Star. — London, England, 1802-08-21 00:00:00

DUBLIN, AUGUST :7. The beautiful country refidence of Cork Abbey, tae Prat of Than. Jowas, Efq. we hear, is fold by that Gentleman for aoool. and 1001. a year. The F urchafer has already been offered, it isfaid, I sooL fur his bargain. The beautiful villa of Frefcati, at the Black Rock, Come time fince advertifed for Cale, is alto confidered to have been fold a very great bargain. having been purchafed at auaion by Sir Hauer Carseotsti for 190C1. and aool. per annum. The Poft.boy conveying the mail difpatched from the General Polt•Office laft Friday night to Wick. low, was (topped at Galloping Green, within five miles of Dublin, by two men armed with piftols, t rbbed him of the entire mail, containing for the following po&•towns, viz. Bray, wtow n•Mou n t. Kennedy, Wicklow, Arklow, rev, Ferns, Ennifcorthy, and Wexford. SINGULAR ESCAPE. • Rsllyiltamson,AusesS & Wm. Haw:crow, Efq. of Garrifon, and Hamar ylt"IN e, Efq. of Callle Irvine, near Ballythannon, having a boy named Gillefpie with them, went, on Friday lan, in a yawl to fiat above the Salmon Leap at Ballyfhannon, which, on account of the very unufnal fall of rain this feafon, is at Inefent ftvciled to an amazing height, and falls with un common velocity, as it can fcarcely be remem• hued that the body of water, which now rolls down that precipice, has been exceeded for lirength and rapidity of current in any of the winters which have gone before in the memory of the oldell man. The fcene about the Salmon Leap is remarkable fur romantic beauty, and the finenefs of the day cnnfpired to imprefs an idea of fafecy. A number of fpedators were on every fide to grimes at once the elegance of the profpek, and the novelty of a veffel fifhing on fuch a placid fleet of water, which, on account of the vortex beneath, and fo clofely adjoining a lime fo extraordinarily agitated,affords eine of the moil firikingly beautiful contrails in nature ; for the water immediately below the bridge of Ballyfhannon, and which rolls from Lough I.rne in fluent majefty, is extremely placid, and the fair image of Nature finely refuelled on its watery breaft, till within a very (bort dillance from the fall, affuming an angry afpea, the refinance tithe rocks and huge (tones eaufe an inftaataneous and noify Turf, which, the more the obftacles ereafe, encreafes the more furionlly, till hurried precipitately, and with the molt inconceivable fury, it arrives at the height of a precipice of not let's than twenty feet.—down which this world of water rolls with amazing roar, and is contemplated by the traveller as one of thole grand produaions et Nature, to imitate which the moll exuberant vforts of the pencil have fallen infinitely short, the fublimity and grandeur of which, fearcely the ntmoft limits of the fineß imagination can reach; here, then, bordering upon this roaring fall of water, in a (mall yawl, tranquil, and unfufpeaing the approaching danger, there Gentlemen lured the finny tribe from their watery recefi, and (itch was the unruffled (late of the element on which they floated, that the fcaly inhabitants of the water could be plainly perceived, or fwimming or biting at the treacherous fly that played for their deftruc. tion on the harm of the unagitated deep: but in the twinkling of an eye, the ftern of the little vefrel was hurried round, having been trufled too far within the precinds of the circling waters, and its aftonifhed freight in a fecond encircled with all the terrors of impending deftru9ion. What muff they do ? To hefitate were death : the two gentlemen forfake their fragile bark, and attempting to Rem the torrent before it becomes more impetuous, firive to evade a watry grave. Poor Hamilton unavail• ingly buffets the encrcafing ftrength of the waters, unavailingly oppofes ftrength to ftrength—he is precipitated forward, t o t h e ver y bofom of the boiling ['ream, and, overcome by its unconquerable Clue, is borne down, even to the very edge of the formidable precipice, and, in th e fi ght of numer ous fpedators, feelin g b e y on d defcription for his fate, finks into the abyfs beneath I Down this fall. whatever living animal, or man, or horfe, or cow, that ever had been hurried, had never, in the recollection of the oldell man here. been teen or heard of more ! But Strange to relate ! paffing Orange ! in the midi} of that pante of terror which followed his fate, Mr. Ha. stivros was defcried with bishead above the hor rid gulph. and (biking with both his arms in the briny boiling baron beneath, teemed to exhibit a firength fuper-human. A boat which bad been raids with a falmon net in the pool, comes dote to him, and, extraordinary u it may appear, after the wonderful ordeal he had paired, be jumps him 11f into th e b oat , an d, w i t h out a Single bruife or centurion, is rowed to Sore amid the acclamations of an aflonifhed multitude I Meanwhile