Star.
London, England, 1803-05-13 00:00:00

Among the bell fiipported Charthers were—

A SiWafter Darscrwood; Two Old Maid n Ladles, twin
Atlas, from Hatt; a Deader Sangrado, and foam two or dove
°them

Among the Company we noticed of ialhion, be-
fides thole alread• named—

Lords Oaavas, and E.SOWIRSIT c Mars. CNAMPNITI.
X. CRAVEN, CORNWALL, W. WILLIAMS WYNNE; I.a4iu
A. C INO, DAWIWOOD, KINO. ROVIL, BROVONION4
Sir 11,1AITIN F , Bart. the Mds H , and Mr
Laroocies.

Among the Dominoes were—
Mr. B.IILLII, Mr. W. SLOA NIL, Mr. DILLIIIN, Mr. WZI.CII.
&C. &C.

Among the moll whimfical Charaaers were—
A stoup of Boarding School M:IT,a, with Coloncl MAT T n
at their head. A Lady as Curinfity, in a drcia covered with
eyri and car.; ani.ther a; Night. A Eir,!rdph, but no FA.
04C; two Clowns, without a liaticluin; Kiugs, Priam, and
Courtiers, out of nwaber.
The f'pper, which took place ahont two o'clock,
was, without exception, One eat the molt fumptuons
of the kafrm. molt coflly articles were in
proinfinn, the wines were rat ions and excellent,
And the s!e:h.it of fruit was lar tie heft teen this
leafon. The tirawberries coil a guinea a plate;
betides which, there were pines, grapes, cherries,
&c. in Covers were laid for two hun-
dred And filth .mil the rmity exceeded that minx-
bet.— Dancing took c afier flipper. 'and con
eluded with Reels and :s.rathlpers at five o'clock,
when coil's.: and tea wcrc firved up, ar.J at fix
o'clock the company reti!c:l. The Ladies of the
I.oufe were t i,..i.:th completely a ti Pa-
rilirriar.:And were no::: End and atten:ive to all. In
a f01.:5.1 circl.: l,r t.t.. J 4111,1, mach wit flew round.
I. mom the nor.-!,.r of f:org,-.1 tickets lai feafon,
a fpecific nt•tice compaii.,d each card that no
trinsterred tich.t v. 'lid, •wi acef um, he adf
nlettell in fittvrt. Thi• c. .ti pit-vented any ti•
It leeeguluiucs KIK:a .4..:t0 ti:C lag Mat'
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LAW IVTILLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY fs.
THE K 1.... v. HELCHF.R AND OTHERS.

Mr. G V'W moved for the Judgment of the
Court •'n t!:e fm,r defendants, James Belcher,
Edmund Bm ke, Jrmes lVard, and Henry Lee,
who were docrihed to be hbourers.

