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10e) iIYiIONT AND MR. MURRAY. ioNvERSATION or Load BYRON, AS RELATED BY THOS. NIE DWINt ESQ. COMPARED WITH ONE PORTION or HIS LORDSHIP'S CORRESPONDENCE. The volume of Lord Byron's Conversations with Mr. M u rrain contains several statements relative to Mr. Murray, his Lordship's publisher, against which, how ever exceptionable they might be, he was willing to trust his defence to the private testimony of persons acquainted with the real particulars,, and to his general character, rather than resort to any kind of public ap peal, to which he has ever been exceedingly averse. But friends, to whose judgment Mr. Murray is bound to defer, having decided that such an appeal upon the occasion is become a positive duty on his part, he hopes that he shall not be thought too obtrusive in opposing to those personal allegations extracts from Lord Byron's o wn letter., u ith the addition of a few brief notes of necessat y explanation. CAPT. AtEDWIN, p. 167. Murray offered me, of his own accord, 10001. a Canto for Don Juan, and afterwards reduced it to 5001. on the plea of piracy, and complained of my dividing one canto into two, because 1 happened to say some thing at the end of the third Canto of having done so." LORD BYRON'S LETTER. " Ravenna, February 7,1820. " MclaaAY—l have copied and cut the Third Canto of Don Juan into two, because it was too lung, and I tell you this before hand, because, in case of any reckoning between you and re, these two are only to go for one, as this wa. the original form, and in fact the two together are sot longer than is:vc of the first; so remember that I have . not made this divi,ion to eloteb'e upon you, br.t merely to suppress some tediousness in the aspect of the thing. I alouid have served you a pretty trick if I had sent you, fur example, Cantos of fifty stems each." CAPT. MEDWIN, p. 169. - • - - " I don't wish to quarrel with Murray, but it seems inevitable. I had no reason to be pleased with him the other day. Galignani wrote to me, offering to pur chase the copy-right of my works, in order to obtain an exclusive privilege of printing them in France. I might have made my own terms, and put the money in m y own pocket; instead of which, I enclosed Gal ignaiii's letter to Murray, in order that he might conclude the matter as he iieased. Ile did S) very advantageously for his own interest; but never had the complaisance, the common 'politeness to thank meur ackno a ledge m y letter." . LORD BYRON'S LETTER. • " Ravenna, 9hie 4,1820. " I have received from Mr. Galignani the inclosed letters, du plicates, and receipts, - which will explain themselves. As the poems are yiaur property by purchase, right, and justice, all inauers pub &c. &c. arefor you to decide upon. I know not how far my compliance with Mr. G.'s request might be legal, and I doubt that it would not be honest. In case you . choose to arrange with Ern I inclose the permits to yea, and in so• doing I wash my hauls of the business altogether. I sign them merely to enable you to exact the power you justly possess more properly. I will have no. thing to do with it further, except in my answer to Mr. Galignani, to itate that the letters, &c. ate sent to you, and the causes thereof. If you can check these foreign pirates, do; if not, put the permissive papers in the fire. I can have no view nor object what ever but to secure to you your property." Non.—Mr. Murray derived no advantage from the proposed agreement, which was by no means of the im portance here ascribed to it, and therelere was never attempted to be car ried into effect : the documents al. luded to are still in his possession. CAPT. ASEDwIN, pp. 169-171. " Murray has long prevented The Quarterly from abusing me.* Some of their bullies have had their angers itching to be at use; but they would get the worst of it in a set-to. - - - - •6 Murray and I have dissolved all connection: he had the choice of giving up me or the Navy List. There was no hesitation which way he should decide, the Admiralty carried the day. Now for the Quarterly their batteries will be opened ; but I can fire broadsides too. They have been letting off lots of squibs and crackers against me, but they only make a noise and ... . . " 4 Werner was the last book Murray publi hed for ate, and three months after came out the Quarte►ly's article on my plays, when Marino Taliero' was no ticed for the first time." LORD BYRON . S LETTER. " Genoa, 10bre . 