The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-24 00:00:00

KEAN'S ANNUAL WHERRY.

Yesterday the sixth annual prize wherry, given by Mr.
Kean, the Tragedian, to the watermen on the river
Thames, was rowed for by seven pair of oars. Upon no
previous occasion do we remember seeing so many persons
collected to witness a similar trial of strength and skill.
The competitors were impartially taken by ballot from
the general body of Thames watermen. The following
were their names, stairs, and colours

David Eld Old Swan
Charles Campbell Lambeth
George Wild Lambeth
Thomas Yoking Hungerford
James Braithwaite Hungerford
John Poett Bankside
William Windsor Westminster
William Noulton Lambeth
Henry Jones • Vauxhall
Robert Evans Whitehall .......
Thoma:s Dolwin Horseferry .......
Thomas Dodd Hungerford
Edward 8rumme11...... Old Swan
George Galloway Vauxhall

Scarlet

Purple

White

Light Blue

Pink

Green

Yellow.

The second boat was to receive 101., and the third
boat 5/. The terms of the match were, that the boats
should start from Westminster-bridge, row round a boat
moored off Lawn Cottage, Battersea, and down to the
Red House. The three first boats of the first heat to be
entitled to row for the grand or final heat.
The terms of the second heat were, to start from the
buoys off the Red House, row round a boat moored near
Lawn Cottage, return down the Surrey shore, through
the centre arch of Vauxhall-bridge, and back to the prize
wherry off the Red House.
Soon after four o'clock, Mr. Barrymore appeared in the
starting boat (a cutt'r, and the rcwess att red in scarlet),
with Mr. White, the British Insuraaes Company's en-
gineer, who had the arrangements of the match.
In the starting boat was placed a flag astern, with Kean's
crest upon it—the Boar's Head, and also a very appro-
priate motto—" Sic itur ad astra." The prize wherry, a
very neat and trim built boat, was exhibited near the place
of starting.
The odds were 2 to I in favour of Scarlet, before start-
ing. in fact Campbell and his partner were booked to win.
Campbell is a very powerful man, and he has not won
less than four prizes within the last month.
The signal gun having been fired, the boats were off in
an instant with extraordinary swiftness. Scarlet got the
centre of the river, and had a. full tide in his favour ; he
kept two boats' lengths a-head of the other boats till he
passed the Red House, and then gained a still further dis-
tance, and passed round the boat off Lawn Cottage. On
the boats returning to the Red House, Scarlet was first
about six boats' length of Yellow, and Green third.

Sacortn HEAT,LScarlet, Yellow, and Green, at eight
o'clock, started for the second beat. Scarlet, after a short
struggle with Yellow, again took the lead, and kept it
the whole distance, and came in at least 200 yards a-head
of Green ; and Yellow was last. The boat and other
prizes were given up to the winners the same night.

CLARENCE YACHT CLUB.

SECOND GRAND SAILING DIATCH THIS SEASON, WEDNES-

DAY, AUG. 5.
The following is a list of Yachts entered to sail for the
Silver Cup and Cover, presented to the Club by the Pro-
prietors of the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, viz. :
Stations. Boats. Owners. Belonging to. Tons.
No. I Leander W Cottingham... Battersea 7
Spitfire ...... ... T. Bettswurth .... Chelsea 6 •
3 Rover J. Bishop Hammersmith... 6
4 Daphne J. Nelson Lambeth 7
5 Rt.wena T. Groves Lambeth 6
6 Clarence W. J. Sawyer Hammersmith... 7
They will be started about fuur o'clock from Blackfriarsi-
bridge, to sail round a boat moored off Wandsworth, and
back to Vauxhall-bridge.
The Cup and Cover will be presented to the winner in
the •Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, where the Members of the
'Club will assemble immediately after the match.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to town
on Wednesday evening from a visit to the KING at the
Royal Lodge, in Windsor Park. His Royal Highness, at-
tended by Sir GEORGE QUENTIN, went yesterday to
Wormwood Scrubs,
the Second Regiment of Life Gulrds.
where his Royal Bibb reviewed

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

COVENT-CARDEN Tit EATRE.--Yesterday Mr.
Corder, the vestry-clerk of St. Paul's, Covent-
garden, appeared at thii office on the following
sultject :
He stated that no less than 1,1261. were due by
the proprietors of Covent-garden theatre to the
parish of St. Paul's for parochial ra►es, from which
the poor rates amounted to 201. In consideration of
the difficulties in Which the theatre was involved,
more time than was ever usual was allowed to the
proprietors ; but they had still abstained from pay-
ing any of the sum. A summons had accordingly
been issued against them, on Saturday, to attend to-
day and show cause; but they had disregarded it.
He, therefore, now applied for a distress warrant,
grounded upon that summons.
Sir R..ButmE said that they were certainly justi-
fied in following that course; but, in his opinion, he
thought they would show more clemency if they
forbore till they had seen the effects of a second
summons.
Mr. Corder said he was perfectly agreeable, and a
second summons was accordingly issued.
LAMBETH-STREET. - •

