The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

FIGHT lIETWEEN HOLT AND O•DONNEL.

[Fro. a Correspood'onl, ars Ansofour of Us All ]

ilitmer, in his immortal poem, The 1/bad, has
in glowing. . sung, the glory acquired by the
victors in the Olympic Garnet. mill even the grave
historian thought it no ways derogatory to the dig.
airy of his page to record the gladiatorial exhibi-
tions of *orient Rome ; we should therefore he
guilty of injustice to iposte7ity did we nut describe
the encounter whirl, took tolare near Canterbury. be-
tween Harry llolt and Jack (t. 09anel, two Lun-
Nun heroes of the liaise curia. Boxing has, we
believe, been flout the earliett periods peculiar to
this eon silty, but was not known si /111 Art until the
time Or the reeiroviied [trough' int, Bock horse, and
Shirk, oho by valorous deeds, and by 'many a
battle bravely
,fought and iron its England's
aceldcmot, iole, ist.i4lisked their
own fame, and their moonily's glory ; it, however,
reinaleird for the genius of a Belcher to reduce the
Art to a complete wilier, which, l.ke throe noble
seats of learning, o%fttid and Cambridge, km
its regular iirsolesst•rs, aho.r 1/11.1111•111. is In 11111.111.0
• general and iteieutitie knowledge of the Art of
Gymnastic*. The fineomo, of the weather and the
itutisber of horses enteral, pr./11110A 01 draw great
company to Canterbury during the race week, nod
itoduentl the brave Tom Oliver, the phenomenon
U.inlrll, sad their snit., to leave their cribs to
11'C,t1n.11116ter. 111111 come down to city,
not for their own advantage, but merely to astonish
and amuse the Johnny Iltaws, by sereimens of their
perfection in the stivoce, they were by a Cutionittee
of the Sporting Club appointed to teach. Crumbs
to whom the sight was new fl.wked to the Hysitint
of East'', alias the Old Palace, to witness the ex-
hibition; but still et wall 11111 the real thing, and
!Jolt stud O'Domsel kindly agreed for a purse
ores guineas to gratify the spectators by fi _g_itiitg
in earnest for a 6.11 y-full ; this proposal was re-
etivtd with thrusts of applause, and several ire:We-
llies of consideration undertook to raise the 611111
rtquired, and Friday was stained as the day when
this important event was to take place.
The disappointMent sustained when Canterbury's
pride and boast, the I tastier Johnson, was to
have fought the invincible little Reynolds, ioclured
Getters! Oliver to arrange that the meeting should
take place so near at Lord Cowiter's park, that if
again interrupted by the traps, they might move to
a spot where the mandates of neither the City ror
County beaks would be of effect ; and, iu conse-
quence, mowed by the milling coves in his train,
he fixed the ropes of a t write lout ihig early iu the
morning, and made all ready for the approaching
combat. The ',erre.). with witch the match was
mode, 'prevented the marrowbone club from muster.
lug very numerously ; but this was lolly pen-
linted by number" of amateur* ►,ount,J on their
prod-, which not only increased the respectability
o she assemblage, but colo.itlerably lidded to the
picits,vsritie g:iniir of the arrow. At
eleven the emithatonta ispprartil, mid after thakifig
tet-to—halt-minute 11111 e.
ROUND 1 (h 1 vino: to, both the men looked smilincly;
Holt matte play. and hit trittinuel a soviet blow no the
month, a hich WIN) lettornett short ; both men sliewiA
skill is the primer, and mult• sonic tt A slims—hut 1101 t,
by dompisic his antagonist, evidenaly hail the best of the
mond.

I. Both men ratalimisly; 1101 t, in making play,
hit short, and received a blow on the Iletk from the left hand
of O'llosattel; 11011, Weever, hit and broke ground, and
again Snored ll'U.ar•el.
3. U'Dua•.l in Ibis round had mach the advantage, as,
after ninny good stops on both tides, he planted a severe
face►, mid fell from the force of hit OWU hit
4. It was evident that the science wee rather on the tide
of O'Donnel, hut the right arm of Hull was also very I ffec.
five; gr DOOM I put in a Waller, and Ilaall genii...rat slant ;
the rot•halaots then girt into a sharp rall),alneli tea minuted
with Ilult fibbing dos. Las nalseraary.
In the Tili round Molt had by far the hest of the fight ;
bat chance, which has decided so many of one lase
tic eiscoauters, gave • tura in favour of O'llusaiiel, who,
with wow few exceptions, maintained it until the Slat
round, when 11011 being unable In come to time, the umpire
decided the battle, which Ward 41 initiates, lo be io favour
of o.l.lontsel.

An ineffectual attempt au. mode to get up a se-
cond light. between II re leiadt44l post-boy void •
butcher of mllllll4 notoriety ; but the butcher sea
not in fighting trim.

h is a consolation to the industrious meriatik,
and persons or tenet income, who are ufflict.d,
to know, they nay hare the hat advice (gratis), if they at-
tend at ceitain boors—namely, Tuesday, Thursday, and
Sunday morning's, mild one o'clock, at the Medical Board,
Great Charlotiesstrect, Blarkfiicrs-road. That thousands
suffer from improper treatment is a fart—the latent seed of
a drenirlfol disease link, in the system, debts-sq. domestic
happiness, and entails debility ou the tieing generation.—
The Medical Board claims the attention of those amicted
with Strictures, Fistula's, Cancers, &Tofulas, Nervous
Debilities, Eruptions, nice steal throat, pains in the head
and limbs, frerpit ally mistaken for rheumatism, node. in the
thin bosses, Six. Messrs. CGOPEM and Co. after forty pars
practice in carious Hospitals alutmol sod in this meilopolis,
are consulted at Woorlitock,street, Oxford-sirret, daily, from
eight till right ; and at the Medical Board, Charlotte. Mince,
Great Chariot 11c-street, Blackfs precisely from twelve
until eight isi the evening —••• Ruptured Patients, whom
tumours exceeded 44 inches, have had them minim d, to the
surprise of the Mt dical rrofesaiou.—A side door, and pri-
vate rooms fur females.

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