The Sun. — London, England, 1823-05-22 00:00:00

~f JOURNALS. DAILY As from the Morning Papers, Mali 22. _f;s7,i-.: - •,•. :....-1 ,•; , !4Pr. , ' "fif,i' ,::-1' [MORNING eIIRONICLE.] An important announcement was made last night to the House by Mr. Iluskisson, namely, that the trade between this country and Ireland should be placed on the same footing with re spect to regulations, as the trade between any two Ports of England. Even the advocates for restriction (and there are still a few) must allow that there is at all events no reason for distin guishing between the trade from one port in England to another, and the trade from a port of England or. Scotland to Ireland. But Mr. Hos kisson expressed his anxiety to go still further, and to do away as much as possible with all re strictive duties on commerce.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that this was the last year he intended to propose a Lottery.—lt was expected by many that the motion of Sir James Mackintosh, having for object the reform of our Criminal Code,. would be carried last night. Such however was not the case. Mr. Peel found out a new reason for retaining some of our san guinary laws, which we suppose procured for him his majority of 10. The old arguments against repealing these laws were, that as they were never executed, the humanity of the age was not shocked by them, and as the criminal could not be certain they would not be executed, this uncertainty operated as much to deter him, as certainty would do. But it is the certaintjj of punishment which Mr. Peel now dreads. The humanity of the age, according to him, would. put a stop to all prosecution, were it known that punishment would always follow conviction. At present the prosecutor is tempted to come forward by the hope that the prisoner may merely be subjected to the purifying influence of terror, and that the severity of the punishment will induce the Jury to acquit. Affairs, there fore, have taken quite a new turn. [THE TI HES.] Some questions - were last night put by Sir James Mackintosh to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, respecting the maritime pretensions of Russia in the Pacific Ocean,. and o►► its eastern and western shores. If considered %rill► any view to the public principles recognised by the law of nations, nothing can be more mon strous than this theoretical rapacity of,the Rus sian Cabinet. If compared with the means possessed by that Court to enforce its menaces in opposition to the power of Great Britain, or even of the United States, nothing can exceed the folly of such pretensions. Why, a squadron of half a dozen British frigates, and two or three battalions of marines, would exterminate the Mus covites from the scene of this ill-placed, ill timed, and immeasurable arrogance. And yet will it be credited by those even who can best conceive from the history of live or six. years just ended, the extreme disproportion between that respect which is due from other European powers to Great Britain, mod the contemptuous indifference with which the British Ministers are treated or; all hands —will it, we repeat, be believed here after, that to the repeated remonstrances of this Government on a subject most nearly touching the honour and dignity of the► British CroWn, the Court of Russia has not yet deigned to return so much as a decent answer ? Mr. Canning fairly cc admits that no information has yet been fur nished to our Ambassador at Ste Petersburgh!" [MORNING POST.] The intelligence received yesterday from Pa ris adds hut little to our knowledge of military movements. It is asserted that the force which Nina took with him in his late enterprize did not exceed 4000 men—a statement which, if correct, would only excite a greater degree of admiration at the skill and activity with which that bold Commander has eluded the overpowering masses of the enemy, and contrived to maintain himself, and to manoeuvre freely in the rear of numbers ten times larger than his own. With such limited means he would scarcely have been able to effect what he has done ; for besides his triumph over Romagosa, which every tith , tends to confirm, he has stopped the advance of Moncey's whole army, compelled several of its corps to return and engage in a difficult and unavailing chace amongst mountains and defiles with which he alone is perfectly acquainted, and forced the convoys which were cowing, to fall back and seek a shelter on the French territory. Supposing, however, that all this should have been accomplished with only 4000 men, it would he► erident that lie never could have intended to enter France with so small a force, and that his chief object must have been, after striking a few blows, to create Con stitutional Guerrillas, or' to support those already formed or foiming, by the dispersion of his troops into different parties in the rear of the enemy.