This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... Clavering, General, and Mr. Barwell. In India, 1775. These gentlemen were members of the Council of Bengal, under the administration of Warren Hastings. They fought, because the General said that Mr. Barwell " had taken money in direct contradiction to his solemn oath." Clavijo, Don Joseph Flaxardo, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... Clavering, General, and Mr. Barwell. In India, 1775. These gentlemen were members of the Council of Bengal, under the administration of Warren Hastings. They fought, because the General said that Mr. Barwell " had taken money in direct contradiction to his solemn oath." Clavijo, Don Joseph Flaxardo, and Beaumarchais. Clavijo loved a sister of Beaumarchais, but forsook her. This desertion caused an affair of honor, which, with the attending circumstances, deprived the former of his employments and the respect of his countrymen, and his life afterwards was passed under a cloud. Clavijo was a Spanish scholar of note, --the translator of Buffon's Natural History into his vernacular, and Vice-Director of the Cabinet of Natural History. Clay, Henry. This eminent statesman fought two duels. He was the challenger in both. The first, in 1808, with Humphrey Marshall, a fellow-member of the Legislature of Kentucky. Mr. Marshall was a gentleman of talents, of high standing, and a Federalist of great influence. He was the constant antagonist of Mr. Clay in debate, and finally indulged in personal remarks so denunciatory and severe, as to draw a message. They met. They exchanged two or three shots, and retired from the field, each slightly wounded. The second, in 1826, on the Virginia shore of the Potomac, near Washington, with John Randolph. Mr. Clay, at this time, was Secretary of State, Mr. Randolph, a Senator in Congress. This duel, like that in 1808, was political. The particular cause will appear in the extract from Mr. Benton's Thirty Years in the Senate, appended to this notice. Never, in my judgment," has the utter, unconditional absurdity and folly of duelling been so perfectly demonstrated, as in the case before us. These two great...
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