The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-08 00:00:00

BOXING.

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G. Croft, the West Countrunian, and Daniels, the _American
Bluck.—This tournament took place yesterday morning, at ten
o'clock, 2hours earlier than the appointed time (to prevent inter-
ruption), in Latham Meadows, on the banks of the Guilford Ri-
ver,aboye Weybridge, instead of Bagshot Heath.. The Black is a
countryman of the once celebrated Mol ineaux,importcd from LW,
timore, and his floating qualifications amongst the heave a head
youths at Gosport, made him very sweet upon himself. Croft,
a milling gypsey, of more than 12. stone, a man tried and ap-
proved of as a fresh young felloW, was matched against him for
40 sovereigns.
On the )31ack stripping he showed the finest muscle and ap.
pearances ; between the two it was a dray-horse to a galloway.
The Black went to work aukwardly in- a 2-I-feet ring, but he
missed his.hits, and ran in and threw his adverSay. •
2. The Gypseygave his adversary a heavy round left-111100
claiilg:ing: hit upon the knock, which gave him the surges, and
sent hitii trOm the Scratch ; the Black however soon returned to
his work and a good rally followed, which finished by Croft
being floored by a hit, which rattled his ribs.
3. Croft found that going in to fight a man so much heavier
was a queer suit, and he began to'work upon points. He Int
the Black upon the pinking system,'and broke ground until his
frontispiece was as round as a dumpling; but Daniels threw
him a tremendous fall.

The next six rounds were manfully contested, the Black stood
cutting up like a game one, doing mischief by strength in every
round, although out-fought. .
10. The Black hit his adversary down with his right hand
from the scratch.

11. Croft led in this round, and bung'd up the Black's left
peeper—the right ogle having been left in the dark sh.ce the
third round. In the thirteenth round the Black resigned, as
blind as a bat.

Two other battles, for a Sovereign each, were fought between
yoeke/g. The one between Davis and Fekhan' was very-ludi-
crous. They hitat each other by turns, and Mil= resigned
at the sight of first blood.

SHOCKING Mli DEIL-On Sunday evening
between eight and nine o'clock,Mr. JAmEs
NO LDS, of the Fingal Arms Tavern, Summer-hill,
was mortally wounded on the Glassnevin Road.
He had been attending a funeral at St. Mazga-
ret's, and was on his return to town, accompd-
pied by a friend. Just as they reached Bally-
mun, three men, one of whom had the. appear.-
ance of a sailor, started from behind a hedge,
cried " Stop," and at the same moment fired.
Mr. REYNOLDS and his horse were both. struck,
but conceiving it to be his best plan to push for-
ward before the villains could load a second time,
he applied his spurs, and the horse carried him
about a quarter of a mile, when it fell, and threw
him him on the ground- on his shoulder. He then
perceived, for the first time, that he had been
wounded, and called out to his companion," 1
am shot." After some time assistance was pro-
cured, and he was carried into town. Ou exa-
mining his wounds, it was deemed prudent to
remove him directly to Jervis-street Hospital,
where, we lament to say, he expired at one
o'clock yesterday. Three slugs had entered his
body, one passing in just at the navel, and the
two others taking an oblique direction imme-
diately above it. The deceased was a most
amiable and respectable young man, about 24
years of age, and was on the point of being mar-
ried. His companion escaped unhurt.—(Fiee-
man's Journal, Nov. 5)
The celebrated LESSING was remarkable for a
frequent absencq of mind. Having missed' money at different
times, without being able to discover who took it, he deter-
mined to put the honesty of his servant to a trial, and left a
handful of gold on the table. ",of course you counted it,"
said one of his friends. " Count it !" said Lessing, rather erri
barrassed ; " No, I forgot that."
A young woman, of the name of Sarah Hobson,
has been committed to Appleby gaol for trial on
her own confession for having 'murdered her new,
born infant, by carrying it across a-field to a
small rivulet, where she strangled the helpless
innocent, and held it under the water until
it was quite dead. The body was afterwards
found in the water about one hundred yards from
the place where it was murdered by its. mother.