The National Register. — London, England, 1823-03-24 00:00:00

1 17 BOXING ON moulaur DURST. This celebrated plain was on Wednesday a scene of slaughter, in a battle which stands as high in pugilistic history as any before recorded, The heroes for the day's diversion were Arthur Mat thewson, a Birmingham man, and Israel Belasco, a Jew, who had shewn off in the Landon prize ring. Belasco was backed at 6 to At one o'clock the men entered thrring, duffing first their castors in as a signal of defiance, and a conflicting and punishing battle followed. Joshua Hudson sal Randall seconded Matthewson, and Belasco and Richmond officiated for Israel Belasco. Both men stripped very prime, and went to work with much exanestnese. Arthur showed most muscle, and connoisseurs decided he was the 'tined man strip md. Arthur hit short, short, and Belasco broke his ground upon saving points.— Arthur placed a right handed hit upon the ear of his adversary, which was returned upon the bead without visible marks ; in a olose the Jew slipped down. 2. A scientific, round, and much equal fighting. It was discovered that the countryman was not to be played with. A smart rallying round took place with equal advantages, hits having been put about most willingly. Belasco gut a heavy sight handed hit upon the head, with which lie went down, rather from the effect of a slip, than the weight of the Wt.— /huller *hewed first blood from the teeth, at getting up fur the next round. 3. Belasco placed first hit upon the mouth, and his adver sary returned short. Belasco had the worst of the round, and lie was thrown. In the weaving system the men were equal in fighting, but Arthur was the quickest and. strongest—he floor d his adversary from the close.-2 to I on Arthur. The 4th, fith, and Gth roue.ls were most gallantly contested, and each leul alternately best; but although Bela:ie.) buil more finished science than nis adversary, yet he was overran by quickness and science, and was thrown by strength. Wiese° practised the luit a la Randall, with the left hand at the body, the rigs guarding the bead, with some effect. Our space will not allow us to go into the fight at length, and few ol.servations will suffice. In the 7th rou. J, when both were weak, the men met at the ropes and becanue dreadfully tired. The weaving system fol lowed, and strength gave Arthur the beet of it. It was a manly rallying round before the close; hut Arthur in playing at the head, beat his adversary in.playing at the body. Belasco got away from the close work, by leaving his ad •eriary's strength to foil itself. It was nearly equal fighting until the lkth round, when Belasco pieced a flush and chat tering bit upon the bridge of his adversary's nose, mid which, from the swelling fullowing, threatened to sow op both the eyes. The countryman was thrown in a struggle. The ring was a deluge of claret after this, and to describe one round like the last would finish the fight. It should not be omitted that at one time Helmet) was hit after having been knocked out of the ring. Both were hjt to a stand still in the I lth round ; and iii the Ithb round Arthur recovered a hit, and by Joshua Hudson's advice threw out the left hand at the head, which hiss caused an extra profusion of duet in the next round, when by a finishing stroke the battle was won. The woad match was between Sampson, the Birmingham youth, and Hall his townsman, who was defeated by Neal, the Stteatham lad. Hall had beat Sampson, near Birmingham, whenSamp. son was off his legs. Hall was beat in two rounds. Sump:too put his body into " physic" and his head into " Chancery" in the first round, and in the next he replenished his tiose, which gave him a finisher. General Dumourier died on Friday last in the sstl year of his age, at Turville, Henley.upon- Thames. List week Joseph Hoists Zwelta was committed to Rochester gaol, charged with a violent assault on Mr. Chiffey. of Tiny Town. It appears that the pri soner, an itinerant Italian, hail been payin; his ad dresses to the maid-servant at the Portland Arms, and to forward his snit, had made her several presents ; taut the Italian found that while his presents were accept d, the person of an Englishman, a son of St. Crispin, was preferred: and having tailed 111 obtaining his object, or a return of the articles presented to her, he, 011 Monday evening, bvtween nine and ten o'clock, ced au assault, by first attacking the favoured swain, whose nose fie seized between his teeth, and which, in all probability, would have been sacrificed, but for the cir ctiteistance of his having forced his finger against the roof of the assailant's mouth, which cook/sell:1J hint to let go Lis hold. An Italian who interiered also had his thumb very severely bitten by the prisoner. lie then ivied the girl by the