for them, she could cook for them, &c. in short, in the language of Deborah Woodcock, she had no objection to any work they could put her to."-This harangue pacified the thieves, they carried off the lady by compromise, not before, however, they had stripped the whole troop almost naked, leaving them nothing but the refuse of what they had pillaged from them in the baggage waggon, consisting of a few odds and ends of pantomime dresses. Grimaldi put on an old harlequin's jacket, poor Flahaut contented himself with the trow sers of Scaramouch, and in this plight they begged their way to Brussells. What became of the heroine to whom they owed their lives, anecdote is silent; it is to be hoped, however, she met her recompense, as there was something very singularly disinterested and noble in her conduct. The troop travelled on from Brussells to Flanders, where Grimaldi formed a company, and where, by adding legerdemain and other tricks to his jumping, he soon acquired a considerable fortune. The late Grimaldi in our time, was the son of the above celebrated jumper, who was himself for many years the first clown on our stage. Amongst his other qualities he excelled in jumping, not to any extraordinary height, but in imitation of animals. We once saw him in a pantomime, where, in the character of a savage, he had to descend a pile of rocks in quest of a sleeping shepherdess, and he bound ed from rock to rock in such a close imitation of nature, that it appeared more the agility of a roe-buck than a man. The present Mr. Grimaldi of Covent-Garden Theatre, is the son of this man, and the grandson of the celebrated Italian jumper, and those who have seen him in the pantomime of Mother Goose, must do him the justice to say, he has lost none of the hereditary talents of the family. PUGILISM. CRIB AND MOLINEUX. WE announced to our readers in last month's Magazine, the result of the long-pending battle between these celebrated Pugilists, and at the same time stated that it took place on the 28th of September, at Thistleton Gap, in the parish of Whymondham, in the county of Leicester, which is very near a place called Crown Point, where the three counties of Lincoln, Leicester, and Rutland join, and in the line between Grantham and Stamford. We now proceed to narrate the particulars: From the time the scene of action was first known, even by conjecture, the amateurs began to crowd to the spot. Not a bed could be had within twenty miles of the seat of action on the night previous to the fight, and those who bad been accustomed to a downy dab, were content to become palls with their prads, to witness the anticipated awful mill. As soon as dawn appeared on Saturday, the spectators were on the move in the direction of the scene of action, and by six o'clock scarcely a standing was to be procured within any reasonable distance of the stage. The crowd kept increasing until about half-past eleven, when, it is calculated, upwards of 15,000 persons occupied the ground; one-fourth of them consisted of nobility and gentry. gentry. The field chosen was a stubble ground, on which a twentyfive-feet stage was erected without the slightest interruption. Very little preface is necessary with respect to the biography of the combatants-Crib having been known to be the best bit of manflesh nature ever cast in her mould, whose gluttony beggars description, who possesses science inferior to none, and courage superior to any on the boxing list.-Molineux, it will be fresh in the memory of our readers, fought this formidable champion a hard battle of thirtynine rounds in fifty-five minutes in December. last, (see Sporting Magazine for that month) and victory in that combat was so long doubtful, that the Black was backed at even in the latter part of the fight. This was a most obstinate and sanguinary combat, the equal to which record can scarcely furnish. The day was a very wet one; it rained heavily during the fight; and it is said that this state of the weather operated very much against the Black. His prowess was therefore regarded by Crib's friends with a jealousy which excited considerable national prejudice against him; and although the task of a second combat was regarded with fearful anxiety by the fistic amateurs, inasmuch as the laurels of a British Champion were in danger of being wrested from him by a Baltimore man of colour, yet a challenge was sent Crib, which he was bound to accept, although he had publicly declined fighting. Neither of the men weighed so much by nearly a stone as in the former combat; Crib being thirteen stone five or six pounds, and Molineux something more than thirteen stone. Captain Barclay, by a science of training peculiar to himself, had reduced VOL. XXXIX.-No. 229. Crib from upwards of sixteen stone to the above weight, by Scots living, but he had still kept his stamina pure. Molineux had not to boast of patrician patronage; but it is not true, as reported, that his training was left chiefly to himself, he having been for some time under the tuition of those eminent professors, Richmond and Tom Belcher.-Crib, however, had been from the time the match was first made, decidedly the favourite, the odds having been three to one he won the battle, and six to four he gave the first knock-down blow.