The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-09 00:00:00

MARRIED LAUOURERS.

It is submitted that all Married labourers em-
ployed in agriculture should be • provided ' with
cottages and gardens, upon or us near to the
several farms on which they are employed
as poiSible; and that such gardens should
contain not less than one quarter of an acre,
and as much more as the nature of the case may re-
quire. By this, means the wives ano children of
such cottugers or labourers ;would be employed in,
the cultivation of their gardens, and might, by
Proper attention . and exertion, with the assistance
of the cottager at spare hours, be able to raise the
principal part of the food necessary for their own
support; at all events, considerable part of the
food of the family might be produced from the
,garden, and allow a proportion o 1 the labourere'l
seeps to be employed in providing clothes, shoes,
&c., for the family.
It should be recollected that the manufacturing
systini has nearly if :not altogether deprived the
wives and children of country. labourers td*remune-
rating employment within doors; and it appears
that the only.way left to employ them :beneficially,
for themselves and the public, is to enable them to
produce the whole or a part of their own food. It
may be proper to observe, that in every case the rent
of suCh'cottagerrand land should be very moderate;
the land should in no case be let at a higher rent
than the adjoining farms; and a moder.ete-siied;
cottege, centainiitg three or four smell rooms, .wit
a proper garden, should be let .to agricultural
labourers at a rent veryingoiceording to the size of
the garden, from SOs. to 60s. per annum. am
well aware that the landlord will • not derive much
profit from cottages and gardens let as above; but
still the labourers cannot afford to pay more under
present dreumstances,-considering 12s. per week
as the average wagers in . winter, stud provisions ut
the rate stated above. All landlords will, however,
gain by adopting this plan, because it will induce the
labourers to exert themselves to the utmost, in order
to enable them to abstain from seeking pariah relief.
It will also render the labourers more respectable,
independent, and content; and is' considered by
much the most likely, if not the only, means of re-
storing permanent peace and order amongst the
labouring classes in .geeeral.

THE SEASONS.--Orie triaiti source of the
univerial popularity of Titoslio24'll great 'poem'is M be
found in its suyeet, which is.a Matter of interest to every
ekes of mankind. Had the poetical talent of the author,
splendid as it is, been employed on another theme, the
work might not have been so conerecated by fame. flat
there are minute features in Nature which, equally with
those Qf a grind kind, are interesting to the observer, but
which could not fitly be described in the pomp of blank
vase; and much of delightful matter is therefore left to
the prose writer. This conviction, probably, has inthieed,
those amiable companions in life soil' literature,. WiLLIATit
and Many Howirr to cbroniele all the natural features of
our English months in a work pleasantly designated scThe
Hook of the Seasons," now on the eve of appearance.

'Brunet/A Hotel, Sig.
111.i'tireti.,,-,»l4ieftiriEintetithlthipon you, but milt' re
)‘ott, the: aliirit of aq. ationymeus letter.writer
suppose toy corielpoitent took proper means of forivaril-
ing the lettere, I need hardly repeat their contents; hut
liavitig,'nnfortimately, been enabled to detect a great batty
~.01.0:44Civrimprold-my first assertions, e., the in.
trim*. carried secretly on between your husband, Mr.
Macleod, of Marcia, and the young woman in question, I
almost feel it a duty to you, Madam, and to your family,
to take the 1111tatiS of acquainting you with these 'further
particulars. Lucy the girl, is now about 22, and
been, of respectable parents but ilaa! fur the last three
TOre she has disgraced herself •aild hinny, by•her mope*.
tion•with your husband. Were it not that I am in pos.
session of hiti letters to the woman, with the determine.
lion of 'annoying you and your family, he says, by getting
your'eltildren away and putting them under the charge, of
this woman, I should not have intruded or disturbed your
tranquillity. I should hardly hevitate to discioee my name
and rank in society were I to see you, but you are nut
personally acquainted 'with me, end it is too tielicate en
affair for me personally to'appear in. Should you, how-
ever; Madam, he by any chance in London, and that I
could have au houtistonvereation with you, I would end
pier doubts, and at least convince you that my Motives are
friendly to yen. I would deliver, or at least show, those
letters, sufficient to prove the truth of my assertions. That
.110 intends coming to Havre tie Grace, I know, but do
not believe lie lots yet fixed the time of his visit. If you
think it of consequence sufficient to attend to, I have de-
termined toll() this, i. e. to write to you again in a few
days; this will unfold more than you are aware of. If
you wish to see me, I will be at the Brunswick Hotel,
Jertnyn.street, from the 10th to the 14th of .octo.
ber, from ten to twelve in the morning. By hand-
ing your card enclosed to me, and addressed " Mrs.
Thompson," •I shall wait upon - you with satisfac-
tion. My husband, an eminent lawyer, is in the knowledge
of my 'comtnunications to you, this being my third
fetter. 1 repeat, Madam, that my motives are good. I
' have no more to disclose upon paper than is contained he
the two former letters ; at least, I cannot resolve to do it
at present. Afteir the 14th of neat month I leave Lothian,
anti beg to observe that I will not answer any letter, et
least for some months, if ever I need not say that the
name given is not my real one. The letters were pro.-
cured fur me by the treachery of a servant, and the one ap-
parently the most important, is his extreme urgency for
secrecy, dreading your esposiug him, and thereby depriv
ing him of the right to the persons of yuur children, which
would be certainly taken fronyhitn wescall known. I beg,
Madam, to remain, with sincere esteem anti respect for
you and your amiable and respectable family,

