The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-10 00:00:00

wOl sammt to the saggratkm, 0010 than oars mo dad
betwass no, of having this matta renrr.d jultcuouly
t.. Mr. Hivisho m and Mr. Baran, mikes than dragging it
into a law one t.
" I shall I.al .1,1 got for a line of acknowledgment of this
commanicalum, and remain, my dear sir and madams, yours
faithfully, " A. B. On.anviu.e.
" Chas. Richardson, Req.. and Mrs. C. Richardson,
Brutoa-street.

" r.a.—l think it essential to azeompasy the knee to
Mrs. Grenville with a copy of the one elm wrote to Mr.
Jestod recal tug that letter, end desiring it to be can-
celled."
One of the lettere thane alluded to is dated the 20th of
November, 1867, aid min.!' by Mrs. Granville to the Rev.
hr. Jean*. The plaint& knew nothing about it except
through Dr. Glanville, but when be had teal the letter be
was sure the jury would come to the coaclueion that refer
what Mrs °learnt@ said the plaintiffs bad no choke: but
is betas the prompt action.
"1 Curios-s'reot, Moyfair, Roy. O. 1&57.
" Dear 81r,--tiOls.n l Ar.to to yco to February last, ea-
' losing n let -t r from Mrs. RI. Rod.on to my husband, Dr.
Granville, I did so supposiag that I weight write to a Oen--
men in priest coati tune,. la eces,quenate of the part •
you lead taken last year with rektence to meats diffeevereel
whkh uoluppily existed between our fam,bea, it Deemed'
M me right that you should know what bad strengthened
certain suspicions which Jon were aware existed Ia may nisi.
Ilarciie acted all my life on the belief that implicit beet
might be placed Ma clergyman, I wrote to you unreservedly,
u suppoeisg it possible that youwould be induced to
dirt:ass the fact that I bad mint you such a latter, sad,
still Fees, that you meld refer in say way or to anybody to
the Battle of that letter sad its enclosure. It appears to
um that you have done so. You made my Idler the ground
of shoetng very market discourse/1 to Mr. Richardson, se
I sae digit/ally iafottned, them making, as you mast have
felt it would, further Mil:Chief en Dr. Granville's rebus
home between ourrelves. It le, however, nail's for as
to reproach you low curb iudiarsetion, when I had pew
niuniaatel web you se a et/ranee and a friend. My
single object is netting to yore now Is to inform you" that
dare I mat you the latter and existent' in question, es-
plasatikma have Lees made to trie which I requln d for my
saddac'ton. I request, therefore, that oa the reoript of this
Fontein teens to me my War end enclosure, wbkh I desire en-
tirely to withdraw, regrettleg that each a communication ea,
roads by me to you, end which I wish you to consider Y =-
urines. I edipt the coarse with • view to being to • ter.
minutia the saleasedentamting wide* for many months has
oared se meek malappleras Ia to nualbes, wail I maned
but slash Wight have beta prevented altogether by the m-
ercies of a little more demotion on yourpart. Ter my part,
I dense beaNsto men peas my regret at having said any-
thbg dertimantal to Mr. Racibardese's character, for +like
there apposes not to have been say real loundatioe, aa I have
eines aseerteistd.—Belietre me, dear sir. your. truly,
..MART B. OInNYILLL"

