The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-02-10 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR or TIM GLASGOW C 1 1. 6 ;,`LE Stia—As the following Address has been presented by the inha dobitants of New Lanark to Mr. Owen m , and some of the L o nn Proprietors, while these (lent!en were lately on visit to the h:stablisliment, by your inserting it into your independen t paper will math oblige, Sir, Your most obedient Servants, hum. DounLas. WILLIAM FOREEPT. ALEXANDER PITEE• WILLIAM FORBES. Robert Owen, William Allen, Joseph roater, Michael thbbe, and Charles Walker, Ewe. We, the undersigned inhabitants of New Lanark beg a ddress ourselves to you as part proprietors of this es- L dishinent. Whatever appearance of very partial dissatisfaction may have lately shown itself, we can truly say that we believe the measures which have h.en, suet still continue to be a dopted in the management of this village, have uniformly been, to the well disposed part of the population, a source of the greatest satisfactiOn and confidence. We believe that we spesk,the general sentiments of the inhabitant% when we express to you and to the other F armers our warmest thanks for the interest you have always taken, and which we still see you take in our hap piness t—so interest which dictated those improvements io the former state of the village, which procured to us the cmnior's new onjor ; and which still continues to dictate, as at last night's meeting you informed us of farther plans for our ennveaienre, comfort, add ..;••• prevenient. . • ~.4 ' rn. ~ "t IVe trust that your esertionsworlielit of our children trill not have been in vain.. bet that their condoct in after life will exhibit the beneficial results anticipated from an education as unusual, as it is superior to that generally riven to children of operative cotton-spinners, and in which vatiotis branches of useful knowledge have been connected 'with •the more inwortemt point of religions in s'ruction, and that the real Adv . !ince of all the inhabitants of this eetildielimept, both, old end young, iu whatever is good and virtuous, will keep pace with your benevolent and philanthropic exertion in prensotinx [To this address are annexed the signatures of 159 male inlisbitabts of New Lanark, with an account of the time they b.ivi severally resided there. Of this number it ap wan, that 27 had been residents for thirty years or more ; 67 between twenty and thirty; and the majority of the rest above twelve yews.] RECORDER'S COURT, DUBLIN. The following trial took place at the City Sessions House, in Breen-street, .on Tuesday, Wore Sir .longs i tireene, Recorder, Aldermen Sir W. Stainer and Tyn dall : . .. . Job% kiPGibboit, a r}ry respeetable looking men, stool indicted for that on tile' 28th November last, 4th of the ; King, he stole Mb James Hanks, hardware-merchant, three hetetrof the' BaXk bf Ireland, nett' of the *able of 201., one snuffer-stand, &c. &c. the goods of said Hanks. Mr. Charles Graydp9.etated the case on behalf of the prosecution. . The facts were these :—Mr. Hanks is one of that highly reepectalge,clase .of . our fellow-citizens, called Quakers, residing .in Thonsi-atreet, *here he carries on the hminess.of . .bardware merchant. The prisoner was his book-keeper Sad f•olerk, • •On the 29th November last be pave the prisoner Bank of I reiand note', autountinst to 122/. m take vp twoisiHs for that amount, due on that da , in tbe•Bank of Ireland. Prisoner did not pay the hiis , and never' Mortal to prdektutor's •iiMployment. Wi respect to the initffif-nianti, s t nd the several other article's stated to the 'indictment, evideririwonld be 'offered to " 1 4 11611 " 40 $ 14410 04 44/41eteibts"". . • 1464 f —• Geneve Merin sworn m N id examined by Mr. R. .Bee sett.