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these natural necessities at the onset, which, if neglected„
become Divine chastisements, and in adopting a line of
conduct suitable to them.

" I do not wish to say a word respecting the revolu-
tion of February. It is not for me to speak of it to-
day. But I cannot fancy, no Frenchman can resign
himself to beli--ve that this is the denouement of the glo-
rious history of France. France has a reckless desire
of launching forth, no matter at what price or what risk,
into immense or uuhiard-of experiments. One might
fancy that it regarded itself as the grand laboratory of
the civiliz ition of the world. But it it is eager in ha-
zading itself, it is equally prompt in thinking better of
it, and retracing its steps when it perceives that it has
struck into a wrong path and is stumbling. It has stopped
already at the shade of a great name. But a salutary
halt is not safety. It is not enough for France not to
roll down the chasm—the chasm must be closed and
France raise herself up. Washington or Monk, one of
the two is necessary to raise her up.
" Which of the two will Providence grant us ?
" I should like to throw upon the event, which is the
object of this study, every ray of light likely to en-
lighten it, and to enlighten us by that light. I publish,
as an appendix to my narrative, seventy-one dispatches,
or fragments of dispatches, addressed, 1659 and 1660,
to Cardinal Mazarin and to M. de Brienne, by M. de
Bordeaux, then Ambassador of France at London.
Those documents are taken from the archives of the
Foreign-office. It is curious to observe what informa-
tion the representative of Louis XIV. to Cromwell col-
lected day by day, and what influence he sought to ex-
ercise on the conduct of Monk towards the restoration
of the Stuarts.

" I also publish a letter addressed by Richard Crom-
well to Monk fifteen days before the restoration of
Charles 11. :—"lbat," he says "when Parliament meets
you will use your influence in my favour, that I may not
be under the weight of debt!, which neither God nor my
c3nscience, lam sure, can regard as mine. . . . .
For I have that confidence in you, that if I may deem
myself unworthy of great things, you will not esteem
me worthy of utter ruin.'
" What a singular mixture of modesty, almost hum-
ble, and of a recollection of pan greatness !
GIIIZOT.
"Au Val Richer, October, 1850."

MR. HUDSON AND THE WEEKLY
CHRONICLE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIDIES.

Sir,—The recent proceedings in bankruptcy against
Mr. John Henry Doyle having been carried to a superior
court, without any opportunity being afforded me,
although summoned by him as a witness, of refuting
upon oath the charges which, without reference to any
question from his solicitor or the Court, he volunteered,
under evident feelings of irritation and resentment, as he
was about to leave the witness-box, I trust you w ill
allow me to find in the columns of the Times that means
of vindicating myself which a court of justice has denied.
I ptss over that portion of the evidence which merely
affects me personally, as I belie;e that among my ac-
quaintances of the London press (with which I have
been honourablyconnected for 15 years), as well as among
my private friends, my character stands too high to suffer
in their estimation by any imputation which that evi-
dence may convey.
But as you, Sir, led by another portion of Mr. Doyle's
testimony, have felt it to be your duty to censure the
venality which that testimony, if true, would go far to
establish, and as the " purity of the British press" has
been thus assailed through me, a higher feeling even
than anxiety fur my personal honour compels me to ad-
dress you.
With reference, then, to the charge of corruption on
which your observations belie been founded, I beg to
state most solemnly and unequivocally, that, directly or
indirectly, I have never sought for, accepted, offered,
nor been offere,t, any remuneration, reward, or favour of
any kind whatsoever for the insertion of any article, past
or prospectively, in the columns of the Weekly Chronicle,
having reference to Mr. George Hudson, M.Y. To Mr.
Hudson I have never spoken in my life; with Mr. Hud-
son I have never, tither directly or indirectly, in any
shape or manner, communicated; and in no way, medi-
ately lor immediately, has Mr. Hudson, or any person
representing or professing to represent him, at any time,
to my knowledge, since I became proprietor of the
Weekly Chronicle, trade any suggestion, or held out any
promise, to influence the insertion of any article in that
paper.

- It may be, when the truth is known, that the world
will one day think that the origin of the indignation ma-
nifested against Mr. Hudson, is not anything ho, or any
one on his behalf has done, or' attempted to do—but
rather what ho has not done, and what a gentleman,
supposed to have influence with him, indignantly refused
to do on his behalf. That gentleman during the last two
months has, to my knowledge, been frequently menac-d
with this charge of corruption—at length publicly made,
nut since privately withdrawn. I may observe, too, that
that gentleman was summoned as a witness in the dis-
puted adjudication of Mr. Doyle's bankruptcy, for no
motive that I can imagine, but one, and that I dare not
express. The moment his name was associated with the
charge of corruption, he rose from his seat among the bar,
and wall emphatically, " It is false, and the witness knows
it;" nd was only prevented from saying more by the in-
terpogttion of Mr. Commissioner Foublanque.
I will conclude by observing that I have taken legal
steps to dissolve the partnership between me and a gen-
tleman who, having no reason to impute to me an at-
tempt to corrupt the Weekly Chronicle, had every reason
to know and believe the contrary.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
ROBERT W. RUSSELL.
19, Northumberland-street, Strand, Dec. 2.

TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY,
BART., M.P.
Sir,—lt is now about twelve years ago since I visited,
in the neighbourhood of St. Leonard's, a Roman Ca-
tholic institution of the Sisters of Mercy, and I learnt
then, and subsequently, that there were several institu-
tions of the same kind in this country and in Ireland.
From my knowledge of history, and from my acquaint-
ance with lunatic asylums, it struck me, at the time, that
these institutions were liable to great abuse, and might
be made instruments of oppression, and that they ought
to be under some supervision of the civil power. Many
persons have been confined in lunatic as) lams for their
religious:opinions, of which I have lately given you evi-
dence in the copies of the certificates in two cases, and
there is much temptation for this in families that pretend
to any distinction, and think that their credit would be
damaged by any of their members professing highly
zealous or dissenting principles, or that their interests
would be injured by a relation's profuse charity, as in the
lower ranks of life, I have known a young man to be
confined for his theatrical propensities. The stage and
the pulpit have, I have no doubt, contributed their quota
of victims to the system of licensed Thuggism which has
prevailed till lately with so little check in our own lunatic)
asylums; and it is certainly within the sphere of pro-
hebility that young ladies may be confined by zealous
Roman Catholic families for their heritical opinions, or
freedom of mind, in these institutions, quite contrary to
their own sense of duty and to their own inclinations.
provident Government should guard
bauses. I have not before addressed Ge-
nt upon the subject, because I felt the delicacy
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vention of abuse, and the protection of the subject. I beg,
therefore, to suggest that a short Act of' Parliament
should be passed compelling the superiors of these estab-
lishments in her Majesty's dominions to have plans of
their buildings, and to keep and furnish correct lists of
their inmates, and that they should be placed under the
supervision of the magistracy in their several districts,
or of a mixed commission of Protestant and Romanist
gentlemen or clergymen, who should visit them regu-
larly, and have power to enter, if ever they heard upon
good authority that any person was detained there con-
trary to his will, or treated with improper rigour in them.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obediont humble servant.
JOIIN PERCEVAL.
Kensington, Nov. 20, 1850.

A WORD AS TO THE TIME OF SENDING
IN ARTICLES FOR EXHIBITION.

At present it is announced that all goods must be sent
in by the Ist of March, The Exhibition opens on the
Ist of May, so in cases or parcels, packed or unpacked,
the goods are to be on the ground just two mouths be-
fore they are wanted for exhibition.
Now, we undertake to say (that with the exception as
to such machinery as may require fitting) any committee
of London warehousemen or shopmen will inform the
Commissioners, that ten days or a fortnight will afford
ample time to arrange every article for exhibition. Ex-
hibitors will each arrange their own contributions, and
vast as will be the extent of the Palace of Industry, and
wonderful the products exhibited, it will scarce need
more time for arrangement under the many hands of
exhibitors, than any morning's setting out of the Lon-
don shops.
There would, at all events, be ample time if the goods
were to be sent in by the middle of April. The addi-

tional six weeks would be of great importance to manu-
facturers for the complt tion of their several works and
fulnies; and it is quite impossible that polished steel
goods, cutlery, plated ware, and articles of high and de-
licate colour should remainin any way upon the ground,
where there is no preparation for the dry and warm
stowage ef packages, without tarnish, rust, and injury
from fading. It is quite essential, therefore, in justice
to exhibitors, that this strange regulation as to time
should be immediately changed.—From the Lxpositor of
November 30.

The Benchers of the Middle Temple request that
gentlemen desirous of becoming candidates for the office of
Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law, now vacant by
the resignation of George Bowyer, Esq., D.C.L., will address
the Treasurer of the Middle Temple by letter, to be left at
the (Bee of the Sub-Treasurer, Middle Temple, on or before
the 14th ,:.•.
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,11,1 T. Joseph linne, ig.l having arrived in the town today,
for tihe,purpost et'S'eeinq-his son Or in the Royal Mail Com-
pany,*ship `Thames, has been invited to a public dinner. to
take place this evening at. the Archery Rooms; at which the
mayor will preside. In order to afford the working man an
opportunity of being present, the price of the tickets is 2s• Gd.
eacb, and upwards 9f 300 bate beers dispoect of,