The Statesman. — 1810-04-21 (London, England)

BOXING.  • • 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, although 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. - 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.