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ment to maturity against me at your Court next month,
and write to me the day of trial, I will attend with my
witnesses and clearly prove that I had no participation
in the destruction of the Caroline."
The Circuit Court at Lockport passed over, and
having received no notice, I thought I might fairly
return to settle my business without fear of further mo-
lestation.

I was two days and nights publicly in Buffalo. I
remained one night at the Eagle Tavern at the Falls,
and came, on the 12th of November, to Lewiston—was
just about to cross to Canada when I was arrested
by a constable with a crowd at his heels. I then
found Major-General Handy of the patriot army and
all his staff, and a large muster of patriots, were as-
sembled against me. The investigation continued until
the 18th, when I was committed. There was no lack
of evidence against me, and they could have had as
much more to order as they required. I proved ax
alibi certainly, but that was no use. Seeing the halide
I had got into, I was determined to use every
means to get free. I was brought up again on
the 12th December, before a Judge, by writ of habeas
corpus, and the examinations continued until the 21st
December. I again proved an alibi, but it would not do.
However, the Judge, with the consent of the patriots,
consented to admit me to bail, myself in $3,000 and
two sureties in $5*,000. After great trouble I found
bail, which was perfected; but the patriots had altered
their minds. They surrounded me with fixed bayonets;
placed a • 12-pounder in front of my cell—threat-
ened my bail with death—took the Judge out of his
bed at midnight in a bitter cold night, and marched
him in slow time to their Assembly at the point of the
bayonet ; they had a band of music at the gaol door,
playing the rogue's march, yankee doodle, &c. The
patriot meeting declared their session permanent till my
bail gave me up, which was done by one of them only,
the other refusing to succumb to the threat of this self-
constituted body. This assembly, which at one time
amounted to 2,000 men, broke up . after having spent
eighteen hours in speechifying, firing of cannon, small
arms, &c.
On the 6th of February the Grand Jury found a true
bill, and as one of them told me upon strong prima fa;.:ie
evidence. This Jury appeared decent looking men—
they investigated the case three days, examined about
twenty witnesses, out of some hundreds, that had been
subpoenaed for the people.
It is long since I incurred the dislike of the patriots,
and severely have they punished me—far more than the
public are aware of.
On the 13th Dec. 1837, the Executive Committee and
Provisional Government of the State of Upper Canada
were organized in Buffalo: On that clay a printed handbill
was published, offering ,a reward for my apprehension, and
dispersed along the frontier—notwithstanding I went to
Buffalo on the 24th Dec.-1837; was mobbed that night—
next morning P. A. Barker, Esq., Mayor and Collector,
called on me with a number of magistrates and others. Con-
versing on the war then raging on the frontier, I re-
monstrated on the impropriety of the people of Buf-
falo organizing armed bodies of men, making can-
non balls, fitting out steam-boats, and other acts of
war, against Canada, and pointed out to him that the
Caroline was then loading with arms and munitions
of war for the belligerents on Navy Island ; and
as certain as she did carry to them such articles, an
attempt would be made by the Canadians to destroy
her wherever she might be found. Mr. Barker said
he would not grant a port clearance to any vessel to
leave Buffalo harbour until arms, &c.,.were discharged.
The Caroline had, therefore, to put her arms on shore
again, to be sent to Schlosser by land. There, by the
oath of her owner on my trial, she took on board a can-
non, a number of armed men, muskets, and bayonets,
&c., &c., and conveyed them to the patriots on Navy
Island.

During the time I was in conversation with the
Mayoi and Magistrates of Buffalo, about 10 o'clock
on Christmas morning, 1837, a person of the name of
Bull, a patriot, came into the room with a bag of
feathers in his hand, and requested my presence outside
to get tarred and feathered. I soon after went outside,
and found about 1,000 people collected in front of the
inn, with a tar-barrel ready.
I hinted to the Mayor the necessity I thought
there might be of keeping a few of the arms in Buffalo
instead of sending them all to Navy Island, as they had
entered so fiercely into the war against Canada, they
might naturally expect an unpleasant yisit some night,
from men who were goaded on to madness by
warlike preparations to destroy them and their families,
in defiance of solemn treaties of law and justice, Buffalo
Harbour, with its thirty steam-boats and fifty schooners,
was then, as now, within ten minutes sail of the Canada
shore. The hint was kindly taken at the time, and a
city guard of sonic 100 men organizqd that day to guard
their property from patriots and others.
It was my duty and my interest to prevent an invasion
of Canada I was then Under-Sheriff of the Niagara
District, which fronts for 80 miles on the State of New
York. 1 had $BO,OOO worth of property in my charge
seized on executions for which I and my securities were
liable. • I

There are many other matters which called forth
patriotic virulence against me which I may yet make
public. I am yours, &c.,

ALEXANDER APLEOD.

On the sailing of the Caledonia steamer from Boston
on the Ist inst., the President, Mr. Tyler, was on the
point of delivering an extra message to the two Houses
of Congress, the particulars of which may be expected
by the next arrival. United States Bank Stock was 204-
at New York. It had been at 24 at Philadelphia, but
the price had gone back to 204 21. The Directors and
Committee have commenced suits, criminal and civil,
against Messrs. Biddle, Cowperthwaite, and others on
various grounds. It was expected that the tariff would
be so far altered that 20 per cent. duty would be for the
future levied on linen, tea, coffee, silk manufactures, and
French wines, articles hitherto exempt. Orders to some
extent, founded upon this expectation, had been given.
The exchange on London was more in favour of this
country, viz., 81- per cent. at New York and 12+ to at
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Stock was at 81. The Au-
gust dividend would be duly paid.

