Star.
London, England, 1826-04-05 00:00:00

CORK.

James Reord.m, a stout-looking peasant, about 24
years of age, was put to the bar, charged with assaulting
Mary Keefe, a child of eight years of age, at Old Castle-
town, in the month of August, 182.5.
Mary Keefe, the unfortunate little sufferer, was
dressed in a humble manner—her features were regular
and agreeable, but exhibited signs of long illness and
suffering. She was brought up to the Judge's seat,
who, after examin'ng her as to her religious principles
and knowledge, suffered her to be sworn.
Examined by, Mr. WouLre.—Withess knows the
prisoner; he was in the service of her father. Her
father lives at —. She recollects a paiticular night
when the prisoner attacked her; she was sitting by the
fire in her father's kitchen ; her mother was in bed;
her brother was in the kitchen—he was asleep. The 'I
prisoner was sitting at the fire; he took her on his lap,
and would not let her go. She cried—(here the witness
at much length detailed the circumstances in support of
the indictment: her eviJence was necessarily of a na-
ture which excludes the publication of it.)—She did not
tell her mother. Some time after she was very sick,
and was taken to the doctor ; she told the doctor what
had happened to her.

Cross-examined.—Her brother was in the kitchen all the time.
There was no one else in the kitchen. Her brother was a grown-
up man. Her mother was sick in the next room. Her mother
was sick for three or four years. She does not know where her
father or the rest of the family were. She did not say any thing
about the matter to her mother that night, nor t•r a great while
afterwards. The prisoner had her a long time, and she was crying
a long time before he let her go. She did speak to Doctor PiddelL
The Doctor did not tell her any thing, but he asked her every thing.
Doctor Piddell deposed that the child was brought to him in a
sickly state by her mother. He examined her, and found she was
diseased. He then felt it his duty to examine the child as to the
circumstances which reduced her to that condition, and she stated
to him what had occurred.

CAI II( rine Keefe, the mother of the child, confirmed
her evidence as to the injury done to her health.
On her cross examination, this v itness denied that
there eras any dispute between her husband and the
prisoner's father, about land or anything else.
Thomas Reordin, the father of the prisoner, was
examined—He stated that he had had a dispute re-
specting land with a Mrs. Keefe, who was related to
the father of the prosecutrix. His sort constantly lived
at his house; he never knew him to have bees ill.

Ilse case having closed at both sides, the prisoner, in a very em-
phatic manner called out from the dock to the Judge—" My
Lord," said he, "my life is in your bands, I threw myself upon
your honour."
Baron Pomeranian charged the Jury, who retired for about
ten minlates, and returned a verdict of Gate.
Bunn PANNI/ATIACI DOW put on the fatal cap.
The prisoner, in great agitation, exclaimed, " Oh ! the LORD
&minim save us! Oh, my Lord, look into your conscience, and
don't do such a thing."

BAWD PENN6FATHER.—After a full discussion and
investigation, you, James Iteordan, have been convicted
of a crime most revolting to humanity—namely, of
having assaulted an infant child. (Prisoner—" Oh, any
.Lord, lam not guilty.") It is in vain for you now to
deny your gyilr. I urged every thing to the Jury that
I thought could be urged in your lifvour ; they have
decide] that 100 are guilty. (Prisoner--" The great
GOD sees every thing.) I bust you know that he
does, and, if you do not, I hope you will know it
before you leave this world. Human tribunals may
err; His decrees cannot err, nor can he be deceive.i.—
Let me conjure you to prepare to meet him, not by a'
denial of guilt, but by sincere repentance. Do not, I
beseech you, by denying your crime, expect pardon in
this world or in the next. (Prisoner—" My Lord, if 1
was guilty, 1 would not deny it.") Is it possible to sup-
pose that the little child, who was eiaminedhere today,
as committed deliberate perjury ? Whit motive could
she have, or her. parents, to combine, at the peril of their
eternal welfare, against your AEharacter and your lite.'
The Jury are of opinion that yds complett.d the offence.
andl warn tt,t, that ta4;kg can change the sentence 1
rm ab• ut to vamoose*.
The Learned Jun thee pronounced the sentence of
the law; and the prisoner' was -taken from the bar in a
state of great mental agony.

