The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-02-26 00:00:00

:..•~., pnerally in view; it showed a very heavy charge in one Item. For instance. the evp-n-e for Canada was between 340401. and 400,0001. and I.e. Nova Scotia, 1,200,09 0 1- t making a total of 1,660,000., money drawn upon the Treasury independent of thrir lozal revenues. He con sidered that the house oeglit to have before it a full and particular :recount every year. and not to wait for it for two years, as the paper referred to was delayed. It pur . tael .0 he the account of Ic2o, and was not given u n t i l 1t22. In f art, what he wished for was a regular estimate of the probable expenses. The house nas not aware of the difference of system pursued with regard to the Colo nies ceded since the last war to the regulations which were ever adopted before. Instead of Ministers giving them a Legislative Assembly of their own, they have con &toed the affairs of the Mauritius and Ceylon by Orders in Council. These Colonies yielded a revenue of nearly one million, and it was, in his opinion, contrary to the . spirit of the British Consti.ution to have them indirectly taxed whewthey were not represented. He had pro . cured several accounts of Colonies in the course of last Session, from which it was seen that large sums were collected by the local governmews, which so far front . meeting the expenses of the Colonies were unequal to the Colonial Expenditure without large remittances from house. The third Finance Committee of Inl7 were fully impressed with the importance of that subject, and called for an account of the specific revenue and expendi ture of each colony. The Government were not exactly prepared with the documents, and the Committee were obliged, in their absence, to be content with coming to a resolution recommending the attentioo of the house to the constant drain on the revenue of this country from the system of management in the Co.onies, He (iir. H.) con curreil with the Committee, and considered that our Colo nies were more a source of weakness than strength to the mother country: far different to what Colonies were under former states. The country would be stronger, and more competent to meet any contingency, if the Colonies were altogether separated from it. It would continue to derive the same beneficial results, in the same way as it did at • present, by supplying them with manufactures. If the . United States, for instance, bad still continued under it; allegiance, they would not have been ableto take sa large a quantity of manufactures from Great Britain.—(Hear.) ' If the Caradas were, in the same way, declared independ ent, it "could save this country not only from a heavy in . ctunbrance in the way of expense, but take away the chance of a quarrel sale America. As we should have, in else of an American war, to defend Canada not only at f arful odds, but at sit r xperse fifty fold more than the Colony itself was worth. Ile would recommend it se riously to his Majesty's Government to consider the pro . priety of separating the Canadas from their controul, and of le .ving them to their own discretion. For the more free and independent nations were, and the more . free arid independent were the Colonies, the greater woald he their !Hume] commercial intercourse and prosperity.— (Hear) It would be well for the Chancellor of the Ex . chequer to consider what an opportunity it would give him of reducing taxes. And if he but called to his mind the pleasure which he experienced from the manner his proposition of any diminution of expenre was re. ceiv-d, it would make him more desirous of effecting further reduction of expellee, and consetterntly of tax ation. The attention of the house should be directed particularly to the situation of the Cape of Good Hope. - Ile was astonished that the British Government should after having been seventeen years in possession, al low it to be governed by arbitrary law—by one Mili tary Governor, subject only to the orders of the Co lomat Secretary. Thoogli it was governed by English . law, and the proceedings were carried on in the Dutch . lenguage, the hies were whataire called the Stet Idea of holies—a code formed in Batavia in the year 1715, and from thence transferred to the Cape of Goo I. Hepe. . Afteea few other remarks, the Hon. Member read an ad vertisement for the sale of wine licenses at the Cape inl last September, which produced 165,000 rix-dollars. He . also complained of the mismanagement of the currency' by an improper issue of paper, which so seriously affected the exchange, that instead