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centuries before they had been entered by Captain Ber-
keley, under the Austrian flag.
It is unnecessary to detail the discoveries olthe
Spaniards as they regularly advanced to the north from
the settlements on the western coasts of North America,
until we reach the voyage of Captain Juan Perez, in
1774. That navigator was commissioned by the viceroy
of Mexico to proceed, in the corvette Santiago, to the
60th degree of north latitude; and from that point to
examine the coast down to Mexico. He sailed from San
Bias on the 25th January, 1774. In the performance of
this commission he landed first on the north-west coast
of Queen Charlotte's Island, near the 54th degree of
north latitude ; and thence proceeded south along the
shore of that island and of the great islands of Quadra
and Vancouver; and then along the coast of the conti-
nent, until he reached Monteroy. He went on shore,
and held intercourse with the natives at several places;
and especially at the entrance of a bay, in latitude 291
deg., which he called Port San Lorenzo—the same now
known by the name of Nootka Sound. In addition to
the journals of this voyage, which render the fact incon-
testible, wehave the high authority cf Baron Humboldt
in its favour. That distinguished traveller, who had
access to the manuscript documents in the city of
Mexico, states that " Perez and his pilot Estevan
Martinez left the port of San Blas 24th January, 1774.
On the 9th August they anchored (the first of all Euro-
pean navigators) in Nootka roads, which they called the
port of San Lorenzo, and whioh the illustrious CooJ,
four years afterwards, called King George's Sound."
In the next year (1775) the viceroy of Mexico again
fitted out the Santiago, under the command of Bruno
Heceta with Perez, her former commander, as ensign,
and also a schooner, called the Sonora, commanded by
Juan Francesco de la Bodega y Quadra. These vessels
were commissioned to examine the north- wc stern coast of
America as far as the 65th degree of latitude, and tailed
in company from San Blas on the 15th March, 1775.
It is unnecessary to enumerate the different places on
the coast examined by these navigators, either in corn
pany or separately. Suffice it to say, that they landed at
many places on the coast from the 41st to the 57th de-
gree of latitude, on all of which occasions they took pos-
session of the country in the name of their sovereign,
according to a prescribed regulation ; celebrating mass,
reading declarations asserting the right of Spain to the
territory, and erecting crosses with inscriptions, to com-
memorate the event. Some of these crosses were after-
wards found standing by British navigators, In rela-
tion to these voyages, Baron Humboldt says, "In the
following year (1775, after that of Perez), a second
expedition set out from San Blas, under the command of
Heceta, Ayala, and Quadra. He discovered the mouth
of the Rio Columbia, called it the Entrada de Heceta, the
peak of San Jacinto (Mount Edgecomb, near Norfolk
Bay), and the fine port of Bucareli. I possess two very
curious small maps, engraved in 1788, in the city of
Mexico, which give the bearings of the coast from the
27th to the 58th degree of latitude, as they were disco-
vered in the expedition of Quadra."
In the face of these incontestible facts, the British
Plenipotentiary says " that Captain Cook must also be
considered the discoverer of' Nootka Sound, in conse-
quence of the want of authenticity in the alleged previous
discovery of that port by Perez." And yet Cook did not
even sail from England until the 12th July, 1776, nearly
two years after Perez made this discovery. The chief
object of Cook's voyage was the discovery of a north-
west passage, and he never landed at any point of the
continent south of Nootka Sound. It is true, that in
coasting along the continent, before he reached this place,
he had observed Cape Flattery, but he was entirely igno-
rant that this was the southern entrance of the straits of
Fuca. In his journal he admits that he had heard some
account of the Spanish voyages of 1774 and 1775, before
he left England; and it is beyond question that, before
his departure, accounts of the voyage of Quadra had
been published both in Madrid and London. From
Nootka Sound Cook did not again see land until he
reached the 57th degree of north latitude.
In 1787, it is alleged by the British Plenipotentiary
that Captain Berkeley, a British subject, discovered the
Straits of Fuca; but these straits had been discovered by
Juan de Fuca, nearly two centuries before. Besides, if
there had been any merit in this discovery of Captain
Berkeley, it would have belonged to Austria, in whose
service he was, and under whose colours he sailed, and
cannot be appropriated to Great Britain.
And here it is worthy of remark that these disco-
veries of Cook and Berkeley, in 1775 and 1787, are all
those on which the British Plenipotentiary relies pre-
vious to the date of the Nootka Sound Convention, in
October, 1790, to defeat the ancient Spanish title to the
north-west coast of America.

The undersigned will now take a position which can-
not, in his opinion, be successfully assailed ; and that is,
that no discovery, exploration, or settlement, made by
Great Britain on the north-west coast of America,
after the date of the Nootka Sound Convention, and
before it was terminated by the war of 1796, can
be invoked by that Power in favour of her own
title, or against the title of Spain. Even according to
the British construction of that Convention, the sove-
reignty over the territory was to remain in abeyance
during its continuance, as well in regard to Great
Britain as to Spain. It would, therefore, have
been an open violation of faith on the part of Great
Britain, after having secured the privileges conferred
upon her by the convention, to turn round against her
partner, and perform any acts calculated to divest Spain
of her ultimate sovereignty over any portion of this
country. The palpable meaning of the convention was,
that during its continuance the rights of the respective
parties, whatever they may have been, should remain
just as they had existed at its commencement.
The Government of Great Britain is not justly charge-
able with any such breach of faith. Captain Vancouver
acted without instructions in attempting to take posses-
sion of the whole north-western coast of America in
the name of his sovereign. This officer, sent out from
England to execute the convention, did not carry with
him any authority to violate it in this outrageous
manner.

