The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-15 00:00:00

DEPARTURES

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, from Marshall Thompson's
Hotel, Cavendish-square, for Derbyshire ; the Dowager
Countess Beauchamp, for Paris; the Rev. Lord C. and
Lady Harriet Hervey, for Chesterton Rectory, Essex ;
Sir Walter B. Riddell, Bart., for Dover ; Colonel Tynte,
from the Clarendon Hotel, for Halswell House ; Lord
Or,slow, from ditto; Cornet Tynte, from ditto, to join the
4th Dragoon Guards, at Birmingham , Lady Bridgewater,
from Grosvenor-square, for Ellesmere Castle, Shropshire ;
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton and family, for Nice, for
the winter; Lord Grimston, for Hertfordshire; Major-
General Sir John Taylor, K. C. 8., for Leicestershire ;
the Duke of Marlborough, from Crawley's Hotel, for
Blenheim Park ; Lady Isabella Douglas, for Paris ; Sir
.1. B. Bosanquet, from ditto ; the Hon. Mrs. Leicester
Stanhope, on a visit to Baroness Braye, at Stanford Hall,
Leicestershire ; Sir Matthew Tierney, Bart., and family,
from Bruton-street, for Brighton.

CHANGES.
The Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim, near Wood-
stock, from Dover ; the Marquis of Tweeddale, at his seat,
Yester House, Haddingtonshire, from a visit to Lord Sal-
toun, at Ness Castle, near Inverness ; the Hon. Cecil
Forester, on a visit to Lord Macdonald, in the north of
Scotland, from Yorkshire ; the Earl and Countess of
Shrewsbury, at Dover, from town; the Hon. C. A. Mur-
ray, at Windsor Castle, from a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Dunmore, at Dunmore Castle, N.B. ;
Viscount and Viscountess Ingestrie, on a tour in Wales,
from Ingestrie Hall, the family seat in Staffordshire; Sir
Gregory and Lady Way, at Brighton, from Worthing ;
Lady de Dunstanville, at Torquay, Devon, from her seat
in Cornwall ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Norton, on a visit to
Lord and Lady Grantley, at their seat, Grantley Hall,
Yorkshire, from a tour in Scotland; Count Esterhazy, on
a tour in Scotland, from town ; Lord Ward, at Big House,
his shooting box, in Sutherlandshire, from his seat,
Hinley Hall, Staffordshire ; the Hon. Colonel and Mr.
Browne, at Bath, from Cheltenham ; the Earl and Coun-
tess of Aylesford, on a tour from Packington Hall, their
seat in Warwickshire; Lady Elizabeth Alexander, at
Bath, from Torquay, Devon ; the Hon. Thos. and Lady
Emma Vesey, at Abbcyleix House, the seat of Lord de
yeaci, from Southampton.

