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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ANNER of taking Turtle Doves between Gnatia and Taranto,

M in the Two Sicilies, is received, and fhall be particularly at

tended to.

Reflections on the Incestuous and Immoral Practice of making Bulls in England, communicated by a Lady, fhall alfo be particularly noticed.

Account of the Dog-Eaters in Cafalnuovo, with a Confirmation, by Sir William Hamilton, is received.

Natural Hiftory of the Wolf, including an Account of the va rious Methods which have been taken to rid the World of so rapacious an Invader, deferves our beft acknowledgments.

A. B. offers to take the odds whether a certain young Prifoner is to be a Duke or no Duke, and defires us to calculate those odds: but we beg leave to decline the attempt, and refer the Enquirer to the Office of Arms. Had Dr. Price, who fo exactly calculated the chances of a Widow's marrying a fecond time, been exifting at this hour, he might have been able to have obliged A. B.

The Leaper, an Epigram, is received.

W. M's Hint fhall be attended to.

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We are not fuch novices, as to be ignorant of the drift of the Letter addressed to us under the fignature of a GENTLEMAN JOCKEY, containing many perfonal reflections on a Gentleman fuppofed to be one of our Correfpondents; these we pass by, being no concern of but the following paragraph feems to be intended for our notice: "If you could perfuade any Man of the Turf to make you

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an occafional prefent of a few columns, it would be of infinite "fervice." To this we reply, that we are defirous of fuch communications, and if we found them poffeffed of merit, fhould have no objection ta pay for them; by which means, if we mistake not, we might be enabled to announce every month, Ecce iterum Pafquinus.

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Sporting Magazine

For APRIL, 1794.

EASTER HUNT on EPPING
FOREST.

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HE affemblage near the Bald Faced Stag, on Eafter Monday, was more numerous than upon any former occafion. This holiday-hunt has often been defcribed by the pen of ridicule, and indeed, as far as relates to the fporting cocknies, who attend on this particular day, it can in no other way be fo well noticed.

to decorate the horns of the deer to be turned out, with ribbands; but this practice is difcontinued, as it expofed the poor animal rather to be MOBBED than

HUNTED.

The chief object for keeping up the ceremony is, we believe, to ferve the neighbouring inns and public honfes, and to put fomething into the pocket of the huntfman, for whom a gathering is made.

It may not, however, be im- A correfpondent who fays he proper to obferve that the hounds was prefent, has fent us the foland eftablishment are an appen- lowing account, the yle and dage to the royal chafe, fupported language of which is, however, of by the crown, with the aid of a fo fublime a caft, that we fear fubfcription from the neighbour- much for our own literary creing gentlemen. The custom for- dit, as the plainnefs of the few inmerly on an Eafter Monday was,troductory lines, when com

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pared with the elevated diction that follows, muft at once bid us hide our diminished heads, and Jhrink at the nobler effufions of genius and perfpicuity.

where, with great difficulty, making his way between coaches, carts, and through every defcription of horie and foot, he at length broke view, by gaining the COVERT, and foon gave the company upon the hill a pleafing gratification, then but little expected, by leading the CHASE Over the open part of the foreft, in view, when regaining the oppofite woods, they continued to run him half an hour, then tak

Who would not wish to fee once 2-But of thofe having feen it once, who would ever defire to fee it again. The continued ca.. valcade obfcured in duft, from that feat of equal induftry and extravagance, the metropolis, exceeded in length and numbers every idea that can be conceived of folly anding foil, they drew off the hounds, curiofity. The fcene was abfolutely too rich in variegation to receive its deferts from either the PEN or the PENCIL.

To fo glorious a Sporting repaft, every part of the country con tributed the most abundant proofs of its prolific powers, for the numbers of all ages, ftates and condi. tions that were feen for miles every way, and conftituted the aggregate, ferve only to give ample proofs of the POPULARITY and FORCE of this KINGDOM, fhould the fans cullottes ever hazard the dangerous experiment of analizing the ftate of our internal defence. Upon the most moderate calculation, there from two to three thousand horse. men, and feven or eight hundred vehicles of different defcriptions, in addition to predeftrians exceed ing the limits of credibility. Pugiliftic rencounters fucceeded each other in different rings for the amufement of one clafs, whilft the E. O. gentlemen thofe honeft induftrious branches of fociety, entertained, their friends in a booth erected for the purpose.

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At half past twelve, (after an inceffant ariival of the many thousands that attended the deer-cart from the Bald Faced Stag) the deer was liberated amidst the croud, and the hounds brought up close to his haunches,

and left him to enjoy his cafe, under an idea that they were to draw for, and take him with a good run on the following morning, when the temporary Nimrods were safe with Mr. Somnus, in the metropolis.

A LAW CASE.

For the SPORTING MAGAZINE,

ELLIS V. PIERSON.

WAGER.

HIS was an action to reco

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ver from the defendant, as the ftake-holder, a fum of money the plaintiff had won upon a wager, refpecting the amount of the duty on hops, from the year 1791 to 1792.

The counfel for the defendant. contended, that the action could not be fuftained, inasmuch as the wager was impertinent, and therefore illegal. He admitted, that fome wagers were recoverable by law, though feveral of the learned judges had expreffed a with, that all of them fhould be rendered illegal; but every wager that was against public policy, impertinent, or tended to immorality, or a breach of the peace, was repugnant to law,

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A Representation of the Asistance given by HIS MAJESTY and PRINCE of WALES to GEN GOLDSWORTHY in the City Road March 15th 1794.

Published by J. Wheble Warwick square May 1 1794.

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