Without this treaty, he would thave ,been a/mere:in-
truder; under it, Great Britain had a right to make
discoveries and surveys, not thereby to acquire title, but
merely to enable her subjects to select spots the most
advantageous, to use the language of the convention,
" for the purpose of carrying on their commerce with
the natives of the country, or of making settlements
there."

If this construction of the Nootka Sound Convention
be correct—and the undersigned does not perceive how
it can be questioned—then Vancouver's passage through
the Straits of Fuca, in 1792, and Alexander Mackenzie's
journey across the continent in 1793, can never be trans-
formed into elements of title in favour of Great Britain.

But even if the undersigned could be mistaken in these
positions, it would be easy to prove that Captain John
Kendrick, in the American sloop Washington, passed
through the Straits of Fuca in 1789, three years before
Captain Vancouver performed the same voyage. The
very instructions to the latter, before he left England, in
January 1791, refers to this fact, which has been com-
municated to the British Government by Lieutenant
Meares, who has rendered his name so notorious by its
connexion with the transactions preceding the Nootlta
Sound Convention. It is, moreover, well known that the
whole southern division of the straits had been explored
by the Spanish navigators Elisa and Quimper—the first
in 1790, and the latter in 1791.
After what has been said, it will be perceived how
little reason the British Plenipotentiary has for stating
that his Government has, "as far as relates to Van -
couver's Island, as complete a case of discovery, ex-
ploratinu, and settlement, as can well be presented, giv-
ing to Great Britain, in any arrangement that mu he
made with regard to the territory in dispute, the
strongest possible claim to the exclusive possession of
that island."

The discovery thus relied upon is that of Nootka
Sound by Cook, in 1778: when it has been demonstrated
that this was first discovered by Perez, in 1774. The
exploration is that by Vancouver, in passing through the
Straits of Fuca in 1792, and examining the coasts
of the territory in dispute, when De Fuca himself had
paned through these straits in 1592, and Kendrick
again in 1789; and a complete examination of the
western coast bad been made in 1774 and 1775, both by
Perez and Quadra. As to possession, if Meares was
ever restored to his possessions at Nootka Sound, what-
ever these may have been, the undersigned has never
seen any evidence of the fact. It is not to be found
in the journal of Vancouver, although this officer was
sent from England for the avowed purpose of witnessing
such a restoration. The undersigned knows not whether
any new understanding took place between the British
and Spanish Governments on this subject ; but one fact
is placed beyond all doubt, that the Spaniards continued
in the undisturbed possession of Nootka Sound until the
year 1795, when they voluntarily abandoned the piece.
Great Britain has never, at any time since occupied this
or any other position on Vancouver's Island. Thus, on
the score of either discovery, exploration, or possession,
this island seems to be the very last portion of the ter-
ritory in dispute to which she can assert a just claim.
In the meantime, the United States were proceeding
with the discoveries which served to complete and con-
firm the Spanish American title to the whole of the
disputed territory.
Captain Robert Gray, in June, 1789, in the sloop
Washington, first explored the whole eastern coast of
Queen Charlotte's island.
In the autumn of the same year, Captain John Ken-
drick—having in the meantime surrendered the com-
mand of the Columbia to Captain Gray—sailed, as had
been already stated, in the sloop Washington, entirely
through the Straits of Fuca.
In 1791, Captain Gray returned to the North Pacific
in the Columbia, and in the summer of that year exa-
mined many of the inlets and passages between the 54th
and 56th degrees of latitude, which the undersigned
considers it unnecessary to specify.
On the 7th May, 1792, he discovered and entered
Bulfinch's harbour, where he remained at anchor three
days, trading with the Indians.
On the 11th May, 1792, Captain Gray entered the
mouth of the Columbia and completed the discovery of
that great river. This river had been long sought in
vain by former navigators. Both Meares and Van-
couver, after examination, had denied its existence.
Thus is the world indebted to the enterprise, perseve-
rance, and intelligence of an American captain of a
trading vessel for their first knowledge of this, the
greatest river on the western coast of America—a river
whose head springs flow from the gorges o: the Rocky
Mountains, and whose branches extend from the 43d to
the 53d parallels of latitude. This was the last and
most important discovery on the coast, and has perpe-
tuated the name of Robert Gray. In all future time
this great river will bear the name of his vessel.
It was true that Bruno Haceta, in the year 1775, had
been opposite the Bay of the Columbia ; and the cur-
rents and eddies of the water caused him, as he remarks,
moutht
se of some great river,
a
and his opinion
orto believe that
some
pthaatsstahgise wasto another
"the
seems decidedly to have been that this was the opening
of the strait discovered by Juan de Fuca in 1592. To
use his own language .
• " Notwithstanding the great dif-
ference between the position of this Bay and the passage

mentioned by De Fuca, I have little difficulty in •con-
ceiving that they may be the same, having observed
equal or greater differences in the latitude of other capes
and ports on the coast, as I shall show at its roper
time ; and in all cases the latitude thus assigned are
higher than the real ones."
Ireceta, from his own declaration, had never entered
the Columbia ; and he was in doubt whether the (pal-
ing was a mouth of a river or an arm of the sea ; and
subsequent examinations of the coast by other navi-
gators had rendered the opinion universal that no such
river existed, when Gray first bore the American flag
across its bar, sailed up its channel for twenty-five
miles, and remained in the river nind days, trading with
the Indians.

