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London, England, 1826-10-20 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

Evening, ►RIDAY, October 90. will be performed the Comedy of
KELE A WIFE AND HAVE A WIFE.
The Doke, Mr. lit:harrier Michael Pare; Mr. Jnne•; Leoo, Mr. C.
; Cacafotru. Mr. ►arley. Margarita, Mrs. Faucit ; Mira, Mrs.
I •.7 ; Eitabaia, Mies Chester.
After which the new Comedy, called
THE GREEN ROOM.
PT:acipal Characters by Mesars.W. Fatten. C. Kemble, Jona, Power,
anal Bartley; Ilia. M. Glover. and Mr*. Gibbs.

ADELPH I THEATRE.
Th,a Evening, FRIDAY, October 20, will be presented an entirely
new Domestic Modena. called
LUEL. THE LABOURER ; or, THR LOST SON.
Lt os. the Labourer. Mr. Terry; Philip, a Sailor ,the Loot Son). Mr.
yr. P. Cooke. Jenuy, Dirs. Hushes. •
After which the new Ballet Dtrertissensonst or

LA FETE DES NATIONS,
Coast/Iles of Ebselocteristic Nadosal Dancos, composed end produced by
Nees. Nenin.

To concha* with the Neetteal -ii;IO-Offtialliele Hulett& of

THE PILOT; or, A TALE OF THE SEA.
Th • Pilot. Mr. Terry; Lieutenant Barns/Atte. Mr. Yates; Long Tom
C 4111.. Mr. T. P. Coolie; Captain Bourr.mirlicliff, Mr. J. Reeve. Mies
Raisselne Plowden..Mrs. Hughes; Cecilia, ails. Bowden.
The Barris* Passe convalesced publishing yesterday
morning St,111•0 o'clock.

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1826.

The French Papers arrived last night. They contain
but very littlelntelligence. The following are extracts :
[From the Etoik.]
VIENNA, Ocr. C.
The Emperte has addressed the following autograph letter to his
fitghness Prince Metternich, Chancellor of the Household, of the
:ow. and of the State:— '
" far ?Once 11Ietternich—As it is my pleasure that the Minis-
terial conferee's which have taken place up to this time, to my sa-
tisfaction, under the presidency of Count de Zichy, Minister of
Iniste and of Conferences, shall continue without any alteration, I
think it right to confide to you the Presidency, you being the old-
est Minister of State and Conferences consequently, in all the
affairs which I shall send to be discussed at the conferences, or
whenever the chief officers of my Court shall judge it necessary for
the good of the public service to procure a conference for delibera-
tion; you shall summon the individuals whom I shall judge proper
to came, or whom you or the Chiefs of the Court may think neces-
sary to be present fcr the object to be discussed; you shall put it
so the poteribed forms for deliberation in the conferences, and
shall on each occasion submit the result to my decision.
" I nominate Counsellor de °away to be the referendary (or
referee), and to hold the protocol.
" I dome you to instruct the Chief Officers of the Court with
this my. ambition.
" Sgt. 29, 132 k" " FRAFTCI7."
His Majesty has also addressed the following autograph letter to
the (traid gournrave of Bohemia :-
-' One Count Collowrat,—The distinguished skill which you
Possess for business, a well as your attachment for my person, of
which you have on all occasions given me proofs, have determined
me to nominate you Minister of State and of (;onferences, and at the
same time to confide to you the direction of the political section of
try Council of State, as well as all matters relative to the personnel
roPerty ) of my Council of State and of Conferences.
• You are to enter as soon as passible upon your new function..
•• t'inina, Sept. 29, " FRANCIS."
CORI' V, SEPT. 20.
bettors from Zante, dated the 2d instant, state that it is very cer-
tain that Ibrahim Pacha was afraid to go and join the Capital)
Packs. at Navarino, although that Admiral had written to him, in-
viting him to come and confer upon the subject of a combination
tor a new campaign, and to receive a pelisse and sabre which the
Grtind Signior has sent him. Ibrahim. on receiving the letter,
i•sstead of going to Navarino, abandoned Ma* and went towards
Tripolitta with lila army. It is known that he is blockaded there,
although he made some very sanguinary sorties.
Letters from Priem, dated the I I th of this month, announce that
the Seraskiers on withdrawing from the camp. of Athena, had left the
direction of the siege to Omer Pasha Caristmo, and was gone into
the fortress of Negropont ; but that his object for taking this course
ass not known. It is said that at a place called Mulki, mar 'Thebes,
he has had a very worm engagement with Kariskall, and two
other Greek Captairta, but without any decisive advantage on either
~stlrl: that according to orders he had received from Constantinople,
he had attempted to penetrate into the Morea. by the Isthmus in
Corinth, to relieve and reinforce Ibrahtni, but that he was not able
JO succeed. If is added that Bekir-Aga, Governor of Prevesa,
hay.ag returned from Missolonghl, went to pay the Serastier a
• Alt. nr.d that the Governor appeared extremely uneasy, and asked
him questions respecting news from the More.s, with an earnestness
which proved diet neither Rekir-Aga nor the Seraskier kris, the
rzsi situation of Ibrahim.
It is a very old practice, among our Scottish neighbours,
to trace almost every crime committed in their country to
the Irish who have migrated into it. Their anxiety to trace
tits origin of heinous criminals to the sister island was
Eeter mare remarkably displayed than in the case of the
AVlSeands, who perpetrated the recent murder at iVintan.
However much the inclination of the Scots to throw such
imputations off themselves may have tended in their eyes
to depreciate beyond its due level the character of their
Irish fellow-citizens, the opinion which they seem in this
respect to entertain of the Irish is apparently very much
orroborated by the recent history of the 'West of Scotland.
For several years almost every Judge who has been in
that 4.u.;.stcr has taken care its his charges to atihnadvert in

