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Hyde Park duel ends in fatal injury and London crimes
Reports detail a duel in Hyde Park near Kensington Horse-Guard Chamber where Captain Anderson died after being run through. The assailant Mr. Lee surrendered to Justice Ray. The column also covers robberies, court outcomes, river reports, hunting park restrictions, and various political-military dispatches from Europe and Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
Anderson
Hyde Park
Kensington
Justice Ray
Knightsbridge
Peters
Pyrenean
Madrid
London
Keene
New Park
John Clark
Golden Square
Duke of Buckingham
Montpellier
Hereford
Cholmley
Thomas Wooly
Plaisterer
Great St. Hellen’s
Bishopsgate Street
Butt
William
South- Sea Company
Threadneedle-street
Richard Hopkins
Spain
N.S
Thomas “ Fitzgeraldine
Downs
la Vera Cruz
Thomas Fitzgeraldine
Limpsfeld
Surrey
Richard Jordain
Richard Dunn
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Anne Smith
Ralph Bonner
Durham
Jonathan Simpson
Elizabeth Wandleffe
Oxford
Stanmore
Middlesex
Merrick
Southall
Chaife
Green
Josiah Brown
North-hall
King’s Bench
S Temple
Hilder
Paris
Durante Bene Placito
Brest
Teddy
Count de’ Montijo
Versailles
Hanover