The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-06 00:00:00

1-4 n EN ENG EDITION.

MIL CRAVEN BERKELEY AND
AIR. FITZROY KELLY.

No. 1.

9, Mansfield-street, Monday, May 4, 1840.
Si•,—On my return to London this morning, my.at-
vention was directed to Si paragraph in the Cheltenham
Journal of Monday last, in which the Paving Commis-
sioners of that town have published an opinion purporting
to be signed by you, in which, with reference to the late
proceedings of the Quarter Sessions at Gloucester, the
following observations appear :—" But as the Act gives
no appeal, except to the Quarter Sessions in the county
of Gloucester, and as a majority of that Court, as lately
oonstituted, whether erring from corruption or ignorance,
has quashed one good rate,' &c. &c. Now, as I was
one of the Magistrates who voted in the conscientious
discharge of my duty for quashing that rate, and you have
ventured to assert that we did so either from " corrup-
tion" or "ignorance"—the latter, as regards myself, you are
fully at liberty to dilate upon as much as you please—l
call upon you, if the repert alluded to be correct,
to retract the charge of corruption as applying to me.
Lord William Lennox will deliver this note into your
hands, to whom I have now confided the entire matter.
I am your obedient servant,
(Signed) CRAVEN F. BERKELEY.
To Fitzroy Kelly, Esq., M. P., &c. &c.

No. 11.
Carlton Club, 4th May, 1340, 10 P. M.
Ste—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
through Lord William Lcxmox this morning.
As to anything which may have appeared under my
same in a newspaper, I have to observe that I am no party
to the ritblieation of which you complain.
I have, indeed, lately written my opinion as Counsel
upon a case laid before me. In doing so, Ihad no intention
to cast any personal imputation upon yourself or upon any
other individual, I merely advised those who consulted me
to the best of my judgment and ability.
I cannot, without compromising the profession to which
I have the honour to belong, admit myself to be accountable
Cr any opinion which I have faithfully and fairly delivered
as counsel to a client consulting me, without any other
et4hosity or intention than that it should be used by the
client as a guide to him in the matter upon which he re-
quired my advice.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient humble servant,
FITZROY KELLY.

The Hon. Craven F. Berkeley.
I have placed this in the hands of my friend Colonel
Johnstone, of the Guards, to be delivered to Lord William
Lennoc.

No. 111.

Pall Mall, 10 o'clock. A. M., May sth, IS4O.
DRAY( SIR,—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the
letter waich you left last night at my h3use, on behalf of
Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, from which, if I understand it rightly,
Mr. Kelly distinctly denies the slightest intention of im-
puting corrupt motives to my friend Mr. Craven Berke-
ley, with respect to any decision he may have come to in
the discharge of his duty as a Magistrate, upon the occa-
sion referred to.

I beg you will inform me whether I am correct in this
view of the case, as, under those circumstances, I need
trouble you no longer.
I am, dear Sir, your's truly,
(Signed) W. P. LENNOX.
To Lieut.-Colonel Johnston, Grenadier Guards, &c.