The Sun. — 1841-08-24 (London, England)

MADAME LAFFARGE.  We extract the following from the Gazette des Tribunaux :—As we have already announced, the affair of Madame Laffarge is already decided, and unless the appeal she has made to the Court of Cessation be admitted, the judgment against her by default is absolutely confirmed. They wrote to us from Tulle, on the 19th, that all the witnesses have quitted the town. M. Brissot Thivars has forwarded to us the following letter, dated Guadala,xara, 17th February, with a request that we would insert it :  "My dear Sister —lt appears that you have been sadly tormented on my account, in the prosecution of Madame Laffarge. Who could ever have guessed that this woman would set up such a defence ! For my part, I cannot conceive how any advocate could take upon himself to bring forward such evident calumnies. I have no fear that lily reputation will suffer on this account. It results from my letter, since they have done me the honour to read it on the trial, that Mdlle. Capelle was the inventor of an intrigue, in which she showed- a nascent talent. As to poor Mine. de Leotaud, she remained a long time foreign to it ; as soon as she became acquainted with it, she immediately intreated me to think no more about her, and craved my pardon for having been the innocent cause of vexation to me. During the whole of the time I passed in Africa, I never heard the names of the two ladies mentioned, except that that they were married, and then I was so ignorant of the name of the husband of Marie Capelle, that I paid little attention to the murder of M. Laffarge. Could I imagine that matter would arise out of it to bring me before the public ? This has given me but little concern on my own account, but I suffer from the idea thNathoMhmavee. dneevLeerottahtouulg htshouldof f herbe but tormented for me, v with sentiments of the deepest respect, without hopes, without delusive expectations. It is so long since we have spoken to or seen each other, that I never could halve expected that we should be reminded of each other in a manner so unpleasant. Nevertheless, no persons of understanding will suffer themselves to be deceived by this calumny, and M. de Leotaud, as I learn from France, conducts himself with perfect propriety towards his wife. In this he does well, for nothing can be more worthy ofour respect than a young woman unjustly calumniated. If we lived in a more frank and loyal age, when the purest sentiments were not unworthily perverted, I should have yielded to the first dictates of my heart, and have written to the husband of this unfortunate lady, declaring that his wife was worthy of his love, and deserved all his affection. But would he have listened to my words ? Might he not have replied—Why do you interfere? What right hare you to defend a person with whom you have no connexion ? I therefore suffered things to take their course, thinking any attempt at her justification by me would do Madame de Leotaud more harm than my silence. Circumstances speak so plain!) for themselves, that none but people of bad faith can doubt, and lam satisfied that my silence will be rightly construed. What appearance can my asking money to insure my silence have, if I had a right to claim a different recompense ? As if love could pass away so quick, and so far become degraded, as to barter with its object for a bag of piastres ? This may have been believed by those who know me not, and the contempt I have ever felt for riches. I do not mean to say by this that Ido not wish for money, but I love it only as it would raise me to the rank of her I aspired to, and not that it should place between her and me the insurmountable barrier of contempt. However, my ambition has been gratified in a strange manner. I have sought :or fame, and calumny has answered me from the depths of a dungeon, while Poesy looked on smiling in pity.—