Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . to theDuke of Buckingham, and the matter ended. But in 1819, theDuke of Wellingtons duel with Lord Winchilsea was generallyacknowledged to be a mistake. Lord Winchilsea had opposedthe founding of Kings College, London. Wellington, as PrimeMinister, supported it, and sent a challenge on the ground thatLord Winchilsea had declared the scheme to be in support ofPopery. It was recognised that the Duke of Welling
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . to theDuke of Buckingham, and the matter ended. But in 1819, theDuke of Wellingtons duel with Lord Winchilsea was generallyacknowledged to be a mistake. Lord Winchilsea had opposedthe founding of Kings College, London. Wellington, as PrimeMinister, supported it, and sent a challenge on the ground thatLord Winchilsea had declared the scheme to be in support ofPopery. It was recognised that the Duke of Wellingtons reputa-tion for honour, courage, and zeal for the Chiuch needed nochallenge for its protection. In 1830 two judges declared thesurvivor in a duel to be guilty of murder, and in 1833 theseconds were declared to be involved; but while juries werewilling to convict principals, only one jury convicted the middle classes were beginning to show pronouncedhostility to what was considered an aristocratic abuse, or a crimewhich was only condoned because the accomplices were gentle-men. The jiractice of constant duelling between members ofRaikes, Jourual, vol. i., p. 324 THE NEW SPIBH AND THE NEW PATHS. fl832 Tarliament was seen to be an absurdity. Feeling ran high at thetime of the trial of Lord Cardigan, who was tried as a peer bythe Court of the Lord High Steward, on a true bill returned:by the grand jury. He was acquitted on a technicality; butwhen it was found that captured duellists would run the risk, ifthey were peers, of heavy expenses, and if they were commonersof imprisonment, there was less eagerness to challenge. In 1S4L
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