The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-16 00:00:00

THE BRID

E OF LAMMERMOOR

(From the Aberdeen Journal.)
Our readers, we feel assured, will peruse with deep
interest the following excellent account of the originals
of the principal characters who figure in, perhaps, the
most touchingly beautiful fiction which proceeded from
the genius of the author of Waverley. The letter is
written by a gentleman who, as will appear, has had the
best means of ascertaining the real circumstances on
which the romance was founded, as well as the true cha-
racters of the persons introduced in this tragical tale.
The light thrown upon the point as to the author of
the homicide is curious and striking.

L— E—•
September 5, 1824.
My Dear Sir J—, Various circumstances have oc-
curred which have unavoidably prevented my returning
an earlier answer to your queries regarding our unfortu-
nate relative—" The Bride of Lammermoor." I shall

now have much pleasure in complying with your wishes,
in as far as an indifferent memory will enable me to do so.
The Bride of Baldoon" (for such has always been
her designation in our family) was the Hon. Janet
Dalrymple, eldest daughter of our great-great-grand-
father James Viscount of Stair, Lord President of the
Court of Session in the reign of William and Mary,

sister to the first Earl of that name, and to our great-

grandfather the Lord President Sir Hugh Dalrymple.
of North Berwick, and consequently our great-grand,

aunt.
She was !ecretly attached and had plighted her faith
to the Lord Rutherford, when, under the auspices of

