The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-21 00:00:00

ANOTHER Y.ELVER7ON CASE.

Mrs. Longworth (or Yelverton), who has of late
been so often in our legal reports, has raised an
action of damages against Mr. Walker, of Dairy-,
advocate, who is married to a sister of Major Yel-
verton. The summons contains the following state-
ments for the pursuer :
" 1. The pursuer is at present the pursuer in an action of
declarator of marriage, presently depending before Lord
Ardmillan Ordinary, against the Hon. Wm. Charles Yel-
verton, younger son of Viscount Avonmore of Belle Isle
and Hazle Rock, in the kingdom of Ireland. The said
Viscount Avonmore has a younger brother, the Hon. Wm.
Henry Yelverton, who, with his wife and family, lives at
Whitland Abbey, near Narberth, in South Wales.

"2. In December, 1861, the pursuer, by invitation,
proceeded from Abergavenny Castle (where sho had been
residing on a visit to her sister Mrs. Bellamy), to Whitland
Abbey, on a friendly visit to the said Hon. 'William Henry
Yelverton and his family, where and with whom she has
since resided, and where, and by whom, and by their
neighbours, friends, and acquaintances she has been re-
ceived and treated in all respects as a lady of position and
character.

" 3. On or about the 2d, 3d, or fourth day of the present
month of January, 1862, the said William Henry Yelver-
ton received a letter written, signed, addressed and for-
warded, or at least signed and forwarded to him by the
defender, Mr. Walker of Dalry, of the tenor or effect
following :—" Edinburgh, 6, Eton-terrace, Ist January,
1862.—5ir,--I observe in to-day's copy of the Edinburgh
Courant, a paragraph announcing the arrival at
your house of the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton to pass the Christ-
mas week. My purpose in writing to ycu now is to inquire
if this visitor is the person who calls herself "the Hon.
Mrs. Yelverton," but whose real name is Theresa Long-
worth. As I consider that the honour and character of my
wife's family is seriously affected by this circumstance, if
true, I don't consider any farther apology necessary for
troubling you with this letter. When I first heard of your
most extraordinary and unnatural conduct in openly taking
up the cause of Miss Longworth at the Dublin trial, I mus
say, though greatly shocked and grieved, I hoped that
when you came to reflect more calmly on your delicate po-
sition in regard to the succession to your nephew, Wm. C.
Yelverton, and also when the real character of Miss Long-
worth became generally known, as it now is, that whatever
your own private hopes for the success of her case may
have been, that respect for your brother, Lord Avonmore,
and for your own character, would have prevented you
from publicly associating with this most degraded woman ;
but I fear I have been mistaken, and that with the new
year another and I may almost say a worse dishonour has
fallen on the family. Had you been a more distant rela-
tion, or had you been merely one of the public uninterested
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in the result, whatever it may be, of this case, I should
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bene-
fited have understood that your disapproval of Win. Yelverton's
had created a sort of sympathy for her cause, but that in
conduct rather than your
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William's child being made illegitimate, your near
relationship to him, and above all the consciousness of the
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by William's
as being
pain which you well know your conduct must cause to your
kind-hearted brother and all his family, your conduct ap-
pears to me so selfish, so base, so unnatural, that it is hardly
possible to believe it, and I am perfectly certain that in the
whole world there is not one person, not excepting Miss
Longworth herself, who must not, from the bottom of their
hearts, despise you. I have often heard it remarked by those
who strongly censured poor William's conduct that they
would ranch rather be in his than in your position. I can
assure you that it causes me great pain to write what I
have written to one in your position, my wife's uncle, and
so much older than myself. But I cannot restrain my in-
dignation, and this I have written without consulting any
one. I know that my feelings are shared by all my wife's
fatally. I cannot conceive that your own family can ap-
prove of the course you have taken, but with them it would
not become me to interfere. I have done what I conceive
my duty in telling you what my and my wife's opinions are.
—1 remain, your most obedient servant. (Signed) JAMES
WALKER.—Addressed to the Hon. W. H. Yelverton,
Whitland Abbey. •
"4. The said letter so written, addressed, and forwarded
by the defender to the said William Henry Yelverton, and
received by the said William Henry Yolverton on one or
other of the dates foresaid, was meant by the defendert
be, and is of and concerning the pursuer, and the
state-
ments contained in the said letter in reference to the pur-
suer are false and calumnious.
"6. The defender did by the said statements of
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con-
cerning the pursuer, falsely, calumniously, and injuriously
of the said
William Henry Yelverton to receive her
into his house
represent and assert that the pursuer is a most degraded
woman; that it was a stain on the character
Henry Yelverton should
have received her with kindness a
family that the said Hon. William
and attention, and that it
that it was a dishonour to him and to the dfender's wife's
into their houses.
as-
sociate with or to receive the pursuerand
"6. By and through the said false calumnious. state-
mentswas a disgrace and dishonour for respectable persons to •
her character, credit, and reputation, and
the pursuer has suffered, willandd suffer, loss, injury,
and damage in
her feelings have been deeply wounded, and she is entitled
to and claims damages in consequence thereof to the extent
s concludes for payment of £3,000 damages,
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