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London, England, 1807-05-13 00:00:00

GROWN A q) iiN(•HO.: VE ft

Yest•rd.ty. pursuaA to isocrtisement, a numer-
ous an! sek tt ‘l,:apany, consi, of the frizynd: of
Mr. ItiherKlan, al (MI of t e.Q4ntiidates for IVest-
rnnoster. net at the Crwoas sto.i Anchor Titters', and
partook of an excellant diaper.
Several loyal aud appropriate toasts were pro-
posed by Mr. S:,ericlan. olio WAS Cilairinan upon
this occasion, all or which were dr.uak wjth the
milers.; ertahus;asim

In proposing the htolth of Hi: Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, Mr. :diattnro•s thought it
his duty to state, that As no man was mere
mately acquainted with the feelings of that Re-
vered Personage, that as no person was hinter
iatformed of the soundness of his head and the
purity of his heart, so no person was more fully
qualified to panegyric, the excellence of both.
The country could not have a more sincere patriot,
nor the people a more aidcat and generous ;vivo.
CAte. Those who had not the honour of knowing
the charafter of that Distinguished Personage, could
poorly estimate either the virtue, which adorn-d
his private life, or the talents and mind cis;
an additional splendor open the high and dignified
situation in which he was placed. The toast was
drank with the most enthusiastic applause.
4, The M_morry of Charles Jaincs Foz " was
next given, by Mr. Siseatuss, in a style of eu-
logy equally honourable to the feeling. and
talents of the proposer. He could not review the
history of that great rain, without adverting to
the dangers of his country. It was impossible to
speak of liberty, withotit that impulse of condolence
which proclaimed to Esigland and to Europe, that
the most important loss that sacred cause ever re-
ceived, was the natint;al calamity, which deprived
us of that great and unparalleled friend to England
and to freedom.
The toast was then drank with heartfelt and re-
verential sorrow.
Mr. Meci.f‘re rose to ropose the health of Mr.
Sheridan, and in doing so said.-6, I conceive
that this is the most important and most momen-
tous crisis in which the tlcaors of Westminster
were ever called wpoo to cartels* their tights. The
most unconstitutional means have been resorted to,
to obtain a majority for the Mikistetial Candidates.
The Parliament seems POW to Le chosen to sun the
Minister, and not the hiiniret to suit the Parlia.
mcnt Tbis calls upon the Eletiors of Westminster
to counterad such n..duct influence. It depends

°pion them, the Elethrs. to set the (trample ; and
bow is that to be done, but by eie:iing mer, whttas
condna they have lad a e opporrtutt.y of jitdisiag
In Mr. Sneriian they had a lutown and steady
friend. the supporter ..f the rights of the King, tl.e
aristocracy. and the people. Ull2-,s t`le poriP.e
have the uncontroele.i per of choosing their otra
itepremratises, how are ti:ey to be free ? and how

is the •stabl;shment of the rt7.3parch7 of t 4 country
to remain safe? It is in defence at those p• i eipies

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that I stand forward. and in proposing Mr. Sher;.
clan's health. 1 know that I am proposing the

health of a man who, during twenty-secven years, has
uniformly preserved to the peripti all thAr rights,
and to the Crown all its preregetves ; vahn has en-
deavoured not to put into the hands of the Crown
an unjust and improper power over the people, nor
to encourage, in the people. a fadions opposition to
the Crown. The present Eledion might appear a
desperate one, in the eyes,of some people, so tar as
it respells Mr. Sheridan ; but I may state, what is
not perhaps generally conceived. that on the fifth
day of the last contest he was farther inhinil than ha
is now, and a greater number of voters had polled.
It is not my wi.h to say much of the other Candi.
dates. 1 resped the Naval Service as much as any
min, and I shall recall to your reeolled;el. that
fair Samuel Hood, upon the Last El.etion, in allud-
ing to the mutiny at the Mire, stated his convietion
that Ms. Sheridan had adually been the -We Ails of
saving the Navy. We have heard a great deal of
late about redressing abuses in th.l Naval. Service ;
brat we have found Lord Cochran: no ices than five •

