The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-13
THE FIELD OF HONOR.
STRAY LEAVES FROM THE DuELlNo
RkcoRD OF GREAT BRITAIN.
sems Curiesitles OF the Code In Practical
Scotland Distinguished Irishmen of .


Scotland Distinguished Irishmen Of q
Hundred Years Ago Who Were Duel
ist<.
The last iuri fought in England took |
place near Egham in 1852. The principles |
were two Frencbmen-Cournet, formerly |
an officer In the French navy, where be |
distinguished himself. and Barthelemy, |
an adventurer, formerly condemned TO the |
galleys and at the time OF the duel the |
keeper OF house Of i'll fame in London.
Gourmet had brought from Paris an i'm
portant packet for Barthelemy, but learn
ing his character simply sent 1t to his adj
dress and declined TO have any intercourse
with him. On several occasions afterward
he publicly showed his contempt for him.
This led TO pistol duel, in which Gourmet,
a notorious duellist was killed Barthel-
envy and the seconds were tried for the
felony and sentenced to two months i'm
prisonment. Convicted two years later Of
an atrocious double murder near Fitzroy
square, Barthelemy ended an Infamous
career OH the scaffold.
Many duels have been fought by Eng
lishmen on the continent during the last
90 years. youthful English attache
killed in the old kingdom of Naples an
Italian marquis who pushed away his arm
from the balcony railing, where IL rested
beside famous Neapolitan beauty. The
heir to an earldom exchanged shots with
an Austrian prince. The colonel OF high
land regiment fought "a duel with an Ital-
ian marquis at Florence because he had
the misfortune to overturn "a chair In the
dark. A young Scottish engineer wound
cd in a saber duel q famous Partisan duel
ist and was himself wounded. A young
Englishman who fought duel in Paris
under the empire with a young French
viscount, an expert fencer, was himself
Angeles best pupil and had much the
best of the encounter.
The Scots took practical view Of duel
ing Under the Stuarts license was
necessary to fight duel. To kill a man
without one was murder Not only did
they thus reduce the number of their turbu-
lent subjects, but they made them source
, of revenue. The system worked SO well
that, in order that the fisc might not be
defrauded in 1896 it was made a capital
offense even to engage in a duel without a
license obtained. 1t did not help the mat
ter If neither party was wounded. The
| most savage duel ever fought in Scotland
| or elsewhere was the one between Sir Euan
| Lochiel and an English colonel, Pellew,
when, after fighting till their swords flew
out of their hands, they locked in a close
embrace, and Lochiel, the weaker Of the
two, falling underneath, tore several
ounces Of flesh out of the others throat
with his teeth, keeping them there like q
wild beast. and declaring until his dying
day that 'he never tasted sweeter NOR
sci. :"
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| the one between Captain Stewart and Sir
| Alexander Boswell, son Of the famous BIZ
ographer. 1t was fought on the seashore
near Kirkcaldy in 1880 Boswell was killed
| at the first fire.
In the Gyeen Isle dueling 1ourished 90
years ago as much as it did in France
| When Trinity college student asked the
provost what books he had better bring to
college, the latter said: Never mind the
books. Bring a case of pistols. The
| students were in the habit of settling those
little affairs either just before or just after
morning prayers. All the distinguished
| Irishmen q hundred years ago were duel
| lists: Curran, Grattan, Sheridan, Barring
| ton Fitzgibbon, Flood and O'Connell
| were often "out," and in our day The
O'Gorman Mahon had 20 affairs to his
| credit The bar led the list. Lord chan
cellors and masters of the rolls fought like
comets of horse. Lord Norbury fought
Fighting Fitzgerald" and two others,
besides Frightening" "Napper Tandy, "
as the Irish historians tell us. Galway
was great with the pistol, Tipperary with
the sword Tive English fines lanes, "
Major Park and Captain Greed, went to
Ireland to find focmen worthy OF their
STEEL and found them in Mr.. Matthew
and Mr. Mcnamara, who fought with
them in private room at an inn, wound
ed them nearly unto death, nursed them
back into health and were rewarded with
their friendship.
Colonel harrington and Mr.. Gilbert,
two middle aged married men, had des-
perate duel i'm 1859 because they did I'ot
wish to leave an unsettled quarrel AZ
legacy for their children They fought on
horseback with sword, pistol and skeen,
or Irish bowie knife First the pistols
were fred, harrington receiving some OF
the charge in his face, but he rushed on
Gilbert, killed his horse with his broad
sword, dismounted and, putting his skeen
to the others throat, called upon him to
task for his life. on pain of death" Gill
bert agreed to shake hands and be friends,
but without condition or apology. Bar
rington consented. Fighting Fitzgerald,
well known character, cousin OF the
Earl Of Desmond, an, Elton boy, an Oxford
graduate and an officer i'm the Sixty ninth
foot, fought Is duels and was thought
by many to be mad. He hired gang OF
ruffians, waylaid and killed a man on the
king highway and was hanged at Castle
bar. Among others, he encountered Mar
tin of Galway, the Rev. Richurd Bate and
Captain Harvey Aston aiterward killed
at Madras in duel with Colonel Alien
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