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Propofal to improve the Breed*/ Bruifcrs. 36lt;5of an Englijbtnun. falls into the heels of be able to boaft » route at her houfe. a Frenebmxn. One of mv comrfpon- confltting of three or (oar hundred pcr-derns has already remooftrated afpinft font, if they were not to be drawn to-the degeneracy of the prtfent times, in gethcr by the charms of playing a rub-our (hameful negled ot that fupnort of ber? And the prohibiriot of our jubileeOur national ftrcngth, old E/rthjb roaft A mslquerades is hardly to be regretted,beef. Indeed we can never nope, that as they wanted the moft effennal pareany of our modem heroes would at- of th«r en erram ment, the E O table,tempt to fix a blow under the rib}, when To this polw fpirit 01 gaming, whichthey are afraid of plunging a knife into hasdiffufed Keif through all rhe falhion-a furlotn : and I will venture to lay, able world, is owing the vaft encou-that when the time cornea, that furloins ragement that is given to the turf; andarc no more brought upon the table, borle-races are eiteemed only as theywe (hall not be able to produce one8 afford occafion for making a bet. The Englifbnum. whocan knock down an ox. fame fpirit likewife draws the knowingOur prelenr race of fpmdle-(hank'd ones together in a cock-pit; and cock*beaut had rather dofe wtrh an orange are refcued from thcdnneniil, and arm-wench at the playhoufe, than eiigage in ed wnhgafflen, to furaiin a new fpecieia bye battle tt Tottenham Court. It is of gaining. For thia reafon, anfongtherefore no wonder rhar they (hould others, I cannot but regret the lofa ofobjed to this manly praftice, lor which p our elegant amnfements in Oxford-they are (o ill fitted. How can we road and Tottenham Court. A greatimagine, that they could fUnd againft part of the (peAacors ofed to be deeplythe buffets of a bruifer, when they inter eft ed in what was doing on themight almoft be pitted down with the ftage, and were as earn eft to make aqfan of a lady ? An attempt was once advantage ol the iffue of the battle, umade by Broughton to bring this ftudy the champions themfelves to draw theinto vogue, by cftiblifhmg a fchool for largeft fum from the box. The tm-botiog, in which he himlelf was to be D phuheatre was at once a fchool for bor-the lecturer. He invited the young tng and gaming. Many thousands havegentlemen of the army, and all other depended upon a match ; the odds h#vpmen of fpirit, to engage under his dl- often rifien at a black eye; a large betregions; and promifed to arm their has been occafioned by a crofa-buttock:feeble wrifts with mufflers, fo that no- and while the houfe has refounded withthing might be apprehended by the the lofty bifigs of the combatants, it ha»fofteft head or tendered flcin. A few ^ at the fame rime ecchoed with the cric# indeed were hardy enough to try a fall * of five to one, fix to one, ten to one. with him : bat moft of our young fel The lofa of this branch of gaming ip lows gave up the gauntlet tor fccnted a public calamity: and I doobt not Du^gloves ; and loathing the mutton fifta the gentlemen at White' 1, and all other#of vn ear carmen and porters, they ra- whom it concerns, wifi ufe their en-ther cnofe to hang their hands in a fling, deavours to have it rtftored. The ma-to make them white and delicate as a ny plates given all over the kingdomlady's, I cannot but regret that this p have undoubtedly improved our brte4 dehjjn was not generally encouraged, as of horfes; and it the diverfion of bojrit might perhaps have abolilhed almoft ing was to meet with equal enccuragerthe only ule, that is at prefent made of ment, we Ihould certainly have a morethe fword ; and men of honour, fnftead ftout and hardy race of bruilers. It of tilting at each other, might have had might perhaps become a laihion forfarisftibon in a tight Set-to behind gentlemen, who were fond ol the (port*Mountague houfe. ■ to keep champions in mining, putThe arnufement of boxing, I muft Gthem in fweats, diet them, and breed up. confefs, is more immediately calculated the human Ipedea with the fame carefor the vulgar, who can have no rclifh as they do cocks and horfes. In courfeforthe more refined pleafures of whift of time this branch of gaming'like aljand the hazard table. Men of fafhion other#, would doobtleli be reduced 10have feund out a more genteel employ- 1 fcience ; ind Broughton K in imi atioqment for their hands, in (hufBing a pack of that great genius /Aj/e, might o-of cards and (hiking the dice : and in ^ blige the public wi;h a treadle on the deed it will sppear upon a ftrifler re- fift, and calculsiions for laying the odd#view, that moft of Our faihionable di- at any match ot boxing, vcrfions are nothing clfe but differentbranches qf gaming, What lady would Same
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Gentlemans Magazine and Historical Chronicle
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Aug 01, 1754
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