llatil thut enclosure was received the plaintiffs had not the
slightest maim nor had the world, that such sa ezpreseloe
of regret bed been writes. Then the action wee brought,
and es justification was put upon the record. BO far the
wads, t of the defeedasts oar comistent with the lag or
tome of the letter he bed just reed, in which Ides. GraseWs
withdrew all impstation. It wee, however, Impumitele that
the defendants cud be satiated with that retreetake oboe
it eon repeated &reedy to them. The nest faker he would
read woe time Dr. Orme& to Mrs. Rishardeon
" filessima, August 11, 1267.
" My dear Mrs. Richardeom-1 presume you to write
from MO Readabe Ksiter, tbo' you do eat my so, aid
thither I direst my snorer. It grieve, sr mete to lied
from your mine secount of your heath bow greatly you
safer from bodily pain, bet WU more grievous is ft to me
lot and you • piey to the delselos that I run SOS SS indig•
nant as yourself at tbo unrelenting slanderous behseittur
tower& you of those members of my fatuity whom eendeet,
abated etomiciose, sod ten as repream•ations 1 repudiate
and proteskd against, lad swill know how to regrew, and
coos punish, as bee met an honourable man. Of the sin
et *even Teets you spent in IC Menges, darts' which I
visited you daily, as is my ammo with may ens of my
patient. hem,hes three been a Dingle day to winch
yen have not taunted me oe tlus very distressing
entiniet, end made it the almost eagle topic of your
eanamstioe f Yee cal aloud for justice ; but you
do net say what measure • f justice le /trowel to sane for
asoffluest weed. er writ age from sesatet• of my family
direard mama you. Peat out to me how beet I can ob-
literate /bidets which them Madame verde se wilt isgs
may hem bed In reference to year tearectse it a lady, sad
I. member of year oen family shall show BIM aegerneme
latennryeelf to adopt the pooped erasure.
What his is any con Ines authorial you Mies yen left
bore to write such a passage es the tolerates la your presint
Mow P--t Ile son that though you may for • lime mooing
In bieektaing me, wham.' Has my part of my
wee at any t- ute, ei Mood the smallest eyntmotaitrt
allied, or still Is.. would attempt, wider any eraunateme
whiftwr, to blacken your chermotr in the estimaion of •
iamb Wig in the world; eat why toe newel, and es en-
damned ma an.apec•ol, Bessie of woman my keine a. a
man red sae hoeour se a gentleman ((ter thst I ham claims
to me you have often acknowledged) f Is It basses on
Os day before your &prism I r. per ed a yore WI result of
lie nnoren you lasi•ted es my penetrate' to two human-
oid, van= wh•ch prune] different from the ens you moi-
-1 also teat to you statements to prove that
ta4;dpittple In the word were espaUe of uttering slanderous
tales tan times worse, but which hey' never exited the matt
booriliey aid hared against the utterer cf them who pro.
bialyad les did tatterthem to tee versa, het thine it to
ethers s'oto t Sorely melee of thee motives eight le have
sac ref your wroth molest me whoa you profess to amide?
as your Mini, nether motive was of my cassias.
I semi,' sty in n tern to yea, •Be het.' Do not cen-
time the tainting in a I Inguage of undreamt reproach and
genneatioe.

Yott iie• pe reedy mono in urert:ng that I knew before
pa cams int i my buttes that toy daughter was steterialsed
pea should sot atay, and liste I you; fs. hod I had any such
knowledge, the arrant; 10), nt which has led to all th.• would
Maw been reapri thine declined by myself to avoid arateioalag
yes say lasplewsiat &lisp, or 1 anoul4 pcobehly knee keit
my daughter *way. but this W • frisk east's yes bring
@Oast sac which you bale Dever lawn d before, ahlwing, jn
feet, that you are detcru.ined to la-tea • quarrel on se, to
real year Litter &shags wind ley daughter for her un-
rearialitable behaviour towards you—o behaviour which wet*
11011,1,111114 or hos liithcit CUlllellalll.4. wus wrongly thus I
have dame.

