore of the Brazilian vessels of war has sent notice to the British Commodore and Consul, stating this port is under strict blockade. The notice was dated on the 7th, and delivered on the sth inst." Arrived off Holyhead, the Albion, Swaissoa, from Bengal ; Bee, M' Bums, from Pernambuco; John Ileyes, —, from 13ar badoes ; and Majestic, Pace, from Charleston. The Hsnaen ha: been ordered to be fitted as a yacht, for the purpose of conveying Ambassadors. Captain 11. I. I.i.KKE is ap• pointed to coninmod her. Mr. 34iNN SHEA, to he Purser. She wa. commissioned at Portsmouth on Thursday. The JUPITER, Captain DUNN, went nut of Portsmouth harbour on Tuesday. Rear-Admiral Lax*: is expected to hoist his flag on board her in the course of a few clays. The Sraiiieowiia.w, lc, Captain the Honourable R. S. Demos, is refitting with all dispatch for the South American station. She is expected to sail from Portsmouth in the cruise of the ensuing week. The CaLiaory has returned to Spithead, from a cruise. The CHAMPION and ORESTES will be immediately commissioned at Portsmouth; and the PYLADES at Woolwich. Captain FEAD, Lieutenant E. 11. PACE, and Mr. Timm Purser, are appointed to the CHAMPION. Captain Lerciirtri.o, Lieutenant J. B.WiterzLocar, and Mr. T. Num.; Purser, to the ORESTES. FALMOUTH, JUNE s.—Variable light winds.—Off the port, the Riling Grove, FALCONER, in forty-one days from Demerara; Zealous, Run, in one hundred and fifteen days from Payta. Arrived the Duke of York packet, from the Brazils—sailed from Pernambuco the 9th April ; Duke of Marlborough packet, from Lisbon—sailed the ltd May ; Dove packet, from Jamaica—sailed the 90th April ; and Success, Boas'. from London. Sailed the Union, 13aostaasnaw, for London. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 4.—Wind N.E.—Off the Isle of Wight, the Iris, HOWL AND, in thirty-two days from New York, for London. Ships at SpitheadJUPlTEß, BLossoss, and CALLIOPE. In Har boUt7-• VICTORY, ALSION, WELLESLEY, BULWARC, ROYAL Groace, SESIA3PANG, NIEMEN, MEDINA, CERENE, HERALD, QUAIL, VIPER, LINNET, and SconeioN. DEAL, Just 4.—Fresh breezes.—Arrived and remain, the Mar shal Wellnigton, CLARK, from Jamaica; Prince Leopold, JAMES, from Campeachy ; and Essex, ASTON from Bourdeaux : also, and 1 sailed for the River, the Charles, MlLzia, from Tobago. Passed through from the River, the Dublin packet, STRANGE, for Valpa raiso; Maria, BIDRINS, for Newfoundland; Sceptre, ()an, for New Brunswick; Zephyr, PADDEN, for Valencia; and Janet, WlLsox, for St. Vincent's. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 3.—Arrived the New York, MAXM'ELL, from New York; and Charlotte, Gaoor, from Dantzic. Off the port, the Duke of Lancaster, --- ~ from Bengal. QuEsac, Arum 19. The Lake ice made its appearance on Thursday last. It has all passed, and the river is now perfectly clear. The large timber ship building at the island of Orleans caught fire, and nearly 40 feet of her length consumed. OLD BAILEY-THIS DAY. POST-OFFICE ROBBERY. William IV hallcy was put to the bar on an indictment charging him with unlawfully secreting a letter containing a -P.5 note, which had come into his possession by virtue of his employment at the General Post-office, and with putting the said note to his own use, against the statute in that case made and provided. Mr. Charles Cassini, Secretary to the Governor of the Military College, Sandhurst, proved sending a letter containing the note in question, on the Bth of March, directed to Mr. Cox. It was num bered 15,774. The Governor at the time was in Scotland. Roger Morrison stated, that he was employed in a military ca pacity at the College. He proved putting the letter in the bag, and giving it to Richard Hammond. Richard Hammond proved taking the bag to Bagshot. William Smithers, of the Post-office, then proved unlocking the bag, and sending the letters to the Post-office in London. Mr. William Wood, Inspector of the London letter-carriers, proved that the prisoner was on duty on the 2d of April. J. Poppin proved taking the bag in on the 2d of April. J. Cox proved that he had never received the letter or the note. Charles Furen, proprietor of the Cambridge Coffee-house, proved changing the note for the prisoner, and marking on it the word " Postman." This took place on the 3d April. Mary Foren proved the same fact. The prisoner merely said he was