months ip Parliemeee and during all that time. he has
done melting; whereas the V* }1 0: e career of tar Right
Hon. Friend, during 27 years, has been esepieyed ie .
in reffilying abuses, end redressine grievarsees."..e.
This Gentlemen concluded a very neat and appro..
pirate speech. with proposieg the health of the •
Chairman, Mr. Sheridan.
This Toast wos drank with enthusiasm.
• Mr. Sestinas. in returning thanks. took oeca-
sfon to complienerit the Gentleman who had pro..
liond. his health, upon the eloquence which he had
displsead He wi bed be hail lad ie the thrust of
Commons some doz.cs of such goo] orators. He
united welt bins in thinking that them were still
hopes of success. be ietviag been as far beland upon
the Pull on the fifth day of .he last Eleftion, although
be had been promised the support of the they
administration. He fel: thelmputation which had been
threwn out agaiest him on account of his irresolution
' in the present Eledion. [Here the Right lion. Gene
' tlernan entered into a long and particular esplana-
' *ion of the circumstences which 1: id occasional this i ~
irresolution and delay in corning I..lwatd as a Can-
diJate
in the present contest, the 'Odense of which
we have already given its our report: oT his speeches e
from tee Hastings) Ile now claimed tilk sutfreges
of the people upon merely independent principles,
and be dried any, turn living; in state tee case in '
which he had given a mercenary vote during ilea ,
whule 27 year; he had Been in Petlieteept. He
leid been the slave of circumstance:, tad of the
irresolution and rettaaioe of tubers, on the pre-
sent, as well as on many_ oeiser occasions. No
man co earth, howeier, could make him revs; in
`his indtereurs, so lung as he haf a probelnity of,
ll:levees; for it certainly would be e mouse orm C3t
MINK 110. . his to •errithdraw. miter tife elertierus
which had hem used by his numereue friends. . •
tlir
• Several tither loyal and ettestieun • I toasts
were than given, and meter a saws nen le(r.
Dignum, and another from Mr. Webb., . Sheri:,
dan and several of bis friend, withdeeo„ - . .
.. . •
Seturday stonniett, during a twist violent tern- ,
per, a lite.bell tell into toe home or Mr. CA ex et.
farmer, at Boughton. Nortnik, welch struck down
the gable and chimney, shattered and broke the
g•eAter put of tic furniture, and, althnegli the fa-
mily were all is Ged, and much damage eerie io the
bed chambers, providentially ne person received the
least infix' y.
So renfident were Generals TArleton and Gas.
coigne of being returned tot Liverpool nn'lliursday, ,
that the chairs were brought out in the moreing fur
the pueposebf chairing them, and they had ordered
a sumptuous dir.ner to be provided in the evening i
when an independent freeman, of the name of Grams
unexpectedly came forward, and nomisetted Mr.
Roscoer The name of Green is ominous to General
l'Arletnte who must remerneer hi; unpleasant race
with Genrral Green in America, when the English
hero rode first' boric for a distance of nearly two
miles.—The friends of Mr. R'escee are determined
'to keep the-poll open the legal time, le days. The
ind-penJent freeman who had virtue and spirit to put
Mr. Resent in nomination. was given lately as s
favourite mania Menai political circles in this mos
ttopolis. .
Lord ARTHUR 5074,1411 T and Mr. C. MOltqAtt
will be rooletted for elonaisathshire, it is expeZtede
Without opposition.
Sir Glt) a 011 CO INIVIALL retires from the reprise
sentence of Hereferdellire„ and will be succeeded
by Colonel Foesv. While accompanying use C4',o;
lone, in his canvass, last week, Sir E. :I's WLAT
lIINCTOS bad the misfortune to fall from his
horse, anti break his leg. •
:thr Clllll6,iin newenaper eomins an Address to •
the Eleteors of Carmatthenshire, date,' lord, May
Ss 1307, and signed WILLI* ie eleesette The
f Alearipg is an mania :
.. Nly asnlankto IS the ambliton or duty to out Spyteeifo to
,-,p .ort him in saes? tunes of ?alarm against his clem.es,
the enemies,' the ancient Laos a,,d (..raanitotioo or rap
I out. What ai that Apostate Lord Grenville attempt to .t
f...,:t, which, 124 ft a‘cos.de..l., tualted hare bees, La k.s cooc:u-
siii:., the subiertion of the P.otastant Religiou! hut
esttat was nor bilateral 'Loot.% re.lustoce to tha attempt ? firs
Maj•wy cut tae prattused 'I. .I!..1. ill tl,e tan!, aa:4 gave Scat
ungrateful 'rums tbe .typos tai • re %lout, nog, and !Naos
soul s—
" • My lend -4 so yr et iti-ae ean tespea an oath.
" I have footrest 'moues begun nal Throe, and retire t,
0 • costly, or to pace of band ad a IA szl:. if my p.ople
" requrOlit; but 1 have noteetioineloat to tretlt that oath
" whilt 1 took in a solemn manner at wry Go-cnatian"
What IF,eeno!kler of this e;sentY ears feel %-.1-ute'd a greets!
Subject to a Inageraniestronn King, wl,si•statt to Iroce a gook*
in the 01,,elui nposeitton, by Tutus' is, (senor of Sir Wllli•at
Pastor's Ite.electur.,? t0.,1 !is dmharge his slaty hoicser ill
the late !'orlon nt % I:I a frovi, can we noes that man erns
t.. reverend re., Who h•A bee,. suit ty °fa fooith of NA go Oil
No. cc noel uneni...ousty ti. 0,1••• nor irrisinrine,: mid di.
countenarwe 1,,m: for, hawing ,ctrl is favour a crab Catbalia
Cr lmoon, t.'ll• cartrant remain a ci.-olpt bat that he blow
sail adheres to the Communion oa can Pu: • of Rome."
• This :4,l4u•se put into His M.).:ity's re.,,,,th.,, is a &Sri.
cation. Inc t...,; of the est,s-t te‘gires no cosorenr.

