The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-27 00:00:00

LONDON-, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1827.

POSTSCRIPT ' TO. MR• LONG WELLES-

LEY'S LETTER.

• Mr. Long Wellesley has published a Post-
script to his Letter to Lord Eldon, in which he
adverts to some of the opinions it has Called
forth.' The following is the whole of it, with
the exception of two short passage's

44POSTSCRIPT.
.‘ Hall-place; July 23, 1827.
" My bookseller having represented to me that
he shall be under the necessity of publishing a se.
cond edition, I add a few. pages by way of post-
script.—lt seems there are some who think that I
ought to have shrunk from any further notoriety,
and that the judgment speech"of the late Lord Chan-
cellor should have sealed my lips for ever—who re-
present me to •be glorying in the Practice of vice,
and to have published the two letters for the pur-
pose of pronouncing a panegyric upon adultery, and
of heaping calumnies upon the dead !--7-1 had hoped
that no one could have come to such a conclusion, who
had honoured these letters with an attentive perusal,
or who had brought to that perusal an unprejudiced
or impartial mind. God knows, I must ill have ful-
filled my intentions if, in any single sentence, I
have attempted to excuse or palliate the offence'iti
adultery, though I was anxious to prove that the'
particular case had not the dark features which have
characterised almost every preceding one. • If I had
said that I should be a scoundrel if I abandoned the
practice cif adultery, I might, with justice, have been
accused of glorying in that practice Of vice. But
no such construction can fairly be put upon my ex-
pressions. The abandOnment was applied solely to
the lady. Socipty has always been governed by
three laws—the law of God, the law of the land,
and the law of honour. He who kills another in a
duel violates the laws of God and man, but acts in
accordance with the laws of honour. He who com-
mits adultery violates the laws of God and the land;
but the law of honour obliges him to protect the
female with whom he has been connected :. and
though that protection ought to be as little obtru-
sive and conspicuous as :possible still it must be
adequate to the protection of the female from insult.
" But greater, indeed, must have been my failure,
and heavier, indeed, ought to be my blame, if any
one line, if any one word, can be construed into an
attack upon the memory of the dead. Good God !
could it be to calumniate the memory of Mrs. Wel-
lesley that I earnestly acknowledged her to have been
a most amiable woman, discharging the duties of
' daughter and sister in the most exemplary manner,
and never doing an unkind or injudicious act from
the dictates of her own heart,, but entirely from the
dictation and contrivance of others.
" What is it that has been desired of me? To
rest contented with the notoriety that has already'
attended my alTairs—that is, to' remain silent under
the charge of .being the worst father and son that
ever existed—not to take a step to show that I
have not deserved to be utterly abandoned by my
parents as to be cut off from•all intercourse with my
children. lam to feel a thorough conviction that
charges have been brought against me which have
not been substantiated, and that evidence has been al-
lowed to operate against me which was totally/ un-
worthy of credit. All this lam to bear in nun--
pining silence—' to die and make no sign.'
" But .1 have not been silent, or rather, 1, have
been silent too long. For months after the decision
in the Court of Chancery, I declined publishing
these letters, in the hope of effecting a reconciliation
with my family. How I struggled to bring utout
that reconciliation ! what sacrifices was I not ready
to make ! But forbearance must have its limits, and
no man can be expected to make a sacrifice which is
to be construed into a confession of his having been
deficient in all the duties both of a father and son.
"I saw no reason to be dissatisfied with the
grounds upon which the Lord Chancellor had founded
his decree. I was convinced that he had given more
credit to the affidavits against me than they -deserved
—I felt, that the weight which he attached to the
conduct of all my family toward me imperiously called
upon me for explanation and answer. Why was I
to forego the privilege of the accused ? Why was
I, I alone, to remain silent under accusation, and
contented under obloquy ? or,
" Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,
With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,
Say this—fair Sir, you spat on me last Wednesday,
You spurned me such a day; another time
You called me dog, and for these courtesies
I'll lend you thus much monies.'
" I exercised the privilege which is the birthright
of every Englishman.• My arguments may be weak;
my inferences may be inconclusive, but my facts at
least shall not be abandoned.
" If, when the reproach of having violated the
duties I owed my family, and of having been a bad
son to a kind father, was brought against me, I had
contented myself with a simple denial, men might
have doubted or disbelieved ; and doubted or dis-
believed the sooner because the denial was not sup-
ported- by evidence or facts. How unwilling I was
to have recourse to this dernier ressort may be col-
lected from the delay that has taken place between
the date of my letters and ,the publication of them.
" How was I" to act, under ¶he conviction that Lord
Eldon had relied too much upon evidence which was
liable to the greatest suspicion ? Was I not bound
to show the grounds of that suspicion ? To com-
pare that evidence with others and different evi-
dence ? To sift and weigh conflicting affidavits,
and to endeavour to prove that those which bore
against me were met and destroyed 191 others which
had been sworn for me. Not the least doubt existed
in my mind that-no credit was due to-the testimony
of Mrs. Scott, and those who attempted to corro-
borate it, of Dr. Bulkeley, of O'Meara, in short, of
almost every affidavit-maker' marshalled against me.
And I attempted, as it was my duty, to show that
my doubts were not lightly entertained, nor loosely
founded. This was more imperatively the case with
the affidavits of Mrs. Scott and' Co., and of Dr.
Bulkeley, and O'Meara, which formed the main pil-
lars of the chancellor's decree.
" Of Mrs. Scott's evidence the Chancellor says,
in one part of his speech, I have not the smallest
doubt of Mrs. Scott's evidence.' In another part,
We now come to Hall Place ; but before I go to
that part of the subject, I may observe, that there
has been an attack upon Mrs. Scott, and other wit-
nesses ; but I am as convinced, as I sit here, that
those witnesses.who have impeached Mrs. Scott are
entitled to no credit whatever themselves ; on the
contrary; tcannot help expressing my surprise that
those affidavits should have been filed.'
" But I am spared the trouble of dwelling as par-
ticularly as I should otherwise have done upon the
evidence of this woman.. She has appealed to a
Court of Law to vindicate her character. A double
purpose was intended to be effected by the appeal
(which was tried
,before the Judge who tried the
cause of Captain Bligh against me.) It was hoped
that a handsome sum might be sent into the pocket
of the injured lady, and that the vindication of her
character in a Court of Law would give her Chancery
affidavits additional weight in the House of Lords.
What is the result? A ,Tury of her countrymen has
pronounced her character to be worth One
Farthing!!! . Thus falls to the ground the far-
famed, far-Credited testimony of Mrs. Scott, of whose
evidence the Chancellor tldon had not the slightest
doubt,* whilst those who had attempted to impeach
it, were entitled to no credit whatever.'
" Such was the positive decision of the Chancel-

