308 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



last two days he appeared in higher 

 spirits and performed his mile with 

 apparently more ease, and in short- 

 er time than he had done for some 

 days past. With the change of the 

 weather he had thrown off'his loose 

 great coat, which he wore during 

 the rainy period, and on Wednes- 

 day performed in a flannel jacket. 

 He also put on shoes remarkably 

 thicker than any which he had used 

 in any previous part of his perform- 

 ance. When asked how he meant 

 to act, after he had finished his feat, 

 he said he should that night take a 

 good sound sleep, but that he must 

 have himself awaked twice or thrice 

 in the night, to avoid the danger of 

 a too sudden transition from almost 

 constant exertion, to a state of long 

 repose. 



One hundred to one, and indeed 

 any odds whatever were offered on 

 Wednesday morning; but so strong 

 was the confidence in his success, 

 that no bets could be obtained. 

 The multitude of people who re- 

 sorted to the scene of action, in the 

 course of the concluding days, was 

 unprecedented. Not a bed could 

 be procured on Tuesday night at 

 Newmarket, Cambridge, or any of 

 the towns and villages in the vicini- 

 ty, and every horse and every spe- 

 cies of vehicle was engaged. — 

 Among the nobility and gentry who 

 witnessed on Wednesday the con- 

 clusion of this extraordinay feat, 

 were : — 



The dukes of Argyle and St. Al- 

 ban's ; earls Grosvenor, Besbo- 

 rough, and Jersey ; lords Foley and 

 Somerville ; sir John Lade, sir F. 

 Standish, &c. &c. 



Captain Barclay had 16,000/. 

 depending upon his undertaking. 

 The aggregate of the bets is sup- 

 posed to amount to 100,000^. 



Court of King's Bench, Guildhall 

 —Sale of Public Offices.— The 

 King, V. Pohlman, Keylock, Sa-- 

 rah Hardy, and John Watson. 

 14. This was an indictment, 

 charging the several defendants 

 with conspiring together to sell a 

 certain office or place of trust in his 

 majesty's customs, namely, that of 

 coast waiter, for the sum of 2,000/. 

 with intent to defraud his miijesty, 

 and witli intent of defrauding Le 

 Grue Hesse, esq. to which indict- 

 ment they severally pleaded not 

 guilty. I'his prosecution emanated 

 from the late inquiry before a se- 

 lect committee of the House of 

 Commons, appointed to investigate 

 public abuses, and made so promi- 

 nent a figure in that inquiry, as to 

 lay the foundation for the act which 

 now exists for preventing the sale 

 of places of trust under the crown. 

 Our readers will recollect, that in 

 the course of the foregoing inquiry, 

 it came out that an office was open- 

 ed in the city where places under 

 the government were publicly ad- 

 vertised to be bought and sold. 

 It was therefore found expedient 

 to discover and punish the parties. 

 The principal witnesses to prove 

 this fraudulent conspiracy were a 

 Mr. Hesse and a Mr. Harvey, the 

 former a gentleman who had been 

 a barrister, the latter a clerk in the 

 office of the solicitor to the trea- 

 sury. 



Mr. Hesse proved, that in pursu- 

 ance of an advertisement in a morn- 

 ing paper, he went to an office in 

 Threadneedle-street, where he be- 

 came acquainted with Pohlman and 

 Keylock ; that they undertook to 

 procure him, through the medium 

 of Sarah Hardy, the place of coast 

 waiter in the customs, for which 

 he was to pay the sum of 2,000/. 



which 



