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"They draw a nourishment / Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces; / And, when they see a virtue fortified / Strongly above the battery of their tongues, / Oh, how they cast to sink it! "
One of the most interesting cases in the Law Courts that winter was _Perivale_ v. _Brown Smith_, a claim of £10,000 damages on account of a gross libel published in a paper of which the defendant was editor and proprietor.