The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-12 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUTX 10.
D'ARANDA V. LANDELS.

This case, which lasted until a late hour in, the
evening, excited the • molt lively interest in a very
crowded Court. Several ladies, friends to the
parties on both aides were present.
Mr, CoMYN opened the pleadings. The declare-
tion stated that the plaintiff, being a person of good
fame and reputation, and. carrying on the business
or profession
,of a surgeon, had made proposals of
marriage to. one Mary Ann Nott, the daughter of
one William Nott, and was about to be married to
the said Mary Ann; that the defendant, maliciously
intending to injure. the said plaintiff in his good
name, and to cause it, to be believed by all his neigh-
bours, and especially by the Said Mary Ann .Nott
and her father, that he was a man of despicable
character, full of deceit, of a sordid, debauched, and
wicked mind, and in astute of insolvency, and that
his only object in marrying her was the base expec-
tation of obtaining money to throw away in
.de-
'bauchery, falsely and maliciously published of and
Concerning the said :plaintiff, and the said advances
of marriage, certain false and defamatory libels,
whereby the .said plaintiff was brought into great
scandal and disgrace; and the said William Nett,
in consequence thereof, refused to permit his said
daughter to intermurry with him, or receive his
visits and addresses. The defendant pleaded that
lie was not Fuilty of publishing the libels, on which
issue was joined. • • •
Mr. Sedeant WILDE stated the plaintiff's case.
The plaintiff was a respectable Surgeon .residing
at Pentenville.. He had become acquaieted with
the family of Mr. Nott, an eminent wholesale sta-
tioner in that neighbourhood, who had a daughter
possessing considerable attractions. Having fixed
his affections on this young lady, he requested and
obtained permission to pay his addresses to her, and
was aceepted as her future husband. The defendant
was also a surgeon; he and the plaintiff had once
been friends, but how that friendship bad terminated
it was unnecessary to stop to explain. They were
friends, however, no longer; and the defendant, fut
some reason or another which was best known to
his own breast, determined to defeat the intended
marriugelf he could. For this' purpose be first
wrote a letter to Miss Nott in the terms which 1w
should presently describe. Women, however, were
generous beings,. much more so than men when
they once bestowed their confidence, -it was not an
easy matter to induce them to withdraw it. • The
defendant, therefore, would not trust to. Miss Nott's
discretion on the subject ; and in comet, time after
wards wrote to her father., Now, if any thing
could even excuse a person for allowing his mind to,
be operated upon by the contents of an anonymous_
letter, it was the eiieumstance of their relating to
what seriously affected the liapploess of his
Which is always dearer to a father's bosom than
his own.. Mr. Landels hit his mark here. Although
it was difficult to suppose that good nature could
ever he futindetion of en anonymone letter, and
although Mr.:Nott might despise Ole man who lied
,not the courage to speak out in his own proper cha-
racter, still Mr. Nott might say to himself, " The
writer may be in possession of information of which
I am not and therefore mist 'reuse tititil these
aurigea are eleared up." Mr. Nott and his family,
however, acted an honourable part towards the
plaintiff; for although they might have politely dis,
missed him, and kept the cause a secret in their
own breasts, in order to avoid being firelight forward
before the public, they placed the letters in Mr.
VArentla"s ham], and thus gave him the opportu-
nity
atuhtehotrk'orrtlf-tiencsilri:
proving by
of dagngtiiiiieg
slanders,
eCr
Fotu r
afford andh
tin -coeugiqn of proving the truth of OM if he
could, The plaintiff had done so, but the defendant
ward either to prove
pleaded the general issue. Instead of coming fun-
or disavow the truth of the
libels,' he i;oriteated hiralielf with saying he hqd not
written them. By this means he 'aggravated the

