The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-19 00:00:00

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.

LUTTERWORTH, Due. 11.—We have frequently heard
of two parties meeting each other, and forming a mutual
attachment at the first introduction ; but never having
known an instance of the kind, we were somewhat scep-
tical upon the point till yesterday, when our doubts were
removed by the following narrative :—A short time
since, a gallant captain, holding a commission in the
army, and also distinguished for his exploits on the turf,
took up his quarters at the principal inn in the market
town of N m, Warwickshire. Shortly after his
arrival, the daughter of the landlady, a remarkably fine,
handsome young woman, did the gentleman the honour
of attending upon him. Struck with the appearance of
the pretty maiden, the Captain paid her sucoli atten-
tions as seldom fail to have the effect intended, espe-
cially when backed by a scarlet coat and handsome
countenance, as was the case in the present instance ;
and so enamonred did the young lady become of her
military adorer, that, upon coming out of the room, she
made a confidant of one of the servants, telling her, that
" she felt convinced that the gentleman in the other room
would be her husband ; and that she should see him
again before long." Nor was she mistaken in the latter
part of her opinion ; for so smitten was the gallant cap-
tain with the charms possessed by his fair inamorata,
that he who had never feared the dart of the enemy, was
obliged to submit to that of Cupid, and the result was
that ho suddenly found the town in which he was located
afforded many advantages for carrying on the hunting
campaign, and he, therefore, decided upon taking stables
for his stud ; after which, as a matter of course, he found
it necessary to pay frequent visits to the hotel, when his
inamorata made it an invariable rule to attend upon him;
the consequence of this frequent intercourse was, that a
more familiar footing was established, and a correspond-
ence was carried on between the parties during those in-
tervals that the gallant captain remained at home; but
letters intended for the latter, instead of being addressed
to him and sent in the family bag, were directed to " the
post-mistress, to be left till called for ;" the captain pay-
ing a daily visit to the office for the purpose of ascertain-
ing whether there were any communications so addressed
for him. Affairs went on in this way till the gal-
lant captain's " leave" had expired, and he was obliged
to join his regiment at Dublin ; but, previous to this, such
srrangements had been made between the parties that
the whole of the young lady's wardrobe, &c., was re-
moved without the slightest suspicion being excited in
the minds of the members of her family; and, even-
tually, the young lady herself took her departure. Upon
being missed, the feelings of her mother and brother
were distressing in the extreme; the following morning,
however, a letter was brought, addressed to the " miss-
ing fair;" and her mother, thinking it might afford some
clue to the fugitive, opened it, when it proved to be from
the gallant captain, directing the young lady to proceed
by the route they had previously fixed upon to Dublin,
and there inquire for him at the barracks. This intel-
ligence being communicated to one or two friends of the
family, it was determined that the brother, accompanied
by an uncle, should immediately post to the nearest
railway station, and proceed thence to Liverpool, on
their way to Dublin ; and such expedition did they
use, that they actually arrived in Dublin before the
packet in which the young lady had taken her pas-
sage; and, upon landing on the quay, her astonish-
ment may readily be guessed, at finding that the two
first persons to salute her were her brother and uncle,
both of whom, she fondly hoped, were some hundreds
of miles distant. The uncle, fearing that the hasty tem-
per of the young lady's brother might hurry him
into some rash act, should he happen to meet the gallant
son of Mars, resolved upon having an interview with the
latter himself, and ascertain what his intentions were.
He accordingly went to the barracks and inquired for
" Captain —," to whose presence he was very speedily
introduced. As might be expected, the Captain was as
much confounded as the young lady, upon learning who
his visitor was, while the latter, finding that the military
devotee " humm'd and haw'd" rather too much before he
would give an answer to the very plain and direct ques-
tion, as to " whether he meant to marry the young
lady?" took an abrupt leave, and returned to the inn
where be had left the brother and sister. The young
lady finding, from the relation of her worthy uncle, that
" nothing but loss of character and utter ruin awaited her
should she remain behind," she had the good sense to
accompany her friends back to the home she had de-
serted, whence she removed to the house of a near rela-
tive, who resides at a small village in the neighbourhood
of Lutterworth, in Leicestershire, where we understand
she will remain till the excitement attending the affair
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is _ajesty the King of Hanover, upon the re-
port of Sir John Hall, Consul-General in London, has be-
stowed the Gold. Medal of Merit upon Captain Eurnicle, of
the Myrene, of Sunderland ; and a silver medal upon the
mate and each of the crew, for having, in the month of
October last, during a violent storm in the North Sea, rescued
the captain and throe of the crew of the Hanoverian ship,
Frau ltiatje, froze a watery grave.