Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-04-14

saiS' toIi yo4 So Col. Iattna, then turn
'hs 10 Ten. JesuP, observed, "a Sir, the fault il
NINE; MIR. Randolph protested against the use OF
the hair trigger; II was at my express instance the
har was sprung" Another pistol was immediate
iy handed 10 MIR. Randolph--the parties resumed
their stations, and exchanged shots without effect,
Immediately after the port of the pistols while
Col. Tattnall and Gen. Jesup were re-loadins,
Col. Benton, OF Missouri, rode up and united with
MIR. Johnston and Maj. Hamilton in an effort TO
stop the affair, which proved Intellectual The
parties again took their stations, and the word be-
ing given, MIR. Clay raised his pistol and fired, and
| The ball passed through Mr.. Ranciolph's clothes
Mr. Randolph reserved his fire holding his pistol
perpendlcularly up said, ''I do not fire at YOU,
Mr.. Clay;" and discharged his pistol in the air
He added, 1t was not ray intention TO have fred
at you at all: the unfortunate circumstance of my
| pistol going OF accidentally, changed my de,ermi-
| nation" AT this instant Col Benton came up
and said, g Yes, Mr.. Randolph told me so ex-
| press!y, eight days ago." The parties stimuli
tancously approached toward, each other, both
with extended hands Mr.. Randolph remarking
-" Sir, give you my hand'- which was cordially
received by Mr.. Clay; and the affair thus honora-
bly, and happily closed.
The friends OF the parties, without consulting
their respective principals, in the hone of tesmi-
mating the difference in a manner alike honorable
to both, were induced TO delay the period of meet
| ing for few days. MT J,t
| This much from the statement Of the friends of
| the parties upon the ground. Justice 10 Mr. Ran
doiph, 10 Virginia, and TO the people require more
The challenge was sent from MIR. Clay to demand
satisfaction for words used by Mr.. Randolph in
debate, and without specifying the particular Ian
guoge excepted to. Mr.. Randolph immediately
determined to accept the challenge He called on
| Colonel Benton, and after ascerianing that that
| gentleman was relative OF Mrs Clay, told him
That lac could not ask him to be his friend ON the
field. But, Sir, said he, have come to make you
the deposItary OF my confidence, TO be used by you
at The time when, in your opinion i, shall he proper
10 disclose it. now say TO you, he continued.
MIR. Clay has challenged me. have no explana-
ton or apology TO give. have determined to ac-
ccpt his invitation. will receive his fire, with
out returning it. I, (said Mr.. Randolph,) am
alone; ii fall, there is wife children to mourn
my loss. MIR. Clay is husband and father -
and can never consent to make widow and
orphans. week interrosed. Col. Benton, as
The relative OF Mr. Clay, and the personal friend of
Mr.. Randolph, enieavoured to adjust the difficult
ty. His efforts were Intellectual. They met on the
held, and wha, there transpired is related above
| except that after The first fire, when Col Benton
united with Mr.. Hamilton and Mr. Johnston TO
stop the affair, Mr.. Randolph told him that /, was
not his intention to kill Mr.. Cay;" that he would
not have seen MIR. Clay fall dangerously wounded
| for all the land upon the King of Rivers and its
| tributary streams.''
Such is the true statement of the facts connected
with this affair, which have come to our know
ledge from personal conversation with one whose
agency in this matter, and whose character, leave
us no room to doubt of its correctness We do
| not hesitate TO youch for it. TL- s. TEL
J Il appears That Mr.. Randolph, in debate in the
Senate of the United States on Friday, made &c a
| frank and unqualified avowal of his intention to
vote for General Jackson" as the only man who
could put down the present administration, " hich
he stismatised as "usurpers." Mr.. Randolph
spoke OF the high mental powers and moral ex-
cellence ofGeneral Jackson ard said that he was
emphatically one of nat,0 e'S great men; that he
was the man whom, if God spared him, he would
most cordially support. Phil .furora.