TLe British Plenipotentiary attempts to depreciate the
value to the United States of Gray's discovery, because
his ship (the Columbia) was a trading, and not a na-
tional, vessel. At he furnishes no reason for this dis-
tinction, the undersigned will confine himself to the re-
mark that a merchant vessel bears the flag of her coun-
try at her mast-head,; and continues under its jurisdic-
tion and protection, in the same manner as though she
had been commissioned for the express purpose of making
discovere. Besides, beyond all doubt, this discovery
was made by Gray ; and to what nation could the benefit
of it belong, unless it be to the United States ? Certainly
not to Great Britain. And if to Spain, the United States
are now her representatives.
Nor does the undersigned perceive in what manner
the value of this great discovery can be lessened by the
fact that it was first published to the world through the
journal of Vancouver, a British authority. On the con-
trary, its authenticity being thus acknowledged by the
party baying an adverse interest, is more firmly esta-
blished than if it had been first published in the United
States.

From a careful examination and review of the subject,
the undersigned ventures the assertion, that to Spain
and the United States belong all the merit of the disco-
very of the north-west coast of America south of the
Russian line, not a spot of which, unless it may have
been the shores of some of the interior bays and inlets,
after the entrance to them had been known, was ever
beheld by British subjects, until after it had been seen
or touched by a Spaniard or an American. Spain pro-
ceeded in this work of discovery, not as a means of ac-
quiring title, but for the purpose of examining and sur-
veying territory to which she believed she had an incon-
testable right. This title had been sanctioned for cen-
turies by the acknowledgment or acquiescence of all the
European Powers. The United States alone could have
disputed this title, and that only to the extent of the
region watered by the Columbia. The Spanish and
American titles, now united by the Florida treaty, can-
not be justly resisted by Great Britain. Considered to-
gether, they constitute a perfect title to the whole terri-
tory in dispute, ever since the 11th of May, 1792, when
Captain Gray passed the bar at the mouth of the Co-
lumbia, which he had observed in August, 1788.
The undersigned will now proceed to show that the
title of the United States, at least to the possession of
the territory at the mouth of the Columbia, has been
acknowledged by the most solemn and unequivocal acts
of the British Government.

After the purchase of Louisiana from France, the Go-
vernment of the United States fitted out an expedition,
under Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, who, in 1805, first ex-
plored the Columbia, from its source to its mouth, pre-
paratory to the occupation of the territory by the United
States.

In 1811, the settlement of Astoria was made by the
Americans near the mouth of the river, and several
other posts were established in the interior along its
banks. The war of 1812 between Great Britain and the
United States thus found the latter in peaceable posses-
sion of that great region. Astoria was captured by
Great Britain during the war. The treaty of peace con-
cluded at Ghent in December, 1814, provided that " all
territory, places, and possessions whatsoever, taken by
either party from the other during the war," &c. &c.,
"shall be returned without delay." In obedience to the
provisions of this treaty, Great Britain restored Astoria
to the United States ; and this is admitted in the most
solemn manner, not only that it had been an American
territory or possession at the commencement of the war,
but that it had been captured by British arms during its
continuance. It is now too late to gainsay or explain
away these facts. Both the treaty of Ghent, and the
acts of the British Government under it, disprove the
allegations of the British Plenipotentiary, that Astoria
passed " into British hands by the voluntary act of the
persons in charge of it," and that it was restored to the
United States in 1818, with certain well-authenticated
reservations.

In reply to the first of these allegations, it is true that
the agents of the (American) Pacific Fur Company,
before the capture of Astoria, on the 16th of October,
1818, had transferred all that they could transfer—the
private property of the Company—to the (British)
North-west Company; but it will scarcely be contended
that such an arrangement could impair the sovereign
rights of the United States to the territory. Accord-
ingly, the American flag was still kept flying over the
fort until the Ist December, 1813, when it was captured
by his Majesty's sloop-of-war Rackoon, and the British
flag was then substituted.
That it was not restored to the United States " with
certain well-authenticated reservations," fully appears
from this act of restoration itself, bearing date. 6th
October,
English 1818.
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intention of Lord Castlereagh clearly appears from his
previous admission to Mr. Rush of the right of the
Americans to be reinstated, and to the party in posses-
sion while treating on the title. If British Ministers
afterwards, in dispatches to their own agents, the con-
tents of which were not communicated to the Govern-
ment of the United States, thought proper to protest
against our title, these were, in effect, but mere mental
reservations, which could not affect the validity of their
own solemn and unconditional act of restoration.

But the British Plenipotentiary, notwithstanding the
American discovery of the Columbia by Captain Gray,
and the exploration, by Lewis and Clarke of several of
its branches, from their sources in the Rocky Mountains,
as well as its main channel to the ocean, contends that
because Thompson, a British subject in the employment
of the North West Company, was the first who navigated
the northern branch of that river, the British Govern-
ment thereby acquired certain rights against the United
States, the extent of which he does not undertake to
specify. In other words, that after one nation has dis-
covered and explored a great river, and several tributa-
ries, and made settlements on its banks, another nation,
if it could find a single branch on its broad waters which
had not been actually explored, might appropriate to
itself this branch, together with the adjacent territory.
If this could have been done, it would have produced
perpetual strife and collision among the nations after the
discovery of America. It would have violated the wise
principle consecrated by the practice of nations, which
gives the valley drained by a river and its branches to
the nation which bad first discovered and appropriated
its mouth.

But, for another reason, this alleged discovery of
Thompson has no merits whatever. His journey was
undertaken on behalf of the North West Company for
the mere purpose of anticipating the United States in
the occupation of the Columbia—a territory to which no
nation, unless it may have been Spain, could with any
show of justice dispute their right. They had acquired
it by discovery and by exploration, and were now in the
act of taking possessicn. It was in an enterprise under-
taken for such a purpose that Thompson, in hastening
from Canada to the mouth of the Columbia, descended
the north, arbitrarily assumed by Great Britain to be
the main, branch of the river. The period was far too
late to impair the title either of Spain or the United
States by any such proceeding.
Mr. Thompson, on his return, was accompanied by a
party from Astoria, under Major Stuart, who established
a post at the confluence of the Okinagan with the north
branch of the Columbia, about six hundred miles above
the mouth of the latter.