— That some great difficulties have arisen in the conduct of tilt+ war in Catalonia, in conse quence of his movements, may be inferred from the rumours prevalent in Paris, that Moncey was to be recalled, and Suchet (the Duke of Albufera) appointed in his place. This Corn. mander has not only skill, but youth and ncti vity on his side, whilst Moncey has far declined 'into the vale of years ; and his appointment would seem to indicate that the French Go vermnent shared at last the just and general opi nion that the struggle in Spain would he far more serious than it had been anticipated, and that it would require abilities of a higher kind, and exertions of a more comprehensive nature, than those which had hitherto been displayed by the Prince Generalissimo and his subordinate agents. [MORNING HERALD.] What a withering, unsocial, malevolent thing, is the spirit of party ? Take a thorough-going Radical, and there is no peril, no degradation, to which he would not gladly reduce the country of which he is an unworthy son, if he but sees, or fancies he sees, a blow aimed at " Old Sarum." The cause of knowledgeand freedom in Spain is Jess than nothing to him: he would gladly see it trampled under foot by the inquisition and thel rrencli. fe woa' even see the English flag humiliated, and that of France flying over the Tower of London, in his petty and vindic tive spleen against " Boroughmongers." On the other hand, the thorough-going partisan of things as they are, the intolerant mono polist of the true faith in politics and reli gion, will not stir in a cause, which even con fesses to be, in itself, good, if it would bring him into momentary communion with persons out of his little sect or creed. Is the lot of the African slave to be ameliorated!" The little bigot starts away from it, because it is defiled by the co operation of some one who sat silent in his place whilst a Petition was presented from the nolo. rious personage named Carlile.,, Is the question to awake the sympathy of a free and generous People in favour of a nation whose position is the most. interesting, the most affecting that imagi nation can frame to itself—a young nation, re nascent from barbarian tyranny and degrada tion, and aspiring to the glories of the parent from which it is descended ? The partizan withholds his puny aid, and shrinks within him self because he will not commune with one who missed an opportunity of abusing Carlile. Of the first class of party bigots we have no hope, and shall therefore waste no words on them. To the second we would put the question, whe ther they think the abolition of the Slave Trade, or the cause of the Greeks unsanctified—dese crated by the profane contact even of hands that presented a petition for the mitigation of punishment in the -case of a convicted in fidel libellist ? With an extreme distaste for the trash published by Carlile and his col leagues, we see the possibility of men having the strongest respect for religion, yet dis countenancing the industry with which pro secutions have been instituted. The law of opi nion to Mr. Locke, the most power ful of the three great sanctionsr-and it is, per haps, to be regretted that what is somewhat loosely termed blasphemy was not left to be branded as it would have been, and therefore extinguished by this law alone. At all events, it is lamentable that a spirit should be gene rated by differencetof opinion on a point like this, to prevent a union of efforts in promoting the universal and immutable interests of huma nity and civilization. IN ENV TI M ES.] We learn with satisfaction that our fate state ments of the positions and movements of the Allied Forces in Spain have been regarded as more clear and distinct than those of most of our cotemporaries. We do not dissemble the difficulty that must necessarily exist in tracing the details of such a warfare as that which is carrying on at present in Catalonia. But in the great outlines of the campaign, we have not hitherto been much mistaken, and at all events we have been consistent. We own it has often struck us that the habitual readers of The Morning Chronicle, Times, and other I'apers of that stamp, must be very much confused by the directly opposite statements of the same facts, in the same Journal, at different periods. Yester day, for instance, The Chronicle contained two columns of small type, closely printed, to prove that there are not now,and were not in the course of the last year, any plots whatever against the Government in France, except some very trifling ones instigated by the agents of the Government itself. And yet no longer ago than the 17th of March and 4th of April last did The Chronicle contain the two very memorable articles, signed G. which were ascribed to the pen of Mr. Bowling. Of those articles, the first most expli citly asserted that the great majority of French men would " shortly " join in overthrowing the present Government ; and the second said, " Three weeks hence we may be able to refer to our arguments and views of the case as so many predictions." Now, by which of these views of the state of France does The Chronicle mean to abide ? Has there been no conspiracy at all in that country ; or does the great majority of the People form one vast conspiracy ? Ilas there never been a serious