The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-22 00:00:00

A HEROINE.

The following is a copy of the memorial of Elizabeth
Hopkins, wile of Jeremiah Hopkins, sergeant of the 104th
Foo:, addressed to the Secretary at War:—
"Most humbly showed), that she was born of British
parents at Philadelphia, in 1741 ; has her husband, six
sons, and her son-in-law, as per margin, serving his Ma-
jesty in the 104th ; and during the course of her life, from
tier zeal and adachment to her King and country, she has
encount'red more hardships than commonly fall to the lot
of her sex. That in the year 1776, being with her first
husband (John Jasper), a sergeant of Marines on board
the brig Stanly, tender to the Roebuck, she was wounded
in her left leg, in an engagement with the French vessels,
when she was actually working at the guns. That the
Marines having been landed at Cape May, in America, her
husband was taken prisoner by a Captain Plunket, of the
rebel army, near Mud Ford Nied, and sentenced to suffer
death ; that by her means he was enabled to escape, with
twenty-two American deserters, to whom she served arms
and ammunition ; and on their way to join the army their
party was attacked by the enemy's light horse—she was
fired at, and wounded in her left arm ; but, undismayed,
took a loaded firelock, shot the rebel, and brought his
horse to Philadelphia (the head-quarters of the army),
which she was permitted to sell to one of General Sir
W. Howe's Aides-de Camp. That after many fatigues
and campaigns, her first husband died, -and she married
Samuel Woodwerd, a soldier in Colonel Chambers' corps;
was with the troops under the command of General Camp-
bell, taken at Pensacola, having, however, during tric
siege served at the guns, and tore her very clothes fur
wadding. That having been exchanged at the peace of
1783, from an attachment to the Royal cause, she em-
barked on board a transport with part of Ddaney's and
Chambers' corps, was shipwrecked on Seal Island, in the
Bay of Fundy, when near three hundred men, and num-
bers of women and children, perished—that she suffered
unparalleled distress, being pregnant, with a child in her
arms ; remained three days on the wreck—was taken up,
with her husband and child, by fishermen of Marble Head ;
and, shortly afterwards, being landed, delivered of three
sons, two of whom are in the 104th, the other dead; and,
lastly, that she had the honour of being mother of twenty-
two children, viz., eighteen sons and four daughters,
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service to her King; and as in duty bound, shall ever pray.
" E. HOPKINS,
" Fredericton, New Brunswick, 12th April, 15315."
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In consequence of her memorial she obtained a pension
cf 1001 a year. The following is another instance of her
strength of mind. At Fort Erie, the pride of her heart,
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vea de s themenged on the Yankees fur their loss ; and
next time they went into action, they were cheered and
encouraged by Mammy Hopkins, the name she went by
iu the regiment.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF BELMORE.—The
Earl cf Be'more died on Sunday at Leamington Spa. His
Lordship, who was in his 67th year, was an Ir►sb Peer,
and one of the Representatives of the Irish Peerage in
the House of Lorda. He aas also Custos Rotator= of
the County Tyrone, for which place hia second son, the
Hon. H. Corry, sits in Parliament. The late Earl mar-
ried in 1800 the Lady Juliana Butler, daughter of the
second Earl of Carrick, and is succeeded in his title and
estates by his eldest son, Lord Corry, now 'Earl of Bel-
more, who is in his 40th year, and married. The eldest
son of the present Earl aas born in April, 1835.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen
is expcced to arrive on Friday next at Buckingham Palace,
on a visit to her Majesty the Queen. A Government
packet bas been ordered to Calais, to conduct his Serene
Highness to Doter.