Star.
London, England, 1814-09-14 00:00:00

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IMMO ON THE ST. LEDGER STAKES, Stir. 12.
7 to 6 aget Petuaria.
Taken-- 6 to 1 agst Mr. Mason's e. by Sir Harry Dimadal6.
9 to 1 eget William.
Taken-111
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agg: Bliliroddittr.to Burkdgb.
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12 to 1 agst Dridemona.
13 to 1 agst King David.
15 to 1 apt Belville.
5 to 4 the field agst three.
.fifiaLtwo MATCH.—On Monday a grand matcht of
hurling was played on Kennington Common, between
21 Irishmen, and 21 (said to be) Russians. The
Irish were distinguished by red caps ; the Russians
by rough bear skin caps. The hook was placed at
each end of the common, and the ball weighed 18
ounces. Ihe match, according to report. WAS made
by the. Irish nobility and several Russian officers of
distinction. A vast number of specs tors attaded.
and the play on the whole was remarkable for skill
and activity. Hurling is a game little known in Eng-
land, but of ancient origin. It was long in use among
the Celtic nations. On this occasson, the Russians,
if they really were Russians, had the advantage, but
we understand there is to be another trial to decide
the contest. One of the players received a dangerous
wound on the head, by a broken bat, which his oppo-
nent threw at him.

BOXING. —The pugilistic system was renewed on
Monday, at Moulsey Hurst, after a flat season, by a
very severe combat, between Moss, the Sltepperton
sawyer, whose eihibitions have been before recorded,
and a baker from Kingston, also of pugilistic notoriety.
The battle was for a stake of consequence to the win-
ner, and it arose from a turnup between the parties
at a late convivial meeting, where the baker had the
best of it, Moss having been making free libations to
the j illy god. At 12 o'clock a motley assemblage
were waiting the rival candidates for the honour of the
day, and at one they bheied equipped for combat. A
dispute arose respecting the roped ring, but a recipro-
cal accommodation took place by the parties agreeing
to exhibit in an open ring. Richmond and R. Whele
seconded Moss, and Emmett and Monet the baker.
—The fight was commenced by an excharge of hits
and a close, in which both were down. The baker
drew first blood by a blow on the mouth of his adver-
sary. In the four following rounds, the fighting was
nearly equal ; but the baker, although inferior in
height and length, seemed to be the most determined
hitter, and the odds, which were six to fonr on Moss
at setting to, were six to four against him. Some
good puddling was exchanged in these rounds,
and M..ss continued to bleed copiously from the
mouth and nose by the left.handed blows of his
Adversary about the tip of the nose. Betting until
the Bth round was in favour of the baker, but an the
9th round Moss seemed to have got the better of mo.
mentary distress, and he knocked down his adver-
sary by a blow on the side of the head, which pro.
duced what is technically named claret from the ear,
.041 had the effect of turning the odds again in the
sTiker's favour. Mobs, elated by this success, fought
manful y fo half an hour, and he war as courage-
ously opposed. The baker made some rod stops
of his adversary's left hand, but lie sustained many
hard blows from the right. The b.iker planted Many
good right handed body blows, and the fight was
mainta ned with much determined reiolutton, bat
the bakerl head was much disfigured by a roped-1
tion of blows with the left hand, although not violimt.
Be:ting continued f. a- a long time two and three to
one on Moss, and it was expected every round would
be the last. Moss had forted up t..e knoc!.les of his
right hand, and in the 21:h round, the baker got the
favourite again at slight odd. After fighting one
hour and a quarter Moss was beat, but helot!: off on
hot seback, and the baker was the most puni fv:d.
'Monday se'nnight a battle took place at Hot field,
for aB5O, between LASS, a butcher, and R Betas, a
file-cutter. Lane, who was considered a promising
bit of flesh, was the favourite ;' hut atter fighting 11
rounds in 14 minutes, the coutebt was decided in fa.
your of Roberts.