4Aa yes do mot d'stiestly slate what your nest m,ve-
sasatie may be. I hurl, !bow low to address to you any
sesdicidessurael your foment salferlage might raingeot. You
are kW swank to promise me avo.her letter tete. kelp it
re do sot go horns. I tratt you will give younalf a hale
mite mote ere you auderteke coy long plumy by railway,
sad pot, I cooler, 1 would natter you were idly boomed ia
year own with or., of its comforts.
" Tll4 ilusyst meat te.m the isimedia•e areas of Ilia mots
tilicados you have labia so much at heart, and the car
esemetsou of those obi ice Wends sad kied,ed opieltii whose
you know ea well bow to attract mud entertain, may do a
✓est did Pt...rift rest fief that equanimity sad pease of
Milli, the resent d startled state of which, oven Jima
pbrOcal .o.'ti teed§ to egtravaie your safer up c ties.
On rho latter anNeot she report of ProL ear Si tuiroal, which
you h ally returned to me, ie voluble, so shominit that be
eveill rain ids entirely in our VIM* of year i.impwn , ~,d
the resales to be applied. I with you bad favoured roe
with the translation you had reed to me. With repaid to
the oilier leiter you enclosed fir the otter party, you have
sot told see wbetker you had seat your own to de sum
bodes having IlLkooara, for fa the ceePuty ewe my coarse
WitjearftWy do modllod. Trusting semi to hear tor
armor beak 1 nests, my doer Yrs. Ifschasdaon,
ever isithially Foots,
••A.
B. fiaanetaur."

This veal. the one ;hi be bad to lay kerne the joy. It
was sight be should state that attempt had ten mole to
settle the rea.ter out of court by the intervention of fro net.,
bat naketetwely without weeks. There was ea effort to
throw the toot' casent alit upon the Rev. Mr. Janos, to st bleb
the pkintins objecte3, but with that exception the prnpoal
sale was abundantly muisfactory to I p urtios. COO.ll.
V1C11,17 Mr. Richardson WI rsnisiget under the cloud of
suspition canard by Mts. Granville, and she thetefors
sought sepirott n at the heads of the jury.
Lord Canpbell—la a ease of this eery readier nsture, I
kohl aol interpose daring the eprech of counsel ; but I may
sow ask what question it 6 poposted ths joy should try
Mr. E. Janies—As I understand Mr. berjeasit Shea, he
sap Ike letter of tke 9th of Feb., 1667, Is a libel, and the
Inn hme se my, ups the fourth anal, is nal, whether It a libel.
I ny k is ao 16.1, and sever was intended to be one.
• witness who was called to prove the handwriting of
Dr. °needle ro d there had been • reference of th• action
to two gentlemen of the tor; but at a had fatted.
Tits 6thre Mai by Mr. Serjeant Btiee 6 the course of hie
spank were then forouil'y put in evident e.
Mr. Frank Richardson, ntph•se of the male plointil,
mid the Ike. Mr. Jean was mei ling at Tours, is Front o.
lie pm hum there ce the 26th of Janusry Isst, and asked
Mat to COMO to England to thee evidence on the trial, or gin
ap the • riginals of the letters of the 9th of Feb., 1667, ant of
the 88th Moskabse, 1867, both addreoled to himself and Mr..
Granville, and clot. le ter., but be &OITA to mut to Eng-
bed or to gin them sp. Witness 'bowed Wm a winks
rethority signed 4 Mr. Richnolecia.
The following was one ainoag several I.tters hors Dr.
Or.nville t, Mrr. Ito Lsulvos, which were next pet in sad

" Kiwi-seen, Aug. 25,1657.
"My deer sr.. &Aeries—lt your firm litter, veleta
Am you loft Oro place, mei 'wired by me the day after
Ite der ;10th loot.), poised me as • eveand a Lived, your
prearn• blur of the emeeeedbr day's Este OA, to Met
tag the lam &Arm of year porkies at hernia( that you
I oar is iamemat lade, pela, unable almo-t to record on
h.J•wirairy, while I ma sot at head to mintage your sof-
by seek pre'embewl ab m the symptoms may
1 moot fe• a inozu.nt doubt the yea will kti ere
me elms I recast In masa, sod with the utmost 'beefily,
tilt 'hem Is se aserife. I bald sot undergo to refirre you
from your prevent esfortarra, and elm', y on esen the ',pr.v b
elan" futon one.
Ira th• pre"est lose of Ton, mind, morbidly alerted like
your body, I eau hardly eipeet to be oble to yield pen Conn,.
tat cm hy asything 1 may say, or nes slag I might otter.
All I will m attn. to "lel, in • lettv which is to be commit-
ted Ye the wort& urf of the po.t, is, that totkisi shot has
hopped, sob* that has been written, aothlag that hes
been loM or lead, has Milanierd, or an blames, q pnvo-
ael Whigs towards pea sow or luireoftw; end he me add,
that the praerestea of your reed some la the esimbass fol
witty 1 mho a, murk to b,art say o• portrait would drayl
would haw a tight to export bow the most feellataio

