The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-17 00:00:00

DUELS AT GIBRALTEP.

It was lately mentioned that several duels hail taken
,vaor between the.ollicers.of tlw Gish regiment, and the
officers of tbe Uniterl.States. squadron which haildouched
sit abraltar. The.following fle:ails of these affairs are
ewortil hoot the Dirtfia Award
On Monday awning, the vtd of March,Vr. Taylor,
the Captain of an American merchant.sersel, ,was re-
tin fling to his leid#ings from the Theatre, at •ahnns half-
p Ist I I o'clock, sod when wishirt four drain' .of Ins
house lie was .stripped by a sentry for.aiot having a
• : (it is the outer of the -(nernor.fhai no pecion
shill walk without carrying a light after, ten o'clock.)
- Captain Taylor, being detained about half in hour, be-
, ic.idie inipa.tent, and• r.n towards the door of his
which was only tea yards distant.
The door was fast, an:L the.aentry seised him he
W. 13 bronchi to the maiiard.heuCaptainJohnsyn,
n-gl .w.

-or ;he ti-1 tit, oiler heating the gentles store, which was
s mitts hat entbellislictl at the exl:euee of the American,
ordered C iptain Taylor to be convoitterl to the crib

Al.erretosinktg wine time, the Ameritart 44ked. for

pea, ink, and paper, which were retnied. - Several ru-
Ay:cubic merchants intratred, and Captain Taylor,
cing at last re!eased, demanded Capt. Johnson's ad-
„t! which. Le declined giving, nn Ilse Arnowd that he
did not comiiirr the :Ametican of sufficient rankiin en-
tole hint in a-welling.
Captain Taylor winced two days endeavouring to A-
t tin a meeting, when, being tinier a bond fur 6,0(i)

.4', Ita s to sai; by a siocific day: be was oblige) to le,ne
,C,braltar. A lew days afterwanla a frigate, a shx)i),
..:•1:(1 a of wax, b'.lpitging in the Voited Slates, calla
e!)%1":1 the Altditeir loran. When the officers, of this

optic:run had herd 4441,c isantier in %emelt Capt. Taylor
had been tr...itell, they drew lota which of site in should
hi...lit Capt. Johnson of the atth, sod it•frll to the lot of
Mr. 13aurci,, who had a meeting. end was wounded,
-Id not dangerously. in the wino. Tile matter, 55 1,
Capt. Taylor was collect-heti. would have rested here,
_hut a new cause of offence occurred. which led to other
/Joel. _ . _

Mr. Iltimphrys, tint lieutenant of the American hi-
rte, was spiting oft Iroin the. Ragxed Slot; abnut 111
alo',..tiack, um the ~kaizlit of tlx Jutrt of March. Ile re-

(mired the sergeant of .the guard to lower the bridge,
who bait' he would ask the eillicer's permission, .(Ensign
Nutt.) Mr. ii phrys, in the mean time, remained at
the outside of the door,endsheanl.Mr. Nutt say, " Send
the Yankeeist, and let us have a look at him." tOf this
Mr. litimphru took am notice, as It was. not addressed
to him. AVlien he entered the guard room, he found
Mr. Nutt stretched on the conch, and he said to the
Atnericau °dicer; "Su you waist to go . down."
Li simplup replied, " When a gentleman speaks to me,
1 wislchim to address me on his legs ;" when Mr.'Nutt
immediately jumped • up, and said, "By G—d, Sir,
vou are drunk.;" .which, of course, offended Mr.
Iluinphrys, arid he asked him-for his nameewhich Mr.
Non refused to give. Mr. Humphrys then said, "'That
can be easily found; but as.l atn obliged to sail to mor-
row morning foe America, you shall bear from a friend
of mine." The frigate Untied Stales accortlingty sailed
the following morniug. and Mr. Alonigoinery, the•sins-
geon of the Frit sloop of war, with the lieutenant .of:
that vessel, went to Mr. Nutt's quarters to demand an
explanation, which lie•would nut give. lie was then
challenged by the surgeon, but he. refused to accept.
The Americans then went to thetreasstoons of the 434th
to vat .Ensign Nutt. They were received by a bee
of the officers, who laughed at them, which se irritated
the Americans oluit they offered to fight anv officer of the
httli regiment. A dead silence ensued! and the Ameri-
cans receiving no rely called the whole.reginteut a par-
cel of cowards ; on which-Capt. Frith napped forward
for die honour of the regiment, and said, he ovould meet
either of the Americans to-morrow morning on the neu-
tral ground at. five_o'cleick, winces accordingly took place,
stud Captaio '.Frith. received Dr. Montgomery's hall in
the hip.
The Governor °false Fort now ordered that no-officer
should.go outside the harrier-gate ; and Captain Ballard,
of the brie, ordered that on officer should leave the ship.
not Ale. Stockton, first lieutenant,• who was Mr.•
Bourne 's second, challenged Captain Johnson, of the
64111, for. using same oppmbrious language
.Cafter the
duel) to Mr..ffourne. They met on die rock at
shad's Cave, and, alter excbauging one shot without ef-
fect, they were interrupted by a party of soldiers sent to
seize them. This I,ie sailed over to Algeziras, where
she remained for. some days, and thus ender4these un-
pleasant disputes.

