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MEMOIRS of the LIFE of the Right Hon.
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The account duel which I shall subjoin,
was drawn up some months after, by the second of Mr.
Mathews, and deposited in the hands.of Capt iin Wade,
the Master of the Ceremonies. Though somewhat par-
tially coloured, and (according to Mr. Sheridan's re-
marks upon it), incorrect in some particulars, it is, upon
the whole, perhaps, as accurate a statement as could
be expected.


COPY Or A PAPER LIFT Br SIR. BARNETT IN THE
RANDS 01 CAPTAIN WILLIAM WADE, MASTER OF
THE CEREMONIES AT BATH.
On quitting our chaises at the top of Kingsdown, 1
entered into a conversation with Captain Paumier, re-
lative to some preliminaries I thought ought to be
settled in an affair which was likely to end very serf-'
ously ;---particularly the method of using their pistols,
which Mr. Mathews had repeatedly signified his desire'
to use prior to swords, from a conviction that Mr. She.'
ridan would run in on him, and an ungentlemanlike
scuffle probable' be the COnsequtace. 'lbis, however,
was refused by Mr. SL;eticlan, necla•ing that he ha.l no
pistols: Captain Paumier replied that he had a br.'ce
(which I know were loaded). By my advice, Mr.
Mathews's were not P.aded, as I imagined it was
always customary to load on the field, which I men-
tioned to Captain Tawnier, at the White Hart, before
we went out, and desiieJ lie would draw his pistols.—
He replied, as they were already loaded, and they were'
going on a public road at that time of tie morning, he
might as well let them remain so, till we got to the
place appointed, when he would, on his honour, draw
them, which I am convinced he would hare done had
there been time; but Mr. Sheridan immediately drew
his sword, and, in a vaunting manner, desired Mr. Ma-
thews to draw (their ground was very uneven, and
near the post-chaises). Mr. Mathews chew ; Mr. She.
ridan advanced on him at first; Mr. Mathews in turn
advanced fast on Mr. Sheridan ; upon which he re-
treated till he very suddenly ran in upon Mr. Mathews,
laying himself exceedingly open, and endeavouring to
get bold of Mr. Mathes"s's sword ; Mr. Mathews re-
ceived him on his point, and, I believe, disengaged his
sword from Mr. Sberidan's body, and gave him another
wound; which, I suppose., must have been either against
one of his ribs or his breast-bone, as his sword broke,
which I imagine happened from the resistance it m 4
with from one of those parts • but whether it was broke
from that, or on the slosiag,l cannot aver.
Mr. Mathews, I think, on finding his sword broke,
laid hold of Mr. Sheridan's sword-arm, and tripped up
his heels; they both fell ; Mr. Mathews was uppermost,
with the hilt of his sword in his hand, having about siti
or seven inches of the blade to it, with which I saw him
give Mr. Sheridan, as I imagined/a skin-wound or two
in the neck; for it could be no more, the remaining part
of the sword being broad and blunt; he also beat him
in the face either with his fist or the hilt of his sword.
Upon this I turned from them, and' asked Captain Pall•
mier if we should not take them up? but I cannct say
whether he heard me or riot, as there was a good deal
of noise; however he made. no reply. 'l' again turned
to the combatants, a ho were much in the swine situation
I found Mr. Sheridan's sward was bent, and he slipped
his hand up, the small part, and gave Mr. Mathews a
slight wound in the left'part of his belly ; I that instant
turned again to Captain Paumier, and proposed a'gairil
our taking them up. He in the same moment called'
out, he is killed! he is killed I" las quick as
possible turned again, and found Mr. Mathews had re&
covered the point of his sword, that was before on the
ground, with which he had wounded Mr. Sheridan in
the belly; I saw him drawing the point out of the
wound. By this time Mr. Sheridan's sword was broke,
which he told us. Captain Paurairr called nut to him,
" My dear Sheridan, beg your life, and I will be your's
for ever." 1 also desired him to ask his life : he replied,
" No, by (I—D, 1 won't." I then told Capt. Paurnier it
would not do to wait for these punctilios (or words to that
effect), and desired he would assist me in taking them
up. Mr. Mathews most readily acquiesced first,
desiring me to see Mr. Sheridan was disarmed. I de-
sired him to give me the tuck, which he readily did, as
did Mr. Sheridan the broken part of his sword to Capt.
Paumier. Mr. Sheridan and Mr. Mathews both got
up, the former was helped into one of the chaises, and
drove off for Bath, and Mr. Mathews made the best of
his way for London. ••• ••• ••• •••

