The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-01 00:00:00

MEMORANDUM-WAR-OFFICE,

The Secretary at War hereby acknowledges the receipt
of en anonymous letter, dated "London, 27th July, 18'27,"
indorsing a Bank of England note for Five Pounds, dated
30th June, I 527, and numbered 13,321, and in which
letter it is requested that it might be credited to the public,
" being the amount of an error in the Regimental Accounts
of the Writer."

A Detachment belonging to the 95th Regiment of In-
fantry, has received orders to march this morning, from
Westminster, for Portsmouth.

FIELD SPORTS FOR SEPTEMBER.

(From the Annals of Sporting.)
"'Tis animation all : the stubble field,

That late its yellow bounties proffer'd up,
To swell the farmer's garner, now affords
Another crop for vs ; whilst field and heath,
That, like good stewards, had preserv'd our wealth,
At rich September's summons yields it up
To those who can produce an honest claim
To reap a Sportsman's harvest. On the winds
tome cheert'ul notes, too, of the young hounds' cry,
Pouncing on Reynard's lair. 'Tis the bright dawn
To many a feat which Pastime calls her own ;
A prologue cheerful, writ by Nature's hand,
To bold, brave acts, that follow -." S.

Even in the triumphant times of imperial Rome, Septem-
ber was dedicated to sport ; for, independent of its prin-
cipal feasts, the Dionysie, or, the Vintage, the grand games
called Circenses ludi, beginning on the 15th, and continu-
ing five days, were, at this time of the year, also, the object
of general interest. The month that
" Treads his full orchards now, and, at hours,
Gathers delicious sweets —"
has lost nothing of its cheerful fame or sporting cense-
quence, by the growth of time. It is the season when
the fowling-piece comes into general use, when the kennel-
doors are again thrown open, and wider breathing room is
given to its summer-rested inmates—not to dwell upon
other indications ofgenerous amusement. In fact, September
might be called the title-page to the great volume of sport
from which we have already gleaned, and shall continue to
glean, for it is inexhaustible, has no "finis "—numerous
lessons of instruction and interest. Listen, readers, to a
chapter now.
We have already said it was on the 12th of the last
month that the fowling-piece was called into action in the
pursuit of red grouse ; we omitted to add that not till the
20th instant did black game become a legal object of sport.
It is a well known fact, that a notion has been long preva-
lent
that wet weather is favourable to the propagation of
,ssFse, :rt. %loain wh;I:- hat, been ii:Aiced in
our pages. But, if any thing beyond common sense were
requisite to show the fallacy of such an Waal, the present
year offers an incontestable demonstration. The breeding-
season was the reverse of wet, the spring and summer of
the present year having been drier than usual, so much so,
indeed, that, on the lighter and sandy soils, both the hay
and corn crops suffered from, drought ; yet grouse were
never known to be more abundant. The shooter found
plenty of well-grown birds, and, consequently, experienc-
ed good diversion ; though, for ourselves, we have scarcely
ever enjoyed this charming diversion, for several days in
succession, without getting thoroughly soaked to the skin.
All grouse-shooters arc very well aware that they mast,
generally speaking, range the moors with wet feet; this is
indispensable from the very nature of the ground ; and, of
course, amongst high mountains, more rain must naturally
be expected than in the open plains, or champaign country.
Wet feet, however, and frequently, a wet jacket, are trifles
in the estimation of a true sportsman ; and, if the writer
may speak r,scording to his own feelings, (and he snakes
little doubt but that he expresses those of all sportsmen
Partial to this diversion), grouse-shooting is superior to
every other department of the chase, where the fowling-
piece is used in its operations.
Partridges will be found in abundance, more so, perhaps,
than they were last season, as inure than the usual num-
bers were left to breed, and the season, generally speaking,
has been favourable to their propagation. The merciless
and all-devouring net will have been called into action,
prior to the Ist of September, by the nightly depredator,
particularly in the immediate vicinity of large towns, or
where the means of conveyance are well calculated to fur-
ther the ultimate views of the poacher. Nor have we the
least doubt but that, in all those places not strictly preserv-
ed, two-thirds of the birds will be netted before the morn-
ing of the " Fowlers' Month."
Coursing, with a few reckless and greedy gamesters,
to
coursing defer
(sportsmen they can hardly be) will commence this month,
though it is much more advisable, more may,
the use of the " long dogs" till the following ; yet there is
no accounting for taste in field sports, as in any other hdeirsgpuusits:
suits—chaeun a son gout, say the French ; but still there
goodis
may be
classedand ba d
undertase ;thaend latter.tve thinkve
sSeptembersaw,
last year, a neighbour pursuing the " poor timid hare"
during the month of August!
September may be regarded as the cub-hunting season ;
and, as some little time ago we had fears respecting the
fate of the Quorndon establishment, so we now rejoice that
it has come into the bands of a Nobleman (Lord South-
ampton) who, we have no doubt, will d's, every justice to
the first fox-hunting country in the world. Dick Burton,
it seems, does not accompany his old master (Mr. Osbal-
deston) to Northamptonshire, but continues at Quorndon.
Lord Southampton could not be better suited with a hunts-
man. Burton is more acquainted with the country, and
with the establishment altogether, than any other man : he
has, in fact, been in them all his life; they were his cradle
and his school : sobers industrious, and very active, he is,
on the whole, well calculated for a situation in which he
delights. He has regularly gone through the various minor
situations; in due course he reached the eminence for
which he had ardently panted, and there can be no doubt,
every satisfaction will arise from his services. At one
period (some few years ago) the QuorndOn hounds were
managed in the fields by Tom Sebrighti as huntsman ; and
Dick Burton and Will Head, as whippers-in ; and we
never recollect seeing hounds managed better, if so well.
The cub-hunting time must be an anxious and an ardu-
ous season for the huntsman, as the quality of his young
hounds are now to be tried; and he has his pack to form
fqr the ensuing season.
In regard to harriers, they will, of course,, go out this
month, for the purpose of trying the young hounds, which,
however, give very little trouble in training or entering,
compared to the foxhound.
The' operations on the Turf, the feats of " the horse
and his rider," will be most anxiously attended to for
sometime longer. In the present month will come off in
some respects, probably, as to the number of horses, and
extent of speculation, for instance, the greatest race-meet-
ing in the world. We mean Doncaster, which commences
(it is our birth-day, and we cannot forget it) on the 17th.
Having already devoted great attention, and numerous
pages to racing details, our readers will have felt convinced
that a full and impartial account of this meeting is already
guaranteed to them ; and, therefOre, as we shall continue
our exertions in respect of the turf throughout the season,
more it is unnecessary to add in this place.
• Early mowing will, it is to be feared, haVe been de-
structive to game ; as a proof, the writer will mention
that seven hundred eggs were so -destroyed in the small
township of Aintree, in Lancashire, the property of the'
Earl of Sefton.