In the next year (1812) a second trading port was
established by a party from Astoria, on the Spoken,
about six hundred and fifty miles from the ocean.
It thus appears that, previous to the capture of them
l.y the British, the Americans had extended their posses-
sions up the Columbia six hundred and fifty miles. The
mere intrusion of the North West Company into this terri-
tory, and the establishment of two or three trading posts
in 1811 and 1812, on the head waters of the river, can
surely net interfere with, or impair the Spanish Ameri-
can title. What this company may have done in the in-
termediate period until the 20th October, 1818—the date
of the first treaty of joint occupation—is unknown to the
undersigned, from the impenetrable mystery in which
they have veiled their proceedings. After the date of
this treaty neither Great Britain nor the United States
could have performed any act affecting their claims to the
disputed territory.
To sum up the whole, then, Great Britain cannot rest
her claims to the north-west coast of America upon dis-
covery. As little will her single claim by settlement at
Nootka Sound avail her. Even Belsham, her own histo-
rian, forty years ago, declared it to be certain from the
most authentic information, " that the Spanish flag flying
at Nootka was never struck, and that the territory has
been virtually relinquished by Great Britain."
The agents of the North West Company, penetrating
the continent from Canada, in 1806, established their
first trading post west of the Rocky Mountains, at
Fraser's Lake, in the 54th degree of latitude ; and this,
with the trading posts established by Thompson—to
which the undersigned has just adverted—and possibly,
some others afterwards previous to October, 1818, con-
stitutes the claim of Great Britain by actual settlement.
Upon the whole, from the most careful and ample ex-
amination which the undersigned has been able to be-
stow upon the subject, he is satisfied that the Spanish
American title, now held by the United States, embrac-
ing the whole territory between the parallels of 42 deg.
and 54 deg. 40 min., is the best title in existence to this
entire region ; and that the claim of Great Britain to
any portion of it has no sufficient foundation. Even
British geographers have not doubted our title to the
territory in dispute. There is a large and splendid
globe now in the department of State, recently received
from London, and published by Maltby and Company,
" manufacturers and publishers to the Society for the
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge," which assigns this ter-
ritory to the United States.
Notwithstanding such was and still is the opinion of
the President, yet, in the spirit of compromise and con-
cession, and in deference to the action of his predeces-
sors, the undersigned, in obedience to his instructions,
proposed to the British Plenipotentiary to settle the
controversy by dividing the territory in dispute by the
49th parallel of latitude, offering, at the same time, to
make free to Great Britain any port or ports on Van-
couver's island south of this latitude, which the British
Government might desire. The British Plenipotentiary
has correctly suggested that the free navigatioa of the
Columbia river was not embraced in this proposal to
Great Britain ; but, on the other hand, the use of free
ports on the southern extremity of this island had not
been included in former offers.

Such a proposition as that which has been made, never
would have been authorized by the President, had this
been a new question.

Upon his accession to office, he found the present ne-
gotiation pending. It had been instituted in the spirit
and upon the pri►:ciple of compromise. Its object, as
avowed by the negotiators, was not to demand the whole
territory is dispute for either country ; but in the lan-
guage of the first protocol, " to treat of the respective
claims of the two countries to the Oregon territory, with
the view to establish a permanent boundary between
them westward of the Rocky Mountains to the Facile
Ocean."

Placed inthis position, and considering that Presidents
Monroe and Adams had, on former occssiont:, offered to
divide the territory in dispute by the forty-ninth parallel
of latitude, he felt it to be his duty not abruptly to arrest
the negotiation ; but so far to yield his own opinion as
once more to make a similar offer.

Not only respect for the conduct of his predecessors.
but sincere and anxious desire to promote peace and
harmony between the two countries, influenced him to
pursue this course. The Oregon question presents the
only intervening cloud which intercepts the prospect of
a long career of mutual friendship and beneficial com-
merce between the two nations, and this cloud he desired
to remove.

These are the reasons which actuated the President to
offer a proposition so liberal to Great Britain.
And how has this proposition been received by the
British Plenipotentiary? It has been rejected without
even a reference to his own Government; nay, more,
the British Plenipotentiary, to inie his own language,
" trusts that the American Plenipotentiary will be pre-
pared to offer some further proposal for the settlement
of the Oregon question more consistent with fairness and
equity, and with the reasonable expectations of the Bri-
tish Government."

Under such circumstances the undersigned is in-
structed by the President to say that he owes it to his
own country, and a just appreciation of her title to the
Oregon territory, to withdraw the proposition to the
British Government which had been made under his
direction; and it is hereby accordingly withdrawn.
In taking this necessary step the President still
cherishes the hope that this long. penciling controversy
may yet be finally adjusted in such a manner as not to
disturb the peace or interrupt the harmony now so
happily subsisting between the two nations.—The under-
signed avails himself, &c.,

JAMES BUCHANAN.
The Right Hon. R. Pakenharn, &c.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
walked out early, previous to his Royal Highness leav-
ing the Castle on a shooting excursion this morning. Mr.
Anson, Sir Edward Bowater, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore
attended the Prince out to shoot.

