The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-29 00:00:00

REMARKABLE ABDUCTION.

An affair occurred in this town in the early part
of last week, which has excited considerable inte-
rest, and become the general topic of conversation
in the respectable circles. The circumstances are
these :—Miss Row, daughter of the late Mr. James
Row, a shipowner of this port, and a young lady of
some fortune, it appears, had excited the admiration
of two gentlemen, Mr. Robins and Dr. Bacon, Who
are at present residing here. Both had shewn her
attention, but it is understood that the latter was
the more successful, and was engaged to marry the
lady. On Monday, the 20th instant, Miss Row
b"e-ernlatn,
Row set out for her own
evening. Her servant
came afterwards to conduct her home, but she Was
told that her mistress would be sent home by some
person
db-sytrinvitation,
to
spendto A
thlr.. NVatson's, in Northum-
berland-street,
between nine and ten o'clock, and had scarcely
left Mr. Watson's, when she was seised by three or
four gentlemen, who pushed her into a carriage that
returnedin
theane house,
Miss
was standing in the street, and she was prevented
crying effectually for assistance by something being
placed over her mouth. One of them got into the
alone.:
and the maid, in consequence,
carriage, and it immediately drove off. This gen-
tleman is said to be Mr. Robins. They travelled
northward, and on Wednesday forenoon a letter was
received in this town from Miss Row, by a friend
of her's, which was dated Berwick. It appeared
to have been written by her at eight o'clock on the
Tuesday morning, while she was tn bed, and it re-
queste quested her servant might be sent immediately to
bring her home. Mr. Charnley, who is one of her
by
nardians, accompanied a friend, and a servant
of Miss" Row's, set off in a chaise on Wednesday at
noon, for Berwick. The party returned to New-
castle with that lady at a late hour on Thursday
night. Here the matter at present rests--Tyne
(Newcastle) Mercury,

The circumstance which first drew the King's
attention to the unhappy situation of Beethoven, the com-
poser, is worthy of being mentioned. At a concert given
at the Pavilion during his Majesty's late stay at Brighton,
one of the finest symphonies of that eminent musician was
performed, and excited the usual testimonies of admiration.
When finished, one of the performers, who had taken a put
in it, exclaiined aloud, " How deplorable that such a man
should at this moment be in want, neglected and expiring,
without the comforts and assistance indispensable in such
a situation !" This short sentence, uttered in a tone of
much
made feeling, caught the ear of one of the lords in waiting,
wthe
inquiries requisite to substantiate the case,
and then immediately related the whole story to the King.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night a
' Chelsea pensioner cut his throat in the sedan chair belonging
to the workhouse of St. 3farylebone. His name is Isaac
Thurtle; he lived at Lawford, near Nfanningtree, in
Essex; and had come to London for the purpose of receiv-
ing his pension. He slept on Monday night at the Cock
and Lion, in Wigmore-street. On Tuesday he was seized
with a violent attack of asthma, and the landlord of the
public house made application to have him received bite,
the parish infirmary. At the bearers carried him along
the streets they felt an unusual motion in the chair. Upon
looking into the sedan they discovered the poor man sawing
his throat violently with a blunt razor, and the blood flowing
profusely from the wound. They took away the razor, aid
hurried to the workhouse, when the surgeon who Examined
him gave it as his opinion he could not survive halt au
hOUT.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOC SE OF LORDS, MAacia 28.

Sir A. Grunt, and others from the Commons, brought
up the Indemnity Bill and the Bills of Exchange Regu-
lation Bill. They were read a first time and ordered to be
printed.

NAVIGATION LAWS.
The Duke of RUTLAND presented a petition from the
Ship-owners of Scarborough, in Yorkshire, praying for an
alteration of the Navigation Laws.
CORN LAWS.

The Duke of RUT-LAND presented a petition from
the Landowner• of the parish of Brisbridge, in Suffolk,
praying that the principles contained in the Corn Act of
1515 may be preserved in any alteration of the Corn Laws,
except that part of the Act which relates to the system of
averages.
Lard ROLLE presented a petiticn from the Millers of
Exeter, praying for protection against the Importation of
Foreign Flour.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented petitions from
the County of Ross, and from the Commissioners of Supply
and Landholders of Forfarshire, against any alteration of
the Corn Laws, or, at all events, praying for an alteration
of the proposed scabs of duties.
The same Noble EARL presented a petition to the same
effect from Banffshire; from the Rape of Hastings, in the
County of Sussex ; from Fareham, i• Hampshire ; from
Chester-le-Street, in Durham ; from the County of Elgin;
and from Woodbridge, in Suffolk.
Earl STANHOPE, in presenting a petition to the same
effect from the town of Dartford, in Kest, observed, that
there was an important circumstance attached to the peti-
tion ; the petitioners had come to the Resolutions con-
tained in it, since the time when his Majesty's Government
had proposed their Resolutions to the consideration of the
Parliament ; and he had no doubt that their petition would
be followed by numerous other petitions from every part of
the kingdom, expressive of the strong disapprobation with
which these Resolutions were viewed by every one con-
nected with the agriculture of the country. The system
to be carried into effect by the present Corn Bill would, ho
was satisfied, prove ruinous to the farmers, by laying the
market open to operations of speculators, whose exertions
must produce the moat destructive fluctuations.
His LORDSHIP, i❑ presenting several other petitions
to the same effect from Whitsuntry, in Bedford ; from the
Hundred of Henstead, and from the Hundred of Hineeforth,
in Norfolk; and from Abergagley, in the County of Den-
bigh, signed by nearly every proprietor and owner or farmer
of land, in their vicinity, took occasion to defend petitions
which were signed quietly, and with deliberation, from the
imputations which had been taut upon them by a Noble Lord,
when he called them hole and corner petitions. Those petitions,
signed by those who were made acquainted with the object
to which they wished to call the attention of the House,
were much more deserving of their Lordships attention, as
speaking the sense of those from whom they came, than
that other class of petitions, which were agreed to at great
Public Meetings, under the influence and authority of great
public speakers or writers, but which were generally signed
without any proper attention to the subject on the part of
those assembled. These petitions were signed by men
who had calmly considered the effect upon their interests
of the measures in contemplation, and he repeated, that they
were well worth their Lordships' attention.
Lord TEYNHAM, in presenting a similar petition from
the Farmers and Corn-dealers assembled at the market of
the town of Ipswich, in Suffolk, observed, that the mea-
sures with respect to the Corn Trade, now proposed by
Government, were the result of a series of experiments,
which had been engendered from the French Revolution ;
and he could only say, that if they were persisted in, they
would place the farmers and landowners of the country in
a situation which they could not anticipate, and which they
had never before known. The petitions were then laid upon
their Lordships' table.