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WN SONG-BY " ONE OF TIM FANCY:.

Ye Pugilists of England, '
Who guard your native u►d,
Whose pluck has brav'd a thousand years,
Cross-battack, Now, and blood;
Your corky canvass sport again,
To mill another foe,
As you spring, round the ring, •
While the betters noisy grow;
'hile the banging rages loud and long,
And the betters noisy grow!

A Briton needs no poniards,
No bravoes 'long his streets—
ins trust is in a strong rop' d ring,
A square of twenty feet ;
With one twos front his horny fists
He Boor} the coves below,
As they crash on the grass,
'When the betters noisy grow ;
When the banging rages loud and long,
And the betters noisy grow !

The spirits of prime pugilists
Shall rise at every round ;
For the ring it was their field of fame,
To them 'tis holy ground ;
Where Slack and mighty Bekher fell,
Your manly hearts shall glow,
As you peel, true as steel,
While the betters noisy grow,
While the banging rages loud and long,
And the betters noisy grow!
The Randal-rag of England
Must yet terrific burn,
Till Ireland's troublesome knight be beat,
And the star of Cribb return!
Then, then, ye glutton pugilists,
The claret red shall flow,
TT the fame of your name,
When the noise of bets is low;
When POOR Gas lies lcvell'd loud and long,
And the noise of bets is low !

The Hatfield Harriers met this day at the Kennel, and on
Friday meet at Car Side.
The Duke of Rutland's hounds meet to-morrow at North
Stoke, Thursday at Newton Toil-Bar, and Friday at Belvoir.
Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds meet to-morrow at Norwood, and
Thursday at Hunt's Closes.
The Earl of Scarborough's hounds meet on Wednesday at
Conisbrough Town, and on Friday at Sandbeck Park.
An extraordinary instance of the sagacity of the hare was
lately witnessed during a run with a pack of harriers in thewest
of England. The hunted hare being nearly exhausted, drove a
_fresh hare from out of her fern, or hiding place, into which she
introduced herself, and the pack went on with the fresh hare.
- Friday se'nnight, J. Best, Esq. and some friends, enjoyed a treat
in hunting a very fine Doe, which had been known to range the
large woods near Rochester for the last eight or ten days.—
Haying been seen by one of the woodmen, Mr. Bur was in-
formed where she was to be found, and that Gentleman took
Out ten couple of his harriers, and very soon found her. The doe
came but into a large lay-field between the woods, and as if to
display herself and bid defiance to her pursuers, bounded about
the fields in the finest and proudest style, and exhibited to the
prefacers one of the most beautiful sights imaginable. She
crossed the turnpike road front wood to wood several times, and
seemed &trimiued not to leave her haunts, but after being
hunted for about half an hour, and closely pressed, she broke
cover to the eastward for Chatham, and being turned in the
toad, she made off behind the town for Streetend and Luton ;
firm thence along Suttenton Valleys for Lord's Wood, which
she made ; tut on the hounds coming up, she headed back again
into the open fields, and then took a direction for Sharstead and
Hampstead, and through the great covers belonging to the Crown,
over the estates of the Earls of Aylesford and Dulcet, In the
neighbourhood of 'Witham, through Mr. Stacey's Preserves at
Stockbury, and was at length killed between Stockbury and
Einbury, after a run of exactly three hours, in which the
hounds scarcely every came to a check. This chase excited the
astonishment of every one who witnessed it, as it was supposed
impossible that a few low-scented harriers could overtake an
animal possessing such strength and speed. Five of the horse.
mien were in at the death.

