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To ti;c T R I N T £ K.SIR* • , , . • -iI beg leave, through the public channel of your Paper, to fey, that I have met Mr, Mendoza : By mutual agreement, the placd was fixed on i aod I meant, according to the fenor of his offer, to have embraced his Challenge. But I found he would not he bound to ftand up like a man, nor would he have any fettled Ring. Of courfe he might (hift as much as he pleafed, and break the Ring as often as he wanted to get off; and, in Ihort, whenever he found himfelf beaten* be might efcape without the Battle bring adjudged, or the Betts being determined;I am therefore convinced, that fpite of all his talking, the man never meant to fight me—and I here declare him a Coward!RICHARD HUMPHREYS,Aug. 7, 1788.After all the negociations upon the fubjeft of the conteft between Humphreys and Mendoza, the event of a meeting between thefe combatants and their friends on Wed-nefday, renders it hardly probable that tbejr will ever fight again.They met on Wednefday at the . Crown and Magpie in Whitechapel, accompanied by mutual friends. Humphreys informed Mendoza that he accepted his challenge, and would fight him upon the turf as he required, for any fum from a fhilftng to twenty 'pounds, expeing, however, to have a certain fpace of ground determined for the action.Mendoza, in reply, told Humphreys that he would not be bound to.fiend ub in the battle, or be rdlritfed to any aletled ‘fpace.It then appeared evident to the company in general that no terms wore likely to be ad-jufted to the fatisfaftion of both parties ; upon which Humphreys obferved t « Mendoza, that he had again diftppointed him, and receded from his own engagement, ia confequence of which he fhould endeavour so find when his health was perfectly re-e!*b' fifiied, and then make him a fecond vifit in his •fehaal.This declaration induced a gentleman prefent to remark, that fuch a meafure on the part of Humphreys would, pe-hap«, excite the notice of the city magiftrve-, and be of confiderable prejudice to the intereft of Mendoza.Humphreys then immediately rejoined, that if that was likely to be the cafe, he fhculd cert-inly relinqui/h his intention ; but if any rcfi.-clinns were agam cad up ,n his ch.tralt;£fer by his adv; rfary, after his repeated recanta-t'wtti of hi; ovn propof Is, he fii ull take loin; other t.p^ortur.ity of fupportir.g his r«pa-tvion.Stage procedions have always b^en con-IiJersJ as powerful aids d?puerre in the coi -t-mtion for public favour, even in our winter theatres ; and much pains a d cxpence have been from time to time bellowed in that way. Uadler’s Wells (not to be out don* by any rivalfliip) has now, in addition 10 much approvd excellence of the fcenic kiod, given us one of the neatelt little fpeci-c es eny.i[fjnt we ever wit netted. The Piocellion of the Wool Trade not. only affords a novel and linking difplay of outward fh.-w, hutin-fpires tbs fpeator with a noble idea of the commercial ftapleof otrr kingdom.. Roval drove. /Intr. n
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London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Aug 09, 1788
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