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both been victims, I alone of all the number am to be
put C.own with the clamour of a pretended liberal
Pre:- and denied all sympathy or redress, though
the British Empire in India is now in the full enjoy-
Tiler t of all the benefits for which I contended, and the
British nation at home is profiting at the rate of two mil-
lions a year in the reduced price of its imports, and another
million a year in the incroased extent of its exports, from
the destruction of that giant. Monopoly, by whose tyranny
I was banished and ruined, but whose power I have as-
sisted to bumble and lay low. The treatment 1 have re-
ceived from the Indian Government was cruel and unjust
in the extreme—the treatment I have received from the
Eritish Ministry is as cruel and more faithless and inex-
cusable still. But the treatment I have received from the
so-called liberal portion of the British Press (with some few
and honourable exceptions) is worse than all ; and forms a
• climax of injustice hardly to be paralleled in the history of
the world.
I am the victim of despotic power, for daring to stand up
for the Liberty of the Press ; and yet they who inveigh the
loudest against despotism, and who tell us, ever and anon,
that " the Liberty of the Press is like the air we breathe,
if we have it not we die," are the first to turn their weapons
of contempt and sarcasm, of misrepresentation and abuse,
against an individual, whose only crime is that he has loved
that Liberty (without which they say they cannot live) so
ideally, as to suffer exile and ruin for his defence of
be fepaid only with contumely, ingratitude, and scorn.
As to my " going over to the Tories," there is no danger
of that. You are quite right in believing that they will
not buy me : for this simple reason, that I am not to be
vurehased. If my public principles had been that market-
..
aJlle commodity which so many of the public writers of
Enjland have shown theirs to be, I might have made
100,000/. by selling them in India ; and I might have had
all my iust Claims on the India Company settled long ago
in this cCuntry by selling those principles here. But I
would do neither, and Ido not repent it, since I am richer
in the enjoyment of an approving conscience and a pure
heart, even in my present poverty, than if I had the wealth
of both the Indies for my possession. It is this steady in-
flexibility which makes me unpurchaseable, by Whig or
Tory—and it is this unconquerable spirit of independence
which makes me so hateful to those who they
can twist and bend, and turn and turn again, to worship
the rising Sun, and bow down in homage to the golden
idol of the day—secretly hate, and openly persecute those
whose superior virtue and consistency is a constant and
st,inding reproach to their own mercenary and grovelling

view:s•
I (10 not ask, however, or require the " charity" of
Whigs 01. Tories. I demand only the restitution of my
own, or the giving back of that of which I have been lite-
rally robbed : _and if the plunderers themselves cannot be
made to yield the spoil, and the reformed Parliament
and liberal Admin:stration of England make common cause
with these plunderei N, and uphold them in their guilt : to
whom, but to that Oritish Public—for the advocacy of
whose rights and interes.ts I was sacrificed, and who are
now reaping the benefit Pf my labours to ti:e extent of
several millions a year—to whom, but to them, oi.Tslit my
friends to turn, to afford me that redress which in e:'ery
other quarter has been denied ? And while public Sub-
scriptions are raised for public men on all sides, for men
who have never made any sacrifice, personal or pecuniary,
but rather benefitted by the ample rewards of pay and
emolument which office gave them for their labours :
while penny subscriptions even have been raised for
such men as Lord Grey, Lord Brougham, Lord Dur-
ham, Lord Alti:orp, and Lord John Russell, to present
them with some mark of public gratitude for their ser-
vices :—while Mr. O'Connell receives the tribute of a
nation for his labours a; the Emancipator of Ireland :
—while the children of Si: Walter Scott are pro-
vided for by public subscription :—and while the whole
body of Irish Clergy have appeals roade to the public to
make up for them, by individual subscr;ptions, the income
of which they have been deprived by the refusal of the
Catholics to pay their tithes :—while all this is taking place
around us every day, and it is thought honourable to all
these parties to receive this proof of public estimation by
the subscriptions thus raised on their behalf, I know not
by what law or by what logic it can be shewn, that it is
otherwise than honourable to me to receive that assistance
to which I have a claim, founded on the undeniable facts of
extensive property sacrificed, extensive sufferings endured,
and extensive benefits realized by the public at large.
Should it ever happen that you should be placed in a si-
milar situation to myself—your Paper suppressed, your
person exiled, your property destroyed, and all without trial,
process, or opportunity Gf defence : yourself and family
driven from your home and y,lur connexions, and injury after
injury heaped upon your head--you may, then perhaps for
the first time see and feel the force and beauty of that
Christian maxim, " Whatsoever ye would that men should
do unto you, that do ye unto them also." But under this
professedly Christian government, and aoldst a professedly
Christian people, this noblest maxim of the Jreat founder of
our faith is the very last that they ever thi_nk of putting
into practice. On the contrary, that which they would
neither desire nor endure to be done towards themselves, is
precisely that which they delight to do towards others ; and
instead of " loving their neighbours as themselves,' the
great aim of a very large portion of the public, and the col -
doctors of the public Press among the number, seems to be
to obtain distinction by showing how intensely they can
hate every one who differs in the slightest degree from them-
selves, and to emulate each other in showing by what terms
of contumely L:nd scorn they can denounce them to the
world at large.
The homage that is publicly paid to Liberty, therefore,
by those public men and public writers who cry the loudest
in its favour, is in general merely a " lip-service" which
comes not from the heart, and has no real feeling of love
for Liberty mingled with it. For how can men be sincere
in their attachment to freedom, when they can stand by and
see unmoved, the advocates of that very freedom cut down
by the iron stroke of the oppressor, and not even put forth
a hand to stay the blow, or to rail' up the victim after he
has fallen ? But if those who rank themselves among the
Liberals of England, are justly chargeable with a want of
real attachment to the principles they profess, when they
see those who go forth as poineers in the front of the battle
wounded and mangled before their eyes, without an effort
either to stay or to steep their bleeding wounds : what shall
we say of those, who no sooner see one of their own ranks
so struck down by the powerful arm of Despotisro, than
they raise a si.out of exultation over his fall ; and .assist
to trample his body under foot, and cover his reputati.9n
with obloquy and shame ? These are traitors to the cause
of Liberty ; and among this number you, and all those'
who act as you have done, will henceforth deserve to take
your stand.