her mother, a less amiable but much more opulent
suitor, appeared in the person of David Dunbar, eldest
son of Sir David Dunbar, of Baldoon (an ancestor of
the Selkirk family), whose addresses were, as may be
supposed, submitted to with the greatest aversion, from
their being ungenerously persisted in after his being in-
formed of her early attachment and solemn engagement.
To this man, however, she was ultimately forced to give
her hand.
The result of this cruel and unnatural sacrifice was
nearly, it not exactly, as related by S r Walter Scott.
On the marriage night, soon after the young couple
were left alone, violent and continued screams were
heard to proceed from the bridal chamber, and on the
door (which was found locked) being forced open, the
bridegroom was found extended on the floor, stabbed
and weltering in his blood, while the bride sat in the
corner of the large fire-place in a state of the most de-
plorable frenzy, which continued without any lucid in-
terval until the period of her death. She survived but
a short time, during which (with the exceptio❑ of the
few words mentioned by Sir Walter Scott)—" Ye hae
teen up your bonny bridegroom") she never spoke, and
refused all sustenance.
The conclusion drawn from these extraordinary cir-
cumstances, and which seems to have been assumed by
Sir Walter as the fact, was, that the forlorn and dis-
tracted victim, seeing no other means of escaping from
a fate which she beheld with disgust and abhor-
rence, had, in a fate of desperation, indicted the fatal
wound upon her selfish and unfeeling husband. But
in justice to the memory of our unhappy rela-
tive, we may be permitted to regret Sir Walter's not
having been made acquainted with a tradition long cur-
rent in the part of the country where the tragical event
took place, namely, that, from the window having been
found open, it was conjectured that the lover had, during
the bustle and confusion occasioned by the preparations
for the marriage feast, and perhaps by the connivance
of some servant of the family, contrived to gain admis-
sion and to secret himself in the bridal chamber, from
whence lie had made his escape into the garden after
having fought with and severely wounded his successful
rival—a conclusion: strengthened by other concurring
circumstances and rendered more probable by the fact
of young Baldoon having to his latest breath obstinately
refused to give any explanation on the subject, and
which might well justify a belief that he was actuated
by a desire of concealing the particulars of a rencontre,
the causes and consequences of which he might justly
consider as equally discreditable to himself. The un-
fortunate lover was said to have disappeared immedi-
ately after the catastrophe, in a manner somewhat mys-
terious ; but this part of the story has escaped my re-
collection.
While on the subject of this calamitous event, I
cannot help offering some observations on the prin-
cipal personages introduced in Sir Walter Scott's nar-
rative, all of whom are more or less interesting both
to you and me.
The character of Sir William Ashton certainly cannot
be considered as a fair representation of our eminent
and respectable ancestor Lord Stair, to whom he bears
little resemblance, either as apolittcian or a gentleman;
and Sir Walter would seem wishful to avoid the appli-
cation, when he says that, on acquiring the ancient seat
of the Lord of Ravenswood, Sir William had removed
certain old family portraits, and replaced them by "those
of King William and Queen Mary, and of Sir Thomas
Hope and Lord Stair, two distinguished Scots lawyers ;"
but on this point some less ambiguous intimation would
have been very desirable, and having, in the character
of Lucy Ashton, stuck so closely to the character of
the daughter, the author should, in fairness, have been
at more pains to prevent that of the Lord Keeper from
being considered as an equally fair representation of
the father : an omission of which the descendants of
Lord Stair have, I think, some reason to complain.
In Lady Ashton, the character of our great-great-
grandmother seems in many respects more faithfully de-
lineated, or at least less misrepresented. She was an
ambitious and interested woman, of a masculine charac-
ter and understanding, and the transaction regarding
her daughter's marriage was believed to have been hers,
and not her husband's, who, from his numerous im-
portant avocations as Lord President, Privy Councillor,
and active assistant in the management of Scottish
affairs, had probably neither time nor inclination to
take much personal concern in family arrangements.
The situation of young Ravenswood bears a suffi-
ciently strong resemblance to that of the Lord Ruther-
ford, who was an amiable and high-spirited young man,
nobly born, but destitute of fortune, and who, if the
above account is to be credited as to the manner and
place in which he thought proper to chastise his suc-
cessful rival, seems to have been not ill cut out for a
hero of romance. And as to young Baldoon, of whom
little is known beyond what has been related above,
he seems to have a more respectable representation than
he deserved in the person of Bucldaw.
The story was, I have understood, communicated to
Sir Walter Scott by our worthy friend the late Mrs.
A— M— K—, who seems to have been well ac-
quainted with all the particulars, excepting those to
which I have more especially alluded, which, as a friend
and connection of the family, had she known, she
would not have failed to mention ; and in as far as his
information went (with the exception of his having
changed the scene of action from the west coast to the
cast), Sir Walter seems to have edhered to facts as
closely as could well be expected is a work bearing the
general stamp of fiction. But, if the memory of so dis-
astrous and distressing a family anecdote was to be pre-
served and handed down to posterity in a story so singu-
larly affecting, and by an author the most popular of our
own or any other age, while it was surely of importance
to avoid any such offensive misrepresentation of cha-
racter as that to which I have alluded, it was at the
same time much to be lamented that the author of
The Bride of Lammermoor" should have been igno-
rant of a tradition so truly worthy of credit ; throwing so
much satisfactory light on an event equally tragical and
mysterious, and which, while a judicious management of
the circumstances might have increased rather than di-
minished the interest of the narrative, would have left a
less painful impression regarding our unhappy and un-
fortunate relative, " the Bride of Baldoon."
With best regards from all here to you and Lady S—,
I remain, my dear Sir .I—, ever most truly yours,
(Signed) H. D— H— E—.

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A DOOLY.—TheThooly is a palankeen of a
coarse construction, being a frame-work covered with
painted waterproof canvass ; to every detachment of
troops a certain number of these are attached to transport
the sick. An anecdote is related of a Member of Parlia-
ment, who appears not to have made himself perfectly ac-
quainted beforehand with the subject of his oration, and
whilst expatiating on the hardships endured by the troops
in India, stated, " that after an engagement, the "ferocious
doolies" rushed down from the hills, and carried away the
sick and wounded. The patriotic statesman had little idea
of the nature of the beast he was alluding to I—Napier's,
Scenes and Sports.
A SNAKE FANCIER.—One of my s'aake-
catching friends at Milapoor could produce, besides the
usual assortment of dancing cobras, every other delicacy of
the season in the serpent department. His " carpet
snakes" were in good condition ; he had some fine, fierce_
looking, bright green " eye-snakes;" and some charming
young boas, which, although he assured me were mere
" pups," measured about fifteen feet in length, and were
4a thick as the arm of the stoutest man.—Napier's Scenes
and Sports.