(From the New York Journal of Commerce.)
REVOLUTION IN PERU AND BOLIVIA.
By way of Panama, we have advices from Peru to the
18th February. An outline of the news is contained in
the annexed letter from our correspondent :
CALLAO, FEBRUARY, 18, 1841.—Since my last of the
sth ultimo, the anticipated political convulsion in Peru
and Bolivia haS taken place.
Colonel Vivanco has been proclaimed Supreme Chief
in the departments of Cusco, Arequipa, Puno, and Mo-
quegua ; and notwithstanding General San Roman, who
was placed in command of the former by Vivanco, has
declared against him with about 1,000 men, yet he ap-
pears to be rapidly gaining ground, as the whole com-
munity is decidedly against the government of Gramm,
who has degraded the country to such an extent as to
place it in the class of a Chilian colony, sustained by
Chilian influence and subject to Chilian control.
On the 21st ultimo, a general rising took place in Bo-
livia, headed by Generals Lara and Irigoyen, who have
proclaimed Generals Lara and Irigoyen, who have pro-
claimed General Santa Cruz Supreme Protector. This
officer was expected at Guayaquil about the 15th or 20th
ult., where he was to hold himself in readiness to em-
bark for Peru with a small force on the first favourable
opportunity ; and as such opportunity is now offered, we
are momentarily expecting him in Perd. On his ar-
rival, the downfal of the degraded government is inevit-
able. In fact, nothing prevents its immediate overthrow
but the want of some officer of rank and influence under
whom all parties would unite.

THE TRUSTICE.—By the author of the tragedy
of "The Provost of Bruges."—This clever novel promises to
be quite the rage. It meets with universal commendation
from all classes of critics. The following is from the Naval
and Military Gazette:—" The Trustee belongs to the natu-
ral class of writing—its characters being drawn, if not from
the life, at least so exactly to it that they produce all the effect
of individual portraits. It is full to overflowing of that perpe-
tual stream of action and incident without which now-a-days,
neither novel nor drama can hope to maintain any hold on
public favour. And its incidents are so combined and con-
cocted into a consecutive and coherent plot, that the interest
excited by them never flags. Finally, we have one character
in this novel, which, even if the work contained nothing else,
would afford a fund of entertainment, and convey a very high
impression of the author's powers, both in the conception and
the delineation of humorous life. We have had, beside Boz,
nothing equal to Scampering Jack for many a year. In short
this extremely clever and interesting novel cannot fail to be
unusually popular now, and to rank among the standard pro-
ductions of its class hereafter."

I THE EYES.—Optical improvements to enable
persons at an advanced age to read with ease and discriminate ob.
jects with perfect distinctness.—Messrs. S. and B. Soloraoxs, 39,
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76,
King William.strect, City; their long extensive practice has ena.
bled them to invent Spectacle Lenses upon a new construction, of the
greatest transparent refractive power, which have gained universal
approbation. Immediately they are placed before imperfect vision
every object becomes clear and distinct, so that the most aged imper.
feet sight becomes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youth.
ful, natural, and original state. The valuable advantages derived
from this invention is, that these lenses are constructed on a princi-
ple that persons can see with them of a much less magnifying power
than those now in common use; nor will they require the frequent
changes that other spectacles generally do ; they are also adapted to
imperfect vision to the greatest nicety; they arc found to preserve
and strengthen the most weak and defective sight. Their invisible
operative Voice Conductor for deaf persons is ROC the least percepti-
ble, nor more uncomfortable than having apiece of weol in its place;
they give immediate relief to old standing extreme cases of deaf.
ness. Those valuable inventions have also gained the patronage of
the Royal Family and the unqualified approbation of above 400 of
the principal members of the medical profession.—No connexion
with persons of the same name.
LADY BLESSINGTON'S "IDLER IN FRANCE."
—The career of a woman of fashion is, for the first time, ade-
quately presented to us in there attractive volumes, whereat
Lady Blessington has, in that lively and graceful style so fami-
liar to the reader by her charming " Idler in Italy,' exhibited
under what brilliant auspices she entered the most exalted
circles in Paris, the head quarters of fashion. But, although
her journal affords a most allatin, picture of fashionable life,
it is delightfully varied with descriptions of other Parisian
scenes that can scarcely be considered less attractive. In one
place the Countess is represented as moving in the courtly
circles of the most courtly society in the world—in another
bargaining for antique bijouterie in the curiosity shops of the
Quart Voltaire—here trying on the most fasJinating of bonnets,
produced by the unrivalled Herbault—there criticising the
performance of Mars in Henry lll.—enjoying a diner de
restaurant at the Kocher de Caucale— introducing to the
reader all the celebrated characters then in the French capital
—ob:erving a review in the Champ de Mars, or the company
in the Bois de Boteognc—inspecting the gallery of the Louvre,
the desirable quarter of Paris, or playing the heroine during
the "glorious three days," which occurred during her stay--
or the Jardin des Plantes—rambling in search of a house in
or in a hundred other various tasks, all productive of equal en-
tertainment to her readers. A more delightful book it is
scarcely possible to imagine.
THE JEWS' DECLARATION BILL.—Lord
Broughim voted in the minority on the Jews' Civil Disabilities
Relief Bill.''
—5.-Prtishiya name was accidentally omitted in
the Publisbc4
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