Star.
London, England, 1802-04-17 00:00:00

SPORTING.

A grand trotting match it intended to take place
on the lilt inft.for tooognineas alilc,betMeen the
noted mare Phcenomena,and the celebrated Kenti fh
Polley (the ground for their performance not yet
fixed upon). They are to trot the greatelt di.lance
in one hour, the Mare allowing the Pones one milt
at parting. The odds are in favour of the niare
fix to four; and fhould the lore the match, the
knowing ones will be completely t.►ken in, as tl:cy
have paid 200 guineas fur her to a horfe.dcalcr, in
Li: tle Britain.

Yenerday morning a jew undertook to walk aye
milts on the Whitecitapel road within the h•mr,
for a wager of twenty guinea, carrying at tLe
fame time a weight of fifty pounds. It b?c .t
matter of difPute whether he had loft or won ; but
itumenfe number of Jews being prefetit, they
car: ied the point their own n•ay.

Fox CHACE.—A bag-fox was mined out near
to Mr. BA:fly's barn, before the 11rookfide Lou lids,
on Thurlday lati, which liar hard running and de.- •
termined fixed, by fir exceeded any chace the fea-
fon has produced. The weather being panic's-
lady favourable for filch an amufement, upwards
of fixty horfemen took the field by eleven o'clock;
when Reynard, being expoled to his purfuers, went
off in a capital llyle, taking a northern direaion
for better than a mile, when, turning to th,.• left, he
crolfed the hills of Newmarket and Barden, and
'made away for Rottingdean, where, the dogs be-
ing hard at his Null', he, quickening his pace, de-
fcended Rottingdean Gap, and wining off to the
right, ran nearly three miles on the beach. At
length,reaching Greenway Cap. he reafcended the
cliff, and made away for Mr. Ktrer's plantation
at Ovendean ; but finding the plantation too hare
of cover to anfwer his purpofe, and being clofely
preffed by the do7s, he took through Mr. Times
furr.e field, croffed over to Whitehawk•hill,
ling the fignal !mule, and th:n on for Bevenden-
bottom, where being thwarted in his coutfe by a
thefherd's dog, h: pufhed for Mr. Poott.'s plan-
tation at Hodfhrove, and from thence to Lord
Pk Imam's, at Stanmer, where he continued until
the dogs came up. Reynard having by this [hart
refpite recovered his fleeting Ilrength, as the dogs
approached, neatly threadled the cover, and again
fet off' in a gallant ftyle, palling through the village
of Falmer to Crandean Hedges, and then on to
Kingfton Comb. Many of the horfes were by this
time fo extremely fatigued front the leverity of
the chafe, that they could no longer continue the
purfuit ; whilft others, of better bottom, silafhed
flit ward, regardlefs of danger and difficulties.—
Reynard, from Kingllon Comb, took the whole
length of Kingftondlill, crofh:d by Kinglion, and
then made away for Telfcmnb, where being headed,
he turned brifkly off to the left fur Southeafc.---'
Moft of the remaining horfes, that were enabled
until this time to keep the fi_ld, now divided, and
croffed the Oufc by the to idges.of Southeafe and
Lewes, not doubting but Reynard would take to
the water. In this conjeaure, however, they were
deceived, for Reynard, having croffed the brook
to the liver fide, kept dole to the dams, and v.t
length entered the ozier-plot belonging to Mr.
SPENCE, where, being quite exhaulled, the dogs
ran in upon bins and killed him, after a moil gal-
hint chace of nearly four hours. Mk. H. NEwm-
HAM, of Newtimber, who had kept up to the
hounds, leaping every ditch, and, like a true foortf-
man, boldly furmounting every impediment that
prefented itlelf, from the onlet to the dole of the
chace, was the only perfon in at the death, and
polkaed himfelf of the well earned honour of the
bruth.

Fizes.—The inhabitants of Chelmsford were
much alarmed on Friday night by the cry of fire,
which was difcovered to be at the bottom of New..
ilreet, where tome villain had f;t on fire, in fe.verel
places, the thatch upon a cow-houfe, belonging to
Mr. Clachar, who having occation to come into
the town about that hour, very providentially ob-
ferved fotne Imoke to ;line from behind the build-
ing on fire ; and b.y his exertions kept it fo much
under until he received aliillance, that
.t h,! flames
were extinguithed without doing any material da.-

ma e.
On Saturday evening lafi, about nine o'clock,
a fire broke out at the work•houfe at Clipping
Ongar, and in a (hart time nearly the whole of
the building was dellroycd. It was occafioned by
a fpark from a chimney on fire on the oppofite fide
of the itreet communicatingwith the thatched root.
On 'f uefdayfe'nnight,between eleven and twelve
o'clock, a fire was difcovered on the prcmites be-
longing to Mr. BRUCE, at Pylawfoot, near Kelfo.
Owing to the want of water, it was a contiderabia
time before the calamity was got under, and not
until the dweliinghoufe, two cow-houfes, a 1i71,1e,
and two barns, were burnt to the grcund. The
fire-engine arrived from Kell() between one ;Intl
two o'clock ; but, owing to the want of a flpply
of water, it was of little ufe.

The public have an interca in being informed,
that the violent pains, contracted tendons, and ute-
lefs limbs, arifing from Rhcnmatifms, are capable
of perfeet cure. The following ktter fron► a Gen-
tleman of the Bank of England, contains a very
extraordinary Mttance of this kind, that deferves
to be generally known :