innocent. Ile called five per sons to speak to his character, all of whom gave him a good one. Mr. Baron HULLOCK summed up the evidence to the Jury, who consulted for a few minutes, and then found the prisoner Guilty— Death. Yesterday Anne Simpson stood indicted for feloniously stabbing William Simpson, her husband, with intent to kill him. There were two other counts in the indictment, charging the prisoner with the intent to disable and do her husband sonic bodily harm. The hus band did not appear. Elizabeth Crawley, deposed—She lives at No. 2, Burton-lane; she knows the prisoner and her husband ; remembers being in com pany with them, at the White Hart, Shadwell, on the intli of May, about nine o'clock in the evening. There was another man with them, who is at sea at present. They were drinking grog together; they were very comfortable ; there was no other woman with them. 'The husband and wife appeared to be in good humour. The prisoner asked him to go home ; they got up and went out ; but the prisoner's husband again returned to the room, and had more grog. A young woman, of the name of Warren, an acquaintance of Simpson, and to whom he had given a bond before he went to sea, came into the room, and sat down at the table opposite Simpson, and began to speak to him. He told her to go away, and he went into another box. Warren continued to come backwards and forwards into the room while they were there. Shortly after, as witness was entering the room, she saw the prisoner strike her husband on the shoulder, but saw nothing in her hand; she heard so words between them. She afterwards perceived she had struck him with a penknife, and had left it sticking in the wound. lie cried out—" You have stabbed me !" and she then fell into a fainting fit, saying—" Oh, Gon! I have done it !" He caught her in his arms as she was falling. After this they went into another box, and they then seemed to be recon ciled to each other. It appeared a new knife, as well as she could judge. Very little blood came from the wound. Witness went to Simpson's on the Tuesday following ; the prisoner was dressing the wound and applying leeches to it; the prisoner cried, and the hus band forgave his wife, and did not seem to care much about it. William Campman, is a cutler, the prisoner came to purchase a penknife at his shop, about the end of April. She had one in the morning and another in the evening. She came again about a week after, and bought another. Richard Pullen is a surgeon. He examined the shoulder of Simpson, and found it punctured by a blow or a thrust. lie did not at the first moment ascertain the length and breadth of the wound, on account of its swelling. He went to Simpson's hous.• a few eve nings after, and the wound was more swollen ; he had occasion to probe it, and found that it was about an inch and a half in depth. The wound was in the fleshy part, between the spine and the sca pula ; he considered it, in his opinion, a dangerous wound. It took a fortnight to heal. Simpson is at sea, and thinks no more about it. Here Baron HULLOCK addressed the Jury. He said that it was his duty to tell them, that the facts of this case did not warrant the charges laid in the indictment. The wife expressed her sorrow and deep affliction at what she had done, and the husband skewed by his conduct that the injury he sustained was very slight, fur he forgave her and went to sea. Under these circumstances, he thought that the prisoner was entitled to their verdict of acquittal.—The Jury found the prisoner Kut Guilty. The prisoner seemed much affected at her situation, and cried lu cesuntly during the trial. SPORTING LVTELLIGENCE. EPSOM RACES—FaiDAT, JUNE 4. The Downs were yesterday graced by a company not so nume rous, but quite as respectable as on the preceding day. The ab' sence of the Bouracuis, in fact, seemed to afford considerable con solation to the das:ters lions the fashionable regions, who now trot ted backwards and forwatds, and occasionally promenaded on the Course with all the delightful mat chulance of a lounger in Hyde Park on a week dsy. There was no restraint—there were no ap prehensions of being shocked by the vulgar stare of a 'shopkeeper, or of having an eye knocked out by the well picked bone of a , knuckle of ham. All was select, genteel, and agreeable—and al -1 though a few parnals were cracked, a few