DUZLLING.—Monday morning, at five o'clock. a
meeting took placenear Highgate, between a Mr. D.
and a Captain P. "in consequeace.d. some altercation
which took place on Sunday eve .g. The parties
met on the ground at the stated time, with their se.
conds, and, after having observed the usual ceremo-
nies, fildd ene shot, which was ineffectual to both
parties. They were about to fire a second time,
when an officer of justice put a period to their pro.
gress, and brought Mr. 1). to Bow-street Office,
where his own recognizance to keep the peace was
taken by Sir N. CONANT.
DUBLIN, Sirx.B.—A spermaceti fish, of the r owed-
headed cot/solos species, was killed between Baldoyle
and Howth on Tuesday evening. A Mr. SMITH, ac-
gompanied by a boy, was engaged in fishing when it
made its appearance, and he had the courage to re-
main an dispute with the huge stranger his right to
usurp the creek. By means of a good musket he in-
Wicted in a short time so many wounds that the mon-
ster was quite disabled, and the falling of the tide
left it half uncovered on the strand. It measures 32
feet in length and 24 in breadth, which exceeds the
dimensi'ms of any fish of this species which has yet
appeared in those seas.
At the late Meath Assizes, Colonel Burrowes, pro-
prietor o4Dangan, in the occupancy of Mr. Roger
O'Connor, brought an action against the county, for
the rent of which his agent, Mr. Doyle, had been
' so mysteriously robbed in October last, immediately
after leaving Mr. O'Connor's house, the particulars
-of which were fully detailed at the-time. • The plain-
tiff obtained a verdict of 1250, with costs.

Wednesday last, the great cause of Bunn.' I.
BLUNDELL, was tried at Lancaster before a Special
Jury, on an issue, druitavit vel,oren, directed by the
Court of Chancery. The issue was to determine the
validity of the will and Codicils of the bite Mr. Blun-
dell, of Joyce, near Liverpool, by which he devised a
very considerable property, in Lancashire, called the
Hostock Estate, to his two daughters, Mrs. Stonor,
the wife of I'. Stonor, Esq. of Stonor Park,. near
Honley-ori-Thames, and Mrs. Tempest, the wife of
H. Tempest, Esq. of Broughton, in Lancashire, and
their respective issue in strict settlement. The •ali-
dity of the will and codicils was contested by Mr. C.
Blundell, the testator's only son and heir at law.--
After 'a trial of seven hours, the Jury found a verdict
in favour of the will and codicils. A very large estate
in the same, county, devolved, on the testator's de-
-4 cease, to C. Blundell, Esq. the testator's eldest son.

effflkTE LLIG.EArei.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.. • „ _
Yesterday the Commissioner gave his decision in
the.
-interesting case of Richard Sellesi of the White
Hirt, Richmond, which has already been..sever.il
times before the public. Mr. Bishop, the detaining
creditor; opposed the discharge of Selles, or. the
ground that he had conveyed his property to Messrs.
Collins, the brewers, by means of a warrant of attor-
ney, to the detriment of the other creditors, contrary
to the 531 Geo. 111. c. 102. s. 41: which says, that
" if any prisoner shall appear to the Court to have
Made within five years before the application of such
prisoner to be discharged under the Act, any con
veyance or assignment of all or any part of his or
her estate or effects, in trust or otherwise, for 'the he
nefit of any particular creditor or creditors, with intent
to give us undue preference to such creditor or cre-
ditors, and afterwards to obtain a discharge, kc."
On'this warrant of attorney, execution was issued ;
and after this Mrs. Selles was continued in the house
and carried on the business as usual. •
Mr. POLLOCK still cGntended that the warrant of
attorney was not a 4, conveyance or assignment," in
a legal sense, whwever it might be in fact, and that
the Commissioner had no power to traverout of the
Act, which referred only to legal conveyance or as-
signment, to pronounce upon this transaction.
Mr. Commissioner PALMER declared it to be hi-
opinion, that to construe the transfer which had taken
place from Selles to Messrs. Collins, into assignment,
within the meaning of the Act, would be a further.
ancc of the objects of such Act ; for while its view
was to release from prison many insolvent persong, it
also was to take care that-all the property should be
equally divided amongst the creditors. The meaning
he telt bound to put on the clatrie, was no strained
construction of the we-ds, brit was its obvious sense.

Mr. Pott.ocK fe!t bound to' respect the opinion.
which had just been pronounced ; and added, that
Messrs. Collins and Co. who had placed Mrs. S. in
the !muse trom respect for her, and pitying her mis-
fortunes, would resign the property into the hanis of
the creditors, ascertaining it would only keep Selies in
prison. To do this be wished for a few days time.
Mr. Commissioner PALMER said, that this was great
generosity. as it was a very different question, whe-
ther the brewers had•a right to retain the property ?
and whether the publican had a right to sign it away
as he ihtd done ? Remanded till Thursday.
VALUABLE F!CTLJBES.

