The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-01 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND took an airing
on horseback yesterday morning in the Parks, and paid a
visit to the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER, at Glou-
cester-house, Park-lane.
Viscount ITABAYANA, the Brazilian Mini-
ster, had a very long interview with the Duke of WEL-
tartc•roN yesterday at the Treasury. The Duke of WEL-
LiNrcToti had afterwards a conference with the Earl of
DuDLEY.
The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER
gave a grand dinner yesterday to a numerous party at
Gloucester-house, Park-lane.
The Duke and Duchess of CLARF:NCE, the
Duchess of KENT, and Prince LEOPOLD, honoured Made-
moiselle SONTA G'S morning concert at the Argyll-rooms,
•
with their presence yesterday.
THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.—Her Royal
Highness's medical attendants issued the following bulletin
yesterday :—" Her Royal Highness the Princess AUGUSTA
is convalescent." The Princess received visits yesterday at
her residence in the KING'S Palace, St. James's, front the
Duke of CUMBERLAND, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and
the Princess SomiA.

Prince LEOPOLD honoured the performance
of the opera of 11 Barliere di Seviglia, at the Italian
Opera-house, with his presence on Tuesday evening.
Count LUDOLF, the Neapolitan Minister,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office, Down-
ing-street.

Viscount PA LmEßsTort entertained the Ca-
. binet Ministers to dinner yesterday, at his residence in
Great Stanhope-street.
The Duke Of CLARENCE and the Duke of
CUMBERLAND visited his MAJESTY yesterday, at his Palace,
! in St. James's.
Count MUNSTER, the Hanoverian Minister,
had an audience yesterday of the KING.
Despatches were sent off last night from the
Colonial Office for Sir FREDERICK ADAM, the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and also for the Hon.
Gen. PONSON BY, the Lieut. •Governor of Malta.
The Duke of CLARENCE gave a grand dinner
yesterday, at his residence in the Admiralty, to a numerous
party of Naval Officers. Among the company were—
Admirals the Earl of Nottistxsx, Viscount Exmoczn, Sir
E. Tuonivaaoucts, Sir R. KEATS, Sir .1. WITITS/lED,
FOOTE, FELLOWES, and ExtNs ; Lord .T. °TRY EN.
Captains--Lord SELSEY, Hon. G. Dirtinas, MUNDY,
HAMILTON, HORTON, EDGE, t.'.IYKICS, FARQUHAR, C.B.
and E. R. WILLIAMS. Commanders—E. SPA IiSIIOTT,
M. QUIN. Colonel FITZ-CLARENCE, and Captain
SPENCER.
The Duke Of CUMBERLAND honoured the
Earl and Countess CAWDOR with his company to dinner,
yesterday, at their residence in Grosvenor-square. His
Royal Highness accompanied the Noble EARL in the even-
ing to the concert of Ancient Music at the Hanover-square
Rooms. Prince GEORGE of Cumberland was also present
at the concert.
The Duchess of KENT had a select party to
dinner yesterday, at her apartments in the King's Palace,
at Kensington.
FASIItOXABLE ARRIVALS.--Lord G. Be-
resford, in Connaught-place, from Ireland ; the lion.
William and Lady Barbara Ponsonby, in St. James's-
square ; Mr. and Lady Ann Coke, at their villa, at Pad-
dington; Earl and Countess of Cassillis, in Privy-gar-
dens; Lord Crewe, iu Lower Grosvenor-street; Mrs.
Ashwell, in Princes-street, Hanover square, from her seat,
Leighton House, Leighton Buzzard, in Bedfordshire; Ge-
neral Gordon, in Devonshire-street; Major Lawrence
Fuller, in Old Burlington-street; Mr. Charles Pigott, in
Clarges-street ; Mrs. Gahagan, in Green-street, Park-
lane; Mrs. and Miss Aubrey, in Cumberland-street ; Mr.
Charles Drummond, in Grosvenor-place; Major and Mrs.
Bradshaw, in Regent-street; Mrs. and Miss Salway, in
Grosvenor-place ; Mrs. and Miss Dodd, in Park-street ;
Madame and Miss Riviere, in Pall-mall, from Lisbon ;
' Captain Howard, in South Audley-street, from Plymouth;
Major Southby, in Pall-mall ; Mrs. and Miss Dugdale, in
Grosvenor-place ; Captain and Mrs. Broderick, in Chapel-
street; Captain Alexander, in Clarges-street ; Mrs. Myd-
dleton Biddulph, in Stanhope-street, May-fair; Major
and Mrs. Bruce, in Waterloo-place ; Mrs. and Miss Dun-
combe, in Piccadilly ; Mr. Edward Hussey, in the Regent's
Park; Mrs. Smith and the Misses Smith, at the Berners
Berners-street, from their seat, Dunston Hall,
Chesterfield, Derbyshire; Sir James Little, and John
Little, Esq. at ditto, from Brighton ; John Payne, Esq.
at ditto, from Godstone, Surrey; Mrs. and the Misses
Marco, at the Hyde Park Hotel, Hyde Park-place; Mrs,
Murray and J. Murray, Esq. at ditto, from Wickham ;
Richard Price, Esq. M. P. at ditto, from Knighton ; Rev.
A. Asgill Colvile, at ditto, from Calais ; S. M'Tavish,
Esq. at ditto, from Ramsgate.
ARRIVALS AT TUNBRIDGE .WELLI.
Countess Poulett, York House ; Miss Stewart, Boyne
House; Mr. and Mrs. Suffield, Jeraingham-place; Rev.
Mr. Simpson, Mrs. Selton, Mrs. C. Lloyd, Sir J. and
Lady Isham and family, Col. and Mrs. Morland, Mr. snd
Mrs. Lushington, Mr. and Mrs. Selby, Mr. and Mrs.
Clode, Mr. and Mrs. Travers, Capt. Ginness, Capt. Hayes,
Mr. Murray, Inkson, Richardson, Benezith, Mr. and Mrs.
Coffin, Miss Worsop, Col. Downman, Mrs. Midlane, Mrs.
Grove, Mr. Mocatta, Mrs. Nugent, the Misses Brendier,
Capt. Calcott, Mr. and Mrs. Prosser, Mr. and Mrs. Izard,
Miss hard.

