The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-13 00:00:00

g?.ENTFORD RACES.

Tilt match between the Mainivaring Coh, and
Parson Tooke's famous horse Citiz,ert,. was decided
on Thursday at the Brentfurd course. The cele-
brated match between Diamond. and thimbletonian
did not excite one twentieth part of the interest in,
the sporting world.
At an early hour the roads leading to the course,
in all direakns, were crowded with carriages of
every class, horsemen, and pedestrians of all ra4iks,
ages, and description. The toad from London'vAs,
in a manner, covered with a solid mass, the crowd
being so great, as frequently to tender it impossible
to two/e.

The race was fifteen rounds of . the nrentrord
Course ; the horses to start fr oi the Stand house,
commonly called the Hustings, down Kiss-book
Hill, across the Devil's Ditch, and su round again
to the Stand.house.

On Monday morning the hour of starting was an.,
flounced by the sound of marrow.bones and cleavers,
hurdy gurdy music, grinding tains, and other melo.
dious instruments. A good deal of time Was spent
in weighing the jockeys. Old Mob rode Citizen,
was full of porter and gin, and in 'high spirits.—
The" Colt's rider was-many pounds too light, but
AlderniatiC-----, Mr. M------, &c. threw in some
shot, and made up the deficien'cy.
The Jockeys then mounted, anti rode to the start.
ing post. The Colt was rode by Magistrate, in
light sky blue ; Old Mob rode in purple and orange.
Never did two horses appear so unequal, as they
stood at the starting post. The Colt was in low
condition, rough in the coat, anti did not chew
much blood or bnne—Citizin, on the contrary, was
as sleek as a mouse, stood near a. hand higher than
the Colt, and was in excellent condition ; but he
was a gond deal pufrd, and was supposed to have
been very much strained in the chest, in his late
match with the Colt's sire. Citizen, who has been
fur some time the crack_horse of Brentford, was
the favourite and the odds, before starting, were,
at the lowest; to tot upon him. Exadly at nine
o'clock the signal was given, and both horses went
off at full speed. The result of the first round was
not calculated to change the opinion previously en.
tertained of Citizen's superiority. He took the
lead, and kept it all the way. .
The second proved the Colt to be of good bat.
torn. He went off in a spitited style, lay close to
Citizen, and just passed him within about twenty
yards of the post. The. odds, however, continued
nearly the same, it being the general opinion, that
CisiZen lay by to make play.
The third heat gave culite a new turn in favour
of the Colt. It now appeared that his rider had
held in the two first heats, as he swallomord the bit,
and went off with extraordinary velocity, leaving
Citizen nearly a distance behind.
The fourth, fifth, and sixth heats were contested
much in the same way, the Colt proving uniformly
vidorious, displaying fine action, and great bottom.
During all this time the populace sheaved evident
marks of chagrin 'and disappointment. They hooted
and hissed the Groh wherever he appeared, and at
times threatened to break in upon the course.
The Seventh heat now came on, and the event put
them in good humour. Citizen took the lead, and
never suffered the Colt to come alongside of him.
His appearance, however, was by no means flatter-
ing. He was blow's, and his wind so much touch.
ed, he made a noise like a roarer. The Colt, on
the comury, though hardly pressed, had never
turned a hair. _

The eighth heat, both horses put forth all their
strength. The Jockeys gave them whip and spur.
from the starting post, and they went neck and
neck all round, Citizen only winning by a nose.
The ninth hear was contested with equal
nacy, 'but was won by the Colt, just by a single.
length, Bets began to vary considerably ; the
odds, which, at the beginning, were ten and twelve
to one, now dropped to three to two, and four to
three. Indeed, at one moment, the bets were even.
Great discontent now began to manifest itself
among the Sporting Gentlemen who backed Citizen.
They swore he was badly rude ; that Old Mob was
.bribed i• , that he was drunk, and did not knOw what
he was doing. Still, however, they had the great.
est confidence in their favourite, knowing him to
be a horse of sound button).
The tenth and eleventh heat ended in favour of the
Colt, but he was hardly pressed in both by Citizen,
who ran him head and girth into the post. Both
horses now appeared greatly distressed, and were
cut from shoulder to flank.

. ,
..The twelfth heat did not produce much sport.—
,The G'olt•tay by, arid Citizen came in first without
an apparent struggle.
~
The thirteenth heat,
,however, was of a very clif.
ferent'cOmplexion ; Guises took the lead, and ran
in a style.that threatened to distance his adversary.
The couriie.being sleep, and much cut by. the crowds
of carriage's, &c. in the preceding days, Citizen
threw such immense quantities of mud and dirt into
the face of his -adversary, as almost to blind'himi—
The consequence was, he came in first by artnost a
.distance, amidst the shouts of the -popit!ace. Uld
Mob now seemed confident of success, cracked his
whip,'and to those who had charged him with being
drunk, boasted that a spar its the bead goat. Worth
two Ott the hell

BODMINI:eO4kWALL, AUG. 9,-
%iron THONIsON finished, here yesterday about
twelve o'clock, but owing to the stubbornness of a
Jutytn,m in the last cause tried at this place, the
Court continued sitting till near two before they
agreed. upon their kkerdid. The name- of this cause
Was,

PDaCoMnv. RODD AND OTHERS.

