The New Hampshire Gazette

NEW WEAPONS AND DUEL EXTRAORDINARY.

A Mr. B. of Brighton, Eng. had been in treaty to purchase a piece of ground of Mr. L. but some trifling objection arose in respect of price. Mr. L. afterwards sold the land to another person, which offended Mr. B. as he had received a promise from Mr. L. that it should not so be parted with, until he had given Mr. B. notice to that effect. Mr. L. denied this promise, and received from Mr. B. the lie direct. Indignant at this expression, Mr. L. demanded satisfaction, which was refused in any other way short of an hostile meeting. Mr. L. then retired to procure weapons, and returned, not with pistols, but with a brace of formidable horse-whips;—and accompanied with the insulting appellation of Coward, desired Mr. B. to take one. Mr. B. consented, but proposed a removal to the Downs, with their friends, which was instantly agreed to. Arrived at a suitable spot, the parties took off their coats, and immediately began. The strokes exchanged were barbarously severe—face, head, shoulders, back and loins, received the blows, until neither party had a sound place about him from the waist upwards. This flagellation continued for nearly 20 minutes, with equal resolution on both sides, when, nearly exhausted, they halted, as by mutual consent. The friends on both sides, however, interfered, and urged the propriety of an amicable adjustment, and this, at last was effected, by Mr. L. expressing sorrow at having made use of the term coward, when Mr. B. admitted, that the provocation he had given was a hasty expression, and for which he then felt an equal regret. The parties have both suffered much from the wounds they received.