The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-02 00:00:00

HAYTI.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR, 38, CORNHILL, LONDON, FEB. 1, 18=27.
I rely on your justice and candour to give early
publicity to the following statement, for which I make
myself responsible.

I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
RICHARD HENDERSON,
Merchant, of Port-au-Prince in the Island of Hayti

There has recently appeared in the London, and in many of the
Provincial Newspapers, an article pretending to be a proclamation,
issued by the Government of Hayti, in the month of April, 1826,
on the subject of agricultural labour ; and which has been ex-
tensively' circulated, it would seem, by the Agent of the Island of
Jamaica, at the desire of his constituents, in order to prove that
the system of labour established in Hayti is a system, not of free
and voluntarily exertion, but of severe and rigid exaction.
This pretended proclamation I have no hesitation in denouncing,
as a deliberate forgery, got up for a malignant purpose : that of
degrading in public estimation a whole people.
That such a fabrication should have emanated from Jamaica, is
not surprising; but I am astonished that a man so respectable and
intelligent as the Agent of Jamaica should have become the dupe,
for a single moment, of so gross an imposture, or should have
given it the sanction of his high authority. The mere cursory pe-
rusal might have satisfied him of its fraudulent character, and
might at least have excited a suspicion that it was got up, just
im-
pression the meeting of Parliament, in the hope of producing an
unfavourable to the cause of Negro freedom.
I myself quitted Hayti only in the month of October last, after
having been a constant resident (except for about two or three
months), for the five previous years, at Port-au-Prince, the seat
of the Government. I resided there at the time assigned to this
Proclamation ; and, being no inattentive observer of public events,
I take upon me to assert that no such Proclamation was ever
issued there. Indeed, as I have already affirmed, the forgery is
manifest on the face of the pretended document. It is not -only
without the usual adjuncts of such instruments in Hayti, but it
contains internal and most decisive evidence of its falsehood. A
more clumsy attempt at imposture can hardly he imagined. The
author of it I have no doubt had before him some Proclamation
which may have appeared in St: Domingo about the close of the
revolutionary agitations in 1798, and which he has taken for his
model, without knowing how to adapt it to the present period.—
The whole style and structure of it is of that date, and not of
1826.

" Drivers and field negroes" may have been terms in use in
that island in 1798. They are certainly not in use now. I never
heard, during my residence there, any such terms applied to any
Haytians, and I challenge any one to show that they have been
used in any authentic public document for many years. Even in
the pretended extracts from the Code Rural, such terms as
" Driver and field negro" are not to be found : they do not once
occur in it.

Since the year 1803, the year when the independence of this
island was declared, the name given to it in all public acts has
been Hayti, and not St. Domingo. In this spurious instrument
the island is called St. Domingo, and not Hayti. Those who
circulate it, as genuine, are bound to show a single proclamation,
issued since 1803, which gives to this island the name of Saint
Domingo.
Again, it is well known that Sunday was abolished, at one time,
in France (her Colonies following the example) and Decades of
ten days were substituted for weeks of seven. Accordingly, in
this false and fabricated dacument, we find the stupid and ignorant
framer of it retaining the obsolete term Decades (see Article X.)
which I have no doubt he found in his model of 1798. Even in
the spurious Code. Rural, which is annexed to the proclamation,
we find Sunday again restored to its honours, the use of the term
Decade having ceased with the French Directory in 1800.
These proofs of forgery are, I apprehend, quite conclusive;
but they are not all which I have to offer.
The fabricated code Rural pretends to-have passed the Cham-
ber of Commons of Hayti on the 21st of April, 1826, and the
Senate on the 4th of May, 1826 ; and to hare baen signed, at
Port au Prince, by the President on the 6th of May, 1826.
I was then in Port-au-Prince, where I can positively aver, that
no such law was either passed or promulgated.

