PERRY, OLIVER H., captain in the navy of the United States. See Heath, John.

PETIT, JOHN, and GEORGE ROUSSELL. Near Bologne, in 1851. The parties were Frenchmen or Belgians, but lived in England. They went to the Continent, with seconds, under a written agreement to fight a duel à mort, or a duel in which one should fall. The first fire was to be at twenty-five paces, the second at twenty, the third at fifteen; and thus reducing the distance at each fire five paces, they were to grapple, at last, breast to breast. Petit was shot through the heart, at fifteen paces; his dead body was left on the field.

PEYTON, SIR ROBERT. Challenge, in 1681, to Mr. Williams, Speaker of the House of Commons. Sir Robert, “having been brought upon his knees," and expelled the House of Commons, sent a message to the Speaker, who, instead of answering it, complained to the Council. Sir Robert was committed to the Tower.

PHILIP II., King of France. Challenge, in 1196, to Richard I. ("of the lion heart"), King of England. Philip proposed that each should select five champions to fight in lists, for trial of all matters of controversy between them. Richard accepted the offer, on condition that either king might be of the number. To this Philip objected. The quarrel dates from 1191, when both kings were engaged in the Crusade; they took the city of Acre, when Philip returned home in anger. Open war was declared between the two kingdoms in the year 1194.

PHILLIPS, Captain, and SHEPPARD. Both were officers in the British service in India, and were in garrison at Bombay. The two gentlemen quarrelled about a very trivial matter, and, after weeks of correspondence, agreed upon terms of a duel. They fought at night, by the light of a lantern held by a black servant, and without seconds. Phillips was killed on the spot. Sheppard was tried, and convicted of manslaughter. Phillips was the offender, one witness stating that he "thought" he had heard him speak lightly of Sheppard, on some occasion or other.

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PHILLIPS, Captain. See Sterne, Roger.

PHILLIPS, CHARLES, the Irish orator, and MR. HENRIQUEZ. In 1819. A bloodless affair. They met, exchanged shots, shook hands, and parted.

PHILLIPS, HENRY. See Woodbridge, Benjamin.

PHRYNON. See Pittacus.

PICON, MONS. See Soule, Pierre.

PISCATORY, Mons. See Aguesseau, Mons. Segur d'.

PITT, the Right Honorable WILLIAM, Prime Minister of England, and GEORGE TIERNEY, a member of Parliament, Treasurer of the Navy, President of the Board of Control, and Master of the Mint. In 1798, on Putney Common. During a debate in Parliament, Pitt imputed factious motives to Tierney, and said that his course proved "intemperate rashness rather than personal courage. Two shots were exchanged without effect on either side. Pitt fired a third time in the air, when the parties separated.

PITTACUS, of Mitylene, and PHRYNON, general of the Athenian army. Before Christ, the year 547. The inhabitants of Mitylene, being at war with the Athenians, placed Pittacus in command of their forces. To spare the blood of his countrymen, he offered single combat to Phrynon, who accepted, and was slain.

PIZARRO, HERNANDO. See Alvarado, Don Diego.

PLOWDEN, Captain, of the family of Plowdens of Plowden, Northamptonshire, England. He was killed in a duel, previous to the year 1829. His father was an eminent chancery barrister, and author of a History of Ireland; one of his sisters married Lord Dundonald.

POLAND. In 1851. At Posen, a Polish school-boy, seventeen years of age. the account is shot a school-fellow of thirteen, in a duel, and was condemned to eighteen months' imprisonment. Three other boys, between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, who acted as seconds, and umpire, were tried, and acquitted.

POLIGNÁC, the Countess of, and the Lady DE NESLE. In

France, during the last century. These noble ladies, rivals in love, actually fought with pistols, for the honor of the possession of the handsome Duc de Richelieu.

POLYNICES, Prince of Thebes. See Eteocles.

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POMFRET, the Earl of. According to Walpole, his lordship, in his freaks of madness or insanity, imagined that he was often insulted; but he generally selected such persons to answer as looked unlikely to resent," and would refuse his calls. At one time, he indulged the habit of inviting" gentlemen in the play-house, who he pretended had made faces at him." Once, unfortunately, he fixed upon General Moyston, for having laughed at him at Court, and demanded a meeting in Hyde Park. The General “denied having ever seen him there. " "O then it is very well," said Pomfret. "No, it is not," replied Moyston. "You have disturbed me when I had been in bed but three hours, and now you shall give me satisfaction." The Earl begged to be excused. Walpole relates, also, that a Mr. Robinson used to say publicly that he often got Lord Pomfret as far as Hyde Park Corner, but never beyond.

