Star. — London, England, 1820-12-14 00:00:00

SPORTING 'INTELLIGENCE. •; • CAPTAIN HOLTS MATCH. . This pedestrian, who started to go on fodt SOO miles in eve days, for a bet of 200 guineas, reached near Mariboraith en the first day, some miles over the 60, and he intended going into Dorsetahire yesterday; and if he could reach Poole by f circuitous route through Salisbury, it would make his full 6Q miles of ground. • Ir• ROYAL HUNT. Monday morning his MAJZITY'S stag !sounds turned ;fowl a fine deer on Farnham Common, for the day's diversion ; the deer at first went with great speed through the enclosures by Stowe Park and Bayles, towards Slough and Upton, taking by the left to Racket, where he leaped out of one garden into •another for some time. From thence - he took to the Thames, where he got into the height to the right of Datchet Bridge, but was soon driven out, when he took soil, and swam to the Wind sor side of the Thames, where he immediately made a leap over the Park wall into the Little Park. The huntsmen and yeo men pricker' and suite came over Datchet Bridge; the deer at this time was only followed by a group of people otA foot, it being some time before the huntsmen and hounds could get into the Park to renew the chase. The horsemen came round the wall through Windsor at full speed, and informed the people that the deer was in the Little Park, and hundreds of spectators ran towards the Castle to witness the apart. At this time the deer leaped over the iron gate by the side of the Terrade ; then ran past the Castle and Upper Lodge towards the town, where he was headed by some persons on foot. He then turned up the hill, and ran towards the Castle. The huntsmen and hounds now came up ; be made a halt, and attempted to leap ever the iron railing in front of the Castle wall, when he unfortu nately hung by the middle on the railing, which caused his death. Hundreds of spectators on foot and horse were present at the death of the deer BOXING. The match between Harry Burton, the tinman, and Thornton, the Warininster butcher, took place on Monday, for 100 guineas aside, in a ten acre field belonging to Captain PHILLIPS (Thornton's backer), at Hurst, near Strathfieldsay, Hants. The combat ants, who are in respictable life, met to fight out a grudge, rather than to aspire to fame as boxers, and Moth meant mischief at going in. Burton was se conded by Harry Ford, and Thornton by Gee, Capt. r. Lt PS'S groom. In the first round many heavy blows were thrown away from over anxiety to take the lead; but at length a stand was made, and some heavy tvistycastors were exchanged. Both proved game receivers ; they closed and separated four times, until at length a severe struggle took place at in-fighting, and they both went dowr. . 2. After a short pause, Thornton was met by a chattering blow on the side of the head, which floored him, and he laid as if he had been served out of one of llodges's two-gallon max cans. 5,4, 5: These rounds were in favour of Burton ;but, although his adversary had not rectivered from his stupor, Burton was d9abled sip by a heavy right-handed blow on the side, which seemed to set him asleep. 6. Both went heavy to the scratch ; they were inanimate from punishment and fatigue—both fell. A cessation of hostilities now took place for seve ral minutes, die ring being broken by the pressure of horsemen upon the people on foot ; a drawn battle •was suggested, but refused by the backers. 7. A very gallant round was fought, and heavy counter hits were exchanged at the head, until Burton was getting bland fast from the inclination of his head to swell. In the 9th and 10th rounds Burton was too blind to find his adversary, and in the 11th Thornton won it by a finishing body blow, which brought his adversary down upon his face.—lt was a game fight of forty-eight minutes. The renowned Tom Cribb, R.gent of right-handed facers, and undisputed Champion of all England, brought a little shrivelled tailor before Sir It. BAKER, on Tuesday, at Bow-street Office and charged hint with calling him, the said Champion, " A great big fighting covi:;" with exclaiming, " Oh ! that I was but big enough to whop you !"