The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-23 00:00:00

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Mn. Ennon—The Public seem again taken
with the mania for Foreign Stocks, especially
South American, and again, witimut a doubt,
will have cause to repent its own credulity end
blindness, and that the repeated wainings you
have given have been so continually slighted. -
Th e new Governments are as yet unsettled, their
leading men subject to perpetual change, and ut-
terly void of principle.---The case of ImininE is
a sufficient instance of the degree Of confidence
to be placed in Mexican engagements. Ile was
unquestionably the greatest benefactor of his
country, yet mark the treatment he has experi-
enced at its hands. On establishing its inclepen.
dance, the Provisional Government voted to him
a million of dollars and twenty square leagues of
land. From neither of these resources did lie
ever receive a rial !—After wearing the Imperial
Crown, he abdicated rather than blood should
flow on his account. On the Bth April, 1523,
the Congress decreed to him 25,000 dollars an-i
and, after his death, 8,000 dollars an-
nually to his family. On the first plausible pre-
text—his proceeding from Italy to England—the
Congress suspended the pension, yet when after-
wards the proofs were given that the persecution
of Spain and her Allies (fer the very act that gave
that Congress its existence) constrained him to
quit Italy, thepension, although U had been sus-
pended by only 36 votes against 33, teas not re-
stored.—As creditors are always unwelcome, the
Congress declared him an outlaw. The Public
are recently acquainted with his re-appearance
on his native coast. Ignorant of this law—with-
out arms or troops—in perfectly pacific guise,
with his wife and children—zhe landed, and was
shot !—lt is needless to expatiate upon the cir-
cumstances of an assassination at which humanity
shudders ; but if such is the fate of a creditor for
about 200,000/., what may be expected by the
creditors in virtue of Bonds circulating in this
country for 3,200,0001. ?--Is such a Government
to be trusted ?--Am I not justified in predicting,
:hat in every instance it will be found most mag-
mificient in promises, but lamentably poor in per-
J usTice.

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EARLDOM of SETON and WINTOWN

A new claimant has lately appeared for the
EARLDOM or SETON and WINTOWN. At the

breaking out of the Rebellion, 1715, the last Earl
joined that part of the rebel army which march-
ed into England, and was taken at Preston, and
conveyed prisoner to London, tried and found
guilty, but contrived to make his escape in
woman's clothes, the 4th of August, 1716. His
estate of 3,3931. per annum was forfeited tb the
Crown.; he went abroad, and was for many years
Confidant and Secretaryof the Chevalier St. George
till he died, in 1749, aged upwards of 70. He has
been hitherto understood to have died unmarried ;
but the recent restoration of attuinted Peers has
had the effect of bringing to light documents
proving the contrary. It appears from the papers
of the person claiming the Earldom, that the last
Earl married a Highland lady, named Margaret
St. Claire, who died August 8, 1714, leaving an
infant son. This child was sent to Northumber-
land to be nursed. After the rebellion, and exile
of the Earl, a board-wage was continued to be
paid for the child by an agent in Edinburgh,
and the relations of the mother paid such atten-
tion to it as proved their concern for its welfare.
The Earl himself, even after his escape, en-
deavoured to see the child, and landed at Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed incognito, for that purpose ;
but, owing to some unexpected circumstance, it
was not produced by the nurse, and he had to
leave the country without accomplishing his
object. At the same time he placed such do-
cuments in the command of his son, as could
enable him at any time to prove his birth and
legitimacy. The child grew up, and settled in
trade in the village of Bellingham, in Northum-
berland, where he died about thirty years ago,
leaving a son, who also dying a twelvemonth ago,
at the same place, left a son, George, the young
man who lately came to Edinburgh, without
friends and without recommendations, on the chi-
valrous enterprize of asserting his claim to the
Earldom of Wintown. This person, who is about
28 years of age, and who has hitherto lived in
peace and content at Bellingham, in the exercise
Of a humble calling, arrived in Edinburgh on the
Ist of May, and immediately proceeded to lay his
case before one of the most respectable professional
Gentlemen, who has expressed a flattering opinion
of his papers and documents. He is in possession
of a mourning ring, in which there is a large and
beautiful diamond, enclosing a small tablet, on
which are represented a death's head and cross-
bones, with the letters M. M—, being the ini-
tials of the late Countess's name. He states,
that there has been lost, of late years, in the
family, a ring, containing miniature portraits
of the Earl and Countess together, which
would certainly have been a proof of the
greatest value. llis other family reliques and
papers are of the must authentic and useful kind.

The claimant possesses a most prepossessing ex-
terior. 11 is features bear a striking resemblance
to those of his ancestor, Robert, the seventh Lord
Seton, as represented in the family portrait. It
is well known how long a peculiarity of counte-
nance sometimes cling to a family, and how often
the features of a distant ancestry revive in the
faces of their descendants.

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