The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-08 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BARNET RACES.—WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7.
A Silver Cup for all ages.
Mr. Wyatt's b. m. Maid of the Mill - - 1 0 1
Mr. Charlton's ch. nt. Malvina - 2 0 2
Two others started.-7 to 4on Maid of the Mill, who in all
the beats made the running, and won very easy, without either
whip or spur. The second heat was a false start ; and in the
third, the boy who rode Malvina was thrown, in consequence
of his stirrup-leather breaking off; he was not hurt.
The Ladies' Plate. _

Mr. Chase's May Fly __ - - - - 1 1
Mr. Shepherd's Creeping Jenny - - - 2 2
May Fly took the lead in both heats, kept it, and won easy.
A Purse for Ponies.
Mr. 'Wilson's bl. m. Surrey Lass . - - 1 1
Mr. Parry's h. f. - - - - - 2 2
Polly Hopkins - - - - 3 3
Two capital heats—the first won by a neck, the second by a
length.

WARWICK RACES.—TtirsDAY, SEPT. F.
The Guy Stakes of 50gs each, h. ft. for Three-yr-olds.
Lord Stamford's b. f. Linnet, by Bustard -.- 1
Sir T. Stanley's Dr. Faustus - . - - 2
Mr. West's Mystery - - - - 3
Lord Warwick's Mephistophiles - . - 4
The Leamington's Stakes of 20 FOY. each, h. ft. &.c. Two miles.
Mr. Craven's Triumph, by Fyldener, Bst. 121 b. - I
Mr. West's Claude Lorraine, list. 101 b. - '2
Mr. M - ytton's Euphrates, aged - - 3
Mr. Gisborne's Susan . - - 4
Mr. - Tomes's Sir Guy ' - - - 5
Sweepstakes of 5 soy. each, with 50 added. Two-mile heats.
Sir T. Stanley's General Mina, by Camillus, 3 yrs 1 1
Major Gore's b. f. Spree, 4 yrs - - - IS 2
Mr. Sadler's Warwick, 4 yrs - - - 2 0
Three others started.

The St. Leger Stakes of 25 soy. each, 10 ft. for Three-yr-olds.
Sir 'l', Stanley's Dr. Faustus, by Filho da Puta - I
Mr. Bartley's b. c. Flexible - -
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Mr. Yates's Madame I'oki - • - 3
Mr. Rawlinson's Rarity - - - - 4

