The Sun. — 1825-09-02 (London, England)

KEAN AT MANCHESTER.  Saturday evening., Mr. KEAN, made his appearance in Richard 11. instead of Richard 111., as had been announced. The house, with the exception of the lower boxes, was much crowded, but principally by males, there being but a sorry display of " 4 beauty and fashion." Mr. KEAN also took the character of Frederick Baron Willinghurst, in the afterpiece Of Age To-morrow. When the curtain dropped a tremendous uproar took place, and cries of " Kean, Kean !" accompanied with a loud clapping of hands, which continued for several minutes. At length Mr. KEAN came forward, and addressed the audience to the following effect :  " It is impossible to withstand so gratifying a call ; particularly at a time when the corrupt part of the press are bribed to ruin my professional reputation. If the press of this country be allowed to visit the public characters of professional men with the punishment due to their private ones, the arts and sciences of this country will very soon sink into insignificance. I admit that I have been a " froward child," but I have repented me of my error,—(tremendous applause,)—and I think it hard that I should receive such unabated and vindictive persecution. lam driven from my native country, to which I may probably never return.—(Cries of " No—no—you shall not go.") I have ever found Manchester my warmest friend and advocate—(loud applause)—and I shall treasure in my exile the grateful remembrance of the kindness I have received at your hands. In reference to the stigma which has been cast upon me as a public character. I would beg my friends to bear in mind, that we are none of us without our faults. In every station of life, we find traces of the corruption of human nature. Even the great ministers of state have their faults,— (loud applause)—and if we approach the foot of the throne, we shall find errors.—(Loud applause.)—l now bid you farewell for ever.—(Cries of " No, no.--we won't hear that.")—You have my warmest wishes for your welfare and happiness, and 1 trust, that in mV pilgrimage, should a cloud pass over me, the remembrance dilly Manchester friends will operate like a sunbeam, and chace away the saddening gloom.—( Loud applause.) —(llTanchester Journal, Aug. 30.)  Wednesday night, about ten o'clock, as Warren and Currie, two of the dismounted patrol, were going along Sloane-street, Chelsea, they observed a female of very respectable appearance, apparently in a state of stupor, not from the effect of liquor, but produced by her having taken a large dose of laudanum ; the phial which had contained the deadly draught was in her bosom, and she seemed to be in the last stage of existence. The patrole took her to an apothecary's shop in the neighbourhood, where she,, as well as she was able, 'N said her residence was at o. 15, North-street, Sloane-square, and that some family difference had caused her to attempt the rash act. She also said she had purchased the laudanum at the doctor's opposite the Bun-house, and paid 9d. .The patrol instantly conveyed the unhappy woman to St. George's Hospital, where the stomach pump and other remedies were used, and the unfortunate female now lies in a very dangerous state. At the Carmarthen Assizes, in the year 174'2, a girl of only eight years old was tried upon the Coroner's verdict, for the wilful murder of a brother and sister, the one six, the other four years of age, and acquitted. It appeared upon the trial, that the three children, who lived in a cottage not far from the sea, had been dreadfully frightened with stories of the cruelty of the Spaniards, and the danger of their landing upon idste that coast. These children having been one (lay left nlone, when there happened to arise a violent thunder-storm, because so terrified as to imagine the Spaniards were coming, and the eldest of them, to avoid falling into their hands, took up a hedging bill in order to destroy herself, which the two younger children observing, cried out repeatedly, " Pray, sister, kill us first,"— or perhaps courage enough, after upon which she actually dispatched them. She afterwards desperately wounded herself, but not havingstrength,feeling such pain, to complete her design that way, she ran out of the house towards a river which was near it, and was going to throw herself in, but was prevented- by some casual passengers to whom she said, in great terror, that she was going to drown. herself for fear of • the Spaniards, and that she had killed her brother ant! sister for the same reason.