The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-28 00:00:00

REPORT.

(From the Times.)
Among the very weak, and not very creditable,
devices to which a certain party have had recourse,
in order to impugn the authiority of this report, the
most glaring is, perhaps, that to which the following
letters refer. No rational man will fail to see that
it cannot matter two straws who drew up the re-
port, because, if the report be not borne out by the
evidence, it is worth nothing, and because, if the
evidence justify it, the hand which drew it can
neither diminish nor augment its weight. Mr.
Halcomb, however, it appears, besides being of
another opinion, has taken it into his head
that Mr. Parkes drew the report, and although
he was told by more than one member of
the committee that such was not the fact, yet
he still cherished his favourite crotchet, and
by being mistaken for a clerk, we suppose of Mr.
Parkes, was allowed to inspect the account of Mr.
Parkes at Messrs Vacher and Son's, the law sta-
tioners. Thus it was that the inquiring, not to say
inquisitive, senator was led to take the mares-nest,
which he displayed with so little effect in the House
of Commons on Wednesday night ; and when the
public see that the copies of the report made by
Messrs. Vacher for Mr. Parkes were taken from an
office copy regularly furnished by the committee
clerk, upon payment of the usual fee, we think they
will be of opinion that Mr. Halcomb is at least as
remarkable for want of talent to make discoveries out
of the House, as he is for want of success in making
motions in the house. We invite the attention of
our readers to the correspondence which follows
II

To Messrs. Vacher and Son, stationers, Parliament-street.
" Gentlemen,----I beg leave to refer you to the Times of this
morning, and the report of a speech of Mr. Halcomb, the mem-
ber for Dover, on the Warwick Borough Bill. Mr. Halcomb
is there stated to have represented that the draught of the re-
port on the revived committee on the Warwick election was
copied for the committee by my law-stationer, and that the ac-
count of the law-stationer exhibited the f et of copies of the
report charged to me.

" On referring to my Y papers and accountslin the case, I find,
that on the evening of the 22d of July last, the date of the re.
port, after its complete agreement by the committee, all parties
had the usual leave to obtain copies of the committee clerk.
I accordingly, on that evening, obtained a house copy of Mr.
John Benson Rose, paying the fee of 21. 10s. Accompanied
by my co.agents, Mr. Heath and Mr. Haynes, of Warwick, I
brought the office copy to you, and ordered four copies to be
made in time for the country post.
" I shall be obliged by your immediate answer whether these
are not the copies alluded to, and the only copies of the report
made by you ; also, whether any other person has had any au-
thority from you for the extraordinary misrepresentations on
the subject reported in the Times.-1 am, gentlemen, your
obedient servant, " JOSEPH PARKES.
" 21, Great George-street, March 27."

" 29, Parliament.street, Dfarch 27.
" Sir,—ln reply to the subject of your letter, I have to ex.
press our surprise at the report in the Times of this morning,
and to regret we should inadvertently have been made the me.
dium of this misrepresentation of you in the proceedings
alluded to.

" We are unacquainted with the person of Mr. Halcomb,
but about three or four days since a short gentleman, of dark
complexion, called at our house, and without mentioning his
name inquired of me if we had made any copies of the Warwick
Report for you or the committee. I naturally thought, from
the manner of his inquiry, and from other observations, that he
came from you to make some reference to your account, and
accordingly turned to it, and showed him an entry on the 22d
of July last of four copies of the report. He then asked me to
refer to preceding items, which comprised charges for thirty-
four copies of warrants for witnesses, and three copies of an ab-
stract of evidence. He said these items were of no conse.
quence, and left the shop.
" The four copies of the report above.mentioned were made
for you late in the afternoon of the 22d of July, from a House
of Commons office-copy of the report. I perfectly recollect
their being ordered by Mr. Heath, as they were required in
great haste, in order to be in time for the post of that evening,
and are the only copies of the report made for you.
" We are extremely sorry that, from the circumstance of
our mistaking the gentleman for some person from you, we
allowed him to refer to our books. He had no authority from
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" Joseph Parkes, Esq.

RAPID SAILING.—The steam-ship Duke
of Wellington, Captain Walker, made her last trip from
Aberdeen to Loni'on in forty-one hours. _

The General Steam Navigation Company's
mail packet the Harlequin, from Hamburg, arrived off
the Custom-house at two o'clock P. M. 27th March. Also
the Bekaa, From► Calais., about an hour previous. Lord
Ossory arrived pateeng,r by the latter vessel.