Duel between
the Duke De Fitzjames and Lord Blayney
February 1797

"In consequence of some words which fell in the Parliament of Ireland, concerning the emigrant officers, which the Duke de Fitzjames, a French nobleman of very high honour, now in Ireland, conceived insulting to him, he sent a challenge lately to the nobleman abovementioned. A meeting in consequence took place in the Phœnix Park, where each discharged a case of pistols. The Duke de F. it is said was grazed by a ball in the side, and another went through Lord B's hat. They were afterwards reconciled to each other, and went from the ground good friends. The Duke de F. became somewhat indisposed after the affair, and was politely visited by Lord Blayney on the following day, at his lodgings on the north side of the town. Both these noblemen are military commanders. The young Irish Peer served under his Royal Highness the Duke of York on the Continent, and was slightly wounded. Transcribed from "The Sporting Magazine for February 1797 pg 234 in 'The Sporting Magazine or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chace, And every other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize & Spirit'. Volume the Ninth London (Printed for the PROPRIETOR) MDCCXCVII (1797) [447]. Also in "The European Magazine, and London Review" of 1797 [736]