The Sun.
London, England, 1809-02-02 00:00:00

BOXING.

The long expeeled match between Jem Belcher
and Crib took place yesteiday morning on Epsom
Downs. The roads were, thronged at a very early
hour with carriages of all descriptions, and the day
proving uncommonly fine, attraded an ;immense
concourse, of people. Abont.a quarter past twelve
o'clock the combatants set to' in a thirty feet ring.
At setting to betting was. G and 7 tgo4, and even
2 to i, in favour of Crib.
tst Round—After a great deal of sparring Belcher gave his
antagonist the first blow on the breast' Crib closed, and
Belcher was thrown.
Id—After several smart hits, Crib threw Belcher.
41—Belcher had considerably the best of it this round;
Crib at length closed and threw him.
4th--Both appeared shy,
sth--After a long and severe round, both apparently.much
weakened, Crib threw Belcher. Betting now 3 to ton Crib.
6th—Belcher gave Crib a knock down blow, and cut open
his cheek.

7th --This round decidedly in favour of Belcher; he struck
his opponent two very severe blows, closed, and threw Crib
on the ropes.
Bth to 16th—Nothing material. At intervals sorne hard
.Crib retying, upon his strength, constantly closed,
and preVented any display of science un the part (,t Belcher.
The sixteenth round, however, Crib gave him a knock-down
blow,

17th to soth—No advantage on either side.
216! Belcher rallied in good style, and seemed determmed
ft) make a desperate effort,' which he did, by driving his an.
tagonist across the ring, and put in some hard blows right and

. ,
zad—Crib recovered this round.
ijd-By tar the best found of the fight. Belcher appeared
.titti,.c fresh, gave Crib two tremendous blows, one ut which
laid his head open, and he bled prolluely ; they closed, and
Belcher gave him a cross-butvici...
24 h and asth —No advantage.
ibth—This round obviously decided the fate of the battle.
Crib appealed to acquire fresh strength, and attacked Del.
cher with irresistable courage, anti fairly knocked Ithrt Or
his legs. f

From this to the 31st round Belcher was evidently
disabled in his 'right hand, and ha ing no chance of
succeeding against the si;perior strength of his ad-
versary, gave in; fitter a contest of 45
'This, in all probability, closes Belcher's pugilistic
,carper, being decidedly interior to his former .exhi-
bition with Orib. . Belcher was seconded by Men-
doza, and Crib by Joe Ward.

Atter the baffle Crib addressed the amateurs,
thanked them in respectful words for their patrenagu
in the. tnuitylicity of battles he had fought, and
trusted that an assurance of hii never intending (for his
own reasons)to tight agaia, w4ld not be unkindly
received by them. We cannot belp.rcmarking that
Crin,,with his friend Wily, has acted wisely by such
declarations. '
the second' battle was between young Belcher
andl'arnborongh, which was contested during IA
rounds in as many minutes. Belcher Rad completely
the nest of it from beginning to end. tie.closed up
both his adversary's, eyes, and direw a Somerset at
the 'conclusion of the battle.

A third battle was fought between Dugherty and
an :.untried man. This was a lair stand-up tight,
in which the latter displayed good eourne, but was
obliged to yield to Superior' bottom.
The light-fingered gentry were, as usuai,•very nu-
merous, and had a plentiful harvest.

The Fiar2,.one of the missing ships of the home-
- Ward-bound Leeward Island- Fleet, has arrived at
Glandore harbour, in the counly at Cork, in great
distress, having six feet water in her hold.
'We have been ftwooled with some more letters
received on Tuesday, by the packet from the Lee-
ward Islands. Front one of them we have made
the 1011ow-ing extract; It is important, in as far as
it discloses the amount of the French forces in Mar-
Unique. The letter is dated, .
" ANTIGUA, DEQ. 24, 1808.—All is war at Bar-
badcks and nothing but warlike preparations are
going fOrward there, preparatory to the meditated
attack on Martinique. They, are only waiting there
for the arrival of the .forees under the command of
General PIIEirOST, Who is momentarily expected.
We apprehend here that there will he some very
warm work, the French General having determined
to repel the attack to the last moment.

" It 14 confidently reported, and the fact appears
'tn be well .sseertaitied, that the French have about
4000 regular troops. But'we are not disnifyed,
well knowing what British Valour and British sol-
diers and tars can achieve. We are 'ail: in high
spirits, and fear nothing as to the result of the un-
dertaking."

A letter from St. Kitt:s states positively, that Gen.
PlEVos•r, with the forces under his' command, ar-
rived at ilarbadoespn the 26th or 26th December,
'and that arrangements had-been. made for their at-
tack on Martinique:On the Nth January.
Qty Monday night, during the high wind, a large
tree, in .the Prince of NY.tt,Es's garden, adjoining
darlton.house, near the w,ll which separates it from
the Duke of MARLSoBOOGH'S garden, was blown
down;
,it laid against the wall in the Park, and
broke down about -twenty yardS° of it. On Mcinday evening, during the high -wind, the
principal part of a small house, at Sydenll,int, it
'Kent, was bloWn down, and three infants, who
ti ere in bed, were buried in th 6 ruins; the poor pa.
rents escaped an untimely.doath,, by being in another
parr Of the preinises,