The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-21 00:00:00

MR. LONG WELLESLEY.

Dover-street, July 20,
My DEAR. LORD,—d am informed that being in con-
tempt, I cannot address the Court publicly, I therefore
beg leave to address you as a private individual. I need
not, I hope, add, the great respect and kind feeling which
I have entertained for many years towards your Lordship
still Conti rues to exist. With great respect, then, fur your
superior judgment, I beg to call your attention to the exact
state in ~hich I find myself placed with regard to the
exercise of my paternal rights over my children. The view
I take, and which I now submit to your Lordship, is one
which it was my intention to have proceeded to state to you,
when you committed me for contempt, and which in your
private room I did not think, in the temper in which both
Sir E. Sugden and Mr. Courtenay were, I could then do
without prejudice. You will be good enough to recollect
hinted, that although I have reason to believe that Sir
E. Sugden entertains the same opinion as myself, and that ;
both the Mis es Long and Mr. Courtenay have received
Counsel's opinion to the effect, that neither the one nor
the other, or both, are the custodice of my children, and
that my paternal right has reverted to me in the same way
that the Misses Lung became possessed of nay children in
1 825 ; and if the two younger childre❑ be wards of the
Court at all, which they will be found not to be, inas-
much as the Court has no property to deal with which ,
they can apply for their maintenance, and at this moment,
at all events, there being no such provision for any one of
the children, neither Mr. Courtenay or the Misses Long
having any authority from the Court, or the means of ad-
ministering to their pecuniary wants, from any fund made
applicable to that purpose by the Court.
It is not a matter to me of surprise that even so gifted
an individual as yourself should be perplexed by the many
orders, counter-orders, hearings, and re-hearings, which
have taken place in the cause regarding nay children in the
course of so many years; but if you will be kind enough
to refer to the order of Lord Eldon of the 9th November,

1825, then the order of 1827, and the subsequent orders •
in the Master's office, you will find that I now stand in
precisely the same situation which the Misses Long were
placed in at the dea'h of their sister; with this additional
circumstance—that I am a parent not in succession to my
eldest son's estates, which the Misses Long are.
I am fully aware that Sir E. Sugdeu very craftily has
kept these orders from your Lordship's view ; and I am
inclined to believe that Mr. Courtenay has also given you
a wrong impression of them. Ido not mean to say that
Sir E. Sugden has done any thing which fair profftsional,
manc4uvre will not sanction ; but I must remind your
Lordship very respectfully, that your mind has been
directed to the consideration of my conduct solely ex-parte
by an opposing counsel.
I make these observations to your Lordship at this mo-
ment, as from what I ran learn of your speech in the
House of Lords, you still seem to consider that 1 have acted,

in contempt, and remain in that contempt of the orders of
the Court, which I contend I have not done ; and you also
appear to be under the extreme misconception that I en•
tered the hisses Long's house with force and violence, or
by any measure approaching to abduction.
I. presume your opinion of my having entered the house

of the Misses Long with constables, with sticks and stave,/
&c., is taken from the affidavit of one Henry Bicknell,
the affidavit alluded to by your Lordship on Saturday laser
and which your Lordship gave me time to answer. That
affidavit is false, and I doubt very much whether the best
answer for me to give it would not be to refer to former •
affidavits made by this man during the progress of the
Beaufort cause, in which, by documentary evidence, he
was convicted of the most wilful false swearing, How-
ever, fortunately for myself, the facts in that affidavit can
hy disproved by the most credible witnesses, and my as-
sertions demonstrated to be true from circumstances con,.,
nected with distance, time, and locality, which distinctly
prove that my daughter never came away with me at all .
(although I certainly accompanied my eldest son), but
with her brother, and did so of her own free will.

Six or seven persons who dined with her at my house
at eight o'clock, she having left the Misses Long's at half-
past five, will hear testimony to her happiness at what
had occurred.