It was an ;talon for false imprisonruent against
Roth!, Carpenter, and Lethridge, who are three of
His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this county,
to recover damages uf them fur suatt imprisonment,
and
,the circumstances which gave rise to this attion
were the following : On the I 2 th: of 010ber,.1802.,
the Rev. Charles Marshall, Reaor of Laeohitteo,
in this Cqunty, went to bury the Plaintiff's mother,
who finding that a number of persons of the Me.
dm/dist persuasion had been at the deceased's house;
attending a sermon, preached over the deceased by
a Methodist Preacher, he felt it not only as an
indignity offered to • him in his clerical situation,
but also a personal insult, having paid every.possible
attention to the deceased during his illness. Under
these impressions, instead of going into the Church
before the corpse, as is °Malty done, he met it at
the gate of the churcit-yardbeed waletlimmediately
to the grave os soon as they essethere,'the Plaintiff
asked Mr. Marshall whether he was the man who,
would refuse to have tker corpse taken into the
Church ! Mt. M. answered4l-Yes: and as soon 'as
the funeral ceremony was over, Mr. M. went into
the Church to register it, the Plaintiff remaining
in the churchyard, making use of very improper
language, which induced Mr. Marshall to appty to
Dr. Carpenter, (one of the Defendants) who know-
ing of a Meeting of Justices which was to be holden
on the 14th of Odober, he commanded the
.Plaintiff
to appear, before them at that time, to answer Mr.
Maishattit, complaint against him. He did so, and
was requested to mike an apology, to Mr M. in a
public Paper. This, however, he refused to do;
upon which the Defendants, under-a mistaken con.
Strpti ion of an AEt of Parliament of William 'and
Mary, gave a warrant under their hands and seals,
and committed the Plaintiff •to Oridewell,,ivhere he
remained duet months. The. Jury gave a verdict
for the Plaintiff of 4os. -damages, but one of the
Jury, as has been Innate remarked, stood our for
near two hoursollinking that instead of 44:). the
Plaintiff ought to have had 4001. or gaol.

THE NEW. FRENCH MEASURES.

I
rornri n sea u's StAtisticil Vicw of Fran Ct.)

HITHERTO the measures adopted by the ge-
nerality of Nations, as well as the subdivisions of
those measures, were arbitrarily, or, to speak more
correaly, accidentally adopted : such are the English
foot, the French toile, &c. The yard is divided
into three parts, the wise into six, the Ithinish foot
into twelve, &c. Instead of those fundamental
measures, arbitrarily taken_ and divided by every
Nation, the French have adopted one eonnetted
with the dimensions of the globe. • This measure,
which they call Metre, or measure par excel/we,
from the Greek term p,trist, is the ten.milifunth
part of the fourth of the Terrestrial Meridian, which
is, every one knows, the distance from the role to
the Equator. This primitive measure they have
successively multiplied or subdivided by ten, in or..
der to form the greater or smaller measures,•by Ana.
logy to the decimal system of arithmetic, whit!) is
the numeration universally adopted in Europe,
16 A Metre, as we have already seen, is the- ten.
millionth part of a quarter of the Terrestrial Meri.
dian. One thousand Metres, or a Kiliometre, the
geographical mensurati.,:n adopted by the French, is
the ten-thousandth part of the same quarter of the
Meridian. In order to find out the proportion be.
tween the Kiliometre and the Maritime or Italian
Mile (of 6o to a degree, which is the geographical
measure in most common use), it is to be observed,
that the number of miles which the quarter of the
Meridian contains is 60 x9O, or 5400. The Ki.
liomette accordingig is to a mile in the ratio of
5400 to 10,000, or of 27 to 5o: and the square
Kiliometre to the square mile, as 27 27 to so eso
otherwise as 729 to 2500 ; that is to say, very
nearly as 7 : 24. Thus it follows, that 24.. square
Kiliometres =7 square miles. Ki;inmetres accord,
ingly may be reduced into square miles by multi.
plying the number by 7, and dividing the produce
by 24.
66 Now, as a quarter of the Meridian contains
2250 leagues, of 25 to a degree, a league is to a
Kitiumetre, as JO,OOO to 2250, or 40 to 9,.which.
is the geographical Measure in most common use :
consequently, a square league is to a square Kilio.
metre, as 40.0440 to 9x9, or t6OO to Si ; nearly as
79 to 4."

