The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-14 00:00:00

AN AMERICAN BRAVO.

Benjamin Lett, whose name is synonymous with
nearly every outrage that has been perpetrated on the
frontier for the last three years, started for Auburn, at
one, P.M., yesterday, in charge of Sheriff Brown and
and constables GAtes and Smith. To prevent the pos-
sibility of escape the second time, Smith and Lctt were
chained together, and to-night the latter will probably
be safely lodged in his home for the ensuing seven
years. Lett was born in Ireland, where he passed his
youth, and cherishes an inveterate and hereditary hatred
to the British Government. Of late years, until 1838,
we believe, he resided in the Newcastle District, near
Cobourg U.C. The cruelties that were inflicted upon
his relatives, and the oppression of himself, by some of
the provincial and military authorities, as he alleges,
roused the tiger within him, and he swore vengeance.
This oath he has kept, suffering no opportunity to es-
cape of wreaking his revenge upon the property and
persons of those against whom he nourished so deadly a
hatred, or of committing acts which he hoped would
embroil this country and Great Britain in a war, and
thus give him wider scope for satiating that passion,
which seems to have swallowed up all others. Pos-
sessed of great tact and knowledge of men, extraordi-
nary adroitness, muscular power and activity, end un-
daunted courage, it is not surprising that he became a
kind of rude hero in the minds of a certain class. In
admiration of his daring, his energy, and directness of
purpose, and perhaps sympathising to some extent with
him in his hatred of British domination, they lost sight
of the atrocity of his acts. While at large, he was in-
finitely more daegerous to the peace of the two coun-
tries than any other man on the frontier ; and all who
desire a continuance of peace, or honourable war, if
war must come, will rejoice that he is at last secured.
His pers.;nal appearance is ordinary—such a man as
you might pass a thousand times in the street, without
noticing anything to excite curiosity ; and it is probably
owing to the absence of those physical distinctive traits,
which we are apt to associate with such a character,
that he has so long successfully eluded pursuit. He is
about five feet ten inches high, with rather light hair,
and bluish grey eyes ; and it is only by close examina-
tion that one is able to discover the evidences of the
remarkable muscular power and activity he is known to
possess. Ater his arrest, and being properly secured,
he bore the matter with great apparent equanimity,
simply ranarking there had been treachery somewhere,
and that be would " bide his time." The day before
he was arrested, Sunday afternoon, be came over from
Canada. Since his escape from the Sheriff of Oswego
county, he has been to Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois,
but most of the time he has been lurking on the fron-
tier of this State.—Bzif. coin.

ETIQUETTE OF THE ROAD.—The Oxford
Chronicle mentions, on the authority of a passenger by
the " Rival," Cheltenham coach, that that coach over-
took the Queen and Prince Albert, between Slough and
Colnbrook. on Saturday week, when her Majesty sent
one of the outriders to acquaint Mr. Trussler, the coach-
man, that he was allowed to pass, her Majesty being
desirous of foregoing the usual etiquette, rather than
prevent the due arrival of the coach.
THE NELSON TESTIMONIAL.—The work-
men are proceeding actively with the pedestal on which
the statue of Lord Nelson is to be placed in Trafalgar-
square, which has nearly attained its height, and attracts
much notice.

The new steam-ship Clyde, Lieutenant Wood-
ruff, lately built by Messrs. Robert Duncan and Co., of
Greenock. one of the line of the Royal West India mail
steamers, is expected to be ti: 1 first to commence running
fl-om Southampton, which will be on the 15th proximo.
The first point of arrival will be Barbadoes, whence the
branch steamers will convey the Jamaica and the usual
other island mails, as heretotime.

Died, at the Fire Ways, Birmingham, on the
24th of September, in the eighty-seventh year of her
age, Elizab.:,h, relict of Charles Stuart, Esq., solicitor,
and daughter of the late distinguished Dr. John Roe-
buck, who, as the fotmder of the Carron Works and
tliose at Prestonpans, the author of several valuable
chemical discoveries, and the first patentee and original
promoter of Watts's steam-engine, gave a great impulse
to the trade and manufactures of Scotland. We believe
Dr. Roebuck was the ancestor of the Member for Bath.
There have this year been considerable impor-
tations of cheese from the United States. Six hundred
American cheeses, of excellent quality, were sold last
week at from 565. to 60s. per cwt., duty paid. The duty
is 12s. a cwt., which leaves the cost price from 445. to
48s. After paying the duty, the cheese might be sold
at krom 7id. to SI per lb. retail—Liverpool Times