Farewell-I shall do something desperate, I fear-
And, ah! if my fate ever reaches your ear,
One tear of compassion my DOLL will not grudge
To her poor-broken-hearted-young friend,

Nota Bene.-I'm sure you will hear with delight,
That we're going, all three, to see BRUNET to-night
A laugh will revive me-and kind Mr. Cox
(Do you know him?) has got us the Governor's box!

BIDDY FUDGE.

NOTES.

Oh this learning, what a thing it is.- -Shakspeare.

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So FERDINAND embroiders gaily.

bald Wolfe Tone, James Napper Tandy, John Philpot Curran, etc. etc. and, in England, he produced as

The Romans called a thief "homo trium litera

It would be an edifying thing to write a history of examples Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Shethe private amusements of sovereigns, tracing them ridan, John Horne Tooke, Francis Burdett Jones, down from the fly-sticking of Domitian, the mole- etc. etc. catching of Artabanus, the hog-mimicing of Parmenides, the horse-currying of Aretas, to the petticoat-rum." embroidering of Ferdinand, and the patience-playing of the Pe R-t!

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Your curst tea and toast.

Is Mr. Bob aware that his contempt for tea renders him liable to a charge of atheism? Such, at least, is

Tun' trium literarum homo
Me vituperas! Fur.'

Plautus, Aulular. Act 2. Scene 4.

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The Testament, turn'd into melo-drames nightly.

"The Old Testament," says the theatrical Critic in the opinion cited in Christian. Falster. Amanitat. the Gazette de France, " is a mine of gold for the maPhilolog." Atheum interpretabatur hominem ab her-nagers of our small play-houses. A multitude crowd ba The aversum.' He would not, I think, have been round the Théatre de la Gaité every evening to see so irreverent to this beverage of scholars, if he had the Passage of the Red Sea." In the play-bill of one of these sacred melo-drames read Peter Petit's Poem in praise of Tea, addressed to the learned Huet-or the Epigraph which Pechli- at Vienna, we find "The Voice of G-d, by Mr. nus wrote for an altar he meant to dedicate to this herb-or the Anacreontics of Peter Francius, in which he calls Tea

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Thomas Aquinas eating up his majesty's lamprey, in Civitat. Dei, lib. 16. cap. 30.—The jokes of the pious a note upon Rabelais, liv. 3. chap. 2.

favourite of Queen Radagunda, the convivial Bishop

Venantius, may be found among his poems, in some Page 176, line 2.

lines against a cook who had robbed him. The folTill five o'clock brings on that hour so momentous. lowing is similar to Cicero's pun :Had Mr. Bob's Dinner Epistle been inserted, I was Plus juscella Coci quam mea jura valet. prepared with an abundance of learned matter to il.

See his poems, Corpus Poetar. Latin. tom. 2. p. lustrate it, for which, as indeed, for all my “scientia 1732. Of the same kind was Montmaur's joke, when popinæ," I am indebted to a friend in the Dublin a dish was spilt over him—"summum jus, summa inUniversity,—whose reading formerly lay in the magic juria;” and the same celebrated parasite, in ordering line ; but, in consequence of the Provost's enlightened a sole to be placed before him, said, alarm at such studies, he has taken to the authors

Eligi cui dicas, tu mihi sola places. “de re cibaria" instead; and has left Bodin, Remigius, Agrippa, and his little dog Filiolus, for Apicius, of kitchen erudition, the learned Lipsius's jokes on

The reader may likewise see, among a good deal Nonius, and that most learned and savoury jesuit, cutting up a capon, in his Saturnal. Sermon. lib. 2. Bulengerus. Page 179, line 64.

Page 180, line 9. “ Live bullion," says merciless Bob, " which I think Would, if coin'd with a little mint sauce, be delicious!"

