The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-09 00:00:00

TUE. NATIONAL REGISTER

BOXING.

RATTLE BETWEEN ROBERTSON, THE BLACK, AND YOUNG, THE
CHEsIIIRE MAN, A Fa RMIDABLE ri.orEssos, of 13 STONE.
This fight, which was a most sanguinary one, of
two hours duration, took place qn Monday, on
Macclesfield Sands, Cheshire, for fifty sovereigns a
side. The Black was backed by some Scotch gen-
tlemen, and Young by Cap.ain Mayston. It was
fought in a 24 feet square—minute time.
In the first round the black made the play, and drew claret
from his adversary's right peeper lid. Young meant mischief,
but had not got exactly into the way of doing it yet. In a close
be threw We black, and bettin, MAK teen.
From Wu 2d to the Pith rounds the black had beat from pink-
ing the head with the left hand rod getting away, but at the
end of the 6111 round, Young gave him each a smashing•right-
banded leveller under the short ribs, that he 'fell as if shot,
and his frame was prop 'rly cbancerilied.
Young, from bleqding feat and luting tired, could not email
himself of following up his success as it should have been, and
We black was too leery to let biro come op to his bead, but
sparred for recovery, and broke ground to all parts of the
ring, and (until the 10th round it was mere skientishing, but in
Wat round. this black bad gotround, sod laid the bridge of the
• olfactory orgies open, and grasped his ad y neatly.
Until the 201 h round there was much rullianing fighting.—
Young was kept in full bleeding.: but his heavy dangerous
. right hand told at intervals, wad left *mike lumps about the
black's body, and one as big es a beg. potato wuder the left
ear.
The black fought manfully until the 515th round, when na-
ture began to play the turn-np game upon him, end in the 30th
round he wnsiiit so heavy. that he was net only knocked out
of time, but was removed.senseless °lithe ground. The blow
was a swinging one on the (couple.

A platr is in contemplation among Dissenters, for
the greater convenience of tracing the registers of
baptisms and burials, to have one general register-
office in overy county, to which annual copies from
the chapel books shall be sent and filed, and books
provided for recording such copies.
Wheat rose fifteen -shillings per load, in Salisbury.
market on Tuest:ay ; and the bakers instantly made
a rise equivalent to 40 shillings, so that the gallon
loaf, immediately after the market, and before
grain had been round at the mill, was advanced
two-pence, making it fourteen-pence.
A letter written by the medical gentleman who
attends the goal at Aylesbury, regarding the con,
ilition of the prisoners, was rer.d at the adjourned
sessions, on Satufday last, stating that they were
generally well, and ascribing their good health to
theosalutary employment which they undergo at
the tread mill, &u.
On Tuesday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, Downing street,
which was summoned by Mr. Teel on Saturday.—
The Duke of Wellington and Earl Bathurst came
to towp front .litighton, expressly to attend the
Council, The Ministers aontiesued in deliberation
till a quarterpast ti4.4ock.
, • Taornao MAreats.—The to3tch r Mr. Maher-
ly's mare, to trot 16 nines lit bite' hour, and to carry teat
none; for two hundred sotereigini, ens decided on Wet:-
desday, over a lout miles pirte of gtoond from IV to-
wards Cowan, on Epping Forest, and it was done. in
58 minutes 10 setbinis. The mare broke from tile trot
twice in the first snit fifth miles. Another -match, to
trot two miles in seven minutes, for fifty sovereigns,
conk place. • It Was with a gallovvay belonging to Capt.
Five, and tocaviy right stone. The match was lost t•y
four seconds through twice breaking.
RACE ROVED St. JAMES/ strong muster
of the nimble-heeled fraternity were in St: James's Pat k
on Wednesday last, to witness the performance of a
pedestrian. named Hopkinson, who was backed for 20
sovereigns, to run round the riding of the Park, a dis-
tance of a milt: and a quarter and a few yards, in seven
s. Toe quarters of a mile were measured for a
guidance, and the pedestrian ran in a
,Bason I dress.—
Betting was even, but the man for choice. The first
quarter of a mile was performed'in one ottionte and seven
seconds--the second in one minute and fifteen sec onds
—the third in one 10111111 e and twenty-four settnids—
and the Ifourth in one minute and twenty-four seconds,
making the mile in five minutes amid siatten seconds.--
The fictli varier- of a mile was done in one minute
and thirty-two seconds, and the wholeground was per-
kismetl ill six minuses and tifiy...pie seconds.