As a further confirmation of this faco have now before me
(and they may be seen by the Agent of Jamaica, or any other
respectable gentleman) the Gazettes of the Haytian Government,
(a publication which issues weekly) of the 16th, 23d, and 30th,
of April, and 7th of May, with those which follow to the Ist of
October. In these Gazettes are to be found various proclamations
of the Government, indeed all its public acts ; but I need not say
that they contain no such proclamation as that transmitted from
Jamaica, from which, indeed, they differ SA completely, in their
whole style and spirit, as to disprove at once the genuineness of
this pretended Act.

I have likewise before me copies, at full length, of the legisla-
tive acts, passed by the constituted authorities of Hayti, from the
beginning of 1826, to the time of my quitting the Island, in-
cluding, among other things, an entire civil code.
It is impossible to peruse these authentic documents without
meeting, in every page, conclusive evidence of the utter falsehood
of the alleged proclamation, and of the very remarkable advance
which Hayti has made in wealth, intelligence, civilization, secu-
rity, and genuine freedom.
I should have made this exposure some days ago, could I have
had earlier access to the various documents to which I have ad-
verted.

[ORIGINAL.]

TWM JOHN CATTI'S CAVE : A TUUNDER-STORM.

N.B.—This is the name of a and romantic pass in
South Wales, where Twm John Catti (a complete Rob
Roy in his way) lived for some years, to the infinite terror
of the neighbourhood. Sundry veracious legends assert
that he still haunts his old place of residence, and cer-
tainly, if ever spot afforded comfortable and characteristic
quarters for a therm), this savage, dark, and secluded glen
is the place.
Tis eve, when thought is spun in magic loom ;
Stranger, approach with awe ; this glowing hour
Sunned by romance bids drooping fancy bloom,
And memories faded spring again to flower :
Here dwelt a forest outlaw in his power
Of wood and rock and mountain pathway rude ;
Here from the brow of yon deserted tower,
' In pride of soul the savage scene he viewed ;
Here lived and died, the prince of Alpine solitude.
His spirit walks each valley and each glen,
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Still, when the westering sun looks cold and pale,
His name—his fate—rise like an awful tow'r
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On memory's waste, still in yon dim-seen vale
His bugle echoes, and each haunted flow'r
Starts into fairy form ; 'tis eve's enchanted hour,
That hour when thought—but, hark ! upon the wind
Rides the tremendous demon of the storm,
Whirlwinds in murky grandeur crowd behind,
And heaven peals out the trumpet of alarm :
From yon prophetic cloud, with lightening warm
The wind-god hoarsely laughs, at that wild cry
Pale shrinking twilight hides her vestal form,
He comes ! he comes in thunder riding by—
Hear ye his chariot wheels sweep echoing thro' the sky ?
'Tis well, the hour accords with the rude scene,
The thunder's voice should be sole music here--
No West wind's female song should intervene
To hush the soul appalled by withering fear,
But cloud and storm for aye should hover near,
And daemons in sepulchral garb bedight
Should quit for tkis their sombre hemisphere,
While o'er each rock on wing of gloom and blight
The phantom robber broods—an animated night.
A SMALL POET.

MEETING OF THE CORONERS OF ENGLAND AND
WALEs.—A General Meeting of the Coroners of England and
Wales, was held yesterday at the Exchequer Coffee house, Palace-
yard, for the purpose of preparing a Petition to Parliament, to
amend some of the provisions of the old Statute respecting the
mode of electing Coroners, the duties imposed upon, and the
amount of fees, or salaries paid to these officers. Reporters were
excluded, but we were informed, that a petition to Parliament,
praying the payment of larger fees on Inquests was adopted, with-
out, of course, any discussion.
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK.—The
Annual Meeting of the Governors, &c. of this Charity, was held
yesterday, at the house of the Institution, in Stamford-street, to
transact the usual business of the Society. The Report of tl e
Sub-Committee for the past year was then read and approved of.
The information which it contained was most satisfactory. It ar-
pears, that during the last five years, since the enlargement of the
schools, the average number of children educated and clothed, wale
360, and that there are at present in the schools upwards of 100
children of both Flexes.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Etoile, dated Wednesday, Jan. 31.)
," LIES OF THE DAY.

