The Sun. — London, England, 1828-08-19 00:00:00

I 'HIS DAY —Arrived tl mito, Tern, Lassen, fro from IsieV a Gibraltar the Arg' tie, Pearef ed early th .N.W.-Ar I Britom2 l nr: Triesta La Fortant In Portagu to erd, Escott Dm Opor►o and Afars NCE. se in Brook 'eter Payne , am Bedford; William sn'' nsarle-street , I bert, at the MoystOn, at Trl Wes Hotel, ritish Mote], from Paris ; land ; Cal?" Id Mrs. it , " t; the Iron• Clifford and ly, at ditto ; Western, Thompson's and Mrs. Esq., and Thornton, 51ALVERg rd Stewart, teas Lortou Newport, y and the , Mr. anti Dr. Joao, Rev. Rev. Mr. D. Paidy, or Brown• in 'faylor, )yson, Arr. RDEV+7. ordon, on t Marquis to HuntlY is way to 'e, Rae de Pyro. 3anbri4ge► d, Esq. 0 1 y, North' Forbes; ,n. Misses NIL% Mae 1. Knight on, Fsq• Esq. D• m, Capt. lir. Hen- E'ER• Llph Au , Esq. and ant Lady tetwynd on their amptoo; e, Esq. Coker sekenzier Esq. on e great )ad from .11, with which te, with peasioa 'Aux of t by the :—The Mount •ald and arookes 'on. M. e, E9q. n Kea- ir)l '.Ta Ide rrh o Q.:44) Y S ' the till the L AW INTELLIGE'NCE.-(TIIIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. ~t,.llleNTAGtit.- was instructed to request his °ra s h, p to hear a petition, under the following cir ctirostaeces. Two young men had absconded from the country with property to the amount of 2,0001., tt • h 6 to go to America; the creditors followed, . 14 the father had interceded, and requested them to s tay the s t r iki ng o f a d oc k e t aga inst them. In .°ll4 equen ce of this, the creditors had refrained from Pro ceeding, but the fatker, in violation of good faith, ha d stru c k a docket against them himself, and the Pr3 Y e r of the p e titi on was , that that docket might be it aYed. Ills Lont4sulP said he would hear the petition, Jilt did not appoint any day. A WARD Or CAURT.-KRIDLAND JEFFREY. It Will be recollected that an injunction had been Nated in this case to restrain a young lady from Ill a tri rryina, or from having intercourse t e ndi ng to ma tl, Many, with a ward of Court, who was stated to ~ e , 40 years of age. The youn g gentleman was also i tloined from marrying. Amotion was subsequently ma d e to di sc h arge the injunction on the part of the fair defendant, but zrthe request of Mr. S ug d en , hi s L or d s hi p con iinted to hear the matter in his private room, rind, I report speaks truth, he was there entertained for , *o ' days w ith a most exqu i s i te spec i men o f v ill age ca udal. The facts, tide believe, are these-- 4 111 e parties reside in the same town, and lived upon terms of mere visiting ac iptlkintance. The young gentleman has a fo r tu ne t t 'Llbout t wo t h ousan d a y ear , an d i s t h ere f ore na f:,ll.4llY enough an object of special care and watch iLliess to his doatiug mother. Happening to re tr home, after an absence which his mother, who c ourse never wished to have him fa r a moment Hof her sight, thought unusually l ong , h e was s tioned by her as to where he had been roam -1:!, " I suspect where you have been," (said his ab t4 ,er), " you have been to see Miss (replied the spoiled child.) " I love her, me but I'll marry her." This really was to be borne. It was uttered in a tone of the 4; 4 t determined sincerity, partaking strongly of de n i 4 ,ce) for it is averred that he actually put his arms I kbo, and afterwards snapped his fingers. Hi s wi ° l ther g i v i ng u p all hope o f b e i n gabl e t o restra i n t h e o f , f , 41 youth, had recourse to that legal papa, w h om one t , iti 'Lle fictions of our Constitution pr ov id es i n cer th eases for such children as have prope r ty ; f or if liar be not blessed witn that advantage, if they e not wh e rewithal to f urn i s h gr i st f or t h e m ill , p: a Y for references to the Master, and so on, the T h : dear things must t a k e care o f t h emse l ves. — Lord Chancellor, thus appealed to by the oth t~er, to prevent his ward from committing ma stat'ny, interfered in the manner we have before The father of the young lady was also in aq vt l in the injunction, and enjoined from doing , thin g which could be construed into an encou r:.getaent of a connivance at the marriage of the i n , ,t d• Nay, so strict were the terms of the ,Aaction, that the family of the young lady f c prevented from going into company by L"ring that they might thus unhappily meet e Ward, an d t h at some express i on o f t h e i rs m i ght ; to rtured into a cont e mpt o f C our t. Th e conse n once was, that they were obliged to leave the h wri, and they felt this hardship the more acutely, th th q utterly disclaimed an y d es i gns aga i ns t e i t h er th e ward or his fortune. It was even sworn that 4 ,.e Youn g gent l eman was pay i ng hi s addresses to 'other lady at the very time that he alarmed his 4 100, —er by this declaration, which led to the present h,rtoceedings. It was maceover stated that lie was r i l leh*iven to saying very civil things to ladies, and Was humbly represented to his lordship, that if t Were t o i ssue an i n j unc ti on a gainst every lady of Thom his ward spoke in terms of love, he would .°O ll be called upon to grant a general interdict ztinst all the lasses in Devonshire. The mother, ''Wever, still had her fears, and his Lordship was Iderstood, in this state of things, to promise that wonld so modify the t er m s o f th e i njunct i on, as , at it should effectually prevent the ward from "trying, whilst, at the same time, it should not :titinue to be a cause of inconvenience to the young I Y and her family. THE MARKETS. —(THIS DAY.) HAY 31ARKE.12S—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. ' '' , la X. s. X. s. X. s. X. s. Pl 4 nd NfeacLHay 3 oto 3 5 Clover Hay 1 15 to 5 15 ykl Ditto 315 5 0 Oat .I.traw ll4 113 ' I tZ, 4B B Hay 915 5 0 Wheat Vito llB 2 2 —e4d ow Hay 3 5 310 , best Aleadow I,lay sold in a few instances at an advance of 1- r t x ra ,w generall 4s. per load ; in prices of middling and in ti; ~eadow and y l , lover Nay no alteration. A limited supply, - steady trade. SMITHFIELD. ~., _ .` t andlq ---- --.-, 4—L- £. a. X. a. X. a. 4k 441 ead..ay2 15to 3 5 Cloy. Hay generally 4 otos 10 Ali •lii ttO 115 415 Do. extra fine 0 0 6 0 Y rUs HaY 315 415 Oat Straw R. . 4 _ 114 118 , ty,, - . 4 , ,,, uw Hay 310 315 Wheat Ditto 1 18 2 0 , i t ,'' z`• per load higher than last quoted ; in prices of other , t . no alteratioN. Supply rather limited, and trade a little CITY MARKETS, TWO O'CLOCK. St CARS.—The market is steady this ' , ; ( ,: 4 g, and ther e i s a m o d er ate quantity of business , °4 k' at full prices. The deliveries from the Docks last "ir ll 'ere again more extensive than at the same time last i"Y about 1,900 casks. Sucans.—There is very little doing at pre- ` 4 1 141 / 4 1.1a Suciats.—The market continues in the same litate as last week, with rather a better supply of the C, 44 middling goods ; prices are barely supported. sal - Pkt q t . t.