• THE
- QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty did
not leave for the Earl and Countess of Denbigh's yes-
terday, nor was her Majesty expected, as stated.
The Earl and Countess Cadogan entertained a
select party at dinner, last evening, at their residence in
Piccadilly. The Noble Earl and Countess, and the
Ladies Honoria and Augusta Cadogan will shortly
Wee their departure for Paris, where they purpose
passing the winter.
The Earl and Countess of Durham remain at
Lambtan Castle seeing but little company. The Earl
and Countess are not expected to return to town until
after Christmas.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are ex-
pected at Chesterfield House this day or to-morrow,
from Wiesbaden, which is now nearly deserted, the sea-
son for drinking the waters being over.
The Earl and Countess of Granville, with Vis-
count Leveson, M.P.,and the Hon. Frederick Leveson
Gower, leave town to-morrow, for Paris.
Prince Beauvau, Count Adolphe Hamal, and
Baron de Knyffe left the Brunswick yesterday, to attend
the Newmarket meeting.
THE MARCHIONESS OF SALISBURY.—We
are happy to be able to state that her Ladyship rallied
yesterday morning, and at an advanced hour last night
her medical attendants pronounced her Ladyship to be
considerably better. The inquiries yesterday after the
health of her Ladyship were particularly numerous.
A private letter from St. Petersburg informs us
that the successor of Count Pozzo di Borgo, as Ambas-
sador at the British Court, had not been determined on.
DEATH OF SIR TYRWHITT JONES, BART.
We regret to announce the decease of this Hon. Baro-
' net,- which took place at his seat, Stanley Hall, Shrop-
shire, in his 46th year. He has been for several years
an invalid. Sir Tyrwhitt married in 1821, Elizabeth
Welwyn, daughter of John M'Namara, Esq., sister to
the Dowager Lady Cranstoun, and aunt to Mrs. Nis-
bett and the Misses Mordaunt, the popular actresses.
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE.—The west front of
this splendid mansion is the only part that remains inha-
bitable. The valuable collection of paintings belong-
ing to Lord Francis Egerton are still placed in the
spare apartments, and not sent to the Duke of Suther-
land's, as stated.
HYDE PARK.—The rides and drives yesterday,
owing to the extreme fineness of the weather, put on
quite a cheerful appearance. There were thirty car-
riages at one time in the Park. The change arises from
the return of those who usually take a short trip after
the meeting of Parliament. Among the principal equi-
Pages in the drive were those of the Marchioness of
Clanricarde, Countess of Glengall, Countess of Bless-
ington, Lady Eleanor Lowther, Lady Foley, &c.
AaIPORT HOUSE, NEAR ANDOVER.—The
Marquis of Winchester has let this splendid family
) seat, constructed at a vast expense by a former Duke of
Bolton, to E. R. Tunno, Esq., of Red Rue House, for
a term. His Lordship's late tenant was Captain Cosby.
The Marquis and Marchioness will pass the winter at
Brighton, for the improvement of her Ladyship's health.
THE OUTRAGE AT WINDSOR.—A Corre-
spondent informs us that the man who was arrested last
June, clothed as a workman, making his way into Buck-
ingham Palace, and who exclaimed, when challenged by
the sentinel, " It is all right," has been apprehended on
suspicion of having broken the windows at Windsor.
The particulars are at present shrouded in secresy.
MENAGERIE.—On Wednesday last, at Not-
tingham, two persons wee,e seriously injured on account
of putting their hands through the bars of the dens.
One of the individuals alluded to was a countryman in
an inebriated state. After frequent warnings from the
keeper he still persisted in playing with the hyena,
which terminated in the loss of the end of one of his
ALTON TOWERS.—The Earl and Countess of
Shrewsbury left their noble residence of Alton Towers
" Wednesday morning for Rome, where they intend
P 'ssing the winter season with their daughters, the
Princesses Doria Pamphili and Dc Borghese. Pre-
vious to their departure, they, accompanied by a dis-
tinguished ' tor
party, visited the china manulac y of
Messrs. Daniel, at Stoke-upon-Trent, and expressed
much gratification with the elegant specimens of porce-
lain submitted to their inspection, particularly with the
superb services in progress for the Prince Doria Pam-
"di. His Excellency Duke Torlonia directed Messrs.
Daniel to forward to his Palazza at Rome a banquet
service eu suite, executed in their best style—the whole
to be of a new semi-vitreous porcelain, free from bone
, and lead, unaffected by transitions of heat and cold, and
for which letters patent are being obtained. The noble
Party complimented Messrs. Daniel, and expressed an
i opinion that their porcelain was superior to any they had
I seen on the Continent.
THE WEATHER.—A change in the weather
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bas taken plaCe this morning - We have a rainy day
.ito London, with a south-west 'wind. The glass in-doors
~ marks 57.
1

LADY FLORA HASTINGS AND

THE COURT INTRIGUE.

(From the Scotsman.)

