The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-29 00:00:00

SPORTING INT?LLIGENCE.

BURTON WELLS HUNT RACES, TTIESDAY, APRIL 27
This annual day's sport was very attractive, and the Downs
displayed a choice assemblage of Sportsmen.
The Ilunters' Plate of 501. Heats, three miles. Weights, 11 st.
Capt. Pritchard's Merry Andrew - - 4 1 2 1
Mr. Coulston's ch. h. Bluster - 1 4 3 2
Major llone's Mermaid - - 2 3 1. dis
Mr. 1,. Bouverie's Emily - 3 2 dr
Mr. Barrymore's Sycophant - -
Famous racing each heat; Mermaid ran out thse coursedr in
the last heat when laying in a good place to win.
The Innkeepers' and. Publicans' Subscription Plate of 50i
with 251. added.
Mr. W. Goodisons' Mercury
Mr. Grange's Frolic
Mr. Bstson's Gift
Mr. Hull's Peregrine

4 2
3 3
2 dr

Both good heats.

CATTERICK BRIDGE MEETING, APRIL 22.
The Old Stakes of 25,78. each, lOgs. ft. with lOgs. added ; colts,
Bst. 31b. ; fillies, Bst,—Two miles.--(Nine Subscribers.)
Lord Sligo's h. c. Canteen . - - _ _
Mr. Gascoigne's M. C. by Smolensk° - 2
- 3lr, Lambton's ch. c. Royalist - - - . _ 3
Sir E. Podsworth's b. c. by Conlin - - - 4
Mr. Russell's b. c. by Orville - - - 5
5 and 6 to 4 on Canteen, and 2 to 1 agst Louisa colt.—Won
by a length.
The Fillies' Stakes of 20gs each, p. p. with lOgs added, Bst.
One mile and a half. (3 Subscribers.)
Mr. Jacques' b. by Walton - _ - - 1
Sir E. Doilsv,-orth's by Partisan _ - - . 2
It) to. lon the winner. "Von in a canter.
The Yearling StakNs of 20 guineas each, 13- p. with lOgs added
rising 2 yrs old ; c'olts, list. 31b. ; fillies, flat. One mile. (8
Subscribers.)
Mr. J. Croft's b. f. Peggy. • " ' -
Mr. J. Smith's b. c. Crowcatcher - -
Seven started, but the Judge only placed two.
The Subscription of 50/. Plate for maiden horses, Exc. 3-yr.
olds, 7st. 31b. ; four, Bst. 71b. ; five, six, and ared, 9st.-..
Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. Two mile heats. (Ages
as in May.)
Mr. Johnson's ch. c. brother to Bay Burton, 4-yrs 0 1 1
Mr. Mason's cb. g. by Egremont, 3.yrs - - 1 0 0
Mr. Parkinson's b. f. by Whisker, 3-yrs - . 0 2 2
Major Cunningham's b. g. Stingo, 5-yrs - - 2 3 I
Col. King's b. g. Great Tom of Lincoln, 4-yrs . 3dr

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BOXERS.
REYNOLDS'S ANSWER TO REUBEN MARTIN'S CHALLENGE.
" Tom Reynolds sends his compliments to Reuben Martin,
and feels obliged to him for the offer of his custom, but begs to
inform him, or any other high-bred aspirant of five feet ten, that
his friends will not allow him to fight any pugilist above ten
stone twelve; in that case length will be no object, and if Reu-
ben has got a sweat in him, four pounds may be easily taken
off; but provided they are like Reynolds, of the Safteha Parma
breed (5 feet 5/ inches), he will give half a stone to any man in
existence for 2001. a side. Mr. K. begs further to state he will
treat any customer coming forward that will answer to the above
description with a bottle and a steak, and meet him at cleher's
to make the match, at a week's notice; but on no other con-
dition than what is here stated, as Tom wishes it to be under-
stood he is not ambitious, and his friends are quite satisfied by
seeing the name of Reynolds stand No.l in the list of his own
weight.
" Running Horses, Salford, Manchester, April 22, 1324."
In addition to the whole of the money having been made
good for the battle on the Ilth of May, between Josh. Hudson
and Sampson, on Tuesday night at Randall's, 30 sovereigns
a-side to be made 50 a-side was made good, for the battle be-
tween O'Neil and Gaynor on the 25th of May Five sovereigns
a-side have been put down for Josh. Hudson to fight Cannon,
the Eaton bargeman, six weeks from the day lie fights with
Sampson. The match between those two brave little men
Curtis and Ayres has been made again for one hundred ft-side,
the battle having been stopped in Passion-week.

