The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-25 00:00:00

MARGATE, SEPT. 24.

Sailed yesterday, at 10 A.M., for Ostend, his Majesty's
steam-packet Spitfire, Captain Watson, with the mail
and despatches, one carriage, and several passengers.
Arrived last evening, at six o'clock, from Ostend, his
Majesty's steam-packet Fury, Captain Sherlock, with the
Flanders mail and despatches, one carriage, and about
twenty passengers. The Fury made her passage from
here to Ostend on Saturday last in seven hours and a half,
notwithstanding the boisterous state of the weather,
The Lord Liverpool London steamer did not arrive at
Ostend until Sunday afternoon, having been upwards of
thirty hours upon her passage.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

LITERATURE.

LADY FANSHAWE'S MEMOIRS. LONDON, 1829.

Whoever wishes to glean a just and spirited
idea of the troublous nature of the times of
Charles the First, when even the sanctity of do-
mestic life were disregarded, as also of the power
and influence of women when exerted in a cause
which she has most at heart ; moreover, whoever
wishes to become acquainted with the virtues of
a wife—such a one as few ages, we suspect, can
parallel, should peruse the " Memoirs of Lady
Fanshawe." He will there see of what an
affectionate woman is capable, what perils she
can undergo, what tortures both of mind and
body she can cheerfully submit to, what lofty and
ennobling courage she can evince when the ob-
ject for whom she thus hazards poverty, igno-
miny, and insult, is her own husband. Lady
Fanshawe was a woman whose whole life, at
least twenty years of it, was spent in the midst
of every kind of danger. Her father and her
husband had linked themselves early in life to
the cause of Charles the First, and were abun-
dantly rewarded for such devotion by famine,
exile, and imprisonment. At the age of twenty
Lady Fanshawe, then Miss Ann Harrison,
eldest daughter of Sir John Harrison, of Balls,
in the county of Hertford, married Sir Richard
Fanshawe, by whom she had a numerous family,
and whom, notwithstanding the troubles and
privations of her life, she survived many years.
Late in life, and when the Restoration, by which
the infamous, ungrateful profligate, Charles 11.
was restored to a Crown which he never should
have been allowed to retain, had taken place,
Lady Fanshawe, then stricken in years, and re-
stored in some degree to competence, filled up her
vacant hours, by composing an account, of the
circumstances that so materially chequered her
early life, for the benefit of one of her grand-
children. This is the production before us,
which as the Editor observes, and the fact,
considering the striking interest of the me-
moirs is unaccountable, has never till now been
published. It is penned in a lively unassum-
ing manner, is full of incident, one or two spe-
cimens of which are quite of the heroic cast,
and is imbued throughout with a quaint kind of
earnestness, deepening occasionally into a strain
of singular energy and pathos, that gives it a
very marked character. The leading features of
the work however, are, first its vanity ; secondly,
its simplicity ; we might add a third peculiarity,
namely, the high-toned generous quality of its
sentiments. It is the possession of these qua-
lities that will doubtless render it a text-book
among memoir writers and readers. We give
as a specimen of the more descriptive parts of
its style, the account of Sir Richard's first ap-
pearance as Ambassador at Lisbon :

" So soon as my husband landed, he entered the King's
coach, and the nobleman that fetched him, whose name I
have forgot. Before him went the English Consul, with
all the merchants ; on his right band went four pages ;
on the left side of the coach, by the horses' heads, eight
footmen all clothed in rich livery ; in the coach that fol-
lowed went my husband's own gentlemen, after the coach
of state empty, and those that did him the favour to ac-
company him ; thus they went to the house were my
husband lodged ; three suppers and three dinners the
King entertained him with great plenty of provisions in
all kinds, and all manner of utensils belonging thereunto,
as the custom of that country is.
" Their Majesties did for some time furnish the house
till my husband could otherwise provide himself in town.
The Abadessa of the Alcantara, niece to the Queen-
mother, natural daughter to the Duke de Medina Sidonia,
sent to welcome me into the country, a very noble present
of perfumes, waters, and sweetmeats : and during my
abode at Lisbon we often made visits and interchanged
messages, to my great content, for she was a very fine
lady. On the 19th (29th) one Mr. r3ridgewood, a merchant,
sent me a silver basin and ewers for a present. On the
10th of October, stile novo, my husband had his audience
of his Majesty in his palace, at Lisbon ; going in the
King's coach with the same nobleman and in the same
form as he made his entry. The King received him
with great kindness and respect, much to his satisfaction.
On the 11th, Don Juan de Sosa, the Queen's Viador,
came from her Majesty to us both to welcome us into the
country. On the 13th, her Majesty sent her chief coach,
accompanied by other coaches, to fetch my husband to the
audience of her Majesty, where she received him very
graciously; and the same day he had audience of Don
Pedro, the King's brother, at his own palace. Saturday,
the 14th, her Majesty sent her best coach for me and my
children. When we came there, the Captain of the
Guard received me at the foot of the stairs ; all my people
going before me, as the custom is. On each side were the
guards placed, with halberds in their hands, as far as the
presence-chamber door. There I was received by the
Queen's Lord Chamberlain, who carried me to the door
of the next room, where the Queen was. Then the
Queen's principal lady, as our groom of the stole, re-
ceived me, telling me she hail command from the Queen
to bid me welcome to that Court, and to accompany me
to her Majesty's presence. She sat in the next room,
which was very large, in a black velvet chair, with arms,
upon a black velvet carpet, with a state of the same. She
had caused a low chair, without arms, to be set at some
distance from her, about two yards on her left hand, on
which side stood all the noblemen; on her right, all the
ladies of the Court."

