The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-01-20 00:00:00

IA ItY PaßroilMANck.


Thursday sight a yetoug mat, of the name of George Ket-
tering, a weaver by trade, undertook to stand four hours on
oue leg without any other support. The wager was for tea
guineas, sad deeided before a large eonspany, up stairs, at
the house of Harry Harmer, the pugilist, the sign of the
Plough, in nittspoir.strect. Bets rim high against Min ; even
when he hail stood shove three hours and a half in that pain..
fhl position bets increased to five and six to one •gainst
him ; when be stood hi that Itilinde three hones and three
quarters he became so weak that he could net speak, and
with difficulty could support himself and it was expected
every mionte be world give in; however, to the ourpri.e of
all, he stood it out, and then was carried to his chair, he tint
being able to move. After Ms leg was fomented for same
lime, sod some cordial given to him, he recovered so far
as to be able to join in the festivities of the parties assem-
bled. Many sporttng gentlemen were present; we under-
stand it is the greatest task of the kind ever performed.

PEDESTRIAN awd IMUIESTIZIAN EXPEDITION.

since expedition is now so meek in veggie, that almost
every week beings intelligence of some performances that
are arppompd to hove never bees vailled before, it will nut,
we pres•me. begonias to shear, that many of these wonder.
Nil efforts which have lately exeited so much attention were
indeed surpassed in "days of yore." Ettchidss, • titian% of
Plates, went nn foot from thence to Delpilets, to bring the
d fire. This he obtained, sod vet erne! with it the same
day before elate!, having travelled 125 English miles.
No sooner had he saluted his fellow.eitixens, and de.
livered the fire. then be fell at their feet and died.—After
the battle of Marathen, a soldier wns sent on font from
the field to annownee the victory at Athens. Eahansted
with fatigue, and bleeding from his wounds, he had only
time to cry out, " Rejoice, we are ronqiierors!" and
then immediately expired..—Mot. Cooper Thorehill, an
innkeeper, at Stilton, rode from that plare to London,
and bark again, and also a sern•d time to London, in one
day, which made in all tl3 miles. He node took to per.
form this journey with severs? horses in fifteen boors, but
completed it in twelve hours and a quarter.—On the 3d of
May, 1714, • rung lady, who at Newmarket had laid a
considerable wager that she could ride 1,000 miles is
1,000 boors, finished her match i• little more than two.
thirds of the time. At her coming in, the country people
strewed flowers in her way.—One of the fleetest racehorses
ever known was celled Eclipse, and, as it is confidently
affirmed, once ran an English mile in • minute. Such
equestrian performances seem to countenance Shakspeare's
byperbohc•l language sin this subject :
I've beard of riding wagers
When horses have been nimbler than the sands
That rue i' Ih' clock's behalf.

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BRUTAL OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY.

A few nights ago, as Dr. Lewis of Dock•bead, who is be-
teteett sixty and seventy years of age, was walking near the
end of Dover-street, in St. George's•Selds, Ite was slopped
by some men who demanded his motley. The •enerable
gentleman did not immediately comply, nn which one of
them drew a bludgeon from under his octet, and struck
hint a most tremendous blow on the nose, whirls deprived
him of sense, and laid him prostrate on the ground. In
this situation, he was found a few minutes afterwards by
some humane persons; kis pockets were turned Inside out,
his watch was gone, sad be wan bleeding profusely.

CHESTERFIELD. JANUARY 12.—His Grace the
Doke of DaVONSelag passed through this place
on Wednesday last, after his return from the
meeting at Derby. Before his Grace entered the
town, the horse* were taken from his carriage, and
he was drawn by several of the inhabitants, amidst
the cheering of several hundreds; who, expecting
the Dwirtoa arrival•, had aseensbled to esprsaa their
approbation of his conduct. After thanking them,
his Grace observed that the Resolutions which he
Had the honour to propose at Derby (and to which
he must attribute the flattering reception thus given
him) were perfectly loyal to the KING, and con-
sistent with the principles of our happy constitu-
tion; severe to none but the persecutors of the
QVISEN. Then holding up in his arms the son of
Mrs. CAYeaDisH, who was along with his Grace,
he raid, ,‘ Gentlemen, here is a CAVENDISH—
aIready his young mind is made acquainted with
the beauty of our constitution, and I hope he will
always be loyal to his KING, and endeavour to pro-
mote the liberties of the people." His Grace ex-
pre,sed himself highly gratified with the honour
they did him, and said that he bliould always feel
a lively interest in the welfare of the town of Ches.
terfield.

