Graham Viscount Cheyney, of the kingdom of Scotland, had been returned at the head of the poll by the Tories.

The two noblemen met at the quarter sessions.

In England Cheyney was before the Union merely an Esquire.

Wharton was undoubtedly entitled to take place of him, and had repeatedly taken place of him without any dispute.
But angry passions now ran so high that a decent pretext for indulging them was hardly thought necessary.

Cheyney fastened a quarrel on Wharton.