—Only one small parcel was offered by public 1 ' 1 '144 41 rnorning, which went off at full prices, viz. real tl g Jamaica as high_as 669. 6d. Thi Austrian and. French Ambassadors had Fc tti:'"'s with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday at the "4< i- office, Downing-street. Mr. CROKER had also a pos with the Noble Earl yesterday. Lianish Minister had a conference with ° kat Mu naar y es t e rday, at the Colonial-office, a n d ' t4 4 4l acted business at the office of the Secretary of r F oreign Affairs. 'ass be Alarquis de PALMELLA transacted busi -4:44Y t the Foreign-office, Downing-street. ua Y Was the birth-day of the Duchess of 111: ,4,1 he r R o y a l Highness completed her 4 2d year. terit, Grace Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND T dinner at Alnwick Castle, O N a n umerous par ty to uu th 4 Y last. Amongst the company were her Grace I b lopf Lrans, Lord and Lady RAVENSWORIN_, and Ighsses LumEr.L, CHARLES BOSANQUET,,Eq., 44 4 Sheriff for Northumberlami), and his Lad }, Ir. Ratn, of Newcastle, &c. And on Friday last % tertairied the officers of the latePERCr Tenantry, ' 1414 0t 116 Grace w as man y y e ars Lieut.-Colonel Com .A t then Earl PECY. ? 4 ,PYrigl i ll , n t * R edition of the Waverley Novels, the I " 4 _, s /A1 1 7 . ,f which were purchased at th e sale of Mr. utl ef!ti, property for above 8,0001. is about to be 4r W 4 With illustrations, engraved from pictures by W4 l. i t NEAvurg, and other distinguishol artists. rane4t dye that they may now be considered as ra, ora l 4,Zift,ted beauties, and therefore need a little more to set them off.—Edinburgh Observer. 3014 it.ePorted that Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE It•Ltr;:k shares in Covent Garden Theatre, to Mr. Aed ket We h o p e i t i s t rue , a n d that this accotn i Hi s is th ere b y r id o f a t e di ou sly protracted law trd, E, fut ure energies will, we trust, be direct e d l'irttertt.3 Profession, of which he is so distinguished an h e t t r , et l „ ' th es ee of the King's Theatre intends to wbih p en suing s eason with an entirely new Opera, ::!,";_oNt will be th e nove l P r i ma Donna, and sirq ZDC3IELLI will likewise perform. This It , at t ., , I : ecl a t to the Opera on the opening of the d pax jeit has generally been deferred until March 'oNTAG., and AIALLIBRAN GARCIA will SUC \Ar'44°Nt. I ' h `Ved ~ h ip v. at Sie n dy, the l a tt er part of June, `'and 7 iv erse, Captain CRAI DY , frem Stornaway, vet , (( With 46t 'passengers. The Halifax Recorder fix f Sueh wa s t h e crow d e d state of the passengers, qiiri it uilies w ere o bli ged to live in the lon g boat n 't the wh o l e passage., Caledonian Mercury.° THE PENINSULAR WAR. FURTHER OBSRRVATIONS , ON SOME PASSAGES LIEUT.-VOL. NAPIER'S HISTORY OF TIIIZ PENINSULAR WAR, to( CAMONE) By LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NAPIER'S REPLY, BY PERCY, VISCOUNT STRANGFORD. 1. Since the publication of my " Observations, &c." Colonel. Napier has thought proper to reply to them. I lament that my statement has failed to be as couvincing to him as I hoped it would have been to all impartial persons, and that I have not succeeded in removing his persuasion that he is better informed of the transactions at Lisbon in 1807, than those who were on tl.s , spot, and who were officially employed in conducting them. 2. Colonel Napier begins by adverting to the twenty third number of the " Edinburgh Review," as " a speci men of the manner in which party-writers handle such ettbjects"—and yet, in the same page, and " in support of Isis claim to the character of an impartial historian," be adds, " that he might justly have used them" (i. e. the representations of party-writers) "as an historical record." He says, moreover, that he " might so have used them, "because they have never been contradicted." 3. It is, very true that I did not take the trouble to con tradict those statements, nor to notice any of the anony mous attacks which were made upon use at the time. But Colonel Napier must allow one to think that a very dif ferent measure of attention was due to charges made under the sanction of his name, from that which I felt disposed to yield to the imputations of anonymous writers. 1. Colonel Napier has thus, it seems, waved his right of using, as " an historical record," the party-statement in the " Edinburgh Review." I fear that I have not gained much by the Colonel's forbearance. I have referred to the article in question, and I de not find that the au thor, however zealous a partisan, goes so far out of his way'as to impute to me such an action as the suppression of the merits and services of another person, for the sake of enhancing my own. In truth, the writer of that article appears to have been as ignorant as myself of the " vigo " rous and successful negociations of Sir Sidney Smith ;" for, however unwilling to allow the merits of the Portu guese emigration to the British Government, or to its agent, he certainly does any thing but ascribe it to that distinguished Officer, whose name he only mentions i❑ re ference to the supposed assertion i❑ his dispatch " that he " saw the hills covered with French troops"'—when, ac cording to the reviewer, " there was not a soldier of that " nation within eighty miles of Lisbon." If, therefore, Colonel Napier he entitled to consider the statements of that writer as "historical records," when they affect ale, he would be equally bound to consider them as such when they affect Sir Sidney Smith. For my part I shall show, and I presume that on his Sir Sidney Smith would Lave no difficulty in showing, that they affect neither. 5. In Colenel Napier's favourite form of a note, he in sinuates, (p. 4,) that I must have mistaken the day of my arrival in London, because, " Capt. Yeo thought it was on " Sunday the 20th, and not on Saturday the 19th of " December." The following document, which appeared in all the newspapers of the time, will prove, not only the day, but almost the kour, on which I reached London. " Foreign-Office, half-past two, p. m. December 19, 1807. " 31Y Loan,—l have the honour to acquaint your " Lordship that Lord Strangford, his Majesty's Minister " Plenipotentiary to the Court of Lisbon, is just arrived, " having left the Portuguese fleet on the sth instant, between " Madeira and the Western Isles, under convoy of a British " squadron, with a fair wind, steering for the Brazils. (Signed) " GEO. CANNING." To the Right Hen, the Lord Mayor. The matter is, in itself, of little importance, except as a fresh proof of the mistakes to which a too confident reliance upon hear-say evidence may sometimes give rise. G. Capt. Yeo thought also, (as appears from Mr. C. D. Smith's letter, in Col. Napier's Appendix,) that " what I , g wrote at Salt-hill, in his presence, was a Dispatch." I do recollect to have written two hurried notes in the bar room of the Croak Inn at that place, while we were changing hOrses there. One of them (still in existence) was ad dressed to my agent, stating, that I should be in town in a few hours, and directing apartments to be taken for. an e— the other was to the dearest of my personal friends, to in form hint that I had arrived, and that I should call on bins immediately after waiting on Mr. Canning. Those notes were forwarded by the King's messenger, Sylvester, from whom I parted at Salt-hill, having no further occasion for his services when so near the end of my journey. 