strong terms upon the increase of crime in the Wet di
Scotland; and it is a very singular fact that the emigra-
tion of Irish labourers to the West of Scotland has been
exactl contemporaneous with these complaints. The num-
ber orthese emigrants has become a subject of general
discontent in that quarter, and the Duke of HAMILTON
has expressed himself concerning them in a manner which
can scarcely be tolerated even in the premier Nobleman of
Scotland. If the lower classes of the Irish are degraded
in their manner of living, and debased in their morals, as
they have hut too truly in many cases been represented,
that degradation and debasement is not attributable to
them as Irishmen, but to the unfortunate circumstances in
which they arc placed; and, instead of considering what
means may be used to prevent their emigration to more
favoured countries, it would be much more advisable
to consider what means may be used to render them
comfortable at home, and thus to remove all temptation to
emigrate. In this way, and only in this way, can we pre-
vent their emigration to Scotland. The sate of Ireland is
in every respect unfortunate, and the only difficulty lies in
devising the means of remedying it. The cause of the
superiority of ScOtland in point of morality is clearly to be
attributed to its superior means of education, and to this
there exists at present in Ireland an almost insurmountable
obstacle. It is of no use to talk vaguely of causes. No
political dissertation can be of the slightest consequence
which dots not lead to a palpable result. Since the Duke of
Hantvrotr has traced the miseries of the Win of Scotland
to the influx of Irish, let the Duke of HAMILTON show us
the means of preventing that influx. It is a most serious,
a most momentous question—it involves the interests of
seven millions of Irishmen ; and the diseussions in the
West of Scotland have shown that it equally involves the
interests of every portion of the empire to which the dis-
tress of these seven millions of Irishmen may induce their
surplus population to bend its course. If things go on as
they are doing at present, we may soon see our poor-rates
equal our rentals; for, as the Irish habituate themselves to
live on what we should consider almost nothing, there can
be no bounds to their increase, and no end to the swarms
Which may be poured over every habitable spot of the
British donainiins.

