Star.
London, England, 1821-10-05 00:00:00

FOOT RACE.

A running match, which excited the most lively interest, foe
a wager of 20 guineas, took place on Wednesday morning in
Hyde Park, between two young men of well known pedestrian
fame, who were designated for the occasion, the one .rock 44-
golt. and the other Tull Boy. At seven o'clock they met at the
Basin, from whence they proceeded to. Buck-hill, where the
ground (150 yards) was measured. Before they started betting
was rather in favour of Jack Spinoff, whose ability as a runner
has long been known, but when both were stripped, the high
condition, length, strength, and known bottom of Tall Boy, eotn-
pletely turned the tables, and betting then became 5 and 6 to 4
in his favour. They started precisely at 20 minutes past seven
o'clock, and kept abreast for eighty yards, when Jack Spiggolt
began to lose ground. Betting now became Bto 1,10 to 1, and
at last 20 to 1, and any odds, as every sti ide threw him behind.
Tall Boy eventually won the match, beating poor Jack upwards
of nine yards, amidst the acclamations of the winning party.

The Hon. F. G. HOWARD has this year grown, in
his garden, at his seat at Elford Hall, in Stafford-
shire, a bunch of telsite grapes, which were of the ex-
traordinary weight of fifteen pounds!
Aforked radish, weighing eight pounds and a half,
raised in New Jersey, is exhibiting at Philadelphia!
Sunday, a Lady and Gentleman from London,
arrived at Carlisle by the mail, • and immediately set
off in a chaise and four for the matt imonial shrine at
Gretna-Gieen, where they were duly bound in the
silken bands of Hymen. They concealecrtheir names
in Carlisle. The gallant was considerably older than
the Lady.
Mr. CURRAN observing one day in Court a l—se
crawling on a brother Barrister's forehead, told him
of it. " You joke," said the other. " If you have
many such jokes in your head,"replied CURRAN, " the
sooner you crack them the better !"
At a Special Term of the Circuit Court for St.
Clair County, holden at Belleville, in the United States,
on the 26th of July, came on the trial cf Timothy
Bennett, for the murder of Al phonso C. Stewart, com-
mitted in February, 1819. It appeared that the dis-
pute between Bennett and Stewart arose from the
loss of a mare belonging to Bennett, which he sup-
posed had been killed by Stewart, The parties met
at a tavern, at Belleville, when it was proposed to
Stewart to challenge Bennett to fight a duel, the pro-
posers assuring Stewart that it should be a sham duel.
The challenge was accordingly sent by Stewart, and
accepted by Bennett. The seconds loaded the rifles
with powder only, taking care to slip the balls which
were in their hands into their sleeves. Bennett was
seen to put a ball into his rifle, after his second had
handed it to him. They then went into the public
street, took their distance, and fired. Stewart was
shot through the heart, and fell. Bennett was im-
mediately arrested, examined, and committed to pri-
son, whence he escaped on the evening previous to
the day appointed for his trial. About six weeks
since, he returned to the neighbourhood of Belleville
for his family, and succeeded in removing them to the
IState of Missouri. He was apprehended near St. Ge-
I nevieve, and again confined in Iselieville jail. The Jury,
after a patient investigation of the case, returned a
verdict of Guilty, and he was sentenced to be hung on
the 3d of September last.
Coss EXCIIANOW AIAIN.LANICt s.—The arrivals of an
Grain, since Monday, have been but small, yet our Market
continues extremely dull for the inferior qualities of new wheat;
but line old fully supports Monday's prices. Barley is Is. per
quarter cheaper, having but few buyers. Beans and Peas are
dLll 'ale at Monday's prices; but Oats were tolerably brisk, at a
decline of Is. per quarter.
SMITHFIEM MARKET, OCT. s.—There is but a middling sup.
ply a Cattle at Market this morning, in consequence of which
the prizes are somewhat higher than oh last market day. The
price of Hay is rather lower. Straw and Clover remain as on
Monday.—Current prices :
Beef. 3s. Od. to 4s. 41. per stone of albs.; Muttnn, 21. 6d.
to 4s. Od. Veal. as. 01. to 4s. lOd. fork, 2s. 61. to o.ol—
at Market : Beasts, 410; ( alves, 220; Sheep and Lambs,
7,4.50; Pigs, 190—flay and Straw per load, Hay, SI. 10s. to
44 6s. Clover, 41. to 51. Ss. Straw, 11. 10s. to 11. 16s.

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CIRCUIT LVTELLIGENCE.

Tuesday se'nnight, the Circuit Court of Justiciary
was opened at Ayr by Lords HERMAND and MISA

Down ASK.
Allan Carswell was convicted of forgery. It ap-
peared from the evidence, that the prisoner sent a
man of the name of Robert Carswell to the Com-
mercial Bank in Belch with a bill for forty pounds to
be discounted, but it was discovered to be a forgery;
the man called himself Alexander Watt. Mr. Faulds,
Agent of the Bank, said he was so satisfied of one of
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the names being a forgery, that he did not think it
necessary to compare it. The Jury found the pri-
soner Guilty of uttering the bill knowing it to be
forged, but recommended him to mercy. Ile was
then sentenced to be executed at Ayr on Friday, the
2d' of November. The prisoner, on receiving sell-
%Me, was much affected.