The Yorkshire Gazette of Saturday se'anight, contains the fol.
wing :—" Tug liaitaaccs—A deep tragedy was performed at
this place on the evening of Christmas Day. Two privates of
the 15th Hussars, previously conspicuous for a long attachment
to each other, respect fur military discipline, and regard for moral
cmduct, met as usual in a room, in which there were as visitors
another private and two women. Sudden as the sweep of a
whirlwind, some unexpected topic of contention arose. The
two friends instantly became agitated and infuriated; in less than
three minutes, one of the two reeled back, fell, and breathed no
more. The agony of the survivor was great as the extent of his '
crime : and yet, from the evidence obtained by the Inquest held
on the body of the deceased, it would appear that his misfortune
was greater than his guilt. It was rather a shove than a blow
which caused his companion to fall; fur on the examination of.
the body by the Professional Gentlemen, no external marks of
injury were observes': ; nor In either of the cavities of the chest
or the body were extraneous appearances to be traced ; but within
the skull considerable effusion was discovered, which producing
coagulated blood, caused apoplexy, and instant death. The Jury
foun:l their verdict accordingly, by acquitting the accused ;
holding in view also the suddenness of the quarrel, and the pro-
vocation given by the deceased. As to the origin of the dispute,
there are a variety of versions. That which leans most to pro-
bability is, that the two friends, unknowingly, paid their ad-
dresses to the same female, residing in York. The deceased ac-
cused the acquitted of treachery, and the storm ensued which
committed the devastation we have described. The •funeral
took place yesterday. Never was a scene more elaborately fine
and affecting. The assembly was in the Barrack-yard; it was
formed in profound silence. It consisted of a guard, in war cos-
tume, but with arms reversed. A serjeant and corporal, single
file, with white cambric sashes, denoting the deceased an un-
married man ; a full band, dress of state, the instrumMents muf-
fled, and decorations veiled in black crape; non-commis.ioned
officers as before; the coffin, palled in black velvet, relieved with
French cambric rosettes, and exhibiting on its lid the sabre, the
carbine, the spurs, and other appointments of a complete Hus-
sar ; the bearers of the coffin amounted to six ; they moved under
the drapery of the pall; four mourners followed—their dress
Was singularly affecting—they wore their large blue military
cloaks, their caps were bereaved of every ornament, they carded
no arms, and bore no appearance of military men ; the horse fol-
lowed the body—a fine animal, clothed with black velvet sprigged
with white cambric puffs, and carrying the boots reversed, and
interior accouttemeuts of his lost master; he was led by two mi-
litary grooms, by shawls of cambric paased through the slap of
the bridle bit ; they walked at some distance at each side, leav-
ing the horse in the centre, apparently without a guide. The
troop to which the deceased belonged brought up the etergege,
and three commissioned officers closed the rear of the priKes.
sion. The destination was Fulford Church. It moved to the
lugubrious time of The Deed Merck itaSessi. At the first touch
of the muffled drum, the spectators broke out into a burst of
audible sorrow. As it advanced upon its line of march, the
people beheld the solemnity with pinup reverence, and fell into
in train as if interested actors in the melancholy scene. On as.
riving at the Church-door, the Rev. Mr. Surma headed the
funeral, and performed the burial service in 4 Manner consistent
situ that sublime ritual. On committing • earth to earth; the
in interest : a serjeant stood at the head, a cotpo-
of the grave; the guard surrounded, and hung
edge. The muzzles of the carbines reposed on the
id the butt end supported the folded hands and bent
affected Hussars. The first volley was in the air, the
• grave ; t►e three last was by the troop to Mill4tc
4;W a private solditt's funeral conducted with more
to military law and religious rites ! It reflects great
Colonel Twecitzew. and the Rev. Mr. &Trot."

