The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-10 00:00:00

A GAY LOTIIARIO.

For some time past several families, residing in
e neighbourhood of Peckham, have been exceed-
ngly annoyed by the conduct of a well dressed
young man, who has been in the habit of address-
ing letters, filled with fulsome adulation, to the young
ladies of the respective families. When he aster.
tained the name of the daughter of any gentleman,
he commenced writing letters in the most rhodo_
montade style, expressive of his love and admiration
for her, and these epistles he did not send through
the post, but was uniformly the bearer himself, and
either pushed them under the hall door, or else
dropped them down into the area, in the expecta-
tion that the servants would put them into the
hands of those for whom they were intended. Al-
though the writer of the love letters frequently ex-
perienced very rough usage from the male branches
of some of the families whom he had annoyed in
the manner described, yet it did not damp his ar-
dour. On Tuesday afternoon he again made his
appearance in the vicinity of Peckham, and was
observed parading up arid down before the resi-
dence of a highly respectable banker, into whose
hands some of his letters had previously fallen, and
who, annoyed by the impudent familiarity with
which sore of the female members of his family
had been addressed, employed a policeman to
watch for the writer when he again attempted
to renew the correspondence. The policeman
concealed himself from view, and had not been
long there when the person alluded to approached
the banker's house, and taking a letter from his
pocket dropped it into the area, and was then in the
act of retreating, when the policeman walked up
and took him off to the station-house, where the
letter which he had dropped was produced. The
following is a copy of the epistle which he
had addressed to a lady on the present occa-
sion, and which will exhibit the peculiarity of
writing, a style which it will be perceived is not
unlike that of a celebrated master of the ceremo-
nies at a certain place of amusement, whose episto-
lary productions created so strong a sensation in the
world not long ago. The letter was addressed to
Miss Sophia Mills, Manor House, Peckham, and ra
thus :

"For the beautiful and ever-adored Miss Siphia
of Hanover House, Peckham.—ln your compliments of
this evening I regret that I should have occasion for
saying that your displeasure has been created by a casual
faux-pus which I ha•l inadvertently made in the dusk of
the afternoon, and for which I have to beg your accept-
ance of an apology, hut how far short of forgiveness I may
come of course I do not know, though I hope for the
best. Alas, it is long since we met on the borders
of the verdant_grassy and velvet_bosomed rye. Upon
that indeed I do rant wonder at the keen bleak
winds of Eurolydon ; that is the mischief which etiquette
sometimes occasions, my beloved Cleopatra. I should
gladly write you some epic rhyme if I could; but any
heart is sleeping, and yet your charms cannot be with-
stood. I grant it is easy enough to request a pretty note,
but writing unheeded professions of reverential esteem
and adoration which reward such charms as yours, so
blended with splendid magnificence, cannot be feigned ;
for, was I a Hector, that ❑ob'e victor who chid a victim
by a Grecian's skill, or was I a Pyrrhuse, whose
deeds were various as an arbitrator on Ida's bill, I'd
range through Asia, likewise Arabia or Pennsylvania,
seeking for you through the dreary regions of sage Or.
pheus, fur one embrace of you, my lovely dear. A pere.
grination to foreign nations determinating, and may prove
true in hopes to find a maid more kind thin the blooming
fair one, thou lovely dear. If I received a return of
affection it would be some encouragement to me to write
raptures of amorous anticipation, but I am apprehensive
you derive but little enjoyment from the sudden and
spontaneous ebullitions of my soul. Do, for heaven's
sake, lovely fair one, deign to answer this, and until then
" I remain, with fervent adoration,
most devotedly, most fervently, and
most affectionately, ever your
" RICHARD BALFOUR."
When the writer of the above classical production
was introduced to the station-house he became ex-

ceedingly alarmed, and requested that the letter

might be committed to the flames, promising the
banker at the same time that he should from hence-

forth never approach the portal of his dwelling. He
then gave a written document to that effect, and
was suffered to depart.

MR. HEBER'S WILL..—It is with much
pleasure we are enabled to state upon good authority that
the will of the late Mr. Heber has at length been found.
From tha circumstance of the original draft of a will
being found, as also from that of a domestic having signed
a document some year or two back which Mr. Heber then
stated to be his will, there could be very little doubt that
such an instrument had been in existence. Every possible
search was therefore made among the book', and papers of
the deceased at Paris and other places on the Continent,
as also in London, which search ending unsuccessfully
many of his friends concluded that he had destroyed it.
Upnn a more minute examination among his books in
London we understand, however, that the long looked-for
document has at last been discovered, carelessly placed
between two volumes in the library.