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London, England, 1837-07-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT W.' THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. m• to • I 1
a.uea..on you, nor wool( o it, out taat imOPIt lot
it you answer me by return of post it will be your own, au-
If we could suppose that the publication in the l saver, unintlaeneed by others.
Thies of yesterday of a strictly private correspandeneg! " esuld add a great deal more on this subject, but ail
lf,etwtsen the DulAe of Merniorough, the M•ltipis of It wFuld oniy,make you believe I had some unexplained
Biandrofd,alid Lord John Churchill, aid which our I. shall say no more thou that the pre-
motive in
aijieletouf
stm,tye,ktliteitr tot(siound you as to your disposi-
I tsci
readers will find in anothet with the comments
posed to agree,
3/4 tion,
I will wiilino'ly 3.t-rYuwohnat ceacutidoon infeerle regard
which it was accompanied in that riper, the
work of the Marquis of Blandfotd himself (and for rca- to the matter.
sons which we shall hereafter state we must presume "If I come in for Woodstock, I should consider myself
him innocent), no language which we could use would bound to adopt the liberal side, and I would be at no ex-
be too strong to be applied to his conduct. The at- pense to myself. When that side ceased to be supported
liedness of by the Dune of Marlborough, either present or next, I
tempt on the part of a son to uncover the na
would then take the Chiltern Hundreds.
a parent would only excite the strongest feelitrs of " Very affectionately yours,
disgust in every well-constituted mind, Had the Mir- ~The Marquis of Blandrord."
rpm of Blandford placed himself before the public in
the unreeling character of dishonourer of his •o NI: father,
there is is not another man in England who Would not
blush to be placed on a level with him. The lowest
wretch in St. Giles's, who knows not in the morning.
in what abode of misery he may'seek shelter on the
succeeding night, would still shrink from the idea of
being accessary to an attempt to bring his own father
to shame. However low the estimation in which
we hold the Marquis of Blandford, we cannof.
think so meanly of him as that he would be guilty of
such revolting conduct towards his parent. We have
reason to hclive that the letters are verbatim correct.
That the Times should publish them can surprise no
one ; but that the Tories should imagine that any
cause could derive advantage from such a publication,
only shows how low that party is sunk. The Marquis
of Blandford, like some other men, has reason to ex-
claim, Savc me from my friends I We have strong.
ground for believing that an improper use has been
made by a pretended friend of the confidence reposed
in him by the Noble Marquis. The subject matter of
• the correspondence first appeared in the Times some.
days ago. The Marquis of Blandford stated that "he
knew nothing of that article till he had seen it in a
copy of the Times sent to him from a provincial town
by a friend, and that he had only communicated
his brother's letter to two individuals, of whom the
one could only have received the information (in
Cumberland) on the day it appeared in the
Times, and the other was Timothy Curtis, Esq.
(Governor of the Bank of England), who sent
him the paper, alleging at the same time that he had
bad no hand in its publication." We wish that we
could believe that Timothy Curtis, Esq., who is the
Marquis of Blandford's bosom friend and adviser, did
not furnish another justification of the French pro-
verb, Qui s'excuse s accuse, and has not, in the cause
of that friend, been accessary to an act which is truly
disgraceful to all concerned in it. It is for Timothy
Curtis, Esq., to show that his confidence has also
• been betrayed by some unscrupulous individual of the
party, a stranger to the feelings which have hitherto
been deemed sacred amongst men. For, after all, the
publication is only painful to individuals. We are yet
to learn in what way Ministers can possibly be af-
fected by a strictly private communication from one
brother to another without the knowledge of a single
Government man ? That Lord John Churchill
should be anxious to fall on means to relieve
the poverty of his own father, and believing, as
he naturally would, that his application would
hardly be less successful were the Parliamentary
influence of his family exerted in favour of the
Government, he should seek to induce the Marquis
of Blandford to enter into his views, can surprise no
one. It does not, however, follow, because Lord
John Churchill conceived that the means in question
would facilitate the object he had in view, that there-
fore Ministers would, as a consideration for the sup-
port given to them in Woodstock, allow an addi-
tional pension to the Duke of Marlborough. Nothing
can be, therefore, more gratuitous than.the accusation
which has been brought against Ministers on account
of an overture not sanctioned in the least by them or
any. one man in the employment of Government. And
with respect to the Marquis of Blanford, .who holds
such indignant language at the bare idea of his po-
litical virtue being tampered with, after having refused
to wear the livery of Lord Grey, the Noble Marquis
was never. offered the livery either of Lord Grey or