for upon affidavits. But what says a Jury upon vivo
voce evidence ? That this model of veracity is
woman without any character at all, and that thos€
who in Chancery were not intitled to any credit, be-
cause they attempted to impeach her testimony, are
the persons in a Court of Justice, to whose evidence
upon oath, a Jury gave full e.redit, and pronounced
their verdict accordingly ! ! !
" With the evidence of Mrs. Scott falls also the
testimony of all those who supported her, and thus
the appeal to the House of 'Lords will be lightened
of all that disguhting mass which encumbeted and
disgraced the process in the Court of Chancery.
* * * * * * *

'" As to the Misses Long, if it be wished to edu-
cate my daughter in hatred of the principles of the
Church of England, to make her a Sectarian and a
'Methodist, the,Misses Long must be her properest
guardians. If itbe desired to render her totally unfit
m manners to take her proper station as a lady of
rank arid fashion, no fitter guardians could be selected
than the Misses Long. * '* * * *
• I here, close.my postscript. It will be seen and
felt, I hope, that I had but one alternative—either
to remain silent under the heaviest. accusations,
or
to show that they 'were wholly unfounded or grossly
exaggerated. And in what way could Ido this
without having recourse to facts and documents ?
Let it be recollected too, that the sole object of the
'Proceedings in Chancery, and of the Appeal to the
House of Lords, is to recover possession of my poor
children. It was incumbent upon me, therefore, to
prove to my children that I have not been deficient
in that filial duty to_ my•fither which I expected
from them, and that as my.affection for them has
never been mixed up with any thought or wish that
was not connected with their moral welfare, I do
not deserve to have them removed from my paternal
guardianship and care.
(Morning Chronicle.) "W. .L. WELLESLEY."

