The National Register. — London, England, 1821-04-29 00:00:00

mrsimPrill! .role BOXING.' The amateurs of the millieg art were divided on Tuesday, as two battles were fought in different directions ; but before we describe either of them, we must give a sketch of a brave combat, which took place for 20 guineas, at eight o'clock on Mon day evening, on the green over Waterloo-bridge, between a respectable tradesman and a miller from Lambeth, in consequence of a dispute about a dog. This was made to be as much in private as possible, and the evening was selected for it, but the ring was much crowded. Cropley and Warwick seconded the tradesman, and the miller tt as picked up by two of his companions. It was a slaughtering fight, and with equal ad vantages the first quarter of an hour. In the 7th round the tradesman went in with much piety, and floored his adversary by a right handed hit, which groggified him, and gave the tradesman the beat of it for several rounds. In the 12th round, which was a very manly one, at equal fighting, the miller floored his adversary, but he had the worst of it atter, and in the ltith round, when the miller, to use a technical phrase, was dead beat, the tradesman was thrown. and broke his leg, which alone could have won the milkir the battle. SECOND BATTLE. A slashing battle was fought on Tuesday to the northward of the Regent's Park, between James Brown, a l Ost man, and a carpenter of the name of Jones. This was a slice of amusemt fur 121. be tween two rare good men, but Jones had more than a stone of weight over his adversary. Shelton and Sampson seconded Brown, and Jones was seconded by two of his brother chips, and to throw a light upon the mill, GINS was the umpire. Round 1...-This was severely contested. with long lunging hits, which Uhl see the ides of each head ; it ended in Jones been thrown heavily. 2.—Beth saw to go hi, they made severe play for four mi nutes..wheaJesees ease was tidily laid open, and the claret flew like see' km from a battle. He went down with the hit.— The autdeasd a &Wag out, to the advantage of Brown, wag se e ast.dy wlsso4laara was hit down, and he had no - -- , there Awl hai his eseends hope hint up to the scratch as long as be esehl stand. In the teth round Brown was declared the victor. THIRD FIGHT. This fight was considered the principal one of the day, although not so good as the second one. It was between young Brown, of a choice stock, and Horsham, who was 71bs. the heaviest. It took place on Mitcham Common, fur twenty guineas. Joshua Hudson and Harry Holt seconded Brown ; and Ealea and H. Bailey picked up Horsham.—Five to four on Brown. The battle lasted 35 minutes; but Brown never F sve his adversary a chance after the 3d round.— rhe Ist round was a busy one, with equal advan tages, and both went down after exchanging hits, and the next two were contested in the same man ner. In the 4th round, Brown had all the best of it, and drew first blood, and Horsham never led after. There was not a ,borer in the fight, which took place in a 24-feet ring. gnat Pigeon Match fir Two Modred Goinetu.— Soule excellent shooting took place on Monday morn ing at Begshot, between eleven gentlemen of Bucks and Oxen, with four of the blidgham club, against all Engla nd, at fifteen birds, each, from the trap at 21 yards from the gun. Messrs. Harris, King, Cox, and Jones were from the club. The match was a sporting one, as follows— Oxon and Bucks. All England. Killed Killed 14 I Mr. Hislop Jacques l4 Sawyer 14 Norton Is Capt. Smith 11 Mr. Miashul lO Hart Gee Norris Packwood Preshticld Bylleld linrrington Mr. Co: _____ _________________ _ Hardy _ l4 Jones l3 Kemp l2 J. Cox, jun 11 Louis ll King 01 Harris lO Martin 9 Harvey 8 Foots .. 8 Kent 8 Gun 7 Carmichael Heather Cuthbert ... 147 The counties were basked at five to four, and England lost the match from the middle of it, as half the birds escaped from the guns after the 10th shots on both sides. On Monday, for a wager of 31. a man undertook to start from the Bricklayers Arms with one of the Greenwich stages, and keep up with it, by running all the way to Greenwich. On his arrival at the Centution, Deptthrd, he was either so drunk. or so exhausted, that he could not continue his task, and consequently lost the bet. The passengers in the coach he was following threw out money, which he caught in his hat. The novelty attracted much of the attention of the holiday lads and lasses. On Friday, a gentleman, the son of a retired tradesman in Oxford.street, attempted to drown himself in the Serpentine-river, but he was rescued from his impending tate by sonic men going to work. Losses at play was the cause of the rash attempt. 140 THE NATIONAL REGISTER Ceiedraticst V the Kikg's Birth-Day.—In conse _ quern.