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LA rr Parzrzovicr,
COURT OF KUNG'S BENCH, JANOARY s,
THE MARQUIS DR HILLOIR V. LORD WATSRPARE.
This was an action of assumpsit upon a promissory
note for £BOO, made, by the defendant' ar*Paris, on
the 27th of December, 1787, payable to the plaintiff
six months after date, at Messrs. Croft and Co's.
Bankers, Pall-Mall, London. The defendant pleaded,
first, the general issue, non assumpsit ; and, second,
the statute of limitations. To this latter plea the
plaintiff replied, that since the cause of.action had oc-
curred, he had been abioid in parts beyond the seas.
The'clifendant rejoined, that the plaintiff had been
seen at Dorier in the year 1802. Upon this fact the
plaintiff took issue.
Mr. SCARLETT stated the case. The plaintiff was
the representative of an ancient, noble, and formerly
a very wealthy family in France. At the time of this
transaction he bore the title of Marie Compte de Bel-
lair; but on the death of his father he became the
Marquis de Belloir. The defendant, in the year 1787,
'was in Paris, and went by the name of Mr. Caven-
veadish, and was known to be the son of Sir Henry
Cavendish of Ireland. He had the honour of being
introduced to the plaintiff—an introduction of which
he had reason .to be proud, for at that time the plain-
tiff was a man moving in the most noble and fashion.
able circles of Paris under the old regime, and was
known to be a Gentleman of high honourand princely
fortune. The defendant not being very flush of cash,
borrowed of the plaintiff the•sum of £BOO, which the
latter was then well able to lend, for he was in abuts.
dance, and revived the promissory tote in question,
payable six months after date. When the note be-
came due, it was dishonoured, and in vain was ap-
plication made to the defendant afterwards for p:sy-
ment. On the 31st of July, 1789, the defendant
wrote to the plaintiff from Dublin, and stated to him
that his father, Sir Henry Cavendish, bad promised
to list him have £2OO, which he would pay to the
Count upon his agreeing to take his bond for the re-i
maindtr of the money, payable six months after Sir
Henry's death : or he offered to give him Lord Falk-
land's bill, worth £l4O, and concluded by desiring to
know his determination, for this was the last offer
he would make upon the subject. In a postscript,
he requested the Count would have the goodness to
write in future upon one sheet of paper, for that he
had to pay double postage for his letters. Shortly
after this the war broke out between England and
Fiance, and all communication between the two
countries was broken off, which continued until the
peace of 1802. In the meantime the convulsions of
the French Revolution had bereft the plaintiff of his
family patrimony, and he was reduced by that event,
like many others of the French Noblesse, to indigence.
In the year 1802 he sent over to this country an
agent, with directions to recover the amount of this
promissory note; but before any effectual steps could
be taken, war between the two countries had again
broken out, and thus matters rested until the general
pacification of 1814. As soon as the plaintiff could
conveniently enforce his claim against the defendant
he did. He happened by accident to meet his old
friend Mr. Cavendish, by the new title of Lard Wa-
terpark, at Paris, and he afterwards commenced the
present action. But the trial had been delayed for a
considerable time by the defendant, who had filed a
bill in equity to stay proceedings. That bill had
been answered, and now the cate was brought to
trial. He thought it necessary to state these circum-
stances, in order to account for the length of time
which had elapsed from the date of the note until the
present period. The plaintiff had never been in
England until after the peace of 1814, and therefore
there was no truth-in the defendant's rejoinder.
The defendant's hand-writing to the note having
been proved by a former partner in the house of
Croft and Co. the Bankers, where the defendant had
kept cash, but never to the amount of the note,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL submitted that this was
a note which reqni. ed a stamp, pursuant to the Sta-
tutes 25 Geo. 111. and 48 Geo. 111.

The CHIEF JUSTICE was inclined to think that
those Statutes related only to notes made abroad,
which were payable on demand. This note was not
payable on demand, but six months of er date. But
supposing the matter to be otherwise, he was by no,
means satisfied that these Statutes had a retrospective
operation. He, however, would not decide this point
at nisi Arius ; it was open to the defendant hereafter
to agitate the objection, if there was anything in it.
The note, and the defendant's letter to the plaintiff
in 1789, were then read in evidence, and the plain-
tiff's case was closed.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then addressed the Jury,
and suggested, that the gorgeous description which
his Learned Friend had given of the plaintiff's rank
and opulence was without any foundation. He was
instructed that the plaintiff, like many of the French
Nobility, before the Revolution, kept a fine house, or
hotel, in Paris, for the entertainment of young men
of fashion, upon the condition that they should come
and lose their money at cards and dice. The defend-
ant, the son of an ancient and honourable family in
Deland, was at that time in Paris, and was extremely
young. He was invited to M. Belloir's house, and
there lost the money at play, for which he had given
this promissory note. He put it to the Jury whether
this was not a most probable account of the transac-
tion ? He was instructed that the fact was so. The
defendant's own letter to the plaintiff, in 1789,
strongly favoured this position, for that evidently
was not the letter of a man who had borrowed eight
hundred pounds of another as matter of favour. If
the Jury should be of this opinion, they were bound
to'find their verdict for the defendant. What other
motive could the plaintiff have in delaying this action
so long, but to wait until every witness should be
dead who could speak on the defendant's behalf, and
prove under what circumstances this note was given?
The plaintiff was stated to have fallen into indigent'
circumstances. Why then did he not proceed to re-
cover the money in 1802, when he might have come
to this country for that purpose? and a sum of £BOO,
with interest, must be a considerable object to a
needy French Nobleman, if it was a debt which could l,
be recovered by the law of this country. But no; he I
thought proper to lie by, and not until the year 18221
was this case bt ought to trial. What became of him
since the peace of 1314 ? Surely he might have
brought his action then. Instead of which he had
allowed seven years more to pass over his head before
he stirred in the business. Why this was proof enough'
that his claim was barred by the Saute of Limita-

