The National Register. — London, England, 1815-06-11 00:00:00

G. A famous day's play of pugilism took place on Tuesday at Moselev Hurst, bt•fore a rumcrous assemhlage of amateurs The great match was between Scroggins, the sailor, who had distinguished himself on a different element, and Nos wen thy, the baker, who was thought terrible from his having *on with Dutch Sam, about which event so much dial ute Las existed. It was a sporting tight, at even betting, but Scroggins had the turn. Belcher and Gibbons seconded Scroggins, and Cribb and Clarke officiated fur Nosworthy. Round I. Scientific si,arring at julg;ng distance. Scroggins made play anf! planted a hit, which was returne.l short. A smart tali) , Billowed, when :time hitting took place. and.both went down, Nos under, who produced first blood from the nose and mouth. Z . and 6 to 4 on Scroggins. y. One of the best taught rounds since that betwixt Degherty and Eli verthcrn, on Coombe Warren. Nw worthy planted a hit, and a trememlous rally followed, which spewed to the spectators which Was the be , t Both men trequei:tly hit each other away, a.d returned with real native courage to offensive operations. Serog vns *roved Itinrelf t'.e tr:it in-righter and the best punisher, and he fur No worthy down at 1:r t. t. This was as obstinately a contested round as the last.—Both men were on tliei• mettle, but the hitting of Scrov,gins was tertific. toast eertraccous rally ..gain took place, and Nosworti.v rcc , ived a dreadful right-bai,dect hit under the e..r,,froin ivhich blood flowed copi t sly inwardly, and he was again knocked down.—:t to lon Scroggins. 4. Scroggins hav:n7, got his man under, extrei.:;ed his pugilistic Valeta with much adroitness. lie hit him in a rally to all ;arts of the ring. Noswortl:y was returnable with much courage, but he vas re beat, ami never recovered himself —4 to 1 on Ss.srcggins. 5 In this round Scrog,gims, .vailing himself of the weakness of Ws Sever-ary, not only out fought him, hut he sheaved himself most decidedly the best fighter, and Nosworthy only stood to receive the ibis of his adversary, who broke away, hit in, and did as be liked. It would be uninteresting to pursue this fight further in Nosworthy was knocked down at setting to in the sixth round. In the seventh be made his last, but unsuc cessful eltort, although he planted a good right-handed hit upon his eponents eye-lid. In the eighth round. Noswor thy was again knocked down, and he had no chance after but at the head stop. Ile was Unable to come to time after the 15th round, anti his head was never out of chancery from the first round. The battle lasted IS minutes. A second and rr ,, st courageous battle was fought between Tom Johnson, of Paddington, and Rowe, a smith, a pupil cf Oliver's. The former won in half an hour, after much good and determined fighting. Rowe received a hit at the dose of the battle under the lower left rib, which sent him to sleep. Joe Ward and Jones seconded the winilvr, and Oliver and Painter the loser. .17./11V INTELLIGENCE. COURT Or KINGS BENCH, SMALL PDX. THE KING V. BCRNETT. The ne t enilant, an apothecary of Great Mary le.bone.street, was indieted for causing children labonting under Ihe F•rnall !nix to be earlier' through the public streets thereby endangering the lives of others Judvitent • had gone by default. and the Attorney Ge tierai prayed that it might he entered Mr. (Nun. for the de ftnt'iatit, contended, in a 'notion for arrest of F irtdgwenr, that inn e n. latinti for sniall . po% was not ail indictable ()Omer. that it wa, not eonsitleted sot oi - epee at ootutinm law, anti if it was that the Small Hospital would be equally indictable with the present deteneant ; that the exposilw children in 11w streets was the act of others over %l out he 'the defendant) had Ito power; and filially, that the opi ttitm of the Court had been given in favour of the defendant, in a late action (the King v. Vantandilto) in which their Lot dships de tided that Inoculdiniat kt as not an act that CHOW tinder the lance of the law. ttoroo Gei , cral wt' about to r e ply Wav try Lord Elleni:orough, who did away the objections of defendant's coitosei, by rein:liking—tat, that the defendant wds rot iniiitivd tut the inure ittorclution,lart for ceasing the children so TTTT: NATMNAT, REGTFrFER. inoculated to be carried througia the *trret to •i• tuts, minent danger of oth..rs—Vtily, Iltat the Small Pot; It be squally liable to totothlano tat, should it I. come the diettnent ; but that iu tact the learned rotin-el's rtn, imply to that in.tintlion, a% every child ittoenlated ii v. ! , t e a I rom ‘pkvotlifig the infection, I.v being pt will and thirdly, that the children ttere exposed by the rte of the defendant, which was punishable in the eye of t, davits wel - e put in proving the fret of the di fendatit I fated children with the Small Pox, nod desiring them ! to his home--that lie constantly reinia.d to %isit any a ill ;t tnight be offer the inoctilation, and that ttvo chi' caught the disca , c from others inoculated him, dtL lenhorough was of opinion that the motion for arse I of jimsb was not upou coo() groeml4. rind therefore it could oat be granted. An affidavit