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of the Statute of ANNE, are, keep or use any Grey-hounds, &c. but this Defendant, neither kept the Dog, nor was it under his Control, at the time it was used to kill the Hare. RULE absolute for entering a NONSUIT.

In 1812, at the JUSTICES' Room, STAFFORD, an Information was brought-Fox v. Hill, for using a Greyhound to kill Game, not being qualified. It appeared, that the Defendant and others, were coursing with two Greyhounds on Lord FERRERS's Land, and that one of the Party, was his Lordship's Gamekeeper, whose Qualification, it was submitted, on behalf of the Defendant, extended to the others. The MAGISTRATES, however, were of Opinion, that though a qualified Person, is authorised by LAW, to take as many of his Servants, or other unqualified Persons to attend him, as are necessary for the Purpose of assisting, in raising the Game, without subjecting them to any Penalty; yet a Gamekeeper, who is merely qualified in Right of another, has no such AUTHORITY, his Qualification being personal, and confined to himself only. The Defendant was accordingly CONVICTED.

In March, 1812, this Degree of Swiftness was observed, in the Coursing of a Hare at Poynton, CHESHIRE. A Hare was started, which three Greyhounds ran Fifteen Minutes and Fifty-five Seconds, before she was killed. The Distance run, in that short Period, it is supposed, was six MILES.

By the late ACT, the 4ddition, will make the Duty on each Greyhound, Twenty Shillings.

It may be but a trifling Support, to Mr. GILPIN'S FAME, to acknowledge his marked Attention, to the Plates of

the GREYHOUNDS, FOXHOUNDS, and FOXES, in the former Volumes, yet it is a Justice, due from ME, to his MEMORY, to say, that his constant Revision, and correcting of the Proofs, produced those Engravings, wherein the Greyhound in Action, and at Rest, and the Foxhound running, are drawn with so much Natural Grace and Exactness, as to challenge, and have hitherto surpassed, all COMPETITION.

Under the Article COURSING, in the former Volume, Performances both of MAN and HORSE, with respect to Fleetness, were described, some Addition will be now made, from Events that have subsequently taken Place.

We hear much of modern PEDESTRIANS, but do they excel the ANCIENTS?-PHILLIPPIDES, was sent from ATHENS to SPARTA, and in two Days, ran one hundred and fifty Roman Miles. Our KING HENRY the Fifth, and two of his Lords, could take any DoE, in a large Forest, by fairly running it down; and HAROLD, the Son of CANUTE the Second, was so swift, that few HORSES were able to gallop faster. He could run a Hare to Death; from which Circumstance, he was surnamed, HAREFOOT.

At ISPAHAN, Couriers go One Hundred and thirty Miles, in ten or twelve Hours. The AMERICAN Savages, who hunt the ORIGNAL, pursue those Animals, though as fleet as STAGS, till they tire and catch them. It is likewise asserted, that these Men perform Journeys, of Five or Six Thousand Miles, in sir Weeks or two Months. There is no

other CREATURE, BIRDS alone excepted, that, in similar Periods, can accomplish such Distances as THESE.

Let us now revert to Exertions, mostly of the present Day, in tracing which, those only will be selected, which are most singular, for immediate Velocity, or lengthened Perseverance,