thought of overturning the Government ; or was a plan for that purpose agreed upon and ready for execution on the 25th of last month ? And if so, by what accident has it been delayed ? The two statements of fact di rectly contradict each other : and yet to both The Chronicle appears to give full credit. What, we ask again, are the readers of The Chronicle to be live ? As to the contradictions and tergiversations of The Times, we have exposed them so often and so distinctly, that any body who trusts to the statements of that paper must do it on the prin ciple of the poet, that —The pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. But we will take - an example from one of the French Liberal Journals. In the beginning of February last the courier Francais asserted that by the Ist of April the Cortes would have a re serve of one hundred thousand muskets, and would have fitted for sea 31 ships of the line— that by the same period one hundred and eighty thousand men would be under arms, clothed, and equipped ; and that the Spanish frontiers would be placed io a complete state of defence I—We demonstrated the absurdity of these statements in our Paper of February 9.oth, and subsequent events have proved that we were right.—There was no defence of the frontiers—no hundred and eighty thousand men—no reserve of a hindred thousand muskets—and no thirty-one ships of the line. Which are best, the monstrous fic tions of the courier Pranpis, or the plain un exaggerated statements of a Journalist who dis dains to cater for public prejudice by such un. worthy means ? [BRITISH PRVIS.] The overweening pretensions of Russia were freely canvassed in the House of Commons last night by Sir James Mackintosh. There is still, in that great assembly, a spirit and a freedom of inquiry and independence, which domestic cor ruption has not yet been able to break down, and which laughs to scorn the power and pre tensions of foreign Despots. Within those walls they are dragged to the bar of public opinion, and impeached in the face of Europe. A free Press, with an unbounded circulation, diffuses the debates of the British Parliament through the civilized' world ; it pervades, in despite of the most un ceasing vigilance, every - portion of Europe, and carries terror into the recesses of the tyrant's palace, and alarm to the solitude of his very pillow. By this press the ceaseless ambition and hypocritical perfidy of the Northern Autocrat has been exposed ; the specious disguise in which he enveloped his plans of universal dominion, have been searched and laid bare ; all Europe now beholds him in his true colours as the rapicious plunderer of Poland—the cold-blooded betrayer of the Greeks—the imperial conspirator against the rights of man. Through the medium of the Holy Alliance, he is before the world in his real character of a despot, a hypocrite, and a spoiler. His monstrous ambition, it is known urged the present contest against Spain ; he aided Austria to enslave Italy; he has clutched Poland in his grasp, and doomed it to universal slavery. Ile roused the Christians throughout the Turkish provinces to revolt, and when he had bared their throats to the scymitars of their oppressors, he left them to be butchered in thousands. Not satis fied with possessions in Europe and Asia, exceed ing the utmost extent of the RoMan empire under the warlike Trojan or the philosophic. Antonines, the Imperial proprietor contemplates nothing short of universal dominion by land and sea, and in pursuance of it seeks at once to arrogate an ex tent of coast of more than 4000 miles—from the north-west coast of America to the north-east shores of Russiii—and to appropriate for his sub jects the north-west Company, the entire most valuable fur trade of these immense regions. Sir James Mackintosh, after alluding to the question he had put last Session to Lord Londonderry, on the subject of the pretensions of this power, asked Mr. Canning whether he had received in formation that Russia, in prosecution of her de sign to assume universal dominion over land and sea, had stationed ships of war to drive away British and American yessels, from Nootka Sound to the shores of Japan ? Secondly, whether any answer had been given by Russia to the protest of the British Government, in the time of Lord Londonderry, against this usurpation ? And thirdly, whether any neg ociations were pending on the subject ? Mr. C a n ning replied, that Mi nisters had received no such information as that mentioned, respecting the Russian ships of war. That the protest had been renewed and repeated, both at the Congress of Verona and at St. Peters burgh, and that negociations were now depending at the Russian Court, in consequence of instructions sent to our Ambassador there, on the principles of the former protest. We are glad to see the rights of the country remembered. If Russia were suffered to advance in the career of ambition she has taken with such gigantic strides, her ascen dancy would overshadow Europe. America would not suffer the rights and property of its subjects to.be torn from them, if England could be weak enough to submit in silence. The American Mi nister already remonstrated against this outrageous usurpation, and the British Minister has again re peated our protest. Russia must see she cannot maintain her encroachment in the teeth of rivals so powerful; she must therefore retire with asgood a grace as possible, and give ,the matter as good a colouring as she can. It has been, however, the policy' of this power never to abandon her pretensions`tatogether, though she may have been occasionally obliged to husband them for future occasions. She will stifle her demands for the present, but she will keep them watchfully in re serve, to be put forward with the array of her whole power at some future and not distant day. