Though a coxcomb and a voluptuary, he seems to have had some fine qualities.

On the last day of his life he saw Kirke.

Kirke implored forgiveness; and the dying man declared that he forgave as he hoped to be forgiven.

There can be no doubt that a person who kills another in a duel is, according to law, guilty of murder.

But the law had never been strictly enforced against gentlemen in such cases; and in this case there was no peculiar atrocity, no deep seated malice, no suspicion of foul play.