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accordingly -proceeded to visit. "I linocl
eaten door, on the fifth floor of a hou
Andr( '

only gown,) opened it

" are you the commissary of police come to arrest me for
my shameful letter to the queen? You must forgive Me :
lam so unhappy that at times I become deranged. lam
sorry to have written as I did to a princess whom all the
poor call good and charitable.P "Be not alarmed,

C. read the affecting words added by

bursting into tears,- she pressed the paper to her lips.
" Sir," she exclaimed, " give me nothing, but leave me
this holy relic. I will die of hunger with it upon my

queen's generosity, I left the three hundred francs, but
had much difficulty. in prevailing on her to give up the
petition, which I still preserve with respect and veneration.
This trait of the Queen of the French is only one of ten
thousand.—Appert's Ten Years at the Court of Louis
Phillippe.

girtROBERT PEEL'S CLAIM FOR GRATITUDE FOR THI
CORN LAWS.—Sir Robert Peel, how-

REPEAL OF Tr

ever, seems mo,

y satisfiec

ploit, and
Lim to the

-er for a moment to dOubt that it entitle

greatest applause. St. Augustine could not speak with
more exultation of converting millions of Pagans to Chris-
tianity by the fervour of his eloquence, than Sir R. Peel,
does of his illustrious feat of converting some hundred ig-

noble minds to free-trade by his paltry government in-
fluence. This is the glorious, the devoted deed, upon
which he rests his claims to immortality ; this it is which
is to enshrine his name amid the gratitude of an admiring
posterity. On account of this he trusts that " his name

Wlll De gratenuiy remenTheretl in those places which are
the abode of the man whose lot it is to labour, and to gain
his bread with the sweat of his brow, when he recruits his
.ength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter
r leavened with a sense of injustice."
of food will actually turn out to be.

and when it is to begin, (for I apprehend that as yet,
although the law is in operation, no labourers have been
incommoded with plethora,) we will not here endeavour
?mine. But even if it should turn out to be an
mce altogether unlooked for and unprecedented,
old not have Sir Robert Peel imagine that much of
tude will go to him. The labourer is
with a rood share of honest com-

we v
the labourer's gi

ieither likes bis bread nor his ministe

to be leavened with the taint of injustice. He is perfectly
capable of discriminating between those who consistently
advocate a cause, and those who, having profitably opposed
it in the hour of its weakm

might have aided

it, embrace it in the eleventh hour, in the time of its
triumph, when it is capable of aiding them. It is not on

that posterity confers

were. not to the a
nires those who

and
Posterit

ho can only convert
influence. If, then,

ere null and superfluc

; if they were
itutional. He

whatever to the caul

constitutional principl

interval of the enjoyment of free trade is then, it appears,
the utmost extent of his services. Against this aro to be
placed all the evils arising from his peculiar mode of
passing the measure—the shock . given to confidence i❑
public men by such sudden inconsistency ; the general
lowering of political character by his craftiness and dupli-
city ; the disgust excited at the avowed and conspicuous
part which government influence has played on the occa-
sion. The country feels justly offended with the minister,
who, in a free nation, where the conscientious voice of
• the majority should alone decide, attempts to anticipate
that decision by the voice of those who are biased b
lov

I, and who

boast of the success of such a method, and lay claim to
merit on its account. It feels justly offended also at the
discovery, that no less than a hundred of its representa-
looked on as the elite of the land, are
mn a measure of first-rate importance,
their own heartfelt convictions ;

who a

;t it if proposed by A, and

Even t

associated witl

Vernon Smith,

he should be very sorry. in tus
the belief that official