Citation - Providence Gazette: 1773.05.15

PGCJ.773.009
15 May 1773:22 (488)
London, Feb. 13. . . A motion will be made, we hear, in a
certain assembly, at the instigation of a great personage,
for regulating duels, as follows; that every duel be fought
with swords only, on the stage of one of the theatres, and
that any one may be admitted to see them, paying the price
that is now paid at the oratorios at Drury Lane. . .