The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-03 00:00:00

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ICAIantIOGI; Z4NUARY 1.

This day.the 10i PF.,PLAR•O N, Master oirici.
ney Craig; us e!ectaxl Christian Advocate of
this Univenity. In Owl room of the Rev. Mr.
COCILIURD; of Si. John;i, whose time now expires,
u the office can. only be held seven years by the
slime person, :agreeable to the will of the founder,
the late Rev. J. litmsz, of Cheshire.
The Bishop of LINCOLN has instituted the Rev.
Mr. GODFREY to the Rectory of Ashton, llerts.

BOXING.

By way of ushering in the New Year, the ama-
teurs of the fist had a full day's sport cut out fur
Monday ; no less than three tights, which had been
made some lime, having been fixed to take place.
These matches were decided on Monday on High-
gate Common, in the presence of a very numerous
field. The first match fur 40 guineas, was be-
tween an Irishman of the name of Christie, who
never fought a pitched battle before, and a second
rater of the twee of Burn. This battle afforded
but very little diverson. Christie could neither
give nor stop, and his adversary, although he
possessed some science, bad no gift at hitting,
and but suspicious bottom. After a hugging bat-
tle of forty minutes, Burn was declared the vie.
tor. Richtnati, the black, and Blake were the se.
conds.

The second battle war betwixt two well known
boxers in miniature; the one of which was Bal.
lard, a Westminster lad, and the pupil of the ve.
terra Caleb Baldwin, and the other Charles Bran.
awn, who has combated with Dixon and others.
This was a good battle, which consisted of real
fighting for three quarters •f an hour. Ballard
is a stout man, but of inferior stature to his ad.
versary, who set to in the best form. By agility
and strength, with science on both sides, 13allard
was enabled to put in blows of force, and although
Brannam hit °fleetest, the blows of his adversary
were so planted on his body, that he gave in when
sitting on the knee of his secoud, unable to rise.
Brannam hail another disadvantage, he lamed
himself iu both hands iu the early part of the
cent est.

A third and sanguinary battle, which lasted 35
minutes, took place betwixt two brethren of the
lust. The combatants were sturdy, determined,
unscientific men, and they displayed plenty of
bottom. The looser was two stone light►st, and
be fought resolutely, and exchanged many blows,
but strength at length presided. There were.
several Gentlemen amateurs of distinction on the
ground, and a multiplicity of persons went to
Acton by mistake, as the matches were first fixed
to take place there, and altered at ten o'clock ow
Sunday misfit.

A matrimonial alliance is said to be on the tapis
between Sir %V. GEARY, Bart. and the amiable
relict of Mr. Dering, daugltter of R. Nxvim.x,
Esq. M. P. for Wexford. •
Viscount PRIMROSE, Lord WALPOLE, and EMI.
Riots% ELREN, Esti. of Lynn, ere appointed

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A Keeper at Tottenham Park having to kill a
deer the other day, and having singled one out,
shot of its hind foot, and the doer through the
head, with the same ball : the deer had lifted up
its hind foot, awl was scratching its head at the
time the keeper fired.
Mr. King, of Swan-ham, lately killed a Gal-
loway heifer, not fed on artificial food, which
weighed upwards of 75 stone (of 14 lbs.) and from
which was taken more than 13 stone of fat.

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On Monday morning, and yesterday morning,
Mr. 11.ora, of MausGeld-street, POrtland.place,
with his usual liberality, distributed alms to up.
wards of 200 pour women, by way of New Yeas*s
Gifts.
State of the Barometer within 36 years.—By
the Register of Mr. John Mills, of Bury, it ap.
pears, that on the 12th of Jan. 1773, it was at
28. 25.—0 n the 11th of March, 1713, at 28.--
On the 20th of Jan. 1791, at 28; and on the
17th and 18th of Dec. 1809, at 28.
Died on Tuesday, the 19th of Dec. at Fring, in
the county of Norfolk, after a short indisposition,
Thomas Dusgate, Esq. a gentleman well known
for his extensive concerns as a land owner and
farmer, most sincerely regretted by his family and
friends, and by whose death the poor will experi-
ence a great and irreparable loss.
Lord KINNAIRD'S splendid mansion in the vi.
cinity of Grosvenor.square, with the who'd of its
costly furniture, Collection of Pictures, Library,
and articles a veil) is let to Lord Pawsaarrox
for a terns.
A numbet of persons in the parish of St. Mary-
10-bor were defrauded) on Saturday, by'a man
who brought them Two-penny Post letters, which,
when opened, proved to be blanks. The fellow.
had stamped them so as to have the appearance of
coming (rota the Post-Mice, and had directed
them to such houses as had the occupiers' names
on the doors,
On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Sutton, an elderly
woman, the wife of Mr. Sutton, cuaeh-painter, of
-Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, put a period
to her life by hanging herself. Mrs. S. had been
to church in the morning, and had gone through
her occupations of the day as usual; in the after.
noon she appeared to be drowsy, and retired, as
the family thought, to bed: Mr. S'had not missed'
per' ten minutes, when he haitened to her bed-
room, but she was not there, and art immediate
search was made out of the house, when a stable.
door, behind the premises, was discovered to be
locked, with the key inside; the door was broke
open, and Mrs. S. was found hanging, by a small'
cord, arid quite dead. No particular reason can
be assigned for her having committed thistunhappy
deed of suicide.
On Sunday afternoon the body of a young man
was discovered floating on the surface of ttlas,New
River, and from some papers found in his poiket,..
appears to have been a clerk late in the employ oil
Messrs. Meux and Co. From the putrid state in
which the body was, it is presumed it must have
lain in the water a consilerable time.

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