Note 615 — Chapter XXXVIII · DUELLING.

The duel between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun has been frequently described; and, had only the dissolute Mohun have been killed, few would have regretted its having taken place. As it was, the Duke being the leader of the Jacobite faction in Scotland, and Mohun being a violent Whig, the duel was invested with a political colouring; and the Tories, enraged at Hamilton's fall, did not scruple to call it a Whig murder, and denounce Lord Mohun's second, General Macartney, as having unfairly stabbed him; but from all the evidence[615] it is impossible to believe it.