George Garrick was the brother of David, the celebrated actor, and Baddeley is notable for two things, one, as being the last of the “King’s Servants” (as the actors at the two patent theatres were called) who wore his master’s scarlet livery, and the other in leaving a small legacy to provide cake and wine for the green room of Drury Lane Theatre every Twelfth Night; a custom which, for some time, was in abeyance, but has been revived, in a most liberal and costly manner, by Sir Augustus Harris. The somewhat bald notice in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_ of this duel, is supplemented by a more extended one in the _Town and Country Magazine_ for March, 1770. “The world have been so ill natured as to suggest that Mrs. B--y had formed a connection with the late Mr. H--d: and that Mr. M--z has since been his happy successor. These reports, whether true or false, occasioned some altercation between Mr. B--y and his wife; and, through resentment, he received her salary, without accounting to her for it. “Mr. G--e G--k remonstrated with Mr. B--y upon his conduct, which so much displeased him, that he wrote a letter of complaint upon the occasion to Mr. D--d G--k. This epistle being shown to Mr. G--e G--k, he strongly resented it the next time he saw Mr. B--y, who, thereupon, challenged him. In consequence whereof, (after Mr. D--d G--k, had ineffectually endeavoured, for nearly three hours, to dissuade his brother from this hostile design) Mr. G--e G--k engaged Mr. S--s, the attorney, for his second; and Mr. B--y had sufficient influence over his supposed rival, Mr. M--z, to induce that gentleman to become his second. “These preliminaries being adjusted, they repaired to Hyde Park, and the seconds having marked out the ground, Mr. B--y had already fired at his antagonist, when his wife, who had received intimation of the affair, flew upon the wings of love, (that is, in a hackney coach,) to the field of battle; and, arriving at this critical time, threw herself upon her knees; and, whilst she looked very languishing, (_but whether at her lover, or her husband, is not certain_) cried out ‘_Oh! spare him! spare him!_’ which entreaty, it is imagined, induced Mr. G--k to fire his pistol in the air, and a reconciliation took place. “Mr. Davis, our wooden engraver, passing by at the time, was a spectator of the whole transaction, which enabled him to give our readers so lively and picturesque a representation as that annexed, of this curious and uncommon scene; from which there can, no doubt, remain, but that they were both _left-handed_ upon this occasion.”