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London, England, 1825-10-12 00:00:00

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13UERNSIiYi OCTOBER 4. •
You can easily Conceive what a sensation, in a small
place like this, the arrest and committal to prison of an
English Lady, the wife of a Clergyman, and evidently
of rank and fashionlmust create. Nothing else is spoken
of. I transmit you the few imperfect particulars I can
collect of a story involved in doubt and mystery. The
Lady is the wife of the Rev. Mr. Horne, of Chiswick
(brother, I understand, to the Chancery Barrister of the
same name), and daughter to the celebrated Zoffani, the
painter. It appears that she and her husband, after
living together for many years, and rearing a fine fa-
mily, separated in 1822, in consequence of some un-
happy misunderstanding. The Ladr was allowed to
take her daughters, and a maintenance of 3001 assigned
her. Mrs. Horne lived since that time in. France, and
latterly in the neighbouring island of Jersey, with her
children, one of whom is a very fine and accomplished
young Lady of 18, and the other, about whom the mo-
ther is now involved, a girl of ten years of age. The
Rev. Mr. Horne determined to take his children from
her care, and applied to her to give them up; but Mrs.
I Horne, who, it seems, has been very exemplary in her
conduct as a mother, and much attached to her chil-
dren, refused to surrender either of them. The young
Ladies were equally unwilling to be parted from their
mother. Remonstrances and threats were ineffectually
used to induce Mrs. Horne to alter her determination,
but she, with a view of escaping from the annoyances
received at Jersey, removed to this island about three
months since. Mr. Home having, however, traced her,
lately appeared here, accompanied by his son, and a Mr.
Brand, hitherto the Professor of Chemistry, and having
again failed in persuading her to give up even the se-
cond girl, he applied to the Court Royale for an order
to compel her to do so. The Court having heard his
case, and the reply if,Mrs. Horne, ordered—" That as
the father had an incontestible right to the possession of
his children, being minors, they should be given up to
him." Mrs. Horne now seeing that open resistance
would be no longer available, pretended that her mind
could not bear a sudden separation from her children,
and also made the children declare that they could not
survive the shock of being torn abruptly from her—
and in consequence of their representations, an interval
of a month was allowed to prepare her mind and theirs
for the pain of a final parting. That time Mrs. Horne
employed so effectually in working upon the sympathy
of the Judges, and on the kind feelings still entertained
for her by her husband, that it was agreed to let the
elder girl remain with her for some time longer, upon
the promise that she would go to her father when re.
quire('; and further, Mr. Horne agreed to pay 3001. to,
his wife on the day appointed for the surrender of the
younger child. Guardians under the Court were named,
to secure the safety of the young Lady, but such was
the reliance on the good faith of Mrs. Horne, that their
surveillance was merely nominal, and she bad an abso-
lute controul over her children. Mr. Horne, satisfied
with the arrangement, returned to Chiswick, and at the
appointed time sent a friend to ply the money and re-
ceive his child; this Gentleman, Mrs. Horne, and the
Officer of the Court, met on the day named, and the
3001. were paid in due form to the Lady ' • but when
her part of the agreement came to be performed, she
declared she could not live without her child, and that
nothing on earth should induce her to part with it. You
can easily imagine the looks of the agent who had so
easily parted with the money, and the consternation of
the officer, who had guaranteed the safe production of,
the young Lady. Mrs. Horne was Asked where the child
then was? she refused to tell. Search was immediately
commenced in every part of the island, and hand-bills
circulated, offering a reward for her recovery. The
Court Royale was specially summoned on the occasion,
and the report of the officer abovementioned being
made, the Court ordered a Proclamation, awarding the
severest penalties against any person harbouring, or
assisting in the concealment of the child, or assisting to
remove it from the island; and directed that Mrs.

Horne should be committed to prison, under a charge
of having surreptitiously removed a child that was
under the surveillance of the Police, to await the event
of a prosecution ordered to be commenced against her
by the Attorney-Gerseral of the island. Mrs. Horne is
now in custody in a better part of the common gaol,
and seems determined to brave the Authorities to the

last. The case has puzzled all the wisdom of the
Court Roya!e, which has not yet decided in what way
its fury is to be directed against this dauntless woman.
The trial is expected to take place in three weeks. Mrs.
Horne is resolutely silent on everything concerning the
child, and will not give the slightest hint in what way
she has disposed of it. All search has proved fruitless.'
Officers have been dispatched to France and England,
but hitherto no clue has been obtained. Mrs. Horne
has been one of the most beautiful women in England,
and though at the matronly side of forty, she still pos-
sesses strong marks of her former loveliness, and adds
to them the attractions of an accomplished woman and
dignified carriage. Her eldest daughter's conduct is
most exemplary : she never leaves her mother for a mo-
ment, and sleeps with her in the prison.

The county of Devon is in a most luxuriant state
from the effects of the late rains, and promises a good
crop of apples.
It appears from the registers kept at the Prefectute of
the Police, that there are at this time 50,000 natives of
England and Ireland in Paris.
The suspension-bridge over the Plym, building by
Lord MoaLar, is-proceeding with, and will be finished
in the course of next spring.
It cannot, we hope, be true, that the LORD MAYOR
and Aldermen ever feast upon white-bait if they punish
the fishermen for catching it.
A New *York paper says, " about a thousand dogs
having been killed during the summer's campaign in
Philadelphia, the Mayor has ordered his dog killers into
winter quarters."
The Company's October Sale of Indigo commenced
yesterday morning, at the East India House. The
prices yesterday averaged about 2s. 6d. per lb. above
that of last sale.

Sunday se'nnight, as John Shaw and his son, of
Claughton, near Garstang, were crossing the Ulverston
Sands with a horse and cart, they were unfortunately
precipitated into a hole of thirty feet in depth, and
there the whole perished.
A wolf, supposed to be attacked with hydropht,bia,
destroyed a woman on the Ist inst. in the foveq of Ar-
genteuil. The same Animal, in the course of the same
day, attacked ten other persons, and wounded one of
them mortally. A general pursuit of it was afterwards
undertaken, and it was killed by two peasants. It had
bitten several dogs.