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.

The Home Funds have been in a very inactive state to-
day, and Consols, which displayed such a disposition to
advance, have not kept their ground. At the opening of
the Market, the nominal quotation was 81fi, and some
Bear movements sent them gradually down to 801, at
which price they remained for a considerable time; shortly
previous to the close of the Market, however, the specu-
lators for a fall made a decided movement, in order to bring
down the quotation for the opening to-morrow, and the
price at which the Market closed was 8011. Exchequer
Bills, and India Bonds, are both on the advance, from -the
circumstance of this species of security offering an oppor-
tunity of investment of capital until the meeting of Par '
meat, to which event the large capitalists, who are not
speculators, look forward with some degree of anxiety in re-
spect to the effect which the tone assumed by his Majesty's
Government may have on the Funds.
The Foreign Stock Exchange has been rather flat, the
excitement miller which it has laboured having subsided to
something like a proper temperature. Mexican Bonds
have varied upon the whole about one per cent., closing at
61/ to 65. The threatened report of a new Loan to be
raised in Nris seems to have subsided, though it may
have had the desired effect in preventing a further rise: So
much for •the management of the Beera in this Stock.
Colombian have been heavy at 364.t0 37, without any ad-
ditional information bince yesterday, except what appears
in the French Papers, which state that letters have been re-
ceived from Bogota, dated 19th July (there are letters to
theta:4i already in town), and from Carthagena of the 15th
August, brought by the Eliza, Captain DE PnAnT, which
arrived at Bordeaux on the 11th instant. Up to that
period nothing had been done deciding the fate of PAEZ.
BOLIVAR had pawed through Bogota, on his way to Car-
racas, on the itd of August, where his presence would, it
was imagined, at once quiet all insurrection. These letters
make no mention of any money as remittances to this coun-
try to pay the dividends. The French information is very
barren indeed, for it does not even allude to the 400,000
dollars which were the companions of Dr. FoLey ; if they
had been used for the set vices of the State, surely the fact
must have transpired, and would have been alluded to.
The Eliza sailed from Carthagena on the 20th August.
Thestatement of Dr. Fog. EV—if, indeed, it be Dr. FOLEY'S—
has occasioned a good deal of comment to-day ; and it must
be admitted that it is about as incongruous an announce-
ment as ever emanated from a Minister of Finance, which
would appear to be the office, real or imaginary, with which
he came invested to this country. The reason assigned by
the Doctor's friends for his turning his back upon himself,
as Lord CASTLEREAGH would have had it, is, that being
charged to borrow 4,000,000 of dollars, he expected to
have found the way paved before his arrival, so that he
might at once have by his fiat put them in his pocket, and
have marched with them back to Bogota. Such, however,
not being the case, he turnaround and says—" I would have
taken your money if I could ; but, as you won't let me, I
will at least give you this important information—CJ-
lombia cannot meet her engagements:" as if it was re-
quired that any M.D. should come from another world to
fulniinate such a truth in the heart of the city of London !
How Dr. Fol.': v expected to have found the way paved
does not appev; it may be with gold,- or perhaps with
silver. Such things, however, no longer exist—at least in
the City. That it may have been suggested, as a feasible
means of paying the dividends, to get a large capitalist or
capitalists to advance a rum of money on the credit of the
Government Funds becoming available this month, is very
possible; and if acceded to, it would have been no more
than has been done in other instances. The main fact,
however, of M. HeRTADO'S statement, as to money coin-
ing to England, is borne out by Dr. FOLEY ; for lie came
with such a convoy to Carthagena: and die operation of
the taxes becoming payable in October no doubt afforded
the authority on which the Government calculated on re-
mitting 1,000,000 dollars in December. It is true the sum
of which the Doctor speaks is only half the amount con-
templated by M. Huarano's despatches. but it did not
follow but that another 200,000 might soon be available.
As to the mere surmise of the sum in question being
required for the payment of troops, it is hardly worth
notice. In respect to the Bogota Mint containing but 300,000
dollars on the tat of July, that also it very possible;
what it contained the day after the Doctor left he of course
cannot tell, and what has been its receipts and payments
since he is in equal ignorance of. M. HURTADO'S state-
ment lns at least the authority of his Government as to
expected funds ; and the mere assertion of Dr. FoLey, of
what was the state of finance on the 4th of July, proves
nothing ea to its present condition. Dr. FOLF.Y is doubt-
less an honourable and well-intentioned gentleman, but
the published statement, at least, leaves him open to the

