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LAW INTELLIGE'NCE.-(TIIIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
~t,.llleNTAGtit.- was instructed to request his
°rash, p
to hear a petition, under the following cir-
ctirostaeces. Two young men had absconded from
the country with property to the amount of 2,0001., tt •
h 6 to go to America; the creditors followed,
.14 the father had interceded, and requested them
to
stay the striking of a docket against them. In
.°ll4equence of this, the creditors had refrained from
Proceeding, but the fatker, in violation of good faith,
had struck a docket against them himself, and the
Pr3Yer of the petition was, that that docket might be
itaYed.
Ills Lont4sulP said he would hear the petition,
Jilt did not appoint any day.
A WARD Or CAURT.-KRIDLAND JEFFREY.
It Will be recollected that an injunction had been
Nated in this case to restrain a young lady from
Illa
tri rryina, or from having intercourse tending to ma-
tl, Many, with a ward of Court, who was stated to
~e, 40 years of age. The young gentleman was also
itloined from marrying.
Amotion was subsequently made to discharge
the injunction on the part of the fair defendant, but
zrthe request of Mr. Sugden, his Lordship con-
iinted to hear the matter in his private room, rind,
I report speaks truth, he was there entertained for
,*o' days with a most exquisite specimen of village
caudal. The facts, tide believe, are these--
4111 e parties reside in the same town, and
lived upon terms of mere visiting ac-
iptlkintance. The young gentleman has a fortune
tt'Llbout two thousand a year, and is therefore na-
f:,ll.4llY enough an object of special care and watch-
iLliess to his doatiug mother. Happening to re-
tr home, after an absence which his mother, who
course never wished to have him far a moment
Hof her sight, thought unusually long, he was
stioned by her as to where he had been roam-
-1:!, " I suspect where you have been," (said his
abt4,er), " you have been to see Miss
(replied the spoiled child.) " I love her,
me but I'll marry her." This really was
to be borne. It was uttered in a tone of the
4;4t determined sincerity, partaking strongly of de-
n i4,ce) for it is averred that he actually put his arms
Ikbo, and afterwards snapped his fingers. His
wi°lther giving up all hope of beingable to restrain the
of ,f,41 youth, had recourse to that legal papa, whom one
t,iti'Lle fictions of our Constitution provides in cer-
th eases for such children as have property ; for if
liar be not blessed witn that advantage, if they
e not wherewithal to furnish grist for the mill,
p:aY for references to the Master, and so on, the
Th: dear things must take care of themselves.—
Lord Chancellor, thus appealed to by the
oth t~er, to prevent his ward from committing ma-
stat'ny, interfered in the manner we have before
The father of the young lady was also in-
aq vtl in the injunction, and enjoined from doing
, thing which could be construed into an encou-
r:.getaent of a connivance at the marriage of the
in,,td• Nay, so strict were the terms of the
,Aaction, that the family of the young lady
fc prevented from going into company by
L"ring that they might thus unhappily meet
e Ward, and that some expression of theirs might
; tortured into a contempt of Court. The conse-
n
once was, that they were obliged to leave the
hwri, and they felt this hardship the more acutely,
th thq utterly disclaimed any designs against either
the ward or his fortune. It was even sworn that
4,.e Young gentleman was paying his addresses to
'other lady at the very time that he alarmed his
4100,
—er by this declaration, which led to the present
h,rtoceedings. It was maceover stated that lie was
rilleh*iven to saying very civil things to ladies, and
Was humbly represented to his lordship, that if
t Were to issue an injunction against every lady of
Thom his ward spoke in terms of love, he would
.°Oll be called upon to grant a general interdict
ztinst all the lasses in Devonshire. The mother,
''Wever, still had her fears, and his Lordship was
Iderstood, in this state of things, to promise that
wonld so modify the terms of the injunction, as
,at
it should effectually prevent the ward from
"trying, whilst, at the same time, it should not
:titinue to be a cause of inconvenience to the young
IY and her family.
THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.)

