ABSTRACT
In the different governments of the continent a blow, given by one gentleman to another, is an affront that can only be extinguished in blood. The first business however, was to remove Alton to some hiding-place where the myrmidons of the police should not reach him. a The government of Austria probably connived at this, unwilling to proceed against a British nobleman, and 88who had lately been a minister from the court of London, with extreme severity. / The next business was for the friends of each party to adjust the preliminaries between them. Fabroni was fervent in his demand of expiation; and Alton knew sufficiently the established laws of honour, to feel that the demand could not be controverted. It was settled between the parties, that they must immediately leave the Austrian dominions; and the neighbourhood of Saltzburg in Bavaria was fixed on as the place where the difference was to be decided.