7. That Capt. Yeo should have seriously believed, and gravely acknowledged himself to have believed, that two notes, written under such circumstances of haste, and in the public bar-room of an inn, were official dispatches, is, at least, very surprising, and does, I think, demonstrate the somewhat remarkable facility with which those who do me the honour to animadvert on my proceedings, fall inte mistakes and misconstructions respecting them. S. Colonel Napier, however, seems now convinced that ' Capt. Yeo's representation, (if, indeed, that officer could ever have seriously made it,) was altogetl cr erroneous ; and he takes the new course, with which my ow❑ frank and voluntary avowal has apparently furnished him, of throwing over my Dispatch the suspicion of having been fabricated for some unknown but unworthy purpose, by insisting tha it was " written at Mr. Canning's house in Bruton-street.' _ _ 9. I have already admitted that this Dispatch was, as far as manual operation was concerned, undoubtedly written in Bru ton-street, but I repeat, that it was a mere compilation and arrangement of my original dispatches, all and every one of which were written and dated on board the Hibernia ; that it was so arranged and compiled under the special directions of the Secretary of State—that it contained no thing that was not contained in them, and omitted nothing but that which it world have been equally cruel and absurd to have proclaimed to the world. I was at the time, and I still am, decidedly of opinion, that Mr. Canning was quite justified In desiring that arrangement, and that he would have been quite unjustifiable if he had needlessly ex posed individuals to the vengeance of Junot, or had gratui tously informed the French Commander, that such or such forts in the Tagus night be successfully attacked, with such or such a number of troops ; for, in tke sup pression of such facts and such circumstances, and in the omission of such remarks as were likely to offend the So vereign to whom I was about to be accredited, (and in this degree only,) did my publish e d d espatch vary from the ,originals out of which it was compiled. And I did then, and I do still, consider that I should have been snore liable to the imputation of affixing to my despatch an erroneous date, if I had dated it from London, than by retaining the date under which every part, I might almost say, every sentence, of it was originally written. Colonel Napier terms the omissions in that despatch, " a reasonable bill of exceptions, truly !"—I repeat, that it would have been both cruel and absurd, not to have made such exceptions. 10. After these explanations, (the last which I shall feel myself bound to give upon this subject') I leave Col. Napier to pursue, or not, his intention of stating, in the next edition of his " History," that my despatch, " though dated the 29th November, his Majesty's ship " .Hibernia, off the Tagus, was really written on the 19th "of December, at Mr. Canning's house, Burton-street, " London." But, in fact, whether it were written at Salt-hill, or in B ur t on - street , or of f t h e T agus, or at any other place which it may please Colonel Napier hereafter to discover, has nothing to do, either with the main ques tion—the truth of my despatch--or with the secondary question, which Colonel Napier has been pleased to raise, that of the respective shares of Sir Sidney Siaith and of myself, in the Emigration of the Portuguese Royal Family. 11. Colonel Napier places in juxta-position two pas.: sages, the one from my despatch, the other from my " Ob servations ;" and he appears to believe that he has detected a contradiction between, them, because in the former I state, that " I proceeded to Lisbon on the 27th,' and in the letter, that " I arrived at Lisbon on the Qtith of No vember." There is no contradiction whatever in these two statements. I did leave the Hibernia ito proceed to Lisboa, on the evening of the 27th, and I did reach that city on the night of the 28th of November. The log of the Confiance will explain what was the state of the wind and the weather at .the time, and, cons equent l y, why I did nneorteauti a Tiv: a so l o n n u e r r e . can l d t isdvouto have anti c i pated this simpleld, I think, h ave heen snore ge and natural explanation, than to have at once assumed that the apparent variation between the two passages was an incorrect statement of facts. 12. Colonel Napier says, however, that " the pith of the question is," that "my printed despatch con veys an erroneous idea of my personal proceedings." I deny most distinctly, that either Mr. Canning or myself had any intention of producing such a result. I wrote the several despatches out of which the single published des patch w as comp i le d , w i t h a rece nt and vivid impression of all the facts which they described. That description Was a true and faithful one. It seemed to me, while I was writing it, to be aa accurate statement of all that I had said and done, and~it was honestly designed to convey tint same to the mi n d s o f ot h ers. I mean t no deceit—Mr. Canning meant no deceit; arid, never suspecting that de- Sir Sidney Smith does not say so, though the Re viewer attributes this exp ress i on to hi m. Hi s words are merely " the French army ou th e hills," . . salt could be imputed to us, t was naturally satisfied with what I knew to be the truth, and took little pains to guard against the interpretations which the hypercriticism of party might, subsequently, fasten on my worfls. It is hard, that after a lapse of twenty-one years, I should be held responsible for those interpretations, the possibility of which I could not, at the time, imagine—which I, conse quently, took no care to prevent—and which, even now that they have been developed, I protest that Ido not un derstand. It is hard, too, that they were not brought for ward, in this substantive form at least, until after the death of Mr. Canning, whose character is perhaps as much implicated in them as mine, and who would no doubt have repelled them, with far greater powers assuredly than I possess, but certainly with not less of honest indignation than I feel. 13. I have said that I did not mean to " convey a n " erroneous impression of my proceedings" in the Tagus_ in other words, to represent my interview with the Prima. Regent as having caused, or even as having influenced, ha, Royal Highness's departure. I will show that I could not have had such an intention. Putting aside the obviou s question of what possible