HAY 31ARKE.12S—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
ST. JAMES'S.
''',la X. s. X. s. X. s. X. s.
Pl 4 ndNfeacLHay 3 oto 3 5 Clover Hay 1 15 to 5 15
ykl Ditto 315 5 0 Oat .I.traw ll4 113
'ItZ,4BB Hay 915 5 0 Wheat Vito llB 2 2
—e4dow Hay 3 5 310
, best Aleadow I,lay sold in a few instances at an advance of
1-rtxra,w generall 4s. per load ; in prices of middling and in-
ti; ~eadow andyl,lover Nay no alteration. A limited supply,
- steady trade.
SMITHFIELD.
~., _
.`tandlq------.-, 4—L- £. a. X. a. X. a.
4k441 ead..ay2 15to 3 5 Cloy. Hay generally 4 otos 10
Ali •liittO 115 415 Do. extra fine 0 0 6 0
YrUsHaY 315 415 Oat Straw
R. .4_ 114 118
,ty,,-.4,,,,uw Hay 310 315 Wheat Ditto 1 18 2 0
,it,'' z`• per load higher than last quoted ; in prices of other
,t. no alteratioN. Supply rather limited, and trade a little

CITY MARKETS, TWO O'CLOCK.
St CARS.—The market is steady this
',;(,:4g, and there is a moderate quantity of business
,°4k' at full prices. The deliveries from the Docks last
"irll'ere again more extensive than at the same time last
i"Y about 1,900 casks.
Sucans.—There is very little doing at pre-

`41141/41.1a Suciats.—The market continues in the same
litate as last week, with rather a better supply of the
C,44 middling goods ; prices are barely supported.
sal -Pkt
qt. t.—Only one small parcel was offered by public
1'1'14441 rnorning, which went off at full prices, viz. real
tlg Jamaica as high_as 669. 6d.
Thi

Austrian and. French Ambassadors had
Fctti:'"'s with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday at the
"4<i-office, Downing-street. Mr. CROKER had also a
pos with the Noble Earl yesterday.
Lianish Minister had a conference with
°kat Munaar yesterday, at the Colonial-office, and
't444lacted business at the office of the Secretary of
r Foreign Affairs.
'ass be Alarquis de PALMELLA transacted busi-
-4:44Y t the Foreign-office, Downing-street.
uaY Was the birth-day of the Duchess of
111:,4,1 her Royal Highness completed her 42d year.
terit, Grace Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND
T dinner at Alnwick Castle,
ON a numerous party to
uuth4Y last. Amongst the company were her Grace
Iblopf Lrans, Lord and Lady RAVENSWORIN_, and
Ighsses LumEr.L, CHARLES BOSANQUET,,Eq.,
444 Sheriff for Northumberlami), and his Lad }, Ir.
Ratn, of Newcastle, &c. And on Friday last
%tertairied the officers of the latePERCr Tenantry,
'14140t 116 Grace was many years Lieut.-Colonel Com-
.A tthen Earl PECY.
?4,PYriglill,nt* R
edition of the Waverley Novels, the
I"4_,s/A117.,f which were purchased at th
e sale of Mr.
utlef!ti, property for above 8,0001. is about to be
4r W 4
With illustrations, engraved from pictures by
W4l. it NEAvurg, and other distinguishol artists.
rane4t dye that they may now be considered as ra,
oral 4,Zift,ted beauties, and therefore need a little more
to set them off.—Edinburgh Observer.
3014 it.ePorted that Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE
It•Ltr;:k shares in Covent Garden Theatre, to Mr.
Aed ket We hope it is true, and that this accotn-
i His is thereby rid of a tediously protracted law-
trd, E, future energies will, we trust, be directed
l'irttertt.3 Profession, of which he is so distinguished an
he
ttr,etl„ 'thesee of the King's Theatre intends to
wbih p ensuing season with an entirely new Opera,
::!,";_oNt will be the novel Prima Donna, and
sirq ZDC3IELLI will likewise perform. This
It,att.,,
I: eclat to the Opera on the opening of the
d pax jeit has generally been deferred until March
'oNTAG., and AIALLIBRAN GARCIA will SUC-
\Ar'44°Nt.
I ' h`Ved
~hip
v. at Siendy, the latter part of June,
`'and 7iverse, Captain CRAIDY, frem Stornaway,
vet , ((With 46t 'passengers. The Halifax Recorder
fix f
Sueh was the crowded state of the passengers,
qiiriituilies were obliged to live in the long
boat n
't the whole passage., Caledonian Mercury.°

THE PENINSULAR WAR.

FURTHER OBSRRVATIONS,ON SOME PASSAGES

LIEUT.-VOL. NAPIER'S
HISTORY OF TIIIZ PENINSULAR WAR,

to( CAMONE) By

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NAPIER'S REPLY,

BY PERCY, VISCOUNT STRANGFORD.