In offering some remarks on the melancholy case
of the late Lady Flora Hastings, we must state in
the outset that we felt deeply for her while she
lived, and that we cannot yet imagine anything
more revolting to a well-constituted mind than the
suspicion which assailed her. But in our sympathy
for her and for her family let us not be unjust ; and
while we display every readiness to rectify her
wrongs, let us be mindful of the feelings and cha-
racter of others, and not look upon one injury as
warranting the perpetration of another equally
unjust and equally difficult to bear.
Lady Flora Hastings, as our readers well know,
was suspected of being pregnant, and interdicted
from appearing at Court till the doubt should be
removed. The moment this was done, and her ho-
nour was proved to be pure and spotless, she was
not only openly received and treated with every
kindness, but she received and accepted of " hand-
some" apologies from the Queen and Lady Port-
man for the doubt which circumstances had forced
upon their minds. Here one would have expected
the matter to rest, and be forgotten; but it proved
otherwise. The occasion was too tempting for the
purposes of party, and it has ever since been made
use of by the more unprincipled of the Tory papers
with a fiendish perseverance which we have never
seen equalled, and which renders it necessary that li
the matter should be placed in its true light.
The suspicion of Lady Flora's pregnancy could
arise only in one of two ways. Either it was a
pure and malicious invention of a personal enemy ;
or it was an honest and fair inference from appear-
ances, generally conclusive, but in this particular
instance false and deceptive. If it was the first,
and the Ladies of the Court really gave effect to
their suspicions, knowing them to be false, no de-
gree of infamy which the Marquis of Hastings could
call down upon them, would be too severe a punish-
ment for their offence. But, even in this case, their
wickedness would be exceeded only by their insan-
ity, in resorting to a charge against Lady Flora,
the falsity of which was certain to be demonstrated
by the lapse of a few months, at the end of which
Lady Flora would have been able to trample
them under her feet. If pregnancy lasted for a
lifetime, such a charge might have served the pur-
poses of malice, but not otherwise. If, on the
other hand, the Ladies believed their suspicions to
be well founded, and derived them as honest in-
ferences from deceptive appearances, they may have
shown want of judgment in adopting them, but
assuredly they would stand acquitted in the eyes of
every candid person of anything like moral blame;
because, in that case, they did no more than their
direct duty in trying to avert what they believed to
be a scandal from the Court of the Queen, and
they would have been culpable had they remained
inactive.

Obvious as this distinction is between deliberate
guilt and conscientious error, the Marquis of Hast-
ings wholly disregards it, and, blinded by his feelings
for his sister, never admits even the possibility of
the suspicion having had an honest origin ; and yet
it is impossible to read even his own statement with
candour without the conviction forcing itself upon
the mind—a conviction demon'trated by the state-
ments of Lord Portman and Sir James Clark—that
the real and only origin of the suspicion was the
marked change in Lady Flora's personal appearance
on her return from Scotland. It was Lady Flora's
misfortune, and no blame of the Ladies, or of any
one, that she presented appearances rarely seen except
in pregnancy, and unaccompanied by any clear indi-
cations by which they could be traced with certainty
to their only other source, in disease alone. That a
lamentable mistake was committed is too true ; but
it would have argued extraordinary moral indiffe-
rence on the part of the Ladies charged officially
with the character of the Court, had they, in cir-
cumstances so peculiar, felt no anxiety about the
cause of Lady Flora's altered form, and done no-
thing to avert the apprehended scandal from occur-
ring in the palace of the Queen. That they might
have discharged their principal duty with more dis-
cretion, we verily believe; but, while we think so,
we cannot help remarking how much easier it is to
form such an opinion after the suspicion is known
to be false, than it must have been when the case
was involved in doubt and obscurity.

