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THE COURT AND TIMES OF QUEEN ANNE.
In a few days, Second Edition, in 2 vols. Bvo. with Portraits.
THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH'S
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
ILLUSTRATIVE of the COURT and TIMES of QUEEN
ANNE.
(NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS;)
WITH HER SKETCHES and OPINIONS of HER
CONTEMPORARIES.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE NEW NAVAL NOVEL.
Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo.
OUTWARD BOUND;
Or, THE YOUNG ADVENTURER;
By the Author of
"RATTLIN THE REEFER," "THE OLD
COMMODORE," &c.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

TO COLONEL THOMPSON, FROM MR. EWART
SIR,

WITH feelings in which indignation prevails over
anger, and sorrow over indignation, I have read the fol-
owing passage in a letter which bears your signature in the Chro-
ri
itle of this morning :
" It was notorious, since the Raphael inquiry, that Irish Bo-
roughs were disposed of for a contribution to the Irish military
chest. The ex-Member for Liverpool had no peculiar claims
which should exempt him tom the common lot. His appointment
to Kilkenny was Gazetted, but cancelled on the failure which took
place in Middlesex. A natural inference from all that subsequently
occurred was, that he had arranged for the succession to Kilkenny with
reservation to the Candidates for Dubin and Middlesex, in the event of the
failure of either : balanced by an engagement that, in such case, he should
seated in thefirst Borough in the gift of the last-named high contract-
ing party."
Sir, on such an occasion the simplest answer is the best. The
whole of these suppositions (unsupported as you give them to the
world by proof direct or collateral)—whence soever you derived
them—are utterly unfounded.
I reject, with the indignant consciousness of truth, the inference
which you strangely call a natural one, but which your countrymen,
I think, will call unjust.
Not only have I never been a contributor in any shape or man-
ner to the fund which you have raised in your own imagination,
but I never was even a subscriber to the Irish National Fund.
The arrangement which you suppose respecting Kilkenny, and
the further arrangement which you superadd, never had existence.
I call on you for your proofs ; and I invite you to summon in
evidence not only Mr. O'Connell and the men of Kilkenny
( who will both hear your charges with indignation), but every
testimony, direct or indirect, which you can produce from any
quarter of the world.
One word more : You add, in your letter, " Repeated allusions
had been made to the subject (of Kilkenny) during the (Maryle-
bone) election ; but no denial or relUtation is known to have been
advanced."
Sir, if your imagination had not been more actively employed
than your powers of observation, you might have recollected that
I publicly stated on the hustings that to the men of Kilkenny only
was I indebted for my nomination there ; and I added that, if any
recommendation (in case of the success of Mr. Ilume in Middle-
sex) proceeded from Mr. O'Connell, I believed it was not in favour
of me, but of another gentleman.
It is most natural, it is most just, that Mr. O'Connell's country-
men should consult his opinion on such a subject. Instead of
being, as they are, one of the most grateful people upon earth,
they would be one of she most ungrateful if they acted otherwise.
But I believe that I was not the person recommended by Mr.
O'Connell.
I shall ever consider it as one of the most honourable events of
my life that I was nominated, without my knowledge, by the inde-
pendent and liberal people of Kilkenny. I never, so far as I know,
had previously corresponded with, spoken to, or seen, aey of the
gentlemen who proposed, seconded, or supported me. They learned
that I had lost Liverpool, and, believing me (I trust) an honert
man, they proposed me at Kilkenny.
I can readily believe that they will be indignant when they see
the inferences which you have drawn from their conduct ; and I
ley before the public, with more of pain than of anger, these your
charges, and this, my answer to them.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Eaton-place, March 5, 1838. WM. EWART.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We have not room for the second Letter of Veritas. The mistake
of which he complains was caused by his own unusual method
of writing, " 3d," which male our compositors and reader
suppose it was " Is. and 3d.," as r erx to which we gave
credit from noticing that the different Reports of the Charges
of the Factors, iiiserted in our Journal on Friday and Saturday,
vary between 2s. sd. and 5:3;4d. We are still of opinion that
Air. Factor. Veritas meant to mystify the public and screen the
'actors, to which we will by no means be parties.

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