Star.
London, England, 1830-05-27 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD.

Sic.--In your paper of the 18th inst. I notice a letter
addressed to me by Mr. Hunt. I have not the honour of Mr. Hunt's
acquaintance, except by character, and it is evident that l am equally
unknown to him, or, if known to him at all, that I am only known
w him by a chalet; which Ido not deserve. Mr. Hunt mount..
that I am the author of a letter, which has appeared in your paper,
addressed to onyseV: I have only to say, in reply. that lam not
the authot, and that the letter alluded to wait, in no respect written,
dictated, or sanctioned by me.
I regret, Sir, that I 4tould have omelet to trespass upon your
attention and upon that of the public. A private letter from Mr.
Hunt would have spared me the necessity.—l am, Sir, your
obedient humble servant,
Birmingham, 29th May. THOMAS ATTWOOD.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE MORNING HERALD.
Sta,—lt was only on my arrival in town this morning
that I became acquainted with Mr. Hunt's attack on the Marquis
of Blandford, through the channel of your columns, and with the
rejoinder of the Nohle Marquis, which 1 perceive io the 3foreirop
Herald of to-day.
lAke the Marquis of Blandford. I consider it" of small nomottn
to travel through the complex entanglement of subjects wbkh Mr.
Hunt has crowded together in hissecusatery letter; but I feel 113y-
' self compelled to state, that that paragraph, wherein the writer as-
ierta that his interview with Lord Manacled took place as the re-
ggae of the Noble Mamas, is unwarranted by all the fact..
It was by syr request--carried In opposition to convictions en-
tertained by him of its propriety—that Lord Elsodfold met Its.
Batt. I evens (Windt, to permit& him es tonsoot to tits
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out serving the public MOM I certainly WM Mc Hunt, wino
I Introduced him to the Noble Marquis, " that if be would walk
isM the neat room, his Lordship would he glad to see him."
But this 11l the well.unthestood language of causenat courtesy.,
whenever a third pence ushers one gentleman into the presence
at another, and =MX be construed as conveying the Noble Lord's
desire of an interview, to which, in fact, be bad only just then mi-
nuted. Nor did I say any thing arthat time, nor ever any thing sub.
sequendy, calculated to impress Mr. Hunt with so extravagnnt au
ides. The assertion, therefore, appears to me to be quite gratuin us :
more pude:obi* so when it is recollected that Mr. Hunt had al—
ready Wickes* sought Lord Blandford by letter on a public
occasion, to which, with his characteristic rowliness, the Noble
Marquis had replied in a strain of courtesy which disposed of the
appliestiou, but left the parties still unacquainted as before, only to
come togetherihrough some new occasion of ir.t oductish.
As to the causes of disagreement, or jealousy, between Mr. Hunt
and Mr. Mewed, they are perhaps better left uninvestigated ; but
it is impossible not to witness with much concern Cale violent enmity
spring up among the entionfees now, when, mole than cv,r, union
is so Indispensable fee the people. Whatever itrprovements may Lc
henceforth effected in our political associations, it ought never to be
forgottenthat Mr. Attwood is the falter of the I.Tnions ; and it
ought to be remembered on the other side by Mr. Attwood, that ta.
tremor principles than his may be advocated ten men quite as ho-
nourable and as pure as he. " Bear and ferias," should be tile
maxim of all ; and if we cannot go the whole length of our neigh.
hour, we should bear him friendly company so far as we travel
together.
With respect to the Marquis of Blandford, I should consider it
extreme arrogance, known as he row is to the country, for one so ob-
scure as myself to descant on his public merits. the popularity
which be has acquired, and which, I doubt not, will continue to
roll ineosasingly towards him, is at once the best proof both of Int
servicesoand their estimation.
Neither do I desire, in aught that I have said--except in so far
as it sets right what baa been misrepresented-40 undervalue or
disparage the character of Mr. Hunt--. 1 hate the honour to be
Sir, your humble servant,
LIONEL THOS. BERGUER.
