"By this method, you will be able to judge of your error, and how to amend it in your next foot, which cannot be fo eafily difcovered when you miss a bird; a perfon may, therefore, make greater progrefs by the practice of this method in a week, than in a whole feafon fhooting at birds, with this advantage, that he may use it when it beft fuits his lei fure. It will also remedy the inconveniency a young sportsman labours under where game is not plentiful, as he may walk fome hours for a fhoot or two, which renders him fo eager and unfeady, as not to take proper time when he happens upon one, and miffes his aim, or rather fhoots without aim. "If there is not room enough where the trials are made, to run ftrait out, a pulley, or roller, may be fixed at each end of the ftrained lines; and the fmall line being put over the roller or pul-fo ley, the board or target may be drawn along by the perfon moving towards you in an angle with the fixed lines. "The board being at one end of the lines, give the word for its moving; and, as foon as you fee it move, cock your gun, and prefent it to the mark, and keep it in motion therewith; and, as foon as you fee the muzzle juft before it, briskly draw the trig. ger, but continue in the fame motion for fone time after, left the gun fhould hang fire, or not fire fo quick as it ought to do ; and this motion fhould be performed by steadily moving the whole body. "Variety of crafs and oblique fhoots may be thus made, either to the right or left; and you may fometimes raife one end of the ftrained lines higher than the other, by which a greater variety may be made. Half a common charge of powder and fhot (and the fmaller the fhot the better) will be fufficient at fuch fhort diftances, as it may be thrown into a circle of ten or twelve inches diameter. I am also of opinion, it may prove an agreeable diverfion to many who have not leifure either to take the field, or bear the fa tigue which neceffarily attends the purfuit of game; and would cerrainly be as harmless, and more manly, than many of our modern diverfions or exercifes. "Your's, &c. Watford, October 9th, 1795 "J. DEAN." HIS noted bruifer was, on Monday, tried before the Recorder, at Guildhall, for affaulting Rachael Joel. The profccutrix was a washerwoman, and had washed for Mendoza's wife, on whom the called for 184. due to her on that account. Mrs. Mendoza referred her for payment to her husband, whom the chanced to meet in Duke's Place, where he requested him to difcharge the bill; Mendoza, instead of complying with Account of a Hare Hunt. 19 this juft demand, poured on her aj myfelf lately come from that torrent of foul language and dif. neighbourhood: graceful epithets; but, unfatiffied with abufes, he proceeded ftill farther, and ftruck her feveral blows with his hands on the fides of her face and head. The woman attempting to efcape, ran away, but was purfued by Mendoza. who threw her down, and kicked her fo violently on the loins, &c. that he was obliged to confine herself at home for a confiderable length of time, and could not by means of the hurt done to her, fit with any cafe for fome months afterwards. To prove his statement, the learned counsel called Benjamin Nathan, Rebecca Marcella, and Hannah Solomon. All thofe witneffes agreed in their proof of the affault, and account of the tranf. action. The defendant, who belongs to the Aberdeenshire fencibles, wore his tegimental boots, when he repeatedly kicked Joel, which must have added to the violence of the kicks. The counfel for the defence called three witneffes, whofe evidence was, that the first affault had been committed by the profecutrix, who called him crimp, and fnapped her fingers in the defendant's face. faying the would be revenged on him. The jury without any manner of hesitation, returned the defendant guilty. At eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the 19th of last month, they threw off at Eggington Heath, and quickly having found a hare, they went off in good ftyle; and, being preffed very hard for a few rounds, the hare went off to Etwell, from thence to Radbourne, Bredfall, and Horfefly, (having croffed the Derwent juft above Bredfall). where the was headed back, and croffed the river la fecond time, with hounds and horsemen at her heels preffing very hard. From the river, the ran for Micklever. and from thence back to Eggington, where, after a chace of twenty miles in the fpace of three hours, and almoft without a check, he was run into view, and killed. Some remarkable bold leaps were taken during the chace; one, in particular, by Sir H. Every, Bart, which was allowed by all prefent, to be one of the greatest they ever faw taken. Too much cannot be faid of the excellence and extreme good order of Mr. Pole's hounds; they behaved, during the chace, with uncommon fteadinefs, and are allowed to be the completeft pack of barriers, for fhape, bone, blood, and beauty, now in Derby hire, or the adjacent counties. After the chace, the company in the field, confifting of twenty, were invited to the hofpitable manfion of Sir Henry Every, where they continued their jollity and mirth till a late hour, and departed full of the praises of their worthy hoft. I am, Gentlemen, A CONSTANT READER. The The Divorce.