BURKE—PROSECUTION OF WARREN HASTINGS.
We cannot follow at length the narrative of Mr. Sheri-
dan's political career, nor insert Mr. Moore's admirable
observations on the Ministry, of which he at first com-
posed a. part, and on the celebrated coalition of which
he disapproved.
64 Burke," says Mr. Moore, a was at this time the ac-
tuating spirit of the party, as he must have been of any
party to which he attached himself. Keeping, as he
did, the double engines of his genius and his industry
incessantly in play over the minds of his more indolent
colleagues, with an intentness of purpose that nothing
mild divert, and an impetuosity of temper that nothing
could resist, it is not wonderful that he should have
gained such an entire mastery over their wills, or that
the party who obeyed him should so long have exhibited
the mark of his rash spirit imprinted upon their mea-
sures. The yielding temper of Mr. Fox, together with
his unbounded admiration of Ruske, led him easily, in
the first instance, to acquiesce in the views of his fi iend,
and then the ardour of bis own nature, and the self-
kindling power of his eloquence, threw an earnestness
and file into his public enforcement of those views
which made even himself forget that they were but
adopted from another, and impressed upon his hearers
the conviction that they were all, and from the first`,
his own."
Mr. Moore describes the state of the prosecution
against Mr. Hastings, when Mr. Sheridan established
his fame as one ci the noblest orators that ever existed,
bJ supporting the charges in a speech which neither he
nor any of his great contemporaries ever excelled. The
anecdote about Burke is curious, and not generally
known :
The feelings of the public were, at the outset of the
prosecution, rather for than against the supposed de-
linquent. *Nor was this tendency co4tateracted by any

spite s. , great
and zeal, was by no means popular. There was a ,
tone of dictatorship in his public delleaaoqr against
which men naturally rebelled ; and the impetuosity and
passion with which he flung himself into every favourite
subject, :hewed a want of self-government but little
calculated to inspire respect. Even his eloquence, ea:
rious and splendid as it was, failed in general to win
or command the attention of his hearers, and, in this
great essential of public speaking, must be considered
inferior to that ordinary but practical kind of oratory,
which reaps its harvest at the moment of delivery, and
is afterwards remembered less for itself than its effects,
There was a something—which those who have but
read him can with difficulty conceive—that marred
the impression of his most sublime and glowing dis-
plays. In vain did his genius put forth its superb
plumage, glittering all over with the hundred eyes of
fancy—the gait of the bird was heavy and awkward, and
its voice seemed rather to scare than attract. Accord-
.
*ugly, many of those masterly discourses, which, ill
their present form, may proudly challenge comparison•
with all the written eloquence upon record, were, at
the time when they were pronounced, either coldly
listened to, or only welcomed as a signal and excuse
for not listening at all. To such a length was this in-
difference carried, that on the evening when be de-
livered his great speech on the Nabob of Arcot's debts,
so faint was the impression it produced upon the House,
that Mr. Pitt and Lord Grenville, as I have heard► not
only consulted with each other as to whether it was
necessary they should take the trouble of answering it,
but decides in the negative. Yet doubtless, at the
present moment, if Lord Grenville—master as he is of
all the knowledge that belongs to a statesman and a
scholar;--were asked to point outirom the stores of his
reading the few models of oratorical c tug( ',lion. to
the perusal of which he could most frequently and with
unwearied admiration, return, this slighted and tom.
swered speech would be among the number.
From all these combining circumstances, it arose
that the prosecuticn of Mr. Hastings, even after the
accession of the Minister, excited but- a slight and
wavering interest; and, without some extraordinary
appeal to the sympathies of the House and the country,
some startling touch to the chord of public feeling, .it
was questionable whether the inquiry would apt end
as abortively as all the other Indian inquests . that had
preceded it ?
In this state of'the proceeding, Mr. Sheridan brought
forward, on the 7th of February, in the House of Com-
mons, the charge relative to the Begum Princesses of
Oude, and delivered that celebrated speech, whose
effect upon its hearers has no parallel in the annals of
ancient or modern eloquence. When we recollect the
men by-whom the House of Commons was at that der
adorned, and the conflict of high passions and interests
in which they had been so lately engaged—when we
see them all, of all parties, brought (as Mr. Pitt ex-
pressed it) 48 under the wand of the enchanter," and
only vying with each other in their deicription of the
fascination by which they were bound=when we call ti
Mind, too, that be whom the first statesmen of the age
thus landed, had but lately descended among them
from a more aerial region of intellect, bringing tro.-
phies falsely supposed to be incompatible with political
prowesi—it is impossible to imagine a moment oftmose
entire and intoxicating triumph. The only alloy that
could mingle. with such complete success must be
the fear that it was too perfect ever to come again ;
that his lathe Mad then reached the meridian point,
and -from that consummate moment must date
its decline.
Of this remarkable speech there existino report;' for
it would be absurd.to dignify' with time appellation the
meagre and lifeless sketch, the
Tennem sine eiribus umbiam
In fadem £ner,

which is given in the Annual 'Registers and Parlia-
mentary Debates. Ica fame, therefore, remains like an
empty shrine—a cenotaph still crowned and honoured,
though the inmate is wanting.

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of CHANCERY, made in a Cause " Dias Sadtos against This d*Y *as pabliebed, in One Voisme tto. with a Portrait from --quo-- , had hardly yet recovered his deTeatpn the Indian Bill. 1
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