The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

A meeting of the Cabinet Ministers wa3 held yes-
day afternoon at the official residence of Sir Robert
Peel, in Downing-street. It was attended by Sir
Robert Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley,
Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Lord Fitzgerald,
and Sir Henry llardinge.
His Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of
Austria, attended by the Noblemen and Gentlemen of
his Suite, dined last evening with the Members of the
United Service Club. Their Royal Highnesses the
Duke of Cambridge, Prince George of Cambridge, and
the Hereditary Grand Duke ofMecklenburgh Strelitz
also honoured the Club with their company. The Earl
of Aberdeen, the Earl of Haddington, and Sir Robert
Peel were among the guests to meet the Illustrious
Visitors.

Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, Sir George Cock-
burn, Sir Charles Rowley, and. Sir Charles Colville ;
Generals Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir Andrew Barnard,
Sir John Macdonald, and Macdonell ; Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, Sir George Seymour, Sir William
Gossett, Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister,
Baron Koller, Baron Lebzeltern, and Colonel Keate,
were among the company present.
Dr. Todd had an interview with the Right Hon.
W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the office of the Board
of Trade.

The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council held a meeting yesterday
in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were,
the Bishop of London, Lord Campbell, the Vice-
Chancellor Knight Bruce, and Dr. Lushington, Judge
of the Admiralty Court.
An appeal from the Arches' Court of Canterbury,
" The Rev. Henry Erskine Head, Clerk, Rector of
the Rectory and parish church of Feniton, Devon,
v. Ralph Sanders, of the city of Exeter, Gentleman,
promoting the office of the Judge," came on for
hearing.
The Queen's Advocate was heard for the appel-
lant. The appellant had been cited in the Arches'
Court, for,writing and publishing a certain letter in
the Western Times, on the 21st day of August, 1841,
the said letter being headed " A View of the Dupli-
city of the Present System of Episcopal Ministration,
in a Letter Addressed to the Parishioners of Feni-
ton, Devon, occasioned by the Bishop of Exeter's
Circular on Confirmation, by Henry Erskine Head,
Rector of Feniton, Devon." Mr. Cockburn, Queen's
Counsel, followed on the same side.
Dr. Addams was heard for the respondent.
Their Lordships, at the conclusion of the case, de.
ferred giving judgment.
An appeal, from the Vice-Admiralty Court, at
Sierra Leone, " Logan v. the Queen," relative to the
brig, or vessel, Guiana, was opened by Dr. Addams.
Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, was heard for the
respondent. The ease was adjourned.

We perceive that a new article of commerce has
been introduced by the tariff. Nitron from Egypt,
the duty on which amounted to a prohibition, is now
advertised for sale by. auction. It will most probably
interfere with the manufacture of soda.—Liverpool
Albion.

KIDDERMINSTER, Nov. 25.—Great excitement has
prevailed in this borough, in consequence of the great
and increasing rate (poor). The tradesmen of Kid-
derminster have suffered long and patiently under
their difficulties ; but when the overseers announced
to the town that 2s. in the pound was required
they determined to call a public meeting of the rate-
payers, to know what was the cause of the increase.
A meeting was held this day at the Lion Hotel, to
take the same into consideration, and a Committee
was appointed to examine the overseer's ac-
count. When it is known that one firm in the town
will pay this rate only, the sum of 1201. and up-
wards, it is high-time to inquire into the case. It
was the largest meeting of rate-payers the town ever
saw. Among the items we have to pay out of the
poor-rate is the sum of 301. for fire-arms, ordered by
Sir James Graham during the outbreaks in the
Potteries.

THE INDIA, MAILS.—The next mails to Gibraltar,
Malta, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and India, via Fal-
mouth, by the Great Liverpool steamer, will be made
up to-morrow, the 30th inst., and the overland mail
to Egypt and India, via Marseilles, on Monday next,
the sth of December; the West Indies, Mexico, &c.,
on Thursday next, the Ist of December ; the United
States of America and Upper and Lower Canada on
Saturday next, the 3d of December, by the Britannia
steamer, via Liverpool ; Madeira, l3razils, and Buenos
Ayres, on Tuesday next, the Gth of December, by her
Majesty's brig Linnet, via Falmouth.