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M. TOOKE, v. PJULL.

MR. HORNE TOOKE'S PAMPHLET.

Enna of a Pamphlet, published on Monday. en.
titled, "A Letter addressed to the Editor of -,
from Mr. Morns Tooke."

" Wimbledon, May 6, Plo7.

" Sie—l read in your pap..r of yesterday,
,t‘ertsty N. that, at a Meeting of the Elettors of
estmihster, a Mr Power, • upon the information
of Mr. Paull, stated this faft—That, at a dinner at
Mr. Horne I coke's, that Gentleman declared, that.
in the pros.-nt times, he thought it would be better
that such men as Sir F. Burdett should have nothing
to do with seats in Parliament.'
_ .

" It is not very decoious, I believe, to bring be-
fore the public tine free and unimportant conversa-
tion which passes in a mixed company at a dinner
table : Mr. Paull and Mr. Power seem to think
otherwise. Mr. Paull is very welcome to report any
thing he ever heard me say. But, for the sake of my
friends, who may not be quite so indifferent as I dm
to title tattle in tho Newspapers, neither Mr. Paull
nor this Mr. Power (whoever he may be) shall ever,
v..irh my convent, henceforward dine .t the same
t.t'•le with me. .

•• I may very probably have made this declara-
tion with wl.ich I am charged, for it contains most
eiirrealy my opinion, and that not hastily entertain-
ed, but long fixed in my mind; and if my advice
had been as ornniptent as the dirty .cribblers of the
day have chosen to represent it, over the mind of
Sir Francis Burdett, he never would have been a
cindidate at all ; nor did I ever labour by entreaty
more earnestly for any thing, thin I did from the
brrinning. and before the beginning, to dissuade Sir
Francis from tsan¢ a candidate for Middlesex ; and,
flr t.ts s kr, J rejoice that he is not returned to Par-
Lament for that place or for any other However, it
this my opinion stall be adopted, it will not exclude
many petioni frnin Parliament; for I know of no
other furl, mei. as Sir Francis Burdett.

