Star.
London, England, 1822-10-30 00:00:00

t A NIVING

CETTER FROM MR: MVP= TO NIR.

BOVLOGNE Palsox, OCTOPKR 24.

" Sort—After thirteefi days of solitary and severe confinement,
lam permitted to address you. I have been shut out from all
communication with my Government, my lawyer, or physician,
with my family or friends. During this imprisonment an at-
tempt was made to remove me to Paris by a warrant from the
Judges there. I resisted, and resisted successfully, under the
rroteetion of one of the Articles of the Ode de Procedure (the
100th), which there was every dispostion to violate.
." it would appear the Government begins to feel that it has
been too rash and arbitrary in its proceedings. I have under-
gone another long examination—secret as usual—and even the I
presence of an interpreter denied, though formally demanded.—
Four pages of interrogatories had been sent from Pads. Not
one question among them had a reference to that " revolotionaryl
correspondence" of which I was suspected of being the bearer,
and on that plea, and that plea alone, delivered over to the va-
rious acts of outrage of which I have been, and still apatite vie-
rim. I again inquired with what I was charged, and demanded
the act of accusation. None exists : the ground previously
tak .n even seems abandoned. Some justificrition,, some }ha of
jus:.fication, would of course be expected by you, and a !mg
*r :sof questions have been sent in sonsequence--some of which
th:y deemed might possibly lead to a confession, or a detecdon,
waich might palliate their arbitrary proceedings.
" They suspect me (they say), though they venture not to ac-
cese me, as the proces verbal will chew, of being engaged in a
plot with individuals (whom I had never seen) arranged in Lon-
don (from whence I was far distant at the time), to rescue from
prison (though I never heard even of their placeof confinement)
the young men whit were lately executed for political offences
(with not an individual of whom had I ever any the slightest in-
tercourse). They suspect me of furnishing the pecuniary means
for their escape, though not 1000 francs have passed through my
hands since I have been in this country. The charge is as vi-
stonary as it is false—it is false in the aggregate, it is false in every
individual detail; but to support it, the whole machinery of
moral torture (for the due operation of which a fortnight's suf-
ferings are supposed to have prepared the victim) is put in action,
and it is expected to, entrap some new fact by a snare so widely
and so artificially laid. Sir, it is from this monstrous system of
inquisitorial cunning and violence, that I appeal to my country
and to you. Abandoned to the resources of my own mind—a
mind stronger, however, than all the strength of tyranny—l
lave hitherto had to struggie with everything that artifice and
oppression could direct against me—abandoned, among criminals,
without so much as a single presumption, helfkver weak, of crime.
It cannot surely be tolerated, that a man, and an English-
vett, is to be hunted from suspicion to suspicion—each baseless
a! Kurd—till something shall be found, or something shall be
o.r.ed, which may serve to veil the original acts of violence. If
tc, the ends of suspicious despotism are gained—the sufferings
,ire icilict:d—the innocent object of dislike is buried in his Awl-
geon. This, Sir, cannot be dme with impunity. I have confi-
dence in the dignity of your character: I have confidence in the
ti1;413 spirit of my country. Sense redress will be demanded for
the past—some security will be obtained for the future.
" I have the honour to be, with every sentiment of respect,
" Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant,
(Signed) "JOHN BOW R ISM
" To the Right Honourable George Canning, his Britannic
Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sm. &c."