Names: Hunt, Langan, Probert, Spring, Thurtell, Weare. Transcribed from the 22 January 1824 edition of The Enniskillen Chronicle & Erne Packet newspaper, by permission of The British Library: (From the Belfast News-Letter.) We view the pugilistic combat betwixt Spring and Langan as naturally connected in idea with the fate of the inhuman miscreants who butchered Weare. Hunt, Thurtell, and Probert, were inveterate gamblers, and fond amateurs of the execrable art of Pugilism. Hence, step by step, they were led to a perpetration of deep and deeper crimes--till they now close their career in murder--and the avenging laws of their country either doom them to the gallows or consign them to infamy. Of all the species of gambling, that connected with Pugilism is the most detestable--for it seeks to derive profit and pleasure from the tortures inflicted by one human being on another. In the pugilistic arena, Man is hunted on Man by sordid gamesters, as bull-dog is hallooed on bull-dog by butchers' boys. The hearts of the combatants and their associates are so hardened by habitual cruelty, and their intellects so debased by their follies, that they mistake infamy for glory, and brutality for valour. Let it be remembered, that our pugilistic gladiators have no peculiar cause of quarrel with one another--they do not act under the natural impulse of passion, excited by any violence or injury which either of the parties have previously sustained from his opponent. No--they come coolly to the ring through a sordid love of money, and a base ambition to attain a dishonourable pre-eminence in a mischievous and diabolical profession. Pugilistic schools are the peculiar disgrace of England. Heretofore Ireland has been almost free from so vile a stigma. In this respect, our very peasants may look down with contempt on many of the British Nobility, as they have kept themselves free from so foul a stain.--We are therefore grieved when we see any of them descend to the level of those English Lords and Gentlemen who countenance or who engage in such combats. =========================