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his representative who .vauld not vote fora repeal of the
Corn-laws.—( Cheers.) lie entreated the nor-electors
to give their aid in this agitation ; for their advantage
principally would it turn out to be. lie sat down amidst
great applause. _

W. ifkvLorl, Esq., seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.
Mr. Joists MITCHELL moved the next resolution. When
he saw Members of Parliament interesting themselves
about drainage and sewerage Bills, and others endeavour-
ing to find a cure for the prevailing destitution and disease,
he was inclined to tell them that, though their efforts
might be all very good, the cruel Corn-laws were the
mighty evil by which that misery and destitution were
brought about, and that they never would be abated until
the poor were fed, and in the receipt of the profits of their
industry. There never would be an educated and intelli-
gent people in this country till these laws were abolished.
He referred to the testimony of Mr. Deacon Hume, Dr.
Bowring, and Mr. NPGregor, in evidence of the state of
our fiscal absurdities. Let every constituency act like Wal-
sall, and soon there would be an end of the Coin-laws.
CONVENER FEENEY seconded the motion, which was
agreed to.
Bailie Musn, in an excellent speech, moved the next
resolution, which wee seconded by Mr. JAMES WrirrE,
and agreed to.
The next resolution was moved by Mr. Gibbs, se-
conded by Mr. Archibald Geddes, and carried unani-
mously; the fifth by Mr.
_Robert Philip, seconded by Mr.
James Hamilton. The sixth was moved by Mr. John
Gillon, seconded by Mr. Ferguson, and agreed to.
There were five or six Chartists present, ono of whom
asked why the meeting had not been called for the even-
ing, that the working classes might attend ?
Mr. MiTcuaLL and Mr. BEnnY both pledged themselves
to attend any such meeting if called by the worst---
classes, provided the subject cliscussoil was the C
and that alone.

Observing some inclination among the Chartist
make further objections, Mr. Berry once more stoo4
and observed, that the conduct of the universal suffr. e
party, in refusing to co-operate with the Core-law W--
pealers, was very discreditable. Let them agitate for the
Charter by all means, but why stand in the way of getting
a bad law altered, under which they themselves were suf-
fering ? Ha entreated them not to be led away by un-
principled leaders. It was proved that Nightingale, the
Manchester Chartist, had been taken to Walsall to oppose
the Repealers in a Tory's carriage, and paid with Tory
geld for his assistance.—( Hear, hear.)
On the motion of Mr. Charles Thorburn, the thanks of
the meeting were given to the Chairman, and to the Di-
rectors of the Trinity House for the use of the room. The
meeting then dispersed.
A petition has since been put in course of signature.

THE SECRET CORRESPONDENCE

OE THE KING OF THE FRENCH.

