At about midnight on Saturday week, a desperate fight took
place in
Rush Wood, Mailing, in the preserve of Viscount Five poachers were discovered in the grounds by two of the gamekeepers, and were immediately challenged to surrender. They, however. re- sisted. Two guns were broken in the light, and two of the poachers were stunned from heavy blows, and ultimately taken.
The Marquis of Hertford's keepers and a body of poet-hers, armed with clubs and bludgeons, had a hard battle, in a wood at Stelborne, yesterday week. The gamekeepers were several of them severely hurt, as were some of the poachers ; but after a long setae, the keepers suc- ceeded in securing five of them ; the others made their escape. The pump of an air-gun was found upon the spot, with which RobertWood- row, the head-keeper, was knocked down. Several pheasants ewer.: forma in their possession, as were a number of balls used for the air-
Mercury.
A gang of poachers lately entered the vvoods of Mr. Robert Can- ning, at lartbury, near Gloucester, openly placing their sentinels, defy- ing all force, and shooting the pheasants on their roosts ; which they did without any interruption from the keepers, and close to a cottage, from the windows of which the whole scene was beheld.
At a Magistrates' meeting, held at l'resteign, on Saturday last, Wil- liam Reynolds was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and to pay a tine of S., for trotting Edward Jones and others, in the night-ti!ne, in the streets of the said town. Trotting is a cant term for the following mischievous and cruel practice : a set of idle, wicked fellows, having pitched upon their victim, seize him, and hold his arms fast behind his back ; they then force him to run along the streets til! he almost falls from exhaustion, and if possible, he is forced to the river, and thrust he —lier.fird Times.
The illicit distillation of ardent spirits is stated to be can it'd on to a great extent in some parts of the Potteries, chiefly by natives of the sister kingdom. Seizures of stills have lately been made by the Excise- officers both at Shelton and Lane End, and the parties working them committed to the county gaol in default of payment of the penalties incurred.
The persons who assaults(' the proprietor of the Newcastle Journal have liven found guilty, and sentenced, the four gentlemen to pay a fine of .50/. each to the King, and the groom to pay a tine of 51.
The cashier of Cropper, Benson, and Co. of Liverpool has beta robbed of 8451. in an unaccountable manner. He had deposited the money safely in the counting-house. A quarter of an hour after, it was gone ; and, what is most extraordinary, no person had left the counting-house from the time the money was deposited until it was missed. A reward of IOU is offered for the restoration of the pro- perty, if lost ; and a similar reward for the apprehension of the thieves, it stolen.—Licerpool Paper. [Who were the persons in the counting. house, and were they searched?]
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