PONTEFRACT SEPTEMBER MEETING, 1825.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 6.
Sweepstakes of 50gs. each, 11. ft. for the Produce of Mares
covered in 1821 ; colts, Bst. 31b. ; fillies, list. ; 31b. allowed,
&c. One mile and three-quartqu.s.
Lord Milton's b. c. Humphrey Clinker, by Cowrus
Mr. Lambton's b. f. by Leopold, out of The Duchess -
Mr. Petrc's br. c. Lord John, by interpreter,-Agatha
Two others drawn-Won easy.
The Sandbeck Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft., for the Produce of
Mares covered in 1322 ; colts, Bst. 31b. ; fillies, fist. T. V.C.
Ld. Scarborough's b. c. by Calton, out of Henrietta - 1
Mr. L. Fox's b. c. by Magistrate, out of Trictrac - 2
Mr. Petre's ch. f. by Catton, out of Agatha - - 3
Mr. Houldsworth's b. f. Elephants - - 4
Won by half a head.
Sweepstakes of 30 sous. each, 10 ft. for three year old colts, Bst.
31b., fillies, Bst. One mile and three quarters.
Mr. Richardsons br. c. Brownlock, by Blacklock
Lord Kelburnc's eh. c. Actaeon, by Scud - - -
Four others not placed.-Nine drawn.-Won in a canter.
The All-Aged Stakes of 20gs. each, with 201. added, for horses,
; three-year olds fist. 91b. ; four, fist. ; five, Bst. -91 b. ;
six and aged, 9st. Mares allowed 31b.; the winner of a
Plate, Sweepstakes, or Subscription, this year, to carry 31b.
extra. Two miles and seven furlongs.
Mr. Lambton's b. c. Buzzard, by Blacklock, 4 yrs - 1
Lord Sligo's h. c. Centeen, 4 yrs - 2
Lord Milton's b. c. Whiskerandos, by Whisker, 4 yrs 3
Lord Scarborough's ch. c. Diadem, by Catton, 4 yrs - 4
A fair race.
Match.-Mr. Milne's ch. c. Actaeon, 3 yrs old, lOst. agst.
Mr. Ramsdell's br. h. Hexgrave, 5 yrs old, 9st._-Two miles,
100 gs. h. ft.-Gentlemen riders.-Off by consent.
The Corporation Plate of 501. for horses, &c. of all ages ; three-
yr.olds to carry fist. filb. ; four 7st. 101 b. ; five, fist. 61b.; six
and aged, 9st. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. A winner
of a 50/. Plate, Match, or Stakes, in 1825, to carry 31b. extra ;
of two, 51b. ; and of three, 61b. extra. Maiden horses on the
day of entrance allowed 21b. in addition to the above allow-
ance. Heats, one mile and three quarters.
Lord Fitzwilliam's br. f. Parthenessa, 4 yrs -
Lord Sligo's b. g. Be9uest, 4 yrs -
Six others not placed.
The clay's sport was good ; and the result of the race for the
three years old produced a great change in the betting for the
St. Leger (on the outsiders), as soon as it was known. The ex-
peditious travellers had the advantage, but it was upon that
race only ; the result of the others was unknown. The winner
being in several other stakes, the watchfulness of the men of
the turf will be called into action during these races, to square
their books for the great St. Leger.

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CRICKET.
The Match of Cricket between the Bury and Nottingham
Clubs, for 1001. aside, is fully agreed on, and will be played at
Rougham near Bury, on Monday next.

. THE HIGH 111 ETTLED RACER.
A favourite Hunter that cost upwards of 600/. and was sup-
posed the best horse of his day, was sold about two years ago.
to a Paddington coach master for only 111. and he may be seen
every day about three o'clock at the Bank. Even now he is a
fine racer ; though lame, blind, and the breast stripped the
whole range of the collar, he yet outsteps every horse that
draws any of the coaches travelling the Paddington road. If
the former =vex of this noble animal knew his misery, who
knows but he might give the price of an Opera frock coat, and
release him from- his present misery.

DESPERATE AFFRAY.—About four o'clock this
morning, a dreadful uproar was occasioned in
Smithfield upon the removal of some of the Show
Booths. A parcel of fellows, evidently thieves,
assembled near Hosier-lane, and attacked every
body indiscriminately that passed that way.
Several females • had their feelings outrag-
ed in the most disgraceful manner by the
ruffians, who tore away their shawls and bon-
nets. At length several persons interfered, and
commenced an attack upon the gang, but they
were, overwhelmed by numbers, robbed, And
beat in a shameful manner ; one man was re-
moved in a state of insensibility, his scull being
said to be fractured. Several of the ruffians are
in custody. One woman was taken to the hos-
pital very seriously injured.
The body Of MARGARET SIMPSON, who but a
few months since was a dashing courtezan under
the protection. of a gallant Colonel, and who af-
terwards figured away in the lobbies of the thea-
tres, was found dead yesterday in her apartment,
a third floor back room in Duke-street, Oxford-
street. She had not been seen since Monday ;
and die landlady of the house suspecting she had
fled, got the door opened, and found the unfor-
tunate woman dead .upon the bed with her
clothes on. On the table was found the rem-
nants of a poisonous draught of sugar of lead.—
The deceased was in the most abject state of
poverty.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