FASHIONABLE IRREGULA KITIE9.-A dashing
female, assuming the name of Morton, who has for
some time lived iu the most extravagant style in
Upper Montagu-street, and who has obtained
crodit from different tradesmen to the amount of
several thousand pounds, was on Tuesday arrested
at the suit of a Jeweller in Bond-street, for
a debt of nearly 4001. and lodged in White-
cross-street Prison. There were found in her
possession pawnbrokers' duplicates to the
amount of upwards of 10001. her other cre-
ditors immediately came forward, and applied
to the Magistrate of Marylehone Officellto have
the Duplicates given up to them, to which he
consented on their giving due indemnity to the
Sheriff's officer who had seized them. As these
transactions cannot otherwise be legally con-
strued than as a question of debt, some of the
creditors have proposed to consent to her release
upon her giving up all claims to the pawnbrokers'
duplicates.

EXECUTION.-The Bury Post of Wednesday
last, giving an account of the execution of the four convicts at
Bury, says—" To shew the state of Wright's mind, we insert
the following letter, addressed by him to one of his former con-
federates in crime, residing at Walter Ile'champ
April 10, 1824, Bury Jail.
To you _ I Thomas Wright do send these few
Lines as your friend, and to beg of you to lave off all your wicked
ways before it be to late. Look what the hand of justis has
brought me to, tho' no more than I deserve, and you know that
you have often been partners with me in my wickedness ; there-
fore for God's sake and your wife's and children's, and your
own Soul, take warning by my Shameful Death, lave off while
the door of mercy remain open, as life is so unsartin, and Death
is sure, and perhaps may come upon you when you not expect
it, and recollect if you escape the Sentence of man, you will
not die just Judgments of God, so pray take my advice in
time, not only you but many others that know that have as-
sisted us in unlawful and shameful things that we out not
to have done, but I, pray to God to forgive us all—my Life
is but short in this world, and your may not, therefore lave off
before it be to late. And if you can do my unhappy famely any
good pray for my sake do it, for that will be good in the eyes of
God, as they are left to the mercy of the world through my mis-
conduct, as I ought to have brought them up by onesty, but far
from that to my Shame that you know to well. And I hope you
will show this to -- and I hope he with others will lave
all bad Company, as that is what have brought me to my short
end. Lord pray be merciful to us all !
From Thomas Wright, Bury Jail—Death.
CHILD MURDERED IN YORX.—An inquest was
held on Saturday night last, and by adjournment
yesterday, by Mr. &mom, Coroner, at the John
Bull public-house, without Laverthorpe Postern,
in the vicinity of this city, on view of the body of
a female child unknown, which had been found in
the river Foss, between Monkbridge and Pease-
holmep-reen,w hen,after a long investigation,it was
again adjourned to to-morrow evening. The child
was found on the surface of the water, with its face
downwards, quite naked, about seven o'clock on
Saturday night, entangled amongst some weeds.
It was a full grown infant ; and, on examination,
it appeared that the back pant of the skull had
been fractured, and that what is essential for
the security of life at the time of birth, with re-
gard to the navel, had not been attended to, which
showed that no medical man had attended the
delivery. It appeared to have been in the
water three weeks or a month. The most re-
markable feature in this affair is, that a female,
apparently between 30 and 40 years of age, dres-
ser] in a red gown, had been seen to lurk about by
the side of the Foss, exactly opposite to the place
where the child was found, for 8 or 10 days, in the
early part of that morning, and, that about eleven
o'clock on Saturday forenoon, she again visited
the place, and, after kneeling down by the side
of a gate, she put a bundle into the water, and
walked quietly away. Some boys soon got it out
of the river, and, on opening it, found that it con-
tained seven or eight women's caps, two gowns,
a checked apron, some frills, and a green petti-
coat.—(York Courant.)