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THE BRITISH PRESS.

chirp of inconsistency. Nothing is asked for M. Hua-
TAD° more that may be claimed for Dr. Fot. ay ; and let
Time, the reveller of even greater mysteries than this,
determine the question between them.
Chilian, Greek, and Spanish, are at last quotations.
In Shares the Del Monies are at 20 to 30, and Brazilian
at 13 to 14 premium.

The Colonial Market still continues heavy, it being im-
possible to effect any sales of magnitude in Sugars, without
a fall. Transactions of a smaller nature fully realize last
prices. Rums alone show a firm and improving Market.

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MOVE M E.NTB..

Prineadkidebakeffarif;WieSiciiaiatPrince Lieven's, in Do-
ver-street, hen
Lord andiandlyart= Russell hare left their house in Arling-
ton-near/sr Brigham.
I Visalia Noroesoky kis arrived at his seat, Lyth Hall, York-
shire, fan& tour.
Vinson Althsepe has arrived in lib' seat, Winton Hall, York-
shire. Gm his %tiler% (Earl Spencer), Northamptonshire.
The Hon. Gawp and Lady Georgina Agar Ellie arrived yea.
teniay at their asst at Roehampton, from Lord Churchill's, Corn.
bury Park. Oxfordshire.
Major Cartwright has left town n a tour.
et
Air. and Mn.s iitraitfirld left thq arenon Hotel, Boad.street,
sterday, for their scat, near ha, Rent.
Mm. Walker and family army ,yesterday at the Pulteney Ho.
tel Alberriarls-street, their Mitchell Grove Peak, Susses.
Departures from Jordan'shoof; ilk.issoses.streetDavid
and Lady Sada and family, Otto** ; Mr. and Mrs. Trevanion,
ditto.
Arrivals at the Bt..oeorgei Hefei, Alhemarleatreet 2—Viscount
and V iscouseesa•Crartley, autltitlefion. Miss Onalow, from their
seat, Clandom_nearlruildkud.
Arrivals at Rand's Hotel, bower'broevenor-street : —Sir James
and Lady Fitzgerald, from their seat, Woolsey Hall, Staffordshire ;
Sir Augustus Henniker. Batt from his seat in Essex ; W. H. Un-
win, Esq. from his seat, Shipliall, Buy. Hems ; Thomas Walpole,
Esq. from Cambridge.
A -rivals at Batt's Hotel, Doter-street 2-31 n. Williams and
Ladies, from Wales; Colonel Way and family, from France;
Mrs. Union Thornton, from Bath. Departures 2—Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Jones and Ladies, for Gosford ; Mr. and Mrs. Captain
BPlienzie, for Bristol ; Mr. and Mrs. 11PNab, for Yorkshire.
____

THE GREEKS.
The following following is a copy of a letter addressed by Admi-
ral Tombazi to M. Eynard:—

