The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-23 00:00:00

* This Mr. Smith did.

We
JOHN 'TARDY, ESQ., M.P. PO& BRADFoRD.---
been
regret to hear that this venerable gentie'nkbahabLg
suffering from severe illness during the we_e she latest
sustained a fit of apoplexy ; but, accordios t'
accounts, we are glad to say he is decide ly
Bradford Observer.
,g ArriOngSt
COLONEL MAXWELL'S ADVENTVE---'-- d into
the numerous distinguished personages introduced
Era.
these amusing memoirs, are the following
peror Napoleon—The King and Queen of Spain
seen of Sicily—King Joachim of Naples and his. Quela
better.
King gTot.
—The King and Queen of Sardinia—The
Queen of Etruria—Lonis XVlll—Queen Caroliir)cin
England—Pope Pius Vll—Priucesse Pauline.-1' ic;
Lucien Bonaparte--Prince Leopold—Prince Esteqes,
—The Duke of Saxe Coburg—The Duke and I)"
of Bedford—Lord Amherst—Lord William Bentine__,
Colonel Neil Campbell—Lord Elphinstone—L°rd
mouth—Lord Stewart—Lord Duncan—Lady Charlotte
Campbell—Sir W. Gell—Madame de Stael—Afarsi,
Bertrand—General Drouet—The Prince of bionacc'"
Cardinal Pacea—Bergami, &c. &c.I %
GENERAL Tore THUMB AND THE TAO
CoMMISSIoNERs.—The " general," while exhibiting 1
Glasgow (which city he has lately left for 1)111)11:),
received, shortly before his departure, a visit fr°llllbi
official, who, to his great surprise, presented biro, tor
order of the Commissioners of the Income•tait r`ng
Glasgow, with a printed form to be filled up, cabid,...
him to make a return of the amount of his income .ar,
rivable by the exhibition of his diminutive person. ;r
Barnum, the guardian of the " general," acting 1111
advice, and in the belief that the Legislature never °OOl,
templated taxing a foreigner who had no fixed resides
in this country, paid no attention to the summons, W-fi-ne
commanded the general to make his return within ;be
day, instead of twenty-one, the period limited by "ea
statute. The Scotch Commissioners have now Pur,subis
the little general to Dublin, and having assumed tilt",o:
annual receipts are 25,000/., have assessed him to "00
amount, and now call on him for 729/. towardS
income-tax. This demand Mr. Barnum resists. .te.
SAINT AGNES.—On Monday last, unusual exclaal
ment was produced in this usually quiet town, consecln:ha
on the clergyman of the parish refusing to butyl
corpse of a child which had beets baptised in a dissena
place of worship, and no certificate
if the child's bePtl-er,
being produced. After much inconvenience, h°we,sta
the present minister of the chapel at which the bElP`idee
had taken place read the service from or near the heatof the burial ground, and- thus the matter ended.-- "1-
Briton.
Miss CLARA WznsTsx.—Unfortunately, the death
of this accomplished dancer has not been the on'Yie,ne
attendant upon the late sad accident at DrurP"-the
Theatre. A nurse of the name of Mudd, supplied °n; he
urgency of the case from the Middlesex Hospittnj,
attend upon Miss Webster, fell down the stairs, s-to
upon being conveyed back to the hospital, was found 10
have sustained a serious fracture of the knee. She
now lying in the accident ward, whilst a sickly has',.o- ;
and three young children are deprived of the soPur
they obtained from her labour.

BITH
On the 23d inst., in BrutR
on-streS.
et, the lady of CIO—
Scott, Esq., of a son.
On the 23d ult., at Villa Corsi, near Florence, the wife of
Alfred Lambert, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., at Sloane-street, Chelsea, the lady °'
Clarke, Esq., of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Spike Island, Cove of Cork, the pifo
of Lieutenant. Colonel Burton, Royal Marines, of a &tie eol
On the 19th inst., the lady of Warren De La' Rue, FA'
a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 17th inst., at
of Fermoy, T. Hamlet, Taylor, o'A, •
Inn, Esq., to Helena Gertrude, daughter of the 11.
Waters, of Fermoy, Esq.
On the 18th inst., at Luton, Bedfordshire, Darid Cole l';°l'l'.
Esq., of Worcester, surgeon, to Jane, eldest daughter c,
Waller, Esq., of
Luton.

DIED.
On the 18th inst., Anthony Barto Valle, Esq., aged ur79..11'
On the 18th inst., Amelia Eliza, the wife of G. " •
Coward, Esq., surgeon, Iloxton.
gr
On [the 19th inst., at Meadow-place, South Lambeth, '
B. J. Sharp.
On the 19th inst., at St. Peter'd, St. Alban's, Richard
Lydekker, Esq., 11. D., aged 72. fa°
On the 19th inst., Mary Catherine Hammond, widor°
late William Hammond, Esq., of Southgate.
On the 2d inst., at, Nles, Emily Berton, eldest daughter
of William R. Preston, Esq., of Aigburth, near Liverpoo.l•o4
Dowageron t9Ltandiyn3Atl.
,uastgßraoviem,
rat
sgberdi 19.
Sussex, Henry C
On the 3d inst., at Rome,Elizabeth Mary, daughter
erboull
Esq., of Rutland-place, Hyde-park.
On the 13th inst., at Brussels, Captain William linntlY
Campbell, late of the 20th Regiment.
On the 13th inst., at Milford Haven, Charles Chamberlain'
Esb., late her Majesty's Consul at Carthag ena and Coquirub°:
On the 14th inst., at York-crescent, Clifton, Margo
'
Bogle, eldest daughter of James Campbell, Esq , of Glaeg°th
On the 15th inst., at Clapham, Surrey, Mrs. Elizahe
Tyler, aged 87.
On the 15th inst., at Bath, Frances Matilda, ]°u--
nzeit
daughter of the late Rev. William Wilkinson.
On the 15th inst., in Regent-street, Mrs. Catherine Salmon"
wife of Edward Salmon, late of the Scots Fusilier Guarded;

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the two bodies found, or delayed until the other
are found.

