AMOTHER YELVERTON CASE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 112, 26 March 1862, Page 7

AMOTHER YELVERTON CASE

Tie "Hon. Mrs. Thtrwa Yeh erton" l:as raife-.l an a< turn for dpnuigis agaiiu.t ?,ir. Walker, advoia'e. of Dairy, who is married to si sistoi* of Major Yfivurtou. The amount claimed ii £xOOO and cist;. Divesting the case from all the jargm wiili which the Scotch law reports'clothe it, we find t'.rv plain, lacts to be as follows : —• Mrs. Yeivenoii is well-known us the plaintiff in the action now pending in the Scotch courts, whereby she seeks to establish the legality of her marriage with the Hon. William Charles Yelverton, .younger ton of Viscount Avonmore, of Belle Isle and Hazel Rock, in Ireland. Viscount Avonmore has a younger brother, the Hon. 'William Henry Yelverton, who, with his wife and family lives nt Whitland Abbey,nearNarberth,iii South Wtt'es. In December* last, Mrs. Ytlvcrton, by invitation, proceeded fiom Abergavenny Castle (whoie she had been residing on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Bellamy) to Whitland Abbey, on :i friendly visit to the Hon. William Henry Yelverton and his family, with whom she has since resided, and by whom she has been received and treated in all respects as a lady of position and character. In the beginning of the present month, the Hon. William Henry Yelverton received the following letter : —

" Edinburgh, 0, Eton Terrace, " Ist January, 1862,

" Kr—l observe in to-day's copy of the Edinbunjh (.'ouranta paragraph announcing the arrival'nt your liouse of the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton to pass the Cliristmas week. My purpose in writing to you now is to inquire if this visitor is the person who calls herself ' the Hon. jVlrs. Yelverton,' but whose real name is Thertsa Longworth. As I consider that the honor and character of my wife's family is seriously aflected by the circumstances, if true, I don't consider any further apology necessary for troubling you with this letter. When I first heard of your most extraordinary and unnatural conduct in openly taking up the cause of Miss Longworth at the' Dublin trial, I must say, though shocked and grieved, I hoped that when you came to reflect more calmly on your delicaie position in regard to the succession to your nephew, William C. Yelverton, and also when the real character of Miss Longworth generally became known, as it now is, that, whatever your own private hopes for the success of hei case may have been, respect for your brother, Lord Avonmore, and for your own character, would have prevented you from publicly associating with this most degraded woman ; but I fear I have been mistaken, and that with the new year another and I may almost say a worse dishonor has fallen on the family. Had you been : a more distant relation,'"or had you been merely one of the public uninterested in the result, whatever it may be, of this case, I should have understood that your disapproval of Win. Ytlverton's conduct rather than your approval of Miss Long worth's had created a sort of sympathy lor her cause, but that in your position, as being the only person who could "be benefittod by William's child being made illegitimate, your near relationship to him, and, above all, the consciousness of the pain which you well know your conduct must cause to your kind-hearted brother and all his family, your conduct appears to me so selfish, so base, so unnatural, that it is hardly J possible to believe it, and I am perfectly certain that in the whble world there is not one person, not excepting Mips Bongwoi th herself, who must .not from the bottom of his heart despise you. I have often heard it remarked by those who strongly censured poor William's conduct that they would much rather be in his than yonr position. I can assure you that it causes me great; pain to write what I have written to one in yourposition, my wife's uncle, and so much older "than iriyu'lf. But I cannot restrain my indignation, and this I have written without consulting anyone. I know that my feelings are shared by ail my wife's family. I cannot conceive that your own family can approve of the course you have taken, but with them it would not become me to interfere I have done what I conceive my dntv in telling yon what my and my wife's opinions are. I remain your most obedient servant,

(Signed) " Jas. Walker. "Addressed to the Hon. W. H. Yelverton, Whitland Abbey."

This letter being deemed libellous, as it represents that Mrs Yelverton is a degraded woman, she has commenced an action for the damages above mentioned.