The Sun. — 1830-05-06 (London, England)

THE AUTHOR OF " LACON."  It is melancholy to reflect that men of the greatest genius are frequently the victims of their own waywardness, vices, or indiscretion:. The most brilliant talents too often eclipsed and rendered useless to society by errors of conduct..— .There is, perhaps, no human being now living who affords a more striking example of the truth of these remarks than the Rev. C. C. Colton, Lae rector of Kew, and author of one of the most valuable works in the English language, exclusively of many other scattered and fugitive productions. This gentleman, it may be remembered, disappeared under very mysterious circumstances about the time when the murder of \Veare by Thurtell and his associates caused such an extraordinary sensation in the public mind. It was well known that the Rev. Mr. Colton was in the habit of carrying large sums of money about his person, and that he was not unaccustomed to visit those dens of iniquity commonly called " Hells," in some of which he had met with John Thurtell. These circumstances, and the reports which obtained circulation of that criminal's murderous plans, induced a very general suspicion that the Rev. Gentleman had been inveigled and destroyed by Thurtell and his companions. Thurtell, however, on beiog questioned a short time prior to his execution, on the subject of Mr. Colton': remarkable absence, denied all knowledge of what had became of him, a denial that turned out to be perfectly true. Mr. Colton, by gambling and other extravagancies, had become involved in debt to a very large amount, principally for jewellery, and, unable to meet the demands of his creditors, he embarked with the utmost secrecy for the United States. He continued in America for a considerable time, and afterwards returned to Europe, but not to England. He took up his abode at Paris, and there became well known  to the frequenters of No. 9, and the othergaming saloons of the Palais Royal. So successful was he in his speculations, that in the course of a year or two he acquired as much as five and twenty thousand pounds sterling, and happy would it have been for him if he had then forsworn gambling for ever, and invested his money, as he often talked cf doing, in the American funds. He collected a considerable number of valuable paintings, and his lodgings in the Valais Royal, though the interior sufficiently marked the eccentric character of the owner, afforded a great treat to the admirers of the fine arts. But inveterate attachment to the gaining table rendered him some time since a beggar. He became the victim of a conspiracy, and the fancied security with which he conducted his operations was the fatality by which he was ruined. Outlawed in England, he made a vain attempt to prevent the deprivation of his living at Kew : he lost it by a decree of the Ecclesiastical Court. He is now living at Paris in the most pitiable circumstances—a melancholy example of the vice of gaming. With a m►nd eminently endowed by nature, with the stores of inexhaustible learning, with powers of conversation of the highest order, with talents and acquirement fitted to adorn any rank or station, he now prowls for a subsistence in the vilest haunts of the French metropolis, and among the most infamous wretches that infest the Palais Royal.—Northern John Bull.  Mr. ROTHSCHILD was under the gallery of the House of Commons on Monday night, fur the purpose of hearing the debate on the Bill for eba removal of tie civil disabilities of the Jews.