Recent accounts from India mention the death
of General HARE and General TORRENS.

The Insolvent Debtors' Court sat yesterday in
the Inner Chamber of the Court of Exchequer.
There were no cases of ally general interest.
The Court adjourned at three o'clock until Mon-
day. when it will sit in the Justice Hall of the
Old Bailey.
There are 27,200,000 acres of hind in the State
of Penipylvania. The United States, recording
to a Report by the Secretary of the Treasury to
the Senate, dated November 17. have purchased
from the Indians 191,776,538 acres, which is more
than seven times as much land as the whole State
of Pennsylvania, and something more than three
times as much land as the whole kingdom of Great
Britains

While Poets are paying their Addresses to the
Nine Muses, a wiser and more numerous class of
'persons are impaling the Nine Tocenig one Tkomidoods,
which the Contractors fur the New Lottery have provided
fur the Public ; and as Three of them are store to be drawn
on the 23d issiatot, before the King's Speech is delivered
from the Throne, we may guess the reason why the Lottery
Offices are su early crowded with adventurers.
BURGLAILY.—The house of H. HEDGER, Esq.
Magistrate for the county of Surrey, situate At
Walcot-place, Lambeth, was broken into • few
nights ago, and rubbed of a quantity of valuable
family plate, clothes, linen, and wearing apparel, to
a very considerable amount.

A daring outrage and attempt to rescue took
place on Thursday at the &mecum House, Horse.
monger-lane. immediately after HAnnisoN.
Esq. had passed sentence of seven years' transpor-
tation ou G. Williams, Jobs Chick, % hos. Gosling,
J. Sibley, -- Miller, and Casik, for assaulting,
with an attempt to rob, a Mr. Mt urea, at a coffee-
shop near Dover-street, Bluckfriars-road, one of the
prisoners knocked down LEE, a constable, who was
a principal witness ifgainst them, and who was then
standing in the witoess`-box, and an attempt to
rescue and escape immediately commenced; but
by the prompt exertions of the Police, Sheriffs'.
officers, and constables, assisted by the Magistrates,
Barristers. Attorneys, die. they were secured and
conveyed back to prison, double ironed, and confin-
ed in separate cella. The CHAIRMAN ordered LAB
reward of 101. for his exertion and assiduity in ap-
prehending the Prisoners, who are part of a most
notorious gang that infest St. George's-fields.

LAW MrELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF CHANCERY, Lameotm's
FaiDAY, JOU:ARV 19.
The LORD CHANCELLOR tame into Court GE
half.past eleven o'eloi It.

tut Nertos.
THE FINE AKIN
IMUDIE'S NATIONAL MEDALS.
JAMES MAIM V. EDWARD THOMASON AND
CHARLES JONES.

