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Inhabitants of Hull alarmed. Kingihe rail*, and his body was fufpending. In t’li-, fmi.ition, Mendoza was preparing a fecund, which would have driven him ofl the Stage, had not John Ion caught it. On this manv called out Foul! Foul !—Hut the um-pirr, as well as every amateur, declared that John Ion was juftified, Humphries being con- { f:Jrrlt;d as completely knocked down. The Stage, from the wetnefs of the day, was very j. (lipprry, which proved more unfavourable . to Humphries. He took ofl his Ihoes : but lt;idk llockings did not contribute to rtvneJy a the inconvenience; he therefore had recouric { to a worlled pair which he had thrown otf on j ftripping, in which he flood more firm, and began to manifcii his great fuperiority in gim-luitic cxcrcifc. He Hood up to his antagui.ifl, ; who was flufhed with fucccfs, in attitudes, v which would have arrelled the pencil of a lt;painter, and with an undaunted fortitude. tFrom this moment the odds again changed t in favour of Humphries. He threw in a j bl-w near the loins of his antagonist, with t great judgment ; and the next round, planted ] a more dreadful one in his neck, which fick- | mcd and almofl difablcd him. Mendoza, however, (till continued the battle with much determination of fpirit, until extravafated blood anil exhauiled wind, made him fo help-lets, that he lay on the Stage unable to move, and yeildcd the conteft on which fo much dexterity and (kill, with fuch equality of lircngth and mufclc, perhaps never w as fought, and ccrtianly there never was a conteft on winch fo much money depended. The battle Idled 29 minutes. The jew was carried off the Stage totally exhauiled, and Jeemingly litclels. Humphries was not out of breath, and furicrcd 110 material injury from the blows.The friends of Mendoza dill complain of johnfou's interference, at a time when the blow lie caught would have gained the battle. This is illiberal, after the determination of the umpires. On the other fide, a charge is made of Mendoza’s attempt, when they were clofed, to goubc the eye of Humphries, and when every other exertion was ineftcflual, t* pull him by the nofe. This was inhuman and pitiful, and w hich cailcd loudly for fomc-ihing more than interference of the Second.Various have been the different accounts of this contefl in the daily publications, but our readers may depend on our corre^lnefs, as the writer was a near cye-witnefs to the whole.February 1. About eight o'clock, the inhabitants of Hull were alarmed by the appearance of the tide in every flreet ; in many of them it was near two ftet high, which rendered them impartible for near two hours.1 he cellars were all overflowed, and the proprietors of thofe that contained fuch perifhable goods as hemp, flax, c. mud have fuitaioed very confiderable dimuge.The negroes in the Freneh Weft India iflands were, in the year 1777, Computed at 3-56,500. The Abbe Raynal Hates the whole number of African Caves in America aud the Wcll-lndia iiands, at 1,4. 4 tocQ.
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London Political Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Feb 01, 1788
Page 124
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