EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.

CONTEST FOR THE BRUSH;

OR,

THE HUNTSMAN'S OLD CROP, BEATING THE 'SQUIRE'S FAVOURITE GREY.

A beautiful Engraving, from the Design of Mr. Clifton Tomson, of Nottingham.

WE have no other description

to give, of this subject, than merely what is expressed above-CONTEST FOR THE BRUSH,the meaning of which is so evident as not to stand in need of explanation. The Huntsman and the *Squire are doubtless in pursuit at a Fox Chase, and the old truebottomed veteran of the former gives the go-by to the 'Squire's famous Grey, who, like many advertised horses in London, is "the best and fastest in the kingdom," -until another and a better, like Old Crop, comes against him.

SPORTING QUARREL.

TUESDAY, Nov. 17, in the

Court of King's Bench, Mr. Balguy said, he was instructed to move the Court for a criminal information against the Rev. Mr. Samuel Hunt, a clergyman in the county of Leicester, for challenging a gentleman, of the name of Nieu, to

fight a duel. were these:

The circumstances

Mr. Hunt, who was a sporting man, had been warned off the estate of Mr. Nieu; in revenge for which, he made a point of going out in the morning with a couple of spaniels, in that direction where he was likely to meet with Air. Nieu, who generally amused himself with the diversion of coursing. As soon as Mr. Hunt perceived Mr. Nieu's greyhounds, he would give the view holla! as if he had started the game, and then call the dogs on, in order to disappoint them. One morning, he went up to Mr. Nieu, and told him, that was the way he would always serve him; and upon being asked his reason for such behaviour, he replied, that he (Mr. Nicu) was a rascal and a scoundrel, and, if hẹ would exchange a brace of shot with him, he would wave his cloth

The Court granted a rule to shew cause.

wards vomited a considerable quantity of blood. Lord 'Harborough immediately sent for his carriage; but Lord F. could not be removed further than to an adjoining farmhouse.

The last accounts happily state, that he is better; and we trust he will be sufficiently recovered to meet his friends at Witley, on the 21st of December, on which day his Lordship comes of age.

COURSING MEETINGS, &c.

ESSEX.

THE HE following is a return of matches run in Essex, by the Bradwell and Tillingham Club, on Tuesday the 17th November. The weather was very fine, and the hares running strong, afforded an excellent day's sport.

WINNERS.

1. Mr. Cawston's Shift. 2. Mr. Dudley's Janns. 3. Mr. Dudley's Madam. 4. Mr. Evans's Wasp. 5. Mr. Dudley's Friday. 6. Mr. Bawtree's Duncan. 7. Mr. Evans's Wasp. 8. Mr. Dudley's Merlin. 9. Mr. Williams's Pigmy. 10. Mr. Dudley's Terling. 11. Mr. J. Wright's Catch. 12. Mr. Pattison's Twist. 13. Mr. J. Wright's Keeper. 14. Mr. Dudley's Madam.

LOSERS.

1. Mr. Dudley's Marplot. 2. Mr. Wise's Twist. 3. Mr. Wakefield's Mistress.. 4. Mr. Bawtree's Soot. 5. Mr. Wakefield's Defoe. 6. Major Pocklington's Speed. 7. Mr. Pattison's Reaper. 8. Mr. Wise's Chree. 9. Mr. Pattison's Twist. 10. Mr. Cawston's Shift

11. Mr. Wakefield's Mistress, 12. Mr. Williams's Primrose. 13. Mr. Dudley's Madam. 14. Mr. J. Wright's Keeper, 2d course.

SWAFFHAM.

The Coursing Meeting at Swaffham, this month, was numerously and respectably attended. The Silver Cup was won by Mr. Denton's bitch, Nettle, beating Mr. Tysten's bitch, and three others.

More matches were made than could be determined in the course of the week.

The assembly, on the Thursday evening, was brilliantly and numerously attended.

From the Morning Herald Newspaper, Nov. 26, 1801.

MR. EDITOR,

PRAY tell your "honest YORKSHIRE MAN," that I would fain invite him from his Flixton Wolds, to try a leash of Greyhounds with him, fairly, on some good ground unknown to the dogs of either country. My competitor is a little incorrect, in asserting, that I had represented the South country GREYHOUNDS as superior to those of the North :-a reference to my former note will convince him of his error. I am aware of the dodge of the hares on the top of his favou rite wolds, which often enables a hairy lurcher of that neighbourhood to beat, in this way, a good greyhound unpractised in these FLIXTON devices!

I wish to meet the Yorkshire Man, with no advantage or disadvantage on either side. Let him, therefore, name a leash of Greyhounds bred by himself, and now bona fide his own property, and I will produce a leash precisely under the same circumstances, and run him, upon any faiɛ Coursing

THE

HE annual meeting of the subscribers to the Leicester Hunt was this year unusually dashing.-A Silver Cup was substituted for the Whip; which, after a severe and well-contested heat, on Monday, October 26, was won by Captain Morgan's Young Morwick, rode by Captain Wilkie, beating Mr. Hudson's Lotion, Mr. Banbury's Honeysuckle, Mr. Pearson's Candidate, and Mr. J. Cradock's Sprightly.

The odds, at starting, were 2 to 1 against Honeysuckle, 5 to 2 against Young Morwick, 14 to 4 against Lotion, 4 to 1 against Candidate, and 10 to 1 againt Sprightly.

The same day, a match between Mr. Meredith and Mr. Dabbs was won by the former. Mr. Dabbs broke his stirrup-leather. Even betting.

And, on the day following, a match for 150 guineas, one fourmile heat, was run between Capt. Morgan's Young Morwick and Mr. Hudson's Lotion, which afforded

excellent diversion, and was won by the latter. Even betting.

CUMBERLAND HUNT.

The Egremont Meeting, which closed on Thursday the 18th Nov. was more numerously attended than for several former years; and, for conviviality and harmony, was never excelled since the first insti tution of the society. Some new members were added; and Ed. mund Lamplugh Irton, Esq. and John Jackson, Esq. were elected stewards for the next meeting.

The Hunt-Ball, at Whitehaven, on Thursday evening, afforded a fine display of beauty and elegance. The company consisted of fortynine ladies and thirty-one gentlemen.

Test between the renowned HE anxiously expected conchampions of the fist, Belcher and Burk, was this day decided. The public are sufficiently aware of the recent disappointment which oc curred at Enfield; consequently the intended place of rendezvous was kept so very secret, that, until Tuesday afternoon, the Campus Martius was not precisely adjusted. Hurley Bottom, a valley situated thirty-two miles from, Hyde-Park Corner, and about four miles and an half from Maidenhead, between the Henley and Reading roads was fixed on.

About ten minutes after twelve o'clock at noon, Belcher appeared on the stage, and having stripped with that gallantry for which he is

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