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PirAL b UEL.
A fatal duel took place on Wednesday morning.
Colonel Montgoinery mounted his celebrated rey
mare, and actornpanied by a Newfoundland dog,'
named Wolf, set off to take his ride. After visiting
the different streets of fashionable resort, the Colonel
took a turn in Hyde Park, where unfortunately en-
lonel Montgomery's dog quarrelled and fought with
a dog belonging to Captain Macnamara, of the
Royal Navy, an officer as amiable in private life as
highly distinguished in the service of his country.
The colonel alighted, and it. may be presumed,
frem a wish to correJ his own dog, mad.: a lash cf
his %ship at him, but happened to bit the other dog.
The Captain, in a tone of ardour, demanded the rea-
son, and a very warm altercation ensued.
A place of meeting at Cb.,a/Z-Farm was instantly
appointed, and instantly repaired to by both, having
previously ordered their savants to follow them,
each with a case of pistols, upon pretence that
they were going to fire at a mark. It was merely
by tccident, and not from the etiquette of duelling,
that they were accompanied by Sir William Heir,
who had himself lost an arm in a duel with Sir Mar-
cus Somerville about seven years ago at Athlone.
The dispute took place at five o'clock, and the
parties were on the fatal ground before seven.—
On getting out of the hackney-coaches in which
they went, they walked six paces from each other,
in opposite di-es!tions, and then turning round, fires
exaCtly at the same instant. They both fell, but
the Colonel never rose again ; the ball entered his
right breast, and went through his heart. He was
taken into Chalk-Farm house.

Captain Macnarnara received a ball in the lower
part of the abdomen, but in an oblique direaion, so
as not to penetrate the intestines, or affea any vital
part. He rose from the ground, and regaiiied his
coach. Mr. lienvisidc's attendance was immediately
procured, but his professional skill, however great,
could be cf no use to Colonel Montgomery.
. A hearse was sent yesterday by Mr. Byng. Mom,
ber for Middlesex, the brother-in-law of the de-
ceased, to Chalk-Farm, to bring away the body.
A long altercation took place between the under-
taker who was dispatched for the purpose, and Mr.
Rutherford, the-landlord of the house. The latter
refused to suffer the corpse to be removed, before
the Coroner's inquest should have pronounced their
Verdi& The undertaker produced a written order
which had been delivered at his house in Bond-
street, by order of Mr. Byng, directing him to go
with a h earse and shell immediately, and to bring away
the deceased. This order was not, however, at-
tended to by the Landlord, who refused the persons
so sent admission ; and at five o'clock the hearse
was waiting for the arrival of the Coroner. It was
not known at that hour whether the Inquest would
be held last night or this morning. Capt. Mac-
namara was brought to his lodgings at Blake's
Hotel, Jermyn-street, where he now lies danger-
ously ill. Macmanus, the Bow-street Officer, is
stationed there uaii Captain Macnarnara shall be
forthcoming, to answer the consequences of this
melancholy affair. Colonel Montgomery was also
brother of the Marchioness of Townshend, and of
the late Mrs. Ileresford. He was, a few years ago,
well known as the tkulle of the late Duke of
Hamilton, from his likeness to that Nobleman.

The last accounts from Vienna state, that their
Imperial Majesties were shortly expeaed to set out
for Prague, where they will witness the ceremony
of the znarriaf.F.e of his Royal Highness the Grand
Duke. Their eitmrsion to Italy will not t.ke place
until after their return from Pr ate. The same at-
counts mention, that the Emperor of Russia is, in
the beginning of June, to visit the Crimea, and .se-
veral other Governments.
The state of the negociation is still preserved a
profound secret. It is easy, however, to see that
things are now coming to such a crisis that it can-
not long be so. The opinion seems to gain ground,
among those whp, we think, possess the best menus
to enable them to form a cermet judgment, that
the matters in dispute will only be settled by an
appeal to arms. Several iedividuals, deeply in-
terested in the issue, have proceeded to Paris, to
wind up their transactions with that city, from a
thorough conviaion,that a delay of only a few weeks
more would expose the property they have there to
,the danger of being placed in a state of sequestra-
tion.
A few evenim

