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 CONTRIVANCE should first premise, previous to the time of the coxTrIvaNCE, St. George on his second visit to this country, what with the expenses at the time, living in extravagance at Grenier's Hotel, Jermyn Street (so few then in London), which was as fashionable as the Clarendon, at the time surrounded with fencers of all descriptions, amateurs, masters, flatterers (many depending on his liberality), fiddlers included, their continual reception at his table, and that profusion of Champagne, Burgundy, &c.-so reduced, and not able to continue his prodigality. Not a doubt existed but Goddard's proposal (with the expectation of promoting this business) that the money received at the door (tickets half a guinea each), and the money of those who had previously, out of curiosity, witlh their guineas visited him for a ticket, he (St. George) was to possess the whole, well accounts for what followed ; the hits were to be equal, making it appear their abilities were the same. The day fixed, and the room crowded, "impatient for the fray." Myself a spectator, I trust, professionally speaking, my opinion may have some little weight, however I might have bowed to St. George's superior judgment. Not one of those subterfuges, or false attacks, which I have taught during fifty years, the fausse attaque to discover your adversary's intentions, that instruction which emanated from my father and the first fencing-master at Paris, it appeared to me St. George, from the commencing of the assaut, never once adopted; on the contrary, suffered Goddard to stretch out his arms, instead of defending himself. Had he waited but half a second, other resources might have deranged his opponent, the fraissement, coup de fouet, etc., which he avoided, and, to my utter astonishment, the umpires decided the fencing match-Hits equal-lartie égale. St. George neglected, on 13