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I did not choose to make any enquiries about the affair from my son till this morning, otherwise I should have writ to you yesterday. He is, I thank God, wonderfully recovered, and I hope he will be able to go abroad in two or three days. Some messages he received from Mathews conveyed in the most opprobrious terms, and at last a letter filled with the most scurrilous abuse, made him lose all patience and hurried him into giving him a meeting which he had before resolved against. They had not exchanged three passes before they both closed in, both fell, and both their swords were broke. But my son’s snapped across within four inches of the hilt and that of Mr Mathews was only shivered in the middle, leaving a jagged point and running tapering up a great way of the blade.
From Moore, Memoirs of Shendan, 1, 70–1. Editor s title.
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On 14 May 1821, Lord Thanet told Thomas Moore that ‘Lord John Townshend and (I think) Hare went to Bath for the purpose of getting acquainted with Mathews, and making inquiries about his affair with Sheridan. Mathews described the duel as a mere hoax—in fact, no duel at all; that Sheridan came drunk, and that he (Mathews) could have killed him with the greatest ease if he had chosen.’ Moore adds, ‘A precious fellow this Mathews was!’ Thomas Moore, Memoirs, Journals, and Correspondence, ed. Lord John Russell (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853–6) III, 233.
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Sheridan, T. (1989). Wonderfully Recovered. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Sheridan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20441-0_11
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