TRAVELS IN ARABIA. LONDON, 1829.

As these travels—published by order of the
Society for Promoting the Discovery of the In-
terior of Africa, by the late Lewis Burckhardt—
are well known and in general circulation, more
especially the account of his pilgrimage to the
Prophet's shrine at Mecca, we shall say nothing
further than that they keep up the high character
of the writer, and fully prove his possession of two
of the most important qualifications of a tra-
veller, more especially of a modern one, where
there is so much competition in that line of busi-
ness, viz. a strict adherence to truth, and an un-
bounded love of adventure and enterprise. We
will just add that the illustrations to the present
work are of the very first order of excellence, as
regards correctness and clearness of design.

THE EDIPUS COLONEUS. LoNnoN, 1829.
Edited by the Rev. J. BRASSE.

The rising generation is much indebted to the
Rev. Doctor for his edition of this fine drama,
the most magnificent, with the exception per-
haps of the " Tyrannus," of any that even So-
phocles ever composed. With the notes we
have been particularly pleased ; they are simple,
concise, and explanatory to a degree seldom in-
dulged in by learned commentators—a prolific,
though at present, fortunately, a somewhat ex-
ploded species, who can reckon more " Bceotians
among their fraternity than any other literary
squad. Dr. Brasse, we perceive, has chiefly
followed the text of Bruneke in his edition ; this
is judicious, for few names rank higher in the
classical and editorial world than Bruncke's,
whose patience, assiduity, acuteness, and general
perspicuity have been long known and appre-
ciated among scholars. We need scarcely add,

that it is to the " cEdes ValpiantE" that we are
indebted for the typography of this edition,
which will at once serve to explain the secret of
its neatness and general correctness. We shall
hope to see the remaining plays of the Greek
dramatists produced under the same auspices.
The speculation can scarcely fail to be both
popular and profitable.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

CATHOLIC MARRIAGES.—Norah Sullivan, an Irish
woman, connected with a benefit society, appeared
before the LORD MAYOR and Alderman ATKINS,
for the purpose of complaning against the officiating
females of the society, for having refused to pay her
the money usually granted to members to defray the
expenses of child-birth.
Mr. Hobler,jun. attended on the part of the society.

The complainant stated, that by the rules of the
society, which decreed to every member a certain
sum of money upon the birth of a child, she claimed
the accustomed amount. She had been married to
her husband since 1810, and had several children,
but the stewardess of the society thought proper to
impute to her that her child was a bastard.
Mr. Hobler, jun. attended for the purpose of
showing that whatever claims Mrs. Sullivan had
in equity to the lying-in money, she had none in
law. In fact, she was merely a Roman Catholic
wife, married by a Roman Catholic priest i►► this
country,—a ceremony not worth a straw.
The Loan MAYOR expressed the regret which
every man of humanity must feel upon occasion of a
refusal of this nature. The moral obligation was as
strong as if the ceremony had been performed by a
clergyman of the Church of England.
Mr. Hobler, jun., said, it was absolutely expedient
to construe the regulations literally. Mrs. Sullivan
was not, according to that established practice, le-
gally married, and all her children were illegiti-
mate. He stated that the priests who belonged
to the Roman Catholic chapel in Moorfieids had
been spoken to on the subject of these marriages,
and they said they never married couples without
advising them to get married as soon as possible
by clergymen of the other church. _ .

Alderman ATKINS—I shall never authorize such
rigorous dealings towards this woman. She is as
much entitled as any other member.
The LORD MAYOR—I certainly think that the
claim is good.
The stewardess of the society said, that if Mrs.
Sullivan would get regularly and legally married,
the money should be handed over to her without
hesitation or delay.
Mrs. Sullivan had not the means to pay for the
performance of the ceremony.
The stewardess believed the society would have
no objection to give Mrs. Sullivan as much money
as would enable her to get legally united to her
husband.

Upon the understanding that the marriage would
be solemnized with the proper forms in accordance
with the regulations of the Reformed Church, the
Lord Mayor and Alderman Atkins forbore to make
the order.

Mr. Hobler, the chief clerk, seemed to be of
opinion, that if the order were granted, it would
❑ot stand before the bench.