whoever hr be, of three, whom you have distinguished by
your sffectiouate niendahip.
"Accept in the meanwhile, sea small atonement fir all
the re:alone which he odors of my family bait ottiAlosel
you, Uteri:items &tendon of its heed, indignant at their
unmet sad unearrentable conduct, that he, at all evetits,
shall never be justly axused of having, amid like, bee
taffectiripodon by a hies the being to whom he meted esteem end
Friends tense 30 ewe sad upwards, our Intimacy would
naturally increase wit hia the last two years through the very
fact that the thorium in your bodily aliment would call for a
nearer and more frequent simiociation of your medical atten-
dant, So simple, end in similar cases not unusual, ciente.
stenos ought not to expose you to tho obloquy of the
world ; and econdingly I do not find that in the ease of any
of those geatlemen or ladies whose minds have not been
by the secret sepersions of two individual., cwirely
retiVf all proofs of the reality of their surmise., your
name his ever been otherwise spoken of than with kindners.
I may mention 'meet them Mrs. \rancher, who, moreover,has had an opportunity state your depute.* of disedniaing
moat oompletdy M. Graham and Mrs. Townsend of bre-
judicee evidentl originating in Mr. 'aeon's family, which
they en , though without any epoxide charge, but in
meal teem% as Mrs. Voucher assured me, and begged
me to tell you in reply to your little note. I may again In-
stance Mos. T. with most of the gentlemen belonging to both
their families, and o' hers In the pleee, together with mercy
more is Loam), by ell of whom I have never heard you
spoken of but with regard.
"Your sow bewildered imagina'ionplungee you
solitary refieetiona, and, darkened by bodily pain end a =it,
into a monstrous chem. of ides& as you cal it, and you enettry
believicg that friend-hip, loya'ty, and all to gone. What•
ever your own coes:ience may suggest or remll which
&ethernet you to utter such words, the I will most emphae
ticellyh"' aver, that to me nom such cask or shell ever be justly
'la a fears oommuniostion, which I shall probably
deliver myself in person, I envy perhaps enter more fully
taro the question of ' the conversation' and the motive which
Induced so long its euppreetion. Oa me, as I proved to you,
ever muter, since the time it took pees, its import made the
same twee...ion as the wind that Vows where it let, sad
lone knows whither it goes. No, my dear Mrs. Richard-
eon, the individual who has the' sane:faction of addressing
you shall mover be rightly *rennet, and never ocinvic'ed of
cruelty and treacherously weaving toile to enasare still
farther.' He repudiates each miserable arra, and boldly
tells you that to him such insinuations should never have
bra directed. You have yet to kern, it seems, the nature
tithe mac whom I fear your mom Mika state leads you
to confound with others wiee cemehict has peeniblyveawitsd
the reo eche. you now unjustly hestow. Mrs. Vendee,
with her brother, leave Kieeengen en Thursday, the 27th
last., sad propose being In London on the following Wed-
assiy, September 2. She has begged ma, as well se her
brother, te soy that they will lee you know Immediately
their addives neon arrest awl a. they propose to remain
mores daye in town, you will have full time to enjoy their
society, which I trait ‘i brew balm to your mind. We
have aerie masa to spook of you eines your departure, and
I have bees as assiduous in her room sr whoa you used to be
present in them.

▪ As your movements been to tumor I little move shape,
I find the, witbout giving mortal offence to one or two boil-
lies among the last arrivals, I cannot leave before the 10th
&microbe', but on 'hie day or a day later, I shall ceetaialy
move from bone, Xy trioerrt,lll lave three days sooner,
and mow,
my snivel ii whs. I shall embark it
at Cassel on Sunda, the 13th, so that it may Mare Roney.
Sus September (Tuesday) the 16th, and strive In London os
Wedaredsy, the Nth. I shall desist the mama to leave
all that belongs In you at band in the carriage, that be may
drive le Ilestes-alreet from the docks, and deliver them be-
fore he woes to Canos•stmet.