injury to the plaintiff. He (Mr. Serjeant Wilde)
would now proceed to rend the letters, and the Jury
would see that they were written with consummate.
art, and well calculated to effect the writer's per=
pose. They even professed to come from different
persons, in order to give them more weight. In
the letter to the daughter the writer styled himself
an unknown friend; whilst in that addressed to the
father he stated himself to be
,4 stranger. The first
was dated the 27th of February, 1830, and was in
these terms :-- •
‘f If Miss Nott will listen to the advice of an old friend, and
If the has the least regard for her own happiness, she will in.
stantly spurn the advances of one of the most despicable beings
of the human race; one Whose soul is deceit, and whose only
object is money."
This letter Miss Nott, with a degree of prudence
stud propriety of conduct that commanded respect,
placed in her father's hands ; anti shortly afterwards
another letter was received, addressed to the father
himself. Now, let the Jury observe every part of
this letter, and see with what cunning they were
contrived, so_ that they might each. _combine, one
with another;- to give effect to the whole. (Tile
Learned Serjeant here read the following letter,
which he commented upon as lie went along)
Mardi 5, IMO.
Sir,—You are about to decide upon 'a point upon which
hangs the future happiness of your child: —rause, and inquire
into the character or the person who would become your rela-
tive. I know him not, therefore I do not spealefrom pique or
resentment, but from a desire to deliver a young and innocent
girl from the net which is cast for her. Rely upon It, Sir, that
he only seeks such an alliance because he expects money, that
he would afterwards throw away in debauchery and every other
crime. Fle is every thing that Is base, sordid, and fiendish and
is now its a state of insolvency. • (Signed) cultich"
Such was the case that he (Mr: Serjeant Wilde)
would lay before the Jury, and on Which they would
this day have to pronounce an opinion.
William Nott, examined by Mr. COMYN—I am a
wholesale stationer in the city; I reside at Penton-
',Hie with my f•amily ; Mr. D'Aranda, the plaintiff,
is a surgeon and apothecary in Pentonville; I have
known him four or five years ; he paid his addresses
to my daughter with my consent; there was no
time fixed for the marriage that I know of, but it
was agreed that it should take place; during the
time that he was paying his addresses I received a
letter : I saw another addressed to my daughter
before that, which she showed me. My daughter's
christian name is Mary Ann ; after I received the
letter I communicated it to Mr. D'Aranda, and de-
sired that he would desist from visiting at my house.
Since that he has not visited, except once. 1 showed
him both the.letters, which, at his request, I left
with him. Mr. D'Aranda still lives at Pentonville.
Ido not know the defendant. The letters allude,
in my opinion, to Mr,,,D'Aranda.
Cross. examined by Mr. Serjeant TApDV—Mr.
D'Aranda lied paid his.addresses.soMe -. time before
1 was asked to give my consent to them; my daugh-
ter May have met Mr. D'Aranda, sine be ceased
visiting, casually in her walks; my dismissal of the
defendant was not unqualified : it was with the un-
derstandiag that it should be so till the charges were
cleared up.
Re-examined—l have two daughters married, one
unmarried, and a son.

Mr. Taylor, examined by Mr. Serjeant WILDE—
lum u surgeon. I know Mr. Landels, and have
known him for eight or ten yams. He was ap-
prenticed to me. He lives in Northampton-square.
I am well acquainted with his hand-writing. (Shown
the note to Miss Nutt.) I must say I believe this
to he in • the defendant's handwriting. Inm ac-
quainted with the turn-of expression in his style. •
Mr. Seijeant 'WILDS—Do you believe that to be
his style'? The witness said he thought it was.
James Swayne, examined by Mr. COMYN—I am
a surgeon, and reside in the neighbourhood of Pen-
tonville. I have known the defendant for several
years. I have also known the plaintiff. I intm..
duced them to each other. lam acquainted with
the defendant's hand Writing. I have scarcely a
doubt on my mind that the handwriting in both the
letters is his. I have seen a variation in his writing.
He sometimes writes larges, and sometimes smaller.
In my (Onion both these are from the same pen—.
the same hand. It is a disguised hand—an attempt
to disguise his natural hand.