7EVENING EDITION.
1 THE MARKETS.

COUNT

.Y CORN MARKETS DURIN

G LAST WE

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease.
---- -- — ---- --------.
Per Quarterd s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to 5. s. to s•
Carlisle -
Hexham 5O 62 32 33 21 31 a,---4
Morpeth 43 t 0 9.8 32 22 s 4 48 50 31
lien rith — 58 311 31 Z`.3 --- ,-,
Sheffield — 65 35 22 45 -- ,4'..,”
Winchest.r 56 64 28 53 26 29 42 4.) 35 ;I',
Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d s'''
Carmarthen taii 7 1 00 50 00 22 56 pal 0 0 I)
Cowbridge 10 0 —0 50 56 30 40 5 0 5 3 0., 0
Swansea 160 84 4 0 48 2 2 28 5 6 60 5 6 °
Per 8011. 1
Barnardeastl 11 6 21 0 8 0 9 3 7 4 8 6111 0 12 6 ill 6 12
Iro
.0.
Durham l2 6166 S 0 90 7 9 8 910 013 0 0
10
Richmond II 0190 7 0 9ls 5 6 80 9 0 11 69 0 0
Stockton l3O Pi 090 90 70 8(i 76 86 0 0 '
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.
Nl'neat, Red, Nortolk and Suffolk —is, 61s. to 624. fine 6511
-- Lin. and Cam.
-- Yorkshire —s. —s. to 58s. tine 49.5.
White - fine e."
--- Foreign, fted —s —s. to 54“. fine 6'2"
-- White —s. —s. to 60.. one ?Os.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. to 3.55. fille 391.
, -- Lincolnshire
Yorkshire Wold . 2Bs. to —s. fine
-- Foreign
Beans, New
-- Old
Oats, Potato
--- Poland
Vriezland and Sinai:
Iss.aling
Shrilling -10:i:.. ----t
055'.1.31:00 :3'2326P:. efififil
274. to 2Ss. tki. per Loaf,.
Malt
Rapeseed —l.os. 261. Os. 30/. Os. per Last.
nnnSeeet 3.

NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE.
Red. White.
Wheat, Northumberland sos -5....... •-5.68.1
-- Norfolk and Suffolk 663. 69+....... 68s. 724.
- Berwick and Scotch 6ls. (i 55...... -.;
.1.3,'•
- Foreign 62s. 66s ... 6.2.• 0,3. ,
riye, Norfolk ,Tl,l Suffolk
- Foreign 29s. 335....... •••-3. "'"'.s. , .";
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suflidk -s. -5....... -s• --"s' , !-;
- Grinding and Feeding ?Os. 335...... --5. -" ?';2..
Malt, Norfolk and Sutihlk 4s; b'B.--s. ^"-
Beans, Small 406. 485....... --s• --s* 11
- - Tick -
Pease, White 44s. 46si. .... ...,. -...5.
-- Gray
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 3os. 325....... -5. --''
--- Feed :Ms 305....... --s•
- Foreign
Flour (per sack) 4's. 531...... - ~ ""`

SCO'T'CH mAßK.Ei2_________.-7
60 ..._._.o3,av__..
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kberdeen "ha.
Berwick 33 45 18 23 16 '26 33 36 :, ~..
...:oldstream
t0e.7t.0
.2B6atroley_.
170taots.00
—lletaonsi
16
Cupar (Fife) 45 65 126 31 IS '22 ‘2-.1 26 , ,
Dunbar
Elgin
Inverness 5O 66 27 20 12 23 32 33 "" ....-
Kelso., .. , , 3- 45 '2l 24 17 24 33 34 •""
Kirkaldy
...
Perth
ri• Thu size of the measure varies throughout the country
H ADDINGTON CORN MARKET. BonS,
W heat. Barley. Oats. Pease.
...., Od
First 7'2s Od 35s 62 27s est 49s Od
....., Od
Second 6os Od 31s Od '2 sPd 45s Od -..,..; 0.1
Third s'2B Od 29s Od 22s id 4e3 Od
Average 3/. Is OA 11,12ths.
DALKEITH CORN MARKET.
Wheat Barley. 1 Oats. Pea-se. 14..,e.'"4
First '76s 4 a . 34s 6dl 28' Od. 51s Od ',:(14
Second 62s Od 3ls Od 1 23s 4(1 42s Od '1."; od
Third Vs 111 9ls Rd 111 Rd _ , ";-% 1 ...