wheels grazed, and not a few nerves shocked, still these misfortunes were incurred among toactrepauttolsks, and were therefore regarded as the mere ordinary consequences of that state of society which is so delightful to the :admirers of a midnight rout. In the early part of the day the bill behind the winning stand, and which commands so admirable a view of the Course, was not less crowded or less brilliant in its dispisy than on Thursday. The equipages were equally splendid, and the general coup &c ell was rendered still more imposing by the favourable state of the weather. It was a perfect Italian sky, and although the sun shone throughout the day with more than a genial warmth—its heat was tempered by a gentle and continuous breeze, alike grateful to the company and the cattle by which they were drawn. After the first race for the Oaks the gay multitude moved down from their elevated situation to the side of the Race Course, where they continued in active motion till the sports were ended, which was net till half-past six o'clock in the evening. Among the throng we noticed his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, the Marquis of Hertford, the Duke of Newcastle and horny, Earl Geosvenor, Earl of Derby, Lord Cardigan, Lord Harlscrough, Lord Deerhursr, Lord Verulam, Lord Wilton, Lord Walscourt, the lion. L. Stanhope, Sir Francis Burdett, Lord Jersey, Lord George Cavendish, Major Ormsby Gore, Captain Jones, &C. There were three or four of the old Four-in-hand Club present, who reminded us, by the compact neatness o f th e ir" turns out," and the pleasing dexterity of their whips, of the " gone by" days of Salt Hifi. The principal attraction of the day was the Race for the Oaks Stakes, 50 guineas each, 3 years old fillies; the last mile and a half.—The weights and regulations for this race are suth eieutly known ; and in point of betting, the speculations are hardly les; iinnwrons than on the Derby ur St. Leger. There were 41 subscribers, but of these thirteen horses only ran, including— . . Mr. Turner names f. Cobweb. D. of Grafton's f. Rebecca. Id. G. A. Cavendish :6 b. f. by Orville. Mr. Turner names Ms. Goddard's f. Pedigree. Mr. Walker names Mr. Forth's b. f. Miss Jigg. 14 Derby's hi. f. Lady Eleanor. Duke of Grafton's f. Tiara. Id Verulam's f. by Comui. Mr. Rogers names Mr. Prendergast's, by Soothsayer. Mr. Walker names Mr. Peel's gr. f. Pal le de Joie. Lord George Cavendish's I'rincipessa. Cobweb, which has been the favourite for some time back, kept her station, and such at length was the confidence manifested in her superior speed, that she was backed at six in four ago the field —odds of a fearful nature when the number of competitors was considered. She is the property of Lord Jersey, although named by Mr. Turner, and in her appearance and frame, is calculated to confirm the confidence with which she was regarded. The next favourite was Rebecca, but the odds against her were 4to 1. Mr. Peel entertained great hopes of his filly File de Joie, and took the odds against her with freedom. The result of the race justified his expectations. There was a good deal of delay in starting, in consequence of Rebecca having broken one of her plates (shoes) at the moment the first start was made. Doubts were entertained as to whether the race should be postponed till a new plate was obtained, but in con sequence of the Stewards not being on the spot, as the safest way, the start was postponed till the loss was repaired. It was half-past three before the race was run, and the contest was spirited. Cob web, however, vindicated her pretensions, and won cleverly by a full length. She teas close run in by FlUe de Joie. Two only were placed. Cobweb - I Fille de Joie - 2 Rebecca was the third. The winner was rode by Robinson. Lard Jersey seemed highly delighted with his success. The next race was for the Woodcot Stakes of 10 sovereigns each, with 10 sovereig ns added from the Race Fund, for 3 -yr-olds and upwards. The last half-mile. Mr. Pettit's gr. f. Bravura, 3 yrs old, 6st. 21b. - - 1 Mr. Page's ch. h. Mortimer, aged, Bst. 61b. - 2 The held was the favourite, and the race was uncommonly will run.