25, 1822. " I bad sent you back the Quarterly without perusal, having re solved to read no more reviews, good, bad, or indifferent ; but who can cottroul his fate? ' Galignani: to whom my English studies are confined, has forwarded a copy of at least one half of it in his ildefatigable weekly compilation, and as, like honour, it came unlooked for,' I. have looked through it. I must say, that upon the whole—that is, the whole of the hay" which I have read (for the other half is to be the segment of Gal.'s next week's circular), it is certainly handsome, and anything but unkind or unfair." NOT E.—The passage about the Admiralty is un founded in fact, and no otherwise deserving of notice than to mai k its absurdity : and with regard to the Quarterly Iteview, his Lordship well knew that it was established, and constantly conducted on principles which absolutely excluded Mr. Murray from all such interference and influence as is implied in the " Con 3a/ions." CAPT. NIEDwIN, page 168. " Because I gave Mr. Murray one of my poems, he wanted to make me believe that 1 had made liim a pre sent of two others, and hinted at some lines in English Bards' that were certainly to the point. But I have al tered my mind •considerably upon that subject: as I mice hinted to him, I see no mason why a man should rot profit by the sweat of his brain as well as that of his brow, &c. besides, I was poor at that time, and have no idea of aggrandizing booksellers." LORD BYRON'S LETTER. " January 2, 1816. " Mau Six—Your offer is liberal In the extreme ' and much more than the two poems can possibly be worth—but I cannot zccept it, nor will not. You are most welcome to them, as ad ditions to the collected volumes, without any demand or expecta tion on my. part whatever. • " P.B. I have enclosed your draft TORN, for fear of accidents by the way.—l wish you would not threw temptations in mine ;it is not from a disdain of the universal idol—nor front a present super fluity of his treasures—l can assure yam that I refuse to worship him—but what is right is right, and must net yield to circumstances. ' Nora.—The above letter relates to a draft for 1,000 guineas, cffered by Mr. Murray for two poems, The Siege fif Corinth, and Parisiva, which his Lordship had previously, at a short interval, presented to Mr. Murray as donations. Lord Byron was afterwards induced, by Mr. M.'s earnest persuasion, to accept the 1,000 guineas, and Mr. Murray has his Lordship's assignment of the copyright of the two pieces accordingly. CAPT. MEDWIN, p. 166. " Murray pretends to have lost money by my writ ings, and pleads poverty ; but if he is poor, which is somewhat problematical to me, pray who is to blame?, " Mr. Murray is tender of my fame. How kind in him ! He is afraid of my writing too fast. Why ? be. cause he has a tender regard for hii own pocket,, and does not like the look of any new acculaintarice in the shape of a book of mine, till he has seen his old friends in a variety of new faces ; id est i disposed of a vast • editions of the formei Rnrks. I don't know what would become of me without Douglas Kinnaird, who has always been my best and kindest friend. It is not easy to deal with Mr. Murray." Norte —ln the numerous letters received by Mr. M. yearly from Lord Byron (who was not accustomed to restrain the expression of his feelings in writing them) not one has any tendency towards the imputations here thrown out; the incongruity of which will be evident from the fact of Mr. Murray having paid, at various times, for the copyright of his Lordship's Poems, sums amounting to upwards of 15,000/. [Hem follows a list of the sums paid to Lord Byron by Mr. Murray for his several Poems, which we in serted in the STAR of yesterday.) CAPT. MEDWIN, p. 170. ig My differences with Murray are not over. When ' he pm chased Cain, The Two Foscari, and Sardanapalus, he sent me a deed, which you may remember witness ing. Well, after its return to England, it was dis covered that But I shall take no notice of it." NOTE.