The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-03 00:00:00

BOXING.

Tuesday was a day of indescribable bustle on the
Path Road, with the Election at Brentflird, and the
tight between Martin anti Cabbage, from Bristol, for
100 guineas a side. Thu Commissary General totik
his position early in the morning on Maidenhead
Thicket ; but. before he commenced forming the
ring, lie was awake it would not do, and the .caval-
vade, which had arrived there, remned towards
London, to the disappointment of the Bristol
fanciers, for whose accommodation the Thicket was

named.
A ring was formed at last at Farnham, a village
near Salt Hill, 24 miles from London. Martin first
twirled his shallow into the ring, billowed by his
seconds, Oliver and Randall ; and Cabbage soon
iiillowed, with Cribb and Clark, as his seconds.
Martin was so indisposed with rheumatism within
the lust week as to be scarcely able to walk. and his
bad condition was evident. Betting was 7to 4 on
Cabbage, a Scroggins in make but not so handsome
in person. A bad fight, all one way, of 76 rounds
in two hours, took place, but which was made up
by a gallant second one, between George Cooper
and Hickman, the gas light .man ; but we proceed
to the first battle.
I. Martin hit his adversary o-mr the side of the head, which
produced first blood. Cabbage missed his hit. and in a close
Martin was thrown.
2. Martin hit his adversary ever the eye. and Cabbage made
a slight return, and in another close both proved themselves
novices at the weaving system, and Martin was again thrown,
and from Ins bad condition he was not encettll to stay long.
3. Martin ...hit his adversary a left handed stomacher, a /a
Randall, which produced an in:Wont:try grunt, and Cabbage,
when close enough in, threw his blows away, and in a hugging
match Cabbage was thrown. aid as it WAS seen he wasof but little
use, betting was reduced to G to 4 upon him.
4. Martin missed his left handed blow. but gave Cabbage a
rattler with the right on the chest. The round ended with a
hugging match again at the ropes,and both went down.
Of the 76 rounds fought, it will be only necessary to particu-
.latize those in which changes took place. Martin bad all the
hitting his own way, and changed the odds in his fawns in the
7th round, Cabbage having been hit well, left and right, and
one of his peepers queered ; but betting was very flat_, as it was
,doubly hazardous to back Martin's
-condition, and his-adversary
was a known game one.
16. Martin contrived to place one hit in every round until this.
with the left hand, at the head or the mark. Ile buried his fist
in Cabbage's body, to use a flash fighting phrase, which crim-
soned it well, and in this round, if there was a knock down,
Martin gave it, but it was rather a push down from the ropes.
Excepting being hit, as before stated, Cabbage had none the
worst at the rope hugging, and Martin had shown much weak-
ness. but he fought at points, and his friends were not safe of his I
coining again at any round alter the t7th, when he appeared
mach exhausted, and fought disadvantageously until the
31st. in this round he gave his adversary a full facer with the
left hand, and loosened his fiont railing with the second, and
Cabbage rolled his jaws about as if masticating a tough steak.
After a hugging match at the ropes, both went down.
41. Cabbages left eye was in darkness, and his features were
much distorted; and Martin had a turn at the other eye in this
round, but he was thrown.
Cabbage had no chance after this but by Martin's condition.
and the rounds were of a hugging nature against the ropes, but
Martin was chiefly down.
76. The fight ended here in favour of Martin, who bit him
several times about the neck and head, and threw him. and
twisted his neck so that he could not come again --he laid upon
the ground nearly a quarter of an hour, as if lifeless. lie was
Marls= the awl, and he bled freely from the right ear, but he
zeceiveraL

The scientific Cooper, who beat the formidable
Molineaux in Scotland, fought Hickman, the gas-
man, for a purse of .50/. and, from Cooper's pugilistic
acquirements, two to one was begging. The seconds
were, Oliver and Gibbons for Cooper, and Shelton
nod Randall for Hickman, and it was a most gallant
fight of 14 rounds in 18 minutes.
Bound 1. Cooper sparred low for hitting. and every moment
it was expected that Gas would be smashed. He, however, led
upon Cooper, and hit him heavily with the right hand through
his guard upon the nose, which drew claret, and Gas closed and
threw him without any mischief.
2. A very severe round, commenced by Gas. and hits were
. exchanged until the blood flew about in all diicctions from both ;
. Cooper returned with the right hand upon the houl before the
rally. Cooper dropped his adsersary by a scientific and heavy
hit upon the neck with the kit hand.
3. A desperate round also, and severe fighting, till both were
covered with blond. Gas placed his right handed hit upon the
haul after hitting open with the left, and he was floored in a
rally.—Betting as at setting to.
4. Both shoved off upon the piping system, but Cooper was
the weakest of the two, and he was thrown after ter-Living a smart
hit on the head.
9 and 10. The men had partly recovered themselves, slid hit
away in a manner which astonished; but, at the close of the 10th
mind, Carper was hit five or six times, and dead lieut.
The 12th round was all for Gas, but he was enrattly hit in the
!Rh, by superior science. but Cooper fell very weak.
14. Cooper was hit to all lints of the ring, and thrown, when
Gas was declared the victor, to the disappointment or all the deep
ones, as he disregarded hitting, and would not be denied.—Both
were terribly beat.

On Monday morning a serious accident had
nearly occurred to Mr. Hobhouse. As that gentle-
man and Sir Francis Burdett were alighting from
their horses at the door of the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, fitr the purpose of attending a meeting of
the freeholders of Middlesex, convened in the in-
terest of Mr. Whitbread, a person in a gig incauti-
ously drove I.is horse against that of Nil% flobbouse,
by which means the shaft of the vehicle c:,we in
contact with that gcu•leman's hg, vvhich was se
vcrely I.urt at the time, so as to disable him from
valliing,, but the injury is nut likeiy to Le attended
with acriour. contocquctie4.3.