1. Since the publication of my " Observations, &c."
Colonel. Napier has thought proper to reply to them. I
lament that my statement has failed to be as couvincing to
him as I hoped it would have been to all impartial persons,
and that I have not succeeded in removing his persuasion
that he is better informed of the transactions at Lisbon in
1807, than those who were on tl.s, spot, and who were
officially employed in conducting them.
2. Colonel Napier begins by adverting to the twenty-
third number of the " Edinburgh Review," as " a speci-
men of the manner in which party-writers handle such
ettbjects"—and yet, in the same page, and " in support of
Isis claim to the character of an impartial historian," be
adds, " that he might justly have used them" (i. e. the
representations of party-writers) "as an historical record."
He says, moreover, that he " might so have used them,
"because they have never been contradicted."
3. It is, very true that I did not take the trouble to con-
tradict those statements, nor to notice any of the anony-
mous attacks which were made upon use at the time. But
Colonel Napier must allow one to think that a very dif-
ferent measure of attention was due to charges made under
the sanction of his name, from that which I felt disposed
to yield to the imputations of anonymous writers.
1. Colonel Napier has thus, it seems, waved his right
of using, as " an historical record," the party-statement
in the " Edinburgh Review." I fear that I have not
gained much by the Colonel's forbearance. I have referred
to the article in question, and I de not find that the au-
thor, however zealous a partisan, goes so far out of his
way'as to impute to me such an action as the suppression
of the merits and services of another person, for the sake of
enhancing my own. In truth, the writer of that article
appears to have been as ignorant as myself of the " vigo-
" rous and successful negociations of Sir Sidney Smith ;"
for, however unwilling to allow the merits of the Portu-
guese emigration to the British Government, or to its
agent, he certainly does any thing but ascribe it to that
distinguished Officer, whose name he only mentions i❑ re-
ference to the supposed assertion i❑ his dispatch " that he
" saw the hills covered with French troops"'—when, ac-
cording to the reviewer, " there was not a soldier of that
" nation within eighty miles of Lisbon." If, therefore,
Colonel Napier he entitled to consider the statements of
that writer as "historical records," when they affect ale,
he would be equally bound to consider them as such when
they affect Sir Sidney Smith. For my part I shall show,
and I presume that on his Sir Sidney Smith would Lave
no difficulty in showing, that they affect neither.
5. In Colenel Napier's favourite form of a note, he in-
sinuates, (p. 4,) that I must have mistaken the day of my
arrival in London, because, " Capt. Yeo thought it was on
" Sunday the 20th, and not on Saturday the 19th of
" December." The following document, which appeared
in all the newspapers of the time, will prove, not only the
day, but almost the kour, on which I reached London.
" Foreign-Office, half-past two, p. m.
December 19, 1807.
" 31Y Loan,—l have the honour to acquaint your
" Lordship that Lord Strangford, his Majesty's Minister
" Plenipotentiary to the Court of Lisbon, is just arrived,
" having left the Portuguese fleet on the sth instant, between
" Madeira and the Western Isles, under convoy of a British
" squadron, with a fair wind, steering for the Brazils.
(Signed) " GEO. CANNING."
To the Right Hen, the Lord Mayor.
The matter is, in itself, of little importance, except as a
fresh proof of the mistakes to which a too confident reliance
upon hear-say evidence may sometimes give rise.
G. Capt. Yeo thought also, (as appears from Mr. C. D.
Smith's letter, in Col. Napier's Appendix,) that " what I
,g wrote at Salt-hill, in his presence, was a Dispatch." I
do recollect to have written two hurried notes in the bar-
room of the Croak Inn at that place, while we were changing
hOrses there. One of them (still in existence) was ad-
dressed to my agent, stating, that I should be in town in a
few hours, and directing apartments to be taken for. an e—
the other was to the dearest of my personal friends, to in-
form hint that I had arrived, and that I should call on bins
immediately after waiting on Mr. Canning. Those notes
were forwarded by the King's messenger, Sylvester, from
whom I parted at Salt-hill, having no further occasion for
his services when so near the end of my journey.
7. That Capt. Yeo should have seriously believed, and
gravely acknowledged himself to have believed, that two
notes, written under such circumstances of haste, and in
the public bar-room of an inn, were official dispatches, is,
at least, very surprising, and does, I think, demonstrate
the somewhat remarkable facility with which those who do
me the honour to animadvert on my proceedings, fall inte
mistakes and misconstructions respecting them.
S. Colonel Napier, however, seems now convinced that'
Capt. Yeo's representation, (if, indeed, that officer could
ever have seriously made it,) was altogetl cr erroneous ; and
he takes the new course, with which my ow❑ frank and
voluntary avowal has apparently furnished him, of throwing
over my Dispatch the suspicion of having been fabricated
for some unknown but unworthy purpose, by insisting tha
it was " written at Mr. Canning's house in Bruton-street.'
_ _

