Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-10
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SIR Henry demurred, but Fitzgerald carried the
day, and stripping off their coats, the parties set
to. In few minutes the 'captain" was beaten
to jelly, and, to avoid still more severe punish
ment, confessed that he was merely Mr. Fitz-
gerald's groom dressed up for the ceremony by
| his master. 1t seemed that the man, being of
| Herculean make and prodigious strength Fitz-
gerald exulted in the hope of having his revenge,
by witnessing the defeat and punishment of his
church militant antagonist; but the pugilistic
science of the black, was more than match for
the brute force of the scarlet coated mock cap
tain. We see how it ended.
The story of Fitzgerad's forcing himself into
'Brookes Club" is an oft-told one, but it must,
to give effect to sundry reflections, have place
here.
Admiral Keith Stewart, member Of the club,
was requested by Fitzgerald to propose him
Unwilling to risk collision with the man, he did.
SO, Fitzgerald stationing himself below to hear
the result. This was as might be anticipated,
for he was blackballed unanimously. But now
came the dilemma!-who was to communicate
this fact to Fitzgerald?
1t was certain death to the person who did so.
Admiral Stewart was deemed by the club the
most proper person to make the announcement
but declined. But at last waiter was request
ed to 'beard this lion in his den,' and made
known to him the fact, that as there happened to
be one black ball, his name would have to be
put up again. The story is a long one, and to go
through with 1T would occupy too much space
sufficient to say, that Fitzgerald forced his way
with imprecations into the clubroom, and with
insulting menace inquired of each individual
member, If he had beon the one who had .sdrop-
ped the black ball into the urn by mistaken
No one confessing to the impeachment there sat
the bully, calling for drink, giving toasts, main
tanning his seat the entire evening-such was the
terror his name and character inspired. He made
no second effort to ntrude, the police having had
instructions to attend, in case of repetition of
the outrage.
Fitzgerald, upon visiting Paris, was presented
to the French King, Louis XVI, by the British
Ambassador, and with the announcement that
the gentleman presented, had ''fought 'eigh-
teen duels, and always killed his man." Louis
turned with disgust from the wretch, and indig-
nantly expelled him his presence, with an init
nation that if he got into quarrel in France, he
would be turned out of the country in twenty
four hours.
After the discovery of the steel curass upon
his person, in his duel with Major Cunningham,
and loathed and pointed at as diabocal mis-
creant he seems to have retired to his Irish pro-
perty, and then leagued with gang of blacklegs
and disgraced men, to have lived life of violence
and outrage; and spurned with contempt from
every honest mans door, he was at last for a
closing crime, the monstrous murder of two
neighboring gentlemen-a Mr.. mcdonnell and
Mr.. Hypson-apprehended tried, convicted,
and executed Twice the rope broke in the at
tempt to hang him-twice he fell to the ground,
supplcating with despcable meanness for even
''fve minutes longer of life. He lived
murderer and died a coward. Such was
the end of "Fightng Fitzgerald, man who in
himself exemplifed the axiom, that there is no
rule without an exception. Moralists tell us,
that no human being but has in some far away
remote recess of the heart, something of re-
deeming quality-George Robert Fitzgerald had
not one.