The Sun. — 1846-03-07 (London, England)

THE LATE FATAL DUEL AT GOSPORT. It being pretty generally understood that Mr. Pym would surrender to take his trial to-day, as one of the seconds in the duel between Lieutenant Hawkey and Mr. Seton, a very large number of persons assembled in front of the court. At nine o'clock Mr. Justice Erie took his seat, and shortly afterwards a person of respectable appearance came to the front of the bar. The Clerk of the Arraigns to the governor of the gaol— Mr. Barber, who have you there ? Mr. Barber—Mr. Pym, sir. The Clerk of the Arraigns—Charles Lawes Pym, you are indicted for the wilful marder of James Alexander Seton, at Titchfield, on the 20th of May last, and the indictment states that Henry Charles Morehead Hawkey feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, discharged a pistol loaded with gunpowder and ball, inflicting a wound of which the said James Alexander Seton languished and died, and you, Edward Lawes Pym, are indicted for being present and aiding,are you guilty or not guilty? abetting, and assisting the said Henry Charles Morehead Hawkey in the committing of the said murder. (There were other counts giving different descriptions of the wound.) Not guilty. Edward Edward Lawes Lawes Pym,py m Mr. Rawlinson and Mr. M. Smith conducted the case for the case on the part of the prosethe prosecution, and Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake appeared for the prisoner. The jury having been sifOrn, were charged with the pripoeunldeahave collected from the indictment soner. .RATIVhLeINjuSOryII would that the prisoner was charged with an offence of the tory cuMtiorn. highest nature--namely, that of being concerned in shed, ding the blood of a fellow-creature. It was hot his duty, and it was as little his inclination, to exaggerate the facts or overstate any part of the case; but the demands of public justice, the memory of the deceased, the solicitude of his friends and relatives, required that the facts should be fairly, fully, and unshrinkingly brought befUre them, The trstnsaction out of which the ndlctmeat arose took place so far back as the 20th of May last year, and the prosecution came before them at so late a period in conseqUetlee of the acetified patties not being within the hands of justice. He should now lay before the jury a short outline of the facts. which he should be able to prove by eVidende. The firildriei was charged simply with the offence, that on the evening of the 20th of May he went out with a brother officer, Lieutenant Hawkey, of the Marines, as second in a duel, in which the deceased, Mr. Seton, the principal on the other aide, fell, on Brown Down, leading to Alverstoke and Titchfield, three or four miles from Gosport. He would lairs un the story On the evening of the 19th of Jur. anu ‘t Map MI eto ant m j'rA •ti wire re- • siding at Sonti..... - d rs. xiawKey an Inc jot' soner were attending a ball, or soiree, at the King's Rooms, at Southsea, this ball being held every other Monday in the season. 'ln the course of the evening a misunderstanding or quarrel occurred between Mr. Seton and Lieutenant Hawkey : they retired to a card-room, the door was closed, and after some minutes they came out of the room ; Lieutenant Hawkey sat near the door of the ball-roost, with the prisoner, and, as Mr. Seto!' left the ban-room, words passed between them, but what they were was not known. Early next morning a person called upon Lieutenant Hawkey, a card was sent up from , Lieutenant Bowles, who was the second to Mr. Seton on the occasion. As early as 10 o'clock in the morning of the 20th two persons, one of whom would be spoken to as Lieutenant Hawkey, and the other he believed would turn out to be the prisoner at the WI Wen seen proceeding to ForthinOtith fro' m BMWs, and