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Third ILL d-44,m Met C 4114 with pare firmn,ss
both made ;good several 'hits: the blood gu.ited
from Ceer s eye, Wiich was much cut, and 6'
round ended rather in favour of Saw. Odds still
two to one in favour of cd, A.
From the third to the eighC: R.mnd, was a continued
,uccession of severe hitting on both sides: it was in-
deed allowed by all that better fighting was never
seen. Both the combatants bled—profusely, and it
tsas difficult to say whic:i had the advantage. The
bets w: re now even.

Ninth Round—Caleb ITIAde a successful hit at
SIM'S temples, and knocked him down. Sum put
up 1:;s hand to his face, which was considered as a
b.d oaten. Odds in favour of Ca,. A.
'l'h, next four rounds c' miuued in favour of
Ca!elr. lie finding the yew grow weak, followed
him up close, and received sev...ral hits from &in
whilst retreating. Caleb seemed irritated, and Sim
was cool and coll.:del, which, it was thought,
would bring him through in the event of a long
battle.

From the f:veteenth to the twentieth Round, Caleb
appeared . and to avoid the severity of his
opponent', blowi, generally endeavoured to close
with hum; but, whilst struggling for the fall, SIM.
by a peculiar mode, struck his blows upwards, which
told well, and Cokes face wa eaitirely covered with
blood,

For several minds Card evinced great distress;
alter making a blow or two he wis so excessively
weak as nut to be able to keep Isis hands straight
before him: his blows continued, however, to be
straight :Eroded, but he could not give them
strength to make them tell. Seer appeared, from
his opponent's situation, to acquire fresh vigour.
and gave him no quarter. The rounds generally
ended with Caleb being worsted.
Ahem the 135th Retold Sam discovered symptoms
of weakness, and they hit each other blow fur blow
without being able to snake any impression, and so
completely beaten were boot, that they were each
slow in returning to the charge, but the gew ap-
peared to be less bruised, and the odds were con-
siderably in his favour. It ought not to be forgot-
ten, that at this period San stunned his opponent
with a blow trom his left hand, and being prepared
to strike him again with his right, desisted from it
on seeing him about to fall. This condufil was
loudly applauded.
From this period, to the 37th Rom /a, which was
the last. Cad continued to we limn, and WAS so ex-
ceedingly distressed. that in making a blow and
missing, he would frequently tall to the ground ;
this being repeatedly Sane, together with the vio-
lent heating he received, made hint sick. Sass hav-
ing to make sttrn iiale play, became msre and more
invigorated, that it was aiMoit an act of murder
,t 1 r 3to status h-fore him, who, however,
was wisiii gms de, sis Tr. -:,e 14: moment, aliliough he
could not Mita, up Is bands before nitn. Towards
the coaclusion of the last round he was hit two or
three severe blows on the head, one of which hap.
pelted while iu the aft of falling. his circum-
stance ;ire Caleh's fri-nuls arc opportnrity of crying
out, JR; !" and to kva., in the ring. T:ie
umpires, not suffer the trick to
succeed. and dechrrd the :.! to he won by Saw.
The poor chamrioa of Wesirrrinst .r was Car. led
off the ground without the least sir., of life, all
covered wi h d, ins:ead of addin' fresh laurels
to thwe which lie ha.t in hardly eartica by winning
!:arty.two successive battles.

CIRCUNINAVICAIIuN.

CAPTAIN FLINDERS AND IA PETRODSL

(noir' r icr.)

2: Tit PRAIR I .AY 12.

I is a long time since they hive end .svoured to
a•nuse us wi la the vain hope of again seeing the un-
fortunate La Peyruuse. Every year has given
birth to a number of different rep rts, and almost
all contradittory, which wousd tiring back to lite
this illustrious navigator. general interest that
he has inspired, and our nitur.sl pmpensity to be-
lieve easily what we wish, have I;aitherto ioduced us
to give some credit to reports, at. vague as they are
frequently renewed.

An article inserted in The Jevrftel of the 25th
Pr.airial List gives the following account :
Some letters from Montevieho state, that the
captain of a vessel, then in the river lie La Plata,
declared he had seen at the Cape of Good Hope the
celebrated La Peyrouse, who had arrived there a
short. time before with nineteen of his companions,
in a bark canstruded by themselves, from an un-
known and dust country, upon which they had
been cast."
'faking all probabilities into consiclaration, the
navigator that the Spanish captain had seen at the
Cape of Good Hope, was not M. De La Peyrouse,
but a Captain Flinders, an English voyager, almost
as unfortunate as our celebrated French tone.
He had been appointed by the Admiralty to sail
round the world, for the purpose of obtaining a
more perfeft knowledge of geography and natural
histnry. With this view be left England in the
month oflnly laol, with the shipsierertizetor and
Seises. He touched at the kladeiras and the
Cape of Good Hope, from whence ha diteded his
POL!se totem cis that south-wv...t part of New Hollmd.
called by.geogiapliers Lewin's Land. Ile visited
and took the most circumstantial observations of the
south coast called Nnyts Land. which had been be.
tore oaplored by &ear Admiral d'E•dreeasreaui. It
was on the southwest side, not kr. t.: re visited by other
navigators, that he met, in April 180‘2, Captain
;13.iudin, who, in the esorve:te Le Geffreoh?, was
then nuking discovetits in shist part of the world.
Captain f 'irides', by ont of thrase accidetr:
has given his life so strong a resemblance to the un-
fortunate La Pei roue, lost, at -the entrance °ea
port lie had discovered, a canoe which upset, by
which the crew, to the number often, wen. drowned..
He afterwards-tressed the strait lie Hasse, which
separates-New. Holhilid from Van Diemen's land,
nod. pot into Port Jackson, a col .ny fotualed by tee
English in 17Sei, at the very time that. toe unfortu-
nate La Pevrouresirived at Loainy Bray, which was
only three hergues distant.
Leaving this colony. Caria'n Flinden direfted his
routs- along Cie east coast of Neftr std,di,cav red
and visited by the celeb-ated Capons' Cook, %Muir
researches he pi oliosedto compie-p, principally that
famous par: of the coast ta w.ieh the barks, sock;,