" PARIS, JAN. 30.—The Cannier Francais.—A change
in the Ministry was necessary; the seals are intended for
M. Portalis; the war department for General d'Ambru-
gear ; that of ecclesiastical affitirs for the Bishop of Bor-
deaux; that of the interior for M. de Martignac; M. de
Villele reserving to himself the office of President of the
Council.

" The Quotidienne.—The Marquis de Chaves brings
forward as the first condition of any arrangement, that the
Queen-Mother shall be declared Regent.
" The Constitutionnel announces, we know not on what
authority, that the Count d'Offalia is to take the place of
M. de Calomarde in the Spanish Ministry. The latest
accounts from Madrid are of the 22d, at which time this
change had not taken place.

(From the Pidote.)
" PARIS, JAN. 29.—Letters from Corfu speak of the
arrival of a Tartar sent from Constantinople to Ibrahim
Pacha, with formal orders to furnish a detachment from
the officers of his army to be placed in new troops or-.
ganized at Constantinople. These letters add, that this
order leaves Ibrahim only the alternative of disobeying
either the Sultan or his father, he having previously re-
ceived orders from the latter to bring buck all this army to
Egypt, in ease the Porte should consent to make en ar-
rangement with the Greeks.

" A journal communicates that M. de Villa Campa, a
Spanish Royalist, and Captain in the army of his So-
vereign, has been obliged, by superior order, to quit Paris.

(From the Journal des Debuts of Tuesday.)

MADRID, JAN. 18.—Some symptoms of' effervescence
have begun to appear here since the departure of the Swiss,
by pasquinades, which the police are obliged to remove
every morning from the corners of the streets. However,
if we are to believe public rumour, the Swiss will soon be
followed by the garrisons of Cadiz and Barcelona. I do
not know what confidence ought to attach to these reports,
but I can guarantee to you the general inspection of the
militia. Orders have been despatched to the regiments
of Bujalenee, of Cordon, and of d'Ecipa, to march to Xeres
de la Frontera, which is only seven leagues from Cadiz.
Is this to leave the French garrison ? Is it to watch it P
This is what I cannot explain to you, but the fact which
I relate is true. Upon the other side, a levy of 30,000
men is definitively decreed ; and as to the equipment of
the Royalist Volunteers, it is carried on here with surpris-
ing activity, money for this kind of outfit being extremely
abundant. A letter from Salamanca, which I have now
before me, states as follows :—Our late guests have already
returned to the Spanish territory, after having been beaten
by the troops of the Regency. This has caused, for some
days, so great a change in people's minds, that much mis-
chief is apprehended if any depot of Portuguese refugees
is to be established here. The Marquis of Chaves has re-
treated upon Puebla de Lanabria, in Galicia; and General
Silveira being repeatedly beaten and wounded in the leg,
was obliged to throw himself into the fortress of Almeida,
so that before a few days the expedition of the infantists
will have breathed its last.

(From the Quolidienne.)

PARIS, JAN. 30.—The Etoilc of this evening expresses
tself to this effect in a postscript:—

" We stop the press to announce the receipt of a letter
from Madrid, which informs us that Chaves and Braganza
are occupied by the troops of the Regency."
We must remark that according to the news which we
have just read, and which is merely a repetition of what
the Monitcur of January 24 contains, the Count Villa
Flor, after the engagement of the 9th, promised to give
the details of the action the next day. However, the news
of the 14th makes no mention of the details promised by
the General, though it gave an account of the operations
which took place three days after the first affair. Thus
news had reached Lisbon that Villa Flor was at Pinhel on
the 12th, but there were no details of the victory said to
be obtained on the 9th. It must be admitted that this
omission is suspicious.

