The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-22 00:00:00

PRESENTATION OF TILE CUP.

Mr. Pearce Egan was now seen on Ned's right,
and immediately after received a splendid silver cup
from the hands of Torn Spring, which he placed
upon the rail before him. It certainly was the 7.1305 t
brilliant thing of the sort we have yet seen dcvnted
to a member of the Prize Ring—whether as to spe-
cific gravity or beauty of execution. It is to cost
one hundred guineas—and is of an oval
urn-like
shape—stands on a rich chased foot, and surmounted
ofgted
by a cover supporting on its summit the figure
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for the lover of
Ned Neal, in the attitude of setting t:i i
preserved.
metry of the human frame is adm r
The position of the arms appropriate
and the legs well poised. The in perfect character,
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half-boots, and foglc are also in
forming altogether a " Cabinet
the Arts. From the base to the summit of the
Teatlis composed of the rose,
the shamrock, and , , ~
the thistle, wniie the cover arid
foot are encircled with wreaths after the same fashion.
The whale is beautifully chased in dead silver, and
the plain
part of the cup polished in the most vase rise four angles, "
ex-
quisite manner. It is alike creditable to the taste of
the maker and the artists, by whom it was designed.

A broad space is left for an inscription, which has
not yet been engraved, but in which the feats of
Neal will be enumerated.

Mr. EGAN, in presenting this cup to Neal,
said it was indeed a source of pride to him to be de-
puted by the subscribers, at whose instance it had
been prepared, to deliver it into Neal's hands th,:tt
day, because it was a convincing proof of the NO
character which he had maintained during the course
of his career in the Prize Ring, and during the
thirteen battles he had fought. It was the best evi-
dence of the opinion of the sporting world, that he
had always done " the thing that was right," and
was, in the truest sense of the word, en " honest
man." (Cheers.) It was not the intrinsic value
of the cup—it was not the elegance of its work-
manship—it was riot the inscription which it would
bear, that would render it dear to Neal: no—it
must have a greater and more important value in
his mind, and must be held in tenfold estimation,
because it conveyed to his heart the honest conviction
that it was the reward of his honour and integrity
from his first coming out to the present period.
(Cheers.) He had been tried, as the sporting
World well knew, arid he had come forth pure ; he
had been ,6 weighed in the balance, and had not been
found wanting." He was there that day to brave
those base miscreants who, in holes and corners—
and in that murky darkness in which infamy loved
to dwell—had endeavoured to fritter away his
character; but, like cowardly assassins, they shank
from the broad glare of truth—their conscience-.
stricken eyes would not venture to rest on that cup,
the dazzling brightness of which would, like the
lightning of heaven, strike death to their guilty
hearts. But away with such foul fiends !—Neal
now reaped the reward of the past, and it would be
his duty as well as interest in future to sustain the
honourable distinction he had that day obtained.
The members of the Ring in general, too, would
this day receive a lesson which he hoped they would
value ; it was the pleasing contemplation of what
might be their own fortune, if, like Neal, they made
honour their polar star, and under every circumstance
imitated his example. Apologising for having so
long occupied the attention of the assembly, Mr.
Egan then placed the cup in Neal's hands, amidst
loud cheers.

Neal, who did not profess to be an orator, his ar-
guments being in deeds, and not in words, e7pressed
his grateful acknowledgments, not only for the Cup
itself, which his friends had so kindly presented to
him, but for the handsome manner in which Mn
Egan had conveyed their sentiments. He had only
to say, he hoped he should quit the ring as he en-
tered it—without a blemish on his character, and
with a full sense of the liberal and generous manner
in which he had always been supported.
The cap was then restored to the safe keeping of
Tom Spring, to whom, by-the-by, a similar token is
due from the London Ring; and Ned and Jem
Burn closed the sports, with a rough but gallant
set-to.