— The combatants mounted the stage at twelve o'clock, and at eighteen minutes past (having viewed each other with significant glances) they prepared for combat. Crib's second was his old and intimate friend and companion the renowned Gully, with Joe Ward for his bottle-holder. Molineux was seconded by his sable countryman Richmond, with Bill Gibbons for his bottle-holder. Betting 30 to 10 on Crib. Both heroes were repeatedly cheered by the spectators, and they returned the compliment by repeated conges, in a graceful style. Then followed THE SET-TO. Round 1. Sparring for one mi nute, when Crib made play right and left. The right-handed blow told slightly on the body of the Black, who returned it slightly on the bead. A rally followed, in which three blows were exchanged, when the Black was knocked down by a hit on the throat. The blows were not at length to do much execution, and the knock-down was not clean. Betting as at setting-to. 2. Crib shewed first blood from the mouth at setting-to. A dreadful rally, by mutual consent, was commenced, and Crib put in a good C body 'body hit with the right hand, when Molineux returned it on the head with the left flush. Each fought at half-arm for superiority, and hits, in number about six, were exchanged with force. Closing followed, when Crib was thrown in a trial of strength.-Five to 2 on Crib. 3. Crib's right eye was nearly closed in the last rally, and another here followed of a sanguinary nature, after sparring for wind, in which the Black was deficient. Crib put in a dreadful doubler in the body of the Black, but although he was hit away, be kept his legs, and renewed the rally with a fury which excited alarm amongst the cognoscenti. Crib in the rally hit right and left at the body and head, and the Black fought at the head alone, and was so successful with the left hand, that he planted some dexterous flush hits, and Crib bled at the mouth, and was damaged in both eyes. The rally lasted a minute and a half, and in a close, Crib was thrown a heavy fall. This fall evinced the astonishing and superior strength of the Black. He grasped Crib round the body with one hand while he supported himself with the other resting upon the railing of the stage, and in this position gave him a cross-buttock, throwing him completely over with force upon the stage. To an ordinary spectator the Black was winning the fight in a hurry, but the champion's tried game made him yet a favourite, although the odds were reduced to about 7 to 4 cur.rent. 4. Crib's head was much disfigured, and the Black's wind was treacherous. The formerbled from every organ, but he smiled, renewed the rally with heroism never excelled, and hits in abundance were exchanged, Crib still fighting at the body-mark with his right-hand, and Molineux at the head. Crib fell with a slight hit, and manifested first weakness.Betting as in the last round. 5. Rallying was renewed by Molineux, and the execution on both sides was terrific. The Black had the best of the determined rally, and Crib fell from a blow, and received another in falling, which excited murmurs and applause from the partisans of the combatants; but on reference to the umpires, it was decided fair, Crib's hands being at liberty. 6. The Black, fatigued by want of wind, lunged right and left, but he was avoided, and he made a good stop of Crip's right hand. Crib put in a destructive righthanded blow at his body-mark, which doubled him up. From a sudden puff from his mouth, he seemed as if the wind was knocked out of him, and got away pitifully distressed. He appeared frantic on renewing a rally, anxious to go in, but alarmed at the consequences, and he capered about like a dancingmaster, to the amusement of Crib and his friends. He hit short, and was abroad; Crib followed him round the stage and did astonishing execution, and floored him with a blow at great length. This round brought the odds to 5 to 1 on Crib. 7. Molineux run in on a rally intemperately, and did some execution, but Crib hit him several blows as violent as can be figured, about the neck and jugular, and after a rally of one minute, the Black fell from hurts and weakness. 8. Molineux, in the forlorn hope, again rallied at ill-judged distance, and after Crib had again nobbed him, he got his head under the left army arm, and fibbed until Molineux fell. No takers of odds. 9. Lombard-street to a China orange Molineux was dead beat, and only fought to encounter Crib's death-like blows. In running in, Crib met him with his left hand, and broke his jaw, and he fell like a log. He did not come to time within half a minute; but Crib's appetite was not to be satiated-he gave away this chance, dancing a hornpipe about the stage, when the battle was lost; but although a chance was given, he did not accept it, but went in again and floored his man, after hitting him half down and up again. 10. Molineux with difficulty got off his second's knee for fresh punishment, but he made a desperate unsuccessful effort, and fell from distress. 