since, a womin went to visit a

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prisoner in the King's Bench ; when drinking tea
they disagreed, and arming themselves with knives
to decide the quarrel, the unfortunate wc,man re-
ceived many stabs in her body ; in the last the
knife was broken between her ribs. Medkal assist-
ance was immediately had, yet it is dottlited whe-
ther her wounds will not prove mortal. The whale.
bone in her stays broke the force of the severest
blow.
Yesterday morning the soldier who used to sweep
the road near Orchard-street, Portman-square, died
in a fit in the open street, without medical assistance,
and was eyposed to the public view for some time in
that situation. The body was afterwards taken to
St. George's Workhouse, Mount-street.
A child, sir years old, was run over by a car-
riage yesterday evening, in Berkeley-square, but
though the wheel passed over the infant's head, he
received no material injury.
At the Lancaster Assizes, which ended on Wed-
nesday sc'nnight, in the cause of Massey against
Az:lna-rota, which had excited a considerable de-
gree of interest in the town of Manchester, a verdict
was given for the Plaintil—Damages 20001.
The number of persons tried at Lancaster for
mans:asighter, it is much to be lamented, ltas in-
creased in a rapid degree within a few years:—
Nine were tried at the late assizes, four of whom
were conviaed. Two of the latter were burnt in
the hand; in order, as was emphatically observed
by the Judge (Sir GILES RooeL) that they might
catty back with them into that part of the county
from whence they came, those ignominious marks
which would shear the detestation in which. their
conduit was held by the Court.
On the trial of Thomas Fielding, for the above
offence, his Lordship, in the strongest terms, ex-
pressed his abhorrence of the inhuman manner of
fighting in the Southern part of that county. He
observed, that if a man has brought his antagonist
to the ground, and then Licks or strikes him, whilst
the vanquished person lies in a state of insensibi.
lity, such an ad of brutal ferocity constitutes the
crime of murder ; and, upon conviZliou, he would
not hesitate to leave the person for execution, with-
, out the least regret.

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FOREIGN IIITEL LICENCE.
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Apait, 4.
Yesterday a deputatti from the Elefloral Col-
lege of the Department d'Eure et Loire bad au
audience of the First Consul.
General Ilaraguay d'Hilliers, President of the
College, addressed the Firs: Consul in the follow-
ing terms:—

" CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL,
AmidA the general tribute of thanks which
the gratitude of France is eager to pay you from
all quarters, deign to accept that of the Eledoral
College of the Department d'Eure et Loire. The
Citizens who compose it, after having performed
in a short session the dies imposed upon them,
feel solicitous to manifeFt 'o you their warm and
unanimous thanks for the good you have done, and
for that which )-ou arc preparing to do. " Go,"
said they to us, " go, wait on our First Magi-
strate, that chief, the pride of the French people,
the restorer of the national glory, and of the public
morals ; still greater, if pdssible, in peace, than he
was formidable in the field of battle ; tell him that
he is the only ohis?ez of our best wishes, atd of our
fondest hopes ; lay before him the tribute of our re-
spat and of our aTeaions."
" Citizen First Consul, accept the'exrressions of
these, sentiments : entreat your happiness to this
universal affi.2:on of good rn,m, of the true friends
of the country. Fathers devote their hearts and
hau:is to your service ; they answer for those of
their children. May you long continue to enjoy the
'rood you produced, and only leave to a late pos-
terity the care of your apotheosis."
A decree of the fh'ith March has been made
which ord2rs, that provisions de•lined
for the we of the French navy at any. of the six
ports of Dunkirk, Havre, Brest, L'Orient, Reche-
fort, or Toulon, shall be entirely duty free ; that no
provisions or commodities of any sort, destined for
the use of the navy, shall be dr, any pretext, atter
their appropriation to naval uses, converted- to a
different purpose, unless in very extraordinary cases
to be particularly explained ; and that the benefit of
this exemption shall be equally extended to every
other port of the Republic, at which Government
shall at any time order an armament.