--Recolleets 29th of • November lambs - •witness and prisoner were then in prosecutor's employment; prisoner was his clerk tad book-keeper ; wits present' whe n prose cutor handed over to prisoner,' in Witness's priiiime, several Bank n0t..., to' large amount, for the sole purpose of paying: . two bill, iff.prosecutor. that fell due on that day— prisoner abmoodsd ; .did not return to prosecutor's em ployment. (In the 22d of January last, prisoner adinitttd to it itness.that he reoeived 12'21. from• prosecutor to pay rah] hills, but that be did not do so; prisoner was isnme di ttely afterwards taken into custody on this charge. Cross-examined by Mr. Finlay.—Was very near prose rater and prisoner, when the Bank notes were banded by the former to the-latter; cannot say the amount of the rotes; is 'sure they were Bank of Ireland—(llas Mr. Finlay offered Fos and Smith's Reports for witness to read)--.. Can't read Mem"—but "can read his prayer ; hook." Witness was asked by Mr. Finlay if he could spell Ireland, which, after some deliberation, he did as follows : —"Wand ;" is certain there were none of Finlay's notes in the parcel. John Hynes, Peace-officer, 'vulpine(' by Mr. Graydon Took prisoner into enstotly; fo'tnd in his trunk, in his ;Aging% Montgomery-street, the various articles then troduced , consisting of snuff-boxes, razor., &e., and corro borated the former witness, with regard to the admission wade by prisoner respecting the 1221. This witness underwent e very able cross-examination hr file. Doherty, prisoner's Counsel. His direct evi dence, however, was. not varied . in the slightest degree. Thomas Mstlibbon was then examined by Mr. Bennett— ', sen to the prisoner ; recollects the • latter having called on him where he did %mines., in November last it was :lout two o'clock in the afternoon; •walked together for new tioir ; prisoner requested biew to accompany him to the Ranh ; got three twenty ponds% .dotes changed there into twelve live pounds ; prietner titiskke:-reeslved 1221., from prosecutor to pay two bills dui thp,t.jkay; Diet he would g n to the country with the atnotysta on•tket tvening prisoner became Intoxicated ; gave rekttieeAte Pounds; wit ness accom p an i e d p r i sone r to Dro 1 where both, on the following morning, took their isms in the lklfast coach for that town.; took• 401: from pri soner. Cross-examined by Mr. Doherty.—Did not come here for the purpose of swearing against leis father ; came to tell the truth, if necessary, and to itiodicate his own *elm- Tatter ; took forty pounds from his father in Belfast. and to Dublin; was taken up by protecutor, and bronght : core a P o li ce M ag i strate. on a charge of aiding send +begin !! p r i soner in robbing prosecutor.; six pounds, inert Prosecutoes money, eves found on him, wbioh he gave police officer has received, on •an average, .two per day from prosecutor. since last Sattinksy ; toes not expect to receiveowy farther sum from prosecutor; * as rot subpcinid • did not expect to he examined ow•tble 4411 ; was anzloes:Mtbst hie father ; thought it "hati'Ol Counsel to say 11 se got propecutor's money from prisoner '° Pay the 'bins,. When the tact was otherwise; pri 'c'der get Married is a few days alter be arrived in kelfast. , .....i .. • The Reconnis charged the Jury, who were highly i tAsectahle,, and stated distinctly that the prosecution uthild have failed altogether, bray for the evidence of pri isSer's son, whoiiteitiolony went directly to establish the fact of prisoner's having received from prosecutor Cite honk notes laid . , is the indictment, and the questipo alto. tether turned upba the credit due to this witness's testi-' loony. 'll, Jury retired kir a considerable time, and returned a verdict of ()silty. The RacoaDis, in the most eloquent and feeling man "r, passed sentence of transportation on the prisoner for serra years. ~i. _ _ ... ~.~ a I 11111 111k * • ; tjh uo • 411, ~~ .1. "y. • .1 SINGULAR SCHEME. (PROM TIM MANCHISTIR GUARDIAN.) Early on Sunday morning last, the family of John Mar shall, Esq. at the Polygon, Ardwick, was alarmed by the report of a pistol ; and, on going down stairs, they found at the outside of the door, the footman, who stated that be had been alarmed by bearing some persons about the door of the outbuilding in which he slept, and an attempt to force the door ; that he got up, put on part of his clothes, and proceeded towards the house to alarm the family, armed with a bar of iron. On his way thither, 11. 