, COURT or KING'S BEWCH.—Mr. Follett moved the Court to - day,
on behalf of Sir R. Paul and Lady Joddrell, for a ride calling ,upon Mr. J. Parry, a Chancery barrister, to show cause why a criminal information .should not.be. filed against him for writing and sending. letters to the applicants, tendinwie provoke Sir Paul to fight a-duel. -The circumstances arose out of the unfor- tunate- transactions of a late election for the county of Oxford, in which the names of-Mr. Fame, a candidate, and the. ladies of his family, were unceremo- niously used, and which has been repeatedly. before the Court. In the last tent', Mr. Stoney having been convicted of publishing the libels and refusing to give up the author, was sentenced to fine and imprisonment, the tatter of which he is now undergoing. From the affidavits it appeared, that the present defendant was connected with Mr. Slaney ; and indulging a strong opinion that the on- ginal libels were concocted by the baronet and his lady, or at lewd written with their knowledge and consent, wrote to them stating that fact. The lethr upon whicht•this application was grounded, contained some strong asrertions, among which•vias the following: "No one would be mean enough to screen an anony- mous libeller unless, he had received a consideration for it, the very nature of which. must patWent the possibility of its being mentioned; and, if that be the case, the iufarny of such a wretch is beyond description." The Court granted a rule.to show cause.
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