throat, th rew her down, amid began heating her in a most savage manner, at the same time declaring he would der her. The landlady, greatly alatated, called for ass , staitee, and Chary having tiro arrived, he seined the prisoner's arm to prevent further injury to the girl. The infuriated stion,ter iuuuediately turned on the person who thus restrained him, 81111 in an instant hit out from his cheek a piCet of flesh of con silerable llub,tance, and the breadth id a crown piece. For this last offence he was committed. _ . On Thursday last I'. Woodgate, Esq. of Tunbridge, received information front a person who would not dis close his authority, th a his house would be broken open that night. After some consultation it was agreed that Mr. Woodgate and his two men servants should be on the watch, and keep a candle ready lighted in a closet close at hand. About half-past twelve o'clock, they heard the thieves Ipproach, who soon succeeded in un locking the door by mean, of a false key, and immedi ately began to force the bolts. Every moment expecting t:lein Cr enter, the party within doors because alarmed, when Mr. IVoodgate hastily seizing the light, fell over a chair, the no se of which alarmed the lauglsrs, and occasioned their speedy retreat. Oil the next day infor mation was received that two men had been slo p ped by the patrol of Seven Oaks, airs Whollll were found a centre bit and other implements. They were committed to Maidstone gaol. We of them being a native of the town, and formerly a servant in the house occupied by Mr. Woodgatc. THE NATIONAL REGISTER GAME LAWS. The following paper is sanctioned by tb. signa tures of those whose well-merited influence must give additional force to the suggestions of hu manity :- 0 We, the undersigned proprietors of estates in the county of Ifork,liave witnessed with deep reg.et the demoralization of the lower orders, occasioned by the habit, of poaching, and the calamitous events which so frequently occur in the preser vation of game under the existing laws. " We are convinced that these evil. consequences are de rived, in a great degree, from the operation of those statutes by which the sale of game is constituted an olfence. j " That many very wealthy and opulent classes of society, who are not landed proprietor*, are naturally, and perhaps reasonably, desirous of enjoying this in common with the other products of the soil, and• that no statuary provisions can ellen. Wally prevelit their obtaining it. " that the occupation of the poacher is taken up fur the purpose of supplying, clandestinely, those wants which cannot at present he supplied lawfully. " Thal this illegal occupation would speedily cease to exist if a legal vale were permitted, and the marlins allowed to toe honestly furnialied with game, as fiey are will, all other arti cles of g . I demand. 0 It ia our firm opinion, that under a system of open sale, the preservation of game, far from being rendered more diffi cult, would he greatly facilitated—that the ordinary care which is lociu'rt sufficient for the protection of tither descriptions of saleable property would then be equally sullicietit fur this: that an armed force, and instruments of death, would no longer he requisite to defend it ; and sanguinary eon/iota and midnight murders would no longer ensue from the effort► made to procure it. _ That we therefore earnestly submit to the legislature the importance of legalizing the sale of game, under proper re strictions, believing as we do the present prohibition to he con trary to good policy in its spirit, arid to humanity in its effects, seeing that it has Bled our gaols with criminals of its own cre ating, and established a nursery of offenders among the lower classes of the cononnnity." This paper has been nozeritusly signed by gentlemen of large lauded property in Yorkshire, by Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Grantham, Lord IRibblesdale, Lord Stouren, Viscount Milton, Viscount Althorp, Viscount Nor manby, Sir F. 1.. Wood, Hart. ; Sir John Johnstone, Ent.; Sir George Cooke, Bart. Sir W. A. Ingleby, Hart ; Hon. T. Lister, lkm. and Rev. T. Monson, Walter Fawkes, Esq. Win. ilberforce, Esq. ; J. B. S. Mundt. Esq. ; G. W. W entworth. Esq.; Henry Gaily Knight, E.g.; Marmaduke Wyvill, Esq.; W. Wrightson, Esq.: John Fullerton, Esq.; Charles Brand- Eng, Esq. ; Hobert Chaloner, Esq. ; Mark Itlillianke, Esq.; P. deilh.y Thompson, Esq. Samuel Crompton, Esq. ; W . H. Cooke, Esq.; Wm. Bustield, Esq. ; Richard Hellen, Esq. ; J. B. Bland, Esq. ; F. O. Edmunds, Esq. Hugh Parker, Esq.; John Cooke, Esq.; John Woodyear, Esq.; Henry Walker, Est. ; John Jarrett, Esq. ate. lac. DEATH OP BILLY WATexa.