of five dollars being the rate for a pound, the exchange was at 15 dollars; and by the last accounts, at 12 dollars, being 180 per cent. more than the actual exchange should be. The Governor's sae lafy of 10,01111., was by that means increased leo leer cent. and it was thereby evident that the interest of the Governor should not be at variance with the general pros pp ity of the colony. The lion. Gentleman then read a p.oclantetioa, issued, as he said, to put down a meeting which was called to epee to a remons-rance on their gri.reancee. He the concluded by moving. "That an Address he presented to his Majesty, praying that h!s Majesty would he pleased to direct that separate estimates • of the civil and military expenses of the several Colo . ties wltirh have no Legislative Assembly—of Manritius, Ceylon, fir. Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Trinidad, • Le laid before the House, and a return of the amount • pa;:l by Great Britain towards their support. Mr. WILMOT slid he should confine himself to an explanation of the topics alluded to by the lion. Member, . without entering into a general defence of the system upon which the l olonies had been governed. He could make no o'ejsction to the production of the papers moved . for, but he was about to make a proposition which he expec'ed would supersede the necessity of them. He would gladly pledge himself early next Session to lay upon the table, a regular and systematic account of the expellees of the Colonies.—(llcar, hear, hear.) This, however, should be taken, to apple to • accounts of the total expenditure of the colonies, for it . would be very difficult to furnish accounts of the rm. • nue of earb• and the menace in which that was applied. With ne-pest to the money advanced by the mother coun try, the exact amount might be gathered from the papers already furoishedeo the House. As to fixing the milirary , ex enditureofrach Cotbny, it would he absurd and im -1 politic to expose the strength of the colony , and if each lotty has been made independent. it Would take away all • discretion from the mother country. It was impossible : rot to consider the establishments -and expenditure of , each Colony upon its partienlar merits. The accounts in - feture to be presented, would spew at once the amount of texatian in each Colony, and the manner in which it . was applied with regard to the Cape of Geed Hope, he goad not repeat, that his Majesty ' s Government now moat anzi tttt s unlit] the solk;e.d, and tie could assure the house, that' no step would be taken without giving the fullest opportunity for discussing its merits. He could not now •go more into detail into the question, but would take another opportunity of showing how fallacious the Hon. Member's reas suing was that the Colonies were rather an a•lvantage than a burden to this country, on these grounds, lie suggested that the information sought for by the lion. Member was for the present, unnecessary, Mr. BRIGHT agreed with the Hon. Secretary for the Colonial Department, that the accounts of the Colonies should be taken under one great head, and not of the • Colonies individually. Conquered Colonies were cer tainly the property of the Crown, but still it was a duty on Parliament to confer upon these Colonies the charters and permanent rights to which they were entitled. H e hoped the Commissioners who had been lately sent out would nut overlook that part of their duty. He hoped too, that in these charters the rights of the people wo'ild be well defined, for in Canada the inconveniences of im perfect charters b.d been long felt. It shoold be the Object in all the Colonies to give charters accommodated to the liahite and charact;rs of the people. The linn. Member bid complained that the Dutch laws were still suffered to exist in the Cape of Good Hope, and that the English l aw s bad not been transplanted there. He absuld reeollect the English Constitution was not fitted fir the habits of every people.