The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-10 00:00:00

TR. LATE DUELS AT MADRID.

It will be Immo from the letter of our Paris cur-
issosadest, that the Emperor et the French hiss bes•owed
a mark of his confidence on M. de Turpt, now suffering
from the wooed remised is the duel which he fought at
Madrid with M. Soule pore, nomiaating biw • grand °Seer
of the bibs of Honour. •
H. Ewalt, Ala, has addressed a letter to the Bayonne
paper, which contained what he coaeiden an unfair accooct
if the eiresinstssers of his duel with the Duke of Albs. He

writes :
" Ton say that my quarrel with the Duke of Alba took
La rise in some remarks, in some pleasantries upon the
toilette of Madame Soule, exchaeged between the Links id
Alba and the Ambassador of France ; and you spank
with a sort of solemnity of the very particular interest whirl
has been taken in the affair by the Emperor of the Freueh.
It may well be that, in spite of the aversion which your
correspondents seem to have fur the truth, it has happened
to them in this ease at least, and no doubt through lead-
vertenee, to render it an involuntary homage. What
they tell you in ibis respect has, indeed, obtarned some
credit here, and at any rate, gives a determinate ohs-
neer to the causes and to the object of the offence done
to say mother. But this point I obandon to you, seeing
that it cannot cause to me the least anxiety. As re-
garde all except the two amnions of which I have
just spoken, I repeat there is not one word of truth in
what your correspondents make you say. It was from
the month of the Duke of Alba alone that the remark
reached my ears which caused me to demand of him
satisfaction by a stern and peremptory letter. This re-
mark. you say, was °sly an innocent pleasantry upon
the toilette of Mme. Sou:i, the eccentric taste of whose
i dress had been noticed by the whole company. This is
a version which comes too late alter the one of which
you have made yourself the complaisant interpreter.
The dress of my mother had nothing at all to do with
the insult which was thrown upon her. Her toilette, which
consisted of a dress of velvet from the bands of Ifdlle.
Palmyre, was that of a woman of taste and of good society,
who knows how to unite that regard which the ezigenciet
of the world command with the respect which a lady owes
to herself."
H. Sould then proceeds to contradict some statements
regarding the letters that passed between the duke and
himself, and then proceeds:
"Yon say that I caused myself to be waited for on the
ground, after having demanded and obtained a delay of
48 hours. I did net demand, and consequently did not
obtain, any delay. I arrived on the ground at the same
time with the Duke of Alba, and at the place of meeting

eve minutes before the hour agreed upon.
" You say that I was followed by six carriages full of
Yankees who reside at Madrid. I was followed only by
one servant and by the ostriage which contained my father,
my physician, ene of my friends, Free& like yourself, 1
and one American, the only American who resides at
Madrid aside from the perashitel of the legation. These
were all left at a quarter of • league from the place of

