The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-04 00:00:00

.FA.UX PAS.

'On Thursday we inserted a letter addressed
to the Editor of Galignani's Messenger, by the
.11011. W. I. WELLESLEN"; tiw Sarni! Paper, of the
I. instant, received iesterilny, contains the fol.
lowing letter -from the lady who was alluded to
in the original account :-
4' TO Tlie rnitiott, &c.
" bavoseen a paragraph in your Merrenger of the
2hth instant, which presume alludes to myself. I beg the
anonymous writer,-whoever be may be, to desist from his false
assertions ; and shotild he repeat them, I shall be under the
„necessity of soliciting the 'deposition of my father, Colonel Pa.
terson, of some of Ins own servants, soldiers of the Coldstream
Guards, to prove before a Magistrate that the " Harmony"
which subsisted between Captain Illigh and myself before our
sojourn at Naples was not of so uninterrupted a nature as he
has so, confidently asserted.

3`.ENA.
" when I was on my way to England when T received your
rsrenger, which determined me to return and deliver this let-
ter into your hands myself, which I beg you will insert in your
next.. Paper. 'lt is with reluctance I am driven to this state-
ment, 'but the persecutions I have tnet,with from Captain have driven me to it, who, If his conduct be so unexception-
able, will, I do not doubt, hot fear to face a British Court of
Justice, instead of
protecting himself by foreign Ministers, Con-
suls, and the Neapolitan police, .in procuring evidence for the
ruin of his wife, and which he lOUs to produce before a Jury
of' his country.
" Aug. 30, 1824. " 11. B."
The article which :appeared on ,the 23th of August In the
Ilferscrtger on the above subject, we were requested to insert as
an answer to one copied from the English Papers, and which
was given in our. Paper of the 26th of July. The present letter
we have also been induced to publish at the pressing solicita-
tion of another of the parties concerned,; but we must positively
decline any further communication on the subject, as we think
the columns of a public Paper not the fittest place for such dis-
cussions.--(Editor of Mc:anger.)

ITORRIBLE Morrow.--A most foul'and hardly
credible murder has been committed in the Canton
of Forte, in the Department of the Seine and
Oise. The following are the details :—On the
10th of August n girl, 'l3 years of age, went,
about five o'clock in the evening, into the wood
to gather herbs. On tier not returning, a search
was made on the two following days, but with.
out any success. On the 13th, a man, whose
clothes were stained with blood, was taken up,
and on the lath, some persons, who were
still searching the wood, discovered, in the
cavity.of a rock, which appeared to have served
as, a habitation to some one, the body of a young
girl, covered with sand and heath, the hands tied
behind the back, and the legs doubled up under
the belly ; there were several stabs of a knife on
the thighs, and one in the heart. The parents of
the girl who had been missing immediately re-
cognized in this mutilated corpse their ill-fated
child. The circumstance being made'known to the
Attorney-G eueral, he came to the spot, and had
brought there also the man who been arrested some
days before, for having blood upon his garments.
He was confronted with the body, but showed
no signs of remorse or confusion. On the 21st
day, after the exhumation of the body, he was
again brought to look upon it, when he shut'.
dered and confessed his crime. He declared,
that for the last 40 days he had inhabited the
cavity in the rock ; that on meeting the young
girl, he suddenly seized her by the neck, thrust
his handkerchief into her mouth, and, throwing
her over his shoulders, made for the cavern.
After walking a quarter of a league, he found
that his victim had ceased to breathe or move ;
he then threw her on the ground, and stabbed
and mutilated the body in the manner above
described. lie added, that on drawing the knife
from her heart, he sucked the blood which fol-
lowed it, which was nearly as much as would fill
a wiue-tumbler.—:(Paris Paper.)