The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-16 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A detachment belonging to the I'7.2th (die Prince
Wales's Royal Lancers) regiment, received orders to ear-
'hark on Saturday on hoard a Vessel in the River, for
burgh, on route to join the regiment at Piershill barrack~.
COMMANDING OFFICERS OF 1:1;11.1,17.Yr AND ENCINEEItS

ON Ti-;E HOME sTArioNs.

P.T11,1,1:31".
Northern—Licit t. • Co'. Sir H. D. Ilfss, K. C. B.
Kent—Major-Gen. Fisher, Woolwich ; Lieut.-Colodtl
Cleeve, Dover.
Sussex—Colonel Downman.

South-west—Colonel Pbillott.
Western—Lit•ut. •Colonel Py rn.
Jersey--21Iajor Cubist.
Guernsey—Capt. Richard King, North Britain; Lieut.
Colonel Lacy.
Ire!and—Major-General J. F. S. Smith.
ENGINEERS. _ _ _

Northern—Capt. J. M. Smith, London; Major Moody,
Waltham Abbey ; Lieut.-Col. Arnold, -Newcastle.
Eastern—Lieut.-Col. Fanshaw, Harwich.
. _

Kent—Lieut.-Col. Buchanan, Chatham ; Col. Jones,
Woolwich ; Capt. Oldfield, Gravesend; Lieut.-Col. Gos-
sett, Dover ; Major Reid, Exeter ; Major Emmett, Man-
chester ; Capt. R. Thompson, Sheerness ; Capt. M. C.
Dixon, Weedon ; Capt. Kitson, Liverpool; Capt. Haigh,
Glasgow.
Sussex, South-west—Lieut.•Col. Burgoyne.
Western—Colonel Birch.
Jersey—Lieut.-Col. Fyers.
Guernsey—Lieut.-Co!. Cardew.
North Britain—Colonel Thackeray.
Ireland—Vacant by the death of Lieut.-General Fyerr.

(From the Limerick Chronicle, Nov. 11.)

The six service companies of the 24th Regiment, under
Lieut.-Colonel Fleming, we are happy to learn, arrived out
at Quebec the 7th October, after a long passage, and were
thence conveyed up in steam boats to Montreal. The
65th Light Infantry will return to Cork in the transpot is
which conveyed out the 24th. This happy intelligence
dissipates the alarm entertained for the latter regiment.
The 66th regiment were inspected on the plains of Abra-
ham by Sir James Kempt, on the 3d October, and the
68th Regiment were inspected on the Bth, prior to their
embarkation.

The 66th Regiment at Quebec will change quarters
with the 24th at Montreal in May next.
Lieut. Herbert, 66th Regiment, came over a passenger
in the Thetis of this port, arrived in the Shannon from
Quebec.

Sir John Byng, Commander of the Forcers, attended by
his Aide-de-Camp, Lord George Hill, arrived at the
Palace, Kilkenny, on 'Wednesday evening, to dinner, where
they were met by the Marquis and Marchioness of Or-
monde, Sir John Harvey, Colonel M'Donald of the 92d
Regiment, Majors Winchester, Rose, 84c. &e. Oa Thurs-
day the 92d Regiment, were inspected in the Barrack-
square. This distingui•ed regiment perthrmed a variety
of military evolutions with such skill and precision as to
call forth the marked praise of the Commander of the
Forces.

