The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-17 00:00:00

MANSION-LIOUSR,
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A -gentleman presented to the Lord Mayor -.a bundle of papers,
which he said, detailed eireeinstai tees of extreree suffering and privation
fitr Majsty's Government had been, It 'Appeared room the documents,
reeea:edly applied to ter a recommetusetion of the cue': a. one deservinz
but, notwithstanding the
• f the gracious consideration oe the Queen ;
a awe:alive penned with otticiel cold_
deep distr.ess which it representeee
ness was the only anse or.
ee.
The following are the fees collected from the documents :--The pe.
titioner, Francis Carptitter, late Brevet. Major or the kith Regiment
of Foot, was in 1707, siren the rezoannendation of the late Generai Sir
John Moore, appointed to a Li. utettaney in the 55th Regiment by the
late General Sir Ralph Abercromby, thee Commandein-Chief in the
West Indies, and et:minuet! to On duty with that corps- until the year
1805 ; and in the eemea gn in North Holland, in 1799, though under 20
years of aee, cononauded a cotnitatly in every engager:l(44E with the enemy
to the absence of its Captain, who season the Stan* in Ireland. In 180.5, then
stationed In Jamaica with his regiment, he was promoted to a company
in the fhl West India liegiment, with which corps lie served three years.
Alto: a continued service of six years in that island h,s state of health
corripaed hint to return to EnglanJ, and in 1810 be was removed to
the 15th Foe!. Being in the (command of a detadmtent of the 2d bat_
tenon of that carps in 1616 in the island of Alderney, he had the mis-
fortune to he attacked ,rich violent dysentery, which reduced him to
excessive deciliey, and, cooperating with spasmodic end catarrhal own-
plaints of a most acute description, rendered his days and nights an un-
interrupted course of sitiferitig. Nevertheless, in 1820 proceeded he
from the regimental dept in the Isle of Wight, to join the Ist battalion
of this regiment in Halifax, Nova Seotia ; and in 1821, on the return
of his reeiment to England, having beets ordered to Cumberland Fort,
where he was exposed to extreme humidity, he, in common with Most of
the soldiers of the regiment, was tate:led with dyselitty,_ which
revised all his former male les, :aid terminated in ddpriving hint, by
pa,-alysis of the uso of his right leg, and in completely destroying his con_
s• it mien. Ile was compelled to retire from the service at a time whets
"very prospect appeared favourabl • to Iris immediate advancement its
his professico, and he received a p,nsion of 1001. a year as a compensa-
tion fecr the loss of the use of oite limb. Two years previously to his re-
examination by the medical board, in July, 1827, by the gradual effects
of the pare') sis, he lost the use of his other leg, and thus became a help.
less cripple. In addition to the bodily calamities of which he was the
victim, he hut to undergo great mental suffering. By unforeseen mis-
fortunes, and tire calls or a numerous family, his income ee.ame
reduced to his military ts els:on (100/ per annum). as his only
means of support. Attout bix years ago he was lecOnituenclid
and assisted by Lit friends to open an e.tablislunent for the educa-
tion of young gentlemen, its coujune.tion• with his dattghters. to eta-
able hint to establi,li -a further support for himself, his wife, and
six chihlren• but the constant mental labour an,l anxiety attend ho
upon such en occupation, together with the pecuniary difficulties he
had to contend with, nliatle his life an unceasing struggle with ,l
ie
was ; and his emharra,sments having inereas: d Irons want of
eadital, lie
was compelled, in 1635, to raise the sum of 4001., by the payment of
the interest on which, :eel the insti-ance of his life, Ire :nvoleed the
the gretttest part of Ills p,tetion to avert the alternative of a prison. Ile
still continued to pursue his !alio. lima employment, but the paralysis had
so increased tro to deprive bias of the use of his arms and hands. Ills •
pt' Cr of cartying on the establishment was thus completely broken
down. Ihe only source to which he looked for support for his numerous
fancily was tetely stopped up ; but his daughcers, jletersnined to use •
every erten in their power, took and furnished a house. in the hope that
by letting lodgings they would be enabled to aid in the support of the
family. Tu effect that object they had been treavolenbly compelled to
involve the remaining part of tire pension in raising a further sum of
1651. For upwards of 18 months they had all been supported by the
scanty produce of the new speculation, which, under heavy and conti.
.I,4ed bonbon of rent, taxes, &c., led to ietrexicable difficulties, and re_
deiced them to the want of the to cessaries of life. Reduced to the
most depiorabie condition, driven to the most humiliating means of ask.
mg relief, suffering from iniense body disease, the result nf his military
services, he threw himself uptin the bounty of thee meet The peti-
tioner concludes with a most earnest entreaty to bee IMrjesty to con..
sitter the wretched couditioct ef a men who bail (alien into Indigeece, not
from any fault of his own, but in consequence of the incurable injuries
he had received i:1 the service of his country, anti to extend 4o him
permanent retie: Icy placing his name on her Slajests ts Pension or civil
1141 for stielt )early sum as !night he deemed propertionete to Isis in-.
creased state of suffering. and consequent ioabil:ty to sepport himself and
his affiicted family.
The Loan Mayon trusted that, amonest the various ways of attract-
ing the lloyai notice whied daily presented themselves, souse prompt
mode would be adopted to make known to her Majesty the features of
so remarkable, and, in his mind, so attcting a case.