COURT OF KING:3 BENCH---erkiipAir.)

INDICTMENT Aliri...l.Nn' THURTELL.
The LORD CHIEF j4o,T,lerei shortly after the
sitting of the Court, oqii;ed that there stood ou
the paper for Saturday anHindictment against a
person of the name of Thurtell, and (Alters, for a
Conspiracy ; as h• understood that this . wat.,
likely to prove a very long trial, it would be per, .
haps most convenient to put off the trial till after-
the present sitting. .
. SCARLET',I,
trial Mr. SCARLET admitted that the al would
most probably occupy the Court many hours.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE.—Then let it be
understood that the trial will not take place at
these sittings.
TIIE KING V. CHARLES LEAKE.
Mr. Cunwoon opened the pleadings.
Mr. SCARLETT stated that this was an indict-
ment against the defendant, an Attorney, in
Oxfordshire, for perjury, assigned upon an affi-
davit which he had sworn in the Vice-Chan-
cellor's Court, in the matter of Thomas Sylvester,
a bankrupt. The defendant, he stated, having
acted as attorney in suing out a Commission of
Bankruptcy against Sylvester, had from some
cause or other, entertained a rancorous disposi- .
Lion towards the bankrupt, and in consequence
of certain expressions he had used in speaking of _ •
the bankrupt, at a meeting of creditors, the de-
fendant was discharged from further acting as
Solicitor under the commission. The matter
having afterwards come before the Vice-Chancel-
lor, upon affidavits to the malicious expressions . ,
alleged to have been used by the defendant, the
Vice-Chancellor dismissed the petition, leaving
the defendant to answer the matter of these affi-
davits. The perjury now assigned was upon the
defendant's affidavit put in, in answer, in which
he swore that he toad never used the expressions
to Mr. Joseiab.Bruce, of Oxford, viz. " That the
defendant would take care the bankrupt, Thos.
!Sylvesteir, should never get his certificate, so as
to carryon business again, and .that if he could
not do it by fair means he would do it by foul."
The Learned Gentleman said he bad three
-witnesses to prove the expressions. 'Mr. John
Challoner, from the Six Cleiks Office, produced
the affidavit, but the Commission against Sylves-
ter not being brought' nto Court, the Attorney
under the Commission was called on hissubptrna,
and the Jury, under the direction of the Luau
CHIEF Jityrice, pronounced the defendant Ara.
Guilty.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, APRIL 28.—Wind S.W.—Came down from the
River and remain, the Orewell, for China; and ;he :111try,
Navigator, Prosperite, Egginton, and Ariel, outward-bound
vessels. Passed through for London the Admiral Berkley,
from the South Seas; Indispensable, from ditto ; Ann, from
Demerara; Ocean, Whittle, from Honduras; and Marquess
of Anglesey, Reed, from Jamaica ; 5 P. >I. an East ludiaman
arid several other vessels from the River are turning in.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 28.—Wind S.—Arrived the Vibelia
transport, from the West Indies ; and his Majesty's ship
Sparrowhawke, from a cruize.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 27.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the
Susannah, Deeds, from Amsterdam, with loss of topmaSts and
sails; Alfred, Taylor, from London, for Leghorn, out 18
days, with loss of boats, bulwarks, and other damage, has.
been as far a.• lat. 46. 45. long. 11.
FALMOUTis, APRIL ‘27.—Wind S.S.W.—Off the Port the
Salus, from London. •

DART mo t*T tr, APntr. 28.—Off the Port the Florenti3,
front Bengal: sailed the 25th of December, and from St.
Ilelena the 7th of March, and has landed passengers.

