Star.
London, England, 1823-02-21 00:00:00

ANONYMOUS SLANDER.

COURT OP KING'S 13ENTM FEBRUARY _e.
UR DAVID OGILBY J. CIIANNON.

This action was brought by Sir. David Oxilhy,•an Offizer
his Majesty's service, and Lady Elisabeth his wife, against .iotaChannan Eaql and Eliza his wife*, to recover tiarniges fur slanth7.
The declaration charged the wife of the defendant with bei :g
the writer of four anonymous letters, to as many per.ons,
intention to injure the honour and reputation of Lady OgilhF.
The letters were all without dates, except the date of the
Post-mark.

The first was addressed to Bareness Nolekens, at Dromptee,
and bore the post-mark of the 17th of May, last year ; the se.
cond to Lady Paxton, the third to Lady Deranges, and the
fourth to Mrs. Levels Desanges. •
The letters, with some slight variation, cautioned the parois
to beware of the woman LadyOgilby, who wished to c cue inn
society, after moving in the back ground many years from a good
cause, having been known to. be the companion of disgust*
characters. Her object was to take away people's character.
married or single.
The writer expressed fear that she bad done so with two se
three respectable families. Her horrid intriguing sister west
with bet. Sir David Ogilby was described as generally creating
-dhgracend tales of people, who would not notice him. It was
a shame each people should get-into revealable society..--The
letters woes all signal" A fiend to Morality."
Mr. &marry stated the ease. He described the parties te
be persons of faddist' and fortune, and imputed tbewriting of site
above slander to a malicious feeling en the part of. Mrs. Chan.
non, in consequence of a refusal, on time part of Lady Ogiiby.; te
introduce beg at the Draw' ,in April, 111112. In conse-
quence of the circulation of the slander, Lady %Shy .suspected
Mrs. Channen as the author, and was taken ill on meeting her
at a ECU, given by Mr. Penn, of Spring-gardens. The lotus
were written in a feigned hand, bet certain peculiarities in the
composition would leave the Jury no room to doubt that Mid.
Chanson was the writer.
A great number of witnestea were examined is support of the
plaintiff's case. Some who bad seen Mts. atseilou's writing,
.declared the inters to be her hand din ell. _ _

Sir F. &manses and Baron .IokIIKWIPOs hinooolot of Vl'
nion it was not her writing. . .
The Soticeroa-G =mat addreedel ilte*Any fOr the filmdom,
whom he described to be a kayo, character previous
to the charge Made by the cautioned the Jury not
to give credit to the weighty ,doirge •agsdoet her. 0a the esi.
dence.called for the plaintiff, he should prove, it was out bet
hand-writing, and there really was no ground for the imputation.
The Souctroa-Chtsraat called Sir Robert Steele, lady
Steele, Lady Lille, Sk F. Swabs*, Lady Charlotte Denys,
Miss Denys, and others, who espreased their strongest convic-
tion that it was not the hand-writing of Mrs. Charisma. That
Lady was a woman of perfect education, and incapable of tau
the cerurs found hi the letters. •
The Loan Cuts, Ithaca, in his charge to the Jury, said, this
case proved how nista it monad be to the advantage of them-
selves and others, if pertimmiseiring anonymous letters would
put them in the fire the very moment they came to band.—
In most instances anooymene stung might famish some with,
but hi general the ATOM" .11iptt Of their information was false.
His Lordship left than' o.eta y Whether they believed sin. Chao-
non' wrote the letters. •St they did • not believe her to be the
writer, they most Ilbeifve ehe defeatism. If, on the contrary,
they' should be of _ she bad circulated the slander, they
ought to give suitable to the injury the plaintiff had sus-
mined.-- The Jai a verdict far the defendant.
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A 1/1* let/illing it *bagel*, five stories high, besides garrets,
Node*** Land, fell down on the incasing of Febtuar
16. Onemmnan, baying her arm broken, has been extrio*sed
from the Mink; and it is feared some fives have been kis,
'Edt no. dead bodies -pave yet been found. A considerable
Y deTtrPer"host t; 7. up dest!tlie
emises, thola.e%s:efaf.ilitii•ka: 1":
*ten for some time expected. At the time.ofoits arploga
ehis building was the ornament of Glasgow..
P013N4 EXCHANGE., MAkK-LAhIE. -VE.101., •
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market: Frime wheat sells freely, mad fully supporObe me
of Monday. Superfine samples of making bar(by
dearer: There is alas a-good sale of „beaks, Inn Mai Mach
business doing-in peas. Oats, in cnndlilon, selift#lNtst
othir kinds go off slowly, at Mo ' "
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Ink T the number of Sheep waaitha sofa ; MA the :PI/AVM
be quoted as oit lsst Mondays Marker.
Beef,lts.6d. to-38.4d. Fur Wale of albs.;,. Not
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