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The 11Iarquis and 31w-chioness nrChohnondeley left town yester-
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colnshire.

The Countess of Ssndwieh has arrived at her house in Dover-
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Sir Henry Halford returned to London on Saturday
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quence of the decease of his brother Dr. Vaughan, end has
atteuded the Duke of York daily since his return. Yester-
day morning, soon after eleven o'clock, Sir henry Raiford,
Dr. Warren, Dr. MacMiehael, and Mr. Iliregor attended
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sure to say, that his Royal Highness was proceeding ra-
pidly towards recovery, soon after the consultation, the
Royal Duke Toile out on Iscrsoback for about an hour.
About five o'clock the Royal Duke rode out in his open
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The Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in her
carriage and four, and paid a visit to the Duke of York at
Brompton.
The Cabinet Minis ten dived yesterday with the Earl
of Westmoreland. at his residence in Grosvenor-sqnare.
Mr. Secretary Canning arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing, from the scat of the. Earl of Liverpool at Coombe-

THE BRITISH PRESS.

CORRESPONDRNCE OF EARL GREY AND

MR. IJEAUMONT.

LFrom the Tyne Mereury,l
We suspend the course of our political dissertations In
order to give our first attention to a circumstance of as
great local interest as any that has occurred in this neigh-
bourhood during the whole course of our editorial experi-
ence: we allude to the correspondence of Mr. Beaumont
with Earl Grey, recently published in a contemporary
journal. The tenor of the correspondence itself is of a very
extraordinary kind. But the most extraordinary circuin-
stance attending it is, that its tenor being such, Lord Grey
should be induced by any motives of his own, or any soli-
citations of others, to give it publicity. The pretext as-
signed for its appearance is, to show that Mr. Beaumont's
calumniators have committed against him no other fault
except that of a " too-long-continued forbearance." This
fault, " leaning to virtue's side," they undertake to
prove against themselves, by means of a private corre-
spondenx, from which an inference is to be drawn that two
years ago Mr. Beaumont laboured under " a mentatdelu-
sion." Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that
their inference is fairly deduced, and that Mr. Beaumont
was for a moment visited with such a malady ; we arc still
at a loss to discover in that circumstance any proof of a
" forbearance too long continued." Indeed we are at a
loss to conceive, under such circumstances, how any for-
bearance, Jess than complete and perpetual, could be suf-
ficient. If the inference they would have us to draw be
correct, Mr. Beaumont, as regards this affair, was an ob-
ject of compassion and not of persecution. So far, there-
fore, from this imputation forming any excuse for the un-
wearied malignity with which they have pursued him, it
does but exhibit their conduct in a more hateful and un-
pardonable light. It now appears, by their own showing,
that it is not a crime with which they have been charging
him, but a calamity with which they choose to taunt him !
Good God ! can Lard Grey be so lost to all humane feeling, to
all sympathy with the infirmities of our nature, and so for-
getful of his own honour and character, as to publish a pri-
vate correspondence for the purpose of showing that he is
justified in pursuing a man with the most relentless hatred,
because he has offered him an insult under the influence of a
mental delusion? Does it argue, we would ask, more
mental delusion, or snore dereliction of moral principle, to
write than to print such a correspondence? The offence
of publication exceeds in magnitude that of writing, as
much as a whole community exceeds in number an indi-
vidual. If we do not consider it as an act of insanity, we
are obl;ged to consider it as an act of desperation—the last
expiring effort of impotent and defeated malice. Having
failed in th,ir attempt to beat Mr. Wriumont down by
distorted and exaggerated representations of circutn•
stances, hitherto concealed, Mr. B.'s enemies, as a last re-
source, try the effect of publication, for which no person
ought to be so much obliged as the person whom they de-
signed to injure. They ha* thin expended all their am-
munition at one discharge. They have applied the match
to their own magazine of defamation, and blown their own
characters into the air. They may, indeed, have revived
painful impressions, and harrowed up the feelings of their
adversary, but they have left his honour untouched—not
tarnished even by the very smoke of that infernal machine
which was to annihilate him.