DRErIDFCL MURDER.

•• A Piteekinstmterder was committed on the body of •
fete:deo* Flistoy oe'rinight, in the parish of Wendy, Hots,
• little after 10 u'elork, whirl. wee cliscuseied in a most
singular nominee. About a year ago, a man named Thu*.
Weems was married to the Jet raised at the perish chore..
of Ooddingtoneln liedfordohite lint it being a match of
compulsion by the parish officer, she haviog previously
sworn a child Whim, he left her immediately alter tilt
completion it' the -ceremony, and trimmed to.his place,
leaving her to go boftic lodise friends, which she did,.and
It alit rwards torocci nut that she was not in a slam of
piegtieney. On Monday the lid of .May instant, -he lilt
Ethamiton, where he laid got a aline tips., hat the pg,pase
of going to Goditiairokester, w hem his wile teritiled,whom
he had never lived with, to prevail un tier to go mid live
with bon al EthaMillal. tau his road from Cotton towards
Godetanchester, he fell to with a retain chants •swd got
datoftithside to lioitinasitheeter, and the r seas a moan in.
the chaise 11.110W11 IP Weems. la the course of COW/mita. •
flog, Weems stated to the ~,an, that he wars going to God-
manekePter to get his wife to go and live with him at
Edistunten;.bet that !brie was a girl at Edmonton he was
Aetraillied -Wills, a eery Hie" Mil, whom. he liked anneh '
betteethen his wife. -awl Phonld, notch like to marry her.
Ortifte Ina n agouti that. was impiessi lite, be being ants:licit
map. Weenialeplied, that " when he hail gut his wire et
Edomoton,.he should aeon be stile to get rid of dirt."
Wtwsnaremaieed with his,wife at Ooduatirchesmr...tillfric.
day, when they hotttleft that place early la tier morning
to walk to;Ediricriton. They walked Isom Grodniasieliesier
mike !put where the murder wawconuuitted, being oboist
1t mats, without motive. When they arrived at she fatal
spot, gm stoppi cl: Use woman being theiltairk.liemelf
dawn an .the grass by-the road side, about a mile horn
Arlington.— While link', were resting here., a wanton
gained boserniolsitird,ast Wendy, who was going to Roy-
ston, sow lbedleceesed sitting on the ground un Ike. right
hand side, AMU Mr. Itussull'o fields, and Weems was ou
the oilier side opposite his wife. Directly after *lie had
lassoed, .be saw both Weems and tits wile go to Ifespeles
tickle; they stood looking *hunt and appear as if they '
-were .noturing her, and she kept looking back art thrill.
When the got tofutd Hardt, icke's white gates, she lust
sight of them all at.once, and teen. kept on her way to
Royston. ~As she was seternine .rront Roystrai, she met
the same men near.llrstine, w lionoshe had Levert observed.
She asked him what lie had dune with the young woman
he had with him in the otornieg He said, " I It ft. her
bedded; she is about spun op. I cannot settler any fur-
time, so I left lies. to get ui. by the coach." .Smoitandi Bird
then.come °sweet the cough, red louked for. the ).sing
woinah,.trist could not Pee her °amide or inside. Sliesa)s
suiriething • stilts k •liet that the 4114.1 (Weems) hail done
something wrong•tio the VI omen, tort be lead kitled her; she
Wert en, Peal saw a relaltri hoeing in Mr. Wilteni.iiii's
field, to whom she toll the rirennismeiees, and said trollies
that " she *until go to the next field .(tieing the glare
where stir sew them Mahe ..arising), rsol sec it' stir could
discos els What helideil the young is au." .She passed
through Om pie a lietal, she riaw•Weeni. std his wife gain,
anal ineusediarely disro. I rid the young woman lying in
the diten„lier lace •oritrly flat to the ground, her shawl
over her !Mee, rrd her bonnet on the albrie I.:. her body was
"overact all over with grass, which was Ore% til over her
bprlonsdp-foll: only a foot grid oar of her fitment moat Le
seen ; !Mon were masks no She grass by the stitch, a. it'
there had born great struggling rood rolling shout, sisal
Mete was Om titter of • imirs's.friet hum the plate where
lie grass was mudded Wont to the spot t%lllore • the
linty lay. She called to the man in Mr. 1./akin/lOWA
In Caine; t:icty removed the grass, and on esainiaing

• LONDON : Priuted awl Publo,ball by the' Prrprittne,
JOHN IWIGG, at the Mice, PC, Feret-Street, %twat
tll Letters to the Laitor., aka. (rost-pawl), must ha
a !drawled.