The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-10 00:00:00

NORTHUMBERLAND.

MORPETH.—The Brethren of the Lodge of Peace and
Unity, No. 177, Morpeth, on Thursday the 27th ultimo;being,
the festival of St. JOlin, dined at Brother Fairbairn's, Percy
Court; after partaking of an excellent dinner, they proceeded,
at 6 o'clock, to the Lodge, when the installation of the officers
for theensuing year took place, according to ancient usage, viz. :
Brother Robt. Shute, W. M., Brother Henry Esther, P. M.,
Brother John Bootyman, S. 'W., Brother J. Lee, J. W., Rev.
Brother Thomas Shute, chaplain, Brother Edw. kobson, trea-
surer, Brother Geo. Wake, secretary, Brother Robert Bar-
row, 0. W., Brother William Wight, S. D., Brother Thomas
Lackenby, J. D., Brother Thomas Flint, S. S., Brother John:
Henderson. J. S., Brothers Thomas Brown and John Todd,
S. B.'s, Brother Thomas Blyth. I. G., Brother John Harrison,
tyler. After the business of the day was. endetl,.-the, Lodge
sat down to refreshment, when the •vocal ,talents of the fra-
ternity were called intoactiOn, and afforded much gratification,
The Lodge *as closed at 9 o'clock, with the.order andodecorum
which are the distinguished characteristic of the, meetings of the
ancient craft. . .

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SOLEM QUIS DICIME FALSt7,II AUDEAT ?

LONI)ON,
TijkIRShAY JANUAIZY 10, 18`2'=2.

The statements 'contained in Mr. LovEDA
petition to the French Chamber of Deputiec,
which appearedin our Paper of yesterday, wia
excite a deep and painful interest throughout this
country.

Mr. DoucLAs LovEnAY was among the num-
ber of our countrymen who, on the final settle-
ment of peace with France, established thernselvesi
with their families, in, the capital of that. kingdom.
In the month of June, 1816, he returned to Eng-
land, leaving his two daughters at the boarding-
school of a Mademoiselle REBouL, to whom he
also sent his niece, a daughterof the Governor of
Benares. The education of these young ladies
was to be entirely confined to accomplishments.,
and their preceptress solemnly engaged not to
interfere with their religious faith. Depending
on the promises and high character of this
lady, Mr. LovEnay, if we rightly understand
his narrative, absented himself from Paris for
about five years, without feeling any uneasiness
on account of his niece and children ; a fatal se-
curity? which is now-, no doubt, the occasion of
much bitter self-reproach.—ln July last he an-
nounced, by letter, his intention of removing
them from the-school. Ma.dlle. Reboul intreated
that the youngest lady, at least, the niece, who
was only fourteen years pld, might be allowed to,
remain with her, protesting to Mr. Loveday, that
it would be an injustice to entertain any appre-
hension on the subject of religious principles.—
The same assurance was confirmed by his daugh-
ters when he at length returned to them, at Paris,
September.—But as the time approached when
the two elder ladies (one of whom was now of
age) were to leave the school, a disclosure be-
came necessary, which at once converted the
too easy confidence of the deceived father into
dismay and indignation. " On the 23d of Oc.
tober," he says, " my two daughters declared to
me that they were Roman Catholics,' and that
their firmness and faith were not to be shaken."
—Their minds, it appeared, had been forcibly
and unsparingly acted upon by terrific images of
future punishment', by sophistical applications of
the sacred text, and by stories (which, strange to
say, have their effect even in these days) of mi-
racles perfOrming at Amiens, and the apparition
of a bleeding Host. Their conversion, as they
affirmed, had been the work of a single fortnight ;
and they strongly, but untruely, denied that
Mademoiselle 11,EuouL had taken any part in the
transaction. It appeared afterwards that this