1 beard a signal given by a man from the opposite side of the yard, and saw another man run into the garden. A third man rushed out from the steps to the back-door, where be had been contealed by a porch, fired a pistol at the footman, and ran away ; a fourth man was also stand ing on the steps, and be ton fired'a pistol, which, the font man said, wounded him slightly on the arm, bat he rushee' on the man, struck him on the face or the neck, asilL knocked the pistol out of his hands; however be succeeded in making his escape. When Mr. Marshall, juo. got down stairs, be found that a bole had been cut on the back door, apparently with an intention of taking out a pannel, and it seemed as if an attempt had been made to force the lock, by means of a crow bar. On the door, mad on the ground near it, a quantity of blood was •, k • a nd a bug* karte pistol, with -eowsereiesegvelarl • ad - , which' appeared to have been ma as slugs ere found in the yard. In the garden, footsteps were *wed, as if persons had gained admittance, and escaped by, getting over the wall ; and a rope, which seemed to hire been intended to be used fur that purpose, was found near the door. Of course, no doubt wus frit by the family of Mr. Marshall that an attempt had been made, by a desperate gang of robbers, to break into the house, sod great credit was given to the footman for hit coo- , rageous and resolute conduct. In the morning, Mr. La vender went to the place, with a view to assist in the de tection of the supposed ffenders ; but, on ex twining the bremises, and particularly on observing the marks of lood on the door, he began to soaped the truth of the footman's story, and on looking at the wound on the arm of the latter, he found that it was a mere graze, the skin having been scarcely raised ; and yet it appeared from his clothes as if it had bled very copiously. Seseral other trivial circumstances contributed to increase Mr. Laren- ler's doubts, and he communicated his suspicions to Mr. Marshall, jun. That gentleman, however, bad so high an opinion of the footman, that he could not then be in duced to suspect him; bur, after some cousideration, he began to think it possible that the man knew more of the miller than he wished to explain. In the meantime. hand-bills Pere issued, offering a reward for the discovery of the persons who had attempted to break into the house; and, as Mr. Lavender had observed that the pistol found appeared to have been recently in the bands of a gun smith, it was reynesteol that the parties who had sold such a weapon would apply at the police office, by which means it was discovered that the pistol had been purchaqtd:at the shop of Mr. Styen, in hanging Ditch, on the preceding Saturday; and the description given by Mos. Styes of the per,on of the lulu who bought it left no doubt on the mind of Mr. Lavender that his suspicions were well founded. Op Wrilues4lay, therefore, it sval ar ranged that Mrs. Styen should take a pair of pistols to Mr. Atarshall'o. !loose, as if for his inspection, and that the footuo in should open the door tkr her; which was done and as soon as she saw him, sloe *new him to be diit Man %ho had purchased tfie l pistol on . Saturday. About er made lits appearance, and the same time Mr. havend thefgotuianwas!tiiaried s svith hivinist th4wh ole I)snl i r,.iadTre r raster former story; but, after being closely pressed, and confronted with Mrs. Styan, he ad mitted that the whole was a fabrication, and that lie bad tired the pistol and cut the panel of the door himself, and rubbed his arm with a piece of iron, to. wake it look as if ititad been grazed by a ball. He had obtained the blood by making his own nose bleed, and bad splashed it on the door and the ground, to finical: arenas if it bad fallen from a wounded man. In short, lie disclosed the whole contrivaince from first to Isst ; and when asked wbet could be his motive for such couduct, he said he found his wages insufficient to maintain his wife and