Mr. HART stated, this watt is motion for an in.
junction to restrain the Defendants from ',sill tl
dies of the Plaintiff, and from disposing and exhi.
biting medal. struck from the dies by them. ultly-
out the permission of the Plaintiff. Ile Mori, d this
stoder an Act of Parliament passed in the trigu tf
the late King, for the better protection of the
fine arts. It appeared that the Plaintiff, some
time previous to the year 1816, undertook to
form an original series of national medals, to
record the principal glorious events of the late
war. and to contain the busts of the different dis-
tinguished persons who adorned that pericil, sled
after much labour and expense, he completed a set
of dies in that year, being the first part of the
series, executed by artists of the first eminence, end
the untlertskiiig was patronized by his present Ma.
jetty, the bite Qneen, and by many of the Nobility,
who subscribed to purchase sets of the medals.
The Plaintiff employed the Defendants, who are
medal manufacturers al Birmingham, to mantifac:
lure the medals, and the Plaintiff delivered thent
I dies, from which they were to be *truck,
which were deposited in a box *enured by a lot!:
cud key, with an student:m(l4,g that the dies shout,'
be kept locked up, except selitl-t iu use for strik.
ifig off medals for the Plaiiitiff when ordered by hon.
In 1819 the Plaintiff succeeded In completing the
whole series of national medals, the dies of a
were delivered to the Defendants, and in the pro-
gram) of the work the Plaintiff had advanced
10,0001. ; the Defendants continued to strike off
the medals from the dies from the year 1816
until December, 1820, a set of medals, consisting
of forty, which relate to the celebrated victories
obtained by the British arms 'el the Conti-
nent, in historical succession, from the lauding
of the British army in Po:fugal to the cap-
ture of Paris, and the fixing of Napoleon at the
Island of St. Helena. In 1820 the Defendants
caused a large ornamental shield to be executed,
and had 21 half medals struck from the Plaintiff's
dies, and decorated the shield round the border with
them without the knowledge or consent of the Plain-
tiff; the Defendants advertised the shield in THE
BRITISH PRESS newspaper on the 10th and 13th of
November, 1820, and in other newspapers, setting
forth that it was designed by the Defendant,
Thomason ; that the border was composed of 21
stellsted compartments, and contained the cele-
brated victories in historical succession, from the
landing of the British army in Portugal to the cap.
tore of Paris, and the fixing of Bonaparte at St.
Helena, which the Plaintiff charged .to he struck
from his dies, and the Defendants were now ex.
hibiting the shield in their shew.rooms at Birming-
ham, and the chief value of it was the medals struck
from the dies of the Plaintiff. The Plaintiff re-
ceived a letter in June, 1819, from the Defendant,
Thomason, stating that he was making a large gilt
pillar. to be exhibited at a banquet to be given to
the Duke of Wellington, and a number of the
Royal Princes and the Nobility ; and the Noble.
man who had ordered the pillar was desirous of
having some of the reverses of the victories in Spain
inserted in • gilt tablet round the column ; and
that lie (the Defendant, Thomason), would be
much obliged by the Plaintiff permitting him to
use the reverses of the battles in Spain, by striking
one side of the medals, to which the Plaintiff con-
sented. The Plaintiff believed the banquet never
took place, and believed the column was manufac-
tured with the reverses of the Plaintiff's medals, by
the Defendants, for the purpose of sale; and it
was afterwards actually sold to the Marquis of
Salisbury. The Plaintiff examined the column iii
possession of the Noble Marquis, and the Defend-
ants, instead of confining themselves to the reverses
of the victories in Spain, had struck off, and insert-
ed in the gilt tablet round the column, the reverses
relating to the battles in Portugal, the Netherlands,
and France. The Plaintiff charged that the De-
fendants had for some time past, unknown to him,
struck off a large quantity of medals from his dies,
and had disposed of some of theta, arid had a
great number ready for sale without the orders or
permission of the Plaintiff. Under those circum-
stance he had no doubt but ins Lordship would
grant the injunction.

The LORD CHANCELLOR inspected • series of
the Plaintiff's weduls, and observed, that the sta-
tute was unnecessary in this case, as the Defend-
ants were employed by the Plaintiff to manufac-
ture the medals for him alone, and the fact of
their having manufactured some not ordered by
hint, was sufficient ground for granting the iu-
juuctioce—lnjunction granted.
OPERA HOUSE.

WATERS S. TAYLOR.
The ATTORNEY.GRNERAL stated, that there
was a motion in this ease part heard, but Mr.
flesh], who was Counsel for the Defendant, Tay.
kr, was absent.
The LORD CHAIIICELLOR" Let it come on le.
morrow."