The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-22 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

10, Bridge-street, March 21, 1822. •
Sin,—The Police Report in your Paper of Saturday, the 16th,
of Queen's-square, in which you include my name most con-
spicuously, though it was as correct as Police Reports gene-
rally are, was not sufficiently so to prevent very unjust con-
clusions being drawn from it against my character for huma-
nity ; which imputations have, both Privately and publicly,
been cast upon me. I therefore trust to your liberality (and
that of other Papers which have copied it) to afford me an on,
portunity to explain to your Readers (many of whom are my
friends and acquaintances) the following particulars respecting
the change preferred against me by one " Hannah hite :"
The first notice I received of this unfortunate woman's inten-
tion of fixing or fathering a child or children, of which she
states herself to be pregnant, on me, was after she had gone•
before a Magistrate, and sworn to it ! on which, a warrant
was granted, and signed by that important personage, 44 Mag-
nay, the Mayor, vulgarly denominated the *Lord Mayor of
London ; and to whose extraordinary display of prompt dele-
gation of brief authority (without making me acquainted with '
it), to a petty Parish Constable, the highly responsible Officer,
the late High Sheriff of the County, not a rotatory Officer, but
one elected by the people, was subjected ; though before the
plot was matured, I heard of it among my Dear City gut-
thug friends, the Just-asses,

V" In wliispers loud, as all their brethren bray,,
" When Jack and Jenny Asses proclaim a rainy day."
To be serious, I am desirous to' redeem' my character from
the imputation cf inhumanity, which would justly attach to it,
if I could render it necessary for a female to. go before a Ma-
gistrate to compel me to provide for my own otispring ! 'Such
conduct has ever been held by me disgraceful to man ; and is
seldom or never equalled by the Brute Creation. No, Mr.
Editor, I assure you, the woman: neither directly nor indirectly
ever claimed my protection—neither did she ever send to or
call upon me ! Nor was I ever in my life, to my knowledge,
under a roof with her ; and I leave it to your discernment, if
it be at all consistent with justice or common sense that, sans
ceremonie, I arn to have air unfortunate child palmed upon me,
without first ascertaining its pretensions. The expence cannot
be the object, as at this time several unfoitunate individuals of
that class who have no paternal claim are receiving their daily
bread from me. Independent of my own conviction, the world
will judge of the improbability of her statement% she having
fixed the transaction on the day of the Queen's funeral, a very
inauspicious day for her as also for many others ! !—and cer-
tainly the most disagreeable day to me of my life. I mounted
my horse at six o'clock in the morning, and never dismounted
till nearly that time in the evening ; when I returned from at-
tending the Funeral Procession drenched with rain. "imme-
diately went into a Warm Bath, and never afterwards quitted
my home, where Hannah White is a total stranger. She is
to appear against me at the Sessions, before which I hope
God will grant her a good deliverance of the young Sheltie, which
certainly cannot derive much credit from its mother, whatever
it may from its father.
1 am, Sir, your obedient Servant, •
J. W. PARKINS.
• The epithet of Lard, added to that of Mayor, is a compli-
ment rather than a grant ; it was first assumed in the time of
Edward 111., when the Chief Magistrate was allowed to have a
.Mace carried before him. The Lord Mayor of York is the
only Corporation Officer in the kingdom who is entitled to it by
Royal Cnarter.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MARCH 21
ROYAL ASSENT.

At about half-past three o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR,
The Duke of MONTROSE, and the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, ap-
peared as his Majesty's Commissioners, and brought the Royal
assent to the Aliens and Denizens, the Annual Indemnity, the
Land Tax Commissioners' Names, the Army Mutiny, and
the I.l.(trine Mutiny Bills.
.COunsel were heard and witnesses examined on the Divorce
Case of Doyle v. Doyle, and on the motion of the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR the evidence was ordered to he printed.