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DuELI1NG.-A writer in to-day's Mirror, VIII,
signs herself .Augusfa, and who says her hus
band was killed many years since i'll duel at tht
South, earnestly and eloquently exhorts the Edito
of that periodical to lend his aid to put down tha
most ridiculous and sanguinary code under which
victim after victim is sacrificed at the shrine, False
Honor. She quotes at the close of her communi
cation, the annexed


Letter of Joseph the Second to General Fazkca
stein.


'sVIENNA, August 10, I77I.
"GENERAt: You will Immediately arrest the
Count de K and Captain W. The
count is young, passionate, and influenced by
wrong notions of birth, and false sense of honor
Captain W is an old soldier, who has re-
ceived the challenge Of the young count with a
warmth ill-becoming his grayer years. | will
suffer no duelling in my army. | despise the
principle Of those who attempt to justify the
custom, and who think there is any heroism in
running one another through the body in cold
blood. When / have officers who bravely ex.
pose themselves to every danger in facing the en-
emies of their country, and who, at all times, ex
hibit courage and resolution in attack and defence
they have my esteem and respect; the GOODNESS
with which they can meet death in the service
of their country, rebounds highly to their honor
and will entitle them to live in the grateful me-
mory Of their countrymen. But where men are
to be found ready, on the slightest cause to
sacrifice everything to their hatred, vengeance,
false honor, cannot but despise them; in my
eyes, they are no better than the Roman gladia
tors of old. Order court-martial to try these
two officers: investigate the subject of their dis
pute with the impartiality which Justice de-
mands: and he who is guilty. let him be sacri
fee to the offended laws. This practice Of du
elling is barbarOus custom, worthy only The
age Of the Tamerlanes and Bajazets, and dis
grace to our enlightened age and country. d.
but think Of the melancholy effect which it pro
duces in private life, in the bosoms of families,
hearts which nature has not made hardy enough
to bear such losses. will have it suppressed ant
punished, even if it should deprive me Of one
half Of my officers! There will be men enough
left for the maintenance of the good cause-,neI
who know how to unite the character Of the here
with that of the good subject and the honest citi
zen-and those only are such, as are actuated by
due regard to the laws of their country, and
proper respect for the good and upright.


JOSEPH"


We are proyerbially imitators Of foreign Gus
toms; let forego to naturalze their vices; and
for once, follow an example, although an empe
ror may have given it.


AUGUSTA.