But if Lord G. had no sympathy for Mr. IL, certainly
he ought to have shown some tenderness for the feelings of
his friends, Sir J. and Lady S. Are their honour. repu-
tation, and comfort to he sacrificed without a pang to the
prevailing passion of ruining Mr. Beaumont ? How can
his Lordship charge upon that gentleman insanity for writ-
ing, what he himself his the greater insanity to circulate
in print? Mr. Beaumont, moreover, wrote the letter con-
taining the charges, under a conviction (however delusive)
of their truth. Ceti his Lordship allege such an excuse ?
We cannot think it possible that Sir John Swinhurne gave
his consent to the publication in question ; and if it was
made without it, we will not trust ourselves with charac-
terising such a proceeding, let every honourable man con-
, sult his own heart, for terms in which to execrate it.
We have so far argued the case as if the publishers had
made good their position,* that Mr. Beaumont laboured
nutter temporary aberration of mind, which, however, we
do not admit, and are prepared to refute, as far as any argu-
ments can be'grounded on the documents now before us.
It is true that there is a passage in one of the letters, dis-
tinguished by an Italic type, in which Mr. Beaumont
speaks of " circumstances of an extraordinary character,
out of the usual course of events." But if every one that
believes in any extraordinary interpositions of Providence,
or any occasional deviations from the established and known
course of nature, is to be considered as labouring under
mental delusion, the world may be said to be peopled with
mental dehtsionists. But Lotd Grey, forsooth, can imagine
no other excuse for Mr. Beaumont. Now here we differ
from his Lordship. And we can not only imagine, but see
an excuse for Mr. Beaumont, if he was in fact surrounded
with any thing like the characters and circumstances which
he ascribes to Lord Grev. We do not affirm that he was.
Indeed, we affirm nothing, but only argue from such pre-
mises as the correspondence affords. But assuming the
facts as there stated, we can. easily imagine that a young
man of high spirit and warm affections, anticipating the
early consummation of his wishes and the completion of
his happiness in his union with the object of his fondest
love, should be so harassed, tortured, and distracted by
obstacles raised from such sources, as to write a letter as
indiscreet and extraordinary as that to Lord Grey, and yet
not be entirely without any excuse besides a mental delu-
sion. We are not at all surprised that the enemies of Mr.
Beaumont should endeavour to make sttch a case against
him, it heing•the only frail thread left on which their re-
putation hangs. But we confess we do not see the means and
proofs by which the y may effect that purpose, so desirable,
so necessary to their safety.
Our limits will merely allow us brief!), to ask why this
correspondence, involving the character and comfort of so

many individuals, should be published in the anonymous,
unauthenticated, sad irresponsible form of an advertise._

[tient ? Is it that no individual may have the shame of
presenting it in a garbled and mutilated shape, as it evi•
dently is as to one letter, and probably is as to others? Or
is it that this attack upon Mr. Beaumont shall, like all
others from the same quarter, be cowardly, insidious, and
disowned ? From first to last he has been the matilc. at
which arrows have been shot by an unseen hand, guided
by a malicious heart, itself trembling at its own act, and
ashamed of its own motive. Against such foes, even while
secure in their own biding-places, and triumphing in the
success of their own artifices, Mr. Beaumont has stood with
the firm front of conscious integrity. But it will not be
long before a discriminating public, being now put in pos-
session of the facts by the indiscretion of his enemies, will
find Mr. Beaumont infinitely more sinned against than
sinning," and assign him that high place in their estima-
tion of which it has been the unceasing effort of a powerful
conspiracy to deprive him.
Since the above was written,: we have received the fol-
lowing :---
Parturient mcntes, naseitui ridiculus mus.
The mountains laboured, and out came a mouse.

The famous cot respon4ence is at length before the public, and,
as might have been expected, there is but one opinion upon the
subject, an opinion, whatever else may be thought, that Lortl Grey
(to whom the publication of this correspondence must be attributed)
has given the most indisputable proof of the malignity, of his feel.
ings towards Mr. Ikauniont. I baleve no man in the county but
his Lordship would hare been guilty of an act of such perfect des-
peration and folly ; it is known that tile letters in question were
transmitted (tithe Chronicle not onli without the consent of 6ir J.
Swinburne, but decidedly against his wishes ; it is known, too,
that the principal Al'llig gentry of the county disapprove equally
with Sir John of this most uncalled-for, sod most ussioasuade,
exposure of private affairs. But it seems that Mr. Beaumont. in
his speech at the final close of the pull, had retwertett that `. the
folly oft is enemies had made clear their malignity against him,"
that " the falsehood of the charges brought against him had been
discovered," and the " motives of his enemies were pitiful and
spiteful." In order to disprove these assertions, the Earl they, in
his profound wisdom, submits to the public the correspondence
which we have seen ! Talk of infirmity of mind ; what stronger
'audio' mental imbecility can Ise adduced * an that of a publics.
tinn which completely and obviously cstablodtea the very positions
it was meant to disprove, viz. tote folly and inaliguity of Mr. Beau.
niont's inn:tuns, that disgrace attached to them fur having hoped
to sit disgrace upon bin), and that their motives were pitiful and
arrileful. I shall have a word or two about the falsehood of the
charges by sod by ; hut, in the meanwhile it may be observed,
that if any doubt had existed of the justice of Mr. Beatimmit'n re-
marks, his Lordship by the publication in question would certainly
have had the merit of removing it.
I do not suppose that it is Mr. Beaumont's intention to make
tiny statement in explanation of that part of his conduct which, to
thoe unacquainted with all the
particulars, is the most difficult to

