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The Farmers' Cup, of Fifty Guineas value, and ings. for the se-
cond hope given by the Gentlemen of Sir •Thos. Mostyn's
Hunt, rode by Farmers, the best of three two-mile heats.
Me. Hitchcock's b. g. Tekeli. 4 yrs old - 1. 'k
Mr. Salmon's hg. Experiment, 3 yr.s old - 3 2
An easy rate.• Six others started, but *ere not placed.
The Sweegstakes of logs. each, for hunters;the property of, aml
rode by, Gentlemen of the Hunt, one three-mile heat.
Mr. Dorrien's bl. g. Kingsfisher, by CUrrich: :. - '` 1
Mr. Cope's b. g. Netile, by John Bull - - 2
Ms. Pryfe's ch. rt. ItOsa, agod - 3
A good race-. 4 to 1 against the winner.
The Sweopstakes of Sgs. each, I.3st. the best of three leme-mile
, heats, rode by Gentlemen of the Hunt. ... .
Mt: Cope's b. g. Fly-by-Night - 1 2 1
Mt. Vortices
._ _ s cb. g. Plenty - -.- 2 1 2
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- "him good hea;--aftei• the second heattlenty the favourite.
The company on the ground was numerous, not-
withstanding the unfavourable weather.

MARY gaunt, a Penitent, late of th 2 Magdalen
Hospital, has published for her benefit, at Is.
" Observations on seduction." and on the evil conse-
quences attending k. These observations speak
much instruction, and may be of infinite use to parents
mad youths. To be had of E. Wason, No. 51, Pa-
ternoster-row ; and. J. HaTcuano, Bookseller to. her
Majesty, No, 190, Piccadilly.
A new Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Words,
under the title of Pairrocoota by Mr. GOOO, the
translator of Lucretius, Mr. GREGORY, of Wool-
-rids, and Mr. BOSWORTH, of Cambridge, which de.
serves rather more than common attention, has been
published lately, and will continue in parts oaC'e'• a
month till completed. This Work is infinitely more
comprehensive than any other that have hitherto ap-
peared under the general title of EmovetopiEntA, and
possesses the peculiar advantage of original drawings
of Machinery, and all the Plates of Natural History,
which will constitute one half the whole number, co-
-1 loured after nature.

'A very important cause has been decided in the
Court of King►'s Bench, Ireland, at the suit of the
Earl of Ormond, in which his Lordship's right to
the prisage and -butlerage on all wines imported into
Ireland, (that is, to take one tun out of every 9,) and
to take the duties in kind, and not by composition,
the present average of which is from £15,000 to
£lO,OOO per annum, was affirmed. This immense
duty was proved to have been in the family ever since*
the reign of Heury 11. who granted the same to the
present Earl's. ancestor, Theobald Fithwalter, Chief
Butler of England.

Early on Thursday se'nnight, eleven French priso-
ners made their escape out of the prison ship in Ports-
mouth Harbour, by cutting a hole through one of the
ports of the ship, and swimming to the Amphitrite,
a ship in ordinary, which is fitted up for the abode of
one cf the Superintendant Masters. There they
clothed themselves with the great coats of his boat's
crew, lowered down the boat, and went and took
possession of one p# the finest unarmed vessels in thK.
Harbour, called the Master.attendants' Buoy-Boat.
They immediately get under weigh, and sailed out of
the harbour at about five o'clock that morning, and,
it is supposed, reached either Cherburgh or Havre in
the evening. Several persons saw the vessel go out
of harbour, but no one suspected in whose possession
she was. There were three men on board her whom
they have taken to France. The vessel is valued at
upwards of £lOOO, being in every respect well found.
The Commissioner's yatcht was sent after her, but
their escape was not known in time. She returned in,
a few hours. •

On the evening of last Saturday se'Rnight,'Smuel
Gaskin, an old man, who travelled the .country, sel-
ling garters, pins, needles, tin ware, and other tli.ags
asked permission to sleep on the straw, in a barn at
Isfield, near Lewes in Sussex, saying, he had just
eaten a hearty meal, over a fire he made by the river
side, but that he was tired, and wanted to go to sleep.
Permission being granted, he retired to the barn, and
on being called to, some time after, by a labourer,
who occupies a contiguous cottage, answered, he was
very warm, and quite comfortable. OR the following
morning he was, however, found to be very ill, and
died about noon. The poor old man was well known
to several in the neighbourhood, and was very fond
of reading, as appeared by the little library that was
found in his basket, amongst his articles of merchan-
dize, consisting of the following books, viz. the
Holy Bible, the New Testament, a Common Prayer
of an excellent impression, and in good preservation,
a Companion for the Aged who ale disabled from at-
tending the Public Service of Gov, and an Essay on
the Holy Sacrament." An inquest was taken on view!
of the body, and a verdict of Natural-Death returned
by the Coroner's Jury.
Edward Ball, the unfortunate young man who, at
the last Summer Assizes for Sussex, was capitally
convicted of a forgery on the Bank of England, was,
on Saturday last, executed at Horsham, pursuant to
his sentence, in the presence of some hundreds of
spectators. His behaviour, during the six months
horrid suspence which he suffered under, before the
Judges' opinion.of his case was made known to him,
and aftes his condemnation, was every way becoming
one in his unhappy situation. At the fatal tree, he
supported himself with a manly fortitude, and yielded
to the dreadful sentence of the law with the most-pions
resignation. He said but little, and all that could be
dist►nctly heard was, " that he had sinned, and had
repented," after which he was launched into eternity,
and died without a struggle. After hanging the
usual time, his body was cut down, and conveyed
back to the gaol, where it was put into a handsome
coffin, covered with black cloth, and soon after in-
terred in Horsham church-yard. The 'deceased, who
has left a wife and two children, was 35 years of
age, and possessed talents that would have rendered
him an-ornament to society, had he properly applied
them.

Mcanza.—At Tr;nl Assizes, on Tuesday se'nnight,
Pairici APMatuss was arraigned for the wilful mur-
der of Thomas Goff, a lad of 15 years, on the night
of the 13th of January last, by knocking him down
and discharging the contents of a firelock, heavily
loaded with bait and slugs, through his left breast.
The charge was fully_proved, and the Jury, without
any hesitation, tinind M'Manus guilty. He was in-
stantly sentenced to be hanged, and his body to be
sent afterwards to the lifirmary, for dissection. The
trial lasted the whole of the day, and the greatest
horror was manifested by all present.