Figg, the prize-fighter, who in another part of the print is making his triumphal entry on a blind horse, and brandishing his sword in defiance, was a native of Thame in Oxfordshire, and attained so high a celebrity as a master of the "noble science of defence," that we find him praised in the _Tatler_, _Guardian_, _Craftsman_, and almost all the periodical works of the time. The mezzotinto portrait of him by Faber represents him exactly as here--with a bald head and open collar. His own school was in Oxford Road, but he was probably accustomed to exhibit his skill at fairs, or he may be introduced here merely as a well-known character. The Bear Garden, a famous place for prize-fighting, anciently stood in this neighbourhood, and had then been but recently demolished. The manner of the combatants at this place, parading the streets previous to their encounters, as described by a French traveller in 1672, and the way in which Figg is represented, strictly agree. "Commonly," says he, "when any fencing-masters belonging to the Bear Garden are desirous of showing their courage and their great skill, they issue mutual challenges; and before they engage, parade the town on horseback, with drums and trumpets sounding, to inform the public there is a challenge between two brave masters of the science of defence, and that the battle will be fought on such a day." Figg's public challenges were the very acme of bombast. This extraordinary character died in the year 1734. Miller, the tall man, whose effigies are exhibited on a show-cloth, was a native of Saxony, and probably came into England in the reign of George I. This gigantic personage was eight feet high, the stature, within a few inches, of the late O'Brien. He died in 1734, aged 60. Boitard engraved a portrait of him the year before his death.