The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

KNI/TSEOkg MEETING. -
THURSDAY, JULY 2!-i
Sixty PourKis rut_all ages. I.u,sr mile heats.
!Lir. Clifton's b. us fosew.ina, aged gst. sib. - 4 I
Hutchinsou's cis. li. Harmless, 5 yr.; old, Bst.
91b. (received tot.; - - - -
Sir 1 at bl c. 4 yrs old, list. 31b. -
IVII. Smith's LVIISS Bi3riCihird, 4 yrs. ost. 31b. •

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-2 2 3
-3 3 4

ORNISK.I kK .6,i FETING. •
FRIDAY, JULY 22.
Sweepstakes of togs. each, wan zoo. add d, for all ages.
Four miles. (6 Sub,c.rioers.
11,1 r. W. Walker's ch. 11. BAronet, 5 yrs old, Sst. :lb. x
Mr. Benson's hr. I. Unnol,:. 3 yr, old, 6st. -

2 end 3to ton Dimple. Won by a neck.

Fifty Pounds tot alt 'ages. Heats, twice round.
Mr, Harris's br. g. Viper, by Serpent, 4 yrs old, list.
rith. - - - -
Mr, W. Hutchinson's ch. h. Harmless, 5 yrs old
-',rte. iol ) - • - • - -
Mr. Walker's Baronet, 5 yrs old, Rst 71b .
Mr. Benson's gr. h. Atlas, 5 yrs old,list 71b
2 to i on Viper.

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EDINBIll<4;14 MEETING.
roxsowv• JULY 26.
;The King's Plate of 10,...g5. for tour-year olds and upwards.
• Four-mile heats. •
Mr. W. Collinion's 0. m. Fortuna, g yrs old, Sit 21b
r. F. Collinson's b. c. Sting, 4 yts old, 7st 41b
Mr. H~ru/etaon's gr. 1. P,cteria, 4) rs old, 7st 41b
Won very easy

WEDNESDAY, JOLY 27.
Fifty Guineas for all ages. Four-mile heats.
Mr. Collimon's b. h. Streamer, 3 yrs old, Bst alb by
Star - - - - -
Mr. Henderson's br. m. Country Lass, by Bangrail
Lord Montgoinvite's gr. c. Irvine, 4 yrs old, 7st 4lb

THURSDAY.
Hunters Purse—so Guineas..
Mr. Rail.lie's bay horse - -
Mr. Dawson's cheanut mare - 411.
Mr. Hendry's Pensioner -
Mr. weal's Toby; - - -
Mr. 13ruwn's brown mare - -
Mr. Kin's bay mare - - -
Mr. Smith's brown gelding - -

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PRtDAY.
Ladies Pur3e—jo Guineas.
.Mr. Brown's chesnut horse
Mr. Henderson's grey mare

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I DEAL, JULY 29.

Theßaces at Freedown on Tuesdayand Wednes-
day la,it Were productive of very good sport in general;
the company wa, very numerous, and amongst &lit
were several noble families and othe,rs of the first
distinction in the neighbourhood.
After the Races each day a most sumptuous en-
tertainment was given on the ground (under marq6es
pitched for the purposeyto the nobility and sentry
present, by the Officers of the Guards. The tables
were laid out in the most elegant and tasteful manner.
On TuescL-y evening agraaball was given at the Bar-
racks, and on Wednesday another at the Assembly
Ror;ms, by the Officers, who have conduated the
entertainments throughout with their usual muni-
n, once and liberality.

The recent order for a general crop throughout
the Army has given universal satisfaaior, to s the
Troops in this neighbourhood, amongst which is that
tlie.body of Troops the Ist and ari Battalions of the
Ist Brigade of Guards. The men declare that the
abolishing of the queues is more servietable to them
than any other alteration or.addition to their costume
whatever could have heen.

LAI3 REPORT.

COURT OF CHANCERY, AveysT s.

This day the LORD CHANCEL) OR finished his
third Seal after Terin.

PRINCE V. DOWNS AND CO.

