_ APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. | 
than come before the Court, and 
coming for. the reparation of his 
fame, will the Court deny him 
those means which are necessary 
to him for the purposes of bring- 
ing the person who has assailed 
his character before the tribunal 
of justice? It was the duty of 
Count Woronzoff towards himself 
to apply to the Court for redress, 
and it is the duty of the Court to 
grant him the effect of his appli- 
cation. There area great number 
of anecdotes in this work, which 
may be entitled to a greater or less 
degree of respect ; but the repre- 
sentation | have pointed at is not 
of doubtful effect. It isa hardy 
and calumnious inference which 
the party chooses to draw. It 
states that Count Woronzoff had 
the baseness while his sovereign 
lived. (and it was material to him 
to have her favour) to assert 
her innocence, but that he de- 
parted from the assertion as soon 
as she was dead, and he could ex- 
cai no further advantage from 
er; that he admitted her to be 
criminal, considering that. one 
crime more would not be much 
where there were so many. It is 
an imputation of that sort of base- 
ness, which independent of the 
truth or improbability of the other 
passages, warrants Count Woron- 
zoff in his application to the Court, 
and warrants the Court in saying, 
that his application ought not to 
bemade in vain. The Court can- 
not discharge its duty to the pub- 
lic without making this rule abso- 
Jute.—The rule was made absolute 
accordingly, 
Le Duc de Sorentino v. Lord 
* Blaney.—The defendant is the au- 
thor of a work, entituled, «* Nar- 
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rative of a forced Journey through 
Spain,” &c. in which his Lordship 
introduces the name of the plain- 
tiff in this action, stating, that on 
his arrival at a certain village, he 
(Lord Blaney) was surprised to 
see, among other persons, the 
Duke of Sorentino (mentioning 
him by one of his inferior titles), 
whom he had formerly met at Lord 
Nelson’s; at which time he. was 
partner in a faro bank, and a col- 
lector of modern antiyues ; that he 
disposed of them to young tra- 
vellers who wished to acquire the 
characters of cognoscentt, and as 
the Marquis always introduced 
them with a long harangue, he 
was representedas very successful : 
that he (Lord Blaney ) hadbought 
some of them, which, though at 
the time he wrote they were more 
ancient than when he bought them, 
he would willingly sell for less 
than prime cost; that the same 
Duke had been obliged, in haste, 
to quit Palermo, having been 
openly detected in cheating in his 
Lordship's presence at Sir W. Ha- 
milton’s, and that afterwards he 
(the Duke of Sorentino) had been 
turned out of the English fleet by 
Lord Keith, strongly suspected of 
being a French spy. The book 
went on to state, that Lord Blaney 
in the course of his forced journey, 
meeting with the Duke of Soren- 
tino again, knowing him to be an 
entertaining fellow from. whom 
he might derive information, his 
Lordship determined to overlook 
the slight blemish of the Duke’s 
being a professed swindler, who, 
_on this renewal of their acquain- 
tance, had adverted to the affair at 
Palermo, and treated it as a mere 
bagatelle. His Lordship then pro- 
‘ceeded in his work to notice the 
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