The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-09 00:00:00

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TILE SUN EXPRESS,

(From the Preston Pilot of March 7.)
We were again indebted to the extraordinary exertions of the
spirited proprietor of The Sun newspaper for the early intelli-
gence of the division on the address. It was received here
eleven hours sooner than we should have had it through the
medium of the morning papers, and nearly twenty hours earlier
than by those of the evening.
(From the Carlisle Journal.)
In common with most of our contemporaries we have to ex-
express our deep obligations to the Proprietor of The Sun for
the exertions he has made during the last fortnight to circulate
the important proceedings in Parliament. On Saturday last
an express arrived here from The Sun office with a full report
of the debate and division on the Address—being 16 hours in
advance of the regular accounts by the mail. A report extend-
ing to several columns, had been written out, printed off, and
Conveyed upwards of 300 miles in less than 36 hours. We trust
Mr. Young will meet the just reward of such spirited exertions.
(From the Belfast News Letter of March 6. )
To a second edition of The Sun of Monday evening we are
indebted for the report which we have given of the important
proceedings in the House of Commons on that evening.

I experienced, as if Heaven had significantly warned
him of the downfall of his house, in the person of
his unseemly heir. The head of young Mirabeau was
so uncommonly and unnaturally large, that his mother
nearly lost her life in giving birth to him ; and subse-
quently his looks were not improved by the small-
pox, which made the most frightful ravages in his
countenance. From his birth, his father seems to
have regarded him as a kind of prodigy ; and with all
the appearance of an instinctive feeling, which he
could neither eradicate nor suppress, to have both
hated and feared him. He was not, however, as has
been asserted, without displaying considerable paternal
fondness for his son, after the latter's return from Cor-
sica, where his first campaign made a great and favourable
impression on the stern mind of the haughty Marquis.
We have an unquestionable proof of this, in the fact that
the Marquis of Mirabeau, notwithstanding a previous
resolution to the contrary, permitted his son to accom-
pany him to Paris, presented him to all his friends at
Court, and treated him with all the distinction due to
the heir of an illustrious house. The young Count

was not of a disposition long to preserve the good

opinion of such a man as his father. In person gross
and repulsive ; in manners, coarse, familiar, and occa-
sionally brutal ; in morals a debauches and a sensua-

list ; in politics, a Republican ; in. religion, an
Atheist ; and in general sentiments, a sort of Candide,
or optimist—he could not fail to render himself an
object of disgust to a feudal lord who treated his chil-
dren, on principle, as he did his vassals, and who enter-
tained the most sovereign contempt for those doctrines
of political right which paved the way for the
first Revolution. The expensive habits, the debauche-
ries, the impatience under restraint, but above all the
large debts contracted b`• Count Mirabeau without the

knowledge of his father, confirmed all those horrible
suspicions which the Marquis entertained during the
minority of his son. Neither is it true, as has hitherto
been generally supposed, that the Marquis procured a

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letire de cachet against young Mirabeau, before the
Count's creditors had rendered such a step of little or
no importance. That the father's act was wantonly
cruel we grant ; but we must make due allowance for
the mistaken pride of a high-minded nobleman, who
was always placing the conduct of Junius, Brutus be-
fore him as an example in the treatment of his
children ; who abhored his wife and all who

,00k part with her ; and who was, moreover,

influenced by the counsels of a mistress who had every
reason to dread the exercise of any influence which
young Mirabeau would obtain over the mind of his
stern parent. We make these observations on the
cruel conduct of the Marquis, just as they occur to us,
for the purpose of pointing out, why it is that he ap-
appears less guilty in our eyes than he has done in
those of more competent judges ; and likewise be-
cause in many respects the Marquis was a well-dis-
posed, humane, charitable man. The erection of
bake-houses for the benefit of his tenantry, and the
establishment of Parochial Committees for the arbi-
tration and settlement of all disputes, without incurring
the expenses of litigation, sufficiently testify all this. It
will be easily seen from this that we receive with caution,
all that is here set down in favour of Count Mira-
beau by his adopted son ; let us add, too, that we
are as incredulous as Didymus in the existence of
the crime of unmerited parental cruelty, notwith-
standing all that Johnson, in his life of Savage, has
asserted to the contrary. We admit its possibility—
but nothing beyond that can we bring ourselves to
believe on the subject.