ARRIVALS AT BATH.—Lady Betson, Lady
Blaney, Sir C. and Lady Mary Cole and family, Sir T.
Hays, Sir T. Lawrence, Colonel Dixon, Lieut--Colonel
Stackpole ; Captains Griffiths and family, Gammell, Dal-
cell, Jones, Johnson; Lieutenants Marsham, Haffam ; /ter.
Dr. and Mrs. Wait; Rev. Messrs. Carrew, Curteis, Knox,
Turner; Mr. and Mrs. Pitt, Rogers, Hood, Hope,
Vaughan, Moel, Pyne, Newport, Arland, Cope, Gough,
Ryne, Power, Clarke ; Messrs. Hill, Whitaker, Day,
Robinson, Bullock, Bacon, Brownlow, Davis, Hyde,
Lichfield, Lewis, Littlehales, Mackinnon, Millott, Wait,
Macauley, Pipon, Rotherdon, Stoughton, Scrope, War-
ner, Wilson, Elliott, Atwood, Raymond, Sainsbury,
Berry, Goff, Lee, Browne, Lovell, Beard, Ledyard ;
Mistresses King, Rose, Hill, Miller, Wait, Wilkisson,
Williams; Misses Fry, Gore, Jones, Thomas, Worthing-
ton, Beard, Hichens, Wilkins, &c. &c.
ARRIVALS AT CIiELTENHAM.--Lord
Dynevor, Lord Dunstable, Bishop of Clonfert, Hon. Mies
Rice, Sir Harford Brydges Jones, Major-General Black-
well, colonel Jones, Colonel Pensen, Archdeacon and Mrs.
Mason, Rev. 3. Jackson, Rev. 0. Rogers, Rev. W.
Hutchinson, Rev. F. Turvile, Rev. Mr. Lidiard. Rev.
G. Cooke, Rev. Mr. Lawrence, Captain Worsley, Captain
Hilton, Captain Forbes, Captain Dew, Mr. and Mrs.
R. W. Hawkes, Mr. and Mrs. Honywood, Mr. and Mrs. •
Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Norleigh, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton,
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, Mr. and
Mrs. Wood; Messrs. C. Holland, Dunlop, Barnard, Ro-
berts, Smith, Tyndale, Hunter, Ironmonger, •J. Bell,
Johnston, W. Turvile, G. Hilliard, Barclay, A. Bailey,
Addenbrooke, Laurance, Brancher, Thomas, Perrott, Jones,
C. H. Seaforth, Offiey, Parker, Elton, Whatling, Smith,
Lewis, V. Dolphin, Allen, Anstice, Swann, Ashley,
Read ; Mistresses De Bossett, Alder, Williams, Bence,
Offley, Staynton, R. Tacomb ; Misses E.* Palmer, Smith,
two Powell., &c. &c.

