The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-19 00:00:00

THE LiVERPOOL BTANDARD.

IRISH LANDLORDS.—Tne two greatest faults of Irish
landlords are these :—ln the first place, they suffer them-
selves to remain ignorant of their tenantry ; so much so,
indeed, that they frequently deny them access and redress
when the poor people are anxious to acquaint them with
their grievances ; for it is usual with landlords to refer
them to those very agents against whose cruelty and
rapacity they are appealing. This is a carte blanche to
the agent to trample upon them if he pleases. In the
next place, Irish landlords too frequently employ ignorant
and needy men to manage their estates ; men who have
no character, no property, or standing in society, beyond
the reputation of being keen, shrewd, and active. These
persong, Sir, make fortunes ; and what means can they
have of accumulating wealth, except by cheating either
the landlord or his tenants, or both ? A history of
their conduct would be a black catalogue of dishonesty,
oppression, and treachery. Respectable men, resident on
or near the estate, possessing both character and pro-
perty, should always be selected for this important trust.
But, above all thins, the curse of a tenantry is a per-
centage agent. He racks, and drives, and oppresses,
without consideration either of market or produce, in
order that his receipts may be ample, and his own income
large.—Carleton's Traits and Stories.
THE EARL OF OXFORD'S PROCRASTINATION.—Even
Swift's raillery was inefficatious to root out a besetting
sin entwined with Oxford's nature, and which he had dis-
covered soon after his introduction. " His lordship has
long designed an answer to the letters he received from
the bishops, and he said ten times he would do it to-mor-
row," Many years afterwards he was told himself by the
earl's private secretary;—" Lord Oxford has received
your letters : he will answer them, but not today•, `sicut
olim', nothing can change him." In the crisis of his fate,
as we learn from the diary, it was just the same. 'April
7th, 1813. I dined with the Lord Treasurer, and though
the business I had with him is something against Thurs-
day, when the parliament is to meet, and this is Tuesday,
yet he put it off till to-morrow. I never saw his fel-
low for delay. To-morrow will be a very important day;
all the world will be at Westminster. Lord Treasurer
was as easy as a lamb." Immersed in too much business
for a man of the most exact habits to perform, the time
that could not comprehend unavoidable engagements he
dissipated in such as were superfluous. He used to send
trifling verses from the court to the Scriblerus Club, and
would come and talk idly almost every day and night ,with
them, even when his all was at stake. In private life and
to his friends, he was equally the dupe of the morrow,
nor could ever begin the business of the week on the Mon-
day morning. The simple act of sitting for his picture for
a friend, he delayed till the opportunity was gone. Swift
writes to the Earl, October, 1722, " I have now been ten
years soliciting for your picture, and if I had solicited
you for £l,OOO (I mean of your money, not the public) I
could have prevailed in ten days. Nor did he prevail at
last, for death interfered with the old earl's contemplated
fulfilment of his promise. " I have often heard my Fa-
ther say," his son writes for Wimple, " that he did de-
sign to sit for you, but did not. I shall certainly take care
that you shall have a picture."—Tozensend's History of
House of Commons.

HER MAJESTY'S Crow .--The crown of her present
' Majesty was, it is well known, made by Messrs. Rundell
and Bridge. It is composed of hoops of silver, which, are
completely covered and concealed by precious stones,
surmounted by a ball covered with small diamonds, having
a Maltese cross of diamonds on the top of it. In the
centre of this cross is a magnificent sapphire. In front of
the crown, above the rim, is another Maltese cross, in the
middle of which is the large unpolished ruby which once
graced the coronet of the chivalrous Black Prince, and,
underneath this, in the circular rim, is another immense
sapphire. The arches inclose a cap of deep purple, or,
rather, blue velvet, and the rim of the crown, at its base,
is clustered with brilliants and ornamented with ikurs-de-
lis and Maltese crosses, equally rich. There are many
other precious gems, emeralds, and rubies, sapphires, and.
small clusters of drop pearls of great value. The follow-
ing estimate of the value of the different jewels contained
in this magnificent diadem has been published :
Twenty diamonds round the circle, £l5OO
each
Two large centre diamonds, £2OOO each 4,000
Fifty-four smaller diamonds placed at the
angle of the former ,
Four crosses, each composed of 25 dia-
monds
Four large diamonds on the tops of the
crosses.. . 40,000
Twelve diamonds contained in fleur-de-
lis
Eighteen smaller diamonds contained in
the same
Pearls, diamonds, &c., on the arches-and