utility, either--to Mr. Canning or to myself, - it veuld have been for me to have fabricated an mfaithful statement, or for him to have not merely con nived at, but actually enjoined it (since whatever altera tions were made in my original despatches were made un der his orders, as the King's Secretary of State for the Foreign Department), I would ask, whether it is to b e supposed that the Ministers did not read Sir Sidney Smith's despatches as well as mine? and that if any discrepancy existed between them, (which I boldly assert, in justice t. the Admiral, as well as to myself, could not have been the case), they would not have instantly inquired into, and I cleared up the doubts to which such discrepancy might have given rise? Is it to be supposed that with the task of such an inquiry before my eyes, I should have ventured on a fabrication which was to be attended with inevitable disLawery ? Is it credible that Sir Sidney Smith could have been so unjust to his own fame, and so unconscious of his own deserts, as to have omitted in his despatches the important fact, (if it had been a fact), that to his negotia tions was due one of the most interesting events of mo dern times, if those negociations 'tad been, as assuredly they were not, the cause of that event ? 14. Colonel Napier states, that " Sir Sidney Smith's " story" runs thus " The whole question of their " departure, or remaining prisoners to Junot, turned on "my opening the door again, on my single judg " ment, after it had been shut by the expulsion of Lord " Strangford from Lisbon, (and the consequent beginning " of a state of war,) and my exercising my single disere " firm in not allowing that state to continue." 15. Where this " story of Sir Sidney Smith" (which Colonel Napier inserts with the marks of quotation) is to be found, I really do not know. Since the day (the 22d of December, 1507,) when the despatches of the Rear- Admiral and mine were simultaneously published in the London Gazette, I, at least, have never seen nor heard of any complaint on the part pf Sir Sidney Smith of any inaccuracy in my statements, and I cannot doubt that if the Rear-Admiral had seen any thing to complain of, he would have lost no time in setting his Majesty's Govern ment right, by explaining whatever he might have thought to be inaccurate. On the passage, however, now quoted by Colonel Napier, whencesoever it may have been taken, I shall make a few observations. 16. Undoubtedly, as Commander of a powerful British Squadron, Sir Sidney Smith might have prevented the Prince Regent front putting to se a , or m i g ht h ave ca pt ure d his Royal Highness, his Family, and Fleet, or might have permitted them to be captured by General Junot. But the question is, whether, if he had done so, and if he had refused to " open the door," he would have acted according to the tenour of his instructions, which provided for every possible case and contingency? Whether, in short, he could, in virtue of those instructions, have ventured to op pose the egress of the Royal Fleet ? And if, under his instructions, he could not, he dared not have acted other wise than as he did, most properly, act, what becomes of that exercise of " his single judgment," and of " hie single " discretion," to which the Emigration is now attributed, according to " Sir Sidney Smith's story," as told by Col. ,Napier? 17. The word " single" twice, and eonsewhat ostenta tiously employed in Colonel Napier's quotation, must be meant as a denial that I either had, er could have had, any share in the decision of these important affairs. I can only say that my own instructions, and, to the best of my re membrance, those of the Rear-Admiral, enjoined us to act in strict co-operation and communication : that Sir Sidney Smith was ordered to shape all his proceedings according to my advice ; and that, in fact, the most entire and friendly concert and uuderstanding did, to the utmost of my knowledge, belief, and recollection, subsist between the Rear-Admiral and me, on every point connected with those transactions. Sir Sidney Smith's instructions are, I presume, upon record, and will prove, if referred to, whether my impression on this subject be accurate or net. But, in truth, Sir Sidney Smith's own published Des patches show, beyond the possibility of doubt, that there must have existed a degree of concert between us, alto gether inconsistent with the meaning evidently implied by the word " single," in the foregoing quotation. 18. Col. Napier then proceeds to affirm, that " my tune " tions ceased after my ignominious expulsion from Lisbon," and to inquire whether Sir Sidney Smith (lid net show to me his letter to the Portuguese Minister, after he had signed it, for the express purpose of proving to me that my au thority was at an mad. Of my " expulsion" from Lisbon I will only say, that it was my own act and deed. I thought it my duty to withdraw from a Court, the Mini sters of which had broken a promise to the King my Sovereign, by' whatever circumstances of coercion that breach of promise might have been occasioned. — Oft; " ignominy" which accompanied my " expulsion," the world will judge when assured, that the finest frigate in the Portuguese navy was completely fitted up for my ac commodation, and was placed at my disposal without any limitation as to time or distance. If I did not avail myself of the courteous offer of the Portuguese Government, it was simply because I did not think it right so to do. I alone, therefore, am responsible for whatever circumstances of " ignominy" may be thought to have attended my depa-.ture from Lisbon. I may, perhaps, be allowed to observe, that this very cir cumstance of the offer of a Portuguese ship of war is men tioned in my former pamphlet (par. 37.) though, singular as it may appear, Colonel Napier, in reply to that pam- phlet, and, of course, after having read it, speaks of my being " driven ignominiously out of Lisbon, and forced to " join the fleet in an open boat." 19. As to the circuitous contrivance by which Sir Sidney Smith is represented to have " intimated to ate " that my functions had ceased," I have not the most distant recollection of its having been resorted to.— There can be no doubt that my functions must, in one sense of the word, have ceased, when I retired front the Court to which I was accredited ; but that they had not ceased in the sense in which Colonel /Napier uses the term (i. e. as in relation to Sir Sidney Smith, and to the transactions which took place after I came on board of his ship), there is the public and irredra . gible proof of Sir Sidney Smith's own Despatches, in the London Gazette of the 22d of December, in which, while describing those transactions, and the circumstances of my last visit to Lisbon, the Rear-Admiral says, " The instructions we " had received were acted upon to their full extent," &:e. " Lord Strangford having received an acquiescence to the " proposition which had been made by us," &c. "To " adopt the means open to us," &c. " That confidence " which his word of honour, as the King's Minister Pleni " potentiary," ice. " Our hopes and our expectations have " been realized to the utmost extent," &c. Surely these pas sage•, both in themselves and in context with the whole of the Dispatches, prove to a demenstration that Sir Sidney Smith did not consider that he was acting " ly," or that " my functions had ceased." 