EXECUTION OF FORD roll. MURDER.
WAItWICIrs 'Aim 0. •
To-day, Afichttel Ford, convicted of the mistler of
Mr. Richard Perry, at Birmingham, on the night rlf the
6th of December last. Was executeJ in front of the
County Gaol. Long Wore the hour of execution, hun-
dreds of people were seen flocking from all iluat ten, to
he present. Sunday night the prisoner went to bed
about ten o'clock. He awoke about midnight in great
agitation, and is a momentary impulse of passion in.
v:ighed against the conduct of the Jury. He again fell
asleep, and continued in that state till four o'clock.
when he awoke, and anxiously waited till the arrival of
Mr. Turville, who visited him at an early hour, and
administered to him that consolation which could alone
mitigate his sufferings. Aft-r this the wretched man
wrote a last farewell to his wife, in which he acknow.
ledged the justice of his sentence, the comfort which had
been poured into his heart by his religious advis-r, and
declared that he was perfectly resign .d to his fate.
Between seven and elght.o'clock he ate a very hearty
breakfast, and soon after received a visit from the She-
riff. About a quarter before ten he was conducted to
the Press-room to have his arms pinioned. He here
drank two glasses of wine offered to him by Mr. Tat-
man, who received the thanks both cf the prisoner and
the Reverend Gentleman, for his humane treatment
to the former during his imprisonment. At ten o'clock
the melancholy procession, headed by the offizers
of justice, moved towards the place of execution ;
but both the High Sheriff and the Und r Sheriff (Mr.
B.C. Smith, of Arherstone) withirew as soon as it
leached the Court-yard leading to the scaffold, and re-
tired into the interior of the prison, white the sentence
of the law was carried into execution.
The unhappy malefactor w is attended to the scaffold
by the Reverend Hugh La tgharne and the Rev. Mr.
; with the latter of whom he continued in ler:
vent prayer while the awful and appalling preparations
were making to draw a veil over his innrtal existence:
Alter these devotional eze►cises were concluded, he ap-
peated at first to be in great haste to be gone, and be-
fore the executioner was in readiness to lower the drop,
be bad given the signal by dropping his handkerchief.
Mr. TAtnall instantly stepped forward and again placed
it in•his hand ; and the wretched min for some minutes
prayed loudly and fervently, but principally in his na-
tive tongue. At length the fatal signal was given, the
platform fell, and the unfortunate culprit was launched
Into eternity, while in the act of imploring mercy from
his GOD. Among his last words were-4. Loan insus,
receive my soul! to thee I commend my spirit." "Open
to me the gate of life, U Loan, my Gw, and my Re-
BREMER!" He was slightly convulsed immediately after
suspension ; but was dead in less than forty seconds.
His behaviour on the scaffold was marked with the
greatest propriety. It was evident that since his con-
viction a great change had taken place, not only in his
manners, but in his countenance; which, instead of ob-
tuse insensibily, then exhibited mild resignation, humble
penitence, and great sensibility.
After h inn% the usual time, the body was cut down,
and delivered to it. Wood, Esq. of Birmingham,
for the use of the General, H .spital in that place, to be
by him dissected and anatomized according to the
•stattre.—frad was an Irishman by birth, and came
from the county of Galway. s►here are still living his
three sisters, an aged father and mother•, and a wife and
child. Hut parents•obtain a decent livelihood from the
cupatibn of a small farm; but his poor wife was en-
. sely dependent upon her hOsband for support. He
'had been married ta ice, and was in the twenty-seventh
year of his age. He was five feet eight inches in he.gbt,'
of sallow complexion, prominent forehead, and over-
shadowing eyebrows.
It is th. ught that Ford's original design. was ohly to
rob the horse of is victim, and it has been slid that
notes to a considerable amount, which Mr. Perry was
known to possess in the course of the day on which he
was attacked by his assassin, were never seen after
the murder.