THE ARMY.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND 11—
GIOUS LIBERTY IN THE ARMY.
(From the TVelchman.)
me `'f
An inaccurate paragraph having appeared in $°
the newspapers with reference to the subject of ie,,
e
lowing correspondence, we have been favoured v
the Rev. John Smith with copies of the original,,usb,
cuments, which we have much pleasure in Pubare,
ing, as very important in themselves, and, °a° of
over, strikingly illustrative of the character of cin'nor
the greatest men of this or any other age. ThAe Of
respondence haring been on a public topic, an
-ro•
strictly official nature, there can be no breach of P
priety in our placing it on record in our columns, Prtbe
cularly as it redouads so highly to the honour o the
illustrious Duke, and must prove so satisfactory t,°:
friends of religious freedom. We judge it exPeuie
nt
however, to omit the name of the sick soldier, as we'li
the title of the hospital at which Mr. Smith was refuse
permission to visit him :
" 9, Earl-street, Westminster, Oct. 17, 1844',
" THE MOST NOBLE lIIS G RACE TEE DUKE OF Taljj-
,G.
TON, ILO., P.C.
"My Lord Duke,—l think it proper most resPect .
to lay before your Grace the following circurastanceetco
"lam a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and of
course of my pastoral duties (at the written reques"js
Sergeant —, a member of the Wesleyan Soeietltsfinest
patient in the hospital of the ---),, i
: „;,,
on Friday, the 11th, and on Wednesday, the 15th
for the purpose of visiting him, and on both occasions
I have been refused admission. On the latter I ,0
abruptly told that, though I was a Wesleyan niiiiLs„trj,
I might seek admission on Sundays as other vis'rier
Your Grace will readily perceive that this would nell,be
he convenient to any minister whose employments on be
Lord's-day occupy all his time, nor would such a vis'
all that might be required by a sick or dying men' ,
" I beg permission to remind your Grace that an •
t I/
portunity of visiting a member of his flock is regnlrto
granted to any minister of the Romish Church, andlcj
at a loss to conceive on what ground it should be deal
to ministers of other religious communities.
"I am unwilling to believe that the interdict of shireti
I complain as to myself can have been sanctioned $ tie
order from the authorities of the army, and I trust 11180
only to bring the matter under the notice of your Grare:_er
Commander.in-Chief, to obtain for myself and for °teat
Christian ministers, and for all such soldiers as msi, Uej
be members of the Church of England, those privneeof
which, while they are freely conceded to the merabeilni.
the Church of Rome, ought not to be denied to the taela,
bens of any Protestant Church.—l am, my Lord Dui
your Grace's most obedient servant, „ 0
" JOHN SMITP'
Mr. Smith received the following communication, I
reply, from Adjutant-General Sir John Macdonald
" Horse Guards, Oct. 31:Pte
" Sir,—l am directed by the Commander-in-Chief
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 170 „1
00
in which you complain that on two recent occasions_Y,
had been refused admission to the Hospital of -"torsi
whither you had gone, in the course of your PBs-est,
duties, for the purpose of visiting, at his own requid
Sergeant --, a member of the Wesleyan Societis•
at the time a p itient in the said hospital.
„k of
e f
"I am commanded to assure you that the J
-1"-e
Wellington anxiously desires that soldiers should btinf
the benefit of the spiritual assistance of clergrn.enod
their own persuasion, whenever they may require ii,;ol
that commanding officers of regiments are fully APPr;ot
of the perfect liberality of his Grace's views 013
subject.
" As regards, however, the visits of clergymen Widier
diers in hospital, the established rule is, that every' 5°,,„01e
is at liberty to choose his own pastor, with this tur,rbe
understanding that he shall notify his wish, through
regular channel, to his commanding officer, who will
immediate directions for the admission of the clergy
man whom the soldier may have chosen as his sr
adviser.
'
" Had Sergeant conformed to this rule (i.v-h leb IC
appeared he did not), you would have met with no irnra
diments in your visits.
, evert
" The indiscriminate admission of strangers (n°'„oi•
excepting the clergy) into barracks and military "°-'lO.
talc, without due authority, and without making ihdebs
selves and their business previously known, vroul
no.
productive of constant, and frequently serious, inc° eoe
nience ; but no difficulty of admission can ever tlecino
where the individual who presents himself for adniigstbe
mentions his name and the object to those who have for
immediate charge of the sick,* and are responsible 4,
the enforcement of the regulations under which sduil
sion into the hospital is given. to
" The Duke of Wellington has commanded ole,
enter into the above explanation for your future guitisob.
and to prevent your being, upon these occasions, s`•
ject to any disappointment.
" I am to add that, in the case of the Foot Guarcii;
the medical officer in charge of the hospital will b_elcooie
powered to admit the clergy, as the commanding 0::d to
of the regiment cannot be forthcoming to be lipliPhoe
for admission, from his not living in barracks.--4
I_o4
the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble seros.
"JOHN MACDONALD, -A.„
" Rev. John Smith, 9, Earl-street, Westminster.
on
The kind anxiety of his Grace to make his yeiwi he
the question distinctly understood, as evidenced by' the
the question distinctly understood, as evidenced by hi'
circumstantiality with which Sir John Macdonald, 51,ihr
desire, enters into explanation and direction, will bem- '
appreciated by every reader.