The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-22 00:00:00

ALMA AND OXBERRY.

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The• fonovving. Letter eatip! too late to ug on.
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To TUE EINTOW.O7-TuE,MORNING CHRONICLE.
ft,—l am sorry my denunciation against M.Talma should
have drawn your Correspondent, L'Hermite, from his retire.
meat; lie imS, hOwever, --cotivinved me that a man when ex-
cluded front society, soon loses that tactus which so delicately
and-imperceptibly regulates the conduct of every feeling wand
and I should hope particularly of every Englishman. L'ller-
mite asserts that it 'was at the iesire of the Officers of the
English CiarriSon; that M. Talmo performed ; so far front
that being true, many did not know of his arrival till within
a few hours of hit performance, and others actually went to
the Theatre under the impression that the English Company
would perform." It certainly escaped Me that a tenth of the
prisfits were to be given to the poor, and I suspect, not more
so than those who ought to have been partakers of that boun-
ty. But I: Hermite should remember that the country actors
of our nation, are, generally, not eery rich, and French pa-
tronage is certainly not very likely to make them 5:1; if,
therefore, we must rob one part of the poor to give to ano-
ther, I do not perceive that the cause of humanity is likely
to be benefited by the act, and it certainly would be in Opp, -
sition to the views of our modern philanthropists, tor they
ever award'the palm to merit and industry. It has been said,
"my self-love was wounded." No! It was the-spinit of art
Englishman properly advocating the cause of. an oppressed
countrywoman in a foreign land ; but
.even had she been of
any nation, 1 hope I should have felt no other sense than that
'of-doing, my duty. as L'Hermite asserts,. this act " has
brongiit me alittle more into notice," the censure which his
retired and inntooial habits have caused him to pass upon me
confers a compliment, for which 1 thank him.
It' will ha proper here to 'intimate, that I have no desire to
prolong disonssion upon such a triiial matter, and also to re-
mark that 1 shalt deem it unnecessary to reply to any. person,
Whose signature•envelopes him in the garb of tiction:____

I a.m,-Sir, &c.,

W. OXBERRY.

LAMFNTABLESUICIDE.-111 gtldit on to the nu—
merous cases of suicide that liaye-itttely;akett plote,
we u►re under the painftil necessity :of reconli:4;

that of Lientenant-Cohnel J— P—, V the Scotch
Orcies. liria distinplislted Office-P-101-os only its
the thirty-first year of his 'age, and7ldis left an.
amiable Wife and aged mother to lament his me-,
lAncholy end. He was an Officer of g-reat merit
'and distinguished bravery, having received several
woonds in-the field of ba,tle, particolirly on the
memorable day of %V.:al.:do°, where,, in charging
b2.enetny at [behead of his regiment, he had two
horses shot from tinder him, and having received
a dangerous sabrewoutid. on the Lead, he was

left for: dead .on the.field. He was found covered
with wounds, anti was conveyed ,to his tent tier
surgical assistance, when' it was discOvera that
he hall- a slight fracture on his skull ; in a few
weeks, however, he. was solar recovered as to be
able to join his regiment. Within these few
months this,unfortonate Gentleman has laboured
under a State of mental- derangement, and was
confined at his country seat, ‘‘ithin eight miles
froui town, under.the care of,a keeptr, and at-
tended by several eminent professional Gentlemen,
but lor a short:time past he was-so tar recovered
that lie mixed in company, and occasionally came
to town for his amusement. On ThorOay)ast he
visited a friend in Porttnan-square, but from the
eccentricity of his behaviour the;. Gentlemen.
thought it necessary to send a trusty...Eu:l-10n to
see him safe
.home, lie arrived at home about
nine o'clock at night, and was taken out of his
carriage in a state of stuperfaction ; his friends at
first conceived he. was in a state of inebriation,
and he was conducted to his apartment, when it
was ascertained that he haul tali( n a atnantity of
opium.• Several couriers were disp3tched in every
direction for medical assistance', but before any
arrived he breathed hie last. .„
A seizure was made a few days since, near
Sarking; in Essex, by Ddlton; the officer belong_
ing tO,Latubeth-,street P9lice, of smuggled goods
to the value of near 30001. •consisting chiefly of
-plate-glass, &c. •

- 7 NEW MODE OF CHEATING.—The driver of the
coach 899, who, by reversing his plate, had ap.
peared to he the (Myer of the number 668, WA
hitt!, under this false appearance, cheated several
persons with impimily, wa4 on Fr day (after being
detected by the real Socia) taken in the evening tc.,
Bow-street, and two cases of extortion being
proved against him, was fined' to the amount of
3/. and upwardi, and, being unable to pay, was
committed to gaol. for two MOW hs.
At, an ,early hour nn Saturday, morning, the
house of Ilr. LUCAS, harness and' bit maker, iri
Seymour-Place; Edgware-road, was feloniously
broken, ittio, and robbed of property to kieotsi.
derabie eXtent. In •an hoer a •,!rwardt, some
biicklavers found the whole of the property depo-
Sited 'in the coal cellar •of an old unfrequented

Hlenaltit,isicitiaoin.retv.:sa.slatie,:mrands.
take p at the'
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wind); btforec:nnaLEs-JEmmETT, Esc] (.:01.osiet.
forthe County of Sm.try, upon the body of Ho-
herr Starev, about 50 years of age, who was rObb-
ed Hi,,?„ dreadfully beaten, t hat he died last Thurs-
day, in consequence of the ill-treat tnehtne received.
The C,prourr idly sutomecl up the evidence. acrd
the without hesitation, returned at Vrt(lict
of " Wilful against swne person or per-
sons unknowu."_