Mr. Russell Bowlby called the attention of Judge Alderson to
the remarks imputed to him on charging the Jury in Mr. Bowlby's case against the scurrilous Newcastle paper, and which were noticed in the Spectator a fortnight ago. Judge Alderson sent Mr. Bowlby a letter, in which the following is the must material passage- " I ems only say, that I hope. and that I hasty believe, that I snid no such thing as is mentioned in the paragraph you have ecpied. But I have the greatest dislike to pledging my recollection on such subjects-1 would far rather refer you to those who, like ytur- self, were present, and heard what I said. I think I SAW, in one of the Newcastle papers, an account, a day or two after the trial, which appeared then tome substantial.), correct. My recollection does not enable me to refer you to the paper. I well re- member the observation, whatever it was, fell from me in consequence of my extren • surprise at the very peculiar wording of the apology, which then appeared to me scarcely to stiffer from the libel itself in essential points; and I really was not without the hope, either that the apology might be made in more sufficient terms, or that, in accepting it, you would have instructed your counsel to add, that it was not to be taken as the limit of your belief. That you did not du so, WAS quite tight, if the apology esp,„Z■ your conscientious opinions; and if that be so, I do most sincerely regiiirr41 disclaim all right to insult, or even to blame you for that. Believe me, alien from my habits than to do so. I hope and trust, that many obliquit4,1,-a.,-* will be pinioned to those who, after honestly and fully cousidering these set • yet been unable to convince themselves of those vital truths, as they appettV4It I bolt on such persons with great sorrow, but I hope with no other feeling,, The Judge could not forbear adding a little preachment, 0,14 assumption that he himself is orthodox and Mr. Bowlby heretical, Will you forgive me for pressing on you, with all sincerity and earnestness, antinatiou of those poiuts, on which, I fear, you hold unsound opinions, t 1.,,!'t greater pleasure that I ceuld receive, than to believe that 1 had bees stir is mental in inducing you to do so; because I do believe, that an exandaareem16_ with a full determination to arrive at the truth, will make you (being as yon an to be, a man of sense and good feeling.) a believer in the truths of revealed 414
and in that Saviour who died to redeem us all from sin and death," ant
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