ANNE THOMPSON.
Anonymous.
This also comes by a private individual, a person cun,
nocted with Mess's. 'Aloe and Cu., Paris, and he having
connexions in Havre, passes through that town,

(No. 84

Brutawick Hotel, ,Oct., 18$0.

'Marmat,—,—Aftet deliberations, and by the advice of ;Or
more experienced than myself,' 1 regret• to say that 1 can
nut trust by post either the letters I now have, or any cer-
tain information. I will still be, before stated, at the
hotel the days and boors:motioned. Personal conalstu,
nications, in an affair so important torut 4"( I of "P"'"
quence tome, will, I think, be satiafactsry to both. It
ton,tine for you to decide, Madam, and in so far as I shell
have it in my power to do you essential service, so tar I
rely on your opt compromising me 'afterwards. .Whatever
you decide en, feel turconselence cleared ite having thus
warned you, and as much in.favour of the unhappryoung
women's destiny as of yours and your 60401.
ANNE THOMPSON,
Front the 9th to the 14th of October, Brunswick Hotel.
I think, iovordiug to my latest information, a very few
days may bring Mr. ,Macleod to Havre ds grace.

FROAr MRS,. MA(4.ltOl) Td )4RS. AMU v
Ay NUR ALONG WITII Tilt ANONYMOUS i.lirrkvit,

XARICIEII NO. 4.

lit appears the following wee Written by hire. lirteleml,
as a sort of tnentorandtith for herself, which afterwards,
from want of time, the was Ohligtti to send off O a letter.l
(No. I.) WednerrlsY 13,iening.
Where is all this to end ? • I must now write down
,•arnest. Thi, lAst night in London, or eittli6y the not

ciing of the Boulogne steam-boat, )tas been a Cio&aertti;
or the'ontrary. Went up to. the et:tacit-office tike
Place, than to the Bruninvick,' when, inquiring about
MA. Thompsort,HA servant pushed a'-note tato thy him ;
it was written exactly as before, and said, 4f To.:Alty, at
half-pa,t eleven, meet the in the Regent's-pads; I sin In
a blue t..irriage.—Anne Thompson," -1 began to. w
frightened, but of course resolved to meet this WOlll4ll I
had to dreg+ again, and went. I was soon stopped
servant in green and r,ll livery, and aftel'Oards n lady,
very well dressed, stepped ottt of the eurrisge, and said,
that not having met me on the itlentlay, site did 'ntit re.'
turn on Tuesday, but Sent her servant in'ease 'there bad'
been a chattee'of My calling, or sending My Mane ; that
she wait in .perfeet deskair when she found I hail sent on
Tuesday, and that by the time site 'MOO, I had left
Webb's; that, just WI a last resource,. she 'gat her servant

