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such a nature, Nit it amid not be known wilt) should
pay the dinner until the entertainment was over. But
upon consideration of his case, Crickett endeavoured
to shuffle himself from the responsibility, though it
hail been manifestly proved that he had assented to
the bargain, and also that he had permitted the din-
ner to be ordered. Hussey, by partaking of the
dinner, had rendered himself responsible to pay it,
though he certainly possessed the right to sue the de.-
fendant for the ezpences..
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, he did not- alto.
gether comprehend what " Rump and Dozen" was,
by the evidenceitappearedanindefiniteentertainment.
Mr. Serjeant BEST said, " Why, my Lord, we had
a most competent judge, the landlord, before us, who
described it as a comfortable dinner, where a roasted
goose displayed herself. smoaking under the nose at
one OA of the table ; and as much good wine as a
man could conveniently carry away with him. Con-
cerning the law of the case, he would argue that it
was nut an unlawfill wager."
The Lotus Cum JUSTICE sail, he ought not to
have tried such a ridiculous wager ; but it was need-
less to repine ; here it stood before him.
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN, in support of the appli-
cation, said, that the very name of—" Rump and
Dozen" smacked of immorality. Here an assembly
of eight hungry persons determined to make Crickett
maintain them for one day, in which they drank no
less than 15 bottles of wine. The bet, he would
maintain, was illegal, because it was indefinite, and
even the landlord himself could describe the—
Rump and Dozen" as only a feast, where so much
meat and wine was partaken of, as they could con-
veniently carry away. Now, how was it possible
to gauge the belly, to discover what load it would
carry away ? being a provocation to gluttony
and drunkenness, the bet was inuporal ; and, be-
tides, there appeared three shillings in the bill for
anchovy toast, to provoke thirst, so that drunkenness
might follow. Every person who knew Crickett,
would describe him as a Gentleman who had fur-
nished too many unnecessary 66 Rumps and Do-
zens" to people, but who felt himself in no wise dis-
posed to pay for the meat and .Merriment of other
men, who had run him into high expences during his
absence frOm London. The case of a game of
hazard was thrown out of the Court by Lord Lough-
borough, and the, reason why a case in the game of
Backgammon was entertained in the Court, was, be-
cause it was a wager made upon a lawful game.—
Upon the whole, therefore, he would assert, that the
case could not be maintained, and that the verdict
should be annulled.— Rule refused.

Boxim—A dreadful battle took place on Monday
last at Basing, near Hartley-row, between James
Colburne, a bargeman; and Henry Willoughby, a
coachman, for ten guineas a side. This battle is said
to have exceeded all others in ferocity and hardihood.
They were fourteen stone men, gifted with hitting,
without knowledge of science: Both were hit blind;
befote they had fought twenty minutes; but they were
relieved by the lantet, and the combat was renewed
until after fighting an • hour and twenty minutes,
when they were too exhausted to set-to. They, how-
ever, reci,vered, and fought, altogether, two hours.
It was impossible to picture their visages. Colburne
won the battle, but he is not expected to survive.
The loser had not quitted his bed on Wednesday:

Yesterday afternoon, during the bustling of the
carriages to and fri.m the Drawing-room, as a genteel
dressed youth, of the name of Smithing, a clerk, in
Brook-street, was crossing Piccadilly, he was knocked
down by the pole of a carriage, and the fore-wheel
went over both his thighs, which were broken.

Yesterday se'nnight, the gallery of the Theatre at
Tonbridge, gave way, when the whole of the ad.
dience Which it contained, were precipitated forward
into the pit. Forty. or fifty persons were considerably
bruised, but none dangerously—one woman clung
by one of the rafters, and remained suspended a con-
siderable time in imminent danger•—she was, how-
ever, taken down unhurt.

Yesterday, J. Ransom, a letter-sorter, who was
examined some days since, before the LORD MAYON
charged with stealing two £5 notes out of a letter,
was re-examined at the Mansion-House. The Soli-
citor of the Post-Office, with a number of witnesses,
attended, who proved the notes to have come from
the prisoner. He was fully committed, and the par.
ties bound over to give evidence.

The parcel of bank notes and bills, lately lost by
the guard of the mail-coach, between Berwick and
the Commercial Bank of Scotland, for which a re-
ward of 100 guineas was offered, has been found. It
was picked upinthe morning ofthe accident by a butcher
in Dunbar, on the road between Press and Berwick.
A knowledge of his character, and of his having been
on the road that morning, and other circumstances,
exciting a suspicion against him, one of the gentlemen
of tile Bank, accompanied by Archibald Campbell,
city officer, were dispatched from Edinburgh, and,
on a warrant to search his house being.obtained, the
whole property was found in his possession, excepting
a few pounds, /which he had spent. He is now to
custody.

An important Di:cowry, Eighteen rear: Estab&Feed
in the, rst City in the Wee/I—Consequently it becomes
a duty incumbent on the proprietor, to give it if'pos-
sible, an universal publicity, which he is now endea-
vouring to accomplish, at an expence little shirt of
Three Thousand Pounds a Year, by hourly inform-
ing and hourly proving to mankind of all descrip-
tions, that those who are tortured with the Gout,
Rheumatic Gout, Rheumatism, Pleurisy, Head-
ache, Bilious Sick Head-ache, Asthmatic, Consump-
tive and Bilious complaints, Tooth-ache, Face-ache,
or Ear-ache, may be cured in a reasonable time by
the rise of the GUESTONIAN MEDICINES; and by ap-
plying to the Inventor, B. GUEST, Chymist, Ns. 9,
Great Surrey street, Black-friars-bridge, between the
hours of nine and twelve any morning, (Sunday ex-
cepted,) may be ,perfectly relieved before they leave
him, which is, such an earnest of cure as no empiric
1 or regular practitioner, except those that practice
with the same preparations, did ever dare to promise,
because not being able to succeed, they would prove
themselves impostors, and the lame ducks would
quack so loud as to be distinctly heard at an im-
mense distance,lcUstly pronouncing them pretenders
only to medical nowledge. The truth of which may
be seen by examining the STAR newspaper, which
will lead to conviction the most obstinate WSW.