family, and therefore did what he had done io the hope that Mr. Mar shall would reward him fur his display of courage. it was thought necessary to examine the plate and other property intrusted to his care; but every thing was found perfectly correct, and no suspicion is entertained that be has been at all dishonest. In&ed, his previous conduct had been such, as to give Mr. Marshall (in whose service he had been fur several years) a very high opinion of his integrity and fidelity ; and he had received from that gentle wan several merits of kindness. Cif course be was imme diately discharged. DRILIDFUL TUUNDER-STaRy. -00 the 29th December last, during a thunder-storm, about half-past twelve, p.m.. the signal-house, on Holyhead mountain was struck by the electric fleid, which, after stripping the abutters, aid displacing a large bow-window, entered the bed-room of the signal-man, who was asleep with la o of his children, one of whom, and the father, were scorched, the latter from the middle of the thigh in a spiral form up to his neck, burning several holes in his flannel waistcoat, which, with the shock, rendered him some time senseless. On entering the place, it was found that the bed-posts were all broken, the curtain-rods incited, the pillow of the bed ripped up its, all directions, the clock-case and the hell shivered to atoms, the wainscot and the dresser behind it cat to pieces, the front door forced some yards out, a largo shelf above the kitchen fire-place forced through the frpnt window, and three of the beams that supported the „cloth -roof broke, forcing all the others out of their sockets. The electric fluid then tore a hole through a twenty itch stout wag, i i infl made its way into another bed-room, ushers it slOered' to pieces all the furniture, iron-pots, earthenware, &ALI also the wainscoting of the bed-rooise'where the ler i sront-maid and twoothers of the children lay , but fortunat e ly did them no material injury. The destructive fluid thee forced its way through another 20-inch stone wall into the store-room, %%here it wrenched from the wall a large cup board, shivering to pieces its front, shelves, and all tlhe paint-pots, glass, Esc. that it contained; then through the. feondation of the building, and, dislodging large stones, it. -furrowed the pavement in a sig-sag form, and passing ' through a potatoe-elamp twenty yards off, it completed its work of destruction. It is singular that the only article. untouched was a chest containing some dozen cartridges ;f e rder, used for tire signal guns, which, had they ex- i ed, would have destroyed the whole family , and blo wn path building. A brass pan was also blown from a shelf, anakovered, bottom upwards, a turf fire that. was blazing on the hearth stone, which prevented that destructive ele dent from doing further mischief. The servant, after re ooverieg from her fright, 'called to her master, but not hav ing any re ply. she scrambled over the weeeky pile, and succeeded in taking him out clad in the bed-clothes, and placed him under a hedge some yards from the place, and then she carried, two of the children and led the other two, all with namely my - of the mountain, full half a , that could there be ringleted -4 sr here the 4 , ---- - -•s, bet If, -.. but rAN THIEVES SHOT. .....0w00..- ? LlntoM THE lIRISToL MERCUAT.I (Prole a Correspondent.)—At Upper Banton on Monday morning last, about four o'clock, a great noise was heard Jay a servant man, named John Scully, in the employ of Mr. Pocket ; the noise proceeded from the dogs belonging lho the house barking, and from the bells aqiiched to the Sheep in a field opposite. Scully proceeded to inspect the !grounds, armed with a gun, loaded-with small shot ; and lifter proceeding about fifty yards down the garden, lie kooked across a narrow lane—found that some person of persona were hunting the sheep; and suspected, from the eireumetance of their being no passage or foot-way through the field, that an attempt was making to steal some of them. [Numerous depredations had been of late committed in the neighbourhood, and Mr. Crink, the pro 'elm.; bad requested, as be lived himself at same distance, Ist John Scully would keep a good look out in guarding his flock, and that he should be rewarded for his trouble.] 