12,000

10,000

2,000

crosses
Also tine hundred and forty one diamonds 500
Twenty-six diamonds on the upper cross 3,000
Two circles of pearls about the rim.... 300

xrri,9oo
We know not upon what data this statement was made ;
but it will be &nerved, that the value of the sapphires
and rubies has not been included, and we have reason to
believe that were' it possible to re-collect and again bring
together such precious gems, the estimate just given
would fall much berow their intrinsic value. The old
crown made for George 111. weighed upwards of seven
pounds ; but, notwithstanding this gorgeous- display of
jewellery, independent of the gold cap, the present crown
only weighs nineteen' ounces and ten pennyweights. It
measures seven inches in height from the gold'circle to
the upper cross, and itsdiameter, at the rim, isfiveinches.
This crown is worn by her Majesty whenever she opens
and closes, in person, the houses of parliament. —Po/y.
tecnnic Magazine.
Pori= An--rovrov.n.r... OF THE HISTORT ov' TIM
LAST FIFTY YEARS.—The part which England took in
the long and mighty struggle against the despotism-of de-
inocracy, the efforts of ambition, the injustice and opprese
sion of France towards many lands and people, the
iniquitous tyranny of Napoleon Buonaparte and his satel-
lites and slaves; and the sacrifices that same England
made in behalf of true freedom and European order,.peace,
and justice, have not been brought sufficiently before the
minds of our young men now advancing from eighteee to
thirty. They have heard ore national debt of eight hun-
dred millions of pounds sterling; but they have also
" beard that the sum was expended in unjust and unneces-
sary wars." Many of them—tens of thousands—have
not been undeceived; and so LIE FIRST has obtained a
very general circulation. They have heard of a H'oese
ALLIANCE, and have been told that Lord Castlereagh and
the Ruke of Wellington joined " the Despots of the
North" to make war on the liberties of Germany, Poland,
Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Tens of thou-
sands of our healthy and stalwart young men believethis,
.—for no one has set about proving to them the contrary;
and 80 LIE SECOND has obtained currency. They have
have been told, that Buonaparte was a deliverer ; that he
had sublime notions of government ; that he wished to
emancipate the world ; and that he carried on single- -
banded a mighty war against armed sovereigns, in order
eventually to establish the independence and the happi- -
ness of the people. Now,. if popular books had been
written in profusion, and circulated cheaply by hundreds
of thousands of copies. giving_ to the young men of, our
epoch facts, documents, undeniable events, all shewing
the contrar3 , LIE THIRD would not now be believed.in as
it is by those who are soon about to become the fathers -
of' the next generation. These same young men have
heard that England would have been richer, happier, and
more respected, provided she had remained neutral from
the very commencement, in. the long European struggle
of which I write, and that our manufacturers woukli not
now be struggling with closed markets and against'high
protecting duties levied by foreign governments oreEng-
lish,produce ; and that our garners would have been full,
and our provisions cheap and abundant, and our poor well
employed, and our labouring classes at ease and happy, if
we had not engaged in that "'long and ruinous war."
Andeno one has taken the trouble, nay the pleasnre, to
shew to them, that but for the conduct England then pur-
sued we should have had no manufacturers at an,—no
allies, no government, or at• least no independent one;
and that the Gaul would have printed the mark of his iron
hoof on our soil, and would have subjected our necks to
his-iron yoke. Thus Lim 'MURTH has been propagated,
and the history of England, from 1793 to 1815, has been
backwards, or topsy-turvy, by our now youths of from
eighteen to twenty-five years•of age.—Fraser's Magazine.
SMOKERS, MALE AND FEMALE.—Every body smokes
here : man, woman, boy,,and girl, almost down to the
baby just escaped from the cradle; but still E 4 was not
prepared for the novel spectacle of the very " sylphides"
themselves strutting about with huge, undisguised, verita-
ble cigars in their months, puffing and smoking like so
many yellow chimney-pats,. that they resemble much both
in symmetry and colour. Smoking 1 detest, as one of
the most unsufferable and nauseous follies of.the day.
Strange that men should persist in this offensive habit
that all women with pretensions to a nose at all civilized
unite in condemning ;..;let custom has inured men to this.
But a woman's smoking was a barbarism L hardly sup-
posed myself destined- ever to see; and, certainly, the
first time 1 came plump upon one of my whity-brown at-
tendants, with her vereath on one side, her wings all awry,
sucking, for dear life, at the end of a flaming cigar, my
astonishment and the tobacco smoke together quite took.
my breath away; that was an impression neither time_
nor distance will either dim or remove. A full-dressed
sylphide sitting, on a painted bank of flowers, where I
first spied her, exhaling the smoke of a colossal cigar, and
of a borsekilling strength, with a:1 the nonchalance
of a veteran smoker, was an outrageous novelty that ab-
sorbed me quite z and whilst I stood gazing there, a call
summoned the volcanic troupe to the stage, and each one
deposited with jealous care her precious weed on bench
and chair, with growling menaces neither to touch nor
taste, and then they betook themselves to their mystic
gambols, meant to charm the love-lorn " Reuben" to
their
,fanny haunts. It requires faith in one's art to pre-
serve illusions amid such scenes. The men of all degrees
smoke and smoke everywhere; in the houses, in the
streets, in the theatres, in the cafes, in the comsting-room,
eating, drinking, and truly, I suspect, sleeping, they
smoke—smoke—smoke ! It is odd that strangers don't
scent Havana far out at sea. The gentlemen, however,
are addicted to a small paper cigar, called " cigarito",
containing a small quantity of pulverized tobacco, of the
best flavour, which is by no means offensive. No true
Havaneco even moves a foot without his portable armory
of cigaritos, as indispensable to him as his quiver to the
wild Indian. He may get along comfortably without his
coat, bat, or neckcloth ; but without his cigarito, he could
neither walk, talk, nor even think. The first thing that
follows a salutation of friends, meeting no matter where,
is to pull out their pacquets, light the sociable weed,
another talk ; it gives life to Havaneco, he opens his
heart and mouth at the same time, and fills up the gaps
of conversation. A cigar ought to be the national em-
blem of Cuba ; certainly, nothing is more completely
identified with them in my mind, and I shalt never recall
a friend to memory who will not be enveloped in a soft
haze of tobacco stroke.—Fenry Elssler at the 141vana
Fraser,

