The National Register. — 1811-10-06 (London, England)

NATIONAL RECASTER.  . mow Crib wi• h 11 vengeful sulky look, and seemed 1  on doing des Aerate things. The preparations for the fight now commenced in the most solemn manner; and it is impossible to express the breathless anxiety of the multitude at this moment. The determined port of the heroes, their evident strength, and the notorious animosity of the Moor, all prognosticated a terrible mill. The latter kept walking on the stage, while the seconds were arranging the cloths, &c. in a hasty eisturbed manner, inditeive of violent anger. At length the combatants began to strip—and every heart beat high with expectation. When in fishting trim, b )th looked remarkably well—the Black is handsome fur a man of colour—and Crib is welt and stoutly male. The battle, although short, was most desperate. Four more such rounds as the first, would have given Crib his belly fall: but his excellent training and eetermintd courage enabled him to recover himself, while the Black, who was by no means in such high condition, and WAS moreove thrown off his guard by passion, rapidly lost his wind, and exposed himself to his adversary's murderous hitting. The beating which he received on the throat occasioned him to bleed internally, and it w s very plain, at times, that he was almost suffocated by the blood rising. The blow on the side, which he received when falling, descended like a stroke from a hammer: it was heard distinctly at the extremity of the crowd, and its deadly effects were very visible during the next round. It must however, be allowed that the Moor fought well. Crib himself, we understand, says, that he hits with a strength which no other man possesses • and the face of the champion bears ample testimony to the truth of his assertion. He is very much disfigured.—Molineux sparred neatly early in the fight, but he lost his science after he had been a .00d deal punished. We must, however, confess it struck us that the Moor skyed his adversary : be seemed from the very first to be afraid of him—and with the inclination to rush in and sacrifice him to his rage, to couple a dread of the consequences. During the last rounds he fought like a frantic fellow, and fell like a log: his seconds had to lift him up as they would a lump of lead, and lead him to his man as they would a child. After the 11th round he could not again by any means be brought up, and Crib was proclaimed victor by - :shouts which rent the skies. The Black, after the fight, lay extended on the stage in a most pitiable manner, as if dead. 'lse Surgeon he brought with him from London bled him, and after . some time had elapsed he was enabled to crawl to his chaise, • supported by two friends, with his body bent like an S. The victor, when his conquest was announced, sprung up from the stage, and cut several capers, to shew that he was yet in a condition to take and give morehnettiseriseg. No one can say, that in this battle Molineux had not fair play shewn him :—we would, however, suggest that the cries of exultation, which preceeded from the champion's numerous friends, hen the advantage seemed on his side, must have had the effect of cowing the Baltimore man :—we think, in decency and gent rosity, they ought to have been omitted. Molineux, it is said, had provoked a good deal of feeling against him, by savage denunciations of vengeance, and vapouring professions of what he would do to Crib. These are certainly sufficiently disgusting and repugnant to the spirit of Englishmen : but it ought not to have been forgotten that Molineux is a stranger—that he gave proof of his courage by offering a general challenge—slid that he came to the fight, unsupported by friends ef note, while the champion had all the flash-men in his train. It said this latter circumstance preyed much on the mind of the Black, and occasioned him to, what is technically termed, hoick.