The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-12-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE SATISFACTION OF A GENTLEBIAN."—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a gentleman named Geo. H. Kemp was summoned before the magistrates, Messrs. Hall and Birch, by a gentleman named Bird, on a charge of having sent him a challenge and otherwise threatened him. The challenge was said to have originated out of a love affair. Both parties, we understand, had been paying their best attentions to a voting lady, and, the complainant being the more lucky ',Qatari°, the defendant vented his disappointment in sending the other a challenge, which formed the subject of the present complaint, the defendant alleging that he was put in bodily fear thereby. Mr. John Bird, the complainant, stated that on Sunday night, about eleven o'clock, lie left a house in Northumberland-street, where he had been. He had got but a little way from it, whe❑ Mr. Kemp came up, and said he " wanted to speak" with him. He (complainant) replied he did not wish to have anything to say to him. He was aware that he had been threatening him. About three months before, defendant met him and threatened to horsewhip him. He in consequence thought it best to go home again, and he returned to the house in Northumberlandstreet, and gave a loud knock at the door. The defendant then came up to him and said " stop till 1 lay a horsewhip about your back," and 'called him " a coward." The lady of the house then came to• the door and called a policeman, and the defendant ran away down the street. Next morning he received a note from the defendant, (complainant here handed a note to the magistrates,) and he understood that he had been laying in wait for him since. He was afraid of injury, and could not walk the streets in safety. _  Mr. Hall (to defendant.)—" What do you say to this ? Is that your note ?" Defendant.—" Yes, it is." Mr. Hall.—" How came you to send such a one?" Defendant.—l received a summons last evening. I immediately consulted a mutual friend, wishing to settle the matter out of court, and I have only received the answer this morning, and in consequent I am quite unprepared to say anything. If I could get the case deferred until to-morrow, I shmild be prepared with my defence. Mr. Hall.—" What defence could you have then more than you have now ?" Complainant.—" I must have protection; I went over the water last night. I durst not sleep in town." Defendant.—" I never intended to injure the young man at all." Mr. Hall.—" You ask him to give you satisfaction ?" • Defendant.—lf I Went into a vindication of my whole conduct I could show you— Mr. Hall.—" I am not going into the, whole of the transaction. This note, after the above demand, says, If not I shall be obliged to brand you as a coward in every -public place in which I may see you.' You then give your address and where You may be found at such an hour. It then goes on, `lf you have the soul and spirit of a man and a gentleman, you will give me immediate satisfaction as a gentleman.' Are you prepared with bail?" - Defendant.—" No, I am not." Mr. Hall.—" Cannot you send for any respectable person to bail von? We cannot allow this to pass. This gentleman bay called on us for protection, and he must have it at our hands." Complainant.—" It is a great annoyance to the family." Mr. You must find hail; yourself in £lOO, and two respectable sureties of £5O each. (To complainant.)—That is your object I belizve." Complainant'.--"It is, Sir." • . The complainant then left the court, and the defendant remained in custody until his bail should arrive. The epistle commenced, " I do not -mean to, dispute your charming prize. with you ;" and then went on- ". I neither intended to cut or murder; you as you seemed so_ mach to apprehend last evening, I merely wished for an explanation from you as to the cause of Y.our ire,-.admissien to Mr, ,This, I conceive, yolk can/./not but give me,'as you must be aware that I answered you a  similar question on a similar occasion. It not, of course you Cannot object, if you have the s.,yi...and spirit of a man and a gentleman, to give me satisfaction in another way. Should you feel inclined to do neither, I shall be under the necessity of branding you as a coward in any public place in which I may meet you, which I shall assuredly do.—l am yours, &c., " G. H. Kahle."  A