In these volumes we do not find a word about Mi-
rabeau, after his release from the Donjon of Vincennes.
The history of the law proceedings which he subse-
quently instituted against his father and his wife, the
effect produced on him by the melancholy end of his
unhappy victim, the Marchioness of Mounier, his
missions and journeyings to Berlin, his election as a
member of the States General, his flirtations with the

lopular cause, and his sudden death in 1791, just as

the first dreadful whirlwind which overthrew the mo-
narchy of France began to be felt—all these are im-
portant parts in the biography of Mirabeau, which are
not to be found in these memoirs. But up to the
period at which they conclude, they are exceedingly in-
teresting, and will be read with avidity. The freshness
of the sources from whence the compiler has drawn his
4ichest materials, and the candid spirit in which he has
employed them are alike creditable to his judgment
and his integrity.

The Durham Assizes commenced on Saturday and
the Northumberland Assizes on Wednesday last. There was
no business of much public importance at either place.—Car-
lisle Journal.

THE ASSIZES.-The assizes for the county of
Cumberland commence here on Monday next, the 10th inst.
The Judges, Sir James Park and Sir Edward Hall Alderson,
will arrive in town in the course of Monday afternoon, when
the Commission will be opened. They will attend divine
worship in the Cathedral the following morning, and imme-
diately afterwards proceed to business in the Courts. The
gentlemen of the long robe have promise of only very poor
pickings so far as we have yet learned; we scarcely hear of a
single case. The calendar of prisoners for trial is more than
usually light in number, no more than seven cases appearing
in the list up to the present time.—Carlisle Journal.

At the Petty Sessions of Kilfinan on Saturday, a
priest in the neighbourhood of Alitchelstown was fined in a
penalty of 201. for shooting on the estate of Lord Kings-
borough without license. The Rev. Sportsman was proceeded
against as a poacher by one of the gamekeepers in the service
of the Noble Lord.--Cork Constitution.

EDINBURGH POLICE COURT.—On Monday, a
person named M'Gillivray, a dull, heavy-looking fellow, lately
from Elgin, was placed at the bar, charged with fraud and
wilful imposition, in so far as, in the months of March, April,
May, and Juno last, he addressed several letters to a respec-
table agent for a large estate then exposed for sale, with the
false pretence of purchasing the said estate for a Major
M' Pherson, and did latterly, in the name of the said Major
M'Pherson, conclude a bargain therefor with the said agent,
at the price of 18,0001., he well knowing that there was no
such person as Major M'Pherson in existence; and the said
M'Gillivray did, on or about the 16th of Juno last, fraudulently
and feloniously transmit, in a letter by post, from Elgin, to the
said agent, a false, fabricated, and fictitious draft or order for
201., at 60 days' sight, bearing to be drawn by W. G. M'Pher-
son, major, H.P., and addressed to Messrs. John Robinson
and Co., No. 6, Winchester-street, London Wall, London ;
at the same time requesting the said agent to discount
the same, and return him IN., which the agent, believing
the draft to be genuine, did accordingly, and since the draft
became due it has been discovered to be false and fictitious,
there being no such persons as either the drawer or acceptor
in existence, and the said agent has been defrauded and
swindled out of the said sum of 101. by the said William
M'Gillivray. Magistrate—" Are you guilty of this charge ?"
Prisoner—" Ou, ay, but I wasna compos mentis." Magistrate
—" You was not what?" Prisoner—" I didna ken what I was
doin'." Superintendent—" You knew what to do with the
money though ?" Prisoner—" Ou, ay." Superintendent—
And you knew that there was no such person as Major
M'Pherson in existence." Prisoner—" I daresay there mayna
be sic a person." Superintendent to the Magistrate—" This
person has written an account of his life, Sir. It seems he has
been imprisoned for a similar offence before. During the
period he will have to remain in confinement here he will have
an opportunity of writing a continuation of his life." The
Magistrate then remitted him for trial to a higher court.—
Scots Times.

A melancholy case of the murder of an infant by its
mother, in an insane state of mind, occurred on Thursday
at Purbrook. The child, Frederick Dilloway, was five months
old, and the mother being about to wean it, her sister-in-law,
Jane Dilloway, had come to stay a few days with her, to as-
sist her in so doing. After the father, who is a school-
master, with the mother and sister, had partaken of break-
fast together, the sister went into the garden to hang out
some clothes to dry, and the father into his school-room, to
clean it. They had scarcely quitted the unhappy woman,
whom they left in the act of washing and dressing the child,
before they were recalled by a strange noise, when they found
that she had taken a table knife off the breakfast table, and
cut the child's throat to the neck bone, the consequence of
which was instantaneous death. An inquest was held before
C. B. Longcroft, Esq., Coroner, when it appeared in evi-
dence that both husband and sister had used every precau-
tion, and had taken every pains to quiet the nervous irrita-
tion under which the mother suffered. Verdict—" That
Rhoda Dilloway, the mother, not being of sound mind, killed
her child, but not feloniously of her malice aforethought."—
Hampshire Telegraph.