The Diana, Hens, bound to Liverpool, struck on Mobile
Bar the 10th ult., but was got off, and proceeded to sea with
5 feet water in her hold ; the pilot stated, when he left her she
had only 2 feet water, and was fast discharging the rest.
The Brothers, Prowse, of Poole, was abandoned by the crew
off Tarifa previous to the 9th instant, being op her broadside.

Yesterday the dispatches for China by the ship Thamcs were
closed at the East India house, and delivered to the Putser
of that ship.
WitEcx Hornby, Wade, from Liverpool to Rio
Janeiro, was totally wrecked on the 2d of January, on the rocks
of the Great Arm's Head, and only one of the crew saved.
Great part of her valuable cargo was plundered, and the COSI_
mittee of Lloyd's and the Underwriters' Association at Liver-
pool, wishing to check such disgraceful depredations, gave
directions for prosecuting several of the parties who had been
detected in stealing the property.

MANSION-HOUSE.—STATE OF THE. STREETS.—Vester.
day, and tOr several days past, a number of coachmen, carmen,"
errand cartmen, porters, waggoners and others were brought bp'
and fined in mitigated penalties, for allowing their vehicles to
remain standing in tabs streets, and causing obstructions in the
public thoroughfares. Never were such numbers " pulled" be-
fore. A number of citizens attended and complained of various
systematic obstructions in Newgate-street from the butc.ll
cars, in Leadenhall and Bishopsgate-street f.om the exceisiv.:
num oer of short stage coaches, in Cornhill and Cheapside Iron
the crowded state of the hackney-coach stands, all of which tliy
complained did great injury to business, either by blockading
th?ir shops from any approach of carriages, or by.narrowing, and
of. en choking up the thoroughfare al together: One tradesman who
resides on Cornifill, said there were only five hackney-coaches al-
lowed on the stand before his shop, yet they dd so u h injury,
that he would readily subscribe 1001. for their rmioval, and he
was sure 1,000/. would be subscribed by his neighbours imme-
diately, if money would effect so desirable an object. lie sug-
gested that several of these coach-stands might properly i e
removed into the adjacent bye streets.—The LORD MAYOR
said, hs had long felt the magnitude of the evil, and in order
to concert measures for its alleviation, he had convened a meet-
ing of all the Deputies of the Wards in which the g•riea ei
existed.

The District Meeting of the Primitive Meth'O-
dists, or Ranters, from the Hull District, was hell
at 111alton last week, at which a great number of
travelling preachers, local preachers, lay dele—
gates, and other friends, from the different cir-
cuits, attended. On Wednesday they held their
Home Missionary Society Meeting, on behalf of
the funds, of which a very large audience were
addressed by the different preachers and lay dele-
gates present. Some of the speakers regretted
much that they were unjustly represented
as the opponents and enemies of the Wesleyan.
Methodists, for whose success, as well as. that:
of every other Christiati Society, in calling•
sinners to repentance and newness of life,
they offered up their fervent wishes and
h ignorant, their cheap labours
prayers. To a charge of ignorance they' pleaded
guilty, but at the same time proved, by " reasons
beneficially extended to a large
shtaTingbe,'e'nthvaetrtyboug
class of the community, overlooked and neglected
by every other sect of Christians, excepting none.
Many curious aid entertaining anecdotes, illus-
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which
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in many places (notwithstanding the exertions
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and caused them to give very liberally uheii the
collection was made. The travelling preachers
have no horses kept, but perform all their jeur-
neys on foot.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Fixtraets from the Morning Papers, April 2%

[MORNING POST.