—Mr. Murray, of course, cannot answer a statement which he does not see ; but pledges himself to disprove any inculpation the suppressed passage may contain, whenever discloSed. He has written twice to Captain Medwin's publisher, desiring, as an act of jos-, tice,to have the passage printed entire in any new edition of the book, and in the meantime to be favoured with a copy of it. As this has not yet been obtained, arid as the context seems to imply that it accuses him of en deavouring to take some pecuniary advantage of Lord Byron, he thinks he shall be forgiven for stating the following citcumstances : • Mr. Murray, having accidentally heard that Lord Byron was in pecuniary difficulties, immediately for warded 1500/. to him,with an assurance that another such sum should be at his service in a few monthi; and that, if such assistance should not be sufficient, Mr. Murray would be ready to sell the copyright of all his Lord ship's works for his use.—The following is Lord By. ron s acknowledgment of this offer : " November 14, 1815. " Dean Sia—l return you your bills, not accepted, but certainly not unhortassiest Your offer is a favour which I would accept from you if I accepted such from any man. Had such been my inten tion, I can assure you I would have asked you fairly, and as freely,. as you would give ; and I cannot say mere of my confidence or your conduct. The circumstances which induce me to-part with my books, though sofficiently are not immediately pressing. I i have made up my mind to them, and there is an end. Had I bees, disposed to trespass on your kindness in this-way, it would have been before now, but I ant not sorry to have an opportunity of da dining it, as it sets my opinion of you, and indeed of human nature, in a different light from that in which I have been accustomed to consider it.—Believe me, very truly " Your obliged and faithful servant, " To John Murray, Esq. " BYRON." No re.—That nothing had occurred to subvert these friendly sentiments will appear from the three letters subjoined, the second of them written by Lord Byron a few weeks before his death, and the last addressed by his Lordship's valet to Mr. Murray, as one of his de ceased master's most confidential friends. • LORD BYRON ' S LETTERS. " May Bth, 1819. " I have a great respect for your good and gentlemanly qualities, and return your personal friendship towards me. ... You deserve and possess the esteem of those whose esteem is worth having, and of none more (however useless it may be) than . " Your's, very truly, " BYRON." " Missolonghi, Feb. 25, 1824. " I have beard from Mr. Douglas Kinnaird, that you state a .re port of a satire on Mr. Gifford having arrived from Italy, said to be written by use, but thatyou do not believe it; I dare say you do not, nor anybody else, I should think. Whoever asserts - that I am' the author or abettor of anything of the kind on Gifford lies in his throat ; I always regarded him as my literary father, and myself as his prodigal son. if any such composition exists, it is none of mine. You know, as well as anybody, upon whom I have or have not written, and you also know whether they do or did not deserve the same—and so much for such matters. " You will, perhaps, be anxious to hear some news from this part of Greece (which is most liable CO invasion), but you will hear enough through public and private channels on that head. I will, however, give you the events of a week, mingling my own private peculiar with the public, for we are here jumbled a little together at present. " On Sunday, (the 15th, I believe) I had a strong and sudden convulsive attack, which left me speechless, though not motionless, fur some strong men could not held me ; but whether it was epi lepsy, catalepsy, cachexy, apoplexy, or what other cry or guy, the doctors have not decided, or whether it was spasmodic, or nervous, &c. but it was very unpleasant, and nearly curled-me off, and all that. On Monday they put leeches to my temples, no difficult matter, but the blood could not be stopped till eleven at night (they had gone too near the temporal artery for my temporal safety), and neither styptic nor caustic could cauterize the orifice till after an hundred attempts. "On Tuesday, a Turkish brig of war ran on shore. On Wed nesday, great preparations being made to attack her, though pro. tected by her consorts, the Turks burned her, and retired to Patras. On Thursday, a quarrel ensued between the Suliotes and the Frank Guard at the arsenal : a Swedish Officer was killed, and a Suliote severely wounded, and a general fight expected, and with some difficulty prevented. On Friday. the Officer buried, and Captain Parry's English Artificers mutinied, under pretence that their lives were in danger, and are for quitting the country—ithey may. On Saturday, we had the smartest shock of an earthquake which I remember (and I have felt thirty, slight