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of Congress and the executive ordinances, he would
discover the unanimity amd fixedness of purpose of
the American nation. He would then satisfy him-
self of the confidence entertained by Congress iu
the ultimate success of their present undertaking by
the liberality of their money grants, and of the
ability and skill of the administration by the judg-
ment and promptitude which characterise all their
measures. After such a course of study, he would
doubtless come to the same conclusions with Mr.
Seward, that the Northern " resources arc yet
" abundant, and the credit adequate to the
existing emergency. • It is scarcely p ssible to treat
this strange document seriously. It is certainly im-
possible to test it either by arguments or facts. If
a man avers positively that black is white, or that
two and two make five, of course, if you are not as
great a fool as himself; you will not attempt to
reason him out of his strange delusion. In like
manner, we shall not attempt to prove that Mr.
Seward's letter is a tissue of delusions or falsehoods
from beginning to end. If he says that this Go-
vernment possesses credit, thought it is unable to
raise a loan even among its own citizens—if he says
that the armies of. the North have been victorious,
although at the very instant he was writing the
despatch he well knew that the greatest of its
armies was in process of dismemberment, after hav-
ing undergone a continuous series of defeats—if he
calls the aggregate area of the Southern States a
small territory in defiance of what geographies and
atlases say to the contrary, why we can only treat
him as we would a perverse man, who, for the mere
sake of obstinacy, wilfully misstated facts. But as
Mr. Seward is not a lunatic, and as we believe him
to bs much too shrewd to suppose that any one will
be inclined to believe his statements, we are natu-
rally led to inquire what motive could have induced
him to write so much (what his countrymen would
call) " bunkum." Perhaps he expects to gain in
Washington amongst certain classes a little poli-
tical capital, and, in exchange for that, is indiffe-
rent about the contempt he must incur in Europe.
Still emanating, as this document does, from the
Federal Cabinet, it is truly incredible that that
body should have sunk as low as to endorse as
its own, in the face of the world, so much arrant
falsehood and absurd nonsense.

Sergeant Glover v. Count de Persigny and
M. Billault.

JUDGES' CHAMBERS—FEB. 26.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)
This extraordinary case, which was some time
since before the Court of Queen's Bench, came be-
fore Mr. Justice Wightman, at Chambers to-day,
the plaintiff appearing personally in support of an
application made on affidavit.
It appears that after the case had come before the
law courts an order was granted by Mr. Justice
Wightman, dated Dec. 23, 1862, appointing a com-
mission to be held in Paris to inquire into the plain-
tiff's claim, and giving power to the plaintiff to
examine Count Fialin. de Persigny and the other
witnesses in chief on interrogatories and viva voce.
The order provided that on or before the 3d of Jan.
the attorneys or agents of the parties should ex-
change copies of the interrogatories they respec-
tively proposed to administer. No examination was
to take place prior to the 12th January. The re-
turn was to be made on the 30th January; but on
the 2d February the defendants obtained an order
from Mr. Justice Crompton extending the commis-
sion to the 30th April. This order the plaintiff now
sought to set aside, in order that he might proceed
to trial of the case in England.
From a statement made by Sergeant Glover, it
transpired that the plaintiff was formerly proprietor
of the Morning Chronicle, and the defendants were
Ministers in the French Government. The action
was commenced on the 2d May last. Every step
was taken under the Common Law Procedure Act.
Atter substituted service was made on the defen-
dants at Paris, Count de Persigny appeared in Lon-
don, whereon a declaration was served upon him.
Pleas were made and issue was joined in June, but
it was not until the last day of Michaelmas term
that the Court of Queen's Bench ordered M. Billault
to plead to the declaration. A fortnight's time was
granted, which was afterwards extended,and finally
the same pleas (nil indebitatus and non assurnpsit)
were pleaded. Special application was made by the
defendants, Count de Persigny and M. Billault, for
their own examination and that of other witnesses
at Paris, and after some delay the judicial order al-
ready alluded 'to for such commission was signed by
Mr. Justice Wightman. Pursuant to such order in-
terrogatories were duly exchanged between the re-
spective parties—those of the defendants' being for
thcmselves,whilst the plaintiff's interrogatories were
for the Due de Bassano and M. Mocquard, secretary
to the Emperor Napoleon 111. The plaintiff then
proceeded to allege that he had been proprietor of
the Morning Chronicle for two years without any
communication direct ar indirect being made from
him to any person either incidentally or officially
connected with the French Government, but in No-
vember, 1856, Baron Lionel de Rothschild, M.P.,
and Mr. Uzielli, late a principal partner in the
banking firm of Charles Devaux end Co., stated
to him that they were in personal communica-
tion with the French Ambassador (Count de Per-
signy), who was anxious to secure the Morning
Chronicle on behalf of the French Government.
He (the plaintiff) was then put in commmunication
with M. Brouard, the French avocat. After a brief
negotiation the plaintiff's presence was required in
Paris. He w ent there and received from M.
Brouard a French written communication, who
stated that he had just received such from the chef
of the French Embassy in London, that it had been
written at the dictation or inspiration of Count de
Persigny, who wished it translated, and then in-
serted in the Morning Chronicle. M. Brouard said
he had shown it to M. Billault, who approved of
certain suggested alterations. It was accordingly
translated, and appeared as a leading article in the
Morning Chronicle in December, 1856, being an
attack on the 7imes newspaper, and in vindication
of the French Minister, M. Billault.

