Star.
London, England, 1801-08-22 00:00:00

SPORTING INTEILicENcE.

HEREFORD RACES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUICE 19.
A Plate of Sol. for all ages.
Ld. Oxford's be. c. Crcrwell, by Chance 3 yr.. a fcathcr
14. branfo,-4's c. h. Chauntcc, 4 yrs. 711. ralb. -
But one heat—it wa-s won with -cafe by Lord
Oxford's Creffwell; 3 to 2 in favour of Chaunter
at (tarring: Dite&ly after the heat 3to t in fa-
vour of Crefrwell ; but Lord Stamford drew his
horte.
The Duke of Norfolk, Lord Foley, Major Snell,
and fume more fafbionables were on the ground,
but they came when all was over. Chaiiiiter was
dreadfully fpurred ; they ran every bit of the
ground, but Crefrwell was well rode, and did not
carry five (lone.

KNIGHTON RACES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14.
The Sweepitakes of Five Guineas each, p. p. to
which Twenty Guineas were added.

Mr. Lord's ch. f. Icon; Spinner, 4 yrs. old, - I
Mr. Wcyrnan's b. in. Peerefs, 1
The other Subfcribers paid forfeit.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15.
Fifty Pounds given by the Earl of Oxford, for
horfes, &c. bred in the counties of Radnor or
Hereford.

Mr. Evan Lewis's b. m. Editha, 4 yn.ohl, a I t
Mr. Weyman's b. m. Peercfs, 4 yrs. old, t a a
Mr. T. Lewis's b. m. Doubtful, 4 yrs. old, - 3 3 3
Excellent running between Editha and Peerefs,
each heat being won but by half a neck.

KEMPLE has returned to town in order to afiift
in the arrangements for the opening of Drury-
lane Theatre.

Monday the flyer cup given by Lord Vifcount
COURTENAY, was failed for on the river Ete, in
front of Powderham Cale : fixtecn boats were en•
wed, but the prize was warmly contefted by two
boats from Plymouth : one belonging to Mr.
DYER, Matter of la NYMPHS frigate, was, how-
ever, the fuccefsful candidate, and received the
elegant flyer cup, value 25 guineas, from the fair
hands of the Hon. Mifs Cou TE NAY. The fecond
prize of five guineas, and the third prize of three
guineas, were won by Plymouth boats ; the fourth
prize of two guineas was won by a Lympflone
boat. The day being remarkably fine, a large
affemblage of company attended. The boats
ftarted by a fignal gun about eleven o'clock, and
returned to the Goal about one.
Camberwell Fair, which has lafted the whole
of this week, has afforded a fine harveft for profti-
tutes and pickpockets. An unfortunate Clergy-
man, palling through it on Monday, had his
pocket picked of his watch.

The Edipfe, or Harlequin in China, at the Royal
Circus, St. George's Fields, betides its other nu-
merous attraetions, polka-es the grcateft Splendour
of Scenery and Drees, difplays the Coflume, Man-
ners, &c. of the Chinefe fo correily, and is ac-
companied throughout by fuch ex9uifite Mufic,
which is by Mr. W. WARE, that with the aid of
that charming Piece, The Fire King, or Albert and
Rofafie, it draws a molt crowded affemblage of ad-
mirers every Evening.
Upon pulling down a houfe in Chelmsford,
many years in the occupation of Mr. Nast+, hair-
dreffer, and digging at the foundation, an human
fkull was difcovered, at about feven feet below the
furface. That part where this houfe flood, it is
laid, was about Soo years ago a wood, but we do
not learn that it was ever made life of as a burial-.
ground • therefore, by what means this part of the
human frame became buried there, is beyond the
reach of conjeeture.
There is at this time ars apple tree in full bloom,
in the garden of Mr. NICHOLLS, of Sawbridge-
worth, Hens.

On Monday latt Tome Mermen 'took a remark-
able Or off Plymouth, which weighed nearly two
hundred pounds. The mouth appeared very (mall,
and contained in each jaw three rows pftharp,jug-
ged teeth ; and when boiled, it was obferved to
turn to a glutinous jelly, and would moil proba-
bly ferve for all the purpofes of ifinglafs, were it
found in fufficicnt plenty. It is called a fun-filh.
A very curious and extremely rifible examina-
tion took place yeßerday evening in Bow-fireet,
where an Old Lady, who profeffes to cure the Tooth.
each, was complainant againfi a Shoemaker, who,
like /azo, being " troubled with a raging tooth,"
applied to the Sybil for the charm, which, not be-
ing efficacious, the youth of the Lai decoyed the
Old La* to his boufe, where he faftened the
door, and behaved in fo boiflerous a manner that
the Old Lady declared the " trembhd at fiveaty.
tcno."—Mr. BOND good humouredly recommend-
ed an amicable adjultment ; but no perfuafions
could induce the antiquated Dottrels to difclofe
the component parts of her charm, as the replied
in the words of Dr. Lak—i, 'Tis a fecret, and I
wont tell."

The following affeaing circumftance took place
on Thurfday afternoon left :—A family confifting
of the father, mother, three font., and a daughter,
let off from town to the neighbourhood of Lea
Bridge, to fee a cricket match: having dined at
a pullic-houfe by the water-fide, the two eldeft
fons hired a boat of the landlord, and proceeded to
at proper place to bathe; neither of them being able
to (wan, the youngeß got beyond his depth, and
feeling his danger, implored the aftiftance of his
brother. who, lessening his own fituation, went
to his fuccour, but in doing that be loft his own
life, without being able to fare that of his brother.
The unhappy parents, with the other fon and the
daughter, came to the fpot, while tome perfons
were then dragging for the unfortunate youths,
whom they found in about half an hour. All
means were tried to reftore animation, but unhap-
pily without effect. The feelings of the parents 66
finding their children loft to them for ever, may
be much eater conceived than ezpieffed. The
mother at firft wu much • d, but foon after-
wards obliged to be • away, haling fallen
into a Rate of infenfibility. The eldeß ran was
about twenty-three
_ years of age, and the younger
feventeen. Their bodies were takes boale.autod-
ad by their father.