The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-27 00:00:00

A PIOUS FRAUD:

A CONTEMPORARY, whom we shall not be crud.
enough to name, in one of his leading articles of
Saturday last, grossly misrepresents us.. Under
the pretence of " reviewing " an article which
appeared in our impression of the 15th, under
the heading of "Crime and Ignorance," he strains
himself to throw discredit -Upon ofir views on
the value of religion as an element of education.
Our contemporary, after having taken ten days to
consider the matter, and prepare his " review,"
ought to have been able to " doctor up" a very clear
case against us. We shall see. The first misre-
presentatidd lie indtilge in is asntained in the
words : " Ice [Daily Times] labours to siidw; that
ignorance is the cause of crime, and education its
"We Is this assertion fair and true, or is it a
deliberate falsehood 9 Our readers shall judge
from the following extracts from•dur-article

• " We lino* thA ;ciliation cannot of itself change a
man's moral nature. We ate perfectly onf.dortik on that
point ; but we undertake to say it has much----y-Eni Nie6ri
TO •Do With-.the p4?..entt:on,--of crime, ..because we find
that our criminal popUlation are all but wholly unedu-
cated. • • That crime; and even a superior
education, are not 41iogetherine9ritilitible niay at once
be admitted, without injuring our argUment. •
They. [criminal calendars generally] all tell one and the
same.skorY; and pointscpnClusively to the existence of the
samoiela4on irtween crime and want of education.*
'We haVe ^a late' lidiof. the people unblessed by its
infinencei. . Neither must we content our-
selves with aittiiiir& it the jour statictxrd of educating the
people merely to idrid add write; • Thene eie
b'u't iristra-
ments, which may be used for good or evil. 4
Could such a desirable consummation be attained, who
will dare to deny that we might justifiably calculate on
a DIMINUTIPN of the 'moral malaria which at present
devastates the masses ?"

Were we riot doirect irf sia.tinr; that there exists
" a relation between crime Arid' ignocrdneel an'd
that education "has much, very much, to do with
prwntion"—not "cure .?" Did we .exaggerate
the value of education by characterising it as
merely a "humanising " influence ? Did we
predict any higher result frOrd our educational
programme than that we might daietifaid
" diminution " of the present awfUlly crowded
calendars ? Nay, More ; did we not guard
ourselves from niisa.ppreherlsiort by . asserting
our "perfect orthodoxy " :Of as to the
inadequacy of merely secular education in
regenerating mall'S Moral nature ? Did we- not
admi that "crime, and even superior educa-
catiot" were perfectly compatible ? Did we not
denoince the idea of being content with that low
staneard of education whioh supplies the de-
pravod with " an instrument which may be
used.for good. or evil?" Have we anywhere
assented that " ignorance is the cause of
crimt ?" Or have we stated that -"-edueation
is its cure ?" Have we not clearly shown that the
contary is our opinion ; and yet our contempo-
rary3alumitiously and maliciously seeks to fasten
upon us the very views
.we carefully eSoberWed.
We .!annot but deplore our brother journalist's
nlenal.depravity thus made manifest. We have
,no neans of judging correctly of the-state of 'his
eduction ; but if we were to form an opinion
fron the manner in which he misinterpretsvur
statmentS, and the style in whiCh he reviews
ther, we' might ho inclined to qiiestiort.tho pro-
prior of classing him, after the 'fashion of the
calendars, among those who cart " read and Write
well" it, howeVer, we charitably suppose that
fills into the list of those possessing"supe-
rior education,' we must note the fact as
addiional evidence of the lamentable truth we

formerly put forward,—that moral obliquity, and
even a superior education, are not altogether
incompatible. -"

We
W have said enough to- shew. that the position
assumed by our contemporary is false and mite.-
nable ; but since we have noticed his attempt to
" review" us we may refer to one or two other
points in his article.. He attributes to us
"doubtful phrases" which we never used, such
as "thinking according to one's capacity and
sphere," and " acting intelligently, according
to one's capacity." These phrases .are certainly
" doubtful ; " but they are not ours ; they
are merely- specimens of that process of ga.ll?-
ling for which our contemporary promises to
become famous, seeing that, in. his very last im-
.pression, We find, he has been under the necessity
of publishing in exposure of the manner in which
lie 'recently._ gave ." a garbled stateMentn; instead
of
_a " true report'.' an important ivy case
(Laurie v. 'Stubbs), whereby it seems ourcontem-
potary hasp (as far as it was in his power) inflicted
serious injury upon the defendant. •

