Lower Chichester Township.

Although Marshall had thus publicly intimated that he not only expected, but would accept, a challenge from Col. Webb, no such message came. The conviction of Monroe Edwards, and the remarks the prisoner made to the court, complaining that he had been hounded by the press, doubtless deepened the impression on the mind of Marshall that he had been most grossly insulted and ill-used. He, therefore, at the termination of the trial, addressed a note to Col. Webb, demanding satisfaction, and gave it to Lieut. Duke to present to the colonel. When the epistle was delivered to the latter, he, through Mr. Charles Livingstone, informed Lieut. Duke that in the city of New York Col. Webb could not receive such a message, but that he would be in Wilmington, Del., with his friend, Maj. Morell, on Friday, the 24th day of June, at two o'clock in the afternoon, and he would then receive any communication Mr. Marshall might desire to send him.

At the time designated the parties met at Wilmington, I believe at the Indian Queen Hotel, on Market Street. In this, however, I may be in error. Here the challenge was again proffered by Marshall, and was accepted by Webb, who, it was understood, went there to be challenged. Marshall was accompanied by Dr. Carr, of Baltimore, in the capacity of second, and Dr. Gibson, of the same city, a son of Professor Gibson, of Philadelphia, as surgeon, Mr. Hunt, of Kentucky, and his (Marshall's) brother being present as friends. Col. Webb was attended by Maj. Morell, proprietor of the New York Courier, as second, Dr. Tucker, formerly of Virginia, then of Philadelphia, as surgeon. Josiah Randall, Esq., father of ex-Speaker Samuel J. Randall, of Philadelphia, and George Bryer, Esq., were present as his friends. After the preliminaries were arranged, and articles written providing for the manner in which the duel was to be conducted, both the principals, accompanied by their friends, left Wilmington, intending that the encounter should take place the same evening. The presence of Marshall and Webb in that city quickly became known, and as the intelligence of the bitter blood between the gentlemen had preceded them, the purpose of their visit was surmised, and the authorities were immediately on the alert. The duelists drove in their carriages to Marcus Hook, or rather the present Linwood, but as a number of persons, said to have been nearly one hundred, were following them, they stopped at the Union Hotel, at Hook Cross-roads, then kept by William Appleby. Here Col. Webb (for the purpose of quieting the suspicions of the authorities of Delaware County, for he learned that Hon. John Larkin, Jr., then sheriff, was in the neighborhood, and would use every means at his disposal to prevent the proposed breach of the public peace) left his carriage, went to Marcus Hook, embarked in a boat, and was rowed across the river to the Jersey shore. The impression then became general that Marshall would shortly follow Webb, and that the duel would be fought in New Jersey during the following day.

The crowd that had gathered stood on the pier watching the movements of the boat, which was rowed slowly along the opposite shore, without indicating any disposition on the part of the inmates to disembark on that side of the river. Several persons followed the course of the boat by the use of telescopes, until evening coming on, darkness screened the movements of the little craft from further observation. Then the assembled crowd reluctantly dispersed.

Col. Webb, taking advantage of the darkness, lingered on the river in the boat until late at night, when he returned quietly to Appleby's, about eleven o'clock, and passed the remainder of the night in his carriage. Marshall and his friends were comfortably housed in the Union Hotel. An hour before daybreak all the parties interested in the duel assembled, and a few minutes before four o'clock the carriages, closely following each other, left the hotel and started for the place designated for the encounter to take place, - an open field on Samuel T. Walker's farm, a few yards to the south of the King's Highway, and just within the Delaware State line. Two gentlemen from Philadelphia, who had not been invited, were present, as well as between thirty and forty persons who resided in the neighborhood.

When the seconds had measured the ground - ten paces - they marked the extremities of the line with stones, one at each end, where the principals were to be stationed. By this time it was daybreak. Maj, Morell tossed a coin to determine the choice of positions, and the silver fell in the grass, a fact which gave rise to some controversy between Dr. Carr and Maj. Morell, the seconds, as to which of the parties had won, both gentlemen resolutely declining to yield. Marshall hearing the dispute, cried in an impatient tone of voice to Dr. Carr, -

"Give it to them, doctor, give it to them. I came here to have a shot at him, and I do not mean to be baffled by trifles."

"We ask you to give nothing," proudly and angrily replied Maj. Morell. "We ask but what is our right."

Marshall's second, however, having yielded the point as instructed by his principal, he, Dr. Carr, tossed a coin to determine whose second should give the word. In this fortune again favored Col. Webb.

The principals took their places when told to do so with alacrity, and with the utmost coolness. Neither had attired himself in apparel best calculated to fight a duel in with the least danger to the wearer. Marshall's tall form, six feet two inches in height, erect, symmetrical, and lithe, was clad in a blue cloak, dark coat and pantaloons, and a light vest. Col. Webb, above the average height in stature, was dressed in a dark coat, vest, and light-brown pair of pantaloons. Each of these two men, as they stood at