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Inhabitants of Hull alarmsJ. Kingthe rail% and his body was fufpanding. In chi* lituation, Mendoza was preparing a fecund, which would have driven him off the Stage, had not Johnfon caught it. On this many called out Foul! Foul !—But the umpires, as well as every amateur, declared that fohnfon wasjuftified, Humphries being con-jidercd as completely knocked down. The Stage, from thewetnefs of the day, was very flippery, which proved more unfavourable 10 Humphries. He took off his (hoes : but lilk (lockings did not contribute to remedy the inconvenience; he therefore had recourle to a worded pair which he had thrown off on ^dripping, in which he flood more firm, and began to manifelt his great fuperiority in gim-nifric excrcifc. He flood up to his autagoi.ifl, jwho was flufhed with fucccfs, in attitudes, 1which would have arrellcd the pencil of a (painter, and with an undaunted fortitude. tFrom this moment the odds 3gain changed cin favour of Humphries. He threw in a j bl-w near the loins of bis antagonifl, with t great judgment j and the next round, planted ja more dreadful one io his neck, which fick- [cncd and almofl difabicd him. MenJoza, however, ftill continued the battle with much determination of fpirit, until extravafated bl.iod and cxhaufled wind, made him fu help- « let's, that he lay on the Stage unable to move, lt;and yeildcd the contefl on which fu much lt;crxtcrity and (kill, with fuch equality of i i:re -gth and mufcle, perhaps never was fought, lt;• jr.J ccrtianly there never was a contefl on * v.i.-cli fu much money depended. The battle o N.trj 29 minutes. The jew was cunied off «. f c Stage totally exhauflcd, and (ecmingSy u 1 relcfs. Humphries was not out of breath, «lt; and furfcrcd no material injury from the “ Liows. ' ciThe friends of Mendoza flill complain of lt;lt;(.'bnfon’s interference, at a time when the «* biow he caught would have gained the battle.This is illiberal, after the determination of lt;lt;the umpires. On the other fide, a charge «■ is made of Mendoza’s attempt, when they u uere dofed, to goubc the eye of Humphries, lt;« and when every other exertion w-as ineflcdlua), te pull him 6y the nofe. This was inhuman “ and pitiful, and which cailed loudly for fomc- «lt; thing more than interference of the Second. “Various have been the different accounts of ««this contefl in the daily publications, but our “ readers may depaid on our corre^fncls, as “ the writer was a near eye-witnefs to the whole, •« February 1. About eight o'clock, thcinha- “ bunts of Hull were alarmed by the appear- “ ancc of the tide in every flreet ; in many of « them it was near two feet high, which rcu- lt;« drre.J them impafljble for near two hours.The cellars were all overflowed, and the proprietors of thofe that contained fuch perifhable ar goods as hemp, flax, c. mufl have fuflaincd H very confldenible damage.The negroes in the French Weft India iflands were, in the year 1777, computed at 356,500. J_ The Abbe Raynal Bates the whole number of fc African flaveS in America and the Well-india idand*, at j^rcjOCO. if
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Political Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Feb 01, 1788
Page 82
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