(From the Constitutionnel.)
PARIS, JAN. Calomarde, the titular Minister
of Grace and Justice, and in reality the secret agent of the
Apostolic party, has been dismissed by the King of Spain,
conformably to the request of France and England.
M. Heredia, Count D'Offalia, is named Minister in his
place. This change shows that Ferdinand has disengaged
himself, for some time, from the domination of the Apos-
tolic party ; but M. Heredia, by his talents and personal
importance, is not sufficiently influential to be able to make
up a party, or have one adopted.
" MADRID, JAN. 18.—This capital is pretty tranquil
since the departure of the Swiss, though every morning
some pasquinade is removed from the corners of the streets.
The following was pulled down last night :
" '—El Rei dormiando—La Rcina velando—Los Rea-
lista; matando—La Constituciou andaizdo.' [The King is
sleeping—the Queen is waking--the Royalists are mas-
sacreing—the Constitution is getting on.]
" At Betanzas, a town of Galicia, two gibbets were
found set up in the public square on the morning of the
31st. The one was inscribed—' By the Apostolicals;'
the other ' for the Apostolicals.'
" On the 15th and 16th very serious troubles broke out
between the two parties, at Alcala de Henares, a town
about five leagues from this city. On the latter day the
consequencesth the
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lines by which order was temporarily re-established. It
iwnilmhylrTalsvte,vtehre' consequence of the departure of the Swiss
will be the arrival of the Liberals, who were quiet while
the Swiss were in Madrid, but who are far from being nu-
merically so weak as some persons affect to believe.
" The Constitutional band, formed in the mountains of
Ronda, has sent some detachments into the interior. One
of the cavalry entered Estremera, in the province of La
Mancha, whence after obtaining provisions and forage, he
proceeded to Madrid. This is said to be stated in the re-
port of the Alcalde of Estremera. Weare assured that
our Ambassador at Paris is about to be changed.
MADRID, JAM. 18.—(Private Correspondence.)--The
Marquess de Chaves, beaten and pursued into Tras-os-
Montes, has been forced to leave that province, and retire
by Chaves on our frontiers of Galicia. On retiring into
Spain, he wrote to the Commander of Monterey (a place
near the frontier of Galicia), to know whether he and his
soldiers would be received on Spanish territory. On re-
ceiving an answer in the affirmative, he proceeded into
Spain. On the night of the 16th, an Extraordinary Cou-
rier arrived, bringing despatches from M. Navaro Eguia,
for the Government. His Excellency there announces,
that since the defeat of the Marquess do Chaves, the
number of Royalist Portuguese who fled into Galicia was
considerable; and he requires exact instructions from the
Government as to the conduct he is to pursue towards
the anti-constitutional Portuguese; he observes, that the
circumstances increase in difficulty, and that there are Por-
tuguese of all ranks among the fugitives. Silveira has
been no more fortunate than Chaves ; he has been beaten
twice consecutively by the Constitutionals, and severely
wounded in one leg ; this misfortune has obliged
him to retire towards our frontier, on the side of
Ciudad Rodrigo ; he is only two leagues distant from
it on the side of Almeida ; this last place is still occu-
pied by the Anti-constitutionalists. Lamego, Guarda, on
the south of the mountains of Estrella, and Viseu, have
been abandoned by the rebels. Pinhel was where Sil-
veira was put to flight. These events have encouraged
our Liberals, for they do not conceal that the triumph of
the Constitution in Portugal will have considerable influ-
ence in our country on the system which govern us.—
The sth regiment of Light Infantry, the Lancers of the
Guard, and the Flying Artillery, who were on the point
of proceeding to Estremadura,• have just received counter-
orders. • There only -remain here about 40 Swiss in the
hospital, who are absolutely incapable of proceeding on
their journey. It appears that the Count d'Offalia goes
no more to London. It is pretended that the King has

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1827.

We .have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday, and
he Etoile dated 'Wednesday morning.

