The Sun.
London, England, 1818-04-07 00:00:00

MKS. EDWIN.

The public will hear. with no slight degree of
concern and sympathy, that Zs EDWIN has been
recently deprived of a very large sum of money,
laid by as a resource against the casualties at-
tendant on a professional life, and to bestow com-
fort on an aged parent, and an infirm and neces-
sitous uncle, through the villainy of a Stock-
Broker, to whom she had entrusted its manage-
ment. A short thne back, Mrs. EDWIN wished to
appropriate the sum alluded to—twenty-five him-
tired pottints Stock in the English Funds—to the
purchase of a G‘,vernment Annuity, and instruct-
ed her Stock Lit oker to do what was necessary for
that purpose The regular transfer was accord-
ingly mad, by her, and the Broker received, not
merely the stun mentioned, but one hundred and
sixty pounds more, in order that the Annuity pro-
ciaet' should amount to the particular sum of 1501.
He affected to have made the purchase pursuant
to his iostructions, anti presented Mrs. EDwIN
wills a document, apparently perfected with every
necessary formality, and which, he said, would
entitle her to receive- the Annuity at the Bank.
of Err :and—following up the alleged execution
of his trust with good wishes for her future bap-
, piness. In some time afterwards, this Broker
was found a defaulter at the Stock Exchange,
London ; but the circumstance was no material
cause of anxiety to Mrs. EDWIN, as she supposed
that her money had been disposed of beyond the
reach of any fraudulent contingency. She remain-
ed under this impression until her first half-year's
annuity was appl:ed for at the Bank of England,
whets the claimant on her behalf was informed
that no such name as her's appeared on the Books
in which entries were regularly made of all such
Annuitants. This intelligence led to further in-
quiry, when it unfortunately appeared that the
Broker in qaestion had converted Mrs. EDWIN'S
money to his own use—that the document he gave.
her, to prevent any suspicion of the fraud, was a
fictitious one—and that all -she had saved from
the- earnings of a laborious professional life, to
provide for the period when effort .may .he no
longer practicable, and to give repose and con-
' tent tnent to the declining years of two near rela-
tives, was lost—irredeemably lost. It requires
no small sitar e of fortitude and resignation to
meet' such a blow as this ; and it has affected
Mrs. EDWIN deeply. She deplores the mis-
fortune less upon her own account, titan for
the sake of those who are totally dependent upon
her--.-but feels-it, for every reason, most acutely.
'Such a situation as that in which she is placed,
becomes now, not only fairly but naturally, a
subject for the public generosity; and we are
convinced, should Mrs. EDWIN appeal to it she
will not do so unsuccessfully. Her great merit
as an Actress gives a strong claim upon the Irish
public, for whose gratification her talents have
been so long exerted—but her distress as a wo-
man supersedes every other consideration, and
must bring the hearts and exertions of all who
!tear of it into her service.—(Driblin Correspond-
ent, 4pril 2.)

Mr. RICE, the aspirant atter theatrical fame,
who performed Richard the Third, at the New-
castle Theatre, with such distinguished applause,
has since appeared in Shyluck and Ingo, in both of
which-characters he failed. .

SURREY ASSIZES, KINGSTON.-The trial of
Allen, Lord Spencer's game-keeper, for shooting
a poacher, took place yesterday, when he was
acquitted. The circumstances of the case have
already been correctly stated in this P.sper.

PARLTA MENT.

HOUSE OF L01113:‘, MoNDAY, APRIL 6.

The. House proCeeded in Appeals. Mr. Bul-
lock, front the Treasury, Presented A,,nual Ac-
counts of the Pith Expenditure, the Fxuunded
Debt,.Btc. which -were ordered to lie upon the ta-
ble ; and Mr. Bradley, from the Mint, an Ac-
count. of Gold and Silver Coinage from the corn.
mencement of the present Reign.—Ordered to
be printed.
A Private Bill was brought up from the House
of Commons by Mr. Lygotr and other Members,
and read a first time.
Petitions against the Additional Duty on Les -
t er were presented by the Earl Spencer, front
Wallingford ; by the Marquis Camden, the Earl
of Shaftesbury, and Lola Viscount Melville (the
names of the places not heard).—Ordered to lie
upon the table.
On the motion of Lott! Viscount MF,LVILLE,
the Lou,z it ude and Northern Passage Bill was or-
dered to be committed.