In this case an injunEtion was applied for, to re-.
strain the' Defendants from bringing an eje6tment
against the Plaintiff, and-depriving him of the pos-
session of certain mills in the neighbourhood of
the town of Hereford, occupied by him.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, Mr. HART, and Mr.
RUSSELL stated, that the Plaintiff had some time
since been rendered Bankrupt, but hadcompounded
with his personal creditors, by paying them fifteen
shillings, in the pound, To get-quit of . a mortgage
creditor, over certain liiill3 bdolltipg to him in the
neighbourhood of Hereford, that he might be en--
abied to resume the possession of them,. and work
them, so as in time to paiy, his creditors in lull, the
Plaintiff applied for the assistance of the Defendant,
who, it was material to a due, consideration' of the
present question to observe, stood in a variety of dif-
ferent reiations to the Plaintiff, then bankrupt-,-he
was the petitioning creditor—he was one of the
Commissioners under the commission, his nephew
and partner was the Solicitor to the commission,
and Mr. Holloway, also his partner, was the as-
signee. Standing. in these different relations to the
bankrupt, the Defendant,' Mr. W. Downs, agreed
to advance money to redeem a mortgage to the ex-
tent of 41001. whiclett he Plaintiff had granted to a
Mr. Boddenhatn, to which he accordingly acquired
right. The Defendant, in his answer, indeed, stated
that this was not all, but that, •in addition to the'
mortgage debt,' he had agreed to advance a farther
sum, to make up 48001. ; in consideration of which

he was to beeome the absolute-purchaser of the
mills, &c. in question, the • Plaintiff being, in the
mean time, to enter into possession, and to con-
tinue tenant, at a rent of 2451. a year, besides hav-
ing a right to redeem the mills, if in his power to
repay the sum advanced for them;at anytime with-
,in the space of lour years. This the Learned Coun-
sel submitted, was utterly inconsistent with the
original object of the Plaintiff, as admitted -by the
Defendant himself, namely, to get possession of his
subjects, for the purpose of' extricating himself, and
paying his creditors in full. The Defendant him-
self, in his•answer, admitted -that the Plaintiff had
agreed toenend considerable sums in improvements;
and that mills, &c. were worth double the -rent
charged:; yet, with the same breath, lie would have
his Lordship to believe that the Plaintiff had conSent-
ed to sell to him subjeas capable of yielding a rent of
5001:per ann, for 48001. Supposing this statement,
however, to be true, the 7001. had never been ad-
vanced, nor had the conveyance ever been executed.
it was only on a draft .of a conveyance being ten-
dered,-,in which there was no right of redemption
similar to that ape ificd by the Defendant himself,
that the Plaintiff, 'and that, too, within four years,
tiled the present Bill, in which the mills in question
• were sought to be redeemed. The Defaidant could
.therefore only be considered in the light of *a mort-
gagee, and being already in possession, ia.as far as
he admitted that he had regularly received the rents,
;could have no right to bring an ejectment against the

Mr. RICHARDS and Mr. CooKE, for the Defend-
ant, contended that, in the present stage ot the
question, there was no necessity for inquiring whe-
ther the Defendant was the equitable purchaser of
the subjeas or not. The only question was, •Whe-•
they the mortgager,
.being-. himself the tenant, ova's
entitled to say to 4 e mezigagee, that he (the mort-
gagee) Was in possession in consequence of his re-
ceiving the rent, howeverinconsiderable,- which the
mortgager might chance, or might chuse, to pay;
and that the mortgagee was not entitled to enter into
possession, at least to the etre& of proculing an ade-
quate rent. They submitted, at all events, that the
Plaintiff, in order to prevail in his present applica-
tion, must pay into Court the whole sum advanced
by the Defendant on account of.these siejeds.
Sir SAMUEL RomiLLY, in
.reply,- contended that
the demand last urged could never be maintained
while the Defendant attempted to plead in his dm-
raaer of purchaser. WheneVer he chose to wave
that charatter, and to assume 'his proper one of
mortgagee, the Plaintiff should meet him by instantly
redeeming.