Blenheim Hotel, Thursday,
. May Mk
TO THE EDITZTFV THE STAN.
Sea, Stamfordsereet, May 2
Mr. Lionel Berguer, in a letter which was inserted in your Paper
of yesterday, announced his intention of sending an explanatory let-
ter so the Murniai Herald to support the equivocal statement to his
friend the Marquis of Blandfonl, in opposition to that of mine.
Mr. Bergucr's counter-statement is published in the Herald this
day, and permit rue to ask you and your readers what his version of
the affair amounts to? Why a perfect and clear contradiction to the
Marquis, and a decisive confirmation of the truth of my statement.
My first statement was this--" that t had an interview ,t the
Sour Office with the Marquises hie request." The Marquis denies
this, and says, " that Mr. Hunt anxiously desired the introduction,
In order to prevail upon nee to take the Chair at the great Metropo-
litan fileeteng." I rejoin by saying this could not be the fact--"fter,
that the Marquis had previously been applied to, to take the Chair,
and had declined it, upon which it had been offered to, Mr. O'Connell,
who had accepted it.' Now comes forth Mr. Berguer, and in true
Sancho stile kills off his own Knight, by giving a fiat contradiction to
the Marquis's assertion. In hie letter this day, Mr. Bergner says
" Hunt's assertion appears quite: gratuitous: more patti.
cularly so when it is recollected that Mr. Hunt had already
solicitously sought Lord Blandford by letter on a public
occasion, which solicitation the Marquis declined to accept."
That was, he had already declined for some days put,
to take the Chair, and which Mr. O'Connell had accepted. There-
fore, Mr. Berguer confirms my statement, and flatly contradicts that
of the Marques. But Mr. Berguer forgets to state that Captain
Henley was present, and came over for me at the Marquis's request.
But I leave the Marquis and Mr. Berguer to reconcile these coun-
ter-statements in she best way they can.
I am, Sir, yours very respectfully,
H. HUNT.
P.S.—Without having had any communication with you, Sir,
upon the subject, knowing you to be a man of honour and inte-
grity, I fearlessly refer any Gentleman who has doubts on this sub.
Jett, to you for a confirmation of the truth to the very letter of my
statements.

TO TILE EDITOI4OF THE MORNING HERALD.
Ala h DITOR.—As rowed to you yesterday a short expla-
natory statement, g certain assertions made by hie. Hunt,
in a letter to Mr. Attwood, of Birmingham—which statersent,
though much diaappetintedar not reading in your columns to-day, I
trust to tweinserta to-morrow,—perrnit me to animadvert now upon
a second bike from the‘same pen, which I find in your Paper of
this morning.
The amusement whirl; Mr. Hunt endeavours to create for your
readers by Ida play upon the two " dreamed," used by the Noble
Marquis in rebutting your cotrespoadent's observation—and his
comparison, intended to be ironically pleasant, of the patriot
Sydney with the Noble Marquis, who at kart had so much
kindred emulousness as to think it honourable so assume the name
—are so much irrelevancy into which I need not enter. When how-
ever, Mr. Hunt pretends that out of a conversation concerning
the letters of " Sydney" arow his proposition so Lord /Handfeed to
take the Metropolitan Chair in the City-road—pretends, in fact,
that this offer was a snare entrap a generous and confiding nature.
in the fabricestion of which snare I myself stool hors been
participant ;—when, I say, he represents this offer of the Chair as
a tat and proof originated ia the Star office, by which to try do
principles of its unsuspecting guest, I contradict him Atty.—
Of Mr. Hunt's Intended proposal to Loud /Handfeed I heard
accidentally from Captain Healey 'about twenty-four boors be-
fore it was made;—it might be two, or even three deo, my recol.