A weak effort is made to upset our statement
that only;ne of the prisoners in the last calendar
pdssessed "a good education," HOw, does he
attempt to refute us ? , Not by reference to the
calendar itself, but by 'quoting from the Mercury !
And what i 5 the difference between our statement
and that of the Mereury ? We stated that "only
fourteen can read and write well." The Mercury
said, of that fourteen, that they were " well_edu-
cateV To be able to " read and write well"
may be the highest standard of education dreamt
of in the' Merczery office;' but outside-that estab-
lishment thete are ins.nSr who think very differ-
ently. We correctly followed the classification
regularly adopted by the Governor of the gaol, in
prep firing the calendar,-where a distinction is very,
properly drawn between what is called " superior.
education," (1), and those who can only " read and
write well." (14).And the 3lercury, we hold, was not
warranted instating that those fourteen were " well
educated," Here our unfortunate contemporary
has fallen into his old, blunder of adopting the Mer-
ciery's mistakes, as occurred recently in the case
of their " cribbing" the Mercury's erroneous
report of a meeting of the Markets. Committee, in
consequence of which Mr. SHIMMIN gave notice
Of a motion for.his reporter being kicked.put.
Our reviewer goes on to say, with reference to
our assertion that there. Manifestly exists some
relation between ignorance and crime, because we
find that our cririfirials are all but Wholly un-
educated This assertion is unaccompanied by
proof, and amounts to a begging of_the question.
His data are altogether insufficient, and he never
•
Brice attempts to show the reasonableness of his
hypothesis.!' Bioesotr contemporary then mean
to ignore the facts and figures We adduced, and
to deny that there is any connection whatever to
be traced between, prime and ignorance ? Our
whole argument rested on the undeniable fact
that, in what Baron MARTIN called the heaviest
and the b ackest calendar he had ever seen,
there was only one prisoner who possessed a good
education, and only fourteen that could read and
write well, and we added, and now repeat, that a
sirriilarstateof Matters will be foini d to have existed
at every assize. , If our contemporary will refer to
former calendars he, will find the proof; or, if
not, let .him produce the figure's that contradict
us. But, indee'd, the fact is notorious. Is
it not, theii, an unavoidable inference that some
relation must exist between those two ingredients,
Which are always, found together. Our ".hYPO-
- is simple, reasonable, and indestructible,
We say that tens of thousands through neglect
and destitution in early life, grow tip in gross igno-
rance, soon fall into Vicious courses, and ultimately
fill our gaols to. overflowing, who might have been
saved froth such a fate by a sound edneation and
careful upbringing. ft our Contemporary. insist
upon denouncing our views as unreasonable, let
him be consistent and pommenee a campaign
against "Ragged SchoOls"—one of the most
valuable educational institutions we possess, origi-
nating from and founded on the very 'views we
acivoodtei and which our, contemporary stigma-
tizes as " unreasonable,''

Finally, we are accused of " taking no notice of
the power of religion to prevent crime.'' 100
certainly not ; neither do we intend. We leave
that to our reverend and " spiritual" contem-
porary. It is not our province as political and
dornitercial jOtirrialists to assume clerical functions.
The leading Colihn of a daily paper is not the
place for indulging id hod-Mies.: If our contem-
porary feels himself qualified td deal with
"spiritual" matters he is welcome, but for out-
selves we confess our incompetency. Because
we do so, lie, with characteristic animosity
find inconsistency calls us " spiritual quacks.'
In the proper ifdy and in the proper place
he will find that We dre at least as hearty
as he is in asserting add defending
the claims, and, still better, we fitifift;iy
trust, in iy._actising the duties of religion, as
inculcated by the pure and holy faith of the
Ifrotestartt Church of England. Because we
.0/4„d educa-
onsidereand
falsely*
to
have not, as our contemporary admits, gone into
tainoyni
s detailsh eo fe .nNtvihtlaetdwe c
gratuitously
assume that we look upon religions teaching ag
no essential part. of such . a system ? Such an
tinwarvantable mode of attack is unworthy of
any respectatit, journal, and we throw back his
foul aspersion with contempt.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OW,NI edRBEETONDENT.)
Saturday,_August 13,1.860,