wombat.
ts Yoo give me twenty-three yeah of age—l am hardly
twenty-two ; but you take care not to say that the Duke
of Alba is thirty-six, that he had many years of Manic-
tion.with the sword, and that he had twenty-three days
to exercise himself after having received my challenge,
which he declined by explanations ample and satisfactory,
and Won sending me his, which I accepted without hesi-
tation and at the instant.
"You say that my hand tired quick under the weight of
a sword, which I found too heavy. The swords were heavy,
it is true •, but it was not at my instance that they were ex-
changed for other lighter ones, which the Duke of Alba
had brought with him.
You say that I was wounded. It is an error ; I have
not received the slighest scratch. In fine, you speak of
promises which, you say, I have made te give the lie to the
English press, and to barn before witnesses the letter which
the Duke of Alba bad written to me. I was incapable of
'slaking, and I have not made, promises of this kind, nor of
any other kind. I had nothing to do with the English press,
which is altogether foreign to mc.
"The Duke of Alba has taken care ant to lay upon me
any the slightest requisition, well knowing what account I
should have made of it. Besides, such a requisition with I
respect to the letter which he had written to me woad bine
served only to mats the impression that it might
semething injurious to hie character.
"And you crown your recital by a description of the
ossabat, which nipessients me as having been, the whole
time of its duration at the mercy of the Duke of Alba. end
warmly able to hold out my sword.
In order to confound the detractors, who bide them
solves behind you, I have only to place under the eyes of
your readers the amount which has been given of the com-
bat by our seconds—that is to say, those of the Duke of
Alba and mine. Will you, sir, rectify the falsehoods which
your onrespondents have made you to utter? lam unwil.
ling to doubt it, but if you refuse 1 shall find the means to
unmask and to brand the infamous calumniators of whom
yen have made yourself the echo and the gateman.
" I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
" Nahvih Soohs."
The following is the memorandum of the seconds referred
to by H. Soule :
" The undersigned seconds and witnesses of the encounter
which took place in the afternoon ot Wednesday, the 14th
inst., between his excellency the Duke of Ann arid H.
Nelvil Boul6, do hereby declare that the same commenced
at 20 minutes before 4 of that afternoon, and was suspended
at 10 minutes before 4, and, being renewed five minutes
later, was again suspended past 4 o'clock. The under-
signed having peoceind that the fatigue of both the com-
batants proceeded from the bad state of the ground, and
still more from the great weight of the Spanish aeons
with which they fought, changed these for other lighter
saw, with which the combat, being again renewed
at 4 o'clock end 10 min., was connected until the under-
signed thought themselves obliged to give a new rest
to the combatants, which was repeated three times more,
and for the space of five minutes each. As in the last but
one of the pauses, there bad been an occasion in which
the combatants drew near, and addressed to each other
011ertnes words, the seconds believed that the time had
=Oa OD see if any means could be found to put an end
le lie dead with honour to both parties, taking advantage
vest favourable incident, and although this could not be
dl . there, In the following pause, insisting in that idea,
20.80180811011 Posetwing ups the pewee itself a escort-
- 81111 be www Iliewilandhiewe, equally ho-
monsab to boll
"L onnesqueace this6l.the endeeelooll speed tmme-
diatelyirdeclare definitely terminated Ili mit at,
enaul-
ea---. its canoes and destroying ian the writings
geed pased between the combatants during the whole
Nam etas agar.
sc MAIM, Dee. 15, 1853.
"Tolman General D. Jose de la Concha, Conde de Pu-
s/owe, Col. L. Minns, H. T. Perry."

THE MURDER AT ACTON.

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

Kr. Waltley, the coroner for the western division
of Middlesex, resumed yesterday, at the Goldsmiths' Arms,
SA Anton, touching the death of Richard MwJhurst, a
hid, awl 14 years, whose body was found lying naked at
the beam of a deep ditch on the 24th of December, in a
Isar biding from Riot Acton to Friar's-pith., under Cu,
suoilimes which leave little doubt that a murder of the
Mang dewasear he. boss committed.
fflais IMMO ditched to the cue seems to increase, and
ethos the last Wag of the jury government has offered a
award of 1001. Waal person giving mach information as
thall lead to the sinvistion of the perpetrators of the mar-
e", and Mr. Isogoolit Theithassl. with Sergeant Williams,
of the detective pale, Sesumndiard, in ecejanstion with
Sergeant Kathy, of the T division, have boon ssai-
&thusly promenade, the inquiry in their own pendia, way.
Siam the last day Dr. Glover, of 21, Great Corm-wrest,
had made an analysis of the stomach and intentinee, and
that examination having been completed, the evidence per-
taining to it was the principal haters in the day's pro-
seeding..
Dr. Robert Mortimer Glover, Lecturer en Chemistry at
the litq al Free Hospital, Gesy's-ina-road, said that he
esamined the stomach Ant, and found it very meth con-
gested; it was empty, with the exoeptics of a littly bloody
MUM He also foiled abundant proof of the undoubted
passassa of inflammation, but could act dad the slightest
Moe of either arsenic or any other poisomous Wotan's.
Ulna were found ease spots of elusion hotweee the cuticle
seals and the membrane below.
Owner—From the external and Internal appearance of
, are Toe of (vision that he died of sold and emir
With btia.a ?
Me. Nave—Thu same appearances might have been
pmeased by poises. I examined the stoutish, the ?ato-
lls'st mad indeed all the organs, most particularly for
Om, bat I was tumble to find any ; looking at the body
thilmsally and externally, 1 am more inclined to think that
dis key died of disease produced by cold and starvation,
uh &Mb was greatly athelasted by the external vio-
lists glide was visible.
Mr. Funds, tk• surgeon, then corrected a point la his
otaidemar vela the last occasion, which was purely of
Miblal Mare, when
The Ouster asked if that wss all the evidence, and
laving waived an answer in the affirmative, the room was
I cleared of strangers, in order to give the jury an oppor-
tasity to consider their verdict.
After some time groat in consultation, the door was
opened.
The Coroner said that the jury had come to the deter-
mination to postpone the proceedings for some time, far the
purpose of seeing whether the amused party should not be
brought before them, and he would at once himself see
Lord Palmerston upon that subject.
The jury and traceless were then formally bound over
for farther appeanoce, and the proceedings terminated.

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