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tions. flut he put ft broadly to the Jury, that looping
to the policy of that Siettite, they' were bound tolpre-
some payment ; and in this •iew. he entertained no
doubt that they would assist the defendant in the ,
defence he had made. Even in the case of a bond, a
solemn instrument underb'seal, twenty years wete suf-
ficient to presume payment. .Surely then, after 34
years, the Jury were warranted in presuming that
this promissory note had been discharged.
The CHIEIVJUSTICE, in his charge to the Jury, ad-
verted to the topics which hai been urged in-defence.
He said, that the cases of a bond and promissory
note were different. There was no statutable regu-
lation applicable to the former.. The rule for pre-
suming payment after twenty years, in that case, was
a rule depending upon decisions of the Courts, and
not upon any enactment by the Legislature; whereas
the case of a promissory note came expressly within
the Statute of Limitations ; and he was not aware of
any decision, from analogy to the case of a bond,
which bore upon the case of a promissory note.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL referred his Lordship to
Duffield v. Creed, 5 Esq. where the point was under
consideration.
The CHIEF Jusrtu admitted that the point had
been there considered, butihe should direct the Jury
in point of law, that they were not bound to presume
that this note had been paid after the lapse of thirty-
four years. The facts and circumstances stated in
defence were wholly unsupporteJ by evidence, and
therefore the case must be submitted to the Jury on
the evidence they had heard.
The Jury desired to knoW whether they were bound
to give the plaiiitiff interest ; for if so, their verdict
would be for £1340? •
The CHIEF JUSTICE said, the questiOn of interest
was peculiarly for their consideration. They were
not bound to give it. Interest is the damage tor the
detention of the debt, and the amount of damage is
for the Jury.
The Jury, immediately found their verdict for the
plaintiff for Eight Hundred Pounds, the 'amount of
the promissory note, without interest.

SECONDARrS OFFICE, MIDDLESEX, JAN. s.
CORONATION RIOTS.
HAINES V. DUDDING AND ANOTHER.

This was an action on the. 57th deo. 111. c. 19,
s. 98, against the defendants, two inhtbitants of the
Hundred of Ossulston, to recover a Compensation in
damages for an injury done to the-house of the plain-
tiff by a riotous and tumultuous mob assembled to
disturb the public peace on the 19th of July last. The
defendants had suffered judgment to go by default,
and this was an inquisition to assess the damages.
Mr. DOWLING stated the case. The plaintiff was
a respectable oilman in Jermyn-strect, St. James's,
and had the honour of serving some branches of the
Royal Family. On the 13th of July last,_ the, day of
his Majesty's Coronation, he was making prepara-
tions in the morning, for illuminating-in the evening
in honour of the day, when between nine and ten
o'clock a riotous mob entered Jermyn Street, and
began breakivg the windows of such in!lAlsitants as
,appeared to be making similar pi epatatiousi crying
out " The Queen, the Queen for ever r' Her late Ma-
jesty was then on her return home from her ineffec-
tual attempt to gain admittance into Westminster
Ab'oey, to see the ceremonials of the Coronation,
and it was supposed that the persons who had entered
Jermyn-street were a part of the populace who at-
tended her Majesty on that occasion. The plaintiff's
windows shared the fate of his neighbours. A great
many stones were flung, and several of his windows
and lamps were broken. It was trite that the da-
mage he had sustained was not considerable, amount-
ing to little more than £4.; bat this loss he would
have put up with, had he not been a sufferer in a
similar manner on former occasions, when he for-
bore making any claim on the Hundred. Much as
it was to be lamented that a less circuitous and less
expensive process, for recovering compensation for
such injuries, had not been provided by the Legisla-
ture, yet the plaintiff had no alternative but to sub-.
mit to the loss, or commence this action; and as the
damages to be recovered must be assessed on the
Hundred, in pursuance of the Statute 27 Eliz. c. 13.
the Clerk of the Peace, whose duty it was to levy,
Could net act without the intervention of a Jury, tin-
der the provisions of the Statute on which this action
was founded. To reduce the expense of the proceed-
ing, however, within the narrowest compass, the de-
fendants had very properly suffered judgment to go
by default, as their liability could not be denied.—
The simple question, therefore, was as to the amount
of damages which the plaintiff would be entitled to
recover at the hands of the Jury ?
Witnesses were called to prove the plaintiff's case:
and the Jury, under the Secondary's directions, found
their verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, £4. 12s. 6d.

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