The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-08 00:00:00

First Letur vf the Rey. T. J. Joan to the Earl of

Harrington.
My Lush— I deem it • duty to addles" a few words to
your lordship is conantlielkel of recent emits. It b a da
that fa ineapreasibly painful to rue, but the only one which
candour and hinesty indicate to me, se far se my judgment
helps me. ant I should not have written to your lorded')
now, but have waited to have had en interview with your
lordship. except for setting circumatanora.
Since I have been at Einem, my lord, I have had to
acknowledge repeated acts of kindness from both your
lordship and Lady Harrington. Hut, on the other hand,
so may and such fearful and severe champ have been
utilised by Lady H. against the character of Mr. nigh-
ttime that I Mt that, del that her ladyship said war true,
be misit be oohed a man that the sooner he was deposed from
the mishits, of the Church of England the greater gain
would it he, an esty to the parish of Einem, but also to
the Anne at Legs. Is addition to which I conceived that
MY' ohmmeter wee dam bid, mine would meastarri4t.e
seam' by say association with him his curate.
ati my toed, induced me to make a searching inquiry
Intr. H.'s character, whkh I found to be far, very fat
tried, tom the colouring Lady H. had given it. This so
ampriesd me that I long kit • difficulty as to my coarse ;
kg when it CelDe to the charging of Mr. H. with keeping
dm Sacrament mosey and the like—so merlons was the
ebsege—l hmently and plenty egad Mr. H. how he
awned of this mosey, and I found an agreement M-
ORN& hi. eternised" sad those of the recipients of the
meal in the pariah. All this, my lord, you may well
coneem greatly emptied nee. It, moreover, placed me in so
delicate and awkward a position with Indy H. that
who I west to the Castle after my Investigation, I told her
ladyshtp that I feared she had been misinfumied, and that I
bad mod things dialect from her ledythip's repreeentas
time. Her ladyship, bowerer, persisted in her opinion.
Thus I left matters at the last interview I had the honour of
holding with Lady Iferrtagtos.
bars this owning, my lord, recend au intimation from
Kr. H. that be has cortuanaced an notice seise Lady H.,
sad that he was intending to place me in the wltsisenbon.
It would. indeed, be • manful thing to be compelled by the
court to reveal such statements as would be demanded of me ;
sad seeking would convey to me so mach plenum se to
swage from disogreeable • task. though this, without IA
allmatioa of circumstance., will I fear be dmied

A; • dairymen, however, •"..T.clußy is to 7-ask peace
ead NNW It and if I can, at thL eleventh hour, Mar the
olive brands m this ruse, it would lie met ratify* Is se,
in addition to its being • part of my duty.
Asking your lordelesp*s indultam* for this trespass,
I have the tecaoar, ay lord, to be
Your lordship's most obedient arrant,
To the Eat of Harrington. THOS. JAI!, JUNO..

Reply of the Rail of Harrington to the Rev. T. J. Josue.
H H., Palaceitartless. 17th Jaw, 1867.
Dear Sir.-1 know sotidug of Mr. Highs ore, ezoes
our parish priest. You were received so my board as a Mead_ .
You Retuned to the discourse held, and you now tall me that
you have divul4nl what you heard there. Bud it to be lacers
met, mid bold out to me " the olive branch."
Ask the firm gentleman you meet what he thliska of my
conduct and of yours. , Troly yours,
To the Re. J its, HAILIMIGTON.
Curet.. Elveatos.
P.S. The totter was misdirected ma returned to mw—H.