9. I have already admitted that this Dispatch was, as far as
manual operation was concerned, undoubtedly written in Bru-
ton-street, but I repeat, that it was a mere compilation and
arrangement of my original dispatches, all and every one of
which were written and dated on board the Hibernia ;
that it was so arranged and compiled under the special
directions of the Secretary of State—that it contained no-
thing that was not contained in them, and omitted nothing
but that which it world have been equally cruel and absurd
to have proclaimed to the world. I was at the time, and
I still am, decidedly of opinion, that Mr. Canning was
quite justified In desiring that arrangement, and that he
would have been quite unjustifiable if he had needlessly ex-
posed individuals to the vengeance of Junot, or had gratui-
tously informed the French Commander, that such or
such forts in the Tagus night be successfully attacked,
with such or such a number of troops ; for, in tke sup-
pression of such facts and such circumstances, and in the
omission of such remarks as were likely to offend the So-
vereign to whom I was about to be accredited, (and in this
degree only,) did my published despatch vary from the
,originals out of which it was compiled. And I did then,
and I do still, consider that I should have been snore liable
to the imputation of affixing to my despatch an erroneous
date, if I had dated it from London, than by retaining the
date under which every part, I might almost say, every
sentence, of it was originally written. Colonel Napier
terms the omissions in that despatch, " a reasonable bill
of exceptions, truly !"—I repeat, that it would have been
both cruel and absurd, not to have made such exceptions.
10. After these explanations, (the last which I shall
feel myself bound to give upon this subject') I leave Col.
Napier to pursue, or not, his intention of stating, in the
next edition of his " History," that my despatch,
" though dated the 29th November, his Majesty's ship
" .Hibernia, off the Tagus, was really written on the 19th
"of December, at Mr. Canning's house, Burton-street,
" London." But, in fact, whether it were written at
Salt-hill, or in Burton-street, or off the Tagus, or at any
other
place which it may please Colonel Napier hereafter
to discover, has nothing to do, either with the main ques-
tion—the truth of my despatch--or with the secondary
question, which Colonel Napier has been pleased to raise,
that of the respective shares of Sir Sidney Siaith and of
myself, in the Emigration of the Portuguese Royal Family.
11. Colonel Napier places in juxta-position two pas.:
sages, the one from my despatch, the other from my " Ob-
servations ;" and he appears to believe that he has detected
a contradiction between, them, because in the former I
state, that " I proceeded to Lisbon on the 27th,' and in
the letter, that " I arrived at Lisbon on the Qtith of No-
vember." There is no contradiction whatever in these
two statements. I did leave the Hibernia ito proceed to
Lisboa, on the evening of the 27th, and I did reach that
city on the night of the 28th of November. The log of
the Confiance will explain what was the state of the wind
and the weather at .the time, and, consequently, why I did
nneorteauti a
Tiv:asolonnuerre.
canldt
isdvouto have anticipated this simpleld, I think, have heen snore ge-
and natural explanation, than to have at once assumed that
the apparent variation between the two passages was an
incorrect statement of facts.
12. Colonel Napier says, however, that " the pith
of the question is," that "my printed despatch con-
veys an erroneous idea of my personal proceedings." I
deny most distinctly, that either Mr. Canning or myself
had any intention of producing such a result. I wrote the
several despatches out of which the single
published des-
patch was compiled, with a recent and vivid impression of
all the facts which they described. That description Was
a true and faithful one. It seemed to me, while I was
writing it, to be aa accurate statement of all that I had

said and done, and~it was honestly designed to convey tint
same to the minds of others. I meant no deceit—Mr.

