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met on October 14, 1807, in Six-mile Bottom, Newmarket, 

 to contend for 200 guineas. Thirty-six rounds were 

 foug-lit with equal g-ameness on either part, and wdth 

 almost equal punishment ; hut Gully got the last rally, 

 and another knock-down blow rendered Gregson totally 

 incapable. It was, however, a very near thing, and natu- 

 2*ally enough the beaten man was anything but satisfied. 

 Another match was consequently made for two hundred a 

 side, which was decided on May 10, in Sir John Sebright's 

 Park, in Hertfordshire, but after nothing like the struggle 

 which signalised the first meeting of the men, as Gully 

 from the first had it all his own way, his science and 

 -coolness completely out-generalling the wild rushes of his 

 adversary. Seldom has any such an event attracted more 

 interest, and on the Monday before the fight the good 

 people of Bedfordshire, when they saw the crowds of 

 strangers invading them, fancied the French had landed, 

 and called out the volunteers ! At the conclusion of this 

 battle Gully publicly announced his intention of never 

 fighting again, his left arm having received a permanent 

 injury in his first and more formidable encounter with 

 Gregson. Boxiana thus sums up his merits as a boxer : 

 '' Gully as a pugilist will long be remembered by the 

 amateurs of pugilism, as peculiarly entitled to their respect 

 and consideration ; and if his battles were not so numerous 

 as many other celebrated professors have been, they were 

 contested with decision, science, and bottom, rarely 

 equalled, and perhaps never excelled, and justly entitled 

 him to the most honourable mention in the records of 

 boxing. His practice in the art, it was well known, had 

 been very confined, and his theoretical knowledge of the 

 science could not have been very extensive, from the short 

 period he had entered the lists as a boxer ; but his genius 



