The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-22 00:00:00

THE GREAT METROPOLIS," AND

" SKETCHES IN LONDON."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In tendering you my grateful acknowledgments,
which I sincerely do, for the very flattering notice of my new
work, " Sketches in London," which appeared in The Sun of
Saturday evening, may I solicit the favour of being allowed to
correct a slight misconception as to a matter of fact, into
which the Reviewer has fallen. I refer to the sentence in
which he says that I have in several instances borrowed from
myself, giving in the " Sketches in London," matter which
had previously appeared in " The Great Metropolis." This
is an error; tart it was an excee&ngly natural one for the Re-
' viewer to have fallen into. he having seen some Of the earlier
numbers of the " Sketches in London," when they appeared
in the form of a monthly publication, without having seen any
of the nine recent monthly parts of that work. The error of
supposing he had s(•en some portions of the latter work in
The Great Metropolis" would be the more readily fallen
into, owing to the short interval that elapsed between the ap-
pearance of the respective works. I have made one or two
referonces to " The G eat Metropolis," in my " Sketches in
London ;" but I am not conscious of having quoted myself in
a single instance, not even to the extent of a solitary sentence. •
The subject, indeed, in the two works, were altogether dis-
similar, with the single exception of one on " Gambling and
Gamblers," and in the very outset of the chapter on that sub-
i.,ct in the " Sketches in London," I have distinctly stated
that the matter will be altogether different from that which
appeared in the chapter on " Gaming [louses" in " The Great
Metropolis."
Apolagif.ing for thus trespassing on your space at a moment
when I knew that space is unusually valuable,
I am, S•r, your obedient servant,
Tilt AUTHOR OF " SKETCHES IN LONDON,"
Monday Morning.

THE CANADAS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Six—As might have been exteated, the receipt by the Earl
of Durham of the proceedings in the House of Lords on
Lord Brougham's Canadian Indemnity has plunged the
affairs of the colony again into embarrassment, as his Lord-
ship, perceiving the pernicious effect it has already produced
on those over whom he has been called to govern, as espe-
cially manifested in the recent acquittal (by a Canadian Jury)
of the murderers of the loyalist " Chartrand," after the most
conclusive evidence of their guilt, and a charge from the
Chief Justice, stating to the Jury that the law required them
to give a verdict (in conformity with the evidence they had
heard and the oaths they had taken) which should convict the
prisoners—added to the daring and seditious harangue of the
prisoner's Counsel in her Majesty's Court of Justice—has
caused his Lordship either to tender, or actually resign, his
important post. The Times of Thursday, in its editorial
article (alluding to Lord Durham's resignation, and the
difficulties which it conceives it will cause to the Government)
concludes thus—" A pretty muss they have made of it
'I hat a " muss," as the savant editor ob,,erves, has been made
by that fatal instrument, the Bill of Indemnity, is now too
palpable to be disguis! d; but who are the parties who ac-
tually created this "mess?" As,urcdly those who so ardently
suip:xted Lord Brougham's opposition to the salutary mdi-
nahces cf the Earl of Durham, of which every loyal Canadian
approved, and many of their moot eniii.ent legal men consi-
dered to have been as just as they were expedient.
The almost daily virulent attacks on the Earl of Durham
in the Times, from the time of his being nominated to the
government of Canada to the present moment, when, to suit
their own party purposes; they have shifted their ground and
altered their ,tone, may have been, and perhaps continues to
be, very amusing to the editt.x of that extensively circulated
Journal and many of its readers, but let it be remembered
that " what is sport to them, is death to IF," or our cause ;
for when these attacks are read on the other side of the At-
lanlic, the effects most likely to be vroduced are, unsettling
the minds of the loyal, and emboldening and encouraging the
disaffeeted to oppose and set at defiance the measures re-
sorted to by the person appointed by her Majesty :o administer
the government of the colony. Now, that a Governor of a
colony possessing such a variety of contending views and in-
terests as the Canadas should succeed in giving satisfaction to
all parties, cannot be reasonably expected ; but all the Cana-
dian Journals, from Lord Durham's arrival to the latest ac-
counts from Canada, although differing on certain points, yet
manifest a decided confidence in his administration of the
Government, and are apprehensive of the most serious con-
sequences should his Lordship abandon it, which they now
much fear he will do. The latest private accounts state that
the Constitutionalists are about to demonstrate their feelings
by a large public meeting, as they consider the colony to be in
a very critical position.
London, Oct. 20. 1838.

A BRITISH CANADIAN.

DEATH OF SIR ROBERT GRANT.

(From the Bombay Government Gazette Extraordinary.)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1838.—General Department,
Bombay Castle, July 11, 1838. General orders by the
Honourable the Governor in Council.