or smart, at dif ferent periods ; they are common in the Mediterranean), and the whole army discharged their arms, upon the same principle that savages beat drums, or howl, during an eclipse of the moon ; it was a rare scene altogether. If you had bat seen the English Johnnie*, who had never been out of a Cockney workshop , before, nor will again if they can help it! And on Sunday we heard that the Vizier is cone down to Larissa with 100 and odd thousand men. " Incoming here I had two escapes, one from the Turks (one of my vessels was taken, but afterwards released), and the other from shipwreck ; we drove twice on the rocks near the Scrophes (Islands near the coast). " I have obtained from the Greeks the release of eight-and twenty Turkish prisoners, men, women, and children, and sent them to Patras and I'revesa at my own charges. One little girl of nine years old, who proposes remaining with me, I shall (if I live) send with her mother, probably, to Italy, or to England, and adapt her. Her name is Hate Hatagee; she is a very pretty lively child. All her brothers were killed by the Greeks, and she her self and her mother were spared by special favour, and owing to her extreme youth, she being then but five or six years old. "My health is rather better, and I can ride about again. My office here is no sinecure—so many parties and difficulties of every kied—but I will do what I can. Prince Mavrocordati is an ex cellent person, anti does all in his power ; but his situation is per plexing in the extreme; still we have great Imes in the success of the contest. You will hear, however, mot of public news from plenty of quarters, for I have little time to write.—Believe me, • " Yours, ice. &c. " To John Murray, Esq. LETTER OF LORD BYRON'S VALET. '" Missolonghi, April 21, 1824. " Sta—Forgive me for this intrusion which I ant now under the painful necessity of writing to you, to inform you of the melancholy news of my Lord Byron, who is no more. He departed this mi serable life on the 19th of April, after an illness of only ten days. His Lordship began by a nervous fever, and terminated with an in flammation on the brain, fur want of being bled in time, which his Lordship refused till it was too late. I have sent the Hon. Mrs. Leigh's letter enclosed in your's, which I think would be better for you to open and explain to Mrs. Leigh, for I fear the contents of the letter will be too much for her. And you will please to in form Lady Byron and the Hon. Miss Byron, whom I am wished to see when I return with my Lord's effects and bis dear and noble remains ; Sir, you will please to manage in the mildest way possible, or lan much afraid of the consequences. Sir, you will please give my duty to Lady Byron. Hoping she will allow me to see her, by my Lord's particular wish, and Miss Byron likewise. Please to excuse all defects, for I scarcely either know what I say or do, for after twenty years service with my Lord, he was more to me than a father, and I an too much distressed to now give a correct account of every particular, which I hope to do at my arri- 66 N. B." . . . val in England. Sir, y ou e a Skeletal have the goodness to for-' ward the letter to the Hon. Captain George Byron, who, as the representative of his family and title, I thought it my duty to send him a line. But you, Si r , w ill p l ease to exp l a i n to him a ll the par ticulars, as I have not time, as the express is now Te2dy to male his voyage day and night till he arrives in London. 1 must, Sir. praying forgiveness, and hoping at the same titre that you wilt so far oblige me as to execute all my wishes, which I am wull con vinced you will nut refuse.—l remain, Sir, " Your most obedient and very humble servant, " W. Fix.rciimit, " Valet to the late L. B. for twenty years. " P.S.—I mention my name and capacity that you may remem ber and forgive this, when you remember the quantity of times I have been at your house in Albemarle street. " To John . Alurray, Esq.": - - NOTE.—Other letters from Lord Byron, Of the same te nour and force with these now produced, might have been added. But it is presumed that these are sufficient to demonstrate in the present case, what has been. de. monstrated in many others, that desultory, ex-parte conversations, even if accurately reported, will often convey imperfect and erroneous noti, , ns of the speaker's real sentiments. JOHN MURRAY. Albemarle-street, Oet. 38, 1824. P.S. CAPT. MEDNiIN, page 170. "My differences with Murray are not over. When he purchased Cain, The Two Foscari, and Saydon:pa• Ins, he sent me a deed, which you may remember wit nes.ing. Well; after its return to England, it was dis covered that it contained a clause which hod been intro duced without my knowledge, a clause by which I bound neyself to °ter Mr. Murray all my future compositions. But 1 shalt take no notice of it." NOTE.