" Of Mr. Paull I know nothing, but that he was
doced to me by Sir Francis Burdett ; and that
he ifterwards invited himself to dine at my hothe
on Sundays. when I receive my visitants. From the
time of Eleftion at Westminster, last November,
he has missed dining with me only three Sundays.
!always treated him with civility, bot have most
cautiously avoided any other connexion with him of
any kirtd ; nor could he ever prevail vpoo me.
theugh he used much importunity. to write a single
sylleble for nim or concerning him. There was
something about him, with vouch it was impossible
for me to vomit myself. I wished him very well
—knew no harm of him—suspeifkd none; but my
mind perpetually whispered to me, Picabo nab darns
tr.a b int,
.1(.1(1.4044de vacates 1101041 pbearlam• It
was unfounded prejudice, perhaps; but I have ex-
perieoced something in this world ; and aupeifluous
coition may be pardoned to old age.
After what has passed in the middie of the
night succeeding the lit of May, I know of no geo-
Ile epithet which I can apply to the coodad of Mr.
Paull, and shall therefore leave it unqualified.
But I feel it ray Juty, perceiving the malicious and
artful misrepstesentetions of all the tadions which
il;? Francis has wilfully offended, to tell you simply
all 1 know of what has passed between Sir Francis
Barden and Mr. Paull. If it shall not arrest the
'Mike and misrepresentations of the newspapers
(and paricelerly of fbe Niorodg Chreasee.) it may
at kart leave them more inexcusable, and übjeds of
the gicater peblic contempt."
(Mr. Tooke then proceeds to state, that there had
not heed any particular habits of ft ieodship between
Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Paull, stud that their
acquaintance was Lut six months' old. beginning
with tie last Wastmlitster k.lettion; end that atter Sir
Fe • :•Cls bad sent a thousand poundsio Mr. Pout ea
Committee, he lial supposed that he had satisfied all
reasonable expeelotions from him. Mr. Paull,
however, in April last, wrote to Sir Frauds Bur-
dett, informing him, "that his Solicitors refused :o
proceed with the Petition, unless they were immedi-
ately paid 10001. and security given to them for
sew. more." He declared that tie had in vain Ap-
plied to •• Jew and Gentile." and could not raise
a taribing. ant therefore intreated Sir Francis Bus.
deft to apply to Mr. Bosviile. Mr. Tooke strongly
sweets that this was the reason why Mr. Paull
ea; Aii. friends were so Anxious that Sir Francis
Sor.'ett should be a joiot Candidate, in order that
Mr Ynvil might rvn he left aluue to his uncomply-
leg "Jews aad Gentiles.")

Erma a a letter from Mr. Paull, to the Elec-
tor. of We. :Fr instrf :

Gentlemen-a:I ne fiend of mi,c:iief ha at lad thrown off
• '.ask, and the :rmici;4! performer in the late scams, Jobs
Ii• me TJ Me, bas t .4 once mote in ho 1110110
461011114 y. I C.lllCCI,l`a, 11..Vft•tr, he would have had art
solfume•it t, have cum, aled cite ciindti.l of Sir Bartlett,
• however, 11, hit Leer at nu pa.ns to do ; and has
Proved to time wrohl, what lase ted in my letter by Mr. Con-
per, iii 1 Sir F,111,.. was a mere instiument in the hands of
taw ;bra, designing, dans. roos, and unprincipled mail
Tins IS not the time to /white the vilianiout attack of John
florae 'l'roke, though the materials are lying by me for a cnm-
piece refutation, in his 011111 laid- writing, and In that of Sir
✓raiivit Burdett. 1 hive not strength !aft for tech a tavit--and
to a ',end I leave in state may best acquaintance with Sir
F. ins fin dor and %trip. Cartwright, which commenced two
vent ago. All England knows my subsequent 'may with
Sir F:ancti Burdett, vihicti I alone, alas! have now cause to
Ceget./. d to regret most deeply.
As tin oily raft Mr. /woke hos dated as derogatory to my
rl.arader, is my reque4ing Sir Fram:ms to desire Mr. Smartie,
t o. t;.ti hat time, tl part.eirmte in the expenses tat she West-
mioder Penton', which had devolved entirely on myself Cal.
trn,,g•i undertaken to be pail by the body el Electors), you
m my easily colicitive lino immaculate any conduct must have
been to escape so easily from the fangs of tails ancient infernal.
That I thstrettioi la, the expenses of the Westminster
Eleerion and Petition, w!:sch eegrossed all my time and all my
aucation, the workl knows, 41'41n...en denied the tact.
(Sims') JAMES PAULL.
Charles-street, Monday, May 11.

