The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-31 00:00:00

MIL • EINIkRY.

The Committee for conducting the Benefit and
Subscription in aid of a fund to make provision for the aged
parents and the wife and seven destitute children of the late Mr.
EMERY, met yesterday at the office for conducting the affairs
of the Theatrical Fund, in Bow-street, Covent-garden. The
labours of these Gentlemen appear likely to be crowned with
complete success. The subscription already exceeds 300 guineas,
which includes 1001. received anonymously and in one sum.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Yons has volunteered,
in his usual kind and condescending manner, to send a donation
of ,50/., with permission to use his name as patronizing thebenefit.
The Proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre have agreed most li-
berally to permit the gratuitous use of their Theatre. Mr. AR-
NOLD voluntarily shuts up his Theatre, and the whole of his ef-
fectiVe company have, with one accord, agreed to play without
fee or reward. Mr. MORRIS, following this laudable example,
has permitted all of his company, not performing on that even-
ing, to play at Covent Garden. By these united acts of kind-
ness, the public will be gratified by a combination of talent,
unequalled on any former occasion, and the result it will not
be difficult to anticipate. But however gratifying it may be
to witness an overflowing house, yet to provide in the
most moderate manner for two aged parents, a wife and
seven children, cannot be accomplished by means of this
Benefit. We therefore refer our readers, with much plea-
sure, to the list of subscriptions in our first page, and
we are persuaded every one who is at all theatrically dis-
posed, will testify their opinion of the extraordinary ta-
lents of the deceased, by contributing in the proportion
their means will admit, to this praiseworthy, sOscription.—
Mr. Roasxs took occasion to compliment tha Committee on
the receipt of a most gratifying letter from the Marquis of
o RD, who had generously contributed 251.. The
good feeling that always prevails when a Theatrical Friend is
gone, cannot be better illustrated than in the earnestness with
which the whole of the company now in town have taken up
the distressing case of poor EMERY. In this list will stand
conspicuous the name of Miss DANCE, who with her two
brothers have most generously contributed 15/. to this laudable
subscription.

Mrs. COUTTR, with her usual liberality, has, it
seems, already sent 1001. towards the subscription for the fa-
mily of poor EMERY. This tribute, we understand, is intend-
ed by the amiable benefactress as merely to cover the funeral
expences, mourning, &c. &c., but that her humanity is to be still
farther extended towards a future provision for the family.

RENEE BORDEREAU.—Among many heroines
produced by the civil war of La Vendee, Renee Bordereau,
commonly called Langevin, holds a foremost place. She
was born at a village near Angiers, of humble parents.—
Forty-two individuals of her lhmily lost their lives in the
Revolution, and her father was butchered before her eyes.
This determined her to take up arms herself. During the course
of ,ix years, she fought on foot and on horseback in more than
two hundred battles, with the most determined intrepidity. ller
uncle was at the head of a party of republicans. Instigated by
rage and a zeal for Royalty, she beheaded him. The republi-
cans in the Vendean war were called the Blues. Langevin
killed four Blues at St. Lambert with her own hands. 111 the
battle of Ponts de Ce, when she acted the part of a dragoon,
she killed 21 of the enemy. Soon afterwards she liberated 50
priests at one time, and 800 at another, whose death had been
determined on. A price of 40,000 francs was set on her head.
She was thrown into prison for a crime, of which she could only
prove her innocence by a discovery of her sex ; she remained,
however, five years in prison, where she was treated in the most
shameful manner and only obtained her freedom on the acces-
sion of Louis XVIII. to the throne. She has since had con-
ferred upon her the order of the Lily. •

ANECDOTE OF A SCOTS GRAY AND A COLLIER

—During the encounter between the Scots Grays
and the colliers at Crwmlin, one- of the Grays
was in the act of striking a collier with his sabre.
" Hold, Alexander," said the collier, shewing
his medal, " Don't you remember when I carried
you, wounded, off the field of Waterloo ?" The
soldier immediately dropped his sabre, proud
that he had for the first time an opportunity of
shewing his gratitude to the man to whom he
owed his existence.

SUlClDE.—Yesterday afternoon, about five
o'clock, a respectable looking man, apparently about 35, was
walking on the Terrace at Greenwich, and was observed by
those who passed him to have an air of distraction. He sud-
denly stopped, and putting a pocket pistol to his right ear,
fired, 'and instantly fell. He never spoke nor stirred after-
wards. The blood flowed from both ears, and the ball hav-
ing passed entirely through the brain, part of which pro.
tnided through the wound, appeared under the skin of the
left temple. The spectators of this fatal scene immediately
gathered round, and Mr. Locker, the Secretary of the
hospital, came out from his apartments, and sent instantly
for the surgeons, but the spark of life was already fled. On
his examining the pockets of the deceased, some papers were
found, which indicate that the unhappy suicide was Mr. E.
H. B—, a medical student of Guy's Hospital. On subsequent
inquiry at that Institution we learn that this unfortunate gen-
tleman was a single man, of excellent character, and spent
much time in reading religious books. He is the son of a
Clergyman in a distant county. About four years since he
was confined in one of the Lunatic Hospitals in this metro-
polis, and there can be no doubt a recurrence of the dreadful
malady urged him to this fatal deed,

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
The Earl of Guildford, at his seat, near Dover, from Paris ;
the Marquis of Sligo, at the Clarendon Hotel, from Paris.
DEPARTURES.—The Earl of Cardigan, for Brighton; the
Earl of Carnarvon and the Ladies II erbert, for his Lordship's
seat, near Newbury ; the Earl and Countess of Sefton, for their
scat near Windsor; Mrs. G. IL Bankes and Miss S. Bankes,
for Margate.

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