Mrs. NORTON has addressed an angry letter to the M'erning
Chronicle, contradicting in most indignant terms the report of her intention to ap- pear on the stage ; treating it as an insult, and attributing its origin to some party who have pursued against her a "steady and unremitting system of annoyance." The Chronicle, in stating that the paragraph was copied from the Spectator, remarks that " the report, in a form not to be mistaken, first appeared in the Observer two or three weeks ago ": we also met with it in a daily paper, and had previously heard it alluded to in two or three different quarters ; in giving it currency, therefore, we considered that we were only stating in plain terms what had been before publicly mentioned in covert phrase. As the report is un- founded, we regret that we contributed to its circulation, especially as it has given pain to a lady, whose feelings have been wounded by the way in which her name has been brought before the public : the terms in which we alluded to the prevalent rumour were certainly not calcu- lated to give offence, and they were such as showed that we attached no stigma to the supposed proceeding.
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