HYDRA, AVG. 22.
FlR,—Your noble solicitude in all that concerns Greece, my
country, and the generous sentiments which have trade your
name dear to all the Wends of humanity. Induce me to confide to
the Swiss, and partieulatly to the city of Geneva, my only son,
who is but a youth, deprived of a mother, not able, by reason or
existing circumstances, to enjoy the benefits of a private education,
still lees of a public one, often abandoned for whole months together
by his father, who has ditties to fulfil glen more sacred than those of
a parent, and needs • he philanthropic protection and paternal cares of
the Philhellene' of Geneva. I know, Sir, how much you love us ;
and how much you desire our progress in civilization.
It is this Intimate persuasion I have of your benevolent inten-
tions which has made me take the liberty of sending to you my
dear son, Nicholas Toenbazi. and to recommend him with the
fullest confidence to the enlightened direction of your celebrated
city.
Our military occupations have not yet permitted us to form
schools for youth, and yet it is upon that alone that Greece can
found her hopes of becoming one day worthy of the protection which
is now extended to her by the pithanthropiats of civilized Europe.
I am a sailor, Sir, and my desire is that my son may be one also ;
and for that purpose I could wish him to be acquainted with the
theoretical knowledge which navigation requires; so that lie may
be able to serve his country more efficaciously :hen his father can
do. Moreover, my wish is, that he should learn French and Eng-
lish. as being the two language* most known throughout the world,
without, however, neglecting the ancient Greek language, which
ought to be the bads of his education. I wish him also to study
history and geography; and especially I wish him never to forget
that he belongs altogether to his country.
Thomaso Petrint has very willingly undertaken the charge of
accompanying my son, and to deliver him into your paternal hands.
I lutes *Wen him a little money, only to pay the expenses of his
voyage. Al To the necessary creases for his maintenance, you
*lll nave the goodneile na ndvancitothem with that woolly which
oar present eircuitances Andretlequielte, by drawing upon M.
Prtscopius Caritz at Trieste. May you be waling, /Mr, as well as
the generousenes of Geneva, to serve as guides to his youth,
and protectors of his weakness. May your wile, as all totothers,
deign sometimes to east a maternal eye upon my son ; and, finally,
may you be willing to believe that ns; gratitude for yoar kindness
shall expire only with my life. Iha the honour to be,
TOMPIAZI.
The original of this letter is its French. At the bottom
of it were some lines written its modern Greek by Aliaulis,,
who whaled to recommend the son of .his companion in
arms. This letter has been ccnimunicated to the Greek
Committee of Geneva. They have nominated a commis.
atou of three members, M. Fabre Bertrand, M. Dumont,
and M. Cheneviere, to superintend the education of Nicho-
las Tombazi at Geneva, and to fulfil towards this interest.
ing young man the wishes of his virtuous father. Nicholas
Tombazi will come directly to Geneva, as soon as the time
for quarantine at Ancona is terminated.

7.1

LETTER THE NINTH,
raom
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF STAMPS,

TO
THE RIGHT HON. T. WALLACE.