Oa Sunday se'nnight, a young man of Ingleby,
n•ar Newark, named J•Mes Kansa, aged 21, shep-
herd to Mr. 1% !LOAM 51411014, was nding a mule
in a close, to mate the animal more traCtabie.
ter plunging about foe a short time, they both
tell ; the man was dismlunted, and the mule ran

thr,,aga 2 deep pouJ, and got out on the other side.
Tih shier. being irritated, caught the mule, ani
1 b-,,,ight him again into the close., where he mount-
ed .. ii, cond time, when the animal gallopped full
s2i—rl into the pond, and the yowls suan was
-atereacati. :ll:clank got oat.

N4r4L INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSAIOUTM. MAY 11.

Arrived the /Edw. from Cork ; and the Preview,
from a cruise; the Newsza weighed for Newfound..
Lad, but brought-to again.—Wind S.W.

TORS•Y, Y•Y 10.

Sailed this day, under the command of Vice-
Admiral Sir James Saumnrez, to resume their sta-
tion off Ushant, II be.nra, 120 guns, Capt. Rickets;
Prince of Mies, 9i, Vice-Admiral Saumaree ,• Lon-
don. 93, Capt. Western ; G. env. 98, Capt.
Bertie; Deadoessght, 93, Capt. Lnhmere Mo-
narr4, 74, Capt. Lee ; and Rule, 20, Capt. Pip' n.
Also the Sprightly cutter, and the Libeisj brig, on a
cruise off this coast.

DOVER, MAI( I I.

Came into Harbour the brig Anal, of Dover. Giles,
with deals, &c. from Frederickshall, for Dover ;
the brig Experineen4 of Dover, Popk's, with deals,
from Frederickshall. [or Dover ; and the brig
Nan,w, of Dover, with coals, from Sunsierland,
for Dover.

DEAL, MAY 11.
Arrived the ships Troorpeust, Bloodhound, and
Bookler, from a cruise.

Came down from the River, the Diligent store•
ship, and remains in the Downs with the ships as
pet last.

LLIV.'S. M•T 41.

Last Thursday, Mr. Archer, Adjutant of the
South Lewes Volunteers, and Recruiting Officer
here, was placed in great peril, by the ungovern-
able spirit of his horse, which he had no sooner
mounted, on the Castle-Bank, than he started off
with him, at full speed, direding his furious course
through the gateway, across the street, and down
Market-lane (a descending rugged pass), to the
bottom, where he forced the rail, at the drain,
went down the declivity into the road, and fell ; but,
very fortunately, without any material hurt is him-
self or rider.

Ilnareen 10 and 90 years ago, a similar accident
happened to a boy, named Griffiths, and commonly
called• Wilkes, who, being :monied on a spirited
mare, belonging to Mr. Edwards. of Plumpton,
was, like Mr. Archer, carried at full speed, from
the Castle-Bank to the bottom of Market-lane, and
thence over the drain, across the road below, into
Colonel Newton's ditch, and most miraculously
without receiving the least injury. Griffiths, who
was reckoned a comical boy, as the mare passed
the Old Market House, on being told by the spec-
tators to sit fast, fearlessly answered, " that I will,
if she runs to hell." He kept his word. He was
afterwards a drummer in the 2d Guards, and we
believe is still in the ranks of the same regiment.
One day last week, the several convias under
sentence of transportation, confined in Horsham
Gaol, were removed in a waggon from thence to
Landguard, near Portsmouth, ■here they will be re.
spealvely employed at hard labour, till they can be
put on board a ship for New South Wales.

CHIC UI I INTELLIGENCE.

GLASGOW, MAY 7.

The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here
on Tuesday, by the Right Hen. Lord MEADOW.
DAME, and proceeded to the trial of Adams Cart ac-
cused of the murder of his own child, by throwing
it into a clayhole near Tradestown. The trial last-
ed several hours; after which, the Juty werw very
ably addressed, by Henry Cockburn. Esq. oo the
part of the Crown, and by John Jardine, Esq. for
the Pannel. T:le Jury returned a verdia. unani-
mously finding the Pannel guilty. He was sen-
tenced to be banged, on the lath of June, and hit
body to be given to the Professor of Anatomy, for

Thomas Bleckie, a soldier, accused of an assault,
with a bayonet, was nest brought to the bar. Af-
ter a short trial, the Jury returned a ',MA, find.
iug the libel net pmts, upon which he was dis-
missed from the bar.

