The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-12 00:00:00

VIII.

CONSIDERATIONS ON LOTS In which is dis-
cussed the Unlawfulness of Game. of Chance. Extracted
from an American Journal. With Introductory Remarks,
Preface, and an Appendix, by WILLIAM SYMINGTON,
Stranraer. Second Edition, price One Shilling.
" There is much powerful writing and reasoning in this
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Herald.

" We recommend it particularly to the young, whose
minds, if surrendered to the convincing reasoning which
is to be found in every page, may at once be fortified
against all the evils of Games of Chance, and be taught
to aspire after a higher and more conselatory species of
esjoyment."—Scots Timed.

ANATOMISTS and RESURRECTIONISTS. Prim
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REFLECTIONS suggested by the Murders recently
committed in Edinburgh, &c. ; addressed as an Epistle to
the Rigbt lion. Robert Peel, ALP., one of his Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State ; in which Burke's Iniqui-
tous Practices ars traced to their Real Source, and an At-
tempt made to Vindicate Measures whereby the recurrenoc
of Similar Enormities may be for ever prevented. By a
Medical Officer in the Royal Nary.

TIIE CONFESSIONS OF AN UNEXECUTED
FEMICIDE. Third Edition, price Sixpenee.
" Under this title a most extraordinary work has been
recently published by Mr. M‘Phun, bookseller, of Glasgow.
As many of our readers, after perusal, may be apt, to con-
clude, as we at first did, that ' The Confessions of a Fend-
cids' is a work of pure fiction, it is ineumbant on us to ex-
plain the reasons which have induced us to arrive at a
different conclusion. Mr. 3l•Phun is a gentleman of great
respectability, and we felt convinced that he would not de-
liberately palm upon the public, as true, a horrid and ap-
palling story, which had no foundation in fact. There
would have been no excuse for such conduct, as he possessed
the means of detecting the imposture, by ascertaining
whether any murder had taken place in Scotland, twenty
years age, under the extraordinary circtunstanets described
in Air. ALPhun's narrative. Le might also, with very
little trouble, have traced out the register of the alleged
trial. These were the reasons that led us to conclude that
the story, shocking and unnatural as it is, could not wholly
be destitute of foundation in fact. We also thought, that
if the story had been entirely a romance, the author would
not have ventured to snake its character so thorough-paced
a villain ; fur, however strange the assertion may appear,
it is a melancholy truth, that more unnatural crimes have
been perpetrated in reality than any writer of fiction has
had the hardihood to introduce into romance. If any
author were to found a story upon the circumstance of a
father cutting off his own child's head, his readers would
turn with disgust from so gratuitous an outrage upon feel-
ing and probability. Sheen, however, did in reality cut
off the head of Isis own child ; and did that act, too, in a
sane state of mind, if we may to conclude from the Judge
suffering him, after his attempt, to go at large.
" In conclusimf, we assert our "readers, that the main
incident related in the confessions is true. Motives of deli-
eacy have induced the writer to substitute Stirling in place
cf Glasgow, and to take some . other liberties with the
narrative ; but the murder was committed; the murderer
was tried, and he escaped, as related, by his servants
swearing au alibi."--Liverpool Mercury.

MART, QUEEN OF SCOTS; her Persecution,
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With a full exposure of the Intrigues of Queen Elizabeth ;
the Conspiracies and Perfidy of the Protestant Lords ; the
Forgeries of Buchanan, Maitland, and Waisinghant ; and
the Calumnies, Misrepresentations, and Mistakes of Knox,
Randolph, Robertson, Laing, M'Crie, and Miss Benger.
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