of Lord Melbourne. He did, indeed, apply to Sir
Robert Peel to be allowed to wear his livery, though
it would appear that the Right Honourable Baronet
was not over and above eager to act upon the
overture. It is to be borne in mind that the Mar-
quis of Blandford, though now a Tory, was also at one
time an ultra-Radical Reformer, a member of the
Birmingham Political Union, and that he brought into
Parliament a celebrated but foolish Reform Bill, which
old Major Cartwright would almost have hesitated to
sanction. Like'" Old Glory" and some
.other cracked
characters, he is now, from pride and spleen, an ultra-
Tory of the first water. But, however this may be,
we: must again protest against the baseness of dragging
before the public-a strictly private -correspondence. Be
the parties who. they may that have lent themselves to
this, their conduct cannot be too much reprobated.
We have indicated sufficiently the parties on whom
suspicion for the present must rest. It will be for
them, if they can, to show that the suspicion ought
not to attach to thcm.-1116rning chronicle.
THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, THE MAR-
QUIS OF BLANDFORD, AND LORD JOHN
CHURCHILL.
(From the Times of yesterday.)
The third affair* alluded to by us was by far more edifying
and pungent than either of the others. It. was the direct
offer from a confidant and employe, a hanger-on of an "il-
lustrious" Whig-affecting and popularity-hunting prince, a
direct assurance, we say, of a summons to the House of
Peers, addressed to his own brother, the son and heir to a
pauper Duke—if that brother would consent to return
him (the channel of the proposition) for a well-known fa-
mily borough ; and if he would further give his support (he
being a Conservative) to the so-called" Queen's but really
O'Connell's Government. A collateral bribe was.tendered
by the sauce immaculate go-between to the father of them
both, viz., the afore-said Duke himself—in the shape of a
threat moreover, that if his Grace did not perform his
part
of the proposed bargain, and if he should bring in for the
family borough a Conservative who would oppose Lord
Melbourne's Government, he, the Duke,might go whistle '
for a much-desired increase to the nett proceeds of a pen-
sion, earned by the achievements of a noble ancestor.
Very well, was this case contradicted ? No. Was there
ever anything on the lice of it more monstrous ? No.
Was it not painly implied throughout that the party tend-
ing the iniquitous bargain had been authorised by Lord
Melbourne's Government to guarantee the terms of that
bargain ? Yes, most indisputably. Then we shall be
asked, " Who were the parties ?" We answer, let their
own letters speak for themselves. We are permitted and
desired to publish those letters. The dramatis personw
arc, as will be seen—first, Lord John Churchill, Private
Secretary, or something tantamount, end well-known fire-
Wont, to that illustrious and patriotic Whig, the Duke of
Sussex ; my Lord John himself, moreover, being notori-
ously a mon-or-all-work in the general service of the Whigs.
It is this Lord John who opens the business to his brother,
having already opened it to his father. " Make me Mem-
ber for Woodstock, brother Blandford, and, on the further
condition of your supporting the O'Connell Ministers, you
shall stand a good chance of being summoned to the House.
of Peers." So "do you, father Marlborough, help to
bring me in for Woodstock, and you shall have your pen-
sion job adjusted, otherwise you may whistle for it." And
what were the replies•to this political Pandarns ? Why,
his brother, Lord Blandford, like a man of honour and
spirit, bids him go about his business—" I refused Lord
Grey's livery, much loss will I wear Lord Melbourne's."
The answer of the ducal pensioner was of a different stamp.
It was indeed characteristic. We here subjoin the letters
and extracts. Let the people of England, now on the eve
of this all-important election, consider' well the spirit of
Such a correspondence, and the parties to it, especially the
official parties who remain behind the curtain. Let the
people of England well consider who it is, and for what
base purposes, that raise the cry of " Vote for Queen Vic-
toria" "Don't dare to vote against Queen Victoria"—
" Don't dare to oppose her wishes." Good God ! does
Queen Victoria wish to see the freedom of election thus
trampled on ? Does Queen Victoria wish to see the glo-
rious peerage of her empire sullied ? Does Queen Victoria
sanction this atrocious jobbing, plundering, desolating cor-
ruption? and in her own name too ?
Alas! poor innocent, helpless maid, into what a nest of
scorpions, into what a den,of traitors, have you fallen.
I,—FROM LORD JOHN CHURCHILL TO LORD ELANDFORD.
tt Brookes's Club, June 26, 1837.
" Dear Blandford,—l must first thank you for your com-
munication in regard to the My principal object in
.writing to you is, however, to know whether you would
-
feel disposed (with' my father) to the following—viz., to be
called up to the House of Lords, and give your support to
the Queen's Government, as at present constituted tinder
Lord Melbourne, and bring me in for Woodstock. If you
could manage the latter for me, it strikes me very forcibly
I could arrange the former for you.
" I am not authorised by any persoa to make this eom-