Kelso .... ~, I 3.. 45 17 24 33 34
Kirkaldy 162 67 33 45 45
Perth
ri• Thu size of the tries throughout the i
H AIME ‘II.N MARKET.
W heat. Oats. Pease.
hint 72s Od 27s ed 49s Od
Second POs Od 2 s Pd 45s 0,-1
Third s2s Od 1 %..., 22s id , 48s Od
Average 3/. Is OA 11.12ths.
DALKEITH CORN MARKET.
Wheat Barley. I Oats. Pease.
First 766 4 a . 343 63 1 284 Od. st/s Od
Second 62s Od Sts Od 1 23s 4tl 42! Od 1
Third 42s Od 21, 6d 141 8d....- ill
GLASGOW CORN Alt 11,KET,-.....N0, IL d g• ad
• , s• • i 9
Wheat, per 240th. s. d. s. d. 1 05.',3, per
iSritish, old 230 to3o 0 10„..,
17.
A 19
new ,.:3 oal 0 I:tritish -
06
Canada, tree — 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. 0 ,
46
Irish
, o 4 Barley, per 220113 Scottish
f2O 0 DO
English 27 0 BO 0 Pease, Scottish ...••• 17 • 50 0
Scottish 23 0 26 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b.... 40 0
Irish

Ladies Tite
Howard Earl and
left
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Thluor‘sird t bett
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c altiuSßtacnimioiret.ATEs._ o•
0 Thursday meeting
the rate-payers of St. Georgeri's in the East a cl,rllthed
at the George Tavern, New-road, in connection si:t"
" Associated Reformers of St. George and "vlcin'tY' • 5
consider of the proceedings of theparochial authorktibe
during the recent contest for a Church-ratep in that.Paritsbe
when the rate-payers were prevented from
vestry by a number of policemen • h bludge°
armed with
to force
and when some of the rate-payers, in attempting f the
their way, were struck and injured by the staves ° was
police. Mr. Fraser, of Tyne-wharf, WhapPing' F
called to the chair, and read two letters from Colone
ad
Thompson on the subject of Church-rates and the spina
of Puseyisrm which the Gallant Colonel denounced as_ be
jog more tyrannical in principle than the domination of
a!
of the letters w
old Catholic hierarchy. The reading
ett
received with great applause. Mr. Wickham address
the meeting in a forcible speech, and concluded b
wit Nor-
commending that a memorial be addressed to Lord
manby for an inquiry into the employment of the police Ia
of
preventing the inhabitants from attending the yestry„eo
entering
us
the parish of St. George, on the 29th ult., to csPrate.
their opinions on the subject of making a church- to
Mr. Goodfellow seconded the motion, and bore witries9 en
the shameful manner in which the rate-pavers bad he, ,a
treated. It was eventually agreed that the memorials b±a
be presented to Lord Nermanby by a deputation appoint°
for that purpose. 'Of
WIPE ADVERTISING.-The following uniord
advertisement appeared in the Manchester and 3100
Advertiser, of Saturday week :—" Matrimony.--A ,pest
and Prudent Farmer aged thirty-six, is desirous to 11,.
with a lady that possessed wit 1201. one that can clitico
clean shippons, milk and go with butter to market. ~".•
im age no material. None needs to ply got
Any tb.t. svt. ...Joey may meet with a good it"
substantial husband by applying to Landaend Hunts Farld
near Middleton, Lancashire."
TEMPERANCE PLEDGES EVADED.—I recollect
a man swearing he would not drink for a month—he wake'
bread in spirits and ate it; another, who swore be
would not touch liquor while he stood " on earth," gl
drunk amid the branches of a tree ; another, who vowiu
not to touch a drop, " in doors or out," strode across his
threshold, placing one leg inside and the other outside,
and so, persuading himself he did not break his oath, chant