Mr. laying having alto jumped from the yawl , by moll uncommon exertions, galll• eJ a fpot in the river, in which he Rock, contend ing with the relenting; Bream, till drawn thence by a rope thrown to him by force adventnmus men, who at the rifts of their own limes raved his. Here were two lives moll providentially Caved. The fate of the other yet remained in the molt dubious fufpence. The poor boy had regained the boat, and having thrown a rope afhore, had to combat the current with heroifm, which he molt certainly did, and difplayed in the.mcmient of the greatelt danger a courage which would have done honour to one in a higher fphere. Now one part cf the yawl immerfed in the water, and drawn on• ward by the force of the current to the fall, he aP peartd in the other part raifed aloft, with the ut muß coolnefs, to encourage thofe on (bore to per. :evere in his atEllance—till by the Providence of an AL!IIGHTY Paoesceoa, ke was lived, and, cote of the ungovernable power of the water pul. EA on Chore ! Here the lives of three men were moll miraculoufly refcued,manifefling to the univerfe that " There's DIVINITY that dere Oar ends, " Ruush hew them as we will. tY The Edkor is happy to add, that Mr. Hamilton is now BELCNPR AND BOURKE. CAMBERWELL FAIR. Thofe who witneffed the battle at Cockpool green, between Belcher and Bourke, will no doubt recollea with what reluaance Bourke yielded the palm of viaory to his antagonift on that day.— Since that period, Burke has never been fatisfied in his own mind but that the fortune of the day was loft on account of an accidental blow which he received in the throat. It was therefore hi; intention to avail himfelf of the firft opportunity that offered, to try the fate of another conteft.— It was not, however, by the battle which was in tended to have been fought in Yorkfbire that he was to judge of his fupertority over Belcher, a 3 it is well known that no battle wis then to take place without Belcher firft agreeing to make it a croft, which he could not be perfuaded to content to, having (worn to his Mother at parting, that he would ftrialy adhere to the rule laid down by his Grandfather Sheik, never top/ a battle. The fight was therefore put off, atter much expence had been incurred in preparing the Rage and training the Heroes. Bourke after this Rill conti tinued to boaft at various times of his fuperior prowcfs ; and, on Thurfday lag, being a little pot-valiant, at Camberwell Fair, he was enter. taming a number of hearers with the manner he would ferve it out to Belcher the firft time he met with him. A coach came up to the fpot at the moment, with Belcher in it, accompanied by Fletcher Read, Eft]. when he was foon informed of what Eo it ke had been Paying. The Brillol Hero immediately fleppe.ii out of the coach, and aiked Bourke if what he had juft heard was true ? Bourke replied it was, and offered to accompany him to a room, where he would box him for pure /eve. They retired to the Golden Lion, and found the place they meant to fight in occupied by Tome females. As there was fomething boifterous and provoking in Bourke's manner, 'Belcher calmed, and obferved, they could not fight there, as there would be more breaking of tea-cups, and difturb ing of the company, than fair play. By this time the company were apprifed of the nature of the difpute, and the parties concerned ; ene half, the females, were thrown into a quan dary, while the ether half, the males, in the Old Englifh John Bull ftyle, exclaimed, " Let them fight it out." Belcher immediately intreated Bourke not to alarm them, but adjourn to the Bowling.green, but Bourke perlifted in feting to in the room; on which Belcher fiript off his coat to prepare for battle, when his opponent demanded a truce, as he had drank freely, and was not fit to engage him. Belcher remained behind, and Bourke, with feveral others, repaired to the Bowl ing-green, but had not been there long before he received a meffage from Bourke, that he was then ready to enter the ring with him. Belcher obeyed the fummons, and they again ftript and Pet to.— There was at the time fo bad a ring that nothing like fcience was difplayed ; they doled, and Bel cher threw Bourke. On the fecond round there was more room ; Belcher placed his &It blow on Bourke's note, the blood inflantly glinted out, and he again fell. On his Second's attempting to raife him up, he requefted to remain where he was, and in that fituation again applied to Belcher for a furpenfion of hoftilities, as he found he had:drank too much liquor, and that they were not contend. ing on equal terms. Bourke further propnfed that he would then put down a guinea to one of Bel cher's, which fhould be forfeited by thole who fa;led to meet next day, at 12 o'clock, in Oxenden beet, for the purpofe of fixing a proper place to fight at,the fame day,that they might fairly deter mine which of them hereafter was