Yesterday the Court proceeded to the trial of
Than' Wack, an excise racer, at Greenock, accused
of an assault upon I). Lanigan. a smuggler, and
fraeluring his skull with a cutlass, without having
met with any provocation or resistance. 'she Jury
returned a verdia. finding the Pannel poke. Sen-
tence. two months' imprisonment, and a fine
of 301.

Moses' M.Leila% accused of stealing logwood
from the quad at Greenock, was dismissed from
the bar, the libel being found eta proven.
Barre Farr* and !Wert Craig, weavers in Pais.
ley, accused of an assault and murder, were dis.
missed horn the bar, the libel being found not
prao,n. _ _ _

Report [Are, accused of shop-breaking and theft,
and iluii.ed Siou, Accused of vitiating and.alter.
ing a lormer year's receipt. toe house-duty, and
thereby attempting to evade payment of last year's
duty, having both pleaded guilty, they were sen-
tenced each to seven years' transportation beyond
was, under the usual certifications.
There was no other criminal business before the
Court, and judgment was given in several appeals,
which finishes the Western Circuit.

AYI, WAY 6.

The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here
upon Saturday, the 2d curt. by th► Right floo.f.ord
Dust's's A ti, and proceeded to the trial of Jolla Gro•
a•nos, labourer, lately residing at Btidgend of New-
Dai;ly, accused of stealing a pocket-book, contain-
ing two promissory notes, and several bank notes.
The libel was restrided to an arbitrary punishment ;
and the Jury having returned a verdia, &sling the
Pannel greitv of the theft libelled, so tar as respe&•
ed oae of the promissory notes, of 501. sterling, he
WAS yesterday sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment, and thereafter to banishment Irons Scotland
for life.

The Court was again opened on Monday, by the
lt,gla Wit. Lord CULLCN, and proceeded to the
trial of Jaws Hendry, physician and medical pric-
titioner in Kilmarnock, accused of the crime of
causing abortion. After a very long trial, the Jury
inclosed at tour o'clock on Tuesday morning, and
at two u'elock that day returned a vcrdia, all in
one voice, finding the libel not proven, whereupon,
he was assoilaied sttnplaiter, and dismissed from
the bar.

Counsel were then laArtl in appeals in civil cues,
whip finished de busuiesi of the &tither* Circuit.

SPORTING' INTELLIGIBM

DURHAM MEETING-CONCLUDED.

THURSD•T. •PSIS. 30.

The Lasibton Hunt Stales Sic each, fur hunters, litst. T se-
rails bests. ( I Subscribers.)

Mr. Lambtnoi b. in. Jenny Andreas . 1 1
Mr. Shakol br. g Crock•a-boop . 2 2
du K. Mdba.,kc's b. it. Baronet, by Quid 4 3
General Xeres ch. g. flatten, by Archer 9 dis
2 to 1 apt Jenny AttdreitS.
FRIDAY. MAY ti
Fife PounJs 1.4 all ages. Four.mile Mats.
Mr. N. B. Illodgmo's b. In. Lady Mary, by Bening.
brough. Shed, 9st. 215. 1 1
. .
Mr. W. Hutclainsoa's dm colt, by St. George, 4 yn
old. eat. 71b. . II 2
Col. Florton's b. e. Y. BMW* 4 yrs old, est. 71b. 4 3
Mr. Ildcrton's b. c Ron-den, 4 yrs old, est. 71b. 4 4
Mr. Stephenson'. b f. by Ols,roo, 4 yrs old, Sit. 41b. 3 5
SATURDAY, MAY 2.

Handicap Stake* of 10p each for hunter. o'.e round the

. .. _
Course and a Distance.
Col. Serldon's b. h. Baronet, by Quid, IV.t. 111 b. . I
Mr. Slutlto's b. g. Haunt, 12. t. 71b. e
Mr. Su -tte's br. h. by Bpainpriek, ltst. 41b. S
•
Mr. Witham's br. m. by Percy, 10st. 41b. 4
Handicap Plate of bOgs. Two miles.
Mr. W. Hutchinson's b. c. Silvio, by St. George, 3 yes
old 1
. .
Mr. Steplicnsonls eh. I. by Oberon, 3 yrs old . 9
Mr. F. Hartley's b. c. Foxberry, 3 yrs old . . 3