Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

LONDON, October 2.

DUEL.

Yesterday morning a meeting took place in Hyde-Park between Col. Fitzgerald, and the Hon. Col. King, brother to the young lady whose elopement has been for some days the principal topic of conversation in the metropolis.—After discharging three cases of pistols each without effect, Col. F. very quietly put on his great-coat, and left the field: neither party, we understand, had any more ammunition, which was the occasion of their parting in the above manner; we may therefore expect to hear something more of it.

Relative to this event a morning paper gives the following particulars:

The unhappy cause of this meeting is recent in the public mind. Colonel K. came to town from Ireland on Friday last, to demand satisfaction for an irreparable injury to his family.

Major W. his second, with much difficulty, obtained an interview with Col. F. to whom he delivered a message from Col. K. intimating that he came to punish him for the greatest violation of the principles of honor and decorum; that his sister, the Hon. Miss K. and family, had sustained the greatest outrage and perfidy; and that although the aggressor was not entitled to the honorable claims of society, yet that he should have an opportunity of making a defence in the field. Col. F. without the smallest hesitation, accepted the challenge, and the contest terminated as we have already described.

As soon as the affair had transpired, Col. Stephens ordered Col. F. to be put under arrest.

Col. K. is the brother of the unfortunate young lady who was lately seduced from her mother's, and about whose story the public has for some weeks been so conversant.

Lord Kingborough, and his brother George King, arrived on Thursday in town from Ireland. The latter attended at the Mount Coffee-house on Friday evening, and part of Saturday, in hopes of meeting with Col. F.

The Nobleman alluded to, when a school-boy, married the only daughter of a Col. Fitzgerald, by whom he obtained an estate of 20,000l. a year. His lordship has a numerous family, and his eldest daughter is Countess of Mountcashel. Col. K. served the greater part of the last war in America.

The relatives of the young lady, as may be naturally supposed, are in the most deplorable state of mind. They have experienced an unpardonable breach of hospitality—The character of a very amiable daughter has been left to the bitter aggravation of misfortune—and the family name, always high in the records of honor, exposed to the tongue of wanton calumny.