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, .MAY 21. 110P1.CINS P. NEWEL. This was an action against the proprietor of the Richmond stage, to recover a compensation for damages, arising from the negligence of the defendant's coachman, who drove his mas ter's coach against the gig in which the plaintiff and his wife were riding, and threw them into the road. No Counsel ap peared to defend the action. Mr. GURNEY, in opening the plaintiff's case, alluded to this circumstance, and observed that it w a s the 'only instance within his knowledge, where A coach proprietor, sued in an action of this description, had not appeared in Court to de fend it. It was proved that on the 4th of August Mr. and Mrs. Hop kins were proceeding in a gig from Richmond. towards London; over Barnes common ; while they were driving on their right side of the road, the Richmond stage, of which the defendant was the proprietor, came up, and deviating from its track, struck against and overset the chaise. Mr. Hopkins was slightly hurt, but his wife sustained a more serious injury, in consequence of which she was confined for three weeks to her room. The charge of the surgeon for attending on her during her illness was 31. 3s. The defendant had paid for the repairs of the chaise, but refused to afford any compensation for the personal injury. The Lord CHIEFJUSTICE directed the Jury, that as the wife was not joined In the action, they could not take into con sideration her personal sufferings in estimating the damages;' but they might compensate the plaintifffor the loss of her assist ance in the management of her family during her illness, and also for the expence which he had incurred fbr her cure. The Jury found a verdict for the • IMEELEY SATCHEL'. plaintiff—Damages 10 /. This was an action of trespass brought by a tradesman resi dent at Mill-hill, near Hendon, Middlesex, against a butcher of the same village, for shooting a dog of the plaintiff: ' It appeared in evidence, that the dog in question, which was of the mastiff breed, was shot on the 24th of December last, and died. The plaintiff's witnesses swore that he (defendant) had Nhot at the dog on the 20th of the same month, and that, after the death of the animal, lie had admitted that he shot him on the day when he died. On the part of the defendant, wit nesses were called to show that he was at home the whole of the day when the first shooting was sworn to, and the dog was ultimately killed, not by him, but by a person named Hum phreys, who used his gun on the occasion. Lorin CIIIEP JUSTICE left the Jury to decide whe ther, if Humphreys killed the dog, he did do so by the desire of the defendant. If they thought he only fulfilled the de fendant's intention, they would give the plaintiff a verdict for such a sum as would pay for another dog of the same descrip. tion with that which he had lost. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.-Damages 51. The first edition of the Bishop's Bible, printed in 1568, is often designated by the appellation of the Leda Bible; for, strange to say, at the commencement of the Epistle to the Hebrews, the story of Leda and Jupiter is engraved on wood. This Bible is further remarkable for these particulars:—at the beginning is the head of Elizabeth ; at the end of the second part is the head of the Earl of Leicester ; at the end of the third part is the head of Burleigh. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—As a Mr. FINDLAY SOW was returning home yesterday afternoon about five o'clock, on the outside of one of the Blackheath coaches, on reaching Fishstreet-hill the coach stopped to take up a passenger. At that moment another coach came in contact, and fastened with the hind wheel of the coach Mr. F. was on, who, fearing to be overturned jumped off, when the coach went over his left leg, which it broke below the calf. He wasimmediately conveyed to the New England Coffee-house' and Dr. Travers was sent for, who gave his decided opinion that the leg must be ampu tated within ten minutes. In the interim his wife arrived; after having five minutes' conversation with her, the operation was performed below the knee, and, we are happy to state, there are no signs of fever as yet. _ THE ANCIENT STATE of SOUTHWARK, AND ITS. NEIGHBOURHOOD. The whole of Southwark, including St. George's-fields