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DUBLLV, MARCH 4.

MISS KELLY.
For some days back several letters had been deli-
vered at Miss KELLY'S lodgings, in Westmorland-
street, bearing evident marks of a deranged mind ;
the writer delivered those letters at the house him-
self, but not receiving any answer, he became ex-
ceedingly importunate, and made several attempts
to force his way up stairs ; he made similar attempts
at the Theatre to obtain a personal interview with
" the idol of his soul !"—his epistles were renewed
'nth fresh vigour—but instead of breathing forth
" the soft tale of love," he launched into invective—
' accused the Lady (who had never seen him) of the
utmost inconstancy, and at length proceeded to such
acts of rudeness, at Miss KELLY s lodgings, as to
create considerable alarm in her mind, which was,
very naturally, heightened by a recollection of the
'occurrence at Drury-lane Theatre. Love—" all-
powerful love," was not be easily subdued ; and, in-
deed, it cannot be imagined to what extent " the
fickle god" might have carried his votary, but for
the interposition of the Police. Their interference
was fount absolutely necessary, for the Gentleman
had proceeded to acts of violence, in endeavouring to
force himself into the presence of Miss KELLY, at her
lodgings. He was secured and conveyed to College-
street Police Office, where Miss KELLY, accompanied
by her sister, and several highly respectable friends,
she next day, (Thursday) attended. She appeared
most seriously affected by the circumstance, and
wept bitterly, while narrating the facts that had come
to her knowledge. Mr. MAGRATII, in the correct
discharge of his magisterial duties, carefully exami-
ned into all particulars, and treated the prisoner with
the kindness of a friend, expostulated with him, in
the most humane and tender manner, hut in vain !
the incoherency of his language, and his general de-
meanour, bespoke the maniac ! His name, residence,
or friends, he would not disclose ; Miss KELLY was,
therefore, reluctantly obliged to lodge informations
against him, in order to Justify the Magistrates in
detaining him, until his friends could be ascertained;
she seemed much affected, but her observation—
" Surely it cannot be my beauty that operates on
those people," delivered in her own peculiar style
ofnaivetc, cast a gleam of vis comica over the whole,
proceeding. The witness declared—" That he had
witnessed Miss KELLY'S performances, she pourtrayed
nature, and depicted the passions more forcibly to
the mind and soul than any other being he ever saw,
in requital for which, he could not, in Iris conscience,
do less than offer her his hand in marriage !" and in
this he obstinately persisted ; not all the persuasions
of the Magistrates and Gentlemen present, could get
him to retract. " lie felt himself b-und to offer her
his hand ; it was an act of justice to her great talents.
It was honourable and consistent on his part, and it
should be so ; it was the only object he had in view,
and nothing on earth should dissuade him from it."
During these ejaculations he went down on his knees;
the Magistrates were almost at a loss how to proceed.
The prisoner having got pen, ink, and paper, wrote
several extraordinary effusions of love and madness,
interspersed with Greek quotations, which not a
little puzzled their Worships. The unfortunate Gen-
tleman was removed to a private apartment, and a
Peace Officer appointed to attend him. Here the
wildness of his imagination became unbounded. At
one time he imagined himself a cat, and Maxursro,
the Chief Peace Officer (than whom there is not a
more resolute or proper man) going in at the mo-
ment, the prisoner commenced jumping and mewing
about the room, in a manner so frightful, that the
Officer made a precipitate retreat to the door. The
prisoner had scarcely a moment of lucid interval.—
Miss KELLY'S performance of Lcuisa, in the farce of '
The Deserter, appears to have made a deep impres-
sion on his mind. Atter remaining solitary for some
time, he conceived himself to be Henry the Deserter,
and addressed the individuals that went into him, as
Captains of the Guard ; he observed he was aware
that he was to be shot, and implored that Miss KELLY
should not go to the KING for a pardon for him : as
she would not take his hand he was determined to
die, but he would die like a soldier! After remain-
ing two days in the Police Office, he was recognized
by his friends and relatives, who are respectable. He
is a Gentleman well known in this City, about fifty
years of age; he had been in Trinity College, and
possessed great literary attainments. He devoted
himself particularly to the study of the Greek lan-
guage, and compiled a selection of Greek extracts
now read in College. The unhappy Gentleman has
been conveyed to an Asylum, where he will obtain
the benefit of medical aid. '

THE ART OT PRESERVING THE SIGHT.—A new
Edition of this useful little Treatise has lately ap-
peared. We recommend it to the attention of the
Public in general, and those of studious professions
in particular. The philanthropy of the Author has
suggested many personal cautions, of which they
will gladly avail themselves.
ROBBERY AT BRUNET'S HOTEL.--SaHliday after-
noon, a young man, very genteelly dressed, entered
Brunet's Hotel, Leicester-square ; and it was ob-
kerved lay Mr. Ditivet, the manager of the house, that
he went up stairs very boldly ; it was therefore con-
sidere.i that he was going to some of the inmates in
the Hotel. He entered a room where Count Ludorff,
the Neapolitan Minister, was sitting, and on finding
the Count in the room, he made a very polite apo-
logy, saying he had mistaken the room for Mr. De-
fort's. He proceeded from his Excellency's room to
the room where his Lady, the Countess Luderff, was,
and from the Countess's room to the room where the
Secretary to the Austrian Ambassador was. He was,
observed to go out of the house with a large bundle,
and it not being known what he had been doing in
the house, and that he had been inquiring for the
name of a gentleman who did not lodge in the house,
he was pursued, and overtaken in Lisle-street, oppo-
site to the New Jerusalem Chapel, and the bundle
he had proved to be clothes belonging to M. Bourbon
de Conti, whose room he had entered in his absence,
and made off. He was detained, and Donaldson, the
eoestable, sent for, who brought him to the Office,
when he said his name was John Roberts. He de-
clined sesing who he was, or making any reply to
tile charge. He had beer seen in the Hotel about
three weeks ago, at.whirn time it was robbed.—He
WEI coaktoitted for further vicamination.