A Hundred Years Ago
THE " SPECTATOR," MAY 14TH, 1831.
DUKE OF BEAUFORT V. THE " SPECTATOR."
On Saturday last, Sir James Scarlett moved the Court of King's Bench for a criminal information against the printer and proprietors of this newspaper. As we had no previous notice or suspicion of the proceedings, we had no repoirter present, and are therefore obliged to have recourse to the daily papers for an account of what took place. We quote from the Morning Post of Monday, both because its report is the fullest, and because it cannot be suspected of any undue bias to the defendants. It will be borne in mind, that this is a statement only on one side ; our defence is to come.
Sir James Scarlett : " If your Lordships please, my Lords, I am directed to apply to your Lordships for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against several persons, one of whom is the publisher, and the other two are pro- prietors of a newspaper called the Spectator."
Lord Tenterden : " A weekly paper, is it not, or a daily paper ? " Sir James Scarlett : " A weekly paper."
Lord Tenterden : " I am so little in the habit of being a spectator of these publications, that I hardly know."
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