Star. — 1821-12-12 (London, England)

ALIAS THE GAS-MAN.  This fight, which had excited so much interest and expectation,. not only among the boxing amateurs, but among the sporting men in general, took place yesterday, in the plains above Hungerford, 66 miles from the metropolis. It was one of the most tremendous encounters recorded in the annals of the art, and left far behind the celebrated battle between Johnson and Big Ben. Its issue also disappointed most of the knowing-ones, for though both combatants were knows to be desperate hitters, yet the dreadful punishing right hand of Gas was expected to bear him through triumphantly. Neat and Gas entered the ring in high spirits, each anticipating victory. Tom Belcher and Harry Harmer were Neat s second and bottle-holder, Spring and Shelton second and bottle-holder to Gas. ROUND% The first and second rounds were to the advantage of Gas,. and, from his known nulling qualitits, betting rose two to one lit his favour. The third round was more equal, though he still maintained some superiority. The fourth round, though not the last, proved decisive of the fight. Neat, by his superior weight (14 stone to 12), and by his i style of fighting, made it apparent to the judges of the art, that he must be the winner. His left hand did dreadful execution.— Gas, who has the habit of breaking from his man and then rushing in with desperate violence, received two tremendous hits, right and left, which floored him, and took the fight out of him. Fourteen other rounds were, however, fought after this, but he never recovered sufficiently to render the ultimate issue doubt. ful. In the 10th round, he shewed extreme weakness—the blood flew in torrents front his eyes and mouth ; he received a tee. tnendous blow, which felled him like an ox—and it was thought the gas was Mimi!, extinguished. Poor Gas was literally beat done blind, and he was otherwise punibbed in the most dreadful manner, being, at last, in a state of total insensibility ; whilst at the conclusion of the eighteenth round, when Neat was declared the victor, he neither had lost a drop of blood, nor had a scratched face to thew. Much money has been lost by the issue of this battle, the whole of which did not last more than 24 minutes. At a late hour last night Gas was' in so complete a state of exhaustion, that he was not expected to live. This must do away with any idea that this battle was a cross. The second fight, between the Suffolk Champion and Joshua Hutson, did not take place, in consequence of some misunderstanding. The ring was attended by the amateurs both of London and Bristol, and the company was more than usually select.  SHOCKING MURDER —Saturday an Inquest was taken at Great Torrington, in Devonshire, on the bcid'y of Mary Stevens, a single woman, and a verdict of Wilful Murder returned against Philip Chappd, a good looking young man, by trade a glover, who was on Monday morning committed to the county' jail at Exeter, under the Coroner's warrant. It ap. peared that the miserable girl was courted by Chap. pel, and pregnant. They had been seen walking to• gether on Friday evening near the spot where the body was found on Saturday morning, laying on a bank near a mill-pool. Bruises appeared on her forehead, yet from other circumstances it is conjectured she had been drowned in the mill-pond and drawn out again. She was an industrious girl, who supported herself by going out to work. Coax EXCHAIION • blaaa-trier, Dec. 12.—We had very fele buyers of Wheaktkis morning, with which article our Market , continues ovyriueded, having no demand for the rough and Jere! riot samples, the value of which is quite nominal, and even that lof prime quality met very heavy rale Ztionday's prices cos. trary to general expectation, there was no reduction in the price of flour. Barley continues exceedingly dull in sale, and only ,1 the prime malting samples could be disposed of. Oess are le. per quarter cheaper, the arrivals since Monday having Weaver, 4 large. New Beans wag tasSitahlr, algoaugh oliend an ?two  VAS&  THE GREEN ISLES OF OCEAN:*  Au= Alfgc Cambrian Twee