I must, my dear Lord, think it rather bard upon met
to be sent before the world, and, in both Houses of Par-
liatnenr, to be treated as if I had acted no better than 3
madman, in taking, vi et armis, a ward from her legal
guArdians, and then going to beard a Judge upon hie
bench, that Judge Leing the Lord High Chancel or of Ear
land, and yourself.

Now the fact is, that when your Lordship gave me time
to answer the affidavit of Henry Bicknell, and asked are
upon the word and honour of a gentleman to answer ccr..
taro questions, from the knowledge I had of the forms Cf.
the Court of Chancery, I certainly apprehended no core
sequences could arise to we from such reply beyond that
which would attach in private life to any gentlema❑ rib°
is guilty of untruth.--1 have the honour to be, my dea►'
Lord, your Lordship's very obedient servant,

- - W. L. WELLESLEY.
To the Lord High Chancellor.

COBURG THEATRE.—A variety of enter.
tainin performances will take place, we understand, at
this theatre on Monday night, for the benefit of Mr.
BOWES, the box keeper, who is in very general favour
with the frequenters of the Coburg, by his polite and cos' .
stant attention to them. Among the pieces selected for
representation is a comedy founded on the popular draws
,!
of the Widow of Corohill, and written in Mr. We('
CRIEFF'S best and most mercurial style. The other enter-
tainments are equally attractive, and will, we are con'
vineed, attract a crowded house.
The monument to Major CARTWRIGHT,
opp,,site his late residence in Burton-crescent, was opened
yesterday morning to the public. A number of re'
spectable individuals were present at the ceremonP
amongst whom were Sir F. BURDETT, Mr. HOD 1101.10;
Mr. HUME, Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. Woon, General
JOMNSON, Colonel JONES, the Canon Rixco, and other
Reformers. The statue is of bronze, and eight feet
inches in height; the resemblance to the deceased is sat°
to be striking.
MR. COKE, or NORFOLK.—This venerable
gentleman, at the wool dinner at Thetford, on Fritho
made what may perhaps be called his farewell speech t°
his constituents. On his health being drunk, be a'l'
dressed the company at some length. He said, as for rt
litics, his career was now nearly drawing to a close ; bt
he thought his constituents would acknowledge that bl"
course had been honourable and consistent. The measure.
that had been of late carried through Parliament had been
e
the measures, the policy of which he had through lift
supported. He congratulated them on the new posed
which was now about to be placed in their .hands, a°,
which would render the county of Norfolk more influentl,l6,
than it bad hitherto been,--a power which he trusted I'"
yeomanry would never abuse. Mr. Coxe here took oectt;
aim to apologize for his absence at a similar meeting °t
Watton; but they would recollect that it was on tba
evening that the division on the second reading of tlje
Reform Bill took place ; and he was sure that would ope:
rate as his excuse. Five-and-twenty years azo he bad
dr
tacked himself to Fox and liberal principles ; he had Or,
vived, it was true, a very pestilential air, and the atoll
phere in which we had hitherto moved was to be raretie°
—(A laugh.) Nevertheless, at his time of life, at his years:,
,
his health might continue from mot VI to month, and era 1,
half-year to half-year, but he was confident that no one st,
Isis age could do their duty properly as a public serva°e, •
He had no intention of again offering himself for the rio
presentation of the county ; and when they considered t
fatigue of hitting till six and seven o'clock in the morni°';
as on a late occasion they had done, he was sure that ale
of his constituents who wished him well could deal° ; t
should do so; he should then retire to lead a more ter;re,
and domestic life. At a subsequent period of the eveol,
when returning thanks for his colleague, Sir W. FoLtir
he said—" As to how the House of Lords would act r!day
tive to the Bill, he did not think they would act so fibs," 0
as to reject it—he did not think it possible for 00111 b,
act sr against their own interests ; but if they di' 'toe
should move a strong resolution—and he had moved 'oe
strong ones its his time—which he should not at ti•at t
express."

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