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I:VENING ED ITI ON.

THE LATE ATTEMPT AT BOU-

The following letter has been addressed to the editor
of the. Boulogne Gazette, by M. Bosson, agent of the
Cor4mercial Steam-packet Company at Boulogne :

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE BOU LOGNE GAZETTE.
" Boulogne-sur-Ater, Monday, 8 p.m.
"Sin,--Having just perused in your Gazette of this
day the account of the hiring of the City of Edinburgh.
belonging to the Commercial Steam-Packet Company,
and the incidents that followed your statements being
ill general correct, but, as there are some passages cal-
culated to convey an erroneous impression of the con-
duct of the captain, excuse my forwarding for your in-
formation the real statement of every occurrence from
the time the boat was hired till she entered the port of
Boulogne.

" M. E. Rapello, a member, it is believed, of the
Stock Exchange, and whose office is in Angel-court,
Thrognfort on-street, hired the City of Edinburgh on the
6th of July. The following is his agreement with the
Company :
Mr. Rapello agrees to hire the City of Edinburgh
for one month, to go on a party of pleasure wheresoever
be and his friends should desire. He will give two days'
notice previously to requiring her services. In consi-
deration of the above, he agrees to pay 1001. a week
from the 6th day of July to the 6th day of August.
But in case his friends should change their minds, and
that the party of pleasure should be deferred, then he
agrees to pay 1001. forfeit for not executing this agree-
bent. The crew and the company on board are to be
Provided for according to the orders of Mr. Rapello,tl,:,s
expense to be afterwards repaid by him to the Co7„pany.'
" In pursuance of the above agreement ivlr. Rapello
lave notice for the vessel to be rea'l4 an Tuesday last.
Lady on the morning of that 'Lay nine horses and two
carriages were put on board: several gentlemen of the
most respectable areeararice went on board a little be-
fore nine, and at nine she started from London. By
Order of one of the gentlemen numerous passengers
were taken on board at various places as they de-
rieFnd,:d the river. At Gravesend a French pilot
Jalaed them, and the captain was informed that he
must obey his orders : he did so, and the vessel was
eltr,:rwards steered by his directiOns.
" On leaving London the directors and Captain un-
derstood that the party were bound to Hamburgh. At
Gravesend the captain was informed that the gentle
%nen had changed their minds and had resolved to visit
the coast of France.
" On Tuesday evening they arrived at Margate ;
they started again at 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning.
fate on Wednesday evening they arrived off Vimereux,
11,41 d the captain received instructions to enter there.
414 he refused, pleading his ignorance of the place,
and stating also his opinion that there was not a
tafficient depth of water for his vessel, but he offered
!•0 enter Boulogne. This was declined, but he was
Informed that they would land the next morning
at Vitnereux. On this the Captain turned in, giving
directions to the ~ate to call him when the gentlemen
desired to go on shore. At three o'clock he was called,
end his astonishment may be imagined when he saw the
whole party on deck in uniform and armed. They de-
!tired the boat to be lowered, and were taken on shore
for
several trips. On their leaving, the Captain asked
lot instructions. The reply was, When you see a
white flag on the pier head of Boulogne, enter the har-
bour and land the baggage, horses, and carriages.'
" About a quarter-past four, seeing the City of Bolt-
`utgne starting for England, he signalled her to approach,
and desired Captain Tune to inform the Compacy
Where he was. The steward at the same time
threat a letter on board of the City of Boulogne, ad-
dressed to the Secretary, requesting him to inform his
(the steward's) wife that he was off Boulogne. When
theY separated he approached the harbour of Boulogne,
and let go his anchor. Some time after this, a regular
pilot, M. Huret, put off to them, and demanded if
tetY wished to enter the harbour. Captain Crowe re-
plied that his orders were to remain where he was till
Ile saw a white flag hoisted at the pier-head. The pilot
en landing came to me, as the agent of the Company,
and detailed the conversation that had passed between
himself and the captain. Unfortunately I was then
tipsily engaged in the performance of my duty in the
corps of the National Guard, to which I belong, or I
should instantly.have gone off and desired him to enter
the harbour.