J. S. BUCKINGHAM.

THE SPANISH DIVIDENDS.

BOURSE, PARIS. OCT. 27.—A meeting of the holders of
Spanish Stock took place here this day, in conformity with
a notice published in the newspapers.
The meeting had been convoked for eleven o'clock, but
it was twelve before the Committee of the bondholders
made their appearance. In the interval, the difficulties of
the Spanish question were discussed with much warmth in
a number of groups, composed of men of all ranks and
countries, but who all concurred in condemning, with a li-
berty of speech truly surprising, under the regime of the
legislation of September, 1835, the Government and per-
s.,on oF his Majesty King Louis Phillippe. The latter, they
said, had concluded a treaty with England for the protec-
tion of the Queen, and yet, in violation of a solemn pledge,
he supported underhand Don Carlos, whom several of the
ni,,at violent orators complimented with the appellation of a
" chief of banditti!" A man whose broad accent betrayed
his German origin here took up the orator, and contended
that Don Carlos did not deserve that offensive designation ;
that he was the rightful Sovereign of Spain ; that the whole
nation was in his favour, and that if such was not the case,
he would not now be at the head of so formidable an army
—be who had arrived in Spain with only seven men.
" The wonderful success of the Pretender," retorted a
National Guard of the sth Legion, dressed in his uniform,
" ought not to be a matter of surprise." "I am not," he
said, " initiated in the secrets of the police ; but the Go-
vernment which allowed Don Carlos to cross the entire of
France, after having sojourned two days in Paris, had some
secret diabolical scheme in view, and we, poor rentiers, are
now paying the piper."
The discussion was becoming most violent, when the Pre-
sident of the self-constituted committee, placing himself
against a pillar, requested the orators would be silent, and
in an instant he was surrounded by a couple of hundred
persons, to whom he read out, instead of the draught of a
petition to the French Government, a letter to M. Emile de
Girardin, the editor of the Presse (the same who had the
misfortune to kill M. Carrel in a duel), " inviting him to
take up the cause of the French bondholders, which he had
already pleaded with so much talent and energy, in an ar-
ticle published in his journal of the 20th instant, on the
Spanish Bankruptcy.' The letter stated, that the holders
would be glad to see so competent a person placed at the
bead of a syndicate or committee, who would undertake to
prosecute their claim against a Government without either
faith or shame." These expressions excited loud murmurs
among the assembly ; several persons, and amongst others a
Spanish gentleman, vindicated the Queen's Government
from such a charge, and said that the present embarrass-
ments of Spain were solely occasioned by the civil war ;
-that France herself had been placed in similar circumstances,
and had had recourse to a regular bankruptcy, &c., to ex-
tricate herself from her difficulties. " Time' added the
Spaniard, " is all we require, provided the treaty of qua-
eiruple alliance be faithfully executed by the French Go-
vernment.'
Several other persons spoke in the same sense, but when
soi-disaxt President concluded reading the letter to M.