QuEl3Ec, JUN.E 16.—The weather in the
early part of the week was unusually sultry. • On Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday the heat was truly oppressive, but
about noon the clouds began to rise, and gave every indication
of an approaching thunder-storm. At two o'clocJ the rain
began to pour down in torrents, andcontinued till six, as
by vivid flashes of lightning and heavy thunder,
and continued at intervals during the night.' We have not
heard of any accident during, the storm. Between the
hours of two and five the thermometer sunk from 92. to
66. of Farenheit, making in three hours a difference of 26
degrees, an extraordinary change even in this climate in so
short a time. Exposed to the sun at noon; the thermo-
meter was as high as 119. in Palace-street, near the Ord-
nance-store. The vegetation in this neighbourhood, which
looked languid and parched before the shower, appears to
have profited by the rain.
An • extraordinary and very'curious fossil rep-
tile, a singular remain of the Antediluvian world,, was
lately found by Mr: Shirley Woolmer, of this city, who
now has it in his possession. This antique animal is three
'inches in length, from the.mouth to the tip of the tail, and
three inches and a half round the body, which appears
like three distinct parallel bodies united in one ;• it has two
legs, two short or stubbed horns, and a round head, ex-
hibiting four prominent eyes, and is in an incurvated po-
sition, with its tail under it, which reaches only half an
inch from its mouth ; it is in a high state of preservation,
and is not described in " Argenville's Fossils," or " Par-
kinson's Organic Remains".—Eveter Gazette.
Of the eight bodies that were suspended for
so many years, on gibbets, off Blackwall•point, not one
now remains to be seen by persons who' pass up or down
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the river. Those 'a
the four Malays hive some time since
totally disappeared, and the gibbets on which Brock and
Gilliam, the smugglers, and the other two whites were
suspended,, have lately' been sawed down, by order of the
Lord High Admiral: 'What 'is left, now lies among the
mud and weeds alongside of the river.' A number of per-
sons have been to view them, and a relic-collector has car-
ried off one of the smuggler's hands. The clothes on _the
bodies fall to pieces like tinder, with the exception of part
of a check shirt, taken from under the arm of one of the
smugglers, which,is still fresh and strong.
On Vednesday evening, the Bath Mail-
coach to Exeter, having stopped at Wellington, to enable a
lady to alight, the coachman got off to take out her luggage,
' and in so doing a portmanteau struck the hind quarter of
one of the horses, which took fright, and the whole of
them breaking from. the restraint of the coachman, who on
the ground held the reins, set off at a furious rate. The
turnpike-gate keeper, seeing theta advance without the
coachman, shut the gate ; but the violence of the concus-
sion, occasioned by the horses running against it, bore down
the gate, and they continued their impetuous career for two
miles. While ascending a hill near Beam-bridge, they
were observed by a man, driving a waggon, who with
great promptitude drew his waggon across the road. The
coach was thus thrown against the bank, and the pole-
horses having fallen from
,the force of . the contact, no fur-
ther mischief ensued. The coachman and guard, on horse-
back! overtook the mail where it stopped. Had not the
progress of the horses been thus arrested, they would, pro-
bably, nave preiceed to the White Ball, about a mile farther,
where they are usually changed, and there spontaneously
halted. Happily no mischief was done. The three ladies
inside, were not conscious of the danger they had escaped
until the coach was stopped.—Taunton Courier.
Scarcely a day passes without some depreda-
tions takpg place alike disgraceful to the perpetrators and
to our city. For a considerable time, a parcel of fellows,
who have more the appearance of tradesmen than professed
vagabonds, have been prowling about the upper part of the
Green during the afternoon, and sometimes all night, and
who abuse and insult every one that passes them, if in an
unprotected state. In some instances they brutally use their
victims, without any provocation ; and in others take from
them whatever they can lay their hands upon. Any solitary
female who attempts to pass these banditti with a bundle
or basket is certain to lose it. One day last week, an old
woman had the contents of a basket taken from her, which
consisted of some sugar and bread; the fellows sat themselves
down and.eat their spoil, laughing at the woman's distress,
who weseglad•to run off. • Another (lay, a young woman,
bringing .a quantity of strawberries into town,' was sur-
rounded by about a dozen of these miscreants, who took her
baskets from her, and after eating what they could, p0e,...
ketted the rest. The girl ran off for some assistance, but
finding none near, she went back, and out of sixteen pints
of strawberries about one was left bruised and unfiCfor use.
From the frequency of these outrages, and the numerous
pugilistic combats, dog fights, &c. that take place, the
green, once the pride of our city, and fashionable promenade
of its inhabitants, is now almost entirely deserted. Surely
there is room here for the interference of the proper autho-
rities.—Glasgow aim-aide.
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER.—I like to meet
a sweep—understand me—not a grown sweeper—old
chimney-sweepers are by no means attractive—but one of
those tender novices, blooming through their first nigritude,
the maternal washings not quite effaced from the cheek—
such as come forth with the dawn, or somewhat earlier,
with their little professional notes sounding like the peep
peep of a young sparrow ; or like to the matin lark should
I pronbunce them, in their aerial ascents, not seldom an-
ticipating the sun-rise ? I have a kindly yearning toward
these dim specs—poor blots--innocent blacknesses. I re-
verence these young Africans of our own growth,. these al-
most clergy imps, who sport their cloth without assump-
tion ; and from their little pulpits; (the tops of chimneys,)
in the nipping air of a December morning, preach a lesson
of patience to mankind.. When a child, what a mysterious
pleasure it was to witness their operation ! to see a chit,
no bigger than one's-self, enter, one knew not by what pro
cess, into what seemed the faucesAverni—jo pursue him
in imagination, as he went sounding on tlaugh so many
dark stifling caverns, . horrid shades !—to shudder with the
idea that "now, surely, he must be lost for ever !"—to re-
vive at hearing his feeble shout of discovered daylight—
and then—(o fullness, of delight)—running out of doors,
to come just in time to see the sable phenomenon emerge
in safety, the brandished weapon of his art victorious, like
seine flag waved over a conquered citadel ! I seem to re-
Member having been told, that a bad sweep was once left
in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind
blew. -It was an awful spectacle certainly ; not much un-
like the old stage direction in Macbeth, where the " Ap-
parition of a child crowned, with a tree in his band, rises.'
—Essay!. of Ella.