The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-08-15 00:00:00

BOXING.

A day'a aussisensent was held out yesterday to the apoAleg
world in the fight between Brown, called slar.%prip of Myra's.
who bad fought his way Woo the upper rank of light weights,
and Stockton, a you'll who had signalised himself alms in she
prise rissg. It was who should receive 100 sovereigns. Two
hoofs elapsed before Brow• was foribcovniog, and it was re-
ported that his patrician stainer hat been kilhrd in adwel at
and he could fight so order osaly. He however
calor, impelled by courage, as it was thought, but it was
after • vial gallant batik bad taken place between two bravo
swen--Sonall, a Fitzroy hoirher, and Grego, • tiorreet I.A.
Estes and Cooper secooded Grecs, sod Toni Joan and Hail
officiated fur

A iglu of 50 'ninnies, in mach tar•est, took place. It
was soothing ►ut out sud out liebtiag, about which she deep
oars say they were Smelled. The bustle was contended with
muck obstinacy wish all the flying reports, and Small won'.
it wit► much bard fatigue, and with a lasting receipt of
manhood.
THE GREAT FIGHT.
This, from the want of Brown, came o• seemed, m•d it was
as apology for fighting compared with the first bottle.
Eighteen sounds were contested skilfully, and at the wiesiog
game. Brown was not so good as our isfuernasit has 0000
him; but our rare compositims abort him was, he fought
to win. He was overpowered by strirugth, and, although
but in • few pounds of weighs, throwing was against him.
There was no murderous work in the combat, but Brown
managed to siagaste blood upon the right peeper in the
seventh round, and in the elevewill he lapped she claret
(having scalped the fors bead by • premeditated incision in
the Moth r000d), and the backers of Stockton were is the
forlorn hop. He however continued the fight wit► much
bravery rota the finish of the 18th round, when our of
those wrangles which have stopped the admirers of real
manhood from attending such exhibitions took place. Spring
and Josh Hodros see led Mow. (the whiner), said Eale.
and Tom Jonas honoured Stockton with their immediate
pr. armee.
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Stockton was taken out of the ring by F.ales under 11 most
fallacious pretence, that Brown had bit his ad fin-
gen.—" What business bad your Angels in ►is mouth cried
one. " Brows is an unfair Ashler," song 11111 •umber.
Another was ready enough to start another game, " That
beware* a fellow 10 dist►ess had Smithfield bargained a
friend's prod, and bad since become righteous, why •And bet
be lagged." Bales, it armed, asked bin antagonist's umpire,
if it was not foul, and he said he listened to the call of
the riag, aid thought it wan, but he meow retiacted, nod said
be did nut mean to do wrong. This umpire, it seems, was
quite onhooves to the ring. Atr..lackwin eas Dot present,
but his decision will, 110 doubt, fleshly be, that Brown
is entitled to receive the stake. He also knows that any
thing but bitting down, or taking up foul beneath the
waistband of the breeches so t►row, is any thing but
manhood. He !mows also, as a podgiest) boxer, if by soy
mistake be was engaged in taking his part an antagonist was
to pus his Sur rs iii his mouth, he had a right to bite them
off. But there was oo bluing here, use any sinus in the shape
of foil fighting. Sun kten was bent, and that caused the
row. His hitting hand was lamed, sod lie was dims up. la
retracts. Brown must have the stake looney.
At a Bacchaisalian party, upon the retnrn home, the Corn.
missary-Gencial delivered his opinion, and raid if these
unlocks took place, it was lt to make young men die-
hoses' ; and although be had kat his colt teeth 20 year., bei
marl begin to be a rogue, to keep siren with the people.

