The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-10 00:00:00

SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.

(From a French Paper.)
The whole town of Beziers is talking of a suicide which has
just taken place there. The circumstances are remarkable.—
Miss —, a young lady of respectable family and great persona!
beauty, but of no fortune, was engaged as an assistant in one of
the-first milliner's shops in Paris. While she was in this situa-
tion, she was seduced by a young gentleman, a townsman of her
own, who was studying in the capital ; and their connexion,
which was of the most intimate description, lasted some time.
Eventually, however, the young. man, being obliged to return
to his family, abandoned the unfortunate girl who had confided
in him, and who had fully relied upon his marrying her. Miss
was at this time on the point of becoming a mother; but
she took the bold resolution of following her lover, and actu-
ally travelled a distance of 200 leagues from Paris to Beziers,
where she again found employment in her business of a
milliner. For three years the poor girl constantly used every
endeavour to obtain justice from the father of her child, living
the whole time in the most exemplary Manttn. : at length, losing
all hope of succeeding in her obipct, she determined to die rather
than to live disgraced. Her body was found in the river Orbe
by a soldier who went to water his horse there. The act had evi:.
dently been premeditated, and resolutely executed, for her clothes
were so pinned and fastened as to prevent her from saving
herself after she was once in the water, and also to guard
against indelicate exposure. The youth and extreme beauty
of Miss —, her courage, and her misfortunes (together with
her repeated refusals of splendid thought dishonourable offers),
have excited an interest for her which will be useful to her
child. Mi C—, a retired officer, has adopted the infant.—
Such an act is worthy the character of a French soldier : it is,
as it deserves to be, most warmly spoken of by every body.

Lord DORMER had nearly met with a fatal
accident at Grove Park, since pheasant shooting
commenced. DYKE, the game-keeper, discharged
his piece at a bird, without observing his Lord-
ship, who was approaching in the direction in
which the gun went of, but was concealed from
him by a large tree : part of the contents of the
gun lodged in his Lordship's chest, but we are
happy to say he is rapidly recovering, and is
deemed out of danger.—( Windsor Express.)
MURDER IN HDE PARK.—Since Saturday
night the greatest alarm has been excited at thu
west end of the town, in consequence of the dis-
covery of the body of a gentleman in the Ser..
pentine River, Hyde Park, with his throat cut
in a most horrible manner, supposed to have been
done by robbers, as no property was found upon.
him, except one bad sixpence, a pair of spectacles
in a case, and a pocket comb. There was a
quantity of blood about 30 yards from the spot
where he was found in the River, and drops
of blood upon the ground along that dis-
tance, as if he had been dragged thither.--
This was the cause of the discovery, the river
being in consequence dragged, when the body
was found about twenty yards from the shore.--
There was a deep cut across the deceased's chin,
and his knuckles were also cut, which indicated
that he had made considerable resistance. He
appeared to be about 60 years of age, was a very
stout powerful man, fresh ,coloured, and well
dressed in a dark frock coat, black silk waist-
coat, light coloured kerseymere small clothes,
worsted stockings, high ancle hoots and gaiters,
but- there was nothing about him to lead to a dis-
covery who he was. Information has been given
to the Coroner to hold an inquest upon the body.
DARING BURGLARY.— Yesterday morning,
about one o'clock, some daring thieves entered
the house of Mr. BEVERLY, surgeon, of Seymour
Crescent, Alfred Place ; they removed an iron
bar which fastened the kitchen door, entered the
kitchen, and ransacked the cupboard of the va-
rious eatables, of which they partook plenti-
fully, and regaled themselves with drink; the
table being found with the remaining provisions,
&c. on it. They afterwards proceeded to the
parlour, and other rooms, which they plundered
of, silver plate and other property to a con-
siderable amount; they contrived to open a desk
containing some valuable property, but there
being a spring attached to it, caused it to make a
report similar to that of a pistol. The family
were immediately alarmed, but the thieves
escaped with the property.

THE LONDON JOUUNALS.