Sts—When your Reports on the Stamp Department
first made their appearance, you were every where repre-
sented as meriting the best thanks of the country for the
very-zealous and minute scrutiny with which you had pur-
sued your inquiries. The Daily Journals applauded—
naturally enough—the manifest disregard which you tes-
tified for the superiors of office. They commended the
apparent sternness with which you applied the probe,
without caring who was the sufferer. It was ascribed to
that inexorable justice which abates nothing of its rigour'
from respect to the high official situation of the parties it
has to deal with. This was a disposition to be cherished in
public men ; and the labours of yourself and your col-
leagues were extolled accordinely.
That, in the absence of all counter evidence, you should
obtain this high credit was a thing of course. But a repu-
tation so entirely undeserved was not likely to last. Your
motives have been since developed, and the praises which
followed you are at an end.
I had drawn the public attention in my earlier Letters,
to the fact of your having published your fourteenth Re-
port,
while the Appendis was kept back, which contained
the Evidence on which it was founded. This fact having
got abroad, it was felt necessary to hasten its appearance
with all possible speed. It has accordingly beets brought
out ; and I shall now proceed to examine whether it is such
as the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, on the sanction
of the oath they had taken, faithfully to discharge the
trust reposed in them, were justified in lay* on the table
of The House of Commons, with their warranty, that "his
Majesty and both Houses of Parliament" might safety pro..'
coed to judgment upon the evidence contained in it.
It was the infamy which attached to the charge of being
accessary to a fraud of high amount on the Revenue, as a
Director of the County Fire-office, which you so labori-
ously endeavoured to fix upon me, that made me to resolve
not to wait for your Appendix, but to proceed at once to
clear my character before the public from an imputation
calculated to destroy me utterly in its estimation, to make
me hide my face in the society of honourable men, and to
take from meal! sympathy, in the event of that ruin falling
upon me, which was meditated from the very commence-
ment of your inquiry.
I have already shown the spirit in which your Inquiry
has been conducted, but had I had access when I wrote my
Mind letter to this Appendix, which you hare published
within these few days, and which is now lying before me,
it would have enabletl me to expose, with an effect still
more striking, the proofs of deliberate combination against
me, which your Report betrays, and the determination
evinced in every page of it to put me out of the pale and
protection of justice.
It will appear in the course of these letters with what
surprise I was struck, and how indignantly my mind was
affected, by the avowal made by Mr. Sykes—and to which
you emphatically call the attention of Parliament and of
the Treasury—of his reason for carefully concealing from
me, as Chairman of the Board, frauds which had been
charged against the County Fire Office by some anony-
mous informer, and upon which inquiries had been for some
time going on in Edinburgh, under a correspondence between
himself and Mr. Bremner.
" In consequence," rays your Report, " of the Chairman of the
Board of Stamps being also a Director of the County Fire Office,
Air. Sykes represents that he had felts difficulty in communicating
with him in the first instance on the subject of a charge against
this Company, nor did the Chairman receive any intimation of the
imputed fraud front the Commissioner to whom the suspicion had
been originally imparted. By the evidence of Air. Sykes it ap-
pears that be was apprehensive that the object of the inquiry
would be defeated by Mr. Bedgwick being put in possession of the
facts on which the charge was founded, before the necessary steps
had been taken to establish the case. This impression, founded to
an avowed distrust of the conduct of the head of the depart-
ment," ices_ _

It mast be clear to every one, that whoever read this,
whether in Parliament or out of it, would naturally be led
to infer that my official character, with which Mr. Sykes,
as Solicitor of the Board, was well acquainted, must have
been, previota/y, such as to warrant all the privacy with
Which he had thus-deemed it necessary to proceed. grery
one would conclude that there were, no doubt, good rea-
sons on the part of Mr. Sykes for holding it unsafe to let
any hint of what was going forward transpire in my pre-
sence. It was meant that the public should so conclude;
and you designedly arrest attention to it, that they may not
fail to do so.

No sooner did I procure a copy of the Appendix, than I
immediately turned to the evidence of Mr. Sykes, that 1
might see whether he had set forth any ground for the foul
imputation which his language so plainly conveyed; when,
to my utter astonishment, after reading his examination
over and over again, before I could credit my senses, I
found that he had uttered no such words, that the whole
was a fabrication of your own, and that you have actually
taken a part of the garbled examination of one of the
Clerks of the Solicitor (Mr. Mawe), in reference to one of
the Comptroller's Clerks (Mr. Deans); and with a design,
and for a purpose, which cannot fail to be seen, you have
deliberately recorded it as the language in which Mr.
Sykes, as Solicitor of Stamps, testified his opinion before
the public of my character as Chairman of the Board!!
But I must put it down iu detail, or the fact will not ob•
tain belief.

