A duel, attended with fatal consequences, took place on Friday evening, the 16th of February, at nine o’clock, in a field between Chalk Farm Tavern and Primrose Hill. The parties in this unhappy conflict were Mr. John Scott, the avowed editor of the London Magazine, and Mr. Christie, a friend of the supposed conductor of Blackwood’s Magazine, Mr. John Gibson Lockhart, of Edinburgh. The quarrel between these gentlemen had its rise in a series of articles which appeared in the London Magazine, discussing the conduct and management of Blackwood’s Magazine, and regarded by Mr. Lockhart as offensive to his feelings and injurious to his honour. Mr. Christie, as the friend of Mr. Lockhart, waited upon Mr. Scott to demand an explanation of the articles in question; and, in fact, to require a public apology for matter which he considered personally offensive to himself, or such other satisfaction as a gentleman was entitled to. This interview led to others, as well as to a correspondence, in which much of mutual warmth was expressed. To prevent misapprehension of what had occurred, Mr. Scott published his statement of the transactions to which he had been a party; which was very generally circulated in the literary world, as well as copied into some of the daily papers. This was followed by a statement on the part of Mr. Christie, the friend of Mr. Lockhart; which was succeeded by a second statement from the pen of Mr. Scott, in which he treated the conduct of Mr. Lockhart with great asperity, and defended the course which he had pursued with considerable warmth. Then followed a counter-statement from Mr. Christie; in consequence of which, Mr. Scott proceeded with his friend Mr. Patmore, to Mr. Christie’s lodgings, and demanded an apology or instant satisfaction. Mr. Christie refused the former, and expressed his readiness, without loss of time, to grant the latter.