—The words in Italic are those which were suppressed in the ta•o first editions of Captain l‘ledwin's book, and which Mr. Murray has received from the publi.lier after the foregoing statement was printed. He has only to observe upon the subject, that on referring to the deed in que.tion, no such clause is to be found ; that this instrument was signed in London by the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, as Lord Byron's procurator, and v.:hi:ebbed by Richard Williams, Esq. one of the part ners in Mr. Kinnaird's banking-house ; and that the sig. nature of Captain Medwin is not affixed. 2d Nov. J. M. LAW ItEPOR%'. COURT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER 5. In re LATHAM AND PARRY. This complicated case of bankruptcy was resumed this morning, by Mr. SHADWILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, in allusion to certain forgeries alleged to have been committed by one of the bankrupts before the commission had been issued, that thov immoral tran s actions might appear to have occur reaefore the commission, yet if the bankrupt was proved to him to have conformed to the Statute on Bankruptcy, and was recommended by a certain nun►- ber of his creditors as worthy to receive his certificate, his Lordship should not, on the ground of any ante cedent misconduct, feel himself warranted to withhold the certificate from the bankrupt. It was no uncom mon thing to see persons come here for their certifi cates, who had been guilty of 'the most flagitious and in famous transactions—transactions as much deserving the utmost punishment of the law, as those persons who were doomed in other places to suffer the last punish ment which the law could inflict. Yet those persons having conformed to the Statutes, and having received, through the characteristic humanity of English men and English creditors, the proper recommendations, had received and were entitled to receive their certificates. It was not uncommon to see among such persons, men who, having been entrusted with money, and requested to lay it out in the Funds, yet advanced it to third per sons, and applied it to other uses than those intended; continued to pay the dividends on it fora long space of time, and when all was made away with, left to the unfortunate creditors nothing but the knowledge of their ruin. Yet by the law as it stood at present, those persons, notwithstanding such immoral and infamous conduct, had a right to their certificates; and it might be useful to the world to know that conformity to the Bankrupt Statutes would always shut out from his Lordship's view any antecedent misconduct of the bankrupt. In reference to the case before him, his Lordship stated, that be would not, until he had read and considered all the documents, deliver any opinion; he would not take Any partial view of its merits, par ticularly as he was convinced that publication did occa sionally more mischief than any subsequent publica tion can remedy. PREROGATIVE COURT, NOV. 5. A great deal of business was done in this Court to day, but none of particular interest. One or two long depending cases were advanced a stage or two. HUNTER U. BURNS. In this case an executorship had devolved through several representatives; and Mr. Burne, the survivor of', those representatives, was some time since called on to bring in an inventory and account of the estate and effects of a Mrs. Elizabeth Arbouin, deceased; parti cularly as to a portion of the estate of that Lady's hus band, which she, conjointly with her co-executor, had administered, before making her own testament, of which Mr. Borne was nominated the executor. Dr. J. ADDAMS, on behalf of Mrs. Ilunter, the daughter of Mrs. Arbouin, objected to the declaration produced in Court in the way of inventory, and prayed the Court to direct it to be reformed. Dr. DonsoN, for Mr. Burne, observed that Mr. Ar bouin, the original testator, in regard to a portion of whose property the present question arose, died in 1803, in which year his widow and her co-executor took pro bate of his will. Now, as