Star.
London, England, 1801-07-30 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

The kamilton Races commenced on Wednet.
day laft week. The fubfcription of zuguineas each,
feven fubfcribers, was gained by Mr. FL ETCH ref
Ofranto--Thurfday, a rubfcription of zo guineas
each, fix flibicribers, was gained by a horfe belong.
ing to his Grace the Duke of HAM:A-cm. Same
day, a match betwixt Captains Maxwst.i. and
FLF TCH ER, for iboo guineas, was gained by
Capt. FLITCH ER.—The rack on Friday, for sot
was gained by the Duke of HAMILTON.
The Mule Race, on Wednefday, for 500 gui-
neas, was gained by Mr. BAKER.
The following Match, which has been recently
made to be run at the next Spring Meeting at
Newmarket, occifions much fpeculaticnt in the
Sporting World :

Mr. Ft.r.rot ER'S Allegranii, BR. glb. agairal Mr.
WILSON% 'Sophia, 811. zlb. zOOO Guineas, (Beacoi
Courfe.)

4llegrasii won at the !all Egham RaCes, though
very feverely palled by Sir CHARLIS BUNBURY'S
Gig, notwithftanding which Sophia receives only
31b. The Match is therefore, very Opal s and as
the Beacon Courfe is four miles from the Starting
to the winning Poll, done and bottom are the molt
ellential requifites for fuccefs.

Rae! AGA' Ns/. I'll434—La. ft Saturday morning,
THOMAS SPENCE, chairman in Paitley, for a con-
fiderable bet, ran 16 miles, on the road betwetit
Glafgow and Pailley, in one hour and fifty-feven
minutes, winning the bet three minutes within the
time Allowed him. •

The King tif Spain amufes himfelf in the diver.
Pion of bunting in his newly acquired conquefts in
Portugal.
A fmall animal, fbmeivhat lager thin a rabbit;
has been brought to the Company's FaCtory at
Fort Marlborough; the head refembles that of
a hog, and its thanks and feet that of the deer.
—The Iletoar Storm found on this animal, hal
been valued at ten times its weight in gold. It is
of a dark brown colour, fmoozh on the outfide;
and the toat being taken off, it appears Rill darker;
with firings running uncivineath the coat, and it
will fwirn 9n the top of the water. If it be infufed
in any liquid, it makes it extremely bitter. The
virtues ufually attributed to this (lone are cleanfing
the Itomach, creating an appetite, and fweetening
the bloiad.
A fine young woman on Monday.laft, in run.
ning down One Tree>hill, in Greenwich Park, un-
fortunately pitched on her head, mkt diflotateci
her neck. Surgical aid not being at hand, in
fhort time fht expired.
Lail week a human dteleton was found buried
in a ditch near Lincoln ; it is fuppofed the perfon
had been murdered, and lain there eight or ten
years. •

A few days lince as tome men .were felling a
large tree in the Jura of Taviftoek, two of theni
incautionfly (landing too near the fpot, the tree,
after it had fallen, rolled over them, and killed
one of them intlantly, the other lies dangeroufly

A larideau with General Cowstgil family, and
Major H sta. in it, was overturned in Carmarthen.
(hire town, owing to the poitillion's driving too
fait in turning a tarp corner; but very fortunately
the company received no material injury, though
the carriage was broke to pieces,

Monday fe'nnight Mr. John Godfrey, farther and
grazier, of Appleby, unfortunately fell from a
loaded waggon of hay' againft a hedge, a Rake of
which entered a little under his right ear, and was
the caufe of his immediate death:
Ycilerday morning about two o'clock, the (hop
of Mr. Davis, pawnbroker, in St. George'sofiel&,
was burglarioufly broke open, and robbed of pro-
perty to nearly the amount of tooL The fon of
Mr. Davis, who slept in the (hop, was very Much
cut by the villains, who on being alarmed ran
away. A perfon on fufpicion was apprehended bt
the watch, and being yeflerday examined at
Union half, he was fully committed for trial..

Hoo &teaLtwo.—A Rion time fince Mr. Baum
ders, a farmer of Stanwell, had nine fat hogs (toles
from his yard, and the robbers (lopped with theM
in a cart at an Inn in the Borough. The Matter
of the Inn thinking the three men who had them
in their poffelflon of fufpicious appearance, com-
municated his thoughts to a conllable, who went
and interrogated the men as to the meaner in which
they bad become poffeffed of the hogs, etc. They
not giving a fatis&Etory account how they became
poicired of them, he proceeded to take them into
cuilody, they refined, and one of them made his
efcape ; after the other two had been fecured tome
time, one of them offered to turn King's evidence,
v.hich was admitted, and he confeffed who the
hogs bad been llolen from, and likewife who the
man was that had made his efcape.

Laft Friday, the conttable of Stanwell had ocea.
fion to be at Lewes, in Suffer, on fame bufinefts
where he faw the man who had made his efcape,
as defcribed by the mart who had been admitted
evidence : be applied to the magißrates of that
town for affiftance, which they readily granted.
He was fecured, and on Tuefday he was esammed
before Mr. BOW De at BowAreet, when the man
who was admitted evidence, identified him to be
the man who had made his efcape ; he Rated that
on the night they committed the robbery, they
Role a horfe and harnefs from one past of the
country, and took it to another; they alto Role a
cart, and drove it to Stanwell : the robbery of the
hogs was planned by the prifoner, who being a
butcher, faid he knew how to get them without
making anoife. Accordingly they went and broke
down fame of Mr. Saunders's paling ; they after.
wards &love the hogs gently out of their Ryes ;
whet; they got them Into the road, clear of hooks.
they drove them very quick, till they got them
over Hounflow-heath, when they were lb extreme.
ly tired, that they could hardly walk; the hogs
•
were then lifted into the cart, and drove into the
Borongh.—The prifoner was fully cottonseed foe