Canning meant no deceit; arid, never suspecting that de-

Sir Sidney Smith does not say so,
though the Re-
viewer attributes this expression to him. His words are
merely " the French army ou the hills,"

. .
salt could be imputed to us, t was naturally satisfied with
what I knew to be the truth, and took little pains to guard
against the interpretations which the hypercriticism of
party might, subsequently, fasten on my worfls. It is
hard, that after a lapse of twenty-one years, I should be
held responsible for those interpretations, the possibility of
which I could not, at the time, imagine—which I, conse-
quently, took no care to prevent—and which, even now
that they have been developed, I protest that Ido not un-
derstand. It is hard, too, that they were not brought for-
ward, in this substantive form at least, until after the
death of Mr. Canning, whose character is perhaps as much
implicated in them as mine, and who would no doubt have
repelled them, with far greater powers assuredly than I
possess, but certainly with not less of honest indignation
than I feel.
13. I have said that I did not mean to " convey an
" erroneous impression of my proceedings" in the Tagus_
in other words, to represent my interview with the Prima.
Regent as having caused, or even as having influenced, ha,
Royal Highness's departure. I will show that I could not
have had such an intention. Putting aside the obvious
question of what possible utility, either--to Mr. Canning
or to myself, -it veuld have been for me to have fabricated
an mfaithful statement, or for him to have not merely con-
nived at, but actually enjoined it (since whatever altera-
tions were made in my original despatches were made un-
der his orders, as the King's Secretary of State for the
Foreign Department), I would ask, whether it is to be
supposed that the Ministers did not read Sir Sidney Smith's
despatches as well as mine? and that if any discrepancy
existed between them, (which I boldly assert, in justice t.
the Admiral, as well as to myself, could not have been the
case), they would not have instantly inquired into, and I
cleared up the doubts to which such discrepancy might
have given rise? Is it to be supposed that with the task
of such an inquiry before my eyes, I should have ventured
on a fabrication which was to be attended with inevitable
disLawery ? Is it credible that Sir Sidney Smith could
have been so unjust to his own fame, and so unconscious of
his own deserts, as to have omitted in his despatches the
important fact, (if it had been a fact), that to his negotia-
tions was due one of the most interesting events of mo-
dern times, if those negociations 'tad been, as assuredly
they were not, the cause of that event ?
14. Colonel Napier states, that " Sir Sidney Smith's
" story" runs thus " The whole question of their
" departure, or remaining prisoners to Junot, turned on
"my opening the door again, on my single judg-
" ment, after it had been shut by the expulsion of Lord
" Strangford from Lisbon, (and the consequent beginning
" of a state of war,) and my exercising my single disere-
" firm in not allowing that state to continue."
15. Where this " story of Sir Sidney Smith" (which
Colonel Napier inserts with the marks of quotation) is to
be found, I really do not know. Since the day (the 22d
of December, 1507,) when the despatches of the Rear-
Admiral and mine were simultaneously published in the
London Gazette, I, at least, have never seen nor heard of
any complaint on the part pf Sir Sidney Smith of any
inaccuracy in my statements, and I cannot doubt that if
the Rear-Admiral had seen any thing to complain of, he
would have lost no time in setting his Majesty's Govern-
ment right, by explaining whatever he might have
thought to be inaccurate. On the passage, however, now
quoted by Colonel Napier, whencesoever it may have been
taken, I shall make a few observations.

16. Undoubtedly, as Commander of a powerful British
Squadron, Sir Sidney Smith might have prevented the
Prince Regent front putting to sea, or might have captured
his Royal Highness, his Family, and Fleet, or might have
permitted them to be captured by General Junot. But
the question is, whether, if he had done so, and if he had
refused to " open the door," he would have acted according
to the tenour of his instructions, which provided for every
possible case and contingency? Whether, in short, he
could, in virtue of those instructions, have ventured to op-
pose the egress of the Royal Fleet ? And if, under his
instructions, he could not, he dared not have acted other-
wise than as he did, most properly, act, what becomes of
that exercise of " his single judgment," and of " hie single
" discretion," to which the Emigration is now attributed,
according to " Sir Sidney Smith's story," as told by Col.
,Napier?
17. The word " single" twice, and eonsewhat ostenta-
tiously employed in Colonel Napier's quotation, must be
meant as a denial that I either had, er could have had, any
share in the decision of these important affairs. I can only
say that my own instructions, and, to the best of my re-
membrance, those of the Rear-Admiral, enjoined us to
act in strict co-operation and communication : that Sir
Sidney Smith was ordered to shape all his proceedings
according to my advice ; and that, in fact, the most entire
and friendly concert and uuderstanding did, to the utmost
of my knowledge, belief, and recollection, subsist between
the Rear-Admiral and me, on every point connected with
those transactions. Sir Sidney Smith's instructions are,
I presume, upon record, and will prove, if referred to,
whether my impression on this subject be accurate or net.
But, in truth, Sir Sidney Smith's own published Des-
patches show, beyond the possibility of doubt, that there
must have existed a degree of concert between us, alto-
gether inconsistent with the meaning evidently implied by
the word " single," in the foregoing quotation.
18. Col. Napier then proceeds to affirm, that " my tune-
" tions ceased after my ignominious expulsion from Lisbon,"
and to inquire whether Sir Sidney Smith (lid net show to me
his letter to the Portuguese Minister, after he had signed
it, for the express purpose of proving to me that my au-
thority was at an mad. Of my " expulsion" from Lisbon
I will only say, that it was my own act and deed. I
thought it my duty to withdraw from a Court, the Mini-
sters of which had broken a promise to the King my
Sovereign, by' whatever circumstances of coercion that

