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Inhabitants of Hull alar msJ, Kimthe taiK, and his body was fufpending. Ir» tliis (iruation, Mendoza was preparing a fecund, which would have driven him off the Stage, had not Johnfon caught it. On this nuov called out Foul! Foul !—But the umpires, as well as every amateur, declared that fohnfon was juftified, Humphries being concurred as completely knocked down. The Stage, from thewetnefs of the day, was very (lippery, which proved more unfavourable to Humphries. He took oft his fhoes : but liik (lockings did not contribute to remedy the inconvenience; he therefore had recourfe to a worded pair which he had thrown o(f on dripping, in which he ftood more firm, and began to manifel! his great fuperioricy in gim-nifric excrcifc. He ftood up to his autagui.ift, who was flufhed with fucccfs, in attitudes, which would have arrellcd the pencil of a painter, and with an undaunted fortitude.From this moment the odds again changed in favour of Humphries. He threw in a blow near the loins of his antagonift, with great judgment j and the next round, planted a more dreadful one in his neck, which f:ck-encd and almod difabicd him. Mendoza, however, dill continued the battle with much determination of fpirit, until cxtravafated b!.od an:l exhauftcd wind, made him lb lieip-lc.i, that he lay on the Stage unable to move, and yeiidcd the conteft un which fo much cextcrity and (kill, with fuch equality of lrrc-gth and mufcle, perhaps never was fought, jr.J ccrtianly there never was a contcll on v.;.ich fu much money depended. The battle If.trj 29 minutes. The jew was carried off t c Stage totally exhaulfed, and fccmingly 1 relcls. Humphries was not out of breath, and furfcrcd no materia! injury from the Liows.The friends of Mendoza Hill complain of I 'hnfon’s interference, at a time when the b.ow he caught would have gained the bartle. This is illiberal, after the determination of the umpires. On the other fide, a charge it made of Mendoza’s attempt, when they uere dofed, to goubc the eye of Humphries, and when every other exertion was ineflcdua], t« pull him 6y the nofc. This was inhuman and pitiful, and which called loudly for Comc-ihlng more than interference of the Second.Various have been the different accounts of this conteft in the daily publications, but our readers may depaid on our corredHncfs, as thewriter was a near eye-witnefs to the whoJe, February x. About eight o'clock, thcinha-bunrs of Hull were alarmed by the appearance of the tide in every ftreet ; in many of them it was near two feet high, which rcu-drre.l them impafHiblc for near two hours.1 he cellars were all overflowed, and the proprietors of thofe that contained fuch perifhable agoods as hemp, flax, c. mufi have iullaiacd fvery confidenible damage.The negroes in the French Weft India iflands were, in the year 1777, computed at 356,500. IThe Abbe Raynai Bates the whole number of fAfrican flaveS in America and the Welt-Jndia aiiand*, at j^CjOCO. t
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Political Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Feb 01, 1788
Page 82
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