and all the neighbourhood around, is supposed by antiquaries to have been once a mere marsh, if not absolutely a lake. IMIAIT LAND, who had taken great pains in investigating the ground on the south side of the river, of which he gives an interesting account in his History of London, observes, in opp os i t i on to t h e opinion of those who i magine that the Romans settled on this spot very early, that that people would never, at their first coming, have chosen for a station such a place as St. George's fields must then have been ; for to him it was evident that they must have been overflowed at every spring tide. Ile had him self, at such times, frequently seen the small current from the Thames, through a common-sewer at the Falcon, not only fill all the neighbouring ditches, but also at the upper end of Gravel. lane, overflow its banks into. St. George's-fields ; and the Learned Dr. Whitaker carries the idea further. He considers the north side to have been a British town, having on one side the extensive forests, part of which even now reach within a few miles of it, and on the other the Thames; which river then, being unconfined by banks, 'ran over all the low grounds that skirted its channel to a great distance. In this state of the River, says he, the Romans settled at London, which soon became a considerable mart, and at last the capital of one of those provinces into which the Roman parts of Britain were divided : the low grounds on the opposite side of the Thames would soon feel the hands of the improving Romans, and from thence the spirit of embanking would gradually go on along both sides of the river, and in the course of four centuries of their residence here would be erected those thick and strong ramparts against the tide, which are so remarkable on tile Essex side. They are the production of a refined period, but not of one to which our records reach, and then they can only be ascribed to the Romans. In confirmation of this he goes on to observe, that under their improvements they had houses and burying-grounds on it, and quotes Dr. Gale, who gives an account of abundance of Roman antiquities of all sorts dis covered in St. George's Fields and the Borough. " These," says Dr. Whitaker, " are decisive evidences that the wonderful work of embanking the river was projected and executed by the Romans. It was the natural operation of that magnificent spirit which intersected the earth with so many raised ramparts for roads. They probably began in St. George's-fields, con tinued it along the adjoining and equally shallow marshes of the river, and finally consummated it in constructing the grand sea wall along the deep fen of Essex. Wh en t h e S axons established themselves in this island, they frequently settled where the Romans had been, improving on such foundations as were ready laid. The name of Burgh, or South-were, is derived from their language, and implies a place of strength, which this great work, or artificial embankment on the south side of the river, might be truly said to be. Bankside, the portion of this neighbourhood which imme diately adjoins the river, evidently derives it name from its " Bank" only. This stands partly in sit e u r a e ti g o e n h , e t ra hou lly g e h au tl i i h is g a i p t pe th l e lation is rather modern, but writers in the Clink, or Bishop of Winchester's Liberty, and partly in that of Paris Garden, on the southaliank of the Thames, and was anciently terminated by the priory of St. Mary Overy, and Winchester and Rochester Palaces east, and by the inn called the Falcon, now the commencement of Holland-street west. Having in a former paper given an account of the theatres, Bordello or Stews, anil other remarkable buildings formerly standing.on this spot, it will only be necessary in this place to notice it, as far as it is illustrative of the ancient state of the adjacent neighbourhood. Bankside is alluded to in Doomsday book, where, speak ing of Southwark, it says :—" The men of Stidwerk testify that in the time of King Edward (the Confessor) no one re ceived toll in the Strand or the hank of the river (in k Strand vel in vivo ape except the King ; and if any committed a forfeiture and was there sued, his fine went to the King." The King's property in Sudwerk was then valued at sixteen pounds. In 1316 a commission issued to empower Richard de Ben ham and Edmund de Passele, to view and repair the banks be tween London Bridge and the manor of Fauls-hall, " as also a certain bank in the land of the Bishop of Winchester in South weik, which having been anciently made for the safeguard thereof, was then ruinous and broken : and likewise certain ditches, whereby the fresh water had forMerly used to descend church Into the Thames., which were then chocked u p ; an d t o distrait" all persons f or the repair of the walls and di tc h es , w h o i n re ' sPe E c e t f o o f r e any the lafnodfinnaon that tl o h f the eyim p id re " present otherwise, thereto." an we d repaoris obliged Christ Church (which stands in the manor of Paris Garden), the land both here and for a