''The Statesman'' newspaper for Tuesday December 27th 1808, at page 2, foot of the fourth column, a report of a ''Christmas Boxing Match'', the previo

''The Statesman'' newspaper for Tuesday December 27th 1808, at page 2, foot of the fourth column, a report of a ''Christmas Boxing Match'', the previous day, i.e. a boxing match on Boxing Day the 26th The fight between Morris and Kingston, described as ''two second-rate candidates of Caleb Baldwin's Academy'', for the best purse that could be collected in the neighbourhood of Hampstead. The bout lasted ten minutes and the victor, Kingston, was conducted to Westminster by a party of ladies in triumph who declared they would ''spend the winning-money of two guineas in rounds of gin.'' not illustrated