I account for. flit rcpeated assertion " that he will not advance any
thing in his own justification which can wound the feeling of others."
appears to preclude him from affording much information to the
public. The attempted proof of the existence of " mental de-
rangement" is so closely interwoven with the private affairs of the
family at Capheatan, that tt show the fallacy of that proof would
almost be tantamount to the establishing of what Mr. Beaumont
has debarred himself front approaching. Involved as at present
the whole transaction is in mystery, regard for the opinions of Mr.
Beaumont, and delicacy towards the feelings of a family which
Lord Grey has treated with such unprecedented cruelty, constitute
in my mind sufficient reasons for our refraining from offering any
further observations on this branch of the subject. I shall, there.
fore, turn to the charge of Mr. Beattmont's having, in an advertise-
ment, published on his return front the Continent, declared his own
unlitneas for acting as a representative in Parliament until be had
repelled the infamous allegations which had been urged against
him. These allegations arc shortly afterwards stated by himself to
relate to an assertion, Ist, of his having been within a late period
" under a mental delusion ;" 2dly, of his intended marriage with
the daughter of Sir .1. S. having been broken off front a discovery
of his having already married • foreign lady. A third point to
which the assertion extends can be deemed of no consequence
whatever.

As to the report mentioned under the second head of these allega-
tions, it can only be necessary to say that it was entirely without
foundation. But with respect to the first and principal ground of
disqualification alleged against him, what was Mr. Iteaunmot's
conduct ? After some preliminary coirespondence with Lord
Grey, he instructs his solicitor in London, C. C. Wilson, Esq. to
bring an action against his Lordship, fur having " used and pub.
hailed certain libellous and malicious expressions to the injury of
his character, and which he believed his Lordship to have been
aware were contrary to the fact." Proceedings, it is true, were not
instituted against his Lordship; but the intention was not &ban-
cloned because his Lordship wan prepared " to justify"—it was
abandoned, as his Lordship must well know, upon considerations
widely different. The motives which really operated with Mr.
Beaumont to induce. him to-relinquish the idea of prosecuting his
Lordship, I may take an early opportunity of stating to the public.
At present lam not at Ebert), to explain them. 1 may remark,
however, that if the determination of Lord Grey " not to retract
an iota of the opinion he had expressed with regard to Mr. Beau-
mont's conduct," had really been the reason of Mr. Beaumont's
not persevering in his threatened action, the measure would have
been abandoned on the receipt of his Lordship's letter to Mr. Wit.
son, in which his Lordship distinctly declares his intention " not
to offer any explanation by which proceedings may be rendered
unnecessary." It is superfluous, however, to enlarge upon this
point, as there are circumstances not yet brought forward from
which the fact must he readily obtained.
Mr. Beaumont having now been dissuaded from the idea of a
prosecution, he adopts the next best means in Isis power of contra-
dicting the reports to the prejudice of his charac:er ; he rums the
officers of his regiment at a farewell dinner at Hesitant, and on that
oceaCon (I quote from the newspapers of the day) addresses them
as follows:

presence among you this day has, I hope, done much to
dispel such an idea (an idea of mental delusion) from your minds;
but should any particle of ottanicion still remain in any one, I think
I can remove it by observing that those who have been most indus-
trious in giving currency to this report neversurntised for an instant
the bare possibility of such a thing until I had left their house. I
had been in daily intercourse with them for some time without the
least hint having bren given of it to any one ! If thii is not suf.
ticient, there is a fact which must carry conviction to every one him/
entirely f. lie, and without the shadow even of a foundation, such
a report has always been. It is this : that up to ten days after my
departure from a house which I shall not name, I know, from a
letter received by one of my own family, that it was the wish of
those persons that matters should be amicably arranged. And, in
point of fact, an overture was made to me shortly after my de-
parture fromithat house through a person (who, if required, will
not hesitate to come forward and say so,) (or that purpose."
The tacta above-mentioned, which have never been refuted, af-
ford I think a moat conclusive answer to the reports which have
been circular d against him, and justify his assertion on the hust-
ings, that " the falsehood f the charges brought against him had
been discovered."