this event happened tct long ago, and as Mrs. Arbouin bad herself died so far back as 1806, and as the execution of the trusts created by her will, on the part of Mr. Burne and his co-executor (now deceased), had never before been objected to by any of the other nnmerous kindred and legnees of Mts. Arbouin, the Learned Counsel contended it was too much to call on his client for any greater Specification of the first estate (Mr. Arboutn's) than he had rendered many years ago, to_the satisfaction of all parties except . , the applicant. It might also be fairly contended that this Court had no jurisdiction, or but a very feeble one, to refuse or reject an inventory furnished in compliance with its assignation. In a case tenni Led in sth Maule and Selwyn, p. 406, entitled is Henderson v. French," it was held by the common law court, that a prohibition would lie to the Consistory Court of London, compell ing it to receive an inventory; for the office of that Court was merely ministerial. The Learned Counsel, under all the circumstances, prayed that his party might be dismissed. _ Sir JOHN NICHOLL said, the dictum which bad just been referred to, ap . plietionly to a case for which an Act of Parliament had already provided, and tAheaein the original suit was brought by a creditor. The Court ' . 0 r proceededto state the fact: out of which question arose:* observing, that Mr. - Btirne tively sworn in his affidavit, "tt that no Other, trti gomis, chattels, credits, or efFecti of the first deceit estate (Mr. Arbovin) had come to his knowledge's* his possession, save and except such as he had ilreidt . accounted for and paid over at the times and to the par; ties mentioned in certain accounts therein referred to." N. unle , s the other party could spew some teason.sble wound of belief that this Soleinn averment was untrue, the Court could not fairly c4l on Mt. Burne, at this great distance of time, for any more detailed specifica; tion of the effects of the first estate than was contained in his present declaration. The Court, having no such grounds before it, dismissed Mr. Burr* from all furthei observance of justice in the suit, &c. PALACE COURT, NOVENIBER 5. LAKE V. BuRDETt. Mr. EARL stated the case for the plaintiff, who is a tailor in Sr. Jame:h-street. The defendant is Sir Charles Burdett, Bart. The action was brought to re cover 51. 13s. the price of a coat and pair of trowsers made by the plaintiff for the defendant, which the latter had re:limed, after having kept them for some days. Chit; lei Barrow, the plaintiff's foreman, stated that he was present in his master's ,shop one day in the first week in September, when Sir Charles Burdett ordered a coat and a pair of trowsers; he was shewn the cloth of which each was to be made, and took patterns with him. fie gave very particular directions respecting the manner i;r which the coat should be made, which was different from what is worn by others. He desired that there shoot(' be neither stiffening, nor stuffing, nor plait ing, but that it should be made to fit him as God made him; for he would not allow any d—d tailor to alter his shape. He agreed for the price of both articles; the coat for 4.1. 15s. the trowsers 18. s. The reason the latter were given so cheap was, that Sir Charles said he w. 45 going to India, and would want some dozen pairs of the same. Witness sent the coat and trowsers home by the plaintiff's boy on the 9th of September. Sir Charles returned the trowsers the next daj., to be altered, which was done, and they were sent home the same day. In four or five days after, Sir Charles sett back both coat and trowsers. The plaintiff's boy, by whom the clothes were sent home, proved that he delivered them to a servant at Sir Charles Burdett's house; No. 10, Clare -street, Man. chester-square. Mr. THOMPSON addressed the Jury for the defendant, and said he would call a master tailor to prove that the coat sent to Sir Charles Burdett, by the plaintiff, was not fit for a Gentleman. The Learned Gentleman I called his witness, who stated, that Sir Charles Burdett sent for him in September, and shewed him a coat, which he said he thought was not new, and shewed witness spots upon it. Witness told him it was quite new, and that the appearance he observed all coats were liable to. Witness was satisfied it was a new coat. Mr. EARL was going to reply, but the Jury said they wet e satisfied, and returned a verdict for the plain tiff for the amount of his bill. SPORTING INTELLIGENM —.so— - NEWMARKET THIRD OCTOBER, OR HOUGHTON MEETING, VIIIMAT, NOMIIIIZIL 5. Sweepstakes of 100 soy. each, b. ft. A.F. Mr. Rainsbottom's Cephalus, Bst. . . Mr. Molony's Cinder, sit. 31b. 6 to 4 on Cephalus. I .. 