until he fell ; another, who bound himself not to
liquor in the parish," brought a sod of turf from a distait
and placed his feet upon it when he resolved to drink. 11,7‘,.
knew one who was kept sober thus : he was always
Wtllinno
to take an oath against whiskey for six weeks, huit_.:h
longer; his master invariably watched the day on r", 113
" his time" expired, and compelled him to repeat his ow,:
which he would readily do, after swallowing two Osseo,
To make the Irish abstain, even to a moderate elte
was, therefore, considered a hopeless task..--Ireland
Scenery, Character, 6-c., by Mr. Marsdon. C. f
at°. °
We quote the following from the
E
Luxemburg—_" An able chemist of Luxemburg, vlb°l: at
0,
the same time a distinguished physician, with Wh° lies
have conversed on the affair of Madame Laffarg},it to
made us acquainted with a fact which we think it rig,
make public. He has submitted to chemical analYsi oot
ferent qualities of paper, and has found
larger than the palrn,of the hand, a quantity of arseifoge.
great as that extracted from the body of M. of raas"
Hence it results, that any person who has the ).:,ab"
ticating paper, or one who may only chew a Piece The
Near,
sionally, must absorb a certain quantity of arsenic' 11,
the
presence of arsenic in paper is thus ted for.
aer,oun d Ogg' r -
all kinds of paper are in part made of coloCr„ pr
°0
dyes of which are, for the mo.' educe'
part, pr and r..
tiers into which much arsenic introduce",,,, lope"
of which must remain in the • of
composition in piecesn,ic
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BIRTHS
Onolinc,e,.lcitrita,‘int setr.d,,at
Esq.,the Cooattadgaeu,gßhtaetrh.easton, near 13at ' 8
ladyof Pra°-
'Jr. the 13th inst., the lady of T. D. Rotch, E'4' f
.ariSord House Ayrshire, of a son. k the la (1
On the 13th, inst., at York-gate, Regent's-par 9 dY
Major Ramsay, of a daughter.
-- Neil.
MARRIED. C 31' 1
On the sth inst., at Milton-place, Glasgovr, Mr. ' of Ce-
late of Demerara, son of Captain M'Neil, the younger i,oolt,
lonsay, to Margaret, only child of Malcolm M'Nei/, E''
Islay. gr. l'
On the 11th inst., at Edgbastori, near Billuipthauf:' sidle,
Thornirroft, of Studley, to Ann, only dr_dighter o •
Esq., of the former place.
O n the 14itEshas,qi n.esi
dtl.e.,:tae tdsaSeuteg.rheGtteae,
Secretary
s., Hanore r - s q a a rson „t ) •
tirls
Clifton, Esq., of the Admiralty, 'Whitehall, eldest ,to
iEInVI \V. Clifton,
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cl3aopecaret

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On the 13th inst.., at HpatnlmEeDm rs. ith, Mr. John Haravriel'
omootinnibtuthhseep2r49otpthhri,oeortf:oz.A.. c . c Kemp.
oa
August, at 11iIkiadr.as
on, aged 43.
Hop,, Mrs. (.2,Ann September, at Green Point, Cape °
the
On the , • , Baker-street, Lieutenant'_
of Loak,.'s,' •ii *
ni , near High Wycombe, aged 03. reli toef
On th,
.s 12th inst., at Painswick. Mrs. Carrington,
c.
Glou e,
On the 12th hest
sliire, aged 72.
OnG J. °or-
vicarf
the 12th inst., at Eaton Ford, Bedfordshire, •
ham, Esq , aged 8. Price, et
B.rkeieCyo,lonel Cr
~ Hannah aria, wife
S'erl.
. Mg Cottage, Margate, aged 78. ~.„0, 04
On the 12th inst ,at Cam' den. lace, Bath, J. Hoo"' -ore,
On the 13th inst , in Upper GlPoucester- I
'Lace, Dorset-s 9
t.:O,
Caroline, widox of. the latJ. Law, Esq., of the Hoe'
India Company's Setviee. d street
On the 13th nst., Elizabeth Maria Rowell, of Alfre -
Bow road
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