breach of promise might have been occasioned.—Oft;
" ignominy" which accompanied my " expulsion," the
world will judge when assured, that the finest frigate in
the Portuguese navy was completely fitted up for my ac-
commodation, and was placed at my disposal without any
limitation as to time or distance. If I did not
avail myself of the courteous offer of the Portuguese
Government, it was simply because I did not think
it right so to do. I alone, therefore, am responsible
for whatever circumstances of " ignominy" may be
thought to have attended my depa-.ture from Lisbon. I
may, perhaps, be allowed to observe, that this very cir-
cumstance of the offer of a Portuguese ship of war is men-
tioned in my former pamphlet (par. 37.) though, singular
as it may appear, Colonel Napier, in reply to that pam-
phlet, and, of course, after having read it, speaks of my
being " driven ignominiously out of Lisbon, and forced to
" join the fleet in an open boat."

19. As to the circuitous contrivance by which Sir
Sidney Smith is represented to have " intimated to ate
" that my functions had ceased," I have not the most
distant recollection of its having been resorted to.—
There can be no doubt that my functions must, in one
sense of the word, have ceased, when I retired front the
Court to which I was accredited ; but that they had not
ceased in the sense in which Colonel /Napier uses the
term (i. e. as in relation to Sir Sidney Smith, and to
the transactions which took place after I came on board of
his ship), there is the public and irredra.gible proof of Sir
Sidney Smith's own Despatches, in the London Gazette
of the 22d of December, in which, while describing those
transactions, and the circumstances of my last visit to
Lisbon, the Rear-Admiral says, " The instructions we
" had received were acted upon to their full extent," &:e.
" Lord Strangford having received an acquiescence to the
" proposition which had been made by us," &c. "To
" adopt the means open to us," &c. " That confidence
" which his word of honour, as the King's Minister Pleni-
" potentiary," ice. " Our hopes and our expectations have
" been realized to the utmost extent," &c. Surely these pas-
sage•, both in themselves and in context with the whole of
the Dispatches, prove to a demenstration that Sir Sidney
Smith did not consider that he was acting " ly," or
that " my functions had ceased."

20. Colonel Napier observes that " I guessed well." It
is true that, several months before the emigration took place,
I did assure my Government, on evidence quite conclusive
to my mind, that the Prince Regent would embark for Bra-
zil so soon as two pre-supposed eases should occur (not so
soon as "either" of the two cases should occur, as Colonel
Napier most unaccountably states it), and that, day after
day, I continued to repeat those assurances, and, of course,
to endeavour, by all the means in my power, to make my
predictions good. It is true that Government gave the fullest
credit to them, and to the evidence on which they were
founded. And it is true that, when the two eases did ac-
tually occur, and that both of the conditions on which the
Prince had made his departure to depend, were com-
pleted, his Royal Highness did embark, and did thus jus-
tify my previous assurances to my Court. All this, ac-
cording to Colonel Napier, was "a guess. Be it so. In
the same manner, the result of any politic transaction
whatsoever, after having been foreseen and announced,
and matured by every effutt of unremitting diligence and
exertion, may be characterized as a fortunate "guess."
21. But Colonel Napier is pleased to state (p. 9),
that the Prince Regent's promise to emigrate de-
pended upou either of the following cases :—lst. "It
" the French should attempt to compel the Prince
" to violate the rights of British subjects in their
" persons or property. 2d. If an overwhelming French
" force should cross the frontier and take possession of the
" Portuguese fortresses,"—and he proceeds to infer that,
as his Royal Highness did not emigrate, when the first
of these contingences took place, he had no iutption to I