The suspicions which we expressed yesterday, of
the good faith of FERDINAND, in acting upon the
principles laid down in the article which we published
from the Madrid Gazette, seem already to be justi-
fied. The accounts in the Paris Papers from Madrid,
which come down to the 22d ult. do not contain any-
intelligence demonstrative of a change of policy in the
Cabinet of FERDINAND, but, on the other hand,
every thing indicates the hastening of the movement of
different corps towards the frontiers of Portugal. The
letters also mention the return of the Portuguese
rebels to the territory of Spain, but say nothing of the
Government having given any directions for their
being immediately driven back into Portugal, or dis-
armed and sent into the interior of the country.
The Quotidienne affects to question the defeat of
the Royalists, and asserts that negociations have com-
menced with the Marquis de CHAVES, the first con-
dition of which is that the Queen Dowager be de-
clared REGENT. This is, of course, contradicted by
the Eloilc, which likewise classes under " Lies of the
Day," an assertion, that M. CALOMARDE has been
dismissed, and is to be succeeded in the Spanish Mi-
nistry by Count D'OFFALIA.
According to the Journal des Debats some symp-
toms of effervescence have appeared since the depar-
ture of the Swiss Guards from Madrid ; but they
have not extended beyond the sticking up of a few
pasquinades, which the police every morning remove.
The Courier Francais contains assertions of par-
tial changes in the French Ministry, but these state-
ments are also contradicted in the Etoile.

These Papers contain also intelligence from Con-
stantinople to the 27th December; HADI and Inn-a-
im! EFFENDI, the two Commissioners at the Con-
ferences at Akerraann, had returned to the capital,
and had been received with kindness and distinction
by the PORTE, who invested them with Pelisses of
of Honour. The SULTAN continued his re-or-
ganization of the Army with vigour and success.
Remits daily arrived. from the provinces. The
census of the male population had been completed ;
and it appeared to be intended that no person
should be tolerated in the capital who could not give a
satisfactory account of his means of subsistence. If
this latter regulation were acted upon in London, we
suspect, it would make a very considerable reduction
of its population !
The French Funds maintained their price on Tues-
day, having closed the 5 per Cents. at 1.60 f. 35c. and
the 3 per Cents. at 68f. 55c. Extracts from the Papers
will be found in another column.

We received last night New York Papers of the
10th ult., being one day later than those before
received, together with some intermediate papers, but
we find in them little worth extracting. A letter
had been sent by Mr. CALHOUN, the Vice President
of the United States, to the House of Representatives,
claiming an investigation of his official conduct in the
War-department, in consequence of a charge officially

ged against him of having criminally participated in
the profits of a contract formed with the Government
While he was at the head of the War-office. A Com-
mittee of inquiry, with full powers, was accordingly ap-
pointed. MI. CALHOUN on the same day announced
to the Senate his intention to decline taking the chair
of that assembly, pending the inquiry in the other
Rouse. A letter from Washington, quoted in the
New York Gazette, states that the House of Re-
presentatives seems determined to make no alteration in
the existing Tariff.
The following is a Proclamation issued by Bor,i-
VA R on the 23d November :-
COLOMBIANS !-Five years since I left the Capital to march at
the head of the Liberating Army, from the shores of the Canea to
the silvery heights of Potosi. A million of Colombians, two sister
Republics, have obtained Independence under the shadow of your
banners, and the world of Columbus has ceased to be Spanish ;
such is the work of our absence. Your misfortunes have called me
back to Colombia ; I come full of zeal to consecrate myself to the
national will, which shall be my code, because it is infallible.
The national voice obliges me to take upon myself the sJprente
":.Ininami• I abhor it mortally, since by that I am accused
of ambition and an attempt at monarchy.—What, do they
think me so mad as aspire to degrade myself? Do they
not know that the destiny of Liberator, is more sublime
than the throne ? Colombians ! I return to submit to the
insupportable weight of the Magistracy, for in moments of danger,
to give it up were cowardice, not moderation_; yet count on me
only until the law or the people recover their sovereignty. Permit
me then to serve you as a plain soldier and a true Republican, as a
Citizen armed in defence of the beautiful trophies of our victories--

your right'. 130LIVAR.
Palace of the Governor, Bogota, Nov. 23, 1826.

We understand the resolutions to be brought for-
ward by Lord LIVERPOOL and Mr. CANNING, re-
specting the Corn Laws, will be proposed to both
houses of Parliament, on Monday the 19th, or Tues-
day the 20th of February, instead of Monday the 12th,
the day mentioned in the Notice Paper of the House
of Commons.