INVERNESS SEPTEMBER ca.
The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here
on Wednesday, by the Right Lion. the LORD Just=
CLERK and Lord Pyrsitu.y. After prayers by the
Rev. ALEXANDER ROSE, sentences of outlawry were
pronounced against Anne Mackenzie alias Reach, from
the parish of Fodderty, in the county of Ross, accused
of child-murder and concealment of pregnancy ; and
against her and George Tol,nie, luzr uncle, on an in-
dictment founded on''
the Statute, made in the year

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1567, c. 11. for incest.
The Court then proceeded to the case of Donald
Munro, Wvi. Munro, *and Mathew Water, accused of
mobbing and rioting, as also of violently resisting
and obstructing his Majesty's military officers or sol-
diers, in the discharge and execution of their duty ;
as also the assaulting, beating, bruising, and wound-
ing any of the lieges, to the effusion of their blood,
and injury of their persons, and more especially when
committed against such officers or soldiers when so
employed. There was no formal objection made to
the relevancy of the indictment. But the prisoners
Counsel stated, that the second article of charge
amounted, as libelled, to the crime of High Treason,
and could not with any propriety be therefore tried
on the common law, as now attempted. The Court
being not of this opinion, the objection was immediately
withdrawn, and the evidence for the prosecution
gone into. It appeared from the witnesses adduced
on that side, that there was a market on the 15th of
May last at North Don, in the Parish of Watten, and
County of Caithness, to which recruiting parties of
the 78th and 93d Regiments went, for the purpose
of beating up for recruits. These two parties arrived
from Thurso at the market about twelve o'clock at
noon, and on two several occasions paraded through
the place, but got no recruits. About six o'clock an
the evening, the serjeants who commanded ordered
the drummer to beat the long roll (as it is called),
that the recruits and other soldiers under their com-
mand might assemble, to march home to Thurso,
about nine miles distant. In' course of forming the
recruiting party, in order to take another turn, and
then go home, Serjeant Gann began to wave his
drawn sword, in order to induce the crowd assem-
bled to fall back and give room. Up to this mo-
ment, all parties were in good humour with each
other—the military and the country people had been
dancing, and no dispute had occurred, nor was any
sort of insult or interruption given to the military.
In the bustle, however, of receding, a boy was pushed
in against Guan and fel). about his feet. Both ser-.
jeanis swore. chap at the time the boy was pushed in,
Gann was flourishing with' his sword ; put back the
people, and was told by the prisoner, D. Munro, that
he had no right to draw his sword, and to return it
to the scabbard, or else he would cleave the serjeant's
head. The serjeant answered, that he drew his
sword for the purpose of heading the line forming by
the military, and that be could not therefore sheath
it; on which Munro immediately struck Gunn, as
did also many of the other country people ; and the
soldiery having come up, a general battle ensued,
and lasted for some minutes. The fermentation oc-
casioned by this fray was so great, that the military
did not again parade through the fair; but after
waiting for some time in a booth, marched home to
Thurso, where several of the party were foe some
days attended by a surgeon.
By the exculpatory witnesses again, four of whom
were on the spot, it was sworn to, that serjeant Gunn,
on the boy being pushed in, turned round to the pri-
soner, Donald Munro, and accused him of having
pushed in the boy, and on this being denied, said—
D—n you, .Munro, run you through the body ;"
and lifting up his sword, once hit him with the sword
about the breast or head, and aimed a second blow
at him, which was parried off by a switch that Munro
held ; that the people stepped in, and after this the
affray became common to all, and country people
and military mixed up into a confused crowd, fight-
ing against each other. These witnesses also swore,
that it was not Munro who pushed in the boy, nor
did lie or any one else strike Gunn, before his swear-
ing to run him through. One of the witnesses exa-
mined for the Crown, recollected serjeant Gunn
using words similar to what the exculpatory witnesses
swore to ; but Gunn himself, or the other serjeant,
had no recollection of this ; and what appeared rather
strange, serjeant Bruce swore, he saw Gunn knocked
down, while Gunn himself swore he wasnot knocked
down. Several other discrepancies were observed in
the evidence on both sides ; and the preSiding Judge,
as well as the respective Counsel, decidedly expressed
their opinion, that it was perfectly impossible to re-.
concile the conflicting testimonies of the two sets
of witnesses. _ _

When the proof was closing, Mr. GRANT, Coun-
sel for the prisoners, offered to prove, by the evidence
of a witness for the Crown, who had net been exa-
mined, that a large bludgeon, with an iron head, pro-
duced in Court,
.had, during the affray, been taken
from one of the soldiers, though that soldier, in his
examination, had positively sworn that he bad never
seen the stick. The prosecutor objected to the pro-
duction or identifying of it, as notice had not been
given to him of the tutenuon to do so. But as no spe-
cial defence had been required by him, the Court
found it was perfectly competent to prove the owner-
ship and identity of the stick; and it was proved accord-
ingly. After written certificates of the peaceable
conduct of the prisoners, from the Earl of Caithness
and others, had been read, the ADVOCATE DEPUTE
and Mr. GRANT severally addressed the Jury.
The LORD Justice CLFAIC then summed up the