considerable way distant, appears for a series of ages to have undergone but little change. The buildings immediately on the bank had increased in number since the very early periods of its history, but the space behind, with the exception of some particular spots only, was open country, and consisted of fields or gardens intersected by ditches, filled from the Thames by the flowing of the tide. It is shown in this state in different plans of London, published in or near the reign of Elizabeth, and more particularly in a plan of Paris Garden itself, on vellum, taken before 1600, now belonging to Mr. Bray, the historian of Surrey. From this it appears that the east end of Paris Garden manor adjoin ed to the Bishop of Winchester's liberty, which included the " Folken Inc." Next to this was the sign of the " Gates," and a mill called " Widflete mill," which was turned by the currents paising through the different sewers of St. George's Fields, and the reflux of the tide, which formed a small sheet of water, called the " Mill Pond," and run in an enlarged sewer through the mill into the Thames. By this mill was a public house .called " the George," which appears to have had trees planted in a garden ; from which a road runs southwards, in scribed, " The waye leding to Copt Hall," and from thence is a " waye leding to the Manner-house," (seeming to mean that of Paris Garden, but the situation of which is not marked.) Each of these ways have sewers or ditches on their sides ; from hence is a sin_gle row of houses fronting the wall, tiering their bucks to the Thames, a nd reaching nearly to the King's Barge-houses, which arc extensive buildings. • East of the Barge-houses is a plot of ground, called, "the Earle of Arundell's walke,"on part of which the new church for the parish of Lambeth in the Wa terloo-road is now building. " Gravel-lane, leading to Saint George's Fields ," _ turns off in a south-easterly direction from the null-pond, bounded on both its sides by sewers or streams of water. Saint George's Fields, before the settlement of the Ro mans, was with the rest of Southwark, as has been noticed, a swamp, inundated by the Thames, and probably not inha bited until that people had fixed themselves in England ; after which it may be supposed that they improved it, banking against the Thames, and by draining. Most authors agree in opinion, that the space between Cam berwell hills, and the rising grounds at Deptford and Clapham, and as high up as Lambeth, was originally a vast bay, overflowed oy the tide, and at low water a sandy plain. The account of Roman antiquities mentioned to have been disco vered here, leave indeed no doubt of this Dugdale, in the y ear 1656, saw (lug up in Southwark park, on sinking some cellars for new buildings, a curious Roman tessellated pavement, as well as coins and other remains, and abundance of others were lately, discovered In making a new sewer in the neighbour hood. That the Romans had a station somewere hereabouts is also the opinion of many antiquaries. The part of this marshy ground, lying on the south and west, and now forming the town of Lambeth, &e., if it F did not partake in an equal degree of the improvements of that people wits rendered habitable long befor e th e re i gn of the dinqueror, it being noticed in the Doomsday Survey that there was then a church at Lambeth, and a seat of the Countess Goda, sister to King Edward the Confessor. it is not stated when the sewers were first made to drain it, but various ancient commissions are remain ing for persons to survey the banks of the r iver h ere an d i n the adjoining parishes; and to take measures - for repairing them, and to impress such workmen as they sho u ld find- neces sary for that employment. In the view of London, 1560, nearly the whole of the land between Lambeth and. Paris Gardens appears open . country, a few trees and cottages excepted. St. Gorge's Fields remained nearly in this state, with only a small increase of buildings, until of late years, fart being common, and the residue enclosed and let for pasture. Chequer Mead, Lamp Acre, the Chimney Sweepers, /old other plots of ground are mentioned in the parish records of St. Saviour, as anciently forming portions of the latter. The open part, at the latter end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, seems, like Moortields and other unbuilt places near the metropolis, to have been ap. propriated to the practice of archery. The only habitations here then, as just observed, were a few scatte re d cottages , an d two or three houses of entertainment. The Dog and Duck, within memory, of infamous notoriety, was one of these, and probably received its name front the "Ducking Pond," which it adjoined, and which was one of the stations at which Partin, ment in the civil wars, had " a fort with four half bulwarks." the moat whereof, with other remains, are described in De Foe's Travels as existing in 1724, Modern times, and the building of the two bridges of West. minster and Illackfriars, first began to increase the value of the ground hereabouts, to