As of course the expedition of Garibaldi excites
the chief interest with you, I shall commence by
telliri yott what the evening journals say on the
subjects ACCording to their accounts, which are
only trustworthy Ntithin certain limits, the num-
bers of troops disembarked in Calabria are not
less than 10,000 men, and they wire all rastrded
without encountering any serious opposition ail the
Part of the Neapolitan Navy, although it was in
considerable for& id the Straits. ;The Garibaldian
troops were diStrihnting throughout the country
a proclamation- addressed by ft:kJ Revolutionary
Committee to the officers, non-commlssiched offi-
cers, and soldiers of the Neapolitan army. This
plot/an/okm, which had been previously published,
declares that Pence, England, and even Russia,
are sanctioning the enterprise of Garibaldi in
favour of Italian unity. It is added that the
Neapolitan array vial being concentrated; with a
view of Marching upon a place called Pinopoli.
This step, however, would not appear to have
saved Reggio. - Later intelligence respecting the
movements of the invaders, and their successes,
will, no doubt; have reached you by telegraph-
before this comes to hand. -
The report of Francis 11. having sent a letter
to the Emperor of the French, lamenting having
fcd
his Majesty's advice, and reproaching
:hinli9 :
hccl
ia beentid its
s correct,fai e'
is contradicted ; even if the
story there would have been an
excellent answer to the complaint_g, You did not
;act
t was too late." Despite all
h
defence of his capital,
e
everybody here, with few exceptions, appears to
t e uponman mys resorted
advice
r the
to consider the young monarch a lost man.. The
Count d'Aiinila, in the Various Conversations which
he had with , different parties , in his passage
through 'Francei made no 'Secret of his own
opinion on this point; and he has expressed his
opinion, ;.and, his reasons for entertaining it, at
considerable length in a letter, which he has ad-
dressed to :tbe "advanced, liberal' French pfpor,
L' Opinion Arotionale. letter, from •Naplps. of
the mbst.recilit givto the followindi de
scription of the condition
,of the military

arrangements for ensuring the safety of the
place from a surprise—and some further details
regarding the cause of the expulsion of the Count
d'Aquila—" Since the affair of the Veloce " (of
which, by-the-bye, Garibaldi is said by some to
have expressed his decided disapproval), " there
have been great military movements ; entire com-
panies patrol the city night and day, form in order
of battle, run up and down the quays on which
cannon are mounted, and start at the least sound
of alarm, the whole city being thus kept in a per-
petual state of alert against an enemy which
never appears. Every evening a man-of-war steamer
starts for Caprea to see if there are any tidings of an
enemy's approach, and returns every morning
reporting that is has seen nothing. Regiments
are constantly in motion, or being transported by
rail in all directions ; they return thoroughly
knocked up 'with fatigue, with the feeling of
having done their duty. Reactionary conspiracies
ke alone spoken of ; those who were desirous
of bringing them about are pointed at with the
finger, and they talk of driving them away from
Naples; those also who were to be arrested are
also pointed out, as well as those who were to have
been massacred, and they are congratulated on
having escaped dangers so terrible. The Ministry
have sent to say to the Liberals that by expelling
the Count Aquila they have saved their lives, and
the Liberals affect to believe it, for nothing is
more agreeable and more honourable than to have
been exposed to peril. They place their hands upon
all the arms which have been disembarked, and
assure people that they were intended for Prince
Louis. They have followed the custom of
the Hebrews, and they have chased this
august 'personage into the desert, making him
the scapegoat for all the suspicions and all
the imprecations which it serves their pur-
pose to originate or to divert, in order to re-
cover the confidence of, and reassure, the people.
And this old ruse of the scapegoat has succeeded
just as if it were a new one ; it was necessary, at
all hazards, that public opinion have something
on which to expend its slanders and exhaust its
spleen." This writer then explains that the
passport given to the Prince was dated so far
back as the 6th inst. ; that the King was anxious
to have the state of siege declared for several
weeks previously to that event taking place ; and
he inclines to think, that the expulsion cf the
Prince was the result of a compromise between
the King and his Ministry—the Ministry agreeing
to the proclamation of the state of siege, and the
King consenting to his uncle's passport being
sent him. It was rather a dangerous game for the
Ministry to play, however, far it is clear that, by
the state of siege being declared, the King can at
any moment send them to the right about, and
reinaugurate the regime of 1819, by the mere
stroke of- his pen.