A ROBBER SHOT.—ALTEItATION 111 VIZ LAW.
An Inquisition, which had been adjourned
from Friday last, was on Tuesday afternoon resumed, at the
Jolly Gardeners public-house, Peascod-lane, Windsor, before
JAMES Alar Esq., the Coroner for Berkshire, on the body
of Thomas Cooper, a young man about 24 years old, who was
shot last week by Mr. William Blowsfield, a market-gardener
in the neighbourhood, whose grounds at the time, in con-
junction with two others, he was in' the act of plundering.—
Till the passing of the Act, rendering it a felony, at the close
of the last Session of Parliament, the stealing of garden-pro-
duce from the grounds where growing, was accounted a tres,
pass, and was only punishable by the infliction of a fine
equivalent to the amount of damage done, or in the event of
non-payment, by :imprisonment in the House of Correction.
—The inadequacy of this punishment was severely felt by the
market-gardeners, of whom there are many in this county,
and whose grounds are continually being plundered by gangs
of lawless fellows, who, emboldened by the smallness of the
penalty, and calculating upon the probabilities of escaping de-
tection, had at last attained to such a pitch of insolence, that
it was no uncommon thing for the plunuered party to be taunt-
ed by being shewn some of the fruit procured by the depreda-
tions of the preceding; night. In this manner the deceased man,
happening to meet Mr. Blowsfield in the street, not quite a
fortnight back, insulted him by pulling some apples out of his
pocket, and holding them up exclaiming, " Here, you old
tool, will you have some cheap apples ?" The deceased's
family have long borne a very indifferent character in the neigh-
bourhood; two of his brothers have been transported, and he
himself has been repeatedly convicted of robbing orchards, and
other petty depredations. The publicity given to the new law
by the present inquiry has quite elated the farmers in the neigh-
bourhood, and our readers will see by the sequel that the pro-
tection it affords extends to the justifying them in firing upon
the felon, on his refusing to surrender himself, an Act which,
by the old law, would have amounted, in the event of death
ensuing, to the crime of murder.-The Jury having been
sworn, proceeded to view the body, which was covered from
head to heel with shot marks. On their return the following
evidence was given :
Wm. Cooper, labourer, residing in- Peascod-row, deposed
that he was the father of the deceased. On the night of Satur-
day week he went to bed about ten o'clock. About two hours
afterwards he heard the deceased open the street-door and go to
his own room. He groaned very much, and, in consequence,
witness and his mother went to him, and inquired what was
the matter ? He answered that lie had been shot, and requested
a doctor might be sent for, which was accordingly done. Wit-
ness observed several gun-shot wounds on different parts of his
son's body, and from which the blood was flowing. Mr. Hol-
derness, the surgeon, soon after arrived, and examined and
dressed his wounds. He gave him no hopes of recovery, and
at subsequent interviews which witness had with his son, the
latter expressed his conviction that he was a dying man ; and
after so saying, he, in answer to witness's inquiries, stated that
" he went over into old Whackey's—lneaning Blowsfield's
garden—with Thomas Field, of Datchet, and another man who
worked at Slaughter's, in Chewer parish, and that a man sod.
denly came upon them from behind an apple-tree, and called
out, who's there ?"They did not answer, but turned to run
off, when the man fired upon them, and wounded hint and one
of his companions."
Mary Cooper, the mother, corroborated this evidence, and in
addition stated that on the Sunday morning Field called upon
her, and showed the wounds on his arms and side which he had
received on the same occasion, and which he said he had got
dressed by a surgeon at Colnbrook.
Mr. Ilolderness, surgeon, had been called in to attend the
deceased ; there were nearly 70 shots in different parts of his
body, but principally on his left breast : six of them had pene-
trated to his heart, and there were several in his lungs. Wit-
ness attended'him till the time of his death, which he was of
opinion was caus,-.1 by the effusion of blood into the cavity of
the chest, and by the inflammation of the heart and lungs, both
produced by the gun-shot wounds he had received.
Mr. Blowsfield, the market-gardener, after being cautioned
to say nothing that might criminate himself, was next sworn.
He stated that he resided in a cottage in the garden, and that
his most valuable fruit having been continually plundered, he
determined on keeping a watch, and on the nigh -t of Saturday
week he saw three men gathering apples from a tree near the