Cheap prices of grain are like the
• the greatest of all blessings is
-,ccording as they arise from
''on, or magnitude of fo-
- had an example du-
' --Itn 1830 to 1835,
nctically aho-
-nt high

CHEAP PRICEg.—
Am reeta cap in Kellam ,
the greatest of all curses,
magnitude of domestic product..
reign importation. Of the first vt...
ring the five fine years in succession, hs
during which the foreign importation wag
lished by the abundant harvests, and consEtp,
duty on grain under the sliding scale. This was a tmt.
as all the world knows, of universal and unexamplsu
commercial prosperity. Of the second we had a rnernO-
rable example during the five bad years in successibn,
which elapsed from 1836 to 1840, in the course of which
the cern-laws, from the effect of the same sliding scale,
and the continued low prices, were practically abolished';'
and importations, at the close of the period, amounted to
2,500,000 quarters, and, on an average of the whole, was
little short of 2,000,000 of quarters. And what was the
result ? The exportation of 6,000,000 of sovereigns in a
single year to buy grain ; an unexampled pressure on the
money market ; commercial embarrassments, long-conti-
nued, and severe beyond all former precedent; the con-
traction of ten millions of additional debt in four years,
and the creation of a deficit which at length rose to the
formidable amount, in 1842, of £4,000,000 sterling! And
what first dispelled this distress, and arrested this down-
ward and disastrous progress ? The fine harvests of 1842
—the blessed sun of its long summer, followed by the
more checkered, but also fine summer of 1843, which
again gave us plenty, derived from domestic production,
and consequent general and increasing manufacturing as
well as rural prosperity.—Blackwood's Magazine.
INFLUENCE OF PRINCE METTERNICH OVER THE
ROYAL FAMILY OF AUSTRIA.—The influence exercised
by the Prince de Metternich over the royal family of Aus-
tria is one of those subjects to which that statesman never
refers, and which he much dislikes to hear conversed
about. The fact is, that Francis 11. was, personally, so
omnipotent in Austria, that " right" was what pleased
the emperor, i. e. his will ; and " wrong," what displeased
him. It is very far, indeed, from true, that the monarch
and his prime minister always thought alike ; but the lat-
ter knew when to yield, and never allowed the emperor
to feel than any other will really governed but his own.
The Emperor Francis admired the integrity, openness,
and consistency of the Prince de Metternich's character ;
and would laugh very heartily when told that the English
prints sometimes called him a Jesuit. The prince, in his
turn, smiled at the eccentricities of his sovereign, and en-
joyed the old-fashioned green caleche of his royal master,
with his simple pair of horses : the emperor dressed in a
brown, shabby cabotte, with a corresponding hat ; thus
riding along like an old retired merchant, nodding, here
and there, right and left, most friendly as he passed along.
" In spite of all that easy exterior," remarked the Prince
de Metternich to an English gentleman, who was walking
with him as his majesty passed, " the emperor is not less
an emperor ; his will is law in this country, and the peo-
ple love to have it so." Of his brothers, the emperor was
most attached to the Vice-King of Italy; of the Prince
Charles he was said to be jealous, Prince John was too
learned for him, and the Palatine too impetuous. When
the latter requested the emperor's permission to marry
for the third time, the emperor replied, " You may take
her ; but I shall myself pray for her long life, for I pre
sume you would next marry a Jewess."—Fraser's Maga
zine.