Second Letter (reply) of the Rev. T. J. Jones to the lad of
Harrington.
Myron, June 23, 1837.
Led,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 17th last . who h its delay In reaching me hr
Mord me from *newer, earlier. I doer, my lrd, in
their place. to correct a mu-statement in your lordship's
Mier, which weerts that I " now tell" your lordship that
I Ind "divulged" what I had beard at your lordshi "s
hetet Ido uot think, my lord. that my letter ooemina
seek statement. though I conclude that that is the
rtionr you have choler to adopt, by which norm yen •
Wise_ I bey my Iced, to give me credit for trylittb
di erstion. judgment. or honesty. Bet that you may be
Nightly informed, I do not hesitate now, my lord, to tell
re la what way I Mw law etworthed to writ that
sow her things hod
rite sir Mthe Coda. Whin I
"larelly and pier'', as I nit in my farmer bre, end
new agi—io gin the whits tooth—ta the meet Laker
ad imam ssemar. soled the. Higkietiro Mw he
sessoment money, late sespielor re. burn-
mcwood, sad he es rend me km Saki me
burn-
Met N. hod mild ah
em he had kept the im'.newt
mew, sed ray Saw things ot a severe cherster, which
be 11111 i heard Roes ether sources, sad seri me whether
such was not the thee with me. I omedidly admit act I
hated, as I felt boned to do, that I cord act any tIM I
had hued ewersl things stated which I comokred valdnd
they were aro true. Without asyteg mere he fateriked me
with We
.private memoranda, which I was gratified to Irl
authentic in ite details. Thee, my lord, hirer Is* H.'s
statements and existing facts I found a &orrery w Adli I
endeavoured to cornvt on her ladyship's erring theiskene
to ma, but to no poee.
And neat, my toed, r to my 'sceptics at pow Issielp's
board es • fnend." I hays error aoltheirlethrl the
kinder of your I irdship and Lady 11., oed I sew
add that I believe that I hero acted the part of au lanai
friend, in endeavvurieg to correct, le aB eracetal
gee- tle • manner a powible, an error Into which Lolly H.
heel born led, or had fore, and to triclairo from a Irk
which win dexirahle not to be repeated. And flute have I
striven humbly Co follow the too-hinge: our Lord himeolf,
who tel ne that if thy brother treepampearit thee, go and
tell him his Wilt between the rd him alone." I am
clearly convolved. toy lied. that I how milked in the narrow
path of duty, and have fulfilled the other at an honest bird,
as well al the rropicsibiloy of a errors.
Dot fen"' ; rd. we must not loan of the person
crowning whim. thew things were mid. This was the
View of Elvietoo. whore curate I am, with whom I must
have almost dedy intercoarm, and whom I must serve (in-
cepting the rontaumn•.iaa of life and death, Ac.) for two
years. To Sol at man to whom I wee thus bound by the
ties of duty and brotherhood charged with an offence pules-
leut to sacrilege, and with immoralities of a dreadful
charter. and Ilot to know the correctness of such star
meets. sepecielly when math by a counter and arra •
clergymao, would hive erinced in me • derelichis of duty
end principle whivh w'oil l have born unpardonable, bead,.
its involving me In a dietruat my view, end on abhorrence
of one whom was hound to serve and obey. Surely, my
lord, such • state of things ought never to heve existed I
Deeply painful is it, toy lord, to me to write thus, and
some so, to be COtel.ll.At of what now lies in the horn of
the put. K' tr.s..lly woubi Ibe relies-e 4 from the conse-
quence if I could , but as your lorthip seer Wind to
reject my proffer to he • "procenumlier,' I tea bet await the
issue.

One word more. These and i.ther Cants bent, made patent,
my lord, I do not say that I court publicity, but I oirtalnly
should have no hoz for the judgmeat of any orama am
my ooaduct. It is not nay lunation, my lord, toil
alnut* a
cemparison of my conduit with yours, ea that would be
ben& the matter le, fon to ; but I do say, let the world, my
lord, know what I unhappily know. and you would and that
the conviction would be that I had erred in being too tear-
clfal too gentle.
. .

I repeat toy thanks to your lordship and Lady Harrington
for your kis:Omens to me hitherto, and beg, toy lord, to sub-
scribe myself,
Your lordship's most obedient 'errant,
The Earl of Ilsnington. THOS. JAS. JUNES.

Reply of the Earl of Harrington to the Rev. T. Jones.
H. H . Pala* Gardens, 2tth Jill," 1857.
Deer Sir.—Yon know my watimento, and your letter of
yesterday informs me of yours.
Among other things you ley that Mr. H. showed
ywe die private memoranda shoot the eppropriation of the
t money, which satiefied you. Twice you have
=id this. but have not mentioned how it wail *ppm-
who ti looks suspicious!, es publicity le the custom
W the law as regards the money.
As to ynor were offering-1 have nit declared war, and
shwild be the lam to sae &w posse. Mr. H. lives in a glass
hawse end should not throw atone..

I rare nothing about yowl. maienre. Bofors you apprised
am or yonr biotite intentions I regarded you aR a trim& I
ow look arms ru m an enemy. bat bear pm no milks).—
Truly, yams, H•ItRINOTON.