centre of the garden. 'He called out to them to desist, and stir-
render themselves, telling them that if they attempted to move,
he would fire upon them. They, however, ran off, and he fired
his gun at them when at a distance of about 40 yards. He was
not aware that he had wounded any of them till the following
morning.
This being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner summed
it up, when the Jury expressed a pretty general opinion that the
case was one of justifiable homicide.
The Coroner said that was the opinion he himself enter-
tained ; but as the Act making the robbing of gardens a felony
had been but recently passed, and as it was by that Act that
the deed of Mr. Blowsfield was, if at all, to be justified, he
should prefer adjourning the inquiry till he could procure a
copy of the Act in question. Accordingly the Jury adjourned
from Friday till Tuesday last, when they re-assembled at the
same place.
The Coroner, after adverting to the object for which they
had again met, produced the new Act, which it appears was
passed on the sth of July, and became operative from and after
the Ist of August last, being, as the Coroner observed, just in
time to comprehend the transaction out of which the present
inquiry arose. After reading the Act (which is a very short
one) the Coroner proceeded to state, that the case being a new
one, he had, for their and his own satisfaction, taken the opi-
nion of Counsel thereon, and which he would now read to them.
The Coroner having declined giving a copy of it, we give the
following summary from memory :
" I am of opinion that the dying declarations of the deceased
under all the circumstances ought to be rejected. By the old.
law, Cooper and his companions would only have been com.
mitting a trespass, and consequently the firing upon them so as
to cause death would have been murder. But by the new act,
the sth of Geo. IV., the offence in which Cooper and his com-
panions were engaged is rendered a felony, and I am therefore
of opinion, that as from the evidence it appears they had com-
mitted the felony, for is law the removal of the apples from
the tree was an act sufficient to constitute that offence, and as
they were called upon to surrender themselves up to justice, and
as they refused so to do, and attempted to escape, Mr. Blows-
field was justified in firing upon them, so as to secure them by
killing or slaying them, for it is laid down by Hawkins, page
70, that if a felon refuse to surrender himself to justice, and
do flee away, it is lawful for any person, whether a public officer
or a private individual, to pursue and kill and slay the said
felon.' In the present instance there were three felons, and
only one man to take them ; and it is idle, therefore, to sup-
pose that he could have secured all, or even one of them ; lam
therefore of opinion that his firing upon and killing the deceased
was an act of justifiable homicide.'
The Coroner, having finished reading the above opinion, ob-
served, that it was one which had been drawn up on the evi-
dence they had before heard. The case in his opinion was a
very clear one, and he should therefore leave it to them,
merely observing that his view of it was similar to that taken
by the counsel.
The Jury without hesitation returned a verdict of " Justi-
fiable Homicide ;" and their Foreman, after delivering in the
verdict, expressed their thanks for the assistance the Coroner
had rendered them, by procuring for them the opinion of
Counsel.
The Coroner said, his was a public duty, and he was always
anxious to perform it to the best of his ability.
Several jurors declared their satisfaction at the result to which
they had been enabled to come, and expressed a hope that the
alteration in the law, and the example afforded in the present
instance, would operate to the prevention of crime.
The Coroner remarked, that the alteration had taken effect
just in time ; and but for it, Mr. Blowsfield must have gone
to gaol, and have lain there until next March, unless one Of the
Judges admitted him to bail.
A juror replied, that there were many persons in Windsor,
who, if necessary, would have bailed him to any amount.
A proof of this kindly feeling was given soon afterwards, as
Captain Taylor, of the Blues, came to the house to tender him-
self as bail, if necessary.
There was some talk of the two companions of the deceased
corning forward to give evidence; they, however, thought it
best to keep away, and it is said have left the neighbourhood.
It is intended to proceed against them for the felony. One of
them (Field) has had seven shot extracted from his arm, and
several from his left side ; none of his wounds are dangerous.
The deceased was buried last Sunday in Windsor church-
yard ; his funeral was followed by the greater part of the rabble
of the place.

