Lælius.
The following article contains a very graphic account of a duel, from the origin down to the acquittal of the prisoner:—
THE LAW RESPECTING DUELLING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir,
Your correspondent, whose communication on the subject of duelling you printed on Friday, must have adopted the principle which he lays down from an article in Knight’s Quarterly Magazine, a periodical which was born and died some twenty years ago; but which, during its brief existence, could boast some contributors who have since risen to eminence; among others, et facile princeps, the Right Honourable Thomas Macaulay, then at Cambridge—not, however, that I have the slightest reason to believe the paper to which I refer to be his. As the work is now scarce, I have made a copy of the article, which is at your service.
I am, &c.
T.