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

" TO JOHN DELL EIHI. Atuntrzy .

" My 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.
He has chosen to close the subject, upon my telling him that the words
which he has now owned to, as well as being offensive, were foolish
and untrue. I felt that I owed it Namely less to my friends and con.
stituents than to myself, to put a stop as soon as possible to a bad habit
tl•at a certain class of persons have got into, of mistaking the contemp.
ttioua forbearance we have sometimes shown for a disposition to tolerate
impertinent allusions of distant and implied threats. I now wish to
state to ,n constituents why 1 told Mr. Campbell that the phrases he
adopts are offensive, foolish, and untrue. Ist,—lt was offensive,
pre►uming, and impertinent, to allude to any political differ.
awes that may exist between myself and any individual of
my family, particularly when the presence of that individual
at the head of the table would have restrained any man of
feeling, discretion, or spitit, from so indecorous a display.
'ldly. It was untrue to say that I had ever deserted any colours or
cause. The charge, such as it is, of deserting what Mr. Campbell vul-
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 wheys such symbols are, with propriety,
admissible. It is untrue that I have deserted the opinions of my fa-
mily, 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
are 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 Brunswickers, 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. _ " NUGENT."

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
Canterbury, all bear the same significant word, " Swing," in chalk.—
Kentish Gazette.

SCOTTISH ANATOMISTS.—On Sunday, the 19th ult.
Mr. M'lntyre, late Master of Monkland Canal Tract Boat, was in-
terred in the burying ground attached to the Rev. Mr. Torrance's
Meeting-house, and secured by a niortsgfe belonging to the Airdrie
Funeral Society. No other interment taking place during that week,
no suspicious apparance was, of course, observed, till, on the Sa-
turday evening, the grave-digger, having occasion to go there, dia.
covered 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
lied gone down through the remains of a person buried four or five
years before, on the right side of the safe, and, through an interstice of
non warping, succeeded in breaking open the coSn ; 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, if possible, to
recover It. By the prompt assistance of Captain Graham, admission
was soon obtained to the hall in question, and the head soon re.
cognised and claimed. It was again brought beck to Airdrie,
and, on Tuesday last; In the presence of a large assemblage of ,
people, it was again, along
.with the body, which had previously
been raised, committed to its kindred dust. The horrifying sight
of the headless trunk, raised from • perfect puddle of mud (for the
shell had been completely destroyed) exalted such feelings, that,
had the guilty perpetrators been forthcoming, a speedy and awful pit.
nishraent had been indicted. 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
• 4utages being committed where they are employed. They have also, by ,
private ii.quiry, obtained such information, and fmm it kid such plans
as will imam it extseinely beitardotp for that or another longer to
4 catty on their "orations in New blooldand. So notorious have the
Trlgneni violas in the barylig-groruld In question become, that we
ni
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sf naturilly 'thi question whether it Is not fanned by resurrection
men. and w the public have not a right to call on the mienagen
and proprietnre to fall on such measures as will prevent the frequency of
harrowing up their *clings ?—Glasgow Chronicle.