Miss HARRIS'S annual concert took- place
last night, at the City of London Tavern, 13ishopsgate-
street. The rooms were very well attended. The LAnv
MaroaEss, under whose immediate patronage the musical
entertainment had been given, was present, as well as
many of the most respectable families in the city. Miss
having to perform at Covent-
gSaerii..tiveint.ENs was not present,

On Tuesday evening, the 29th instant, a Grand
Concert was performed at the Assembly Room:, for the
benefit of that excellent Institution, the Bath United
Hospital. The room was crowded at an early hour, and a
rich treat was anticipated from the known talents of the
performers (who generously came forward gratuitously on
this occasion, under the direction of Messrs. LODER and

Wninsou ; the selectinnOiTn;:ic—Was excellent. The

great attraction of the evening was the delightful singing
of Mr. MANNERs, in a ballad of his own composition, and
the admirable performance of Miss Iliscox (late pupil to
Mr. NRATE)
on the Grand Piano-forte. Her execution
elicited great applause. There was also a duet for the Harp
and Violin, by Miss Iticitanos and Mr. LODER. Miss R.
did her best, and LODFII enchanted us with his chaste and
beautiful tones.

THEATRICALS.—WALLACK, who, at the
conclusion of this season goes to America, will, it is said
be succeeded by Mr. COOPER. A new interlude, to be,
called " The Double Gallant," is in rehearso at Drury-
lane. It is of French extraction, and adapted to the Eng-
lish stage by JoNFs. The Haymarket Theatre is under-
going some judicious alterations. The whole of the inte-
rior is to be re-built—the boxes in the form of a horse-
shoe. The stage-doors are to be dispensed with, and
stage-boxes erected to supply their place. A new farce is l•
forthcoming at ury.

THE MURDER AT POLSTEAD.

