170 Modern Method of Hunting the Whale. ficing them smaller, and picking out all the lean. When this is prepared, they ftow it under the deck, where it lies till the fat of all the whale is on board; then, cutting it still smaller, they put it up in cafks in the hold, cramming them very full and clofe Nothing now remains but to fail homewards, where the fat is to be boiled, and melted down into train oil. The legislature, confidering the whale-fifhery as a matter of great national importance, has bestowed upon it, at different periods, very confiderable encouragements. In particular, every British veffel of two hundred tons, or upwards, bound to the Greenland feas on the whale-fithery, if found to be duly qualified according to the act, obtained a licence from the commiffioners of the customs, to proceed on fuck voyage; and on the hip's return, the mafter and mate making oath that they proceeded on fuch voyage and no other, and used all their endeayours to take whales, &c. and that all the whale-fins, blubber, oil, &c. imported in their fhip, were taken by their crew in those feas, there was allowed forty fhillings for every ton, according to the admeasurement of the ship. the fums which this country had paid in bounties for the Greenland-fishery, amounted to 1,265,4611. that, in the last year, we had paid 94,8581. and that, from the confequent deduction of the price of the fish, the public at prefent paid fixty per cent. upon every, cargo. In the Greenlandfifhery, there were employed fix thoufand feamen, and thefe feamen coft government thirteen pounds ten thillings per man per annum, though we were never able to obtain more than five hundred of that number to serve on board our fhips of war. Besides, the vast encouragement given to the trade had occafioned fuch a glut in the market, that it was found neceffary to export confiderable quantities; and thus we paid a large fhare of the purchasemoney for foreign nations, as well as for our own people, befides fupplying them with the materials of feveral important manufactures." This propofition, though oppofed by feveral members, was finally carried; and the propriety of the meafure foon became ap parent. At that time (1786) the number of hips employed from England in the whale-fifhery, to Davis's Straits, and the Greenland Seas, amounted to 139, befides 15 from Scotland. The propofed alteration took place in 1787; and notwithstanding the diminution of the bounty, the trade increased; the number of hips employed the fame year from England amounting to 217, and in the 1788, to 222. But it was afterwards difcover ed, that fo great a bounty was peither neceffary to the fuccefs of the trade, nor expedient with regard to the public. The acts conferring fuch emoluments being on the point of expiring, the fubject was brought under the confideration of parliament, in 1786; when it was propofed to The flesh of the whale is a continue the former measures, dainty to fome nations; and the but with a reduction of the bounty favages of Greenland, as well as from forty fhillings to thirty thofe near the fouth pole, confifhillings. In propofing this.alte-der it as the moft delicious food. ration, it was ftated, was ftated, "that They eat the flesh, and drink the oil. Law Cafe.-Race against Time. oil. The finding a dead whale is reckoned one of the most fortunate circumftances of their wretched lives; they make their abode by the fide of it, and feldom remove till they have left nothing but the bones. DRUMMOND V. DEEY. HIS was an action brought Tby the plaintiff against the defendant for the recovery of 500l. for money left, or alledged to be loft, by infuring in the lottery. The opening of this cafe, and a fhort examination of one withefs, on behalf of the plaintiff, prefented to his lordfhip the true complexion of the bufinefs, who immediately ftopped the caufe, upon that established and equitable rule of law-that no man ought to take advantage of his own wrong. His lordship therefore directed the plaintiff to be non-fuited, declaring that it was too much for a man to come into a court of justice to feek the wages of inqiuity. A fimilar decifion was made by the prefent Chief Juftice of the Court of Common Pleas, where the creditors of a bank rupt (who had fquandered away all their property) gave him his certificate, that he might be a competent witnefs for the purpole of recovering back the money which he had foft by infuring in the lottery. In this cafe, his 171 lordship reprobated the conduct of the affignees and creditors, and very justly fo, because the bankrupt was, in fact, fwearing for himself; for had his affignees fucceeded in the attempt, he would be entitled