CHESTERFIELD versus BATHYANY.
(From the Age.)
We requested on Sunday last the indulgence of our
readers until this day, when we promised to submit to
them authentic particulars of this peculiar case. We
now redeem that promise,
The observations which have been made by the
Times, the Morning Herald, and the Age, have
elicited from the Morning Post, a defence of Lord
Chesterfield more remarkable for its gentlemanly
tone, than for its discretion. We feel as perfectly
certain that the writer of this defence believes every
syllable he has stated, as we do that a portion of it is
not entitled to' belief—and our objection therefore will
be solely directed to a refutation of that part of it
which we know to be unfounded on fact. When we
find it asserted, evidently by a partisan of the Earl of
Chesterfield, that he was repeatedly "importuned" by
the Count Bathyany to become a trustee to this set-
tlement of 3001. per annum on the Count's mis-
tress, we are bound to enter upon the subject even
more minutely than we intended to do, that we may
not only rebut a statement so utterly incorrect, but
place the clear truth before those at all interested in
the business.
The courtezan in question, better known to the gay
circles of London as Nelly Holmes than Eleanor
Suter, was at the time of her introduction to Count
Bathyany, living under the protection of Lord Maid-
stone ; a connection with which his noble father the
Earl of Winchilsea expressed his utmost displeasure
—and Lord Maidstone, under this influence, trans-
ferred the said lady into the Count's custody, the
Count being willing to take her. At the commence-
ment of their liaison, when the Count's hat and other
matters of clothing were duly hung up in Bolton-row,
he paid a mass of debt amounting to 1,5001. or 1,6001.
—incurred while she was under the protection of
ANOTHER !ipresented her also with a carriage, and
certain matters of jewellery. Having then intimated
to the Count that she was without any fixed income,
he generously consented to the settlement now in dis-
pute. To the payment of this annual stipend there
never would hale been a question raised but for sub-
sequent circumstances, to which it is imperative on us
to 'refer.
Immediately after the completion of the legal in-
strument granting this allowance, Count Bathyany
went to Paris for a short visit; which he is annually
in the habit of paying • and had been there but a few
days, when he received a letter from the lady com-
plaining of his absence, stating her determination not
to live without personal protection, and hinting al her
disposition to return to Lord Maidstone, if he remained
any longer abroad. This letter was instantly followed
by another, stating that she had finally made up her
mind, was, in fact, once again under the Noble
Viscount's patronage, and forbidding the Count to
enter her dwelling again. Count Bathyany returned
to town to ascertain—no matter of difficulty—the truth
of all this, and to submit with as much patience
as possible to his fate. He would then have been
perfectly content to put up with his loss, both in
point of feeling and fortune, if it had not been for
the heartless conduct of the woman and those she
was mixed up with in their subsequent proceed-
ings. The Count became the object of their perpetual
ridicule—he was classed by them under the refined
designation of "a flat," and looked upon as one whom
it was their pleasure and pastime to cajole, and one
whom it was a very easy thing ,to humbug. On the
part of the woman herself, it is impossible to use lan-
guage that can too forcibly designate her very bad
conduct ; and as respects the parties. who abetted her
in it, they have acted equally ungentlemanly, un-
friendly, and in violation of all the received principles
of society. Count Bathyany is a nobleman of very
high family, and does the English
_metropolis the
honour of selecting it as the place he prefers to all
others, for the expenditure of his princely income.
His hospitality is extended to all whom he has the
pleasure of knowing—he is liked by all who:prize good
manners, good-heartedness, generosity, and high in-
tegrity ; and these qualifications should protect him
from the chicanery of the world (or at all events of
those he knows in it), rather than involve him in it.
When the bond in question was agreed to, a stipu-
lation was made for the introduction of a clause. to the
effect, that neither Lord Chesterfield nor his brOther-
in-law, Mr. Forrester, should be placed in a position
to enter into litigation with one who was their parti-
cular friend—and that their power, as trustees, shOuld
be one of mediation, not of coercion. In absolute vio-
lation of this understanding, the day after the first
instalment of the annuity under the bond was'due---
(Count Bathyany having signified his determination
to resist its payment)—a writ was issued again him,
at the suit of the said trustees, without the slightest no-
tice being given him. Without a feeling of irritation,
Count Bathyany told Lord Chesterfield that if the
exposure which would necessarily follow his re-
sistance to this payment would be at all unpleasant
to the family of the Noble Lord, or to himself, he
rnsitaind:
i-ngaityteerhielarvitnhge
would cheerfully rescind his resolution, and, inveterate
that the,
as he felt against the wo
r. Lord Clip' iterfield treated
tshuims
offer
rhad a
vcaoliiietrria3c, contracted,
dfo
been placed in the hands of the lawyer, it had better
take its course. Notwithstanding: their non-accept-
ance of a very kind offer, Count Bathyany. as deter-
mined to leave no stone unturnecrto carry 'it into
effect, and solicited the interference of Lord Rosalyn
pledging himself to carry out any arrangement his
Lordship might enter into with the trustees. Lord
Rosslyn went to Chesterfield House to accomplish
this object, when Lord Chesterfield declined to see
him, but sent out to him young Forrester, of the Guards
(another of his brothers-in-law) * * * * to hear
anything he had to say—and upon receiving so marked
a slight, Lord Rosslyn left the house, and threw up
the office of mediator. Foiled in this, Count Bathyany
made an offer through his counsel, au derider moment,
to refer the matter to any legal authority, not inte-
rested in the matter—which gentlemanly propose
was, after some deliberation, declined.