Viscount Lorton, and Major-General Sir 'Thomas Ar-
buthnot, (lined with the officers of the depot of the 66th
regiment, at Boyle, o❑ Monday, when the General ex-
pressed himself in highly complimentary terms to the
officer commanding.
The Light Company of the 37th Regiment marched on
Thursday, from Enniskillen for Fivemiletown.
Monthly returns were received at the Horse Guards on
Saturday from the following Regiments at Gibraltar and
in the Mediterranean-10th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 23d, 28th,
42d, 43d, 51st, 73d, 80th, 90th, and 94th. The 10th
Regiment has exchanged quarters with the 90th; the for-
mer is now at Zante, and the latter at Corfu.
A subaltern of the 17th Regiment of Foot, and also one
of the 57th Regiment, with 29 mess of the 17th, 3lst, and
57th, have received orders to embark on board the Mer-
maid, as a guard on convicts for Botany Bay.
The Serjeants of the 60th Rifles, gave a splendid dinner
at the New Barracks, on Saturday evening, to all the non-
commissioned officers in the garrison. The Serjeant-
Major in the chair.
A draft of 15 men from the 62d Regiment, whose time
of service has expired, left this city for Dublin, on Monday
morning, to pass the Board for pensions.
A district Court-martial was held on Monday, in the
Barracks of Castlebar, on trial of a private of the 15th
Foot, who had deserted from the regiment on its march to
Cork, at which place it embarked from Quebec, three
years since. The Court-martial was attended by the com-
manding, and several other officers of the 61st depot,
stationed at Ballinrobe. The result has not yet transpired.
The Court-martial on Lieut. Hely, 7th Dragoon Guards,
at Ipswich, concluded on Wednesday, when the President
and members transmitted their decision to the Horse
Guards. The charges were, for contracting a debt of 38/.
with the mess:non of the regiment, which was not paid,
though frequently applied for—borrowing 101. of a waiter,
'Which he promised to pay, but neglected—giving various
bills of exchange for money to Paymaster Serjeant Gauley,
of the regiment, some of which were returned unpaid, there
being no funds for the same—and finally, owing a sum of
741. to the Paymaster.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND left his resi-
dence at Kew on Saturday, en a visit to his MAJESTY, at
the Royal Lodge, Windsor Park.

Despatches from Lord HEYTESBURY, at St.
Petersburg!), for the Earl of ABERDEEN, were brought to
the Foreign Office on Friday night by a gentleman.
The Russian Ambassador had an interview
with the Earl of ABERDEEN on Saturday at the Foreign
Office.

The Earl of ABERDEEN, Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH, Mr. Secretary PEEL, and the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER visited the Duke of WELLINGTON on
Saturday at the Treasury.

Pespatehes from Sir JAMES KEMPT, the
Governor-General of the Canadas, dated up to the sth ult.,
were received at the Colonial Office yesterday.

The Earl of ABERDEEN entertained a large
party to dinner yesterday at Argyle House.
The Duke of WELLINGTON entertained the
Cabinet Ministers to dinner on Saturday evening at his
residence in Downing-street. The LORD CHANCELLOR,
Earls BATHUItST, RossIAN, and ABERDEEN, Viscount
MELVILLE, Lord ELLENBOROCGII, Mr. Secretary PEEL,
Sir GEORGE MURRAY, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER, and Mr. VRSEV FITZGERALD, dined with his
Grace.

The Lords of his Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council had a meeting at eleven o'clock on Sa-
turday morning, in the Privy Council Chamber, White-
hall ; those present were the Loan PRESIDENT, Lord
WYNFORD, the JUDGE of the ADMIRALTY COURT, and the
Right Hon. HUGH ELLIOTT. The further hearing of the
case " Reviverkirk v. Reynolds," from Berbice, was re-
sumed. When this appeal was disposed of, ex-parte
" Stewart v. White," from Lower Canada, was heard by
their. Lox dships. The next appeal was one of considerable
importance, of a mortgage on an estate in Demerara, of
upwards of 100,0001., that of " Moliere v. Leach," from
Demerara. Lord WYNFORD, on the part of their Lord-
ships, fixed the c'aim of the appellants at 77,0001. The
last case, " Nicholls v. Le Gallais," from Jersey, was an
appeal against payment of an attorney's bill for working
out a case of bankruptcy, on the ground that he did not
produce the items of his charge. The amount of the bill
(751. 175.) was the same as that of an officer engaged in
the same case, and it was argued by the respondent's
Counsel, that it was an invariable rule in the island to
allow the same fees to the attorney as to the officer in
question ; and the courts in Jersey, by whom the pro-
ceedings had been confirmed, might be supposed to be
competent to correct 'any surcharge. The judgments of
these courts were, however, reversed by their Lordships,
on the ground that the items in the bill ought undoubtedly
to be inserted. Lord WYNFORD, in delivering judgment,
also pointed out certain charges in the greffier's bill, for
which there could not be any counterpart in the respond-
ent's bill, while, at the same time, the amount of the two
bills was made to come directly to the same to a fraction.
' The whole of the cases set down for hearing having been
disposed of, their Lordships adjourned at four o'clock.

