The Sun.
London, England, 1807-06-20 00:00:00

BULL BAITING, &c.

The 'l,4ateurs•of the Fine Arts were most amply
gratified ou Thursday, on a Common near Hendon,
by baiting.a very game bull. Indeed, whether we
estimate the high consideration of the animal by
the huMbeis, or the Condition of the speaators,
lie must have been very well known. Never was.
there a.lneeting.rmore' congenial to the nature 'of
the: sport-7-never.,.. a more motley - ussemblage—
bakes and 'Dus. twen, Lords and Lamplighters,
Butcher -Cad: Barz•isters, Peers 'and Pickliockets,
Wa4oriers, Church. and Church
Aff,lidant, Bkod royal--each
and, Alt seenied anxious to, witness, the
.prowess .of
the' Dos so Much the ehara&eristic of our brave
• .Nearly fifty dogs were:let loose. The bull, how.:
ever -beat them all as quietly as if he had been only
singly combated. The dogs were of the best and
'highest blood and a:numerous list of Young Bloods
of the day, graced this festival, so much the pride of
the laWer class.

The Heroes of the Fist both Jews and. Gentiles,
were .in great plenty ; • and 'having been indulged 'at
the, conclusion of the lam public , light. wifh a -bull-
.1)14, they now scorned tb be " outdone in cozatesg,"
and si)on knocked up a,fight
,between two Heroes ;
one known as an old one; the other ftS•Juek-a-dandy;
in, which, as there was no science, there. was little
pleasure to the 'Amateurs..
. very fair-Made athletic Barg&nan happening
to say in the hearing of Jackson,. that he could
beat any man on-the gronnd, was 'very drily inter-
rogated whether he would.fight any than ? and hav-
ing replied in the affirmative, Rid/Mora, the 4)lack
set-tdi with him for a parse of ten gnineas, eirileaed
;from the Gentlemen present ; and *nearly. beat. the
Barge,rxiini.' to death in about half at bout, leaving
him as an example and proof, that skill will beat
strength or size; or, in other words, that. the
science of pugilism is .proof against the attacks of
eyeryt ruffian pretender. . .

• 'The day's sport concluded by a match being rnade
betWtten I. utc% Sam and Torn Belcher, for a l'undted
guintps, t 9 be, fought in fire weeks, which, for skill
And. bbttoin, Will not be inferior, to ariy in the annals
'

;Poi Gulley is also to fight a very large man in
about' a mouth. The name of the new man is
.IQ)zegstin': (113)i six feet one inch high, and strong in
• p,r9Fitiwik, and has as yet never been beaten.

• , - ,
both in town and country, participated of
SOME `ortlle Capital Prizes. in the last Lottery. gut
as Prlzes'of greater magnitude are'inore interesting,
for reasons too obvious to state- to such social So-
cieties, the present Scherne,.,of course,- from its pos-.
sessing a Capital 0f30,0001. (though. containing 6000
number's less than the preceding Scheme) cannot but
be peculiarly acceptable :to Clubs iii general—and
ti;(... pore especially as there are not three blanks to
a Prize.

i;4.4 iti'ici,ri'.

bcillßT KING's 11EN'Crii. rt:Ni

A?LZ'. BO:IACUI

•
This 'l,inft aftion brought by asl ipwrigh4
against the Captain of a Venetian Ship called the
NovellO4, to recover '677]. )(is.' for repairs done -to
her, under the direetions of the aefendant,

It appearjxl that the Vessel was tht property of
Mr. Vivanti, of Venice, and soon after her repairs,
the Stites Of ,Venice becoming the property of
trance, she was accordingly libelled in the Court.
of Admiralty as enemy's property. While she was
under repairs in the Plaintiff's dock, the Defendant,
as Commander, superintended the repairs, and be,.
ing a foreigner, and wholly unacquainted with the
English language, he was obliged to give his direc-
tions through interpreters. He. represented himself
to be half owner of the Ship, and the Plaintiff ac,
cordingly commenced this action against him in that
character.

Mr: SCAALET?, for the Defendant, endeavoured to
shew, by evidence, that his Client was no more than
, Captain of this vessel; that Mr..Vivanti, Venice,
was the sole owner, and had consigned her to a Mr.
Levi, of this city, who alone was responsible for the
amount of the repairs. It appeared, however, that-
although Mr. Levi was the consignee of the Ship,
he only gave authority for repairs to the amount of
.601. and even this responsibility was done away by
the subsequent ,a6t of the Defendant ; who, being
confined in Newgate for this and other astions, had
sent a Circular Letter to all his Creditors, proposing
to dispoqe of the. Ship, in order to dischaige their
demands, r thereby acknowledging that he had the
power of selling the Ship. Upon these grounds,
the Jury found a Verdid for the Plaintiff, for the
whole amount of the repairs, 5771. Ws..

STEWART V. STEWART AND ANOTHER.

Thistwas an aaion for work' and labour, and for
goods 501 d...
The Plaintiff, Mr. Charles Stewart; is Printer to
the University of Edinburgh, and resides in that
city. The Defendants, Messrs. Alexander and
Donald Stewart, are booksellers of this city, and.
had employed the Plaintiff to print two volumes of
poetry, in the Gaelic, or Erse language, amounting'
to 2000 copies.
_ _

Mr. 'NotAg, Counsel for the Plaintiff, here oh-,
served, that he knew. of nobody who would pur—
chase those sort of works in this part of the world„..
except it was his friend tile attorney-General, who
had. made a choice colletion of rare books of this
sort Be this, however, as it may, the books.were
printed and delivered to the Defendants, who, he'
understood, had since disposed of them. The
amount of the bill was 1231. 155. 4d. including•the-
paper, which the Plaintiff had supplied.
• Mr. PARKE, for the Delen(l:=lt; said, that .his.
Learned Friend, Mr. NoLAs, not being born so far.
North as himself, might not have known that there
were plenty of customers for these books• in the'
Highlands of Scotland, where no other language.
was spoken or 'understood, and where these poems
were read with avidity. They were the poems, of
Ossian, in the original language,,of which the High-.
Landers were exceedingly fond ; and for-the encou-.
ragement of edecation in that part of the United.
Kingdom, Government had allowed a drawback to
the Printer, which, drawback. the Plaintiff' had re-
ceived, amounting to 271. Is. 4d. By a bill formerly.
delivered, his claim was upwards of 401. less than
he now sought to recover ; and taking that bill to be
right, the sums already paid on account, with the
amount of the drawback, 'and 241. 2s. Bd. paid into
Court, would cover the whole of the Plaintiff's de-
mand. •

It appeared, h evidence, however, that an esti-
mate of the expence had been made out, previous
to its execution., which fell very short of the actual
expence; ,and Lord.ELLENBOAOUGH thinking there
might have been some mistake between the estimate
and the account:. ifurnished, , and considering the
great difference i!of 42i. 12s. between., the two ac-
counts, advised the parties to split the difference,
and diridethe ,Costs. This being acquiesced in, the.
Jury accordingly found a verdia of 20. tis. fat the
Plaintiff, without costs.