" After some time the captain saw the white flag fly-
ing at the end of the pier ; he immediately gave orders
to get the steam up and raise the anchor, imagining the
gentlemen intended to remain. Fearing, however,
that there was not sufficient water to enter the har-
bour, he sent his boat to the pier-head to examine and
Teske inquiry. While his crew were executing these
orders, the harbour-master went on board, and was re-
ceived without opposition or suspicion.
" It is said the captain refused at first to enter the
harbour, and would not obey Captain Pullet. Now,
when Captain Pollet went on board, he ordered one of
his own men to the helm : this Captain Crowe objected
11; and, as Captain Pollet does not understand Eng-
-1314 and Captain Crowe French, and as the latter was
Atl aware that he had done anything wrong, and saw no
eon why Capt. Pollet should command his vessel, or
Man take its helm, it may be easily supposed that in
the excited state Capt. Pollet was he would misconstrue
the reasons of Capt. Croak's opposition. At last, how-
ever, Capt. Crowe gave way, he obeyed the orders given,
and was entering the harbour, when a discharge of
Ulasketry at the vessel took place, and several bullets
Whizzed by Captain Crowe's head. He immediately
gave orders to back the vessel ; but on the firing,
roasing he resumed his course and entered the har-
u,r• On the Custom-house officers taking possession
°f "is vessel, he learned, for the first time, the unlawful
use to which it had been applied ; till then he had been
It a loss to understand what was going on.
la conclusion, Sir, I am ready to depose, in the
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'"ust solemn manner, that neither the crew nor the
captain had the least suspicion that Prince Louis Na-
r)1"11, nor any other person animated with hostile or
_iminal intentions against this country, was on board
their vessel.

" I am, &c.,
" A. D. BOSSON,
Agent of the Commercial Steam Packet Company.'

We find the following in the Paris correspondence
of the Journal du Havre :
" When the King came to Paris on Sunday his
Majestye7 travelled with post-horses, but, on arriving at
`3t. Denis, bad to stop for some time, the postmaster,
Who had received no notice, being without horses ;
iortunately, two postilions with return horses happened
to come in at the moment, and brought the King to
the Tuileries. Such Members of the Cabinet as were
remaining in Paris, having been made aware by an
express sent from Eu on Saturday of the King's in-
tention, went to the Palace to be present at the Coun-
t'. The object of the sitting was to decide whether
M. Louis Bonaparte and his accomplices should or
should not be sent before the Court of Assizes.
The papers seized on board the Edinburgh Castle
have afforded curious information. Last year a rumour
Wes current of a project of M. Louis Bonaparte to
veize the King and Royal Family, during their annual
visit to Eu. _The plan was traced out by M. Crouy
Chanel, who went to London to communicate it
4? M. Louis Bonaparte. It excited the imagination of
leis young man, who immediately offered M. Crouy
Chanel the means of carrying it into execution. This
Person required 250,0001., which were given to him.
M.
Crouy Chanel, as soon as he received the money,
Came to Paris, and then the Prefect of Police became
acquainted with what was going on. Marshal Gerard
;ens desired to write to M. Louis Bonaparte, to inform
aim that all was discovered, and recommend him not to
attempt to execute his project, as it would end only in
defeat and ridicule. The Government have now proof
that M. Crouy Chanel had paid away 100,0001. of the
250,000 f. which he received from M. Louis Bonaparte.
It is further said that these discoveries have involved
Persons holding high stations in the political world. The
Government is likewise said to be in possess'.on of evi-
dence that a grand dignitary received of M. Louis
Bonaparte a sum of 30,0001., after an evening passed
In his box at the Opera at London."
All the sailors of the steamer which brought Prince
Louis to the coast of France are under strict confine-
bent at Boulogne, as a correspondent informs us. They
are 19 in number.—Galignani of Welnesday.
(From the Charivari.)
We could not strike even a prostrate foe with our
usual weapons—those of ridicule. A similar want of
generosity has been very justly stigmatised by La Fon-
taine in his elaborate fable. And yet, during the recent
events at Boulogne, the ass found an imitator, viz.—
the Government. The gallant and intrepid myrmidons
of the Court are now showing their heroism by be-
!Pattering the defenceless Prince with their billinsgate
to the Ministerial journals. They laugh at the aisle
of the Prince's proclamation—they, the hungers-on of
a Court, while scarce one of the sycophants can speak
two words of his own language consecutively. One of
these heroes, in the midst of his blushing loyal invec-
tives against the Prince, accuses him of cowardice.
Oh, mon Dieu! If the Court grow fastidious about
Courage, whatlan Augrean cleansing of the Tuileries we
shall have !
Moreover, it suited these Government journals, after
the Strasburg business, to make Louis Napoleon a
gigantic Prince, in order to raise him above the level
of the law, and now, forsooth, the unprincipled worthies
un-Prince him, and dub him plain Monsieur Louis
Bonaparte.
Within a few days we shall have the journal des
Debats talking about the nephew of the Corsican fiend.
Should the editor be in want of some insulting epithets
against Napoleon, we refer him to the file of his own
Paper in 1814 and 1815. He will there find an assort-
ment of slang at all prices.
What renders all these cowardly attacks so doubly
disgusting is that they are blazed forth by a parcel of
Parasites, who during the last forty years have turned
their coats at least forty different times, and who at this
'very moment, had the Prince Louis succeeded, would
have been the first to lick off the dust from the soles of
ttl% boots is which he had marched to Paris.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.,