MIDHURST SCHOOL.—On Monday, the 9th
instant, the Trustees of this Foundation met to elect a
Master, on the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
the Rev. Dr. BA ELY, when after the testimonials of six
Candidates of high respectability had been examined, the
choice fell on the Rev. Wm. GOODENOUGH BAYLV, S.C.
and Fellow of New College, Oxford, the present Citrate
of St. Pancras Chapel, Regent-square, and son of the late
Head Master.

Lord COWLEY, whose departure from his
Embassy at Vienna has been announmd, does not intend
returning. at present, having postponed his visit to this
country.
Mr. BLACKBURNE has publicly announced
his intention to retire from the representation of Lanca-
shire at the next General Electiop.

LITER ATU RE.

MEMOIRS,', Izze. OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.

I.()NljeN, 1829.

I This eminent inlividual, late President of the
United States, and ilt,3 original framer of the
celebrated Declaration of Itt;lependence which
levelled the first blow at the supremacy of Eng-
land over America, appears—it we may form an
opinion from the volumes before us—to have
been a man eminently qualified for the task, if not
of rousing his countrymen, at least of setting
them to think, and as a necessary consequence,
where not only their liberties but their very lives
were at stake, to decide. Cool, calculating, and
adventurous, fond of experiment, indefatigable
in his attention to business, and what is of
nearly equal importance, blessed with a frame
and constitution . of iron, Mr. Jefferson early
established an influence over the minds of his
countrymen which he preserved unimpaired to
the last moment of his very varied and patriarchal
existence. Like the late Dr. Franklin, his
genius seems to have been of the Utilitarian
kind. He had little fancy, less imagination, no
eloquence to animate his friends, nor sarcasm
to daunt his foes ; but possessed instead, a
wary practical good sense that never for an
instant deserted him, mixed up with a restless
activity of intellect—amounting at times to what
we might call fidgetiness—that forbade him to
know the luxury of repose. He talks indeed
occasionally of his wish to retire from public
into private life ; but a word—a request—even
an indirect intimation from Washington, are
quite sufficient to subdue his avowed (though
probably discredited) inclinations on this head.
In the present volumes he comes forward as
the plain unadorned recorder of those stirring
events that ushered in his country's regeneration. ii
To history his work makes no pretensions,
being nothing more than a dry journal of facts,
valuable onlyto those who may desire to acquaint
themselves with the causes and effects of one
of the most momentous public events that ever
occurred in any age or country. One thing,
however, it possesses, which is both curious and
instructive to the general reader, and that is
the history of the Declaration of Independence
in its progress through Congress, together with a
detail of the alterations and erasures that from
time to time were made in it, in order to
adapt it to the taste and feelings of the Ame-
ricans. These alterations, it may be worth
while to remark, were chiefly of a conciliatory
nature, and clearly prove how stubborn, fixed,
irrational, and ungenerous must have been that
opposition, on the part of Lord North and his
colleagues, which preferred an appeal to arms,
where all might have been lost, to a conciliatory
demeanour, where all might have been preserved.
But the destinies of America were in higher
hands than those of man, which prepared her
for and sustained her during the struggle,
and eventually worked out her freedom. Among
the most interesting passages in Mr. Jefferson's
Memoir, is his brief but succinct account of the
causes that hastened forward the French Revo-
lution. He was in Paris at the time, an acute,
practised, and interested observer of passing
events, and must therefore be considered, despite
his stern democratic tendencies, as first-rate au.
thority on the subject :