2 Mr. Pettit 's Bravura beat Mr. Prendergast's Witch, Bst. 4lb. vuch, T. Y.C. 100 sov.-7 to 4 on Bravura. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sow. each, for three years old and upwards. T. Y. C. Mr. Molony's Cinder, 4 yrs old, Bst. 2!b. Mr. Wyndhatn's c. by PhantoWN 3 yrs old, 71t. 41b. . 2 Mr. Pettit's Nicolo, 4 yrs old, Bst. 51b. Mr. Greville's 'Orion, 3 yrs old, 7st. 121 b. I Lord G. 11. Cavendish's Dragoman, 3 yrs old, 7st. Sdb. Five paid: The Judge placed hut two.-8 to 1 against Mr. Wyndham's c. 3 to 1 agst Nicohi ; 2 to 1 agst Orion. Mr. Udny's Tarandus 7st. 151 b. beat the Duke of Port:and's Gabrielle, list. 71b. T.Y.C. 100 sov.-7 to 4 on Tarandus. Sweepstakes of 10 soy. each, for 2 yrs old, 6st. 3 yrs old, Bst. alb 4 yrs old, Bst. 121 b. five, six, and aged, 9st.slb. T. Y.C. Lord Verulam's f. by Selbn 2 yrs old 1 Mr. Wilson's c. by &stolen:lto, 2 yrs old 2 Six others started. The Judge placed but two.--10 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's f. The Audley End Stakes of 7,0 soy. each, for horses of all ages (two years old excepted), A.E.C. Lord Exeter's Zealot, 4 yrs old, ast. VA). Lord Verulam's Vittellina, 3 yrs old, 6st. 41b. Mr. Hunter's Ganymede, 4 yrs old, Bst. Mr. Wortley's Egyptian, 3 yrs old, 6st. 11%. Lord G. H. Cavendish's Mina, 4 yrs old, 7st. 121 b. Mr. Greville's Premium, 4 yrs old, 3st. 311,. Mr. Udny's Emilius, 4 yrs old, 85t. 10lb. 4 to 1 apt Zealot; 3 to 1 apt Vittellina. FIGHT PREVENTED. 1 2 . 4 5 The Gentlemen of the Fancy had, yesterday, to regret another interruption of their manly sports.—Two well known pugilists of this city, named Poole and Sammons, made their appearance for a turn-up," in a field near Gregory's Mills, in the parish of Claines; an immense concourse of people had assembled, and large sums were pending. The men had stripped, when Orchard and another constable appeared, and put a period to their amusements. The men were seized, hut were afterwards rescued by the mob, some of whom were seriously hurt in the scuffle. The constables applied at the public-office, when warrants 'were issued fcr the apprehension of the combatants.—We thbrk it tight to state that the Magistrates had issued °tilers to prevent the fighting within their jurisdiction. Worcester Journal, 11ow. 3. Prince MAXIMiLIAN of SAXONY and his daughter. the Princess Astatia, arrived on the 15th ult. at Florence. The Grand Duke and his family went to !met them at the country seat of Cafaggiolo. The august travellers intended to proceed on their journey to Madrid at the beginning of November. This being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Junnr.s, the llama of the Ror.ts, the Vrce-CstaNcittes ' the King's ATTORNEY and SOLICTIOR•GINEKAL, Serjeants at Law, King's Counsel, several eminent Barristers, the War.len of the neer, and the Marshal of the King's Bench, all in full costume, met the LORD HICII Cuaiscrr.ton in the Curt of Chancery, Lin coln's Inn ' • and after partaking of 30111 g refreshment, went in pro cession to Westminster Hall (the Loan Code Jusnet of the Court of King's Bench taking the lead) to open their respective Courts. Yesterday foren' u the Columbus got under weigh, and proceeded in tow of the ream vessels, but was brought u,) again, in the upper part of the Queen's Channel, the wind being directly contrary. The guards and coachmen who arrived in town this morning state, that the weather last night was must inclement, proceeding from frost, accompanied by a piercing wind. A letter from the Agent to Lloycfs at Galway, dated 2d of November, states, that a person named Connolly, master of the sloop Dunmore, of that port, bound t:1 Liverpool, with 100 firkins of butter, &c. had put into Ficland Harbour, near Killebegs, and sold the cargo, then scuttled the vessel, and made off. He is supposed to be a native of Cunnetnara, and returned to that place. Every pains is taking to have him apprehended. When the new LORD MAYOR was presented to Lord E. for his approbation, the witty Cu. --.It, who loves his joke, remarked (in allusion to the approaching General Election) that be thought the citizens bad been a year too soon in staking a Mayor, of Garrott. . 1 ~' ~ ~, r! I , i I .41 , I r A a *IN .1..