(From the Suffolk Herald.)
Corder has all along exhibited so great a reckless-
ness of conduct—so unfeeling and wretched a heart
—that were not sonic partially acquainted witli him
as he really was, we should have thought his con-
duct incompatible with human nature : he has taken
beavor (a sort of lunch) with the men in the barn,
and near the very spot where his victim was de-
posited ; and. he was in the house of the father of
Maria Marten two days after the murder, and con-
versed with the family, and with the child of the
deceased ; he has been observed to have a trepidating
hand, and continued downcast look; of his appear-
ance, though altered, they took little notice, reason-
ably attributing it to his-Own illness, to the recent
deaths in his family, or to any cause but the real one.
The accounts he fur a long time gave of his victim
were distinct and consistent with probability : he
stated to the father, two days after the murder, that
the deceased was then at Ipswich, but that before
they could be married, Maria must live a certain
time at the place ; he said he had procured a com-
fortable situation for her with a Miss Rowland
(sister to a schoolfellow of his), with whom he said
she was going to Yarmouth for the benefit of her
health. It was from here that the prisoner informed
the father they went to London, where he said they
were married, and that from thence they proceeded
to the Isle of Wight, where he expressed his inten-
tion of taking a farm as soon as he could get one.
Among the excuses he offered for Maria's not writ-
ing was, that she had a bad hand; he subsequently
said she had written, and affected to wonder they
had not received a letter from her, hut he turned it
off by saying he supposed " it was lest in crossing
the water!"
The report of Gardiner's evidence on the inquest,
relative to " cautions" given to Corder, mentioned
likewise by the police-officer, requires some explana-
tion ; it was not, as the public interpreted and the
papers imagined, a caution relative to the murder,
from any knowledge the witness possessed of it, but
caution to abandon his unsanctified opinions and dis-
solute habits, for that they would assuredly conduct
him to a premature grave. This witness was some-
what intimate with the prisoner; he had several
times inquired " what he had done with poor Maria
Marten," for he supposed he had made away with
her, but the prisoner said she was no doubt living
with in London ; and subsequently he said she
was living with him in the Isle of \\Tight. The let-
ters that Gardiner had received from him since he
left home were dated, the one the 30th of Septem-
ber, and the other past the middle of the ensuing
month. He directed his letters in answer to "6,
Gray's-inn-terrace;" and this is the clue, we believe,
the officers possessed in apprehending the prisoner.
We are now to draw the attention of the reader
to matters that will more truly develope the real cha-
racter of the prisoner; to the elucidation of which we
are obliged to tread over the most delicate ground,and
shall enter shortly into the history of the unfortunate
woman. We learn that Maria Marten was
born in July, 1801, and had been brought
up with her father at Polstead, where she re-
! ceived an education fully or superior to her situa-
tion in life. Possessed of more than ordinary per-
sonal advantages—a pretty face and fine form and
figure, united to at least some education—it was
little wonder that she was beset by admirers, and
that an artless and inexperienced girl should impru-
dently fix her affections; flattery is not the least
ruinous vice that is planted in the breast of man,
and she is not the first that has to date her ruin
from its fatal effects. By a young man, whose name
we forbear mentioning, she had a child, which is
dead, and lies buried in Polstead church-yard. The
connexion with this young man afterwards ceased,
and she became acquainted with —, .Esq. by whom
she had the child above alluded to, and which is
now about three and a half years old ; to this latter
gentleman, the first child has been erroneonsly attri-
buted : of him, we can only speak in terms of the
highest approbation of his conduct ; he was con-
tinually in the habit of writing to Maria Marten, and
transmitting her cash for herself and child ; his let-
ters express the goodness of his heart, and although
he chides an error, it is such reproof as a grateful
heart would thankfully receive ; and his conduct
throughout has been that of a man and a Christian.
This sentiment is sincere; and,if properly taken, we
cannot express it stronger.
Some time since, this gentleman transmitted a 51.
note for Maria Marten ; this letter, it has subsequently
transpired, was intercepted by Corder, and the money
applied to his own purposes. A communication was
made to the gentleman, expressing surprise that no
letter or cash had been received from him. On this
he sent one half of a second .5/.note,and kept the second
half till he obtained an acknowledgment of the receipt
of the first. He then directed his inquiries to the Gene-
ral Post-office for the first note, and through the
vigilance of the Postmasters, it was traced to Wm.
Corder, who had cashed it at a bank at a town
close by, and endorsed it with the name of his bro-
ther ! Partly through entreaty, partly through
threat, poor Maria Marten was induced to assert an
acknowledgment of the money to the aforesaid gen-
tleman, for the purpose of exculpating Corder. This
threat was made while Maria Marten was at .4_•;tul-
bury. She for a long time, in tears, hesitated to
make so shocking an acknowledgment, but he at
length drew a pistol, and swore if she did not he
would shoot himself; the poor girl, reasonably
enough alarmed, necessarily consented. This gen-
tleman, it is to be feared, went off witla a bad im-
pression of the poor girl's honesty and veracity; but
we are happy in knowing that he has been subse-
quently undeceived. He met Corder in the streets
of London ; and Corder told the gentleman he was
going to the Isle of Wight, and should take his
child along with him ; his account was so unsatis

factory, that he resolved on•transmitting no more
cash till he had discovered the whole truth of the

flatter.

