56 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1997. 
ther of the young lady (whois new 
Lord Kingfborough) and the de- 
ceafed ‘Colonel Fitzgerald, fhe was 
removed to the country refidence of 
her noble faiher, now the Earl pf 
Kingfton, at Mitchelftown, near 
Kilworth, in this kingdom. The 
deceafed, feeling no remorfe for 
what he had cone, in difhonouring, 
by the moft artful ftratacems, an 
illuftrious family, had the audacity 
znd perfeverancetofollowthe young 
lady to freiand (it is feppofed, with 
fz view to wreft her by viclence 
from her parents) and took a lodging 
at an-inn in Kilworth. The Co- 
lone] had been there fome days be- 
fore his arrival at Kilworth was 
known, or the object of his expe- 
cifion was difcovered. He was 
obferved to walk out in the 
night, and conceal himfelf in the 
day ; and the fervants at length no- 
ticed him lurking about Mitchelf- 
town-houfe at unfeafonable hours. 
The intelligence having reached 
Lord Kingfborough, who had had 
the duel with the Colonel, and re- 
folved to defeat his antagonitt’s pro- 
ject, he left his father’s houfe, and 
went to Kilworth, where, having 
enquired if that gentleman was in 
the houfe, and being informed he 
was, he went to the apartment 
as direfted, in which the Colo- 
nel lodged. Lord Kingfborongh 
rapped at the door, requiring ad- 
mittance; the other, knowing his 
voice, replied that he: was locked 
in, and could not open the door ; 
but if he had any thing to fay to 
him. he would receive it in writ- 
ing under the door. This enraged 
the young nobleman, and-he forced 
open the door, and running to 2 
cafe of piftols in the room, took 
one,and defired the Colonel to take 
the other and defend himfelf, as 
he was refolved to have fatisfaction, 
for the fcheme the deceafed hag 
formed againft his fifter, and which 
he came to this place to put in ex. 
eculion. On both feizing the pii- 
tols, they grappled with each other, 
and were, ftrugeling, when the Earl 
of Kingfton, who had been apprifed 
of his fon’s departure in purfuit of 
the Colonel, and quickly followed 
the young lord, entered the room, 
and finding them in the conteit, 
end thet his fon muft lofe his life 
from the fituation the deceafed had 
him in, the Earl fired upon the 
Colonel, not we believe with an 
intent to kill him, though his ag- 
gravation was great; but the fhot 
however took effect, and the Co- 
Ionel loft his life, not lamented 
by any one who has heard of his 
very difhonourable conduét in this 
affair. When Mifs King was taken 
by her father from Engiand, on ac-~ 
count of ker difgrace, it was dif- 
covered, on her arrival in Dublin, 
that the fervant-maid who accom- 
panied her, favoured the views of 
the feducer. On her confequent 
difmiffal from the fervice, fhe re- 
turned to England, and was the 
bearer of a private letter to Co- 
lonel Fitzgerald, the contents of 
which were, itis faid, fufficient to 
induce the Colonel, eyen at the 
rifk-of his life, to make an effort 
to regain the young lady; but his 
finances not enabling him to un- 
dertake the journey, he borrowed 
a'fm of money of an amiable wo- 
man, who’ cught ever to have been 
moit dear to lim, under the pre- 
tence of making a vifit to Dorfet- 
fhire. Thus accommodated, he fet 
out for the fifter kingdom, and ar- 
rived at the village of Kilworth, 
near Mitchelftone, the’refidence’of 
the noble family, the place where 
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