The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-27 00:00:00

SHERIFF'S COURT, RED 14101(-11QUAIIE, JULY 23.

SIR /AM ES ERSKINE, BART. V. Slit G. MURRAY, KRT.
The following are accurate copies of the letter• which were
read in this Court on Friday last, on the inquisition to assess
damages against the defendant for trim. con. with Lady Louis,
Erskine:—

..... _
COPT or SIR JA3tES EFISKIXFi LETTER TO UNXERAL
Silt GEOittif: SILJURAV.
" Edinburgh, 4, George-greet, Jan. 18, My.

. .
" TO GENERAL Silk GEORGIC HURRAY.
" Sir,—From an occurrence which has lately taken place, I
am imperiously called upon to demand of you to declare upon
your honour whether you have ever carried on a secret or elan.
destine correspondence with Lady Louisa Erskine, with a view
Of its being kept concealed from me, or if you have ever intro-
duced into any letter you may have written to her sentiments
or expressions derogatory to my honour.

" I run, Sir, your obedient humble fiery:lntl
" JA.3IES ERSKINL. '

COPY OF SIR OtOROE MURRAY'S LETTER.

" Locknell-house, Jan. 25, 11119.
" Sir —I have received, this afternoon, your letter of the 18th
instant. It is written in a style which appears to me to preclude
my making any other answer to it, in so far as it concerns my-
self only, than my merely acknowledging the receipt of it.
" That I may not leave for a moment, however, any opening
for surmises which might be prejudicial to another person, and
which would be wholly groundless, I take this opportunity to
declare, that in any intercourse which may have taken place
between Lady Louisa Erskine and myself, nothing has
ever occurred injurious to your honour, or which ought in the
slightest degree to &Mixt that of Lady Louisa herself.
" I am, Sir your obedient humble servant,
" O. MURRAY.
" To Sir James Erskine, Burt., Edinburgh."

COPY OF Int 11.0BEItT WILSON'S LITTER TO SIR .710111[11

xitsicrxx.

" Charles-street, April 11 lOW.,
I
"My dear Erskine,—ln pursuance of your wish, saw Sir
George Murray this morning, and having stated the object of
the interview, 1 had the satisfaction to have all my hopes con-
firmed, by an immediate declaration on his part, that in no
letter which habits of friendship may have permitted him at
any time to send a certain person, was matter of such descrip-
tion introduced, us could render him personally desirous such
letters should be concealed from you, to avoid the infliction of
a wound on your honour and happiness.
" Sir George regretted that the tone of your correspondence
had imposed on him it degree of reserve in his communications,
which appears to have rendered incomplete that removal of mis.
conception, which he was desirous to effect in justice to another
person, whose sense of duty and sincerity of affection towards
you would never have permitted any trespass of the nature to
which allusion has been made.

" 1 assure you that no conversation could be more satifac-
tory, and I feel authorised to require that you henceforth dis.
miss the subject of correspondence from your mind, except
when reference to this proof of misconception may dispose to a
more favourable view of the whole case, and its total burial in
the tomb of oblivion. _

" Yours ever faithfully, R. WILSON.
44 is. t is due to Sir G. Murray to add, that he author-
ised me to say that the explanation was intended to be most
frank, candid, and unreserved; and therefore, if the terms in
which 1 have expressed his feelings and declarations, should
appear in any way contracted or dubious, you must ascribe the
conciseness to my language. " R. W."
[The followin letter has been addressed to the Editor of A
Morning Paper!:.—
29, Upper Berkeley4treet July 26.
" Sir—l hasten to correct a mistake which it has,, since, been
proved to my satisfaction I committed in giving my evidence
In an important cause (Sir James Erskine v. Sir (1. Murray)
which was decided in the Sheriff's Court, on Friday last, the
23d instant.
" In my said evidence I stated, that in the course of a visit
which I had made to the plaintiff and his lady, at a hotel in
Clifford-street, &Are they went to Path, I thought that I had
perceived some change in their manner towards each other ;
whereas it now appears, that the visit in question took. place,
not before they went to, but after their return from, Paris.
" The A ttorney-Oeneral's allusion to the above circumstance,
in his address to the Jury, first suggested to my mind the pro.
liability that at that distance of time I might be mistaken. I
accordingly, in coming out of the Court, communicated that
suggestion to the plaintiff's Solicitor, and have only to add,
that various circumstances which have in the mean time been
brought to my recollection by other persons, have conclusively
satisfied my mind, that the apprehended mistake was really
committed upon my part, and that I was consequently bound
to take this early, and (I trust) effectual step to rectify it. I
have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
" A. MACDONALD."

A Musical Festival, upon a grand and an ex-
tensive scale, is to take place at Edinburgh the
latter end of October, to be conducted by Sir
GEORQZ SMAUT.