THE CEDAR OF LEBANON.—Aa compared with other
evergreen coniferous trees, it surpasses them all in grand
and picturesque effect; and, wben arrived at maturity,
or approaching those gigantic dimensions which it ac-
wires in its native habits, may justly be considered as
one of the most magnificent of the vegetable creation.
In iteform and mode of growth, every circumstance is cal-
culated' to give it an imposing and noble aspect ; the trunk
being massive, and of a large diameter in proportion to
its height, indicates that strength and longevity by which
it is characterized in passages of holy writ ; whilst its py-
riarnidical head, composed of numerous horizontal boughs
rising tier above tier in thick succession, and clothed with
a mantling foliage of never-fading green, forms a canopy,
or as the prophet Ezekial expresses it, " a shadowing
shroud " of vast extent and striking appearance. This
grandeur and beauty of form naturally associates the ce-
dar, in our ideas,. with objects of importance and scenery
of the loftiest description ;'and hence it is that it becomes
a more appropriate ornament and appendage to imposing
architectural masses, and grounds of wide extent, than to
the precincts of a modern villa. where none of the accom-
paniments are of a corresponding, magnitude, or in accor-
dance with those feelings which its presence is calculated
to excite. Such, also, seems the feeling of eminent pain-
ters with regard to this tree, whenever it can be appropri-
ately introduced into their compositions.. Thus in seve-
ral of the wonderful and highly imaginative-pictures of the
celebrated Martin, the cedar is prominently brought for-
ward, particularly in his representation of the destruction
of Babylon, where it is made the principal tree in its
far-famed terraces and hanging gardens. It is also a
prominent object in the gardens of Nineveh, as represent-
ed in his rail of that city ; and ancient cedars- also enter
into its imaginary view of the Garden of Edge;—Selby's
British Forest Trees.