The defendants were indicted for assaulting James
Bennett on `the King's highway, on the lth of No.
vember last.

The prosecutor, James Bennett, said I am a shop-
keeper, residing about nine miles from Monmouth,
and have also a small farm. On the evening of the
4th of November last, between six and seven o'clock,
I left home to go to market at Monmouth to buy
shop goods. About two miles from home I met the
defendant. Price said " Good night," to which I
replied by saying, " Good night." He then asked
me where I was going: I said I was going to Mon-
mouth. He said I must go along with him, and he
seized the bridle of the mare on which I was riding.
I had a bag with me. I told him there was nothing in
it but what was my own. Price then told me to get off
the mare. I told him I would give him the bag if
he would let tne have the mare to go to Monmouth.
He said he would have the mare and the bag too.
I asked him not to ride the mare hard, as she had
been at work all day. The next day I got the mare
and my bag back again.
Cross-examined by Mr. JUSTICE—I did not know
the defendants were going to take the mare and bag
to Mr. Lewis's; they did not say ' that they had
got something from the 'Squire for me. I don't
know that Mr. Garland had complained to Mr.
Lewis that he suspected me of stealing his fowls,
nor that Mrs. Ann Nicholls had made a similar
complaint.
Mr. JUSTICE, for the prisoner, stated that the only
evidence he had to offer was, that a complaint had
been made by Mr. Garland to a most respectable
gentleman, Mr. Lewis, of this man being suspected
of being concerned in various depredations amongst
the poultry-yards in the neighbourhood. The fact
of his going at night-time to market at Monmouth,
was a most suspicious circumstance; and Mr. Lewis
had, therefore, ordered the defendants, whenever
they met the prosecutor, to bring him before him;
and it was in the execution of this order that they
stopped the prosecutor an the evening in question.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said, that would not be
_sufficient. If there was any charge against the pro-
secutor, why was he not taken before a Magistrate ?
A Magistrate could not issue an order to take a man
before him in that way. His Lordship thought there
was quite sufficient proof of the assault.
The Jury having found the prisoners guilty, and
an acrangement having been effected with tile pro-
secutor, who stood up in the witness-box and acknow-
ledged himself satisfied,
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE addressed the defendants,
and told them they must know that persons were
not to be taken up in that way, without any sufficient
reason or authority; but under all the circumstances
of the case, the sentence of the Court was, that they
should each pay a fine of Is., and be discharged.

