Star.
London, England, 1818-12-25 00:00:00

purses,
Murphy,

Theatre
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for

rug. ...Mr.
,:al-street,

attracted
yesterday,

note.—
and
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lasted

manfully
with

receiving, and
although
rounds
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lared

'pipe,
Mrs.

COM-
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in,
calculated
cellent

pro-
returning from
?4usselburgh,
Edin-

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, - %PM tt CHRLSTMAS. • '
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Old Chilstmas, hail! thy rsv'rend form
Comes drench'd and dripping with the storm ; ,
Thy hoary locks are tempest-rent, -
Thy milk-white beard is ice be/Pratt;
1 • Wind, sleet, and snow thy steps emit,
I ' Tet wilYI say to thee—Old.Chriatmas, hail! ..
1 For wen I love thy ancient sway;
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Thy jocund, 01464 *Pus day ;
' Thy blame" sports, and calm delight, .
~ That gild the dreary hours of night F s .
- Transport the soul to summer's clime,
Lad ledge with plumes the leaden wings of Time.
• il FuU well I love the mule of mirth,
That dimples round thy festal hearth;
Thy valve wreaths of evergreen,
I ' ' , That bloom from household boards between;
When Ralph to Cicely breathes his vow,
Aad claims the custom of the pendant bough!
The heart rinks, while dim and drear,
The imbed landscape saddens near;
For the' the darkly sweeping storm,
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1 1 . The lights of ether may deform, "
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'Tis doom'd beyond it's force to blind
That native sun, which animates the mind !
Then, Christmas, hail ! a weliome guest,
i Thom com'st to every social breast ;
Good cheer shall thaW thy frozen veins,
I ' Blythe sports expel thy skives-in,: pains, .
And pleasures strew thy torrent way
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With flow'rs more bit:manful than the lap of May!
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4 ' There was an abundant supply of fine turkics at
Bury St. Edmund's marker on Saturday last, which
I sold at from Is. to Is. 2d. per lb.
" 0 ! did you not hear of a jelly young W'sterman!"
i Tuesday the Parish of St. Olave's was put in great
i eonsterhation, O'A ing to an elopement which took
I place. The young Lady is about seventeen years of
i age, of large fortune, and accomplished. The Loves
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i is a Waterman well known at Pickleeherring-stairs
i and went off with his there amie in a Chaise and four
-The father is in pursuit of the fugitives, who, it is sup
posed have taken their flight towards Gretna-Green.
• Runcorn, so lately a simple rural village, is likely
in the course of a few years, to become a large town
1 for, independently of the intended Bridge overatun
corn Gap, it was declared a Free Creek of the Por
of Liverpool, for vessels to and from All parts o
Great hritain and Ireland, by the Act of .5.5t1
• Geo. 111. chap. 118, and the 56th Geo. 111. chap. 53
-1 It is stated that upwards of live hundred vessels bay,
discharged their loading in this little port-during th,
lat.t twelve months.
I , Friday se nntgat, Ann- Anderson, of the Thcatri
Tavern, in Preston, was convicted in the penalty o
i 401. before the _Sitting Justices at the Town-hall, fo
• having suffered young men, apprentices to highl;
respectable persons within Preston, t 9 assemble a
.'-. the Tavern, and play at cards until a very late hout
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Oa Wednesday night, daring tbe intense fog, a MI
Jch s n, passing by the dead wall in Portugal-street
. was hustled by three fellows, and robbed of a pocket
i book, a watch, and sonie ca,lt.—Two. youagavome
also had their shawls snatched a? in ( hancery-lane.
BDII NG AND Ilvia-alarrimi !—The young bul
from Norwich, whose performances had attracte,
much attention in the country, ,was staked yesterday
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for the first time before the Londoners, and he ac
I quitted himself like a Raidall, by keeping his ad
: vers tries in good order. But to make up a day'
sport, two fights took place, for subscription purse
between a watcrman,zamed Rivers, and Pat Murphy
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from St. Giles's, and two others of inferior note.—
Cropley and Bill Perry seconded the Waterman, am
) Tom Jena and Shelton went in with Murphy. Bet
ling was seven to four on Murphy. The fight laste
I forty minutes, and the first part of it was manful!
I contested. The men let loose upon each ether wit
much determination, and some severe hits wer
placed in the first round, to the advaptage of Mut
phy. Tne second round was bravely contested, bu
the vraterman shewed some very good generalship
• in the third round he brought his adversary down t
his weight, and by stomachers he brought dow
Murphy's head to a proper length for .recetving, an
is the fourth found he secured the battle, a.ltug
it took him much time to win it. Inahe latter round
i Pat ,was too groggy to do much mischief; and th
Waterman won tt easy.—The next battle was betwee
I a black and a white, which was won by the latter i
I ten minutes. Both appeared to want a good bee
i steak.—Next appeared the celebrated Norwich bul
which set the yelping tykes at work. Ile turned ta
superior to the Commissary's hull, and treated th
' dogs most contemptuously, fixing his eye upon ther
as they advanced towards him, and never enterin
into action until they were close upon him, when li
• sent them into the air with the greatest facility.—l
• order to keep pace with the amusements, Jacka.
Common, near Ealing, was fixed on for the sports!
) A severe pugilistic contest took place at South
minster, in Essex, on Tuesday last, between Berns
with, the champion of Foulness Island, and. an ore
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and-outer of the name of Legget, for a purse of Eli
, They fought in a SO-feet ropetrring.—Bennewith et
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tered by jumping over the ropes—his brother, a ms
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I ' with one arm, acted as his second, and his wile,
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bottle-holder! Legget threw a szonmerat into tl
1 ring, and was followed by two friends. The con
bantants fought .52 hard milling rouhds, which lasts
an hour and eleven minutes, when victory declare
for 'Bennewith, who 'afterwards danced a hornpip
and was conducted from the field in triumph by At
Bennewith, whose conduct during the arduous COI
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bat, in bringing her man up to the scratch, excit,
1 • the repeated shouts of the admiring amateurs!-
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i Legget was dreadfully battered ; when put to b,
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it was discovered that three of his ribs were stove i
and his day-lights quite closed.—lt was calculat,
1 that above 5000 persons were pteient at this excelle
tap-tip, and considerable sums were wort and lost.
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• •I'llonven.—Saturday fortnight a young Gentl
man, a student of medicine, who was about to pr
teed to Tobago as a practitioner, was returning fro
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' h farewell visit to some friends in Musselburg
*hen, in passing through the King's. Park, near Ech
; 1 burgh, he w,as attacked by three fellows, whose a
tempts to rob him were ultimately frustrated by tl
• . approach of a gentleman's servant ; but in the senfl
with the ruffians he was so cruelly beaten, that I
died hi consequence on Saturday last. .
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