—and with frequenting his house, the Union Arms Tavern, Panton-street, for the purpose of abusing him, and annoying his company. In reply to this, the little tailor looked up in the Champion's face, and humbly begged his par don, promising most solemnly, before his Worship, never to offend in like manner again. Cribb's sentiments are well known; h. , who has so often stood unshaken before the stoutest hearts In the ring, could not withstand this pathetic appeal, but, relax ing his features into a smile, bt confto.sed himself appeased, and .the tailor was discharged. Mr. LOCKHARTS black b. Lustre, was this year the winner of the silver goblet at the Bowers Cours ing Meeting ; Mr. KENT'S y. b. Kotzebue, the silver collar ; and Mr. Tntsout's Tulip, the • first prize of the silver cup and cover. ANNUAL CATTLE SllEw.—Yesterday afternoon, the fat oxen, cows, sheep, and pigs, intended to be shewn for the premiums of plate and gold medals, liberally given by his Grace the Duke of BEDFORD, and by the Smithfield Club, began to arrive in Mr. SADLER'S yard, in Goswell-street, to form the twenty. second of these annual exhibitions. Before dusk, the Duke of BEDFORD, the Marquis of TAVISTOCK, the Earl of BRIDGEWATER, and several other dis tinguished breeders of cattle and sheep, had sent in stock ; and from the notices to Mr. SADLER, an un usually full exhibition was to be expected. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—During the examina tion of a female prisoner, last week, at Bath, for rob bing the lodgings of a chairman of an unmarked Silver table-spoon, which the woman had pawned, the man was asked by the Magistrate if he could swear to it ? to which he replied in the affirmative ; and on being desired to state how he came possessed of it, be said, that about two years ago he met it dog in the street with the spoon in his mouth, and suc ceeded in getting it from the animal. This story, however improbable, proved to be the fact ; for, upon further inquiry, it was found that the spoon in ques tion was stolen from a greasy dripping:pan, about the time mentioned, by a strange dog, which got into the kitchen of Mr. lstitn, a linen-draper, and the chairman was able to identify the spoon, by the marks of the dog's teeth on the handle, and the spoon was of course claimed by Mr. BIRD as his property. So that the dog stole the spoon from Mr. BlRD—the chairman robbed the dog of it—the woman stole it fidm the chairman—and the right owner got it again after having lost it two years. BURGLARY.—Four fellows, well armed, forced an entry into the back part of Mr. Major's cottage, Eal ing-row, on the north of the Bayswater-road, at dusk on Sunday evening. Mr. Major was reading in the parlour, when he heard one of the maid-servants shriek in the kitchen on the ground-floor; on going to the door, he was met by one of the thieves, who fastened him in the parlour, without offering further violence. There was another female servant in the house, who made her escape when the robbers en tered, and, suspecting resistance, they made a pre cipitate retreat across the fields towards Paddington, carrying with them a time-piece and six silver spoons. Thursday se'nnight, the Church of Carbrooke, in Norfolk, was broken into, and all the plate, surplice, communion-cloth, &c. stolen. And on Monday se'n night, or early next morning, the Church at Eaton was broken into, and a surplice, the green cloth from off the communion-table, a pewter basin, and several Y. aver-books from the pews, were stolen. LAO' litiviittatzga. COURT OF KING'S WICH, DECEMMIIt 13. THE 41101EPORATION Of HEADING V. VINES, SEN. Mr. &ARM= stated, that this was an action to try tLe right of die Corporation tocertain ,tolls taken :by them.on all corribrought to that Borough Mar- . ket for sale. This demand on the part of the Cor poration was founded on several Charters, granted at different periods, all confirmed by the last Charter granted. The privilege claimed was, to take toll in kind, in the proportion of a luart for each quarter of corn, of any description, brought to Reading Mallet for sale. This right originally belonged to the Abbot and Monastery of Reading, and, at the suppression of that religious house by Henry yin. the right was transferred to the Mayor and Corpo ration. This was a question tried and settled by tile Decree of the Court of Exchequer, in the reign of James I. The toll in the present case was not, as is usual, taken from the buyer, but from the seller. The usage had been, when corn was brought to the Market in bulk, for the Officer of the Corporation to watch the sale of it, and when it was about to be delivered to the buyer, to call out, Toll, toll," and then dip in his measure, and take the toll, at