The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-23 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.

SIR-I have seen the following paragraph in the
Morning Herald of this day, relating to the reported
death of Lord Brougham :—" The rumour that the No-
hie and Learned Lord had been killed—' kicked to
death,' as the rumour had it—was set on foot, we are
told, by a well-known fashionable Count, who having
received a letter from Mr. Shafto yesterday morn-
ing, in which the acsidcnt was mentioned, took
the letter to White's, and by way of a joke (I)
read it publicly in the coffee-room, in such a way
as to justify the rumour that the result of the
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many persons in the course of yesterday that I had
seen a letter from Mr. Shafto, announcing the dreadful
accident to Lord Brougham. The statement, however,
that I took the letter to White's or any other-Club-
house, and read it by way of joke, is an infamous false-
hood, which I cannot refer to without indignation. The
letter which I saw I considered to be genuine ; and you
will readily believe, Sir, that my feelings yesterday even-
ing were anything but jocular. The person who could
suppose that I could be capable of making a joke about
Lord Brougham's death can know nothing of me, nor (I
should think) of the feelings of a gentleman. The facts
of this business, so far as I have had anything to do with
them, are as follow :—Mr. Montgomery, a friend of
Lord Brougham and Lord Wellesley, called upon me on
Monday afternoon in a state of the most distressing grief.
He had received a letter from Mr. Shafto, dated
Brougham Hall, Saturday, detailing the dreadful occur-
rence very nearly as it was detailed in your paper of
this morning. Mr. Montgomery, when he called upon
me, was on his way to Fern-hill to communicate the
contents of this letter to Lord Wellesley, and I never
.aw any one in a more deplorable state of grief and
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come to my knowledge that Mr. Shatto's letter was in-
tended as a joke. I leave others to explain the motives
for so heartless a hoax.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
your obedient servant, Ctc. D'ORSAY.
Tuesday Evening, Oct. 22, 1839.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Standard.)
FALSE REPORT OF LORD BROUGHAM'S

DEATH.

We have a high gratification in being able to contra-
dict the reported death of the Noble and Learned Lord
whose name appears at the head of this paragraph.
According to the answer given at the Noble Lord's re-
sidence, upon the authority of a gentleman who ar-
rived at the house from Westmoreland this morning,
Lord Brougham has met with a slight accident, but
is quite safe."
Though thus happily assured that the observa-
tions upon Lord Brougham's character offered by our
Morning Contemporaries are uncalled for by the occa-
sion, we preserve them as expressions of public feeling ;
and for a like reason we forbear to cancel the following
remarks written under the apprehension that the state-
ment of Lord Brougham having fallen by a fatal acci-
dent might be true.

We can vouch for the accuracy of the following
paragraph with which we have been favoured, as it is
founded upon a letter received in town by this morn-
ing's post, written by a friend of Lord Brougham's
after the accident :

" We can positively inform our readers, from the
best authority, that a letter has been received from
Lord Brougham, written by his Lordship since the ac-
cident, dated Brougham Hall, Saturday afternoon.
We are happy to state that Lord Brougham was quite
well, and walked home 13 miles with Mr. Leader after
the accident, and even went out of his way a quarter of
a mile to look at. a view. We understand that the car-
riage was kicked to pieces, and the horses ran away.
The driver was the only person hurt, but it is hoped that
the man will soon recover."

Lady Brougham is residing at Brighton for the
benefit of her health, and Mr. William Brougham, his
Lordship's only brother, is on the Continent. We
cannot, therefore, but express our regret that such a
circumstantial detail of the accident should have been
published without further inquiry as to its accuracy, as
it must of necessity cause for some time the greatest dis-
tress amongst the relatives of the Noble and Learned
Lord.