The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-19 00:00:00

SPORTINO ipaiiiuogNcg.
otrrysti AT TATTICRSALL'S—Die. IR.
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liroitaturoaso.-6 to 2 asst RaNwaterr-S Art 91mitr
to- I agst Pro4enca-6 to 1 apt Don arlos-6 to I
asst Lyrnessa—.4s to I asst Creuida.. -
Thensy.-43 to I asst Reformer-6 to 1 apt Swiss-:10 to I
abet •460 sr •.. • • ts.. • •
OAICS.-4 to. I apt Prodence-6 Sr I agstLyroessa-7 to I',
apt sr to Sajlor.. . •
ST. Lsoca.—Teo to one Ofered.oll tbe field. .
ASHTON PARK COlllRSlML—ffroxastsuo, Dsc,•U3.
CAST DAT
T - Matches for 10 soy. ',ch. ••
• Ur. Hetherlncton's Nl,rtb-beat Mr. Hancock's red
Mr. Wilson's Fly heat Capt. Jonees Partassus. •••
Mr. Roden's. Flirt brat Mr. Goodismes oh. d.
r. Harrison's We. tt. best Mr. forth's Gerrard's esesoti.
Major Flowers' Slim brat Mr. Owea's Prodigy.

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• Poe 6 soy. each.
Mr. Harvey's Pilot beat Mr. Jeri hitt. b. • •
Mr. Ucley's Clare best Nlr..Mee's Juno.
Mr. Meredith's wh.d. beat Mr. Seholleld'a
Mr. Watson's Os sings brat Pielder's_Merrynsan.
Mr. Jacques' Bess beat Mr. Tadoesspotted b. •
The weath.-r was unfavourable, and the hares 'bowel but
indlffereut Pport,

