Report of the trial by jury, Anderson against Rintoul and others, for libels spoken at public meetings in Dundee, and published in the Dundee, Perth, and Cupar Advertiser newspaper /
Anderson, Patrick.
Bennet, William,Writer to the Signet.
Edinburgh,
1824.
Report of trial in which Patrick Anderson of Laws, a Dundee merchant, took an action for damages for various libels, both published  in the local Dundee newspaper and also expressed at Public meetings in the locality. The libels centred round a legacy of £6,000 bequeathed by Mr James Webster of Clapham Common in London to trustees, the interest in the capital to be used, in perpetuity, for the education of  poor children born in Dundee, or the counties of Fife, Perth, or Forfar. Robert Rintoul's newspaper, the Dundee Advertiser, alleged financial malpractice - or at least  culpable mismanagement - by Anderson as trustee, effectively losing the whole of the £6,000 investment and therefore preventing the "very  existence of the Dundee Academy".  The Anderson/Rintoul libel case in 1824 was concluded with a verdict for Rintoul.