Keeping in view the above distinction between
error and crime, and making every allowance for
the outraged feelings of the Hastings family, we
nevertheless feel compelled to acknowledge, that we
never saw an instance in which such one-sided ten-
derness for character was exhibited as in their pre-
sent conduct. Themselves smarting under the evils
of rashly formed opinions and suspicions, one would
naturally expect them to be tender towards others,
and to show something of that caution in accusa-
tion which dearly bought experience had taught
them to be so essential to justice and important to
happiness ; and the want of which they so
loudly condemn in the Ladies of the Court.
And yet how stands the fact ? Did the Marquis
of Hastings and his sister pause till they ob-
tained clear and indisputable proofs before adducing
charges against persons of hitherto unblemished
reputation, which, if true, would necessarily de-
grade them in public estimation, even below that
point in the scale of morality at which Lady Flora
herself would have stood had she unhappily been
guilty ? And did they obtain demonstrative evi-
dence of the existence of a "diabolical conspiracy,"
and of the guilt of its alleged authors, before de-
nouncing them to the public, and crying aloud for
vengeance on their heads ? We are sorry to say
they did no such thing. Without one particle of
evidence, Lady Flora assumes the existence of a
" diabolical conspiracy" on the part of Ladies Ta-
vistock and Portman, Sir James Clark, and the
Baroness Lehzen, to destroy herself and persecute
the Duchess of Kent ; and"the very moment Iheard
of it," says the Marquis in his letter to Lord Mel-
bourne, " I posted day and night to London,
and believing that you had been the chief mover in
the business, I waited upon Lord Winchilsea and
asked him (if such were the case) to call you out."
These are strong assumptions to begin with ; but
Lady Flora proceeds equally on assumption alone
to denounce the " lady who pulled the wires" of
the conspiracy ; and while Lord I-listings laments
that he can obtain no proofs, he nevertheless does
not hesitate to class the whole of the above parties
" together in THAT contempt and disgrace in the
eyes of the world which they MOST richly merit,"
as "the basest of slanderers," and the " originators
of an infamous calumny," and to stigmatize them
as "base and cruel," guilty of "artful villany,"
and as having "trodden underfoot every Christian
principle," and " outraged all delicacy, jus-
tice, and honour .1" Disregarding consequences to
others, but satisfied with his own belief that all this
is true, Lord Hastings next calls loudly upon the
Queen to dismiss the whole from her presence,
branded with the ineffaceable stamp of guilt ; and
because the Queen, believing them innocent, re-
fuses to perpetrate such injustice, his Lordship ends
by virtually including the Queen herself among the
guilty, and appealing to the public against them
all I We can make great allowance for the excited
feelings of a brother where a sister's wrongs are in
question, but surely the Marquis of Hastings can-
not, in his calmer moments, expect either comfort
to himself or honour to his sister's memory from
following a course so flagrantly opposed to reason
and justice? In this respect his own conduct is
worse than even that of the " conspirators," es-
timating them by his own account of them. He
takes his suspicions for granted, and acts upon their
truth. They only sought to veriki their suspicions
and delayed acting till the truth should be ascer-
tained. Let him prove his charges, and then call
for vengeance ; but he may rest assured that he in-
jures his own cause, and turns sympathy against
himself, when he denounces without evidence, and
calls for punishment without guilt. Much has been
said about the " baneful influence which surrounds
the throne, and poisons and deadens all the best
feelings and dictates of human nature ;" but blinded
many
t perverting
at
hseuthe i
upright minds now are by a laudable
leaning o
sideiflluoefhcse o
suffering partyinginnocence, and by
spirit,
every confidence that the day is farnotwe have
distant
when it will be considered an honour instead of a
reproach to the Queen, that she refused publicly to
degrade, by an ignominious dismissal, those whom
she believed to be morally innocent, and to have
acted from a sense of duty alone.
But it is said, Sir James Clark at least ought to
have known chat Lady Flora's change of form pro-
ceeded from disease alone, and to have stifled the
calumny in its birth. Unfortunately, however, it is.
much easier to say this also after the truth is ascer-
tained than it was before it. From the statement

