The Sun. — London, England, 1819-01-01 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. le following weli•drauvin character of a Lady st) ti4e world is indebted for Ilie.works en- ThscirtANg, -I,ELF-CoNTROuLt, and other . . . pro , lactions, xsitich destrve a better tttle _t:)it , ) that of NovEl,s, ive have extracted from The Covrant.of the 28th inst. It pl'esents ate ex.ipiole of fetnaleecOlenre, wijvh we bore cxcitt (ht. ,of..our Fair the F,Thpife, .s'tire'that they ellolot.pertise it vritis Mitt not feel an h orr .•-4,,,, which" twill: insensibly operate upon thci•• conduct iitlft chat ..rter. _ THE LATE. MRS. P.It.UNTON. death of lt.,nutpn, %chit I) it has re cent;v itee4 our !painful tasliltiannwince, is one of ti , ose events which ; in eryst .tire Public ton. nearly to pass unheeded. .1r tartly hamens, in . deed, that ; the : grave„cleses t)Ver so great a varkty of excellence.; of. t.j),p,, in,,,the,ci!cles of private life, the stroke of deathis feAt so extensively, and so deeply: - • The eliatacter of Mrs.. Branton was of •a sure rim % order. It ,npt 9:oy in, the memory her . . it . .los, Omt thc.reivynatrance of ber, worth sur vives ; it is-oo,t,:tVli, by the present generation Slone, 11. at it willlbe known', ,and appi eciated I'he owl (irable niontnnents, ho,A•ercr, of her ,flod ,talents•will convey no whet' hnEa of her rii.,trac'er;tli'aii that which her 1 , e..a..5n00l triends' cle,lll 4 ,ift to cheyitih•, .oae, priticiple--the of Chtioc , ani!y, tnainfesfin itself . at ()pee in humble. piety., in .acrve iterievoknce,. and in nert,wial' r;tv--Igos her whole conduct.; ,ancl,itnprcsseti ivpon 1;e! tile a character of ittidevialing smity and t)“..r,zliicis no, other principle .was capable at ; prositteiol!. 1 the private vklittions. Airs. Brunton Was eminently distirignished. .her friends, the Ititsonices,of her vigorous,miud weic ever open; tit .coorksel, to aid, „or tO , ,console them. The c.;onh , tir and gonli.,sekise, hy.which she never failed Ituder even the inc.st otdittary suhjec.ts interest ing:--,;;And the kindness and afftetion i 1 ith which she entered into the feeltngs, and, more especially, with which she sympathised with the distresses, 01 her IrteltdS, were calculated to make a deep and durable impression ; and it was accordingly her happy lot to attach every kind . anti worthy heart, wired ever IKift openip her in friendly confi dence; - Ind to ripen ioth<zealous friend,hip every stotiment of tweet or • esteem, of w!bich, in the. intereoutseof,iife, she ever became the (inject, — to her own fasn : ily, cfflolact was ,very, exem. , Fottuttate a: husband, who, felt her v,,alue, and whose- tas:es, and opinions, and feel ings were congenial with her own, she devoted, with characteristic ardour, her heart and mind to 'the proieotion of his happiness. She was his emu.- panion in the hours both of study and of relaxa tion and was 'equally qualified to assist, in Log both to the best advatitage. For the duties of a more teudt.r 7 rell , ion,. Airs. Brunton was' sioodioly. quahned ; by that combination of peter feet good sem.e and rectitude of principle, with kindi ness ,of natty e, kb was, the'eharm of her cia!acter. To the perforni a nce,ot these eltcies,•hou ever., it ,was not; her lot to be called. But this i> topic too painful and atrecting,to be dwelt upon ;—a few slutirt days lia . ve passed, since the hest hopes of her family and friends were Blasted in the momen:- of their completion t . ti,e sphere of social anti, dornestic duties, adm , rably as they were disci's:get! by Airs. Brunr tots, was tl,O Hai row for the operation of the principle us hicb directed her conduct. I'Vhere e r her time and her talents could be bestowed - - nsefully, they were employedliherally..fin .the direction of many of the public Institutions of this city, and especially of those which had the in- St ruction of the poor for their object, her judg ment and good sense tvere .invaluable. The pa tience and cheerfulness With which she attended even to. thenrost minute and irksome details,. at onceengaged the confidence,. and excited the ad miration, of Call who- Were associated with her in those " labours of love." The active superin tendence of these Institutions occupied a