20. Colonel Napier observes that " I guessed well." It is true that, several months before the emigration took place, I did assure my Government, on evidence quite conclusive to my mind, that the Prince Regent would embark for Bra zil so soon as two pre-supposed eases should occur (not so soon as "either" of the two cases should occur, as Colonel Napier most unaccountably states it), and that, day after day, I continued to repeat those assurances, and, of course, to endeavour, by all the means in my power, to make my predictions good. It is true that Government gave the fullest credit to them, and to the evidence on which they were founded. And it is true that, when the two eases did ac tually occur, and that both of the conditions on which the Prince had made his departure to depend, were com pleted, his Royal Highness did embark, and did thus jus tify my previous assurances to my Court. All this, ac cording to Colonel Napier, was "a guess. Be it so. In the same manner, the result of any politic transaction whatsoever, after having been foreseen and announced, and matured by every effutt of unremitting diligence and exertion, may be characterized as a fortunate "guess." 21. But Colonel Napier is pleased to state (p. 9), that the Prince Regent's promise to emigrate de pended upou either of the following cases :—lst. "It " the French should attempt to compel the Prince " to violate the rights of British subjects in their " persons or property. 2d. If an overwhelming French " force should cross the frontier and take possession of the " Portuguese fortresses,"— an d he proceeds to infer that, as his Royal Highness did not emigrate, when the first of these contingences took place, he had no iutption to I vsu tfili4 fulfil his engagement. It is really worthy of notice in this place, that I did; in my pamphlet, most distinctly state, that the. emigration was to depend also on the invasion of Portugal by the French. My words, though Colonel Napier seems to have so strangely overlooked them (and that, too, on a point which is the very gist of the case), are as follow : " I found the Prince fully determined to " retire from Portugal whenever •the pre•supposcvl " event should occur; but equally so, not to carry his " purpose into effect until his kingdom should have been " actually invaded, and a case thus made out which " should reconcile that measure to his sense of religion and " duty, and justify him (to use his own emphatic ex " pression) to God and to his people, for abandoning the " land of his ancestors." (Par 26.) 22. Of Colonel Napier's allusions to the Americans—to their lack of red ribbons—to Lord Liverpool —to the Wa terloo medal—to the march to Paris—to Mr. Canning's speeches—and, above all, to the somewhat novel contri vance of dividing the Order of the Bath "between" three individuals, I will say nothing, as I cannot discover that these pleasantries, however ingenious and excellent, bear, in the slightest degree on the question originally at issue between their author and myself. 23. Colonel Napier asserts, that time unexpected declara tion in the Moniteur of the 2d of November, " that the " House of Braganza had ceased to reign," was the proxi mate cause of the Emigration. It may tend to improve the historical accuracy of Colonel Napier's work, that I should inform him that there is no allusion whatsoever to the House of Braganza in the Moniteur of the 2d of November. But in a minor and scarcely official paper, the Journal de l'Empire, of the SI stof October, there ap peared some remarks on Lis Majesty's declaration relative to tie Copenhagen Expediticn. In this long paper, which was copied into the Moniteur of the Ist of Na. vember, there is the following passage describing the sup posed fatal policy of England towards her allies. " Eng " land would have lost (or ruined) benmark, if that court " had yielded to fear. It is thus that she 'will have lost " (or ruined) Portugal, and that the House of Braganza, "if it makes common cause with England, will have " ceased to reign'`." There is a wide difference between this conditional menace of the Journal de l'Empire, and the deesitivesentence which Col. Napier represents Buena parte to have pronounced ex cathedra, " that the House of Braganza bad ceased to reign." In truth, this quota tion from the Journal de l'Ernpire'is not at all stronger than a passage, previously inserted in the Moniteur, under the rubric of Lisbon, and the date of the 4th of October, which states, (in reference to the reluctance of the Prince Regent to unite himself with France) that "an act of al " liance between a Continental sovereign and England, is " equivalent to an act of abdication." -f Col. Napier must also permit me to remind him, that almost the very same words had been previously pronounced by Buonaparte himself, early in October, to the whole of the corps di plematique assembled at a fete given by, or to, the Queen of Pfulland, and that they were publicly known at Lisbon on the 23d of the same month. If, there fore, the emigration of the Royal House of Braganza ~ vas the mere instantaneous result of the panic which this declaration inspired, why did they not emigrate when they first had notice of it on the 23d of October ? Simply because both of the two cases on which the Prince all along made the emigration to depend, had not then oc curred. 24. Col. Napier says (p. 10.) that Buonaparte "rarely " broke his political promises." Fortunately for himself; the Prince Regent of Portugal was not of Col. Napier's opinion—au opinion which is, I believe somewhat uncom mon, though it assuredly finds its proper place in an " History," the second sentence of which declares, that " all the wars of France, up to the treaty of Tilsit, were essentially defensive." 25. It is stated by Colonel Napier, that "there is good " historical ground for believing that the resolution of the Council held at Mafra, on the 24th November was by "no means final." Without pretending to be so well qualified as Colonel Napier to judge of what constitutes " historical" evidence, I must be allowed to think that both the Council and its resolution were final, for this plain reason, that no other Council whatever was held afterwards, and that the resolution adopted at the Council of the 24th was executed within four and twenty hours after it had been taken. And I repeat that it was so taken before Sir Sidney Smith's letter (to which the determina tion of time Council is so strangely attributed) was re ceived, or could have been received at Alafra. In point of fact, time Rear-Admiral's letter was never laid before that Council, and might just as well have remained in Sir Sid ney Smith's desk, fer any share which it had, or could have bad, in producing their decisions. 