Star.
London, England, 1819-07-10 00:00:00

TENNIS-COURT.

A second match has been played between ➢Tr. Cox, and the
celebrated Frenchman from Paris. The latter is the champion
player in his own country. Mr. Cox took the extraordinary lead
of winning eighteen games against four. The Frenchman, who
was Junked at the superiority of his antagonist, got into a pas-
sion, and could do nothing with the ball. It was, however,
insisted upon by his partisans, that Mr. Cox was principally in-
debted for victory to his repeated practice and peculiar know-
ledge of the Court. It is well known, in the sporting world,
that first-rate fives players in enclosed Courts have been beat
with the utmost sancfroid in open ones. The Frenchmen have
in consequence offered to hack their man for £3OO a-side, to
play against Mr. Cox in a named Court in Paris. This challenge,
it is expected, will be accepted, and decided almost directly.

Sunday, a boy named Buchanan, twelve years of
age, leading a bull to water, in the parish of New
Kilpatrick, near Glasgow, was so dreadfully gored by
the animal, that he fell a victim to its ferocity ; after
which it continued to gore and trample on the dead
body. The shocking spectacle was discovered by the
deceased's sister, who happened to come to the spot.
A meeting of Mr. OWEN'S Committee was held on
Thursday, at the Crown and Anchor, when it was
resolved to have a Public Meeting on the 19th instant,
in order to open a Public Subscription, for the pur-
pose of establishing an Institution on his Plan, in the
neighbourhood of the Metropolis. The prejudices
which were entertained against this. Gentleman's ope-
rations, by the friends of freedom and Christianity,
are fast dying away, as his writings come to be exa-
mined. The most entire religious freedom is secu-
red ; and the Bible forms the subject for the religious
education of the children. Any person holding a
share in his Establishment, or residing in it, is always
at liberty to sell out his share, or leave the Institu-
tion. Surely such a scheme as this can come from
and lead to no evil. We long to see some experiment
begun in the vicinity of the Metropolis.
Lately a Privy Council was held at the Treasury-
Chambers, presided over by Lord HARROWEY, and
consisting of the LORD CHIEF JUSTICES of the Courts
of King's Bench and Common Pleas/ and the Loop
CHIEF BARON of the Exchequer, SIT WILLIAM SCOTT,
and Sir WILLIAM GRANT, and attended by the AT-
TORNEY GENERAL, &c. to investigate the circum-
stances attending the death of a Maltese at Athens,
who was shot by Mr. W. Kinnaird, in January last.
Mr. Kinnaird had presented himself at Malta for a
trial, and was sent home a prisoner to England. After
a full investigation and examination, Mr. Kinnaird
was discharged, being honourably Acquitted of any
charge against him. It appeared by the evidence
transmitted by the Consuls of the Levant, that the
firing on the deceased was in absolute self-defence.
EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LATTER FROM FLORENCE,
DATED JUNE 20, 1819.

" The Princess of WALES is grown extremely large
and corpulent. She is recovered from the shock of
her incomparable daughter's death, but it affected
her powerfully at the time. Apart from political
considerations, the circumstances under which she
received the news were enough to produce the most
painful effect on her feelings. On the arrival of the
courier, there was no confidential person near her
who understood the English language, and in the
hope of finding very different information, she herself
opened the letter which conveyed the fatal intelli-
gence. She fainted, and was ill for a length of time
afterward. At present she resides at Pesaro, a small
town, not 'far from Ancona. Her suite and establish-
ment are not on the grandest scale. The celebrated
Baron, or Courier, for he is one, and was the other,
forms part of it : he is now a man of a certain age, a
large person, and of a dull character of countenance.
Young AUSTIN, the boy whom the Princess adopted,
and about whom such extraordinary assertions were
made by Lady DOUGLAS, is grown a fine handsome
young man.
" The Princess has now taken a fancy to another
child, the son of a peasant, of whom she is said to be
equally fond :he goes with her every where. Her
chief amusement is the Opera, which she almost en-
tirely supports. The custom in Italy is generally to
hire your box for one opera, which is played succes-
sively far a number of nights, and when a new one
is per formed you pay again for it. The Princess has
had the operas frequently changed, and they say that
it costs her from five to eight thousand pounds a year.
" The Baron was some time since at Milan, his
native place, but he found it so disagreeable as to
depart very soon. Some of his relations are still
there, and his origin and former situations are too
well known.
go The residence of the Princess is not far from the
sea, but there is no view of it, owing to a hill or small
mountain which rises between She has been visited
by several of the German and Italian Princes, and
one of the Archdukes paid her a visit lately. Lord
BY HON still continues to reside at Venice."