lecdon does not allow me to speak precisely—but I never heard of it
from Mr. Hunt until after k had been mods, and declined. But
in his anxiety to smother a fool, which it is time now should be
made public (not that I see why Mr. Hunt's pride should be
wounded because Lord Blandford rejected a public honour to which
err: specially invited AWN) he has recourse to an artifice which
I must take the freedom to ship bur. Speaking of the test
which we—the Star coalaerates—had resolved to apply to the
Noble Marquis, he says—" This was agreed to by all present ;
and, as I understood, one of the party made this proposition to his
Lordship, who at once declined the honour, and, as I thought, gave
very satisfactory reasons for not accepting it." The design of this
I passage is evidently to impress the reader with a belief that one ot
the" Star" people, and not Mr. Hunt, had tendered the metropo-
litan honour to Lord Blandford ;—yet ( will h be credited ?) Ibis
offer was made by 111 r. Hunt Aimsetf, in a lateral elaborate com-
pliment and came. solicitation! to which letter the Noble 31arquis,
though in terms of diguified courtesy, returned an answer of explicit
refusal.

The test of the City-road Chair is, I trust, now satisfactorily dis-
posed of. But thief is another paragraph in Mr. Hunt's letter,
which—from the felicitous knack he possesses of entangling sir-
camstantiaiities with fiction—requhres to be somewhat carefully
esounined. He represents in that paragraph the Marquis of
Blandford waiting to make his acquaintance at the Slur Deice,
and Captain Het.ley despatched to Stamfeed-street to apprise hut)
of the noble lord's impatience. He has made a good deal out
of this ; and it is ingeniously strung together. For the tans
are—that the Marquis of Blandford was waiting in my room,
and that Captain Henley did me the favour to carry a message to
Mr. Hunt. But the message was from sne—aor from sty Nat*,
visitor—though it conveyed, as a matter of course, the intimatit
that Lord Blandfoid would be glad to see him. Similar phraseo-
logy I attuned to Mr. limit OD his arrival at the Stier office,
when I conducted him into the room where the Noble Marquis was.
I, as well as lie. Hunt, can appeal to the testimocy of Captain
Henley on this occasion ' • and, in his honour and veracity, ifitt
confident that I shall be corroborated. Capt. Hanky did not go re
Mr. Hunt at Lord Blandford's request, but at mine. Neither was
Lord Blandford—whom I had persuaded to stay beyond his time,
in the hope that Mr. Hunt would CCM in—aware of the Ci/tillM.
Meows that I had sommunicated specially with that gentleman.
The Noble Marquis--as I explained to you, Sir, in my letter of
yestetday—only consented to be imionOt in contact with Mr. Hunt,
after I had overruled his formal and rod objections. Of mune,
I did not make Mr. Hunt acquainted:with that pne ob.
stacles—l did not think it necessary. My abject, iisn this 'that
introduction, was to advance the caws in which we were eilarigaged,
without any reference to rank or party.
Such, Su—as I have detailed them to you—were the 'imam.
stances under which lir. Hunt was introduced by me to the Mar-
quis of Blindfold. If, happily, as 1 shoat fondly hoped, this intro-
duction might have profited the popular isterests, I 'Muhl not
reproach myself, as I now do, and ever sleet, far having soostrained
a noble spirit, though with the best *cations, to disobey its in-
stinctive misgivings.
I have the bosom to be, Sir, your humble Persona,
LIONEI. THOMAS HEROUISK,
May 21. Lase Editor of the Aar.
TO TIES ILOITOR OF HORNING Il$11414).

Sts,—Mr. Haat awake to impeach the veracky of
my statement by moiling Monett of • Wunder in Mr. Hague%
letters (width Wen appeared trio., et my previous lesowledge.)—
Mr. Hunt bum k was a blued,:' yet ha easples sat to um the
temporary odesniese it may sire kilo. He well knows that lie
(wizs nerve“ me by latter es a public masks 4* If he did,
Ist him see web limpinary knee, sopetber with my rept),
“ is accept." He likewise plumes himself en hait 1
apat my statement relative to what 1 uNtetatood* be the, Obi.c,
Kew interview, by an amities rtblib Se deans emelteetee., Grim.