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growing up amongst us ; and that , whatever Lord Alvanley and his requisitionists may think , most respectable men , I will even hope most gentlemen in England will , ere long , consider it a more painful and dishonouring imputation to be stigmatized as unpatriotic and dishonest , than to be ridiculed as foolish and fat . " All . Hear ! hear !—Spoken like a true gentleman .
Mr . Albion . One of the most rational things said on the occasion of this duelling affair appeared also in the' Morning Chronicle . ' The writer observed : — ' We have heard of truth being hid in a well , but never in a pistol barrel ; and it puzzles us to make out whether , if Mr . O'Connell had given Lord Alvanley a hostile meeting , how the result could have decided whether his Lordship were a " bloated buffoon" or not . The old wager of battle , from
which duelling is derived , depended on the principle that heaven would decide in favour of the just cause . Now , in the case of this duel , neither party has fallen , and therefore the only point that is placed quite beyond doubt is , that though his lordship may be a live buffoon , he is not yet a dead one !' All { laughing ) . Ha ! ha ! ha ! Lord Dough . I rise to order !
All * Ha ! ha ! ha ! Lord Dough . On my honour , do I , and for nought beside . I know I declared my intention of declining to speak this day ; but really the cruel pleasure , by your laughter indicated , beyond minor considerations , impels me . I affirm that Lord Alvanley is a brave , good-tempered , gentlemanly , and witty man . Prove it too , will I , by his conduct and sayings . All . Hear ! hear ! hear !
Lord Dough . I shall give you facts and sayings known only to his private friends and the clubs ; not any of which have been the round of the newspapers '—a race that much I hate ! The erening before Lord Alvanley went to meet Mr . Morgan O'Connell , he from a dinner party arose at an hour that was early , with the quiet apology that ' ¦ he was going on a shooting excursion T Eh ! that ' s good ? Nobody suspected the deed of ' high emprize ' he con *
templated . Then , again , when Colonel Hodges announced the so unreasonable and fierce requisition of Mr . Morgan , that they should fire after the second exchange of commodities , and Lord AlvanUy ' a friend , Colonel Dawson , handed him a loaded pop for the third time , he aptly remarked , * Wliy , Dawson , we shall go on firing till the 1 st of September . ' Eh ! is ' nt that good-tempered , and
courageous , and pleasant ? Answer , ye glum Saracens 1 Finally , when he got out of a hackney-coach on his return , he presented the driving personage with a sovereign . * Lord , sir , I can ' t have all this for taking you such a short wa . y V ' No , my good fellow / quoth his Lordship , * it ' for bringing me back V Ha ! hal bal ~ - now don ' t you call that good-humour , and generosity , and genuine wit ?
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Dies sub Ccelb . 371
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/7/
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