Thomas Huxtable, of St. John-street, druggist,
I with whom the defendant had, for, some years, dealt
for drugs, expressed his belief that the libels were
in the defendant's handwriting.
Mr. Serjeant TARDY, for the defendant, said that
no damage had really accrued to the plaintiff from
those letters; and as to him, he had no further in-
terest in the present cause. He had accomplished
all he could desire—the vindication of his character
by the publicity of this proceeding. The defendant
disclaimed the authorship of the letters in question,
and put no justification on the record. Nothing
further could be gained by the plaintiff, therefime;
while to the defendant, the case was one, as it were,
of life and death. If the. Jury gave a verdict against
him, his character would be for ever blasted, his
prospects in life ruined, and he would never ;again
be able to hold up his head in his profession, To
him, therefore, the case was most important; and it
behoved the Jury to look at the, evidence with the
same caution
,ns if; they were trying. a case of for-
gery. It was difficult to conceive why the action
was still pressed on, when it was clear that the
marriage bad not been prevented, and-no possible
advantage could result to the plaintiff from a ver-
dict. The defendant most positively disclaimed all
convection with the writing of these letters; aryl
let that disclaimer lie tried by probabilities. He
was a married man; he could not therefore become
a rival suitor of' the plaintiff's. 'What possible ob-
ject, then, could he have in wishing to break off
this marriage.?. Where was the motive ? and
people did not do things of this kind without me-.
tives of some kind or another.. He would now pro-
ceed to call several respectable witnesses who had
been, long and well acquainted with the defendant
and his handwriting, and without having previously
seen them they would state their belief as to the
handwriting in the libels. The Jury would then
give such testimony all the weight it deserved.
They would hear in wind, too, that the consequences
of their verdict would be most momentous to the
defendant.

.
Mr. John Hohnere,'n' surveyor from the Iloyul
Engineering department, hud known Mr., Londels
for nine or ten years; some misunderstanding at
present existed between him and the defendant; he
had bad frequent opportunities of seeing Ms hand-
writing, which he knew well ; he had not seen the
letters in question before he came into Court to-day ;
he was certain they were not in his hand-writing,
and he believed them to be an attempted imitation;
the lettets y and e were very dissimilar to the way
in which 'he wrote them.

Mr. Henry De Jersey, the defendant's attorney,
mated that ho had applied for an inspection of tlii
letters, but was refused; he had been acquainted
with the defendant ever since he had left school; on
his solemn oath ho believed the band-writing Nb:0;
not Mr. Landel,'.'
Mr. John Hay, Mr. B. •S:ubbing, Mr. John
Richards, Mr. Archer, and Mr. Wright, gave similar
testimony.
• •.,
Mr. Serjeant Wiwi?. having replied at consider-
ab!e length, , .

The Jury retired at six o'clock, and at half-past
nine returned into Court, finding a verdict for thy
defendant.

The unfavourable weather we are experiencing
intorfores seriously with the progress of the hay harveSt.
There have been only two flays of any thing like fair
weather this week, viz., Monday and Th►usday. On
those days much grass was cut, which we fiat- will have
to rot on the ground, unless it is washed away by.floods._
a likely ogeurrence in many places.—Skfiroi dskire Aferc.

SOPUOCLES.--The ungrateful and impious
children of Sorktoct.rs summoned him before the Judges,
on the pretence of lunacy, that they might obtain a deere
to take possession of his estate, lie mule no tuber deferic,.
than by reading the tragedy of (Edipus et Colouni,"
which he was then composing. The Judges. were de
tic performance, and he carried his cans,.
unanimously. TI, is would be a good subject for a pocai.
...Rutherford's View of Ancient History. .