—(Hear.) These habits west not to be outraged with violence, but they should , „, ";-• THE STATI tenet to +fie elite to prepare the people for a change. — The lion. Member for Aberdeen had broached strange' doctrines npoo the subject of the Colonies, against which he (Mr. B.) should enter his protest. He deprecated any thins like compulsion or violence, in our treatment of the Colonies. He hoped the Hon. Member had no in tention of forcing any measures upon the Colonies. — There was no snhject which required more attention than that of our foreign possessions. He regretted that any violent suggestions should have been made respecting the Colonies, for the discussions which took place here were repeated and dwelt upon abroad.' For these reasons, he trusted the house would not be'induced to take any violent measures with regard to the Co lonies. Mr. MA RERLY observed, it would be desirable that the colonial account% were furnished annually as the ac cutints of England, Ireland, and Scotland were. He saw no reason why the accounts of the Colonies should not claim as muck attention as any other parts of the Em pire. He did not expect, of course, that they could be made out in the same year, but all he wanted was, that they should be drawn up in the same spirit. Mr. WILMOT said the suggestion of the Honourable Member should be carried into effect as far as possible. — (Hear.) In order to that, instructions would he inune diately forwarded to the Governors to make out those ac counts without lees of time. Mr. ELLICE expressed his approbation. of such an ar rangement. Mr. HUME', in explanation, disclaimed all %trillion of using compnlsory measures towards the Colon ies. Mr. wiLmor expressed a wish that th e Honour able Member a °tad withdraw his Motion, upon the understanding that the colonial accounts were to be re gularly furnished. Mr. HUME said he had no objection to uithdraw his motion. The motion was then withdrawn. COMMISSIONERS OP SEWERS. Mr. P. MOORE, after some prefatory observations to show that the Commissioners of Sewers ha.' neglected their duty, concluded by moving for a Select Committee to inquire into the powers exercised by the Cominissioners of Sewers.—Agreeed to. IRISH MILITIA. • Mr. GOULBURN postponed the second reading of the Irish Militia Bill to Wednestlsy next. The Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. HERItI ES brought in a Bill fee continuing the Annual Excise Duties.—Read a first 'noel and the second reading fixed for tc-worrow. Mr. BERRIES brought in another Bill for raising twenty millions by Exchequer Bills. Also another for applying three millions of balances in the Exchequer to the service of the present year.—Read a first time, and ordered to he read a second time to-morrow. Lord PA INIERSTON gave notice that he would bring forward the Army Estimates on Wednesday next. Adjourned at half-past six. DR. O'MEARA. I before stated, that, though I never read the Doctor's hook, I did publish an article which might induce some persons to read it. This being the case ; that is to say, 1 basing published an article which, by implication, might wean, that I thought the Doctor's a good book; as my opinion would necessarily have a good deal of weight with many persons; as the book is full of charges against Sir Hudson Lowe and the Ministers, and divers other persons : this being the case, I think it a duty—a duty towards the public, towards all the accused parties, and towards Sir Hudson Lowe in particular, to insert the following article from the last Quarterly Review. The reader will see, that the Reviewer refers his readers to Mr. MURRAY for a sight of O'NIEARA'S original notes and letters. Nut able to spare the time myself yesterday, I sent to Mr. MURRAY a person in whom I ran safely con. fide. He saw all the notes, copies of which are publish ed by the Reviewer, together with several others ; and, though he is unacquainted with the hand-writing of O'MEARA, he says, that there cannot be the smallest doubt of the authenticity of these documents. O'MEARA has published a letter to the Editor of the Morning Chroniee, in which he says, that the Reviewer is a scoundrel; but he does not deny the authenticity of the documents. The article in the Review relates to all the books that have been published about the treatment of Napoleon and the French at St. Helens. The extract relates to O'MEARA'S book only. I shall make no comment on this extract : it needs none ; it is conclusive against every thing short ofproving thenotes to be forge ries. We have engigcd to make O'Meara refute Ii weft, and to convict him Lsy his own confessions ; and we arc now alma to produce another batch of his letters, which, we are confident, will surpass any expectation that can have been formed of the man's baseness and folly. Mr. O'Meara 1111 y, perhaps, affect to see some differ ence between being a spy for the governor, and a spy for his official friends in England, or for the booksellers; but even this paltry subterfuge we shall not allow him ; we shall show that, after all his rant about principles and honour, he volunteered to he A sir to the gorcrnor himsey; and consummated his duplicity by lurciag on Sir Hudson Lowe his reports, not only of what passed amongst the men at Longoood, but even interlarded the details relative to Ws female patients. with sneers and sarcasms of the Iblitioit kind: we 'could not'have believed this' on any verbal 'statement whatsoever—n o thing, in short, but the having before our eyes—Os we here—the proofs, would have induced us to state so incredible a ' fact ; and we now proceed to lay them before the eyes of our readers. Sir Hudson Lows was accompanied to St. Helens by U.ptaln 8k Thomas Read, as aide-de-camp, and Major (now Lieut.