The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-04-21 00:00:00

BOXING.

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The first meeting of note of this season, amongst I
the amateurs of pugilism, took place un Thursday .1
afternoon, on lied Oak Cusntuuti, ucar Acton, to
• attend an .exhibition between two professors' of 1
the names of Ballard and Hall. Thu fount% has
contested many successful battles, under the tul.
. lion of Caleb Baldwin, the veteran ; • and this pu.
pll has been for some time the IVestwinsta am.
pion. Hall was a candidate for fame from Brit.
tol, the nursery that has produced all the find.
. rate fighters of the present day. lie has all the
appearance of a fighting.man, but not wall
versed in action. At three o'clock in the after.
noon, Tom Jones and Dick Whet* lcd in the
countryman, and Caleb Baldwin and Clark se:
couded Ballard. The contest was fur a subscrip.
tion.purse. of 20 guineas, withheld from Dixon
and Brannaway last week, and Ball was the (a.
make at setting-to. In the first round it was
seen that /101 l was without science, and Ballard
pinked his head; but at the close of the roan'',
the countryman planted a half-round bit on the,
side of Ballardis neck, and he fell. This hit
bronght betting to 2 to 1 in favour of Hall, but
although the fight might have been considered to
have been taken out of Ballard, Ite,ralliolagain
in the next round, planted two hits on his ;elver-
" saty's eye, and gave himself an easy fall. Ile
„sallied again in the third round, and hit Hall on
the left side, which puffed it up to the.size.of an
egg. Hall bad the bust of the fight after this, al-
though he cats only be said to have one perfection,
which is, making tremendous right hand blows.
These blows, although .slowly planted, Ballard
was not able to atop, ar get away from, and he
• fought Nader every disadvantage for half an hour,
when he resigned, nulled in a manner that would
satisfy any glutton. Hall will be matched ism.
diately against Cropley or Dogherly.

At the late Sessions at Bristol, the trial took
place of a Baronet for an offence alleged to have
been committed against a young woman in that
city, and to which we alluded in a paragraph in
our paper in December last. A verdict of acquit.
tal was given, to the satisfaction of every one pre.
sent, and we now find that all the circumstances of
the charge* were originally misrepresented to us,
and that there was, in truth, no foundation for
any charge at all, the whole hating originated in
a most foul conspiracy to extort money. The,
Gentleman Is justly entitled .to the thanks of the
public, for Imting, met the accusation in so propel
a way, and **trust the conspirators will be pro.
Rented.
Mitocrove TaansacTron....A murder, at.'
tended with rape and other circumstances of a
most atrocious nature, was committal on Sunday
se'nnight, in the parish of Speynigutti, daring
divine service, on the body of a girl of the name
of Lamb, only ten years of age..—The girl had
gone out in the forenoon with her father's cattle, to
a Moor in the vicinity of his farm, where she was
followed. by a lad of the name of Gilzean, a neigh.
bouriog farm servant, who carried with him an
oaken Modena taken from a plantation near the
place, with which ho folltxl her to the groom", and
afterwards, shocking to relate, heat-.out her brains„
with two stones that were found, together with
the bludgeon, beside the mangled body. After
the commission of this horrid deed he hastened tq
chardi, to avoid suspicion. For *Several days he
denied the crime laid to his charge, but we are
sincqinformed that he admits having committed the
murder, but persists in denying. the, rape: ~The
unhappy *retch pleaded meatsl derailment it
the tine of committing the act, hi extenuation of
his horrid barbarity.
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On opening • Lard Co r.t.tycw 000's body, a
large stone was found' in the passage to the blad.
der, which it is supposed occasioned his death.