"JOHN.

o.____FßOM LORD BLANDFORD TO LORD JOHN CHURCHILL.
" Oxford, June 27, 1837.
"My dear john—l thank you much for the propwitiwa
which you probably thought might be acceptable to me,
hut having formerly declined to wear Lord Grey's livery,
I am the less disposed now to put on Lord Melbourne's.
" Very affectionately yours,
" BLANDFOR,D.

3.—InZOM THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH TO LOAD

BLANDFORD7

" Blenheim, Wednesday.

" My bar Thandford—You were two or three days close
to me and did not call, or I could have explained to you
what I must no•.v do on paper.
" From letters I received from John and others, I was
confirmed in the opinion I had of the itnpolicy of bringing
n a Conservative Member for Woodstock at this critical
tincture. lam prepared to say and to insist that it would
ve completely deAroyed all chance of carrying the point
out the pension, which, after all, is more your affair than
I understood from John that he had written to ypu

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at Oxford, and assured you of as much, and as I heard
nothing mare from you, I concluded that your good senso
,vould sec that were I to bring in any Conservative before
this matter was disposed of, I should be cutting your throat
and my own. I am grieved you do not see it in that light ;
however, I can assure you two of the most influential of
----- club fully concur in my view of the case.
EXTRACT FROM JOHN'S LETTER.

" I need hardly add, that if you suffer a Member to be
returned for Woodstock who opposei Lord Melbourne's
Government, I think you will have to whistle for what you
are striving for ; and at all events you will not, I trust,
expect myself or others, who have been working for you-in
your petition case, to do any more, after your returning an
Opposition Member to Government. Pray give this con-
sideration for your own sake and that of both your families.
" -Very affectionately yours, dear 8., M. M."
* The two other affairs alluded to in this article have no refe-
rence to these parties.

A JOLLY EDITOR.—The editor of the Eilbote,
a paper published at Munich, offers to receive subscriptions
for his periodical at the rate of " six gallons of beer per annum-"
SCUILLER.—Perhaps of all the names that add lustre
to Weimar, the most interesting is that of Schiller. Goethe's
mental powers were s7ldom employed for the improvement of
his fellow-men—his pets, generally speaking, was an unhitl-
lowed one. But with Schiller it was far otherwise, though
he did not altogether escape animadversion on that point.
There is one of his minor poems in particular, which was
strongly censured, and gave rise to many severe attacks from
his enemies and rivals of the day. -T.hey asserted, that in it
Schiller had spoken against Christianity, And indulged in re-
flections injurious to the cause of religion. When Schiller
was informed of the construction put upon his words, he con-
tented himself with simply and meekly replying, " They mis-
understand me."—A Summer in Germany.

A TEA EQUIPAGE AT BRUSSELS.--The tea-
spoons are narrow and pointed, shaped exactly like the
sharp ivory things that arc sent down on a voyage of dis-
covery into vial-bottles of rhubard or ipecacuanha, to bring
up their contents. A sugar-tongs is a very rare luxury, as
is also a salt spoon ; the point of a knife is the substitute
for the latter, and if you wish for auger, there is no alter-
native besides the very ancient and handy implements which
poor Dr. Johnson got into such a scrape for making use of.
But the urn is the crowning piece of the breakfast furniture.
Poor thing lit must hare been in the hotel when it was at-
tacked during the revolution, for the top seems to have been
shot off by a cannon ball. The handles have evidently suf-
fered from a paralytic stroke ; one hangs doggedly down by
the side, stiff and immoveable, whilst the other limb remains
sticking straight up in the air, fixed so firmly in its horizontal
position that neither " force nor cunning" can cause it to stir
an atom one way or another. The spout has undergone some
strange convulsion, by which it is wrenched all on one side,
and the water flows in such an oblique, crab-like direction,
that it requires some experience to make your calculation so as
to place the cup where the stream will reach it.—A Summer
in Germany.