I • will venture, in COI2CLion , to give you two commis-
sion., Arndd you be in town and able to go out. Call le
Curreekatrret, and ere toy cook, Charlotte; kok over the
boos*, pet all the Information 3on can from bee re all sub-
kola, sad please to write to me • long letter shout it all. I
presume no oar is in the house at preeent. Amite, on the let
Briptembew (fatal anniversary) go to the place of met of your
beloved mother and of my beloved ace; read over Me amend
inscription and shad a reactor me at kis tent, if the raze;
mil that of the dear bring who bore you, and you se
cherished, shall have left you one to spare. I shall feel liwy
on that day to know that soma synapathiaing friendti
visited the hallowed deposit. —God Moue you.—l meaty my
dear Mn. Richardson, ever yours faithfully,
"A. B. OILAIIVILL1."

This am:eluded the ems for the phintiffs.
Mr. Jame. •üboirtrd that there tree so evidence of tte
writhe or whin:stays of the hbel by lin. Grenville.
Mr. &Ocala Mee contended tbst lbw vas shusdast cri.

Led Campbell hold that time Mae aalletent primt foci.
eridease of the publication.
Mr. /atm said he thoeld she contend that the alleged
libel wags privatised etentmeaketioa.
Mr. lleriseat Mee seamed up the pla'ntiffs' evidence, and
Mr. Jame eddreseed the jury on the part of the defen-
deata. H. said the setioa was brought not for the vindoetion
of charecter agehmt say feel Wary, but for the perpoee of
✓evamp. sad with the view, if poemblo, of humiliating Mrs.
Grenville la the eyes or her acquaintance. and the public.
If Mrs. Richerdeon come into court to vindicate her character
It was a meet remarkable thing that she did not maw forward
to explabt—he did not impale any salt to her—bat to ex-
Oslo how it was 'het her intimacy with Dr. Granville, u
diseored in the letters will. 12 had been read, went on for so
long • period—en intimacy far beyocd that which a medic el
teas would 19 expected to lave with • patent, and which
had clued the deepest eaudety end aanoyenco, be would add
misery, to lira. Greavitie f How come ft that she was ro
liele at home t Bh. travelled about without ber husbaad,
went to Kismages sad other places unaccompanied b Ms;
sad it oppeared oho that when ahe was liviag under Dr.
Orenville's roof Mr. likbardson was sot with her. It bed
not eves transpired that they were litter' together at the
protest time.
Mr. Perjeent Sher—Yee, they ere.
Mr. James said, whittle" their dome-tie erraagenents
might be, it wag quite c'oar that Mra. Richardson wea
travel:lag e n the contanont whilst her busbaed wee pursuing
h e profemiceal 'moraines in the Old Jewry. The later
whir h woo the foundation of the is. which contained the
alleged libel wag cent by Mr.. Ricieuelma to Dr. Oraarill•
et
Musick ; but she doctor having left that plans when the
letter snivel, it wes forwarded an to Mr, Great We, who
opted it, end it was the cuetenta of that communicatiou
who h bad brought ail cry and ashopoinces on herself and
her hildres. A copy of that Mene' letter bad been for-
warded by Dr. Granville to Mr. sad Mr& Richardson.
Mr. Salient Shia—There is no proof of that.
Mr. Jamea-11 them Is not, why does mot Mrs. Riehardecn
come into the witnem-boa beim she tech damages horn a
lady who has dome no more than any other virtuous wits
would have done on opening • letter Pent to ter husbond in
her stream such as tut to which 1 bays allude'?
Lord Caaipbell—l mart soy It would have beta well if
shot letter had been la eviiknee..