MARRIED. ,
On the 10th inst. at St. Pancras, Mr. t"
solicitor, of Sawbridgeworth, Herta, and of e;11).0,
row, Landon, to Susanne, daughter of Hirt
of Frederick-street, Gray's-inn-road.
On the 6th inst. at Glasgow, A. Fettifet I`:T,l,
chant, Lon.lon, to Niagara, eldest-daughter
ken Esq., Glasgow. s f
On the Bth itta. at St. Clement Danes. "Jr`, I
ham, of Chelnutford and Bermondsey, .to Al' J
'laughter of the late Mr. James Fisher, 9""
'laughter of Thomas Ettrtinee, h`sq. of London '
wood, Surrey. ket
On the 9th met, at St. Martin's, G. It
of Chesterton Lodge, Oxfordshire, Yo"11,""1
Clarke, Req., of Hyde Hall, Cheshire, sou 01 • I,
Otsego Lake, State of New York, to Elisabe"
daughter of the late Bev. H. Byron. e
On the fith Mitt Mr. It. C. MOO, late 0. 04/1
to Eleanor, only daughter of Mr.
'Taylor,
Kent.

DIED.
On the 10th inst. Elitsbeth, the beloved nit'',
IlandaY, Esq., surgeon, Upper Stainford'atre"::l
99th year.
On the 9th in.t. at Woolwich,
.Mr{. C.1.V114,4
Commodore White, and eldest daughter of 06/'
Dalrymple.
On the 9th inet. at Littleentt, Wilts, in bey 19/..01
ot
hl
Dorothy, the te,t slaughter of Lieut.:Gen. I
.0, 01
On the 7th inst. Lady Harriett Skipwith,
'
Gray Skipwith, Bart. of Aleeston, Warwielzahl.,l
On the 9th inst. Eliztheth, relict of R. Ea
nf Edtnonton. 1111`1
On the'llth inst. Mr. W. Reale, of Ca**lffi
On the 10t1, inst. Emily, only daalPdcr
of C
ield, EN., of Grove.place, Hackney

