19 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 17

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1831.

A meeting took place at day-dawn on. Wedue3day last, on Wimbledon Common, between Lieutenant Claxton, R.N., and Mr. Protheroe, M.P. for Bristol, attended by Captain Berkeley, M.P. and Sir Francis Vincent, Bart, M.P., which ended without bloodshed. The quarrel is supposed to have originated in some matter connected with the Colonial question..