The fight was proclaim’d, and some money put down,
To see who’d best claim to their country’s renown.
Cribb came to the scratch, like a hero, to meet
His man, but he back’d out;—now wasn’t that Neat?
“AN OLD MILLER.”
[143]. This has since been done, as is shown in our engraving.
[144]. This fight is omitted from “Fistiana,” and the name of Burrows given as Molineaux’s first opponent.
[145]. Pierce Egan makes it “Sturton” Island in this and other places.
[146]. This is the newspaper report. Pierce Egan, in his diffuse life of Richmond, passes it over entirely, until he comes to Richmond’s victory (in August, 1809) over Maddox, when he alludes to it as “turn-up five years previously.”
[147]. Jack Holmes was for many years a well known public character. In “Fistiana” he is described as beaten by Tom (Paddington) Jones in 1786. This was another Holmes, not “the Coachman.” The latter’s only recorded battles are, that with Tom Tough (Blake), and that with Richmond reported above.