The evidence being closed, the prisoner addressed the jury in mitigation of his conduct. Lords Hood, Nelson, Hotham, and Minto, and a great number of highly respectable gentlemen gave Captain Macnamara a most excellent character. Mr. Justice Heath summed up the evidence, and stated, that, from the pressure of the evidence, and the prisoner’s own admission, the jury must find a verdict of “manslaughter.” They were, however, of a different opinion; for, after retiring a quarter of an hour, they pronounced a verdict of “Not guilty.” BETWEEN LORD CAMELFORD AND CAPTAIN BEST. March, 1804. A duel has been fought between Lord Camelford and Captain Best, of the Royal Navy, in the fields behind Holland House, near Kensington. The meeting is said to have taken place in consequence of a quarrel between the parties, who were intimate friends, on the preceding evening, at the Prince of Wales’s Coffee-house. Lord Camelford and Mr. Best had been intimate friends; both were young men of fashion, and esteemed first-rate shots. The subject of their quarrel was an abandoned woman, of the name of Symons, who had formerly lived with Mr. Best, but was then under the protection of Lord Camelford. This woman meeting Mr. Best at the Opera, made of him a request inconsistent with their relative positions; and on being refused, declared she would set Lord Camelford _upon him_; and accordingly complained to his Lordship, that Mr. Best had spoken disrespectfully of him. This greatly incensed Lord Camelford; and at the Prince of Wales’s Hotel, where they generally dined, he went up to Mr. Best, and said, loud enough to be heard by all present, “I find that you have spoken of me in the most unwarrantable terms.” Mr. Best mildly replied, that he was utterly unconscious of deserving such a charge; to which Lord Camelford answered, that he was not ignorant of what he had said of him to Mrs. Symons, and pronounced him to be a _scoundrel_, a _liar_, and a _ruffian_. Mr. Best said, that these were expressions which admitted but of one course, and a meeting was immediately arranged for the next morning. In the course of the evening Mr. Best conveyed to Lord Camelford the strongest assurance that the information he had received was unfounded; and believing that his Lordship was acting under a wrong impression, he would be satisfied if the expressions he had made use of were retracted. This Lord Camelford refused to do. Attended by their respective friends, they met the following morning at a coffee-house in Oxford Street; and there again Mr. Best made an effort to obtain a retractation of the insulting words. He went up to his Lordship, and said, “Camelford, we have been friends, and I know the unsuspecting generosity of your nature; upon my honour, you have been imposed upon by a strumpet. Do not persist in expressions under which one of us must fall.” Lord Camelford answered, “Best, this is child’s play; the affair must go on.”