—Two only were placed. The last race was for a Plate of 501. for '5-yr-olds, 6st. 71b. four, Bst. 21b. five, Bst. 91b. six and aged, est. The winner to be sold for 200 sovereigns. Two mile heats. This race was protracted to three heats, and afforded a good deal of sport. Mr. Rush's b. c. by Phantom, 3 yrs old - - 3 1 1 Mr. Nlesser's b. m. Norna, 6 yrs old - - 1 3 it Major Ormsby Gore's b. h. Cupp - 2 2 3 The colt won with ease, and was the favourite at the last start. Thus ended the sports fur this year, and though not so good as on former occasions, they proved snore attractive. There was a third-rate fight knocked up in the evening for the amusement of the Ralf, but it was not patronised by any persons of respectability, During the beats several pickpockets were caught nibbling at the pockets of the visitors, and immediately underwent summary pu nishment. One of them who was thus detected was compelled to run the mile and a half course, or, as it may he termed, to run the gauntlet, every injured or uninjured person who chose It giving hint a passing blow while running the heat. It was observed a better start never was made, for he stretched out into a full gallop, and never varied his pace till he arrived at the termination post, when he was suffered to depart. It was supposed he had received some injury during the time of running, as he walked away in a limping state with his near-tide foot. THE GREAT Ficsim—There was a great deal of betting oa this ' affair—three to one on Spring, who was again on the Course the ' whole of the day. AQUATIC PUGILISM. A fighting exhibition took place at the Swing-bridge, Lincoln, on Monday night. George Thacker, a neat-made amphibious biped, and Abraham Storr, a tall gipsy-looking navigator, both of them to appearance well cupped, bad a row on the edge of the river Witham. As their profession made it immaterial whether they fought on terraftrtna, or in their equally natural element the water, a contest took place in the ricer. The antagonists, after sparring a little on land, quickly struggled into the water, and both being very capital swimmers, a scientific set-to commenced : Round 1. George manoeuvred on his back. Abraham swam oa his belly ; and when the latter approached, George gave formidab:e lunges on the defensive with his legs. A hit was at last planted on George's left shoulder, which he repaid, by adroitly diving a h'o v at his antagonist's bread-room; a grapple took place, and both disappeared for a second under water, and rose a few yards asunder to take breath. 2. The water was very deep, and no remission of the exertion of swimming could be allowed, therefore a few minutes floating ensued to take breath. George at length spared towards his foe, and they swans at each other with all the impetus they could derive from strength, skill, and determination. A very spirited wrestling in deep water, with several mutual blows, sent them again to the bot tom, and separated them for the next round. 3. No time allowed by Abraham, who dashed and splashed at his opponent and bored him beneath him, ea :nacing his destruction by drowning. But George succeeded in dragging hint under water also, and both men arose very much distressed, having swallowed a deal of does.— Roth gasping. 4. George was again attacked by his more roomy opponent, whose size gave most power in the water. George, though an ad mirable swimmer, in vain struggled to sink himself and his antago nist, and was so much overpowered that he became nearly insensible. A man jumped into the river and rescued him from drowning, and both men were scarcely able to get sate on shore. It was some moments before Thacker recovered, and being proud of his familiarity with the water, he sheaved deep mortification at being foiled by his clumsy opponent ; he shortly again took the river, and challenged Starr, who, however, very prudently, was prevented from the contest, as ill blocd was very strongly mani fested on both sides.—Roth men, in this ecraordinary fight, were encumbered with their garments, which, though light, were a great hindrance to their exertions. The Kingston Ad artiser of the 19th ult. mentions the apprehension of a black named Baptiste, lot whom a reward of 100/. had been (•tfered by the Corporate Body. Baptiste is a native of St. Domingo., from which place be is supposed to have beers sent as a spy ; he is a young man, and speaks French, English, and Italian fluently. Some French papers were found upon him, but they appeared to be part of a French prayer• kook in manuscript. !~~ :.7f4 ~diu.