'Wee Scully had waited in the garden from live to tee Obetee, he saw some men, making their way over the es to a wall, about four feet in height, which is situate lient six feet across the lane; the dog which was with sully tben barked furiously, and some stones were thrown a$ hint by the thieves, one of them was heard to say, " some person most be with that dog." On which Scully cried sit • " Stop thief" several times, when one of the thieves said, " There is a man--shoot the casual--Tom, d-- you, why don't you fire!" y (it being star-light) could see that they had some . ppueiw it to be a sheep, he fired his gun at the tots of one of them, who was then standing upon the wall, at the distance of about twelve yards from him ; the contents of the gun passing the first man struck a second, %Oldie name is said to be Maggs, in the breast, which canted Lis death. A few minutes afterwards, two men %yardmen running violently through the turnpike near the Three Black Birds public-house, supposed to be those who bad escaped. Upon the deceased was found a crow-bar, 1 with a crooked top and bottom. and three stolen fowls, which were proved to be the property of a person named Bradey, living next door to the Lebec public house; he had alsolit his pockets matches, flints, and other implements for ighattle_r. Thomas Ebcott, who lives near the spot, had hielfewis.stolen very early the same morning, which are aappOsed to be in the p ion of the men who ran away when the deceased was shot.—John Scully surrendered himself immediately after the act, and the more respect ablmbhabitants of the place anticipated a verdict of ac- 1 quitteß by the Coroner's Jury; but, on the following day,' a eetdict of" Manslaughter" was found. Scully bears an eteilltiont character, both for honesty and sobriety. It appears that be did not fire with the intent to kill, but to 'wooed the legs of one of the It 1 vet. Ilis unfortunate conditiOn has induced several respectable individuals to in- Writ themselves in his favour. One gentleman has of t fend ball to the amount of five hundred pounds, which, howtver, could not be accepted, it being a Coroner's com mittal. The same philanthropic individual has ordered nineriltillings per week to be paid Scully during his,impri sOnlYstit. ANO,HER Tully SHOT.—On Snnday morning, the 25th ult. Aquantity of leather was found in Barrow Wood, which tag supposed to have been stolen ; and in cense crew. two or three men were, on the follewini night, stationeid near the spot, for the 'purpose of watching the Net"' in case they should return to carry off their hooky. They did return abbot 2 o'clock on 'Monday morn having taken 'the leather, they were einveying en the met' on duty called to them to surrender. ediately 4opped the leather, and ran away; and Eh ight, a gun was discharged at them, the contents 4f wounded one of the thieves in the shoulder. taken into cast°, 'rites Taunton ir QuUT qtr Autz Mass.—Friday, William Joyner Ellis♦ Fag. bold an 'lnquest at the Black Boy public house, Deedbass-Dowo, on the body of the above-named feinala4 aged 22, who was found downed io a pond, in () T sai Field, behind Montague-parade, on Wednesday morning. The body was discovered by some plasterers, who wore at work in the neighbourhood ; and it was first conveyed to the Bell, Hillgrove street, out-parish of St. Paul, .bat was was afterwards removed to the Black Boy, Parish of Westbury-upon-Frye), the pond where the body was found being to the latter parish. It appeared, frow the evidence before the Coroner, that the girl had lived in the family of a lady, who now resides in Southwell-street, f•rr a period of thirteen years. to the course of the last two years, abe bad taken to drinking; and lately i► was dis covered she had been in the habit of contracting debts with shotikeepees. - althoogh site had received money from her mistress to pay for the articles