The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-20 00:00:00

BOXING.

The battle made at Epsom Races on Wednesday, for George
Lenney t' fight any man Mr. Courtenay could bring under his
weight lOst. 61b. and who had never before exhibited in a prize
ring, took place yesterday morning on Ridge Meadows, three
miles from Virginia Water, after the cavalcade had received
notice to quit in the vicinity of the Royal domains contiguous to
Winkficld-plain. Lenney first entered the ring with his seconds,
.Jones and Gilbert; the new man soon made his appearance,
and doj?d his castor into the ring with much confidence with
his backer, and W. Tring and Oldfield as his seconds. He was
unknown to the fanciers, but he was introduced as Harry Har-
ris, the Wiltshire butcher. The stakes were for 20 guineas
aside, and a purse.
In the first round Lenney approached with caution, and made
some feint, but the stranger's muscles were in full action for
hitting. He at length made the play at his adversary's head, but
hit by it, and Lenney met him on the head with the left hand,
and closed upon him. In a wrestle Lenney was thrown hea-
vily, and it was even betting.
2. This round produced some very hard fighting. The novice,
a fresh young man of 22, kept at his work manfully, and bothered
good fighting, according to the flash term, by readiness and
hard hitting. Lenney was obliged to ruffian it with him, and
both were often bit to a stand still. They disengaged thrice
from closing, as Lenney found he:had the worst of that, and
trarris was for the stand up. The round lasted thirteen mi-
nutes. Lenney was dropped by a lunging right-handed tittler
under the lug, which brought, a stream of claret, and spoilt him.
3 and 4. These rounds were rather of a tamer description
then the last; and produced out little mischief.
n. Harris unmuzzled, and shewed no quarter. He was met
twtcs upon the head in advancing, but he shook it, and would
not be denied. Severe punishment took place, and in the rally
Lenney was minus two front grinders ; lie was dropped again
with the right hand.
6. This settled the battle in 23 minutes. Lenney was all
abroad, and was hit so senseless that he was deaf to time, which
gave victory to Harris. ,

EXECUTION OF JOHN CONNOR, AT RUTI/IN.
John Connor was a native of the county of Wexford, in Ire-
land, a Roman Catholic, aged 32 years. On Monday morn-
ing last, the Under Sheriff of the county( of Denbigh (T.
Broster, Esq.) went from the Lion Inn, to the Gaol, at-
tended with the Aldermen of Ruthin, several Gentle.
men of the Town, the Sheriff's Javelin Men, the Corpo-
ration of Ruthin's Javelin Men, the Bailiffs and Constables,
about eleven o'clock. The prisoner was then with two Catho-
lic Priests, (Mr. Wright, of Holywell, and Mr. Bates.) The
Under-Sheriff waited for him till a quartei after twelve, when
he came out, attended by the two Priests, and ascended the
scaffold with a firm step, when Mr. Bates addressed the spec-
tators, (very numerous) by desire of the prisoner, acknowledg-
ing the commission of the crime, and expressing his contrition,
and warning them by his example. He was a very fine man,
about 6 feet 2 inches high, and certainly the most powerful
man seen in the neighbourhood for some time ; he was very
penitent, and confident in his hopes of salvation. He was ,
turned off about twenty minutes before one o'clock, and died'
in about two minutes and a half. The night before, he was
quite reconciled to his fate, and told Mr. Broster he was then
prepared to die, and had been so since the day before. He has
parents and friends living, but they know nothing of his fate,
nor (lid he wish them. He stated most positively that there
was but one man with him when he commited the robbery,
yet he would not mention his name, but said he had no
doubt the prosecutors were mistaken from the alarm they felt.
The prosecutors supposed there were four, but knew the pri-
soner and his companion, who is a man called Will Sair
(William Thomas), from the Parish of Gresford, and who has
absconded, though he remained in that neighbourhood, and was
frequently seen, for several weeks after the robbery, and is a
notorious bad character; strange as it may seem, no one ap-
prehended him. His wife is now in gaol, under a sentence of
imprisonment for uttering base coin.—Mr. Kenyon prosecuted
Connor, and Mr. Humphreys Jones defended him ; he was
supported with money to defend himself. Mr. Sankey, as also
the priests, returned the Under Sheriff thanks, for his gentle-
man like eeling and conduct towards the prisoners.—( Chester
Chronicle, April 19.)

