The Sun.
London, England, 1816-01-16 00:00:00

" TWEDDELL DRAWINGS AND MSS.

•
A circumstance haS occurred, which, in a
siOal manner, 'proves the inestimable value oldie
Liberty of the frets ! The literary world will be
rejoiced to kora that the Earl cat Fltors his dis
coveredit chest, that had not been opened for se:.
veril years, in which be has • fonnd the missing
Drawings and MSS. He has written ti letter to
Mr. HAMILTON, the Under Secretary: of State;
eorrommicating the fact to him, anUsaying that
he has addressed the box to Otis care, that it.may
be forwarded to Mr. TWEDnr.u:s family."
We copy the' above from the Illorninehroniele,
.for the purpose of staling, on the best authority,
that it is utterly. ,unfounded. .Wo have shared in
the general., egret for the loss of Mr. TwEignsWs
MSS., but we,inust express our abhorrence of
such base inventions as the .above. A just cause'
,floes not require base artifices to sastabi it anti-
such an insinuation as this, though' in the true
spirit 'of the Edinburgh Review Criticism on 111 e,
subject, has all the. appearance of malign/tut pe.r-,
:secation, and is:only worthy of such Slanderers as
trite same 'Review' ably rebnkes'in ils'reinaiiis on
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Dnuttv•Lostqa,TaeaTait.-7-14ivat night Mr. I RAN
•T.
trpkated his perftp,, ntalierof Ouir-reach,
and confirmed his high NVe entered
so folly into the merits of iiiis'picee on Saturday,
tlitit we have tiothingotri add, but that Mr. KBAN
:displayed fully as ntttelt inipctuons Vigour its be.r,
and did not :attem{►t to soften. down his, ra
.
pia transitions front passion to lwasSiotr. Yet this
iiall.that.is wanted to the character a i.her
rol.iare. The or Wet parts were well played " with.
`,the, cxCeptions- hi titre' exteptett," and the house
'was C,l'inV fled }tad Ullitilithon'S in 191)10113e,
-Tone VtoLET UN PR violk had he-
.eoitte an ohject of reprobationsinee its being not-
ed. as, it sign a rAllying minty per 19 OS V. aided
carrying them in the tear of the parity of their
'setointeiits heing sitspected. The following anec,
dote may reCon-iiC those ,very persons to a Il'fWer'
.which,,,seems biter itilaptelLinr the emblem of
modesty than the syinliol of x party. it, iSallitnt,
tiliti liis. MnAty :having lately violets Ott his
chimney, hat dititidnited then' to several ladies,
~.teltit appeared astonished ,it receiving• such apre-•
sent troth the hands of the Monarch :--Arcept
Ifient, said the King, 1 have. included the eio./et in tie
Anine,b•ty. • •
-Oa Sattirday the Pith instant, the, reqtains::of
Thomas Isotin,of Baker-street', Portman-Agitare,
Esq. one of the Bendier% of the 1-Im4 utable. So-
city of the Middle Temple, 1,. L. D. anti 14% R. S.
'we, re deposited in the vault of the 111idtlle Temple
in thti most private. manner, and attentlell'ai* by
a few of his neat* relatives. After n service of
27 years al his Majesty's Consul-General for. the
* Middle and Southern States of the United States
of Mr. Born) had returned to England,
.torktt reCollecting his early habits Fitt renewing his
early friendships, was admitted into 'the tiovern-
ing pin of the aftove Society, with. those inipres,
sibait which his mild And gentle demeanour, his
npritht and consistent character, and his other
valuable gnalities" and attitinnient4 hs.tl never friiied
tOlualte, .wherever he had become known.
—ll coin, bearing the image of Henry, King of
England, -who- first obtained the title of King of
France, having tin the obverse, the inscription of
Val* Caffeine,' was a 'few ilitys ego turned up by
the plough in the- pariah of Eilepholinp. in Scot
land, • . ,