Upon singing and cookery, BOBBY, of course,

Standing up for the latter Fine Art in full force. Mr. Bob need not be ashamed of his cookery jokes, when he is kept in countenance by such men as Ci

Cookery has been dignified by the researches of a cero, St. Augustine, and that jovial bishop, Venantius Bacon (see his Natural History, Receipts, etc.) and Fortunatis. The pun of the great orator upon the takes its station as one of the Fine Arts in the follow. "jus Verrinum,” which he calls bad hog broth, from ing passage of Mr. Dugald Stewart.—“Agreeably to a play upon both the words, is well known; and the this view of the subject, sweet may be said to be inSaint's puns upon the conversion of Lot's wife into trinsically pleasing, and bitter to be relatively pleassalt are equally ingenious :-" In salem conversa ho- ing; which both are, in many cases, equally essential minibus fidelibus quoddam præstitit condimentum,

to those effects, which, in the art of cookery, corressapiant aliquid, unde illud caveatur exemplum." --De pond to that composite beauty, which is the object of

the painter and of the poet to create."-Philosophical Essays.

cap. 2.

quo

TOM CRIB'S MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.

Αλλ' ουχ' οιοι ΠΥΚΤΙΚΗΣ ΠΛΕΟΝ ΜΕΤΕΧΕΙΝ τους πλουσίους επιστημη τε και εμπειρία
H ПOAEMIKHΣ; Eyw son.-Plato, de Rep. lib. 4.

"If any man doubt the significancy of the language, we refer him to the third volume of Reports,
set forth by the learned in the laws of Canting, and published in this tongue."-Ben Jonson.

PREFACE.

have presumed to interfere with a historian so competent. But, as his researches into antiquity have gone no farther than the one valuable specimen of erudition which I have given above, I feel the less hesitation

-novos decerpere flores, Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam, Unde prius nulli velarint tempora Musa.1 Lucret. lib. 4. v. 3.

THE Public have already been informed, through the medium of the daily prints, that, among the distinguished visitors to the Congress lately held at Aix-la-Chapelle, were Mr. BOB GREGSON, Mr. GEORGE COOPER, and a few more illustrious brethren of THE FANCY. It had been resolved at a Grand Meeting of the Pugilistic Fraternity, that, as all the The variety of studies necessary for such a task, milling Powers of Europe were about to assemble, and the multiplicity of references which it requires, personally or by deputy, at Aix-la-Chapelle, it was as well to the living as the dead, can only be fully apbut right that THE FANCY should have its representa-preciated by him who has had the patience to perform tives there as well as the rest, and these gentlemen it. Alternately studying in the Museum and the were accordingly selected for that high and honoura- Fives Court-passing from the Academy of Plato to ble office. A description of this Meeting, of the speeches spoken, the resolutions, etc. etc. has been given in a letter written by one of the most eminent of the profession, which will be found in the Appendix, No. I. Mr. CRIB's Memorial, which now, for the first time, meets the public eye, was drawn up for the purpose of being transmitted by these gentlemen to Congress; and, as it could not possibly be in better hands for the enforcement of every point connected with the subject, there is every reason to hope that it has made a suitable impression upon that body.

that of Mr. Jackson-now indulging in Attic flashes with Aristophanes, and now studying Flash in the Attics of Cock-Court-between so many and such various associations has my mind been divided during the task, that sometimes, in my bewilderment, I have confounded Ancients and Moderns together,-―mistaken the Greek of St. Giles's for that of Athens, and have even found myself tracing Bill Gibbons and his Bull in the "taurum tibi, pulcher Apollo," of Virgil. My Printer, too, has been affected with similar hallucinations. The Mil. Glorios. of Plautus he converted, the other day, into a Glorious Mill; and more than once, when I have referred to Tom. prim. or Tom. quart. he has substituted Tom Crib and Tom Oliver in their places. Notwithstanding all this, the work will be found, I trust, tolerably correct; and as an Analysis of its opening Chapters may not only gratify the impatience of the Fanciful World, but save my future reviewers some trouble, it is here given as succinctly as possible.