to be confidered the belt man. During the night and morning, we fhould obfer* , e,that expreffes were fent in all guar ters fur the feconds and bottle holders. THE BATTLE IN BASER'S FIELDS, HEAR BATS. WATER. At twelve o'clock, yefterday, according zo ap pointment, the Bruiting Heroes met in Oxenden greet, accompanied by many of their friends of fighting notoriety, and they both being in the fame nand as the day before, agreed to proceed to Baker's-Fields, (which is the firft open (pace of field through Tyburn turnpike, on the Uxbridge road,) to have the battle out. Be'cber had no ob jeaion to make the quarrel up, without appealing again to blows; but Bourke, confidering that he bad been ufed ill the day before, refilled, and teemed to fay—Al Hard blows and revenge for me." juft beyond St. George's Row there are a num ber of (mall cottages, inhabited by poor people, moldy old women. The aftonifhment of there perfons exceeded belief, when they faw hundreds upon hundreds of perfons, Tome on herfeback,fome on foot, leaping over the hedges, &c. out of the main road, and paling into this field. The old women anted trembling, what was the matter ? but not a word in anf'ver could be obtained. The parties teemed to be Turk& Mutes : a word of any kind could not be heard: it teemed to be the proceCion of a funeral ; but then there was too much buftle and too little black, and the faces did not teem to be mourning faces. At one o'clock the , combatants, with an im menfe crowd of people, arrived at the place fixed on. The field was (pa:ions, and there' being no time to ere& a Rage, or any attempt at prepara tion, a molt extentive ring was formed : the per fons in the inner circle aTmoft laying down, the fecond circle fitting, the third circle on their knees, and outfiJe of them the others Banding, till thole on the very outfide, who could not meafure five feet ten, were glad of an occafional peep, by jumping up, aided by leaning on other's !boulders. 111 The notice was fo thort that the gentlemen ama tents were notvery numerous,though we could dif tinguifh about a dozen, among whom were Mr. Fletcher Read, Mr. Crook, &c. Mr. Fletcher Read is Belcher's particular friend, and backed him deep ly on the firft fight that thould take plane between Belcher and Bourke, which was to have been fought in Yorkthire . Of courfe Mr. Fletcher Read was yefterday regarded with particular attention on the gronndby the parties.- When arigliw'rl end fight ?" 44 Certainly," (aid Mr. Read, "in any way whatever." Mr. F. Read then called up Belcher, and acquainted him with what Bourke bad diced. Belcher Paid alfo, " certainly, he could do no otherwife." Bourke then requefted that the paufes between each round might be three quarters of a minute. To this Belchees friends objekted, and infifted on the regularly eftablinted time of half a minute. After walking in the ring about three minutes, the combatants ftripped ; and having gone through the ufual ceremonies of crofling and thaking hands, they fet to loon after one o'clock. Many of the amateurs were aftonifhed at the cool determination with which Bourke appeared to enter the ring with Belcher after the fevere beatings he had received from him, but his mind was made up to try once more if perfeverance, or a fortunate blow would Rand his friend.' Bel , chees looks were thofe of confidence : his fecond was Joe Ward, and Bill Gibbons bottle-holder. Bourke was feconded by Tom Owen (the oilman), and Youkel Wetzlar (a Jew), bottle-holder. Hav ing announced that they were ready to fet to, a perfeft 'Hence immediately prevailed throughout the fpeftators. Fir) Round—Bourke ran in upon Belcher. It was evidently his hope to gain the battle by fupe rior ftrength. Bourke doled upon Belcher, and tried to throw him ; but Belcher threw Bo urke.; Some blows were (truck, but no blood drawn. Second Round.—Bourke ran in upon Belcher, hoping to crufh him by fuperior ftrength. Belcher put in a (mart blow on his adverfary's throat, and drew the firft blood. They clofed, and Belcher again threw Bourke. Third. Round.—Bourke again ran in upon Bel. cher with great fpirit, and in doing fo planted a (harp blow on the right cheek bone, with his left hand : he next put in a very fevere blow be tween the left breaft and the fhoulder, which, if it had been placed lower, might, from its force, havebeen molt important. He was aiming another blow with his left hand, when Belcher rallied, (truck a fevere blow, doted, and brought Bourke to the ground. Fourth Am:ad—Bourke rufhed upon Belcher, miffed his blow, and fell on his knee. Some per fons groaned, called out Bourke was at his old tricks, and fuppofed him Ihifting, as be fell with out a blow; which, if done intentionally, we be lieve would have been contrary to the conditions of the fight ; but Bourke's previous and fubfe quent condua !hewed, that fuch a charge was un founded, as he fought really with a Ready fpirit, and teemed to do his heft. Fifth Round.