the rate of a quart for each quarter. If the sale was made by sample, then the seller was bound to send to the buyer a separate parcel of the grain, equal to the toll, on the bulk to be delivered to the buyer, as agent of the seller, to the tell collector. The Cor poration claimed toll not only on the corn sold in the Market, but also for all corn sold in any other part of the Borough, or delivered for consumption in the Borough. These tolls had been invariably taken and repeated ; leases granted of them to individuals by the Corporation; and it was °nil , recently that payment had been disputed, and that on the follow ing grounds :—The Jury were aware that the legal bushel was the Winchester bushel, of eight quarts to the peck, four pecks to the bushel, and eight bushels to the quarter; but it had been customary to use other bushels, varying in size, in various places. This had been found very inconvenient, and an Act of Parliament had.been recently passed, rendering it unlawful to use any other than the Winchester bushel. The inhabitants of Reading had been in the habit of using a bushel containing a larger quantity than the, Winchester measure; and on the Act in question being - passed, the farmers frequenting the Reading Nlar'ket considered themselves aggrieved, and con tended that they were only liable to pay a quart of corn for a quarter Reading measure, and not a quart for a quarter Winchester measure; and sever al of them refused to pay toll in any other way. The present defendant was amongst those who refused, and the Jury were.now called on to try this (:o the parties) important question. The Decree of the Court of Exchequer made in the reign of James I. deciding the right of the Cor poration to receive toll, was put in ; as were leases of the tolls to different individuals, from 1680 to 1813. The tolls were now in the hands of the Corpora tion. A number of witnesses were also called, to prove the payment of these tolls on wheat, barley, oats, peas, beans, and other grain, as far hack as living memory went: and also that the Corporation were at the expense of keeping the Market-place, several of the streets, and the bridges in the Borough, amount ing to 14 or 1.5 in number, in repair, with the pro duce of these tolls. 'ln ' X• tl! ,'• Mr. JERVIS, on the part of the defendant, did not . intend to contradict any of the facts proved by the plaintiffs, but he should deny the right altogether of the Corporation to these tolls. His Learned Friend had rested his claim on the Charter of Elizabeth, which, he said, gave this toll, belonging formerly to the Abbott of Reading, and falling into the hands of the Crown at the suppression of Monasteries by Henry VIII. to the Corporation. He should contend, that the Charter of Elizabeth gave no such toll. The Crown could derive nothing from the suppression of the Monastery of Reading, which the Monastery of Reading did not previously possess. The toll now claimed by the plaintiffs was what was called, in the language of the law, Thorough Toll. He would shew, by documentary evidence, that the Abbot of Real ing. never possessed a right to any such toll. All which the Abbot and Monastery of Reading had a right to, or were in the receipt of, at the time of the suppression, was the duty of package, stallage, or , tollage. That was, a toll for the standings of per sons at the weekly market, and four fairs, held in the Borough of Reading during the year. He would shew, that in the year after the suppression, as ap peared by entries in the Minister's books, the Crown re ceived, for cribbage and tollage, at the fairs in Read- 1 ing, 2 ts. 4d. and for the stallage or standing of divers, persons, at the weekly market, for one year, 7s. and by' a subsequent entry in the Minister's books, in the 4th of Edw. VI. the tollage received by the Crown from the Fairs appeared to be 2s. Id. and the sum paid by divers persons for stallage or standings for one year, in the weekly market, was 245. Tbis, he con tended, was all the right of toll which the Abbey pos'sesed ; all which came into possession of the Crown at the'suppression, and all which the Crown could grant. He was ready to admit, that the Mayor and Corporation were Lords of the Market of Read ing, and were entitled to a . stallage from the persons standing there ; but he denied that they had any right to the toll of a quart in every quarter of corn sold ; much less had they any right to the extensive claim they now set up of tollage on all corn sold in Read ing, whether the same was sold in the market, or other parts of the Borough, on market days, or any other days. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to put in a variety of documentary evidence, con-, sisting of Records and Charters, from the time of Richard I. downwards, and to examine witnesses in support of his statement. The Curer JUSTICE summed up, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs. OLD BAILEY, DECEMBER 13. Samuel Davies was indicted for stealing from the person of Henry Forley a watch and seals, on the 18th of November last. The prosecutor was passing through Long-acre on the evening of that day, and was run against by three men. The prisoner then forcibly took from his person the watch and chain. The prosecutor was extremely infirm from ill health, and was unable to make sufficient resistance to secure his property. The prisoner was afterwards secured] and brought to justice. Mr. B aron GAMY, ' in reciting the particulars et the case to the Jam expressed his surprise that the prisoner had not been capitally indicted.. The case Wa¢ one of considerable enormity. • The Jury found ?,,verdict —Guilty. Mr. Baron Gennow then addressed the prisoner, and told him that be might think himself fortunate that he had not been convicted upon a- capital charge, as in that case he would have received sem . . tence f death at the conclusion of the Sessions. — Considering the nature of the offence be had com mitted, he should think it his duty to punish him with the utmost severity allowed by the law. He might therefore expect to be sentenced to transporta tion for life.—Prisoner—" Thank you, my Lord f" The prisoner is a young man with a very hardened countenance. He seemed to receive the sentence with the greatest indifference. When the prisoner had retired from the bar, Mr. Baron GARROW observed upon the infamous con duct of the prisoner. If the Jury bad had no other knowledge of his character, the last sentence the prisoner uttered fully acquainted them with it. The prosecutor was allowed his expenses, and re ceived much commendation for his conduct. R. May, aged 17, stood indicted for having, on the 13th of October last, stolen from the person of T. Kidd, a domestic of Lord Wm. Gordon, a watch, chain, and seals, in Piccadilly: ' The prosecutor stated, that on the morning in question, he left his Lordship's horse to go to iqr. Fuller's, an apothecary, and the streets being crowded in consequence of an Address going up to the Queen, he was surrounded by a gang of thieves, and his watch and its appendages were stolen. He felt the watch being drawn from his fob-pocket, but did not see the person who took it. Several Bow-street Officers swore that they saw the prisoner with the prosecutor's watch in his hand; in about a minute after he was robbed, they took the prisoncr.into c fi stody. He had previously been in company with a gang of thieves. The prisoner said, he picked up the watch in the street. It lay on a heap of straw when lie took it up. Mr. Baron GARROW called back the witnesses, and they said it was impossible, from the density of the crowd, that the prisoner could have picked it up. The prosecutor produced the watch, there was no mark on the case, and it did not appear to have fallen on the stones. The Jury found the prisoner—Guilty. Two young men, named Jones and Gelding, were indicted for stealing a hive of bees, the property of Mr. Simon, a gentleman in some way connected with. Eton College. The prisoners were stopped with the hive by a watchman at Kensington. Mr. Simon identified the property. Several persons gave the accused most excellent characters. The prison ers said that they picked up the hive at Uxbridge, on the road side. The Jury found them Guilty, but strongly recom mended them to mercy. Several Gentlemen offered to take them into immediate employ, if they were discharged. Mr. Baron Gmutow'oddressed the prisoners in a most feeling manner ; he believed the present was their first offence, and that, up to the present charge, they were honest and industrious men: He implored them in future not to deviate from the paths of rec titude ; but, if work failed, and distress overtook them, to hope for a brighter day. He sentenced them to pay a fine of one shilling to the King, and to be delivered to their friends. J. Samuel:, a fisherman, stood indicted for steal ing tw•o sets of chaise