Girardin, and moved that it should be signed by all the
bondholders present, such a scene of confusion ensued that
it was found impossible for some time to come to an under-
standing. It was, howeN er, at length agreed, that the ex-
pressions offensive to the Spanish Government should be
expunged, which was done, and about twenty persons affixed
their names to the paper, while all the rest of the assembly
formed into knots, remained discussing the best means of
obtaining redress. Some inquired who M. de Girardin
was, and what weight he possessed in the State ? Others
suggested the plan of " a Committee, to draw up a peti-
tion to the Government, and submit it to the holders for
their approbation, before being presented, and to call on
some influential Member of the Chamber of Deputies tod
defend their rights in the Legislature." " Ten thousan
French troops marched against Don Carlos would be pre-
ferable," said another. " to your petition, and the King
must be urged to send into Spain forthwith whatever force
he may consider necessary to put an end to the civil war.
I will go to him myself with the petition." " Bah," said
one of the by-standers. " the King will not attend
lot
eneyour
demand !" "He must," replied the farmer ; " hed
to us in 1880 !" "Ah ! be
_wanted you thou!"
The discussion then turned in this grp oa the part
which Louis Philippe had had personally in preventbaz an
efficacious armed intervention, and it was unanimously ad-
mitted that his Majesty had been mainly instrumental in
bringing about the existing state of things in the Penins
why
(IN he dismiss M. 'Fhiers from his counetis--emerely because
that Minister advocated intervention ?"
The flak milieu, if one was to judge from the sent:.-
ments delivered on this ch;casion, is not very popular with
the French holders of Spanish :cock. The most rational
of the persons present proposed to the mooting, however.
141, l~lendi-
to enter a protest against the mode adopted by
zabal to pay the last dividend—not to part with their
coupons, or accept of the bonds on the revenues of Cuba,
imagined by him, and to address at the same time a peti-
tion to King Louis Philippe, in which the bondholders
should state, that " they had been induced to vest their
money in Spanish stock, because of the security offered
them by the treaty of quadruple alliance ; and to entreat
his Majesty to interfere on their behalf with the Spanish
Government (to which they were ready to allow time to
meet its engagements), and to afford Queen Isabel 11. every
aid and assistance in his power to put down Don Carlos:"
At one o'clock five of the bondholders offered to wait on
M. Arnoul, a lawyer, and request of him to draw up a pe-
tion to the above effect, and the meeting then adjourned to
11 o'clock on Friday next.

D BURY-LANE THEATRE.