The favour into which this branch of Gymnastics, called Pugilism (from the Greek už, as the author of Boxiana learnedly observes,) has risen with the Public of late years, and the long season of tranquillity which we are now promised by the new Millennarians of the Holy League, encourage us to look forward with some degree of sanguineness to an order of things, like that which PLATO and TOM CRIB have described (the former in the motto prefixed to this work, and the latter in the interesting Memorial that follows,) when the Milling shall succeed to the Military system, and THE FANCY will be the sole arbitress of the trifling disputes of mankind. From a wish to throw every possible light on the history of an Art, which is destined ere long to have such influence upon the affairs of the world, I have, for some-Amycus, a Royal Amateur of THE FANCY, who time past, been employed in a voluminous and elaborate work, entitled "A Parallel between Ancient and Modern Pugilism," which is now in a state of considerable forwardness, and which I hope to have ready for delivery to subscribers on the morning of the approaching fight between Randal and Martin. Had the elegant author of Boxiana extended his inquiries to the ancient state of the art, I should not

Chap. I. contains some account of the ancient inventors of pugilism, Epeus and Amycus.-The early exploit of the former, in milling his twin-brother, in ventre matris, and so getting before him into the world, as related by Eustathius on the authority of Lycophron.

challenged to the scratch all strangers that landed on

1 To wander through THE FANCY's bowers,
To gather new, unheard-of flowers,
And wreathe such garlands for my brow
As Poet never wreathed till now!

2 The residence of the Nonpareil, Jack Randall,-where, the day after his last great victory, he held a levee, which was attended, of course, by all the leading characters of St. Giles's.

his shore. The Combat between him and Pollux to make his adversary give in; which interesting cir(who, to use the classic phrase, served him out,) as cumstance forms the subject of one of the Pictures of described by Theocritus,' Apollonius Rhodius, and Philostratus, Icon. lib. 2. imag. 6.—and above all, Valerius Flaccus.-Respective merits of these three that renowned Son of the Fancy, Melancomas, the descriptions.-Theocritus by far the best; and, alto- favourite of the Emperor Titus, in whose praise Dio gether, perhaps, the most scientific account of a Box- Chrysostomus has left us two elaborate orations.'— ing-match in all antiquity.-Apollonius ought to have The peculiarities of this boxer discussed-his power done better, with such a model before him; but, evi- of standing with his arms extended for two whole dently not up to the thing (whatever Scaliger may days, without any rest (duvaros nv, says Dio, kaι dvo say,) and his similes all slum. Valerius Flaccus, the ήμερας έξης μενειν ανατετακως τας χειρας, και ουκ αν first Latin Epic Poet after Virgil, has done ample είδεν ουδεις ύφεντα αυτον η αναπαυσάμενον ώσπερ ειωjustice to this Set-to; feints, facers, and ribbers, all @aol. Orat. 28,) by which means he wore out his described most spiritedly.

adversary's bottom, and conquered without either giving or taking. This bloodless system of milling, which trusted for victory to patience alone, has afforded to the orator, Themistius, a happy illustration of the peaceful conquests which he attributes to the

Chap. 2. proves that the Pancratium of the ancients, as combining boxing and wrestling, was the branch of their Gymnastics that most resembled our modern Pugilism; cross-buttocking (or what the Greeks called Emperor Valens.2 ὑποσκελίζειν) being as indispensable an ingredient as nobbing, flooring, etc. etc.-Their ideas of a stand-up fight were very similar to our own, as appears from the το παιειν αλληλους ΟΡΘΟΣΤΑΔΗΝ of Lucian,

περι Γυμνας.

Chap. 5. notices some curious points of similarity between the ancient and modern FANCY.-Thus, Theocritus, in his Milling-match, calls Amycus “a

glutton," which is well known to be the classical phrase at Moulsey-Hurst, for one who, like Amycus, takes a deal of punishment before he is satisfied.

