The National Register. — London, England, 1821-04-30 00:00:00

1,, , Round I.—This was severely contested, with long lunging bits, which told on the sides of each head ; it ended in Jones been thrown heavily. 2.—Both eager to go in, they made severe play for four mi nutes, when Jones's nose was tidily laid open, and the claret flew like ginger beer from a bottle. He went down with the hit.— The light continued a slashing oue, to the advantage of Brown. until the 12th round, when Jones was hit down, and he had no chance after; but his seconds kept him up to the scratch as long as he could stand. In the ISth sound Brown was declared the victor. THIRD FIGHT. Great Pigeon Match for 7'nio Hundred Guineas.— Some excellent shooting took place on Monday morn ing at Bagshot, between eleven gentlemen of Bucks and Oxon, with four of the Midgham club, against all England, 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. Killed Mr. Cox le Hardy Jones l3 Kemp l2 J. Cox, jun 11 Louis ll King Ot Harris tu Martin 9 Harvey Foote Kent Guse 7 Carmichael Frost 147 1 140 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. All England. Killed Mr. llialop Jacques l4 Saw•ycr l4 Norton l3 Capt. Smith it Mr. Aliaahul lO ]fart Gee Norris Packwood Fresldield Bytivld 6 Harrington li &otter Cuthbert On Nloaday, for a wager of 51. 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 Centurion, Deptfirrd, 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 novelly 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 fate by some men going to work. Losses at play was the cause of the rash attempt. , BOXING.' The amateurs of the ►Willing 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 %l 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 weitt in with much gaiety, and floored his adversary by a right handed hit, which groggified him, and gave the tradesman the best 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 after, and in the 16th 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 milks the battle. SECOND BATTLE. A slashing battle was fought on Tuesday to the northward of the Regent's Park, between James Brown, a lOst man, and a carpenter of the name of Jones. This was a slice of amusemt fir 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, Gass was the umpire. 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, for twenty guineas. Joshua Hudson and Harry Holt seconded Brown ; and Bales and IL. Bailey picked up Horsham.—Five to four on Brown. The battle lasted 33 minutes ; but Brown never gave his adversary a chance after the 3d round. — The 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 wan ner. In the 4th round, Brown had all the best of it, and drew first blood, and Horsharn never led after. There was not ajloorer in the fight, which took place in a 24-feet ring. THE NATIONAL REGISTER Celebration of the King's conse quence of the recent arrangement for keeping the King's birth-day on St. George's day, the customary detuonstrations 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 half from the French coast, the French brig of war Lynx came out of Granville, fired a gun at them, and sent a bout 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 for 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 mosquito ; they attack iboth matt and horse, and their sting so destructive as to'cause death in three hours. The town of Whichaven 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, bad 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 impru dence 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 Ictliio, Saurus 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 ia, four feet and a half long, with the teeth well defined, with the process of the Sternum Sea pule humerus, &a and the whole length of verte bra, being from eighteen to twenty feet in length. The illustration of the esteology of the lethio Sau rus, or Protect 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 he 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 himself. The body was carried to the vaults under Isliugton church to be owned. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. On 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 Rime persons who were near the spot, who proceeded towards her, but prior to their ar rival she plungod into the river, and remained under water for some time before the waternian and other persons succeeded in rescuing her. She was then in a state of insensibiliiy She was carried to Mr. Langley's, of Newcastle-street in the Strand, 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 foot upon the safety-valve, which occa►ioned the Darrel to ex plode, and there being three men at work in another part of the engine-hoase, the steam, from the sudden expansion and consequent raritication of the air, fitirly carried one of them to the stairs, a distance of no less than 17 feit ; the others were pressed vio leraly 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 arc happy to say, the boy is likely to recover, with the exception of the loss of his sight leg,. 135 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Extraet of a letter Rom the Agent at Lloyd's at Barbaissa, dated lath March.—" The military al g uall-pset at Wane Hill is furnished with Captain Marryatt's ends of dials be ills w r i z and merchant service, and communicates with all weenie at and call off this island, and conveys the internalises at ear commercial rooms; and it may be useful to make Ms imiallt known. His majesty's ship Sapphire is arrived bare tali= Gua deloupe, with seven of the muuneers on board the late.prz: —their names are, Peter Kidd, Richard Jona, T. Msi David Ramsay, John M•Donald, James Mitchell. sad Poor Fisher. The admiral is here. and their trial will cane a kV' reedistely. They have acknowleged their imilt, and 1066 dollars found in their possession, have been titi.en charge of by the Provost larshal fiw the owner." NEM YORK, MARCH 26. —The British sloop of verbatim.. Capt. Bigland. sailed early on Saturday morning on her return to Jamaica The day before she sailed a boat's crew belonging to her rose upon the officer, and made their escape, vociferating, as they' passed along, " Liberty for ever !" The Brothers, Reed. from London to Copenhagen. put into Karsound 31st ult. The master writes that a schooner was on shore about two miles from the place. The Confiance. Guihard, from Floehelle to Senegal, was wrecked on Isle Oliver about the 13th inst. The Argonaut, from Leghorn, was on shore and bilged at Portsmouth (America) 27th ult. Cargo saved. RYE, APRIL 23. —The Hebe. new fishing smack. of It ions, Head, toaster, was run down last night. about ten o'clock, sir. miles west of Dungeness, by a large ship going down Channel. The master and crew were saved with difficulty. The master shelved his light and hailed the ship several times, to which no attention was paid, nor did she heave-to to pick up the crew of the smack after she had sunk her, but kept on a steady course down the ChanneL The loss to the poor Unman is upwards of 3001. 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 141b5., oats Gd. per stone, hay 2G shillings per ton ; groceries nearly half as cheap as some time ago ; and to assist us in our misfortunes we have pollen whir. 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• tke case with almost all our country gentlemen, and the shopkeepers without business ; the only thing to save or serve us in this country, is a reduction of rents, tithes, and taxes, all of which are as high as ever ; and none of those three concern Al 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 theta for several years), has—the clergyman has not abated one penny of his tithes, and I fear Government cannot afford to give up any of the taxes. The endeavour to keep up the price of land by corn-bills, is of no use in the world to the occu pying farmer; it is a bill merely to increase the• rent-roll of great men at the expense, misery, and almost starvation of the lower orders, Was work scarce, and provisions doer, you caw from your se lf form a good idea of what a miserable way we should be in." A few days since the body of J. Gowen, Esq, Lieutenant in his Majesty's 80th regiment of foot, was discovered lying dead on the road from the town of Goree, Ireland, to the seat of his father J. H. Gowan, Esq 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 from him, 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 Assize 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 cf Fleurot was anxiously looking tim the return of her hus band, whose unusual absence filled her with tear, when about ten o'clock his dog in 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, us it' inviting her to follow him: the WOUlall 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 Kamm : 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 shewed, that after having defended him at the expense of his life, this faithful animal employed his last tut). meats in avenging him. The Mansion•house hotel at Montreal wai de stroyed by lire on the pith