Few questions have occupied a larger share of public
attention than the case decided in the Court of Chan-
cery yesterday respecting the Guardianship of Mr.
WELLESLEY'S Children.
The high family connection of Mr. WELLESLEY,
and the notoriety of his conduct for some years,
naturally threw more than ordinary interest over
proceedings in which his name appeared, added
to which, the vitiated taste of the public unfor-
tunately found a gratification in the recital of the
occurrences which unhappily have taken place ; while
the more sober-minded and thinking classes re-
garded the whole question as one of the utmost im-
portance to society in general, and as involving some
of the most serious considerations which could occupy

its attention.

It has been regretted that these proceedings should
have been made public, and we are fully ready to admit
that great evil arises from the publication of such cir-
cumstances and conduct as have been exhibited in this
case ; but still we consider that the publication was
a necessary consequence of the proceedings taken in
the case, because the public have a right to know the
grounds on which the Court of Chancery interposes
its authority to deprive a parent of the rights which
he possesses by nature and by the common law of
the land ; and that it would have been useless to
attempt to keep the matter secret, because in the
event of an appeal to the House of Lords from
that decision, publicity must unavoidably have been
given to the whole of the case. We are not sure also,
that the evil, which undoubtedly arises from the publi-
cation "of scenes of vice, may not in this instance have
been counteracted by the disgust which must have
been excited from this grossness, and by the effect
which it may produce in deterring others from mis-
conduct, by the disgrace and opprobrium which they
see in the exposure to which every one's conduct is
shown to be liable.

Of the propriety of the LORD CHANCELLOR'S de-
cision, in this case, no man who has the feelings of
virtue, religion, or parental affection, will entertain a
doubt. If ever a case did exist in which the interfe-
rence of the CHANCELLOR between parent and child
could be justified, that case is the present ; and with-
out wishing to aggravate the feelings under which Mr.
WELLESLEY must labour, we cannot but declare that
if no precedent had existed for such an interference,
we do solemnly think that his was an instance in
which such a precedent should have been made.
Let us therefore consider whether such a power
ought to exist. We answer that it ought—and that
the propriety of its exercise in this case, fully proves the
necessity of its existence.
We admit the full weight of many of the numerous
arguments which may be brought against it ; but they
are all overwhelmed by the powerful one which may b.e
used from the admission, that a case may exist in
which such an interference may be called for upon every
Principle of moral justice. If it be allowed, as we
think it must be, that under some extreme circum-
stances of atrocious guilt, it would be right to remove a
child from its parent, it must be also admitted that it
ts desirable that such a power should exist somewhere.
It is, therefore, only in the exercise of that power,
that any danger to society can exist.
Now we cannot conceive that any danger to society,
or to those connecting ties which bind it together, can
be apprehenex,-i from the exercise of this , power by a
LORD CHANCELLOR. In the first place no applica-
tion could ever be made for the removal of a child
from the natural guardianship of its parents, unless a
prima facie case existed of the propriety of such a
measure. The question would be subjected, as it
has been in the present case, to the investigation,
scrutiny, and discussions of the ablest lawyers of the
day; and above all, to the ordeal of public opinion,
and that protector of just rights, the Free Press of
England. While these existed no Chancellor could
exercise this power in any way that was not justified
by the facts of the case; and allowing, for argument
sake, that he did, an appeal from his decision lies to the
Rouse of Peers, which in such a case, would not
be to theW
be an appeal from the Chancellor Court
CHANCELLOR on the oolsack, would
de-
cided according to justice and propriety by those here-
ditary Counsellors of the Kingdom, wlsio,
thes
ehosneoeugruharads
proved, through the lapse of many ages,
of the rights of Englishmen. .
On the whole, therefore, wasee nothing in the
present case to make us lament that the CHANCEL-

Loft has maintained the exercise of a power which
was vested in him, or that he has used it in the man-
ner he has done.