STRAwnguitY HILL. What will the public say when
they hear of a " Second Strawberry Hill'Sale and yet
such is the fact ; but then it is ushered into nubile atten-
tion with so much modesty and adioitness ; there is such
a degree of tact connected with the mode of comcnenica-
tion, that Puna, if he be in a merry vein next week, will
probably insinuate that this announcement is indepted to
the prolific pen of Lord Brougham, who-is now positively
accused of being the original of George Robins's "sayings
and Doings. " It may be remembered the celebrated
Mathews, 20 years ago, in a facetious mood, after dinner,
one day created a joke at his expense, tothe effect that he had
engaged the services of a great literary divine, classically
endowed with an income of only one thousand pounda.a
year, to compose his own amusing advertisements. Our
readers, after they have had their smite, need not be told
this is all fudge—a story long since worn out—for- we do
know that whatever racy belong to these literary achieve--
ments, they can be alone traced to the fertile- brain of the
" Knight of the Hammer ;" but Punch, has just indulged
it readers with a new version of a stale joke. The ex--
chancellor, Lord Brougham, it is now discovered, is the
culprit, but let us quote him correctly ; and before we do
so we must finish our commentary upon Strawberry Hill.
This-announcement will,be found in our columns, and
thereis a point or two that really deserve great credit, and
most especially not less for originality than great ingenu-
ity ;our friend modestly introduces it thus :---" It is an
exceedingly valuable melange of property (meaning the
Countess of Mansfield's) en Richmond Hill; so recherche
in the-several departments in the arts and sciences, that
it will not be l QUITE SACRILEGE' to designate it a
Montle revival to Strawberry Hill. Now oonsidering he
is treading on such classiaground, he may: be accounted
clever to have made so neat 'an excuse for such a• compa-
rison ;-again, he says, in order to enlist the attention of
the scientific world, and those who were EMILA.PTURED
at Lord Walpole's are to be DELIGHTED' at this re-
nowned receptacle of varied treasures; but we have wan-
dered frOm the point, and will conclude by Ptinch's proof
of his perspicacity, by having discovered the "real Simon
Pure; 'whose lucubrations have for twenty years afforded
so much satisfaction and delight. Let ns see his quota-
tion :—" The adjustment of ,the corn bill has arrived at a
great, a triumphant result. It is now conceded to Sir
Robert Peel, that in the intricate task, which required all
the mind, the perspicacity, and depth of' intellect pos-
sessed by our first minister; in organising his salutary
alteration in the corn bill, he has dealt out a measure of
strict and impartial justice, no less to the manufacturing
than the agricultural interest." Now this. style cannot
be disguised, it mu,/ be from the prolific brain of one late
lord on the Woolsack ; and the confirmation is sealed by
the recollection of his present praise, compared with so
many years of abuse in by-gone days.—Morning Herald.
FREE TRADE : OLD .I,:`:D NEW STATES,.—The supe-
rior weight of wages, rent, and all the elements of cost,
in the old, when compared. with the young community,
affects the manufacturer as -well as the farmer ; and in
some branches of manufactures it does so with an over-
whelming effect. But, generally speaking, the advan-
tages of capital, machinery, and the division of labour,
render the old state altogether predominant over the
younr, one in these particulars. It would, seem to be a
fixed law of nature, that the progress of society adds al-
most nothing to the application of machinery to agricul-
ture, hut indefinitely to. its importance in-manufactures.
Observe an old man digging his garden with a spade--
that is the most productive species of cultivation ; it is
the last stage of agricultural progress to.seturn to it. No
steam,engines or steam ploughs will ever rival it. But
what'is the old weaver toiling with his hands, to the huge
steam-power mill, turning at once ten thousand spindles?'
As- dust in the balance. Man, by a beneficent law of his.
Maker, is permanently secured in his first and best pur-
suit. It is in those which demoralize and degrade, that;
machinery progressively encroaches en the labour of his.
hands. England can undersell In.dia in muslins and;
printed goods, manufactured in Lancashire or Lanark-
shire, out of cotton which grew on the banks of the
Ganges; for England, though younger in years compared
to India, is old in civilization, wealth, and power. Vtie
should like to see what-profit would be made by exporting
wheat from England, raised on land paying thirty shil-
lings an acre of rent, by labourers paid at two shillings
a-day, to Hindustan, where iico is raised twice a-year,
on land paying five shillings an, acre rent, by labourers
receiving twopence a-day each. It is the constant opera-
tion of this law of nature which ensures the equalisation
of empires, the happiness of, society, and the dispersion
of mankind.. To be convinced of this, we have only to
reflect on the results which. would ensue if this were not
the case ; if no.unvaryinglaw gave man in remote situa •
tions an advantage in raising subsistence over what they
enjoy in the centres of opulence ; and agriculture, in the
aged and, wealthy community, was able to acquire the
same decisive superiority over distant and comparatively
tpiooonr ores;
maes.wnlitlifcahotwarees. s
see dauiplypoesxee,na foplirfieedxaimmptlho, h
the produc-
tion in
ue-
consequence of the application of the steam-engine, ca-
pital, and machinery to, the raising of subsistence, Great
Britain could undersell the cultivators of Poland and the
Ukraine as etTectually as she does their manufacturers in
the production of cotton goods; that she could sell in the
Polish market wheat at five shillings a quarter, when they
require fifteen shillings to remunerate the cost of produc-
tion. Would not the result be, that commerce between
them would be entirely destroyed; that subsistence would
be exclusively raised in the old and opulent community;
that mankind would congregate in fearful multitudes
round the great commercial emporium of the world; and
that the industry and progress of the more distant nations
would be irrevocably blighted? Whereas, by the opera-
tion of the present law of nature, that the rich state can
always undersell the poor one in manufactures, and the
poor one always undersell the rich one in subsistence,
those d ngers are removed, a check is provided to the
undue multiplication of the species in particular situa,-
tions, and the dispersion of mankind over the globe—a
vital object in the system of nature—is secured, from the
very necessities and difficulties in which, in the progress
of society, the old and wealthy community becomes in.
volved.--131aqkwoo4',7 Magazine,

