The Sun.
London, England, 1815-08-25 00:00:00

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The! amnsementA pf Peckham fair 'terminated In
a short but s'angoinary pngiii,tic contest between
Wells, a man well: known to Ole fancy as a
-bottom third-rate-fighter, and a Bristol-linn tibia-
tem., whose name we understand to he •GCOrg*7B,
of very-snrrior ‘veight. The place .selected for
the 'combat was near the Green Man, on 'the
Greenwich-road.

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It being as early as five o'elock'in the morning
when the parties met, the assemblage of :persons
was Chin and consisted chiefly of_thoSe..whose in-
clinations -.to -dissipated habits lipid 'detained.them
all night at the fair. The bettings were but few,
nothing.having been known oftbe amateur as to
his possessing courage, bottom, or science, and
Wells having often appeared in the character of
a victorious combatant. The odds, however,
were five to one against. the amateur.. Wells was
so confident of bearing the laurel from the brow
of his adversary, and so eager for the null, that
before Georgeson could put himself in the true.
milling positions he planted a terrific bunch of
fives at his ailversary's face,. which, for a moment
caused a stagnation of the amateur's mental facul-
ties ; this,- however, only served to rouse his in-
dignity to -a pitch of desperation, and he coin-
menced an attack at once couragebus and deter-
mined.

At She end of the fourth round there was a ces-
sation of hostilities, for the purpose of ascertain-
ing whether or no the Bristonian trick of closing
and throwing was not foul in a regular mill; there
being no umpires present who could decide
this point, an armistice was entered into, and
the parties adjourned to a neighbouring public 7
hOuse, to qucne It the heat of their anger by
an administration of ardent cordials. Here Wells
challenged to tight his adversary for a purse* ten
guineas, provided he would forego the legging.—
Gcorgeson expressed his readiness to meet him at
any time, but was determined never to forego the
use of a trick which had been taught- hint at an
early period by some of his gamest countrymen.
\Veils added,thatalthough he hintelf was a ttii_er
blade, he was neat ly'getting roughly handled.
RENIARKs.—WeIIs is a Much better out-fighter,
and possesses more .science than his opponent,
blended with which, he has much activity and
strength ; against these, (3eorgeson could not
have stood, had it not been for his never-failing
trick of closing and throwing.

SAILORS CAROUsING.-YeSterd,iy a party. of
sailors With their girls, and a fiddler playing,, were
regaling; themselves at a public-house in the Bo-
rough : some of them wishing to go to White.-
chapel to -see their friends; it was agreed they
should all go, and they set out accordingly:
Meeting a coach in High-street, they bundled
their ladies and - fiddler into it ; hut finding it
would not contain the whole party, some mounted
the box, others got up behind, and some got On
the root. 'The:coachtnitn retnsing to take so many,
au altercation ensued ; but at rist, finding remon-
strance wa in vain, he mounted; ;aid the sailors
seeing he struck his colours, began hooting and
waving their hats and handkerchiefs i.n the aii. In.
this jovial manlier they proceeded,. followed by Aar
immense crowd over. Lot d m Bridge, when one
Of them pot bis head out of the windoW, cancers
jpg with those on the r-iof but by sonic 111.;.N,113
the coach door flew opcii, and lie tell with 'his
bead on the pavement, by which
.his-skull was
fractured, aiql he was taken up senseless:, The
rest discharged the coach, oberving, it was an ttn-.
lucky vessel ; and carried their shipmate in a elan-.
.gerous.Staie to the Hospital. •
At the last Hants Assizes, along pending cause
was tried, in the case of Richards ILPennix,
which involved the question, whether cyrtain mud,
lands, gained froin the sea, by 'neaps of em-
bankment, were subject to the payment, of titlies.
It was an isstie directed
_from the Court of Chan,
cery, and the Learned Judge (Sir 11. DAltrigit)
held the law to be, that%:-henever had WaS•gailled,
from the sea, either by natural -accession. or by
means of embankments, such land was, in point
of law, considered a. belonging td the parish next
adjoining.
,A most unfortunate accidrit happened to
Hearn's Stow market stage-waggon on Friday
tight last, attended with a serious' loss of pro-
perty.—The above waggon, which was on its re=
turn from London with a heavy load of goods,
stopped for the night, as was astral, in front of
the T rower and Hammer, Marks Tey ; when about
two o'clock ou Satirday morning, a most dread- •
ful explosion took place, to the serions'alaritt of
the inmates of the house and the neighbourhood,
which it appeared proceeded from a barrel of gun=
powder in the waggon, which had, by some means
,not yet accounteol for, caught fire: and (exploded,
scattering the goods and waggon to a consider-
able distance, and causing their alniost total de-
struction. The Trowel and Hammer is consider-
ably injured by the explosion, which was distinct-
ly heard at Colchester, and many miles rotind.,—
We do not hear that any lives were lost. The
road was so completely covered with the goods,
that the Mail was detained some- time, befo:re
passAgc could be cleared for it.
A Gentleman in the neighbourhood of` Cow-
caddens, Glasgow, whose garden hail been re-
peatedly pilfered of fruit this season, stationed his'
gardener, during the night, to prevent farther in-

jury being doneto,his trees., On.Satto'da'y se'tl-•
night, between. nine and ten o'clock,
.the no.c=,
turn Al gliardian,discovering a-living object on the
garden wall, veithout any, attempt
_to secure it,
tired, when, melancholy to state, he tvoituded
several parts 01-tbe body a boy, about 'nine yens
of age, who had been (nit on the wall by boys
rider than himself, to procure some apples-. The
boy was carried home by his acco►ril►lices to his'
motLer, at 6pringbank, where he lingered
1111:sday, %viten be died. His. mother' is i❑ a
state nearly bordering on insanity ever since her
son was wounded. The gardener is a man ad-
vanced in life, and is the father hints& of several
children.
On Wednesday morning, between 'the hr,t►rs of

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twelve and fire o'clock, the shop of Mr:. Wi

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Carter, Braynes-row,Spa-fields„ was rold)ed of
property' exceeding 2001. in.vlitc, by nears of
cuttitig a large hole in one of the windor-shift-
Jul's, with a centreLbit large enough to, admit a
man's baud and ann. The thieves gut clear t,ff.