REPLY OF TAE PROPRIETOR OF THE " CONTEMP3RAINE " TO

THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH PAPERS, RESPECTING THE AUTO-
GRAPHS OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, PART OF WHICH WAS WRITTEN
DURING HIS EMIGRATION, AND THE OTHER PART PROCEED-
ING FROM THE SECRET PORTFOLIO OF PRINCE TALLEYRAND.
The moment has come at last for me to break through
my long-protracted silence. I have, until now, allowed
attacks against my person and character to pass unnoticed,
witheut complaining, without lifting up my voice, without
protesting in the name of truth ; the most offensive impu-
tations, the foulest calumnies have been circulated, and
they have as yet not received from my pen that absolute
and solemn contradiction which I owe to myself, and by
which they can be so easily and triumphantly overthrown.
It is but fair to say that this great degree of forbearance
must be ascribed to an honourable motive, namely, my ap-
prehension of committirg, through my open interference,
two individuals wills whom I was not personally acquainted,
whose spinions and political sympathies are by no means
congenial with my own, but whom I looked upon as victims
of arbitrary power, and deprived of their liberty through
the effects of a Machiavelic system which I execrate, be-
cause lam acquainted with all its baseness. While the
publisher and editor of the legitimist journal La France
were under the bolts and bars of arbitrary power, while a
sort of uncertainty hung over the nature of the proceedings
to be instituted against them, I silenced all personal consi-
deration of pride or self-interest; but now that I have ful-
filled an engagement, voluntarily entered into, now that
the power of speech is at length restored, I shall pull down
to the very foundation the scaffolding of false statements
and misrepresentations which calumny has so artfully raised
before the eyes of the public, so as to mislead its opinion
by completely intercepting the truth. It hill England that
I shall produce my proofs, because England is the land of
genial liberty, in which politics have not reduced justice to
subjection; here a judge does not become a ministerial
tool; the courts are inaccessible to intimidation or to other
unworthy considerations ; the:Bench is independent ; those
who are entrusted with judicial authority are impressed
with the inflexible uncompromising sternness of the duties
which they have to discharge, any of them rendering him-
self subservient to tine heads of the police, or any other de-
partment, is perfectly unheard of. In England the principle
of responsibility is coestantly and practically adhered to ;
a citizen can sateiy place himself in an 'attitude of defence
against persecution; justice can be claimed and appealed
to by all ; strictly impartial, it communicates the impar-
tiality of the laws of the country to the judicial organs
whose office it is to expound and apply them; every men
has a right to appeal to appeal to those laws, and every me m,
knows that they will protect him, if he is really entitled to,.
their protection.
It is sufficiently well known that I have now resided in
London for nearly seven years; that several autograph
letters of the Duke of Orleans, written by him (during the
period he was himself an emigrant) to the Count d'E'litrai-
gees, to whom they are directed, have long been in my
possession : it is further known that I posseaz more recent
ones, among others, forty-two confidential notes, which
have found their way out of the private papers of
Talleyrand ; several of these letters and notes have
been inserted in the Gazette de France, and the
paper called La France, without my direct consent,
indeed without my being at all privy to the circum-
stance. But it must be admitted that nothing can be more
indisputable than the genuine authenticity of these docu-
ments: Their publication has created considerable uproar
in France, yen strange to say, not one individual has been
found either candid or courageous enough to state that
these documents had been published in London partly as
far-similes, under the title of " Correspondence of the Emi-
grant Prince." These 27 pages (of which the Gazette
exhibited the original autographs in Court,) were thus
made known in England in 1835 ; subsequently the notes
and extracts of the secret correspondence of Louis Philippe
with Talleyrand made its appeerance in 1839, in the mei-
Philippist paper entitled the Port(leuille Francais, dedi-
eated to M. Thiess, with this epigraph, " the style is the
man." Very many copies were sold publicly, with all the
usual forms, such as arc customary, I mean, in England.
Not only, as has been above stated, were nine pages
fee-simile of the secret correspondence publicly and
equally distributed to club-houses, libraries, hotsls, and
public establieenients, but I myself have, at various pe-
riods, directed and peesonelly delivered them in London ;
they have also been forwarded by me to Paris, to the lead-
ing individuals whose namee are here subjoined :
To Count Scbastiani, Ambaesador to the British Court.
To Field-Marshal Soult, Ambassador Most Extraordi-
nary to the Court of Sr. James's.
To the Duke de Nemours, at his own residence.
To the Duke de Caze, at the Luxembourg.
To the Baron Paequier, ditto.
To Count Camille Moetalivet.
To Field-Marshal Gerard, Paris.
To Baron Bourquenay, Charge d'Affaires.
And lately else, with a complete set of the " Carica-
ture," together with the 27 pages &c.,
to Monsieur Guizot, then Ambassador in London.
Besides which they were sent to many others, mare
or less important individuals, whose names at the pre-
sent moment escape my recollection; yet they have had
in France the audacity to charge with forgery several
elites of newspapers, who have done nothing more than
reproducing my publicatione, the autograph originals of
which have all been and still partly arc in my possession;
the English papers, ell the London pagers, have received
copies of the whole of my publications, fac-similes, carica-
tures, arid others, ever since 1835. The proof of what is
here stated, were it needed, could be very easily given, by
merely bringing forward the receipts and vouchers for in-
sertions, more or less expensive, in the Chronicle, Morn-
ing Post, Satirist, Standard, Court Journal, &c. &c.
The Times alone refused to insert all, and the True Sun
of 1835 alone inserted gratis as much as two columns.
I courted by all manner of means the judicial investiga-
tion of these documents, and impressions
,from the auto-
graphs, which were, and still ore, in my possession; 1111111-
be:less obstacles were thrown in the way of my publica-
tions, the fear of some, the pusillanimity of others,
operated fit a long while as a bar to my exertions ; had I
calumniated Louis Philippe—had my statements been
false, the English law would have visited me, while it
would have afforded him protection ; but his Ambassador
and Emissaries well knew there were no means of bribing
or intimidating me into silence, and therefore they kept
still, thinking, no doubt, the less they said about it the
better it was for their master.
I have been informed that Mr. Philippe Dupiu, the
worthy champion of the tri-coloured parity of his patron
Philippe of Orleans, had le-echoed the malignant stcpidi-
ties and nonsensical calumnies proceeding from the cor-
respondent of the Morning Post (vide the insertion of the
20th of January, 1841) and the Prussian Stage Gazette;
whence such stuff was derived was a %cry transparent
mystery, truly worthy of the origin from whence it cma•
need, as one of the papers then stated, it was easy to
recognise a pen just fresh from the Police office, and to
the same impure source tray be traced a hat found its way
in Bsrl'n (vide the State Gazette), through the medium cf •
Baron Arnim, a sort of unattached diplomatist, whose
credit is as problematical as his employment.
The Learned B irrister, Philippe Dupin, stated that I
had opened a spa ice of bazaar where f sold autographs ;
that I had had recourse to numberless menceuwes in order
to compel Frslich Ministers and Louis Peilippe himself to
purchase letters which were forged and falsified by rro%
Now Mr. Philippe Dupin has knowingly stated:that which
he ought to haveknown to be untrue , and what stamps
of impudence is, that he has
it with a peculiar degree
seen the original document.
It is further stated that Mr. PhilippeDupin has dressed
and undressed my old literary fame ; he is entitled to my
thai.ks; lie unwittingly supplies me with a parallel in
which are blended royal arid melancholy recollections; the
beautiful and unfortunate Mary of Scotland, as the execu-
tam or, pa yams t said pe•formance of his office, pro-
ecchi.l to remove from her shoulders part of her ve.tment's