The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-08 00:00:00

FATAL DUEL IN INDIA.

Mr. Charles Gerrans Phillips, Mr. Thomas Ethe-
ridge, and Mr. Frederick Henry Thompson, were lately
tried in the Supreme Court at Bombay, for the mur-
der of Mr. Witcher Kean Hawkins, in a duel fought
at Singapore. The deceased was a midshipman on
board his Majesty's ship Curacoa. Mr. Phillips
and Mr. Etheridge were mates in the same vessel.
Mr. Thompson was a supernumerary mate, waiting
to join his own ship. The witnesses who were
examined proved that on the 19th of last August,
when the Curacoa was at Singapore, at the southern
entrance of the Straits of Malacca, the prisoners
and the deceased went ashore, having obtained
leave from the Lieutenant, who was not aware
of the intended meeting. The First Lieutenant,
Mr. Fletcher, went ashore the same afternoon, ac-
companied byMr. Foley, the Second Lieutenant, Lord
H. Russell, and a midshipman, and met the prisoners
at the Residency at three. Mr. Fletcher afterwards
met them at an inn at Singapore, and asked them
where they were going; they said they were going
to take a walk, and they parted, the prisoners going
one way and Mr. Fletcher another. Mr. F., on
returning from the Residency, between seven and
eight in the evening, again met Mr. Etheridge and
Mr. Thompson. Mr. Etheridge said he had some-
thing serious to communicate. Mr. Fletcher asked
him what it was, and he said a duel had taken
place between Mr. Phillips and Mr. Hawkins, in
which Mr. Hawkins had been wounded, and that
the parties themselves wished the Captain to be
immediately informed of it. Mr. Etheridge added,
that it had been a very fair duel, that he had
seconded Mr. Phillips, and Mr. Thompson had
seconded Mr. Hawkins. It appeared that the de-
ceased received his adversary's shot in the hip, and
instantly fell. Mr. Phillips immediately ran to him,
and, shaking him by the hand, said, " Well, Hawkins,
this must settle all our differences." The deceased was
taken on board the ship, where he survived six days.
Mr. Fletcher stated in his examination that Mr.
Phillips told him, with a great deal of earnestness
and fervour, that no man in the world could more
deeply deplore the lamentable issue than himself;
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DISGUSTING TYRANNY.—On Saturday last
Whitaker Priestley, a workman in the employment of
Mr. Dihb, shoemaker, Huddersfield, laid an information
against William Eltiott, one of the Secretaries of the
Trades' Union, and John Fry Barrett, a member of the
Union, before the Magistrates at that place. Priestley
stated that in consequence of his having refused to join the
Union, he was summoned by the Committee to attend at
the Cross Keys Inn, where the Committee sat. The first
summons he disregarded, but on receiving a second, he
went to inquire what they wanted with him ? Soon after
he entered the room he was forcibly seized, by order of the
filillephment, he was plunged in a
a with water; but this not being
punishment, Committee, and iinrners,d with his head downwards in a
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second time, and nearly suffocated ; and it was actually
put to the vote, whether he should not have a third
immersion ! Owing to this violence he said that he be-
came extremely ill, and could not for several days take his
accustomed food. The Magistrates condemned the conduct
of the Union Committee in the strongest terms, and sen-
tenced the two persons against whom the complaint was
made to pay a penalty of 5/, each.—Leeds Mercury.