-Colonel) liorteqner. as military secretary. These two gentlemen partake of course, neat to Sir Hudson, the boisour of O'Meara's abuse ; almost every time that he mentions their names it is to east some ridi cule or odinM upon them. Yet it is to these gentlemen that he was is the habit voluntarily of addressing fee (pent notes containing the intelligence which we are about so produce, and which, after all the surgeon's boasting of Sir Uudson's designs, and of Isis own high principles of honour, will astonish the world. In these notes we see no allusion to their bring answers to any inquiries; and several 1041111(CA distinctly show that the/ were O'Meara's own unprompted effusions. — In a note to Sir 'I homes Read, Jahr' the hits of July, 1516. after reeonnsing an anecdote of Madame Bertrand, (which we shall hereafter quote for another purpose,) he concludes— .' // frost think Sir Hudson would like to know the shove circumstances, you had better communicate them to Win." Ilere we find that so little desirous was Sir 111111.011 of healing tittle-tattle, that in a matter of curiosity aad importance, (as we shall see when we cone to the awe dote itself,) . LEMeara speaks . duubsfully about Sir Hud son's even n ishin,i to bear any reports. Agali Ise says, in another note to Sir Thomas Read, dated the 12th July, 1616 • " Madan» Bertrand told'Me yesterday, that Las Cases bad said the Emperor was his god—the object of his vc- MAN aeration sod adoration! This ‘ ele desired ash woe . to m ention, I forgot to tell it to Sir Hudson yeaterclity ; I dare say it will make him smile." Here, again,•is a piece of idle chit-chat of no kind importance, except that Madame Bertrand desired it not to be repeated ; and vet O'Meara, merely with a view to rnake Sir Hudson smile, hastens to impart it to Sir Thee. Read, with a kind of apology for having forgotten to betray his female patient the very day she bad wade him. her confidant. In a third note O'Meara states a certain fact to Sir Thomas Read, and authorizes him, "if he thinks it would be acceptable to communiu a'e it to Sir Hudson Lowe, but not as coming from him." We suppose our readers will not ask any further proof that O'Meara's communications of this nature were not only not forced, but not even asked, from him, and that they were, io the strictest sense of the word voluntary. Nor were they what can be called private; for the two officers seem to have hal no private acquaintance with O'Meara, and the notes were generally addressed to them in their officiabeharacters. They usually began with some matter of business, and then the little anecdotes—speci mens of which we are about to produce, were, as if casu ally, Adel in. The:honourable minds of SirThos. Read, and Colonel Gorretpier never conceived the double treachery which O'Meara was practising, and they looked upon Mete anecdotes as the ordinary gossip of a village doctor, and paid little attention to them tilt the subsequent conduct and calumnies of O'Meara recalled them to recollection ; and it was found that, by goad luck, enough of this correspondence ha I been preserved to .confou no thewriter. We have Sir Thomas Read's and Colonel Gorrequer's au thority for this statement, and the notes themselves are de posited in Mr. Murray's hands, to Satisfy any one who might doubt the accuracy of our quotatiees, which we con fess will be scarcely credible. Let us look at some of the topics of these communications, and compare them with the corresponding passages of his work. 'flue reader will see, that to the baseness of " es pionnagc— he adds that of falsifying in I.is book the state meats which he had originally made. One of the most grievous, and apparently the least excu sable, offences, charged upon Sir Hudson Lowe, is that on the arrival of the Marquess de Monclsenu, ithe French com missioner, at St. Helena, Sir Hudson refused Madame Ber trand permission to see, and inquire of the Marquess the state of her mother's health, whoni he had lately seen ; and that lie rejected, with equal cruelty, a similar desire from Las Cases to inquire after his wife. " July 6th, ISlS.