The following is an extract of a letter ;addressed to
the Rev. Ambrose Bowles, Ennis, county Clare, Ireland,
written by Ford an hour before his execution, and given
to Mr. Turville, with a request that he would put it into
the hands of the Sheriff:

" An account from Michael Ford, of his death, tease Sal day at
April, 1826, who died in the 27th year of his age. I was dealing in
(Mr. Prrry'sl shop in the town of Birmingham, where t did work
on the 6th of December, and I had no thought in my heart to hurt
this man when I went in. I was but *ale in liquor, and there was
some words between me and him and I took a blurt. (cleaver) in
my hand and struck hint and killed him; but he Minn& till the
nidlit after. Then I went to the town of Liverpool, and was taken
on board of ship—that was on the 9th December—and was brought
to Birmingham again, and sent to Warwick Gaol, and was teed
on the 30th of March, sad found guilty and suffered We bd day of
April ;—but now there's no help fur the misfortune which is the
cause of my death, sod the Loos have mercy on my soul. Now,'
Mr. Bowles, when you read this letter in chapel ea Sunday; you
will give it to Thomas Grady, and I hope what I have done amiss
that it will never be returned to any one belonging to nie • for inla
short time I expected to go biome, and make up all Chad-done
amiss; but I can't go. I have wrote this letter about an hour before
I died. Now, my dear Mary, I wish you good luck ; and long. may
you live ; and now I am gone, to which I ant very sorry for it..
"MICHAEL FORiD, his hands, the 3d of April."
The Rev. Mr. Turville put into the Sheriff's hands
two other letters, which Ford had written on the slst
of March, from which it appears ti at it was really
his intention to confess his crime. The following. are
extracts:
I was brought up decently with my dor father, Edmund Ford,
and with my dear mother, Bridget O'Connor, and never seen either
of them slain anything out of the way ante d was born,. nor I did
not myself until I got married myself the second,time; and now I
don't blame any one for it but myself. As for my wife, ldsry
Grady, she did not know anything about it, nor any of her friends,
nor any one belonging to myself. As for my dear wife, Mary
Grady, I can give her as good a character as ever woman pt from
her husband; for she was one of the best tempered women that ever
I knew, both in heart and in mind, and in any kind of business that
woman could do.

" I hope, Mary, you will get married u soon as you will get thc
opportunity, and I hope you will look before you, and that yin'
have better luck than what you had by me. And now, Mary. I
hope you will be fond of my child; if ..he lives, and it will be all the
same for ycu, with the help of Goo. Now these are my last words
that ever I will ever speak to you. though I cannot speak to yult
now ; but it is all the same, for these words are from my own !surds,
but there is no help for this unfortunate death. Now. Miry. as,
blessing to you from my heart, and 1 d.id little thought t should
part with you as I have. lam now going to makes true and hum-
ble confession about what I have done amiss since I was bail to the
best of my knowledge.
" Now I am to die on the 3d of April. A Romtan Catholk priest,
of the name of Turvilk, attended to me ever since I was sent to
gaol, and employed a counsellor sod Aawyer for me at his own en-
pense. He has behaved like a brother to me, and long may he keg
in health, weahh, and prosperity. But now all is over,—bitt here
is now, from my brut, farewell to my dear and beloved Wife, and
to Thomas Grady, and to every and all belonging to them ; and
here is farewell to my dear father kud mother, my dear three sisters.
and to all friends and neighbour ad may the Loos have mercy
un the soul of " CII EL la."

The late severe frosts are supposed to have had An in.
jurious affect upon the peach. nectarine, and other wall-
trait trees; but the wheat is everywhere mot promising.