harness, the property of Mr. B. Whitlock. Mn, Whitlock identified the property, and proved that it was stolen from his premises in the night-time, in October last. flenman, a constable of Fulham, apprehended the prisoner, aud searched his house at Fulham, and found the harness, and other property, ins cupboard, which was curiously secreted, by some piper, the same pattern as that which was hung on the walls of the apartment, being pasted over the cupboard door. The paper was dry, and must have been on the cupboard-door a considerable time, and it is sur prising that it was discovered. The prisoner said, that he found the property in a ditch in the middle of the night, after having moored his barge, and was returning home ; there was no reward offered for the property, nor was it adver tised, or he should have taken it to the owner. The Jury found the prisoner—Guilty. The Officer stated, that he was told that there was a plant (a secret recess for stolen property) in the prisoner's house ; and, after some search, he disco vered the cupboard by striking against the door, and with a knife cut the paper round the case of it, and besides the harness, he found a crate of glass that had been stolen. Tuesday, James Tobin, a young man of genteel appearance, was indicted capitally for assaulting Charles Overall, putting him in fear, under a threat of charging him with an unnatural offence, and , taking from his person five shillings hi money. There was a second indictment, charging the prisoner with robbing Mr. Overall of £lO in Bank-notes, under the same circumstances, but this was not tried. The case was fully made out. The prisoner made a very long and artful defence, which consisted almost entirely of horrible accusa tions against his prosecutor. Harrison, the Officer, declared that the prisoner, when at the Mansion-House, made my accusation against the prosecutor, nor did he make the defence which he had now made. Witness heard the pri soner say, as he was leaving the Mansion-House— I dare say they'll hang me, but I don't care for that; I'll open such a, scene when I com e to th e. Old Bailey !" The RECORDER summed up the evidence, and the Jury merely turned round in the box and pronounced the prisoner Guilty—Death. He heard the verdict unmoved. • , Mr. LAW then rose and said, that although he had defended the prisoner, as he was bound to d o , to the best of his humble ability, he felt himself called upon to declare (now that his client could no longer be prejudiced by such a declaration) that he most perfectly concurred in the propriety of the ver dict given by the Jury. It was in justice to the prose cutor and his own feelings, that he m a d e t hi s s tatethent. The REcoitima.-- , 0 No reasonable Jll eouldin tertaia a doubt_upoa the subject." POLICE. Yesterday, Andrew Milne was brought befo re Gronon Miginuct, Esq. the Sitting Magi,trate, at Bow-street, charged with violently assaulting and wounding Mr. Mathias Matthewman, of Lo ng . acre, who stated, that on Tuesday night, about half. past ten o'clock, he, in company with a friend of the name of Maynard, was passing through Spring-g„ r . dens, when he met the prisoner in company with too lads, who ran 'against him, evidently by design, a n d forced him off the foot-path. He remonstrated wid l them on the impropriety of their conduct, but, stead of making . any apology, they were extremely insolent, which indtrced him to seize the prisoner, who was the foremost; by the collar: he re-ised lently, and struck him with an instrument. %%I:e l wounded him in his hand, and nearly cut off ore Ai his fingers. The prisoner threw tl:•: instrumen: with which he had wounded him ; and, on its found and picked up, it proved to be a The prisoner was at length secured, :in: - i , charge of a watchman, who convel e.l i,im c.• Martin's watch-house. - The pi-ismer is about l 19 Teen age. On his being called upon to an account ot himself, he said be wa.; a ' printingolifice. He accounted.for the . the sword by saying he belonged to a private ;. and was returning from acting, and that the s% 'was essential to the character he had been perjor: via. •' the love-sick Romeo !"—He had on the Cie) ; he had been acting in. A constable also produced an elegant pair of embroidered small-clothes, a party. coloured doublet, of antique cut, a box of rouge, an old greasy wig, and several play-bills ; the whole of which curious articles the prisoner had with him when he commenced the attack l He was ordered to find bail, or be committed. His companions mace - a quick exit at the commencement oif the row. TOWN-HAL Sou riswa x.