purchased. A bill for se veral pounds had been presented; aid on finding that her mistress was about to investigate this case, the girl, under the dread of immediate detection, left the house about four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, saying that she would go and take a 'boa to be repaired: but did not return, and no thing was beard of her until the following morning, when she was found in the pond, as already stated. A report that the unfortunate girl was pregnant, was satisfactorily coot/acted oa the tannest. Verdict—" Drowned her self, being se the time in a state of Mental Derangement." —(l6id.) LENT ASSIZES.—MIDLAND CIRCUIT. Before Chikluatice Baron Gillman and Mr. Baron HULLOCK -....l9,6nualtrtomsuirte.--Saturday, Feb. 20, at Northampton. Rolci,loornwitas.—Faday, Marc's 5, at Oakham. Ltsilcotaimtlas.—gaturday, March 0, at Lincoln. ('ir oX LlNCOLN.—flame day. at City of ditto. Nomrtsisiitammitat.—Friday. March, 12, at Nottinghami) rault i r Tom, ' NOTTINOHAII.—Same day, at City of ditto. Masts as.—Wednesday, March 17, at Derby. L s ae.— Monday, enday, March 22, Castle of Leicester. -moos-13assa day, at Borough of ditto. Cm or 04)florraY.—Saturday, March 29, Cityof Coventry. W4awicitlintas.—Same day, et Warwick. VACCINATION.—It appears from the Reports of the National Vaccine Board to the Right Honourable Robert Peel. that the application for lymph have been more then usually numerous—a proof that the confidence of tbe world in vatlcitia , ion is increasing, particularly under the benevo lencei of Pailismetit, in providing an establishment where the "hitter is along. to be procured. Since the last report, lymph has been dispatched to the East and West ladies , to Ceylou, 'thug-Cape. of Hood Hope, the Island of Maud ties, to the ( lialtinf Africa, to New &kith Wales, to France and Itaig, kc. ihe report then stated, that it has been .distrilanteclibi tills kingdom with great success. " For -the small-palatial' prevailed as an epidemic with more than '-ordinary malignity Is various parts of this Island lately, committed. great ravages in those districts where it found victims unprotected against it by a previous process. 0 .1 11 . ativettngeislitit viii.oinatton in places subjected to those severe visitations haw, been confessedly decisive and re markible, times who bad used this resource being observ ed to remain generally ;Wind in the midst of dapeer and if. there were any wham; Abe contaKion. was Able- to ,ly universally, to Ibsen w hi c h is pot attended vaccinated from 1818 to - oept tin' Capital) is • vaccinators fur the - moot) . persons of Foe carried, two of the children and lea the moat --- w i t h sc „ o d y tiny clothing , , to a hoes . at the f oo t infect, these wars remprked. ahnostly uPirersally, the disease in that mitigated form which is pot a loonfain, tuff halt *mile off, where every-assistance ild there be niadered misfiles& Onclborehing Ow with danger." , Tim total number vaccinated from iert the poor man was deposited. b. "ITO lonad still ithl2 to thir United. Kingdom (except tin, tap ~ bat by proper treatment, he is pawl, a fair wsi .421•1111,_•210,,.....tib. total by .160 stationary vicc„„ins,,„„tw l ery, but it ialenred that his legiat t arbickb . eretoioce \AP I " El. /11141 4 5 . 111 ii In WM th en wore zumuu reek, will never ripaese Isp pa4twasl.perhelionleacZOlAALLaylon. . AIN in- the' Presidency eary Chronicle.) 3; i : 3 IL:. 7 , ' 111. ' 0003078 in th at of Bobibsy • . . . • .•••.. - . , . 10 4 • -•• • • 4k „ ' ' . • .• • - . - - •;,' • • .• . . . . . . • 5 . , • , . .. .. .. • .... • A ... . . ....• - -o .* ~.y. - PP ••• : ....- _ , ~• SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET ♦DDITIONA FREE HANDICAPS, IS2&. Monday, Second Spring Meet. Thursday,Second Springlleet ing 900 h. ft. D.M. Three to ing, D. M. 200, h. ft. Three accept or no engagement. to accept, or no engag..ment et. lb. so. lb. Sultan .... ... • 9 7 Augusta Emilius t, 12 8aref00t.............. 9 0 Morisco..... ..... Marcellus 8 9 NI iraudola • 8 10 Pestile 8 7 Posthunia 8 0 L0gic....... 8 4 Mystic Mystic . 