was put in by Mr. Oiven, in behalf of the deb tulant, stating that judgment bad gone by default, iu conseqtrenee of his embarrassed circumstances at the time, although he h 41 a good de. fence to the action— that his health would be rcrionsly inhered by any ronfinement, lie having been subject to spitting of: blood•••-nr.t he had been in the halnt of providing against the spreading of the infection by desiring a handkerchief to be tied over the face of the child labouring tinder the diseass, and that depriving him of ht. li. belly world be taking away the only means of subsistence for his wife and children, who were entirely dependent noon his industry for their support. .Mr. Owen proceeded in mitigation, by cntitend. in that every indulgence which ha d b een shewn in the former case (the King y..krantandilln) should extend to the defendant, as the offences in both eases flail been committed antecedent to the pro. mitigation Of the law upon the subject t and that as %sell might • very barristd r and attorney he potiishable for. every mootecesstill action they brought, as Mr. Burnett, for having inoculated e t i %% h a died. (We are at a loss to diseoyer the analogy. as it was for the exposure, and ad the inoculation of children, that the defendant was indicted.) The learned Counsel added that ins client, who WAS as poor as the apothecary in Ammo and Juliet bad been obliged to let judgment go by default. The A ttomey General, for the prosecution, had no objection to reant the depend eat time to amend his affidavit, if he could swear that he had tokrir anyprecindiax to guard against spreading the in teetion prelim:a to the indictment. Hr did not contend tl.at lane tr. iation for the small pox was au offence in the eye of the lao ; nor that parents had not a right, if they chose it, to viva) their children to be Inoculated, in preference te Vaccination ; but he did conund that no man was at liberty to male a trade of poisoning the air, when, and to what extent he might think proper, by which the lives of people were in ronstant &meet . - He made some %cry strong remarks upon the confine( of the defendant, and left it with the Court, to do that which justice and the safety of the community re... slurred. Mr. Justice le Mane observed,' that the defendant had ad- nutted his guilt by allowing judgment to go by default, and drat the Court had nothing to do hot to pronounce the sentence. He. wished it to be expressly understood, that it was pot fOr the art of itiocula. tion, but for causing the children to he exposed in the public streets, thereby endangering others, that the defendant was convicted. The sentence of the Court was, that the defendant should be con fined for six mouths.—He was immediately taken to piison. THE KING V. SIR N. W. IVII.IXALL The Attorney General applied to have the ride for a criminal in. formation obtained by him against the defetidimt, for a libel on Count Worrohzoff, made absolute. Mr. Scarlett skewed cause against the rule, and contended that the publication in question, if a libel at all, had nothing malignant in it towards Count W. ; that none of the circumstances stated in the paragraphs were stated as facts, but alt given as the rnmunis of the day ; and further, that as soon as the defendant was informed that Count W. considered himself as injured by the publication, he wrote,. declaring he would sooner die than knowingly libel any man ; offer ing to omit the obnoxious paragraph in the next edihnn of his book, and to state the reasons which induced him so to omit it, viz. a C 011• vietion of its falsehood : and he was now ready to adopt terry other coatNe more satisfactory to Count W. which that nobleman might point out, if such course were consistent with the character of man of honour. Under these circumstances the learned C o mpel ex. pressed his hopes that the Court would nut consider this as a case in %%Veil to grant a criminal information, The Attorney General was about to reply, when Lord llcn. horon 2 b observed, the Court vrvuld not trouble him. The ride in this case mpst Le made absolute, The arroment that there was no malieiens feeling on the part of - the libeller towarda the person li belled, would noply in almost every ease Wisiell reale bwavre the Cow t.oullie rule meije aliselejel JUNE .11. the iitivital would stioject 01 in.. mink could not in it wo.• pre. hin the walls—. Totionitlidation the liw. Afr,. t in to he taken howetcr ildi en had 11,..111 El- t ,indenit tit • tot be granted. the deft tnlant, •It‘eeice of his it 41 a good de. Il ly Mitered by •0; bloott--Ib•.t leading of !lye [lir lace of the hien of his isteoce for his his iliditoty it, by entittlid. former case whoa, as the Itt to the pro. It tnicht • very ce•Ntill Helpful ett ho it n . ; for the !he defendant ;en', who WAS ce obliged to objection to c could swear vediug the in. ld tl.at inoc u. thr tau ; nor their children e did coin( IA mint: the air, by which the tie %cry stroug 'ft it with the , onintimity 114 . 4 'Want had ad- " , and Ural the . He wished et of inoeula. public streets, ivicted. /multi be cOll- - a criminal in. or a libel on Wended that lilg niali2nant stated in the ............a• •1... A dams igivo'