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ECLIPSES ogee hloxett.—The Sio will be eclipsed oa
the tint day 9f the New tear; but the eclipse will ite
iteeisiile in this conntey; as the conjunction takes pl.ce a;
'twit noinneys post 8 in the morning, when the Sun begins
tp rise. 'The saute Luminary will be again et Tined on
the night of the 26th of January; but the ecli,j,•; 011 of
course besinvisible here) it takes place at 39 tramcar, past
eleven. a the 16th there will be an eclipse of the Moo.,
beginning at 13 minutes end 15 seconds after seven, which
will be partially visible here.
Flax.—This morning aloud 6 o'clock; a Gee broke ont at
the house of Mr. Legge t, No. 6, Adelphi T , which
burnt with conaidtrahle rapidity, and in a 'lout tivio con-
sumed the whole of the interior, including the furn'tare
and some valuable paintings. The loan is estim tied at
between 6 and 79001. We are happy to learn that no lives
were lost, and the premises we are informed were insured,
though not to the amount of the loss sustained.
The trial of the alleged murderers of Mr. Smith, et
Greenwich, is expected to take place this day at Maid-
stone. The witneeses left Greenwich early yesterday morn-
ing, for the purpose of going la- fore the Gran 1 Jury, to
find the Bill. Since the murder of Mr. Bird anti his house-
keeper at Greenwich, by Hussey, no circumstance has
created such a feeling in the minds of the inhabitants of
the County of Kent.—The iris' is expected to occupy the
time of the Court the whole of the day.
CUIttOUI OCCURRSMCS.—( From the Brighten ('hronicle.)
A circumstance of a moo extraordinary nature hat letely oe-
carred at Brighten. to January last, • shoemaker residing
here died, hieing a short time previous to his deaths p doted out
a box in the room as containing the proprity of is hich he was
possessed. This box a few hours afterwards was °paled by
lila daughter-in-law, and a female servant who kept his linear.
when they found lu it a pocket book containing 14 soverelina,
and some stasegigi papers, whit!' they did Hat exalsine closely
enough to ascertain their nature. Having closed the box, they
soot set for the purpose of ordering • c,d6n, end on their re-
issmillemeered that the papers hod been abstrac.ed from the
hoe, but that the sovereigns were left. Tue poor man was bu-
rled, and nothing further was heard u itil about three months
after, when certain promisory notes. four in number, and
amounting in the whole to the sum of 901. were pressehhe,l far
Payment to a builder of this town by an attorney, also residing
Is this pia a These notes, it should be observed, Vi.we pa)-
able to the deeveased, and not having been' found since has
death, it was infetred that they were toilsome with the stamped
papers thee strangely missing from his box. Inquiries were
of coarse-rinde of the attorney, at to the way in. which thews
notes had come into his hands, and he stated that they had
been given to him by a dauglitnr of the persons(Jewel)in whose
house the deceased had lodge.,. The matter slept until *boat
a week or ten days ago, when application was made to the 'ma-
gistrates, and the daughter being forthwith apprehended, on a
warrant issued by Sir D. Scott, she underwent a private eta-
minati before the lion. Hart.. its the coarse of whihli she pre-
varicated end coctrsdicted bersetf most grossly. and in a ca.
piety of ways. At the t.rrsination of this hearing she was re-
manded, and given in charge to • peace &leer, from whose
castody site unfortunately in the course of the day contrives',
with the assistance of her father, to escape. The letter person
was neat taken up. and there being no evidence brought for
ward to implicate him in the transaction of tee bills, he wag
detained for aiding the prisoner's escape, and given in ehara•
of the Sasle.Otiteer, from whoa, strange to tell, he scan Roo-
e vedel;by means cf some d Veroollnatlletivtea, to *get entity.
The mother of the Penile prisoner has sicce disappeared, and
it is much to he regretted, that, although a notice was sent by
the Magistrate to the attorney. not to suffer the notes to go out
of his possession, he had, shortly precious to receiving the
note, delivered up three of then to the mother. One is still in
his hands, but of course the administrators of the dec raced ere,
in consequence of the other thr a being missing, heat out of
tne money to which tea) are entitled. Every poeilblo ezertioh
• is still being made by the police, and as they are, we Übder
stand, possessed of a chess, there is little doubt tint the fugitives
will, ere long, be again in custody.
A Mpixstrea.—Art incamons attack was made On a fe
male, by a rufli.tn in the garb of a gentleman, on Tisseitsg
night last, in the neighbourhood of Grosvenor Sqnart.l,-
Miss !testily, a young female of respectahle connexiam.
was, shortly after ten o'clock, ;a-weeding through Minot
Street, on her retutn to her residence, near Covent (:'settee,
when she net viceosted by a ntv.in of fashionable appearance.
who rather rudely made some 'pro aches to her,
were repulsed ; be still continued to annoy her, end users
language of the most 'Gages ing kind ; she became alarmed
and was about to retreat, when he. caught her iound -the
waist, and stabbed her with • sharp iostruinent in the thigh ;
he was about t o rep, at the blow, but she screamed aloll.
and the comardly nil.creatit tied. The poor girl with Tel
'great difficulty, walked into Grosvenor Street, wbete slit
sunk senseless on the steps of a door. A gentleman
who was passing observed her, and incrantly gave some tho•
sey to two women to artist and restore her :the did ad a ich
the aid of some volatile amend she related the horrid aye,*
le the loy-standers. observing she should know the monster
again ; he was of tniddle site. dark Complexion, bus vy
whiskers. aud lia'l an extremely foppish appearance an-1
affected air. The gentlens in who at first vulUnteered -nos
Hiervices, perceiving 31ies Nevily to be suffering aeote p
bad her removed by the %ea:o'mm into a house, ant rke
wound d dby a surgeon ; after which are aasa at
home in a coach. This is the fourth attack of the kind, anti
apparently by the same miscreant wlttlia a few days.—lea
the Ilaribolottgli Street police report.
Thursday a Coroner's inquest was held at rime pi! the
bodies of Matitla mid Charlotte Tricker. the too children,
alto fell victims to the fire in their father's hosier
Wednesday morning, 'lnc Jury returned Ufa -
the children came by their death in conseqvienee of the file ;
and that " some pets se or per:4ns unknown also
maliciously set fire to the said dwelling house.' The
iuhebitants of Trume Lave opened a subscription for Mr.
Frit ker.
An inquest was held at Lessingtham,v On Satonlay the
6th inn., before Mr. ilenyan, Coroner, on vies of tilde
V body of Richard B vt.e, tanner's merest to Mr. Colbourn,
of Cranwell, near Sie•ford. It &Nowt! in eviden, e tow,
the deceased got' op about nee o'clock on' the Triday
morning previous, with the other terretintt, and tt. en to tea
stable, but inmost' of twin shoat his daily labour, he tout
a plough line, west into the kitebes aud tied it to the
towel toiler belsiod the doer, where bf • hanged himself,
Ttie eases aseigeed for this: rails set S. that he was "stashed
to a fellow servant sad ebb vemed, set les to hie estrisike
to marry hits..4erdiat, • Ii issity.' •

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