The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-14 00:00:00

READY MADE.

and do not tell Mm who the woman is you mean to marry,-
he may imagine it some low person, some Italian, or, in short,
anything; and that the whim you dare not avow will
soon pass, and he will most undoubtedly refuse having
any thing -to do with it. Then my treasure; you say you
will talk of honour to him. There is no honour in the case
if there is, I will not marry you. I love you, and I have rea-
son to.hope and believe you love me; but honour, in the
sense you take it, is out of the question. I cannot bear to
owe my happiness to anything but affection, and ail pre-
mises, though sacred in our eyes and in those of Heaven,
shall not oblige you to do any thing towards me that can in
the least prejudice your future interests. .As for
honour, with the meaning Mr. Gunn will annex to it,—l
am ashamed to 'fancy it,—he will imagine I have been your
mistress, and that humanity, commonly termed honour,
now induces you to pity me. and so veil my follies
by an honourable marriage. My own beloved Prince, forgive
me if lam warm upon this subject. I wish you to feel you
owe me nothing; and whatever I owe you I wish to owe to
your love and to your good opinion, but to no other prin-
eiple. Tell Mr. Gunn, my own Augustus, that you love me ;
that you are resolved to marry me; that you have pledged a
sacred word ; tell him, if you please, that upon the Bible
you have sworn it; that I have done the same; and that
nothing shall ever divide 11.3;. but don't let him imagine that
4--have-been vile. Do this, my only love ; but pray take
care of the character of your wife, your Augusta."
" My dearest and now really adored hush:aid ! you are but
this moment, gone—the sacred words I have heard still
ribr*ing in my ears—still reaching my heart. Oh, my
prince! my lover! and now indeed my husband, how I bless
the dear man who has made me yours. What a precious,
what a holy ceremony : how solemn the charges; how dear,
and yet how awful. Do you feel happy, my only love?
Tell me you do, that I may bless my destiny. To be your wife
is the summit of my wishes; 1 have attained that summit;
but if my loved, my adored, husband has one moment of
regret my happiness is fled, and despair returns. But do I
talk of despair when joy ought to be my only theme,—when
it fills my whole soul
" Shall I hear from you to-morrow morning, my only be-
loved ? Will you write to your wife ? Will you tell her
how you have gotten home, and whether the comipg out has
given you cold.?
. •
'" Your dear note is just arrived, my dearest husband I I
will observe all you telt me, and assure you'l feel happier
than words can express."
Among the documentary evidence tendered was d volume
of " Young's Night Thoughts," on a leaf of whirl was the
following 'entry, in the handwriting of the Lady Augusta
Murray :—" A present from Prince Augustus Frederick,"
_after which appeared the following, in the handwriting of his
late Royal Highness :—" April 4, 1793—Augusta lost tha
name oflifurray for one more dear, Augustus Frederick."
, The Loan CHANCELLOR suggested that with re'gard
to the journal, Mr. Waddijagton should look it over see
if it contained any other pasaazes applicable to the subject,
Mr. ERIE thought it right to state that the journal com-
menced long priori.) these transactions, and voatained ob-
servations made during -a tour in Italy, Sta account of the
first Introduction of his Royal Highness so the Lady Augusta.
Murray, and also the declaration that they Were husband anti
wife.

Mr. W.l.rmrxoTox would tool; the journal.
Mr. EaLE•then tmdeked - ..
prayer-book in evide.:,ce on the
blank leaf of which. •°- w.es the following entry in the' hand-
writing of the T 1
marrio, _ . -•adv Angusta :—" By this prover-book I was
. at Rome to Prince Augustus Frederick, on the 4th of
,tpril, 1793, by the Rey. Mr.
The next piece of documentary evidence put in was a
volume of Shakspeare, containing the following entry, in the
hand-writing of his late Royal Highness :—" April 4, 1793
This moment I have come from my Augusta. She is mine
to all eternity. God has given me her. She depends hence-
forth upon me, and upon no one else. Oh ! Lord, protect us
and bless us with all godliness to serve thee, who liveth
and reigneth with the Father and the Holy Ghost, world
without .end."

