Star.
London, England, 1820-03-29 00:00:00

LANCASTER ASSIZES.

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Extract of a letter front Lancaster, dated Sunday',
:March Vii :—The following is a list of the bills •
pre-
leered against the Manchester Yeomen:
•" Two against Elutord Aifenk,h,;-, the tiumpetcr ; One of theM
for cutting William Cheetham severely nn the nick; and the
other fur
.wounding Alice Kearsley, a women 72 leafs old, os
tho ear and necks One against L1:44e..-si Mb:et, for wounding
Elizahttfi Darren kier'elv on tite,head ; and one against Tit wafts
S,l,eirterditte, for cutting Margaret Guoden cn the head. All the
bills Were cut, as not found by the Grand Jury; and although
there were other cases, it was considered uselei to prefer Allem,.
as the Grand Jury at last satisfied themselves with merely ask-
ing the witnesses if the accused acted as a soldier on the 16th .:1
August: and on receiving an answer in the affirmative, they
sent ahem out of the room, and determined the fate of the 1.111
wi:hout entering into further infpiry. .
e John Dunn was on Friday tuund guilty of the wilful murder
of Margaret Grimes, and is ordered for execution to-merrow
mor.ong The facts were shortly these :—The prisoner, in ait
of drunken desperation, in passing the house of the deceased,
wba lived in Manchester, put a pistol into the window, where
she was ironing, and shot her through the head ; he then end.g-
toured to make his escape, but was pursued and taken."

Boxr:ro.Yesterday a fight took plade at Farnham.
between Martin and a fellow nick-named tite Stislo!
Cabbage. The fight was originally intended tifhave
been exhibited at Maidenhead Thicket; but the Ma-
gistrate, very p;operly, put a stop to it. Oliver and
'(Handal! seconded Martin, who was indisposed frcro
rheumatism : and Cribb and Clark were seconds to
Cabbage: The match, which was for 10.) guineas
a-side, lasted two hours, during which 76 rolinds
Nye i-e fought.
Itocyo 1. 'Martin hit his acl•,?rz.r:r on the side of the head,
which produced first blood. Cabba,se missed his hit, and in a
Cii;it! Martin was thrzr7.-ii.

9.. Martin hit his adversar7 over the eye, and Cabbage made
a slight return, and in another close teeth prated themselves
novices at the weaving systF.m, and Martin was again thrown :
from Lis bad condition he was not expected to last it out Itslag.
3. Marcia gave his adversary a left-handed stomacher, 414 -
B:tad:it!, which produced an involuntary groat ; and Cabbage,
when close enough in, threw his blows away, and in a hugging
match Cabbage was thrown ; and as it wat seen he was but el'
little use, betting was reduced to 6 to 4 upon him.
4.- Martin missed his.left-handed blow, bet gave Cabbage a
rattier with the right on the chest. The :wand ended with a
hugging match attain at the ropes, and both were down.
Of the 76 rounds knight, It will be only necessary ta partien-
larize those is which changes took place. '.Martin had
hitting his own way, and changed the ads in his faeour in the
seventh round, Cabbage having been hit *all left and right,
and one of his peepere pieered ; but bettitisavas very gat, as it
was doubly hazatdoes to back Nlartin's coneitipn•; and his ad-
versary was a known game one. •
16. Martin contrived to place One hit in eatery recondr uhtil
this, with the left hand at the head or the mark be bpried his
fist in Cabbage's body (to use a ti :sh fighting phrase), which
crimsoned it well; and in this round, if there was a knoCk
down, Martin gave it; but it was rather a push down from thy
. _ _

