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BOXING.To Mr. WARD.Coy entry, September 15.Sir,I was favoured with yours, dated the 4th jnst. by the hands of Mr. Per ri ns, to which I diredtly gave an answer, agreeing to meet you under such restrid\ions as I thought necessary to a man of your description. . Lest the Public should put a wrong interpretation upon my silence, as my answer to yours was pot in print, I beg leave to acquaint them and you, that I am still inclined to accept your challenge, for your own sum, time, and place, upon a stage (not turf) eighteen feet square ■, and my reason for this is very obvious. The dastardly unmanly custom of falling without a real cause is unknown in this part of thccountry, and I dare challenge the greatest enemy I have upon earth, to point out one single instance in my life that I was ever guilty of such a deception j but as to you Mr. Ward, I am sorry to say, your last meeting with Johnson proves you a perfedt master of the Mountebank trade, and leaves me not a doubt but if you found it necessary, you would still pursue the same plan with me, unless properly restridted ; and this particular clause I will have acceded «fo, or not meet you at all. The man that falls without a knock-down blow, shall to all intents and purposes lose the battle; this to be determined by the Gentlemen appointed for the purpose. If it should be attended with any inconvenience at the Odlober Meeting at Newmarket, I shall be glad to accommodate you the Spring one.Sir,Your humble Servant,W. PICKARD.Yours addressed to me at Coventry, will be sufficient.To Mr. PICKARD.Sun, in Air-street, September 24-Sir,I received yours of the 15th instant, and would have given it an earlier answer, but was at Bristol when your letter came here. It is not my disposition to enter into low scurrilous language, and therefore shall not take any notice of the abuse you have thought proper to use in your letter, but come diredtly to the point. If you mean to shew yOurself a man, you cannot refuse the proposals I shall here make to you; namelv, to fight on the same terms and conditions/in every respedt, that are agreed upon between Mr. Perrins and Mr Johnson, who have always fought like men, and it is my intent to do the same. To fight at the same place, and on the following day. Should yoil refuse these fair manly proposals, you must decline your boasting and your abuse, or I shall chastise you for your impertinence.Yours, *WILLIAM WARD.P.S. Give me an early answer, or you must take the consequences a man four stone less than yourself will give you whenever he meets you.
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London Oracle
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Sep 26, 1789
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