G LDHALL.
Yes'erday a young num, named Join; Murphy, was Aarged with sit.
terr.ing a forged orderaer for
Pthe de'i:efi of a set of " r.obert.'s Spain," at
M Lewis's, b3oks, oultry: The. prisoner eee:ined saying any.
thing in reply to the charip, was coinuai!'s.eci for trial.

RL.73 01?0 UG S7'RET. • •
Juhn Stete,4rt, of the Reform Club and
South Audicy-street, gentle-
man, was brought before .Mr. Draa, chargrd with having broken oft a
knocker from a house in Albemarle-Street. -
In .I..fencv Mr. Stewart plea.;ed intoxica!ion. Ho was very sorry for
what had occurred, and he was wilting to make any recompense fur the
injury tio had unguardedly c.eeasioned. Mr. Steward paid ss. for being
drunk, and ss. Gd. for the damage, and then retired.

SOULT AND ALLAN CIINNINGIIAM.—OUr
good friend Mr. Allan Cunningham was introduced to Marshal Souk,
and as the interview was interesting, the reader, we shotta suppose,
will be the reverse of displeased to peruse a hurried note orit, given
as nearly as possible in his o,ati words :—" I saw him at his residence
at Puttland llouse ; he received Inc kindly, took nie by the hand,
placed me on a sofa beside him, and said he was inch bted to his friend,
the Baron de P., for making us acquainted. I said I had desired to see
a man of great and strong ta ent by Nature; and not tray Act of Parlia.
ment ; that I had long admired hire far his generous tribute to the me.
,nary of Sir John Moore, and looked upon him as one of the ',oldest-
minded of our foes. Ile snsPed at this, and turning to me said—Foe!
I never was your use, at least in the coarse sense of the word ; I was
taught to respect you in the sternest of all schools, the battlefield; and
it was only yesterday I t, Id your young Queen that Britain and Franco
had tried the sword lung enough to each other's harm, and-shoiald now
try what friendship could do, and thus ensure the peace of Europe. I
bowed and repiled—Marshal, you are still in the field ; you have won
other countries by the sword, and now you come to conquer us by cour-
tesy. As I said this he pressed my knee gently with his hand, and nude
s,,me allusicn to poetry. He is a noble martial-featured man, tall, too,
and vigorous ; and I thought of Auster:itz and many a bloody fithl as
he shcok hands with me at parting. 'But we are not to part yet ; be has
sent me a card fur his great ball °t this evening (ffth July) when I will
again see, I feel assured, the sante simple, easy, courteous man I found
during the interview I have attempted to describe.—Dumfries Couriers
Louis XVIII.-111. (IC Vilicie, in u
oin•ring s
ministry in the name of the King, had i [pressed himself with a na the
Vest
friendship; for, so far from finding his Majesty di,posed In our
Kings favour,
he had the greatest difficulty in the world to determine his will.
have not more liking for us than we have for them; we have served
them to the utmost of our power, but without interest
and without
illusion. Louis XVIII. detested us; in our plaice be would
have
- literary" P.aloury. Had he not been King he would have been a
member of the academy, and he was imbu.d with the spirit of antipathy
of the classicists a2,ainst the romanticists. His M;jesty knew but little
of us; we most cheerfully ceded the palm to him; we never dispute
anything with any one, not even with a sceptre bearing poet; we krlew
not a man of I, tr.rs behind whom we should not be most sincerely and
most humbly disposed to hide ourselves. We succeeded, however,
in plensink the King more than might have been exper...ied, end in such a
way as to excite in our colleagues a dread of our 'influence. His Ma.
jetty often took a nap at the ctuncil, and he di.d ~note rgitt ; u hen 'he
was not asleep he would tell stories lie po;sessed an admirable knack
at mimickry I this did not amuse M de Viilele, who wanted to stick to
business. M. dc Corbiero would lay hit swiff box and his b'ue hand_
kerchief on the table, and clap his elbows upon it; the other ministers
~ ~ we, for our part, could noz help being givcrted by
I stole.. in svenoe.
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his Majesty s tales;
aware or his SLIC..e.,S, before lie began a. story, he sourt'lt :..n excuse in it,
and, acc•or.,,ingly ,sn such oecasions FO
!did wean! say, with his clear shrill voice,. ' I am 1:,,,
6. to make you
: natural hush,
' lifz., (al ec(Cniratrearu, bwreiallaißlig ;:ed as heartily vs rf 'we had received ordera
has passed the chair, over-
to do so. Chateatilentssefs llfehtairs of his Glen Time.
!VT aAllutntioalbi y"oltlis3() of the foreign visiters as " ?a,' fets
„,,,,,,,e," whiqiered to a bye-stander with great apparent -
iieari.ktv'tvlolici
that there had certainly hewn but feu, mayoralties such as Ohs. l'
evening last, between Captait. W—t an a Mr. II—n. The for.
A duel took Place on Wormwood Scru s on
bia:eney,
yattended by Captain F—k, the lattct by Lieutenant• Colonel
111TC-I:4'un.rw"aslaShots haring been exchanged the seconds interfered when the
Oki rwas ambpably arranged.
'VEgSEL WRECICEII IN A Foc.—The Robert
so :kW, from the Meditetrassezei for this port, got on shore, during. a
de.ic fog on W,tincsaity, on the coast of AnGle,eY• No lives werehut.
yalThe restel Inn;, store become a vomplete wreck, and has bran' up,.
I.; V:tt? Qt her cargo has 90,10“ Likve4.---Zewpocliiibk4 ,