The History of Duelling. Vol. 2 (of 2)Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Philosophy
The History of Duelling. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Dueling
A hostile meeting took place near Lisbon between Major-General Sir John
Milley Doyle and Dr. Lovell, the Lisbon correspondent of the Morning
Chronicle; the former attended by Mr. Brandt and Captain Doyle, and the
latter by Major Dodwell and Captain Ruxton. The cause of the duel was a
paragraph in the Lisbon correspondence of the Morning Chronicle of the
10th of March, respecting the decision of the commission appointed to
investigate the claims of foreign officers upon those of Sir John Milley
Doyle; who, considering that the passage was of a tendency injurious to
his interests, required that it should be qualified by certain
explanations on the part of Dr. Lovell. Sir John having fired without
effect, and his antagonist’s pistol having missed fire, the seconds of
the latter gentleman interposed; and, having stated it as their opinion
that he ought not to make any further objection to giving Sir John a
declaration, that he had not intended to advance any opinion of his own
in the notice he had taken of the decision pronounced by the commission,
the affair terminated amicably.
BETWEEN MR. PIGOT AND MR. CARROLL.
April 27, 1838.
A duel was this morning fought at Newtown Park, near Dublin, between a
Mr. Pigot and a Mr. Carroll. At the sixth shot Mr. Pigot received his
adversary’s ball in the leg. While the blood was streaming, he called
for another shot; but his request was not complied with. The dispute
arose at a billiard-room, at a late hour of the preceding night, and
they did not return home until they had settled it.
BETWEEN MR. RUSHOUT AND MR. BORTHWICK.
May 8, 1838.
Mr. Rushout having called upon Mr. Borthwick to explain some
observations made by him at a public dinner at Evesham, which Mr.
Borthwick declined to do, a meeting took place between those gentlemen
in the evening at Wormwood Scrubs. After a second discharge of shots,
the seconds interfered; and Mr. Borthwick stated, that he was perfectly
ready to withdraw any observations which reflected on Mr. Rushout’s
character, being convinced that he had made use of them under
misapprehension.
BETWEEN M. CALMEL AND M. LUARD.
May 1838.
A meeting with pistols took place near Caen, in Normandy, between M.
Calmel and M. Luard, both of that town; in which the latter fell, and
died almost immediately. M. Calmel and the four seconds were indicted
for murder, and brought to trial on the 22d, before the Court of Assizes
at Caen. The jury, notwithstanding the repeated reversals of such
decisions by the Court of Cassation, returned a verdict of acquittal
against all the parties.
BETWEEN LORD CASTLEREAGH AND M. GERARD DE MELCY.
June 16, 1838.
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