March 19, NA

THE LATE FATAL DUEL.

of Lieutenanth is duel
w
itAhluthnerouln'afos
to the Hon. T. S. Duncombe, M.P. for Finsbury.r
extract his account of the origin of the duel. Afthieh be
ing detailed, at some length, a transaction in w letting
was concerned for Colonel Fawcett, in respect toz.
a,. 4
a house, he states that the Colonel had said ),_.'e'r;
ratducloraetseseLdieaultet.tcero
(Lieutenant Munro) had been very fortunate in his
ti him
folfG‘fj+,-
- to call up
„
1 Fawcett) requested meoati
to explain to him what o'es_ me;
as soon as I cons.J•
that I baa paid to his credit. I did 0,0u_..
-ours to serve him. The Lieutenant thee proceeds as
same were
anfortunatellY• d LieLn'
nention that when I accompanie
that be
I have now to
o the city, he hinted to Me
..„05t
Colonel Fawcett t.:lt
•non his mind that ren'
had some suspicions called upon him on the e,l _A.
unhappy nature. When .neared considerably ertele!,
ing of the 29th of June? he 5).„ of Romer in the reel!,
There was a person of the henna •.red, although nPus";
on the evening of the 26th of last n.%
who was sent away as soon as I r think that I Was
previous occasions he had remained. once onn et the
ergauwle.tett
expected; and, from the accounts being at 'hat.nte,
upon, and from other circumstances, I beget --
gross insult that was put upon me afterwards Wag .77,14
ditated. The small sums previously alluded to Were itk
explained to his satisfaction ; but the £3O that Mrs. tlar,
was allowed for the loss she had sustained in taking mar;
wick-house with a bad tenant in it, was made the s'Andla
upon which a quarrel was to be effected. I endrael'ia
repeatedly to make him understand that it was stfittlea
conformity with his own directions that Mrs. Sinith„tio
been let off paying £5O, as well as to draw his atteutbef
to the important services I had rendered him in c'e;
matters, and the high price I had obtained for the 11
but he kept constantly reverting to the case of they,; te
and insinuated repeatedly that I had neglected his .%.
rest, and bad allowed myself to be bamboozled by
Smith. * * * I remained perfectly Plas.
under all the insinuations for a considerable time. ",, t
I tried to get him off the subject of the £5O, but he "`...4,
perpetually and violently returning to it, and blaming ate
as pointedly as he could, for all that was wrong about tu.,
delay in the sale of the house. The consciousness of F 32
most zealous, fortunate, and unwearied exertions in
favour made me doubt for a long time if he could tell
mean what he said ; at last I observed, Well, Falrceont.f
this is a very different return from what I expected, 1"
I have attended to your interests as I never did to ra
own. I have served you as no other man could hate
done, and you have frequently insinuated that I neglected
your affairs or interest when you were absent.' He re;
plied loudly, I did not, sir.' I answered, • Yon did, e;
I understood you to do so.' He violently answeredf
flat contradiction I will bear from no man.' He the
bell (he was during the whole of the above time, or netinf
so, walking hurriedly about the room), opened the &to',
before the servant could answer to the' bell, and COI
out in a rage, ' Open the door, and keep it open tie'
Mr. Munro is turned out of the house.' I- was so cot;
founded by the unexpected and unnecessary violence e`
the act, with the recklessness and ingratitude evinced 11
it, that I did not know what to do or what to say; butt,.
remained for a few minutes, and then went away, neat
distracted with the cruel and gross insult put upon use 'y
a person whom I had rendered such service to • II"'
supposing that I might be spurned for permitting rt,