part, and freqaently a large part of almos - t every day; and the most Judicious improvements were adopt ed no, her suggestion. Nor was it only to her personal exertions that these Institutions were irolebted ; they. were henefitted not less by her example and influence. For the sake of these indirect benefits, she never affected to conceal the share which she bore in directing their affairs. While her solicitations, or her example could he 'successfully employed to widen any field of public heneficence, she felt that it was nothing less than a duty of to " let - her light shine before w,s otherwise with her private chari- These, which are now knownto have been, estet,siye, aid discriminating, _were discovered u hen her Ctlt west injunctions had failed to the cxpre)sions of gratitude.. Her good deeds %sere-Unseen of men ; but .they were the gynititte fruits of a Christian ptticiple ; and " verily they have their reward." thsder the infittence of the same ivi'eciple, Mrs. )3runton did not shrink from appear; fig before the woild as an Author. Feeling herself awfully re sponsible for every had been' intiusted to her, and hoping that, where higher . motives F nine , might be " allmed AO„irrigliter Worlds," she undsrtook the task of teaelling the - highest Itssons of religion and virtne,,irLthe lot m of fictitious narrative, " There is high authority," she said, " for using fable as the vehicle of int porrent,, even of solemn truth.'*.. Thus did the gte,tt example, which the law of her Master .en johted her humbly, to imitate in all things, direct her in-this instance also. And she was eminently successful, where many others had failed. Of bet literary - ploduetions, the important object is never 'thrown into the back ground ; and hers were among the first Novels that attained great popu larity and extrusive enctrlation,in spite of their avowal of tiieit aim, which, among the reader's of ovels,...had. - hitherto been so unpopular. It might. he' rash to ascribe to 'these works any tprcrfic effect in couctteractio the tide of Iprofli- • l'i - cf. to Diicipline. gacy, whicb,' in many shapes, - and, above all others, in the shape of Novels, bad threatened destruction to public morals. It is, however.cer fain, that for several years the 'immorality of Novels has alMost. ceased to be a theme of corn plaint ;—an effect to which' the works of Mrs. Brunton, and of anotherystriveinguished female (Mrs. 11. More), have undoubtedly. contributed iu no ineotrsiderable degree. The most prominent feature of Mrs. BruntoWs Novels IS the zealous and energetic enforcement of teligious and moral truth.. This object is pur sued with unceasing persseverance; and, in gene ,. - neral, with great effect. But these works pos sess a.variety of excellence, independently of the elevated and noble aim which gave them hirth.—. They abound wills proofs of a vigorous judgment, of aft in'tiniate knowledge of ,tiie human heart, and of an accurate, perception of character and . Ii , iI!WCTS: In point' Of composition, too, they ate to bei'anyed with the most celebrated productions of the cla , s to which they belong. It would, in deed, 'be difficult to find, in any of those depart ments of Eliglish Qterature which have employed the pens of:Female Authors, better specimens df a pure and vigorous style. They possess one ex cellence, whichls - pectiliartO themselves. From the narratives and dialogues ()Wiese Novels might he selected a collection of the most weigitty.apho rjsiosof mirrality; which are to he found to any language ; generally expressed in the fewest words possinle l and so connected with the pas sages iii which they occur, as to be incapable of being disjoined from them without injury. To the 'composition of these ,works, Mrs. Brun,- ton's motive can never tor a moment be miStaken. • It was a pure desire to do good. to the best of her 'Never held the vanity of Antiforsuip lesS short; in bringing anyindividoal beforet he puldic„ iler. first work she did not avow, 'rout In rt'plire !tension that her then unknown Italie might de.