The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-06 00:00:00

SPARRING AT TUE FIVES COURT.

This place was yesterday crowded to more than a bumper
for the benefit of Spring, it being the day for making the
deposit of lOU sovereigns, two hundred abide, for the battle
between him and Neste, on the 20th inst. Spring is ingest
respected in private life, and his merit as a boxer seeds no
encomium. The setting-to was of the first order, and it une
not only a gratifying day to Spring, but also to the whole
audience.

Harmer and Carter made an excellent se:-to, and hit away
is if milling for a prize. There 'A as at once science and

Estes and Shelton poortrayed some very fine science will'
equal advantage. The gaiety and quickness of Este+ gate
biro often the best ; but Sbeltun bad a turn with his clumsy
sattleys in return.
Harry Holt and Scroggins next mounted the stage, and
afforded ouch assesemeot. Bolt's fine science kept the e-
temp at bay; bet he made up for it with some laughable
pantomimical alma.
The phenomena, Dick Curtis, shewed off unmercifully
upon the mug of Collies, who is a good bit of stuff, al-
though he had no chance.
Richmond and Lancaster, Belcher and Harmer, and
others, set to. . .

Spr ng and Estes wound up the sport in a scientific and
masted! bout. It was the most scientific display of the
lay. Si tint returned thank., his pall walked off the pett-
ier, and all was right.
Looper, the Gypsy, challenged Randal. who Wormed
ti a company that he shnuld beret:ter fight his business. He
a I dope his duty, and was cons it to leave well alone.
Carter challenged IN ard for a 'terse, and this will be
it.
Sprin re'nr.ted trai lug place, after the money was
made good.

SINGULAR WAGER.—A sentleinao, sixty years of age, e
deserted bran:h of the Roxburgh famiiy, has undertaken,
for a certain sum, to row sixty times t rJugh Blackfriars-
bridge, soma on shore, and go the times over the said
ridge ( n fo ft, and from t' lees to tile Obelisk in St.
Ororge's-hews; the whole to h, performed in the space of
one hour: to start at three o'cl.n.k in the afteruooa, oa
Tsesday, May 21.1, barring a gale of %1 ind.

Probate of the Will of the late Bight Hon. Lsdy Cath• •
tine Tylney Long, passed Vie seal of tile Prerogative Cour g
on the 29th ult. Her Lady ship has left all her effects and
monies in reversion to her two younger daughters, Dorothy
and Emma Tylney Long, a ith the exception only of " my
wedding watch and my late husband's diamond ring,"'
which are given to her daughter, the wife of W. Long Wel-
lesley, Esq. John Barry, Esq. of Bath, and Charles Barry,
of Jermyn-street, surgeon, are the.executors. The will is
dated the 12th of Ootober, MO. Her Ladyship's residence
was at Draycot House, Wilts. The property is sworn en-
' der 9,000/.
To a Correspondent (says The Glaegow Chroolie!e),
who, after displaying his gallantry in the late war,
engaged with philanthropical pursuits in his native
country, we are tndebted for the following ioterestiug
communication :•—••• St. Sebastian is one of the strongest
pin ca in Spain. The first attempt of the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON to take it in lsl3 failed; and the second very
nearly did so, Sir Tuomastiltsi, un, (Lord Lytiedoch)
having been obliged, in the midst of the attack, to
open all his batteries on the breach, whilst the
storming party lay on the ground, and the shut passed
over them, in some cases wi Alin a few incites of theta.
Our a• my lost, I this'll, about foot thousan t men, kil!ed
and wounded. There is a castle to which the Freuch
retired, after abandoning the town, lint it cannot boll
long, after the town is lost. Pampeluna is a very strong
place, the strongeit in Europe, at it is ro: commanded
by any height from which it can be bait. red. In I SI3, it
was starved out, and surrendercti after the failure of
Soult to relieve it. It stands on a pl..in, with a small
river running past it. The whole toad to Vit•
toria is strung, and might be defended, but is
a very poor part of Spain. Burgos and Saratos'a
are fortihed. The former was a very strung place..."
but 1 don't know if it has been repaired since the Freya
blew up iho fortifications in 1513. Mirando de Ebro vas
the passage we advanced by in ISIS ; but as we came from
Bragnum, and the French are on the route to Madrid, they
will likely pus by Logrono and Calahorra, or by Mi:agro
and Tudela, as there are bridges at.each of these pigeon's!'
the Ebro. If the Spaniards. however, blow them up, the
French must wait for their pontunos, and from the badness
of the roads, they wilt have difficulty iu getting on with
them. If the Spaniards are heartily in the cause, they co
never be conquered, and much ibTends upon the Ports-
guese, who had a tine arm), and I suppose stil have if.''

MARRIED.—On the 14 inst. at St. Saviour's, Southwark.
Mr. Benjamin Green, of Upper Thames-street, to Susannah
Tucker Roo/laud, second ilaugt.ter of Joshua Howland, Eul•
of the Borough.

DIED.—Sir R. Kingsniiii, Bart. of SititYoll.oll, Hoots, is
the OW year of his age.
At his house at Croydon. on the 22,i of this month, Fred.
Smith, of the Soc:ety of Fritn .s.

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