DEATH or CAPTAIN COOK AX OWfittiEL

There are a number of persons at laavaroa, and
other places in the islands, who either were present them-
selves at the unhappy dispute which in this vicinity
terminated the valuable life of the celebrated Captain
Cook, or who, from th..ir connection with those who
were on the spot, are well acquainted with theparticu-
lars of that melancholy event. With many of them we
have frequently conversed, and though their narratives
differ in a few smaller points, they all agree in the main
facts, .with the account published by Captain King,
his successor.

" Tne foreigner," they say, 0 was not to blame; for,
in the-first instance, our people stole his boat ; and he,
in order to recover it, desigited to take our King on
board his ship, and detain him there till it should be re-
stored. Kapena Kuhe, and Taraiopou, our King, were
walking together, towards the shore, when our people,
conscious of what had been done, thronged round the
King. and objected to his going any farther. His wife
also joined her entreaties that he would not go on board
the ships. While he was hesitating, a man cane running
from the otlier side of the bay, entered the crowd almost
breathless, and exclaimed, ' B is tear f—the I .reigners
have commenced hosti;ities, have fired (Ala cart:: front
one of their boats, and killed a chief."Th;s enraged
some of our people, and alarmed the Chiefs, as they
feared Captain Cook would kill the King. The people
alined themselves with ston-s, clubs, and spears. Ka.
nona entreated her husband not to go. All the Chiefs
did the same. The King sat dowa. The Captain seemed
agitated, and was walking towards the boat, when one
of our men attacked him with a spear; he turned, and
ith his double-barrelled gun, shot the man who struck
him. Some of our people then threw stones at him, which
being seen by his men, they fired on us. Capt. Cook
then endeavoured to stop his men from firing, but could
not, on account of the noise. He was turning again
to speak to us, when he was stabbed in the back with a
pahao; a spear was, at.the same time, driven through
his body, he fell into the water, and spoke no more.
_ _

,1 After he was dead, we all wailed. His bones were
separated—the flesh was scraped off and bsrnt, as was
the practice in regard to our own Chiefs when they died.
We thought he was the god Rono, worshipped him as
such, and after his death reverenced his bones."
Not only were his bones so treated, but almost every
relic left with him. Among other things a aledge, which
from their description of it, must have come from the
north-west coast of America, left at the islands by Capt.
Cook, or some of his companions, was afterwards wor-
shipped by the people. They called it, probably from
its singular shape, Opaitauarii, crab or shrimp, for a
Chief to rest on ; from opal, a crab or shrimp ; tau, to
ro,t or sit ; and arii, a Chief.

Many of the Chiefs frequently express the sorrow
they feel whenever they think of the Captain ; and even
the common people usually speak of these facts with
apparent regret; yet they exonerate the King Taraiopon
from all blame, as nothiny,. was done by his orders. I
was once in a house in Oahu with Karaimoku, and se-
veral other Chiefs, looking over the plates in the folio
edition of Cook's Voyages." They were greatly af-
fected with the print which represented his death, and
inquired if I knew the names of those who were slain
on that occasion. I perceived Kar.,imoku more than
once wipe the tears from his eyes, while conversing
about this m-lancholy event. He said, he recollected
Captain Cook's visit, if not also his-person, though he
was at Maui at the time of his death. More than once,
when, conversing with us on the length of time the Mis-
sionaries had been on the Society Islands, they have
said, " Why did you not come here sooner? Was it
beause we killed Captain Cook?"

