The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-21 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Drc.2°•

LlBEL.—uttowsE V. MAY, ATTORNEY', fpnasnt.
This was an action to recover damages from the ile—d the
for several libels published by him, to the great injurY,,"
plaintiff'stea-
character. This was one of the many legal Pr.jilibi•
ings which have arisen from the squabbles among thein
tants of Bethnal-green parish. It appeared that the plaifttrica
this action was the defendant in a former action for lib'," t
in the Court of King's Bench, in which the present defers it2s
was plaintiff: On that occasion the then plaintiff obta'ne„o.
verdict with 100/. damages, for which, and the costs, tir „r
sent plaintiff' is now in prison. The libels charged in 11%erre
sent action were in the shape of songs. Several witnesid bat
examined to bring home the publication to the defendant ;,iol
their evidence was (as is usual on most occasions of par° Tbe
quarrels) uninteresting, except to the parties in that parish.
case had gone half through, when A hif
Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN, for defendant, expreafe"'„tset
client's willingness to comply with an offer made in the °Ca be
of the cause by plaintiff's Counsel, that the action should the
withdrawn, the plaintiff' be discharged from custody, 411,
disputes ended on both sides, by each party paying their
costs. al,l
The Lotto CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that the offer oat
great credit to the plaintiff; and he was glad to set that it
accepted with the same good feeling by defendant. suit
A juror was then withdrawn by consent, and thus tut
terminated.
The trial seemed to excite some interest among the P
ioners of Bethnal-green, with a large body
of "0111,1111de
female, the court was crowded.

LIBEL.—PICKERSOILL V. TIIWAITES. f.ind•
The plaintiff is a vendor of certain specifics, and the (1.,,e".g.1
ant the editor and joint-proprietor of the Morning i'e'jeti
Newspaper. The action was brought to recover comPertsill
in damages for a libel inserted in that Paper on the 26th
last.
Mr. Serjeant TADDY (with whom was Mr. Hute-lhat
stated the case. He began by expressing his regeft thi9
matters of libel had been so frequently discussed 'ne this
Court. But still he hoped that in the discussion 0' lie
question, sonic good would be derived to the public' seful
admitted that the public press was a great and 'lode
engine when well-directed, and very properly W3,lhertieg,
the guardian of our liberties, and with those "`" cot,
our happiness. But when directed against private civirsr too
its mischievous effects could not be too much reprobated neyinot
severely punished. The plaintiff was a vendor of D'
rson,
medicine, living in a shop in the Strand, when another Pe.' the
named Canham, caused an advertisement to be inserted inro
Morning Herald of the 28th of March lest. (Here the l'e30;0
Sergeant read the libel, and it purported to be an
rival upon the pretensions of the plaintiff. The rivals thee
was Canham, but he has lately died.) The pretensions °icor,.
plaintiff were called impostures, and his medicine a deadly ht,
pound, and his conduct dark and dangerous. No 'and
in duty to himself, to tolerate such libels upon his character
injury thus conduct, and to recover compensation for the
flicted upon hits he now brought this action.
Tha proprietorship of the defendant was admitted. libel
The paper of the nth of March • he allege be
containing t ,
(in the advertisement page) was also put in and react, 4
nd
licence to sell medicines. I ori"
James Laver—l know the shop 466, in the Strand• was
bought medicine there sonic time ago. De Velno's syrup
sold there, of which I bought sonic. un for-
Cross-exair fined—The shop was small ; I was not so
tgnate as to take Pickergill's syrup. , Ntiff;
Wm. Pickersgill examined—l the son of the Ina 2
several citymists buy De Velno's syrup. After March our
ness almost totally declined. we be.
Cross-examined—l know Berner's-street very well'
gun the shop afaint November of last year; I know s for
of Cambridge. My father assisted in drawing scheurr
insolvent debtors before he opened this shop. .‘q ftitnesil
vertised in The Chronicle (a manuscript put into tne
attack o_
hand). I cannot say that I brought this to the newslleold
My father did not manufacture the medicine ;
two hundred bottles. Mr. White might have assist
eunt of
father with money, but I don't know that he paid the rent to
the house. I did not hear my father say he µlig the Pi
White. be
I think ne,
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George Bushby White was called upon his subp(en3,
did not appear. lor)sci•
31r. Serjeant SPANKIE (with whom was Mr. S. TO' 001
dressed the Jury fir the defendant. He lamented tbe vaost
CAM of libel which came before them, but lie thought, to, coo-
cases, that people might be left to themselves. This vv
dal" oges
test between Quack Doctors, and the smallest possible aisce,
would satisfy the justice of the case. Here there was n°l/1401-
The libel complained of was inserted amongst the other ff
tisements, and, in truth, this action was only brought ty_itori.
off the De Vehio's medicine for the plaintiff. Fromley; Air
ing the vocation of drawing schedules, and giving OP ationt.
to insolvents, he assumed the most analogous occuf
bliss
and smoothed the passage of the ailing to the realms Olicipe,
There was no proof of the value or composition of this I:lle_t_t, fer
and if it were not good in itself, its vendor could not lo"
damages for the loss of so very perilous a calling. •deace*
The LORD CHIEF .TusT E, in recapitulating the'crile old
observed, that newspaper proprietors were ansvierab,.,'thei.r.
ought to be made answerable, for the insertion of libels 1"gor, ot
journals ; and perhaps they would be taught, 11 the les atter%
this day, not to insert, in the shape of advertisements, wet the
of an indelicate and disgusting nature, which daily tt_laininti
eye of every member of every family. The paper conLeor the
the libel was one in general circulation, and it would be
sora
jury (in the absence of till proof of special damage), to
the plaintiff' reasonable compensation.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages One Shilling.

BIRTH. pie
At Antwerpt, on the 9th instant, the lady of John
Lemme, Esq., of a daughter.

MAR RIEI). Will
On the 17th inst., at St. Vedast, Foster-lane Mr. vridsr
Mathie, junior, only son of William Mathie, Foster-lane,
Matilda, st'
street, (Deputy of the ward of Bread-street), to Isl3t"
cond daughter of Mr. John Biden, of Cheapside. ,Gt A -
eeld'e Adamson,
daughter of j
On Tuesday, the 20th inst., at the parish church 01 NiArY
dErleizwa,beJtahn!
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garden.
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On Saturday morning, at hisDIED house in Great Britain's treet,o.,
Dublin, Mr. John Moore, the father of Thomas Moore/
the pOn oet. colvy
ater4
_ Wednesday, the 14th inst., at his house, olon
terrace, Iloxton, in his 7lst year, Mr. John Garwood, for
years an eminent factor on the Corn Exchange. 'Orr
At Newfoundland, on the 21st ult., Deputy Coale
General Thomas Forth Winter. Egl'ill'
On Monday, in Spital-square, of water on the brain, Year
the eldest daughter of Robert flanbury,Esq., .
of her age. he :VP"
On Sunday, the Ilth inst., in the prime of life, at t-- occa'
nor-house, Tunbridge-wells, after an illness of 16 h°u:r,,911:01.9
sioned by severe spasms in the chest, Charles DenBM-' ~
formerly Major in the 7th Hussars. , j seP"
On the 19th inst., at his seat, Kevin t n in leti', - °
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Berens, Esq., in the 81st year of his age, In the Sal

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