The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-21 00:00:00

A LIE-LIKE,BUT A TRUE, STORY

About fourteen years ago, the late Mr. John ?.trker,
manufacturer, had the misfortune to drop 601. in
Bank notes. A diligent search was made for the
money, and a reward offered for its recovery, but all to
no purpose. A whole year passed before anything
was heard of it. At that time information was re-
ceived that a young man named M'Leish, belonging
to Lochwinnoch, had been the finder, but that he had
spent all the cash excepting ten pounds. Mr. Parker
succeeded, through the help of a friendly tailor, in re•
covering this remnant, and obtained from M'Leish
himself, an account of how he had found and disposed
of the money. The bunch of notes was picked up cc
Mr. Parker's feet, while he was conversing on the
street with some acquaintances. The finder, though
quite aware of the dishonesty of appropriating any-
thing that may be found where the " Highlandrnan
fend the tangs," could not resist the temptation of
buttoning his breeches pocket on the notes, and making
off with his prize. He soon met a crony from Loch-
winnoch, who had often sympathised with him in " a
most awfu' notion," to take a pleasure trip to Edinburgh
and the east coast, but had always considered it a hope-
less wish, because of the expense of going to such a far
country. Now, however, M'Leish placed the wished
for happiness within his reach, by magnanimously pro-
posing to his comrade Jock, to set off with him on their
long talked of jaunt, and he would bear all the charges.
It is unknown whether or not Jock was privy to the
manner in which the cash had been obtained, but certain
it is, that he acceded as readily to the proposal of his
lucky friend, "as a cock jumps at a grosset." It would
be needless to attempt a description of all the amazing
sights which the money• finder and his comrade saw in
Edinburgh, or how they stood in dumb admiration and
stared with open mouth, at every thing wonderful.
Suffice it to say, that nothing astonished them so
much as the discovery they made before leaving Auld
Reekie, that M'Leish had got. 301. of his " fun' since'
taken from him. This astonishment was not of the
joyous sort, but rather grievous ; so, after interjections
of its being " most awfu'," and " most desperate," the
two pilgrims bent their steps westward, and reached
their native village with a pretty well exhausted ex-
chequer. Thirteen years have now elapsed since Mr.
Parker obtained this account of the dissipation of most
of his lost money, and recovered ten pounds of it, as
the entire balance which then remained ; and this with
a promise from 11I'Leish, that he would honestly repay
the sum deficient, should he ever have it in his power
to do so, was all the satisfaction that Mr. P. ever re-
ceived. . But, strange to say! a remittance has come
within the last few days from'M‘Leisb, who is now in
India, of 1001. to his aged father, with directions to ap-
ply it to pay off all his debts at home. A list of these
accompanied the remittance, which is scrupulously
minute in its details. Some of the debts entered are
only to the amount of a few shillings ; one is only nine-
pence, and another fourpence. First in the list, how-
ever, is the 50/. due to Mr. Parker. That gentleman
died ten years ago, but the sum just named has been
honestly paid over to his widow.—Edinburgh Chronicle

Mr. Morison, the Hygeist, since the year 1830,
has paid to the British Government 60,000/. for Medicine
Stamps, which fact the officers at Somerset House will pi ove.
With this data before their eyes, can the public believe what a
set. of low, interested doctors say about his hills—low and in-
terested, because the more respectable part of the profession,
such as Sir H. Raiford and others, did, on the trial of Morison
r. Harmer, in the Court of Common Pleas, 1837, testify to
the curative power of purgative medicines in diseases appa-ently
different, the truth of which cannot be doubted, which evidence
was taken in short-hand by Mr. Fraser, on the trial, and is
ready to be produced. It therefore comes to this—will the
people say that the enormous sale of Morison's Pills is a proof
of their inefficacy or bad qualities ? Unless they do so, they
must treat what the description of doctors before mentioned
tell them a perfect humbug, proceeding from sheer interested
motives, and nothing else. Who complains of Morison's Pills?
Is it the people ? No, but the interested doctors. The dif-
ference between Mr. Morison and the medical profession is one
of theory and practice.—British College of Health, Hamilton-
place, New-road, April 18,1840.
THE LATE MURDER AT ISLINGTON.--Richard
Gould, alias Arthur Nicholson, who was on Tuesday last ac-
quitted of the murder of the late Mr. Templeman in Pocock's
Fields, Islingion, was not liberated from Newgate on the night
of his acquittal, it being feared that he might be subjected
to personal violence from the crowd, which remained
round the Sessions-house until long after the trial was con-
cluded. On the day previous to his trial (it being the custom
of the military authorities not to suffer any person connected
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deserted,
with the army, charged with a capital offence,
.to be tried 1.1
transmitted from' the Horse Guards to the Governor of
was
On Wednesday afternoon, between.
Newgate. 'three and four
unobserved
o'clock, Gould left Newgate 113, person to whom
he was known, but whither he went, or Lis present residence,
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r of calling the first
is unknown. We understand there is no truth in the state-
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state-
ment which appeared in most of the papers, to the effect
that Gould had stated he knew the parties who had: committed
the murder. No such declaration, we a7r.illei:aussseuroefdohm.a.:::
important sub:cats.
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failure reforms,
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example set by Leiceqn 7ill be waiversally followed, and that
the ;tuned offOrts of all true Reformers will bring to bear upo
the present system a weight of public opinion which it shall be
impossible to resist.