The Sun.
London, England, 1805-12-06 00:00:00

El.vzrrsgss OF BIRDS AND BEASTS.

' Henry the Fourth, King of France, had established
a falconry at Fontainbleau :—A hawk escaped from
it, and in hours afterwards was found at Malta.
Thus, in the course of so short a time, this bird ha{!
traversed a spaeg of 450 leagues I that is to say, 19
leagues an hour.
The swiftest fish scarcely.elVirn at the rate of one
league in an !tour.—Naturalists, however; are, in
doubt upon this point, considering the yearly pas-
sage of herrings from the Frozen ,to the Southern
Ocean.

Those. who. are accustomed to make voyages in
the -Baltic relate, that they frequeatly fall in with,
shoals of herrings, which generally keep'paeo with
the ship ; sometime s,...howaer, when the weather.
i very cold, ,acd the wito tay2utrable to their CflAi
gration, they will out3oip the moßt
it would take 63 days for a tortoise to go, one,
letgug:
lite race-horse is the switlest ,af ; they'
frequently outstrip. the wind in velocity. .11 am ble-
toinan, Engli,n. face-bor,e, cleare'd a tpakze of
four nnioi in '6ight, suireuteL. . .

.))11,ing ;To 4.t,not the bm,.liti)e4s aulluals t
• would be carious to ingture into tint of man.

The Ffemerodrantes run .1 -whole day without
fatiguing theniselves. The American
run down the swifttst animals. &Ilion mentions,
in'liht Miscellanies,' that he knew an Indian,
zotwitlistanditi,, the obstriklious of forests and un-
t..:erwootl Oar I.L course lay throUgh a wilderness),
tan over a space of ,9s miles in one day.
Philomides, the Courier of AY,Xlm(ler the Great,
ran in .nine hours a space of 1200 stadii ; according,.
to our computation, 40 leagues.
In 1767 a Boheiniail of the tiainc of Pocki,
Courier of the Dutaiess of Wcimar, was" the
Wirer of some important dispatched. tu:.Carlsbacl,
in 21 hours, and-returned to Weimar in the same
tittle. The distance ofthese cities is 38 leagues from
(*elk other. Thus Focke 'rail over., a spacu 0: 7u
leagues in 42 hours.

LONDON l'rintNi by Al CUM I:0 I.IA-It.ltiS, of No. 4, Martlettweotsrte. 4o,tv,iticet ;.
at St;:s-Orvics, No. I 12, Strund ; whert' ,44‘itteriisenient4 Orders

A ZIANKRUFT.

This W33' a Petition praying the Caurt to order
that the assignee under the commission should Pay
to Mr. Whttaker, the Petitioner,. the stun of 1401.
due to him, for his .dividend;under the said connuis-
sioni.of ss. in the pound.
The matter had betbre come on to be heard, and
it was. con tended that the assignees had paid the mo-
neyto.Mr. Johnson, by order-of thefetitioner. The
Court had ordered that the assiznees should verify
this upon affidavit. .
Mr. Hord.l3 read the Affidavit-Of &person who
was Clerk, to Mr.,Johnson, stating, that Mr. Whit-
aker, on the dividend being advertised, called at
Mr. Johnson's house, and requested him to desire
Mr. Johnson to receive the said dividend for him,
and pay it in at hiS banker's. He then read the
Affidavit of the Assignee, • which stated that Mr.
Johnson, who was Solicitor to the Commission, had
informed him that he had received a letter from Mr.
Whitaker,. desiring him to apply for and receive his
dividend,.and that he had paid it to Johnson accord-
ingly. He hoped, therefore, his Lordship would
11(is make this Order 4iinst the 'AsSignee, as the
Petitioner had' a'aoOd aelloll against Johnson
for the same.

Mr. Romit.O. contended that the ,order ought to
be granted, for, after 'Whitaker had an is called at
Johnson's house, he received a letter tiom hina, in-
forming him,. that he could not 'receive the dividend
without a written authority from Whitaker, and
sent liim a paper to sign for that purpose.. Mr.'W.
in the mean time, reven to suspect John-
, son's circums'ances, never answered the letter, nor
sent him any written authority, • The A.isignee had,
tlie.refOre,, in payiiii:; the money, to. Johnson, dune it
tinder a misrepresentation, and to his own wrong.
He, therefore, prayed the. order.
The Loan CHANCELLna said, that when a, divi-
dend was, made and advertised, the ...Wgilee, from
that Incinient, became a Trustee for tte Creditors,
and accountable to them for the amount of their se-
veral dividends. it.had been said that the Pciiticni.x
had a right .of action against Johnson for his divi-
dend. That doctrine had been allowed by Lord
MANSVIELD, but this Court had always deprecated
the putting the parties to such an expellee., The
Affidavit .of the Assignee states, that Johnson told
him he bad received a letter froth *Whitaker, desir-
ing hint to apply for his dividend, and he had un-
fortunately paid it without desiring to,see the letter.
Hating done Pio, he paid it at his own risk, and he
must order him to pay the dividend to the fetition-
.er. The Assignee would, however, have a right
of a6lion against -Johnson, and a reasonable time
should be given in the order that he might come at
hint . • •Order granted.,

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11 14 .V , Nov. 4;