Put ~t)11N"
NTLO AND PunLlstrru by Artnzpo
THE- Sus Orrzcs, 119, FORAND,

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENtE
OKYORD, Jima 9.-On Wednesday, in A full Cast'
tion, a dutiful and loyal Addreis of Condolence °° tai:
of the late King, and of Congratulation on the serail'
his present Majesty, was read and unanimouslyagrek
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and at the same time it was determined that the L,
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should be presented te'his 21Iajesty by a fall delegil
ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. ,
The Rev. William Hazel, /II.A. Chapl.,in or
Church, has been presented,' by the Dean and Or,
that Society, to the Head-Mastership of the
School, Portsmouth.
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Hay, 51,A. tlf ,
College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Rendlerha';
folk, void by the death of the Rev. C. Heolcy. -
The Rev. W. A. W. Keppel, B.A. to the
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Brampton, Norfolk. , •,-. , .
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DURINO ria.srr WEEK...!. -
COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.: ..
Wheat, i Barley. 1 Oats.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to 1. t. IA 1. ".
Carlisle.------ - 68 - 43 - 31 --' `• '.
Carmarthen__ a _ 40 _ 20 -
..
Ilexham-___ 1,2 72
..w, 81 29 20
Morpeth -,...-. 60 72 33 38 23 1d ..
Penrith ----....- 64 1... 39 - ''"' •
Slieltieki .... •73 - -.-
~-
Winchester .48 76 ~
127 34 21 6-i •
Per Bushel. 's. 1.4. .„ 4, ..4, 5, il. s. J. . ~i
Coventry ' 70 90; , 4 8 5 4 3 6 40
Newcastle (Staff.) 10 6 11 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4°
Northallerton --. 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 4° 4
Statrord ....- - 90 94 59 62 36 4 ;
Swansea ........-....... 8 6 8 9 4 6 4 8 9 3 '2 t; ;
Warwick 9'o 10 0 4 6 5 0 3 3 4 0 I, _
Per 8011, I •
Barnanic.utle -.. 17 0 20 (1 19 6 10 0 6 6 Ii) i) t '-'. -•
Durham
.18 6• 20 o;'Si 0 10 0 is 6 89• t.
Richmond -.-- Oil 0 20 0. 1) 0 10 0 7 0 gt' tl'Stackton----- tl7 9 19 0, 8 0 -9 0 4 8 7'' r
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.--.101/4';
There is a very short supply of 'Wl,eat here tW
both from the farmers and up the river ; the h`t/ - •
are taken off at an advance of 3.. per quarter; 4-'
sorts, if fresh, are 2s. higher, but there is ntA ' , :.
provesnent in very ordinary and unwed (I.',
Good fresh Oats are in demand and rather dearer,
is more inquiry for good hard /leans, at an bn
,t,
of Is. per quarter. There have beets two ort
warm days during the week, but much rain los,
intervals; to-day io showery, with eTury,app. '
:
unsettled weather.
Wheat, Rwedh,iteNvocterwifdolk and Su Wolk
1595 t.:
64,66:1,1: tttuoo f0.53t0. 17::
-.---- New 60:. 05s. to Ohl- 01.
- Foreign, Red 5413. 421 i. to 703. teie,
White ........ 641.• 675. to 70t.
Barley. Norfolk and Suttblk 34. to 311,. '• .
- Lincolnshire 304. to 321. :
- Yorkshire Wold 303, to 2.15.
- Foreign ... ..... .............. "..-41. to ""4.
Beans, Old
--..... New 37c to 4tal• 4
Oats, ,Potato tres to .''.
- Poland "li 'ids. to .9fs.
--- Friezland and Sinai! . .93i, •,51. to t•Ss•
- • --- Stealing I4J. to Pk!. per
Shelling .34i to ads. tki.
~,'
Malt 403. 43i. fine 45,1. V_"' .
Rapeseed 271.& 34)1.05. 011. 0..
SCOTCH MARKETS.
Wheat. Barley Oat., 1 Bemis. j...
- ---,.. -........-- .. •
Aberdeen 52 70 24 20 91 " 25 I - -- 41
Berwick.= 43 51 2.1 25 29 25 i 34. 36,, ,
Coldstream - 45 50 21 23 2•1 94 24 ir; ~. ••,"!
Cupar _ 49 fa 39 34 22 LI --!',
Duialee.--. 55 75 --33 :14"'i 24 ,is
.7.;
Elgin.-.....-.. 50 60 20 25 90 93 1.0"'; 33 •
Inverness...-. 53 56 28 30 '2O 34 21 • '",.., ...'•
Kelso 4B •55 23 25 22 94 24 ''' •
1 ..•Kirkakly.-- (10 3 76 33 38 26 32 60 ~,
