The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-04-17 00:00:00

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Adjostratai siniegs Alter Hilary Term. before lA,
Clans JIIIITICI NW a Special Jary.

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This was an action tiring the propriet of the
I)blrreer Sunday. newspaper, for publishior ng three
alleged libels of mu' enucerning the Plaintiff's con-
duct as • member of the Committee for erecting a
cenotaph or monument to the memory of her late
Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales
and !100m-Coburg. by public subeeription,
tog fenuti and dishosiesty to. him in the disposition of
the money colktted iu hie character of a committee
man. • ..
Mr. Segalkiltre stated the ease. The Plaintiff
was a physiciao of considerable eminence. and •
jrientlernau tsf high and unimpeachable character:
he was principal physician to the Westminster Dis-
pensary. and *director of the fonds of that bene-
volent institution. The subject of the alleged libel
was stonnected with that unhappy period tif national
history when the country lost a most dlostriows
Prince's. At a period when the ustional feelings
were deeply affected by wads a public calamity,
Dr. NuttaU found his name handed forth to the
public so combatted with it by fraud and imposture.
null that ia such.* manlier as rendered it impassible
fur any gentleman to sit down under smelt an its.
p•Oation. It was lit he sboold explain the partieu.
tar occasion which gave nee to the libel. After the
ulirtappy event to which he alluded, it was the win-
versed wish of a loyal public that something in the
shape of a national monument should be erected,
in order to hand down to posterity the feeling which
so great a loos excited in the mind of the country.
No person, however, rinse forward to o.nggest the
maims of carrying that object into rffrct, or of
directing the public feeling in a proper channel,
til it occurred to the mind of Mr. Matthew
Wyatt, a young gentleman of distinguished cele-
r,rity in the fine arts. and the eldest son of a gen-
loug eminent. to proposes plan for erecting
a morrumeut suitable to the occesion, and as af-
fording • suitable specimen of netimial taste and
feeling. This gentlemen had *Wady rendered his
tonne rmisieut by the monument erected at Liver-
pool to the memory of the late Lord Nelson. He
was • gentlemen who had been distinguished by
tin. Mar sty, end was pationiard by the Royal Fa-
wily. The plan which be migrated was immedi.
surly received by the public with universal ammo-
hat . His name. his amnesiacs*, and, above
sli, the interesting subject of his proposal. almost
instantly caused the sabseripsion book to be filled
with 114 Tell of persons of all ranks. The vast ties
cumulation of the fund proposed. naturally sag.
grated the propriety of adopting some mode by
which it should be duly administered for the in-
tended purpose. He therefore proposed that cer-
tain respectable individuals should fonts themselves
Into a committee for the purpose of receiving sub.
iscriptioos, and placing the atuouot in the hauds of
a banker. in order that it might be applied to its
object. Among the persona who me se forward fur
the purpose of managing the pecuniary part of the
plan, was Sir Henry Turnings, • gentleman of the
logiiest honour and chancier. whose close cosinec-
tocoti and intimacy with the Duke of Yank rendered
him slosve all suspicion. Other persons were, Dr.
Noonan, Mr. Roche. a student at law. and • 31r.
four. The undertaking propo-ed by Mr. Wyatt
was one. which, from its nature. toast requireslinag
time to bring to a Nate of perfection ; it was not
one which could be effected in haste and precipi-
t•ition ; regard being had to the taste and character
of the artist. The hon. persons alluded to hiving
• oppointeol a banker of character, the sublicriptions
were placed in his hands, so that no possible stir-
rein* could arise as to the due administration of
the flood. Under these circumstances, three succes-
sive libels appeared in the Observer,aSenday news-
paper of the most extensive circulation in London.
Iwo of theta were in the form of letters addressed
to the Editor. and ivied " investigator;" dud the
third was a paragraph of the Editor himself, COW.
taming comments of a like tendency with the let-
tor, imputing to the Plaintiff and other gentleiwesi
of the Committee • fraudulent misappropriation of
the money subscribed for the monemesit. Here the
Learned Counsel referred to the libels, and com-
mented upon them in language of strong soisnad-
. version. lie admitted. that after an action had been
brought against the Deleudasit, he had published
is: hos•passer an sspologetical statement, professing
that he had published the libels under a mistake.
and its ignorance of the real circumstances of the
case, and of the clutracters of the persons libelled.
After pointing out the injurious tonseepseuces of
the libels to the character of the Plaintiff; he pro-
fessed that his client in bringing this action, had no
other object ist view than the vindication of his cha-
. ratter, disdaining all pecuniary or mercenary mo-
tives ; but at the same time seeking 'such a vet-
diet as would mark the Jury's seas' of the injury
be had received. The lammed Counsel stated that
lie was in a condition to prove that the libellous in-
sinuations published by the Defendant were with.
nut tie slightest foundation; that every guinea
cul-
lecred could be eatislactroily accounted for; and
that the monument was as far advanced towards its
Cumpletiuo as the time. and the plan proposed,
44.tlid lino«. Before say witnesses were called to
support the Plaintiff's case—
.• Mr. ADOteIIUS interposed, 1114 behalf of the De-
fendant, and proposed to save the time of the Court,
by aluniting all that had been stated by ins Learn-
edErietid no be perfectly true. The Defendant
liadn.keu every means in his power to repair the
mischief which the Plaintiff had fluttered, anal it so
lamp...A that the apology which load been alluded
to aaa published on a day when The Observer bad
unparalleled sale, namely. the day when an ac-
count was published of the Ceto-street conspiracy.
Sincerely lamenting the publications, and admit-
. nog. that they coutented matter nut (Minded in
truth, lie wisJustructed by his. client to make the
most ample aosiliogyto the Plaintiff, maid also to the
_othes.gendeusen petned,..wholie chametels.' he was
couvinced, deserved the high eislogiutlis poised' by
(.cornedhis and as an additional proof of
jibeitoonritYs be offered.to . give the Plaintiff a vet-
. tikt the Defeodsot paying the coots of the
cease as between attorney •Ild client.
Mr. Scumerr, after cuideenng Pith the f'lein-

firs Solicitor, steepled the terms proposed, and
repeated. that, as it was not Dr. Nadialt's object
to recover personify satisfaction, the danieges of-
fered would' be appropriated, if trot to some chari.
table use. certainly towards the completion of that
rational to which the libels related.
Mr. Justice Hout•sai, in addressing the Jury.
said he thought the l'lstiailr wits entitled to the
w.irarest comineudatiow for the forbearance he had
Wiesen in oceeptiag the terms proposed by the
Defendant.
The Joey, ander his Lordvhip's direction, formal
verdict for the Plaintiff—damages 50!.

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