--The eccentric Billy Waters. whose conspicuous character gained I so much notoriety, bid adieu to this world on Friday morning last, in the parish workhouse of St. Giles, where he had been lor the last tell days, in a very weak state of health. Poor Billy endeavoured, up to the latest period of his illness, to obtain for a wile and two children what he tt•roied " an honest livUtx" by the scraping of catgut, by which lie used to collect many p.nce, wilco lie first practised at the West-pod of • the town, %%here his eccentric dress, with his hat and feathers, together with a iteculiat stumping of his wooden lex in an orig Mal kind of hornpipe, excited touch attention. HAETINGS.—A voting man, named Joseph Stoneham, came on shore oni Thursday from one of our sloops, and repaired to the Anchor ion in the ev * g, where lie drank a pint of porter, after which, complaining of a pain in the head, he retired to rest. The servant going to his beol•romit in the morning for the cantile,and find ing that the y g malt did not Move, went to awake him, when, to his great surprise, he tumid him dead and cold. The servant immediately fainted, and was (*mud lying on the floor. PetagiregiAgtssr.—The unequalled and most extra ordinary teat 01 walking 248 miles in 76 successive hours, was accomplished by '.Wright, the veteran pedes trian, in the 55th year of his age. He arrived at the Lamb and Flag, Clerkenwell Gseen, ten minutes beinre twelve, fresh and ill grind spirit), beatnig time by tell minutes. This tusk exceeds by eight miles, (in the same number of hours,) any pedestrian feat on record. The pedestrian who walked 240 miles in the same tionoilwr of 'RIMS, and was stated to have left all other pedes trians " in the shades," usual now be kit " in the shade' himself. George Campbell, weaver, Bridgeton, has been lorlg in Glasgow gaol, charged with me murder of Froderiei also a weaver, under the following circum stances :--The deceased, along with several others, and some women, haul been drinking in the house of a Mrs. Smith, in Maui -street, (whose husband was engaged iii the affair at iiinitiymuir during the radical rebellion, and is at present tit Botany Bay), and they being considerably intoxicated, a quarrel ensued between them, and they came out to decide it. About half-past IY. o'clock, Campbell and atwitter lad were coining front the town, and being attracted by the noise, Campbell was listening, when Patrick O'Neill challenged him, and they struck at one another, and O'Neill.sudileitly staggered and MIS summed by one of the party, who thought he had fainted. lie was unable to speak, and was nelped to his own doss, and had to be carried tip stairs. lie lay nearly wititout life, and it was Dot imagined that lie had been vs dell, but had gone away in a ..coins ; water and spirits were poured diiwn his throat, and hisclothes were Opened to allow him to breathe freely, when it was discovered that a wound tad heen inflicted in the breast, which had pierced the heart, windier 51:111 had penetrated the iiitestme,i, which were protruding, and three other severe cuts Were observed in the abut •ii. The unlin- MMHG 1114111 was lA.; into a bed, and surgical aid sent for, but lie explicil atrout . 21) minutes alter the encutiatcr.— Campbell has been comtuitttd fur trial, MATCH TO KILL EIGHTEEN PIGEONS IN TWENTY ONE SHOTS.—This match took place on Thursday morning last. Mr. Homer, of Acum, considered one of the best shots in E•iglancl, had backed himself for nifty sovereigns to do Ins work at twenty-one yards f the trap, with onliinitet: charge, and betting to the tune of scores were ;wilding at Six to four against the gun.— The match look ;lace in a ten acre field, in liestott parish, near iionatslow, and the Run was backed at four and tire to one each shot. Mr. limner killed nine birds oil' successively, and then cleaned his piece, and was backed at two to one to will. lie missed his tenth bird and his 17th, when betting became even, and he also in i ased the 1911 i and the last bird, which lust him the match. A few days since, a gentleman in the neighbourhood . of Glasgow, for a co ns id e r a bl e b et , rod e his horse over a fence, and cleared in length 22 feet 4 inches. The gentleman rode 14 stone. IVe understand that this is the horse which, a week or two ago, failed in the attempt to leap 92 feet of water. There is now livitig in a village near Brighton, a man, who has been three times married ; each of his wives . names was the same; he has lied three children by each, and each lived with I' three years. lie was a widow between each marriage three years, has three children fishy, the third by each wife , and whose birth days are vitliiit three days of each oilier. last wife has bee:i'dead three years, and he expects to he married' again in three mouths! MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Ois Thursday morning Lit, Mr. Thos. Mulus, of Flutlyer-street, Westminster, accompanied