The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal,
and the Princess Alice were taken their usual rides
and walks in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the
Castle.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Court honoured
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent with their corn •
pany to dinner this evening at Frogmore House.
The Countess of Desert took leave of her Majesty,
previous to her Ladyship's departure for Bristol, en route
to Lord D.'s seat in the county of Kilkenny.
Her Majesty and her Royald Consort promenaded in
the afternoon.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday afternoon, from Cambridge.
Dispatches from the Governor of the North American
provinces were received yesterday at the Colonial Office,
Dispatches were also received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of Ceylon, the Cape of Good:
Hope, and Malta ; and also from the Lord High Com-
missioner of the lonian Islands.

SUICIDE of COLONEL GURWOOD.
An inquest was held before F. H. Gell, Esq., Coroner
fin• East Sussex, yesterday morning, at 120, King's-road,
Brighton, to inquire into the circumstances attending
the death of Colonel John Gurwood, who had termi-
nated his existence on the previous Saturday, by cutting
his throat with a razor. The following witnesses were
examined at the inquest :
Sarah, the wife of George Collins, of 120, King's-road,
lodging-house keeper, deposed that last Tuesday morn-
ing Colonel and Mrs. Gurwood and their three daughters
came there to reside, They brought no servants, and
witness waited upon them. On Saturday she waited on
them at lunch at one o'clock ; soon after this she went up
to bring down the luncheon, when she saw Mrs. Gurwood
dressed, as if she were going out for a walk. At
a quarter past two o'clock a boy brought the news-
paper, which witness took into the drawing-room. She
stirred the fire and was going down stairs, when
she glanced into the dressing-room, where the
Colonel and Mrs. Gurwood had slept the night
before, in consequence of the violence of the wind,
and thought she saw the Colonel's legs lying on the
floor. She did not take much notice, however, as she
understood the Colonel to be ill. She then resumed her
work down stairs, and afterwards mentioned what she
had seen to her husband. It then occurred to her that
she might have been mistaken, as on second thoughts
she considered it very strange that a gentleman should
be stretched along the floor. She accordingly went up
and coughed at the drawing-room door. No notice
being taken, she went in and stirred the fire. She then
coughed again, and finding that the Colonel did not
speak, she pulled the door of the dressing•room open,
and then saw him on the floor in a pool of blood, arising,
as she supposed, from his having broken a blood-vessel.
She had previously arranged with her husband that if
everything was not right she would ring, and she now
rang the bell accordingly, and her husband came up.
They deliberated a few seconds as to what was best to
be done, the result of which was that her husband ran
out for Mr. E. J. Furner, a surgeon, residing in the
King's-road, who came in about five minutes afterwards.

gr. E. J. Furner, surgeon, deposed that he was called
on about three o'clock on Saturday afternoon by the
husband of the last witness, who said that a gentleman
was at his house ♦ery ill, he believed dying. Witness
went immediately to the house, and was shown into the
bedroom of a gentleman, who he was informed was
Colonel Gurwood. The Colonel was lying on the floor
in a pool of blood. On lifting him up witness found a
razor grasped in his right hand, and a wound on the left
side of the throat, four inches long, and from an inch to
an inch and a half deep. In his opinion, this wound
caused death, and he had no doubt that the death was
instantaneous.

Sir Henry Webster, a lieutenant-colonel in the army,
residine. at 44, Brunswick-square, Brighton, deposed
that he had known Colonel Garwood for thirty years.
About u month since the witness heard that he was un-
well. He accordingly visited him and found him out of
sorts, and recommended him to come to •Brighton for a
change. Witness heard from Colonel Gurwood's medi-
cal attendant that he was in a weak, low way; and, with
the sanction of that gentleman, suggested that the
Colonel should come down to Brighton, and stay with
him as long as he pleased. He came down accordingly,
and remained with witness a few days. Witness and
his family endeavoured to divert the Colonel's mind as
much as possible by lively conversation, and getting him
to walk as much as they could. After a few days Mrs.
Gurwood and his three daughters came down, and they
took a lodging in the King's-road.
CORONER—Did you form an opinion as to the state of
his mind? Witness—From his conversation upon poli-
tics, as well as on general subjects, I found that he was
in a very weak and desponding way.
Can you assign any cause for it have no doubt
that it was all caused by the relaxation of the nerves,
in consequence of his great work, " The Dispatches of
the Duke of Wellington," having been concluded. As
long ago as a month I had seen a change in him.
Dr. George Hall, of the Old Steyne, Brighton, said he
was called in some time since to attend Colonel Gur-
wood, and prescribed for him, after which he rallied and
got a little better. But lately he had fallen into a very
desponding mood indeed, and witness treated him ac-
cordingly, and had great hopes that he would get better.
His despondency, however, returned, and he believed
that such despondency was sufficient to cause tempo-
rary insanity in any one.
This being all the evidence, the CORONER summed up,
and the jury returned a verdict, "'That the deceased
destroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity.".

Colonel Gurwood was an old Peninsular and Waterloo
veteran. At Waterloo, he was upon the staff of tho Duke
of Wellington, and filled the important post of private
secretary to his Grace, a position which gave him pe-
culiar facilities for editing the celebrated " Wellington
Dispatches," with which his name will be handed clown
to posterity. The Duke of Wellington rewarded the
Gallant Officer's fidelity by appointing him Deputy_
Lieutenant of the Tower, an office which he has held,
with much credit to himself, for some years past, and
which becomes vacant by his death. He entered the
army as ensign on the 30th of March, 1808 ; became
Lieutenant in August, 1809 ; Captain in February, 1812;
Major in March, 1817 ; Lieut.-Colonel in March, 1827 ;
attaining his rank as full Colonel in November, 1841. In
July, 1830, he was placed on the Unattached List.
Hart's Army List thus describes the military services
of the unfortunate deceased :—" Colonel Gurwood
served in the Peninsula with the 52d Foot from August,
1808, to January, 1812 ,• and subsequently, to the end
of that war, in 1814, as Major of Brigade to the House-
hold Cavalry, and to Major-General Lambert's Brigade
in the 6th division of Infantry : he was present at the
siege and storm of Ciudad Rodrigo, where he led the
forlorn hope of the light division ; he was also at the
storming of Fort Renaud ; and at the battles of Vittoria,
Salamanca, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. The
gallant officer also served through the campaign of 1815,
and was severely wounded at the battle of ‘Vaterloo;
severely wounded also at Sabugal, and slightly at Ciudad
Rodrigo."