(No. •il.) Lombard .street.
To tell you what has passed since I Inst wrote, is-quitealmort
impotiihle, and I eats now only trust to Mrs.• Pearse's
kindliest* to give you the real state of things'; they either t
I'meati (Anderson), born the letters, thereby depriving
Me al the clearest proofs, or I will pay a sum whirl, 1
mutt not even write dowir—yes, •I may.--3001. ; Aire.
Name will hardipadVire sue ; she says, I• alone con judee.
lr such eirtnintatnnees. I was allowed three home for rf. ,
fleetion ; I 'have the certainty of losing my 'children ;' bars
spent loads of money : I never, 'so help me 'God, can we
Harris again ; his low and 'horrid meannese; his hypo..
°thy ; and I have not a penny to clear myself of him,
add my head has been turtling. I have really spent years
of burning misery since my late. Mrs. Pear,* has tried
to get him down—bas reasoned with him... hay offered
him, by my *Weis*, 601. dowm.....bas said I would procure
Money if he let me write to toy friends. Nn,.....the
Went I wrote, or astir to go home, or do anything, he will
limn the letters. Mrs. Pearce is coming soon, I most
trust somewhat. to hes%, 'perhaps give up all, and come
home ; but to lose the children—for 'ever ! Mr. Waite
seys he cannot route forward, for me, without the proof.
Janes appears to act for that Anderson. Oh, that I
could,work, or do any thing. .I would.be better if came to
deri.ion. I e;lneet tell you toy ewe just now. •I am
writing as if I could get an answer. My hours are wino
over, and I will have the letters. I have also'spent the
whole day in looking over and attending to advertisement*.
There are more respectable ways* of getting Maury than I
thought. I sun etheg to the soul by Harris's, villainy ; I
ens also in despair at the money spent, fur Mr. fears,
gave Anderson more than.' thought for'-the reading of the
leiter& , Mrs. Warta is .to do thise...ungo to Havre, and
eel you (Mr. ;loses and Anderson not inspeeting her), and
tell you what I have now to do.. Oh .1 fur Ciod'eaake 4
kdep the children, and let Me bear by- thia,ftieudaor such
I must ever conaitier her, that you do net think it mad..
uww.•llly retwlution. is taken. 'One' year passed, must •
make up. the 800/. by January,. Mt. Theo, then, I
sliest for you more than for myself. When better able to
write, Y wills. con say nu more. I inn driven 'nn..—tot •
-4by a cursed fatality; but - I am composed and •• better
when this is seta. RICHMOND.
Tile (Infantile
It) &Clock, Morning.
I have remembered, thank God, that before that, try
signature may be wanted for Henry, and' at St. Atlrcese„
Mr. Pearce says. It is so signet!, that it lam ill lam to
Isl allowed to return, and the lettert booed. I an, not ill,
but the conifer).

(rio• 4.)
Awoliyiktout.—A44lwri) 'Utth. tpaLa*;
WITOQU'r 11,474.
,
YOU receive along with !hie a letter from,your daughter ;
—give me credit for brill 4 good snenteuverer,
ti have
worked upon her in such a way 1 ltattlly ever! eapeetell
to du, and here are the cousequeuttes. A raY,O( cOmPlmo
'inn sometimes touched toe when I saw her horror.; Mid
now, fur several rtAttona, uttfulti t.s ynit kW! it is all _a
strategem. That I woe first induettectl by privets! 1'4104
against Mrs. Meeleodl—that I intended to act her seism mos
Nriattee with her buibatud, atiii l,y alctting her to tooduita
and making up stories upon halt ttots, lead to amit,tl
quarrel, and consequently deprive her of her children.
I had always the intention ti try and make Inane)", Atid
by making Mr. .104016 ask SOW. For the letter% *num
the money for to)self. Pearee, Jones, Anderson, Mat:.
will, are forged names, or rather fame of the otior's I
have assumed. I, you may be, aura, never intended to
return to rranre I have had a groat dual of troulde
and expense, but uorhiog else would satisfy my vengeance.
I have a knack of getting hands fao.eintilied. Mr. Mac,
lood'a last letter was of peat use. 1 principally
wildered Milo. Macleod try litrt'ets and hints, end lawyer?
tonne, and itelicitore, weil.ttigl; turned her head,
you had cotno with her I ahouhl have acted kmv
with equal aecui icy. She now thinks bit is acting 10r:14
Wit, brut has recovered her bead a little—she shall not b 4
undeceived till I got the minty, which she, four being
determined upon, has nu fear of 00c00411itAhiug. I have her
ltromlssery note, and if you leave her alone 11111,4 elicit he
eft in peace; if I finds atir making, cst:opt en explaoa_
lion to particular friend% beware, of ray puwcr I will
astound her and her respe etable employer with anooymou*
letters, till she ronsitlere beraelf AU outcast an the omit,.
41341 44 never 044 bat up her head again. if, on that
contrary, yott Set PrUtiOntlY, (Or I 414 quiet 446464 IVY
itia
toy revenge, Site uhall rest in peace. I worked upon tat
with the utmost caution ; pramipally 144 w her Isar
tttFa
meeting Mr. Alacleod....making a public riuttrrel—tultthrtr
Ittv children by the certainty (1 told
.her ) of their being.
itt Mr. Maeleed's power. It has, I again dd, cattacd much trouble and expenee beyond what I tvlreord,
In) carriage, horse% hire of livery servant% Ac. rd) le""LI