The learned Sergeant said he now proposed to put
in an affidavit in support of his claim that the order
for the commission might be set aside with a view
to the trial of the case in England.
The Solicitor for the defendants said that this
was the first he had heard of an affidavit in the
case, and he should certainly ask for a❑ adjourn-
ment, that he might be able to answer it.
Sergeant Glover said he had been six weeks in
Paris on this business, and he hoped the learned
judge would dispose of the application without
further delay. He had come from Paris for the
purpose of making the affidavit. He thought he
had a right to hand in the affidavit.
Mr. Justice Wightman said he certainly had,
and he himself would read it.

The learned Judge then received, and read aloud,
the following extraordinary document :--
" I, William Glover, of 58, Burton-crescent, in
the county of Middlesex, sergeaLt-at-law, the plain-
tiff in this cause, make oath, and say—lst, That this
action was commenced on or about the second day
of May last, and that issue has been joined thereon;
and I further say that by an order made by the Hon _
Mr. Justice Wightman in this cause on the 23d of
Dec., 1862, on the application of the said defen-
dants, it was ordered that a commission should issue
out of this honourable Court for the purposes as ex-
pressed in that order. 2d. And I further say that
on or about the Bth day of January, 1863, a draft,
purporting to be a commission out of this honour-
able court for the purposes expressed in the above-
mentioned order, returnable on the 30th Jan., 1863,
was, as I am informed and believed, served on my
then attorney, Mr. Rose, but whether such a com-
mission was ever duly issued, I am unable to say,
and by the said order it was provided that the 12th
of January was the earliest day on which the ex-
amination of the witnesses could commence. A copy
of such commission was sent to me by my said attor-
ney on or about the 12th of January last. 3d. I say
that the defendant!' attorneys have delivered copies
of the interrogatories on the defendants' part, and
interrogatories have also been delivered on my be-
half. 4th. That Thomas Pickford, Esq., her Ma-
jesty's Consul at Paris, and Mons. Delainay, of No.
35, Rue St. Honore, in the said city, are the com-
missioners named in the said commission, and I say
that both the said commissioners were, at the date
of the said order, and ever since have been, and now
are resident in Paris, as I am informed and believe.
sth. That on the 13th day of January last I arrived
in Paris, under the expectation and with the intent
of being present at the opening of the said commis-
sion, and for that purpose I took with me a great
quantity of documental evidence in order to meet
the case of the defendants before the said commis-
sioners, and to be exhibited here in evidence in
support of my own case ; and I say that I remained
in Paris for 37 days in the daily expectation of be•
ing called upon by the said commissioners to attend
before them with my evidence ; but I say that on
my applying to the said commissioners on different
days during my late sojourn in Paris, I was in-
formed by them that my commission had not arrived,
nor had been delivered to either of them at those
periods, and that they were ready and willing to
act and commence proceedings under the said com-
mission directly they received the official docu-
ments authorising them to do so. And I fur-
ther say that I- am informed and believe that the
commission is yet in the hands of the defendants'
attorneys, and that the same is so retained by
them for the purpose of delay, and that no step what-
ever has been taken by them to forward the exe-
cution of the said commission for the same reason,
although I duly informed the defendants and
the said commissioners of my arrival is Paris, and
-my readiness to commence proceedings under the
said commission. 6th. That on the 2nd day of Feb-
ruary inst., after the time for the return of the cone-