LETTERS OF ROYAL AND ILLUSTRIOUS LADIES OF
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notices, by Mary Anne Everett Wood, 3 vols. small Bv9. with
fac simile autographs, price 31s. 6d. The above work is pub-.
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and may now be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn has
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part 1.-3. Two Romances by B. Disraeli, Esq.,
1. Contarini Fleming. 2. Alroy, comprised in 3 vols. with
portrait of the author.-4. vol. 5 of The Nelson Letters and
Dispatches.-5. The Comic Annual for 1846, a re-publication
of Mr. Hood's " Whimsicalities," in 1 vol., with 45 illustra-
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Hester Stanhope's Memoirs, 3 vols.-7. Evenings at Haddon
hall, 1 vol., with 24 engravings by the first artists, from
designs by George Cattermole, 31s. 6d. bound, and 8. A
third edition of "The Crescent and the Cross," by Eliot
Warburton, Esq., 2 vols.
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The Public are informed that the following ALTERATIONS'
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operation on the Ist January, 1816, viz. :

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the First Act of THE DAUGHTER OF ST.
MARK. Andrea Cornaro, Mr. Borrani ; Moneenigo, Mr. Weiss ;
Adolphe de Courey, Mr. W. Harrison; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Pools.
At the end of the Opera Professor RISLEY and his fIiONS will go
through a Series of Classical Exercises.
After which, will be repeated a New Grand Ballet, called THE
DEVIL TO PAY, in which Mons. Bretin, Mdlle. Flora Fabbri, Mdlle.
Dabs' (of the Academic Royale, Paris), Mdlle. Louise, Mr. W. H.
Payne, Moos. Delferier, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Wieland will appear.
To conclude with a new grand Christmas comic Fantomine, called
HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarib. The New and
extensive Scenery under the direction of Mr. Grieve ; the Overture
and Music by Mr. R. Hughes ; the Tricks, Transformations, and
Decorations by Mr. Blamire ; the Machinery by Mr. B. Sloman ; the
Dresses by Mr. Hovey, Mrs. Balls, and numerous assistants. The
whole produced under the superintendence of Mr. W. West.
Scene 1. INTERIOR OF GUILDHALL. Epoch—Lord Mayor's Day,
1845—between the Dinner and the Ball. Magog and Gog (the City
Giants—once at a premium, now at a discount), Mr. S. Jones and
Mr. H. Horricastle ; Ge.. eral Tom Thumb (a Dwarf; but causing a
great panic in the Giant market), Miss Dale.

.
" Who'll kill the Giants?
I, says Tom Thumb,
As soon as I come,
I'll kill the Giants."—Yankee Nursery Tale.
The Genius of Pantomine (Chairwoman of the " Christmas Funny
Club"), Miss A. Pay ne.—How Tom Thumb takes the Giants down a
peg!or two—" From words they'd almost come to blows "—Umpire
and Referee, the Genius of Pantomime, who gives her decision in a
manner (it is hoped) satisfactory to her numerous patrons in boxes,
pit, and gallery.
Scene 2. COAST OF THE ISLAND OF LlLLlPUT.—Discovered A.D.
1699. "After a storm comes a calm." Gulliver (having a passion
for travelling, high and dry on a rock), Mr. W. 11. Payne ; Mrs. Gul-
liver (having a passion for her husband, in the same predicament),
Mr. Hance. Extraordinary high tide, and great rush for places.
Timely arrival of the Flying Island. Mrs. Gulliver leaves the rock
to the tune of " Here we go up, up, up"—Gulliver leaves the rock to
the tune of " Here we go down, down, down." The tide having
ceased to flow, naturally begins to ebb, and leaves Gulliver to 2.10-
HiSll the Lilliputians ! Peasants (the real " small natives"), Messrs.
and Mesdames Tiny, Dumpy, Dot, Weebody, Speck, Short, Sinal!,
Trot, Littlejohn, &c. &c. ; Inspector of the A division of Lilliputian
Police, Mr. Stumpy ; Policemen, Messrs. Move-a-way, Clear-the-
way, Push-a-long, Walk-on, &c.; Engineer, Mr. Easer ; Stoker, Mr.
Hot-birth. How Gulliver, alias the man-mountain, is BOUND over
to keep the peace ; and how, "by a long pull, a strong pull, and a
pull altogether," he is carried away to the court of the Emperor Lil-
liput.

" And wasn't he a dainty dish
To set before the King ?"

Old 3ISS:in the British Miscum.