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fulfil his engagement. It is really worthy of notice in this
place, that I did; in my pamphlet, most distinctly state,
that the. emigration was to depend also on the invasion of
Portugal by the French. My words, though Colonel
Napier seems to have so strangely overlooked them (and
that, too, on a point which is the very gist of the case),
are as follow : " I found the Prince fully determined to
" retire from Portugal whenever •the pre•supposcvl
" event should occur; but equally so, not to carry his
" purpose into effect until his kingdom should have been
" actually invaded, and a case thus made out which
" should reconcile that measure to his sense of religion and
" duty, and justify him (to use his own emphatic ex-
" pression) to God and to his people, for abandoning the
" land of his ancestors." (Par 26.)
22. Of Colonel Napier's allusions to the Americans—to
their lack of red ribbons—to Lord Liverpool—to the Wa-
terloo medal—to the march to Paris—to Mr. Canning's
speeches—and, above all, to the somewhat novel contri-
vance of dividing the Order of the Bath "between" three
individuals, I will say nothing, as I cannot discover that
these pleasantries, however ingenious and excellent, bear,
in the slightest degree on the question originally at issue
between their author and myself.
23. Colonel Napier asserts, that time unexpected declara-
tion in the Moniteur of the 2d of November, " that the
" House of Braganza had ceased to reign," was the proxi-
mate cause of the Emigration. It may tend to improve
the historical accuracy of Colonel Napier's work, that I
should inform him that there is no allusion whatsoever to
the House of Braganza in the Moniteur of the 2d of
November. But in a minor and scarcely official paper,
the Journal de l'Empire, of the SI stof October, there ap-
peared some remarks on Lis Majesty's declaration relative
to tie Copenhagen Expediticn. In this long paper,
which was copied into the Moniteur of the Ist of Na.
vember, there is the following passage describing the sup-
posed fatal policy of England towards her allies. " Eng-
" land would have lost (or ruined) benmark, if that court
" had yielded to fear. It is thus that she 'will have lost
" (or ruined) Portugal, and that the House of Braganza,
"if it makes common cause with England, will have
" ceased to reign'`." There is a wide difference between
this conditional menace of the Journal de l'Empire, and
the deesitivesentence which Col. Napier represents Buena-
parte to have pronounced ex cathedra, " that the House
of Braganza bad ceased to reign." In truth, this quota-
tion from the Journal de l'Ernpire'is not at all stronger
than a passage, previously inserted in the Moniteur, under
the rubric of Lisbon, and the date of the 4th of October,
which states, (in reference to the reluctance of the Prince
Regent to unite himself with France) that "an act of al-
" liance between a Continental sovereign and England, is
" equivalent to an act of abdication." -f Col. Napier must also
permit me to remind him, that almost the very same
words had been previously pronounced by Buonaparte
himself, early in October, to the whole of the corps di-
plematique assembled at a fete given by, or to, the
Queen of Pfulland, and that they were publicly known
at Lisbon on the 23d of the same month. If, there-
fore, the emigration of the Royal House of Braganza
~vas the mere instantaneous result of the panic which
this declaration inspired, why did they not emigrate
when they first had notice of it on the 23d of October ?
Simply because both of the two cases on which the Prince
all along made the emigration to depend, had not then oc-
curred.
24. Col. Napier says (p. 10.) that Buonaparte "rarely
" broke his political promises." Fortunately for himself;
the Prince Regent of Portugal was not of Col. Napier's
opinion—au opinion which is, I believe somewhat uncom-
mon, though it assuredly finds its proper place in an
" History," the second sentence of which declares, that
" all the wars of France, up to the treaty of Tilsit, were
essentially defensive."
25. It is stated by Colonel Napier, that "there is good
" historical ground for believing that the resolution of the
Council held at Mafra, on the 24th November was by
"no means final." Without pretending to be so well
qualified as Colonel Napier to judge of what constitutes
" historical" evidence, I must be allowed to think that
both the Council and its resolution were final, for this
plain reason, that no other Council whatever was held
afterwards, and that the resolution adopted at the Council
of the 24th was executed within four and twenty hours
after it had been taken. And I repeat that it was so taken
before Sir Sidney Smith's letter (to which the determina-
tion of time Council is so strangely attributed) was re-
ceived, or could have been received at Alafra. In point of
fact, time Rear-Admiral's letter was never laid before that
Council, and might just as well have remained in Sir Sid-
ney Smith's desk, fer any share which it had, or could
have bad, in producing their decisions.
26. Colonel Napier indulges in some sarcastic allusions
to the terms of eulogy in which Mr. Canning spoke of the
Emigration, which it suits Colonel Napier to describe as a
mere " running away." Surely Colonel Napier should be
the last to suppose that a retreat before a French army is
necessarily a " running away," however deplorable (to
use his own words) the " vacillation, confusion, and dis-
" tress," with which, unhappily, it may hare been at-
tended.

