inconvenient, and they would have moved her to another, but I would not suffer it, because it had no room backwards, and she must have been tortured with the noise of the Grub-street screamers dinging her husband’s murder in her ears.” This duel must have been of the most murderous nature, from the number of wounds that both parties received. The Duke of Hamilton had received one on the right side of the leg, about seven inches long, another in the right arm, the third in the upper part of the right breast, running downwards towards the body, the fourth on the outside of the left leg. Lord Mohun received a large wound in the groin, another in the right side through the body and up to the hilt of the sword, and a third in his arm. In the Postboy, of the 20th November, the following particulars of this field meeting were given:—“Major-General M’Carthy went three times to the Duke, and was at the bagnio all night with Lord Mohun, who was observed to be seized with fear and trembling at the time. The seconds were Colonel Hamilton, of the Foot-guards, for the Duke, and M’Carthy for Lord Mohun. It appears that the parties did not parry, but gave thrusts at each other, and Lord Mohun shortening his sword stabbed the Duke in the upper part of the left breast running downwards into the body, which wound was fourteen inches long, and he expired soon after he was put into the coach. A dispute at law had existed between the parties, but without any personal quarrel of consequence.” Swift, in his history of the four last years of Queen Anne, says, that M’Carthy stabbed the Duke after he was wounded by Lord Mohun. He afterwards escaped to Holland, but in June, 1716, was tried for murder in the Court of King’s Bench, and found guilty of manslaughter. Swift relates a curious anecdote of a gentleman, who being attacked by highwaymen, told them that he was M’Carthy, upon which they brought him before a justice in the hopes of receiving the reward for his apprehension, when he gave the rogues in charge. This Lord Mohun appears to have been an unprincipled character, whose associates were in general as depraved and contemptible as himself. In the year 1692, we find him tried for the murder of Montford the player, an atrocious act, in which he was at any rate most deeply implicated.