Star.
London, England, 1825-11-18 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCII, NOVEMBER 17.

ARTICLES OP THE PEACE.—THE MARQUIS OF lIERT.
FORD V. THE HON. AUGUsTUS STANIIOPE.

AM soon at the Judges had taken their seats,
'11:e ATTORNF.V-(;ENERAL roc nn the behalf of the Marquis of
llertfotd, to move the Court to grant articles of the peace against
the 1 foo. Augustus Stanhope.
'1 he Ma quis of Hertford, who sat on the bench with
the Judges, having sworn the affidavit on which this
application was, made, it was then read. The affidavit
stated, that in the course of the year 1816, the Noble
erhil)itant received information that his son, Lord
Beauchamp, then 16 years of age, hid been invited to
the quarter; of the Hon. Auguqus Stanhope, and had
there lost 16,000/. at play, is the enure of a few haura.
In consequence of this information, the Noble exhibitant
made a communication to the Comin3oder-in-C'''ef;
laying before him those circumstances, upon which the
Augustus Stanhope was tried by a Court-martial,
at Camhray, and dismissed the Army. The Noble
exhibitant had had no further intercourse with the Hon.
Augustus Stanhope till tiler the death of the late Mar-
quis of Hertford. Shortly after that event, in the
month of July,lB2l, the Noble exhibitan., while riding
in Hyde Park, was personally insulted by a person
whom lie did not knew at that time, but who, he has
since learned, was the lion. Augustus Stanhope; he
made, in consequence, an application to Sir Richard
Birnie, at Bow-street; but, upon the Hon. A. S:anhope
pledging his word of honour that he would not again
disturb the Noble exhibitartt, which could also be
ptoved by a letter to the Duke of Wellington, no fur-
ther proceedings were taken. After an interval, how-
ever, of several months, he received anotheriinsult. On
die 22d of last August, in Grosvenor-squaje, the Hon.
Augustus Stanhope came up, and pushed his stick into
the t inflow of the Marquis of Hertford's carriage, with
the intent to do him some bodily harm, or provoke him
to a breach rf the peace by fighting a duel. The Noble
exhibitant upon this made another application to Sir
Richard Birnie, and upon n3tice sent to the Hon. Au:
gastus Stanhope to answer to this complaint, the Hon.
Augustus Stanhope told Sir Richard Birnie that he
should never cease to annoy and insult the Marquis of
Hertford till he should provoke him to fight a duel,
or compel him to exert his influence to obtaiq his re-
storation to his military rank, or should pay bun a
large sum of money.

Snme time aft:r. the Arrouxicr.GrxertAt. informed the Cnurt
that Sir Richard Birnie had made an affidavit nearly in the terms
stated, in bchslf of the Noble eahibitant.

The affidavit was hindrd up, and read.
Sir R. Birnie .'eposed, that in July last the Marquis
of Hertfo•d made an application to him, stating that he
had been insulted by the Hon. Augustus Stanhope, who
appeared, and gave a prorni•e that the insult should
not take place aga.n. He added at the time, that his
promise was mote than hail to any amount. A second
application was made by t!.e Nlarquis of Hertford, in
August ; the insult had ken re,•e.eted, and the Hon.
Augustus Stanhope said he would continue the annoy-
ance till the Marquis of Hertford had paid the rnuney
he had won, or restored him to his rank in the Army.
He said he would not cease his annoyance after the
death of his father, but he would cease it provided the
Marquis of Ilerth.rd got him a place of 4001. per year
in the Custnmi or Excise.
The Court, after huiring Sir R. Eirnies affidavit, allowed the
articles to be exhibited.

Air. Justice BAYLI:v—You will issue process, of course.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

THE XING V. THE PROPRIETORS CF THE COMMON SENSE

NEWiPAPER.

Mr. BROUGHANI, early in the Term, obtained a Rule,
callin:• on the rl4endants to ,hew cause why a criminal
information should not he filed against them for the
publication of a libel on Colonel Berkeley. The libel
insinuated that Colonel Berkeley concealed himself in
Mics Foote's bed-chamber, at Edinburgh.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL t! is day strewed cause
against the.ltule, and read the affidavits of the defendants.
Otte of the defend irrs stated that he had no knowledge
of the article before, it appeared in the paper. The
other said the article was copied in part from several
daily papers.
Mr. BROUGUAM—Yes; but the libel was added to the paragraph
which appeared in the bloruhig Papers.
The Loan CHIRP Jusnce—That is ro answer.
The Airronsav-Gstfitaar.—The affidavit goes on to say they got
the article in the ordinary way.
(7titer Jussica—What is the ordinary way ? Some one drops a
letter in the box. They are not justified in using it.
The Arroaintv-Gmeud. then admitted that he had no other an-
swer to give to the application.
The Court ordered the Rule to be made absolute.