-A Card, and the Reply to it. The DIVORCE; à Parifian “A Avecdote. October 10. year 1727, and continued to ride for forty-eight years fucceffively, once in two weeks, and in each tour rode 254 miles;" this mubi. Few days fince," fays one plied by 1248, the number of of the laft Paris papers, fortnights in forty-eight years, a married couple determined on being divorced; but not being is more than equal to twelve and amounts to 361,992 miles, which able to agree with refpect to the a half times round the globe, aldifpofition of the children, they referred the difpute to an aunt, lowing its circumference to be to whofe arbitration they refpec-far as it is to the moon, and half 25,920 miles; and is nearly as tively agreed to fubmit. "We have three children, faid the husband, "I infift" on keeping two; the third fhall be left to the care of its mother.”. "But, 1, faid the latter, "have a right to wo; the care of one will be more than fufficient for you." "There is no way of fettling this dispute," faid the aunt, in a one of the utmost gravity, "but by fetting about to make immediately a FOURTH child." This decifion produced a laugh, and restored good humour. The contending parties embraced, and the idea of a divorce was forgot. ten. the fun (if he could travel at the way back. A man might reach fame rate) in 14,490 years. Your account of a Cheshire fportfman fhooting a ball, a cow, and a covey of pigs, brings to my recollection an anecdote of a gentleman of Chefter remarkably fond of partridge netting, who, in drawing his net for a covey of birds, covered thirteen partridges, four pigs, and an old woman. I am glad to give you an excepfarcity of patridges in the tion to the general cry of the neighbourhood of Chefter ;within twenty miles round, the oldeft fportfman never remem To the EDITORS of the Sporting bered them more plentiful. Magazine. The Feast of Wit; or Sportsman's Hall. 81* a couple of roast chickens, drink transported, you should have bad "W. R." we be's not ufe to, THE FEAST OF WIT G OR SPORTSMAN'S HALL. EORGE Alexander Stevens, (author of the celebrated Lecture on Heads) who was a man not very celebrated for œcoT nomy, net Garrick one day near the theatre. Davy," fays Stevens, I can inform you of a Garrick. Garrick. Why, replied Ste Stevens, daring his perambu "You are quite a gemman.lations in the country, from town Your to town, wh with his Lecture on and it got into our upper-works, Heads, one day ftopped at an inn, or we would hiver have cribb'd and being a little dainty your papers, They be all marched mouthed" at that time, defired back agen with the red book. the waiter to fend him in a roast Your ale was mortal good, and fowl immediately. The fowl was the tankard and fpoons were made put down to roaft accordingly! into a white Joup in Duke's plaice, but as patience and hunger are two hours before day-lite. The feldom unanimous, hunger in old family watch-cafes were, at duced him to call out feveral the fame time, made into a brown times for the fowl, even before grauy, and the guts are neto chrifit could be well warm through.' tened, and on their voyage to He hearing another perfon in an Holland: If they had not been adjacent room afking the waiter VOL. VII. No. XXXVIII. L many 82 The Feast of Wit; or Sport/man's Hall. many times if the dd fowl was done, was at laft induced to go out (fearing he fhould lofe his fupper (to know who had a right to the fowl he had ordered, and meeting the man in the paffage, asked him, "pray, Sir, what right have you to that fowl by the fire? give me leave to tell you, Sir, I ordered it an hour ago, and de! if I think 'tis fair play for any man to claim another's property." "Brother Bufkin," fays the man, "mode. rate your rage; I don't want your fowl, nor foul language; I only want the jack chain, as my company are just playing Tamerlane, over the ftable, and can't go on for want of a chain. The itinerant Thefpians are fubject to many embarraffments and inconveniences; a ftable, or bay loft, is often converted into a theatre, where, as Sbakespeare fays, 68 one man in his time plays many parts." One man frequently plays in (or gallops through) comedy, tragedy, farce, and pantomime; as I have known a poor fellow play King Henry, Richmond, Catesby, and Ghoft, in Richard the Third, fing a comic fong between play and farce, and in the farce go through two characters more, for which he has fhared the enormous fum of one fhilling, with four bits of candle nearly burnt out. I once faw King Lear performed by a country company; the character of Gloucefter was played by a lad about 17 years old, who, hav. ing a very treacherous memory, had forgot his part after the 2d act; fo that poor Gloucefter, who is reprefented as blind, was obliged to read the remaining part, after his eyes were out, to the ne fmall diverfion of the company. One night, they were to play Othello; at the appointed time for the curtain to draw up, there being but a thin house, as they term it, Othelio cried out (not having blacked his face) "de, if I black my face for fuch an audience as this; a white moor is good enough for them, and white moor they fhall have too, if they have me;" accord. ingly, he went through the piece, to the furprife of all prefent, with his face as nature and inuf had coloured it. LITTLE B. A highwayman in Ireland lately robbed a collector of excife; it matters not, quoth the robber, you know we are brother collectors! A NOVEL-READING frail fair, who conftantly attends the thea tres, retiring lately with a certain well-known dafhing brewer-on his taking fome liberties, the exclaimed-" a truce, Mr. don't you recollect what Tenale once faid to Dr. Johnson-that he never gave his porter for no| thing !" Nothing can equal the conve nience of the prefent female fashion; it is only to pin the petticoat to the cravat, and put the arms through the pocket-holes, to be completely dreffed. When the great Duke of Cum. berland was on his return to The of |