" Celebrated writers of France and England had already
sketched good principles on the subject of Government;
yet the American revolution seems first to have awakened
the thinking part of the French nation in general from the '
sleep of despcfsm in which they were sunk. The officers,
too, who had been to America, were mostly young men,
less shackled by habit and prejudice, and more ready to
assent to the suggestions of common sense, and feeling of
common rights, tha❑ others. They came back with new
ideas and impressions. The press, notwithstanding its
shackles, began to disseminate them ; conversation as-
sumed new freedoms; politics became the theme of all
societies, male and female, and a very extensive and
zealous party was formed, which acquired the appella-
tion of the patriotic party, who, sensible of the abusive
Government under which they lived, sighed for occa-
sions of reforming it. This party comprehended all the
honesty of the kingdom, sufficiently at leisure to think;
the men of letters, the easy burgeon, the young nobility,
partly from reflection, partly from mode; for these senti-
ments became matter of mode, and as such, united most
of the young women to the party. Happily for the
nation, it happened, at the sante moment, that the dissipa-
tions of the Queen and Court, the abuses of the pen •
sion-list, and dilapidations in the ad•ninistration of every
branch of the finances, had exhausted the treasures and
credit of the nation, insomuch that its most necessary
fuuctions were paralyzed. To reform these abuses would
have overset the Minister; to impose new taxes by the.
authority of the King, was known to be impassible, from
the determined opposition of the Parliameat to their en-
registry. No resource remained, then, hot to appeal to
the nation. He advised, therefore, the call of an assembly
of the most distinguished characters cf the nation, in
hope that, by promises of various and valuable improve-
ments in the organization and regimen of the Govern-
ment, they would be induced to authorise new taxes, to
contrcl the opposition of the Parliament, and to raise tine
annual revenue to the level of the expenditure. An As-
sembly of Notables, therefore, about one hundred end fifty
in number, mimed by the King, convened on the 22d of
February. The Minister (Calenne) stated to them, that
the annual excess of expenses beyond the revenue, when
Louis XVI. came to the throne, was thirty-seven millions
of livres; that four hundred and forty millions had been
borrowed to re-establish the navy ; that the American war
bad cost thorn fourteen hundred and forty millions (two
hundred and fifty-six millions of dollars), and that the in-
terest of these sums, with other increased expenses, had
added forty millions more to the annual defiait. (But a
subsequent and more candid estimate made it fifty-six
millions.) He proffered them an universal redresa of
grievances, laid open those grievances fully, pointed out
sound remedies, and, covering his canvass with objects of
this magnitude, the deficit dwindled to a little accessory,
scarcely attrrcting attention. The persons chosen were
the most able and independent characters in the kingdom,
and their support if it couhl be obtained, would be enough
for him. They improved the occasion for redressing their
grievances, and agreed that the public wants should be re-
lieved; but went into an examination of the causes of
them. It was supposed that Calonne was conscious that
his accounts could not bear examination; and it was said,
and believed, that he asked of the King, to send four
members to the Bastile, of whom the Marquis de la
Fayette was one, to banish twenty others, and two of his
Ministers. The King f•Jund it shorter to banish him.
His successor went on in toll concert with the Assembly.
lhe result was an augmentation of the revenue, a promise
• of economies in its expenditure, of an annual settlement of
1 the public accounts before a council, which the Comptrol-
Ire, having been heretofore obliged to settle only with the
King in person, of course never settled at all ; an acknow-
ledgment that the King could not lay a Lew tax, a re-
formation of the criminal laws, abolition of tertuee, eel)-
! pression of corvees, reformation of the gabelles, removal of
the interior Custom-houses, free commerce of grain, in-
ternal and external, and the establishment of Provincial
Assemblies; which, altogether, constituted a great mass
of improvement in the condition of the nation."

The second volume consists mainly of Mr. Jef.!
ferson's correspondence with Adams, Washing-
ton, Franklin, and numerous other eminent in-
dividuals in Europe as well as in America; but
as these letters refer for the most part to official
facts and documents, whose interest has now in

a great degree gone by, we 5!..a1l content our-
selves with stating that to the reader who wishes
to perfect his acquaintance with the American
revohltiOn, they w;il 1,. I:.uild abundantly ser-
vig,7eable.

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.

CAPT. GARTH, SIR HERBERT TAYLOR, ANT

THE BOX OF SEALED PAPERS.