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SIXTRAeTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS
December 10, 1822: •

[MORNING HERALD.]
The French Ministry .seems to be doing no-
thing towards accelerating a war.. There is even
something which would almost induce one to
think that the French Government shrinks from
the peril which it so vaingloriously challenged at
a distance. It is true, that what are called the
Ministerial Papers in Paris call loudly upon the
Ministers to commence the attack ; but our re-
cent experience of those pretended demi-official
organs is such as to cure us, as it should our
readers, of the infirmity of believing in them.
lit is not only in France, but much nearer
home,- that they have - proved false oracles.
Looking at a Ministerial oracle par excellence,
amongst ourselves—during the last two months,
-what assurances of • peace one day, and war
the next—what taunts of the French Ultras one
Clay, and- shuffling apologies to them the next—
what assurances of the inviolability of Spain,
snow followed by sophisms against her rights and
liberties, as odious for their bigotry, as transparent
for llimsiness-•--what assurances of the pacific and
paternal views of " our Allies"—of their perfect
concord with each other, and with us—and
what a pitiable retreat at last, in throwing the
blame of these sins of self-contradiction and
detected error upon the French papers—with
the announcement, still in the incorrigible
demi-official tone, that our Government used
every effort to induce the Continental Powers to
preserve peace,—a fact upon which w_e_have al-
ways insisted, and of which any body must have
felt convinced,. who was not slanderously blind
to the moral and intellectual character of the
Government of the country, or strangely igno-
rant of the obvious and vital interests of the
Empire, as- a member of the community of na-
tions. Hopes of peace are echoed from various
quarters ; some say the French Government can-
not be sa infatuated as to persist. We hope not.

[TH E TIMES.]
We this day present the State and the Nation
with one of the most important articles that has
yet appeared on the subject of the apprehended
war between France and Spain ; and which
article, so far as authority is attached to it, is de-
cisive of the question. First, then, the autho-
rity is that of the Journal des I_V:bats, to which
the article has been transmitted ; and next, the
question of war or peace is by it decided in favour
of peace. This we hold to be as important a com-
munication as could well be made to the public
at any stage of a negociation not absolutely
concluded and past. It is superfluous to point
attention to the article : it will be read with the
keenest and most satisfactory interest from its
own importance. It certainly is not a declara-
tion on the part of the French Government that
it will not go to war : but it is a system of rea-
soning, proving unanswerably the folly of so
doing ; and we can hardly conceive that mind so
prejudiced, or that intellect so dull, to which it
will not carry conviction. To us it affords in-
conceivable satisfaction to reflect, that we have
always viewed the subject in the,same light ; and
skimmed, though with more imperfect knowledge,
the same ground of argument. Can there he
any thing more clear than that the Jacobins
--the enemies of well ordered Government
throughout Europe—would, above all things,
rejoice in their hearts that the King of
France should be guilty of the criminal indis-
cretion of invading Spain, simply for not adopt-
ing a Constitution 'to his mind ? And it is re-
markable in this, as in many other cases, how
the extremes of parties meet. The Jacobins
would wish the King of France to attack Spain,
because they well know that he would thereby
perform a wicked act, by which he would dis-
grace himself and the cause of legitimacy. The
Ultra or Raving Royalists would wish him to
attack Spain, because they are in that perverted
state of mind that other men's evil is their good :
that which persons of a clear understanding and
uncorrupted heart think wrong, appears to them
to be right.

[NEW TIMES.]
The Postscript of the Etoile, a French Minis-
terial Paper, of Saturday evening, states, that
the Cortes have determined to reject any propo-
sition for modifying their Constitution. If so,
there mast be war between France and Spain.--
Our readers should clearly understand that What
the Cortes reject with such absolute scorn is an
approximation toward the British Constitu-
tion. Our Parliament of three Estates they
hold in derision. Our House of Peers they
regard as an usurpation and a wrong. , In
place of these institutions, they have set up a
monstrous democracy—a system which we have
shewn, point by point, and article by article,
to be insane, inconsistent, and impracticable—
and which never has been and never can be
carried into effect in European Spain, much less
throughout the whole of the Spanish dominions.
Nevertheless, we fully admit that if the Spanish
Nation unanimously, or with any thing like una-
nimity, adopt this visionary and frantic scheme of
Government, they have a right to make the ex-
periment, and no other State or Potentate his a
right to say them nay. If, abstaining from all
attempt to disturb other countries, and giving no
aid or countenance to the disaffected in those
places.t tti.e_Y set themselves fairly and honestly to
make the best of their own system, they ought
not to beimpeded in their exertions.