to an allowance of ten, twelve, or fifteen per cent. out of all the money fo recovered. In this cafe, his lord. fhip very judiciously enquired how much money the bankrupt had won. It is rather aftonishing, that confidering the law has been fo long fettled upon this fubject, that any attorney can at this day be ignorant enough to bring a fimilar action, for it was folemnly determined by Lord Loughborough and the reft of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, that infuring in a lottery is not within the purview of any of the ftatutes refpecting gaming. Which determination of the Court of Common Pleas was af terwards confirmed by a fimilar decifion in the Court of Chancery. RACE against Time on SUNBURY COMMON, June 24. IN N confequence of a bet made by Mr. S and Mr. Hof 100gs to 50,, that the latter gentleman did not ride his roan gelding 11 miles in 30 minutes. He fet out from the place appointed, on Sunbury Common, near Hampton, at five o'clock in the morning of the 24th of June, and accomplished his wager with great difficulty both to the animal and himself, thirty-two feconds within the time. Confiderable, bets were made, and four to one in favour of Mr. H was repeatedly laid at the time of his starting. SPORTING Wednesday May 28, the general meeting of archers was held on Dulwich Common, and was attended by about fifty archers from the different focieties in the kingdom, who began fhooting at twelve, and left off at fix o'clock, when the fuccefsful candidates for the prizes were declared to be, Mr. Cazalet, captain of the target, for having made the most center fhot; Mr. Green, captain of numbers; Mr. Wynn, lieuteBant of numbers: and Mr. Potts, lieutenant of the target, for the fecond-beft fhot. The prize allotted to the fociety which named five of its members at the beginning of the fhooting, who fhould excel in number of hits during the day's fport, was won by the Toxopholite Society, by 195 hits. The fhooting was conducted with much regularity and fatisfaction to the archers, under the direction of the Earl of Morton, prefident of the meeting; and the beauty of the fcene was truly picturefque, and not a little ornamented by the lady vifitors on the occafion. The archers after wards adjourned to Willis's rooms to dinner, and paffed the evening with much conviviality and good humour. The following fingular relation may be depended upon. About a month fince, Mr. Wallace, of Winchester, fent a fine male.cat, tied up in a bag, by the Gosport. carrier, to a Mr. Hart, at Portf mouth. The cat, however, after a fhort ftay at Portfmouth, fet out on its return to Winchefter, and arrived at its old habitation, after an abfence of three weeks, greatly emaciated by fatigue and hunger. The difiance is twentyfeven miles, two of which are taken across water, but that part of the journey the animal might avoid on its return by circuitous road. Sporting Intelligence. CRICKET. 173 On Monday, May 26, and the three following days, a grand match of cricket was played in Lord's Ground, Mary-le-bone, between eight gentlemen of the Mary-le-bone Club, with T. Walker, Beldam, and Hammon, against eleven of Middlefex, for one thoufand guineas. Rubegall not out b Beldam 18 I not out 2 6 b Beldam 3 b T. Walker 3 b Hammon 3 2 Wheeler, Efq. ftumpt Hammon II b T. Walker 3 On Monday the 2d of June, a grand match of cricket was played on Highgate Common, between eleven gentlemen of Highgate, and eleven gentlemen of Kentish Town and Hampftead, for four hundred guineas. FIRST INNINGS. Mr Wheeler run out HIGHGATE. Byes 12 76 KENTISH TOWN AND HAMPSTEAD. FIRST INNINGS. Gable b Anderson Kentish c Sharp 5 b Anderfon SECOND INNINGS. b Sharp 18 b Sharp b ditto ftumpt ditto 6 b Anderfon 136 7:00 I 8 A few days fince, J. Newnham, Efq. of Maresfield, caught On Whit-Tuesday, the followwith trouling Tackle, in Mares-ing amufements took place on field-pond, a pike which weighed upwards of 23lb. Mr. Newnham was upwards of two hours, after ftriking the above fish, before he could bring him to land. June 5 Mr. Benjamin Court, of Faversham, in Kent, ran 100 yards in twelve feconds, for a wager of 20 guineas, on the paved part, in the middle of the City Mall. Confiderable bets were laid that he did it in eleven feconds. Stockwell-green: A jingling match for one hour, for a purfe of filver, confifting of feven men, fix of them blindfolded, and the jingler who had a bell faftened to his back, who were all inclosed in a fquare of thirty feet, corded in. If the jingler was caught in half an hour, the perfon who caught him was to have half the purfe, and the jingler to start again for the remainder of the hour; and if caught again within the |