FROM TIIE FIikSCIL PAPERS.

BRUSSLLS, MARCH 31.
The town of Antwerp is to present to Madame
Bonaparte a diamond aigrette, of great .beauty. To
the Eirst Consul a grand fete will be given on the
Scheldt—in magnincence it will surpass all that
have ever been given is Belgium. The prepara-
tions at Ghent, for the First Co.laiil% recepiion, are
going forward with the greatest activity. The guard
of honour which -is forming there for the Con-
sul, have at its head several cflicers of cavairy, for-
merly in the service of the Emperor, who have left
the Austrian army to take up their residence in
their native country. At Brussels every exertion
is making to give the Chid Magistrate a suitable re-
ception. The inhabitants, in conformity to the in-
vitation of the Mayor, are painting and whitewashing
the tionts of their houses.

BRUSSELS, APRIL I.
A battalion of infantry of the garrison of Brussels,
a battalion of the garrison of Mechlin, and corps
froM that of Louvain, set out on their march two
days ago, in order to proceed towards the frontiers
of the Be avian Republic. We are assured that
other corps of troops will immediately pursue the
sane diredion. However, we learn, by letters from
Breda, that the bead-quarters of the French aux-
iliary troops, in the pay of the Batavian Republic,
now in that place, expel to receive orders to pro-
ceed to some other place. These dispositions, how-
ever, kill depend on the result of the negotiations
between the French and the English Governments.
No workmen:can be found at Brussels ; they arc all
employed tither by the constituted authorities, or by
private individuals, on the preparations making
with the utmost celerity for the reception of the
FIRST CONSUL.
STUTOABD, MARCH 25.
According to letters from Bale, a great number
of troops are expeded to march from the interior of
France to Italy; the greater part of the French troops
now in Switzerland have a similar destination. The
state of affairs betwixt England and France is said to
have determined the First Consul to assemble a
considerable body of troops in the south of Italy.
The Generals of division Klein, Pully, Chabot, and
Verdier, as well as the Generals of brigade, Flovella,
Quesnel, Milpaud, and Leoseire, have :et out for
the army of Italy. Other Generals arc also to
march to that quarter.
According to recent adv ices the Hospodar of Wal-
lachia has purchased the retreat of the troops of
Passwan Ogluw, by paying three hundred purses.
VIENNA, MARCH 2).
Their Imperial Majesties are to out in a few
days for Prague, where they are to assist at the ce-
lebration of the marriage of his Royal Highness
the Archduke Grand Duke. On their return from
Prague they propose to go to Italy. They will vi-
sit Venice, and pass from 'thence to Trieste. There
is an expectation that they will also visit Naples.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held
in the Chamber of the Guildhall ; at which were
present the Lotto M.‘vott, seven Aldermen, Re-
corder, and a great number of Commoners.
The Lo it n vox, in a very handsome speech
to the memory of PHIL4pWYAT CROWT HER, Esq.
the late Comptroller, dectmed the vacancy of that
office ; and his Lordship hppointed Thursday the
21st inst. for the elation of another person to the

same.
The Loan MAYOR laid before the Court a letter
from Admiral RANIER, stating his having commu-
nicated the Resolution of this Court, in returning
thanks to Rear-Admiral BLANKET, the Captains,
Officers, Seamen, &c. of his Majesty's ships of war,
for their eminent services in conjundion with the
Army of Egypt on that station, which was read
and ordered to be entered on the Journals.
The Loan MAYon presented to the Court a Re-
solution of Thanks from the Royal Jennerian Soci-
ety, in return for the donation of 5001, voted at the
last Court, in aid of that institution ; read, and or-
dered to be entered on the Journals.
The Loan MAYOK declared the situation of
Painter to the City vacant, by the death of Mr.
Simpson ; and the situation of Mason vacant by the
tesignation of Mr. Deputy Pi der, and ordered the
to be 611sd up at this nest Court.