General Filan,gieri has gone to reside at Hyeres
where he expects his family to join bim, and few
people are likely to -wish him back.

There is a long account in the papers, of the
Emperor's reception at Dijon, and of his address
to the Bishop; but you will no doubt see the par-
ticulars in the London papers. The forthcoming
speech of His Majesty at Lyons, as I have
already warned you, will be S. matter worth
noticing.

The extent of the sacrilegious robbery at Notre
Dan-ie continues to be a great topic of conversation
and curiosity. It appears that it took place
during the absence of the priest to whom the
custody of the articles was entrusted, for his
holidays, and there is evidence to show that
the guilty parties were thoroughly acquainted with
the localities, and that they had made it their
study for a long time past to avail them-
selves of every possible means of carrying out
their designs. The extrinsic worth of the valuables
carried off was estimated at 800,000. francs, but
most of them have been recovered, and the actual
loss in money is not supposed to exceed 25,000
francs,

The Patric makes mention of the following
extraordinary wager regarding the weather :
"It will be recollected," it says, that an English-
man has wagered that it would rain every day
from the Ist of May last to the 29th of August.
Every time that it rains he receives 1,000 francs,
and on every occasion that it does not rain he
pays 10,000 francs into the hands of his adver-
sary. The Engliihniart has up to this time won
70,000 francs, and nothing can now prevent his
remaining a heavy winner."
The Bourse, like the rest of the world, can only
have one fine day at a time. The slight improve-
ment f noticed in my last has not been maintained,
neither has the faintest return to animation.
Rentes are down-to 68f. 13c.

ITALY.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MILAO, August 29.

There is a very general rumour current that
even 'in Sicily matters are not proceeding with
that delightful harmony and enthusiasm." which
Was anticipated " from a people raised out of the
worst. description of .brtital tyranny to the most
unlimited:freneither does it seem perfectly
true that ' the • proclamation of the Sardinian
statute" and edniiiiistfation of the oath to all the
employes 'swearing fidelity to Victor Emmanuel
has met With. that;imiterSal approbation which
ire
have ..gent} -in :these journals whose inte-
rest ;it, puree l :the brightest side of the
picture befer.4 :thee eyes of- the., public.; nor_ oes
the conduct £i Okopti!bO-Minister of the Interior,
seem td,.lT,te.--*et witligfreAt.faYent. . late
yiug, 'united
with the'bffice 'efs..thO ;Minister, of ilai:liiterior
that of Public :Security, iting:-up'iiii:i4tvta.::of the
most iinportak Ofkteiiif Mil, -State for the evident
object of effectually promulgating and securing
the triumph of his party, and at once crushing
any opposition that might be offered on the 'part
of the most enlightened Sicilians who wish them-.
selves and countrymen to be wholly unfettered in
the convocation of an assembly *hose duty it
shall be to impose those conditions most beneficial
to the interests of the country so as to form the
basis of their annexation, but which is the very
thing Crespi and his party are endeavouring to
destroy, wishing to hand over the island te.Pied,
mont without even the formality of a votation by
it:Averse/ suffrage, the result being great oppo-
sitiow, at the head of which are Torrearsa, Pisani,
Natali, Lanzi, and others, who hold their re:uniOns,
for the purpose of combating the policy of the
Provisional or Absolute Government Of Sicily.-
Many other Sicilians assert that there was n -
nesessity for the proclamation of the Sardinian,
statute, which might have been left aside at lean.
until after the votation. ":
So strong is this feeling among the people-thii
meetings have been held and deputations formed
to wait upOn the pro-Dictator Depretis, urging-
the necessity of the removal of the "Republican
Minister" Crespi, Depretis urging in defence
the inamenSe injury that such, by the continual
changes of the Government, would entail upon
the country, and earnestly entreated the deputa-
tion to persuade their party to permit matters to
remain as they were for the present, pledging
himself that no abuse of power should take place
while he remained at the head of the Provisional
Government. This assurance pacified the party
for a few days,
but now more than ever the uni-
'versa cry at Palermo and Messina is for the
immediate votation and annexation of the island,
and I am certain that neither Depretis nor Gari-
baldi will be able to beat back this impetuous
'current of public opinion.
The principal motive of this general outcry for
the elections and convocation of an assembly is a
• rumour that has been very widely spread among
the people of Palermo and Messina, that Depretis
contemplates the annexation of the island without
even giving the Sicilians the credit of pronouncing
their vote • in favour of the annexation. There
can be no doubt that however much the Pro-
visional' Government may endeavonr to put out
of sight this state of things, it is nevertheless but
too evident that there is not that union which
ought to exist between the Government and the
leading men of the island, whose whole attention
And energy should he deyoted to the organisation
of the affairs of the country, and the amelioration