Thele del,:ndants had allowed judgment to go
by default.
The indiament charged, that being perfons of
evil and nialiciAns diipofitions, and fighters,
duellers, rioters, &c. they had, on the 25th of No.
vember lail, in the county of Berks, confpired and
combined together, that James Belcher and Ed-
mund Burke flictild fight a duel, and that the
other two defendant. fhonid be aiding and affilling
in the laid fight and duel ; and that in purfuance
of that cnnlpiracy, Belcher and Burke unlawfully
and tiotradly airembled together, with go other
perfons, to the dilturbance of the public peace,
and that Belcher and Burke fought a duel, and
the other two were prefent, aiding and Aiding,
together with 5o other perfons.
Mr. Gaariow addrelfed the Court on the part
of the profecution. He obfervei, that as the
judgment which their Lordlhips were now called
upon to pronounce, was a judgment by default,
and not after trial, it was his duty, as Counfel for
the profecution, to addrefs'to the Court a few ob-
fervaions. This profecution was at the inflance
of a Noble Lord who was at the head of the Ma-
gitiracy of the county of Bet ks, and it was Mai. I
tutcd with k prolpeftive view to the corredlion of
an enormous abufe of the public peace, and out-
rage of the public feeling, by bringing thefe defen-
dants berm i
e the Court, and having the opinion of
their Lot dihips made known to the public on the
lubjeft of an intolerable grievance, in order that
the principals, at whole mitigation it was chiefly I
carried on, might learn they will next become the I
objces of profecution initead of the unhappy men
who were now before the Court ; that thofe who
were really at the bottom of there outrages, for the
molt bale and fcandalous purpofes, to fay nothing
of the brutal inhumanity of the pralice, would be
brought before the Court to anfwer for their con-
duet as principals in thefe outrages, which the
Court would vifit with an exemplary punifhment.
He would not abufe the patience of their Lord-
fhips by making general obfervations on the prac-
tice of prize fighting, or on the dangerous conk-
quences which the Records of the Court Rated: he
fhould confine himfelf to the mere matter of corn-
plaint in this particular inftance—in which he
might fay there was great danger to the public
peace from thefe praeices.
It could hardly be believed, if the daily journals
did not furnifh proof of it, that ia a country pre.
tending to any thing like police, and having a
Magiftracp to attend to fuch police, that at the
diftance of twenty, thirty, or forty miles from the
Metropolis, without the lean fufpicion in the Ma.
gißrates, a multitude of almoft counticfs thou-
fonds, lie was lorry to fay of all defcriptions, from
the higher to the lower order ;—of the inferior,
certainly counties thoufands, fhnuld be allowed to
of to behold a brutal exhibition, which was
enough to freeze the blood of humanity ; and then
to proceed to any other mifchief for which they
were ready. This was, however, the cafe at
prefent ;—and the Magiftrates felt that without
the authority of the higheft Criminal Court in the
Kingdom, it would be impoffible for them to
maintain peace.

There was one point which was extremely mate-
rial for their Lordthips' notice, and, he had reafon
to think, bad not efcaped it. The place fixed on
for the fcene of thefe brutal exhibitions, was gene-
rally on the borders of a county, and the reafon for
that was very plain—if, for inftance, the Magi-
&ate% of the County of Berks fhould have adver-
tifement of the intention of the parties to have a
prize fight, and this flagrant breach of the peace,
and of the time it was intended to be carried into
effect, they immediately (kept into another, where
they would take care that the Magiftrate who
came firft to prevent their brutal violence being
carried into effect, fhould be able only to look on
the battle, but without the feel power to prevent
it ; for they adjourned into another County in an
inltant, the Magiftrates of which were not prepared
to check them. It was not for hint to propofe a
remedy to the law, but he could not help laying.
that perhaps it would be an improvement in the
law, if the Magiftrates of the County in which
thefe tiotousaffemblies were firft held, where the
matter originated, fhould have power to proceed
from their own to the County where the offen-
five operations were finitbed. In the cafe of tu-
multous proceedings and of riot, that was a fub-
jed worthy of ferions confideration. The truth of
the matter was, and be fail it rather to difarm their
Lordfhips' vengeance againft the unhappy per-
bins now before the Court, the object of this pro-
fecutiott was merely profpedive, and not to punifh
thofe who had been already guilty ; and it was fit
I their Lordthips fhould know that this diforder did
not originate with thefe unhappy perfons, but it
was like many other evils, carried on by fy ftem to
anfwer the views of others--one of the unfortunate
men now before the Court, Edmund Burke, had
been confined in prifon feveral months for debt, but
he was brought out for the purpofe of this fight ;
he therefore was not the proper object of the pro-
iecution, for his poverty, and not his will, content-
ed Tnofe who were the authors of this wicked
courfe, coulstnot be named, correctly, at prefent,
and therefore there could not be an etfedual prole-
cution against them, although they had been the
calk r•I this brutal battle ; and had afterwards put
nue elf the combatants, fpecchlefs and Amon
breathlefs, into a coach, while they were engaged
for halt an hour, in looking at another conflict of
the fame kind—and then they had the claffical in..
itrudion oldie E 0 Table, and the elegant amufe.
mcnt of a man running a race againft a pig. This
iad.dment was removed from the (,carter Seffions
of Berkshire by the profecutor, and the defendants
had all fubmizted to the law, and had remained in
goal for a cr.r.fiderable time for want of fecurity ;
for the fight being over, there was no good Sama-
ritan to relieve them, when there was no pur-
pofe to be antwerctl by it. The two unhappy man,