Chap. 3. examines the ancient terms of THE FANCY, as given by Pollux (Onomast. ad. fin. lib. 3.) and Πως γαρ δη Διος υἱος ΑΔΗΦΑΓΟΝ ανδρα καθείλεν. others; and compares them with the modern.-For In the same Idyl the poet describes the Bebrycian example, ayxɛv, to throttle-λvyilav, evidently the hero as λnyais μεvwv, "drunk with blows," which origin of our word to lug-aykupiev, to anchor a is precisely the language of our Fancy bulletins; for fellow (see Grose's Greek Dictionary, for the word example, "Turner appeared as if drunk, and made a anchor)-Spaσoεiv (perf. pass. dɛdpaypal,) from which heavy lolloping hit," etc. etc.-The resemblance in is derived to drag; and whence, also, a flash etymo- the manner of fighting is still more striking and importlogist might contrive to derive Spaua, drama, Thespis ant. Thus we find CRIB's favourite system of milling having first performed in a drag. This chapter will on the retreat, which he practised so successfully in be found highly curious; and distinguished, I flatter myself, by much of that acuteness which enabled a late illustrious Professor to discover that our English "Son of a Gun" was nothing more than the Пais Tuvns (Dor.) of the Greeks.

his combats with Gregson and Molyneux, adopted by Alcidamus, the Spartan, in the battle between him and Capaneus, so minutely and vividly described by Statius, Thebaid. lib. 6.

sed non, tamen, immemor artis, Adversus fugit, et fugiens tamen ictibus obstat. Chap. 4. enumerates the many celebrated Boxers And it will be only necessary to compare together of antiquity.-Eryx (grandson of the Amycus already two extracts from Boxiana and the Bard of Syracuse mentioned,) whom Hercules is said to have finished to see how similar in their manœuvres have been the in style.—Phrynon, the Athenian General, and Auto-millers of all ages--"The Man of Colour, to prevent lycus, of whom, Pausanias tells us, there was a statue being fibbed, grasped tight hold of Carter's hand"— in the Prytaneum-The celebrated Pugilist, who, at (Account of the Fight between Robinson the Black the very moment he was expiring, had game enough and Carter,) which, (translating Aλalopevos, "the Lily

1 Idyl. 22.

2 Argonaut. lib. 2.

3 Lib. 4.

4 Except one, BOUтUTOS oix, which is good, and which Fawkes, therefore, has omitted. The following couplet from his translation is, however, fanciful enough:

"So from their batter'd cheeks loud echoes sprung; Their dash'd teeth crackled and their jaw-bones rung." 5 Emicat hic, dextramque parat, dextram que minatur Tyndarides; redit huc oculis et pondere Bebryx Sic ratus: ille autem celeri rapit ora sinistra. Lib. 4. v. 290.

white,"") is almost word for word with the following:
Ητοι όγε δεξαι τι λιλαιόμενος μεγα έργον
Σκαιῇ μεν σκαιην Πολυδεύκεος ελλαβε χειρα.

Theocrit.

1 The following words, in which Dio so decidedly prefers the art of the Boxer to that of the soldier would perhaps have been a still more significant motto to Mr. Crib's Memorial than that which I have chosen from Plato: Ka καθόλου δε εγωγε τούτο της εν τοις πολέμοις αρετης προκρίνω.

2 Ην τις επι των προγόνων των ημετέρων πυκτης ανήρ,

Μελαγκομας ονομα αυτω ........ ουτός ουδενα πωποτε We have here a feint and a facer together. The manner τρωσας, ουδε πατάξας, μονη τη στάσει και τη των χειρών in which Valerius Flaccus describes the multitude of black-αναστασει παντας αποκναίε τους αντιπάλους.-Themist. guards that usually assemble on such occasions, is highly Orat. ε Espuns. poetical and picturesque: he supposes them to be Shades from Tartarus :

3 Kent's Weekly Despatch.

4 Yet, not unmindful of his art, he hies,
But turns his face, and combats as he flies.

Lewis. 5 A manœuvre, generally called Tom Owen's stop. 6 The Flash term for a negro, and also for a chimney

sweeper.