8 3 Stair Zinc 8 0 Whizgig..•.... 8 0 Bizarre 8 0 Spermacetti... 7 12 Comte d'Artois.. 7 12 Searbroagh, I Itt Spermacetti 7 In Ganymede 7 fig • Electress .... Zealot Eden 7 7 ...-......-. . BETTING AT TA FTERSALLS. Fin. 9. .. ' DERBV.-5 to 1 agst Swiss-7 to I agst Reformer-11 t't r _ . I sgst Grenadier-13 to 1 sgst Jessy—l 4 to I sgst Osmoutt.- . ... / 15 to 1 agst Ridicule-20 to 1 isgst Don Carlos'-20 •to I eget . • . Cressida-93 to 1 agst llurly Burly -2a to 1 egst Silkworm= ' .. . 25 to I agst Cydous-95 to 1 agst Skim Colt-39, 1 :10 I apt .. Bess- 30 to I agst Pautina--35 to 1 agst Myrmidoti4o t 44 .4 - %1 : • * i . 1 sgst Edward-50 to 1 sgst Brother to Carbonate. . , •I i .'•..,. f, .. DONCASTER Sr. LEOER.-1 I to 1 agat Altisidore•-;..2 ,to . • '•- . • , . mot Swiss-17 to 1 agst Rosanne-20 to I egst Millur l .* - 4 4i. 1 Mansfield-22 to 1 agst 11eformer--22 to I sgst Miss • :' . . ' ''. , field-24 to 1 agst fllaudace-94 to 1 eget Ringlet--511 , ,:q: ', '- ~- .. • , e agit Ins. Conetderibte sums betted even between Swiss and the . k '. - ,--. . , 1 r'; . •• . ...:-. sidora f.-Oaks and Ri 'dlesworth nothing done, -,. ..: 1, ' ....... GRAND FIGHT BEIM EEN SPRING AND LANCIAftoti • •,- t. al ,:...,: r s Every man who has any pretensions to the Faieff . H.... knows how much the decision of the Umpires in the la tt •I. : • `,. • .v. Grand Figbt has been diapotcd. We however, who hav's .. ='; •I ! '2l' ~ . , no such pretension, like too much the comfort of sleepigrfi" ;:: : -;•.;• • .4 in a whole skin to he involved in the controversy. At - 0,4. 1 i . . 1 ' ' • .! same time, we hate no objection that our sportingvelder*fle. - should take whatever side their intlguient may . dirrcti, anst r , 3 . - when any of them arc disposed to contest the disputed .• •:•1 --•,. point in our columns, we are always• ready to afford %hell, , ~,.• all that the pugilists of farmer days required, "a clear ' - stage and no favour." In this spirit we give room to lbw , . s , • following letter from an anonymous correspondent of Wor- ' ' • tester ; and to guard against Its, charge of partiality or ' misrepresentation, we giv • it verbatim a literatine.• • ' TO TIIE SPORTING WORLD. . , GENTLEMSN,-Having Daily observed for nearly five' • weeks past that you and others Editors has been coat tinnally pestered and Ilarrased with a Quantity of Plotter' • Infamous Trash letters, all on the same sublets! 'and neirlyi • the same words, written by Tom [ten:10111s; or klsSectski tary, wbo of cu:mo must he a person of a Respectiblier'• character-not a single sentence of it bat what iii r nototions false and contrary from truth, the t .--• if this War sent at the fight with Spring and the ring as Possible any other in; Blow from tirst to last, which et as to facts-1 will pledge my w Shilling on the Fight, neither r Months previous to the battle natnlier of Prize Fights in my welt with confidence as to iii would freely take the Sacrament e*iatencff that I never saw a I whose course of my life, 1 mew as the other-neither Digit eves what Langan was, in fact the: Grumbling between Mee of H, truth is, Langan was dead Buil Still, and the four last roundie ____ _ .;. A ' r vittsethr Moored and Piibed when time was called his head Second, Deal and Insensible Umpires Immediately Dechtred Spring, those whom 1 well knew event of the Battle, Paid the ' never uttered a single word to pearance of an unfair Fight, given by any or.e, no not even the morrow after the Fight, WI, between Langan and Iteunolds should adapt fur the safety of their persons ,on their return, to their own country, at Length they agreed to Stroll the countries frOm Tows to Town till such times the iirdisit rage and Passion of their countrymen is assuaged—it - pears that for some time previous to the Fight, that nolds and Langan had so much extolled the High Powers of the Latter Boxer amongst their warmhearted country— , men, that at length they thought I' not a human Wow• but something Supernatural, prompted by their Boasting ' Assurance Betting Immediately commenced at high odds in favour of