Star.
London, England, 1804-01-03 00:00:00

SPORTIII4;

A enrious bet was decided yelleyday war the New ..
Road, in which one man betted due he would hop
too yards, while the other ran double the number.—r .
A great number of people were prefent, when the
.6ftpling gentleman beat his antagonift by many paces.
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We hear that Mr. Dewsow has foil Afacomou to
Lord G. H. CAVIINDIIIII for isoogs,
On Friday lad a wager was laid that 'iamb& K.:
would walk trona Town to Hendon, Middlefez, io one
hour, the didaoce being forep miles the wager wis*
won, for the man performed it in 55 minutes.
Barris° Roost.--On Thurfday lad was run, ever
Epfom Downs, a match, the eircumdances of which
are at prefent the fird fubjed cf converfatios among
the fporting circles. •

About three weeks ago, one of there hales was
dilianced by the other, and at a dinner, in conk.
crence therenf,the owner oldie toting 11104; (a yopog
foreigner, of large fortune, well known m Liwd„ .
DILLBY':Hunt), having got a little mellow, expreffed;
that his borfe was (kill the bell. A celebrateilaablt
keeper in the neighbourhood of Croydon, propofeJ a .
match of So to 7o guineas, to be run on Tburfday,
the 29th of December, two miles each, carrying to
none, to (tartprecifely at one O'clock, P.M. and then
to fit the eiders. The stable keeper fized us the fee-
' vant of a Gentleman prefent, who was attendingliis
mailer. The foreign Gentleman mentioned !shown
groom. Things thus- Ion& till two days before toes
match was to be run, when the foreigner received
notice that his adverfary had changed bis mind aa4 -
fixed on a regular svell•dredJockey. Totally at a lofe
what to do, and giving utilisinatch as 1011, he met
accidentally on Wednefday afternoons.' bandies thine
and four o'clock, a YopledareGentleman well Wawa
on the Turf, to whom be reprefented his dahlaidkr.
who innantly advifed him to driveliodonio4l/1.-•
market, and engage Mr. Buckle, he fithjbelier
the kingdom, to be his rider. Off they west. awl ,
the nett day, the hour of farting Retire& and shit
winners of the former match were betting tea to coon
they would he equally fuccefsful in the prefent--wheat
the we!! bred rider was mounted cap•a•pee—in colours
of the brightefl hne, to fnatch, a, they thonlit,. by
fuperior hosiemanflaip, the palm of vietory fro an
Igneraasas common groom, out jumped, from a pot.
chaife, the Marna Apollo of Jockies, Mr. Buckle,
ready cquipt, and weighed at Epfom, who lea an
his bode in an infiant, and by dint of the so& htpe.
rior hill in his profeflion, in a few minutes beiseght •
in the drfiresced horfe jna half a length berm Isis fon•
mer conqueror. The efoolfiratot of the public at da
bobs, poem prof° appearance of Mr. Buckle wad equal
to that of the wondering multitude prefent, at the
fudden produtaion of the ofir ears on the head of
Judge Minas, and bets immediately from tea to use
to even money. It is underitood that a jeon was is
the back ground, the principal mover of the ahem
tranfa9ion.

The match was yefterday the chief theme of coo.
verfation at Tatterfali's.

A Tar, in the neighbourhood of Wapping, who
has lately opened a tobacconift's (hop, has the follow.
ing notice upon a board in the window :
Fell many a gale I w. abeed oat.
Before ;Ma port I made ;
And baying wore my e .rwaa oat,
My anchor here I've laid.
No wields for favour I invoke,
fpare or All my fail ;
But only beg my friends would fmoke.
And blow a pleafant gale.

I Nay' Irises DAY.—By an edia in France. A.D.
1564, the commencement of the year was fixed to the
it of January, The Jews commence the year in the
beginning if September ; the Turks the beginning of
July ; and the modern French the 2la of &casaba.

OEIC IN OF NEW Y 1 GIFTS.—MARCIELLUE
dates the origin to TATIUE. King of the Sabines.
who reigned in Rome jointly with ROM yarn; and
who, taking as a good omen the prefent made him
lon the fill of the year or Come branches of the wood
facred to Sratsua, the goddefs of &mkt's.
rifed the cullom ; and the Romans, after that time.
gave prefects to their bell friends on the renewal cf
the year.

Lail week more than three thoafand poor perfous
in the neighbourhood of Blenheim, partook of the
annual Chriamas bounty .f his Grace the Duke of
Msacaottooott. The ufitel number of fat oxen, and a
proportionate quantity of bread, were divided amongi
them ; and at the fame time the liberal donation of
her Grace the Duchefs of Maitcsoiounn was dillri-
buted, as ufual, arnongft the poor widows, and mu-
tied women, in the with of Wooditoek.
A Roman Catholic citrate, to free Marfa* from
the great labour of confcgions in Lent, gave notice
o his patifbionPrs, that on Monday he thould confide
the liars; on Tiief,lay. the pi!firs ; on Wednefday.
theft's:!! r:: on Thurfday, the /Keyes ; on Friday,
the V•r.',us ; and on Saturday, the Lad worms. His
fcheme fucceeded—none attended.

Agnes Gray, a flinpwoman to Mr. Arch. Mims,
haherdafher, in Edinburgh, was isa week eausidied
before the Lords of Julticiary, of healing feveral
articles from her maft,t's ; an,. after a very &learn
admonition from Lord Cast& vho expatiated very
largelyon the great canrmity of the offence, fentenced
to !ix months imprifonment, and then to be ItatVued
fronc Zect;ard during all the days of her life.
I.aft night, at tit o'clock, a large cargo Cl. COO.
via, were fent off from Newgate, in order to be
cnnveyed on board the ht.ik. at Woolwich. They
atrouttted to about fifty, and filled two large tilted
waggon.. The confi,;:nient theft wreicl,ed men have
already roffered, and the punithmera they have y:t
to endure, I.:em:d to have made an impredi•,n on
them whato.er. One ferow, on aio.nding :he laci2zr
I:ading to the wagg 13. tot •1. 1, with the
greatell Co. lnen, Lod, J r.:.iy fee you