personage had been principally implicated, and had
even condescended to purchase for the elder, daugh-
ter, and to take into her own charge;a present-in-
tended by the young lady for a male person, who,
as the narrative leaves it to be supposed, was a
co-operator in this religious conspiracy.—Mr.
LOVEDAY removed his daughters on the-3cl of
November, but his niece was permitted to re-
main a week longer; a week which, by the zeal
of !Mademoiselle liEnour. and her pious asso-
ciates, was indeed most preciously employed, for
during the short space of four days this betrayed
and miserable child, in the fever of superstitious
excitement, and the heat and trepidation of a re-
sistance to.delegated paternal authority, was im-
piously hurried through, .the successive rites of
baptism, confirmation' a)4 partaking in the.
holy communiil4,.. `T.Ot.*:a.:%-Week of her return
'the elder. clanOter pf..',14i;.--f:,ovEDAy departed
from her father's bonse, and:placed herself in such
concealmentas defeated the most anxious inquiries
for the space of a month. Mlle. REBOUL re-
ceived the unhappy parent with reproaches, and,
it may easily be imagined, afforded him no as-
sistance. Application was made to the King's
ATTORNEY, and this Officer, having inquired
into the transaction, replied " that Mlle. REBOUL
had acted fairly ; that Miss LOVEDAY was
twenty-one years of age ; and that it was a deli-
cate and difficult affair." The Commissary of
Police appears to have seconded the exertions of
Mr. •LOVEDAY with considerable zeal, but with-
oat effect. Meanwhile the fugitive was playing
with her father's anxiety by sending him letters,
bearing at one time the post-mark of Ostend, at
another that of Amiens; while the infant convert
and:communicant, living in discontented submis-
Zion to her uncle's authority, was privately corre-
spending with her cousin, and was therefore, as
it should seem, acquainted with the place of her re-
' treat. It was through the means of the British Em-
bassy that Mr. LOVEDAY at last received tidings of
111 g daughter, who-was then at the house of a re-
mpectable :Catholic Gentleman, M. JEEININGIIANI..
itidifferent to the supplications or authority of
her father, she at first refused to place herself
again-.under his care, and after a long and dis-

tressinc,b contest, only promised to return to him

the next day, that she might gain an opportunity
, of eloping before the appointed time. She was
again restored to her father, who in vain at-
, tempted to soften her obdurate spirit, by per-
mittiqg her to attend the'rites of the religion she
had chosen. She once more fled from-his house,
and took refuge in the Convent of the Congrega-
ic'n de Notre Dame. Hither she was followed
,"9 her father brother, cousin, and sister ; the
Superior at first denied her being in the house ;
but ort a repetition of visits by this unhappy
farniii, she took t the' more- effectual precau-
tion Of consigning them to the Commissary of
Police and a military guard. The eldest
daughter of Mr.LovEDAY looked on with a smiling
countenance while the Bens-d'armes made him
their prisoner; and in the midst of their bayonets,
43 lie relates the story, he bound himself by an
undertaking for the maintenance of this young
lady in a life of devotional retirement commenced
under such happy auspices.—After making fruit-
less applications to some of the highest civil and
ecclesiastical authorities, this injured gentleman,
as a last resource, addresses himself, by petition
t 0 the Chamber of Deputies.
Such are the principal facts of this. narrative,
When divested of some declamation, which, if in-
tended for a British audience, might be pro-
nounced extremely injudicious ; and of many
general reflections, which, when supposed to come
°QI an Englishman, and a father relating such
a story, are, to say the least, frigid and mis-
placed. We have not dwelt upon the insinua-
tien that cc Princes of the Church, Prelates
Placed iiear the Throne," have lent themselves
to
this degrading intrigue, because we cannot
"niprehend, until it is more explicitly stated,
ha!‘" persons deeply interested in the welfare of
the Government, and the stability of the national
It eligion,should be blind enough to engage in pro-
ceedings 'of such high political impolicy, and so
disgraceful to the religion which will even ac-
cept of proselytes acquired under such circum-
stances, much more promote and sanction such
methods of bringing them in.—We call this a
Ikoceeding of great political impolicy, because
411 transactions are so which tend immediately
t° destroy the foundation of social confidence
between
two nations in the daily habit of-arni-
ca),
• nile Intercourse, though the facts should not be
t4;auch a kindas to disturb their mutual public
•
chiffons. What satisfaction the Government of
France may be able to render the complainant in
this case, we cannot tell ; the mischief done is
certainly irreparable by the act of any state or
public body in the world. No Monarch, or
I°use of Assembly, or Court of Justice, can
restore fallen integrity, or revive decayed filial