—Madame Bertrand informed Captain Poppitton and myself, that she had written a letter to M. alonclienu, in which she had requested him to oall at her re sidence. as she had heard that he had seen her mother, who true in an indifferent stale of health, and she was very de sirous to inquire shoot her ; that Las Cases would also come and meet him on his arrival, as he was informed that Mon chenu had seen his rift a short time before his departure from Paris."—Vol. i. p. 70. The fact of this letter having been sent direct to the French commissioner, and without the governor's know ledge, was enough of itself to prevent M. de Menclienu's accepting the invitation ; but this was wrested into a de sign of Sir Hudson to tonnent Madame Bertrand, when, in fact, he only disapproved of the invitation having been sent by, an improper and secret channel. It is ob vious that if Madame Bertrand could have a letter of invitation irregiearly conveyed, she might equally well have had letters of another import, and the practice once established,there would have been no limits to the corres pondence, and no check whatsoever on Buonaparte's in trigues. But was it, indeed, likely that Madame Ber trand's filial piety, and poor Las Cases' uxorious anxiety were to lie made the cover of a communication of Buona parte's?—perhans not likely, but it was so!—the story of the mother and tqfe was all a fable, and .the whole was a device of Buonaparte's own to open a canoneni cation with the newly arrived Frenehmen ; and the best part of the affair is, that It was O'Meara hirosel—the faithful, confidenial, high-minded O'Meara—who be trayed the plot, and put Sir Hudson Lowe on his gnarl against the fraudulent pretences of Madame Bertrand's letter. On the very day that Madame Bertram I !wide him the cunfideuce above stated, viz. on the Gth July, he writes to Sir Thos. Read the following very different ac count of it:— " Madame Bertrand told me this mornitg, that the letter she wrote to Monclienn seas at the express desire of Buonaparte.hiniselp repeated twice to her ; and that in case he had come up, old Las Cases was to have immedi ately proceeded to her house in order to have an INTER view' with him. " If you think Sir Unison would like to know the above circumstances, yen had better communicate them to him." Nut a word of the mother—not a word of the rife — not the slie:litest allusion to ill-health and anxieties : hut a direct and clear warning to Sir Hnilson Lowe to be ware of the girt which Buonaparte had planned, and to prevent the Is:Tenet euv—which word, in order to mark his own suspicions that an illegal interview was In tended, O'Meara had written in great letters, and doable untied i neut. As Madame Bertrand's letter had been sent privately, this advice of O'aleara's was all that Sir Hudson Lowe could have known of the matter, and it is not therefore surprising that he should have refused his s unction to the asvreaview, if ever, indeed, his sanction was asked, which does not appear. Whst will O'Meara and his friends and admirers say to this? Here is another dilemma, quite as fatal as that proposed in Mr. Croker's letter; the mention of the icife, and mother, and ill health, as stated in his publication, is either a gross falsehood, or the omitting to mention them in his note of the same day, and the giving . another chararter to the tran , ae ion, are gross suppression and perversion of the truth. All this happened on the Gth July; yet, under the date °lithe 11th July. O'Meara relates, in his Journal. the folloning conversation with Sir 'Hudson : " His Eewellent y asked me, whether I knew what they (the French) wunted with the Marquis de Mon chenn !—I replied, that Madame Bertrand wished to in quire after her mother's health; and that Las Cases was to have met him at her house, and that I was informed lie was very anxious tu inquire about hi* wife, se beheld been told that Munchen's had seen her shortly before his departure from Paris."—Vol. i. p. This is evidently a falsehood ; tor, s• lie haul, on the Gth acquainted Sir Thomas Rend, fur Sir Hodson Lowe's information, that the letter was a device of Baosnparte's own, it was impossible that lie shotild have told Sir Hud son himself, on the I lth, that it was prompted by Ma dame Bertrand'• anxiety about her mother. lint then comes, what perhaps was a chief object of the whole in trigue—the abuse of Sir Hodson Lowe for having been so wantonly cruel to " poor Madame Bertrand." On the 13th, 0' Meara describes Buonaparte as a ,ying— " This Governor is a wretched creature, and wor e than the island. Remark his conduct to that poor lady, Ma dame Bertrand; he has deprived her of the little liberty she haul, and has prevented peap!e fruin coining to visit ber."