Lee and Yard, were only what were called fle
conds and Bottle holders :—the truth was, theft.
brutal pra6tices were for the amufement and ',loth
of perfons of A much hither Ration than the delen-
aants now before the Court, mid this profecu:ion
was inltituted, profpedlively, with a view to deter
thole higher perfons from theft: prAftices in future,
and to let :hem know, from the authority of that
high Court, that they are all liable to punithruent,
as much as the unhappy combatants themfelvec.
That they may learn, that all of them may, and
Alfuredly than, he indicted for a confpiracy to ac•
complifh this illegal purpofe, this molt outragf:oit,
' breach of the public peace. He was iniiraled by
the Magiftrates, humbly to fubmit to the Court,
their content, if the Court. in its mercy, Ihould
think fit, that thefe men lhnuld, for the prefent,
not receive the judgment of the Court, but fhould
be allowed to be difcharged on giving furety to be
forthcoming to abide the judgment of the Court
when called upon, and that in the mean time the
be of good behaviour. lie took the liberty of
humbly offering this on the part of the profecution,
becaufe, as he laid already, the punithment of their
men was not the real object of the prolecntion, and
he knew that if they received any judgment, it
muff be a revere one, becaufe the conlillency of
the Court would require that every pundhment
fhould have correfpoudence with the nature of the
offence as it appeared on the Record, and this of-
fence was certainly enormous.
Mr. En sitisa, for the defendants, raid, that
after what had fallen from his learned Friend, he
could do nothing but exprefs a hope that the Court
might feel themlelves at liberty to follow the courfe
pointed out to them. He was fenfible that if judg-
ment was pronounced, it mull be of confiderable
feverity.
Lord ELLENSOROVGIS afked, if there were any
perfons ready to enter into a recognizance with
the defendants as threties ?

Mr. Gszsow faid, that perhaps it would be
proper to make each enter into a recognisance,
not only for himfelf, but for the good conduEl
of the refl.

Lord ELLFNBOROUCH obferved, that this would
be going rather too far.
The learned Judges then conflated together for
fome minutes.
Lord Et tsstoROUGH afterwards declared that
the pradice muff be fuppreffed, as it was pregnant
with the moll mifchievous confequences. Not only
were the lives and limbs of the combatants ex-
poled ; but induftry was checked by people being
feduced from their employments; an immente
multitude were affembkd, and ready to follow
the example let them in entering into brawls, and
an opportunity was given to the ill difpofed, under
pretence of this inhuman amutement, to plot any
mifchief they may have in contemplation. In
every refpea the praaice mull be fupprcffed. As
no affidavits were given in, the Court mutt look to
the record, which charged that the defendants
had entered into a confpiracy, &c. They knew
nothing of a fighting for hire. The defendants
mull therefore enter into a recognizance in 4001.
each. This was a fum not likely to be made up
:o them by fubfcription. If it was, a puniffiment
would be infliaed from which none could relieve
them. The condition of the recognizance was,
that they flould appear to receive judgment when
called for, and fhould keep the peace in the mean
time. And it was to be underßood that not only
thole who fought themfelves violated the laws, but
that the procurers and abettors were guilty of the
fame offence, and were liable to the fame pundit.
ment.

MeiTrs. Burke, Belcher, Ward and Lee then
entered into the recognizance, and withdrew.

M..RRIED.

Yefterday, at Clapham, by the Rem. Mr Venn, Belinda
Brown, Efq. n! New Bridge•flreet, to htlfs Rogers, daughter
of Charles Rogers, Ffq. of Clapham.

DIED.

On the 3oth ult. at the feat of 'Monies Panning, Efq. county
of Derry, Mrs. Booth, wife of Robert Booth, Efq. late pay-mat-
ter of the York Feocibles.