The assizes for this county terminated this day.

CURIOUS AND NOVEL CASE.

A fashionable watering-place has been the
scene of one of those little piccadilloes so fre-
quent lately in that class of society which should
set an example of morality to its inferiors. But
love—all-powerful love, plays the very mischief
with its votaries. The wife of an eminent Mem-
ber of the Stock Exchange Ilas, we arc informed
been sea-bathing for the bnefit of her health ;
and, as the Bull and Bear accounts have for
some time been fully occupying the attention of
her lord and master, she was accompanied by a
female companion, whom she obtained by an
advertisement in the newspaper. Accident,
which plays the very deuce in nine out of every
ten affairs of the heart, was, in the present in-
stance, the ruin of as pretty a formed little plot
for gulling the husband as we ever remember to
have heard of. This female companion, has
within the last few days been discovered to be a
second Chevalier Faublas, and was intimate with
the lady for some time previous to the appear-
ance of the advertisement ; but their interviews
being stolen ones, and of course few and far be-
tween, that expedient was hit upon, to enable
them to have a freer intercourse.

The lady's illness has been now discovered to
be entirely feigned ; nor did she appear, it is
said, so shocked at the detection as might have
been expected. The lover of the lady is very
effeminate in his appearance, and looked so well
in petticoats—so very modest—so very unas-
suming—and so very ladylike—that their in-
trigue might have remained for ever undiscovered
had not the sister of the husband by some strange
mischance, caught the gentleman in the very act
of shaving. The regard she entertained for her
brother's honour, induced her immediately to
reveal to him the circumstance, and the lady
immediately threw herself into the arms of her
seducer, and eloped with him. We hear also
that the young gentleman has been highly amu-
sing his friends by narrations of numberless secrets
communicated to him by females, who had little
notion of his real sex, when they thus made
him their confidant. As a matter of course the
affair will soon come under the cognizance of the
gentlemen of the long robe. By the way, the
reminiscences of a Gentleman of the Bar, who
may have had much practice in this way, would
afford a fund of amusement to those who are fond
-of reading the slips made in the higher circles of
society.

THE KILDARE ELOPEMENT.-111C case of
Fitzgerald, noticed in our last, was brought on again on
Monday. The parties were committed to gaol to abide their
trial at the next assizes for the county of Kildare. The
uncle of the girl, seeing the dangerous consequences which
must necessarily arise from a prosecution, has declared his
intention of forfeiting his recognizances, and foregoing his
right to the entire sum of money (still lodged in the polic,e-
office), rather than be the means of endangering the lives of
the parties.—Dublin Patriot.

•
Partridge shooting commences this day. From;
all parts of the country we hear that the birds are numerous,
but strong Upon the wing; and as the ground is cleared'of
the corn, the sportsman must expect that his vigour and
patience will be called into full exercise.

