[14]. The place where Tom Belcher defeated Dogherty, and which has ever since been called after the former celebrated pugilist. See Belcher (Tom), vol. i., p. 160.
[15]. Our friend the historian of “Boxiana,” here makes a sad mess of it. The Victory was not at Aboukir Bay at all; Nelson’s ship at the battle of the Nile (Aboukir) was the Vanguard. Every schoolboy knows the hero died off the coast of Spain, about sixty miles west of Cadiz, October 21, 1805, after the “crowning victory” off Cape Trafalgar.—Ed. Pugilistica.
[16]. Pierce Egan makes, reason unknown, this man’s name “Cohen.” He was afterwards beaten by Davis (the navigator), and is rightly indexed as Coyne in “Fistiana.”
[17]. Respecting the division of the “gate-money,” Mr. Jackson’s opinion was, “that all moneys taken upon the ground, in point of right and justice, belong to both of the combatants, who are the primary cause of the multitude assembling, and therefore ought to be fairly divided between them, without any reservation whatever.”
[18]. This, as we have already observed, would not be allowed by modern practice, and is forbidden by the new Rules of the Ring, Arts. 7 and 9.—Ed. Pugilistica.
[19]. A town once celebrated for cocking, pronounced by the natives “Wedgebury.”
[20]. Mr. James Soares.
[21]. Instruments used in gas-works.
[22]. This is the account in “Boxiana,” and faute de mieux we must adopt it. We suspect the much-vaunted Sir Daniel was simply a big clumsy “rough,” despite his defeat of Old Tom Oliver, who was a game boxer, but “slow as a top,” as Spring often in a friendly way described him. Cooper, too, had already been beaten by Oliver, and was in anything but good condition when he met Donnelly.
[23]. By the New Rules Donnelly would here have lost the fight, as Burke did in his contest with Bendigo, on February 7, 1839.—Ed. Pugilistica.