At Vitry fur Seine, near Parts, Wm. Putland, Efq. of Ireland

TO-MORROW.
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Afternapo

MEDICINE ACT.
At the only Warehoule for Dr. James's Powder, No. 45, St
Paul's Church-yard, I.ondon,
rrHE following MEDICINES are fold, at the
A prices annexed, inziuding the Stamp Duties; a-d as it is
enadled, that fromthe tit of September, dicta, the Stamps
&mild be applied to all Proprietary Medicines, as well for
Fa-visa. for the, Confumption, and as a Confiderablc Addi-
tion is made to the Stamps on the Articles of higher Value, or
thole In Bulk, the Prices of Dr. James's Powder will be in fu-
tore 21. vd. per Parfet, or IL 55. 6d. per Dotal; but the
(tuamity of a Doan' Packets in a Bottle (as trade op for the
Army and Navy) nay be had for tI. s. Andes by Favour of
the Con. -.Moneta oldie Stamp °like, Plates are prepared for
Mr. Newhery's I...pirate life, with his Name engraved in each
Stamp, the Public will be careful to obferve that the Words,
" F. Newbery, No. 4t, St. ;' are printed in the Stamps of
all his Medicines; and as it is prefumed that this will Ise a luffi-
dein Security againft Counterfeit., his Signature on the Labia
on ')r. James's Powder will be difcontinued from henceforward.
Stamps will to allowed gratis, as ufual, to thole who por-
ches I lair a Dazes or more at a time, of the lower priced
a. I. a. I.
Dr. James's Powder a 9 Lozenges of Blot. t
-•••••• a Bottle 84 0 Freake s Tin& of Bark 4 0
Analeptie Pills 4 6 Husham's ditto 2 9
large &4 24 o Engllib Coffee 9
Dr. Steens Opodeldec a 6 Genuine Araiehufade S 6
Convtilfion Oil a 6 OrnitCrit Medicine II 6
- Canininile Drops a 9 Iturlia'a Scots Pills t o '
Paregoric 1.0. Ffence of Peppermint
sent. aa 4 Grant'. Drops -
Berry's Bilious Pills 4 6 Dr. Hooper'a Pills
Dr. Au it Of" Clad b beate GNU. Magnolia 3 6
Ditto 4 0 Henry's ditto - 2 6
D ilby's Carminative t 9 Norton's Drops s 6
F.ffence of Colt sfoot 3 6 Spillbury's ditto 6
Cephalie Snuff 0 9 Dr. 'colander's Tea a 9
Mr.Srence's Dentifrice 4 0 Grenisugh's lir:aura rt t
Jones • Rhentwitie Title. 3 6 --.1110 Tofu l oreng's
N. R Stamp. with Mr. Newbery's Name are atbved to the
6riit twen'y Articles above enumerated; and 39 many perk.
particularly fervants and metre:avers, mistake his honk, he f
under the accellity of pointing out, that it is at the kart End of
St. Paul's, /lesiva to Lhcapfide, and that it has a large white
ftuccrie4 tront. on abich thick words are infcribed:
" 7og JNLY WAI3I.IOCIII re/ Da. Ja*es's Prw sta.";

For Rheurnatifin, Rheumatic Coutrqcfatirti,l4nithmm yt,i.
nth, Numbilel., Intligoll• Flatulent Sp-fn,,
flying l'ains, general Debility and Rrlasatkn of the S;lt-r.;
&c.
IXPERIENCE has proved glee mil.i flirrolatiag
4 pwwers of AV: 114.1 IFAIrs F.SFY.NCE of
Pills and :laid, the molt effeCtual remedy ever 111.11 C Wr.o
to the world, hav:ng Iticeeetled in cafes of fix, tight, tu,
twenty, aotl even of forty years flanditt, after other rht
had fail..d, and it has eifoluttly curd more patient.. of !:.e
above complaints, than all medicines ever htb.re na,te
The fluid EiTtIICC is In fingularly prn•triti;g sad
fpetaly in its operation, as generally to effect the cure of
BP.OI.TS, &c.
by a few :.pplicitious.
Whitthears P.ff.:nce of IVloitan.l is itrepared and fold It
Is. qtL eaLli 13o:: or Botzk, by K. jolt:ass oN, ApOthCC:iti.
No. le, Greek-flret!, Soho, 1.ontlon:

And itn reputation is ft, univ,l( alah:ifhed, that it Teas
Se Ltd of carry 111editine Venda' in Lngl.t.d, Ireland, It cg
Indi s, xx! An:irica.

'Io pravt.ot coubtet frit Impotition, purcl4en are reqoeftt4
to obfcrre, the Cc: uine is dillinguifhed by the Irms'e fate t,
and thr Signature of R.Jo u N F7O N the Patentcet own writ:r4
on tat lahcl of each bottle tx Loa.