We have sometimes asked them what inducement
they had to steal the boat, when they possessed so many
can, es of their own. • They have generally answe ei,
that they did not take it to transport themselves from
one island to another, for their own canoes were more,
convenient, and they knew better how to manage them;
but because they saw it was not sewed together, but
fastened with nals. These they wanted, therefore stole
the boat, and broke it to pieces the next day, in order
to obtain the'nails to make fish-hooks with. We have
every reason to beliese that this was the princiial, if
not the only motive, by which they were actuated in
committing the depredation which ultimately led to
such unhappy consequences. They prize net's very
ihigehly; and though we do not know that they ever
went so far
an it endeavours to obtain a more abun-
.. . ,
#tsupply. as the Society Llanders did, who actually
planted them in the ground, hoping they would grow
'like potatoes, or any other vegetable; yet suds is the
value they still- set on them, that the fishermen would
raiheer receive a. wrought nail, to make of it a fishhook
according to their own taste, than the best English
made fish-hock we could give them.
• It has been supposed, that the circumstance of Cap-
lain dookishones being separated, and Vie flesh taken
fro n them, was evidence of a savage and unrelenting
b:abatity ; but so far from this, it was the result of the
highest respect they could spew him.
We may also mention here t' e reason for %%Lich the
remains of Captain Cook tecetve was the ease, the
worship of a god. Among the Kings whi g'verned
Hawaii during what may, in its chronology, be called
•the fabulous age, was Itono, or Orono ; who, on some
account, became offended wieh his wife, and murdered
ha; but afterwards lamented the act so much as to
induce a state of mental derangement. In this state
he travelled through all the islands, boxing and wrest-
ling with every one he met. • _

He subsequently set sail in a singularly shaped canoe
for Tahiti, or a foreign country. After his departure
he was deified by his countrymen, and annual games
of boxing and wrestling were instituted to his ho.
sour. As soon as Captain Cook arrived, it was sup-
posed and reported, that the good Rono was returned;
Levee the people prostrated themselves before him as
he walked through the villages. But when, in the at-
tack made upon him, they saw his blood running, and
heard his groans, they said, " No, this is not Rono."
however, after his death, still supposed him to
be Rono, and expected he would appear again. Some
of his bones, his ribs, and breastbone. were considered
sacred, as part of Rono, and deposited in a heiau (tem-
ple) dedicated to Rono, on the opposite side of the
Island. There religious homage was paid to them, and
from thence they were annually carried in procession
to several other heiaus, or borne by the Priests round
the island, to collect the offerings of the people, for the
aepport of the worship of the god Rono. The bones
were preserved in a small basket of wicker-Work, com-
pletely covered over with red feathers ; which in those
days were considered to be the most valuable articles
the natives possessed, es being sacred, and a necessary
Appendage to every idol.—tikes Tear ire Uwhyhce.

MIDDLESEX StSSIONS, Arm 4.

...emill.

Them Sessions commenced with several cases of as.
:auk, of no interest.
14 tlliaat Bureham was indicted for a misdemeanour,
by intending to commit some bodily harm on the person
of William Wond.

Mr. CHARLES PHILLIPS stated the case, and repre-
sented that the prosecutor was a very respectable MIN
and 70 years of age. The defendant was a professional
Gentleman, :4nd also very respectable..

The offence charged was, that by a letter written to the prosecu-
tor, by the defentlai.t, wherein he described him as a " dirty scoun-
drel," he intended to provoke him to fight a duel.
After the case had been stated,
Dlr. niacin conmlted with his client, and said, if Mr. Adolphus
would say, as between Gentleman and Gentleman, that the defend-
ant had no intention to offend him, or to injure him, and had acted
under a misrepresentation made to him, be would consent to with-
draw a Juror.

Mr. Aooteuus did 30 to the full extent required, and a Juror was
withdrawn.

John Wallis was indicted for falsely imprisoning
Martha Elizabeth Ritchie; and in a second indicment.
with assaulting William Steadman Ritchie, her husband.
The defendant went to the house of the pro:ecutor, and
demanded of the wife, Ri she state-1, 7s. then .si. and
then reducing his demand, step by step, till he came
down to one penny; but she did not know what f. r;
he then put a padlock on the door, and locked her in for
half an hour. It turned out that 112 a+ as a collector o!
taxes. The husband afterwards interfered, and som-
slight assault took place, as it was s aid. These were
the offences Charged. The wife told her tale simply ;
but the husband was very flipeant in his manner, and
when asked by Mr. Anoimus, on his cross-examination,
if he did not give the defendant a sound beating, the
Learned Counsel intimating that he did so, he asked
him " How do you know r
Mr. Mauves shortly addressed the Jury, who found the de-
fendant " Guilty of the false imprisonment," and " Not Guilty of
the assault."

