The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-09 00:00:00

AQUATICS.

GRAND SAILING MATCH FROM GRAVESEND TO THE NOSE
LIGIIT AND BACK.—The inhabitants of Gravesend and the
admirers of this beautifnl art, experienced another decided
treat on Saturday in the great match for a silver cup, value
50 guineas, and a purse of 50/. added, to be sailed for by a de-
scription of craft unequalled in their speed, and whose cap-
tains are unrivalled for their superior tactics. The prizes on
this occasion were the gift of Mr. Scott, the banker, who ac-
companied the match in the Zarama yacht. The inhabitants
of Gravesend, Milton, Northileet, and the adjacent parts,
poured forth their population, and many of the steamers brought
down the ladies and gentlemen from London who were desir-
ous of witnessing this contest. The interest of this match was
considerably enhanced by the circumstance of there being six
boats in this contest which had sailed in the Gravesend regatta
of the Loyal Britons a few days since, and on that occasion
the whole of the eight boats did the distance and back so ad-
mirably, that only eight minutes elapsed between the arrival of
the first and last. The river presented a very beautfful appear-
ance, and the Earl Spencer, the Eliza, the Albion, the Bri-
tannia, the Alert, and the Pilot cutter, all carried a tolerable
burden. Their company was of the most respectable descrip-
tion, and many who bad anticipated the treat, and come down
in the morning by the steam boats, were not a little chagrined
at discovering that the yachts had been off two hours before
their arrival. At a quarter to nine all the boats were at their
stations but the Jane, who was very tardy in her movements.
The following were placed by the unipiros—
Names of Boats. Tons. Captains. Colours.
Harriet ............16 J. Waters Blue White Cross.
Morning Star. . 16 J. Latten Red.
Maria 16 . .John C01e......... Yellow.'
Industry
Lady Melville 99 J Marsden. Blue.
Jane ..•?1 W. Colyer.. Green.
Earl Spencer l9 J. Lightfoot Purple.
Defiance 14 llaj or Marshal... Blue, with a Star.
The north-easterly wind was very fresh, with occasional
squalls; and after two or three minutes occupied in getting all
in the line, they were off.
The distance was to start from Mr. Gladdish's wharf and
proceed round the Nore Light, from thence round a boat
moored at Northfleet, and round the Princess Royal, moored
off the Custom-house.

At nine o'clock the boats started, an the usual alacrity was
displayed in getting them under way. The Harriet, Indus-
try, and Maria were all out together and in the leading place.
They had to beat down against nearly a dead noser, and there
was hardly an advantage until the boats were in the Lower
Hope. The Harriet was there first, the Maria to leeward,
and the Industry on the same board, and the Defiance
last. The Maria was doing wonders, and had caught her
breeze beautifully. In five minutes afterwards she passed
by the two leading boats to windward, and showed them
the way down the reach wonderfully. In Gravesend Reach
the Lady Melville had carried away her topsail-yard, but
she rigged afresh, and had very soon made up in good sail-
ing for her mishap, but in a few minutes afterwards she expe-
rienced another drawback from an accident on board, and lost
her second place. At Southend the sea made, and the wind
freshened. It just suited the Defiance, whose sharp face cut
through the water in out-and-out style, and in ten minutes af-
terwards she passed the whole of' the boats to leeward. She,
first rounded the Nore Light, just at 38 minutes past twelve.
The Maria was two minutes afterwards, and the Melville a
minute and a half after her., The Harriet and all the others
were well up; in fact a quarter of an hour covered the whole.
The sailing of the day might be considered ovor ; it was all
running before the wind. The Maria in the first reach broke
her squaresail. yard, and she had to rig afresh. In comineup,
notwithstanding this accident, her crew were so alert that she
maintained her second place, although hard pressed by the
Lady Melville. The generalship of the captains of the two
vessels reflects upon them the highest credit as sailors.
They rounded the Princess Royal thus :—The Defiance first,
at 38 minutes past 4 ; the Maria, 39 minutes 30 seconds past;
the Melville, third, 40 minutes 45 seconds past ; the Harriet,
fourth, 41 minutes 30 seconds past ; and the Industry, 43 mi-
nutes past. The match throughout was admirably contested.