ATTEMPT OF ARTIFICERS TO LEAVE ENGLAND.

—At our Assizes indictments were preferred
against Thomas Evans, Wm. Robinson, J. Wid-
dowson, Jas. Shaw, H. liill, J. Swindells, and
W. Cocking, for attempting to leave this country,
and carry on their work in a foreign land. Mr.
Williams was employed by them as Counsel
and Mr. Brown, of London, as their solicitor, and
at the suggestion of the Attorney-General, and
by the advice of Mr. Williams, they were in-
duced to plead Guilty to the charge, and gave
sureties in 201. each, and, on Saturday next, are
to find each two other sureties in 201.n0t to leave
England for three years.—(Chester Chronicle,
April 19.)
Yesterday evening, between the hours of
eight and ten o'clock, the counting-house of Mr.
STRONG, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Well-street,
Cripplegate, was entered by means of skeleton
keys, and the desks, &c. forced open ; fortu-
nately, however, the cash-box had been removed,
so that the thieves were obliged to content them-
selves with some papers of halfpence. They next
attempted the iron chest, but here, by the inge-
nious make of the lock, they were again foiled.
They then regaled themselves with some wine,
to console themselves for so small a booty, and
retreated.

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

IXTRACTS FROM DMY MORNING PAPERS,
April %), 1822.

[NEW TIMES.]
By the liamburgh Mail of yesterday, various
rnthours of warlike preparation were received;
"'preat magazines," " fresh divisions of troops;niid`"
" a Russian army of 280,000 men on the
Pr rilth, with 500 pieces of cannon," are spoken
of with formidable confidence. These are, how-
ever, mere repetitions of reports of some months'
Mantling, and seem to have been so regarded in
the City, for Consols remained immoveable. The
private letters from St. Petershurgh are silent on
the question of peace or war, and the Paris
Journals of Wednesday, which arrived at a late
-hour last night,,contain nothing decisive.

[THE TIMES.]
As every measure adopted by Parliament for
completing and confirming the extinction of the
Slave Trave, in so far as British capital, the
British flag, or British subjects could directly or
indirectly hear any part in its promotion, must
be viewed with pleasure by the friends of virtue
and humanity, we are happy to see printed, and
seemingly well digested, " A Bill to amend and
" consolidate the Laws relating to the Abolition
"of the Slave Trade." Although there is no
large portion of new matter contained in the pre-
sent Bill, a good deal seems to be done by
getting rid of the repetitions, the intricacies, and
sometimes the, at least apparent, inconsistencies,
almost inseparable from the disjointed and piece-
meal manner in which the Legislature had been
driven to proceed upon this question, from the
first resolution to abolish the trade, through a
series of ten or eleven Acts of Parliament,
down to the year IS2I. The Law, as it
affects the subjects of Great Britain merely,
we should hope, will not require any further
efforts of Parliament to amend, or of the execu-
tive Government to enforce it. 'With regard to
foreign nations, unfortunately, much remains to
be done. Although we have removed the guilt
from ourselves, we have but transferred it, undi-
minished, nay aggravated, to our neighbou,rs;
and for the miserable Africans, it is certain that
their sufferings have experienced no relief.—
Quarrels among tl:ese untaught beings are still
provoked by the agents of Europe, and wars in-
stigated, for the monstrous purpose of multiply-
ing prisoners, and cheapening the market of
slaves. All the islands of America, all the
colonies on or near her coast, but those of which
England only is the mistress, swarm with daily
importations from Africa ; and those who call
themselves the most refined and cultivated of
Christian nations are busied in desolating one
Ereat division of the earth to degrade and cor-
rupt another.
[MORNING II ERA LD.]
There were various foreign arrivals in the
course of yesterday, but none that brought intel-
ligence of particular novelty or importance.—
Still nothing decisive has been received respect-
Itig the question of war. The German papers
merely repeat that the negociations are resumed,
with the expectation of inducing the Turkish
Government to recede from its solemn rejection
of the terms proposed by Russia. In order to
form any thing like a well-grounded opinion, it
would be necessary to have the data which con-
stitute the state of the question more clearly
known than it is possible beyond the circle of offi-
cial confidence. At first sight, however, when
one considers the characteristic obstinacy of the
Ottoman Government, and the length and solem-
nity of deliberation which preceded its resolution,
the hope of a change of determination seems
quite visionary. It is somewhat singular that we
have latterly heard so little of the progress of
the war between the Turks and Greeks. It has
been frequently stated in the French papers,
that the Greeks are chiefly occupied in framing
and consolidating their system of government.
At Sea, they have an unquestionable advantage ;
and on land, the progress of the war depends
much on the Turks, whose chief strength is in
the fortresses which they have hitherto, for the
`most part, proved inexpugnable.