of the present miserable condition of the people,
instead of quarrelling among themselves about
the most trifling political differences. The
Sicilians are, it is true, in a most lamentable
state of ignorance, still it cannot be denied that,
dull as they are, they now begin to open their
eyes to the intrigues of those dangerous and
ambitious men by whom the Dictator is sur-
rounded, and whose acts are calculated to rain
the cause for which so many sacrifices have been
already made. It has been trumpeted forth iri
every part of Europe that the Sicilians are most
enthusiastic for the national cause, and unceasing
in their demonstrations of gratitude towards their
Liberator. Now, I do not wish in any way to
destroy the effect of these brilliant tints, brought
out as they are by such varnish, neither will I
say-that the Sicilians are not grateful, nor that
Garibaldi by those weekly- exciting and soul-
stirring proclamations of which he is so great a
master, has not been able to inspire into the
hearts of the Sicilians that love of country and
liberty which is so important for the regeneration
of their island; but' With all those appeals and
all the exertions of the Provisional Government;
has Garibaldi been able to beat his 150,000
men, of which he spoke at the coninieneethent of
his nomination as Dictator ? What is thu
ber that he has been able to persuade to effid
themselves under his banner of liberty ? Scarcely
more than four thousand, and this with a popula-
tion of more than two millions !

I am told that the Government is beset by the
gravest difficulties at every step they take. If
this be true then there cannot be that content
among the Sicilians of which many of the jour-
nals boast, and which seems very extraordinary,
possessing as they do the most unlimited powers,
and without a press to criticise or drag before
the public eye every act of the Government. I
really do believe that there has been more atten-
tion paid to the extension of a war which I fear-
lessly assert will end in the ruin of Italy, than
the amelioration of the people, and a desire to
find a sufficient number of disinterested and
patriotic men to set about the immediate and
entire re-organisation of the island. Another
important question is the financial state of Sicily,
which is by no means in a very flourishing state,
and may truly be said to be going from bad to
worse. This question has been lately discussed
by the pro• Dictator and the Paymaster-General
of the Sicilian army, when it was determined
that the pay of officers not in active service should
be reduced to two, francs a-day. .The Movimento
of Genoa has the following :—" A noble cause
inspires a noble abnegation. The officers of
Garibaldi's army are content to receive besides
their rations only two francs a-day on account of
their stipulated pay, leaving the balance to be
paid by the country at a future period." This
short paragraph not only confirms the sad state
of the finances, but shows that not only the
officers that are not in active service are to receive
two francs a-day, but also those who are rushing
amid the roar of cannon and musketry. Art
officer of artillery writes to me as follows
" Here I am at the Torre tkl Faro, at that point
where the strait is very narrow:: Here we have'
the artillery, engineers, sappers, miners, and
several companies of the line, which will 1.;:a con-
siderably increased in a day or two. The village
of the Faro is very small, and almost entirely-
:inhabited by fishermen, consequently we expe-
rience great difficulty to find lodgings for our
officers ; still the people are very good, and
although poor, show the best disposition to serve
us. You will easily imagine that our life is very
different from what it was in Milan, when I tell
you that we are as many as three officers in a
small room, and glad es-en to get this miserable
way of huddling ourselves together to pass the
night. Orsini has been obliged to divide his
modest apartment, composed of four small rooms,
with six officers, besides being obliged in the same
apartment to have his offices' as Geneng Com-
mander." The landscape fromithis point is very
beautiful, and during some hours of the day, abso-
lutely charming. In front, within the range of our
guns, we have the Calabrian mountains ; on the
left Messina (about nine miles distant from this
point), which, like the opposite coast, forms an
ample curve, and gives to the channel, at a very
short distance, the appearance of an -immense
basin or port. The weather is very fine, and the
sea so placid as to resemble a gigantic mirror,
which does not very happily harmonise with the
roar of cannon and desperate strife that we
anticipate on these waters, and on the opposite
shore. Vessels of every description pass through
the strait, and on the other side several Neapoli-
tan cruisers are hugging the Calabrian coast, and
narrowly watching our works, which are nearly
all finished, and about twenty guns of large
calibre already in position, besides many smaller
pieces along the whole line 'which commands this
passage of the strait."

