Star.
London, England, 1802-11-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A Gentleman, who lately rode from Glom(ler
to London (103 miles) in eight hours and a half,
being allowed ten hours, for boo guineas, is about
to undertake riding it in eight hours, for iOOO
guineas.

Tuefday morning the King's hounds killed two
hares, and a third was taken up alive, quite (pent,
in a Gardener's ground, at Maidenhead. They
had a great run with all of them.

The races in Skipton Ings, on Thurfday 'ail,
afforded excellent fport. The hack race was won
with difficulty by the bay boric ; the match for
toogs. was won by Mr. CH AMBERLAIN'S bay marc,
by Crop.

CUMBERLAND HUNT AND CARLISLE RACES.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER I.

The Earl of Darlington's b. h. Hap Hazard,
walked over the courfe for the King's Hundred.
TLIESDAY.-501. given by the Earl of Carlifle.
Mr. Steikenfon's b. f. Cotillon (three plates) -
Mr..Hutchinfon's b. h. Earby, sd heat drawn.
Earl of Darlington's b. b. Hap Hazard, drawn.

TH V It WA Y.—gol. given by JohnChriftianCurwen,
and Walter Spencer Stanhope, Efqrs. Members
for the City of Carlifle.
Mr. Hutchinforeib. h. F.arby.—No Race.
Mr. Danby's b. c. 3-yrs old, (2 plates.)

. _ .
SATURDAY.-501. given by the Members, &c. of
the Cumberland Hunt.
Mr Stephenfon's b. f. CotiUon, (3 plates) - r I
Mr. Fletcher's b. h. Antelope - - 1 2
Mr. Danby's b. c. - - dis.
The Hunting wastolerably good—but there was
not much company.

The Ulverflon Hunt Ball, on Wednefday la%
was numeroufly and brilliantly attended.

The fafhinnable fireets yeflerday were remark-
ably crowded with carriages of every defcription,
beaux mounted and beaux difmounted, and charm•
ing women, fome darting expreflive glances from
the fnug retreat of a chariot, and others in the
warm enfoldings of the !while courting the enli-
vening and Tefrefhing influence of a November
Sun. The fcene was all buille and animation, till
four o'clock fummoned the gay loungers of the
morning to prepare for the more important avo•
cations of the evening.

The Choral Concert at the Millie Hall, in Leeds,
on Thurfday, was but thinly attended; the Milcel•
laneous Performance in the evening of that day,how-
ever, had a very brilliant and numerous auditory.

A new entertainment is announced at Covent•
Garden Theatre, entitled bleb Drama. The Creek
word might perhaps be fairly enough tranflated,
a hotch-potch drama. In Italy and France, wherever
mufic without recitative is introduced to enforce
paffion, it is called mdo drama, ai in the Pygmalion
of Ronfreau, but the term is fill more common
to dramas of a mixed kind, in which are frequent-
ly found tragedy, comedy, farce, and pantomime,
finging, dancing, and combating. Such a fpecies
of exhibition may be calculated for after-pieces,
in which pleafure and entertainment are fought
in defiance of rules.

• The Man of the World is fo powerfully recom-
mended by Coos 's Sir Persinan M'Sycophant that
though it is but a heavy play, it is rendered very
attractive by his excellent performance of that cha-
rader. He drew a numerous audience tall night
to Covent Garden Theatre, and received the moft
flattering marks of general approbation.
THEATRE, DR t/RY.LAN E.—Lan night the play
of Ride a Wife and Bove a Wife was, upon the
whole, tolerably well performed at this theatre.
POPE'S Leon is a well foftained character, particu-
larly where the hufband affumes his domeftic
authority ; in the previous fcenes we think him
lefs happy—the humility of Leon is not that of
farcical fheepifhnefs, but of a merely affeded
fimplicity of manners, and apparently total igno-
rance of the habits f polifhed fociety. All the
performers we have feen fince the days of HEN.
DERSON here Teem to have miftaken the inten-
tions of the wtitcr, not excepting Mr. KEMBLE.
Mrs. Joel:oases !Mania is a moft fafcinating per-
formance; and Mrs. Powst.L, in Margareua, is
fufficiently voluptuous and haughty. Of the reft,
not excepting the Copper Captain of BANNISTER,
we have not much to fay in high commendation.
Surres and GRIMALDI'S Old Woman and Maid are
laughable, but rather too grofs ; as is alfo Dow-
TON'S Cacafogo.

When the good Dr. FRANKLIN was afked, why
thofe who had acquired more wealth than was
fufficient for all the purpofes of comfort, fhould
defire to encreafe it ? he anfwered, that ava-
rice was the molt natural and common of all the
human paffions,, and illuftrated his affertion by
giving to a child, then in the room, a large apple.
The moment it had taken it, he offered it another,
which it alto received ; and before it could difpolu
of either, he prefented a third : it vainly tried to
hold it in its little hands, and at lail, in a paffion
of tears, threw itfelf and the fruit on the floor.—
Is not this child the frokical Baby who grafps at
more than it can en,joy, and will find infatiable
defire terminate in darappointment ?

MATRIMONIAL ANECDOTE.—A few days ago, a
fatter and a fiiilor, each with his favourite gill, ap•
peared at a church in Whitehaven, to be refpec.
tively united in the facred bond of wedlock. The
ceremony being ended, the Clergyman, (as the
parties were leaving the church) jocularly (Merv-
ed that he had now married two men of gallant pro-
tenons ; and he wondered which of them would
have the firft chriyeaing ! "Which would you take ?
(faid the foldier)—a grog a-piece, now, for the
company."—The Clergyman, not a little furprited
by this unexpe&ed reply, faid 44 I lhould take the
foldier."--" You have lofi, Mr. Parton ;" exclaimed
the other : " My ;friend, the failor, has more work
for you : he brought you a child to chrillen ; and
you have given him a wife to church!"-This was
really the cafe. The honeft tar had been too for-
ward in one part of the bufinefs ; and the uncer-
tainties of a foreign voyage had canted him to be