The Sun.
London, England, 1807-11-27 00:00:00

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N E*C NF, N0v.24.—0n Tues-
day last, during a hard run of the Lambton Hunt
hounder, Colonel' SheppercNon', attempting to leap,
the narrow river Skeroe (which Iris horse did not
fully clear), was thrown with extreme violence' on
the opp(isite..bank, and remained in a state of insen=
sibility a considerable times iTlr&impetuosity of the
chase preventing his companiOns from observing the
serioesnaint-: of the accident, Col. S. was ilft, to
the care of:a yeung man,- who humanely condOted
ihim to a' neighbouring farm-house.
• nearly recovered, . . •
On Saturday, the Ithinst. a remarkable fol-iheitk
thok place in the parish of Caramel, with thelbx7
hounds Weieging to. Wm. Towely,• Esq. of Town
Head, 'near the, foot of Windt:11110e: Lake. 'rite
fox broke cover about nineo'clOckin -the morning,
out of Edge Hill; west of Kirkhead Heights, the
premiiieS of Edward .Berrow,. Esq. of AllithWaite
Lodge ; he took his.course southwards; round by
Kirkhead End; from thence -to. the Northward)
Bpassing a few yards on the West side of Kent's
ank-houses; this dirediorvhe continued, crossing
the Lancaster and Grange-re:id, and running nearly
parallel to the latter, attbrdiug a general push to
_both horse and foOt, which were numerous. Ar-
riving,.at l'Yewharrow, • West`` of Grange, .he.was
.checked by Some font people 5 he then turned-back
to the cover where he first took his hasty strides;
crossing and re-crossing his former direction, but
finding the holes'. stopped, ,aind the hounds in full
roar, it noW.becaine necessary to .extend both his
latitude and longitude, which he did in a wonderfal:
manner,, perhaps surpassing all precedent,..how,-
ever, seldom equalled. Hisdireaion vas now,again
Northward, a little on the East of the.surainit.of
Wharthanow, and having got to' the North of this
mountain, , he took his course nearly \Vest, across
the valley of, 'Carttnel, rclose to the town (on the
South) and over the heights, of' Mountbarnard, 'part
of .Holkar -Band, and Bigland Star, as also the
mosses of Elleraide, Waltham and Barker, into Old
Park, a large rough wood, on the west boundary .
of the parish, near Holkar-ball. In , this wood
bold lleynard seemed to wish'4or shelter ; after an
hour and a half, exercising his sagacity, he foend it
necessarrtd quit, doubling back in the battle dime-
Lion over the mosses, ascended Ellerside-brow, and'
cr)ised near Howbarrow houses, He now became
thirsty, and not having time to search for the purest
fluid; was seen, by'M r. Oliver Toelmin, drinking dif-
ferent' times out of the wheel tracks; he now passed.
near Hill and Barus Bank, crossing the valley
of Cnimiel, a little above the town, through Castle
`llleadOw, and continued this direction over Hamps-
field Fell, Eggerslack and Blawith ;' from thence
he crossed, a little North of Castle Head, through'
the river WinSter, into the County of Westmor-
land; and ferward crossed a part ot the demtames of
Mr. Toiler' Barrow, of Meathdn (a keen sportsman).
From this place, the `chase was augmented with
fresh paraders, in the direction of N. E. through
the brush wood'of Whole Cat to the South end of
Yew-Barrow; continuing this direCtion, abotu. the.
Middle of the acclivity on the. West of this 'Moun-
tain; when he liPconded the top,' a little lo'the
'North,East of Witherslack •cherch; he- now took',
the top.of the Wall, built upon' a stupendous
pice (across the N'Oddle) a sight and situationgrand
to the extreme to 'a beholder tiorn,the road-below,
there being no brush-Avood to: intercept theaiigho
'Still further; and more in a north-east duet ion; '11e(
'.crossed the Outdast; also Witherslack High ;end'
Loa,' Park, to 'the skrts of Whitbarrow; a lift4ei
above Witherslack Hall; and thencetook histOurseL
foil 'North; up the Screes, to the Rake, 'East-itil
Hawredding; climbing the top of this grand moun-
tain,' and shoyt round Northwardfo the very extent;
then shaped his course 'through the township of
Crostbwaite, in a iyorthward direCtion, nearly to
crook Chapel ; . doubled there in. a South-east
dire6tion,- and got uponand North end of Whit-
barrow again ; continued some considerable distance
on the summit, when he was taken .by little more
than one-third part of the dogs that first started,' it,
then being six o'clock; so that the chaise lasted nine/
hours, and. the. tlit3llCe run was forty-three ritiletv,„
The ground run over. being .sosough, and dicta is
so great, that inaoyol the 'dogs were spent, 1114
took their lodgings utr.op Whitharrow, amongst the
brackens, all night. All the horsemen gave: t,ti)
the chase about Pool Bank, except Capt., Barrow,
of Meathap, 'who made 'round. turn at the.extenf
of the choce. He was taken, at the death, by foet7
men, who crossed Cartmel Fell With joyful hearts,
and when they got upon the'Feljfoot read, in sight
of Mr. Townly's. house, they stopped at certain
intervals and places, blew the horu; and followe.ct
with loud shouts ot joy and triumph.

• Lotop..yrry,-;--The oldest man now living in Scot-
land is supposed to be an Highlander of the name of
Alexander Macrae. .He was born in the parish of
Kintail; in the year 087, and is now .of course just
120 years Old. In the year i7lg he fought under
Lord SEAPORT/1 at the. battle of Glensheal, and in
1724 lie' enlisted as a private in, the Scots Brigade,
serving in Holland, where he continued seven years,
the last two-of which were spent in a prison in some
town: of FeanOti, the name of which he does not re-
member% In 1731. he returned to his farm, and
inarriO.a second wife,. who died a few years after.
_ln 1765 be fell into such low circumstances that he
was forced ro procure a subsistence by. going about
the country from house to house,.reciting Ossian's
Poems in Gaelic. In '1773 be married his present
wife, by whom he his three children, the last of them
was both .when lie was aged g 6. About 1 2 years
tpgo, when still very stout, he was deprivedef the
e:ie.of his limbs by a violent fever,'and ever since has
been unable to walk. He is now bed-rid, oaf, and
blind.; but his memory is still very corral. His
genc.ral tinuNt,Nuent is singing and repeatingOssian's
Ptie.ms in G=lit:, but he repeats so fast, that,it is int-

-possible tp vhite tliei 3 .loirn,virld if ilifefrtidt,..(l
atain.rettun to the begit:tnipr,Alf the poem. He ai
ptars'iolftiVe been n stoilt • .ruado-mitiklle-,:zeal
and it'll 'looks .uneosilmorfly'well...

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Ti. .
r.trA)n Mortlay last, in Sorrtrset.stroet, the ,Lady., of 1-I. Brett,
sl. of a Soh. • . .
(in the I.lth inst. at Prehnii. County of tonrionderry;the
q..adi orLieinenant-Colonei Knox, of the Donegal Militia,
of a Daughter.