The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-17 00:00:00

MR. HATT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Str,—ln justice to a much injured individual, I do trust
that you will have the candour to insert the following
statement in contradiction to a most groundless report,
which appeared in your paper of •Saturday last, under the
head of Marylehone Police report." •
I have had, Sir, like many others, my quantum of misfor-
tunes, and this fatal November twelvemonths, it pleased
Almighty God to take from me my ever dear Mary, whose
bosom was fraught with every goodness, virtue, and truth,
" to another and a better world," after only two days ill-
ness, in the 36th year of her age, leaving me with six
children, without a single relation in the world to protect
or shelter one of them. My wreck of mind was conse-
quently great, and I struggled against the iron hand of
fate, and paid every charge upon me with the exception of
a few pounds, attending the laying her cold remains in the
dust, through' the kind assistance of Mr. Baron liallack,
Judges Bailey, Park, and tiaselee, and N. C. Tindal,Eq,,
M.P., 84e.-
It is known to many that I generally go the Northern
Circuit twice in every year. As usual, I went the ;
and reported for several town and provincial journals, and
from my attention was pressed to take the editorshiP ,
one of the northern papers. I did so, and that was the
reason 1 did not reach London before the date of this

letter.
Before I left London, I had formed a friendship with a
lady, as I thought, of most respectable character, nor have
I any reason at the present moment to alter my °Pin'9n;
and it is only doing her justice to say that, whilst I vs
in London, she acted as a friend to me anti mine. 81.
het' own desire I entrusted to her care, the protection of
my yoongest child (a boy), which she wished, she said,
to take
.entirely off my hands. My two daughters, the
subjects of the paragraph in question, she placed in Ken-
tish-town, under the care of a person, where she sent
them a bed,- &c. took the ring belonging to my poor wife:
and exchanged with me her own, and vowed eternal
friendship to me and mine. I felt happy, and took
.
departure for the country.
After the assizes were over at York, and previous to my
going to Lancaster, I wandered among the roulantic, sre
nary of Windermere, and feasted my e 755 wi
ties of nature. These were my poetical eh's' urir?
my absence I wrote several letters, and received "ft"'
and within the last six weeks sent 61. for ray daughte.rsi:
am! 30s. pocket money for my boys, receipts a' wile
much, file
money I can prove to have been given. So
for their not having: heard from. me during four or five.
months.
The moment I heard of the paragraph in your Pa. Per
left the north, and arrived in London only last night in the
most painful anxiety. be
wig the net.iu-
Now, Sir, I will tell you at once what gave rise to t
proceedings against me. The lady above alluded to,heare
like many other false reports, that I was re-married--
hence, the revenge she took to get my - own mother, 11,1 n
sorry to say, to join her, although the latter alleges thstinde
only applied to the Magistrates to get their Clothes,
that all the rest was planned by the other to bring tile tdi
London. lam brought, but the end as regards herself
never be answered. On Wednesday evening last,
faithful friend. left the child she solicited, and Iny too
daughters which she had taken from the nurse, ill tl
streets of London, unhoused and unprotected; but, ill
God, they are safe, and last night I had the hapfin"6„,.,r
clasp them to my agonizing bosom.. I am, sir, l".
afflicted and much injured servant, Tr
RICHARD 11A •
N. 8.—1 write this in great haste, as I want to best the pi,
office to see the Magistrates before they depart.
Thursday, Nov. 16..