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to your Amusement by means of the last Letters I have
received from Russia which contain an account of a Duel
lately fought between Prince Dashkow and a Count
Mellin, both of whom I have reason to believe you are
well acquainted with; The latter had been very pressing with
my Son the Coll to be his Second not only by Letter but by a
Personal application to him at Critchoff in a Journey of 200.
or 300 Versts the Count took for that purpose only; but which
however my Son absolutely declined, as I imagine on account
of the long & intimate friendships that subsisted between
Prince Dashkoff and him; tho' as far as I can understand
my Son looked upon the Prince as the Aggressor and had
actually given him his opinion upon the Subject matter
in difference that the Prince ought either to ask the
Count pardon or fight him, or perhaps both, and
my Son Jeremy has sent me a Copy of a Letter his Brother
had received from the Count himself giving him a
particular Detail of the Circumstances of the Duel, and
where and in what manner it was fought, in the
Course of which the Parties fired several times at each
other, but it happily concluded without any fatal
catastrophe to Either, and the affair ended in a perfect
reconciliation between them. The Count concluded his
Letter with an Acknowledgement that the Prince's conduct
throughout the whole of the Duel was noble & commendable
in the highest degree. When Sam had read this Letter
from the Count he was in an Extacy of Joy to find his
Friend Prince Dashkoff, whom he had considered before
to have been much to blame, had acquitted himself
so well, and it appeared by his Brother's Letter to me
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