[24]. The writer never enters into the private quarrels of pugilists. His only anxiety is to represent every circumstance connected with the prize ring with accuracy and fidelity. He entertains no prejudices, neither has he any partialities to gratify.
[25]. Tom Shuffleton, speaking of a female, says, “Oh! I see; she must be the sixteenth Mrs. Shuffleton.” We never ascertained whether Mr. Donnelly placed his ladies in numerical order; it is, however, certain that he was a very gallant Milesian.
[26]. Pugilistic Champion of Ireland, we presume.—Ed.
[27]. In Dublin.
[28]. Poor Dan kept a public-house—Lord rest his sowl.
[29]. Carter’s ring career really closed on the 4th of May, 1819, when his pretensions were disposed of by the science of Tom Spring. See Life of Spring, Vol. II., Chapter I.
[30]. Sam Robinson, the Black, was born in 1778, in New York. He was a strong and courageous nigger, and after beating Crockey, beat Butcher, on March 16, 1810, at Coombe Warren, for a purse of £10. He was then beaten by Carter (twice) as here recorded. He beat Stephenson, the Black, at Coombe Wood, the 28th of May, 1816, making his third battle in three months. A hasty match was again made with Carter, and Robinson was a second time defeated, June 20, 1816. Sutton, the Black (see Appendix), challenged Robinson at Doncaster Races, and beat him, September 26, 1816, for a purse, in thirty-six minutes. In December, Robinson beat a big Yorkshireman, named Taylor, at Ferrybridge, in nineteen minutes, for a purse of ten guineas. He was next defeated by George Cooper (see Cooper, vol. i., p. 365), and quickly polished off. Fangill, a Scotch boxer, and a Waterloo man, was matched against Robinson, and they fought at Shellock, in Ayrshire, June 25, 1817, when Robinson proved the victor in forty minutes, after a gallant fight. His last battle was with Dent, a north-countryman, whom he beat, December 5, 1817, near the renowned Gretna Green, famed for other ring matches. He for some time attended sparring at the Fives Court, and when we lose sight of him he had entered the service of a sporting nobleman.
[31]. Mr. John Jackson.
[32]. This Green was an Essex man, who, having defeated one Wyke, at Barnsley, in Yorkshire, for a stake of £60 (April 2, 1819), and subsequently Harris, a protégé of Josh. Hudson, at Dagenham Breach, Essex, March 13, 1820 (in “Fistiana” the date is wrongly given as March 1, 1829), had crept into favour with himself. He was snuffed out by David as we here find.
[33]. Mr. Soares.