DR. LUSIENGTON'S JUDGMENT.
To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."
5, Figtree Court, Temple, Dec. 24, 1812.
Sue,—In your last number you say, in reference to Dr. Lushing- ton's Judgment on Dr. Rowland Williams :—" He" (Mr. Stephen) "added, to the surprise of the Court, that Dr. Williams was pre• pared to retract the passages impugned by Dr. Lushington's judg- ment." What I said was that Dr. Williams was prepared to with- draw the pane ges in which the Court had held that he had iden- tified himself with Baron Bunsen. As Dr. Williams did not adopt Baron Bunsen's opinions, and had not intended to advance them as his own, salt was the province of the Court to say what was the legal effect of his words, and as the Court had said that the legal
effect of his words was to adopt those opinions, I strongly advised him to take this course ; but he never did retract, or authorise me to retract in his name, any opinion which he had advanced as his own, and one of the passages condemned by Dr. Lushington had no reference to Baron Bunsen. He refused explicitly to retract that pamage.—I am, your obedient servant,
J. F. STEPHEN.
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