Third Lease ;rept)) of the Her. T. J. Jour., to the Earl
of Harrington.
Elveston, June 20th, 1A57.
My Lord —I• ackuowledgicz the reoript of your lord.
ship's letter of the 24th Met- I would he permitted to ex-
igent my regret at the rhernoter of ooe of the eentiments
which it ,Ittains. Your I. rdship tells roe that "I have not
inentioned how it ;tbe Se.riunent money) was appropriated,
which looks enapivions." To do so, toy lst. I consider
needless. especially &lit would have involved the writing for
your lordship of a string of names, and ...vounis of small
Noma ammo; trim Is. to lie. with other pertivalere I, my
lord, farther considered it anisetially •eedlaee became I con-
ceived that when a clergymen (not to say, • gentlemen)
makes • matembit (in this see In wnting), be does
an ou the economist thee he b meting forth the tenth. •
sad that hie word is to he relied out If such were
not the case, and the mine gay were to prevail
throughout the world, soot, very men, Indeed, would all
the businees and mutual confidence of the world be put •
at to. Nothing but distrust end suspicion would ripe,
ma the would be varried by biro who exercised the
greaten craft and power. item such • este of thaw I
pray England may ever be delivered.
I would also. my Inni, humbly correct another iniretseee
meet he your brdelaigs :abr. In one word, my lard,
bather maimm nor the law requires the minima to give an
meennt of the Savrannet motley.
I will only add. my bed, that I deeply aged your
Wield, should look epos a am en ems . M lettere
Sedan the very ontrary fseling—one of p—with
lb. desire to prevent public queerer. This is still my
Iheling.
I ham the honour, my lot ', to he your 1 arlship'e most
obedient server, Taos. Jas. Jowls.
The Earl of Harrington.

Reply of tb• Hari ci Harrington to the Rev. T. J. Joan.
H. H. Palace Gardena, June 30, 1867.
Deer eir,—Oar Wow do not aosinailatt
You consider it right to impart confidential conversations.
I do not.

lio7iisink it right to scratch out my name in the rear
book and replaoe it by your son. Ido not.
Yon say it la sot the custom or tbe law bra to
account kr ramarnent mosey. lam Wormed by
that it b.
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Sea, you made the question about the swiremint money.
T only question is, How hes ft been disposed of I' In •
former letter you say you have looked °vs, r. H.'s memo-
rands end here satigied yourself that all is right. Ton
know, then, end think concealment in necessary. Publicity
should be your rule, end vrould be if ell was right.
Truly yours, HARMINOTOR.
P. S. What is your opinion about nitioducing two
swindling famous into e pulpit P-11.

Fourth Letter (reply) of the Rev. T. J. Jones to the Earl
of Harrington.
Riverton, July 4, 1837.
My Lord,—ln reply to your lordship's letter of the 80th
ult., I beg to state that I was never given to understand
that the remarks Lady It. made to me were of • private na-
ture, and the less could I feel so when the same things
which went to traduce the character of my vicar were re-
peated on more occasions than one. All Idea of such Aide-
meats being of a confidential character was thus removed.
Besidee. I have already informed your lordship of the way
in which I bad been constreined to admit that many severe
=hed been said by Lady H., and hued not tell oar
ip that 1 did not suite such until I was so ooe
This, I think, my lord, if you will candidly consider the
circumstances, and the character of the statement., edit lad
you to conclude that I have not improperly dealt with the
converse thus uttered to me.

A.d neat' my lord, ;.To the rate-book. You 10.614
must be very well aware OM the mum of every ocoupler,
u wall as owner of property in • perish is regained to he
Mewled in the rate-booli. And as da whim I it
paned to meet with the overseer with him parish book.
and papers before him, I told him lime my some would
Lee to be Warted in his kook, and he Mind be me that
he should shortly have to call wpm as he • rate. I then
went through his book with him, end whin he time to the
t o‘ity hold, I, in pencil, armed the names of Jonathan
(the late tenant) and the Earl of Harrington (ine-
propwly Inserted as occupier), and put my own OM the
top, ea I wee the occupier. Thie has in the new nele-book
Urn altered, I her by the authority of your leash* by
which mum you will pardon me for ,is that as bre-
salacity, equivalent to an illegality, lee been eammflkd
At the time this wee done It was Intended to wise the
curer to make out • correct and truthful amount of the
end to am as would him to nuke such a rate would not
turle se he vitiated. Never did I then dream that such •
Mate dtkings was likely to exist as now unhappily does
sant.