Though so much has been said about the
strength of Gibraltar, hardly any description
(which is rarely the case) comes up to the
reality. There are bastions behind bastions,
there are guns on a level with the sea, and others
500 feet above it ; there is only one narrow road
that leads to it, and on this point alone 300 guns
can bear at once. Thirty-six of these are placed
in excavations made in the perpendicular moun-
tain, which overlooks the Spanish lines, and are
so secured by the .surrounding fock, that the men
could work constantly at the gunl without the ,
smallest annoyance or risk of injury from the
enemy. There are others on the top of the
rock at that point, about one thousand four
hundred feet high, and about the middle of
the range is a signal-house, where there is con
stantly a detachment of soldiers on duty provided
' with an alarm gun, flags, and every thing neces-
sary to give notice of the approach of an enemy.
There is only one spot where the mountain is
accessible from the east, but the ascent is so
steep and the pass so narrow, that a small num-
ber of men would be sufficient to defend it
against an army. About 25 soldiers have made
their escape lately by this place into Spain,
bribed, as it is said, by agents of King Ferdi-
nand, who is raising an Irish regiment, and
secretly offering high bounties to deserters. In
consequence of this, preparations are making for
blowing up that part of the rock, so as to render
it impassable. The view from the top :of the
rock is magnificent. Europe and Africa are
seen at once ; the white town of Ceuta, with its
fortifications on the top of a hill are distinctly
seen by the naked eye, and the country behind
seems one continued range of lofty mountains.
With the exception of Tangiers, no other town
of any note can be seen on the African shore,
and none but Algesiras and St. Roque on that
of Spain. Both countries are alike mountainous.
It is singular enough, that though this spot
abounds with monkeys, there are none to be
found in the rest of Spain. This is regarded as
a proof that at one time it was joined to Africa;
and it is generally believed, that on occasion of
some great convulsion, when the separation took
place, the monkeys were taken by surprise, and
Gobolivgedo sail over with it to Euro
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are now in high favour here. The Lieutenant-
in
any one who shall in any way
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molest them. They have increased rapidly, of
course. Many of them are as large as our
dogs, and some of the old grandfathers and
great-grandfathers are considerably larger. I
had the good fortune to fall in with a family of
about ten, and had an opportunity of watching
for a short time their motions. There appeared
to be father and mother, four or., five grown-Up
children, anct‘three that.:,had not '.-feached the
years of discretion.' - One%rof them Iwas still at
the breaSt, thoug.h he waa quite, large enough to
be weaned, and indeed made hiiteseape as rapidl)t
as the mother when they took the alarm. It
was quite impossible to restrain laughter, ',Alen
one saw the mother, with great gravity, sitting
nursing the little elf, with her hand behind it,
and the older children skipping up and down
the rocks and walls, and playing all sorts of
antic tricks with one another. They made their
escape with the utmost rapidity, leaping over
rocks and precipices with great agility, and evi-
dently unconscious of fear. The accounts given
of them at Gibraltar, of their mode of living and
resemblance to the human race, are hardly cre-
dible. It is not at all uncommon, they say, to
see the mother take a little one in her arms,
carry it to a pool, and wash it all over, and then
lay it out in the sun, with strict injunctions, in
a language of her own, not to stir till quite dry ;
and /if it should happen to disobey her orders,
and roll in the dust without her permission, she
runs at it in the utmost rage, grinning and chat-
tering, seizes it by the neck with one hand, and
with the other bestows on its posteriors a suita-
ble degree of punishment. They are extremely
affectionate towards one another. Ihe sergeant
at the signal-house had lately caught one about
two months old, and brought it home, and the
mother came for many nights to the spot, utter-
ing the most piteous lamentations, and using
every attempt to get it set at liberty. This is
rather a rare occurrence, however, as the old

ones are extremely watchful, throw their young
on their backs on the least suspicion of danger,
and escape with great celerity.
There are great complaints at Gibraltar, as at
most other places, of the decay of trade and com-
merce. Still, however, there is evidently a great
deal of business at that place at present. The
contrast between it and Cadiz in that respect is
most striking.' At Cadiz it is rather a rare oc-
currence to see a cart or waggon loaded with
goods, and the number of porters does not ap-
pear great. It has more the appearance of a
genteel second-rate town, chiefly inhabited by
retired merchants, or men of fortune, than a com-
mercial city. At Gibraltar you see great num-
bers of waggons drawn by three or four strong
mules, conveying goods from one place to ano-
ther, besides a numerous body of porters (chiefly
Barbary Jews). There appears to be no lack of
Jews in this place, and wherever they congregate
one may be certain there is something going on.
The Barbary Jews, particularly those employed
as porters, bear a most excellent character.
Both
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but,with which
with the exception of two
Spanish smugglers,
the place abounds, are uncommonly fine-looking
men. There are about 100 vessels in the har-
bouror three, they are all rather small, consisting
chiefly of brigs and schooners. Besides these,
there are aboutlso large boats, which are em-
ployed in smug ',ling goods along the coat of
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