The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-14 00:00:00

ROYAL TIGER HUNT.

Mar..tcca, MAy 19.—We have had a Royal
Tiger Hunt here. Capt. It ,of the 27th.
and another Officer, came out four marches from
Sangor, in this direction, with two elephants, in
search of tigers. They met with one, and Capt.
ordered his mahaut to take his elephant up to
the spot where he was lying on the banks of a
mall river, under some hushes, that he might
get a fair shot at him. On his elephant getting
within a few yards of the tiger, the latter rushed
d, and just as he was about spring-
ing,and wounded him, which
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when the Captain
ball into him, which made Nina fall
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among the bushes. The mahaot now
thought the tiger was dead, as he saw him lay_
fi)ecdk another
ing at full stretch, and he told his master of it ;
but all
the latter could say could not persuade
the
mahaot that the tiger, far from bring dead,
was only "shamming Abraham." The mahaot
persisted in pushing the elephant close up to the
tiger, and the consequence was, the latter
sprung up, and, before the Captain could fire,
sprang upon the elephant's head, got his fore
paws upon the houdah, pulled it all on one side,
and wounded the mahaot on his thigh, pulling
the elephant down at the same time, when out
flew all the guns from the houdah, except the one
that Captain R. had in his hand. The poor ma-
haot was so much alarmed (and not without
reason) that he got off the neck of the elephant,
and ran away into the jungle. In this state
Capt. R. managed to get the muzzle of his gun
against the tiger, and blew him off the elephant.
She instantly got up, when the tiger laid hold of
one of her hind legs, and mangled it consider-
ably. He then quitted her, and was going away
to the jungle, when he met the unfortunate
cooly belonging to the elephant coming up
whom he immediately ran at and wounded so
severely that he died a few days after. However,
the Captain having got the mahaot to come back
to the elephant, went in pursuit of the tiger
again, and at length killed him. He commenced
the battle with the tiger at 2 p.m. and had not
killed him before sunset. The elephant's head
and broboscis were much torn and the tiger had
thirteen balls in him..

OnSunday last, at noon, a dreadful and nearly
fatal accident happened to Mr. CALLAGAN, at Hammersmith.
Mr. C. is well kno%n as a.vocal performer, heretofore engaged
at the Ade/phi and Covent-garden Theatres. He, how-
ever, is said to have recently returned from Cadiz, whither
he went and fought under the Constitutional Standard of
Spain. He was at his friend's, Captain M'Creeth's house,
which is facing Hammersmith Church, and he had just
mounted one of his friend's horses, with the view of taking
a yide. The animal suddenly took fright, either from the
laughing of some ladies, or from the unconscious appli-
cation of Mr. Callaghan's long military roller spurs. The
horse darted, or rather flew, into the main-road, leading
from Hammersmith to Hounslow, but the animal regarded
not the winding of the road, but straight pursued his
course, and thus gallopped against the houses. 1/e went
against the shop-front of Mr. Dutton, the grocer, slipped
on the pavement, and dashed the iron-railwork into many
pieces, which spread in all directions. The horse fell with
such force, and the iron-bars having so deeply cut his neck,
that he literally dropped lifeless. Mr. C. had kept his
station on the horse's back, and fell with him, with such
force as to tear all his clothes on that side of the person
which came on the payment. Fortunately the horse, after
he was down, bad not the power to plunge, and to this
circumstance Mr. C. is indebted for the extraordinary pre-
servation of his life. His head was much bruised, as was
his right side dreadfully ; but no limbs were broken. Ile
bled profusely from the nose and mouth, and the flesh on
the right arm was much torn, and it was with consider-
able difficulty that he could be conveyed to Mr Bowling's,
a skilful surgeon, who resides near where the accident hap-
pened. Mr. Bowling imMediately bled Mr. Callaghan and
paid other attentions to him. Captain .31‘C. accompanied by a
Spanish gentleman] soon afterwards came. Mr. C. was so
faint and shattered, that he with difficulty recognized them.