—Yesterday, Loa Da vis was brought up for re-examination, charged with being concerned, with a number of others, in wound ing and robbing Mr. John Fanning, on the King's highway. The prosecutor stated, that he resides at N 0.3, Carter -court, Re2cross-street. On Friday last, be was standing near the corner of Dover -street, George's-fields, when he saw a number of men ai , - proich him in a body ; they were for thembst p'o: armed with bludgeons ; but not suspecting that thty had any design upon himself, he took no precaution to avoid them. However, as they passed by be re ceived a number of blows, and was knocked down, hut did not lose the use (If speech or sense; he calk.' as loud as he could for help, On which same of the ruffians pinioned his arms, and placed something an his mouth to prevent his giving , any alarm, others cut all his pockets. out with knives. Whilst this was going on, he had an opportunity of viewing several of them closely, and recognized the prisoner, of whom he had some knowledge when the latter was a milkman ; has not the slightest doubt of his being the man. All the money he had about him at the time was three shillings in silver, and of this sum the villains robbed him.—Mr. John Taylor, of the Dol phin public-house, Itedcross-street, was passing at the time of the robbery, and saw the prosecutor at , tacked by a numerous, body of men, who assaulted and knocked him down. When they were using the knives, heard the former exclaim, ‘. Oh ! Davis, don't kill.mer Believes the prisoner to be the man to whom those words were .addressed : but there were so many of the thieves, and they seemed so deter mined, that witness thought it imprudent to interfere. George Welfare, a Constable, deposed to having air , prehended the prisoner at two o'clock last Saturday morning, in consequence of informatiim he had re ceived. He described him as a very dangerous cha racter, from whom he expected a stout resistance; but it seems he had no knife about him at tfe time. The prisoner is the same man who was char,ed some time back with stabbing Hyams, the Constable.—lle was committed for further examination. Tuesday evening, about seven o'clock, as Mr. Hin dle, jun. of Chancery-lane, was crossing Waterloo. bridge, he was followed by a gang of fellows, whom he suspected intended to make an attack upon him for the purpose el fobbin g him ; he, however, prior to leaving home, had prepared himself with a loaded pistol, which he put into his poCket, and, upon the fellows coming up close to him, he was in the act of taking the pistol from his pocket, in order to defend himself, when it accidentally went off; and shattered Mr.Hindle's hand in a most shocking manner. He immediately fainted from the shock of the moment s and was supported to a surgeon's in the Strand,where his hand was dressed. He was afterwards conveyed home in a hackney-coach in a very bad condition,... His hand was nearly blown off. ESCAPE OF A Cowv;cr.—lnformation has been re. ceived at Queen-square Office, that William Wilma, who was tried at the Old Bailey Sessions, on the 15th of September, 1819, and received on board the Res titution hulk, at Sheerness, on the 16th of October following, under sentence of seven years' transporta tion, succeeded in effecting his escape from the Hos pital ship last week, it is supposed by lowering him self with a rope, and swimming on shore. - -- . DIED. The Bth inst. in Greenwich Park, in bet lath year, 3laris, second daughter of Sir Thomas Lavie, K.C.B. acc. The 26th ult. at Exeter, Sarah, widow of John Rasbleigir, Esq. late Secretary at Gibraltar to four successive Governors, for a .period of fifty-three years. The Bth inst. Charles Edward Newbery, Esq. late surgeon to the Non. East India Company's ship Marquis ()maiden, The Bth inst. at Plymouth, Anne, _relict of the late Thenw Lockyer, Esq. of Wembury-House, Devonshire. The 12th of June last, at Tatdna, in the East Indies, of a malignant fever, Lieutenant Lucas Lawrence, of the Hon. Eat India Company's Bengal Establishment, and commanding his Highness the Nizam's Artillery at Auraagabad. COAL MARKET, Ds. 13. Ships at Market. Ships Said. Price. 81' Newcastle 34. 34$ 3d to oos 04 20 Sunderland 9 i 34s 04 to 42s 6d -- *AILS 11115 DAY. 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