affection. Iltit punishment may be inflicted
where reparation is impossible ; and at any rate
the Legislature may strongly mark its sense of
the past crime, and take effectual precautions
against the recurrence of future offences. Sup-
posing the case of Mr. LovEDAY to be proved
in its main points, an injury of the darkest dye
has been committed, in violation of the highest
confidence : a child entrusted to a teacher's pro-
tection has been corrupted in morals, estranged
from her parent, seduced from her religion, and
weaned from the delicacy of her sex. If it is
once established that these acts of treachery can
be overlooked for any, even the highest consi-
deration, there is no security that they will not
be disregarded in the prosecution of inferior ob-
jects. If the ignorance of a child, and the weakness
of a woman, forsaken (culpably forsaken) by
her natural guardians and advisers, may be
tampered with in Paris for the advancement of
the Roman Catholic faith, it is probable they
will not always be respected by those who may
find similar opportunities of practising upon them
for less saintly purposes.—We have hitherto
spoken of this transaction as it must affect even
the general reader who casts his eye on the de-
tails without any feeling of personal interest.
But what a thrilling pang of apprehension must
have shot through every fibre of those English-11
men who have read the story with a recollection
that they themselves have children or relatives
exposed to like danger by the prevailing taste for
French education. Others may perhaps be more
assiduous than the unfortunate petitioner of the
French Chamber, in watching over the religious
and moral welfare of childhood thus exposed ;
but who can assure himself that his diligence
and discernment, in their fullest exertion, could
have frustrated the arts which proved so fatal in
the case of Mr. LOVEDAY ? It is neither necessary
nor desirable to enlarge on such a painful subject,
but perhaps the misfortune may not be altogether
without its use, which brings in a palpable man-
ner before the British nation some portion of the
hazard to which they are contented to expose
themselves and those dearest to them, for the
love- of cheap superfluities and parsimonious
elegance.

The French Papers of Monday, which arrived
this morning, still bring no confirmation of the
acceptance of the Russian ultimatum. Letters
from Vienna of the 2Sth ult. are quite silent on
the subject, though written three days after the
courier is said to have arrived at Vienna with
the intelligence that Turkey had been at length
compelled to accede to the conditions prescribed
by Russia ; and an article from Frankfort of the
2d instant, which appears among our extracts,
ascribes its origin to some speculators in the Aus-
trian funds, who were desirous of selling stock,
and propagated the report for the purpose of
raising its price.

Extract of a Letter from Quebec, Dec. 6.
" On Thursday afternoon a heavy N. E. snow
storm commenced, and lasted till next morning.
The depth of snow in the woods the next day
was about twelve inches, although much drifted
on the open grounds. Wheel carriages were ge-
nerally laid aside for trains. The wind having
come round to the N.W., several vessels which
were ready for sea sailed on Friday. On Sun-
day morning it was observed that several market
boats, both in Lower Town and at St. Rock,
had been dashed to pieces in the night. The
Quebec steam-boat, which got ou shore at Grou-
dines in the snow storm on Thursday, arrived in
port this morning. The schooner packet from
Portsmouth to New Orleans was plundered by
eight pirates from a schooner, off llavannah,
7th Oct. The officers and crew were treated
in the usual savage manner by these buccaniers,
plundered of all their money, 'and every thing
they could lay their hands upon."

WEST biTil ES.—Files of papers, and some let-
.ers, have come to hand from several of the West

