A duel, attended with a fatal result, took place at Boulogne, on the 1st of April, between Captain Helsham and Lieutenant Crowther. It arose out of an objection made by the former to the admission of the latter to a club established at Boulogne. The objection was, that the lieutenant had been assaulted in England, and had not behaved like an officer or a gentleman, by challenging the assaulter. The lieutenant demanded an apology: this the captain refusing to make, a duel ensued, and Lieutenant Crowther fell. On the 8th of October 1830, Captain Helsham was tried, by a special commission, at the Old Bailey, on a charge of murder, under the Act of the 9th of George IV., in which it is provided, “that if any of his Majesty’s subjects should be charged in this country with the murder or manslaughter of any fellow-subject on land abroad, and beyond his Majesty’s prerogative, it should be lawful, although such murder or manslaughter be in a foreign land, to try such party accused of either of these offences in England.” Mr. William Coksley, a resident at Boulogne, gave the following evidence:—“I saw the parties on the ground. There were many individuals present. Mr. Malony put a pistol into Lieutenant Crowther’s hand, who soon after fired it off. I observed Captain Helsham’s arm raised; and after some short time his pistol was fired, and Lieutenant Crowther fell. The ball had passed through his neck; he never spoke afterwards, and died within half an hour. Captain Helsham walked off the ground immediately, having told his servant to take his pistols home.”