Mr. Sykes, in the course of his examination as to the
first intelligence he received with regard to the alleged
fraud on the Revenue by the County Fire Office,—which
alleged fraud, by the way, it has been proved, was un-
founded, and originated in a most scandalous conspiracy,—
states as follows:

Having considered the subject for some days, I went into the
Board Room, there being present 31r. Hallam, main Montagu,
and 31r. Addington. 1 stated that I had received this paper, with
Which 1 believed they were acquainted, and that I thought of writing
to Ni. Bremner to get information. I wrote on the 224 of May ;
a week after that it was mentioned by Captain Montagu and 3lr.
Addington to the Chairmen, who thought that though be was con-
nected with this office, he ought not to be kept in the dark about it.
The Chairman then came out to me with a great deal of good tem-
per, and asked me what was going on ? I said there was a very
awkward charge against Mr. Barber Beaumont. for having with.
drawn large sumo from this office when the policies were subsisting.
I said, ' You may think it strange I have not mentioned this to you,
but understanding that you were intimate with Mr. Barber Beau-
mont, and n Director of that office, I did not feel myself at liberty to
mention it.' He said, Mr. Barber Bentunout was not a particular
friend of Ids, and that lie would follow up the inquiry, and that
the best way would be to wait till the time for a fresh return of
duties, and then to examire into t. Ido not think I mentioned at
that time that I had written to Ni. Bremner, which I had done
three or four days before ; that was on the Friday evening ; it was
too late then to get at the book in the Comptroller's office and he
said the next morning we would look over that book, and examine
into the alleged disparity between that office and others. I (hid not
seehhu the neat clay; we did not happen to be in the office at the
same time; I had no farther conversation with him till the Tuesday
following. On the Tuesday i received a letter from Mr. Bremner,
disclosing the information he had obtained ; I took the letter into
the Board'; the Chairman was extremely angry to think I should
send to Bcoth.nd to make it.quitiez on this subject t he said, the
proper way would have been to have gone to the office, and asked
for the books; I said, • We may differ perhaps a livid upon that.
lilt had been found out, on the books coming before you, pibbably
that is the way which would be adapted; but if a person comes
and gives information, putting it in a strong way that fraud has
been committed, the first thing is to ascertain whether fraud has'
been committed or not;' that was all that passed. He (the Chair.
man) was touched personally, thinking an imputation would be
thrown upon his contluet, and that It would be thimeht he had
sanctioned the frauds ; arerees I ens Ferfectly setillti4 he knew
nutltimg at all about Mem."

Before I advert to the examination of Mr. Mawe, it
may be necessary, in the way of explanation, to introduce
the following extract from the evidence of Mr. Deans, the
Clerk in the Comptrol!er's Office, who had been specially
sent by the Board to investigate the books of the County
Fire Office, with directions to trace out the frauds charged
against it, if any had been committed. On his return
it did not appear to me that his inquiry had been full
enough, and he was directed by the Board to renew it ; to
this circumstance.it is that the following extract from his
evidence refers:—