Mr. Tames mid that Mrs.ll;ehardaon dared to put on the
retard stores charges or the snort profligate kind against
the lady without attempting to prove Hem, charges such
as the moat abandoned woman would hardly attar to mother.
Probably she did OD in order to intimidate her into apt lo-
gising kr that for which no apology was required; but at
' any rote, when the case came on for trial Mrs. Itichardsou
ought to be present hi the witness-box to tell whether Ly
her conduct she had nn been the came of uneasiness and
unhappiness to • v.rtuceas and respectable lady, before else
asked the jury to brand that lady as • libeller. He
submitted that the occation justified the alleged libel,
' and that ao spi.l.gy was required for it ; and
Maenad that Mu. Grant-ilk had only been dricavd into
• court of jeeti. e to *duly the Entice, vanity, and wouaded
pride of the female pldn is. Although lir. Granville wee
his oftio, he must stove that it was hie imprudence sad in-
Jiseretien, to vay the 'sees, which had productive rill the misery
and wthAPPkirill M himself, hit wife, and ehddren. The
learned comsat concluded by satin ttim that under an thus
cad es there wax no mitesee of mtliee oa the
port of Mrs. ranville, she having written the alleged libel
idyls sseerting from the most paiafhl fouling. produced by
Mrs. Ricliardee We private communicatioa to her hatband, to
whom she was deeply attached ; the pltinriffe bad no right
to claim damage, at the bends of the jury, and that the ver-
dict ought to be for the defendant..
Lord Campbell, in summing up, amid the declaration con-
tained VIMOLIS count, minutia( slander to the female de.
imdme, hat no evidences had been given in Rapport of any
count except the fourth, to which the attention of the jury
would to exclusively fnbfiliel. That treed on the letter
of Mrs. Granville of the 9th Petwurtry, 1857, addreated
to the Hey. Mr. Jr.... Whatever might be the amount of
damages, be could heedly see bow the/ could find a verdict
for the &leaden's upon that newt The Warned mantel for
the defendants mateeded that it contained no imputations en
Mrs. Reeherdeon, and that ft was • privileged communim-
tics. Now the first emetics was, whether it did not coa-
tain a grave imputation on Mrs. Richards n. The mond
question wee fee the juelge, sad he was of opinion that there
wee nopreef to autboriee him in laying the letter was a
privileged ommanicatios. As to the text queslieft, they
would form their own °pieties', bat he did rot me how they
could possibly entertala any doubt that the letter of the. 9.11
M February, 1867, tarn in enninacition with the tetra-Mau
or ap Logy of August, 1166, did impute that there had been
as improper iatirsa-y between Mrs. Richardson and Ili.
Gesaville—that she lied carried on an adulterous latareniese
with him; and a prenrebsege could sot be made mane. •
woman. Coming nest to the question of damsels, be mast
serattet vat not by any mesas amu fir tennis damage..
A h Man. Grenville might be legally liable, title
Wee, p Myra, w.s to La imputed to a wife who, on receiv-
ing such • hater sa that of Mrs. Richardrion
Maw! to her hint...end, seethe to the Rev.
Mr. hem, end told him that her former apology wu not
wise she wadi have signed if she bad known all the eir-
eassetemees Midi had sine. ronie to her knowledge. If they
fund • verdet for the plaintiff., he was sure they would
gin such damps u the eirenaistauces of lb. case de-
maadel.

rii jury, after . f w minute.' daUberetice In the box,
found a seidiet for the plainbffs—dantages 40a.
Mr. Jam.. applied to hie tordebip to amp elocution.
Lord Cvmpbell declined to do to, oluerriug that it would
be beater if f.rth►r httratiou mem rayed. It was, however,
opea to the defendant. to 11110111 the road no' the polite of
law whisk bad been mimed by ldr. Jana.

COURT OF COMMON FLEAS.—FIB. 9.
eitlisp at NW Pr
Cr
* 11i
—(D is Mr Justice
Willis and i mes lug.)
CMOOIS V. MITT AID 1111711,,1i MISSING ?LAMM.
Mr int ea seeks of smelt spirt Ben Cams, the