The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-06 00:00:00

A SINGULAR CHARACTER.

On Wednesday last an inquest was held at the Salu-
tation, Bridge-street, Cambridge, before Mr. Cooper,
Coroner for that borough, on view of the body of
Magnus Klein, who came to the Salutation public-
house on Tuesday evening from Cottenharn, and was
found dead in his bed, but warm, next morning.
Upon a post mortem examination, made by Mr. Les-
tourgeon, it appeared that the cause of death was
hermetemesis, and from the state of the liver it seemed
that the deceased had been formerly a hard drinker.
The deceased was a Swede, and was well known to Mr.
Lestourgeon, having been a patient in the hospital for
several weeks. He was a man of very singular cha-
racter, and from the papers found on his person ap-
peared to be travelling about the country for the pur-
pose of obtaining signatures to a petition to the House
of Commons, respecting the vice of drunkenness and the
allurements of gin palaces and beer houses. On him
were also found a narrative of his life (which appears to
have been passed principally at sea), published by Min*
in 1837, and a list of persons on whom he intended to
call in Cambridge. A list of subseriptions to enable
him to get to London was also found in his pocket, and
several copies of the following extraordinary card
MAGNUS KLEIN has the honour to wait, solicit:rig the
favour of an interview when convenient, in order to ob-
tain signatures for submitting to Parliament a petition
signed by nearly 20,000 of the clergy, magistrates, and
most respectable inhabitants of different counties- through
which he has travelled, in support of his application
(printed by order of the House of Commons), praying
the Legislature to take into serious consideration the
propriety of suppressing, as far as possible, those houses
termed gin palaces, and shops, which are destitute
of the requisite accommodation of tap-room and parlour,
as well as the common beer-shops throughout the coun-
try, which give such encouragement to drunkenness and
crime, and thereby materially protecting the responsible
trader.

" Mr. Klein begs leave to mention that, although he
is well known for his personal resemblance to the lite
Napoleon, he is not actuated to this undertaking by any
sect or political party. He is a man of peace, and a:
free agent, having journeyed through the land under
the greatest hardships, to make himself useful as phi-
lanthropist and therefore solicits the favour of being en-
couraged and supported by the generous and benevolent
friends who delight in the performance of good works."
The jury returned a verdict of—Died by the visitation
of God.

Tux SECRET PASSION. By the author of
" Skalcspeare and his Friends," &c. In this singularly in-
teresting work, so much talked of in the best circles, the
author has brought before us a heroine famous above all her
contemporaries, not less for her extreme beauty than for her
extraordinary attainments in an age wnen genius of. the
highest order prevailed in both sexes to an extent never ex-
celled. In short, this gifted being is no other than the lady
immortalised byy. Ben Jenson in his matchless epitaph
Underneath this marble hearse, -
Lies the subject of all verse—
Sydney's sister, Pembroke's 'nether.
Death, ere thou shalt find another,
Fair and good and wise as she,
Time shall throw his dart at thee." -
It is only necessary to add that the whole interest, of the
story of "The Secret Passion " lies hi a clandestine attach-
ment the Countess of Pembroke is represented to have lotrued
with, in every sense, the most noble ofthe many distinguish&
characters by which she was surrounded, and from which
after mutual struggles, the result only occur to such natures,
both at last are disentangled by means which ,inore
deezly excite the reader's sympathies.
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