Star.
London, England, 1830-10-12 00:00:00

LORD NUGENT AND A. CAMPBELL, ESQ.

The following curious correspondence between Lord Nugent and Mr.
A. Campbell, appeared in the Bucks Casette of Friday last :—A re.
port of a speech made by Mr. Campbell at a dinner given to the Mar.
quis Chandos by the freeholders of Bucks, having stated that Mr.
Campbell said " He was sorry to see an individual desert their ranks,
&c.—that individual had insulted him and his sons, and through
them the whole body of Brunswickers. This indignity he would resent
the very next opportunity that offered." Lord Nugent wrote to Mr.
Campbell, stating that he had been informed that there was an impres.
Mon that the allusion was made to him, and though he could not easily
believe:it, he trusted Mr. Campbell would be good enough to give him
Iris authority for removing the impression. Mr. Campbell replied, that
the newspaper report was incorrect ; but he neither retracted nor ex-
plained any expression he hal used. Lord Nugent, on the receipt of
this note, wrote to Mr. Campbell, requesting to know whether he had
said that the individual to whom ho alluded had deserted from some
ranks, &c. Mr. Campbell replied that the expression attributed to
him was incorrect. Lord Nugent, in acknowledging the receipt of this
note, said the phrase, as reported, if pointed at him, was offensive,
foolish, and untrue ; but having been informed by Mr. Campbell that
the report was incorrect, he had not a word more to say on the subject.
Mr. Campbell replied the next day, in which he says:—
•' I am anxious, however, that there should be no misconception on
the so liner. I therefore lose no time in informing your Lordship what
spressions I made use of, and Mating that they referred to your Lad.
ship. At the dinner given to the Marquis of Chandos, at Aylesbury,
in celebration of his recent election, under circumstances the most flat-
tering to the House of Buckingham, as well as to his Lordship him.
self, I proposed a toast commemorative of that event. In the course of
what I said in prefacing this toast, I expressed my admiration of the
enthusiastic attachment which had been evinced. by the thousands as-
sembled on the memorable sth of August, under the banners and colours
ot• the noble family, and stated my regret at having seen on that day one
iadividual who. I considered, ought to have been foremost in the cause,
.'esert those colours, and show himself in the adverse ranks—a fact
known not only to those whom I addressed, bnt the immense assem-
blage who witnessed it."
L )rd Nugent, the next day, wrote to Mr. Campbell, that the words
I r stated were substantially the same as those in the report; they,
Curet:re, came in all respects under the same desaiption. Mr. Camp.
bell wrote to Lord Nugent the next day, October 8, saying, as the
circumstance to which he referred was witnessed by thousands, no doubt
or denial could be made of its truth ; he therefore took leave to clone
the correspondence. The following letter, which we give at length,
closes the published account of the transaction :

" TO JOHN DELL, ESQ. ATLESEURT.
" 3lv dear Sir,—Having, from the beginning, made you aware that
1 intended to call for an explanation of words used on a late public oc-
casion by a Mr. Campbell, and supposed by some to refer to me, I now
send the whole correspondence, which he has declared to be at an end.
lie has chosen to close the subject, upon my telling him that the words
which lie has now owned to, as well as being offensive, were foolish
and untrue. I felt that I owed it sasrccly less to my friends and con.
astituents Coon to myself, to put a stop as soon as possible to a bad habit
rl at a curtain class of persona have got into, of mistaking the contemp.
to J.... forbearance we have sometimes shown for a disposition to tolerate
impertinent allusions of distant and implied threats. I now wish to
state to int. constituents why I told Mr. Campbell that the phrases he
steer. are offensive, foolish. and untrue. Ist,—lt was offensive,
presenting, and impertinent, to allude to any political differ.
ogees that may exist between myself and any individual of
my family, particularly when the presence of that individual
at ti'e head of the table would have restrained any man of
feeling, discretion, or 'pith. from so indecorous a display.
2dly. It was entitle to say that I had ever deserted any colours or
cause. The charge, such as it is, of deserting what 3lr. Campbell rid.
garly calls the colours of my family, all my constituents know to be un.
true ; those colours happening also to be my own, and to be borne as
mine on every public occasion where such symbols arc, with propriety,
admissible. It is untrue that I have deserted the opinions of my fa.
roily, which have been strongly; uniformly, and notoriously opposed to
those which were supported and extolled on the day in question. It is
untrue that I joined any adverse ranks. lam yet to learn that, while
the County of Buckingham returns two Members to Parliament,
and there are but two candidates, any body with two ideas can describe '
one of those candidates as opposed to the other. It is untrue that I
ever deserted any public cause, and manifest that I never deserted that
of the lirunswickers, to which Mr. Campbell adverts, it being one of
my chiefest delectations to remember that, to that cause, with all its in.
justices and all its absurdities, I have been ever recognised as being in
direct and irreconcilable public opposition. Thirdly and lastly—Mr.
Campbell's words were foolish ; as the words of a man who has neither
the discretion to avoid offence, the propriety to retract, or the spirit to
support it.
" Ever, my dear Sir, your's truly.
" Oct. 7, 1830.

Anonymous letters, signed " Swing," have been received
by post, by two individuals in Dover, threatening the destruction of
their premises by fire, which has caused great alarm in the families.—
The dead walls all through the town, and for some miles on the road to
Ointerbury, all bear the same significant word, " Swing," in chalk.—
Kentish Gazette. _ _ _

SCOTTISH ANATOMISTS.—On Sunday, the 19th ult.
13r. M'lntyre, late Master of Monkland Canal Tract Boat, was in.
tcrred in the burying ground attached to the Rer. Mr. Torrance's
Meeting-house, and secured by a wortsafe belonging to the Airdrie
Funeral Society. No other interment taking place during that week,
no suspicious appearance was, of course, observed, till, on the Sa-
turday evening, the grave-digger, having occasion to go there, dis-
,overed fragments of grave materials scattered about the place
of Mr. M'lntyre's interment. Assistance being obtained, an
examination followed, when it was ascertained that the violators
had gone down through the remains of a person buried four or five
y,,ars before, on the right side of the safe, and, through an interstice of
unit warping, succeeded in breaking open the coffin ; they found it im.
practicable to abstract the body ; but, determined not to be altogether
disappointed, cut off the head and took it with them. The relatives,
much about the same time, received information that their deceased
friend's head had been seen in the hall of an Anatomical lecturer. No
time was lost in dispatching several active individuals, it' possible, to'
recover it. By the prompt assistance of Captain Graham, admission
was soon obtained to the ball in question. and the head soon re-
cognised and claimed. It was again brought back to Airdrie,
and, on Tuesday last; in the presence of a large assamblage of
people, it was again, along with the body, which had previously
been raised, committed to it+ kindred dust. The horrifying sight
of the headless trunk, raised from a perfect puddle of mud (tor the
shell had been completely destroyed), excited such feelings, that,
hid the guilty perpetrators been forthcoming, a speedy and awful pu-
nishment had been inflicted. The Society to whom the safe belongs
have, at a very considerable expense, ordered a complete inside lining
of strong iron plates, to prevent, in future, the practicability of such
outages being committed where they are employed. They have also, by
private inquiry, obtained such information, and from it laid such plans
as will make it extremely hazardous for that or any other gang longer to
*tio carry on their operations in New Monitland. So notorious have the
'frequent violations in the burying-ground In question become, that we
trial niturally ask the qeestion whether it is not fainted by resurrection
men, and whothei the public have not a right to call on the nutnagers
and proprietors to fall on such measures as will prevent the frequency of
harrowing up their feelings ?—Glaryose Chronicle.