The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-25 00:00:00

PGETR T.

On GEORGE ROBINS, ESQ.
LANGFORD and SKINNER, In their day,
'Midst Auctioneers bore Sovireign sway,.
And just were deetn'd their dealings;
Of public merit they had store,
And none who knew them sought for more,
Nor ask'd their private feelings.

But ROBINS stands on higher ground,
'With equal probity, 'tis found
thaall their skill inherits ;
Ile's always quick to knock down VICE,
And for the VIRTUES gain due price,
According.to their merits.

GEORGE, in thy Catalogue of mind,
We much of solid worth can find,
Benevolence the chief
Witness poor EMERY'S Mournful Band,
Rais'd by thy, prompt and active hand,
From fell despairing grief.

When DEATH, Fate's awful Auctioneer,
With his dread Hammer shall appear,
GEORGE, fear not thou a jot ;
Thy conduct bids so well below,
That *llea he strikes the mortal blow,
Moult gain a happy lot.

SPORTING.

r HUNTING INTELLIGENTE.
MEFTINOS OF HOUNDS IN THIt ENSUING REEK.
Sir It. Yuleston's Hounds, on Monday, at Emral • Wed-
nesday, at Twenlows ; and on Saturday, at Overton Bridge.
• The Holywell Harriers, on Tuesday, at Bagillt ; and on
Thursday, at Lixom Green.
Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at Newnham.
The appointments of the Quorndon Hounds will be sent to
the Blue .Bell Inn, Leicester, and the George Inn, Melton
Mowbray, as soon as the weather will permit hunting.
A bet has been offered by a Gentleman of 600 guineas to
100, that we would produce a horse to trot HI miles in one
hour. We understand the owner of the American horse has
taken the. bet.
The practice of betting is become much more general here 'than it used to be. We have heard of a Gentleman in this town who has betted that, in two months, he will produce a
pig to run against a horse for a distance of 100 yards. The
race is to be in an open field, and the pig 13 to run to its meat.
The odds are in favour of the pig.—(G/a.rgo:v Paper.
MATCII TO CANTIMIIIIIIY AND BACK.-511". IL Aherne-
thy, nephew of the north country. amateur of that name, started
at eleven o'clock yesterday morning to go from Westminster-
bridge to the turnpike at Canterbury, anti return (one hundred
and twelve miles), in twenty-eight -hours, for a bet of fifty so-
vereigns. He did six miles in the first hour, five and a half in
the second, and six in the third, before he halted for five
minutes. He kept steadily at work with apparent ease to him-
self, at the rate of something more than five miles an hour,
and at four o'clock, when our informant left him, he had done
twenty-nine miles, and had laid down-0 to 4 against time. .

Box Ens.— The match for 50 sovereigns, between Halton, the
Irish champion, and A. Belasco is off; the six sovereigns depo.
sited on the part of Belasco having become forfeit, by the non-
observance of the time and place to make stakes good on the part
of Belasco's backers. Halton is again open to fight any man in
England, and to give 0 lbs. in weight. Five fifties to four
were laid on Cooper, the Gipsey, against Cabbage, from Bristol,
who fights Cooper on Wednesday, next. It is one of the greatest
sporting matches known for some time.
Johnson, the Gosport Black, and Joel Harris, the Birming-
ham or Coleshill Blacksmith._. This battle, which was hastily
knocked up for a stake of ten sovereigns aside and a purse of
fifteen, took place on Wednesday, at Caxton Heath, between
Nettlebed and Emershani. Johnson, a late import from Ame-
rica, a 13 stone athletic man, had fought and won twice, and
was sweet upon himself. The smith-was a noted leveller, who
would take plenty of whopping without denial, and the Chum-
pion of his walk. P. Oliver seconded the Black, and the Bath
Tint= handled Harris» In the 12th round Johnson had
blinded his adversary, and won the fight.;

Oiroan.---We are happy to learn that a bene.
volent Society has been established in this city, for the purpose
of visiting the sick and distressed poor at their own habita-
tions. It is conducted by a Committee (chiefly of Ladies), two
Secretaries, and a Treasurer who meet at the Vestry of St.
Ebbe's every Tuesday, at eleven o'clock, to receive the Ile-
port of the Visitors as to the relief afforded during the week,
and to take into . consideration and order what relief shall
be extended to the cases in hand for the following week,-
-The Visitors appointed by the Committee out of their own
body (two or more every week), who undertake to attend to the
cases in charge, to make strict enquiry into any new ones that
are in want of assistance, and to convey to the objects of the So-
ciety's benevolence such necessaries as the comfort and support
of the sick and distressed may require. Th jof the So-
cim Is to provide loin iediate and necessaryrelief, and this in such
articles as their cases may call for. The giving of' nioney, if pos-
sible is avoided, and such assistance rendered as the exigency
of the case seems to demand—proper attention having been
paid tp character, and to what pecuniary resources the indivi-
duals bray have. It is conceived that there are many advan-
tages attending this mode of dispensing charity—it eco-
nomizes the means of our bounty, by a previous provision
of necessaries, and by the distribution of them according
to actual need, it extends our bounty to those who are most in
want of it, while it detects the imposture of those who, by im-
portunity and perseverance, wrest from the benevolent indivi-
duals what may be conveyed through the channel of a So-
ciety like this to revive those who are sinking under diffi-
culties they have not courage to make known to strangers,
or solicit their aid. To visit the abodes of misery not only
promotes cleanliness, industry, and right feelings, in the ob-
jects of pity, but it is surely accompanied with many bles-
sings to those who undertake this errand of mercy, and in
these two influences combined, we cannot but augur well to so.
ciety in general front the institution of Societies like these.—
Subscripuons have not been generally solicited beyond the im-
mediate connexion of the Committee, who were anxious to
commence the assistance so much nestled during the.present in.
clement weather. Their funds have been aided,' however, by
some kind donations, not only of money; but of articles of clothing, wine, &c...-(f)rford Journal.)

At a Meeting of the Royal Society of Edin-
burgh, on Monday last, Captain SCORESBY, whose
name is so well known us connected with the
History of the Whale Fishery, exhibited some
very interesting experiments on the magnet. His
observations have been made principally with the
view of correcting the errors of chronotheters,
which, he has found, are frequently occasioned
by the most simple and hitherto unlooked-for
circumstances—such as the position of the material
of which the balances are constructed at the
time they were made. He showed that, by
the blow of a hammer, the polarity of a bar of
iron may be reversed, according to the end on
which it is struck—that if a bar of iron is bent
in a horizontal position, it does not become mag-
netic ; whereas, if it be held perpendicular when
bending, that it does so With the negative or po-
sitive ends, according to their being uppermost
or undermost; and as a simple stroke of a barn-
mer is capable of rendering iron magnetic, as
well as turning, polishing, and burnishing, In the
event of a boat being forced to sea without a
compass, it is no very difficult matter to construct
one, for temporary purposes, from the blade of a
knife or a pair of scissors.

OUraN OF TUE TERM DANDY.--TtllB term,
which 11Wlately become so common an appellation for that
feeble race of doubtful gender, who appear to have originally
sprung from something between a sta/maker and man-milliner,
appears to hove arisen from a small silver coin struck by King
HENRY the Seventh, called a Dandy prptl, and hence Bishop
FLEVTIVOOD observes, this appellation Is applied to worthless
and contemptible persons.