—Vol. i. p. 74. Again, on the 16th, Buonaparte returns to the subject with a taste and delicary quite characteristic of Ilion: " This Governor has really the heart of a hangman, for nobody but a hangman would unnecessarily increase the miseries of peopte situated like us, already too unhappy. — His hands soil every thing that passes through them. See how he torments that poor lady, Madame Bertrand. '— Vol. I. p. 74. What can be said of a man who publishes to the world . such calumnies in such language, and coacealt —first. tha, of I *The italics and large letters are so ;narked in O'Meara's original note, with the obvious view of "Wing the itavern or's suspicions to the real facts of the caw !~ they are wholly unmerited; and, laCcoaly. that it turret bad been any thing to Willie, it was prompted by his etrit sag- gestions ! But while all this brutal insolence against Sir Hudson, on pretence of his treatment of Madame Bertrand. is thus re corded, it appears, from another note of (lateara's to Sic Thomas Read, that the poor lady herself felt no resent:nen•, had no complaint to make, and that she herself laid the blame of nuonaparte's violence against Sir liudsbn on the malicious representations of Las Cases. " Madame Bertrand also says, that Las Cases is the nein cipa' person who sets Ruonaparie so much agaiu,t Sir Ilud son; and that Duonaparte says, the English Government have sent out two sharks to devour them, the one Sir GAO, Cockburn, and the oilier Sir lludson."—Note of titlt July, 1816. We shall conclude this inipor:unt topic by obtervinr, that Buonaparte's design in having this letter written was, probably, not any hope he t mertained of sedating. M. tie Monchenu ; hot the .Ist of Parliament for regu lating the interccurse at St. !Wens had just arrived, anti the governor, in obedience thereto. had pnblished a proclamation forbidding (except under certain specified regulations) any written communication between the detenus and the other inhabitants. It was to brave this proclamation that Buonapare immediately on it: pabli cation, desired. and by repeated orders obliged Maclaine Bertrand to break the law and defy the governor's au thority ; an I. with his usual artilicr.lte thought it would s ound more cruel to have it said that it was the letter of a poor lady which was Intercepfed : and—that the letter itself might not want the sympathy of tender he 'vs the fable of the wife, and the mother, and the ill-hada, and the anxiety, nas introduced. In short it is insporsi bin to rive a-more s•riliiiig specimen of the canloar and simplicity of Buonaparte. awl of the honour and accu racy of O'Meara, than may be collected from a dee cot - sideration of the whole of this extraordinary transn lion, which, by the f ,rtuaate preservation of O'Meara's note to Sir Thomas Read, we bare been enabled thus to develop. We need not (indeed our limits would not permit i.) extract the thouswal pavnges in which O'Meara's ptibe cation reecats the complaints of the French upon tb.ir hard usage and ill-treatment; neatly half his book is composed of them; and all that Warden, Santini, Lis Cases, and Moniholon, have written on this point, is re . pealed with additional vehemence and exaggeration by O'Meara; but as to the truth of these compleiats, and of the objects for which, and the spirit in which, they wore mwieby Ituonaparte and his followers, we haveolleara's own evidence. In another of his precious notes to Sir Thomas Read, siali July 24, 1816. I understand from Madame &draw', that they (the Frew's) hare it in contemplation to forward a letter 4 complaint weainst Sir Hudson Lowe to England (by what channel! did not understand), containing no dodo( vs riOnS UNTRUTHS, and praying that he may he re-called : you had better ;;ice Sir il wlvon a hint about it; hut let it be between sou and Me only; as, though 1 have reason to think soma PLOT us Hammer°, I am not quite snre of it, and any premat ire disclosure would nut be the thing." beg o Not the thing! elegant O'Meara! And we er readers to observe his anxiety, lest any premature disclo sure should disable him (run detecting the proem-an of the plot. One is cnrions to know what this plot was, the hatching of which the close and trusty surgeon ,bus communicates; what the untruths were of which los delicacy awl honour apprise Sir Thos. Read. Our read ers