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BETWEEN MY LORD AND SIR JOHN.- Sir John.—What have you there, my Lord ?My Lord.—The New Magazine—the Sporting.Magazine. .Sir John.—*Well, what fort of a thing is it ?- My Lord.—Clever enough, it promifes well, and to be ufeful.Sir John.—How are the Engravings !. My Lord.—Diomed is neatly executed, but the Frontifpiece appears to be done in hade.Sir John.—Well, what further have you my Lord?My Lord.—Why, Sir John, firft we have an ad* drefs to the Public, half ;a dozen pages, in which is given Old Franklin’s fingular reflexions- on the game of Chefs.Next, the origin and progrefs of Horfe-Racing in England.-r-Digeft of the Game Laws*—Pedefc trianifm, with the life of Fofter Powell : all hisPedeftrian performances—Hiflory of Boxing before Broughton’s time—particulars of two' Battles in ElTex, between Hooper the Tinman, and Bunner of Colchefter; and between Stanyard and Gambold —an humourous letter from one who calls himfelf the mojl notifidejl boier that ever /owed up a peeper; droll Epiftle from a Hunter, that is, a fortune-hunter*, in chafe of an heircfs or 'widow;—manner, of hunting the Elephant from Bruce, with carious particulars of a young Elephant—manner of hunting the Moofe Deer, in Cape Briton j-'with an Indian hunting fong—origin of Cards and Dice —JhftruXjons for playing at Whift—Laws of Whift at Bath—IntroduXion and Improvement of Fire Arms—Inftruftion for Shooting—William Tell giving Liberty to Switzerland, by (hooting an apple from his fon’s head—origin and antiquity of Cocking—ancient anecdote of Archery—French and Italiao Game Laws—SwafF’ham Courfing. Society: their agreement to give annually a Silver .Cup, to be run. for, in honour of their Patron, the.,Ear! of Qrford—account of the Inftitution of the Veterinary. College—Dick E—g—d ; his affair with Mjri' Rolles—E—g—d’s defence of himfelf—account bf the battle, at Colnbrook, between Ward and Stan-yard—remarkable Chafe of a Hare—Sporting 'Intelligence—And here, Sir John, 1 mud' paufe 5 fpr next is the poetical department, not uhaptly called, die High' Court of Diana.Jn this Court is to be found the Spoftfrqan’s Invitation on the firft of .September, .or Sdvarius to Urbanus—Cyn^geticos, or the pleafures of Hare Hhnting—*he Hunted Stag faved after along Chace —an Elegy—a Latin Ode infcrihed upon a Hunting Horn—Tranflation by Reed. The laft fix-teea pages is appropriated for the Racing Calendar, in which is given Newmarket firft and lecond OXo-ber Meetings, with: Shrewfbury, Bath, Morpeth, Leicefter, Tewkefbury, and feveral other Races.Sir John.—Thank you my Lord,* Here, Thomas, £enter a fervantj go over the way to the fta-tioneis, and buy me the firft number of the Spor't-:ing Magazine; ffervant Retires, and foon :after returns}.. Servant.—They are all fold, Sir John ; but a; : a new edition will be readyin an hour ; the man lays ‘ he has a monftrous callfor them.
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London Star
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Nov 05, 1792
Page 4
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