-- trac from the weight of that instruction of witiCh it was intended to be the vehicle. Flea secret was .confided oitly to a small number of friends: It• Was not till the success of " zself Con!iol - . had se 'cured to its Author a high rank .among the female Authors of her 4 m ge, that she was r eDe raged to Rolfe that the avuw..l of her name might add to the nsetniness of another work ; and, when" Dis ciplint; was. given to the world, the. Author's name, though 'not, formally announced, was no . longer concealed. The 'very brietland imperfect sketch which has now been attempted, by one who, for many years, was honoured with the friendship of this excellent person., mly. not be altogether unacceptable to her numerous Iriends. It may serve, at least, till subjecr shall employ an abler pen, - to mark sonic of the leading features of a character, which pre : seats &tare - and instructive example, of great Ea,- lents invariably . applied . to the noblest uses. Nor is the death _of Mrs. Brunton less froitful, of-instruction titan her life. It teaches, with a force whi'cli no heart can withstand, the duty of watchtnlnessi and of constant. preparation ; and the wisdom of doing ; with all one might, " w hat soever.outtliand findeth to do.". reminds all; howlittle.youtb,.and health, and talents, and vir tues--the love of friends, the, esteenCoi all, and all else for the'sake of which kite is , to fie prized —avail against the irrevocable d00m..,t0 Whick all are,subject.;- EXTRAORDINARY CAE of a (wield Wily Par yoimg man, named George ; Matthews, a native of, Ireland, was tried at the Old Batley, in February last, convicted, and sentenced , to die; for a to.bbery on,bis master, WlLLtam NiitiAtay, Esq. In the beginning of the followi n g month-, the Hononrable I+.-G. BENNET and Mr. • Alderman Weioo, rvliile visiting the jail of Newgate, were induced, front some ciroinistances which had pre viously come to their knowledge, to examine the wont h, Matthews, when they derived from hint such information as . demanded further inquiry. From that. time to the precept, Mr. BENNET and Mr. Alderman WOOD, as sisted by Mr. HARMER, the_ Solicitor, and with the artive co-operation of Lord SIDMOUTH, and the Under-Secretary ,of State, Mr. Iloattous's, have continued a progressive and unwearied in vemigation of this mysterious case, the result of which has enabled them, successfully, to establish Matthews's innocence, and to obtain for him a gracious free pardon from his Royal Highness the Ptittactt REGENT. We purposely abstain from any - comment on this important subject, as we' understand 'tbat full particulars will short ly be published, with a' i)roposal for ,the relief of Matthews's sufferings during the time be was confined in Newgate, and in hope that his example will be held forth to all 'classes of Servants as a blight pattern of the valneof,gotn) reputation, for from the excellent character which Mathews re ceived from Lady CHARLOTTB CAMPBELL, and from every other person with Whom be had lived as servant, the - friends of igatrisews have been materiallY enabled to trace and iishold his iliau. cence to the public.—(:'Morning Paper.) • liatirtst.AT - ratm,77—Ou Tnetday 144, ag'Wort ley, the constable or! ambeth, wai going from his 116 . 04, in South-street, Lambeth-road, upon duty atthe . Coburg Theatre, he was attacked by a gang of sik thieves ; he received a desperate blow from one of theist, which felled hint to the 'ground. As he lay on the eat tls he received se veral violent kicks-, which rendered bins totally in capable of defending himself ; be with difficulty ' srbwtOned'his Coat; and took from Isis side-pocket a loaded pistol : one of the villains, who had stood inactive till then.„ ewe- up to Wortley. and said to his companions, " D— the b.- 7 , kill Wortley raised his pistol, and fired it amongst the desperadoes : one of them called out " Oh God ! Oh God !" and2they all took to their bends and decamped, leaving Wortley lying on the ground. The only severe injury Wortley received was on his side. There oan be up doubt but one of the • villains is wounded. TWo of the gang were well known to. the _constable ; be had them in custody a few weeks ago, On a' charge'of'burglary , and they were ili . selsaiged for 'want of identity. Seve ral police•officers. yesterday were in pursuit of the wretches, but it is supposed that they have left the metropolis, as they have - deseited their bathos. "A few nights ago a thief, brOke aloa'ne of glass in the window of the shop of Mr. Guest, Fleet ' market, and stole a. valuable gold watch, with ,• which he escaped. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. men tier CIRCULATING FALSE NEWS. Bow-STaear.--=Wednesday evening Mrs: Kat nab, the printer of the bills, stating the murder of Mr. Thomas Lane,. his wile, three children, and his-mother, on South-greea, near Dartford, which is supposed to be entirely grounnlest, and which Thomas Love, and Thomas Hewlett, two men who annoy the inhabitants of the Lest end - of the town by blowing horns, were imposing upon the inhabitants of Chelsea and' its' neigh bourhood, under pretence of selling these papers, giving an account of the murder of Nit.. Ellis, or Elliot, of Sloane-street, the preceding night, in the Five : Fields, Chelsea, no such an event having taken place, .appeared at the °thee. The only account sire, could give of the statement of the murder of Mr. Lane. and five others, near Dart ford, was, that . ti man, brottght it to he'r.to print abont`a fortnight since, but she did not know . hiS flame,. where he liv , ed, or any` thing about him, nor did she iniluire, nor did - she ask whetbet (he account of ,the murder wits true or' false. She printed the statement, and sold the papers which, contained it at sixpence a quire to the nien,, who sold them at a.„ halfpenny each about the/streets by blowing horns, &c. She accounted for her [rime and address at the bottom of tire bills being minted in an unintelligible manner, by say,ng she could not get any more letters into the line: The only excuse siA.. set up for printing and 'pub lishing such fabricated statements of pretended murder wars to provide for lierfamily. The ThiL6strate, Mr. Hicks, severely con dembed her conduct ; and, ,after a reprimand, dismissed her, assuring her, that if she dirt • not desist from . such practices, he would commit her to Newgatc, and she should_ be most severely punished. The iwe horn-men,. Love and Hewlett, were alsOdiscliavred after a suitable tenrimand from the Magistrate, they promising not to be guilty of a similat offence_again,,and assuring the. M strate that they considered the contents 0 1: the papers to he true which they bought, of Mrs. Catnalt„or • they would not have sold them. Mrs. Catnap admitted that her son bad been imprisont d ,nonths for printing and publish ing a false and, linellons statement respecting. the pork-butchers, in the njghbourhood of Clare - market. ROBBERY OF MARSHAL BERESFORp BY HIS SERVANT. MARLBOROUGH-STRERT.—Yesterday Domino PobeOn, a foreigner, was charged by Marshal Be resford with robbing hint of 'various 'articles of property; and gank notes.--r-It appeared fi•om his Lordship's\'Statement, tiiat the prisoner has been his valet for nearly a dozen years, and possessed his confidence in a great degree'. He had at -tended hint on the Peninsula, and on his return to Vngland he renOwed his services. From the fa- Cility which he had at all times to his dressing room, &c. it was easy for hint to have taken trifling articles without exciting any particular degree of suspicion ; but it appears that he being emboldened-by his success in petty acts of thiev ery, made at once a transition from it to pilfering of a more extensive kind, and even• took money at varirms times out of the Marshal's pockets.— His Lordship having 'at last missed v a rious s ums irt. this manner, put some marked notes and mo ney in his pockets, and lett the 'clothes in the prisoner's way ; but when be examined the again, part of the money was gone.- He then sent for T. Foy, - the officer, who took the pri soner into custody.—His Lordship expressed•his unwillingnesi to prosecke theprisoner, and thus the case eroled. CAUTION TO LAMPLIGHTERS. UmioN-HALL—Frederick Butewood, l a ltim)) lighter, was.--charged by the contractors for log the Kennington-rtiat4 - with • neglecting to do his work.