The matter, in consequence of this mismanage-
ment, has become one of notoriety, arising out of the
legal proceedings which Nelly Holmes's noble trus-
tees have instituted; and in referring to the exposi•
tion, we are willing to believe that Lord Chesterfield
assented, in the first instance, to his nomination of
of good nature he is at
atrilusttieme,esfrormeadtyhat feeling
to
indulge
in ;
but we view his
subsequent conduct in a very different light. With
a perfect knowledge of his co-trustee being his lady's
own brother * * * *. he should have had more
respect for the feelings of his Countess, one of the most
charming women living, than to sacrifice them for anv
consideration of a common profligate—he should, in fae7,
have made every effort, instead of none, to keep so
discreditable a matter strictly private—and that he
has not so done, is a matter to us of very great regret.
But blameable as we really feel the Noble Lord's con-
duct to be, it is lightly so indeed, compared with that of
Mr. Charles Forrester * * *
or, to that of Lord
Maidstone, who unconcernedly hands over his mis-
tress to his friend, knows that his friend has paid her
*
debts, incurred while she was under his Lordship's pro-
tection! urges her on to obtain this settlement, and
' when she has obtained it, takes her back again, on her
separation from the man she has so injured.
In thus, therefore, reprobating the proceedings of
the parties herein referred to, we cannot but uphold
those of Count Bathyany, who has been victimised
in the whole business. We decline at present agitat-
ing the question attempted to be entertained of a mar-
riage which was sought to be effected—there may be
an occasion when it will be necessary to refer to it ;
hut without entering thereon, we cannot sufficiently
condemn the conduct which ha, been adopted towards
Count Bathyany, nor sufficiently eulogise the gene-
rous and feeling manner in which the Count has
acted throughout.

* * Since the above was written, we find that
Nelly's solicitors have been' instructed to withdraw
the recoxd, and thus the matter falls to the ground.
A more complete vindication of Count Bathyanv's
bearing in the whole business could not possibly be
effected; but a question will naturally arise, if this
measure has been adopted at the eleventh hour, why
was it resisted at the first t We su!,join the copy of
a letter which has been addressed to the Count's soli-
citors by those of the
plaintiff, simply observing that,
as the deed expressly states Lord Chesterfield is not
" compellable,' the termination of the letter is a mere
subterfuge : " 24th November, 1842.
"Gentlemen,—.We were instructed by Mrs: Suter to
commence the proceedings against your client, under- '
standing that the trustees would consent to any ne-
cessary proceedings for the recovery of the annuity due
under the deed prepared by your client's solicitors.
We had no communication
with Lord Chesterfield, or
with his solicitors,
until the bill had been filed ; and
as his solicitor objects to our proceeding further for
the present, it is unnecessary for us to snake any ap-
pointment with our client ; but we apprehend Lord
Chesterfield, as a trustee, is compellable to proceed.
" To, &c. &c. " We are," &c. &c.

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Gazelle for Jan. 29, 1739, almost 104 years old. It
AN OLD 'lJN.—we
was printed by S. Kneeland and Green, at the print-
ing-house in Queen-street (Boston), over against the
have before us the Boston
I prison. Published by John Boyden. The,Great.and
General Court of Assembly
of that Province had just
been adjourned to the 19th of April next ensuing.
Among the Acts passed was one more "effectually to
secure the duty on the importation of negroes," and
another "for the relief of and to prevent the oppression
of debtors." In an advertisement relating to the estate
of Samuel Hendley, of Charlestown, it is announced
that "there are tWO
very likely negro men to be sold
on credit. with good security, to be seen at said house."
The dimensions&the paper, when opened, are about
16 inches .by 21;
consequently, each page is 8 inches
by 12. It is No. 993.—Neiv York Journal.
MissioNs TO CIIINA.—The French papers state
that Roman Catholic missionaries, taking advantage
of the opening of five ports to British commerce, and
of the re-establishment of peace, will proceed to China
forthwith for the promulgation of their faith.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We cannot insert the letter of a Correspondent who pro-
poses a remedy for " The Relief of the general Desti-
tution." His signature is illegible.
We are obliged to " Studiosus, but from the tone of
his letter we aro sure he will see the propriety of not
publishing it.

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