27. Colonel Napier concludes with stating three ques-
tions, adding, however, that he " will not ask them." I
do not understand this distinction. But as these questions
are placed on Colonel Napier's pages, I must take leave to
consider them as having been asked, and to place the an-
swers on mine.

28. In the first place, it was no " mistake to have as-
serted," (as I again a►sert,) that I " accompanied the
Prince in his passage over the bar of Lisbon." I mean,
that I was in the very same vessel with his Royal High-
ness ; and not merely that I attended him, while I was is
another ship. I did so accompany his Royal Highness,
(i. e. I was in the very same vessel with him) till tire junc-
tion of the two squadrons, and till I went on board the
British flag-ship, whence I returned with Sir Sidney
Smith into the Royal Presence.
29. In the second place, with reference to the question,
whether " the Captain of the Hibernia was not the first
" Englishman that the Prince met with, from the time of his
" quitting Lisbon, until after he had cleared the mouth of the
" river," it would he certainly incorrect to say that I was the
first Englishman whom he met, inasmuch as I was actually
on hoard his ship. Who was the first other Englishman
whom his Royal Ilighnoss met on that day, I do not recol-
lect, nor do I suppose that Colonel Napier can be at all so-
licitous to know. He means, no doubt, to insinuate that
the Captain of the .Hibernia preceded me. That I deny;
I was on hoard the Prince Regent's ship when she suet the
_Hibernia.

SO. In the third place, and with respect to the assertion!
on this subject attributed to the Prince Regent, and to the
" surprise" which his Royal Highness is said to have testis
fief, when in Brazil, at the representations contained in what
Colonel Napier now thinks proper to term my " Bruton-
street Dispatch, I will beg leave to cite the following pas-
sages from a letter which was addressed to me some days
ago, by a gentleman of the highest reputation for integrity
and honour, who preceded oie in my mission to Rio de
Janeiro, who, up to the time of my arrival there, was in
daily intercourse with the Prince Regent, of the most un-
reserved and confidential kind, and with whom it is quite
natural to suppose that his Royal Highness must have
fully and frequently discoursed on so important and so
recent an event as that in which he had just been the
principal actor. The following, then, are the words of
Sir Francis Hill :

" In my many conversations with his Royal High-
" ness, respecting his departure from Lisbon in 1507,
" he never expressed to me, nor appeared to entertain,
" any opinion at all unfavourable to the accuracy of
" the statement given in your printed dispatch of the cir-
" curnstances of that transaction. He never intimated

any surprise in consequence of any part of that statement.
" And he never denied to me the fact which you describe
" in it, Of your having accompanied his Royal Highness on
4‘ his passage over the Bar of Lisbon."
31. Colonel Napier must permit me to think that such
evidence as the above is of more authority than the hearsay
or hearsay conjectures of the " passengers in Sir Graham
" Moore's ship,"—assisted though those conjectures may
hare been, by the "news and reports of the day."
Vide Sir Graham Aloore's Letter in Colonel Napier's
Appendix.
Harley-street, Aug. 12, 1828.
" Elle aurait perdu le Dannemarc, s'il avait cede a la
" crainte. C'est ainsi qu'elle perdra le Portugal, et que
" la liaison de Braganoe, si elle fait cause commute avec

" l'Angleterre, aura cess4 de regner."
11 est passie comae en proverbe, Tenn acte d'alli-
" :ince d'un Souverain du Continent, avec I'Angleterre,
" equivaut a un acte d'abdication."

Another series of " Tales of a Grandfather"
are, we hear, in preparation ; and the same indefatigable
author has also another Chronicle of the Canongate on the
anvil.--Editibur9k Observer.
TIIE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.--Under
this interesting head we have this week the heartfelt grati-
fication to announce that the harvest is proceeding prosper-
ously in the North of England, and that the weather Las
during the prestut moon improved very considerably, with
a prospect of continuance. The crops of corn generally
rather exceed those of an average year, and the corn
markets, though a little higher in London, continue steady
in the country. It was with difficulty that last week's
prices could be obtained in the Wakefield market of piter-
day,...-4eeds Mercury of Saturday.