It may be recollected that some time back a bill
was filed in the Court of Chancel y by Capt. Garth,
the allege!' natural son of General Garth by a lady
of illustrious birth, for the recovery of a certain box
of papers relating to his private history, which had
got into the hands of Messrs. Paul, Snow, and Co.,
whom they had been deposited by Sir Herbert
Taylor and Mr. Charles Molloy Westmacott, the
proprietor of the Age newspaper. The Lill set
forth the circumstances under which this box was
deposited in the hands of the parties in question,
and at the time excited much inquiry, although the
contents of the papers w: re kept a secret. Sir
Herbert Taylor and Mr. Westmacott have now filed
their answers to the bill, and the case will, of course,
in due time, come before the Lord Chancellor for
adjudication. From the answers in question, it
appears that the complainant, Captain Garth,
had contrived to get possession of the box of
papers alluded to from his father, who was highly
indignant at the circumstance, especially as at
that time he was labouring under indisposi-
tion ; that these papers contained documents and
correspondence touching the birth of the said Capt.
Garth, the publication of which would have deeply
wounded the feelings of certain high personages;
and that with a view of obtaining money to relieve
himseif from the embarrassments under which he
laboured, the Captain threatened, and actually de-
termined, to give them publicity. For this pur-
-1 pose he applied to Mr. Westmacott, who, on ascer-
taining their character, thought it more advisable
Ito adopt a different course, and having apprised Sir
Herbert Taylor and Captain Garth of the objects
of the gallant Captain, a negociation was com-
menced, with a view, on the part of Sir Herbert
Taylor and
_General Garth, of regaining posses-
sion of the papers and destroying them. The ob-
ject of this negociation was of course to learn the
terms upon which Captain Garth would consent to
part with the papers ; and after repeated interviews
between Sir H. Taylor, Charles F. Williams,
(on the part of General Garth), and Mr. West-
macott, who acted as the authorised agent of Cap-
tain Garth, it was agreed to pay Captain Garth's
debts, the amount of which he stated to be 8,0001.,
and to grant him an annuity of 2,4001. a-vear,
half of which was guaranteed by Sir Herbert Tay-
lor, and the other half by Mr. Williams, on the
part of General Garth. These preliminaries ad-
justed, the gallant Captain received 3,0001. in ad-
vance; and in November last delivered the myste-
rious box to Sir Herbert Taylor and Mr. Westma-
cott, with a solemn pledge that it contained all the
papers it was supposed originally to hold, and that
nothing had been withheld, nor had copies or ex-
tracts been taken therefrom. The box was imme-
diately tied round with tape, and sealed with the
seals of Sir Herbert Taylor and Mr. Westmacott,
and was by them deposited in the hands of Paul,
Snow, and Co., the bankers, who gave a receipt
for it, with an understanding that it was not
to be re-delivered unless under the joint
authority of the said Sir Herbert Taylor
and Mr. Westmacott. Mr. Westmacott was then
desired to take steps to arrange Captain Garth's
affairs, but that he found impossible; the Captain
did not adhere to his old list of creditors, but incurred
new debts, kept up a ruinous establishment at Mel-
ton, and, to crown all, divulged to divers persons the
secrets of the box, added to which, it turned out
that he had reserved copies of the contents of the
papers. Still Sir Herbert and General Garth (his
father) were willing to save him from destruction,
and it was agreed to increase the sum for the liqui-
dation of his debts to ten thousand pounds, and his
annuity to three thousand pounds per annum, upon
condition that he retired to the Continent till his af-
fairs.were arranged; but he was deaf to every remon-
strance, persisted in his extravagant career, and thus
rendered it impossible to effect the laudable objects
which were in contemplation. As for the papers,
it was at first denied that they were Capt. Garth's
at all; next, that Mr. Westmacott had a lien upon
them fur money advanced by him for Captain Garth :
and lastly, that by his own breach of covenant
he had forfeited all right to their restoration ;
whereas, if he had complied with the wishes of
those who had his interest at heart, all that had been
promised would have been fully accomplished.
No allusion is made to the nature of the papers in
the box, and Sir Herbert Taylor disclaims all know-
ledge of their contents, but says that he believes
their publication would be painful to the feelings of
the party for whom he is interested.

Prince LEOPOLD is still in Paris, but he is
expected to leave on the 15th or 16th, so as to arrive in
London by the 21st. He is accompanied by Sir ROBERT
GARDINER, and it is said that the fair companion of his
leisure hours at Claremont has also formed part of his tra-
velling suite. The movements of his Royal Highness since
his arrival in Paris have caused some interest, as it has
been reported that he is one of the candidates for the new
throne which the allies propose to erect in Greece. The
Prince himself ati,cts to laugh at the report, and to treat
it with discredit; nevertheless many persons about the
Court, who are considered to be well informed, declare
that solve project of the kind is actually on foot, and that
the Prince has had frequent interviews with the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs on tl.e subject. It is not
known hew far this may be true; but certainly he had
had very frequent conferences with the KING and the
Duke of ORLEANS, the I:tter of whom seems to be a sort
of medium of communication between the Prince and the
KING when they do nut correspond personally.— Court
Journal.