A volume of Blair 's Sermons was then put in, containing
the following entry, in the hand-writing of his Royal High-
ness, " Augustus Frederick gave this book to his dear wife,
Augusta, May 22d, 1793, at Rome."
Another volume of the same work, containing the words
" Augustus Frederick and Augusta," was also put in.
A will, in the. handwriting of his late Royal Highness, and
sealed with the royal arms, was then put in. It was regd.
larly attested, and was dated " Berlin, sth Sept., 1.799," and it
stated that the testator was duly married on the 4th April,
1793, at Rome, to the Lady Augusta Murray, daughter of
the Earl of Dunmore, and that the ceremony of marriage was
again performed between the parties at the parish church of
St.. George, Hanover-square, by banns, on the sth Dec., 1793.
The next document tendered was a will, dated 1800, in.
which the testator declared that he had been solemnly, le-
gally, and duly married to Lady Augusta Murray at Rome,
on the 4th of April, 1793, and afterwards at St. George's, Ha-
nover-square, and also that the claimant, who was born in
the parish of Marylebone, was his true and legitimate son.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the admission jif the
last document, because it contained an admission that the
marriage had been declared to be null and void.
Mr. Sergeant WILDE said he did not apprehend that th•
objection of his Learned. Friend was founded in fact. There
never had been a dispute as to the only point as to which
the will was produced, namely, a marriage in fact. The
words were " Notwithstanding a decree has since passed the
Court of Doctors' Commons to declare the marriage unlawful
and void, yet I feel and believe myself bound," &c.
Lord CAMPBELL thought it would be contrary to all esta-
blished rules to admit this document, when it contained a
declaration that this marriage had been declared to be void.
Lord BROUGHAM and Lord DENMAN concurred in this view.
The LORD CHANCELLOR considered that the only declara-
tion of this nature which could be admissable Was a declara-
tion of a legal marriage.
After a short discussion, it was decided that the evidence
could not be received.

Mr. ERLE then proceeded to read letters from the Duke of
Sussex to Lady Murray, written on board the Eudymion, in
January, 1801, as to the manner in which she should be
treated ; awl A letter to Sir Augustus D'Este, containing
advice as to his conduct.
Letters from Lady Murray to the Rev. Mr. Gunn, and
from the latter to the former were also put in ; and Mr.
Gunn, the son of the Rev. Mr. Gunn, was called to identify
those written by his father.
Letters of ordination by the Bishop of Norwich, admitting
the Rev. Mr. Gunn to priest's orders, were also put in evi-
dence.

A letter of his Royal Highness to Lord Erskine, was then
about to be read, dated 1798, stating at full length the liti-
gation which had gone on with respect to the marriage, and
de,iring his assistance; but it was exc:uded on the same
ground as the will.
A officer of the Ecclesiastical Court produced a copy of the
proceedings there, which was received in evidence.
Lord Northwick, examined by Sir T. 'iViLDE—Had fre-
quently visited Lady Murray and his Royal Highness in
Lower Grosvenor-street in 1800. His Royal Highness al-
ways treated her Ladyship as his consort, and she was called
the Princess Augusta.
The Rev. Mr. Crow examined by Sir T. Wiens.—De-
posed to having officiated for the Rev. Mr. Gunn in 1792, on
account of his going abroad. He returned to England in
1793.