returned and said. that if it bad not been for the e 011;
nexiorr that existed between us, and the unseemly natn',
of such a proceeding, I would bring him to account tro‘rV
or have resented it upon' the spot. He replied that se
the connexion, he wished never to hear of it again, an,
hoped that it would not prevent me from doing wha:
referred to.- I then went away. Upon the follool
morning I took the opinion of an officer of acknowledke
judgment, and of upwards of thirty years' standing in Ltm,,t
army, upon the unfortunate occurrence. He said tu"
during the course of his service he had never heard of 60
gross an outrage, and that, as &British officer upon (1'
pay, I had no alternative whatever but what was USLI:
viz., an apology or a meeting. I' then called upon
Grant, and took him, with me to consult with a frientt "
~,,
much experience in these unhappy affairs: His 001;
entirely coincided with, that of my other friend ; but
said he would take the advice of a generalioffleer about'
;
whose reply was, that no officer holding- her Majestli:"
commission could possibly exist under such an inec'''
In the course of the same clay I took the'opinionts of three
other friends (all officers, or having been in. the arcal);
they all said, that, however lamentable the prareedint
was,•l was compelled to uphold the honour of the' vteti°:
I held in the service at the hazard of rn7life. 1 hoPe,.
that one word of regret might have been expressed Ate the
wanton and gross insult put upon me • but none erect'
be given,. and a meeting was proposed that day liy Col. Awcett, to which Mr. Grant objected: When
found, late in the evening of the 30th of June,•thar Ph"
amicable arrangement was likely to be come to. alth°l-
I had left' the affair entirely in the hands of My, SeCOP'-'
I wrote auote, recommending my wife and ciiildren
the care' Gf some friends ; and also a paper (whicliVaigne.o.!
in the presence of two witnesses), declaring that
deeply deplored being obliged to go oarwith
Fawcett, and that,. from circumstancea-over which
no control', r was forced to do so. I most earnestly
de-
sired that some arrangement might be curie to the folio!:
ing morning;-and' I made three appeals to Mr. Grante#7
the ground with that view, saying each time, Good 0,9`.`;
Grant, can nothing be done to stop this dreadful anald
from going on'. but it appears he was so obstinately tit.,
violently reczived't'he day before by Lieut.-Col. Faifc'd
that he had n© hope of coming to a friendif'understan
ing."
The following'extract will convey some icit of LiCnt''
Munro's state of'mind
I) 5 ,P „
MY " wilt not attempt to describe my own nz L
state of mind, Move r hays- been forced to •-„antnA re
country, my profession, and my beloved wlft.,
father, mother, and relations but those who have knc"—
me from my childhood, and my gallant comrades, can
conceive what I have suffered. I
had a happy and a con-
tented home ; my utmost and constant endeavnurs were
directed to perform, to the best of my power, my duties
to my God, to an men, and also as a faithful subject' to
her most gracious Majesty;: and I am now a marked and
wretched exile. It has been said that I was to enter s
foreign service, and I have occasionally in my solitual
and wretchedness thought of doing so ; but my heart an
affections are, and ever-will remaivr, with my kindred anl
my country; and I do not think that I need be ashamed
of owning that when alone I. have- shed many a bitterteal
for what has happened, but what I could not prevent'
But I have a great consolation in the assurance that
merciful and all-seeing. Maker will hold me guiltlessf
the abominable and horrible crime' that erring men', like
myself, lay to my charge."