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The expense of the clothing and subsistence of
the convicts in New South Wales and Van Die-
msn's Lend, coustitutea the largest proportion of
the geueral expenses of the Colony. Some contri-
bution towards this expense is made from the la-
bour of the female convicts that are employed in
the Parematta factory; and since the last general
roue, directed to be made in the month of August,
of the year 1818, the demand for clothing had so
much iucreased, and so small a portion had been re-
ceived from England, that an extra quantity of
labour was given to the female convicts, and they
received payment for it from the police fund. ft
was with great difficulty that the supply of clothing
for the convicts in the employ of Government could
be provided for. ''hose at George Town, in Van
Diemen's Land, were suffering severely from want of
it in the commencement of the winter of 1820; and
a great arrear continued due to the convicts that had
been 'segued to settlers on receiving grants of land
in New South Wales at the end of that year, with
thesingle exception of those assigned to Lieutenant-
Governor Erskine, in his capacity of settler.
&Reorient of these causes, it frequently occurred
that convicts were returned to Government employ.
went by the settlers, so destitute of clothing, that
it became absolutely necessary to furnish them with
a certain portion. which generally consisted of half-
worn clothes left by convicts who were assigned
from the Government gangs, and who were allowed
to take only one full suit with them, in consequence
of their improper disposal or use of any larger
quantity.
09 the arrival of every convict in New South
Wales, a suit of clothing is given to him, consisting
of a coarse woollen jacket and waistcoat, of yellow
or grey cloth, a pair of duck trousers, a pair of
worsted stockings, a pair of shoes, two cotton or
linen shirts, • neckharidkerchief. and a woollen cap
or h•t. A singular exception wus made to this
ismeduring ray residence in Van Dieman's Lind,
iu consequence of the scarcity of Governmesit
clothing. The convicts that had been sent out in
the Prince Regent transport from Ireland, had been
remarkable fur the care they had taken of their
clothing; and as it consisted of the grey cloth of
that country it Wihe found to be stronger and more
rideable than any other. Upon the debarkation of
these convicts, their spare clothing was taken away
and seat to George Town, where it certainly was
sore urgently required ; but the effect that this
surrender produced upon their dispositions was very
unfavourable, in their reluctance to labour, and
their wilful destruction of the clothes they had
'procured. A similar deprivation of their new slop-
clothing took place on the arrival of the Dromedary
store-ship, and the debarkation of the greatest num-
ber of the convicts at Hobart Town.

The issue of clothing to the Government convicts
ought regularly to be made to them every six
months. It consists of a woollen jacket or frock,
and trousers of the colonial manufacture, a pair of
shoes, and a linen shirt, made up in the lumber-
yard at Sydney. The convicts that are exposed to
',order labour in the (parries, and the carters and
bullock drivers, each receive a pair of shoes every
three months. The summer clothing to the con-
victs iu the birricks, consists of a canvass smock-
frock, one linen or cotton shirt, two pair of trcu-
errs (one of which ought to be reserved for use on
Sundays), one pair of shoes, and one cap. Until
the end of the year 1820, these supplies were fur-
nished from the old canvass and sheeting that were
found in the Commissariat stores, and that had re-
mained there for several years. The convicts out of
birrack have had uo regular slop-clothing issued
to them for two years; but their allowance differs
in no respect from that of the convicts in the
barrack.

The chief engineer is of opinion that some loss is
cccasioned in the issue of clothing to the convicts
when made up, and that it would be better to
issue it es it is wanted, and according to the size of
the wearer, than to adhere to the present practice of
a general issue to the convicts of every ship on their
arrival, which, when made at one and the same time,
is followed by absolute loss, or • disposal of it for
money, which the convicts lay out in the purchase
of spirits. A regulation of that kind would cer-
tainly be useful ; but according to the present
scale of employment of the Government convicts,
it would require a much more accurate account of
the issues of clothing than is now kept iu the con-
vict barrw.rk at Sydney; and it would also occasion
• more entire separation of the tradesmen employed
II ma►ing it up from the other mechanics in the
lumber yard, than that which its present limits
would allow.

The largest portion of the clothing for the con-
victs that has, for the last few years, been sent
with them for distribution on arrival, consisted of a
coarse yellow cloth ; it is not so strong as the grey
cloth worn by the convicts, and brought with them
from Ireland ; but it possesses the advantage of
being conspicuous, which the other does not, and of
exhibiting more distinctly the marks that mar be
pat upon it. It is observed by the chief engineer,
'bat the issue of coarse woollen stockings to the
convicts is an expense that might well be spared ;
and this observation is confirmed by the general
practice of the labouring classes of the colony
of New South Wales, who rarely or ever make use
of them. The expense also of issuing waistcoats to
the convicts destined for New South Wales is mi-
necessary, as they rarely make use of them, and
they only afford the meins of procuring spirituous
liquors. The difference between the climate of
Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales will
not admit of the reduction of those articles from the
dress of the convicts transported thither.
Much inconvenience and some expense has been
incurred lately, by an occasional change that has
been made of the ordinary yellow clothing, for uni-
forms of certain foreign corps, which, probably from
ressoos of economy, were converted to this purpose,
and applied so the use of the convicts on their ar-
rival in New South Wales. These uniforms con-
sisted of blue and red cloth jackets and waistcoats,

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