Evidence was gone into for the purpose of showing, by
correspondence, that the Rev. Mr. Gunn was at Rome at the
time of the marriage.
Sir T. WILDE said he now proposed to prove a declaration
made by Mr. Gunn, in reference to the marriage of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex. He did so on the ground that
the individual had peculiar means of knowledge, and that it
was his interest not to misrepresent the fact. He had already
offered evidence as to Mr. Gunn's being at Rome at
the time of the marriage. In 1831 Mr. Gunn was
required to give evidence on certain Chancery proceedings,
and he declined to answer the interrogatories, on the ground
that he might thereby bring himself under the penal conse-
quences of the Royal Marriage Act. He proposed to show
what declaration he had made on the subject of the marriage.
He had an interest to suppress his own share in the matter,
and lie was, as he (Sir T. Wilde) was prepared to prove, in
a state of alarm on the subject up to the time of his
death, to such an extent that his health was affected. Ac-
cording to the rule, therefore, in such cases, he contended
that he should be allowed to examine the witness, to show
what declaration Mr. Gunn had made on the subject of the
marriage.
Mr. ERLE followed on the same side. The principle of the
law turned on the question, whether the party had a motive
to speak the truth? and in this case the party being under
the greatest apprehension, his declarations ought to be re-
ceived.
The LORD CIANCELLOR said he thought the proposition
laid down at the bar could not be mtfintained. He would
suppose this case :—A was indicted for murder; B, on hie
death-bed, made declarations that he was present
at the murder committed by A. Was it possible to
say that, on the indictment of A, the declarations
of B might be received against him ? In the
case of the Berkeley Peerage evidence of this kind had been
rejected. It was not true that declarations must always be
received when they are against the interest of the party b 7
whom they were made; and he was of opinion that in this
case the declarations were not made under circumstances
which rendered it necessary that they should be received in
evidence.
i ordß,rougham,
concurred
in the opinion expressedLordCampbell,LordDm subs, andthe td
Lord
Langdale
Chancellor.
The evidence was accordingly refused.
Lord Macclesfield, examined by Mr. •Entrt, deposed to
having seen the Prince with Lady Dunmore and her daugh-
ter at Naples, in 1793.
A register of the baptism of the claimant was then put in.
The further hearing of the case was postponed until Tees-
day week.

A correspondent informs us that, on Wednesday
last, clothes, apparently those of a gentleman, were found
on the beach, near, Knightstone, Weston-super-Mare.
In one of the pockets was an order-book and card-case,
with cards, bearing the following address :—" J. Bro-
kenshir, wine and spirit merchant, 63, Broad-street,
Bloomsbury."—Bristol Mercury,
The captain of the Vaillant whaler, recently ar-
rived at Havre, reports that while he was lying in the roads
of San Carlos, a town on the coast of Chili, a fire broke out
there, which destroyed 152 houses, and all the provisions
warehouses. The captains of an English brig and an Ameri-
can schooner, also lying off San Carlos, assisted the captain of
the Vaillant in doing all that was possible to serve the un-
happy inhabitants, most of whom were stripped of every-
thing they possessed, two-thirds of their town having been
consumed.

HAYMAKING NEAR THE METROPOLIS.—OR Mon-
day the hay harvest was commenced near the metropolis,
and several fields were cut between Barnet and Highgate_
The crop, although much short of the usual average.
appeared heavier than could be expected from the conti-
nuance of dry weather.
TUE Lu NE.—Owing to the long draught, the. Lune,
above tide way, is now shallower than it has been or;the last
forty years.—Lancaster Paper. '
THE DANISH FRIGATES AT CROMARTY.—The
two Danish frigates which were expected to join the corvette
Flora are now both riding in the Bay. The one named the
Thetis arrived on Tuesday evening, and the other named the
Gallen moored in the roadstead on Wednesday morning.
The former left Leith on Friday, and the latter on Saturday.
The Danish Prince was landed at Leith some day of last
week, and is to take a tour through Scotland, after which he
is to embark here for the Faroe Islands. The frigates are
stately-looking vessels, and far eclipse the Flora (wreette) in
largeness, although not near so handsome. The complement
of men belonging to these frigates is 400, and they tarry 38
guns. The officers and midshipmen have been very kindly
received by the hospitable gentry of Cromarty, and have
been invited to the tables, and partaken. of the entertain-
ments, of some of the most respectable families. The Flora
has been an object of unusual attraction to parties who have
visited this beautiful vessel. On Saturday last upwards of
30 ladies and gentlemen who visited her were, after being
shown the different apartments for the officers and crew, &c.,
treated by the officers to a dance on deck, to the no small
delight of the crew, as they witnessed the evolutions of *lle
dancers tripping it gaily on the bosom of the deep. The
qfQoprs seemed to vie with each other in attention •to their
visiters, who were highly delighted and gratified by tr.e kind.
reception they met with from these gentlemen, era never
passed happier moments than, while on board 1,1,:e Flora.—
Ross-shire Advertiser.

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