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A man lately fishing in the Severn, near Arlington Wash, was drawn into the river by a falmon which had taken the bait, and was drowned.

The following accident which lately happened at Knightsbridge, we mention as a caution: By the imprudence of a gentleman of the Sunday Whip, in driving the horfe before a gentleman's chariot, he was killed by the gig-number of cocks on a card, is ad

fhaft the gentleman was very much cut, and otherwife bruifed. Let this be a warning for cocknies to keep a tight rein.

We are forry to learn from Dublin, that Lord Jocelyn, while hunting near Finglafs, fell from his horle, by which accident his fkull was fractured.

We prefume it is a circum. ftance worth recording in the annals of lotteries, refpecting 29,257. This number was drawn a prize of 251. in the Irish lottery 1791, and 100l. in the Engiifh 1791. Alfo a rol. and 201. prize in the next Irish and English; a tol. in the laft Ih, and on the 5th day of the laft English lottery a prize of 10,000l.

The new Faro table in Pall Mall has been fpiritediy remonftrated against by Lady B

Lady A, and Mrs. S, as injurious to the rights of the regular female bankers, fo long on the punting eftablishment.

There are no less than fix fahionable houfes at the west end of the town, the establishments of which are totally fupported by the profits of the Faro-table!

The Faro-table at Mrs. Concannon's, has now the greatest run of fashionable play,

The little fracas between Lady Archer and Lady Buckinghamhire, refpecting the difputed

jufted; and they now leave their names at each other's door with as much eafe and indifference as ufual.

Mrs. Paul Benfield has just launched a vefper-blue curricle, in which the gracefully drives a pair of the most elegant pied blood galloways that the park can pro- · duce.

Mr. Whitbread is at the head of the dafhing curricle-eers of the loured bloods daily demonftrate to day, as his nimble pair of bi-cothe admiring gazers of Piccadilly!

ELOPEMENT.

A fhort time fince, between the hours of four and five in the morning, Lieutenant M-ll, of the Herefordshire militia, ftruck his tent, at his head-quarters near Oxford-ftreet, and fet off, by forced marches, to Gretna, green, there to enlift under the banners of Hymen, with the fair daughter of General P!, of Manchefter-fquare. The Gene, ral purfued the fugitives, with a tong detachment of light cavaly, for upwards of three leagues, but could not come up with them.

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Dublin, which was diftinguished the feafon, even in our coldest climates.

by this circumftance of elegant feftivity: Seven ladies of fashion danced a Scots Ballet, in a space, defended against the crowd of the ball-room by young noblemen, who witheld the company by barriers of ribband. The ladies were in a uniform drefs of white muslin, trimmed with blue ribbands, blue fafhes, petticoats trimmed with filver, white turban head dreffes, fpangled with filver, and blue ribbands.

On Monday, March 31, and the three following days was fought at the Cock-pit Royal, in Newmarket, a main of Cocks, between the gentlemen of Cambridgeshire and the gentlemen of Suffolk, fhewing 21 cocks in the main on each fide, for 10 guineas a battle, and 100 guineas the odd battle, which was won by the former 5 battles a-head.

Feeders, Marshall for Cambridgeshire, and Mitchell for Suffolk.

Thursday, April 3, was played on Mead Green, near Taunton, a grand match at coits, between Mr. John Elmfley, of Biddeford, and the noted player Mr. Harpen of Barnstable, (the rubber of 11 games for 50 guineas) which was won by the former 4 games a-head.

An elopement has lately taken place in the fashionable world. The lady of Lord C- has gone off with the Rev. G-- C-~, who is likewife married.

A young lady of thirteen has juft eloped con-amore, with the man of her heart, from a boardingfchool in the north. This furely demonftrates the forwardness of

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A remarkable fifh was lately taken up among the rocks Newbiggen by the fea, in Northumberland, which, as far as we have yet an opportunity of enquiring, appears to be a nondefcript; its length, exclufive of its tail, which was broken off, was above eight feet; its breadth about one foot, and tapered very little from head to tail; its thicknefs was no way proportional to its fize, being very thin and flat; it had no fin on its lelly, but the

dorfal fin extended the whole length. Its fkin was granulated H 2

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all over, and had a fhining, filvery
appearance, with ftripes of light
grey colour, running in a lon-
gitudinal direction the whole
length of the fish: its back was
marked with fhot brown ftreaks,
which croffed it in a contrary di-
rection its head, which
much mutilated, was fhort, and
covered with strong incrustations.
From the top of it there were
faid to be two fpines, like horns,
which were broken off, and like-
wife two fhort ones hung down
from the under part juft behind
the gills, the ends of which were
broken: it had only one gut; its
liver was of a most beautiful ver-
milion colour; and its flesh was
beautifully white and clear.

one, like a fox's head, quite picked to the bone, and the hind quarters of one of the dogs whole.

MODERN PROPENSITIES.

Some little time ago, at an inn not an hundred miles from the town of Rochdale, in Lancashire, two gentlemen, who refided there, undertook for a trifling wager, to convince the company prefent, which could mafticate a pound of veal cutlets, fix potatoes, two flices of bread, and drink a pint of ale each, in the leaft time. The conteft was much to the edification of the fpectators. At the completion of the first eight ounces, it was confidered by the knowing ones that A gentleman wagered twenty it would be a dead heat: and was guineas with a neighbouring in fact won by only half a mouthIportfman in the Burgh of An- ful. It was, however, allowed, ftruther, in Scotland, that he that the other gentleman did his would not kill twenty hares be- beft; and as the jockeys term it, fore 5 o'clock that afternoon, he put all in. This curious wa with greyhounds; and five gui-ger was completed in two minutes neas that he would not start forty, and forty-five feconds. The gentleman took the bet and gained it, having killed twentyfour hares before three o'clock, and ftarted three times the number required.

A moft fingular accident lately happened to Mr. Roche's foxhounds, in Pembrokeshire.-In a thick foggy day, four of the best hounds were loft in the Hook Wood; and notwitftanding the strictest fearch was made by the Collies in the coal-mines, and a confiderable reward offered, no account whatever could be had of them. About three weeks afterwards, a Collier fancied he heard a noife in a pit near the road-fide; procuring a rope, he went down, and found one bitch alive, and in excellent order: the kulls of the others, and a fmaller

BETTING ROOM. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1794.

BETTED.

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