“Suffolk-street, Friday night, eleven, P.M.
“My Lord,
“I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your grace’s note. I have already had occasion to communicate to your grace, that, under existing circumstances, I did not feel myself in a situation to comply with what was required of me in regard to my public letter. The satisfaction which your grace has demanded, it is of course impossible for me to decline. I have the honour to be, &c.
“Winchilsea.”
The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea met at the place appointed (Battersea fields), on the following morning. The parties having taken their ground. Lord Winchilsea received the Duke of Wellington’s fire, and fired in the air. After some discussion, the accompanying memorandum was delivered by Lord Falmouth to Sir Henry Hardinge, and accepted by Sir Henry, as a satisfactory reparation to the Duke of Wellington:—
MEMORANDUM.
“Having given the Duke of Wellington the usual satisfaction for the affront he conceived himself to have received from me, through my public letter of Monday last, and having thus placed myself in a different situation from that in which I stood when his grace communicated with me, through Sir Henry Hardinge and Lord Falmouth, on the subject of that letter, before the meeting took place, I do not now hesitate to declare, of my own accord, that, in apology, I regret having individually published an opinion which the noble duke states, in his memorandum of yesterday, to have charged him with disgraceful and criminal motives in a certain transaction which took place nearly a year ago. I also declare that I shall cause this expression of regret to be inserted in the Standard newspaper, as the same channel through which the letter in question was given to the public.”
A copy of the preceding correspondence having been sent by Sir Henry Hardinge to the evening papers of the same day, the following memorandum was published by Lord Falmouth on Monday the 22nd:—