The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-12 00:00:00

MISS TOCKER.

We felt rnnch pleasure in recording the exer-
tions of this Lady while she appeared to have
been the object of untnerited persecution, but a
sense of duty, and a regard to justice, oblige us
to state, that Mr. GURNEY, the Plaintiff, has Pub-
lished such an account of all the circumstances re-
lating to the case, as cannot but place the cha-
racter and conduct of that Lady in a very diffe-
rent point of view. We must, however, refer our
Readers to the Pamphlet, which brings forward
Documents apparently of indisputable authority,
and by which, according to the old phrase, " the
tables are turned," and Mr. GURNEY appears to
be the persecuted character. We submit the fol-
lowing extract to our Headers, as apparently de-

cisive on the matter
The Confession of Mr. Henry Tocker, which I have more
than once alluded to, and which was written, signed, and
delivered into my bands by that individual himself, in the
presence of the relation and friend who had so earnestly arid
successfully interceded for him, has alrtratly been given to the
world through the same Journal in which the Libel was ori-
ginally inserted. I re-copy it here, nut merely as a corrobo-
rating proof of perverted principle, but also fur the purpose
of contrasting it with a Note or Remark made by the Editor
of The /rest Briton, in reference to that document, as fol-
lows:
" Confes.viuti of Mr. HENRY " Note of the Editor of The
ca. West Briton thereon.
I admit having joined with ' When the Editor was
my sister, Mary Ann Tucker, first applied to on the sub-
in the framing and pablication ject of inserting the letter
of two Libels against Richard relative to Mr. Gurney, he
tiurritty, Esq. Vice-Warden of declined doing so, unless Ise
Devon: one of the tith June, received satisfactory proof
1817, published in The /rest that the Charges therein con-
Briton and Cornwall Adver- tained could be fully sub-
tiser; and the other of a later stantiated. The offer of Mr.
date, published in The Alfred 'locker, Mr. Gurney's Secre-
Devonshire Paper. tar), to confirm that state-
I admit that Ihe statements meat on oath, was thought
therein contained are unfound- sufficient.'
ed; and I hereby requeit, in
consideration of my deep sense
of sorrow and contrition for
having joined with my said
sister in the aforesaid Publi-
cation and Libel, the forgive-
ness of the saint Richard Gur-
ney, for the injury I have un-
fortunately done hies ; very
solemnly assuring trim, as I
hereby do, that I shall never
cease to regret and feel re-
pentant for my misconduct ;
and that I will never again lend
myself to anysimilar conspiracy
against the honour and charac-
ter of the saint Richard Gurney.
(Signed) HENRY Toctcsa.
London, Nov. 16, 1817:
" The Defence of Miss Tocker,which was read, not spoken,
by her in Court, as the Journals infer, was the joint compo-
sition of the Conspirators, and went into a vast deal of irre-
levant matter. Physic, law, ethics, religion, politics, and
the sciences, danced in all the mazes of metaphorical con-
fusion' through this extravagant tirade. Had the Lady un-
derstood Cldnese or Cherokee, nay, all the languages pro-
•mulgated at Babel, she would, no doubt, have introduced
them into that false and audacious document, in order to
overwhelm her Auditors by a torrent of imposing declama-
tion."