I ;lust still maintain, my lord, what I have said about the
=elof the sacrament money by the clergman, which
me to la one word about your lordship a conduct in
this crummiest... I know not, my lord, that I was ever
in my life nuipected of telling a falsehood by anyone.
And now, with such • mrapicion attaching to um, to *Mace
the evidence that is before me would be of no avail, so I
might still be subject to your lordship. ettepicion. I can,
therefore, but await the Memo( the trial.—l have the honour,
my lord, to be your lordship's most obedient servant.
nu Earl of Harrington. Titus. Us. Joan.
Reply of the Earl of Harrington to the Rev. T. J. Jonas.
H. /1., K. P. G., 611.111.1,X7.
Dear Sir,—l never amused you of telling a
What I did accuse you of is contained in ley lettere.
Tour con...Natio= with Lady H. were private. Yon an
now going to oaks them public,and, so you bops, to make
them appear libellous You boast of doing so, but in tine
mut you will aluah. l_pity you.
Truly yours, HARRINGTON.
P.B.—You are silent about the two swindling curate..

Fifth Letts? (reply) of the Rev. T. Josue to the Earl at

----"—iivarton, July 10, 1837.
My Lord,—l feel great uneasiness on continuing this me-
respondence with your lordship, eepeciallyefter the sentiments
that have foils, from your lordship; and I have no dears
to do ro loser than M necessary for me to correct IVTODR
imperious Ind like imputations. For while sack sari-
dor ere crier by your lordship as have been swear in
the twe Irian previous to the rat, and no righteous cord-
drake is gins, to the matter before us, no good can, I
her, result from the exchange of letters. The object that I
had in view at the oonsoareenwat of this correspoudesce,
via., the producing of good feeling sod unity Were* year
lordship sad the vicar of the portal, is spurned by year lord-
, ship, and my rare is therefore at an end. But though
this is the case, I would not wish improper asserttrone sad
accurtions to be made to me, or of me, without doing my
utmost to pros molten hi • right light. With this view
only, my lord, do I now rawer your letter of the 6th last.
I ma but reply, my lord, that I never red Ur wood
" accused." The word which I made re of was "
ported" which I was more than warranted in doing if year
lordship will kindly refer to your Irmo of the 30th tat, as
well te to one or two of your previous letters.
I have aired intimated to your lordship the opinion
*se I shout the character of the conversations
I heid with Lady H., se well r the clime:stress that
hold to my lain esastrained to adroit that many unkind
labia bed been NMI about Mr. Highmors. I seed not,
theestan, add cos wad more on this subject. Your br-
aid, as bad every opportunity of criticking the drown-
rimer; sad you have not hesitated to apply a severity of
umbel rerstion with regard to then,. Your improperly
of boading that I was about to naval raises
of. ins solve, ia so ungenerous, aa well as to
r to require me to enter an earliest protest wars'
such conduct, which I now do. And farther, if it skald se
happen that I have to blush is court, it will be, my lord, not
to any act of my own, buffo, the woful chancrr. of the
statements that • lady of dignity and exalted position has
condescended improperly to make.
Your lordship seems inclined to extract from me en opt-
Mon about what you all the two swindling curates." If
I must refer td such • subject, I can but say that, if Mr.
Collins is one of this who is charged with swirling, the
farts that were enunciated at the arbitration on the cir-
cumstances prove that there was no reepeuaibilhy on thee,
on "'h.m it was charged, and that much wilful corm-
presentation, and something war, was resorted to by
your own gerdener, Mr. Barron, and others concerned, In
making the fare erraticism that wore put forth. Movie
over, as there have been but three curare of Elvaston before
roe, of whom Mr. Collins was ono, I know not which of the
others, Mr. Whim or Mr. Barrett, was the swindler.
fee 8v
& estigstiou merely praying that much good may result from the
~.

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have the honour, in lord, to be,
Your lordahip's most obedt. eerueut,
The Earl of Harrington. THOS. Ju. JON6II.

N.B. This letter closed the correspoodance. It may not
be irrelevant to remark that, after the 26th of February,
when 1 ant remonstrated with Lady H., whenever the sub-
jest was mentioned to rue by her ladyship, I a :ear remon-
strated in as gentle and faithful a manner ea ble ; and
when the subject was renewed on the 12th of April by
Lady H. in stronger language than Druid, I concluded
interview with her ladyship bj warning her " how wicked
it was to circulate ouch slanderous and film reporter.•
This was my last interview with Lady H. I felt it to
be my duty to absent myself from the Castle, though, be-
fore I came away, I was invited by has YAM* to lunch
there on the following Sunday.
1 received • positive and &red Intimation from Mr. High-
more as the 16th of June, the data of my bat latter to
Lord H., that he had ocicalented legal proceldisits timbal
Lord and Lady Harrington for slander. T. J. J.