The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-08 00:00:00

JOHN BULL.

Volt THE SUN.
NIL. EDITOR—The mean and ungentlemanly
attack on his Royal Highness the Duke of
St!sssx, by the Editor of R 1117,7 BULL, in his
Paper of the ‘3otlLult., in Conseglience of his
Royal Highness having presided at the Anni-
versary Meeting of the Society for the Encourage,-
went of Arts,.&c. in the Adelphi, has excited
great disgust and indignation throughout the Illf-
tropolis, and will doubtlessly entail on that Well-
known individual the disgrace which invariably
attaches to conduct so ungenerous and unmanly.
I shall forbear, at, this moment, from offering any
further observation on this individual's conduct,
or on his present situation, and the circumstances
which placed him in it ; but if he perseveres in his
libellous and malignant career, and continues to
indulge himself, by " hooking" into his Columns,
every Sunday, those individuals against whom he
entertains or feels the least prejudice, I shall,
notwithstanding the proximity of our connection,
disclose, through the medium of your Paper, the
various scenes of his life, and such a tale unfold
as will induce his readers to withdravt their con-
fidence from him.

PAUL POTTER, TUE YOUNGER.
British Coffee-house.

JOHN BULL, AND M. FRENCH, ESQ.

The following correspondence appeared ►n the
Weekly Paper entitled Jolts But.r., on Sunday
last, in consequence of what that Paper had said
on the preceding Sunday respecting Mr. FRENCH,
a retired military Officer of most respectable
character, and now Master of the Ceremonies at
Margate, where he is universally esteemed :
COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO MAJOR-GENERAL
TURNER FROM MR. FRENCH.

SlR—Having perused in yesterday's JOHN Him/. a narrative
of Sir HENRY HARDINGE'S Military career, at the conclusion
of which my name has been so improperly introduced, as a
friend to Mr. BATTIER, on the subject of his recent difference
with Sir HENRY HARDINGE, I consider myself somewhat
justified in calling upon you to prove (for the intOrination of
the editor of that journal, as well as for the satisfaction of my
own friends,) that his statement has been pel:pctly incorrect,
as far as regards the assertion of my having interfered in the
matter in question, further than by meeting your own particu.
lar request of accompanying you (for Mr. HUNTER) to the
house of Mr. WESTERN, in order to assist you in procuring
from the sealed papers of his nephew (the late Col. WESTERN)
the copy of a document which you required for Sir HEN Rl'
HARDIN.° E, and which document, from motives of delicacy,
as you stated, you were anxious to obtain in the presence of a
third person. You then subsequently urged me, at the United
Service Club, to join my signature (as an•intpartial person) to
that of Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN'S, in addition to your own and
Mr. HvNT Eit'S names, to a brief statement, w:tich was framed,
at your suggestion, by Sir llussr.v Viv lAN. Which state.
ment was merely to prove that a copy of such a document as
you required, with another, had been found amongst the
sealed papers of the late Col. WESTERN, when they were
opened in our presence. Thus terminated the sole interference
on my part in this affair, as Ltrust you will do me the justice
to acknowledge.
On the matter in question between Sir EL HARDINGE and
Mr. BATTIER, it would ill become me to presume to offer any
comment, but, with regard to the qpnsive.and very improper
meaner in which my name has been brought forward on the
subject in JOHN BULL, I flatter myself 'with the hope ths
yoU did not either authorise or sanction the misrepresentation
which has appeared in that paper, especially as I received your
pledge that my ndme was not to be introduced in any manner
relative to what had passed between Sir HENRY HARDINdE
and Mr. BATTIER.

As for my being Master of the. Ceremonies at Margate and
St. Peter's, WHICH OFFICIAL. SITUATION the Editor ofJOHN'
BULL, or his mysterious informant, seems to treat with so much
contempt, I can only observe that I co:ism Eft THE APPOINT-
MENT AS AN HONOUR. COMPERED UPON ME, and not in
the slightest degree as attaching disgrace either to the character
of a Gentleman, or to the commission which I have had the
honour to hold for fourteen years in his Majesty's service—l
am, Sir, your very obedient, humble Servant,
George-street, Monday. • M. FRENCH.
GENERAL. TURNER'S LETTER.

(Corr.) United Service Club, I,t June, 1824.
SER:—I have to acknowledge the receipt of ytyur letter of the
31st nit. on the subject of a paragraph which appeased in the
JossN Bum.. of Sunday last, and calling upon me to prove the
incorrectness of the statement which calls you the " other friend
of Mr. BATTIER."
You certainly were only known to me as the friend of the
.friend of Mr. BATTIER, Mr. HUNTER, on whose account you
voluntarily presented yourself to me as a perfect stranger; and
when I called upon Mr. BUNTER to join me in recovering
papers necessary to the ends of truth and justice, he declined
doing so, but deputed you by a written document to act for him
—which you did ; and in all that followed, your conduct was
marked by moderation and propriety, and the object of your
interference seemed to be confined wholly to considerations con-
nected with Mr. 11u NTER.

You neitherevomed nor upheld of the cause of Mr. BATTIER
—You. DISCLAIMED ALL CONNECTION Wi'l'it HIM—AND
YOU SEEMED VERY ANXIOUS TuAT I SHOULD NOT CON-
siorn YOU AS HIS FRIEND, AND THAT YOU SHOULD NOT
BE SO CONSIDERED BY OTHERS.

Of the article in JOHN BULL I knew nothing until I read
it, and I am free to say that I read the part which relates to
you with regret.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient Servant,
To 31. FRE NC 11, Esq. CHAS. TURNER.

We have not thought it necessary to extract
the observations which accompany this corre-
spondence in JOHN BULL, who spoke of Mr.
FRE:scu as the Master of the Cervinonies at a;
" Tea Garden " at Margate, and the friend of
Mr. BATTIER, but has not had the grace to make
the amcnde honorable to a Gentleman whom he
treated with his usual flippan:y, self-conccit,
and characteristic arrogance.

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whole a party of thirty.nine. To accommodate the company,
a barge was fitted up on the Calder and Hebble navigation,
and on Wednesday last they embarked for Sowerby, where
the ccremmny was performed by the Rev, Jas. h'
ranks. of the scene, and the brilliancy of the weather, attracted a
large concourse of spectators,and after the
party, they were regaled with a handsomereturn ofthe baptismal
of Mr. Sladen. The united ages of e twelve young Chris-
tiansl dinner at the house
amount to 90 years.—(Leeds,Al
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A few days ago, as the Wife of a trumpeter of
the Scots Greys (daughter of an innkeeper irl
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eredofNewcastlechopmapiiii;
Cebooa'Yrcl, who %% WI his mother is doing well•—(2V"4-
castle Chronicle; June 5.)