—Mr. George - Morris, a contrac tor, stated, that the prisoner was engaged by the contractors at twenty-one shillings per week to clean and light seven score lamps daily. Corn. plaints had been made that the,iamps were badly, lighted, and sometimes not at All ; and on Mon day night •he took a walk ,up the Kennington romi, anti found only one-third of the lomps trim med ; he vent in search of the prisoner, and found him, drunk as a' beast, in a public-house. The Magistrate thought proper, he said, to make an exainple of the prisoner, and hoped it would operate as a warning to other lamplighters, and teach them that the streets and roads were not to be left in darkness at their will and .pleasure. — The prisoner was committed for 14 days to hard labour. CoNvicis.—Wednesday night another batch of cnnvicts were sent off from Newgate to the !has. • They exhibited the general depraved le vity which characterizes desperate beings on such occasions. FIRE ANDI)EATH BY FRIGHT.—About half-past two o'clock on Wednesday morning last a fire broke out in the house of Captain BRIGGS, of his .Majesty's ship Queen Charlotte, at Portsmouth.. It was occasioned by the nurse of-Mrs. Briggs, who had lately lain-in, having fallen asleep on the sofa, on which she had been accustomed to sleep, in the same room with Mrs. IL, and bad placed her candle in such a position as to set fire to the sofa, which communicated to the bed, which was nearly consumed ; fortunately, however, Mrs. Briggs awoke, and discovered herself surrounded by flames, and the infant's clothes nearly con sumed, though happily the child was untouched. Alarm was immediately given, and Capt. Briggs, who slept in an adjoining room, carried her down stairs, and had her and the child conveyed in a sedan chair to the Port Admiral's (Sir George CaDlbell's) house, where she is doing well, hay ing received no other injury than that of her arms being scorched. The nurse ,was severely burnt. BY the exertions of the Royal Marines and the 21st 'regiment, the flames were subdued in the room in which they first ,broke - out by five o'clock. A Mr. Darley, who formerly kept•the Blue Post I Inn, in Portsmouth, from which he retired some years 'since, was on a visit, for the benefit of his health, and was lodging at a yonse adjoining capt. Briggs, when be fell front a chair in which he had been placed till a Chaise should arrive to coney, him away, - and died from excessive fright. MACBETH'S CASTLE. A Letter from Dunsinane, • in. Scotland, states as follows : " On the 19th ult.. as the servants belonging to the West Maini 'of Dunsinane House were em ployed in carrying away stones -from the excava tion made among the ruins that point out the site MACBETH'S Castle here, part of, the ground they stood on suddenly gave way and slink dowu about six feet, discovering a regularly-builtsvatar, about ,six feet long and four feet wide.' None of the men being injured, curiosity induced them to clear out ihe subterranean recess, when they dis-' covered among the ruins a large stone, weighing about 500 lbs. which is pronounced to be of the meteoric or semi-metallia kind. This stone must have lain here during the long series of ages since MACBETH'S reigp. Beside it were also found two round tablets, of a composition resembling bronze, On one olabese, two lines are engraved, which af Gentleman has thus deciphered—' The sconce (or• shadow) of Kingdom come, until sylphs' in air carry me again to Bethel." These plates exhibit the figures.of targets for the arms. From time immemorial, it has been believed among us . here, that unseen hands brought JACOB'S pillow from Bethel,' and dropped it on the site where the pa lace of Scoon now stands, A strong belief is also entertained by many in this part of the country,' thlt it was only a representation of ibis JACOB'S. pillow that EDWARD sent to, Westminster, the sa 'cred stone ,not having been, found by him. The curious here , aware of such traditions, anti who have. viewed these venerable remains of antiquity, agree that MACBETH may, or rather must, have deposited the stone in question at the bottom of his castle, on, the hill of Donsinane (from the trouble of the tithes'), where it has been found by the workmen. This curious.stone has been ship ped, for London for the inspection of the seientitiC amateur, in order to discover its real quality.'" PATAGONIA. Extract of a Letter ,front Bahia de Dodos-Sontes, Patagonia, dated August 1, 1818. " It is now twelve mdnths since I had the iii luck to be wrecked on this wild coast. The loss of out