—Bourke ran in with great force, caught Belcher by the hams, doubled him up, and threw him in the ftile of a crofs buttock: Belcher pitched on his head with fuch force it was feared his neck was broken ; a cry of ig Foul I foul!" ran round. But Belcher rote as fprightly as ever, faid he was not hurt, and in anfwer to the cries of foul! faid, " No, never mind." Sixth Round.—This and the -tenth rounds were the molt fevers and decifive ; Bourke ruched in as ufual. Sharp blows were ftuck on both fides.— Belcher put in a fevere blow on the fide of Bourke's head, another on the fide of the neck, a third on the throat, very fevere : they clofed, ftryggled, changed legs, each difplayed his utmoft !kill and ftrength in wreftling ; at left they both fell toge ther alongfide of each other, neither being upper molt, or able to claim, or really poffeffing the ad vantage in the fall. Seventh Round.—Bourke was lets gay, lets eager. His ftrength manifeftly began to fail him; but he did not !hew lets fpirit when put to the teft,— They clofed, and Belcher threw Bourke. kigth Round.—Bourke began to (land on the de; fenfive. At that he had no chance. Belcher ftruck tome (harp blows, and this round ended nearly the fame as the former. Ninth Round—Bets, which were offering for the firft five rounds of 10 to 5, and afterwards of 5 to upon Belcher, were now offering of 20 to I in his favour. Belcher did not Teem exhaufted : he in this, and every other round, while the parties were fquaring, continued nodding and talking to Bourke, ftriking, at the fame time, the molt fud den, unexpe&ed, and feverc blows. This round ended like the former. Tenth Round.—This was the moll fevere and de eifive. Bourke fet to with fpirit and came up the firft to clofe quarters; Belcher buck very (harp; cut Bourke under the left eye; then under the right ; next planted a blow between the throat and the chin, fo fevere, that it lifted Bourke off his feet, and his head was the firft pan of him that came to the ground. Belcher teemed to fall after his blow; they both lay on the ground together; the blood gated up Bourke's throat ; colleited fully in his month, he (pitted it over Belcher who was lying by him. Belcher's fecond .complained to Bourke of this as infulting and unbecoming ; Bourke denied having done fo defignedly, or with any fuch intentions as thole imputed. Elsvaiih Round—lt was evident Bourke was beaten. His face was one mafs of blood. Still he 'hewed fight : tome blows were exchanged, when they doted, and Belcher threw Bourke ; but Bd cher fell on his hands, marifeftly not wifhing to hurt Bourke more, as he might have fallen upon him with all his weight, and given him a Severe bruife thereby, as is cuftomary, and deemed fair in fighting. TsveYTh Round.—Bourke (hewed fymptoms of weaknefs, fitting on the ground, and having more affiftance from his fecond than before. The refult was the fame as in the former round. Thirteenth Round.—Bourke Rill came up. Ed. cher ftruck him five or fix fevere blows, and doled and threw him. Bourke was heard to expres a with to give in ; but his fecund, withing him to perfevere, put a handkerchief in his mouth to ;title his utterance. Fourteenth Round was much the fame as the pre ceding. Bourke (hewed fpirit ; but his ilrength was gone, and he could only (land up to be beaten. It was evident he had no chance of fuccefs, either now or at any other time during the blottk.—Af. ter fonts (harp blows, Belcher doted, and again lints••l-• tot fecond if he gave in, and he difkinfily anfwerkiee. Indeed the poor man could leareely fee or itA bring much beaten about the body, and cut in the face, fo dreadfully, that it was almoß impoffible to dillinguilh a feature. He was put into a coach, and conveyed to a honfe in the neighbourhondr.f Grofvenor-fqoare. He was heard to groan very much on the way ; and indeed if he had not fur ' vived fo many fevere beatings, we Ihntild fear that this would be his lag. Belcher, on the contra, y, did not aprear to have a tingle mat Is in hi, f Le, or upon his body, except a bruize on the left cheek bone, and another on the breaff, town. ds the (boulder. Immediately upon his being de clared vigor, he leaped up three times from the ground, near three feet high, iunidll the (hoots and httztas of the fpeaators, to (hew that he had not (offered from the fight, and re mained in full porealon of his powers. After walking three times round the field with his friends, to cool and compofe his fpirits, he left the ground on foot, his particular friends accompanying him until he reached the road,where they took a coach, in order to avoid the crowd that followed them. They afterwards dined, and (pent the evening together, in the 6 lure of which he did not kern to have (offered Use kali inconvenience from fight, except from his having hib knockles much brnifed and broken in confeincnce of his hard Raking. There never was, perhaps, an in:lance of a crowd colleaed together fo fuddCnly Co fo great an amount, and upon fuch au OCCA 6011, that condu(led themfelves fo well. After the r ing was fief formed, until the end of the fight, lcarcely a tingle perfon was teen to move from his place; they were as fired and filent as fo many flatucs, except as the fudden incidents of the battle drew forth Tome involuntary expreflion. 