MURDER.
Yesterday afternoon an Inquisition was taken before Ricn-
Ann CARTER, Esq. the Surrey Coroner, at the Carlisle Arms,
Carlisle-lane, Lambeth, on the body of John Furlonger, aged
27, late in the employ of Mr. Jackson, the landlord of the
Shades Tavern, Charing-cross, who was found drowned in the '
River near Westminster Bridge.
William Carey, a Waterman, sworn ; he resides on board the
Floating Bath, stationed on the river at Westminster Bridge.
On Monday evening last, between 6 and 7 o'clock ; he saw
something under water foul of the mooring chains, he took
his hitcher to clear it away, when he discovered it was the
body of a man. Witness procured assistance, and conveyed
him on shore. In clearing the body from the chains, he struck
him several times with the hitcher, but whether on the body
or head he could not say, as he renitned under water; part
of the hand from the wrist, which was clenched to the tiooring-

chain, came away, in .consequence of the putrid state of the
deceased; it presented a most horrid spectacle.
John Berry, a waterman to the hackney-coach-stand, at
Spratt's Bottom, otherwise Charing-cross, said, that the de-
ceased was an assistant to the same rank : he attended his duty
on the evening of Friday the 19th August last, and left the
stand between 10 and 11 o'clock at night, and went towards his
master's house, the Shades, at Charing-cross, and from that
time he saw no more of him until yesterday, when he waslying
dead in the bone-house at Lambeth.

ConoNEn—if the deceased had been found without his
clothes, should you have known him ?
Witness—No, Sir ; I merely go by the clothes he wore, and
those I can swear to.

Mr. Jackson, the landlord of the Shades Tavern at Charing-
cross, begged also to say that he accompanied the last witness
to view the body, and knew it was the deceased in consequence
of his clothes.

CORONER to the witness Berry.—Do you know, of your own
knowledge, of any person ever having threatened his life ?
Witness—No; I only know at the time he parted from me that
he wns perfectly sober and in good health. The deceased did tell
him, on the evening preceding his being missed, that he had
taken up two men before the Magistrates at Queen-square'
Office for an assault upon him, and they were committed to-
prison and that part of the same gang had threatened life.
The deceased resided in Duck-lane, Westminster.
Diana King sworn—ls not married, hut lived at No. 9',
Duck-lane, with the deceased, on the day that the two men
were taken before the Magistrates and committed for assaulting.
John Furlonger. On their return home, a young man named
Spratt, standing opposite the house, said to her (witness), don't
be surprised if your husband is brought home on a shutter; for
he would make one to do it. A young woman named Bowen
was present • she had given evidence against Hinton and
Chester for the assault, and said to the man there, if any thing
happens to Furlonger we shall know who has done it.
Catharine Bowen also resides at No. 9, Duck-lane ; she de..
posed to seeing the assault committed, and gave evidence
against the two men at Queen-square ; the man Spratt was in
the prisoner's company wheh the assault took place. She fully
corroborated the testimony_ of the last witness as to the expres.
sions being made by Spratt, but thought at first he alluded to
her husband, upon which she asked for what cause f he replied,
for Bob Hinton's sake; afterwards it was understood it meant ,
Furlonger, now deceased.
CORONER—How many were included in the warrant ?
Witness—Only Hinton and Si, .4er.
CORONER—How was it that Spratt was not taken up, as you
say he was in their company ?
Witness—He could not be found.

CORONER—Where is the man Spratt now ?
Witness—l believe he is either in Horsemonger-lane or at
Brixton. I have been told he was apprehended last Friday
fortnight.
There being no other evidence to adduce,
The Jury consulted for about ten minutes, and returned a
Verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons
unknown."