On the 14th instant a rumour was current in
Naples that Garibaldi had landed, with 13,000
men, at two different points at a short distance
from Naples, and would triumphantly march into
the city on the following morning (being a fester)
in time to attend the Te Deunz in honour of
Napoleon 111., it being his anniversary, the royal
troops not daring to affront a man eight feet
high, and who could skake 150 musket shots out
of his red shirt after the battle of Milazzo without
receiving the slightest wound. Qua •volunzus
facile credimus. This report was not only taken
for gospel truth, but even if it had been a thou-
sand times as absurd it would have been swallowed
with the same gusto, and with the certainty of
being realised.
On Saturday and Sunday last many of the
journals of this city and Turin announced in the
most solemn phraseology :—" We are confidently
informed that the 19th is to be the great day,
every preparation having been made for a general
movement at Naples, so that within a few hours
we may expect to hear of the gravest events
having occurred in that city." In fact the next
morning I was weak enough to go to the offices
of the Perseveranza to get one of the earliest
copies, and there indeed I found a telegram, but
instead of Naples it was one from Madrid, which
announced that the " Queen was ill with a violent
headache" (la Regina é anzmalata di neuralgia
ally testa). I will leave you to imagine my dis-
appointment, which was almost committing itself
by some emphatic Italian exclamation, when in
the evening I read in the Lombardia, under the
head " Telegrafia Pri'iala, Naples, 19th, morning
10 The city is tranquil.' "
You will, no doubt, have heard before this
of the mad attempt of the Veloce, a small
corvette of six guns,
entering the bay of .Cas-
tellamare, and attempting to drag from her
moorings it Monarec, a vessel of eighty guns,
which, of course, ended in a complete fiasco,
--and 'Useless loss of life on both sides, the comman-
der, Acton, of the Monarco, being among the
killed, which name sounds like an Englisi? one.
On the 15th- instant the Castiglia attempted to
capture, a Neapolitan corvette, but the little vessel
received her with such a .sharp fire as to oblige
her antagonist. to turn-tail, and 'steer within
reach of -the 'guns of the Torre del Faro.- A tele-
:gram,- dated Naples, 15th, announces that the
Neapolitan cruisers captured on . the- Calabrian
coast a:brig from Malta, laden with arms and
Munition;- four sailors.wern_mada_priseners, five
--succeeded in reaching the boats of the .Garibaldini,
and- the destiny of the other four is unknown,
probably-drowned or killed. The same telegram
announces that the Garibaldini corvette La Regina
d'lnghilterra, of sixteen , guns, and having on
board 22,000 English muskets, arrived at Messina
on the 15th instant.

My letter of the 17th informed you of the
concentration of the last expedition of the volun-
teers in the Gulf Degli Aranci, near Terranuova,
where they were to remain until they received
Garibaldi's instructions through Bertani, as to
their final destination. It appears from the
most positive evidence that the individuals in com-
mand of this force, nearly 4,000 men well armed,
are decided Republicans ; and if Garibaldi's
orders were contrary to their going towards the
Roman States, to act upon their own respon-
sibility, and invade the same in defiance of the
government and Garibaldi. This intentim was
immediately forwarded to the government, which
at once despatched the frigate Constituzione with
two battalions of bersaglieri, which approached
the vessel on board of which was the commander
of the volunteers, and intimated to him in the most
imperative terms, either to return to Genoa or im-
mediately to proceed to Sicily. Remonstrance was
useless, and the little fleet of volunteers left their
moorings and sulkily proceeded to Palermo. This
being the second time that the Government has
prevented these mad fanatics from. plunging the
country into the greatest danger, the government
seems resolved to take the bull by the horns, and
have intimated to the committee for the expedi-