India Islands. From St. Domingo they are of
the Ist ult.•and one of them, dated on that day
from Port au Prince, contains the following in,
formation The authorities of this port have
fitted out six schooners to check and controul the
insolence of the pirates that infest these seas.—
Yesterday they set sail to the eastward. Intel-
ligence was received, by au American ship, that
from 8 to 12 sail of these marauders were hover-
ing on that part of the coast of this island ; and it is
to be hoped that the schooners will succeed in cap-
turing some of-them. They are well armed, and
though some of piratical vessels :Ire larger, yet
they will be fully able to cope with them. Within
the last week, all merchant vessels have been
indiscriminately plundered, and a vast quantity
of property has been taken out of them. Several
of them have been obliged to put in here to refit,
so that it was high'time that something should be
done to suppress the enemy."—Another commu-
nication mentions, that nothing interfered with
an.q.yantageaiWtrade, but the desperate audaH
city..of. those ''pett's• of the West Indies. • They
swarmed•in such•riumbers, that it was less than
an, even
.chance•6dt a ship could run, with safety
through them. The accounts from other West
India Islands are filled with representations of
the same kind ; and the newspapers from Ja-
maica contain no other news than the particulars
of the manner in which ships had been plun-
dered : some of them had been scuttled, and the
crews turned adrift in small boats, without pro-
visions.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
The Earl of Yarmouth, in Seymour-place; the PrinCesS
Esterhazy and Children, at Chandos House, from the Pavilion,
Brighton ; Marquess of Downshire, at Reid's Hotel;, 11Ir.
Bonham, in St. James's-street, from Brighton • General Bat-tour, in Bolton-row, from Scotland ; Mr. William Peel, in
Saville-row, .from Tamworth ; General Purling, in Hertford-.
street, May-fair, from Bradford Lodge ; Colon?' and Mrs.
Gardiner, in Brook-street ; Mrs. and Miss Bolton, in Baker-
street, from Brighton; M. A. Boucherett, in Burlington-
street ; Mrs. and Miss Law, in Baker-street; Col. Warlhouse,
in Bolton-street, from Litchfield ; General William Fitzroy,
in Chapel_street, Grosvenor-square ; Sir Charles Sullivan,
Bart. in Upper Brook-street; Mr. Dent, in Hertford-street;
the Archbishop ofCanterbury; Earl Gower, at his new residence
in Hamilton-place ; Viscount Carleton, in George-street,
Hanover-square; Pascoc Grenfell, Esiq. M.P. in Charles-street,
St. James's-square; Lady Mary Singleton, at the St. James's
Hotel; Sir George and Lady Crewe, at the Brunswick House
Hotel.

DEPARTURES.-Sir James Nugent, for Dublin; Mr. Wil-
liam Botham, from Montague House, for Betworth, Dorking;
Lord Clifton, from Sandgate, for Cobham Hall, Gravesend ;
Hon. Frederick Ponsonby, on a visit to Earl Grey, at Ho-
wick ; Mr. A. M. Mills, for Weymouth ; 31rs. and Miss
Powell, for the Parade, Brighton ; Colonel and Mrs. Ham-
mond, for Brighton ; Mr. and Miss Stratford, for Queen-
square, Bath ; Sir Felton Harvey Bathurst, for Englefield
Green; Mr. Hodgson, from his house in St. James's-place,
for Paris.

CHANGES.-Mr. C. G. Wynne, from Cheltenham, to Bath ;
General Norton, from Scarborough to Bath ; Hon. General
French, from Meriden, on a tour ; Mrs. and Nliss Julian, from
Cheltenham, for Brighton.

BRIGHTON, JAR. B.—The Palace last night was the scene
of polished hilarity. The ball was opened about nine o'clock,
and the juvenile branches of Nobility and fashion were on the
light fantastic toe for a cheerful succession of hours.' His Ma-
jesty contemplated the interesting and lively throng with feel-
ings of delight. Among the company present were—Lord
and Lady Ravensworth, the Misses Liddell and family, Lady
C. and Miss Bonham and family, Sir E. and Lady Ker-
rison and young family, General and Mrs. Mundy and chil-
dren, Mr. and Mrs. Curzon and children, Sir G. and Lady
Quentin and young family, Lord and Lady Ongley and fa-
mily, Sir Richard and Lady Boroughs and children, Lord
Eardley, Lord and Lady Say and Sele, the Hon. Miss Twissle-
ton, Lady William Bentinck, Miss Sparrow, the Earl of Glen-
gall, Miss Berkeley, Miss Wynn Belasyse, the Earl of New-
borough, Mr. and Lady Jane Beckett, Miss Lowther, Count
and Countess St. Antonio, Major Stapleton, Major Gurwood,
Capt. Cartwright, Hon. R. Watson, Mr. Watson, Lord Thos.
Cecil, Prince Lobkowitz, Prince Lardaria, Prince and Prin-
cess Esterhazy and children, the children of Sir B. and Lady
Bloomfield, the Earl and Countess of Morley and children, &c.
The King, to-day, in excellent health and spirits, has paraded
the Palace Lawn.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry entertained
the Prince and Princess Esterhazy, and a select party, yester.
day, at North Cray.
The Duke of Newcastle is entertaining a large party at Clum-
ber Park this week.