MR. ROBINSON'S MATCH FROM MARGATE TO LONDON.—
It is finally settled that Lewis, the waterman, is to row with
Mr. Robinson in this match, and they are both in severe
training. We believe it will be rowed in one of the three
last days of August (weather permitting.) They will start
from Margate at an early hour on the morning of one of the
above days, with,a view of getting over the worst of the diffi-
culties before the sun is well up. The betting is about the
same as lately stated in our paper, and there arc more offers,
we hear, than takers, as the chances against the rowers have
now become better understood. It is, in truth, a hazardous
undertaking, and the least wind must necessarily prove fatal
to the match. It has been reported that they will have two
boats (It larger one for the sea way, and Mr. Robinson's light
oar boat for the river); but we presume that they will not
encumber themselves with a heavy boat, inasmuch as they
could not possibly put way enough in her, and they would,
therefore, have the greater distance to row against tide, and.
that at a time when they must naturally be exhausted by their'
previous exertions.
The contest for the amateur championship of the river is
fixed for to-morrow. It was expected that six or seven of the
Gentlemen amateurs would contend for it, but it is now
thought that only tnree will take stations. Mr. Wood has had
a boat laid down for the purpose. He is an admirable sculler.
It is understood the celebrated Leander Club hold the sculls
until the match comes off.
Tna FotTa-OARED CUTTER
,MJ,,Tcu.--There appears to be
censilieratdi e act cujii a;Z:erialn earl
the Old Diana or the New, bad the best of the recent match off
Chandler's. The Old Diana's crew have challenged those of
the New, but it is not likely that a contest will take place.

Aucimay._The Doncaster Archers dined together at their
usual place of meeting on Thursday last, when sixty ladies and
gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous entertainment, Colonel
Fullarton in the chair. The shooting took place after dinner,
and WAS excellent.

CHESS MATCH BETWEEN LONDON AND PARIS.—The pa-
pers have lately spoken of the challenge offered by Mr. Descha-
pelles to the chess players of England for a stake of 24,000 f.
1,0001.) The clubs of London have named a committee to
regulate this celebrated duel, and to lay down the conditions
on principles agreed upon by both parties. On Monday last
M. Perical arrived in Paris from London with full powers to
conclude the match. The Panorama Club immediately ap-
pointed a committee to confer with M. Perical. It is com-
posed of M. M. Louij Fould (banker), Denisart, and Dc
Labourdonnais. The''French players arc to set out for Lon-
don immediately.--French paper.

ELOPEMENT.—Yesterday morning an elopement
took place from the vicinity of Egham. The parties are a
son of Mars and a lady of Egham. The gallant officer, it
appears, has been staying fur some time in the neighbourhood,
and succeeded in carrying off the " ladye of his love" at an
early hour, between two and three in the morning. The
matter, it is said, is likely to become a subject for the Gen-
tlemed of the Bar. The fugitives have proceeded to the
Continent

'I HE SHOOTING SEAS U.N.

( From a Correspondent of the Morning Advertiser.)

