[ London Times ]
This newspaper, most correctly known simply as The Times, began publication in 1785 and continues to this day.
The March 11, 1829 edition of The Times carried a brief account of five men charged with trespassing and poaching. They had been caught in the act by a party of gamekeepers who worked for the owner of the land on which the poachers had been trespassing:
On the cross-examination of the witneses by Mr. BLIGH, it came out that the game-keeping party had a huge Newfoundland dog with them; one of them had a bill-hook; others guns and others pistols. "Some saucy words passed from the prisoners [that is, the poachers], but not from us." One of the keepers said "he would let the Newfoundland dog go to pitch into them," but the dog attacked one of his own species instead of attaching himself to a biped."
The poachers were found guilty and sentenced to seven years' transportation — that is, they were forcibly exiled to some British colony or former British territory. By 1829, most transportation was to either Bermuda or Australia, transportation to America having ceased with the 1776 revolution. Transportation officially ended in 1868.