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For the Public Advertifer.To the common Pi op l e of ENGLAND,My dear brother Plebeians,WITHOUT pretending to any fnpe* rior fagacity, I think I may venture to fay, that there is an evident intention among fome great men to introduce a general tafie for Boxing. Now, though this may afford them deleftable fport, yet when I confider that it is to be at the expence of our bloody nofes, blinded eyes, fradlured fkullj, peace and quiet difturbed, limbs and lives loll, and families ruined, I cannot help wifhing you to be on your guard, and to let the great ones goto loggerheads by them* felvis, for the amufement of thofe hours which hang fo heavy on their hands. We have a great deal to do to provide for otlr-felves and families, and had better Jludy tgbe quiet and mind our own bufintfs, than torifk the lofs and injury of thofe l'rabs which by boneft exertions procure bread for our* felvcs, our wives, and our little ones.They feern to fay that the fpirit of Box* ing is encouraged among the common People, not merely for the diverfion of the- great ones; but with a wifepolitical defign to encourage a manlinefe of oharafter in the lower orders, which may be ufeful in war, and teach one Englilhmau to trounce five Frenchmeo.If General Burgoyae ftiould meet General Gate* again, after the revival of the Bpxino Ton, what fine letters in the Gaze tteSfhould we hare to read over our pots of porter!—Oh! had that renowned warrior, who undadtedly few his troops pile their arms on the plains of Saratoga, learned toufe his fifts in prize-fighting, iqftead of co* medy-writing, and to make a fine figure oa the ftage of Odibam, in dead of the /Yoy-hmfe ftage, I warrant now we fhould have tripped up the Yankees heels, and the General would have returned to London with all the triumph of an Humphries from the de* feat of a Mendna.I fuppofe the French Court, in the late affair, had an item of what was going on here under the aufpicas of Mr. B:.yl, and wifely declined coming to blows with tb e Englifh, now the Broughtonian fyftera Is rev.ving, well knowing what amazing forces they mull raife when five of their men would not be equal to one Englilhman into whom the manly fpirit of Boxing had been once infufed.I hope Mr, Burk: will, in his (economical
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Public Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Jan 15, 1788
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David L.
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