em a
name which to all time shall be honoured, and Bath may think herself
favoured that in the long list of distinguished men and women who have
frequented that fair city and Queen of the West, she may write in
letters of gold the names of William Herschel and his sister Caroline.

DUELLING ON CLAVERTON DOWN.

In the year 1778 many foreign nobles made Bath their residence. The
Viscount du Barre and two ladies of great beauty and accomplishments,
and Count Rice, an Irish gentleman who had borne arms in the service of
France, lived in the Royal Crescent.

A quarrel at cards between Du Barre and Rice resulted in an immediate
challenge--given and accepted. At one o'clock in the morning of November
18, 1778, a coach was procured from the Three Tuns in Stall Street, and
Claverton Down was reached at day-dawn.

"Each man," says a contemporary, "was armed with two pistols and a
sword, the ground being marked out by the seconds. Du Barre fired
first, and lodged a ball in Count Rice's thigh, which penetrated to the
bone. Count Rice fired, and wounded Du Barre in the breast. Afterwards
the pistols were thrown away, and the combatants took to their swords.

"The Viscount du Barre fell, and cried out, 'Je vous demande ma vie!' to
which Count Rice answered, 'Je vous la donne!' and in a few moments Du
Barre fell back and expired. Count Rice was brought with difficulty to
Bath, being dangerously wounded; and was found guilty, at the Coroner's
inquest held on the Viscount's body, of manslaughter.

"Du Barre's body was left exposed on Claverton Down the whole day, and
was subsequently buried in Bathampton Churchyard. Count Rice recovered;
he was tried at Taunton for murder, and acquitted. He died in Spain in
1809. A stone slab in a wall skirting Claverton Down marks the spot
where Du Barre fell. The ivory hilt of the sword once belonging to Count
Rice is now attached to the City Seal in the town clerk's
office."--Condensed from R. E. Peach's "Rambles about Bath."

WORKS BY MRS. MARSHALL.

ON THE BANKS OF THE OUSE; or, Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago.

"No better story than this has been written by Mrs.
Marshall."--_Guardian._

IN FOUR REIGNS: Recollections of Althea Allingham from George III. to
Victoria.

"A most charming tale of bygone days. The tone of the book is
eminently high and refined."--_Literary World._

UNDER THE MENDIPS: a Tale.

"One of Mrs. Marshall's charming stor