'We now come to a crime, which our contempo-
raries seem not to have heard of, and it is necessary
to give our readers some pledge of our accuracy.—
We refer them to the father of Maria Marten, and
the grandfather of the child we have before alluded
to, from whose lips we procured the revolting state-
ment.

It will scarcely be credited, that this monster
contemplated, and more than once attempted secretly
the life of the young unsuspecting boy, the son of
the gentleman to whom we have alluded, and yet
there is too much reason to suspect that such was
the fact. The father and mother of poor Maria
Marten, whose characters, we are told, will bear the

I strictest scrutiny, are the persons from whom we di-
rectly receive the fact; their situation in life is
humble, but the whole country for miles round where
the old man's occupation calls him, ratifies ibis asser-
tion, and we implicitly, to the very letter of this
narrative, believe him. Daring the absence of Mar-
ten from home, Corder came to Marten's, and pre-
tended to be very attached and friendly to the
child, and he offered the little unsuspecting boy a
fig; the child, as if by Divine interference, refused
it. and the grandmother said, that if the fig
were opened, and the child could taste it, it
might then like it. When the fig was out open,
something in the shape of a pill was found in it; the
mother tvirOe no notice to Corder of this, fearing he
,void resort to more violent measures. A short
tune after he met the child, and offered it a baked
pear, which the child refused too, and the grand-
mother (suspicious) said " she would lay it tent Poo7
sibly the child would eat it when
the uneasiness he expressed that Ole child should eat
it in his presence, on this awl the former occasion,
would have see,nqhisd to evince guilt; when he
• was gone, the grandmother, on cutting the near,
found a pill, like the first, towards " the bloom," or
gone; '
the top of the pear. It is not improbable that had
the child eaten these, the result would have been
fatal. Had the grandfather or grandmother thought
of it, the
analysing 4;ehse pi
aelhitilnst;miight have been discovered by
but uninformed as they were,
and intimate with Corder, we cannot wonder that
they were directly thrown away.
The grave from which the poor victim has been

taken is still open ; the right layer of the barn had
over it at least straw six inches deep, and the depth
of the grave by our admeasurement, somewhat less
than 18 inches; the picking up of a barn floor—
solid as a public road—is no mean task for a com-
mon labourer; and it serves only to show the brute-
like and insensible manner in which the nionstcr
proceeded to his work. If dug before the murder,
it proclaims the deed to he of a most deliberate
and premeditated nature ; and if dug while the
mostmangled remains
remorseless
and beside him,
unpardonableit exhibits tb
guilt.
Sun-
day the number assembled to view the spot was im-
' mense ; and the shot from the gun, which he is sup-
posed first to have discharged at his victim, are all of
them cut from the side of the barn, and treated,
with every other relic that has the slightest connec-
tion, as great curiosities; holes have been cut on all
sides of the barn to get a sight of the grave; and to
prevent further mischief, the barn-doors have been
judiciously thrown open, and the grave and barn are
now equally open to inspection.
While the corn was thrashing in the barn, the
man was annoyed by a dreadful stench from the
right layer, but as this is sometimes the case from a
nuinber of dead rats, no notice was taken of it at the
time.

The immediate relatives of the unfortunate Mara
Marten now surviving, are her father and step-
mother (her own mother having died when very
young), a sister (a good-looking girl), and two bro-
thers, the issue of the father's last marriage, and the
interesting little boy, her son, by the gentleman
alluded to above.