The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-16 00:00:00

TO TIIE EDITOR. OF TUE SUN.

St It—lt nevar was my intention to have
troubled the public with any circumstances which have taken
place between Miss FOOTE and myself, had I not felt some-
thing was due to truth, in the contradiction of those para.
graphs, which made it necessary my Attorney should do, in
your columns of yesterday. Theft, I had hoped the matter
would have rested until the action Miss Foote has thought
proper to commence developed every thing; but the notice
taken of it in your Paper of this morning, compels use, reluc-
tantly, to put the public in possession of facts which I think
will Justify my conduct, intending to leave my powers of 'con-
tradicting such statements to the proper time and place. Deli.
my to the Lady would almost silence me, did I not feel and
know'it is so little attended to by or heeded on her part.
But to the point :—I was not aware when I made a proposal
to Miss'FooTE, that she had ever been under the protection of
COL BERKELEY,-=her father and mother having always up-
held (and I believed,) her to be a paragon of virtue; and had
not Col. BERKELEY, ill the latter end of June last, in the pre-
sence of JAMES Illaxsr, Esq., (as the Colonel's friend) and
TH"AS BEST, &q., (as my friend), owned her having had
children by him, the youngest not a month old, I should have
been in ignorance of the facts until too late to retrieve my
happiness.
It -I were to Make every other circumstance public at this mo-
ment, I should not only be anticipating the defence I have at
the approaching trial, but might rather increase the anxiety
than " relieve the minds of Miss FooTE's friends." My
withers are unwrung.
Now a word for Mr. FOOTE, who, under the plea of pur-
chasing a Paymastership, borrowed the sum of one thousand
one hundred and fifty poinids from me. May I ask him (if he
is in this country), to what purpose it has been appropriated ?
Being given to understand that the fear of being called upon to
return it, has induced him to make a Continentallour.
~The Maittiall, Of the above fates-44- oirtvrne enanJ," win; I
trust, induce the Public to suspend their further opinion until
the appeal made to the Court of King's Bench is decided. And
in thus intruding upon their notice, I cannot but congratulate
myself at my escape. • am, sir,
Your ohe.dient humble Seivant.
JOSEPH HAYNE.
20, Upper Grosvenor-street, pct: 15, 1824.

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Mrs. TlENtty, FAUNTLEROY.—TiIe- unjust ca-
lumnies and unfounded assertions which hav'e been circulated
respecting this unfortunate lady, have induced a particular
friend of her family, to lay before the public the following
statement of facts :—She is the daughter of the late Capt. John
of the Royal Nay('
Young who, for many years, served his
country with distinguished bravery and honour; and an inti-
macy having long subsisted between his family and that of the
Fauntleroy's after his death Mr. H. Fauntlerov succeeded in
gaining the affections of illiss Young, and a private marriage
took place. When her brother discovered the error she had been
drawn into, he instantly demanded of Mr. Fauntleroy to acknow-
ledge her publicly as his wife, which he readily,' consented
to do, but begged a short time might be allowed him for the
arrangement of his :Alin previous to the acknowledgment
during the interval which occurred, his immoralities being dis-
covered, Mrs. H. Fauntleroy's family thought it advisable for
her to separate 'from a man of such dissolute habits, and she
has ever since lived under the protection of her mother. The
propriety of her conduct is the best testimony that can be of-
fered of her moral rectitude and virtue, and must, in the end,
defeat the efforts of malevolence and scandal..--(Bath Chronicle.)
. DEATH OF AN OLD EARTH-STOPPER.--Died on
Saturday last, at Hose, advanced ii years, Mr. S. WHALLEY,
formerly earth-stopper in the hunt of his Grace the Duke of
RUTLAND. The deceased occupied a small portion of land
under the Duke : he was a man of penurious habits, and lived
in
.a wretched, secluded hut (at a place called Hose Brock Hills,
somedistance from any town), where every wind that blew
threatened destruction to his habitation. A few days ago he
was taken seriously ill ; which coming to the knowledge of
sortie kind friend, he had him conveyed to thevillage of Hose,
that proper assistance might be rendered. Whalley soon grew
worse, and finding his dissolution near, disclosed to a relation
that he had' hid some money (to use his own words, " not a
litt/a,")* in a pot under ground; but that he himself must go
with the person, otherwise it would be impossible to find it.
The next day was fixed for the purpose ; but ere the morning
dawned, the grim King of Terrors had summoned the earth-
stopper to his long home ; he was found a corpse in bed. It is
the task now of his son and heir to discover, if possible, the
hidden treasure; but hitherto the search has been altogether
fruitless, Nothitig can be ascertained as to the probable
amount, but it is supposed to she considerable.— (Lincoln
Mcrcary.)
Game is so remarkably scarce that many,Gen-
.
tlemen have declined shooting, as they find
they kill only old birds, the young ones having
perished in this inclement season.
The neighbourhood of Pimlico has of late
been much infested by two elderly, decent
dressed females, who decoy children away for
the purpose of stripping them. On Saturday
last a little boy, under four years of age, was de-
coyed away playing near the door of his mother,
Mrs. Topless, a widow, in Freeman-row, by
some damsons, and the child was found stripped
near the wooden bridge at ten o'clock at night,
after having been stolen more than six hours.—
The child recollected an old lady taking him
to a room where he could see water. On Mon-
day a boy of Mr. Perite, in the New-road, near
the Church, was decoyed away at eleven o'clock
in the morning, at the edge of the fields, by two
petticoat monsters, while in the care of the
nursery-maid,and the parents were left in anguish
until two o'clock in the morning, when a watch-
man in Belgrave-place picked him up, covered
with a filthy rug. The child could tell his name,
and he was taken home) and the grief of the
parents relieved.