but, in the dieladeelf Mr. Beassiont, they tlid not hel ha jelled
pradneing odors, I them returned to Senteract Hoe*.
Did yen kik at any of the books they showed you L.% e
did not. They said the books were in use, and that then 4,1'1
desk was absent, or not fonboomiag. That if I requested
those books, they tenet write to the Board for further firm
the payment of the duty t as my return to Somerset Hew z
the square I met Mr. Sedgwiek, who asked me what I had ":
and I stated to him what I have Dow stated. He seemed angry at the refusal, and told me to go hack and say that hi!la.,
slued upon every book and paper being shown to me. I :Nomad him to give me • note; aid as he was turning back with off
that
purpose. 1 suggested Met as Mr. Beaumont was absent, en 4 the thing did not pros, we might as well wait till he
and that I did not doubt he would be ready to give me the formation.
" Didou state this to the Board ?—I stated ft to Mr. Sid& wick, anon the following day to the Board generally.
" What passed at the Board when you stated that?_! was di„, reeled to go again when Mr. Beaumont returned." (P. CM)
Having quoted this exanatory evidence,
estly entreat attention to what follows ; the individual un.
der examination is Mr. Mawe, the solicitor's clerk.
After
stating that the Chairman had pointed out the ntimberof a
particular policy as incorrect, which he (Mr. Marro) had
found to be so, the interrogatories thus proceed :
" Upon Herding this to be incorrect, what did the Chaim. de
afterwards, do yes know J—He then stated Mat that was mod*
reason why the inquiries should have been made from Mr. Been,
mont d reedy, and a full statement of every thing gives 'skim,
that hem ight explain it.
" jut I— Did he
dthen direct any inquiry should be made two & theseH id.
" Who did he direct to make that I—He desired that I wetdd
give the necessary instruction* to the Comptroller to investipte the
numbers at County Fire Office.
" Who was sent ?—Mr. Deans.
" Was he sent the same day P—lt was a few days ewers I
gave him certain numbers, with instructions to ascertain dis -
taun meneement and termination of thou policies.
Did you give Mr. Deans the necoustry bole suelthe
him to stake these &squid's ?—Yes, I did; the Chaiivarsiift%
us to ieuruet Mr. Deans to make such hiquiriesas woad
an aasuution of hew deems. tutees had arises ; arils au.
suiting with Mr. Sy k woo maigin advisable to
dad to Inquire only into the and tuminesee
and there was a subsequensommumekation_
4c. de of
the Board. at which bewas essatistied that Duns m
put in posseasiou of all the eirturastaues—(m. Skig„)
Deans did not know that there was any bard gang era, or any thing
of the kind.
" (To Ali. )—Wben lir. Deans TSIIISOW4 had you any
further communication with dm or with the Chairman ? Oathe
day following Mr. Deana contnianieued the result of his iaquiries
to the Board ; that result did Oat ammo the eaptus. ideas of the
Chairman, and I was urinal us explain why Mn. Deane bed cot
been put in poasesaion of more facts than be had been; I said .
thought It was unnecessary for the dire: the togoiry, to 00, hive
in possession of those facts, respecting tfi4
et by possibility the °Ojai
Wet be defeated by Mr. Beaumont gating possessims of atm,' and
the Chairman was exceedingly angry that I should presume to take
that upon myself. Alr..Deuris was then directed to attend at the
County Fire Once to tdvestigate every transaction."
Now, this explanation here given by the Solicitor's Clerk,
of his reason for giving such deficient instructions to Mr.
Deans, you have, for a premeditated purpose, put, in tile
words and manner following, into the mouth of the Solici.
for Nutseff, as applied by him to me:—
" By THE. EVIDENCE OF Ma. SYKES, it appears that
he was apprehensive that Me object of the Inquiry world be
DEFEATED BY Ma. SEDOWICK BEING TOT IN routs.
SION OF THE FACTS ON WHICH THE CHARGE WAS
FOUNDED, before the necessary steps had been taken to
establish the case. This impression, FOUNDED IN AN
AVOWED DISTRUST OF THE CONDUCT OF THE RIAD OF
THE DEPARTMENT," &C.

After this exposure—added to those already made—ean
there be two opinions as to the light In which your Re-
ports must be viewed by Parliament and by the Country?
And yet, it is this R•port—containing wilful misrepresenta-
tions, at which every man of common feeling and common
honesty revolts—which you .Igrerely lay before the Legii.
lature, 113 the faithful result of lour labours, and to dm
impartiality of which you have called God to witness!
It is these Reports, in which you have thus perverted the
truth, and falsified the facts,—and this too, so glaringly,
that they, in a manner, turn Kings evidence against their
own injustice,—that you have deliberately caused to be pre.
Rented to the Throne, as the ground upon which his Ma-
jesty may be conscientiously secommentled to remove me
from office !

IVith respect to the Evidence entertained in this Anpen.
dix—and upon which you have conducted your inquiry
throughout—it is in direct variance with all the rules of
reason, and subversive of all the principles of justice. As
the erto of an inflictive judgment, it prcsents"a document
hitherto unknown to our Courts of Law, and unexam-
pled in the journals pf Parliament. But of this hereafter.
In the mean time,
I sabscribe myself, Sit,yeak most obedient servant,
JAMES SEDG WIDE.
Stamp-office, Somerset-Home. October 11. 18211.

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