While serving my apprenticeship under the immortal Mey—
nell, who founded the Quordon Establishment for fox-hunt-
ing, which, for-many years after the demise of this celebrated ,
sportsman, flourished with unrivalled glory, but .vhich crum-
bled to pieces in the hands of Mr. Osbaldeston, I had no idea
'of that interesting mountain scenery which, at no distant
period afterwards, inspired me with such lively emotion. It
is true I had frequently ascended the most towering or the
loftiest elevations which Charnwood Forest affords,• but what
are they compared with the magnificent- mountains of the
North ! The mere undulations of the midland counties vanish
into nothingness on the first glimpse of the lofty heights of
Westmoreland ; and the impression of these is completely
obliterated in the contemplation of Ben Lomond, Ben More,.
or the still more towering and snow-capt Ben Nevis ! S. it
may be said that, after a young sportsman has become
au fait at the pursuit of the partridge, the first trip he makes
to tee grouse mountains puts him out of conceit with
his former diversion. In the use of the fowling-piece,
grouse shooting is as superior to every other pursuit of
which this extraordinary engine is susceptible, as fox-hunting
is to a ring with a bare, a waddle with a stag, or a tedious
paddle after an otter. •
It was when hope beat high in the young breast (since
which many years of disappointed expectation have rolled
over my head), that I took my departure from Leicestershire
for the moors and mountains of the North, to enjoy, for
the first time, the animating but indescribable diversion of
grouse shooting. I had heard of " cloud-capt towers,"
but had not seen cloud-capt hills, and for the first time
beheld this interesting sight on reaching Westmoreiand.
It is not possible by written description to image to the mind
a correct or impressive idea of the scenery of the grouse
mountains ; such, therefore, of my readers as feel an incli-
nation for a shooting excursion, and have not visited the moors,
I advise to take the requisite trip, and feast their eyes
upon views, the aspect of which can be conveyed to the
mind through no other medium.
The legal pursuit of that beautiful bird, the red grouse,
commences on the 12th inst. (August) ; but it is not till the
18th, that the more noble game, the black cock, becomes a.
le4itimate object for the sportsman. Grouse,. both red and
black, are to be found in some parts of the West of England ;
but not in a sufficient plenty to reward the trouble and ex-
pense of a journey from a distant part. A few straggling
broods may be met with in some of the elevated parts of
Staffordshire ; in Derbyshire, black and red grouse are more
plentiful, particularly. upon the property of the Duke of
Devonshire, and that of Mr. John White. A few red grouse
are found on that part of the Lancashire ridge of hills, which.
stretches from Harridge towards Blackstone Edge and York-
shire. In many parts of the last-mentioned county, as well
as in Westmoreland, very good sport may be obtained with
red grouse ; out I am not aware that black grouse are to be
met with in these extensive districts. I never observed a
black cock in any part of Westmoreland which has fallen)
under my observation; while in Yorkshire, I have ranged
Stainmoor, Newsham, Arkangathdale, Barningham Moors,
as well as many other parts of this county, but never found a
single head of black game, though I have frcqueetly met with
abundance of red grouse. I have enjoyed excellent diversion
on the moors and mountains of Durham, particularly in the
neighbourhood of Weardale, with the birds last mentioned,
but never encountered a black cock ; however, these fine
birds are tolerably numerous in the northern parts of Cum-
berland, while abundance of common grouse are found on
many of the moorlands of the same county.
A trip to either of the northern counties just enumerated
will be amply repaid by good sport with red grouse, which,
let it not be forgotten, afford superior shooting or diversion
to that obtained from the black cock, although the latter is
more than double the size. There is something charmingly
interesting, after a few hours diversion to place oneself
upon the heathery carpet, and while swallowing a sandwich
to view the wild and almost boundless expanse ! In some
parts of Durham, the scenery of the Grouse Mountains ap-
pears with vastness and grandeur to those who contemplate
it for the first time, but fades from the, recollection when the
eye is directed from the summit of Ben Lomond. as well as
from the tops of many other mountains in the Highlands of
Scotland. And it may be further remarked, that as the
scenery of the Scottish Highlands is transcendently superior
to that which is presented on this side the Tweed, so the
,shooting on these sublime elevations 'may be regarded as
equally superior also. Game is remarkably abundant iu many
parts of this rugged, but highly-interesting country of which I
am speaking, while the grouse are individually larger and
finer than those bred upon the minor mountains and moors of
England; owing, it would appear, to the greater extent and
superior boldness of the heathery regions which it. inhabits.
On several eccasions I have killed red grouse (male birds) on
the English moors which weighed one pound and a half, but
I have met with these birds several ounces heavier in Scot-
land. Similar observations will apply to the black game
found on the northern and southern side of the Tweed.

The extensive moors of Nithsdale, as well as many other
parts of the Lowlands of Scotland, contain abundance of red
and black grouse; but I never experienced half so much
pleasure in ranging these parts as what I derived from pursu-
ing greater abundance of game amidst wilder and more magnifi-
cent scenery in the more northern parts of the same country.
The Grampian Hills afford excellent diversion ; while iu
the neighbourhood of Loch Lomond abundance of the finest
black cocks in the world are to be found,.as well as plenty of
red grouse. Ptarmigan (white grouse) on the upper
parts of the gray mountains, while the scene is enlivened
by the wild and stately stag, the beautiful and timid
roe, and thus rendered more animatedly interesting.
Many years have elapsed since I first visited Scotland, prior
to which I had no idea that the noble eagle was so common an
inhabitant of the country ; but in all that rugged region which
stretches from Ben Lomond to the Lochaber mountains in-
clusively, eagles may generally be seen hovering at an im-
mense height over these Alpine heights. The golden eagle'is
amongst the several varieties of this bird found in the High-
lands of S.mtland.