Mr. Charles Wiikie, artist, father of Mr. Wilkie,
the celebrated paint.'r of the Blind Fidler, Blindman's
Buff, &c. appealing to claim his discharge as an insol-
vent, under Lord Redesda!e's Act, was opposed en
the ground that he had not inserted in his seliechile
certain excellent pictures, supporzd to be parr of his
property. The Attorney for the detainitie creditors,
staid, that he was instructed to object to l'Ar. Wilkie's
discharge until several valuable oictures were accoun-
ted tut. He undi rstotd, he said, th at the pictures in
question were claimed by Mr. Wilkie, j rnior, nd f
it should appear they were not the prisoner's pro-
perty, then the prisoner had been guilty of a freed, as
he had obtained credit by representing himself as the
proprietor of the pictures, and thereby deceiving the
creditors. There was a debt of se 20 due from the.
L prisoner to Lord Suffolk. and as the creditors knew
r.his Lordship was an encourager of the arts, they pre-
sumed that the debt was for money advanced to Mr.
Wilkie, while he eves painting some picture or pie-
, tures far his Lordship. Having no account in the.
schedule of any valuable picture whatever, they were
desirous of obtainieg a further account pf the property.
The attorney then produced a catalogue of- the
effects of Mr. Wilkie, which had been sold by auction.
It did not appear that any painting of value was
among the items. Hs next called witnesses to prove
that Mr. Wilkie had appeared to his creditors as the
owner of several capital productions of art.
A respectable carver and gilder stated, that he had
supplied Mr. Wilkie with frames, boxes, and mount-
ings for pictures to the amount of £74. He was living
with his son, Mr. Wilkie, jun. and witness understood
the frames were for pictures at his house for exhibition.
Witness did not hesitate to give credit, as Mr. Wilkie
spoke of the frames, &c. as work for hithself and son.
On reexamination by Mr. POLLOCK, he Said he had
never seen the pictures, nor had he heard Mr. Wilkie
at any time state the value of them. He gave credit,
supposing the pictures to be the prisoner's.
The witness admitted, that Mr. Wilkie never said
they were his own.
Mr. Robert Davis, anoth, r carver and gilder, said
he gave credit to the father on tl* merit of the son.'
He considered them co-partners, as he executed work
at different times to the order cf both. They both
worked together, and lived in the same house. The
witness's bill was for making frames for pictures in-
tended for ethibitien ; some of the same were put in
boxes lined with velvet. They were ordered by the
father, but the son was present. He had no know-
ledge whether the property belonged to the son ; -he
gave credit to the tauter.
Mr. Serjeant PALMIR observed, if the s6n was an-
swerable, the creditors might have sued him
Mr. Davis.—"" I brought no action at all against
Mr. Wilkie, anl I ant sorry he is here ; I only wish to
know what became of the property."
Mr. Serjeant PALA= said, he should give his judo.
ment on the transaction, and Counsel might meet his'
opinion, at another hearing. It was extraordinary,
when a man was found ordering boxes and frames for
pictures, in the ostensible situation of owner of the
property, that he should have no claim to it. He
should consider, he said, ttnless it wai explained other-
wise, that the debts were due from the person who
ordered the frames. There were, however, strong
facts, not of fraud in the contracting of the debts, but
in obtaining credit. It would be a fraud under the
Act, if a man was found taking credit on the appear.
ance of property or work done by another. It would
be the case of a man going to his tailor, and ordering
clothes for all his acquaintance.
Mr. CHAHLIM SMITH, who claims £42 for colours,
then stated, that he gave credit to Mr. C. Wilkie.
He considered both father and son liable, and his
reason for not giving his son credit was, because, when
the debt was tiret contracted, he considered him undbr
age. The prisoner, at times, when he pressed a settle-
ment, asked him to prolong the credit, and to satisfy
him, took him up to see the application of his colours.
There were other witnesses, but the Court declined
bearing them on this occasion, and remanded the pri-
sonet for a week, W get anon inforwsion res Pectin
the property%