We witnessed Mr. Forrest last night as Othello for
the third time with increased satisfaction—nay, that
is too tame—with " thrice admired delight." As we have
already expressed our opinion, it is unnecessary to enlarge ;
but there is so much eloquent truth and fine appreciation
in the following account from the ,Morning Post, that we
gladly transfer it to our columns.
" Last night Mr. Edwin Forrest appeared for the third
time in the character of Othello. Having seen him now, for
the s-,econd time, in this, one of the most arduous of the great
charactCrs of Shakspeare, we do not hesitate to say that, if
he were ne;er again to appear before a British audience, he
must stand in the memory of all who have witnessed his per-
formance as a powerful and original actor—a man whose
mind, whose reach of conception, has raised him above the
traditional starts, and whinings, and kneelings that have
been transmitted from generation to generation, and ren-
dered every Othello little better than a more or less efficient
imitator of his predecessor. Mr. Forrest has more of
originality, and less of the cold, conventional pedantries, of
a professional man than any individual who, within our
memory, has made a first appearance in Othello on the
London boards. His whole manner, from first to last, proves
that he is not the slave of tuition—that he has thought for
himself—and, accordingly, in this character, there is a vigo-
rous originality about him which it is necessary to see more
than once to appreciate as it deserves. It is a trial of con-
siderable risk to the reputation of a stranger to come into
collision with the memory of such men as Kean, and Young,
and Kemble. People are apt to think that the manner in
which such men have habitually played any character is the
only way in which it can be well played, and punish even
slight deviations from their manner as if they were devia-
tions from nature. It should be recollected that the modes
in which individuals give external manifestation of passions,
whether in voice, in action, or in look, are as various as
their features. It is true that Forrest is not Kean, and
though his Othello is not Kean's Othello, it is nevertheless
powerful, impassioned, occasionally even appalling ; and
never was the passion of jealousy more fearfully, more
vividly, and, in intervals of fond and half-despairing doubt,
more tenderly displayed, than by this gentleman last night.
In the two first acts, where little more demand is made
upon him than to sustain with dignity and lofty bearing
the character of the captain who had been glorious in
many fields, it was done with a haughty simplicity, which
had no appearance of presumption, and implied only
the habits of command. The mere soldiership of the cha-
racter was never more naturally or more commandingly
sustained. We have heard the speech to the Senate deli-
yered with more precision of tone and weight of emphasis,
ant projection of the sword arm, but never with more of the
simplicity, of the deep consciousness of upright purpose,
which one would naturally s.xpect from a plain and honest sol-
dier,"the big wars that make am-
nursed from childhood iri
bition virtue." Almost the whoie- of the third act is a trial
through which it is impossible a man could carry himself
successfully without talents of the first order, and Mr.
Forrest never for one moment showed himself unequal to
it. It is here that greatest of all ruffianly characters , lago,
accumulates suspicion upon suspicion, until incredulity and
doubt are converted into certainty, and the soul of the
noble Moor becomes a chaos. His seizure of lago where he
insists upon proof positive of Desdemona's guilt, was tremen-
dous. It was an almost fearful exertion of human energy,
and when be fell, exhausted by the effort, the house from all
parts rung with applause. He who will not see Mr. Forrest
throughout the whole of this act can never know all there can
be made of Othello by a man possessing sufficient strength of
nerve and vigour of body to sustain the vigour of his concep-
tions. Mr. Forrest does not rant or foam, as we have seen
others do, at every new suspicion which lago summons up, to
overwhelm his mind. He waits, he listens with an appear-
ance of composure, but the eye is all the time kindling,
the nerves are taking the preternatural tension of madness ;
the breast heaves, until at length he bursts into the excla-
n:ation " By Heaven, I'll know thy thought." The great
trial speech, " I had been happy if the general camp," &c.
&c., si,sviated in parts—indeed almost throughout—and de-
viated judiciously. from the traditionary mode of delivering.
it. It was salemn, affecting, and tender ; no rant, no loud-
ness, but rather, as it should be, in the manner of lamen-
tation. He made one point with peculiar happiness, show-
ing that, even under the maddening influence of jealousy,
he still retained a delicacy and dignity which made him
shrink from the degradation of setting Emelia as a spy
over the conduct of his wife. He hints the base com-
mission, but suddenly withdraws it. It would be injus-
tice to exemplify, by particular passages, a piece of acting
so ably done throughout, and in parts done, we must say in
justice, beyond the reach of rivalry, There is
some slight peculiarity aid harshness of pronunciation,
which gives a little the impression of provincialism. It is
but trilling, and will soon be smoothed off. Indeed, per-
haps, it is so trifling as scarcely to neeCi the trouble of cor-
rection. Mr. Forrest must be seen more ;Ilan once in the
same character, or much of his merit will remains unob-
served. We confess that we could see him often in
Othello without satiety, and if he should play the other
leading characters of the drama as successfully as he has
played this, he may rest assured that he must ultimately
hold a place in public favour inferior to that of no living
artist, and convince his doubting countrymen that there is
no unwillingness here to do ample justice to American
talent. He was called for by the audience at the close of
the piece."
MACREADY'S OPINION OF MR. FORREST.—" Sir, he is
the only man we have seen since John Kemble."
[This is highly creditable to Mr. Macready. True ge-
nius always soars beyond the reach of envy. Admire and
emulate, but if possible surpass is the stirring impulse—
the noble attribute of geniusp.—En. Sand

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WHEAT AND FLOUR IN FRANCE COMPARED
WITH LONDON.
WHEAT.—The highest price of the best WlteatBsin
3d.
daris is
25f. per 13- hectolitre, which corresponds with
best 3 *Essex and
English quarter. The highest price of the
Kent old Wheats being 625. per quarter, showst6lloatpeTclecantti
235. and 9d. dearer in London than in Paris, or
and the same money which in London will purchase but eight
FLOUR.—The lai.s--STI
francs
of Wheat, is, ill Paris, the price of nearly 13 bushels
of the best Wheat.
hreanpersi epee
ro f
159 the
kilogrammes, il
l.o)egsrta
(1111o:et' s ,
which is equal to
of the "first marl:"
325. lid. per English sack of '330 pounds ; showing fine flour
to be dearer in London than in Paris by 15s. lOid. per sack,
i n
the London quotation being 48s. for the best town-made flour ;
and that the price of a sack of 280 pounds of flour in London,
would in Paris procure 450 pounds of the finest flour.

M. de Pcyronnet has lift the dungeon of Ham. He
was at Versailles on Saturday, and intended stopping a few
days at Ruffle before repairing to his estate near Bordeaux.
Nothing further is known concerning M. de Polignac. His
relations and friends have been much touched with the
handsome manner in which the British Press of all parties
has expressed itself upon his conduct. It is seldom, indeed,
that the adversity which befals a man who has acted with
sincerity, though erroneously, and who submits so that ad-
versity rather than retract, does not meet with approbation
in this land of generosity—thrice-blessed old England