Tiii KlNG.—Though his Majesty continues to
he aff►cted with a severe cold and cough, our
Readers will be rejoiced to hear that he was
yesterday iii a considerably improved gate.

French Papers to the 27th readied our
Office last night by Express. The discussion on
the reduction of the interest,nf the national Debt
wes resumed on Monday,- but the rest:lt was not
known when the Jour:ells were published. Nei-
ther is it likely to, be speedily ascertained ; for
as the, contest now lies between the Ultras and
t'ae Royalists, and neither are quite aware of the
exact strength of their opponents, there is a
mutual indisposition to make a sudden appeal to
numbers' lest the hopes of each should be disap-
pointed. Both parties therefore observe and feel
each other, and try to obtain certain iudications
of the ti,dit act which the majority islikely to be
found, before they come to -a division. Under
these circumstances caution is likely to protract
the Debate a considerable time, even if the sub-
ject were not one which rendered ample investi-
gation desirable and necessary. As a compli-
ment to the Duke of Angouleme and the French
Army, the 120 guns ship lately launched at
TOIII4NI has had its name changed from le Formid-
able to the Trocadero.. There is intelligence in
these papers from Madrid to the 16th inst. The
.Merftal du Commerce contains what appears to
be a confirmation of a statement in the Bayonne
Papers (which have also arrived), of an attempt
to burn Madrid. The two parties, it seems, are
quarrelling as to which committed tke deed. One
would suppose thit the Constitutionalists could
hardly be suspected? since the King, who in such
case would be the principal object for destruction,
‘, was absent from the capital. It is almost certain
• 2..* that General Bourmont is to be recalled, and
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oome -offices less -fasc;nstiad. with Ow 'virtues
of Ferdinand is to succeed him. Bourmont has
long. been suspected of favouring the Royalist
party, and his recal under such circumstances,
therefore, denotes a very proper feeling in the
French Ministry. We only fear that their pre-
sent moderation comes too late to repair the great
vice of the invasion.--(//fid.)

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[vna TIMES.]
The Public will be aware already that the
Drawing-room appointed for this clay has been
put off, in consequence of the indisposition of the
King. In the course of yesterday a bulletin
(see THE SUN of yesterday) was issued by the
proper authority. Notwithstanding the satisfac-
tory nature of the bulletin, we shall venture to
make a remark or two upon it. It says, " The King
" has for some days been much iudisposed." Now
is it not rather singular that the people should
not have been informed of this " great indis-
" position" (for we know not how to convert the
adverb much into any other adjective than great)
—that the people, we say, should not have been
informed of that " great indisposition" of his Ma-
jesty till its termination ? " Some days of great
" indisposition" would surely allow time for the
official publication of the occurrence. The fact
is, that the King's recent attack by severe cold
would never have beefi known but by secret
whispers—a very mischievous mode of intelli-
gence—had it not been for his inability, even in
his„convalescent state, now to hold the appoint-
ed Drawing-room.—Again, the. bulletin states,
that " unless, unhappily, his Majesty should
" suffer a relapse, there will be no fur.
" ther bulletin." Suppose, then, the relapse
(verbo übsit omen) should take place, when
is the fresh bulletin to come forth ? Certainly
not till After his Majesty has recovered from
the relapse--just as the present bulletin has made
its appearance after his recovery from the first
attack. The public, therefore, has to fear that
his Majesty may even HOW be suffering from a'
relapse, of which we are not to informed till
its result. We urge these topics in order to
press upon. those by whom the King is surround-
ed, and who have the care of his person, the ne-
cessity of openness in all their proceedings. His
Majesty appears but little (we might almost say
not at.all) in public. It is only from the papers that
his people learn, and the papers only learn from
the domestics of the Palace, that his Majesty is
at Brighton, at Windsor, or even in town. It is
the more imperative, therefore, that the state of
his health, or any variMions when such occur,
should be made known from authentic sources, in
The most prompt and precise manner.