The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-27 00:00:00

have been safe either at a boarding-school, a I
friend's house, or even at home. In this case
-there does not appear to be anydefence, sb far
as the conspiracy was-concerned, worth anything.
Had this young lady's father been poor, there
would have been no conspiracy—no abduction :
it was the the money that was the object—not
the young lady ; and greatly must she have been
mortified, after all Mr. Wakefield's probable
cant—so far as a profession of love was concern-
ed—to find that she had been so grossly im-
posed on. It is no wonder that she said at
Calais that she despised him—that she did not
consider herself as his wife—and that she would
not remain with him. As to her flow of spirits
while she was with him on the road to or from
Gretna, is that surprising, or does it militate
against her ? Who ever knew a school girl, at
the age of fourteen, that was not glad to escapo
from school under almost any circumstances ?
Let any one have a daughter at school, and let
him send for her home—is she not delighted ?
does she not skip about tho house, scarcely know-
ing what she is about ? And then the idea of being
married—and to a man who had a decent person, well
dressed, and master of tongue enough to inspire a young
girl with passion. Then, the thought that she was
to be married to one who had saved her father and
mother from ruin—of being taken away from school,
to be her own mistress—to be well married too,
riding in her own carriage—her parents not, as be-
fore, her superiors, but her inferiors—to be at her
own command comparatively, instead of being com-
manded by them. Here were ambition, indepen-
dence, a settlement for life, release from school, and
perhaps passion to a 'degree, excited by a decent-
looking man, well dressed, with a plausible tongue,
full of smiles, making her, perhaps, trifling presents.
We do not wonder that she was in high spirits; it
would have been surprising had she been the con-
trary. At school, at that age, young ladies talk and
think of matrimony and independence--of giving
and• going to parties—of being beyond their compa-
nions, and released from the trammels of school and
the command of their fathers and mothers; and
here were these things brought about at once by
this apparently disinterested man,• who, likely
enough, pretended to be desperately in lore with
her—perhaps he might hare threatened to destroy
himself if she would not consent. But a Jury—
most of whom were probably fathers, and had
daughters, would see through the sophistry of the
defence. And here is the benefit of a Jury to de-
cide these matters—here are twelve men who can
feel for themselves placed in a like situation, and
who can consequently feel for others. As we before
said, Mr. Turner is entitled to the heartiest thanks
of every father in the United Kingdom.—Morning
Herald.

The Earl of Camarvon presented to the
House of Lords, last night, one of the most
extraordinary petitions that, perhaps, was ever
laid before a grave assemblage. The "lengthy"
compositions, De omnibus rebus et quibusdam
alas, which Wm. Cobbett periodically inflicts
upon the Lords and Commons, and the annual
effusions of the Westminster ladies' shoemakers
(although garnished with the attic jests of Lord
King), must, when compared with this, sink
into the insignificance of appearing rational. The
petition (which, by the bye, the Noble Earl pre-
sented with the most laudable gravity), was
from two coiners, who were apprehended at
Vauxhall some months since, ands committed to ,
Horsemonger Gaol. During the period of their
i
sojourn in its philosophical solitude, it seems'
they have meditated long andideeply ; and, to
their infinite regret, discovered tbat,______- under the exist-
ing laws, they cannot be punishda—TOU'rtie-otrente
they have committed. Lest, however, a similar mis-
fortune should occur to the coiners of future ages,
the '6 sweet rogues" petition Parliament to alter and
amend the Act 50th of Geo. 111. cap. 49, which
relates to coining; and, to save the Legislature from
all trouble, kindly point out the law's defects, and
suggest the proper alterations. That clever thieves
can make the best of Bow-street officers, has been
already universally acknowledged; but we confess
that we were not before Lavare of their capabilities as
legislators. We should suppose-Mr. P.eel.rnust htle
been equally in the dark ; and we, therefore, reconft-
!bend him seriously to take advantage of this disco-
very in carrying_ on his consolidation of the Criminal
Code.—New Times.

Mr. Hume gave notice of a motion, last
night, for the 15th of May, respecting the
Church Establishment in Ireland. About a
fortnight ago, a gentleman essayed the part of
Othello, at Drury-Lane Theatre, having an un-
questionable opinion of his own abilities for the
stage. He tried, and failed. But he paid the
manager for the use of his theatre to play the
fool in. Mr. Hume is just as competent to
grasp the subject he proposes to handle, as the
aforesaid gentleman was to embody Shakspeare.
He mistakes drudgery,and the power ofpoking into
the rubbish of a question, for philosophical inquiry
and comprehensive ahalysis. He has that dogged
quality of mind which fits him to count the
bricks in an- edifice ; but he will never build one.
He is like Jedediah Buxton, the celebrated
rustic. calculator, who-, when he Was taken to
see Garrick play King Lear, told the exact
number of words that were in the tragedy, but had
noshing else to tell. He
_will calculate, with tole-
rable accuracy,,perhaps, the precise amount of the
revenues of the. Church establishment in Ireland—
' how much each Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, &c.
ceivesy but why they receive it, or why there is a
Church in Ireland at all—nay; why it should not
be packed up and sent to England, along with the
Vice-Regal Government itself (another abomina-
tion in the eyes of this gifted statesman)—are
matters utterly beyond his comprehension. Yet,
on the 15th of next May, we shall find him, please
God, holding forth as profoundly on all these mat-
ters as if he studied them in his cradle, and never
thought of them since.— Ibid.

EXECUTION OF DAVID ALLEN AND

FRANCIS PROUDLEY.

This morning the extreme sentence of the raw
was executed on David Allee, aged 21, who had
been convicted of burglary, and of maliciously cut-
ting and maiming; and on Franci4 Proudley, aged
24, who pleaded guilty to one charge of horse steal-
ing, and was convicted on a second. At eight o'clock
the culprits left their cell, preceded by the Chaplain,
reading the burial service, the Rev: Gentleman hay-
ing been with them from an early hour, and had
administered the Holy Sacrament to them this morn-
ing, for the first time since their conviction. On
the platform they joined earnestly in prayer, and
Alice addressed a few words to the spectators, stat-
ing, that not having the word of God in his heart,
and, being under the influence of infidel principles,
he had contracted habits of idleness and extravagance,
which he was unable to gratify by honest means, and
had, therefore, been driven to perpetrate crimes for
which he acknowledged he justly suffered. The
necessary arrangements having been completed, these
unhappy young men exchanged time for eternity,
with only a momentary struggle. The concourse of
spectators was immense.—Hants Chronicle.

MATENCE, MARCH 18.--We have had to-
day a storm so terrible that we do not recollect ever expe-
riencing one equal to it. Three floating mills on the Rhine
were sunk and totally lost, and several others were carried
sway by the current, while those that remain contend with
the current and the hurricane. The boats forming the
bridge over the Rhine have been thrown by the waves to a
considerable height. During such a hurricane the passage
of the river is absolutely impossible..-• Journal de Frank-