The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-10 00:00:00

STRANGE STORY.

We find the following in the Gazette des Tribu-
flaw, In 1814 Lord W— was colonel of an
English regiment, and joined the allied army which
invaded France. Shortly before his departure from
Dover, where he was in garrison, the colonel marriEd
a rich heiress, but he left her with her family whilst
he went to encounter the risk of combats. The cam-
paign of France being terminated, nothing further
was heard of the colonel ; it was known, however,
that his regiment had been almost entirely destroyed
in a combat with the French in the south of France,
but his death not having been regularly proved, some
law proceedings took place between the different
members of his family respecting property to a very
large amount. These proceedings, which are not yet
terminated, will, no doubt, receive a solution from
.ni
the following singular circumstances :—Some time
ago an old soldier, M. R_, residing the envi-
rons of Marseilles, came to Paris ori
family
quarter
of
tahnedc tookhausse
e d
u ph is,
Arenstiidne.ncent ainnghroutn short of money,el in the
onncael lhyima
he
oe
obfe
,ggaendd
as ahogtneal-rk-aneetepeerh,eMle.llft--h m , or
oavdi‘s-
super. b gold watch, ornamented with diamonds, and
on the back of which was the miniature of a
lady, with the initials E. w_., ,
told the hotel keeper that in a combat, in 1814,in
the south of France, he had wounded and taken pri-
soner an English colonel ; that the colonel dying
almost immediately after of his wounds, his watch had
remained in his hands. He recommended M. D—
to take particular care of the watch, and he went away,
some days ago, announcing that he would socn send
by the messageries the sum lent, and demand restitu-
tion of the watch. Two days back there was such a
numerous gathering of travellers in the hotel of M.
D—, that he was obliged to give up his own room to
overr
an Englishman. On seeing the watch hanging
the chimney the Englishman uttered a cry of su
prise, and examined it closely. From the
minia-
ture on the back, and the replies of the hotel
rt of his
his questions, he recognised it. as the psrto_peacyY
pecu.
brother, Colonel \V —. With anldonbotin
give up the
liarly English, the Englishman wooru
for
it if required,
-keeper to
watch, and offered to pay 100,000
the proof
for it was, with the testimony f
and the termination of
of the decease of his brother,ich
had been pending 30
the law proceeding's,
absencewn
of the proprietor of the
r could not dispose of it. To
obstinacy of the Englishman he
ssaTryheof samepo
yswaeataitsrcfshy; t
hbeu
however,
hotel
i n
kt
the.heeepe
iced,aywhthoecEonnsgeinitsehdmaton
take it as a
out for Marseilles to seek for Mr. R set
called in the commissary

RESTORA.Tt—hleOTNinoicdoi
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adDgerioeouactnEtiseiksi publican deliberativeparts meeting
.DERBY,
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Eng-
land, ; Bn
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clergyfor
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the
synods, was held in the Athenamm rooms of this town. The
meetinvyas an adjournment of a similar gathering held a few
months since, and it is to be followed up by another, to take
place in London in January next. The chair was occupied
by the Rev. Thomas Collins; and among those present were
the Rev. W. round, of Malton ; the Rev. Canon Trevor, the
Rev. W. H. Teale, the Rev. Mr. Abney, the Rev. Arch-
deacon Denison, the Rev. Mr. Merryweather, the Rev. Mr.
Carter, the Rev. Mr. Grenside, the Rev. F. MessingbErd
, Captain
(rector of Ormsby, Lincolnshire), Rev. G. Barlow, Rev. Mr,
Sweet, Rev. Mr. Gilbert, Rev. Mr. Cooke (rector,_ of
_Cul,
bington, Warwickshire, and rural dean),
tial lay members of the Church also took pFkt.nisnonthe pr -
&c. several influen-
tial
adopted.
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,ahnlr°.nLginCihreolml, awnedreothhierr.s.lT. hile'repsoiclutlions proposed
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