AT noon I rose and scratch'd my head, Resolv'd to dine with Tom and Ned, So took a coach at four to join THE SPORTING MAGAZINE; OR, MONTHLY CALENDAR, OF THE TRANSACTIONS of the TURF, the CHASE, And every other DIVERSION interesting to the [Embellished with a beautiful Engraving, from the Design of Mr. TOMSON, by Mr. SCOTT, of A HUNTER THROWN OUT; and an Etching of an EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE, by Mr. Howrrr.] LONDON, PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS; And Sold by J. WHEBLE, Warwick Square, Warwick Lane, near St. Paul's; C. CHAPPLE, 66, Pall-Mall, opposite St. James's Palace; J. BOOTH, Duke Street, Portland Place; JOHN HILTON, at Newmarket; and by every Bookseller and Stationer in Great Britain and Ireland. W. Justins, Printer' Warwick-Square. TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE Gentleman who transmitted a large packet from Dublin, with va rious pedigrees, &c. claims our sincere acknowledgment of his good wishes for the success and improvement of THE SPORTING MAGA ZINE. His letter, with the description of the carriage, engraved for Number CV. of this Work, and some of the pedigrees which accompanied them, distinguish our pages for the present month. Our old Correspondent at Bath, who informs us that he has all our Volumes, ab initio, elegantly bound, will perceive that his communications occupy a place in our Poetical Department. We heartily sympathise with him in his podagrous confinement, and wish him all the mitigation that a genuine acquaintance with the Muses will admit of. We have not the least objection to the Beatification, or the Apotheosis of the Grazier alluded to. A. B. who writes from Castle-Hedingham, will see that we have availed ourselves of some of his humourous sketches of modern manners in our present Number. In our next we shall endeavour to make use of the whole of his packet. X. Y.; a Juvenile Sportsman; and several other favours, are only postponed through the press of temporary matter. The essence and point of a good article in the FEAST OF WIT, in our last Magazine, is totally lost, by an error of the press, page 299, beginning," An eminent physician;"-it should have read, "a dismiss ing fee of five guineas," not two guineas; the mention of two guineas spoils the subsequent part of the article. THE Portrait of HYALE was from a Drawing of Mr. ToмSON, of Nottingham, and not from any Design of Mr. SARTORIOUS, as stated, by mistake, on the Cover, and in the Title-page, of last Month's Magazine. |