-Fxcepting being hit as before stated, Cabbage bad nore the
worst at the rope hugging, and Martin had shewn much wt As-
ness ;• btu he fought at points, and his friends were not sate a
his coming again at any rsu after the 117th,* when he appeared
much exhausted,- and fought disadvantageoisly until the •
;.Ist. In this round he gave WA adversary a full facer with
the left hand, and loosened his front railing with the right, when
Cabbage rolled his jaws about as if masticating a tough steak !
After a hugging match at the ropes both went doom
41. Cabbage's left eye in tiarknegs, aud his features iseie
much distorted, when Martin had a turn at the other eye in
this round, but he was thrown.
Cabbage h..d no chance after this but by Martin's condition;
and the rounds were of a hugging nature against tile roper; but
Martin was cbie4 down.
7d. The fight ended here in favour of Martin, trim hit him
several times about the neck, and head, and threw him, and
twisted his ceck so that he could not conic again; he iaid ups-n
the ground nearly a quarter of •an hour, as if lifeless. Ile •wis
bled from the arm, and he bled freely from the right car, in
consequence of which he recovered.
Cooper, who he Molly:cam: in Scotland, fought
Hickman, the gas-rtan, for- a purse of ER/. • Bets
two to one on Cooper. The seconds were, Oliver
and Gibbons for Cooper, and Shelton and Randall
for Hickman ; and it was a most gallant fight of 14
rounds in 18 minutes. •

Roulso I. Cooper sparred low for hitting, and every accident
it was expected that (las would be smarted. Ile, however, led
upon Cooper, and hit him heavily with the right hand, through
his guard, upon the nose, whim drew claret, and' Gas closed
and threw Lunn without any mischief.
2. jilts were exchanged until the blond flew about in all di.-
rections from both. - Cooper returned with the right hand upon
the head before the.rally, and dropped his adversary by a heavy
hit upon the neck with the life ham'.
3. Severe fighting ;ill both were covered with blood. Gas
placed his right-handed hit upon the head, after bitting open
with the left, and he was doored in a rally. Betting at at
setting-to.
4. Bath shelved off upon the piping system; hut Cooper *u
the weakest of the two, and was %Mayan after receiving a smart
hit co the head.
5. Cooper was hit down at the close of a gallant ra'Jy.
O. Both distressed, and they cloud and fell irregularly. •
'l. Cooper parried the right hand of his adversary, end hit
him over the nose thrice by breaking his ground, ard Gas was
thrown. Cooper the favourite.
8. Both tried, and down in a close. •
9 and 10. They partly recovered themselves, anti hit away in
a manner which astonished ; bat at the close of the 10th round
Cooper was bit five or six times, and dead brat.
The 12th round was all for Gas ; but he was smartly hit in
She 13th by superior science, hut Cooper fell very weak.
14. Cooper was hit tO all parts of the ring, and thrown; wheel
Gas was declared the victor to the disappointment of all the
knowing ones, as he disregarded hitting, and would net be denied.
—Both were terribly beaten.
FATAL BOXING.
An Inquisition was h:ld yesterday, at the Distillers' Arms,
Great Saffron-hill, on the body of John Proctor, whose Heats
was ana,:d the !dint yhe received in a pitched battle with
another man, of •t he name of Prichard. It appeared, that the
deceased and .Prick ad, who were both market porters, were
drinking in the ti orni•c", of last Saturday fortnight in a ;addle
house, to Jam?' snett, Covent-garden, where a dispute arose
between them abot t a pot of porter, and the deceased challenged
Vrit:hard to tight ; after ni:h aggravation on the' part, cf the
deceased, Prichard-consented; and, accompanied by a number
lof persons who spicited, them on, they repaired to the front of
the market, where they bath stripped, shook hands, and set-to;
they fought a full lour, and both gave and' received many tre-
mendous blows and falls on the pavement, during which use
the deceased, who was the ablest and 'mightiest man, had the
best of it; at length they were sep4rated, they shook haudi;
and both walked back to the public-lipuse where the dispute
originated. Shortly nfter the tit:ceased fell speechless on the
seat on which he sat, and in that state he was carried home tin'
a shutter to his house in Greyhound-court, West-street, where
he died ill a few days after, leaving a wife with:u a few dayp of
her lying-in, and fLur or hve small childred. Fro the whoe
of the evidence it appeared, that the sktessed was :Pori ie Tasks
• than Prichard, who was challenged and compelled to fight by the
decea..l in his awn defence. Verdict—Death francjighting.

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