must remember the famous letter written by Butane parte himself, and signed by Montholon (reviewed in our Number of April , 1817.) This letter is the authentic text-ho k loin which all the partisans of Booesparte h •ve drawn their facts of his ill-treatment; this letter waa, we believe, the chief cause of Lord Holland's motion in the Lords, and furnished the main topie, , of his twee; this letter, in short, is the authentic and officiel doeisin it in which are embodied all the hardships and grievances which ()Arena's publication repeats in a more oelloauial and diffuse manner, hot with greater vehemence of state ment, and grosser violence of language—well ! this rery letter is the very PLOT which O'Meara deneances; and these very hardships and grievances are the very re v:terns which he suspects to be in preparation. Ile su4- sequen le tells Sir T. Read— " I believe I seas pretty ace ttttt in the iefernietian I gave you about Montholon's letter (these words are un derlined by 011eara's own hand.) Montholon has been very basy finding out the price of every article us d in the home, which hi caretully committed to pa rr ; he keeps a register of every wide in the eating all &letting way is ltich arrives." We west here interrupt our spy to observe, that Ws own publication registers the grievances in " the eating and drinking nay," with as much detail as aloutholon could have done, anti, we believe, with eqn al tenth; anti thrndelout le: work, as we alreelly observed, he I lin• firma. with all his force, Montholon's etetemeres, which on Isis private notes he had characterised as orevaurns. Witness the following extract from his jeurnal' of the 10:11 of Jule, 1816 " A great deficiency has eexiteds t ed for several days in the q uantity of wine, fowls, and oth-r necessary autielee— wrote to Sir Thomas Read about it."—Voi. i. p. 71. Here, at last, is one word of truth. He did write to Sir Thomas , Read about if,—but meek what f allows. The letter to Sir Thomas Read has been most fortunately pr-served,atel in it is fonnd. after the statement of the deficiency, the fallowing pseaevanh : 'f he first instance we shall rivets very remarkable when coupled with traleara's own iniputatione against Sir Hud son Lowe, relative to the pilaus. A complaint had been made that the copper saucepans wanted tinning; on this O'Meara states (vol. I. p. 1210 that lie wrote to Col. Gore' refiner, " to request that a tradesman might be vent to repair them. His letter to Col. Oorrequer bas been pre served, and contain.' the following pateage:— " Yoe had better take some step> to have them repair ed, as Montholon is malicious enough to assert, that it was neglected en purpose to poison the„', and veer likely he hail already done so!"—Note o/' 13th Sept. 186. lu the publication (vol. i, p. 363) O'Meara imputes to Sir Iludeon Lowe. the having, on the 31st of January, 1817, called Costa Montholon a liar. Now it happen' that this was O'Meara's own designation of the Count, and was used by him to Sir Hudson Lowe, and not eySir Hudson Lowe to him. In a note to Major Oorreqnee dated the lush of October, 1816—several months prior to the imputed use of the word by the governor—baviee occasion to mention Alontliolon'a mime. he adds—" better known here (vie, in klnonaparte'l family) by the appellw lien of ' it briggiordo'—tne et ta." And again, in another letter to the same offieer— u 1 (O'Meara) explained to Montholon—who, if he were not a cowman and a LISS, * would be a fine fella", and abating these two little defects, is a perfect gentle man—that von were combining heaven and earth to lodge hint and his amiable consert in state, which he is• seated to, with several hypocritical grimaces and prudes sions of thanks."—Note of 21st June, ltilii. " They (the French) are sufficiently Mauve/axe to impute all those things to the Governor; instead of set ting them down as being owing to the Deflect of sone of Belcortube (the purveyor's) people. Leery little cir cumstance its carrie I directly to Buonsparte, with erery aggraratiou that It ALIWCITT and lIALISHOOD cal salt s gest to evil-disposed and cankered minds " Need we write another evlialac? Out of Him oats mouth shalt thou be judged ; amid there if the wret• h-d man himself were aline concerurd, we should leave harp: but truth and justice to °theta ob iae us to praceed will' the nauseous detail of t.•e " malignity anal f a i.eboo '," of this "evil disposed and caikered ailed." —"1 owl ~10r.,4 thee, Jew, fuse teaching me !h t :' • This part of the Rote is, inilta original, in Italian. rill" -- . il ail c_..a., ~~" .