Previous to the commencement of the match, an open spot is fixed on, agreeable to the arbitrators, one appointed by _each_ side; here TWENTY YARDS are measured with accuracy, and both extremities correctly marked. At one end a hole is made in the earth, in which is deposited a small box, about eight inches deep, six inches wide, and a foot long; its surface two inches above the level of the ground, with a sliding-lid running in a groove: to the front of this lid is affixed a string, or small cord, of one or two-and-twenty yards in length, which extended, will reach a little beyond the precise distance of _twenty yards_, where each of the parties concerned will afterwards stand to shoot. The preliminaries adjusted of having taken _the toss_, to determine which side is to take _the lead_, and all parties ready, a PIGEON is lodged in the BOX, and the runner (as he is called) resuming his post, by the side of the person whose turn it is to shoot, he is there ready to pull the STRING annexed to the SLIDER, and give liberty to the bird, the moment he is ordered by the SHOOTER so to do. It is a fixed rule, that the GUN is never to be advanced to the SHOULDER till the bird is upon _wing_; this is to be decided (as well as every other cause of dispute) by the persons appointed; and every pigeon so shot at, must fall to the ground within ONE HUNDRED YARDS of the BOX, or it is not admitted a BIRD KILLED, but a _shot missed_. The first person having shot, (_hit_ or _miss_,) he is succeeded by one of the opposite side; and they continue to shoot in alternate rotation till the match is decided according to the original terms upon which it was made, in respect to the number of pigeons to be shot at by each distinct party, when those who kill the most are declared the winners, and entitled to the stakes made. PILOT.—There have been three horses of this name; two of which were excellent racers, and esteemed equal, as plate horses, to any of their time. The first was bred by SIR CHARLES BUNBURY; foaled in 1762; got by _Snap_, dam by _Cade_, grand-dam by _Crab_, out of Lord Portmore's _Abigail_. The second was bred by Sir H. Harpur; foaled in 1770; got by _Dainty Davy_, dam by _Blanck_, grand-dam (_Dizzy_) by the famous and original _Driver_. The third was bred by the late Counsellor Lade; foaled in 1782, and got by the above, dam by _Marske_, grand-dam by _Regulus_. The two last won a great number of fifty-pound plates annually for several years in succession, and afterwards proved very excellent country stallions.