The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-16 00:00:00

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!neva, the Catholic Religion, ariii.again bec f9file/
Protestant. At his return, he passed .two or i
years in the society. of his friendsi.es hapP"?
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he possibly could, composing books, and thl
ing himself a copier of music, but when once 0
sible of his happiness, it was not hi-his netiureir
preserve it. Madame d'Espinayhaving-.in;Wf;ti
rest of Montmorency:a small house
was be-10414
.her di
estatee persecuted her a long time te,ll`o
it to him, saying that it imposibWfor
to live any longer at that-horrible Paris, and t,
he, would in future seek an asylum:from o
among woods and solitude. It was riot att
-suited to:a person of. such a fierce, -melaUch°i
and impetuous temper. He then became :sll',",
fect savage ; solitude made him still more 110.10 i
and hardened his disposition against himself.foi
his friends. He left his forest at the_ en"A
eighteen months, angry with -the wholehawil
race. He then settled at Montmorency, 4hety
he has lived ever since, and has gained a rePkg.ol
tion worthy of his talents and singularity. I °lei
he lived as happily there as a man with w Inui
bile and vanity could expect to be. In the societ'i
of his friend's at Paris, he • found friendship 161,
esteem, but•the reputation,- and •still more tbefile
perior talents which he was obliged to aclin!i,
ledge in some of them, might render hisinic
course with them. painful; while .at Mon tmorencl'l
without any rival, he received praises from
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most distinguished characters in the kingdi
besides atiowd of amiable worban
_who &W,
around''him. Those who have courage. anti re,
tierice to act the part of -singularity alwayOube
teed. Rousseau passed his life in abusing-the
great.; afterwards he said that with--themaloee
liadfoUnd friendship and virtue: -'.These two e;
Cremes were equally philosophical,. .and beL7t
amused with his prejudices, I often . laughekAlalie
him. He had a disagreeable little-dog whit'
called Duke, because, said he, it was m0r050140
little, like a Duke. When he was at the Cds k,
of Montmorency, he changed the-name to --"f ht
'This disguise was cowardly ; it was more u'r,'ie
of his character to leave his dog the same n3.ce,
as a monument of his own unjust Pre:P.l,6l'j •
He even might have turned it into
pliment to the Duke of Luremburgh
ing, " It is you who have taught me %As'!'
Duke is, and to form a just opinion of Courtiers 4
It is difficult to be quite indifferent with reed
to the great, when. we are cOntinnalliemPolo,
about them: The true philosopher, while bedde
spects their rank, forgets them.. Esteem i5,.51
to personal qualities, and whatever Rousseau,;nce
say upon the subject, -a person may be a Prh"te
and still possess great virtues. I used ofte°oo
fight him with his own-weapons. He told us 0,
day, with an air of triumph, that as he wag .c°o,
ing out of the,Opera, the day of the first rePof
sentation of the Devils du Village, the Duke at
Deux Ponts accosted •him, . and said, tit!) 5r„;"
politeness, " Allow me, Sir, to congratulate °°od
to which he replied, " Certainly, providepilhis
will not be long." Every body was silentni.p
recital. At last I . replied, " Illustrious' Cits;,e,
and Sovereign of Geneva, since part of the 'e
reignty of the Republic is in yourhands/ Ilhe
me to represent to you that, notwithstanding t
severity of your principles, you ought not to
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fuse a Prince the respect due to a Atrater-c9r/10,00
and that if you had answered a.kind word %old
latter in a rough and brutish manner, you wp:'
have -been guilty of the greatest impertine%ch
He afterwards abused -the philosophers es do
as he had formerly abused the great ; bat 'berS
not know if the latter defended the philoPP
as much as they had been defended by then'.
(Grimm's Correspondence.)

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF THE CAMBRIDGE a44%,
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—For several days in the last week of Oet°p
a man, calling himself James Lloyd, and a w°l"-ii
calling herself Jane Hewson, were most actived
and too successfully engaged in the circulation e
forged notes of the Cambridge and Cambridg.ti,
shire bank, in the town itself where the PlllllO
(Messrs.Forresters) upon whom the forgeri
committed carried on their business. On Itti,ol
day, the .sth instant, the man and womnii 'lst
to Saffron Walden, where they passed foot sifuleil
notes of one pound each, which being detect re,
on the morning of Friday, the woman was PPEP-,54,
handed and taken before Thomas Hail)
one of the resident Magistrates, who was '°ilf
gusted with her evident perjury, that he event°'oo
refused to take any minutes of her decision
tion, and committed her to the town gaol' ilso
Sunday se'nnight the male accomplice was n,
taken into custody, and on searching him to° 'tott
pound Bank of England notes, two one-Parill.
provincial notes, and twenty-four pounds' 'for
of silver were found : he was committed it 4
further examination, and on Monday ullnoti•
both parties were again brought up and i"eoe
fled as the persons who had played so profit.°ool
a game; they were thereupon fully colvirrider
for trial at the Essex winter assizes. 0° 'cell,
day morning Lloyd was found dead in his, the
having hung himself the preceding -night. °fore
course of the day an Inquisition was taken bet. tee
Thomarllitll, Esq. on view of the body ,°1 of
unfortunate man, when, upon the depositi°-id
the gaoler as to the behaviour of the dece-fer
the preceding evening, the jury returned $
dict of—lnsanthj. It is supposed that 00°00
sons were the agents of the manufacturers °
notes, who it is suspected will reside in the to
tropolis, and carry on their felonious traloc get/
considerable extent. A large bundle Of °roll)
notes upon the Cambridge bank (150 of li'enenr
was found on Monday in Audley-end park) poet
Saffron Walden, which have been handeagteth
to the prosecutors; the notes are well e%ec
but the signature is engraved. Lloyd was sh°
23 years of age, the prisoner Hewson
states that her father is a labourer, in the el'
of Mr. Nicholls, a farmer, residing at Kabul'o ber
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When she was informed of the death oe 0(
paramour, she asserted with much prese° 014
mind that she was his wife) and that she c
not be hurt, as she had only acted under the
fiuence of her husband.

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The Baron d'EaoLEs, in addition to his
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sufferings during his flight across the Pyrv'''
has lost an ear from the extreme cold.