The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-15 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY CASE.

A Lady, now residing in Perthshire, having, in
the course of a tour through the Highlands of Scotland, fallen
in with a female of very interesting appearance, whom she found
to be in a state of deep mental derangement, and consequently
pining under all the bittek exigencies of that miserable and
unprotected situation, feels herself called upon to lay before
the public the following fragments, which fortunately she has
been enabled to gather, as connected with the fate of this for-
lorn and disconsolate wanderer. During the several inter-
views 'which the Lady had with this poor maniac, it can easily
be .supposed.that little could be gleaned from her wild and in-
coherent ravings that could form any clue whereby her friends
or relations could be discovered. Instigated, however, by the
common feelings of humanity, to advocate the cause of a mi-
serable creature, and particularly of one who, even in madness
and in rags, evidently displayed a superiority of rank and edu-
cation, and encouraged from the uncertain little she had learned
of her country and friends, the lady has since, through the me-
dium of an eminent Irish Prelate, received the following infor-
mation, in every point corroborative of what she had previously
obtained in some small part from the disjointed soliloquies of
the mani:'c herself. Those statements completely identify her as
well in history as in person, with a young lady who had
escaped from Swift's Hospital, in which she had been placed
by her friends ; unfortunately the name of her family was un-
known ; but after her escape, when in a state of comparative
sanity, she gave the following account of herself to an Irish lady,
from whom the Bishop had his informatiOn. She said her fa-
ther was an officer in the army, but the lady has unluckily-, for-
gotten the name ; that her mother was dead, and that her father
was married again to a lady in the neighbourhood of Cork ; that
she had come into the possession of an independent fortune;
that she became subject to a great depression of spirits,'which
Was the cause of :her being placed in Swift's Hospital; that
her father's family is English, and that he lived generally at
Bath ; that her mother had died when they were on a tour
through Ireland • that the name of her maternal grandmother
was Lennox ; that she lived at Firth (probably this should be
Perth), in Scotland, and that she was then on her way to
Scotland, to put herself under her grandmother's protection.
She showed the Irish Lady a recipe for sore eyes, subscribed by
William Henry Downan, who attended the Hospital as surgeon
when she was there. She has frequently been heard to mention
this name ; but as there are, no doubt, mistakes in many of
the above particulars, all attempts to discover her relations
in Scotland have proved utterly unsuccessful. The unfortunate
female whose sad fate forms the subject of this melan-
choly detail, is now an unprotected wanderer in Athol, sub-
sisting on the necessarily scanty fare which the humanity and
lowly means of the tottager can bestow. This account is sent
into the world, with the earnest hope, that sooner or later it
may meet the eye of, her family or friends. . To rescue froin
misery this poor creature, and to shelter her from the wretched
state to which she has been reduced, is surely an act worthy the
humanity of all : and those who may be prompted to lend
assistance in a cause so meritorious, will receive further infor-
mation, by applying to the Rev. James.Esdaile, Minister of
the East church, parish of Perth.--(Caledonian Mercury.)

The Corporation of Berwick has unanimously
resolved to renuest their representatives in Par-
liament to oppose the proposed alteration of the
line of road between Morpeth and Edinburgh.--
A similar resolve, by the Magistrates of North-
umberland, was come to at h late meeting /held
in the Town-hall at Alnwick.

CUTHBERT ELLIsoN, Esq. M. P. Colonel, and
Sir 'ROBERT HAWKS, Lieutenant-Colonel, with
the other Officers of the late Gateshead Volun-
teer Regiment of Infantry, have presented one
hundred guineas out of the balance of their mi-
litary fund, towards purchasing a new organ for
St. Mary's Church, Gateshead,