The Sun. — 1829-01-14 (London, England)

NEW TRAGEDY,  " THE STEP-110TPIER."  (The on of the Stop-mother," by her first Husband, pleading for her life, after she is convicted of the murder of her second one.)  Sir ! I have found your temper most forgiving, For it bath overlook'd mine own offending. Now, I would fain arouse compassion in you, For one, the least deserving ;—as our God, By force of meditation, spares ourselves, So, thro' the suppliant mediation of a eon, Snatch from the pains, and utmost penalties Of that which is full justice, my—my Mother— Tho' that long usual name sounds foreign now, My memory clings to her, still calls her "Mother." I would not thus disttarli your meditation That wraps you up in bitter grief profound, But that she is my mother—my own mother— Put yourself in my place—fancy your mother— High, among angels and archangels, thron'd, And the innumerable bast above ; Fancy her, meek and peerless as she was, By a fanatic impulse of her brain, Wound to this bloody feat—thee, fancy me Yourself, brave, generous, merciful as you are, Commuting, for the blessed sake of mercy ; Consideration of relationship ; And strong naov'd pity for imploring kindred ; The extreme sentence that your mother die— On my tanblernish'd honour ; on my soul ; As I would be believ'd, I du believe It were not even acceptable to him The illustrious mighty man she put to death, You should to death of ignominy doom Her who once bore the title of his wife-lie would'not any of his family, Ever so criminal, met a felon-doom— If you must have it so, Sir ! blood for blood, You shall have mine, that I may close my eyes Upon the degradation of my mother— I cannot bear the thought, that she who bare me, And, with great pain, and greater fondling love, Rear'd me from helpless, tiresome infancy, And, if she lov'd no other, still lov'd me, I cannot bear the thought that she, so kind, So mother-like, so tender unto me, Even should die a natural common death. For Jesu's and the blessed Virgin's sake, Ere you depart this spot, unseal your lips; Say she shall live--say, even, she shall die, So you disperse this mood of dumb affliction. ;During the latter part of this address, Alon;-,o paces the chamber, concealing 11;s fare in his mantle, and at length quite it without replyiug to Bertram, who follows him. The atten-dants bear out the corpse.)  Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Vesev Fitzgerald, visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Treasury. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, accompanied by their son Prince George, will, it is expected, come to England in the course of six weeks or two months.  The Governor and Deputy-Governor or the Bank of England, the Governor of the Bank of Ireland, and the Chairman of the Commissioners of Customs, transacted business yesterday at the Treasury, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.  Despatches were sent off on Monday night by a inewenger from the Colonial-office, Downing-street, for Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. The messenger, it is understood, also took despatenso fur Mr. Stratford Canning.  Sir George Murray has been confined to his residence in Whitehall-place, for the last two days, by a bilioaa attack, Sir George was, however, better yesterday.  Earl Bathurst, Lord Ellenborough, and Mr. Croker, risited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at the ofnee of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.  To-morrow his Majesty will hold a Council at 'Windsor, and, it is said, will entertain a distil::: sisbed party- to dinner.—Morning Paper. The Duke of Newcastle has founded three scholarships at Eton school, each of the value of 501. per annum. One of these will be contended for al.nually by boys of a certain standing, and will be held by the successful candidate for three years from the period of his leaving school. The examinations will embrace both scriptural and classical knowledge.---Morning Paper.