With unfeigned grief the Government is called on to an-
nounce that it has pleased Almighty God to call to himself
the Right Honourable S;r Robert Grant, G.C.H., the Go-
vernor of this Presidency.
This melancholy event occurred at Dapoorie, near
Poonah, about five o'clock P.M., on the 9th instant.
The report of Mr. Willoughby, the Secretary in attend-
ance, pa)s so just a tribute to the late Governor's public
and private character, that the Government will best do
honour to his memory and meet the mournful interest of
all classes by publishing that report, in the sentiments of
which they tully participate. The virtues of the Right
Hon. Sir Robert Grunt sprang front the high aim he took
in all his duties to do the will of God.

" Dapoorie, July 9, 1838.
To L. R. Reid, Esq., Acting Chief Secretary to Govern.

ment, Bombay.
" Sir—lt is with the deepest concern and regret that it
is my painful duty to report, for the information of the
Honourable Board, that it has pleased Almighty God to
call unto him,Tlf our much esteemed and Excellent Go-
yernlr, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Grant.
" 2. I had sent a letter to the post, forwarding one front
Dr. Brown, confirnii,g, in every respect, the favourable in-
telligence contained in my Report of yesterday respecting
the lamented deceased. About an hour before his death
he was sitting up in excellent spirits, and apparently in
better health than he had been since he was first taken ill ;
when, alas ! as has since been aseertaioed, he was relieved
from his sufferings, in consequence, by a post mortem exa-
mination, of a sudden effusion on the surface of the brain,
producing apoplexy.
"3. This melancholy event occurred about fire, pan.
this day.

"4. I am too much overcome by the painful emotions
excited by this sad disappointment of the hopes which were
entertained of our beloved Governor's recovery, to enlarge
on the great loss which the public has sustained by the de-
mise of this distiiguished and individual. His
removal from a scene where he had already effected so much
good, and in which, had it pleased God to spare him, this
country (to which he had, from the earliest period of his va-
luable devoted so much of his attention, and to the ad-
vancement of whose interests lie hes, during the last three
years, applied himself with an energy and devotion which
none but those in immediate intercourse with him 'can
rightly understand or appreciate) would have greatly bene-
fitted, is deeply to be deplored.
"5. Neither am I to dwell upon the exalted virtues that
adorned the private life of our respected Governor. His
unbounded benevolence, his sincere but unostentatious
piety, his enlarged philanthrophy are too well known to
require the aid of my feeble pen. I feel myself quite in-
competent to do justice to his many public and private
virtues ; but I feel confident that those with whom he
was associated in the government of this presidency, and
who have, therefore, had an opportunity of witnessing the
eminent ability and zeal with which he discharged the
fuections of his high office, and the goodness and purity of
his private life, will deeply lament his death, and sincerely
s)mpathise with the family on the occasion of this severe
dispensation of Providt nee.
"G. I must not omit to mention, that Dr. Brown's at•
tettons throughout our lamented Governor's illness were
unremitting ; and that all that human skill could effect
in order to prolong his valuable life was resorted to
above officer, aided by Mr. Ducat, the civil surgeon at
Poonah. by the

" 7. The remains of the Right Honourable Sir Robert
Grant will be interred to-morrow evening, at St. Mary's
Church, at Poona!), with all the honour and respect due to
his rank and station.
" I have the honour to be, &c.,
(Signed) J. P. WILLOUGHBY,
" Secretary in attendance to the late Right Honour-
able the Governor."
In consequence of this melancholy event, the flog
is to be
hoisted half-staff high, sand so continue until sun-sett and
minute guns to the number of seventeen, the number ap-
pointed for the rank of the deceased, to he fired from Horn-
by's battery on the flag being hoisted. The same ceremony
is to be observed for the Honourable Company's vessels-of-
warin the harbour, the minute-guns being taken up on the
turmination of those on the garrison, and continue under
such arrangements as the superintendent of the Indian navy
may direct.
The flag to be hoisted half-staff high, and seventeen
minute-guns to be fired at every station subordinate to this
Government, on receipt of these orders.
It is further directed that mourning be worn by the A.
cers of her Majesty's, and the Honourable Company's civil,
military, and naval service, at this Presidency, for the period
o' six weeks from this date ; an example
which he con-
sid,.rs and expects will he generally followed by all other
portions of the community.
By order of the Right Hon. the Governor in Council.
(Signed) L. R. REED, Acting Chief Secretary.

Lady Anne Bere4ord, Lord GeorJe Beresford, the
Misses liarrirt and Susan Beresford, intend to remain some
some time longer in Albion-place, Ramsgate. The healtn of
the ladles, we are happy to ewe, is much improved.