VOLUNTARY STARVATION.--Some time ago,NIT. Janie:
Osborne, of Newark-upon-Trent„ Nottinghamshire, 'ca
robbed of a considerable •surn of money by a boy na9ed
Thomas Charles, in whom •he had placed great confidencet
This -circumstance preyed so deeply upon his mind as
produce an aberration' of 'intellect,. and on the 15th o
f
February last he attempted to commit suicide by natl..
his throat. He was, however, prevented from doing thcr•
and since that period has-never been suffered to helo'
himself ; but from that time he stedfastly refused to t! ,e •
the slightest nourishment,sand.even treated with violeahe
any person who offered him food. On the 29th nit'
died from exhaustion.
gond,aF
atrrOIDE FROM DEPRESSION OF'SPI)RTTS.—vo,
lS
week an inquest wns held at the Friendship Inv, Puria-na.
near Appleby, on the body'of James Harrison, „led
some months past had complained of pain about his heart
when he was m bed, attended bf,
particularly at nights.
sickness which produced-pain in the head and for which
fmaromn, theof thathrae
branch
place,
o fnagaesdh7t3revii•nhoswi3asowfio,ufinealds.uspHeno,:
his wife was obliged to tie up his head with a handker-
chief. He had not any work for many weeks ; hut, up t°
this time, had no occasion,to complain of want, but hal'.i:
always decently to put on with, when out of work he Pin;
n
ed and fretted a good deal: Within the last month be had
stated that his spirits were dow, and
hewould never be.
i:,
able to work again. On Monday he got up between eight
and nine o'clock, took a •rope and said he would fetch"
come hay from the stack, which is in the:field [about t,`.
quarter of a mile distant, After he had been absent abolL'.
two hours she thought he stayed long, and went to In`EZ
for him; when she got to- the-held she found him suspend
ed from an ash tree near the-hay stack.
GATHERINGS ERTRAoRDiNARY.—A venerable ll
Piaje
man and wife, and both- highly respectable people, aso.
lately in Galloway, within a day of one another. wn° e
effects, if brought to- sale, would furnish matter for.n
of the most curious catalogues that was perhaps ever sub-
witted by an auctioneer to the attention of the plibli
Deposits of silver coin secreted in places where no on.
d ownoeu
parcel,l have ea
rveefre
rr e
wa dreamedp
eodf
inoo
ak ipnige
efeo
ofr s
ruaegh,
fee.% e
nd In
the corner of a lumber,drawer ; others in paper cramo,,,
into an old basket, or. hid in outhouses, or some eiltla'7,
unpromising corner. These coins appear to hare been
shut toutfro
valuesm the
theyliglit
o f
represent,day fora
suchnumber e
s
.6d
of years,,o . 3
fr°o
the different ~in;
2s. 6d., and 55.; and had become, in consequence. P;
only tarnished, bat nearly as black as soot itself.. The::
were also gold coins, foreign as well as Briti3h,pf ,
small values up to £5, with a great variety of diffire”to,
articles, the fancy of the party appearing to have been
have a somethiwg eof everything. Of these, let the fO,
lowing specimens. suffice :—Eight rich) ornamented
ding whips ; 18-unbroken pieces of linen ; 3a pair, of
sheets ; 20 dozen of towels ; about 250 rich-coloured al`
handkerchiefs ;; three dozen thimbles of divers me...tcisf
30 pairs of scissors, and one gold pair ditto; 100 palls 's
silk stockings.;, 30 gowns, made and unmade;. if,wocao?„
bonnets; a lot of shoemakers' waxed threads. with brlt-
tles attached i,
,- coffin lacing • and a great number of „,-;se
ties of wines and spirits, of all qualities., Part of t"'"o..
were found in an old tea-chest, supposed to contain 1,5,. ,1
thing but rubbish ; but when the assistant to a Pr°Ets
sional gentleman, engaged in inventozina• the effects!, -ceS
directed to throw it out, he drew from their hiding
seventeen bottles of wines and spirit-3,, some of tho for`ier
Champagne. But there was an endless array of °t
too
• nick-nacks, an enumeration of which would cocuPl
much space, if not exhaust the patience of the
reader. The husband, in this ease, was a great PlgZiec-
fancier for many years, and possessed a very large 00 tied
tion of these birds, which he regularly fed and afrise
with his own hands, and which included nearly a" h
varying breeds known in the world; and, althoulksho
lengthened period has intervened, we still recollect ells,
pointing out a curious fact in natural history—ir, foot.
that every time the turtle-dove coos, it lifts its rign,lar
And that such is literally the fact, was proved by u'riea;
demonstration. He had also a number of fine can
since
but all his feathered favourities have been dispersed
his death among friends and acquaintances residing ",,pll-
the locality which knew him so long and well, buetZor
know him no more. Many of the doves were exce, foror
beautiful, And even valuable to persons desirous (:)„„itriff:.•
tag a collection, gap ex.tended scale.--.Dumfries L'‘`

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