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London, England, 1836-09-13 00:00:00

ties and their direct opposites, was not, and could not, be
greater than between the words and actions of the parties
named ; and having stated what those words and what those
actions were, I left those to whom I addressed myself to
judge for themselves whether the contrast was not, as I de-
scribed it as great as between any things the most oppo-
site that could be named.
The whole tenor of my address was, however, a com-
ment on the public conduct of public men, in the various
public transactions of the session ; and whatever that ad-
dress contained had reference to such public conduct alone.
Your Lordship's public professions and publicly declared
opinions on the conduct of the East India Company towards
me, and your publicly declared conviction of the justice of
my claims, was therefore, in this address, contrasted with
your conduct as Leader of the House of Commons, when
a mere repetition of the same sentiments from your place
in Parliament would have obtained the support of the
House of Commons in their favour, while your silence and
your absence were fatal to my cause. If your Lordship is
able to justify this conduct in the eyes of the country, to
whom my appeal is now made, I shall be happy to afford
every facility for such justification, by attending any meet-
ing for that purpose which your Lordship may appoint.
Of
Your personal honour and integrity in any private
transaction, as between one gentleman and another, I have
'l,c.iv veo of
rentertained nor expressed a doubt, any more than I
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of morality,_ that these private and personal
-virtues
are frequently found to co-exist with the entire absence of
principleubiie grounds,
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Butoin
p
,on public grounds alone, I
must still take leave to repeat, that the contrast between
the public conduct of your Lordship'
Whig Opposition of 18'),1 and as a Member of the
1826, and the public con-
duct of your Lordship as a Member of the Whig Govern-
ment and Leader of the House of Commons in 1836, on
the subject of my claims on the East India Company for
that compensation which the select committee, of which
your Lordship was a member, unanimously declared to be
e
justly due to me—appears to me tobe as
great as between,
day and night, or between any other two' things the most
opposite to each other that cr:‘n be named.
I am, my Lord, your most obedient s
(Signe,lj J. S. BUCKINGHAMservant
The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.p., B,c
• &e.
(No. 4.) Tunbridge Wells, Sept. 10 1 gag.
Sir,--I
your
I have received yesterday and to-da
letters
of the 7th and Bth instant.
It is satisfactory to me to find that you did not mean,
to cast any imputations on my personal honour and in-
tegrity.
I can make allowance for the irritated feelings which the
losses and disappointments you have sustained may have
excited ; but I must add, that " truth," which you say de-
manded of you the exposition you have given, ought to have
demanded of you not to omit other facts, which would
have materially altered the case you have so elaborately
endeavoured to make out against me.
It is not my wish, however, to appeal to any public
meeting on this subject, mt. do I now think it necessary
to say more than that I slaall be ready to defend my con-
duct in Parliament whenever it may be called in question.
I urn, Sir, your humble servant,
(Signed) J. RUSSELL.
J. S. Buckingl,:ain, -Esq., M.P.

BERNE.

SEPT. I.—The Diet yesterday defeated the Jesuits.
The Constitution which the Congress of Vienna allowed to
Switzerland in 1815 was as bad as a gift from such hands
could be expected to be. On the whole Continent, Austria
not excepted, the principle was fully established that the
State had the superintendence over the priests. In Swit-
zerland, on the contrary, the monks and Jesuits received
back all the ancient immunities and privileges which they
had previously enjoyed there. The consequences of it are
but too visible in the cantons of Unterwaldeu and Uri,
where no printing-office exists to the present day. The
Catholic Church formed a State in the State, its func-
tionaries not acknowledging any other authority than that
of the Pope. The nuisance becoming at last insupportable,
several Protestant cantons, containing a mixed population,
got up a conference at Baden, in the county of Argau,
three years ago, where it was laid down as a principle that
the State had the superintendence of the Church. The
canton of Argau, which, with those of St. Gallen, Zurich,
Lucerne, and Basil-country, had adopted the conclusions of
the Conference of Baden, imposed on all its Catholic priests
the obligation to swear allegiance to the political constitu-
tion of the canton. Some priests refused, saying they ac-
knowledged no other authority than that of the Pope. The
Cantonal Government, however, displaying a proper degree
of energy, declared that all the priests who within four
weeks should not swear allegiance to the constitution would
be replaced. At the same time, at the end of 1835, the
authorities assembled their troops, and invoked the assist-
ance of some of the neighbouring cantons, Zurich and Basil-
country, which marched their troops to the frontiers of
Argau. The priests, seeing that the affair began to become
serious, complied with the orders of the Cantonal Go-
vernment. In the month of last June, however, some
monasteries of the canton of Argau addressed a petition
to the Diet, complaining of a violation of their privileges.
It is this petition which the Diet yesterday rejected by a
great majority. _