[MORNING POST.]
The return of our Sovereign to town has af-
forded an opportunity for the display of those
sentiments of loyalty and affectio'n which have
welcomed him-in all parts of his dominions, and
which prevail with no less fervour and sincerity
in the breasts of the inhabitants of the capital,
than in those of his other subjects. Nothwith-
standing the occasional unpropitiousness of the
weather yesterdayi never before did greater
crowds repair to the palace to pay their respects
to their Monarch, and rally round his Throne.—
The Levee was attended by perhaps an unpre-
cedented crowd of the most distinguished No-
bility and Gentry of the land, and the Father
of his people felt himself once more in the
midst of his children. Were so cheering a spec-
tacle witnessed in times of universal concord and
prosperity, it would only be considered an or-
dinary and 'natural expression of public attach-
ment, and no other remark would be made than
that due justice was done to the merits of the
Sovereign ; but at a period when so many evil
spirits have been, and are still at work, to ca-
lumniate the Throne, and pervert the loyalty of
the people—at a time, too, when the distresses or
one of the most important and most numerous
classes of the community, the cultivators of the
soil, render thousands open to the seductions of
the artful and active promoters of sedition, the
bursts of loyal feeling which greet the Monarch)
wherever he directs his course, are doubly gra-
tifying. They announce more than mere ordinary
fidelity to the Throne, because that fidelity has
been tried.. It is its triumph that they proclaim,
and with it, that of good sense and sound prin-
ciple. Let' us not therefore congratulate our
King alone on the pledges of affection which he
receives from his people ; let us congratulate
that people itself on its victory over the arts and
delusions of revolutionary traitors ; let us felici-
tate the whole country on this rising up of a just,
grateful, and discriminating spirit, amongst all its

classes, even those which in former years ltad
most easily been misled. The times of disaffec-
tion and of danger are past—those of difficulty
and of distress will also vanish ; and what can
more powerfully contribute to the happiness and
prosperity of the country, than a sincere and in-
dissoluble union of interests and affections be-
tween the Sovereign and his People !

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We have received the Paris Papers up to Wed-
nesday last. They contain no intelligence re-
specting the state of the negociatious between
Russia and Turkey. There is an article from
Augsburg which represents the recent attempt on
the part of the mediating Powers to renew the ne-
gociations with the Divan, as being the result of
a conference at Vienna, where it was resolved
that these steps should be taken simultaneously
by all the Christian Powers having representa-
tives at Constantinople. If this statement be
correct, we must presume that these several
Governments have determined upon taking
up arms jointly against the Ottoman Porte,
should the Divan obstinately adhere to its ori-
ginal resolution. An angry altercation took
place in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday.
This assembly seems, without any exception, to
be the most tumultuous and disorderly that ever
ventured to discuss the affairs of a nation. The
members want some training, for they appear to
be wholly unaware that the freedom of debate
presumes the right of one side of the Chamber to
express their opinions as well as the other. M.
LAFITTE'S speech was perhaps too animated ;
and it must be admitted, that in the infancy, as
it may yet be called, of the restored Government,
the praises of the Revolution and of the imperial
sceptre might with some propriety be spared.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The German Papers which arrived yesterday,
bring intelligence of which the complexion is
still more warlike than the preceding.—There is
a curious article in the Allgemeine Zeitung, in
the shape of a letter from Frankfort, which our
readers will find among our extracts, probably
from some of the holder:, of Vienna paper. it
would seem to indicate that a new piece of
tactics has been had recourse to. The writer,
subscribing to the general opinion that war is
now inevitable, turns round and says,—Why
should this be a source of apprehension to the
holders of Austrian paper ? Austria can only
gain by taking an active part in a war in the
East, because it would thereby enlarge its
power, and if it should require a new loan,
it would easily raise it without depreciating
its paper already in circulation. We were not
aware that the credit of Austria rested on such
a firm foundation. Is Italy, then, quite secure ?
or is Italy nothing in the balance when compared
to the East ? There is one point, however, re-
specting which this Frankfort speculator has not
altogether convinced us. " Never," says he,
was a war more popular than that which is now
at hand—never was one which was approv-
ed in such a degree by public opinion through-
out all Christian Europe. If the Powers of Chris-
tendom required an extraordinary contribution
to make war on the Turks, they would find the
purses of their subjects open to promote, the noble
object of expelling hordes of incorrigible bar-
barians from civilized Europe." All Christian
Europe! Who are Lords Liverpool and liar-
row by, and Mr. Vansittart, pray ? Does he take
them for Jews ? Are they not Christians of

