The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-09-05 00:00:00

BOA i.\ G.

A battle was fought fur 100 guineas. on Monday,
at 'rhorney, Danis, where FlJieers, t,ie provinciil
champion, vanquished a good man. of superior
weight, from Shropshire, on the 19th tilt. This
match was made ut the time by the Colonel who
backed FlOWPfi, on one side, owl • Mr. rage on
the other. The Colonel's man was 'George Ming.
a copper-smith, sad Ists adversary W 44 Joe Grant,
a Gloucestershire man, each weighing lateens our,
and measuring above six feet. They iwt-to like
bottom men, and were both knocked down. The
only science, which was but trilling, was possessed
by 'T ,frog, who could stop with his left hand, anti
this apparent slight advantage brought him through.
In twenty minutes the men were only known
apart by their small-clothes, they were so dreadfully
heat. They were both right and left-handed men,
mid it was any body's !tittle when '45 minutes
had expired. They were both game, but nature
first foismik Grant, and victory was whispered to
the wits:ter, to bus inexpressible joy. There were
several hundred spectators preseat, and twenty
guineas was gathered for the Loser. The battle
W4B fought at ten in the anorinms.
Another exhibit' 111 l . rim 1111 l g for chemises, fol.
lowed. for which twelve damsels were entered ; but
the three chemises were wort by a light-beeled lily
from Dunsmer.

RIPLANITMY OF fllz •4, srr DAYS AND
DOUDAYS SP.PITMDSR.

Septcnitr- r is a contractum 4 seem ab iebte,
the seventh 14,-nu the snows ; which were divided
Into the firs. a 11•1 second son s. 'these popular
IIST• s of tile moathr are th se which route authors
hare abridged, nut very properly, from the Caleii-
slat of Romulus. hut as the months are DOM
reckoried, Siepteinber is the unith from the beet.
ring of the year.
I.—Si. Grier, Abbot and Confessor, was born ot
Athens, and came in'o France in 713, huvitig first
disposed of his patrimony to charitable user. After
!iviiig two year. with Cesarrus, llithop of Arles, he
cionarenccd hermit, rod so continued till he aa.
made A Ithst of an abl.ey at Nisines, which the king
butt for his sake. lie dad in 733 s
2.—bnoloa Limit" For an account of this dread-
ful conflagration, I shell give part of the inscription
on the Monument The 241 day of September,
1666, at the distance of 203 feet, the height of this
column, a terr.ble lire broke out about midnight.
It consumed in its progress 19 churches, the city
gates, Guildhall, many public strultures, burPi•
lats, schools, blowier, a vast number of stately
edifice., 13,200 dwelling-hoses, and 400 Wee*.
The ruins of the city were 436 acres, from the
Tower by the Thames side to the Temple church,
and from the nortii•east gate along the City wall
to Illollsorn-bridire. Three days after, when this
fatal tire haul 1ra617.4i all Aswan counsels and endea-
vour., it stopped, as it were by a command from
Ileaven,and was on every aide inttingeshed."—.The
pipes ascribed this lire to the just sengeance of
'leaven, uport a city where vice and immorality
reigned so shamefully and openly, notwithstanding
the raging plague of last year.i.
7.—E.aarehas was klishop of Orleans, in France,
and present at the Council of Valencia, in 315: The
circumstances attending his election to the see of
Orleans, and wher thing, attribeted to ham, savour
too tench of the marvellous for me to transcribe.
a.—Nateity of the Virgin Mary. " This day is
dedicated to the memory of the Blessed Vivant's
' Nativity, a concert of angels having been herd in
tl'e a r to solemnize that day as her hirth-day."
festival,wis Mainline 41 in the 6th eentiry.
14.—Elsie Cross Day. This funniest, which was
instituted about the year lils, took its rise from the
following circumstance :—Cosroes, king of Persia,
having plundered Jens-m..4.1N took away a great
piece of the. Croat, winch 11..leria had left there.
lierachtn th Emperor detested hi.n in a bstile,
and recoverid the Crows, which he carntd back in
trio oph to Jerusalem.

• Tis• ,L .mace snststineil by this drcedfol 11,e has bre*
estim3t. 1 it l'•01/49.004,1. 111 P 41.11.. Wl} valued
There dteslef the phree is L.asthse tis,sge pct.
11013•.

Mrs. JORDAN, who left Bwklty on Sunday. to ful-
fil l'ioviesrtal engagement', was to appear last
1,•44t in the Weddle C'heerly, at the Cheltenham
Iltvattr. _ _ _

A I,:tter has been received from Captirn iILIL-
EI"LT of the extra shy Euphrates, dated Jody 2.
IA 14). stating that the Euphrates haring qraek coo
a rnrk in going nut of Faller :lay had been obliged
to return to Situuus My. that the ship had Isreti
cleared from all her cargo, and it was etitwcteil the
damale stistatutA wn:thl he entsitil-tely
and the shy woiW be ready for sea eh
04,11.1 t.r.e %*.geks.