New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-01

Al took it for granted that they we're not ac-
oualnted with her handwriting.
Q.-How soon after your publication Of May Is.
1851 did you exhib, the letters 10 the ceTgymen'
A-To one Of the clergymen on the l6th OF Nay.
and to the other sometime afterwsrd
o. must again reGueS; YOU 10 state the names OF
the oiergymon
Al again decline 10 answer.
The Referee rules that the question must be Ar
swered. and Gen. Webb persists IN his refusal
Here the prOcced.UgS terminated -
The following Is the explanation of Gen. Weoo re-
ferred 20 above.
self OF the oppor;uni.y. acting under the soemaity
Of an oath 10 correct the mSrepre >entatons, wheth
er intentional or accidental. which nave been made
IN regard TO The manner N which they came INTO my
possession. -, 49,. ~.
rBy advice of nv Counsel omit here the object OF
a meeting between Buckham, Willis and myself, AZ
the Office oi Mr.. Buckhaw IN Dec, isH.l
The object Of our meeting having been thus sc-
complshed. inquired OF Wills whether ne had nos
ether letters OF Mary lnman IN hs possesslon ana
made a formal demand for them. After mucn discus
son. II arranged thatwe sho,d meet NJ the sans
place At the same hour the day following we
met accordinCy. when Willis placed in my hanis,
sealed and directed TO me, the package am ABOUT
TO deliver TO YOU. And | have no doubt whatever
but the package sealed and directed IN MS OF
nee as the envelope containing the letters IS PRINT
ed circular IN relation to the Nsr- YORK Mirror.
edited 10y G. p. Morris and p. Willis" and signed
Fuller & Co" This package, so directed and
sealed. opened immediately upon my return to my
oace. naturally expecting 10 find IN II some letter OF
Z
ever, nothing but the etters which SILL IN It. the
character Of which, under the injunction Of the Court
am perhaps not at liberty To disclose this occa
SON
| Having read them and placed them IN safe depS-
STORY. Immediately addressed letter to Mary In
man. at IS Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, Lon
don, and advised her among other thiags, that Mr..
Willis had placed N my hands certain letters SAID To
| have been written BY her.
This letter am informed and believe she receiv-
| Ell early III January, lel5 and have since learned
from Mr.. Geo BucAham, and ether sources, that Inn
meG.atey upon lis pt. she placed 1t IN the hands
of her father, and made TO HIM the revelation urged
| upon her.
From that PERIOD until tie 18th day Of May last,
never saw the letters which had been intrusted to
me- nor did Mr. Buckham, or any other person, ever
| apply to me for them, n the name OF Henry inman,
or his widow. OF the said Mary. Nor were they
ever The subject OF conversation between the said
Buckham and myself after 1915, except IN 1872 Just
| before my departure for Europe. when applied To
| sand Buckham 10 know what should do with them,
| and proposed incloslng them to the said Mary |:
| Coddlngton by mail. which the said BucAham urged
not 10 Co lest they fall INTO the hands OF her hus
! band. And desire 20 state unhestatlngy, that mp
10 the.Sad 18th of May, and the publication by the
SAID Willis of a card fixing upon the SAID Mary Cod
dngtonahe illusions made by me IN my pubca,iono OF
the 18th May had never shown the SAID letters To- any
! person 6haeyer, nor had ever copied or suffered
to bc copied, any portion OF them That up 10 this
present time. have never nsInuated or admitted 10
any person save my coun>eD that IN my SAID publ
| cation alluded to the sand Mary Coddlngton.-that
| / have never directly indirectly connected her
name tnCreNltn, or SAID or lnSlnuhci AT any time,
any thing against the virtue or purity OF sad Mary
Coddngton and that had believed that any human
being, except the SAID Buckham and Willis, could by
posSblllty have suspected that alluded to the said
Mary IN my publication of the 18th of May that pub
LEGATION never would have been made, much as
deemed II necessary and proper TO expose the cause
OF the SAID WllllSS attack upOn me at the moment
l had left the country. And insist, that have
not done intended TO do anything, calculated
to bring suspicion discredt upon the SAID Mary
and that the connection of her name with my said
fnt1l4 M nj
ble As verify believe, to the conversations and IN
discretions OF the SAID Buckham and Wls-to the
card published by said withstand To the bill OF com
plant and atldavlts filed IN tins cause, all OF which
AIN informed and believe were placed IN the hands
of the printers 10 be published. before they were
served upon me- the defendant And such Was my
anxious desire to avoid this litigation and the conse
Quences which must result from II, that Immediately
after the papers IN this Sut were served upon me,
addressed a letter to Mr.. Buckham, offering in his
presence to seal up the letters and place them IN the
hands of Rev. DR.. 1888. for safe keeping. The fol-
loving IS the conclusion OF the letter
Mrs Coddnson before the bubble II yonr am is to sFesn
Wills to draw nom any Facts circumstances cal
Won certainly destined 10 encounter signal failure
while assuming hat YOU intend 40 injury To Mrs Coidng
ton and that your purpose % have the letters OF Mrs
Coddngton taken care Of propose frankly and promptly
To meet your object without exposing Mrs The apph-
other responsible person as the receiver Of the letters in
possession If this application be made in good faith.
then all YOU have to do to withdraw all the papers and
your pesenS VIII depo. the Letters for safe keeping
| II Re-
IN instructions never to permit them to see the igt
unless tny should Leoome necessary as testimony IN
| Court 81 justice
W5ahoY YOU do or do not accee tins proposal depends
entirely upon your object IN getting up tins proceedng-
sT sa, r wa an oSS sao' ns o pay a
was only necessary To have minated such wish to me-
neseci, to do and as,cad have dragged Mrs coddlng
tons INTO Court and placed record transaction.
which but for yo. aud willis the world would never have
certain. + your purpose moi to screen Wills but simply
to have those letters placed IN the hands of Andrew War
withdraw your papors and thus supersee the necessity of
my answer and consider Rev Dr. '''' the party to whose
10 nave never oeen out Of my and that mol
or any her person and repeat that the being does not
live to whom have ever the iact tha' was
a u9rty any transaction which Mrs. COddngton was
honor or pnry And cGnot but regret that YOU md her
oy household have been discreet Why you should
he wiling TO place on file such aper as have been served
Son and to prevent i; have freely offered to do poiuaa-
l all you seemingly ask of tho Court to ordr me TO do,
and thus enable you to withdraw from file this disgacsfu
'''N ''''''''' j wArsos WEBB
THIS proposition was rejected and all the proceed
| ings published thus proving that the object OF this
bill OF complaint was not TO prevent the publication
OF the letters, i alleged, but to get up false issue
before The public How far that game has been sue
| cessfu | leave others 20 determine and content my
self with the reflection that have done all in my
power obylate any necessity for these proceedings
| and those which are yet to follow.
And desire 10 say further. tina, | never would
have presumed to make the publication OF the 18th
of May, If had believed It possible for any person
| 10 have suspected 20 whom alluded or If | had
thought that either the SAID Buckham or Willis would
have dared TO connect Mrs Coddngton's name there
with and therefore rery sincerely regret hdrrg made
| it-not because It improper so To do, unJustlh-
| able. or unWananled. IN the exposure of one who
| grossly assaied and slandered me IN my absence
but because that person, to save himself from public
Indignation, mas made ny publication the pretext for
involving the reputation Of female in our quarrel,