The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-10 00:00:00

DUELLING.

MR. EDITOR—I do not think the public are
aware of the state of the Law on this subject.
Two men may go out (as it is called), accompa-
nied by their seconds and a surgeon ; one of the
principals falls; the whole of the facts appear in
the Newspapers, from the giving of the= challenge
to the funeral, with copies of absurd letters and
a particularity that no one can doubt !! The

King has lost a subject, by a dreadful crime,
equally forbidden by God and man—the State
a useful member—the widow and childreri are
bereft of their greatest comfort and support—this
is universally known, reprobated, and regretted !
What is the consequence P—A Coroner's Inquest
is held ; the eiridence in all cases defective, in
many glaringly so ! How different from the case
of other Inquests, where it is considered a serious
duty to give the real facts in evidence before the
Coroner, in duelling cases it is considered a se-
rious duty to acquit the prisoner ; and though he
is indicted, and may have offended the Laws of
his Country by two offences, first, giving the
challenge, and _ then by the murder, yet the
surgeon, the only witness, when called on, need
not give evidence---The unhappy man (for he
must be unhappy) is admitted into society, and
affords a shameful instance of a dreadful crime,
committed under circumstances known to the
whole world (for so far our Newspapers extend),
going unpunished ; in short, at the present mo-
ment, we may say, duelling is not punished in
England.--A heavy penalty on the challenger
would operate as a stop to many ridiculous affairs.
* * *

. THE LATE DUEL.-Mr. 13ORTIIWICK, of the
Glasgow Sentinel, was apprehended at Dundee
on Wednesday, and carried to Edinburgh early
on Thursday morning, by Mr. PATRICK MUR-
RAY, Messenger at Arms, on_ a Justiciary war-
rant, charging him with having abstracted se-
veral letters and other manuscripts from the
printing-office of that paper. The legrility cf
Mr. BORTHWICK'S conduct, we understand, is
involved in a question still pending, as to whe-
ther, at the time of his taking the papers, he was
or was not a proprietor Ills statement is, that
he was so ; he had agreed, no doubt, to sell
his interest in the concern to his partner ALEX-
ANDER ; but that the latter not having ful-
filled the conditions of the bargain, BORTH..
WICK had obtained a judgment of the Ma-
gistrates of Glasgow, reinstating him in the
possession ; that he had accordingly resumed
possession before witnesses; but was imme-
diately thrown into prison, on an old caption
for debt ; that he was liberated by his agent on
the evening of Sunday, the 9th of March ; that
about seven o'clock next morning he went to the
office, and took from one of the desks which was
open, and from another of which he still retained
the key, the manuscripts in question ; that he
conceived himself entitled to do thil ; and that
he had a strong inducement to it, namely, to save
himself from the consequence of prosecutions
brought against him through the acts of his part-
ner. A young man, who had been a compositor
in The Sentinel Office, and who, it is said, was
employed by BORTHWICK to carry the papers to
the Tontine, has also been committed on a Jus-
ticiary warrant, as his master's accomplice.--
( Dundee Advertiser.)

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