Star.
London, England, 1807-12-25 00:00:00

CONDITION. OF Tilt SATTLZ.

aft .The battle to take place on the Tuefday following the Spring
Meeting, between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock, A M.
id. To fight in a roped Rpm of forty foot.
3d. Neither to fall without a knock•iown blow, fut jet to the
deeifion of the umpires.
4th. Three umpires tobe cboren upon the ground, viz. two,and
one on reference. (Signed)
CHARLES MORGAN.
London, Dec. 22, IEO7. JOHN JACKSON.

A revere battle took place on Wednefday lag,
upon Clifton Downs, in confequeßce of a quarrel
between Pearce, the Game Cal a, and three llurdy
gamekeepers,Hood, Francis, and Mortis. In the
courfe of the battle, which !ailed twenty minutes,
the Chicken, fobjeft to the whole attack, difplayed
a fyßem of fhifting, retreating, lopping, and putting
in hits, as entirely exhaullecl his opponents, and en-
lured him the final fuccefs of the battle. Francis and
Morris now lie at the Three Tuns in a molt mangled
Rate, and perfealy immoveable. Hood made off
at the end of the 7th round, teeing his companions
were likely to have the worn of it. The Chicken has
fufferect feverely, from a contufion of the head, the I
confequence of a dreadful blow flout Morris, while
following up his companions, and is likely to un-
dergo a furgical operation. It appears the fubjal in
difpute was a balket of apples the Chicken was cos•
veyiog from his father's, where he had rent the day.
which was millaken for game, the inquiry into which
was fo (tautly refitted.
On Monday lag, a Coroner's Inqueß was held at
the Three Tuns, Carley Common, on the body of
John Cot, a labourer, of eighty years of age, in the
employ of the Marquis of Blandford, White Knights,
near Reading. It appeared in evidence before the
Coroner, that the deceased, after leaving work on
Saturday, about five o'clock, attempted to go the
neareß way home, by croffing the part where there
was no foot path, and in which dire'tion he had to
get over the park pales ; and in attempting that, it
was fuppofed his feet got entangled in the top of the
pales, as he was found fufpended by the leg on
Sunday morning, lifeiefs.—VerdiCt, accidental death.
Wednefday a mad dog made its wu into the city,
and took Ihelter in Tom's Coffee Houle. No perfon
fufpefting the animal to be affelled with the hydro-
phobia,
it was Coffered to lie down by the fire up-
wards of an hour, doting which time it did not
attempt to motel any one; but on a fudden the dog
Ilarted op, and let up a molt terrific howl, which
alarmed all the company. Every one endeavoured
to make his efcape, but the coati/son this occafioned
only loved to irritate the animal ; he leaped upon
the tables, and tried to jump through the windows;
at length, a Gentleman feized the poker, and by a
few well dealt blows, killed the animal on the fpot.
Monday a foldier belonging to Royal Artillery,
of the name of Jackfon, was milted to death between
two waggons, near Middlewich, Cirefler. He had
got a furlough from his regiment, at Chatham, and
was returning with his brother, to fee his relatives at
Turin.
On the 9th inßant, a melancholy accident hap,
pened at the colour manufailory of Mr. Stanaway
at the Hammel, near tiutflem, in the Potteries. A
boy, employed to fuperintend the Ream-engine, tied
up the valve through which the wane Ream efcapes ;
the boiler was in confequence fo overcharged as to
burg with a dreadful explofion. The boy was in a
moment deprived of life, his head being nearly fe-
vered from his body. His father and mailer alfo
were near the engine. The former is fo much fcalded,
and otherwife injured, as to be left without reco-
very ; and the latter in a Rate little better. The
boiler was torn from its fituatiun, and carried to a
dißance of near fixty yards.
Tuefday night the hen houfe belonging in the EaR
India Dock Tavern, at Poplar, was again plundered
of the remaining Rock of poultry; a quantity having
been flolen a few evenings before, for which offence
three men are in ctiflody.
Wednefday evening, about fix o'clock, as Mr.
Ker (*haw. of Whitechapel, was crofling Bat tholomew
Clofc, from .Well Smithfield, he was bullied by five
or fix fellows, who !truck him in the face and on the
back of the head, fu as to deprive him of his fenfes
for the moment, when they robbed him of his watch,
and purfe containing half a guinea and tome flier,
with which they precipitately retreated.

BIRTHS.

Tuefday morning the Lad; of the Rev Philip L Story, of a fon.'
Oo the 18th inftant, at Stagbury, in Surrey, the Right Hoe►.
Lady Margaret Walpole, of a daughter.
On Sunday fennight, at Hooton, Chelhire, Lady Stanley, of a
daughter.

lED.

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On the 16th inftant. at Biddeford, befonetfte, the Rev. J.
&Miter, Rector of Itidefleigh, in the fame county, to Mira Seton,
grand-daughter of Sir Harry Seton, Bart.
Tuefday, at St. George the Martyr, Queen fquare, the Rev John
Cracroft of Brafenofe College, Oxford, to Mifs Lewis, eldeft
daughter of James Lewis, Efq of Powis Place.
Monday, at St. Pancras Church, Mr Hughes, to Jofette, &left
and only furviving daughter of the late Lieutenant Colonel Robert
Arbuthnot, of his Majelty's 3e it regiment of Foot.
Atysrrailbury, on the reth instant, Frederick R. Coore. Efq. of
Great Winthefter-ftree:, to Mifs Kabella Blagrove, third daughter
of John Blagrove, Efq. of Jamaica, and of Ankerviyk Houle,
Bucs.
At Elgin, on thc 28th ult. the Rev John Buchan, Kerriemuir, to
Mite J. Ritchie, daughter of the late John Ritchie, jun. Efq
Thurfday fennight, at Walton upon the Hill, Philip Monouz
Lucas, Efq. of the Wand of St. Vincent, and of Elmwood, Herts,
to Mifs Sarah Beaky, of Liverpool.
Monday fc'nnight. at Lancafter, Mr Wm. Smith. of Aeooks, to
Mifs Catherine Parkinfon, of Windburn, both in Bleaftlale.—The
above couple, with four others, compofed the following relations,
viz. a father, mother, and two funs; two huibands and two wives,
four brothers and two fillers, two uncles and two aunts, four
confine, three nephews, and a niece.