On Sartirday,4"nniglit, a .young womart.at Ash-
ler!, near Sheffield, while reading in bed, fell asleep
with the candle in her hand, and set fire to the cur.
Joins, by which slie 'was burnt so dreadfully, that
no hopes are entertained of her recovery.—A child
that was in the bed made its escape uninjured.
Saturday, a woman was examined at the Shad.
well. Office, for having, in a passion, stabbed a boy
in the cheek with a penknife, at a public-house. in
Brook.street. She is retained in custody, till the
consequence of the wound is ascertained,
Five cottages were consumed yesterday sennight,
`nether with all their contents, at, .ilto ws.g rc en,
Tenterdon, in consequence of a spark falling from
one of tie chimnies upon the thatch. •
A woman named Brown, with two of her 411.
areh, were drowned-on Friday evening, in crossing
the ferry from Hackney Wick to Walthamstow,
'in a 411%11 boar, which her son; unfortunately, un.
dertook to manage. •
. Saturday the young Lady who, .with Mr. and
Mrs. ScAav tt,L, of. Heston, was, thrown from an
;amphorae chaise, on the Beentford road, during the
eleetioneering procession of Wednesday evening,
died of the bruizes she received on that occasion-.

Saturday J. Ellis, convitled at the late Assizes
Of fin outrage upon Elizabeth Widdeson, of It.
ham, a girl of Is years of age, was execu'ui
York.

ME extraordinary digestive p6Wers iMputek
to the,Ostrich, appear, iron 'recent investigation,
.to have been, greatly 'over-rated. The following
Letter on the subjed' is from Messrs. DELAcObTA.
411LICORLING, of New-York, who, on the sth of
May, Purchased an Ostrich from on board the Ship
Si/enus, from the Cape of 'Good Hope. The bird
lived till the Ist of ;Noe..
This animal, whose singular appetite prompts it
to swallow indiscriminately all substances which
come within its reach; swallowed, on the 19th ult.
a until cotton handkerehiel, which it got too fat
down its throat to be taken out again when it was
perceived.' It daily swalloWed a quantity of gra.
vet, pieces of china, queens-ware, glass, broken
nails, and all metallic sttbstances,, which it could
find in the yard, in which it was kept in the day=
time. Its common food was bread,.potatoes, corn,
and grass, which it continued eating in great OW?
during the first eighv cloys, after having swallowed
(rte said handkereniel; but in the beginning of the
stcrigca to -
crate nd losttaecclcaitit,to k
itseep appetite,
ipeiltaivtee: and we were
ob
The body was opened on the al, in the presence
of Dr.-D. I+,sAcK, Dr. WRIGHT PT, Dr. \Va.
LIANI .M (Mr, and Dr. S. litittitOWES, who, 03
examination'of the stomtch, have tuund that it was
quite full, and ,distend d by a quantity of par 4
digested grass, mixed with corn and potatoes uncii.
ge“ed, and, with a great quantity of gravel, pieces
of • china, .qutens-ware, glass, brass buttons, w",
wails, a piece of a small key, &e.- which gravel
and metallic substances appear to' have undergone a
strong frikai-nt, as if they had been rubbed t'r 0)7
:lished with a file.

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The handkerchief tVNg found unaltered on the= top
of the cont,nts of the.stomach, and it is thought
that it has caused an indigestion,- which 4eans
!Lye accelerated the death of the animal ;
however, would not have lived much longer, on
.account yl a general itlAinttiation which was disc"'
vered on the outside oi the stomach," on the breast,
and on the rump, occasioned by former bruiltes
ceived on board, or when shipped.
It is .vc;'ti, generally said and believed, that the
Ostrich posscses; to a greater 'degree titan anY
other animal, the power of digesting iron. Frtai
an examination of the. species.of iron found in the
stomach, and which bad been swallowed a gre3t
length of time, it appeari that they had undergor'e
very, little alttration, except what may be ac-
counted I.)r from, their friction upon each ",a'
caused.' by the raan of the gizards—The impt,c"
sion upon the minds of the Gentlemen present vos,;
that they undetwent no other change than %%"1"
have taken place m in the liuman stoach, or 14W°
of any other animal.

Friday evening, about seven o'clock,•'a young
woman of very genteel appearance, went to a lineu.
draper, in High FLAborn, where she bargained fur
a gown niece ; but saying she, had not sufficieng•
money about her, requested that the same mighr be
sent to lier, naming a house in Brook-street, I10!'
born. Soon' after -she had left the shop, sixitO
yards of muslin, value three guineas, Were
suspicfon•attactiirg to her, a servant, was sent In 04
house in Brook.street, but no such reion:vies,
known there ; for' the present she has 0011 c"
teffion
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