The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-23 00:00:00

ROMANTIC AFFAIR.

The circumstance we are about to relate wears so
romantic an air, that we deem it proper to premise,
that it has been Commtmicated to us from a gentle-
man who had the best possible opportunity of know-
ing its accuracy, and who is incapable of stating
anything that is not strictly true :—A few weeki
since while one of our stage coachrs was travelling
on this side of Edinburgh, at a considerable distance
from any house, about nine o'clock in the evening, a
lady was seen sitting on the road waiting until the
coach should come up to her. On its having done so,
she rose, and in a dreadfully agitated state beckoned
to the guard to take her up. The guard enquired
of her how far she was going, and on her having
answered his question, he mentioned her fare would
be a certain sum, and demanded immediate payment
of it. The lady, who was scarcely able to speak,
muttered out, that she had no money about her, but
that on reaching the place she mentioned, it would
be duly paid him. The guard, unwilling to take
her on without previous payment of the fare, desired
the driver to proceed, until a gentleman inside—the
only passenger the coach had at the time—inter-
fered, and insisted that she should be instantly taken
into the coach, adding that he should see the fair
duly paid. The lady was- accordingly received into
the coach. She was dressed in the first style of
lishion; but part of her clothes was soiled with
mud, as if she had fallen on the road. • The gentle-
man on perceiving that her extreme agitation still
continued, mildly asked her the cause of her dis-
tress. She at first endeavoured to evade his in-
quiries; but on his repeating his anxiety to be ac-
quainted with it, and adding in the most friendly
manner that he should be glad if he could be of any
service to her, she at last gave him a short account,
which was frequently interrupted by sobs and sighs,
of the whole matter. She stated that a young
man and she had been for a considerable time
past on terms of intimacy—that he had made
to her proposals of marriage, but that in
consequence of his being somewhat addicted to
dissolute habits, her parents and friends in-
terfered to prevent her encouraging his ad-
dresses—that seeing there was no prospect of recon-
ciling them to the match, and being passionately
fond of the young man, they had contrived to elope
together, and had got clandestinely married—that
they had slept two nights together ; but that, on
the evening of the third day after their marriage,
and while both were riding in the secluded place at
which sbe was found, he all at once pulled out of
his pocket two pistols, one of which he requested
her to take, adding he would take the other him..
self, and that, on a signal, which he would give,
both should blow out each other's brains. The
lady of course was awfully alarmed at this conduct
on the part of her husband ; upon observing which,
he immediately added, that if she did not do as he
had proposed he would instantly shoot her. The
lady, in a state of the utmost terror, then jumped
out of the gig, and fell on the road—a circumstance
which so frightened the horse, that the animal gal-
lopped off with the utmost speed, and she had not
seen her husband since. The lady at the same time
mentioned to the gentleman in the coach her own
name, as well as the names and place of residence
of her nearest relations, some of which he knew.—
On arriving at the nearest post town, they learned
that the lady's husband had reached it about an hour
and a half before them, and that from his furious
manner at the inn, it had been deemed prudent to
hand him over to the civil authorities. In one word,
he is now in a lunatic asylum, and the lady is
placed under the protection of her parents. For ob-
vious reasons it would be improper to advert more
particularly to the matter.—Elgin Courier.

A sparrow was caught on Monday morning
in a garden in this village fully fledged, having three legs,
the claws and joints of each being completely formed.
The extra leg was situate almost in the centre betwixt the
other two. This wonderful sparrow was about an hour
or two after it had been caught, carried off by a medical
gentleman from Edinburgh, for the inspection of the eu-
rious.—Fife Herald.