26. Colonel Napier indulges in some sarcastic allusions to the terms of eulogy in which Mr. Canning spoke of the Emigration, which it suits Colonel Napier to describe as a mere " running away." Surely Colonel Napier should be the last to suppose that a retreat before a French army is necessarily a " running away," however deplorable (to use his own words) the " vacillation, confusion, and dis " tress," with which, unhappily, it m ay hare been at tended. 27. Colonel Napier concludes with stating three ques tions, adding, however, that he " will not ask them." I do not understand this distinction. But as these questions are placed on Colonel Napier's pages, I must take leave to consider them as having been asked, and to place the an swers on mine. 28. In the first place, it was no " mistake to have as serted," (as I again a►sert,) that I " accompanied the Prince in his passage over the bar of Lisbon." I mean, that I was in the very same vessel with his Royal High ness ; and not merely that I attended him, while I was is another ship. I did so accompany his Royal Highness, (i. e. I was in the very same vessel with him) till tire junc tion of the two squadrons, and till I went on board the British flag-ship, whence I returned with Sir Sidney Smith into the Royal Presence. 29. In the second place, with reference to the question, whether " the Captain of the Hibernia was not the first " Englishman that the Prince met with, from the time of his " quitting Lisbon, until after he had cleared the mouth of the " river," it would he certainly incorrect to say that I was the first Englishman whom he met, inasmuch as I was actually on hoard his ship. Who was the first other Englishman whom his Royal Ilighnoss met on that day, I do not recol lect, nor do I suppose that Colonel Napier can be at all so licitous to know. He means, no doubt, to insinuate that the Captain of the .Hibernia preceded me. That I deny; I was on hoard the Prince Regent's ship when she suet the _Hibernia. SO. In the third place, and with respect to the assertion! on this subject attributed to the Prince Regent, and to the " surprise" which his Royal Highness is said to have testis fief, when in Brazil, at the representations contained in what Colonel Napier now thinks proper to term my " Bruton street Dispatch, I will beg leave to cite the following pas sages from a letter which was addressed to me some days ago, by a gentleman of the highest reputation for integrity and honour, who preceded oie in my mission to Rio de Janeiro, who, up to the time of my arrival there, was in daily intercourse with the Prince Regent, of the most un reserved and confidential kind, and with whom it is quite natural to suppose that his Royal Highness must have fully and frequently discoursed on so important and so recent an event as that in which he had just been the principal actor. The following, then, are the words of Sir Francis Hill : " In my many conversations with his Royal High " ness, respecting his departure from Lisbon in 1507, " he never expressed to me, nor appeared to entertain, " any opinion at all unfavourable to the accuracy of " the statement given in your printed dispatch of the cir " curnstances of that transaction. He never intimated any surprise in consequence of any part of that statement. " And he never denied to me the fact which you describe " in it, Of your having accompanied his Royal Highness on 4‘ hi s passage over the Bar of Lisbon." 31. Colonel Napier must permit me to think that such evidence as the above is of more authority than the hearsay or hearsay conjectures of the " passengers in Sir Graham " Moore's ship,"—assisted though those conjectures may hare been, by the "news and reports of the day." Vide Sir Graham Aloore's Letter in Colonel Napier's Appendix. Harley-street, Aug. 12, 1828. " Elle aurait perdu le Dannemarc, s'il avait cede a la " crainte. C'est ainsi qu'elle perdra le Portugal, et que " la liaison de Braganoe, si elle fait cause commute avec " l'Angleterre, aura cess4 de regner." 11 est passie comae en proverbe, Tenn acte d'alli " :ince d'un Souverain du Continent, avec I'Angleterre, " equivaut a un acte d'abdication." Another series of " Tales of a Grandfather" are, we hear, in preparation ; and the same indefatigable author has also another Chronicle of the Canongate on the anvil.--Editibur9k Observer. TIIE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.--Under this interesting head we have this week the heartfelt grati fication to announce that the harvest is proceeding prosper ously in the North of England, and that the weather Las during the prestut moon improved very considerably, with a prospect of continuance. The crops of corn generally rather exceed those of an average year, and the corn markets, though a little higher in London, continue steady in the country. It was with difficulty that last week's prices could be obtained in the Wakefield market of piter day,...-4eeds Mercury of Saturday. HAYMARKET THEATRE. I nd e a d t by A 3 T i t r e . w p p L i e A c N e c , i t i r E a , n f an~i entitled. t , ahs to e • m m the Fn , ;ga:t.ebeie r z.e e syu c pe l d i . , je t a h l i o s us h i o es tm o e f . ti N it V ss a i gt trl trifle,Oe , d o l e ia d tuhd lu e s tl t i:irl i nf i o i s g u, p I t o s i s e d a fl. l o a n m i an old man, Baron Speyenliausen (Mr. FARREN), who is married to a fine woman, some y ears younger than himself (Mrs. FAIJCIT). The at tachment of a Colonel Arnsdorf (COOPER) to l,i t wife's pretty ward, Amelia . Rosenthal (Miss F. H. i KELLY), increases the old Baron's vexations, which, however, are in due time dissipated, the young lovers are made happy, and the elder ones rational. ' This plot, it will be seen, is somewhat flimsy; the _acting, however—particularly that of FARREN'S— redeems it; throughout the piece he kept up the interest of his part unimpaired, and was ably se conded by Miss KELLY : who, though her part is unworthy of her, yet stoops to conquer" by her performance. COOPER was respectable as the Co. lonel, and Mrs. HUMBY arch as a Lady's Maid. — The music introduced into the piece detracted greatly from its interest : it should be wholly omit ted, or at least considerably curtailed. The house was full, and the piece announced for repetition I much to the satisfaction of the audience. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. The Battle of Icavaritt was performed in very superior style at this Theatre last night. As a melo-drame it possesses considerable interest, is re plete with incident, and is the occasion of bringing forward as fine a stud of horses as we ever remember to have seen. A carnel, too, makes his appearance on the stage; and really, by his docility, does cre dit to his instructors. He makes an excellent actor, not the worse perhaps for being a voiceless one. The Lilliputian Buonaparte alto deserves great cre dit; whether be best child or a dwarf we were not able to say; his pantomime, however, in either ea.qe, was entitled to great praise. The house, we were glad to end, was full. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, Arc. 18. Very little betting took place to-day, and very little al teration in the odds, although a pretty good muster of the turfsruen attended.—They closed as follow : DONCASTER T. LEGF.R. to 1 aget Mr. Armitage's Velocipede 9 to 2 agst Colonel King's Be.sy Bedlam 5 to 1 agst Mr. Petro's Colonel 7 to 1 agst Lord Milton's Ballad Singer 20 to 1 agst Mr. Theakston's Jour des Noyes 22 to 1 agst Mr. Marson's Murphy 25 to 1 agst Sir T. Mestyn's Ultimatum 25 to 1 apt Mr. Thornhill's Merchant 25 to 1 agst Mr. Metcalfe's Economist STOCKTON RACES (DURHAM). THURSDAY, Auc. 14.—Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p, with 20 sovs. added, for all ages. Two miles. . Mr. Skipsey's ch. f. Jenny 'Mills, 3 yrs 1 Mr. Johnson's ch. c. Jupiter, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Kay's b. c. Corbie, :3 yrs Lord W. Powlett's gr. 1. by Blucher, 3 yrs 4 Mr. Rountree's b. c. Romeo, S yrs Even betting on Jupiter.—A good race A Maiden Plate of 50/. for three-yr-elds and upwards. Heats, Two miles. Mr. Rountree's b. c. Trounser, 4 yrs Mr. Wilkinson's b. f. Prosody, 3 yrs Mr. Farthing's b. g. Sir Catton, 5 yrs 4 3 3 Mr. Hill's br. c. by Young Filho da Puta, 3 yrs 6 2 4 Sir W. MmHg's b. f. by Young Filbo da Puta 1 1,11. Mr. Russell's gr. f. by Blacklock, 3 yrs Sir W. Fowlis's f. the favourite.—_A excellent race. FRIDAY.—A Gold Cup, value 100 sovs. by subscription of 10 sovs. each, with 20 sovs. added. Three miles. Mr. Johnson's ch. c. Jupiter 1 Mr. Milbank's ch. f. by Whisker, 3 yrs 2 Mr. S. Lee's br. f. Sarah, 4 yrs Mr. Russell's ch. c. by COMM, 3 yrs Sir W. Fowlis's br. f. by a Son of Filho, 3 yrs 5 The Wynyard Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p. with 30 added. The second horse to receive back his Stake. Heats, Two miles. Mr. Atwood's b. f. Dione, 4 yrs, Set. 11r. Hudson's m. Lady Easby, aged, Sat. 7th 4 1 2 Mr. Skipsey's k. Don Antonio, aged, Sit. 10Ib 2 2 3 Mr. Russell's gr. f. by Blacklock, 3 yrs, Get. 1111). 3 dr TROTTING MATCH AT SUNBURY COMMON. (This DAT.) This match, for a galloway to trot 28 miles within► two hours, was understood to have been decided at half.past nine this morning at the above place; and, in consequence, at an early hour, our Reporter found a powerful sprinkle of the fancy present, some of them iu expectation of a mill by way of desert to the trotting match. The owner of the horse, however, being entitled, by agreement, to name any time of starting within twelve hours, appointed four o'clock as the hour. This circumstance prevented our giving the result to our readers, as it would be too late even for our country edition. Betting was five and six to four against the horse. ST. OLAVE'S REGATTA. A scullers' wager took place yesterday, for a prize wherry, givea by the Ladies and Gentlemen, inhabitants of St. Olave'a, by six free watermen, in four heats, when the last and grand heat was decided iu favour of Geo. Sta ples (Green). The heats were well contested throughout. The simultaneous appearance of above 300 vessels in Swansea Bay, on Wednesday morning last, making down Channel, after a long detention in port by unpropitious weather and winds, presented to the beholder a most magnificent spectacle.—Cambrian. STATE or TRADE.—The cotton yarn market has very little varied during this month. The sales of yarn are nearly proportioned to the quantity manufactured, and there is no heavy stock on hand ; although it is found difficult to dispose of goods except at too great a sacrifice of price; and cotton-spinning continues a very profitless business for the proprietor, barely clearing indispensible expenses. The'principal demand is confined to the East India market. The hand-loom weavers have of late been changing from fine to coarse fabrics. Coarse Lawns, from H.° to 13°", are in uncommon demand at present, and within the last fortnight one extensive manufacturing house has doubted the number of hands employed on such work.— Glasgow Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY TAKE OF HERRINGS.- On the evening of Friday last, Mr. Jowse Gissom, a hardy and skilful fisherman belonging to Fisherrow, shot his nets off Bomer, and took the extraordinary number of 40,000 odd herrings. On reaching shore, he sold his whole cargo for forty sovereigns ; the herrings being so large that 600 composed a cran, about 66 barrels were taken at this trip. So large a take at so early a period of the season has not been known for twenty years.—Scotsnina. MARGATE JETTY.---A short time since three gentlemen were taken into custody, and conveyed before a Magistrate, for having accompanied two aged relations to the packet, and remained on the Jetty two minutes after their friends were placed on board. For this offence they were fined in penalty and costs (under the Margate Pier Act) 41. 88. 6d. CLONMEL Assizes.--. The trial of Rich. 1 RI) BaowN and l'utur Gor.mAu, for the burning the Strr.As, took place this (lay. The trial excited intone() interest. The Jury having consulted for about an hour and a half— " Acquitted both prisoners."—Dublix Morning Register. arb, duhr 1l sentenced a t r h r oat . ___. - - EXECUTION.—The sentence of the law pro nounced against ELIZABETH Comics was carried into effect in the front of I3odrnin gaol on Friday morning- MITCHELL, THE CoNvicr.—This man, «•ho was convicted at Wilts Assizes of a Yiti t i o e house of Mr. TANNER, at Chippenham, this respect, be transported for life, endeavoured, put a period to his existence by cutting on ;floridity last, to taitlrlititiil,siliertainiriete.oca.eits:snarbyu tanpoptilot us his own bed brought to hint led to lie pretended sickness, and gaol in a similar manner. became piaseessed of a shoemaker's cut ting-knife, y d ne b !'" he the had ea rlpylaasnpunpccerrolepsbsrfiitasi l te( c e s i ff c o a f r : t e r (f)srfoi sick L t p h i l e e i ti so c t o e n n u e a r n s ;; ; i . butv.,a s hisa removednxie anxiety to a h place iave anAds h u o rg p e es on ar l e " n in ow Pt e lY nte aa r t - : suspicion, for h i,, esca a r n i ; daw o ,n7 n 7i t discovered.th isearchingisiteiet teethimenntgtibir:ekil some ,l a i :l i e sever sew Ned d the up w thei l a d - 1 ) ipe wound, tained of his recovery —Hints Adcertinr, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There are circumstances connected with the recent action against the Norwich Mercury for a libel which demand more consideration than at first we had an opportunity of giving to them> This action, it will be recollected, was brought by an attorney, who, after figuring away in the columns of th e s ame j ourna l i n a p aper war, sud denly st o pp e d s h or t as a controversialist to eNin rnenee proceedings a s a l aw y er , an d e nd eavoure d to ind uce a J ury to gi ve hi m d amages an d costs, becaus e , i t may b e h e h a d the worst o f t h e at nuust be, ginn e actionnt, and he it ac count, h e h a d t h e most of the punishment.