The CIUIRMAN fined hlm 131. 4d. and he was discharged.
SOUTHWARK SESSIONS.

George Riley, aged 26, was indicted for stealing a
witch, the property of Andrew Titchbour no, mate of the
New Darlington, of Stockton-upon-Tees, laying at
Beales' Wharf, Tooley-street.
The Captain of the vessel was awoke from sleep in
his cabin, betv. een ore and two in the morning, and
hearing some one breathing near him, leapt out of bed,
and secured the prisoner while attempting to gain the
deck, in who'e pocket the watch, wo.th 255. taken from
thepresecutor's bed's head while sleeping, %%a< found.
The prisoner made no defence, and was found guilty.—Seven
years' transportation.
Abraham Mears, and Anne his wife, were indicted
for stealing six pieces of Irish linen, from Mr. It chard
Stannury, of the Talbot Inn, in the Borough. The male
prisoner bad been carman in Mr. Stacbury's employ for
some years; and abstracted the property from a truss,'
sent down for conveyance to Brighton, from Messrs.
Aldred's, Fish-street-hill, which the wife was employed
to pawn.
The Jury found the male prisoner Guilty, but acquitted the wife.
The sentence of the Court was, that hebe transported for 14 years;
when the wife uttered a shriek, and nearly fainted, and continued
her cries round the lock up room fur a considerable time.

Thomas .Thses was indicted, for stealing a silk handkerchief from
the person of Joseph Thackragh, F:sq. hop-merchant, Tooley.street.
Ths prisoner was detected in the fact, and was fouul Guilty,
when the Ilicoanco, after telling him, that it was not his first at-
tempt by many, and that it was determined to clear the streets of
such characters, sentenced him to transportation for life.

Monday evening sennight a desperate riot took place
in Thurles, between two factions, whg-are closely con-
nected by the ties of relationship, out air con•tantly
seeking the destruction of each other. On the Police
intel feting to prevent their murderous proceedings, they
were assailed most furiously by the two parties,- and
compel.ed to retreat to their tart racks. The rioters still
pressing forward, and assailing them with eve: y de.
scription of missiles until they were actually goaded to
fire on them, which caused these disturbers of the peace
very soon to disperse, but mat until two of them were
shot dead, and many severely wounded. One of the
wounded, a b ty of IS years of age, is beyond all hope of
recovery, and the others are very danger ously wounded,
from the che‘t of one of whom a bad was extracted.—
Fourteen of the ringleaders are in cuttody.
Friday, Thomas Shipman, and Mary his wife, living
in the Barract-lane, Cnelmsfotd, at the instance of the
Overseers, were brought befote the Magistrates at the
Shire 11 sll, charged with having beaten, deprived of
food, and otherwise shamefully and wantonly ill-treated
their two infant children. The man was. specially
charged with having neglected to apply a proper por-
tion of his earnings to the maintenance of his children,
which had, in consequence, become actually charge-
able. The wife is the stepmother of the two children;
she has one of her own, looking heathy and well fed,
and she is far advanced with the second child. The
ages of the abused children are slx and three. Tire infants
were produced in Court ; the• exhibited *most ghastly
and tkeleton like appearance, being little more than
skin and bone. Great cruelty must have been exee cised
towards them both, and the eldest in paiticular
have shortly perished, but for the circumstances being
di .closed by the neighbours. Several persons were
examined, airily f. males, who spoke to having wit-
nessed the conduct of the father and stepmother: the
latter, in addition to beating the children, putting them
into tubs of cold water, and keeping them without food,
had repeated so filthy an acr, that we can make use of
no language to convey a further description of it.—
Some of the witnesses attached as much blame to the
man as to the woman, for his cruelty in tying them by
the hands and legs, and for beating them. The eldest
boy, on being asked which he liked best, his father or
mother, declared heilid not like ',none at all of them."
Since these children have been in the poor-house, their
Appetites have been most voracious, and th: re is alteady
a visible appearance of improve:net t in both. So en.
raged were the populace at the unnatural conduct of
the prisoners, that it their persons had not been pro.
tected, they would have been torn to pi:ces; and not.
withstanding the gaol caravan was provided to c.nvey
them to and from the prison, as a sevurity against
popular fury, the constables had much difficulty in
getting them in and out the vet cle, in the course of
which the man received many insults. Ile is a
labourer, but SO years of age; his earnings have been
10s. per week. They were both committed to take
their trials at the ensuing Sessions, for assaulting and
beating their children. The woman declared the charges
to be all false, and that the whole originated in a con-
spiracy; but she did not attempt to account for the
famine-like conditian of the children.
On a Lady's entering the assembly room at York,
Smut: asked bet same; be was tog it was a Mrs. Hasse ; on
which be said, " be bad often hoard of Honor's choice, but he
never saw it before."

