The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

A portion of the mysterious affair, to which such
frequent allusions have been made, has at length
come out. This portion—but a small one, indeed, of
the whole—is an affidavit made (as the ground of

an injunction from the Court of Chancery) by Cap-
tain Garth. The deponent (Garth) herein swears,
that Sir Herbert Taylor had agreed—as the agent,
no doubt, of some more important persoa—to pay
Garth's debts, and settle on him an annuity for life
of three thousand pounds a year, as a recompense
for the mysterious contents of a ce:tain box. The
bargain was closed, and the box vas to be depo-
sited, with its contents, at Messrs. Paul's, the
bankers, under the several seals of Sir Herbert Tay-
lor, as the agent of the unknown personage, and of
Mr. Charles Molloy Westmacott, as Garth's agent,
till the proper securities for the round sum, and the
payment of the annuity, could be got ready. Garth
having relinquished the box, no round sum has been
advanced, and no securities for the annuity have
been prepared. The object of Garth's affidavit,
therefore, originating in a suspicion of his quondam
friend Westmacott's faith, is to prevent him from
going with Sir Herbert to the bankers and claiming
the box, before the stipulated price has been paid to
Garth ! " This deponent further saith, that he be-
lieves that the said Charles Molloy Westmacott in-

tends to join with the said Sir Herbert Taylor in de-
mending the said box and its contents; and in pre-
venting the deponent from regaining possession of
it, or of the stipulated equivalent for it!" Such is
the portion of this extraordinary transaction, which is
now made known by the affidavit,—an affidavit preg-
nant, no doubt, with the most important inferences.
Who is Herbert Taylor, and who are Garth and
Westmacott ? And what could bring the first into
contact with the two last ? The answers are ob-

vious. However, for a moment we pass over this :
our object is, not to create general disgust by sad
disclosures, but to prevent, if possible, future mis-
chief to the State. And a proof of these our pro-
per feelings is, that we have refrained from pub-
lishing this affidavit till it has appeared in all the
other papers, though we have had it in our hands
for more than a week, and obscurely alluded to it in
our journal of last Saturday, to make it known to
those who were most interested that we had it.—
We only wish the good of the country. Nay, fur-
ther, we have received the letter signed G., " to
the name of the writer of which," he says, "some

credit might be attached." Let him come to us se.
cretly, and if he can prove what he asserts in behalf
of the accused, we solemnly pledge ourselves;
whatever may be the effect upon the political inte-
rests of the country, and however we may be
charged with having been "bought off," "having
sold ourselves," &c., and all that trash—that we
will never once again allude to the subject; or if
we do allude to it, it shall only be to make that
innocence appear, of the existence of which we
shall have been first convinced ourselves. But G.
will have a difficult task of it. Does he know any-
thing of another letter, written to his mistress
by a slily weak-headed man, on wham it is the
fashion now to heap the most disgusting panegyrics,
only because he blundered out something against Ca-
tholic emancipation, which was made up into a
speech for him, and has been subsequently framed
and glazed ? If G. knows nothing of that letter,
%we do. But again we say, we only wish for the
tranquil settlement of the Catholic question, and the
future welfare of the country, Our pity is most un-
feignedly bestowed where pity is due, and to the
extent that it is due; but it is impossible that any
one labouring under the imputations that are non in
circulation, should be tamely suffered to take a lead-
ing part in thwarting the councils of a responsible
Administration, or in directing the national concerns
of a Christian people.—Tintes.
The interview which was granted by the King to
the Duke of Newcastle on Wednesday was attended
by some particular circumstances. The Duke ap-
plied to the King to know if his Majesty would grant
him an audience; the request was complied with,
and three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon was
named by the King as the hour when he would re-
ceive the Duke. His Grace came at the time ap-
pointed to Windsor Castle, incognito, on foot, having
walked from Eton, and remained for a considerable
time with the Sovereign.—Morning Herald.
The greatest sensation was produced by the
strange affidavit of Captain Garth in the Chronicle
of yesterday. Whether Pandora's box shall be
opened to the public is a matter on which we give
no opinion, but we should suppose that an investi-
gation of a solemn nature will now be deemed indis-
pensible. Though the contents of some of the let-
ters are known to more than one of those who have
enjoyed the intimacy of Captain Garth at Melton
Mowbray and elsewhere, yet those who were not in
the secret did not know what to think of the mat-
ter. But the affidavit of Captain Garth, and the
bill in Chancery detailing the terms of an agreement
between no less a personage than Sir Herbert
Taylor and himself, by which Sir Herbert was
bound to pay the debts of Captain Garth, amount-
ing to no trifle, and besides an annuity of 3,0001. for
life, for the suppression of certain documents, na-
turally leads to the belief that the strange rumours
previously in circulation were not unfounded. People
say who is Captain Garth, that a man so mixed up
with the Royal Family as Sir Herbert Taylor should
deem it necessary to treat with him for the delivery
of any papers that he can possess, at the high price
stated in the affidavit? The mediation, too, of one
of the first banking-houses of the metropolis, with
whom the papers were deposited till the com-
pletion of the bargain, gives an additional import-
ance to the business. And, lastly, the Chancery
suit to prevent the Bankers from parting with
their deposit on terms short of those stipu-
lated with Captain Garth. We say nothing of
the individuals with whose reputations rumour
has taken such liberties, as connected with trans-
actions in these papers. We have no wish to hunt
down any individuals, nor did we allude to any of
the rumours till the Courts have made the business
matter of public notoriety. But it is clear that
matters hare now proceeded so far, that something
must be done. Nothing can be so injurious to the
exalted individuals affected by the rumours, as the
remaining longer silent. It would, indeed, be an