Sir H. Hardinge And Mr. B...
The Times, 1824-05-24T00:00:00

iFrom a Sunday paper.l " U. S. Club, Mlay 22, 1824. Aire are authorized to publish the foUowing correspondence:- " Mlly dear Hardinge,-I now atldress you on the subject of the message fiom Mlr. Battier, referred by you to me, and I shall beginr by noticing his letter in Twe Observer of last Sunday, from which lthe following is an extract,:-_ ;' I Butl have no donbt of being enabledto prove that my friend's signature was obtained to a document which he had not thoroughly examined, relying on Sir Henry Hardinge's being incapable of re- cording the particulars partially or untruly.' " In reference to the above, I need hardly say that the insinua- tion thrown out thus, if proved, would have covered you with in- famr. I " I havetaken somepains, asyouknow,toinvestigatethismatter, and to placeitbeyondthecontradiction of any man. Altholughnoone acquainted with you would consideryoucapableofdoing thatwhichhas been attributed to you, stiUitmust besatisfactoryto you to see,by the accuompanying document, that the refutation is clothed in the sub- stantial garb of evidence. I also gend you herewith my note of the conferences which took place betwixt ilr. Hunter, the friend of iMr. Battler, and myself, as well as copies of our correspondence. Mly reasons for denying that Mr. Battier had any claim upon you are there detaied. and vou may make such use of them as you may think proper; and I truet that the perusal of them 'ill satisfy every man of high honour and every friend to good order, that by acting otherwise than 7 bhaa done, I should nzot only have betraved the best interests of society butshould havegreatly compromised the dignity of the profession of which you are so bright an ornament, had I he- sitated a moment in my refusal to sufFer you to come down to the level of a man who, at the sane instant in which he wras making a personal appeal of honour to vou, was making to the world another in the unmanly fonin of a foul and flagrant calumny. I remain, my dear Hardinge very truly yours, " CHARLES TURNER." "On the papers of the late Colonel Weestern being opened in our presene- there was found an exactcopy of the statement which had appeared in the lforningChronicle of the ltls inst., relative to the duel which tookplace between Lord Londonderry and Mr. Battier; which copy we find was forwarded, with a note from Sir Henry Ilardinge to Lieutenant-Colonel Westein, through Mlr. Battier, on the 8th instant; from which note it appears that Lieutenant- Colonel WVestern had previously examined and observed upon this atatement. " There was also found anotherstatement of the same officer (Colonel WVestern) in his own hand-writing, which was in sub- stance similar to that which had appeared in the Morning Clro- nick, and to which Sir Henry Hardinge had affixed thesignature of 'II. H.' But in which statement several erasures and alterations In pencil appear to have been subsequently made by Lieutenant- Colonel Westermn " There was also found a memorandum in pencil,relative to what took vlace on theeround. on a detaehed niece of naner. (Signed) "CHAS. TURNER, Major-General. "T. HUNTER, Lieut. 18th Hussars. *B. H. VIVIAN, K. C. B. "A. FRENCH. "Friday evening, May21, 1824." " 32, Grosvenor-place, M1ay 22,1822. " Ny dear Turner,-I have received your letter, and the docu- ments to which it refers, and entirely concur in every step you have takcen. I know I need not here express my acknowledgments to you; but I must state my conviction, after having witnessed Air. Battier's incapacity to feel and act like a man of honour, that I could not, without degradation to myself and discredit to the profession to which Ibelong, have extended to him the consideration due to a gendeman. " This conviction, if it had needed any additional force. would have acquired it from Lr. Battier's recent atterApt to insult me in the street. 'is aement, that he ventured to raise his whip over me, is false, and, as you know, is disproved by a gentleman, an eye-wit- ness of what did pass. Be assured no conduct of his can ever pro- yoke mero alter my determination to consider him as utterlv un- worthy of my notice._I am, my dear Turner, verv faitbf yu _ i (3ged) "~ fhfARD XGE." S?& B. RMARDflVR AND MR. BATTIRI.