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 Lewes Pym, you are indicted for the wilful murder 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 Pyre, are indicted for being present and aiding, 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.) Edward Lawes Pym, are you guilty or not guilty ? Edward Lewes Pym._. of guilty. Mr. Rawlinson and Mr. M. Smith conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake appeared for the prisoner. The jury having been sworn, were charged with the prisoner. Mr. RAWLINSON opened the case on the part of the prosecution. The jury would have collected from the indictment that the prisoner was charged with an offence of the very highest nature—namely, that of being concerned in shed.. ding the blood of a fellow- creature. It was not 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 before them. The transaction out of which the indictmeat 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 consequence of the accused parties 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 evidence. The prisoner 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. Scion, the principal on the other side, fell, on Brown Down, leading to Alverstoke and Titchfield, three or four miles from Gosport. He would take up the story on the evening of the 19th of May. Mr. and Mrs. Seton were residing at Southsea, and Mr. and Mrs. Hawkey and the prisoner were attending a ball, or soiree, at the King's Rooms, at Southsea, this ball being held every other Monday in the season. In the course of the evening a misunderstanding or quarrel occurred between Mr. beton and Lieutenant Hawkey : they retired to a card-roo:n, the dcor was closed, and after same minutes they came out of the room ; Lieutenant Hawkey sat near the door of the ball-room, with the prisoner, and, as Mr. Seton left the ball-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 Rowles, whe 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 world be spoken to as Lieutenant Hawkey, and the other he believed would turn out to be the prisoner at the bar, Wore 'feed proceedipg to Portsmouth from southsea, and