The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1827-02-08
No. 81.

Duchess, and distracted all her attentions
with his lordship; and ridiculing the tete, his
/ lordship was hardly restrained from running
him through the body before the company.
The next day his lordship sent challenge
to Sidney. The former chose as his second,
tell, furious, adroit swordsman, named
Dillon; and the latter selected young gen.
tleman, named Rawlings, just come into pos
session of an estate of ten thousand pounds
year.-Sidney was wounded i'll two OF
three places, whilst his second was run thro'
the heart and left dead on the field
The unfortunate Duke of rewsberry be-
came afterwards so irritAted as to challenge
the infamous Buckingham for intriguing
with his wife, and Buckingham ran him
through the body 1t was known that the
Duchess of Shrewsbury, in the disguise OF
page, attended her paramour to the held
and held his horse whilst he fought and muir
dered her husband. The unpripeipled
Charles in spite of every remonstrance from
the Queen, received the Duke of Bucking-
ham with open arms, after his brutal muir
der.
In the last sixty years we have collected
list of l72 dues, comprising 344 individu-
ais OF these sixty-Eine persons were Kill
led: in three duels, neither OF the combat
ants survived; 90 persons were wounded, 48
desperately and 48 slightly; and 1873 escap-
ed unhurt. Thus, rather more than one
fifth lost their lives, and nearly one-halt re-
ceived the bullets of their antagonists. 1t
appears also that 1s trials took place, six of
the arraigned were acquitted, seven found
guilty of mansaughter, and three of mur-
der, that two were executed, and eight i'm
prisoned for different periods.
In 1868, the Secretary of our Treasury,
| Mr.. Martin, notoriousy trained himself as
duelist, for the avowed purpose OF shoot
ing Mr.. Wilkes, whom he first insultcd in
the House of Commons, and afterwards
wounded in the Park. This gave rise to
Churchill's poem of "the Duelist." The
House of Commons ordered his Majesty's
Surgeon to attend Mr.. Wilkes, but Mr.. Mar
tin was considered to have done the state
much service. At that period it is to be re-
mark ed; that dnels were very fequent among
Clergymen. In 1864, the Rev. Mr.. Hill
was killed in duel by Cornet Gardener, OF
the Carbineers. The Rev. Mr.. Bate Dudley
fought two duels, and was afterwards, Gre
ated Knight by the King The Rev. Mr..
Allen killed Mr.. Dulancy in duel, in
Hyde Park, without mourning any ecclesias-
tcal censure, though Judge Rutler, on ac-
count of the extremely bad conduct OF the
Clergyman, strongly charged the Jury upon
| his guilt of murder. Whilst the King knight
ed the Rev. Sir Bate Dudley, after his two
Questionable ducls, condemned the Sieur Che
las, Member of Parliament in France, to be
broken upon the wheel for the murder of
Can't. Requin, the Sieur Chelais having COW
cred himself with armour under his clothes
and stabbed his antagonist whose sword
broke against his breast plate. In 1765, oc-
CURED the famous duel III which the father
of our late transcendant poet, Lord Byron,
killed the famous duelist Mr.. Chaworth.-
They quarreled at a club dinner at the Star
and Garter, Pall-mall, about game. Mr..
Chaworth being a great game preserver,
whilst Lord Byron argued upon the cruelty
and jmpoIicy of the Game Laws. They a.
greed to fight in an adjoing room by the
light of only one candle. Lord Byron enter
ed first. and as Mr. Chaworth was shut
ting the door turning his head round, he be-
held Lord Byron's sword half undrawn. lie
Immediately whipped his own weapon out,
and making lunge at his Lordshlp, ran 1t
through his wa!stcoat, conceiving that his
sword had gone through his body. But Lord
Byron closed and shortened his sword, stab
bed Mr. Chaworth in the belly. The chal-
lence had proceeded from Mr.. Chaworth.--
| ord Byron read his defence to the House
of Lords, and was found guilty of manslaueh-
ter; and upon the privilege Of his peerage
(for Peers are licenced homicides,) he was
discharged on paying his fees. In 1772,
Mr.. M'Lean was challenged and killed by
Mr. Cameron, and the mother Of Mr..
M'Iean on hearing of the shocking event, in
stantly lost her senses, while Miss MLoad
who was to have been married t. The de-
ceased, was seized with fits, and died in
three days.
In Mr.. Sheridan's duel with Mr.. Mat
thews, the parties cut and slashed at each
other, u la mode de Theatre, until Mr. Mat
thews left a part of his sword sticking in Mr'
Sheridan's ear. In the famous duel in which
Mr.. Riddle was killed. and Mr. Canning
ham severely wounded, the challenge by
mistake, had fallen in the first instance INTO
the hands Of Sir James Riddle, father to Mr.
Riddle, who had it delivered to him, and
did no more than provide surgeons for the
event. In 1869. Colonel LenoX was insulted
hv the Duke of y who told him, before
lajl the officers on the parade of St. James's
that he desired to derive no protection from
his rank of Prince, The Colonel according"
lv fought his Royal Highncss, it is said, with
cork bullets, but be that as it may, he con-
trived to disturb one of the huge rows of
curis, which it was then the fashion to wear