In the Beginning of last Century, LEWIS WHITEHEAD, of Bramham, YORKSHIRE, ran Four Miles, in NINETEEN Minutes, which was at the Rate of somewhat more, than Twelve Miles per Hour. He was then twenty-nine Years old, and lived to be One Hundred.—July, 1777, JOSEPH HEADLEY, of RICCAL, near York, ran Two Miles on Knavesmire, in Nine Minutes and fifty-five Seconds, a Month previous, he went over the same Ground, Five Miles, in Twenty-one Minutes.-1803, a Mile, from Hyde-Park Corner, to the first Mile-stone on the UxBRIDGE Road, was performed in Four Minutes and ten Seconds, by JOHN TODD, a Scotchman.-1806, GLANVILLE, born in Shropshire, walked One Hundred and twenty-two Miles, on the BATH Road, in Twenty-nine Hours and three quarters; this is the most extraordinary Feat upon Record. In April, 1809, THOMAS SWAINE, upwards of Fifty Years old, employed at BELVOIR CASTLE, for a small Wager, carried, with great Ease, a Load weighing twenty Stone, or One Hundred and sixty Pounds, the Distance of a Mile in Twenty Minutes; if the Stone, was HORSEMAN'S Weight, the Burden, would be, Two hundred and Eighty Pounds.-October, 1811, Mr. RIMINGTON, a Farmer, near Dorchester, walked Five hundred and sixty-Miles, in SEVEN DAYS, which was at the Rate, of Eighty Miles, per Diem. Same Year, JOSEPH BEAL a Yorkshireman, ran two Miles, in Nine Minutes and forty-eight Seconds, on YORK Race Course.

On the first of June, 1809, Captain BARCLAY started, at Newmarket-Heath, to go on Foot, ONE THOUSAND MILES, IN ONE THOUSAND SUCCESSIVE HOURS, at the Rate of a Mile in each, and every Hour, this he effected, and walked ONE THOUSAND MILES, in two hundred ninetysir Hours; or in Twelve Days, and Eight Hours; being at the Rate of about Eighty-one Miles, and One hundred forty-two Yards, in TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. During the first Week, his average Rate, was something more than FOUR MILES AN HOUR; and in the last Week, somewhat less than THREE MILES.

In 1812, Captain AGAR accomplished Fifty-nine Miles, in Eight Hours and twenty-seven Minutes*, winning his Bet by three Minutes.

In July, 1811, THOMAS STANDEN, of Salehurst, near Silverhill Barracks, finished the arduous Task, which, for a trifling Wager, he had undertaken, of walking ELEVEN HUNDRED Miles, in as many successive Hours, going one Mile only, in each Hour. This MAN, is nearly sixty Years of Age; and his Performance, considerably outdoes THAT which Captain BARCLAY, after such great Training, performed at NEWMARKET.

As Evidence, that the Heels, will defeat the Head, in uncustomary Exertions, it is stated in an EDINBURGH Newspaper, that the young Scotch Clergyman, who undertook to read SIX CHAPTERS of the BIBLE, every Hour

*It is a Fact, founded on the Experience of all swift Runners, that, for the first two or three hundred Yards, the Person feels very much distressed, but after that, a Second Wind comes, which lasts until he is spent with bodily FATIGUE.

for ONE THOUSAND successive Hours, after proceeding Thirteen Days and Nights, fell into a profound SLEEP, or TRANCE, from which he has never yet awoke, although it is manifest, he still LIVES!

Some Exploits in Riding and Driving, and Anecdotes of the HORSE, will now be introduced.

In 1810, Mr. WESTERN, Moorfields, undertook to drive his HORSE, Scorpion, One hundred Miles, in twelve successive Hours, and which he won by Twenty-eight Minutes and a half.-A like Distance was done in Eleven Hours and a half, by a Black Mare, the Property of the late Mr. HUNT, of COLCHESTER, who was precluded the Use of a Whip, which by the way, the Animal never required.

The same Year Mr. MILTON, engaged that he would ride, from the End of DOVER-STREET, Piccadilly, to STAMFORD, in LINCOLNSHIRE, a Distance of more than Ninety Miles, in Five Hours. On Thursday, December 27, 1810, He started at Eight o'clock in the Morning, in a violent Shower of Rain; at the End of the first Hour, he had gone over Twenty-three Miles.-When about Forty Miles from the Place of starting, he was disappointed in not finding a Horse, and was obliged to continue for some Miles, on that which he rode. He arrived at STAMFORD, twenty-five Minutes past Twelve-thus winning the Wager, by THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES.

In 1811, Mr. GEORGE SEWARD, undertook for a Wagger of Five hundred Guineas, to drive Four-in-hand, FIFTEEN MILES, in FIFTY MINUTES. At Sx o'clock

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