* of the recent arrangement fir keeping the King's birth-day on St. George's day, the customary demonstrations of respect were observed on Monday. The morning was ushered in with ringing of bells, and the display of colours on the different churches in the metropolis. The new royal standard was hoisted at the Tower; the ships in the river and the different docks displayed the colours of their respective nations; and at one o'clock the Park and Tower guns fired Royal salutes; the usual exhibi tion of mail coaches took place ; and at night his Majesty gave a ball at Brighton ; the Princess Augusta left town about twelve o'clock to be pre sent at it. On the 4th instant. whilst a fleet of' about 140 English fishing boats were dredging for oysters off St. Martin-le-vieux, about three leagues and a halt' from the French coast, the French brig of war Lynx came out of Granville, fired a gun at them, and sent a boat and took possession of one of the vessels, and carried her, with the crew, into Granville. It is a question to be decided between the governments, whether English fishermen have a right to dredge fiir oysters at a less distance than six miles from the French coast. The vessel was released next day. An American journal reports, that one of the prin cipal roads in the province of Chactas is become im passable from a species of nondescript musquito ; they attack i both man and horse, and their sting so destructive us to cause death in three hours. The town of Whiehaven was thrown into a state of extreme agitation on Friday last, when it was generally known that the inflammable air in the colliery behind the North-wall, called William Pitt, had suddenly caught fire, carrying death and de struction to almost every living creature within the range of its explosion. Six men, two boys, three girls, and five horses fell victims to the fury of the blast; and three more pitmen were so severely scorched and wounded, that, we sincerely regret to state, but faint hopes are entertained of their reco very. This shocking catastrophe, we know, from undoubted authority, is not attributable to neglect or want of judgment on the part of the stewards or overmen ; but was occasioned solely by the iinpru deuce of one of the workmen, who, in order the more readily to find a pick which he had mislaid, unfortunately opened his safety lamp ; the poor man lived long enough to acknowledge his error, and to repent his temerity. A large fossil skeleton of the Icthio, Sturm Pla tydon, or Proteo Saurus, was lately discovered in the Blue Lins formation at Lyme Regis. The head of this skeleton, from the orbit to the termination of the nose is four feet and a half long, with the teeth well defined, with the process of the Sternum Sea pulse humerus, &c. and the whole length of verte bra, being from eighteen to twenty feet in length. The illustration of the esteulogy of the labia Sau rus, or Pruteo Saurus, was the subject of a celebrated paper addressed to the Royal Society by their vice president, Sir Everard Hume, Bart. and was pub lished in the Philosophical Transactions for 1819. On Sunday morning at an early hour some young men who went to amuse themselves in Copenhagen Fields, discovered a man hanging from a tree in one of the hedges; they cut down the body, which was quite dead, and appeared to have been so some hours. There were no papers or other things about him to lead to a discovery of who be was ; there did not appear any other marks of violence on his person to lead to any other conclusion than that he committed the act bimself. The body was carried to the vaults under Islington church to be owned. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE• OD Sunday morning, about twelve o'clock, a female of very youthful and interesting appearance, respectably dressed, was observed to walk down Strand-lane towards the Thames, in a very wild manner. On her arrival at the bottom of the lane, she stood for a short pe riod, looking at the water; her conduct excited the attention of tome persons who were near the spot, who proceeded towards her, but prior to their ar rival she pluugod into the river, and remained under water for some time before the Waterman and other persons succeeded in rescuing her. She was then in a state of insensibiliey She was carried to Mr. Langley's, of Newcastle-street in the &Iliad, where every assistance was rendered, and she was speedily recovered. It appeared that seduction was the cause of her committing the act. On Tuesday, while the steam engine of the cop per-works at Morriston, near Swansea, was at work, a poor boy very inadvertently placed his toot upon the safety-valve, which occasioned the barrel to ex plode, and there being three men at work in another part of the engine -house, the steam, from the sudden expansion and consequent rurificution of the air, fairly carried one of them to the stairs, a distance of no less than 17 tee t ; the others were pressed vio lently against the door leading to the office. One of the windows was shattered to pieces, and the wall much injured. The men escaped unhurt, and, we are happy to say, the boy is likely to recover, with the exception of the loss of his right leg. - S 13S - 1 6 _ SHIPPING INTALLIGILIfCE. Eared S* er ert a letter Bien the Agent le yzd's at dated I b1h....0 ?ha sigmb at i lkle gi nes a a is Annitheil with Coplein IthloYeit's mei *oh he iho 7 and aserebrit sod annamminues MO Id verde me at and cell of this itimed, and moms the inlsligmee M etr commercial teem i and kat r usial le Nibs this gemed, - knewa. mulestre dip is inked him hem Our with seven et the ms Mad the d—.t=names are. Pe* 118111. 