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364 Battle in Norfolk •, with Remarks.•/rt'CoNNOlSSEL’R, jN ' XXX. minutes ,• and this m rn ng the battle wftn ,, . . .r gtven to Slack, whooif# the firft ten guineasBiyz inter gemnoi plui qucm civ.ria eo, lhe blt;J1lt; Tfl0, cnlt;Jed thi, drad,o|fruini. Lucan. combat.AT a time when peace fp-ejds her ^ Every man, who has the hocoar of downy wings over contending the Britijb lift at heart, mult look withnation', and when armies, (like the admiration on the bottom, the wind, theharmlcfs militia) are drawn into the of thiMnvincibic champion S/.tei.field only to be reviewed, all Europe How mult they applaud his addrefa inmult undoubtedly be alarmed to hear fgbting flrati \ and with what detefta-ot the bloody battle, which has been tion mult they look upon his daftard lately fought m England. . It is a juftice - anragcnift, wno could 10 ftiamefully due to pofterr.y ro preferve a faithful a rogue it faccount of this memorable event : ! 1 cannot but lament the cruelty offhall therefore fet it down as 1 find it that law, which has Ihut up our amphi-recorded in thofe authentic rcgifters of theatres ; and I look upon the profeiFora heroic adfions, the news papers, with* of 'he noble art of boxing as a kind of t ot deviating a tittle from the expreffive difbanded army, for whom be have terml in which this extraordinary com- made no prsvijion. The mechanics, ba: is related. who at the call of glory left their mea$•• Hartficn ,* Norfolk, July 30. Yefterday C occupations, are now obliged to have in the afternoon Slack and Pettit met and recourle to them again ; and coachmet* fought. At the fiift /Vr to, Pettit feicrd Slack and barberj refume the whip and the by the throat, and held him up agamA the razor, inftead of giving black eyes tadrarla, and t'aia d him fo much a* to make Cr0f3 buttocks. I know a veteran, th*him torn extremdy black: this continue.! for 0flcn ^fl the whole bouft. who Uk.f . m,,,... before could b„.k Pam . redaced. |ike Btlifrnui, to fp.tad hi.bold : after which for near ten minutes, Pettit if. . K-lf—c__kept fighuog and dnvuig hard at Stack, .hen n P* Z , halfpenny^ Someat length Slack cltn'd with his antagonift and D !™e forced tO CXercife their^ art gave him a very fevere tall, after that a fe- knocking down paflengers in darkcond and a th.rd ; but between thefe falls Ulcjs and comers ; while Others haveFeint threw Slack twice off the ftsge, and in- learned to open their fifta, juid ply theirdeed Pettit fo much dreaded Slack'% fails, that finger* in picking pockets. Dtitkborfe,he ran direaiy at his hams and tumbled him whole knuckles had been ulcd CO indepidown, and by that meant gave Slack an op- maDy a bruife, DOW clenches them onlypormmry of making th* laJJt raj ea/y: £0 ^fp 4 jink . Broughton employ*?° ^f '* W E lhc mulclcs of h’s br*WDT *r“sutrt, the odds ran againn Slack a guinea to r 1 j • 1a (killing j .berraa o^ firfl fer.inj out. ,t ^«x.ng a lemon, or drawing a cork,wa, three or fou, to one 00 h„ bead; but His amph.thc.tre .. convened into,after this time shek fy.rtcnd Perm to, at to mcihodilt meeting houte ; and perhapsdifabJe him from running and throwing him (as laymen are there admitted into thedown in the manner he had cone before, hot pulpit) thofe very lifts, which fo latelyobliged him to fland to clofe fighting. Slack dealt fuch heady bangs upon the (lage,then doled one of bis eyes, »nd beat him are now with equal vehemence thump-very much about the face. At twenty on- p ingthe cuftlion.nute. Pettit grew weaker. Slack ftronger ■ ’phe dcxtCfOU5 ufc of fift J, ,this was olt;cahoQ d by Slack. A«' »iy of lnj!y Bnttjb exercift; and the fturdyn^hooB. At twenty-two imoutes the beli r_„/./L w . ^judge: allowed Slack to haee the advantage fZl,A h*VC « ^^ch renownedover Pett.t very confiderably, aa he was »0r their boxing M their beef; H€Ithtrofthen recovering h.s 1vtad, which was owing which ire by any means luited to thexo frame: when they bad boa’d twenty-foot watery ftomschs and weak finews ofm.notri, Petnt rbrcw Slack agaio over the their enemies the French. To this no-rails. Thia indeed Slack foffered him 10 do, q triment and this art is owing (hat longas by that memi he fixed a blow unde. Pen.c'% cftiblifhcd maxim, that OUC Englijbm/illnbs, that hurt hm much Wh.lft Slack can beat three Erencbmn. A Frenrb--m .„m lh. IU*. (.1 -u no; „„„ who piddle, on , fricffct of fVoo.,bin a mirruu b«jire ne was re-mounrec)Pcmt bad fo much the fear of his a.tagon ft f /A^w h 1 T J f Kbefore In. eyes, that be walked off -ilbou: lo t'S*™ «ponbcef, thin themuch as civiliy takiog leave of the fpe«arcr». ,n COuld (well her littleor faying inv thing to any perfon. This the H 10 lhe zc of *n I ind ^e«»ckrrs call ro/nog of ict for it u gencn ly hence we may conclude, on the prin-cfioogbi that Perm ran away full ftrnng. The ciples of philofophy, that the clafticwhole time of thnr 6ghung was twenty-five fpring, which daru' out the knuckle*of
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Gentlemans Magazine and Historical Chronicle
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Aug 01, 1754
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