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oflScer and a gentleman. After mucli discussion they 

 came to the following resolution : ' It is the opinion of 

 the Coldstream Eegiment, that subsequently to the 

 15th of May, the day of the meeting at the orderly- 

 room, Lieutenant-Colonel Lennox has behaved with 

 courage ; but from the peculiar difficulty of his 

 situation, not with judgment.' The unusual, if not 

 unprecedented occurrence of a Prince of the Blood, 

 and one so near the throne, voluntarily placing his life 

 in such imminent peril, created at the time a strong 

 sensation." 



A rather remarkable coincidence in connection with 

 the unfortunate affair occurred in 1825, when his 

 Eoyal Highness visited his Grace the fifth Duke. 



Upon being shown over the house by Lord William 

 Lennox (his Grace's brother), and entering a small 

 room off the library, called " The Study," which his 

 Grace appropriated to magisterial and other business, 

 and where were deposited in a glass case various 

 guns, swords, pistols, etc., his Royal Highness' 

 attention was attracted by a pair of duelling pistols, 

 and after remarking upon their maker, he added that 

 he did not think they had ever been used. These 

 were the identical pistols from which his Eoyal 

 Highness so narrowly escaped serious injury on 

 Wimbledon Common. 



In 1807 his Grace the fourth Duke was appointed 

 Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in which country he spent 