by Miss Ann Logan, his niece, and Miss Patterson, bit consiii, took a boat at W es t in i ns t er .b r id ge to go to liattersra on a visit to a friend: he rowed the boat up, and they waited dinner at the friend's house, when Miss Logan took a fancy to a little dog, which being observed, it was made a present of to her. They departed with it on their return home at live o'clock A t Chelsea-re a ch the pug fell over-board; Miss Loge's endeavoured to pull into the boat, when inifortuisetly she overreached herself, and falling over•board hersch s immediately sunk ; Mr. Molts. being all excellent swins• • tiler, instantly pulled MI his chat and plunged after her; it was in the middle of the current, and she was in stantly swept away; he at length discovered her a con siderable distance oil', but before he could reach bet she stink again to be seen 110 more alive. A bargeman at some distance oil' was the only person who had witnessed the accident, I at he could tender no assisiatice, and Mr. Mob's being ter much exhausted, was obliged to tenni% to the bolt to Aliss Patterson, who remained in the 11100 frantic and disconsolate state Ass eccentitC individual, at an advanced age, recently died at Upstreet. lie hail not cliamzed his clothes, nor lain in a bed, for above 15 tars ; he wierl to sit in a large wicker arm cb iirbefore the are, hum which very unwillingly moved, c:..opping even the wood hat used as fuel nn one or the arms of his chair. lit the ex tremity of death he fell f his seat on the floor, and when taken up and undressed, he presented a shockitig spectacle as a corpse. lle was not ut a state of want, having a pewit% • y; bat his habits were the I fleets of eccentricity. Mr. Harvey, of - Fish -street, Ilsetors' Commons, on Wednesday evening last, between seven and eight O'CIOCIi, teas proceeding on foot limn the Grattge-road, Bermondsey, lust the Albany-road, he was stopped by two footpath who hid (allowed him for sense distance, and It lien he came to au unfrequented plaee in the Grange-road, one of them rushed upon hint and pinion ed his arms, whilst the other presented a pistol at him and demanded his Money. Mr. Harvey distmetly saw the faces of both the rubbers, who got oft with all the money he happened to have about him, consisting of 'two sovereigns and about. 18.. Mr. Harvey gave tutor.. initial. of the robbery at Union Hall. AMOTIMI BKUTAL MATCH Abel Andrews a dealer, on Moliday undertook to ride one horse 12h miles in 24 hours. Toe horse, or rather a sunlit gal:away, under fifteen hands, and aged, looked a very unlikely sine to wits, and issue was backed at 6to 4. l'he start took place from Pepper-row, Essex, over a five mile piece of groultd, at our ii clock tau Monday Morning, Mr. Apia:ma riding sornet!ting more tlimi 11 stone.— The lior‘e did the first five miles in 35 IM 5, and 13 in one hour and 45 minutes, and was baited Mr. A. started again at a quarter past three o'clock, and did another Ii miles at half past five, when he halted an 1 . AL half past six he travelled at the rate of about six miles an hour, and did 20 other codes before nine o'clock, making 50 miles.to a few minutes less than nine hours. lie batted again, and did the next twelve miles and a hail (half the distance) by a Tamer past eleven, having an hour and three quarters tune on hand. Ile baited the horse, refreshed himself, and started again at twelve o'clock, having rite other half to perform at the rate of inure than four miles and three quarters an hour. He dot the first of the tell miles in an hour and a half, washed the mouth of the horse, and perlinitted the next ten miles in rather kat time. The equessrian becalms fatigued, and he Went to bed for an hour and a half, and started again at five o'clock to do the remaining 42 miles and a half. He slid the 20 miles in three hours, halted an hoar, and started at nine o'clock much fatigued, but the lonic was fresh, and performed the renaming !2 miles sod a half at 40 • s past 12 o'clock, winning by 110 nunutes. Boa eaIIICIL-0.1 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes day ingots last, tau less than live houses were broken open amid robbed of various property, in Nlaitsion.house street, Newington, Slurry. On one of these occasions the lady of the Itilbse and her maid-servant was sitting aliove stairs, in the drawitti.t.rnons, waiting for her bus-. band's coming home they. heard the thieves break• its and ransack die lower part of .the house, which they= rubbed, but 'mar prevented their ;wilco% any. alarm,. well knowing that there is no watchman stationed that street. The house of D. Sanger, Esq. of Kett ning inii.lane, was .11Sti burglariously entered and robbed of 44)01. worth of property, consisting chiefly of jewellery, tmakets, and other valuable articles. I 4