motive is that these little children be not deprived of a
home e,also-that 'it is needlewte *lateral with Mr. M.,
and show you the uselessness of comperiteg with me shout
the trick and skill and experienced swindling. Be prudent ;
I know your Scotch friends. I can defy the pike, were
the head of it Vidoq. Be satisfied of Mrs. M4eleod's
safety, because if ill I shall send her home, she is of no
more use ; he satisfied, then, with the fact that she is
tranquil, because she thinks she is doing her duty, and the
letters entrusted to ins she thinks you will get weekly; be
satisfied that in explaining the plot I allow you the.power
of retaining the children;, she shall think her letters reach
you, some may, were the noise blown over. Last of all,
beware of my power over her, and of my malice, lest I
hould lose my money so hardly earned.
It is not the first time 1 have revenged rnYself on WVUI.
hers of your family; to those who remain I have no
grudge; I purposely avoided seeing Mrs. Macleod at an
hotel, but I had nearly loot her the day she left Webb's,
when she again threw herself into my power.
I copy the address of her letters; no need now to send
over Mr. Ream with letters, to be put in a few day* after
one another. BEWARE! !!

On the receipt of these letters Mrs; Inglis has-
tened to London in quest of daughter, and Mr.
Macleod, whose conduct has been so falsely repre-
sented bus joined in the search, in a state of mind
bordering on distraction. Sir'Richard ffirnie and
the Lord Mayor have been applied to far assistance,
but notwithstanding the exertions of the police of
the metropolis, the place of Mrs. Macleod's deten-
tion has not been discovered.
An individual highly connected, and possessing
considerable wealth, is at present the object of pus-
picion ; and the husband has left town, armed with
the requisite authoi by to recover the person of his
should his suspicions prove Well founded. In
consequence of an anonymous letter, the promises of
a mercantile gentleman, in the neighbourhood of
Cornh 11, with whoM Mr. Macleod had a serious
difference, were very diligently searched. A lady
answering the description of Mrs. 141aclemI, had
been seen to frequent the premises, but nothing to
attach suspicion in that quarter resulted. from the
search. It is a curious part of the history, that
there are such persons as the Mr. and Mrs. Pearse,
of Lombard-street, and Mr. Jones, of Crosby-square,
mentioned in the letters, but they are utter strangers
to the whole business. Mrs. Macleod is repreSent-
fed as a lady of great personal attractions. If the car-
siage and liveries Alluded to were really hire for
the purpose, end did not belong to the master-con-
spirator in this dark affair, the publicity given
through our circulation may be the means of bring-
ing forward information, as the secret must, in that
else, be known to persons' not in the regular em-
ploy of the parties.-Kent and Esser Mercury.
is it not possible that the lug may have been
placed in ii private mad-houie ?

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Dm 8.

Tlw Marquis of ORMONDE presented a petition from
Kilkenny, in favour of the repeal of the Union. The Noble
Marquis stated, that in hie Opinion the measure in favour
of which the petitioners addressed the House. Would, if
gystited, he most disastrous to the whole empire.
Lord CLIFDEN agreed entirely with the Noble Mar-
quis, anti was convinced, that if they took a Bourbon, or
u Prince of Austria, Russia, or Spain, for, a King of Ire-
land, they could not more surely lay the ruin of the empire
thou by effecting the separation between the two countries.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred of the landed proprietors
of Ireland, whether Cstholic. or Protestant, were opposed
to the repeal of the Union. He wished that subject, like
that of Bodied Reform and Universal Suffrage, should be
diaeussed as vpeedily as possible, that the determitiation of
PArliament might be known. upon them.
Lord KING presented a petition from the Operatives
of Blackburn, againet the Newspaper Stamp Duty.