The National Register.
London, England, 1808-05-15 00:00:00

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receiving treaseidois blossom the hued and loins ; he was fight-
ing under* every slistitivantage of weakness, blindness, Re. and
comequeotly unabletsi mrn'the career of his adversary. In the
:sth mutat he'reeeiyed two trinucudous blows, which decided
it in the 2Stii• 'when Gregsnn could not be brought'to the mark
of setting to in'time ; ht also received a severe hit in the car iu
the rth round.
Gully fought with studied castion% and when he bad his an-
tagonist at • tallying, there' was- not one instaoce where Gully
failed. l'he-chaMpien was also hi much better condition than
when he fought at Newmarket, and, never betrayed symptoms
betrayed symptoms
of Weakness.
After the battle Gully nddressed the ring; tind informed them
publicly, he was so situated that he never inteided to fight n,tatio,
nor would he hive done so in this instance, had be not• been
bound in honour to comply with firegson's challenge. lie had
id this instance fought with a Mole arm, and Gregson surely
' would not decirito combat with him again. The battle lasted
one hour n, ;at quarter.
CRIB AND HORTON.
This contest, lasted the same time ns the former, but bettiogs
' were Sir to four at setting to, and they gradually rose to the end
-of the light. It was not a good match, and Crib beat kis ad-
versary n ithonfreceiving much injury.
• . DCTCH SAM AND CILOPLtY.
This was a real scientific combat of thirty-five minutes, and
WO NON by Dutch Sam tolerably easy. Oar limits will not
admit of our entering into particulars. •
The fighting was mot over until seven o'clock in the evening.
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FIRES.
Tuesday morning, about four o'clock, a fire wits atedlitglra
in lb: back warehouses of Mr. Scott, linen-draper, in Smithfield,
which soon communicated to St. Bartholomew's church hiljnin-
'log. Fortunately, by the activity of a fireman, who cut away
a partition, the flames were prevented from extending to thit
part of Mr. Scott's house, were his books, Rc. were deposited
Lin doing which, some of the ruins fell and injured litmso much
nfiat he was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. By the
Ktent exertions of a considerable number of Macro:it boys, in
stipplying the entwines with water, which they had to fetch f;orts
' kconsiderable distance, the church WAS preserved, with only the
' destruction of the vestry, oat of which the registers were res-
cued by the intrepidity of the watchman of the Hospital.
On Wednesday morning, between three and four o'clock, a Ere
broke nut in the yard of Mr. Coates, a ynteb-boibler,4ll44ksek-
friars-road.- Several new and old carriages, the work-shops,
&c. as also several teneateuts, were destroyod. The fire was
occasioned, it was said, by the carelessness of a hackney coach-
man, in leaving a light in his carriage after putting it up, at a
late hour on Tuesday evening. It is impossible to describe the
distress of the people living at the hack of • the premises--they
were running about naked, almost frantic, while others were
hosilreinployed in removing their furniture, &c. In the con-
fusion, a Jew, of the wane of Solomon, who had put his purse
into his pockets step robbed of it, which contained a coasi-
derahle sum.
Same morning, at half past six o'clock, a ire broke out ata
pawnbroker's, in Portpool-lane, Gray's Inn-lane.
A dreadful tire broke out, on Wednesday last, in the wire-
howl, of Messrs. rector and Co. at Dover, wbicltit is said As-
stto)ed property to the amount of 30,00)1. •

MARRIED.
At Surinam, in October last, Cherie; Frederici, Esq. sop to
.1. F. Fmlerici, Esq. late Governor of that colony, to Min Van
Otomaron, of the some Colony, an agreeable young lady, with
a large fgrione.
At 11.qt*, Major Pilkingtoo, to Bliss Gibbs, only daughter
of the Attorney-General.
DIED.
Tuesday, nt hitehall, after a lingeringillness, the lion. Anne
Smith, daughter of Lord Carrington.
At the Deanery, Rocking, the Right Hon. and Rey. Lord C.
Aynsley, only brother of hii Grace the Duke of Athol.
At Thunsam, Mr. S. Jotter: lie was remakable fur his pe-
mtriou, economy. From the situation of a Gentleraao's coach-
man, he rotze to the possession of a Curtin*, and accumulated the
sum of 27,000/. by denying himself the enjoyments of life. He
has bequeathed his property to a nuiber of poor relations, to
whom, daring his life, he paid no attention. A niece, with a
large Emily, to whom he left WOOL died at Maidstone, on Wed-
nesday
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