The National Register.
London, England, 1808-10-30 00:00:00

TYTE NATIONAL. REGISTER.

703

freely, on the supposition that Crib could not hit hard enough
to beat his adversary. The battle lasted SG minutes.
YOUNG BELCHER. AND CROPLEY.

This watt, perhaps, the veriest boxing match that has been
;een for some years, where the real science of the art of box-
ing was exhibited in a very superior degree. The seat of action
may be truly called the
,field of blood, when the reader is in-
formed, that this battle was even of a more sanguinary nature
than the former, and tilt• combatants as determined bottom as
ever were pitted.

They were to have fought a match of fifty, but Cropley's
hacker did not app'ar, and consequent'ty a purse of fifty was
the object of the battle. It was a contest which excited much
interest, and Dutch Sam had beaten them butt.—At setting-
to bets were 7 to 4 on Belcher, and but few taker:, as the odds
were too long to be sought after, and thane were no takers at
any thing less. The battle consisted in obstinate rallying fight •
ing, hut to the advantage of Beleter, from the beginning to the
end, although Cropley once brought the match to even betting:
in about the tenth round. Belcher beat his adversary in a safe
cautious manner. Cropley, although supposed to be as good a
boxer, having a knack of giving his head when he hits, a man-
ner, perhaps, better suited to Belcher's scientific mode-of fight-
ing than any other man. Belcher seldom made play, and-avail-
ing him%elf of this natural fault of Cropley•c, by waiting and
stopping him, and putting in a facer. In this cautious n:anner
Belcher vanquished his adversary without sustaining any very
serious beating; and lie put in at leaiit a hundred hard blows on
Cropley's face, during a battle which lasted fifty-six minutes,
and in which thirty-four rounds were fooght. Cropley bled con-
stantly in torrents during the whole combat, from every part of
the head, and maintained a furious conliet until he was heat
blind, and to a state of stupefaction. Mendoza rued Ditto; Stun
seconded Belcher, and Jones awl hall seconded Cropley.
Another battle was fought between Doherty z.cd a man of
the name of Powell, for a purse. This battle, which lasted ate
hour and a half, was also Hell contested, and won :;v Dogherty.
Thus ended a day which may he considered a, tia%ing afforded as
much amusement to the ani;lteurs aov on 'mirth

SUA RPERS.—On Tuesday morniug, Mr. William Embry, a
wealthy farmer, oho resides at lannersheld, near Hereford,
arrived in London by the Gloucester mail. lie put up at the.
George and Blue Boar Inn, in Holborn. On Weiloc,;ila v
after breakfast, as he 11;1,1 walking in Holborn, hi- ato•!fion
was attracted by a drove of sheep ; he stopped to too:. a! t;11•111.
and uhile in this act, a man came alongside of bin:, :rid began
talking about the sheep ; they continued in coat ers•dion, and
the farmer told him vt hat country lit caste from 7 I ;ie man told
him he came from near Hereford, and served his lode to :t gro-
cer in that town; the farmer, highly pleasel at ha% iog met with
a emiotryinan, continued to walk with hire forsome time, during
which he observed the wait pick up a small pa reel, but took no
notice ; they at length agreed to go into a public-house, near the
Foundling Hospital, to have some liquor, and in a short time
the man pulled out the parcel he had picked ail, and said he
would scr. what it contained. Ott examination, it purported to
he a diamond era,s, and a receipt for it, aniimining to t? 551.
The old trick was played olf, of a man following theta into the
public-house, to whom the busine,s was ret..rrtil, and hr was
asked if he did aot think. the name of the per:an vs tin had pur-
chased the cross was a French one? he agreed it uas so, and as
such a fair prize, as the French had done us a deal of mischief ;
but advised that it should be kept a secret. lie likewise gave it
as ii;; opioion, that the farmer simehl have half the value, as he
was in compaii‘, tt Lich was objected to by the finder. lie, how-
ever, at length agreed to give him one bandred pounds for his
share, but he had not so much about hint; Le would therefore
deposit the cross with the farmer, if he w fluid entrust him with a
-ton of mouey iii his hands till the followieg day, as he had not
the pleainre of k.ao:ving him, which the farmer complied with,
and actually gave him 55!. ss. The trick was not discovered
till the time arrived for the farmer to receive the one hundred
pounds, and the man did not appear with it.