SCHOOL AT SCHWA LB ACH.-When the children
had returned to their occupation, we went into the achow-
house. The first room we came to was that of the girls, who
were all learning astronomy I A strange preparation, thought
I, for the after-life of a Nassau female. Who would think
that the walking masses, half grass, half woman, one meets
every day in the fields and lanes, would be able to tell whether
the earth moved round the sun, or the sun round the earth, or
if the moon were any bigger than their own reaping hooks.
We asked the master to allow us to hear them sing. Great
was the delight of the little madchens when this request was
made known ; there was a universal brightening of faces and
shuffling ofd leaves ; the pedagogue took down an old violin
from a peg where it hung, and accompanied their sweet voices
in a pretty simple air, which they sung in parts and from the
notes.--A Summer in Germany.
THE BARBER AT THE HALBE MONDE.—There
is a barber at Halbe Monde, who might have been a rival to the
" barber of Seville," of musical and immortal memory. He
is a universal genius, a perfect factotum. Waiter, valet-de-
place, friscur, cicerone—he is every thing by turns as the case
demands; and having had the honour of shaving Goethe twice,
(an honour of which he is not a little proud), is now a literary
character, and talks of Schiller, Wieland, Herder, as familiar
acquaintances, quoting from their works, and criticising them
most learnedly. Of his very intimate friend Goethe, he tells
never-ending, anecdotes, and describes him as one of the most
lively persons whose chins ever came under his hands.--A
Summer in Germany.
On Sunday morning, shortly before twelve o'clock,
an accident happened to a party in a boat which had just been
hired of a boatman named Tomlinson, at Hungerford. The
amateurs, who consisted of six persons (two men and four
boys), who knew very little about the management of a boat-,
and less of the currents and tides, were pulling up the river
against the ebb, and on reaching Westminster-bridge, after
getting through an arch, the tide carried their boat against the
pile and broke it in pieces. Before assistance could reach the
party two of them were drowned. The others were saved
and carried ashore, bemoaning the fate of their friends, and
lamenting their own imprudence in going upon the river with-
out a waterman. The unfortunate sufferers were not found
at a late hour last night.
As Mr. Ellice, accompanied by ten or a dozen of
his friends, was passing along White Friars'-lane last night,
about ten o'clock, on his way to Mr. Gilbert's, at the Crown,
two ruffians were standing under the workhouse wall, one of
whoie drew a clasp knife, and struck at Mr. Ellice ; the blow
was received by Mr. W. Marston, which cut through his coat
and nounded his hand ; a person was taken into custody, and
e have no doubt that the case will be made out. A speci-
men this of the opposition Liberal principles meet in Coventry.
—Coventry Herald.

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BIRTHS.
On the 21st., inst., in St. James's-square, the Countess of Lich-
field, of a daughter.
On the 21st inst., at Brightoa, the lady of Captain Oakes, R.N.,
of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at. Wathington Rectory, Norfolk, the lady of
the Rev. Richardson Cox , of a daughter.
At Killaloc, the lady of Captain J. Campbell, 87th Royal Irish
Fosiliers, of a son.
On the 20th inst., at Ile; don, Norfolk, the lady of the Rev. W.
11. Attwood, of a son.
On the ?Ist inst., at Hatcharn, near New Cross, Surrey, tl.e
lady of John West, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 20th inst., at. St. Paul's, Ball's Pond, Mr. H. Hender-
son, of Dolby-terrace, City-read, to Jane, eldest daughter of Daniel
Curling, Esq., of Cannonbury, Islington.
On the 20th inst., at Greacly Church, Notts, William Joseph,
eldest son of Joseph Berens Esq., of Kevington, Kent, to Louisa
Maria, second daughter of Berens,
Rolleston, of Watnall-hall, Not-
tinghamshire.
On the 15th inst., at Calcutta, Jaffray, fourth son of A. Sceales,
Esq., of Edinburgh, to Cecilia, second daughter of the late Major
Philip Codd, of Itumsted-court, Kent.
On the 19th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, the Rev. Edo.
Parker, \L A., Vicar of Bicester, Oxfordshire, to Susannah Lowry,
eldest daughter of C. F., Barnwell,
Esq., of Woburn-place.

DIED.
On the 17th inst., at Winchester, Lady Lane, the relict of Sir
Thomas Lavie, K. C. 8., aged 61.
On the 19th inst., at Cooke's-row, Old St. Pancras, Mary, wife
of Mr. Wileke, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn, aged 38.
On the 17th inst., at Cheehuitt, Herts, aged 76, Judith, relict of
I. Munt, Esq., of Kingston, Jamaica.
On the 17th ult., Mary, wive of Mr. Noble, of Queen's-row,
Pimlico, aged 73.
On the 20th inst., Matthew Robinson, Esq., of Dulwich, Surrey'
On the 17th inst., at Ostend, Belgium, Ralph Gibbs, Esq., in
his 64th year.
On the 18th inst., James Ormond Norman, Esq., late of Blooms-
burv-square, and of Brookside, near Cuckfieid, Sussex, aged 63.
On the 21st inst., Isabel Charlotte, the infant daughter of T. J.
Platt, Esq., of Tavistock-square.
On the 17th inst., at Siddon Warren, Highelere, Hants, aged
64, Joint Asprey.

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