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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io- s. v. MAW* 3, 1900.

"We have lately felt a sad Instance of God's Swit/prlanrJ nnr? in a*J n ^ ~-i.u tu Judgments in the terrible Tempest : Terrible be- BtraSion rnSjSViS accorda " ( : e . 1 w i fch u the in- yond any thing in that kind in Memory or Record, ^ructions contained in a codicil to his will, For, not to enlarge on the lamentable Wrecks and Deposited near the borders of the Lake of Ruins, were we not almost swept into a Chaos ? kt. Lampierre, in the canton of Berne (see

2 nd S. i. 461).

Lord Camelford, though possessing some praiseworthy traits, was a man of ungovern- able temper, and his extraordinary conduct on many occasions pointed to an unsettled

Did not Nature seem to be in her last Agony, and the World ready to expire? And if we go on still in such Sins of Defyance, may we not be afraid of the Punishment of Sodom, and that God should destroy us with Fire and Brimstone.

"What Impression this late Calamity has made

P^ n ^ b. e i ? Ia *:? 0! S*i we av P ess b /,J heir Acti, ng 'Macbeth' with all its Thunder and Tempest, the

same Day: When, at the mention of the Chimnies being blown down ('Macbeth,' p. 20), the Audience were pleas'd to Clap, at an unusual Length of Pleasure and

brain - The murder ~ o f Lieut. Charles ~Peter" son which is dpsprihprl K TinT TTr !?i^ p u '"ii iescr } be ? by MR. UDAL, and wnich ^ eca11 ? an, incident that recently occurred on board the Kniaz Potemkin, was

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asure and Approbation. And is not the mean- an unjustifiable act, especially as under nava 1

ng of all this too intelligible? Does it not look law Mr. Peterson would seem to have been

as if they had a Mind to out-brave the Judgment? f} 1P qpninr rffi>r T A n i* ^

And make us believe the Storm was nothing but * ? fi^ f *?f^ fW'ir n^ d 8 f ? th ,? r

an Eruption of Epicurus's Atoms, a Spring-Tide of * as, a firs ^ ? ousm, of William Pitt, and the

Matter and Motion, and a blind Salley of Chance? court-martial may have thought it would be

This throwing Providence out of the Scheme, is an an unseemly thing to hang a near relative of

admirable Opiate for the Conscience ! And when the Prime Minister. Notwithstanding this-

Recollection is laid asleep the Stage will recover relationship, however, Lord Camefford'a

of course, and go on with their Business effectual y nn iifi n al nmni/wk. A u

...... December 10, 1703. j.c." political opinions verged on Jacobinism, and

F. J. FURNIVALL.

LORD CAMELFORD'S DUEL. THE duel in which Lord Camelford lost his life (see ante, p. 105) was one of the "sensa- 1 and, sallying out with a cudgel" he "met "the

on the proclamation of peace in 1801, when a general illumination took place, he incurred the wrath of the mob by refusing to light up the windows of his lodgings at 148, New Bond Street. The windows were smashed,

xu.c v* 3 ^ <*!/</, f *w"/ "o V nw w*. vi. v, ov/noc*- 1 and, sallying out with a cudgel, he met the tions " of the year 1804. It originated in mob in a fierce encounter, in which he- one of those squalid disputes which were not naturally got the worst of it. That exem- uncommon a century ago. Lord Camelford plary Whig, Lord Holland, erected a sham thought an old friend, Capt. Best of the antique Roman altar, bearing a classical in- Royal Navy, had given him just ground of scription, upon the spot where he fell (see offence, and he publicly insulted him in the 3 rd S. vii. 131). W. F. PRIDEAUX

lobby of Stevens's Hotel, No. 18, New Bond

Street. Capt. Best in returning home sent -tt; seems somewhat strange that MR. UDAL. Lord Camelford a challenge, which was ac- a. nd M - A'Court should be under the impres- cepted, and the duel took place on 7 March, fion that there is any doubt as to Lord 1804, in a field situated a little to the west of Camelford s ultimate fate (see ante, p. 105), Holland House, Kensington. Capt. Best had as few duels have been so often described in the reputation of being the best shot in Eng- Pnnt as that in which he lost his life. He was- land, and all efforts at reconciliation failed mortally wounded in a duel with Capt. Best, through Lord Camelford's idea that his own fought in the early morning on 7 March, 1804, character would suffer if he made any con- "? a M eld at fcue back of Little Holland House, cession to his opponent. Lord Camelford Kensington, and he died four days later, fired first, and missed ; but the shot of his An account of the duel appeared in The

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antagonist was more skilfully directed, and Times of 8 March, and was reprinted in the the bullet pierced his lordship's chest, and, issue of that journal on the corresponding passing through the lungs, lodged in theN a y of 1904; also in 'The Annual Register r vertebrae. The wounded man was carried to | of 1804, p. 470 ; in the 'D.N.B ' ; in Timbs's

Romance of London'; in Leigh Hunt's ' Old Court Suburb ' ; and in a paper by Charles Reade * What has become of Lord

Little Holland House then in the occupa- tion of Mr. Ottey where, after lingering in great agony for over three days, he died on the evening of 10 March. He was only twenty-nine years of age, and showed some

Camelford's Body?' which maybe found in a book b magnanimity in forgiving'his opponent, who I Stories.'

a book by him entitled 'The Jilt, and other

a-y be Jilt,

was never brought to trial, the verdict at By a codicil to his will, made the night the coroner's inquest being ** Wilful murder before he died (quoted verbatim at 2 nd S. i. against a person or persons unknown." His 461), he directed that he should be buried in remains were subsequently conveyed to | a particular spot in Switzerland. But as to-