28 AUGUST 1841, Page 17

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

Guildford, 25th August 1841.

SIR—I bold in pretty equal estimation the lies of counsel and the strictures of the Times; they are alike despicable, and may be passed by unheeded : but I cannot allow the conductors of the Spectator, whom I know to be the impartial servants of truth, to set down aught inconsistent with their high character. Alluding to the case of Lord GRANTLEY and PUNTER, in the last number of your paper, you say "the new trial was granted on account of some informality in the first," and that " Hockley, an attorney, who was associated with Lord Grantley in the action, and who executed the warrant of ejectment, was acquitted." Now I beg to inform you, that the new trial was not granted on account of any informality, but upon the merits of the case; and that " Hockley" had no more to do with the execution of the warrant of ejectment, or any other warrant, than the editor of the Spectator or the Great Mogul.

[Our correspondent does us no more than justice in giving us credit for a desire to be impartial. In the present case there could be no earthly motive to be otherwise. How the errors crept into the paragraph, we have now no means of tracing; but we are glad to have them corrected.]