Star.
London, England, 1829-11-17 00:00:00

WHO IS CAPTAIN GARTH?

The following statement is given by Tire Stec.dard of
last night, with the tone of authority :
" Captain Garth is the son of General Gantt. General 6.,rth
is, by a marriage fulfilling all the moral and religious conditions
of such a contract, the husband of an illustrious Lady. The
union, however, though such as must satisfy the mo•t scrupu-
lous and delicate conscience, is by a law affecting one family,
and one only, in the realm, 'politically invalid. It was, thete-
fore, deemed proper to withhold any public declaration of it ;
though uo attempt, we believe, was ever made to conceal it trout
such of the immediate connexions of the parties as were of discreet
age. Captain Garth, the offspring of the marriage, was therefore
educated as a private gentleman—the rank to which his father's
station entitled him ; perhaps he was indulged to form habits of
expense above that rank, for it is difficult to explain from any other
cantles the course which be has run.

" Overwhelmed with debts, Captain Garth, having exhausted
all fair means of importuning his unhappy parents to ailnilter
to his necessities. betook himself at length to menaces, and bat-
ing s surreptitiously obtained' a number of letters that had
passed between his father and mother in the confience of mar-
ried life—letters which we know contained nothing hut what
would naturally and innocently pass between persons in that close
relation— nothing that was not honourable to that Ulustrioua Lady_
—nothing in the slightest degree reflecting upiat any member
of her family—having surreptitiously obtained' these letters.
Capt. Garth threatened to publish them in full, if he should not be
paid ter their suppression. The Lady whose dreadful misfortune
it is to have given With to 'welt a son, was at the time in eatremely
delicate health trona nervous affection ; the shock of such a crud
threat alone would kill her, and there were other con He ration, of
great weight, which would s:rungly urge the propriety of •ep-
pressing the affair. The marriage, which it wag threatened to ex-
pose, was. in some tnea•ure, a viol .tins of the law, and by s
member of the family most bound to respect it. Norh:ng cooki
re said in its justification, ha fact, by which the wisdom of a law to
which, we believe, the first person in the country is strongly at•
tached. would not be condemned. Thar was, too, the inconve-
nience to be apprehended from tzpsiog to the gluttonous curiosity
of a public, ever greedy of gossip, all the little trifling commutates -
tions between man and wife, running through several years—

through the seasons of those undignifizrl joys and cares of which
the staple of our lives is composed.
" The security of persons in humble life is, that few would be at
the pains of reading our private letters, if they were print, d ; but
still we are annoyed, if we find that a country post mistress indulges
a passion for domestic anecdote at the expense of oar privacy. The
dislike to impertinent inttusion must be still stronger in the higher
ranks. They cannot but feel that much of the prestige of station
arises from the imperfect acqusintance which the vulgar Save
with their superiors; and they must be aware (or they read
Court Circulars to little purpose; that the slightest movements
of the great interest the herd, from which they may infer that the
disclosure of the most private occurences in the lives of the most
illustrious persons would naturally become objects of intense curio.
city. What brother, we ask, would like to see the public walls
posted with the private letters of his bzioved siver—to her hus-
band? Yet there are nothing in the several mysteries of chalking
and placarding which could give half the notoriety to any letters of
private persons that must have been obtained at once by the letter.
which Garth threatened to publish.
" This matter was seen at once in its proper light, by an Illus
Wow Person, whose sagacity and good taste have never been found
to fail. As Prince and brother, he felt it his duty to put an end to
the perplexing difficulty at any reasonable sacrifice; perhaps he con-
sidered, too. that silly and prodigal as Garth had been. be was a
young man, and might reform; and as a member of the must
illustrious family in the empire, by a morally and
giously, though not politically valid marriao, he was entitled
to some respectable provision from that family. Sir Herbert
Taylor was therefore authorised to offer Garth the meam
of relieving himself from his present dielculties, and also au
annuity, which should enable him to maintain a rank in some de-
gree suitable to the circumstances of his birth (.85,000 to pay debts,
and 11,0001. annuity, which fur such objects could not be thought too
much.) Two conditions, however, were to be imposed, which
sufficiently indicate the kindly spirit in which the negoziatlona were
carried on by Sir H. and the illustrious party for whom be acted.—
Garth was required to reform his plan of life by breaking up a
ruinous establishment, and to put the papers which he bad ' sur-
reptitiously obtained' into hands in which they could not be em-
ployed to wound hit mother's feelings, or the feelings of her family.
Pending the negociatlons the papers were placed under seal in the
house of a Paul, Snow, and Co.' the respectable bankers.
" Garth's agent in the affair, Mr. Westmacett. a literary gentle-
man, who seems to be by far too bonoutable a man to suit the
purposes of his employer, was made, with Ur Herbert Taylor, the
joint guardians of the box. These two gentlemen for some thug
urged the arrangement with honlurabk seal, but with perfect fair-
ness on both sides, when it was found impossible (as we lee by the
affidavits) to do anything, from the utter shullmg and incorrigible
folly of the youth. No true statement of his debts could be ob-
tained from him, no promise of reform could be enforced. The
compromise, therefore, broke off, and the only fact which it was
material to withhold from the public—namely, Captain Garth's
relation to an Illustrious Lady—having transpired in the course of
it, there is not much chance of its being renewed."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

T ATTERSALL'S.

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FIELD SPOR I &

On Monday morning his Grace the Duke of Weliis,groo. Lord
Charles Wellesley, and the Prince bevel', Itusetan dmliasaadot,
met the Vine Hounds at St. Jotri's Wood, Basingstoke. and after
a little time unkennelled their fox which broke cover in Sue atyle,
passing the open country away fur the Farleigb Coven, and atter a
sharp run of one hour and forty minutes, and when fast killing
him, they were us.fottinate enough to start a :red, fut, which
knocked up the sports of the day. No legs than four loses trait
from St. Joaa's Wood in drawing it.—Berio/ure abronicle.

All the leading interests of the county of Meath have
declared for Lord Killeen—the Marquis of Headfort, the
late Member; Sir Marcus Somerville, the present Mem-
- bar ; Sir Henry Meredith, Mr. Napier, Colonel White,
the Nicholsone, the Nugents, the Pollocits, and even the
Lamberts : in short, there will be no opposition.—Dublin
Evening Post.

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