of Sir James Clark published in the London papers
of this week, it appears that the case was one
of great obscurity and difficulty, and so far from
any facility having been afforded to Sir James
for quietly ascertaining its true nature, Lady Flora,
he states, refused to allow him to examine even the
region of the stomach with her stays removed--a
proceeding without which it was impossible for
him to decide, and which is resorted to in ordi-
nary affections of the stomach, without a dream
of indelicacy on the part of either patient or phy-
sian. That Sir James's inability to determine,
under many disadvantages, the teal origin of the
swelling, arose from no want of professional dis-
crimination on his part, is further evident,
from the fact that Sir Charles Clarke—the most
eminent accoucheur in London, and the old per-
sonal.friend of Lady Flora and her family, and
therefore naturally with a strong leaning in her
favour, felt himself unable to disprove the sus-
picion, without subjecting her to what has been
called '' medical examination." When this
was the case with a man of undoubted
eminence in that peculiar department of his profes-
sion, and who possessed the additional advantage
of having known Lady Flora " from childhood," it
is rather too much to blame Sir James because he
could not at once absolve Lady Flora without any
examination at all ! From Sir James's statement
it further appears that the abuse against the ladies
and himself for having suggested and insisted on a
medical examination is entirely groundless, and that
the examination alluded to was not suggested by any
one, but was resorted to on the instant, and from
necessity alone, by Sir Charles Clark, from the
other means of investigation provir.g insufficient to
dispel his doubts ! So much for the accuracy of
public rumour !
One charge only remains to be noticed, viz.,
that against Sir James Clark, of coarseness, vio-
lence, and indelicacy. In London, where Sir James
is best known, this accusation is ridiculed as utterly
at variance with his character, which is known
to be universally kind and gentle. It is not only
absolutely denied by Sir James, but is refuted
by the calmness and absence of every trace of
offence in either of two notes written to him by
Lady Flora within twenty four hours of the al-
leged " browbeating," and both of which are
signed " yours sincerely, F. E. Hastings." If Lady
Flora could write in such terms to a person who
had just, in her own opinion, grossly insulted her,
she must have been very different from other women.
The truth seems to be, that she had allowed her-
self to be wrought upon by the heat of subsequent
discussion till her recollection became confused. In
her earlier letters and statement no such charge is to
be met with.

On the whole, then, the conviction left on our
minds by Lord Portman and Sir James Clark's
statements, taken in connection with that of the
Marquis of Hastings, is, that if a conspiracy
exists at all, it is one formed for the purpose
of destroying the ladies and the physician,
and of compelling the Queen, by moral persecu-
tion if not by fair means, to drive the present
Government from her presence, and open the doors
of office to the party who seek the accomplish-
ment of their ends by such unscrupulous means.
The outcry now made by the more rabid of the
Opposition papers, under the disguise of a regard
to morality, is so purely factious and unprincipled,
that it is discountenanced and condemned, not only
by the Tory leaders, but even by their own more
respectable journals, and ere long it cannot fail to
be put down. The good sense of the Duke of
Wellington led him from the first to recommend
most strongly that this affair should never come
before the public—it is not easy to imagine a case
in which more evil and less good could be accom-
plished by submitting it to such a tribunal.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.

MONDAY.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for three-yr-olds and
upwards. T. Y. C. Five Subs.
Lord Miltown's Medea, 3 yrs, Est 41b (Stag) 1
Mr. Rayner's Minima, 3 yrs, 7st 41b
Lord Exeter's Corban, 5 yrs, 7st 1 Ilb
.. 3
Mr. Worrall's Antler, 3 yrs, Est 41b 4
Lord Stratibroke's b g Fifer, .5 yrs, 9st 71b
Betting-5 to 4 agst Fifer (taken), 4to 1 agst Minima, 4to
1 agst Medea, 5 to 1 agst Corban, and 5 to 1 agst Antler. Won
by a head.
The Garden Stakes of 100 sovs. each. T.M.M. Three Subs.
Duke of Rutland's Flambeau, 3 yrs, List 71b (Cotton) I
Lord Exeter's Adrian, 5 yrs, ist
Colonel Peel's I-am-not-aware, 4 yrs, 7st
Betting-6 to 4 agst Adrian, 2to 1 agst Flambeau, and 3to
1 agst I-am-not-aware. Won by a length.
Fifty Pounds ; for three-yr-olds, 7st 71b ; 4 yrs, est 71b ; five
yrs, six, and aged, Bst 121 b. A. F.
Duke of Grafton's /Ether, 3 yrs (Nat) I
Colonel Peel's lon, 4 yrs
5 to 4 on /Ether, who won in a canter.