11. This round ended the fight, after Crib had given away another chance about time, but the Black's senses were hit out of him; and af. ter he received another knock-down, he was unable again to stand, and victory was announced by Gully and Crib, accompanied by shouts of applause from the populace. After the battle Crib, accompanied by his friend Gully, set out for their head-quarters, at the Bull on Witham Common; and Molineux, who had laid down on the stage, as soon as he could be removed, proceeded with his friends to the Royal Oak, at Greetham, where he was immediately put to bed. A surgeon immediately attended, and, upon examining him, it was ascertained that his jawbone and two of his ribs were fractured, and he was then thought to be in a very dangerous state. REMARKS. The assemblage gave mutual applause to the combatants during the fight, which lasted nineteen minutes and ten seconds. The Black has acquired science equal to Crib, and it would not be too much to denominate him as good an infighter. He is quick and weighty, particularly with the left hand, and generally, when Crib hit him in the body with the right hand, he returned it with the left on the head; but Crib's game was never excelled, he having been a good deal punished on the head alone. The champion has won a main, and certainly Molineux could have no chance in any combat with him. Whether the impression of having been before beat by the champion was the cause of a sort of despondency, flashly termed fencing, or whether a want of patronage by the higher orders in the fancy, had preyed on Molinenx's spirits, we are not in the secret to know, but he has fallen off much since he fought Crib before, and his intemperance gave his antagonist bis mode of punishing, in which he excels all others, that of hitting with his left-hand, when followed quickly. It has been a matter of surprise to many of the amateurs, that the Black should have been beat so quick, when he obstinately contested a battle of thrice the duration so recently. The only inference to be drawn is, that Crib was full of flesh in that combat, and far from being in good condition, and Molineux certainly had not the stamina he then had, although he has acquired the necessary science of boxing. The four rounds following the first were contended with that sort of furious desperation on both sides, which has never been equalled, Crib's hits were insupportable to the hardiest frame, and certainly had the Black possessed more courage than it is possible for man to be gifted € 2 gifted with, he could not have withstood such murderous hits. A report prevailed at first that Crib was blind, but his sight was not affected, although he was a good deal punished in the face. He received no body hit-there he was scarcely scratched by the war.— On being joked with after the fight, about his captivating appearance, he observed he would sooner go through such another fight than go through another training up the Highlands of Scotland, after his patron and trainer, Captain Barclay. He is supposed to have benefited 4001. by his victory, but he has solemnly declared that nothing shall ever tempt him to fight another battle. The public, perhaps, are not aware that he is a coaldealer, and carries on business at his house in White Lion-square. The towns of Granthani, Stam ford, and in short the whole North Road, have reaped abundant harvests on this occasion. No interruption whatever was offered, but on the contrary the Corporations of the principal towns in the North solicited the seat of action might be on their domains, as did several of the most distinguished persons in that part of the country. Among the spectators who appeared to feel a peculiar interest in the fight, were Lord Yarmouth, the Hon. Berkeley Craven, Major Mellish, Captain Barclay, Sir Francis Baynton, General Grosvenor, Thomas Goddard, Esq. Mr. Maitland, Sir Henry Smith, the Marquis of Queensbury, Lord Pomfret, Sir Charles Alston, &c. The crowds that assembled at the houses of Richman and Gregaon (the principal resorts of the two contending heroes) were so great, that it was necessary to procure peace officers to preserve order, ALTHOUGH the preceding description of this celebrated contest is tolerably copious, yet there are so many additional and amusing particulars interwoven in the following account, that we are sure our readers will derive considerable gratification from its perusal. SECOND ACCOUNT. The Battle between Crib, Champion of England, and Molineux, the Baltimore Man of Colour. The battle took place, as we announced it would, on Saturday, last; and the spot chosen for the scene of action was near where we intimated, being Crown-Point, a short distance from ThistletonGap, and about twelve miles from Stamford, a place of doubtful county-ship, being situated at the conflux of three counties, Lincoln, Rutland, and Leicester. This circumstance, no doubt, occasioned its selection, with a view to avoiding the authority of any interfering magistrate. Here, in a large stubble-field, a stage was erected, twenty-five feet square, for the combatants, which was again surrounded by a rope ring to keep off the crowd. Round this, at a very early hour, the whole country began to pour from all directions.— From the barouche to the donkey, every mode of human conveyance was in use, and thousands who were not so fortunate as to possess any one of these, trusted to their own legs, and walked ten, fifteen, and some twenty miles, to witness a display of strength and courage, peculiar to our country, and apparently congenial to its spirit. As the Oak, at Greetham, which was the head-quarters of Molineux, lay in the road from Stamford, most of the company from that quarter, called |