The LJED CHANCELLOR said, generally speaking,
the Niortgager could not be entitled, as tenant, to
maintain himself in possession against the Mortgagee,
who was-at liberty to snake the most of the subjeCts
he could. The Defendant in this case,' however,
ti-cim declining to make his eleaion as 'Mortgagee,
deprii'ed the Mortgager of the privilege of redeem-
ing. In this situation the most equitable thing he
coult do for. all parties would/1)e to grant the injunc-
tion, the Plaintiff finding security, in the event' of.
the Defendant's being -Intimately declared the pun-,
chaser, to pay what might be reckoned a fair rent
fur the subjects, and also to yielJ possession at thew
without suit, writ of error, or otherwise.

The seat now preparing for the future residence
of Louis XVIII. is Hartwell • Park, helot-iglu-pa to
the Rev. Sir GEORGE LEE, Bait. which fii3 MA-
ESTY has taken on lease for five years. There are
hear 150 EtlligralllS who Itm:e attached themselves.
to HIS fortunes, at Mittau, the greater part of whom
have been promised pensions, shald they peeler re-
maining cr where they now are.

•
• The Dutch fishermen, so long detained prisoners
of war at Yarmouth, and who were lately liberat-
ed, have reached their own coast in safety. The
owners at the 4hing vessels at Scheveling have ad-
dressed a letter of thanks to the inhabitants of Yar-
mouth and Lowestoft fur their benevolent assistance
io these poor people.

At Mailborough-street Police-Office, on Saturday,
a man of the name of Mitchell was charged by Sir
C. - Holt . with obtaining a service in his family by
means of a fictitious character.' It appeared in evi-
dence, that on the Defendant being hired, he re-
ferred to a gentleman with whom he had lived at
Gosford, ill Hants, for churadter, and on that Gen-
tleman being written to, a very,fa%'ourable answer
was received. It turned out that Mitchell had been
discharged from Gosford with a lost chat-oer; that
he had met Sir C. Holt:s letter at Gosford, and an-
swered it himself. The. Defendant -was tined 201._
in, default of pa) went -of I,yhich lie was committed
to Bridewell for six months.

SIR.RICHARD ParLLITS,

ONE OF THE SHERIFFS OF LONDON AND MIDDLESEX.

The respe& and attention which fol'lo'w this Gen,
tleman,. in the career of humanity and independence
with which he has executed- an important office,
naturally excites curiosity respe&ing him ; and'set.
veral accounts-of him having appeared; some of them
dictated by envy and malice, and oifiers.‘ by the
friendly zeal of partizans,- we have much pleasure-
in preeniing • our Readers with the "following
authentic particulars : _
Sir RICHARD, who is still in the prithe of life, not
having yeCattaine'd 'his fortieth year, has Ipng had
his name before the public, as an eminent book-
seller; and the vast accumulation of 'his literary
concerns, in which he is himself intimately and
personally, engaged (m it merely in the ordinary
mechanical sense), would alone entitle him to con-
siderable celebrity.
In his business no man was ever more laudably.
industrious ; and no bookseller ever more 'liberally
encouraged and • rewarded the labours of authors.
Public patronage has kept pace with private spirit ;
and Sir RICHARD, in conseiluence,- has for some
time 'past ranked among the first publishers in
Europe.,