SPORTING IN"I'ELLIOgNCL

TROTTING MATCH.
Match betweeh Diadem and Mr. 11. A. Otbaidestnn's
TlMi`st took place yesterday, from the 15th to the 25th tuiie-atone,
ow tbe Egbant read. !Madan woe, performing the ten miles In a
trot in 35 minutes.

NORTHAMPTON, Aram 1.
IMICHLET MONT RACKS.

The re-establishment of these Races has commenced under the
moat favourable auspices; the different Gentlemen in the vicinity
have come forward in a ♦ery handsome and liberal manner, and
their wishes have been met in a curs:•spoading ratio by the farmers
in the neighbourhood. Our liace Course nn Monday was attended
by such a numerous and respectable an assemblage as would not
have disgraced the Autumn Races. Among the company we noticed
the Noble Marquis of Northampton, who is at all times ready to
unction with his presence and patronage any measure which may
tend to the general interests of the town. Lord Lynedoch, several
members of the noble family of Grafton, and nearly the whole of
the Gentlemen in the neighbourhood. as well as many others from
the respective hunts included in the racing articles, also honoured
the meeting with their attendance.

• The circumstance of the three prises being obtained by hnrses in
the l'ytchley Hunt, will no doubt prove gratifying to Musters,
whose attention to the business of the day, in conjunction with Mr.
Payne, the High Sheriff of the county; must have met with the
unqualified approbation o: every one present. Their polite atten-
tion, however, was afterwards extended to the 11.11 Room, where
upwards of 200 Ladies and Centlenum assembled to enjoy the
pleasure of dancing. cards, &c. and their urbanity and politeness
was theme of conv,:rsation amoug the whole party. The company
did not separate till a late hour. Mr. Iliggins !creed up a must
excellent supper, in the same handsome style which he has so fre-
quently done on former occasions.

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'Tuesday the Course %VAS ;It thronged as on Monday. Mr. Mus-
ters, willing to gratify all that lay in his power, had appointed his
fox hounds to meet at that place • and we are certain that a similar
field of fux-hunters never attended the Pytchley bounds, nor pro-
bably any other pack, than met on Tuesday. Mr. Payne drove on
the Course with his handsome stud of greys, four in band, having
several gentlemen of the hunt in scarlet on the coach. Indeed the
lout ensemble, the number of gentleman in scarlet, the splendour of
the ladies, the vast'field of horsemen, from the Nobleman on his
Arabian to the sweep on his Jerusalem, and the immense assem-
blage of pedestrians of every description, scattered over this ex-
tensive piece of ground, (117 acres), bad a very fine effect, when
Mr. Musters rode upon the Course at the head of his hounds, at-
tended by his huntsman and whippers•in. The anxiety now was
most intense, expectation was on the wing, and every one was
asking for the fox—a bag fox; but after taking the hounds to toe
front of the grand stand, they were ordered to Harliston Heath,
and by far the greater part returned to their homes much pleased
with the Pytchley Hunt Races.