The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-17 00:00:00

M. GUIZOT AND DUKE OF FITZ

JAMES.

The following letter has been addressed by the chi.
valrous Duke to M. Guizot :

" Chateau de Fertre (Sarthe), Jan. 11.
" Sir,—You have attacked me in the Chamber, where
I cannot defend myself ; it, therefore, only remains for
me to adopt the medium of the press, and wishing to
give to this letter all the publicity possible, ought I,
from regard to the Royalist journals, to stop myself be-
fore the laws of September, and not speak here with all
the frankness which belongs to my character? I can,
Sir, overwhelm you under the weight of your past conduct.
But of what avail would it be ? Have you not already
written on your forehead Cynicism and apostacy? In
your reply to M. de Richelieu and M. de Verac you have,
in your usual manner, heaped sophisms on sophisms.
" You have spoken of scandal, in allusion to certain
words used by me—you have dared to say that some
Royalists had forgotten their duties as citizens.
"Mv reply is easy enough. If I have violated the
laws of my country, why have you not summoned me
before a tribunal of my country ?
" There is still time for doing so. Dare, lam ready.
Cause me to appear before twelve French jurymen, and
there I shall give an explanation of my conduct. There
—though perhaps a condemnation may attend me—my
voice shall not falter ; and I shall repeat before my
country the words which I have pronounced in Bel-
g rave-square.
" Your imprudent threats could not frighten me, and
I did what honour called on me to do. You will not be
able to make me yield—you will not force me to pay
my respects to what I do not think fit, nor can you
make me respect what I ought not to respect.
" If you knew the history of my family, you should
be aware that it is only the headsman that can force us
to bend the head.—l have the honour, &c.,
" DUKE DE FITZJAMES."

A DESTITUTE FAMILY.
On Saturday two little ragged and famished-looking
boys, named William and John lloscroft, of the re-
spective ages of 10 and 12 years, were brought before
Mr. Broughton, at Worship-street, charged with
having stolen a cow-heel from the shop of a tripe
salesman, in Pitfield-street, Iloxton. About six
o'clock on Friday evening police constable Kemp, of
the N division, observed the prisoners looking
wistfully in at the window of the shop, and,
after watching them a few minutes, he saw
the elder one snatch a raw cow-heel from
off the show-board, which they both began to de-
vour with the most ravenous avidity in the presence
of the policeman. On being taken into custody they
cried bitterly, and said they were compelled by
hunger to commit the offence, as they had not eaten
a morsel of food since the previous day. They were
then conveyed to the statien.house, but the owner of
the shop refused to appear against them.—Mr.
Broughton asked the officer whether anything was
known respecting the prisoners.—Clements, one of the
summoning officers attached fo the Court, said that
he knew the boys, whose father had been a police-
man in the II division, but he died about six years
since, leaving a widow with a family of nine children
totally unprovided for. lie believed that they were
in a state of deplorable distress ; but to the best of
his knowledge neither of them had ever before been
iii custody.—Mr. Broughton observed that the ap-
pearance of the prisoners was that of complete living
skeletons, and directed Clements to make inquiries
as to the state of the unfortunate family, and report
to him the result when he sat on Monday.—Yester-
day Clements reported to the magistrate that, pur-
suant to his orders, he had visited the unfortunate
widow, who, with six of her children, occupied a
wretched room at the house, No. 2, Poole's-place,
Spitalfields, and a scene of greater wretchedness and
destitution he had never witnessed. There was not
a morsel of food in the place, and the only furni-
ture consisted of an old table and two broken
chairs. She had sold her bed last year to procure
food for her children, and they had all been
since compelled to sleep on the bare boards, with
nothing to cover them but the scanty rags that served
them for personal clothing. All they had to
depend upon was the occasional employment which
the poor woman obtained as a charwoman, and the
laborious earnings of the two eldest daughters, who
worked as machine-winders, but whose conjoint exer-
tions never produced more than 4s. or ss. a week. He
had expended ss. in the purchase of food and other
necessaries for the unfortunate family.—Mr. Brough-
ton highly approved of the conduct of the officer, and
ordered them to be furnished with a sufficient sum
from the poor-box for he further alleviation of the
distressing case.

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