The Sun. — 1829-02-26 (London, England)

DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.  Nobody would think of comparing his Royal High. ness the Duke of Cumberland to Clesar, especially as the latter, if we recollect rightly, was bald, and wore no moustacheos:, However, it is reported of the old Roman that, Upon one occasion, he remarked, with laconic vanity, Veni,vidi, vici ; words which his Royal Highness may use, with a very slight variation, descriptive of the achievement he has just performed,—Veni, vidi, dixi ; which, being interpreted, would run thus : I have just arrived, looked Arthur Duke of Wellington in the face, and" spoken out." Yes, his Royal Highness has " spoken out" on the (subject of the Catholic claims) " thinking it a duty he owes to the country to let it know what his feelings are." The country are certainly much indebted to his Royal Highness, considering the deep interest it must necessarily take in the state of his " feelings" in regard to a question which ought to be decided on rational views of policy and expediency alone, and considering also, his Royal Highness has declared that " it shall no longer be said I am this thing or that, hut it shall he distinctly known what I am." The Royal Duke is exceedingly obliging, but really this declaration was, perfectly unnecessary. The country knows perfectly what his Royal Highness is—the patron saint of the Brunswick, or rather Titus Oates' Clubs (as Lord Plunkett proposes to re-baptise them), the admired of Lord Elden, the idol of the exclusionists, and the very yink of Protestant Orangeism. His Royal High• ness tells us that be cannot change a-0 opiaion whicl he conscientiously entertains ; and we are far from desiring that he should ; but, supposing his conscience came to tell him that that opinion was erroneous, would his Royal 'Highness then change it ? The question., in the present case, his Royal Highness thinks is, whether England is to be a Protestant or a Popish country but,in our humble opi, nion it is, whether we are to have a divided or 4 puited Empire. Oh?. but says the Royal title, tho very moment you admit CgthOlie into this House, or into the other House 'of Parliament, I maintain that. this becomes not a Protestant Parliament :" which is just as much as if the Reis Effendi or the Grand Multi, or some other bearded personage of high note, were- to say to the Grand Seignor, "the very moment you twp.oint a single Ginouf Hospodar" of one of the 'Principalities, or admit him, however faithful and attacliCd, into your Councils, I maintain that thiS becomes a Mahomniedan Government." It is usually said that one swallaW doe not make a summer; but the received adage must be wrong now that this great personage has " spoken out," and that we have royal authority to the eontrary.--.k;diatirgis Paper.  On Tuesday last, tile wife of a labourinc, man, at Wralmess, in this county, named Banks, committed suicide under circumstances most extraordinary. She had tier lysi:and lower room of their house, and went into the beti,room above ; niter. her !;:..;aband nearing something heavy fall, went to ascertain the cause, and found her with her throat cut, weltering in her blood, and, lying close by her, a razor, a knife, and a sickle; which, from the circumstance of their being all bloody, must have h.?en used. It appears that the wretched woman, having spread her apron upon .the fioor, eown; and placing a look,ng-ghio opposite to her, an;, a cliiimber tztengil ttveen them to catch the blood, deliberately cut her throat while looking in the glass. Medical assistance was precured, but the wound was of that dreadful nature, that the survived only about 24 hours,..-Essex Herald.