The late elopement which has taken
eiiplaee
oaft Paris
is not calculated to raise the moral character
Eng-
gland amongst our Continental neighbours. One
would suppose that it was fin' the sake of eclat that
these two Members of the English Aristocracy have
selected a foreign capital as the scene of their
transgression. And yet one can hardly fancy a love
of notoriety so spurious as to lead its possessor to pre-
fer infamy to obscurity. The present is a case of
great enormity, and, had one never heard of similar
occurrences, it would be difficult to conceive the pos-
sibility of a married woman deserting not only her
husband, but the very children to whom she had given
birth. It is usual to apply the term frailty to offences of
this nature, but surely insanity is a better appellation.
Frailty may be applicable to the folly and weakness of
the maiden who is deceived by the perjury and false
promises of the man she loves ; the paths of virtue
and of vice may have been one in the commencement,
and she may have unconsciously taken the first step
where they separated—but, with a married woman,
PO mistake of this sort can arise. She has.no right to
believe or listen for a moment to any vows, to any de-
clarations of affection, for if she does, it is impossible
to shut her eyes to the ruin that awaits her. Like Mar-
mion's Lady Constance, she deliberately forfeits "peace
on earth and hopes of heaven ;" and how seldom does
she secure for any length of time even the society of
him for whom she makes this fearful sacrifice ? How
often does the betrayer leave his victim to encounter
alone the pangs of conscience and the scorn of
her fellow-creatures, aggravated frequently by po-
verty,—rendered more frighful by contrast. It
is not long since these reflections were brought
forcibly to our mind by the view of one of the finest
places in Britain, the fair owner of which had re-
signed it, along with a coronet, for the gratification
of a guilty passion. In exile and in misery she must
now regret, when too late, the folly of her conduct.
As to the guilt of the seducer, it is in most cases
beyond the power of language to express it ; it is the
very essence of the basest selfishness, and is generally
accompanied by perjury and the meanest dissimulation.
How much it is to be regretted that he should escape
the infamy which he procures for another ! But let his
villany have been ever so great—let it be established,
that by innumerable falsehoods, he has forfeited every
claim to the honour of a gentleman, he has nothing
more to do than to fight with the man whom he has in-
jured—perhaps his bosom friend—and immediately
his character stands forth in all its original brightness.
Such is the hollow nature of what is called honour.

Montreal Papers to the 4th ult., and Quebec to the 26th Dee.
have been received at the North and South American Coffee-
house, but their contents are unimportant. A public meeting
was to be held on the 4th at Montreal, to take into consideration
the propriety of petitioning the Legislature to incorporate that
City ; upon this subject, however, there appears some difference
of opinion among the Magistracy.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT-(THIS DAY),

Robert Webling was opposed by Mr. HEATH, on behalf of
several creditors; Mr. Cook was retained for the insolvent. The
case had been up before, and adjourned till to-day ; and Mr.
Cook called a witness, named Bryant, to account for some part of
the insolvent's property. He stated that he was his uncle, and
had lent him a sum of money to set him up with a coach
and horses. On the 12th of last October insolvent gave up
his coach and four horses to witness, that he might pay
himself, and divided the remainder among his creditors. Witness
sold the coach and three horses to Mr. More of Peekam, and kept
one horse himself, for which he allowed 121., and after paying the
duties for the coach, and some repairs, he found that the sum left
would not pay himself ; he therefore proposed a composition of 4s.
in the pound to the creditors, but they would not accept it. Had
scheduled himself for the sum lent and would have taken 4s. is
the pound himself.

The insolvent was here examined relative to a pony and chaise,
which he had not accounted for. He said he had sold it to a gen-
tleman whose name he did not know, about eight month, ago,
for 71.

Mr. HEAT/1 then called Mr. Ewington, who deposed that he
had repaired the chaise, so late as September last.
The Insolvent, however, said that was another chaise.

Mr. Wright then stated to the Court that the Insolvent had
obtained corn of him to the value of 191. a few days before he had
made over his property to his uncle.
The Insolvent was then remanded for eight calendar months.