The Dowager Countess of Kingston gave an elegant dinner
at Roehampton yesterday, to a select party.
Lord and Lady Thurlow entertained a few friends, yesterday,
in Grosvenor-place.
The Marquis of Ailesbury had a large party to dinner yes-
terday, at East Sheen, Surrey.
Viscount Carleton has issued cards of invitation for a dinner
party on Saturday, at his house in George-street, Hanover-
square.

The marriage of Lady Elizabeth Manners (the eldest daugh-
ter of the Duke of Rutland) with Mr. Andrew Drummond, the
son of the rich banker of that name, will take place in February
next.

The Hon. John Knox, third son of Viscount Northland,
is shortly to lead to the hymeneal altar the beautiful and ac-
complished Miss Mabela Needham, the youngest daughter of
Viscount Kilmorey.

POETRY.

TESTIMONIES AT MAIDSTONE—No. I.

MR. FOX.
. About three or four years, 'tis with pride that r tell;
I've known Mr. O'CoriNou., and kuown him full well;
For oft in discourse of political kind,
Has each " had occasi.te" to open his mind ; .
He liv'd chiefly with those who in my own condition;
Some near friends of both, are now styl'd Oppwition.
I held him in confidence, love, and esteem,
And his worth of my praise has been often the theme :
These opinions to me were by no means conflri'd ;
For most others who knew him were all of a mind.
I always indeed held him forth as a man
Who bore tow'rds OLD ENGLAND no mischievous plan;
His talents, his virtues, his zeal, I respected,
And thought to his Country he stood " affected "
I never once deem'd him a man that was wily,
But one who in fact was " enlighten'd most highly: "
As one who the principles proudly would own,
Which seated the family now on the Throne—
Those principles which were the prop of the State,
And from which we should always our Liberty date:
But to keep what I say from mistake and confusion,
His principles were, in a word, Revolution.
Lord EDWARD FITZGERALD I also well know—
Nay, the blood in his veins from my family flow
I believe that his Lordship was willing to prance
To the Land of true Freedom; regen'rated France:
But merely, 'twas thought, on a private affair,
For his wife, as I heard, had some property there.
But knowing the state which that Country was in,
And that Law made it here a political Sin
To go without leave to the Gallic Domain,
I advis'd him with zeal his intent to restrain,
And if to the Continent he must advance,
Not at present to touch at Republican France.
—But to Mr. O'CONNOR once more to return,
No man in his friendships more strongly could burn
To sum up his worth with the praise that is due,
He's the most "open Character I ever knew ;"
Most open and hearty in all he intends,
To me and to others—to Foes and to Friends.
Cross-examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL.

I own, though I took in O'CoN NOR delight,
And have known him some years, I have ne'er seen him ice te.
Illy friends and myself; all approv'd, it is true,
Of what Lord FITZWILLIAM intended to do.
I mean as to Ireland, and Catholics there—
But that was by no means enough, I declare.
For concessions. to Papists would be a thing slight,
Unless ev'ry Protestant too had his right.
And Ireland in happiness greatly would gain,
If Papists and Presbyters all held a chain :
For b. -ads so united might make, all must own,
" Resistance a question of prydelece alone."
On points such us these have O'C 0 N 0 a and I
Oft convers'd by ourselves, and when others were nigh ;
For on Irish Affairs his pure bosom would glow,
And to his information my knowledge I owe.

",• As JOHN BULL, in his last Paper, recalled the atten-
tion of the Public to the conduct of the Whigs on the memor-
able trial of ARTHUR O'CoNsoit, for Treason, at Maidstone,
in the year 1798, we have thought it proper to revive the Tes-
timonies given on that occasion by the chief AVnio LEADERS
of the day. These Testimonies appeared in THE SUN at that
period, and only differ from what the speakers actually deliver-
ed, by the simple addition of rhyme.—We shall give all these
curious Testimonies in due order, that the Public may be able
to judge how far the surviving Whigs of the Party act in con-
sistency with their former principles and conduct. The words
in italics were really uttered by the respective speakers.

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