IKEY SOLOMONs.—On the 10th inst. a paragraph
appeared in this and several other evening papers,
detailing the particulars of the apprehension of Ikey
Solomons, a person of no small celebrity, at Hobart-

town, Van Dieman's Land. Its correctness was
subsequently questioned, and its accuracy impugned,
by some Sunday papers, one of which went even
the length of characterizing the narrative as a posi-
tive, though ingenious fabrication, unfounded in
truth, and unsupported by even the shadow of truth.
Since then the reporter, in justice to his own cha-
racter, requested his informant to verify the details
on oath, and appear before the Magistrates at this
office for that purpose. This he readily accededto,
and on Wednesday last he came prepared with an
affidavit, which was handed to Mr. WYATT, re-
questing that he might be sworn to its truth.
The affidavit was as follows :

" Middlesex to wit,—David Woolfe, of No. 9,
Rose-street, King-street, Covent-garden, in the
county of Middlesex, general dealer, maketh oath and
saith, that he this deponent has heard read an article
in the public journals, of the 10th July instant, des-
cribing the capture of Isaac Solomons; and this de-
ponent further saith that to his knowledge the same
is in such public journals truly and faithfully set
forth, he, this deponent, having been at the time
the said Isaac Solomons was captured, at his store
or shop, situate in Macquarrie-street, Hobart-town.
The mark

of David Woolfe.
" Sworn at the Police-office, Lambeth-street,
Whitechapel, this 22d (lay of July, 1829.

" Before me,

Mr. WYATT, having carefully looked over the do-
cument, said that although it might not be perfectly
regular, he would permit the applicant to swear to
it. This, however, at the same time, he must tell
him, that it was one of such a description and nature
as could not hereafter legally be acted on.
The Reporter—lt is not with the intention, Sir,
of its being made a legal instrument that it is offered
to you ; it is solely for the purpose of confuting a
contradiction broached in some papers to an article
which I furnished, describing the capture of lkey
Solomons, the matter of which I received from the

applicant Woolfe. My veracity has been called in
question, and I am anxious, as far as is in my power,
to lay satisfactory proof before the editor that I am
guiltless of the fabrication imputed to me.

Mr. WYATT here handed the affidavit to Mr.
WALKER, who, after also having examined it, said
that he had the strongest oljection to the recep-

;ion of voluntary °tali's, and especially when lie

thought, as in this instance, they might be dispensed
with. The parties taking such oaths were not
liable to any legal punishment, and therefore in a
moral point of view the practice was calculated to
lessen the sense of the sacredness and solemnity of
the obligation of an oath. For these reasons gene-
rally, and not that he had any particular objection
to the application made to him, he would rather de-
cline receiving the applicant's affidavit, and he did
so with the less reluctance, as his declaration and
willingness to subscribe to the truth of its contents
would probably answer all the purposes which were
sought to be accomplished.
The Reporter admitted the force of the Learned
Magistrate's observations, but at the same time
urged, that if the affidavit was sworn to, it would be
much more satisfactory to those gentlemen and the
public, in whose opinions he wished to stand cor-
rect. At his solicitation, Woolfe was here called
in and questioned. He was asked if the affidavit
had been read over to him, and if its contents were
true. He replied in the affirmative, and said that
they certainly were. He had not known, he said,
Ikey Solomons in this country, nor had he ever
seen him until the day on which he was apprehend.
ed at his shop in Hobart-town, on which occasion
he (Woolfe) happened to be present. He, how-
ever, knew both of his sons, who were fellow-
passengers with him on their voyage from Sydney
to Hobart-town, and one bf them told him that his
father Ikey lived, and kept a store, at the latter
place, and solicited him to call, and bring as many
of the ship's company in which he was to return to
England in, as he could prevsil on to deal with him.
He did so, and it was while purchasing some articles
that the constables came into his shop and appre-
hended Ikey.
The Magistrates turned to the Reporter, and said
that they thought that this full and ample declara-
tion ought to satisfy him 1- and the Rev. Mr.
Matthias, who was on the Bench, observed, that
he could not possibly see what motive Woolfe could
have in view by fabricating such a tale, for, if false,
it must shortly be discovered.
Woolfe reiterated his assertion that the account
was true, and again offered to swear to it; but this
the Reporter, the Bench appearing al erne, did riot
press for, and the former left the office, expressing
his willingness, if hereafter thought necessary, to
come forward at the shortest notice.

In addition to the above, we can state on the best
authority, that orders were several months since sent
out to Hobart-town by Government for the appre-
hension of Solomons ; and that when he first landed
in the colony he took up his quarters at Mr. New-
man's, the chief officer Of police, in whose family
his wife then was living as a domestic.