SCOW 3. HALL OF SCIENCE IN TILE PALACE OF THE KIN. OF LA-
PUTA.—IIis Majesty the King of Laputa (vet), deep in Geome-
ry—vide, Flappers at his elbows), Mr. T. Matthews ; Lord High
Chancellor Parallelogram and Lord High Chamberlain /Equilateral
(fond of " Figures," especially number " One"), Mr. Howell and Mr.
Johnson. Lords in Waiting,, with their attendant flappers, pages,
&c. Mrs. Gulliver makes her " first and only appearance at Court ;"
and bow, having lost her G—, the Flying Island is placed at her
disposal to recover the same.
Scene 4. MARINE RESIDENCE OF THE EMPEROR 05' LILLIPUT.-11iS
" High" Mightiness Golbas to Momaren Molly Ully Gue, Emperor
of Lilliput, Miss Turtle ; her " equally" High Mightiness the Em-
press of Lilliput, Miss Midgley. The Lilliputian Court (the " high-
est" families in the land), and Lilliputian Imperial Guard (at least
2 ft. 6 in. in their stockings), servants, policemen, cooks, scullions,
84c.—How Gulliver, having been let out of •" durance vile," not
only pockets the affront, but two policemen in the bargain. How he
kisses thee Emperor's hand, and the Empress's lips. Inspection of the
Lilliputian Imperial Guard. How Gulliver swallows his dinner, and
is only prevented from swallowing a Lilliputian, by way of dessert,
by the news of the arrival of the Blefascadian fleet. Gulliver re-
gains his freedom, by towing in the enemy's fleet. The Palace on
fire. Arrival of the Lilliputian Fire Brigade. How Gulliver saves
the Empress, and is then obliged to save himself, which he does by
taking a hop, step, and a jamp into

Scene S. CORN-FIELD IN 13ROBDIGNAG.—LONgOSIret010 (a sub-
stantial Brobdignag farmer, and member of the Brobdignag Agri-
cultural Society), Mr. Monster ; Long-in-the-stride (his wife), Mrs.
Strapper; Brobdignag Baby (in and out of a go-cart), Miss H.
Payne ; A very round Robin (the mother of a very fine family)
Mrs. Redbreast ; Prize Pig (with silver medal from the Brolxllgnag
Cattle Show), Mr. Snout. How Gulliver goes a bird's nesting, and
gets the worst of it, and how, after paying all proper deference to
the " great-uns," he pitches into the " little-un" in the go-cart.
Scene 6. BROBDIGNAG BED-1100H AND NURSERY.—BrObdigliag
" Gemini" (Inglice twins), Masters James and Elliott; Brobdignag
Kitten, Mr. Pussey. For further particulars of this scene apply
personally to the principal performers, who can be seen in it every
evening till further notice.
Scene 7. COAST OF THE IsLAND OF LILLIPUT (as Scene 2), and
re-appearance of the Flying Island ; from which Mrs. Gulliver takes
a flying leap into Gulliver's arms —" We may be happy yet." Our
old acquaintance, the Rock, introduces another old acquaintance,
the Genius of Pantomime, Transformation of the Characters.

Harlequin .. • ...Mr. Wieland. I Clown ...... Mr. T. Matthews.
Pantaloon ...... Mr. Howell. Columbines ..Miss Hicks and
Miss Lonsdale.

Scene 8. END OF COVENTRY-STREET, PICCADILLT.—Writing In
Eight Lessons. The Experimental Squadron, with Hornpipe accom-
paniment. A Sudden Peep into Leicester-square. Wenham Lake
Ice. Sliding made easy. A great Fall in Provisions—viz. fish, fruit
and vegetables.
Scene 9. CLOWN'S LODGINOS.—Bed and Window change sides, and
Clown " goes down the middle and up again ;" great virtue in a Wan-
ket. "To be well shaken before taken." The principle of elongation
"Carried out." Clown is tossed up, and Harlequin comes down
" heads."

Scene 10. EXTERIOR OF GROCERS, FISHMONGERS, AND WINE MER-
CHANTS' SHOPS.—Two active lads, versus active clothes-horse. Cask
of West India Produce and barrelled natives. Ladders ad infinitum,
Putting up the shutters—the wrong shop. Try again. Ditto re-
peated. Great change on the premises, and " business removing."
Scene 11. IlicuoaTE-HILL, with extensive view of the neighbour-
hood of London. Railways remember the 30th November. Grand
Railway Steeple-chase to the Board of Trade. Arrival of engines
from all the country round. " A clear course and no titvour." Off
they go. Clown and Pantaloon in difficulties, and ending in a "dis-
solution of partnership."
Scene 12. FLEET-STREET DURING THE REPAIRS, with Glass Shop,
Tinman's, and Railway Printing-office. Railway Prospectus and
Provisional Committee; publishing made easy. Orders to any
amount punctually attended to. The Great Guy for 1845. Great
battue of stags ; "they come—they come." No thoroughfare. The
shortest cut to the Board of Trade, producing a great smash among
the crockery.
Scene 13. EXTERIOR OF THE BOARD OF TRADE, and Probable Ge-
neral Railway Terminus.
Scene 14. WATCHMAKERS' AND BOOKSELLERS' Suiors.—Teaching
the young idea how to shoot. Illustrated London Noose. A " pinch
of curry powder." Watch on a new movement. Queen's Visit to
Germany, and all eyes directed to
Scene 15. TUE CITY OF COLOGNE, as it appeared on her Majesty's
arrival.

Owing to this great attraction, immediate application should be
made to JOHN PARSONS, Box Book-keeper.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART-
ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farrell ; Young Rapid, Mr. Hudson ;
Frank Oatland, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessy Gatland, Miss Julia Bennett.
To be followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER
WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren ; Dray-
ton, Mr. Tilbury; Langley, Mr. Stuart; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. E.
Yarnold; Susan, Mrs. Stanley.
To conclude with a Grand New Extravaganza, entitled TIIE BEE
AND THE ORANGE TREE; or, The Four Wishes. Principal
Characters by Mr. lludson, Mr. James Bland, 3lr. Caulfield, Mr.
Clark, Miss P. Horton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caulfield, and Mrs.
Stanley.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.