This event contains a severe reprove' of an unpardonable
pusillanimity which the Cantonal Government of Berne has
shown in a similar occurrence. Berne, in last February,
acceded to the Conference of Baden. As soon as this was
known, the Catholic priests in the Jura roused their popu-
lations, telling them the Government of Berne was en-
tirely composed of atheists, who had resolved to extirpate
the Catholic religion, and to circumcise all their Catholic
subjects ! It was upon such instigations that the peasants
were seduced to plant their Jesus-Christ trees, as they
called them, which, in profanation of every religious
sentiment, were Jacobin trees, mounted by a crucifix in-
stead of a, bonnet de liberte. The whole Jura district
was in a state of open insurrection, when, in the course
of last March, the Cantonal Government sent troops there,
who without great difficulty put down the insurrection.
The Government, besides, had the magnanimity not to
punish any of the criminals, the great Council decree-
ing a general amnesty for all of them, with the excep-
tion of the priest Cuttat and his two vicars, who had
been the principal instigators of the insurrection. Tran-
quillity and order were re-established when the French
Ambassador declared to the Canton of Berne, that if they
did not recede from their adhesion to the Conference of
Baden, the French Government :would immediately send
troops to occupy all the district of the Jura. The Great
Council of Berne allowed themselves to be intimidated, and
declared they would apply to the Pope, and pray him to
give them his authorization to accede to the Conference of
Baden. This will render them good Christians, for it is
easily to be supposed that the Pope will keep them praying
a long time. The Conference of Baden, it must not be
forgotten, did not resolve any measure against the proper-
ties arid culte of the Catholic Church : it simply pro-
nounced a principle—a principle acknowledged in Austria,
Germany, and France, long before the first French Revo-
lution—namely, that the Catholic priest owes obedience to
the political laws and authorities of his country ; and that
he is a citizen of the State which he inhabits.
Upon the simple declaration, then, O. f
such a principle,
the priests incite the peasants to an open revolt : and the
Government, when it puts down the revolt, is threatened
with a military occupation of their soil by the ambassador
of France. This question waso of
r odti.ion, Ebt.ogether with the
comedyopisi Baron n
of
c ororeklegnn,erass.
and Conseil,"
which
if the
n 1•) trumped-up
di(4 the expulsion
Alliance is bI
papers say. But it is certain that, if thlc Fdorenncoht
know
the Quadruple Al-
liance was a demonstration intended against the Northern
Powers, it has never received its executive in Switzer-
land, where the Duke of Montebello kept aloof from the
English, and was always acting in concert with the Am-
bassadors of those Courts against whom the Quadruple
principally
Alliance was p •
•pal ly
directed. Nobody has, there-
fore, been astonished by the fact, that Monsieur do Met-
terni
i.,11 has recalled his favourite, M. Gozzi, the • Secre-
tary of M. de Bombelles, for having said that the Duke
of Montebello did not behave like a diplomatist, but
like an impudent booby. If the English Government
wishes to save the independence of Switzerland they have
no time to lose, for things are come to the last degree of
confusion,. It is perhaps not an unimportant fact that the
all-pce,verful Minister of tire Grand Dukedom of Baden,
n. Winter, is making a tour in Switzerland. He has
many friends in Switzerland ; and though I will not lay
any stress upon the fact that the town of Basil, when Basil-
country separated from her, offered itself to the Grand
Duke of Baden, the least that can happen is, that Switzer-
land will be frightened into an accession to the Prussia*
comwercial union, which is here generally looked upon as k,
euphemism for the establishment of the political supreme cy
of the Emperor of Russia, whose father-in-law the Kitty, of
Prussia has the honour to be : and fathers, you know, have
sometimes too much affection for their childrela.—Corres-
pundent of a Morning Paper.

It is related of a late celebrated
sportsman that
when forbidden the use of any spiriturJus liquors during his
,
illness, he drank the Eau de Cologn'1: that he professed to re-
quire as a perfume, till the quant;:q consumed raised. the sus-
picion of his attendants; and in the openness of lits heart he
confessed that he had swallowed it.
On Thursday last,
two young men from Rochdale,
Lancashire, after taking an excursion round the Floating Light,
returned to their lodgings, and ate a leg of mutton weighing
Silbs., together with 31bs. of potatoes and filb of bread, all
of which they washed down with three quarts of ale.