'l'hi., no doubt, was the efiea of the interell which they felt in the fight; but their condua alto after it afforded equal proofs of orderly behaviour. Notwithßand. ing the number accumulating at the end of the fight was equal to that which was ,prefent at the beginning, in all near sOOO perfon's, the flightelt accident did not happen, nor was z there the flighte ß fymptom of a difpolition to riot. 9n the contrary. they difperfed peaceably, and with much lefseon fufion than we generally witnefs even on the return from a theatre upon a crowded night. With re (pea to the amount of the bets, a great deal of money was offered upon the ground ; but public opinion was fo decidedly in favour of Belcher, few were tempted, by any odds, to lytek Bourke.-- A great deal of money, however, was depending, as the fight is confidered decifive of all the bets made in Yorkihire, at the time the parties were to have fought there. -The parties certainly Rood in the fame relative fituation to each other, as they did at the time they were matched to fight. No.. thing had fence intervened to give- either any ad vantage that he did not at that time poffe.fs, or to place him under any difadvantao to which he was not before liable. The real queffion. to be tried was, which is the Letter man? and, as there is not the lealt doubt but that the refult of the fight would have been the fame, when and wherever it was fought, that point is as fairly decided now as it would have been in Yorkfltire. It is not, :iierefore, to be wondered at, that a certain Gent/mem f the turf contrived that the fight fhould not take place hi Yorkfhire, agreeable to the engagement for that purpofe. The (kyle of fighting was much the fame as in the fiat fight between the parties; Bourkc,ccn ceiving himfelf the Rronger man, endeavoured to avail himfelf of his fuperiority, by running in upon his adverfary. Belcher, on the other hand, though he (hewed no inferiority, when oppofed body to body in elate conteff with !,,is antagoniti, never doted but when he could not avoid it, and pre ferred that difiance 'at which he could bell avail himfelf of his fcicnce and peculiar powers, Thefe, as we nbferved upon former occarions, confif principally in a molt extraordinary quicknefs. His blows are not Peen ; they are put in with a rapidity that renders them impnflilile to be par. tied ; they are only felt and known by th.eir con. feqnences, and his adverfary is beaten before the fpeaator has teen him receive a blow. The battle proceeded without the le all intcrrup. tion from the police, the notice to meet was fo ex tremely private. Information arrived at the Public Office, Mat lborough• beet, and a party of officers were difpatched, but before they arrived the battle was over, and the people were difperfing. On Thurfday morning, as a pleafure boat was paging over Brandon, near Yarmouth, with five Ladies and two men, a fudden (quail of wind up. fet the boat, by which unfortunate accident 4 young Lady who came from Cambridge to fee h. s parents, was drowned, and had it not been for tl'e exertions of a craft palling, the whole would have been loft. The body of the young Lady was picked up yefterday morning by a filhernian, and the Coroner's Jury was to fit this day. Yeflerday Daniel Mabony was charged at the Pu'alic Office, Worthip.ftreet, by Robert Wood, and others, with being found at a late hour on I.Vednefday night in the Church Yard of St. Ma. thew, Bethnal Green, in the ad of opening agrave, in, which was recently hurled the body of a young wiimad. It being a clear cafe, he was fully com mitted to take his trial 101 a miltlemeanor. The youth, who found means in difguife to dude the diligence of the Turnkeys of Newgate on Sun day hat, was retaken going to Camber4eil fair yeiterday ; en his return to gaol he wifhed Mr. KIRBY and his nephew to permit him to fee the fair, atftiring them he would return to Newgate. lie was apprehended with a thief who had efcaped from the licule of Correction. Thudslay evei.ing as Mr. Sai mer, was driving down York Ilrei mitilter, in a one hone chaife, the 1 by the appearance of a paper ball lime boys bad been amuling therm (tasting fuddingly, threw Mr. filch violence as to diflocate thumb, and other wife much to horle could not be Ropt, but r iu !mud C()llins, far- ett, towards Weft- e hark took fright, alloon, with which mielves. The hone Collins out With • his ()milder and bruize him. The' •/ ran at full fined .•. ••