Perth 50 76 21 94 17 22 23 "' oil,
It:..' The size of the measure varies throughout2l2o.....„)
EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.-iiilf l'i
We hail a good supplyof Wheat to-ay, aP" rei
sauilumgh fie
plesment a
samplesread appeared,sale,;atfllymleNt a tterdporiierl
alt ei-4 1
phi le*
week's prices. Barley, only two samples, one ',aii ot
and the other at 38e, Pease and • Beaus a In`
at last week's prices.
Wheat.- - Barley. Oats. reaFe;
First 7ll Oa ..../ 04 Ilk 04 44$ 00 43,
• Second
Third
ratoss or raovratorra, Ac, 0, toil
Beef, per lb, ... Os. 3d. to Os.fkl. Fresh liiitter,lb.a67" •
51iitt0n.............. 0 4 0 6 Salt Ditt0.......,9" ; .°
Vea1.,........:........ 0 3 0 8 I)itto, per cwt. no ; s
Pork - 0 4 -0 4 Eggs,' per dot., 0 ; 0
Lamb. per. qr. 1 6 3 0 OatStraw(kit..) 9 ,'•', 11
'fallow, cwt...._7 0 30 0 Wheat Ditto.. 6„" 11l
Quartern Loaf 0 0 010 Barley Date .. 6 I
Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 7 0 0 Hay. per .t.-..• 9 i,'''';.....
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EDINBURGH MEAL 111ARKE'F.--MY'r..o.4
We had a large supply of Oatmeal at to-a41'1,-,oli
which sold heavily at butt sveek's prices. Barr‘e,„Yni-sitil
vanced Is. and I'eaaemeal 2s. on the . k bu'"" ' .ac k,
. .
tura in the retail. ~,,tra•i
Per Sack of 2201 b. Imp. per StOne of i'''''" .10 ;
First Oatmeal ........ £9 4 0 First Oatinual ......... 0 '
Second ditto 9 0 0 Second ditto ............ v i
Barleymea1....... .. :
Peastaneal
Pot Barley-No. 1, per cwt. 123,-2,1. 141.-3,1,18c•-' :
• GLASGOW CORN MAIIKE*I".-Jillyl ~,,,t)
Iu consequence of the unsettled state of the 7,0
eastist;:kWhettotattten,tlpoe:::3..
1,:'110,:i'
in'igßalierrlepyr,ießeesanares, asked
Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s.
Canada, topriiii.l.... ............. 3.53341 Og to
1-16:k235 110
13ST
crrilosßttlitiiih:;ll:;,. ... .................................... i'i
. Barley,
per
nmb. 33 0 31 0 English . ... . ....... t", 4
English ..... ....... 27 0 210 Pease, Scottish ... ;9 0
Stxottisli 127 0 23 0 Oatmeal, per 14'db. i g
Irish... 25 0 95 0 Flour, per ti51a,.....
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DALKEITH CORN 111AIIKK1'•-JolY '"• ~
The supply of all kinds of Grain at this thr.ol
ket was small ; prices about the same as tlit°
day se'nnight. ' 10
Wheat. Barley. Oats. ream*. es
First.... 733 04 Ws tki. 34s Ott . 40.1 04 41.
Second... (14* Od 34s 0.1 3os Od 44s A. ~ VI,
Third..... 56e Od no. Od- 28. Od 411 t nu '
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CORNWALL MARKETS. nts,
Tau:to-Wheat (average) 263.-Barley, 433. Ott,-71,b, •,' '
Sr. AttaTr.t.c-W heat, 9 --
Is. to 27..Bartuy, 12.3.10
Od. tolls. Od.
Bur:mix-Wheat
lavenige)276.o4.-Ilariey, 144.0`1• ~. .•
l'' '
LAVNCEsTnN-VY mat (average)27s.od.-BarleY,- 10:
124 03.-Beef, &1.-Mutton sd,
Hm.rrox-Wheat, !Xis. 21.-Barley, 123.101 pi, .
PelsraNce-Wheat, 26.. to 275.,,-Ilarley, ---4,:-.J.6' •
Os. to Ds. Od.-Beef and Mutton, 54. to Od._-pork,-
Butter, Bd. per lb.t.
Ltrocuarto-Wheat,22..641. to 255. Ck1...-liasleys l'-' '
to 104. Rd.l3, ' •
, Sr. Cos.usto.-Wheat,• 254. to 2,7,......8ar1ey. 194. to - ,•
and Mutton, 4d. to 6d.-:Veal Lamb, eal and 4d: to 9J.. " .
MINING INTELI.IGENCU. ,_.l9;i"
Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth las till urs44 ''''
Average Produce .........*•" 201
Quantity of tine Copper .. . . ... ......... "._. . ~„1 t 4114 '
Amount of Sale, 14, I SOL 1.4..01,-.A.,;e•vag.”-e..11t.a.w.'".."-'
-- ----- te -•-
. BIRTHS. 1, °.
Oa the 9th inst. at Syrienham, the lady or i ' 3
Esq., of a slaughter. 0"
: of ;
.On the 9th inst. the lady of W. Ilale, EH' .
tWinaO:dnEatenth.e:fsoatflrainnma.tn..at Streatham Paragon, S'lrl'''
k;
. 4 0
Wm.-Alackerizie, of a dingllter. il% 14• -
In York Terrace, Regent's Park, the IntlY °'