enlarge the - number of buildings on it, and to bring it to its present state. It was long before a proper mode of draining it was practised, and at times afford ed a scanty pasture for the cattle of those who occupied lands that were out of the reach of the flood. This right of common had been, from time to time, diminished by the erection of buildings, but the value was esteemed so small, that rarely any interruption was given to the encroachments. At length, when great improvements were projected, the City, in 1810, procured an Act for totally extinguishing the right of common on this land. It states that the Lord Mayor and Common alty, &c., are Lords of the Manor of Southwark, and owners of lands in St. Ge orge ' s Fi e ld s, w i th i n that manor, which lie in small parcels dispersedly, containing about sixty-four acres; that, in former times, right of' common was claimed an d exer cised over the wh o l e of the tract called St. George's Fields.— That the whole except the highways, had long been b u il t on or inclosed, and no right of common h a d for many years been ex ercised or claimed, by reason that, from local circumstances, the same was of no value to the persons entitled thereto ; it therefore enacted that all such rights should be extinguished. But if any person shall make it appear that he has suffered damage by such extinguishment, satisfaction shall be made him. . BOXING. THOMAS SPRING AND WILLIAM NEATE. [FURTHER PARTICULARS. This match, from the celebrity of the men, had excited more than ordinary attention. It was for the Championship of Eng land and two hundred sovereigns aside. The battle was origt nally intended to have taken place on Hungerford Downs, where Neate and Gas fought, but a tithing constable belonging to one of the Hundreds obtained the signatures of different Magistrates to prevent it. The beds, chaises, &c. were engaged at Newbury, Hungerford, &c., when on a sudden on Monday it was enacted by an order from the Commander of the milling forces from London, that the battle was to take place at Wey hill, about eighteen miles across the country, and about sixty eight miles from London, but there it was understood that the mill could not take place. The bustle in Andover, the stoppages by vehicles, and the want of room to house the horses to re fresh them, are indescribable. At nine o'clock the two fight ing men were in the town, and the avenues to it were all choked up ; the town was as it were , besieged. It was at length decided without fear of disappointment that the fight should take place near the sixty-four mile stone, more than a mile from Andover, which relieved the town from part of its invaders. Thousands soon surrounded the 24-feet roped ring which was formed on the slope of a hill, on the top of which many scores of the fair sex had assembled. The commander of all the fighting forces arrived in the ring at half-past twelve, and his appearance was hailed with demonstrations of joy. Spring and Neate soon afterwards hurled their beavers within the ropes, each hailed with enthusiasm by their parties. The foot people occupied eight or ten rows (seated) of an im mense outer ring, with rings of standing people behind, closed by vehicles half a dozen deep. The seconds were Crib and Painter for Spring, and Belcher and Harmer for Neate. The coloured Agles, the blue bird's eye for Spring, and a yellow man for Neat, were then interwoven together on one of the P. C. stakes. The men shook hands at the first meeting, and again as usual after peeling. Average betting 5 to 4 on Spring; both men were models for the sculptor in form ; Neate weighed about 13st. 8 or 91bs. and Spring about 13st. 2lb s . THE SET-TO. Round 1. The attitudes of the men to get first blow were re markable fine specimens of science • they lasted ten m i nutes before a blow was struck. Spring's feints were numerous with the left hand apparently to get his adversary in. Neate was trying his heavy-hitting le ft h an d, w hi c h spo il e d Gas, but Spring would not have it. At length Spring retreated, a la Randal, to a corner, when Neat let loose at him, but Spring parried the left band, and returned a punch of the head with the quick ness of one of the skillful light weights. A close followed , _ and some half-armed hitting took pl ace , b ot h went down, Neate undermost. 2. The men got immediately to work and exchanged hits, meaning mischief. Spring hit and got aw a y, an d d rew f i rst blood from the nose in a rally. In closing, Spring had the best of weaving, and threw his adversary, but he went down with him. 2tol on Spring. 3. Neate was piping and open-mouthed, and Spring was waiting for his advance with much caution. A rally followed after some scientific parries on both sides, and if Neate had a shadow of chance in the fight it was in this round. Spring re treated again to a corner of the ring, for the purpose of again unmuzzling. Spring threw his adversary heavy ; and it was in this round that Neate l}urt his arm, but it was not observed until the next round. 