-here I should have concluded, but having heard it 'asked why
Mr. Beaumont took no notice of the letter from Lord Grey, dared
Tunbridge Wells. 31st Aupust, I think it proper to say what is
known to many, that immediately on the receipt of that letter Mr.
Beaumont determined to proceed to London, and Fai actually pro-
ceeded as far MS Ferrybrulge when he was met by a friend who stop-
ped his progress, and who has declared himself to be " solely re-
sponsible for the abandonment of his purpose."
A LOOKER-ON.

*STATE OF TRADE.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 25.

Throughout the different manufacturing districts, and
more particularly in those of Lancashire and Yorkshire,
the distress by which the lower orders are weighed down
appears to be increasing every day. No improvement has
taken place in trade, and there is consequently no addi-
tional demand for labour. All the little savings of the poor
are expended ; the greatest part of their clothes and furni-
ture have been pawned or sold, and their only resource
now is in the parish rates, or in the precarious fund sup-
plied by private charity. The latter of these sources, un-
less speedily and liberally recruited, must shortly fail; and
as for the former, the relief which it affords is altogether
inadequate to the distress. Unless a speedy change takes
place in the state of the country, the consequences arc
likely to be of the most serious kind. It is perfectly vain
to reason with men who are starving. Vriven to despair
by intolerable sufferings, they feel that they have nothing
to lose but a miserable existence, and arc ready to engage
in projects of the most dangerous and desperate kind.—
Billinge's Advertiser.
MANCIIESTFR, JULY 25, 1826.

It has been mentioned in some of the London papers,
within this day or two, that the extreme low prices at
which cotton goods can now be made in this country, is
producing the most fatal effects on the infant manufacto-
ries of rival nations. This is a fact which, as connected
with the extreme depression of manufacturing labour in
the cotton-trade, we have often thought of, and it is one of
the many instances in which good springs out of evil.
In a recent speech in the French Chamber of Represen-
tatives, Mr. Lafitte spoke of the manufacturing interests
of France as being in a state of extreme depression ; and it is
said that many of those in America have been absolutely
stopped. " The weak and half formed establishments of
other countries," observes the Glebe, " are continually
liable to be overwhelmed by the mere convulsive move-
ments of a great manufacturing community."
It may he said, and, unfortunately, in this case, there
would be much force in the remark, that whatever prospect
of advantage there may be in driving our .rivals from
the market, we are in danger of being ourselves mined
before it is realized: that, in other words, " the steed
will starve whilst the grass is growing." We certainly,
however, do anticipate an increased demand for the pro-
ductions of our manufactories at no very distant period ;
and we consider that much of the difficulty in disposing of
them at this time arises, not from the circumstance of there
being no vent for them, but from the extreme want of con-
fidence with respect to the solvency of the merchants who
have been accustomed to export them, and who cannot
now procure the credit they have customarily received.
rho restoration of confidence must be a work of time ;
however, it will come, and with it we shall experience a
revival of demand.

There is another circumstance too. Most of the South
American loans were remitted in the shape of British ma-
nufactures. Of these, cotton goods formed a considerable
proportion, and the stimulus thus given to their production
was undoubtedly among the causes which led to that un-
duly rapid extension and multiplication of our manufac-
turing establishments, the efrect of which we now feel.
Here again, however, we are not without a fair topic of
consolation. The goods imported into South America, on
account of the loans, would neon ssarily get spread over
many districts where British goods had scarcely, if at all,
been introduced before, and a taste would thus be created,
which, it is quite reasonable to expect, will lead to a com-
mercial intercourse, durable as regards time, and progres-
sively on the increase as regards extent.
From the present state of their affairs, many nations of
the eat th may learn important les:anis for the regulation of
their future conduct. We, in Great Britain, have seen
enough of the importance of bein; permitted to derive
supplies or food from those who cm furnish it most cheaply ;
and America, and countries in her situation, may learn
that with a large and fertile territory, far more than ade-
quate to the support of her own people, her industry may
be most profitably directed to those pursuits which do not
require the concentration of large capitals, nor the united
efrorts of a crowded population. We trust she will not long
have to urge in excuse, for her endeavours to fore:: manu-
facturing establishments into premature existence, the re-
fusal of Great Britain to accept her most valuable produce
in exchange for her own goods. The time seems to us to
be favourable, expecting, as we do, that a decided change
in the Corn Laws will he made in the next Session of Par-
liament, for attempting to make commercial treaties, not
only with America, but with several of the nations of Eu-
rope; and we hope the opportunity will not be neglected.
—.llunchcster 211vrcery.