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to London and challenged Mr . Scott to a duel . Mr . Scott refused to fight this gentleman without some admission or explanation , which he refused to give . Libellous papers were then put out on both sides ; and in one of these issued by Mr . Scott , Mr , Christie , a barrister , a friend of Mr . Lockhart ' s , conceived
himself reflected on , and challenged the writer . This challenge was instantly accepted , and on the cveiling of the day that it was given the parties met and fought by moon-light , and in the second fire Mr . Scott received a wound , which in ten days terminated fatally . The Coroner ' s Jury brought in a verdict of
Wilful Murder against Mr . Christie , and the two seconds , Mr . Trail ( for Christie ) and Mr . Patmore ( for Scott ) . Christie and Trail were tried at the Old Bailey , a few days ago , and , after some deliberation on the part of the Jury , acquitted : Patmore has not yet surrendered . —Mr . Scott has
left a widow , ( the daughter of Mr . Colnaghi , the print-seller in Cockspur Street , ) and we believe a young family , for whom a public subscription is now on foot , encouraged by Sir James Mackintosh , Dr . Waugh and other gentlemen . —And thus has ended this affair of honour : one life
taken away after ten days and nights of pain , two gentlemen forced into the felons" dock to take their trial for murder , another a fugitive , and a respectable family thrown upon public charity ! Alas ! for them that call good evil , and evil good .
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— 24 , at Chelsea , in the 64 th year of his age , Alexander Stephens , Esq ., during the last thirty years one of the most active of the metropolitan literati .
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250 Obituary . —Mr . Bryan . —A . Stephens , Esq . —Mr . J . T . Clarke .
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- March 21 . Mr . M . Bryan , author of the Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers , the latest work of the kind published , and though , as a literary performance , monotonous in language and thought , valuable for reference , and in the main for its correctness of
opinion respecting the Artists , who are more numerously introduced than in any other Biography . His regard for painting almost amounted to a passion , which was considered to have been so regulated by sound judgment , as to have rendered him one of the most safe and extensive
negociators of the purchase of Pictures . Hence he was employed to purchase for the Earl of Carlisle , &c , the famous Orleans Collection , and to dispose of that part of it which they did not retain . Some of the choicest foreign pictures in England were of his introduction . We understand that the excellence of his moral disposition and conduct equalled his taste and enthusiasm . Examiner .
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— " ^—— 26 , at Newport * in the Isle of Wighty of pulmonary consumption , in the 26 th year of his age , Mr . James
Taylor Clarke , youngest son of the late Mr . Abraham Clarke , of Newport . The character of this excellent young man cannot be more accurately described than in the language of the very impressive and useful sermon preached by the Rev . Mr . Hughes , at the Unitarian Chapel in Newport , on the day of the funeral of his much-lamented and" esteemed
young friend . Addressing himself to the bereaved friends of the deceased , he says , " As we sit in pensive circle recounting to each other what those we once loved were , and what their virtues and their talents would have made them , the comfort of your lives , the blessing of your family , a credit to society ; and oft as in tearful recollection memory dwells upon the affection which throbbed in his heart ,
the generous , manly warmth which informed his feelings , the dignity and uprightness of his principles , the ardour of his mind , his thirst for knowledge , his anxiety to improve his every talent , —let the charm of his mild and unassuming virtue , ever averse from wrong , ever
strenuous to do right ;—let all this carry you on to days in which you will meet them all again , and not only again but infinitely improved . Say not that * death has made a fearful ruin *—that ' it has crushed an inestimable jewel ;* say rather that he is escaped from the world ere at had scotched him much—that he is re-
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He was a native of Elgin , in North Britain , and was educated at the University of Aberdeen . He afterwards entered himself of the Middle Temple , and his first production was a Law Journal . He was the author of " The History of the VYars of the French Revolution /* fn 2
vols . 4 to ., and we believe also of «« Memoirs of John Home Tooke , " 8 vo . He contributed largely to The Analytical Review , long since dropped , and to The Monthly Magazine . And he was the Editor of ( besides other works ) the 2 volumes of Founders of the French
Republic , nine of the eleven volumes of Public Characters , the Biographical Indexes to the Houses of Lords and Commons , the Annual Necrology , published 1799 , and latterly the Annual Obituary , of which he had just completed the volume for 1820 . He sometimes acted as agent for suitors in the House of Lords , and conducted with honour and success
the claim to the Roxburgh peerage . His literary and domestic habits precluded him from public life ; but he was justly respected for his patriotic spirit and political independence . ^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/58/
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