— This accordingdid not ute : against to t hishe per= son with whom he had been contending, hut against those who allowed to both parties " fair field and no favour," viz., the proprietors of that very newspaper which he himself had used with the expectation of defeating; or silencing his adversary. The Jury gave him " 071 i: farthing," but did not stat e in their verdict whether they considered that amount to be suf ficient to cover the injury complain e d of, or whether they considered it to he about the value of that character which the plaintiff" said he had lost ; they gave it after the Learned Judge wh o tried the cause had told them and the Gen tlemen of the Bar, that the proprietors of news papers in London had frequently to pay- heavy damages for the insertion of libels with which they had nothing to do, and about which, or the writers of which, - they knew nothing whatever. This statement was for the purpose of showing that the proprietors of the Norwich Mercury might be liable to the attorney who was suing them, though they were no parties to the contro versy, and though the actionable words might be elicited by his own warmth or over-eagerness. Sup posingthe other disputant to have been an attorney likewise, why he, two, might not have liked some of ,the expressions or insinuations of his antagonist, .and he too might have brought his action, and thus the unfortunate proprietors of the Norwich Mercury would have been compelled to pay costs, or possibly damages, in two actions, for their civility in allowing the " Learned" Gentle men the privilege of using their columns to write against each other ! The Jury, however, did not seem disposed to view the law exactly as it had been laid down to them, and, before deliver ing their verdict, asked the very pertinent ques tion, " What damages would not carry costs With this, they were informed by the Court they had nothing to do, and SQ, fearing they should get wrong, and having some notion, after all. that these same " cost..." were the main object of pursuit, they gave " one farthing," which, on the certificate of the Judge, certainly saved the defendants from the plaintiff's casts, but unfor tunately saddled them with their own. Had the Jury been acquainted with a circumstance on which we can throw some light, we are per. suaded their verdict in this case would . have been different. Their intention evidently was, that plaintiff and defendant should suffer alike, by giving such damages as would throw the costs each upon his own shoulders ; but this is a great tnistake into which .Juries very frequently fall. Country attorneys, in all actions at law, are obliged to do the principal part of the business through an agent in town, who is also a lawyer, and it is a rule among these agents that, when ever their " country friend" shall be himself a party to such actions, to charge no more than " costs out of pocket," which, in.a bill of from 200/. to 300/., if successful, may amount to some 10/. or W. If the expenses of witnesses and the fees to Counsel be added, the whole may be between 30/. and 40/. ; while the defendants, not being lawyers, have to pay their. own solicitor perhaps two, or perhaps three hundred pounds ! These facts should be known to Jurors, and well considered in all cases where attorneys are pr;:- secutors ; such consideration would prevent the " one farthing," "sixpence," or " da mages, and produce more frequently verdicts "for the defendant," which would teach the " Gentlemen of the Law" that trumpery actions for libel are not always so sgfe a grime as they have been in the habit of supposing.—Morning Herald. has declared himself a convert to the necessity of Mr. Dawson, meenmttrbhoeeur trouble, e r , the as ccoouinilt.yi convincing Derry, zl emancipation. This is the intelligence brought • by the last mails from Ireland, and it has thrown, as well it may, the whole Orange faction of that faction-ridden country into pitiable consterna tion arid confusion. A grand Orange festival was to take place at Derry, to commemorate ono or more of the worthies who flourished at their siege. All was " Glorious Memory" and " Prentice-boy" exhilaration, when, Mr. Daw sen's health being drank, that gentleman got up to return thanks, and—as is usual with men in office, whether chiefs or subalterns—to deliver his political sentiments on topics connected with the lai:v .iN hda l es, u li c ibl ea l e i det t iii o liel tir t ti h ihem e e rloteaarof:,dgeleiarro.tra least Before sses i tf n ot d i ri f e, a g nt f :3. eve • tion of his audience, greatly, no doubt, t . i, t h,,i,, mortification ni,uiifesto of and ilis l o :rr .t o r, I futurel:. Dh hostility tom a d teh a: norths causep e e c h ;f of " ''' recommend that speech to our readers' atten tion, we beg to say a word or two with regard to Mr. Dawson who . delivered it. This gentleman s i s e , n b t sy in the eo fpfeaNnr‘l.iiailenehlelinnstei,rtahcraß,t,eeroerssgofeoredla.iliell(l,l,leorreaprirgee- Beresford (by marriage), county, principal town. His ack il was that of an Irish ascendancy partisan, until he married the sister of the English Oran ge _ man Mr. Peel. ' He then, as a tag to the warfare against the Member' for Oxf6rd, became an Orangeman in triple right—of birth, of alliance, and of office,--inasmuch as the official twin, i m )r e li t l i c t ip h le as of the present Secretary for the Home Depaft ywilsepdo'gnl political a b f l e o r r e x i la t i b s i s r' t o o i t , n i ll t ; e : Mr. Daw-, Catholic question was an riag i , i i i : s a .i r l i f a ir b e f i T h en e ti l n a g st speech of ascendancy speech. inve terate How, then, comes his revolution of opinion ! Why, very obviously. To judge _by the marm ot in which he alludcz to, M r . Thtzg,erald's expulsion from the county a Clare, he tlroa(4 the same fate for Mr. Dawson in the wunty of Derry ; and we really wish that argument could be in all cases found, to shed a ray of light and liberality athwart a sombre and if son itiN i , r e i r e Pa b r u li t tu t ir s it m o , sordid apprehension. It is true that the picture, drawn by this proselyte, of the country which he has so frequently in former instances beheld, or seemed to behold, under colours so very oppo site, is a just and forcible representation of the real state of Ireland. It is that of a kingdom where no constituted authority possesses an atom of solid power, but where a self-created autho rity governs with resistless sway the hearts and hands, the impulses and actions, of the great bulk of a mighty nation. Rank and property, consanguinity, friendship, character, prescrip tion—whatever used in ordinary times to furnish