4. Spring made some scientific parries, and Neate was much distressed in the bellows line. Spring gave him a right-handed rattler upon the smeller, broke ground, and le ft him to feel it a little. Here Neate seemed to drop his right hand, which was puffed up below the elbow. Spring let fly with his le ft hand the opening, gave his adversary a heavy th r ottl er , a nd th rew t him from the close. 5. A short round in favour of Spring, who hit his 'adversary hard on the upper pait of the head, and threw him. the body, a O. Neate made w il d play with his left hand at t e a to such work : he did l eit on ch g t w in a i y e, fr° u n m til a Spring's and he coin li the head, which turned his adversary round; I, his time to go mented him with the left hand. Ntsate ' a t° ;lace. Ile had re ceiveddown upon his face, as If he was d when picking his back was to his in p a r d o e pe v r er el y i . s er ta o n s c a c y , ; and he waapasrteltit:trineut:tais uponon a heavy blow upon the si de adversary, and he was glad to put::, t , co stop or two after it was not go down with the blow, but epithets from Spring ' a delivered. Lotid murmurs and m any friends. • p_Neate was dead beat, Hi s 7. The poundage was beggino w low', and he was floored with lame arm was dropped ve ry and o the right finishing him. blows, the left staggering h i m w ho had lint all poWer, all over the a Spr ing hit his man, fforts to hit with made some feeble e the left hand, ring. eate distance, and he was dropped again wild and a don way out of f On time being called, he went to by a right-ha nd ed blow. hand, placing his left 11- t. upon the •and held out his right Spring hurt, which of a is rather the rupture _ tendon , and not a break, as a surgeon upon the ground stated. Spring shook hi s h and, and won t he battle. He won it, without a bl ow of the Slightest consequence, in 34 minutes. The bets on this battle have been immense. One Gentleman alone is said to have won 10,0001. by the victory of Spring. A second and very manly battle for a pur se too k place be tween Pope, a farrier from Hampshire, and Parsons, a Bristol man, who stood much cutting up for about twelve minutes. It was a harrassing day for man and horse. The inns through all the towns from Andover to Egharn were full, and not a post horse could be had at any price, excepting by those who had been retained, and most of the latter were beat to a stand still. Spring (apparently unhurt in the slightest degree), accom panted by a friend, arrived in town yesterday afternoon between four and five o'clock. They came in. an open landau, which was followed by a great number o f G entlemen to St. ames's street, where they stopped for some time at the house of Spring's cousin, and from whence they proceeded to Cribb's Hotel in Panton-street, amidst the ecstatic cheers of the mul titude, many of whom as well as the postillions were decorated with purple favours, the scene altogether greatly resembling that of an election procession. The arrival of the universally hailed Champion in St. James's -street was announced by nu merous discharges from fire-arms. (From the Bath and Cheltenham Chronicle of Tuesday.) "We have heard from good authority, upon which we can place reliance, that the benevolent Mrs. FRY called on Neale at Marlborough, on Thursday, and made a most powerful ap.. peal to him to prevent his fighting; and she even offered him 500/., to pay his expences, forfeits, &c., but he replied that he was too deeply pledged to recede ; though, it i s sa id , that he promised her that this sho u ld be his last battle." At Covent-garden market, yesterday, a small quantity of green peas (not quite half a peck) was offered for sale, at the moderate price of 21. 10s. ! Price. 32s 4d to 40s 3d: 33s Od to 40, Lid 34s Od to Od COAL-MARKET, MAY 21. Shir at 51arket. Ship s sold 55 Newcastle -39 A 10 Sunderland - 17 1 Scotch Coal - 1 BIRTHS. On the 11th instant, at fownkela, near Arbroath, Scotland, Mrs. Thomson, of a daughter. At Florence, on the 24th ult., the Lady of Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Walker, G.C.B. of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 21st inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Charles Gustavus Owen, Esq., of Queen' s C o ll ege, Oxford, to Eliza beth Sarah Hicks, of Davies -street, Berkeley square. On the 17th inst., at Edinburgh, by the Rev. Henry, Grey, Andrew Dickeson, Esq., of Eastcheap, London, to Miss Mary James, of George-street, Edinburgh. DIED. On the 20th instant, at Dodington, Gloucestershire, Ann Marla, the sth daughter of Sir Chri s toph e r an d L a dy liethell Codrington. On the 20th inst., Caroline, youngest 'daughter of the late Erancis Cooper Esq., of Clapton. At Whitehill, Fife, on the 4th instant, Mr. Peter Hutton, farmer, aged 77 years. • On Friday last, Mrs. Mitchell, wife of Mr. Mitchell, farmer, of Allhallows. On alii..Thting from a light cart, at Strood,' she complained of a pain in the head, went into the shop of Mr. Gibbs, chemist, and di e d i n a very s h ort time. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Sv Orricz, 112, Strand, vJ. B. G,►nsT:tt its•