Mean Temperature 58·70.
[207] The Times, June 8, 1826.
[208] Philos. Trans.
June 8.
Figg, the Prize Fighter.
A printed [advertisement] from this “early master” in the “noble art of self-defence,” in answer to a challenge from the anciently-noted Sutton, with the challenge itself, being before the editor in the shape of a small hand-bill, printed at the time wherein they “flourished,” it is submitted verbatim, as the first specimen in these pages of the manner wherein these self-styled heroes announced their exhibitions “for the benefit of the public.”
G. R.
