DUEL OF LORD BINGHAM AND MAJOR FITZGERALD—We ad- verted to
the farcical conclusion of this affair a considerable time ago, when it was first brought under the notice of the public by a paragraph in a contemporary: Last week the same journal published a mass of epistolary negociatton on the same subject, sufficient for the discussion and settlement of the Corn bill. The letters amount to thirty-two ! Lord Bingham, when a candidate for the representation of the County of Mayo, in 1826, made Major Fitzgerald a promise of getting him an appointment—a comfortable appointment at home or abroad, in a healthy climate—is the Major's definition of it. For four years after, his Lordship's letters appear to have been filled with hope, expectation, and regret, but no comfortable appointment was forthcoming. The Major, on the 17th of June last, writes to the Lord that he will no longer be trilled with ; and Lord Bingham, considering the expressions of this letter to be objectionable replies that he will not stir another step to. wards the completion Of the Major's wishes until they are retracted. Friends were then appointed and after much ado, the parties met, a mile from Ostend, on the. Brussels road. Lieutenant Breedon then placed a paper in the hands of Captain Lyon, signed by himself on the part of Major Fitzgerald, -stating, that he was anxious to withdraw all his Objectionable letters, in full reliance on the honour and generosity of his Lordship; and so the matter ended. We have but one remark to offer on this affair. So open an avowal Of political jobbing has seldom been made; but we are most happy that it has been made. We will watch the lists of future comfortable ap- pointments ; and it will go hard, if we find in any of them the name of Major FiTZGERALD, if we do not compel his patrons to show better cause for their kindness than the service n owhich he is at present con- tent Wrest his claim.
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