The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-21 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

81*—The great length of the Trial in the action brought by me
against Mr. Bankes, given in your journal of this day, is sufficient
1 to account for the imperfection of the report, as it must have been
1 impossible for any one Paper to contain the half of what really
I transpired in Court. This defect will soon be supplied by a com-
plete publication of the whole in • connected form ; but as some
days must elapse before this can be effected, I beg the favour of
your permitting me to correct one erroneous impression, which,
without explanation, in likely to be made by a portion of the report
already before the world.
In this it is stated that certain old French Prints were sent by
me to England, with directions to Mr. Murray to make such alter-
ations in them as should prevent their being discovered, and to 'rive
1 them to the world, attached to the " Travels in Palestine, ' as
1 Original Drawings, made by myself! If this charge were founded
in truth, my triumph would have been much less complete than it
fortunately now is. But, although Mr. Murray (as will be shown
hereafter) resorted to the most mean and disreputable breach of
trust, in giving up to others what he knew to be my property—
placing it in the hands of Mr. Bankes' solicitors, In order to
assist them in making out this charge, and withholding all
knowledge of the fact from me—notwithstanding his affecting
before the world to be " extremely sorry for having been made
the Instrument of unmerited calumny on a respectable individual,"
voluntarily paying damages and costs, as well as making an ample
apology for his conduct—though Mr. Murray could thus play the
accomplished hypocrite so perfectly, expressing, in public, the
deepest contrition for his misdeeds, and assisting others, in private,
to perpetuate still greater injuries on the man he was so " sorry" to
have wronged ; yet it availed these conspirators nothing at the trial,
sod will avail them still less, if possible, with the world. In that
very manuscript of the" Travels in Palestine," which Mr. Murray
held in his hand *hen in the witness box, and identified as that
sent to him with the prints in question, is the following paragraph,
explanatory of their introduction into the work :
" The drawings contained in the Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie.
by Vasa*, amount* three large folio volumes. The publication of
these being discontinued before the letter-press intended to accom-
pany the engravings was printed, they are now incomplete, and, as
far as I can learn, are likely to remain so. There are some few
among these which are so accurate, as well as beautiful, that I hare
been induced to adore such of them as give views of places and mo.
foments actually visited and described in the course of these travels.
As these are almost in Use nature of original drawings, inasmuch as
they never have been, nor are ever likely to be, placed in the bands
of the public, as engravings usually are, with the descriptions and
explanation necessary to the understanding them, I am sure the
lovers of the arts will be obliged to me for bringing into more ge-
neral view pieces of so much beauty and merit; and those who de-
sire graphic illustrations of their reading will find in them the most
faithful and spirited delineations of the scenes which they profess to
represent."
This paragraph still stands in the early part of the manu.
script, which was In Mr. Murray's own hands, and is sufficient
to d sprova entirely the charge of my attempting to pass off these
French prints as original drawings of my own. But it is said
there were directions, in notes, on the prints themselves, to take
oat a group of figures here, and put in a gr sup there—to alter
this man's sand and that man's sword. True, bul not a line was
read to show that a single stone or tree of the original picture was
to be altered. The memoranda related wholly to figures,
and every one who knows any thing of drawing, knows that
all figures, whether a man or animals, are put into views
after the landscape or architectural parts Of the picture are corn-
pieta Mountains and Tahiti, temples and bridges, pillars and pe-
disunite, may remain for centuries the same; but mules and
meets, sheep and goats, mss,' and horses, do not continue for ever
fixed to the spot. These aro, almost always mere embellishments,
put is for effect ; and all that is required of them is, that they
should be in keeping with the . scene, the age, and the country.
Cuss's figures, many of which are out of keeping, as well as
inaccurate in comume, were no ,doubt put into his pictures in
France, chassis his Views were takn in Syria: and no Traveller
perhaps that ever lived finished Res drawings entirely on the
spot. But even if every figure ha,l been omitted, or those
introduce/ been ever so different from di:e originals, this could not
affect the fidelity of an architectural draa Ins, or a landscape view
—sepposing every other part of the picture to remain the same, and
not %stone era shrub was directed to be altered. These few Views
weenie:mealy said, however, in the Book iNelf, to be drawn by
Cum, and selected from a great variety in his" " Voyage Pinto.
tissue de leSyrie," from which they were taken to be engraved
for the Travels to Palestine: but this being expressed at the foot
of each separate plate, as was the case in the pencil memoranda
read in Court, no person could mistake them to be put forth as
. DRAWN by me, anymore than they could imagine that I pretended
also to have engraved them.
But the most remarkable part of the whole affair is this: that
neither these Engiavings of Cases, nor the two Drawings from
Myers, equally acknowledged, have ever been trade use of at all !
The " Quarterly 4tsview," in its article on the Travels. when they
Hut appeared, no known to have been written by Mr William
orrpoc tu Bank's. log with his own venom the spleen of
Mr. (riff,_ an the private information confidentially in.
trusted to if r. , fray himself, accused me of plagiarism in
putting forth D'Aaville's Map as my own, when, unluckily
for the ispumtion of the Critic, on referring to the printed
Book, the Moped' thlaSieltgraphers (originally duds when Mr.
ins, Murray was l
epublish it, to be given as D'Anvillet
foe the ambit* in , addition to a later Map for the rub.
Bern divide.. M country) was not to be found at all, the new
Publisbeess Lamm* and Co., having taken it upon them to omit
it as neessimary ea expensive. And now Mr. Bankes's counsel
and selieltese, drawl's their information from the same pure source
bring forth *series of eusravings,w hich Murray treacherously place: 1
in their heads to use against the man he had already injured, and
whose y alone they were: while they raise together • yell
Kat thueftetecting the fancied fraud of 'mein forth
old WISP as sew drawings, when, in truth, they have never
bees et all i (for these also, which Murray had himselfcon-
seen Ottpnblish without scruple, were omitted by Messrs. Long-
man, as *ell as D'Anville's map, chiefly to avoid expense ;) while
this sone Mr. Murray suppresses the Information, equally well
known to him, tha even if they had bens used, • frankt and un-
disguised ecknowti merit of what they really were was contained
in the paragraph aig eady quoted, as it still stands in the original
manuscript, which he confessed to have had for many months is
his possession, but which paragraph, since the plates referred t• in
it were omitted to be used, was, IN • mutter of course, omitted In
the printed work elle.,
I shall say no more—this one act of baseness and treachery is
salami to mark the charscien of the conspirators who could
resort to it for chair defence, and to make tl:e public pause on
any other portion of their misrepresentati,,us which May ap-
pear, by the imperfection of the published reports of the
case, to have been inadequately refuted in Court. Many more,
however, will be shown in the full Report of the Trial now peeper.
in g for te press: and the exposure this will give to the reputation
of those implicated, will, no doubt, be as agreeable to them as the
payment of the dinners and costs (in the whole, not much short
Of LINO. which will be drawn ham their reluctant purses as so
much blood from the heart
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
J. 6. Bucuitsmor.
Orove.End-Reed, St. John's Wood,
Oct. 20; 10116.
•