He. is'a native of the City of London, and was
brought up with an uncle, an eminent brewer, in
the metropolis. The love. of literature led
however, to:abandon a business in which he had
the fairest prOspe& of opulence, but which was
not .congenial to his taste, for that of a bookseller;
and at twenty years of age he.opened a shop at Lei.'
-cester
.with his -own private, library, unconneaed
with., and independent of ids family. ••••
He soon aft'er began the Newspaper well known
under the title of u The. Leicester Herald," which
he 'continued for several years, with singular-spirit
and ability till his premises were burnt down by an
accidental fire which broke out in the house of a
neighbour. He had previously to that event suffer=
ed a prosecution excited by local politics for the sale
of a copy of Paine's -Rights of Man, a work with
which he had. no sort of connexion except as an
'occasional retailer. This prosecution was the sUb-
jeet'of a motion in the House of Commons, by the.
late Mr. Fox; and was much discusSed at the time.,
in and out of Parliament,. on account of some irre-
gularity in the proceedings, and the unusual circum-
stance of such prosecution being instituted against
coutitry ,bookseller.
After the. dest ruaion of his premises, he re-opened,
his book Seller's shop in Leicester, but .weary of the
turbulency of party-politics, he relinquisned his
Newspaper, and at the same time commenced the
-pithlieatiort of the Monthly Magazine, in London,
dividing bis time between_ the -Metropolis and Lei-
cester. 'At length, such was thd extraordinary suc-
cess of this Ailagazine,le disposed of his bookselling
concern in Leicester, and resettled wholly in the
Metropolis; uniting at first, with the superintend-
ance of that work, an agency for some Leicester .
ManuPturers, which, however,' he discontinued .
alter a few months, and devoted himself wholly to
.the business of a publisher.
It Woultl be idle and. impertinent to detail- the
ruultifarions transactions of so complex a business as
that in which 'thesubjeet:of this article has since
that period been engaged. It is sufficient to say,
that-industry and integrity- have been crowned with
success; and that in turning annually sums unprie-
cedented in their alnotint in this business, conheeted
as -it is with the senus-irritabile of -autlinrs, hiS
name- has never once occurred in a Court of Law,
either as Plaintiff or Defendant, and haS been known
only for his useful-patronage of .genius, and sPirited:
enterpri,zes calculated to distinguish the literary his-
tory 'of the age in which we live..
Of the ability and zeal with-which he has filled •
the, high office to-which he has been, elected by' his
fellow-citizens, it is -.unnecessary to speak in this
plal:e. The faCtS are engraver in the hearts of the
public; and, in spite ',of-interested misrepresenta=
lion, they will secure him the lasting esteem of
good men. The Whole execution of the law, as
far as it belongs to 'the office of Sheriff, 'has been
the obje& of his vigilance. The process of arrests
has been greatly simplified—the Lock-up-houses
have ceased, under- proper. regulations,, to be
spunging-houses;—rhe prisons have been cleansed,
and the condition of the Prisoners ,improved;-.--
.and Juries have been placed on a better footing. All
this has been done with a spirit of moderation;. and
we may add of deference to _those concerned; and
although- we knoiv that painS have been taken to
thwart and pervert the views of the worthy Sheriff,.:.
he has succeeded in a considerable degree in attain- .
ing those laudable objects,- and he 'his sown the
seeds ofregulations, which in due time will secure
a harvest of glory to himself, and of advantage to •
his country:

Early yesterday morning a-pitched battle was
fought on Kennington Common, between a lxiker,
nanied Smith, and one Johnson, in the employ of a
respectable -butcher in the Borough. This 'quarrel
originated in consequence of the improper behaviour
of the former to- the si,ter of the latter: Smith had
the best of the battle until the 9:oth round, When his
antagOnist, notwithstanding he had been mud] beat
during the fight, gave him some as•sevete blows as
perhaps ever were witnessed, and then became the
conqueror, atter a hard contest of nearly 40 minutes.
The baker was obliged to be carried away, having re-
ceived 'a well • merited batch of bruises.
Several Martell° towers are about to be built on
the Suffolk Coast; Five of themare to be in the
Orish of Bawdsey; and will comthand the shores of
Hoseley Bay, and the entrance of Woodbridge and
0r ford Havens. .A considerable quantity •of the ma-
terials for these batteries has already been lauded on
the Coast. . ,

A few days ago, as some workmen were employed
in repairing the walis.of a green-house belonging to
Lord Southampton, in the vicinity of Highgate, a part
Of the walls 'suddenly gam way, and unlOrtunately
crushed to death three of the men, and bruised two
others so.inuch, that but faint hopes are elite' tain,:d
of their recoVery.• Highly to the credit ut LorU
Southampton, his Lordship has ordered a handsome
sum of money to be distributed among. the fainilb4uf
the unhappy sufferers.

SHIP N 1 Ws,

ISRAYESEND, JULY 3f.

Passed by—the Dorothy Forster, Sowdln, .from
Little lane, Challender, Request, Lawson, Venus, VsU
Peace, Butcher, Jenneis Muckell lean, Stedman,. from Mak'
to Sedulous, Ingrahan, from GlOraltar; _AI gol,
from Oporto ; Liberty, from New Providence'
and the Graces. Conghey, from Belfast.
Sailed—the Lord Duplin, Ball, tOr Madeira ; Polly, Acid'
Land lason, Masson, fOr Gottenburgli.