YORK OCTOBER MEETING.—SATURDAY( Concluded).
The All-aged Stakes of 5 soya each, with 20 added by the In-
habitants of the City of York ; for two-yr- olds, Est 101 b;
three yrs, Bst. 10Ib; four yrs, 9st 51b ; five yrs and up-
wards, 9st 121 b ; winner: once this year, 3lbs ; twiee, bibs
extra. Mile and a quarter. (Eight Subs.)
Mr. J. Sheppard's b c Viceroy, by Noltaire, 2 yr'...(Lye) 1
Mr. Heseltine's b f The Shadow, 3 yrs.. '2
Mr. J. Smith's gr g Marmaduke, 3 yrs 3
Mr. Brisham's eh f Vermillion, 2 yrs...
Mr. Oxley's br c Navigator, 4 yrs 5
Mr. Hall's ch c St. Maurice, 2 yrs
Betting-6 to 4 agst Shadow, 3to 1 agst Viceroy, and 4to
1 agst Vermillion. Won cleverly by two lengths.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 7 toys each, 3 ft, and 20 added for
horses of all denominations. One mile and a quarter.
Mr. Vansittart's bf by Sandbeck, 3 yrs, 7st .( Wilson) 1
Mr. Howard nd b f Orelia, 3 yrs, 7st 61b 2
Mr. Ha worth's b f Fair Louisa, 3 yrs, 7iit 71b
Colonel Thoin p ion 's b f Mazourka, 3 yrs, Est 101 b 4
Mr. Bell's ch m Golden Drop, 5 yrs, Bst 71b 5
Mr. Heseltine's b f Little Bird, 4 yrs, 7st 71b .. 6
2to 1 agst the winner. Won cleverly by a length.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, for horses the property
of Officers of the depots Ist Dragoon Guards and 7th Hus-
. _._

sars. Mile and a bilf.
Captain Sutton's ch g Gleneagle, aged,l2st 21b....(0wner)
Mr. Percy's Betsy, 1 Ist 71b
Mr. Cotton's br g, 4 yrs, lOst 71b
2tol on Gleneagle. Won in a canter.

Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added by the City in-

,
habitant*, for horses not thoroughbred; three years, 10st ;
four years, lOst 41b ; five years, 1 Ist ; six years, and aged,
1 Ist 71b ; winners once, 41bs ; twice, 7lbs extra ; mares and
geldings allowed 21bs. Gentlemen riders. Ae and a half

heats. (6 subs.)
Mr. Simpson's b g Aggravator, aged (Mr. W. Simpson) 1 1
Mr. Bell's b f Sister to Fearnerley, 4 yrs 2 2
Sir. Thompson's b g Master Wadham, 4 yrs .. 3 dr
Mr. Smyth's gr f Brother to Goldicote, 4 yrs
Mr. Powell's ch h Slyfellow, aged
Betti..g—First heat, 6to 4 on Aggravator, sto 1 agst Sis-
ter to Fearnerley, and 5 to 1 agst Brother to Goldicote. Won
cleverly.— Second heat, stol on Aggravator. Won easy.

STONE RACES—TUESDAY.
Sweepstakes of 5 soy. each, with 20 added from the Fund.
Heats, thrice round and a dis.
Mr. Phillips's b g Taffy, 4 yrs, 9st (Lear) 1 1
Mr. Knaresborough's br h Normanby, 6 yrs, 9st 121 b... 2 dr
Mr. T. Gater's b m Mischief, 5 yrs, 9st 71b dis.
The Hack Stakes of 3 sovs. each, wtth.ls added from the
Fund, for horses not thorough-bred, heats twice round and a
dis., were won in two heats by Mr. T. Gater's b m Mischief, 5
yrs, lOst 121 b (Chiffney), beating Mr. Dawsen's ch m Jenny
Jones, 5 yrs; Mr. Lowe's bl g St. John, 6 yrs, list 21b; 111 r.
Peake's b m Jane, 5 yrs, lOst 121 b ; and Mr. Meeson's b m by
Young Tramp, 5 yrs, lOst 121 b.
A Pony Race, for a purse, &c., was won in two heats by Mr.
Barker's bl g Gauger.