Immense Success of " The Cricket on'the Hearth"—Tremendous 111

of " The Enchanted Horse."
THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH: A FAIRY TALE
OF HOME.

The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. Meadows,
Mr. F. Vining, Mrs. Keeley, Miss M. Keeley, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
Dawson, Miss Howard, Miss Forster, and Miss Turner.
After which will be produced a New Grand Romantic extravaganza,
entitled THE ENCHANTED HORSE; or, Prince Fireuz Schah of
Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs.
Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c.; Mes-
dames Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New Extravaganza, entitled JEAMES, THE
RAILROAD FOOTMAN OF BERKELEY-SQUARE. Jeames Plush,
Mr. Compton.

To which will be added THE BRIGAND.
To conclude with a New Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE
KEY OF THE KINGDOM; or, HARLEQUIN AND THE FAIRY
BLUE BELL. Harlequin, Mr. W. H Harvey; Columbine, Miss
13ullen ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Panta►loon, Mr. T. Hill.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
SOLE LESSEE AND MANAGERESS, MISS KATE HOWARD.

THIS EVENING
Will he presented a Domestic Drama of powerful interest, entitled
THE LADY OF ST. TROPEZ. George Maurice, Mr. J. Browne ;
Count D'Aubrieve, Mr. Brookes ; Hortense (the Lady of St. Tropez),
Miss L. Melville.
To be followed by THE DAY AFTER TIIE WEDDING. Col.
Freelove, Mr. Walter Lacy; Lady Freelove, Miss L. Melville.
And concluding with the new Pantomime, unapproachable for glee
and grandeur, called FORTUNATUS ; or, THE MAGIC CAP.
Fortunatus, Miss Hamilcon ; Prince Megrim, Mr. Cockrill ; Fairy
Queen, Miss Bromley ; Harlequin, Mr. Sinythers ; Pantaloon, Mr
Charles; Clown, Mr. Jefferini ; Columbine, Miss Laidlaw.

ASTLErS ROYAL AM PHITHISATRE OF ARTS.
rROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTT.
Extraordinary Treat to the Holiday Visitors.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the novel Drama of THE PYRENEES. In
which 31. Wellen's celebrated Dog Emile will appear, whose per-
formances at the Cirque Olympique, Paris, has drawn crowded
houses for the last nine months.
New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and
English Artistes.
After which will be repeated a New Grand Comic Equestrian Pan-
tomime, called HARLEQUIN DON QUIXOTTE DE LA MANCHA ;
or. Sancho Panza, and Dulcinea of Mhos°, with new Scenery,
Dresses, Mechanical Changes, &c.

ILLUSTRATED BY LEECH, AND WITH A PORTRAITI OF
ALFRED CROWQUILL, FROM TILE ORIGINAL PAINTNG
BY M. BA UGNI ET.
pilCe 01

-11DIENTLEY'S MISCELLANY,
Will contain
BRIAN O'LINN ; OR, LUCK IS EVERYTHING.
By W. 11. MAXWELL, Esq.,
Author of "Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c.
• With an Illustration by Leee:i.
Chapter 3—limisturk—Boyhood of Brian O'Lynn—Misther Toole
changes his Profession.
Chapter 4—More Passages in a young Life—Love will be the Lord of
all —Loss of a Protector,
Early Years of a Veteran of the Army of Westphalia, between
1805.-14.
An Auecdotical Account of Play, Houses of Play, and Play-men—
Gaming, Gaming-houses, and Gamesters.
The Jolly Miller, and Jack and Gill—Monkish Ballads.
Lolterings along Love Passages. By Everard Clive.
There was a Time in Infancy.
The Retreat to Corunna—Anecdotes of the Peninsular War, from the
Recollections of Rifleman llarris, edited by II Curling.
A REAL COUNTRY GHOST STORY.
BY ALBERT SMITH.
:Memoirs of Alfred Crowquill, with a Portrait, from the Original
Painting. By M. Baugniet.
The Avenger's Witness against Murder—Sleeplesss because Criminal
Retirement—The Gaol-Chaplain.
The Picture, a Slight Sketch. By Alfred Crowquil
The Duke and his Portraits —Return from Hawking—A Baronial Hall
is the Olden Time—The School—New Engravings.
The Death of Sappho.
Quacks and Quackery. By a Physician.
OUTPOURINGS. By D. CANTER.
(LIBATION IX.) •
The Histrionic Art—Cooke—Knight--The Unpopular Tragedian—
Amateur Actors—Earl Fitzhardinge—Major Dawkins—Lord Fre-
derick Lennox, &c.—Amateur Theatricals—The Unwashed Othello
—Kean at the Louvre—Stage Fright—The Performances, &c.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE
No.CCCLXIII. for JANUARY, 1846.

CONTENTS:-

I. Sir William Follett.—ll. Let never Cruelty dishonour Beauty.
—III. The Last Hours of a Reign. Conclusion.—lV. A Campaign in
Texas.—V. The Mother and her Dead Child.—Vl. The Greek and
Romantic Drama.—Vll. My College Friends. No. 3.—V111. The
Student of Salamanca. Part 3.—IX. Sicilian Sketches—Syracu3iana.
—X. esthetics of Dress—Military Costume.—Xl. From Goethe.—
XII. Christmas Carol, 1845.—X111. The Crisis.

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THE WEATHER.—Sox OFFICE, DEC. 30.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 48 ; Noon, 50.
BAROMETER., 29.8.—Wnir. S.W., hazy.

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