Perthshire and Inverness-shire are remarkably rugged, but
afford excellent shooting; game is abundant in Ross-shire and
Sutherlandshire ; but beyond the Ord of Caithness the black
cock is no long,ei to be found; the roe, or the wild deer, no
longer animates the landscape. However, the moorlands of
this county arc well steeled with red grouse, and one of the
pleasantest day's diversion, I ever enjoyed was on the beautiful
mourn of Dale, fourteen miles from Thurso, the northern point:
of the country. I also found white grouse on the abrupt hills
near the sea shore in this county.
Much very beautiful scenery is presented to the eye both in
Ross-shire and Sutherlandsliire, particularly in the neighbour-
hood of Borrodale in the latter county; but the magnificent
wildness of many other parts, particularly in sections of Glen-
gary's country, appeared infinitely more interesting. . The
mode of visiting Scotland is rendered as eligible as possible by
means of the various steamers ; the sportsman may be thus
pleasantly conveyed, dogs and all, from London to Old
Reikie, and thence by similar means to Cromarty, where he
will be landed, as it were, in the middle of the Highlands.
Red grouse are found on the Welsh mountains; but the
shooting which the principality affords is scarcely worth notice,
at least in this place. Common moor game is found thinly
scattered in some parts of Ireland.
Although the Highlands of Scotland stand so superlatively
pre-eminent in regard to shooting, I do not recollect having
ever observed what an English sportsman would call a good
dog in the possession of a native of the country, of a person, at
least who resided constantly in the Highlands. Generally
speaking, they prefer the setter to the pointer, merely because
they do not understand the mode of procuring or producing
the latter dog in perfection. lam quite willing to admit that
the heavy, lumbering, surly-tempered Spaniard, with widely-
spread feet, crooked legs, and " out at the elbows," would
make but a poor figure on the grouse mountains ; he would be
brought to a stand in two hours ; but place something like the
head of this dog on a frame, bony, wiry, and every way calcu-
lated for activity and endurance, like some of our highly im-
proved English pointers, and you have an animal much supe-
rior to the setter in nose or acuteness of the olfactory organs;
much superior in steadiness, and capable of going through as
much, if not, more, exertion or fatigue. Though plenty of
dogs are requisite for grouse-shooting in general, yet, on our
next visit to Scotland, we shall take two only—since, in many
parts of the Highlands, game in so plentiful that sufficient may
be procured in two or three hours to satisfy an ordinary incli-
nation. I have repeatedly left my quarters about ten o'clock
in the morning, bagged ten or twelve brace, and sat down to
dinner about three. Such, to me, is the very perfection of
shooting.
Those who visit the. English moors should consider the
brandy-flask as an indispensable appendage ; in Scotland the
mountain-dew forms an excellent substitute. Those who feel
desirous to drink whiskey in perfection, will scarcely accom-
plish the gratification, unless they visit the Highlands. I was
never able. to obtain the genuine usquebaugh but amidst this
hills where it is manufactured. •

It is rumoured that the two rival suitors for th e
highest and fairest hand in the kingdom have returned horn°
without making any durable impression upon the heart of the
interesting Lady in question.
Sißt.l2Tril Ars 11;:7 .
Esq. was in the act of loading an' air gun he was about to use,
the gun went off upon the half cock, and the ball entered the
thick part of the thumb. Colonel Packe officiated for the
High Sheriff at the Assizes, in consequeuce of the accident to
which we have above referred.—Norwich Mercury.
.FRANCE.—The triumphal arch lately inaugurated
had-not proved a source of triumph to all the military French.
Captains and Generals pour in complaints that their names
have been omitted in the inscription, which is, nevertheless,
very comprehensive. A committee has been appointed to sa-
tisfy these candidates for fame.

HoRsEWHIPPING AN EDITOR.—When the Rev.
Henry Bate Dudley had the management of the Morniug
Herald, a person, whose name had been mentioned in the
fashionable information, called to know the name of .the
writer. He addressed the Rev. Editor, and complained of
what he considered a calumny. Brandishing a stout cudgel, he
said his intention was to inflict chastisement on the editlr,
unless.he received the satisfaction he required. " You shall
have satisfaction,".said the Doctor. " Wait a few moments."
He then went up to the press-room, and calling the men,
told them he had been threatened by a person in consequence
of an article which had appeared in the paper. " Now,"
continued the Doctor, "you must satisfy him; get your
blacking-balls well covered with ink, and come down to my
room." Thev obeyed his instruction, and f,,llow•cd him clown
`• Now, Sir," said the Doctor, "you may e:sere 111
your cudgel ; these men arc ready for you." Before the
stranger could make an answer, the .-printers attacked him
right and left with their halls;and -drove him cut of the..office
into the street.