The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-20 00:00:00

OBITUARY r01t.'1846, 9TH FRBRUARY. -

.We are sorry to have to record the decease of the Hight Ho-
nour able the . Earl, of Glengall, one of the most. amusing story
tellers on town. In the•. early part of his life his Lordship was
better known by the name of dull care,. but- :bright-
ening up, he became - the owner -of. several 'dramatic
pieces—lrish Tutor, Cent. per Cent., High Life in London,
and Norah, and a play called the French Libertine, have been
attributed to his pen, they were nearly all however damned at the
time. His Lordship's mother was celebrated for carrying the
question on the legitimacy of Lord Belfast, who married her
Ladyship's daughter, and also for sniuggling, to such an extent that
it was a regular rule to search Lady Caher, and she only
avoided it the last time by becoming Lady Glengall,
during his absence from England—a title the Preventive Service
were not acquainted with. The Earl was, however, a good-hu-
moured, handsome, and witty man ; and- hie virtues and talents
are thus recorded :

" Here lies Le Menteur Veridique,
The MENTEIJII, very Dies:, indeed;,
Of whose attainments here to speak
There surely is but little need :
For Dick's accomplishments were such,
He's left a fame which never dies ;
And having lied in life so mud',
No wonder 'tis in death he lies."
ANOTHER.
" Good passenger, one does lie here,
Who, living, did lie everywhere."'
_

111 r. SCARLETT read the above libel, being'the one on which
the indictment was founded, and five others, published at several
periods in 1625, equally calculated to bring the prosecutor into
contempt, but for the insertion of which we have not space at
present.
Mr. Mallison, from the Stamp-office, was then called, and
proved the defendant to be the registered proprietor.
.1. Ma.ddagan'proved that the DowagerXountess of Glengall was
formerly Lady Caber, and that he believed the Earl of Glengall
and the Countess, his mother, were the persona alluded to in the
libel.

No one having appeared on behalf of the defendant; the LORI)
CHIEF JUSTICE summed up • he told the Jury, that if they belie-
ved that the libels complained of,- were: .ealoulated to bring Lord
and Lady Glengall into contempt and ridicule,- they should find
the Defendant Guilty ; if not, they should acquit him.
The Jury retired for about half an hour, and retained a vet'-
diet for the defendant.

The foreman said that he, was desired by his brother jurors to
express their reprobation at the series of personal attacks which
had been made on the prosecutor's character in the Age.
HUGHES V. WIZARDS.

Mr. Anotrtics opened the pleading*
somee plaintiff
time ‘Ns'iarsic a e
Mr. SCARLETT stated the cave. He said that he had the
hcircles;
Th honour of appearing for the plaintiff in this case to seek such com-
pensation in damages as the Jury.rnight think proper to award for
a in
ischtahrede highest Anilga
es reputation.
purchased the estate of his late Royal Highness the Duke of
York at Oatlands, and had also marrieda lady of
personal attraction, who used formerly. to perform great
personal at the
Italian Opera: Though her situation, in life was not such
as to render her an object of choice, yet her accomplishments were in
the eyes of some people calculated, to do away .with what other de-
ficiencies she might possesi. But whatever,might be her qualities, be
did not see how the defendant, in this case, could be offended with
Mr. Hughes for marrying her. Yet, he accused him of having
first seduced, and then been disgracefully compelled to marry her ;
then of discarding her, and living with another girl whom he had
previously seduced. The Learned Gentleman here indulged in
severe animadversions on the abuse of the Liberty Of the Press,
and observed, that Juries were the only retraint on its li-
centiousness. He hoped, that in this instance, they would
mark their sense of the infamy of a man, who, if
possible, by a verdict, ought to be hunted out of so-
ciety, and who if he could not pay in his purse, should pay in
his person. He had pleaded the general issue, and consequently
had admitted the libel. If he conceived that what he had written
was true, it would be competent for him by pleading a justifica-
tion to prove the fact; not that he (Mr. Scarlett) meant to say,
that everything which was true might be published with impunity.
The Learned Counsel concluded, by reading the libel as follows :
" Obituary forl 846—Few persons hays gone down to that bourne,
frdm which no traveller ever returns, more regretted than Mr.

Ball Hughes, just departed this life, as a wit, a scholar, a finished
gentleman, a tender 'father, and a devoted husband. About 28 years
ago he bUrst forth on the town with .a fortune of nearly 700,0001.
the greatest part of which he gave away in the holy cause of cha-
rity. It has been malignantly said of him, that when he took
away Mademoiselle Mercandotti, about which the celebrated epi-
gram of the facetious George Coleman has appeared—' She's one
Ball at his foot, and,'—&.c. He had not the • remotest idea of
marrying her; but not being able to effect his purpose without,
and urged by Lord Fife, wheedled by the mother, and denied by
the lady, he finally consented. The tongue of slander further said,
that some time after his marriage he bad• such a predilection
for a maid instead of a matron, that he supported one for a long
time at No. 189, Regent-street, from which place he removed her
to the Quadrant, in the same street, and finally removed her to
the Continent in 1626. They did also say that he had lost seve-
ral sums in gambling, and that the debt for the purchase of Oat-
lands from the Duke of York was never at all discharged, but we
have reason to belive that the whole.of the Report was a tissue of
malice and invention. Mr. Hughes spent some time in Paris'
and acquired a perfection in the French language, fos which he
is so distinguished, as .a• proof of which, the following epitaph
'Was some time since written by himself, and is placed on his
tombstone, agreeableto a codicil in his last will and testament. :.
" Here's Mr. Ball Hughes stretched at length,
Whom all the maids that knew pay
A tribute of regret to find
Son est sitot coupe."
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The above libel appeared in The Aye of the2d of April, 1826.
—He then read the following, which appeared on the .19th of
Fehruaey :—" Your house getting on, : one story finished,
another story talked of, the reason of delay owing to Ball Hughes
owing the ready money for °attends to his Royal Highness, and
having taken French leave, and his wife's maid from the Quad-
rant."
Mr. Sc at.rrT called on the Jury to give heavy damages against
this man, who was himself a man of straw; and was made the
stalking-horse of a number of persons who throve by calumny.
• The Proprietary' having been proved as in a former instance,
Samuel Kendal was called.—He deposed that he bad been land-
steward to the Duke of York. Mr. Ball Hughes, the prosecutor,
purchased the estate, at Oatlands, on the 4th of October 1824.
The money was vested a few weeks after hi the hands of trustees,
in order to have the title investigated. There was a house build-
ing for his Royal Highness, in the Park, called York House.
No person having appeared for the defendant, the Chief Justice
briefly addressed the Jury, and left the question of libel and da •
mages entirely to their decision.
The Jury having deliberated about twenty minutes, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff, damages 1501.