4 terse = M David Ramsay. John litsrlaimil. Jam mimmin. and Pete; Fisher. The admiral le here, and **idol trill ems ea ha niedistely. They ham ankreirlsged their guilt, and !oda &Ow found in their pommies, ham boss talon charge of by the Provost Marshal for the swum" NEW Yong, Masten 111.—The gthielt deep et' war Bann. Capt. Bigland. ailed early on Smuttier mentiag en her return to Jamaica The day bale she mad • hent's crow n = to her rem upon the siker_ L and mode their sempe, "A". pet kola Karteund gist ult. Me mama wdles diet a whoa= war ets shore about ten mike hem the piece. The &dame, Guilts* *AI &dulls to Seneed, was wrecked at Peet Ohms ahem the 12th inst. The Argonaut, boa Leghorn, mu en shore and bilged at Portsmouth (America) 17th nit. Car Wed* RYE, APRIL 45.-. The Hebe, new smug emeen, or IS tens. Head. master, was run down late s eta ter o'clock. wt miles west of Dungeness. by a Imp down Channel. The master and crew were saved - with y. The mar ear shewed his light and hailed the ship wend dame, to which no attention wepsid, nor did she heave.* to pia up the emir of the smack after she had sunk bar, but hem en a wady more; down the Channel. The loss to the pow Athenian is upwind* of 3001. I . i _ Extract of a letter from the County Tipperary,. dated April 18, 1821. " Nothing particular in the way of news—provisions are tolerably cheap, which is what enables the people to exist, in the present scarcity of money. Beef three-pence and mutton four-pence per lb. ; pork twopence-halfpenny, eggs five tbr one penny, potatoes one penny per stone of 14115., oats 6d. per stone, hay 20 shillings per ton ; groceries nearly half as cheap as some time ago; and to assist us in our misfortunes we have pone* whis key in great plenty at six shillings per gallon. The farmers are all ruined, the gentlemen not able to pay the interest of the money they owe, which is the an with almost all our country gentlemen, and thililielikeepers without business ; the only thing to awe or serve us in this country, is a reduction of mots, tithes, and taxes, all of which are as high as ever; and none of those three concerned inclined to come down one penny, The landlords, with few, very few exceptions, are extorting the last penny,, and selling every beast the tenant (who has been under them for several years) her—the clergyman bee not abated one penny of his tithes, and I fear Gomasment cannot afford to give up any of the taxes. The endeavour to keep up the price of land by co bills, is of no use in the world to the occti: pying farmer; it is a bill merely to increase the sent-roll of great men at the expense, misery, and. almost starvation of the lower orders. Was work lessee. and provisions dear, you can from yourself form a good idea of what a miserable way we should be in." A few days since the body of J. Gowen, Esq. a Lieutenant in his Majesty's 80th regiment of foot,. was discovered lying dead on the road hone the town of Gores, Ireland, to the meat of hie father J. H. Gowan, Etc in the county of Wexford, but without any external marks of violence, from which circumstance great doubts were entertained as to the manner of his death ; but its having been since clearly ascertained that at the time he set out from . home he had about him a silver hunting watch, a morocco pocket-book containing notes to a large amount, and a purse containing several gold sove reigns, which had been evidently taken Irons hint, as his pockets were turned inside out, there can be -no doubt that he fell a victim to the sanguinary disposition of some wretch who knew of Mr. Gowan carrying property about him to such an amount. A cause was lately tried by the Court of Acsise of Ain, in France, in which an assassin of a man named Fleurot, was condemned on evidence not un like that of the famous Dog of Montargis. The circumstances were these :—The wife of Fleurot was anxiously looking for the return of her hus band, whose unusual absence filled her with tear, when about ten o'clock his dog at rived, covered with wounds and stabs, especially in the belly, where his bowels protruded. He laid his fore-paws on his mistress, whined mournfully, licked her, and went to the door, as if inviting her to follow him: the woman instantly conceived that her husband had been murdered, and gave herself up to the guidance of the dog, which conducted her to the place where the crime had been committed, and expired. The next morning the hat of Fleurot was found near the Rhone : the spot where he had had his last contest with the assassin was much trodden ; the trace of men and a dog struggling were very evident; the rags with which the ground was strewed bore testi mony to the courage with which the dog had fought for his master; and his wounds and death shewci, that after having defended him at the expence of his life, this faithful animal employed his last mu. metals in avenging him. The Mansion-house hotel at Montreal was de stroyed by fire ou the 16th ultimo. P