After an interval of several years, the Earl's mania for challenging persons by whom he fancied he had been wronged returned. In 1780 he gave an invitation to the Duke of Grafton for an affront offered to him a long time previously, and while his Grace was a minister of the crown. The Duke declared his innocence, and put him off; but he came back two days afterwards, and in a second message renewed his demand for satisfaction. The Duke, instead of fighting, turned him over to a magistrate.

PONTGIBAUD, Mons. See Bouteville, Count Francis de.

POPE, HENRY C., and JOHN T. GRAY. In Indiana, 1849. Both were citizens of Louisville, Kentucky. Pope had been a captain in the army of the United States; he was the challenger. Gray selected shot guns, loaded with single balls, at twenty paces. Pope fell, mortally wounded: he was placed on a bed, and carried homeward in a boat: he expired before the boat arrived at Louisville.

PORTER, THOMAS. See Bellasses, Sir Henry.

POTEMKIN, a Russian Prince and Field Marshal, and ALEXIS ORLIFF. Probably soon after the year 1776. These person

ages were rivals for the favor of the Empress Catharine II. He won the affections of his royal mistress, to the exclusion not only of Orliff and his brother, but of all other competitors.

Arrogant in his success, the Orliffs hated him, both because of his manners and their discomfiture. In a duel with Alexis he lost an eye. The Empress, after this affair, loved him better than ever before. He gained complete control of the public affairs of Russia.

POUCHKIN, the poet, and the Baron de HECKEren. The Baron was the seducer of Pouchkin's wife. The injured husband was slain. The survivor, an officer in the Russian Imperial Guard, was dismissed the service, and compelled to abandon his country; in 1852 he was employed by Louis Napoleon on a special embassy to Russia.

POWELL, A. See Falkland, Lord Viscount.

POWERS,, a Sergeant. See Colbee, a Corporal.

PRENDERGAST, SIR THOMAS. See Pennant, Peter.

PRINGLE, of Crighton. See Scott, Walter.
PUDENS, the Roman. See Jonathan, the Jew.
PUNONROSTRO, Count of. See Soule, Neville.

PUREFOY, WILLIAM POE, Lieutenant, British army. See Roper, Colonel.

PUTNAM, ISRAEL, a general in the army of the Revolution. Two affairs of "Old Put," during the war, are recorded by his biographer, which require notice in these pages. Neither add to his fame: since he was bound to fight "according to usage," or decline the calls.

The first was with an American officer, whom, without design, he offended at table. The officer demanded instant satisfaction. Putnam agreed to meet him the next morning, without seconds. The officer repaired to the spot designated, armed with sword and pistols, and, before taking his place, was greeted with a shot from Putnam's gun, at thirty rods. As Putnam was reloading his piece, the officer approached, and asked, “What are you about to do? Is this the conduct of an American officer, and a man of honor? "What am I about to do?" replied the General. "A pretty question to put to a man whom you intended to murder! I'm about to kill you: and if

you don't beat a retreat in less time than it takes old Heath to hang a Tory, you are a gone dog." The officer turned and fled.

The second was with a British officer, and a prisoner on parole. Offended at some remarks of the General, a challenge was given and accepted. As the challenged party, Putnam, agreed to select the weapon, and appear at a place which he named, with arms for both. The officer found him there, seated near a barrel, — apparently containing powder, - smoking his pipe.

The General requested him to take a seat on the other side of the cask; and, remarking that "there was an equal chance for both of them," set fire to a match which communicated with the contents of the barrel. The officer looked at the match a moment, as the fire approached the supposed powder, and then departed.

As he retired, Putnam exclaimed: "You are just as brave a man as I took you to be; this is nothing but a barrel of onions, with a few grains of powder on the head, to try you by. But you don't like the smell."

RADCLIFFE, ROBERT, of Foxdenton Hall, County of Lancaster, England, and a captain in the Duke of Monmouth's regiment, and In 1685. Radcliffe was slain, and his remains buried in Talton Chapel.

RAMSAY, DAVID. See Rea, Lord Donald.

RAMSAY, Sir GEORGE, and Captain MACRAE. I suppose, in the latter part of the last century. Sir George fell; leaving no issue, he was succeeded by his brother, who died in 1807.

RANDOLPH, JOHN. See Clay, Henry.

RAWDON, Lord. See Richmond, Duke of.

REA, C., and W. P. EVANS. In 1854, in Mississippi, with rifles. The former an editor; the latter a lawyer. Evans the challenger. At the third or fourth fire Rea was shot in both thighs.

REA, DONALD, Lord, and DAVID RAMSAY. In 1631. This was a judicial duel. The arrangements were made by the Lord