Chap. 6. proves, from the jawing-match and Set-to and between Ulysses and Irus in the 18th Book of the between Ulysses and the Beggar in the 18th Book of Odyssey-the Combat of Dares and Entellus in the the Odyssey, that the ancients (notwithstanding their 5th Æneid-of Capaneus and Alcidamus, already reSixaιa paxovтwv, or Laws of Combatants, which, Ar-ferred to, in Statius, and of Achelous and Hercules temidorus says in his chap. 33. пeрe Movoμax. ex- in the 9th Book of the Metamorphoses; though this tended to pugilism as well as other kinds of combats) last is rather a wrestling-bout than a mill, resembling did not properly understand fair play; as Ulysses is that between Hercules' and Antæus in the 4th Book here obliged to require an oath from the standers-by, of Lucan. The reader who is anxious to know how that they will not deal him a sly knock, while he is I have succeeued in this part of my task, will find, as cleaning out the mumper— a specimen, my translation from Virgil in the Appendix to the present work, No. 2.

Μη τις επ' Ιρω ηρα φέρων εμε χειρι παχειῇ Πληξη ατασθαλίων, τουτω δε με ιφι δαμασσῃ. Chap. 10. considers the various arguments for and against Pugilism, advanced by writers ancient and Chap. 7. describes the Cestus, and shows that the modern.—A strange instance of either ignorance or Greeks, for mere exercise of sparring, made use of wilful falsehood in Lucian, who, in his Anacharsis, muffles or gloves, as we do, which they called opaipat. has represented Solon as one of the warmest advoThis appears particularly from a passage in Plato, de cates for Pugilism, whereas we know from Diogenes Leg. lib. 8, where, speaking of training, he says, it is Laertius that that legislator took every possible pains only by frequent use of the gloves that a knowledge of to discourage and suppress it.-Alexander the Great, stopping and hitting can be acquired. The whole too, tasteless enough to prohibit THE FANCY (Plupassage is curious, as proving that the Divine Plato tarch in Vit.)-Galen in many parts of his works, but was not altogether a novice in the Fancy lay.'-Kai particularly in the Hortat. ad Art. condemns the ὡς εγγυτατα του ὁμοιου, αντι ἱμαντων ΣΦΑΙΡΑΣ αν practice as enervating and pernicious.2-On the other περιεδουμεθα, ὅπως αἱ ΠΛΗΓΑΙ τε και αἱ ΤΩΝ ΠΛΗ- side, the testimonies in its favour, numerous.The ΓΩΝ ΕΥΛΑΒΕΙΑΙ διεμελετωντο εις τι δυνατον ἱκανως: greater number of Pindar's Nemean Odes written in -These muffles were called by the Romans sacculi, praise of pugilistic champions;-and Isocrates, though as we find from Trebellius Pollio, who, in describing he represents Alcibiades as despising the art, yet aca triumph of Gallienus, mentions the "Pugiles sac-knowledges that its professors were held in high esticulis non veritate pugilantes."

and, to prove that the moderns are not behind-hand with the ancients in this respect, cites the following instance recorded in Boxiana:-" George Madox, in this battle, was seconded by his sister, Grace, who, upon its conclusion, tossed up her hat in defiance, and offered to fight any man present;"-also the memorable challenge, given in the same work, (vol. i. p. 300,) which passed between Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkinson of Clerkenwell, and Miss Hannah Hyfield of Newgate-Market--another proof that the English may boast many a dolce guerriera" as well as the Greeks.

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mation through Greece, and that those cities, where victorious pugilists were born, became illustrious from that circumstance;3 just as Bristol has been rendered immortal by the production of such heroes as Tom Crib, Harry Harmer, Big Ben, Dutch Sam, etc. etc.-Ammianus Marcellinus tells us how much that religious and pugnacious Emperor, Constantius, delighted in the Set-tos, " pugilum vicissim se concidentium perfusorumque sanguine."-To these are added still more flattering testimonies; such as that of Isidorus, who calls Pugilism "virtus," as if par excellence; and the yet more enthusiastic tribute with which Eustathius reproaches the Pagans of having enrolled their Boxers in the number of the Gods. -In short, the whole chapter is full of erudition and

1 Though wrestling was evidently the favourite sport of Hercules, we find him, in the Alcestes, just returned from a Bruising-match; and it is a curious proof of the superior consideration in which these arts were held, that for the lighter exercises, he tells us, horses alone were the reward, while to conquerors in the higher games of pugilism and wrestling, whole herds of cattle (with sometimes a young lady into the bargain) were given as prizes.