he very first water, even leading Members of

those Bible Societies which are now communi-
cating the blessings of the Gospel to the remotest
parts of the earth ? Yet we know, that so far
from wishing well to any war against the Turks,
these Evangelical Ministers haveuot only been
labouring hard to promote the extermination of
the Christian Greeks, but also to encourage a be-
lief in this country, that (as the. Turks are so much
more merciful and humane than the Greeks, and
as living under the same Government, the dif-
ference must mainly be ascribable to religion),
Mohometanism is much more likely to exalt
the character than Christianity. As for the Lord
Chancellor, we put him out of the question,
knowing him to be a staunch man for all esta-
blishments, and believing him, therefore, likely
to be attached to Mahometanism in Turkey,

merely because it is the established religion of
the place. We have never heard that he disliked
Catholicism any where but in these islands. But
the others are revolutionary men in matters of re-
ligion, contributors to Bible and Missionary Socie-
ties ; and it must be owing to some special good
cause that the religion of Mahomet has now
found such:favour in their sight. An article, not
in our Extracts, in the same Journal, enumerates
some of the evils produced in Germany by that
restrictive system to which our Agriculturists
cling with such pertinacity. " Alas, it is said, it
is not the French only who shut up all the open-
ings to our industry and trade! If things go on
in this way, we must soon return to the primitive
condition of an Agricultural people, and hid fare-
well to the Kingdom of Imagination, and with it
to all industry and cultivation."

SINGULAR AND AWFUL PIIENOMENON.—About
four o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, the 30th ult. as Nlr.
Hushes, Chemist, of Mealcheapen-street, Gloucester, was
sitting by his parlour fire, in company with -his wife, and
a young female acquaintance, Mrs. Hughes, having an infant
in her lap, they were somewhat startled at hearing a
rumbling, or rather a bubbling noise, as of water, in the
chimney, when almost at the moment of noticing this circum-
stance a vivid Mass of flame, which
_Mr. H. describes to have
been larger than half a newspaper, burst into the room, and rush-
ing by them in contact with a window directly opposite the fire-
place which it shivered to atoms, and immediately upon gain-
ing the open air exploded with a tremendous report. Upon
Mr. Hughes's recovery from the consternation into which this
event had thrown him he discovered Mrs. H. upon the floor with
the child, and the young lady standing near him, happily-all,
as well as himself, free from personal injury, but, as will natur-
ally be conceived in a state of extreme terror and dismay,
:and which was succeeded by powerful feelings of gratitude to
that Providence Who " rules the whirlwind and directs 'the
storm," for his. Merciful interposition in protecting 'them
from harm during this so solemn and terrific manifestation
of his Omnipotence.NO part of 'the apparel of Mrs. Hughes
or the child was"touched, but the work upon which the'
young Lady was 'employed was burnt in her hand ; Mr.
Hughes's hair wa4 singed, and his clothes in front so much
scared as to be entirely spoilt ! At the tirne this occurrence took
price the wind 'las exceedingly high.
A farthing, in good preSerVition, of the date of 1504, is now
In the possession of Mr. Edmunds, Smith and farrier, of South-
ampton, who extracted it from the foot of a horse, en examin-
ing the' cause of its lameness.