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 "As to the duel, every thing was effected by natural means: I cleaned and charged the pistols of Lieutenant C, and took care to spoil the locks of one brace, and to charge the other with wrong bullets. I informed the governor of the duel, that Baron T's courage might be known, and he returned, for the same reason, to town, as soon as the duel was fought, delivering himself into the hands of the soldiers, who had been ordered to arrest the combattants."

"That he might be thought generous, he supplicated for the enlargment of his antagonist, and procured him the governor's pardon."

"The heniousness of this deed of mine will be lessened in your eyes, if I tell you, that the bullets in the Baron's pistols were likewise too small, so that Lieutenant C could not be wounded dangerously, and the Baron took care not to hurt him materially."