Langan, we have it now from high Authority that Six of the Principal Towns In Ireland has lust lemo that 72,0001. This being the fact we cannot be Surprised' at their Dreading the approach of their native shore—w¢ cannot let it Pass by unnoticed without remarking on , a. subject, that we have repeatedly observed in that Purtiatt paper, called the Dispatch, the Simple observation whicbst he inserted, Saying that Spring had not risen himself in the estimation of the Sporting world respecting big Victory over Langan, how void of Hononr, honesty, or- Understanding must this Editor be by inserting inch rank Gls tales, at the same time he well kne.v that there Mail Upwards of 30,000 people that could bear Testissooy against it, it tie well know that Spring severely injurb his right hand in the sth round, by which means the re— , waiving part of the Battle which was 72 rounds, occupying' two hours and Six Minuets, During the whole of tbattimoi Spring had but one hand to contend with, which compelled' him to tight entirely on the Defensive, the reuniting Part of the Battle, bAng as above stated two hoar* sod aim minuets, therefore the greatest of his Enemies except that Partial Editor; admits that if Spring had not boon Poseen of Haute nue!, if not superior to Any Pugilet on reword hey had been bound to resign to contest Immediately after his hand was Injured, were is the man existing that would hagit continued the contest against one of the best men in Baer Kingdom, and with only one band for two hours andßisti minuets, and in the most tot tureing Pain the wholeof the time, What as the Partial Editor to say apposition if, this statement i ;1 { , the writer of this Was pre- . 1. •,...../. %•••-•,; ' nil Lingan, and as 'near Sy '• . • i;, 44 1 nan could get, and s)is :••• enables me to speskE . . . word that I had nor i . A -.-. had I seen Spring' ' 4 f.szrd .et iL I *P- 4, 1; -" , eit 1 1 with Langan—l hate seigir 4 l „ • e. : .-. • time which enables osei 1bi141 . .. : i, • he Decision of a right, irl - ei, . v nt in the last moments of eV: f • ..- more Fairer Fight in • th l / 1 ; ' in to say as Fair for the•olsell • . , , 1 rr See a man faipter beat 114 ~,,..1. ' .. •re was no Rabat for • Honour, or Hboesty. :at, he was Beg to a Sta • •• - . hi_catneop • .........._,- i.e . wily to down in iird; XVI' • . N , . . ' I lold ou the Sheol 'of big - ...N.- ►#.. Ito the sound of time, Alt: . :•• . red the contest IS &rote of . '4 low lost heavy souses on the ''S• I Blurt Dawn Immediately, . ...., a say that it had the least sp.' • 4,' , neither was• a single hint . .. • I i - • tby Langan or Iteouolds, till • n i • 'hen a consaltitthn.tedk places .i . Js to.fix upon what plan they their persons on their retorts .ii th they agreed to Stroll the a till such times the iioliht . t ntrymen is assuaged—it up- 4 ious to the Fight, that Rea- • I am Sir A Constant reader and'" '. •‘• Saltscriber to your Ifultibb NOP Worcester, Feb. 7, 1524. • 431: ' -:r HACKNIIT COACH Quasviox.—The following are the circumstances of a case on which a question his arise" lately at the Hatton-garden Police-office. A coach was hired on the Ifith of November, at the stand in Smithfield', bich is on the stones, and was driven to, and diechstlid at, the regular Mond fur hackney-coaches, in the City'-rOB, 411agron, which stand is beyond the continued carriage way pavement; and having been sthrimoned foi bilactlng Is. back fare, being as urged by the complaiatia to no back fare at all, the Magistrates entertai644l . 4l6iffies as to the proper judgment to be given. ro the above ease the following verbatim 'ilitrier Las been returned Although section the fifth of the matesiaset 111. c.p. 159, is not so distinctly fradled .as• the claim. in tbs. prior Act of the 48th of Geo: au. s 7. gm* relates to ibis *abject, we nevertbilittialthinli Abit • amok man'-bad a right, ander the above. aireamstpaeba, td the Is. back fare to tie *area extre*ltiwinoodoeled Oln jag. - , • way pairmaent. (Signed.) ' mi•JA14)10111.116 ,•';. , • . 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