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where perhaps it was not apparent to every one, I trust that my apology will be admitted. In the meantime I may beg your indulgence, at some future period for another letter.

DOMESTIC SPORTING.

A trotting match against time, took place on Saturday the 18th of last month, which has justly excited the astonishment of all who have heard it. A horse belonging to a gentleman of Boston, was engaged to trot one mile, in three minutes and eight seconds. Large betts were laid upon it, and the performance took place upon the Point-no-Point road, when to the surprise of every one but those who previously knew the powers of the animal, and the disappointment of those who betted against him, he not only won the wager, but went the distance in two minutes and forty-eight seconds, and, though harnessed in a sulky, did it with perfect ease. It is stated upon authority, which there is no reason to doubt, that he has before trotted a mile in two minutes and twenty-eight seconds. On our first hearing of this extraordinary feat, we were disposed on loose guess to believe, that it had not been surpassed by any thing of the kind in England. But on looking into the Sporting Magazine, we found in the first volume which came to hand, viz. vol. 34-June and July, 1809, the two following cases, which considering the greater distance, we think surpass it.

A mare belonging to Mr. Obey, of Nottingham street London, which is under fifteen hands, trotted eight miles and a half, two minutes under half an hour, on Tuesday the 13th, on the Sunbury road, for a wager of 200 guineas to 50 against the

mare.

The end of last month a match which excited considerable interest, took place on the Harrow road, between an English and an Irish poney, ten miles for 100 guineas. The animals were rode by their owners, weighing nearly twelve stone, (168 pounds)

each, and the betts were two to one on the English poney, but he was beat by a mile. The winner is out of the celebrated Podhereen mare, and performed the distance in thirty-three minutes.

REMARKS ON EMILIA GALOTTI.

The Tragedy which accompanies this number, by Thomas Holcroft.

THE chief defect in this Tragedy is that it is written in an explanatory, colloquial, and prosaic style; but this is what may be almost called the mortal sin of German literature; it has never yet attained that laconic indication of the passions, which is best calculated to express their rapid, confused, and desperate course.

In other respects, Emilia Galotti is a masterpiece: the progress of the plot is truly dramatic, the contrast of the characters is finely imagined, and the feelings excited are among the noblest within the province of the tragic Muse. This piece only requires a master hand to lop away its superfluities, preserve its beauties, and link them in a quick and poetical succession, to render it perhaps the finest modern tragedy known to the stage.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

To Thaddeus we return our hearty thanks for his excellent lines on Shakspeare, of which we cannot better demonstrate our opinion than by giving them undelayed publicity. We believe Thaddeus is the very first to whom we are indebted in the same kind, and we hope it will not be the last of his contributions.

* This must be a mistake. The poney may be descended from the Podhereen mare, but cannot be immediately out of her-That famous mare having been dead at least fifty years.

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Drawn from Life by S.De Koster Dec 81800.
Engraved by Jd Stow.

BARON NELSON of the NILE.

Lendon Published Jan 1.1801. by J Brydon, N7 Charing Cros

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