The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-14 00:00:00

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

The followinz correspondence relative to the recal of Sir
J. E. Eardley Wilmot from the Governorship of Van Die-
men's Land has just been brought before the public. The
circumstances alluded to in the letters were detailed in our
columns some short time since :

" To Sir J. E. Eardley Wilmot, Bart., &c.
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land,
having heard that your recal has been influenced by reports
injurious to your moral character, deem it to be a duty we
owe to truth and justice to express our unqualified contradic-
tion of thaw reports ; and we feel the snore imperatively
called upon to do so, from the fact of many of us having
differed in opinion upon various measures of your govern-
ment. Opon the occasion of your retirement into private
life, we have to assure you that you carry with you our best
wishes for your future welfare.
[Signed by the inhabitants of the city of Hobart Town
and its neighbourhood only. Addresses Irons other parts of
the colony were being prepared, and will follow. The sig-
natures comprise the names of very many clergymen, public
officers, magistrates, and resident gentry of Hobart Town,
about 400 in nurnberl.

-walk, ril 1847-
"My Lord,—l trust King that theßenc circ humstanceAp 24
of m'y father
the late Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, being'
absent from England, and consequently unable to meet the
reports injurious to his character which hive been widely
circulated both in this country and in the colony, will form
my apology for addressing these few lines to your Lordship
on the subject.
" Your Lordship will have received at the Colonial-office
the dispatches front Van Diemen's Land, of the 9th Jan.,
which arrived yesterday, and which were accompanied by
an ' address' to my father, signed by the most influential
inhabitants of Hobart Town, and containing a full con-
tradiction of those rumours to which your predecessor at
the Colonial-office had attached considerable weight, with-
out giving my father the opportunity of any answer or expla-
nation.

"I am aso informed by a private letter from 'Van Diemen's
Lan:l, that the same vessel which brought the dispatches
brought also a petition to the Queen in my father's favour,
most numerously and respectably signed. .

a Your Lordship, in your letter to my father of the 20th of
March twit, which was in reply to one from him of the 30th
of October preceding, appealing to your Lordship, as holding
the seals of the Colonial-office, for justice, stated, that being
entirely ignorant of the grounds on which Mr. Gladstone
proceeded in writing his ' secret dispatch,' you must decline
expressing any opinion upon the subject to which it related ;
and your Lordship proceeded to ssy, that you could not
hold out to my father any expectation of its being in your
power to submit his name to her Majesty for future em-
ployment.

'; Doubtless, my Lord, neither the 'secret dispatch' of Mr.
Gladstone, nor the circumstances connected with it, however
injuriously they may have have affected my father's character,
can be considered in nny way as fettering your discretion
in recommending for any colonial appointment those who
may appear to your Lordship most qualified. But your
Lordship must excuse me if I ask to what quarter my father
can appeal for justice if the possessor of the seals of the Co-
lonial-office declines entering into a question which has be-
come publicly notorious and important, because it first
emanated from a Minister whose political principles are at
variance with his own ?