The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-06 00:00:00

DUEL IN AMERICA.

An affair of honour took place at New Orleans on the
18th ult. between two citizens, growing out of a private
misunderstanding. One fire was exchanged with pistols,
but no effect being produced, they bad recourse, according
to agreement, to the small sword. The affair ended in the
death of one of the parties, he having received his antago•
nist's sword in his vitals.

The names of the parties were Theodore Preval, aged
19 and Zephir Canonge. and originated in an affront
having been offered to the father of the former by Cationge.
The following notice of the death of Preval is published in
the New Orleans Papers :
" The friends of the family of Mr. Preval—the friends of virtue
and justice—are informed that Mr. Theodore Preval, aged nine.
teen years, terminated his career yesterday afternoon, at four
o'clock, by a frightful fatality. His corpse will be exposed at
Mr. B. Marigny's, Fauxbourg Marigny, from whence the convoy
will start for the church."
Over the grave of young Prevail a diacounte was pronounced by
3lr. Pierre Landreux, who alluded in warm language to the
bravery and filial piety of the youth, who " felt his hlood heated
with indignation at the sight of his father being cruelly outraged
by .a despicable man, dishonoured for a long time in the public
opinion." The address was concluded by the following anathema
upon Preval's murderer, which, the Loaisimus Courier observes,
was unanimously repeated by all the persons present:—
" For us, Gentlemen, who sigh over this grave in which the
remains of our young friend repose, let us all swear, in parting
with him, to burthen for ever his murderer with the weight of our
contempt, to exclude him forever from the bosom of our society
and to abandon him without pity to the torments of remorse—,
swear it !"

DUNKIRK, SEPT. 4.

trzom A COARICSPONDENT.I

I have just seen a gentleman who arrived this Morning
from Dunkirk, which place he left entirely on account of
an endemic distemper or fever raging there, in consequence,
as it is supposed, of the state of the water. My informant
states that between forty and fifty persons were daily falling
victims to it.

TUESDAY, SEPT. S.
A Sun. ox Frar.--Yesterday morning, between nine
and ten o'clock, whilst proceeding to London by the Dart
steam-packet, (which, by-the-by, was crowded to excess,
having between three and four hundred persons on board)
when about two miles distant from the Reculvers, we per-
ceived a ship on fire, which we learnt was an Exeter trader.
She was surrounded by boats, rendering her every assist.
ance, and it was a most beautiful, as well as a most grati-
fying sight, to observe all the craft, smacks, &c. &c., pro-
ceeding to her assistance in full sail, each vying with the
other as to who should lend the first helping hand. It bad
the appearance of a fleet in miniature, so many had assam-
bled to assist in rescuing their fellow-creatures from .the
perils of the two elements. She burnt to the edge of .the
water, when she went down bow foremost; no lives were
lost, and it is hoped, from the number of boats, &e. sear
her, that very little of her cargo will have been destroyed.