provisions, stores, and fourteen °tour best men, has been - a had drawback on our concern, or we should have made a good. season ; however, ith the means that were left us, we contriv e d to do a little; if possible, to bring up a part of one leeway ; but for the last five months our only occupation has been honting, tO• provide our .selves with food. We have good'horses and ex- . cellent dogs; our chase is deer and bares which . the country` abounds. There isa great variety of wild fowl here; ostriches by dozens, close to AIS and particularly ducks and geese are swarming la the creeks;- but untortunately our fire-arms were lost in the vessel. Beasts of prey are.very nnme rbus, particularly the lion ; they are smaller and fierce than those of Africa. The tigers are net where larger'or more furious ; fortunately they are not so.ahnlidant as the former. Wild horses and horned cattle are by thousands in theie vast plains ; Ilia they are not killed for their hick's and tallow, af. is the case near Buenos Ayre:a ; only for the immediate it,e of the hooter.-- Th e Patagonians are, ‘vithout exceptiou, the finest race of Men in the world ; frequentlyyou mleet,Witia them eight feet and upwards, but not in' the, least- awkward with their great height ; extremely well proportioned ; very handsome features, witn great activity ; they-are suppmfed the best horse menin the world. The Spaniards, by introduesi ing 'horses into South America, have made 'Tar tars of all the Indian Tribes; their customs are the same ; they live the same wandering life ; and, like ttem, They live on horse-flesh, which they prefer 'fb all "Other. The women "are some , of them very qatltißome, and have fegond clew) of the Engliih' 'feature ; all Nations have their particular 'way of adorning, or rather disfiguring theMselves ; the prevailing fashion among the Patagonian belles is to paint the whole face, from. the upper lip upwards ; black or red ; for my part, 1 should prefer these charmers with undressed faces, and say—' when unadorned adorned the most.' The business we are carrying on, staid have been for some years, is the sea elephant and fur seal fishery ; but these articles do not always answer the London market ; we find it more ad vantageous to send our return cargoes lo reign markets ; and even Ckiaa pays better than London!" DREADFUL CATASTROPHE AT POPLAR.—Yester day afternbon an Inquest was held at the sign of the Black Horse, High-street, Poplar, before: JOHN WRIGHT IJNWIN, Esq., Coroner, on the body of William Haywood, a welr-digger, who was killed in the dreadful accident at Poplar.— Veidict, " Accidental Death." Late in the evening of Tuesday last, sa a poor woman, who travels the ecunt ry as a pedlar, was passing over Herne-Common, on her road for. Canterbnry,she was suddenly taken in lahourovhca she was delivered of a fine child, but for the waut of assistance the poor woman was obliged to lay on the ground the whole night, and the child pe rished from the severity of the weittip'r. Ira tlie Morning she made her way, in a completely ex hausted state, to Herne-street, with her dead child wrapt in a piece of old sacking, which she happened to have by her,at the time, and was taken into the poor-house, where she immediately received every comfort. 'BIRTH. • On .Thursday, the Mst Deefulbtr, at Clay Hill, Enfield, the Lady of Edward Harnan; Esq. of a sun and heir. MARRIED. On the 31st ult. Thomas Prior, Esq. of the Bth Hussars, and nephew to Viscount Frankfort De MOntroorency, to Elizabeth Catherine; youngest daughter of William Augus tus Skynner, Esq. of Moore-hall, fleas.. DIED On the 30th ult. at Blackheath,: in her Gist year, Mary, the' wife of Samuel Kent, Esq. of Mark-Jane. . On Sunday last, at Stukc Newington, after a very long an 4 severe•illness, Margaret, wire of John Bond, Esq. rirths, To•niorruw.] LONDON: Printed 1,v3. B. CAR:S'fAIRS; of No. 29, (teat Ortuourr.street, Queen-son:11 = e: and published by W. A. SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Talton-street,, at THE SUNOffice, No. 112, Straml ; - where Adyertiscuients," Wets, Letters, (pOst.puid) rtirst he iitlkssed. (- </". ..,•• ili ly ~.~ • Prid 71ender, 'hOui ; IProp o , ' 'ford, lizly fl elt.ttri 4„ 11 PhE 1, 4 Alit , 43 ~ ', f i