Lord HERTFORD is now on the eve of his
departure for Italy, from whence he will return in June
next, to his villa in the Regent's Park. His Lordship has
invited a number of his immediate friends to accompany
him on his tour, sufficient to fill three carriages; and as
the party is to he entertained along the route with his
Lordship's usual splendid hospitality, it should become a
matter of careful avoidance to other travellers. Very few
foreign inns can manage to feast and lodge more than one
f•anily of this extensive and monopolising character; and
Lord HEwrroftn's princely 1 abits are already too well
known on tha Continent to admit of oompetition.

Count MATUCEWITZ, the Russian Minis,.
ter on a special mission to this country, left town on Sa-
turday, on his return to St. Petersburgh.

Among those branches of our national indus-
try which may be said to have manifested a change for the
better of late, the silk trade may be named, perhaps, with
greater certainty than any other, although the rate of pros
fit is low, and must necessarily continue so for a long time.
A letter received this morning from 'Macclesfield by an eminent
house in the silk trade, alluding to the sfilksthrow,ters of
that place, Congleton, and the neighbourhood, where but
recently the distress of the working classes was severe and
general, says—" The throwsters are all so fully employ
~~
',re advance."
that it is scarcely possible to get any thing thrown handy
ahnadvewraegaessonratothie„r:. on
in all
slbleitsth!
-neve, more or less,
2aufacture of silk is carried
on ; and, to refer to a mor,dec,;(6l
becoming
Id'cgiastssreciacitle' e:v here the ms
proof that we are doing
well in this branch; it May be mentioned, that according
to all account* te;;eived• lately from Lyons and other
manufacturing, depots in France, the silk trade there is
quite paralysed. Those places which it was predicted
were to ruin the English artistn, and rise to prosperity
upon his ruin, are in a state of extreme distress, and the
local manufacturers now fitly- confess that they are beaten
out of the market tly this country; that they ere not only
unable to pay the protective duty cf 30 per cent., but that
the twemaini of 15 per cent, at teLleh the smuggler will
undert!ke their introductina, equally disqualifies them
from woe king to advantage as regards the supply of Eng-
land. In tips opinion of the persons who may be, presumed
best informed of the state of the silk trade between the
tench and us, a few fancy articles, forming a very small
per ccnta e on the whole amount of our consumption, are
all that they are now able to send us at a profit.--Afeen-
. ' Paper,

OURNALS.

Justice may be slow, even where sur-
rounded by difficulties and obstructions, it is for
the most part sure. The celebrated Garth case
has not been compromisd—it is still going on.
The person whose name it hears, is determined,
it seems, on making his antagonist bend to him,
awl recovering his box of papers,,the mysterious..
awful, or, as the result may prove, the- damning
papers, which a desperate einrt no doullt, will
be made to destroy or suppress, that some colour
may be given to the step in the transaction, viz.,
the maintaining solemnly that such papers exist
not, and never have existed. • A bill was some
time ago filed in the Court of Chancery by the
individual whose reputed, or pretended, name is
Garth, for the recovery of " a certain box of

papers, which had got into the hands of Messrs.
Paul, Snow, and Co., with whom they had been
deposited by Sir Herbert Taylor and another
person." We do not insinuate that there is, or
ever has been, any connection between Sir Her-
bert and his co-trustee or co-agent on this occa-
sion, beyond that which has of necessity from the
accident, independent of Sir Herbe:t
own wishes or desires, which brought two per-
sonages so remote by station and history
from each other, into a sort of technical
proximity, as partners in the same un-
precedented and indeed revolting trust.—
Sir Herbert and his colleague, by name West-
macott, have now filed their answers ; and front

