The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-01-17

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llized rudeness becomes the exception to the rule,
and meets with merited contempt and avodance-
why then Will even men OF tried courage apply d
remedy strong mortal combat to an evil SO trivial p
| Here Gustavus paused, and fixed his eagle-eyes up
on the duests, who stood with folded arms and sui
len mien, in the centre of the hall. Their very souls
seemed to quail under his searching glance; their
eyes fell, and the dark red hue of conscious guilt su
fused their cheeks and foreheads. The royal orator
resumed
Sand yet we this day behold two officers of ac-
knoWledged bravery, who have yielded to this insane
Impulse and who perhaps fatter themselves that their
readiness to stake life will excite admiration and as
tonishment. had given them credit for better heads
and better hearts, and lament exceedingly their in
fatuaton. Their sone individuals, whose gloo-
my and ierocious temperament berays their natural
affinity to the tiger and the hyena whose pride is
not ennobed by spark of honorable feeling whose
courage is devoid Of generosity who have no sympa-
thies in common with their felow-men and who find
horrible qualification in hazardng their lives to ac-
complish the destruction of any one whose endowment
OF life, health, and reason, greater than their own
thank the Almighty, that this demoniacal spirit pre-
walls not in my army and should it unfortunately an
innate any Of my soldiers, they have my free permits
sion to join the gpsy-caInps of Tiley and Wallen-
stein"
The Swedish generals here exchanged looks and
mods of proud qualifications and Prince Bernard of
Weimar, whose fine eyes flashed with ungovernabe
delight, advanced step towards the royal orator, as
if he would have expressed his appreciation by cor
dial embrace. Controlling, however, with visible eff
FORT this sudden impulse, he resumed his place. Mean
while the king exchanged glance of friendly ntell-
gence with his chancellor and continued in tone of
diminished severity.
" You will probably gentlemen, charge me with in
consistency in thus sanctoning public duel, after
my promulga of a general order against the prac-
tice of dueng. There are, however, peculiar cir
cumstances connected with this DUEL to explain which,
and to vndicate myself, have requested your pres
ence this occasion. The gentlemen before you,
Captains Barstrom and Seiert, are well known as Of
ficers of high and deserved reputation. Barstrom has
eyinced heroic courage on many occasions, and he
saved my life in the Polish war, when was barehead
ed and surrounded. Syrot having struck off my iron
cap, which hereto head-gear the Austrians sent as
trophy to Loretta l knghted Barsrom on the field
of battle; and relying upon his good sense and mod
Grafton, promised to grant him free boon. He me-
yer avaled himself of this pledge until yesterday
when he solicited my permission to meet Captain Sci
fert in single combat
"Seifert has studied chivalry at German UNIVERSE
ties, and to good purpose if we may Judge from the
brilliant vaor which made him captain on the field
of LEIPZIG. He has endeavored to prove to me, by
numerous Greek and Latin scraps, that ought to
sanction this duel but it would not be difficult to
bring forward old Homer himself in evidence, that
the Greeks were not very fasdious in points of Ell
quette For instance, Achilles called Agamemnon
drunkard, with the look of dog and the valor of
DEER Sefert, however, is not a man to be in1u-
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