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London, England, 1830-03-29 00:00:00

THE LATE FATAL DUEL.

ADJOURNED INQUEST ON THE LATE MR. O'GRADY.
DUILIW, MARCH 21.
Yesterday the Jurors summoned again, assembled at Portobello
barracks. Captain Edwards was again called to give evidence.
Did you, Captain Edwards, during the time that your retf...Th
the 32d, was in Kilkenny, hear that Captain Markham was
in a quarrel with a man in humble life, named Grey ? I did;
present at the transaction.
Juror—As you were present at the transaction, you bad better
detail it.

Captain Edwards : Does this bear on the present Inquiry ?
Juror: Did you bear that Grey had been the object of an outrage
by Captain Markham, and through his means lost his eye?
Captain Edwards : He did accidentally, in coesequense of an
assault made on Captain Markham, and in defending himself the
accident occurred. Captain Markham, however, made ample com-
pensation for it, and liberally compensated all parties, and pre.
vented the matter from being brought before a court of justice.
Juror : Was the compensation voluntary, and without being
forced from him by the threat of a proeecution ?
Captain Edwards • The compensation was offered before any
legal proceeding was commenced ; I know it, as I myself was the
person commissioned to make that offer.
Juror: There is a Mr. Grogan holds the rank of lieutenant in
your regiment ?
Captain Edwards t No; I believe he holds the rank of ensign.
Juror: Have you heard, or do you know or believe, that Mr.
Groganhad a quarrel lately with a citizen of Dublin ?
Captain Edwards : I consider that to be an entirely different ease
from the one before the jury.
Juror—Your declining to answer that question is a violation of
your oath.
Coroner—Not at all ; he is bound to answer all such questions
as may be relating to the death of Standish Siemer O'Grady.
Juror—l am going to show that O'Grady was sacrificed; that
the blood of O'Orsdy was shed to wash away the stains of the re.
giment.
Coroner : Before the evidence is read, you go to Hod the gentle.
men guilty. It is highly indecorous.
Juror : Do you rule the question against me ?
Coroner : I 410.

iiii./Ones(UTuror) : Yes; and your question meets with our de.
tided disapprobation.
Juror (pointing to the reporters) : Take a note of that.
It having been decided thattaln Edwards should not be fur-
ther questioned, the jury to view the ground, a field near
the canal, between the Sd and 4th bridge hom Portobello; the spots
on which the parties stood were marked. A haystack, situate at
a distance of about 200 yards, covered Mr. O'Grady ; and a house
about twice that distance covered Captain Smith as they stood; the
circumstance moat disadvantageous to Mr. O'Grady was, that he
was placed exactly opposin to the cornet of the field, a hedge on one
side, and a bank on the other, forming an angle =sway behind him,
and immediately in the corner was a gap in the hedge, continuing
across to the next field.

On the re-assembling of the jury, the Major of the 32d entered
the room, and said the conduct of Mr. Grogan, on the occasion of
his quarrel, had been regulated not by his own, but b 7 the opinion
of others, and his superior officets were perfectly satished with it.
Mr. R. Morrison saw the assault committed; Captain Smith
came Into the hotel afterwards, and asked the name of the person he
had flogged ; he told him it was Mr. O'Grady.
Colonel Alaitland, of the Mid, always considered Captain Smith.
and his second, gentlemanly men ; heard nothing of the quarrel till
after the duel.

R. Any, a workman in the factory on the canal bank, saw at a
distance the parties on the ground, heard the shots, and saw a man
fall : he assisted in carrying deceased to the carriage; deceased said
Captain Smith fired before his time.
Sir G. Neville, a police magistrate, did not know that Mr. Smith
ever complained at the police office against a Mr. Dillon, In conse.
quence of • quarrel in the theatre; if it had happened be must
have known it.
W. Salmon—l live in Dolphin's Barn; on Thursday, 18th
March, the man that was here before me, was going to work with
me that morning at six o'clock ; I saw four men in a field; and I
beard two shots fired, and one man fall ; another gentleman left the
field, and I and the man with me went into the field, and we asked
leave from the gentleman was it any harm to go any farther; be
told me to wait for a minute, while the doctor was dressing the
wound ; the man that was dressing, desired us to take him up
as smart u possible out to the carriage ; I helped him into
the carriage ; the gentleman said, " lay me on the ground," but
we dial not; I did not hear him say one word but that ; I saw the
smoke from the two pistols ; witness described the manner in which
be beard the two shots, by slapping his band as quick as possible
after one another ; the man that was with me lay down on the grass
when the gentleman was going into the coach; Farly was just as if
he were in a faint, lying on the grass; that, I suppose, was caused
by the sight of the wound.
Pat. O'Brien—l hear there was a duel In a field near my louse;
went towards it; saw Mr. O'Grady carried towards the earriage,
and assisted in doing It; heard Mr. O'Grady say Mr. Smith had
we cause to fire the first shot, and that he (11r. O'Grady)did not give
the offence.

The Jury having retired for one hour and a quarter, returned with
the following verdict—" We find that Standish Stamm O'Grady,
came to his death by a pistol ball, fired at him by Capt. R. Smith, of
the 92d regiment, on the morning of the 18th instant, at a field near
the Grand Canal, near Kilmainham Commons, in the county of
nubile, and that the said Captain J. it. Smith is guilty of Man.
slaughter and the jurors do further find, that sftpt. Frederick
Markham:, of the same regiment, was aiding and abetting the said
John Roland Smith, and that Lieut. Frederick Manta:neva, of the
&h Hussars, was present, as ftiend to the deceased, and that the
said panics are not forthcoming, and that the value of the said pistol
is twenty shillings"

IRISH A SSISTA N T-BA ILRIIITE RIB —A case illustrative
of a point of law which came on before Lord PLUNKETT at Trim,
involves a principle applicable to the whole kingdom. It proves,
Ithat 'Moe the year 1816, when the Assistant-Barristers of Ireland
obtained jurisdiction in civil bill ejtctmenta, they have been in the
habit of giving, contrary to law, costs to a class of landlords against
a class ofof¢ defendant tenants, whom the law intended to exonerate.
We understand that Mr. Brougham's health is in a
precarious state. At Lancaster Assizes, after he had finished ad-
dressing the Jury (half-past eleven at night), though his speech
was not a long one, he was so much exhausted that be was usable
to walk to his lodgings, and wu taken in the Judge's carriage On
the following morning, Lowever, he was so much better as to be able
to leave Lancaster for York—Lads Istelligencer.
JUVENILE DISCERNSIENT.—Ater young party, play-
ing at questions and commands, it was asked " What is it, that,
black as my hat, sheds brilliancy like a diamond;—that we avoid
touching, yet is eagerly handled ;--that has not life, yet lives in
fame, and will live so to posterity ; that, totally inside of hug&
puce, is yet gifted with the most vivid and intense poluesof ream-
floe r This question proved a punier to the wondering juvenile
who was required to answer it, till relieved hem perplexity by a'
child whispering in his earr—WMULKIIII Blacking.