them it appears that the complainant had con-
trived to get surreptitiously from General Garth,
his reputed father, the box of papers in question ;
that these papers contained documents and cor-
respondence, touching the birth rf the said
Captain Garth, the publication of which would
have deeply wounded the feelings of certain high
personages, and that to relieve himell from pe-
cuniary embarrassment, Garth threatened, and
actually resolved, to publish them ! A negocia-
lion ensued, the object of which was on one side
to recover and destroy the papers, and on the
other to get the highest price for them. The
public will judge of the flight entertained in
some quarters lest these documents should be
made public, by the sums which, on the ice of
Sir Herbert Taylor's affidavit, he was authorized
by the principals for whom he acted to guaran-
tee to Garth for their suppression. Sir 'Herbert
did actually, on his own showing in the affidavits
now inserted, offer Garth the payment of debts
to the amount of 8,000/. ; and that he (Sir
Herbert) and General Garth, between them,
should obtain for him a pension of 2,4001. a
year, or 3,000/. a year, f they could. Three
thousand a year, and 8,000/. ! We wonder who
the man might be whose " feelings" or " repu-
tation" could be wounded to the extent of suet'
enormous sums, by the publication of papers re-
cording the birth and parentage of any person
living. Circumstances of extraordinary guilt
and disgrace must unavoidably be inferred as the
grounds of such prodigal solicitude. However,
the affidavits are worth reading. Garth, it
seems, has attested copies of the papers, let what
will become of the originals concealed in the box,
7imes.

A good deal of misconception prevails with
regard to what is meant by dissolving the Union
between Great Britain and Ireland. Most of
our contemporaries who have written on the
subject, suppose that Mr. O'Connell means, by
dissolving the Union, to separate Ireland from
Britain. He means no such thing. In a speeeli
delivered by him at the St. Peter's Orphan
Charity Dinner, he thus expressed himself:—
" As an Irishman, he felt that Irishmen of all
sects and denominations were degraded in the
degradation of their common country ; and he
thanked his God, that he, at least, was not. of
that abject temperament to submit to it without
impatience.—(Loud cheers.) What people
were ever well governed who did not govern
themselves ? No man's private concerns were
managed who did not attend to them him-
self, and national concerns and private afFairs
were regulated upon similar principles.—(Hear,
hear.) The total indifference of the linglis}l
Legislature to Irish affairs was acknowledged
Mr. Peel. So evident was it, that upon any
Irish measure it was hardly practicable to pro,
cure what was called a House. Indeed the
English Parliament had in reality more than it
could well do with its own affairs, to be com-
petent to theirs.—(Hear, hear.) The Eng-
lish people had no interest in having our hun-
dred Irish Members to help them to legislate.
The English people were under no obligations
to the Irish Members. There was not a
gate Ministerial job—there was not a nor a
wasteful expenditure—there was not an infringe.
f.,1 violence upon
fluister did not find
meat upon liberty, nor an act
the people, for which the
in the Irish Members faithful and subservient
abettors and partisans. It was the interest of
England, as a nation, to have Ireland well go-
verned, and she could only he well governed by
a domestic Parliament. With a good Govern-
ment, which Ireland has uot yet had, she would
become a prosperous and rich nation, which she
can never be without it—and if she were prosper..
sus, instead of being a burthen to England, she
would be her best consumer, her faithful ally in
war, and her usefid friend in peace.—(Cheers.)—
It was the interest of England, therefore, to give
Ireland her own Parliament ; but, what he
thought of much more, it would he the interest
of Ireland." In most of the countries of the
Continent, the Government decides every thing.
a road is to be made or bridge repaired, re-
presentations from the spot must he made to
the central authority, and in due course of time
the central authority either approves or disap-
proves of the proposition, No sort of Govern-
ment can well be worse than this. In this
country again all is anomaly. There is -
that may be done by individuals in
improvement or alteration. Par'
townships, form little rep,'
meat of Sairs cone,
and county tots--•

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..-sings arrange matters for a still
...cialibourhood. But then; again, we
...ve a Parliament, which not only regulates the
affairs common to Britain and Ireland, and the
dependencies in all parts of the globe, but arro-.
gates to itself all manner of details respecting
private property and local improvements. If A
and B vish, under the pretext of improvement,
to rob C and D, they give notice of a Bill
in Parliament, and immediately a canvass com-
mences, with a view to try which party is most
powerful in influencing Members of Parliament.
Parliament does every thing, and does nothing
of what it should do. It may be truly said,
therefore, of the system of this country, that it
comprehends much that is excellent, and much
that is. detestable. When it was first proposed
to unite England and Scotland, Fletcher, of
Salton, opposed the measure on nearly the same
principles which afterwards prevailed in the Fe-
deral Union of the United States, and which we
conceive are productive or great advantage to thc-,
Americans. Every ol!C knows that the Unit

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