The Sun.
London, England, 1802-03-11 00:00:00

tVit'ich are held to be of force in the usual hack. I
cuurk -of life. •
•
As it is my wish to render mere justice to the
Slate Chancellor of ,Ireland, it would be inconsistent
-with that design to aireet concealment or his real
blemishes. It is therefore impossible not to lament
that his clear and ready conception of facts, his just
discriminatihn, his accurate arrangement, his plain
and unadorned, yet strong and appropriate language,
should ever have been lessened in their effect By the
occurrence of expressions not congruous with tem-
perate and dignified deliberation. It must also be
allowed, that neither his fatigue from business) nor
.his ardour for speedy justice, could furnish an ade-
quate excuse for his inattention, at certain times, to
persons who were ready to address him yet even
here, the censure of the candid Mind will be mingled
with praise. The wish already mentioned, of les-
- senitig both the expence and the delay of justice,
naturally led him to discourage the practice of em-
ploying an unnecessary number of Advocates : and
therefore, when from what he deemed a fair and
sufficient- statement of fads, he conceived himself
in.possession.of the principle of a case, he had no
inclination to stop for the display of talents, how-
ever eminent, particularly when he suspected that.
the intention was to make " the worse appear the
better part." •
It would indeed havebeen. a rare felicity, if he;
could have accomplished so-many objects of public
justice, without occasionally inflicting wounds on
the feelings of individuals---a consideration, which
alone should suffice to restrain the promptitude of
censure. They who have to act in similar situations,
will do well to guard against all such foibles as
truth has made it indispensible to notice in Lord
CLARE. But it will be still happier, if they can:
emulate his virtues, the pratlical energy of his tin-,
tiers gadding, and the steady integrity of his heart.
May ,his successor, in particUlar, tread in those
steps which lie so strongly marked before him. in.
die. high path to which he is destined, so that he,:
too,

" when he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings,
" May have a tomb of orphani' tears wept on him."

EDINBURGH, MARCH 6.

WEDNESDAY Janet Y orston, keeper of a tam.:
bouring-work in the Drygate, Glasgow, widow of,
James M;Lellan, wright in that City, appeared be-
fore the Magistrates, in the Council Chamber there,
in' consequence of a summons given to her, and to.
her Cautioners to present her, arid paid a fine of cal.
sterling, - with t al. t 7s. ot., costs of suit, and.
.found ,
security for her good and peaceable behaviour, for
months,
twelve all in terms of a sentence pronounced
by the Magistrates of Glasgow against her, for cru-
elty and oppression towards Agnes Livingston, an
orphan, employed in her service. This sentence
was passed upon the 4.thof April, tBor, but execu-
tion upon it wa3 stopped by Mrs. M'Lellan pre-
senting a Bill of Advoca don' and a Bill of Suspension . ,
and Liberation to the Court of Session, in which a
violent attack was made,' not only upon the Pro-
curator Fiscal, who was the pursuer in the inferior
Court, hut upon the Magistrates and Town Clerks:
Lord MurirvEN, Ordinary upon the Bills, reported
.these bills upon informations to- the Inner House;
and, on the 3d of February last, the Lords unani-
mously refused both billsi and affirmed thesentenCe,
of the Magistrates in all points, with expences; to:
which interlocutor they adhered upon the 23d of
that month, upon advising a reclaiming Petition for
Mrs. M'Lellan, without answers.—This case re-
sembles in many points that of the noted Mrs.
BroWnrigg, and that of Francis Giveaux, who was
•tried before Lord KENYON last year, and sent to
Bridewell for twelve months ; but in the particular
mode of cruelty, it was a fully worse case than
either of them. It was doubtless a lucky circum-
‘ stance for the Defe.:lder, that, on account of no pre-
cognition
having been taken, the full atrocity of the'
' affair did 'not avpear at first, nor till after the cri`_
minal libel had been raised, otherwise she would
undoubtedly have been presented to the justiciary,.
tried by a Jury, and probably have suffered 4 severe
corporal punishment. It was proved by the evidence -
taken in this case, that Mrs. M‘Lellan, assisted by
Marion Yorkston, her niece,
,and Bell-M'Farlane
and Barbara Gunn, two girls in her service, had
,been in the praaice, for several months together,
•of exercising the most atrocious-cruelties upon the
orphan girl before mentioned, On pretence of her -
letting her work fall behind; that she burnt her on
almost every part of the body with red.hot tongs,
held the soles of her feet to the grate, lashed her
with a knotted rope and a horsewhip, to the effu.
sion of her blood; and-sometimes carried her cruelty
so far as to throw herring-brine upon the wounds,
to make them smart. The poor victim at last made
her escape from the house, and having obtained ad_
.mission into the Infirmary of Glasgow, the Ma-
gistrates were made acquainted with her case, and
direaed the Procurator Fiscal to raise the prosecu-
tion. Mrs. M'Lellan defthded the Altion with
great obstinacy, both in the inferior Court and at
Edinburgh, and adduced, as witnesses in exculpa-
tion, several tambouring girls, whose whole testi-
mony appeared both to the Magistrates and Supreme
Court, a tissue of perjury.—This woman bore a
tolerably good charatler in the world, had the repu-
tation of being religious, and produced a certificate
&mil a respeEable Seceding Clergyman, of her re-
gular attendance on divine ordinances.