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Honourable East India Company' I am assured that
they, and all honourable men, would feel the same
warm indignation that I do if they were treated with
the unparalleled cruel injustice that I have been by
the War Department, and would express themselves
accordingly.
No THREAT from any quarter can or shall deter
me, sir, from continuing to persist in exerting my-
self in every kind of manner to obtain that justice
and redress which I have, as a British officer and
subject, a constitutional right to demand.
As far back as the sth of March a charge affecting
my honour and my life was sent by General Vivian
to Lord Panmure ; and up to this day, the sth of
August, my accuser is still to me secret and anony-
mous, although a letter was addressed to me from
the War Department on the 23rd of July, "fully
exonerating" me from the disgraceful imputation.
Some most extraordinary cause must exist for the
War Minister's pertinacious concealment of the
cowardly secret assassin of my character. Is he
afraid to divulge the name? Many persons already
suspect why such may be the case.
Lord Palmerston stated in Parliament that General
Vivian derived his information from Genral Shirley.
General Shirley, when applied to by me, says " he
does not hold himself responsible to any one but his
superior officer, to whom he is prepared, when
called upon, to disclose the source from which he ob-
tained his information." General Vivian, the " supe-
rior officer" to whom General Shirley refers, when
applied to for the name or names of my secret
accuser or accusers, answers, "he is no longer
General Shirley's superior officer, and that General
Beatson should apply to the War Winister !"

I have, therefore, applied to Lord Panmure, to
whom I am referred by General Vivian ; and I now
pause for his lordship's reply.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) W. F. BEATSON, Lieut.-General.
F. Peel, Esq., Under-Secretary, War Department.

SIR CHARLES BURRELL AND HIS
CONSTITUENTS.
SIR CHARLES BURRELL, M.P. for Shoreham, was
entertained on Thursday at a public dinner
at West Grinstead, in the vicinity of that town,
by some 700 or 800 of his constituents, includ-
ing a considerable number of the gentry of the
county of Sussex, and many others. The chair
was occupied by the Rev. John Goring, one of
the largest landed proprietors in Sussex, and resi-
dent in the neighbourhood; and among the gentle-
men on the right and left of the president, besides
the guest himself, were Lord A. G. Lennox, M.P.,
his colleague in the representation ; Viscount
Pevensey, Major Beresford, M.P. ; Mr. Seymour
Fitzgerald, M.P.; Mr. G. Darby, Mr. Patrick
Robertson, M.P. ; the Bishop of Glasgow, Arch-
deacon Otter, General Kenah, Admiral Sir Henry
Shiffner, Mr. Percy Burrell, and Mr. Waller Wind-
ham Burrell.
The chairman, in proposing the health of Sir
Charles Burrell, in the course of the evening,
stated that the meeting was intended as a public re-
cognition of public services, gratefully acknowledged
by the constituency, and faithfully discharged for a
period of fifty years by their guest, who had consis-
tently maintained during that long interval the
principles he professed wlen their fathers first re-
turned him to Parliament in 1806, and had never
truckled for popularity :
Sir Charles, at the same time, well knew that a man
who shrank from party ties altogether, and who called
himself an independent mereber, was one who slit in the
middle of the house, and was of no use at all. He hoped
that their representative would continue to assert his inde-
pendence for many a long year. No eulogium of his (the
chairman) could add lustre to his gray head, for they were
the judges of how he had spept half a century of hie life
in their service.
Sir Charles Burrell, in responding to the compli-
ment, said :
He had always endeavoured to do what he conceived to
be right for his constituents and the public weal without
favour or affection, and withopt seeking advantages of any
kind for himself from men ip power, being content with
the position in which God had placed him. His advanced
years warned him that he must look forward to the time
when he should have to retire from their service ; but
their kindness that day renewed the spirit within him,
and he would not turn his ha* on his constituents so long
as he had health and ability is do his duty. In the course
of his parliamentary career he had experienced many
painful feelings which arose out of the heat of debate and
other circumstances, and had also to regret the loss of
many of hie most intimate and valued political friends in
the House of Commons, of wliom he lamented none more
than his right hon. friend the late Mr. Huskisson, to
whom he had ever looked ass polestar in that house, and
who never flinched from the principles he entertained, but
always steadily adhered to them. He had always stood up
in behalf of the landed interest as the creators of the
national wealth and the freedom of the people, and looked

SATURDAY,

back upon the course he had adopted with regard to free
trade with the most perfect satisfaction, for he was still
of opinion that that measure was unjust and partial in the
highest degree.

Several constitutional and local toasts were proposed
or responded to during the entertainment by Mr. G.
Darby, Viscount Pevensey, Lord A. G. Lennox,
M.P.; General Kenah, Admiral Shiffner, Mr. C.
Scrase Dickens, Major Beresford, M.P.; Mr. Sey-
mour Fitzgerald, M.P.; Mr. E. S. Biggs, and othkr
gentlemen.

THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER AND HIS
TENANTRY.
A PUBLIC DINNER was given to his Grace the
Duke of Manchester, in the Town-hall of Portadown,
on Tuesday, by his tenantry lin that locality.
Numerous addresses expressive of the highest regard
and affection on the part of the tenantry were also
presented to the noble duke. His grace, in return-
ing thanks for his health, which was drunk with
enthusiasm, said :
I have no doubt my ancestors have endeavoured to do
their duty, and I may safely say that I shall always endea-
vour to do the same. Perhaps in one respect this kind-
ness of yours may have been earned for me. I think I
may in some measure attribute it to the place which my
father and mother occupy in your memories. I have no
doubt their conduct gave rise to the hopes of me to which
our chairman so kindly referred. I trust sincerely, as he
has said, that I shall never disappoint those hopes. I
shall endeavour to follow their example, and to earn for
myself the esteem and friendship of all my neighbours,
and the gratitude and respect of all who are dependent
upon me. Among so many of the gentry and landlords of
the country I have nothing special to say to my own
tenants. Perhaps they will forgive me if I assure my
tenantry that I am deeply sensible of the responsibility of
the stewardship that has been assigned me. I shall always
attempt to do my duty, and I think I may promise myself
that I shall have your co-operat:,:n in Try endeavour to do
so. I shall look for that co•operation and advice, not from
persons of any one political party, or from the members of
any one religious creed. lam glad to see people here of
all denominations. I rejoice that this assembly is not
composed of persons of any one political party ; and the
same may be said of those who were so kind as to meet
me at Tandmgee, among whom I saw people of all parties
and religions. Ido not care to conceal it, I myself hold
strong political opinions ; but I am glad to leave them
behind me when I come away from Parliament and London.
Here I come to my neighbours, and I wish to live on good
terms, and be one with you all. (Great applause.)