FROM THE enPr.ll4 or Tilts t)AY.
:Torn the Meriting Chronic e. )
omission of Lord Lyndhurst's u,,ual surnthing up
at the conclusion of the Session is an event of no little
siguiticance. It nmotlnts to a confession-, on the part
of the Tories, that the Parliamentary proceeliints of
the period which has just elapsed t, annot, by the utmost
stretch of special pleading ingenuity, be converted into
a plausible topic for the accustomed magniloquent boast-
ings and fierce tirades of the swarm of second-rate oral
tors, who strut and fume their little hour at Conserva.
tire festivals during the recess. nor once, we agrep
with Lord Lyndhurst—Tor once, we admire his tact and
taste. There are defeats so notorious) that the less that
is said about them the better ; disgraces so apparent,
that any attempt to varnish them over by sophistry, or
brave them out by blustering, only serves to enhance
their sting. But although a prudent silence respecting the
events of the Session may be the best, and indeed the
only, policy of the Tory leaders, the nation will not so
readily forget their). The prudent, reflecting, sober,
and conscientious part of the nation will not so readily
forget the scandalous spectacle winch has been exhibited
of a numerous, wealthy, and influential party, throwing
aside all disguise of moderation, principle, or patriotism,
and making the attainment of place the open and avowed
object of their efforts and policy. The debate and di-
vision on Sir James Graham's motion respecting the
China questicn, are, above all, calculated to make a
deep impression on the public mind. Nobody now
doubts, nobody affects ever to deny, that the real object
of that motion was to take advantage of an opportunity

which appeared to offer itself, ofdisplacing the Ministry,
by the assis'ance of a few stray votes seduced from t►.e
L.be al ranks by the affectation of a false humanity, de-
nouncing the wrongs of injured China and the horrors

of an opium war.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
By the proceedings of the " Loyal National Repeal
Association," the last of the many names under which
Mr. O'Connell has organised the agitation of his coun-
try, it will be perceived that a greater amount of acti-
vity and enthusiasm now pervades the Liberal party in
Ireland than has existed at any time since the effort
so powerfully instrumental to the success of the Re:-
form Bill. Though by no means approving the
mode of its direction, we rejoice sincerely in this
manifestation ; for, whether its purpose be the
most desirable and practicable or not, it wid he cer-
tain to effect some good, though equally certain to
fail in the object at which it more immediately aims.
We congratulate Ireland on its present activity, as
agitation, even for a purpose of questionable expediency,
can never be so dangerous to the liberties of a people as
the apathy of repose ; our only regret arises from
seeing the energies of Ireland directed to an object in
which the sympathies of Great Britain cannot be en-
listed, and which, in the present state of Legislative re-
presentation, it is impossible to effect without a convul-
sion ruinous to both countries. In commenting upon
some recent observations which we made on this sub-
ject, the Pilot, for whose zeal and ability we have the
highest respect, endeavoured to explain away the error
of judgment which we attributed to Mr. O'Connell, in
the mode in which he conducted the experiments which
he made as precursive to the present agitation for a
repeal of the Union. Ingenious and eloquent as are our
Contemporary.s arguments, they altogether tail to make
us converts to his opinions.
(From the Morning Herald.)
O'Connell is busied in preparing for the Rent-day.
" Repeal of the Union" is now his cry. He has post-
poned hoisting the repeal flag, until, in fact, his troops
have refused to march under any other ; and by " re-
peal " these worthies have been good enough to explain
that they mean " entire separation from England." It
is painful to be compelled to notice the movements of a
person, in himself so utterly contemptible as Daniel
O'Connell. But the false policy which has, for years,
been pursued in regard to the Protestants of Ireland,
renders it indispensable that the machinations of the
Popish enemies of England should be carefully watched
and boldly counteracted by journalists and statesmen in
this country. The true antidote to Popish agitation in
Ireland, would be agitation on the part of the Protestant
friends of the English connection ; but our " Liberal"
rulers have taken especial care that the trade of agita-
tion shall be confined as far as possible to one side.
Protestant processions of all sorts are discouraged.
Processions of repeaters, under the guise, amongst other
things, of tee-totatism, are sanctioned by the Lord Lieu-
tenant. The Protestant yeomanry are disarmed from
the south to the north of Ireland. The repeaters,
again, are quietly arming in every direction, as the
spread of the crime of stealing arms from dwelling-
houses too painfully proves. The slightest imprudence
on the part of Protestant Magistrates, arising from ex-
cessive zeal for the maintenance of the English connec-
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tion, is promptly punished by the Lord Lieutenant as a
crime. O'Connell bind his sateliiies again arc perpe-
tually recommending the formation of some conspiracy
or other against the law ;—yet the Lord Lieuienant,
and the Ministers of the Crown, bestow upon O'Con-
nell their sweetest smiles. Nay, let the Papists of an
entire district amuse themselves during a whole winter
with the assassination of their Protestant neighbours—
and the Lord Lieutenant shall be found to moralise on