DR. FOLEY AND TIIE COLOMBIAN DIVIDENDS.

[From the Courier.)
Some misconception having prevailed, both as to the character
in which Dr. Foley has come to this country from Colombia, and
as to the object of his coming, we are authorised by that Gentle-
man to supply the following explaations :
Ile came here, " not as a public functionary. Ile never pro-
posed to any one that a Goan should now be raised for the service
of Colombia; but being in this country, he wished to procure as
much information as possible with respect to the views of British
capitalists, previously to his return to Bogota, whither he proceeds,
to use whatever influence he may possess, in order to impress upon
the Colombians the importance of transmitting to England the
sum necessary to pay the Dividend, and to keep faith with their
creditors." _ _

To the questions, not very pertinent ones, addressed to him by
a correspondent in the 21'ew rimer of this morning, he re-
plies, " that when he arrived in the capital of Colombia, he met
with a reception greatly surpassing his most sanguine expectations ;
and when he quitted Bogota, he was on the brat possible terms with
the Executive."

To an article which appears in another Morning Paper in which
reference is made to a supposed dispute between Dr. Foley and
General Holiest, the former would reply, " that if that were true
which has been reported by the stock.johbers, the mention made of
it was a very stock-jobbing explanation."
It has been stated by the Tinter that the name of Dr.
Foley has now become public property. This the Doctor cannot
admit. " Had he announced himself as a public functionary from
Colombia, or given any statement relative to its affairs through the
medium of the public press, or if he had °trued to negotiate a loan
for that Republic, then he would not deny that his name might be
claimed as public property ; but such is not the case."
Dr. Foley assures us " he has never stated that Colombia hat not
the means of paying the interest on her debt; and he is surprised
that the Times, in the same article, should describe him to
have used such language, end yet speak of him as having come
here to negotiate a new loan. For such inconsistency be is at *loss
how to account."

He did not " expect, nor did the Colombian Government expect,
that, under existing circumstances, a loan could be raised for the
service of that country in England. He however wished to ascer-
tain if a fist-rate capitalist would take the affairs of Colombia in
hand, with a view of extricating her from the embarrassments
which now encompass her."
The arrival of a aum of money at Carthagena " was certainly
announced by Dr. Foley ; but what the object of the Colombian
Government might be in detaining it, when there, he has never
stated, nor has he taken upon himself to say whether or not its ar-
rival here was now to be expeced. He has abs'aincd from giving
an opinion on this, and other points, and has never declared him-
self to be more intimately acquainted with the secrets of the Co-
lombian Government than any other person."

Thus for Dr. Foley. Now one word for OUtACIVCS. The writer
of the letter in the New Times says, "it is known, and cannot
be contradicted by us, that we had the statement in sufficient time
for insertion on Wednesday." We presume he meant to say
Tuesday; for on Wednesday It did appear. Our answer is—the
statement is false.

With respect to the article itself, we shall only a4d, we ssr.sfied
ourselves by proper inquiries before we inserted it.
Since writing the above, we have received the following com-
munication :

COLOMBIAN LOAN OF 1022.
The Contractors' of thl4 Loan, having applied to his Excellency
the Hon. Al. J. Hurtado, on the subject of the Half-yearly Divi-
dend due on the lit November next, have received from his Excel-
lency the following answer, which they publish for the information
of the bond-holders.

Freeman's-court, Oct. 19, 1826.
(Cory.) 33, Portland-place, London, Oct. 18.
Gentlemen,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 13th October inst. respecting dui payment of the
dividends on the bonds of the loan of 18.2.

In answer to it I have to inform you that the money for this
payment has not yet arrived front Colombia ; but, from the com-
munications received from my Government, I confidently expect
that the money will be forwarded, and will arrive in this country
shortly. 1 remain, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) 111ANCEL JOSE HURTADO.
To Messrs. C. Herring, %S'm. Graham, and J. I). Pavan.
CONFLICT AT THE BIBLE MEETING AT
BALLINASLOE.