The Sun.
London, England, 1813-08-16 00:00:00

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ynunq man was at nearlyt) it mature period or
I,i-le, and if coercion should ileeeSSary; it ought
to be exerted by a person-who conic', tnix it With
some degree Of.affectionimbibed froin'early ha-
bits. Although on some -occasions the Court
did not pay much attention to early prepossessions,,
yet on this occasion, when the young. man was so
far-advanced, -his inclinations would doubtle•is
attended to, and there was evidence that the young
man entertained strong prepossessions on the sub-
ject. It could not he-suggested that the lightest im-
pediment would he thrownint ‘Vity °WIC mother's
intercourse With-her. son. - Eery possible eorti
munication would be allowed. It might be con-
, tended that his brother. anti sisters Would be ad-
vantaged by the income that would be allowed to
the minor, if his, mother should he, appointed his
guardian. ;The gentlemen who wished to 'be ap-
pointed guardians wished not for aiky pecuniary
knlyantage to tbum,elves, and the object of bent.%
fitting his brother . sisters might ,be as writ
obtained by appointing them guardians, as by
any other method that email be adopted. - If Mrs.
Sitwell should be appointed guardian,-. could the
residence of the minor its England be relied ?
The Loaf) Ctt:Aact:t.Lott said, he recolleeed one
of the grestest peers of „North Britain being no-
minatetlas
,gnardian to an'English child ; but th€
Court would not appoint him, until he bad given
security that We-minor should not an any account
be removed OM of England.
i`,lr. AGAR followed on the-same side, and

dition to what had been urged before, lte stated,
.as accounting. for Ara antipathy so warmly ex-
pressed t Mr. Sittwellfor his wife's relations, that
before he was of age, having been refused by a lady
to ‘vhotn he vtts attached, he determined to marry
the first woman of respectability that would have
hart ; and in pursuance of that, determinatiop' he

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was married to Mrs. Sittwell in her father'S house,
and her father,. although be knew Mr. Sittwell
to be a minor, and a young man of fortune, never
made any enquiry of his father or of his .guar.:
(Hairs. • this act Mr.,Sittwell attributed all his,
misfortunes : this act lie always lamented 'as the
cause of all his misery. The Learned Gentleman
here stated some. things, from the affidavits, to
wove that Mr. Sittwell's dislike of his wife's re-
lotions was not altogether unfounded. stated
that her relations had,slways libelled_Mr.Sitt well ;
and could it be. right that his son alniuld go .to
those.persoos who'would tell him-that he was the
son or the eeriest villain on earth, and would try
to alienate that affection he .so warmly telt For
his father ? This was not the petition of the
mother; it was thL,petition of those relations for
whom the father entertained so rooted ,an aver-
-51011. •
Mr. LEAVII agreed with Ids two Learned Friends
who had 'first spoken, on the ,propriely of not
teriug into the history of this family and
gil-
though Mr. Agar had thought,tit to make a partial
abstract ofithe most stinging passages, he should'
not folkiw:his esampl,,t„ it was quhetrue, that,
if a father legally names the.gnardlans of his child,
nothing can ._correct 'that nomination, however
improper it may be but if the has dot le:.
golly made that nomination, the discretion of the
Court wns,unfettered ; and it wus the duty of the
Court to.esercise that discretioo in The way most
for, the benefit of the infant. No doubt the Court
would at first look to the nomination of the father,
however itifOrmal, to direct its choice ; and if the
Court, finding that Mr. Sittwell had appointed two
Gentlemen, together with
.a Lady with whom he
had for many years cobabited,,as the guardians of
his child, .could think that in making that ar-
rangement, he wia.aetuatedhy parental feelings,
by-a.wish for the.happineis of his,child, every at-
tention tr,ould doubtless be paid <o his wishes : but
if the,Court thought they arose, from' feelings of a
trite different nature—.-that they, were the result
of an unfortunate iiffluence which had,caused him
to live a miserable and degraded life for noisy
years,
;the Court,so far.from using them to direct
its choice, would only'use them to avoid wbatthey
recommended, Suppose. there was no reconi-
Auendation to induce the. Coui't to catitroul the
report of the Master, .what objection. could he
mede'to the mother, as the guardian of her child,
woman of the best family, of the purest in-
,tegrity, of the most unblemished character and
conduct ?' ,it r had been said, she resided in
a foreign canary ; but the conduct of her Ink-
.band drove her front the bosom
,of her' family.
The bitterest calamity ofher life, that from which
all the Misfortunes of her life flowed; iVits oject•
to her as a fault. Was a mother unlikely to
for Ward the interest and advantages of her'ehild
-Could not. that Conn find Means to enfore the
,residence of the infant in Eugland Bat.who were
the ticntlemen who were to he preferred % 'Mr..
Maide was ft most • respectable Gcritleineo; but
Mr. Manle Was a latnilyinanw not in England but'.
in Scotland, for he believed Mrs. Manic had never-
been io-Englmul in her life. Mr.'Maide certainly
came to Loudon to attend Parliament, bat' he
never Saw hint earlier, than,the month of MerCh,
:and he then liVed as a bachelor in a small ,house
in Spring-gardens ; therefore, if the minor was
to' enjoy the advautages of Mr. Manle's great,
connections, and the advantages ,of his family', it
must be in Sentland,lhat country which his fa-
ther was so anxioui he should 'never visit.. Mr.
Clarke, he understood, was hi trade, a bachelor,
and lived in chambers ; he, could not, therefore, be
the most desirable of all, guardian for a !young
man Of Mr. Sittwell's fortune.:
Me, Mottioty followed on the same side.
Sir S. Itolwittv, in reply, should not liaie said
one word, had it not been. tor the strong &dam--
lit; used Ity !Mr. Leach, Mr, Leach btu' not gone
into the eireionstaoces, lot he hod giVen way to
the utmost range of imagination ; and there was
not a person in the Court who, if the cireillll
statmes were fully gone into, would not be asto-
nished at the impression they had made on Mr.
Leech. lie had said, that the wishes of 3,1 r.: Sitt-
. well had not been dictated by feelings of a pa,
rental maitre ; and that his Lordship, being "Braced
in.the OtuatiOn of a father, was:not to follow, but
to avoid his wishes. He-should, therefore, feekit

necessary to read some. parts of Mr. Sittweli`s,will,
in order that his Lordship might judge- whether
ilmwas not actuated by the warmest feelings Of
parental affection., Eli. &Mind Rom ;lly here read
au extract tr'nnr the will,-, which was in `the "form
of a letter to, his son. It was written in the most
affectionate Wait ; it deptecatett WS own youthful