." Property has its

the subject in words like these—'
duties, as well as its rights."
(From the Times.)
Her Majesty has been advised by her Ministers to
make to both Houses of Parliament the following de-
claration :—" I have gladly given my assent to the Act
for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ire-
land.' With reference to the self.same measure, we
quote the following words from a speech delivered
on Saturday last at a meeting of rate-payers at the
Corn Exchange in Dublin, by the master of her
Majesty's Ministers :—" I beg to be distinctly un-
derstood as not expressing any approval of that
Bill, but, on the contrary, consi,lering it is an in-
sulting and degrad.ng measure, carried in a man-
ner that is disgraceful to the party that called
for it, and insulting to the nation to which it is offered
—a vile and swindling deceit—a deception—a con-
tumely cast upon this country, affording another proof,
if any were wanting, of the absolute necessity of having
a Parliament of our own." In one of the Ministerial
organs of daily intelligence we also find the following :
" The Lords have mutilated the measure. They have
denied to the people of Ireland the English franchise,
and have established a permanent franchise of 101.
rated value. They have taken from the councils
all interference in the nomination of Sheriffs."
How are we to reconcile this difference of senti-
ment between the Ministers and their Irish rough-
rider and English journalist ? It will be our business
to-day to endeavour to do this, while we redeem
our pledge of adverting in detail to the principal
amendments made by the Lords in the Irish
Corporation Bill. The expression of satisfaction at
the passing of this measure which on Tuesday fell
from her Majesty's lips was, we doubt not, the pro-
duction of Lord Melbourne's pen, and conveyed
the genuine sentiments of the Premier. Lord Mel-
bourne is right glad tbat the firm determination
of the House of Peers not to retrace its steps, has
insured the carrying of two propositions, origi-
ginally his own, but which he had been weak enough
to yield to the agitators within and without the Cabinet.
These two propositions arc—the establishment of a
bona fide 101. constituency in the principal cities and
towns in Ireland in which Municipal Corporations are
hereafter to exist ; and the vesting in the Crown, un-
fettered by the interference of the Town Councils, the
appointment of Sheriffs. The Lords have established
generally, as had been previously done in the Scotch
Corporate towns, a 10/. constituency, and, with the laud-
able view of preventing that amount of perjury which has
been abundantly proved to be committed in matter,
connected with the Parliamentary franchise, they have
thought it right to make the rated value of premises as-
sessed for the relief of the poor the test of vane
or the Municipal franchise. In making this provision
the Lords have desired only to accomplish what L'rd
Melbourne proposed in 1835, viz., to ascertain whether
the premises ;n respect of which any claim to vote may
be made are (in the words of Lord Melbourne's Bill)
truly and really of the full yearly value of ten
pounds or upwards." It is, then, because the Lords
have carried out Lord Melbourne s original propositions
that the people of Ireland are told by the Ministerial
press that " the Lords have mutilated the measure."