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friendships take a lesson for the future. As there is no
gratitude there should be no faith. As there is no ho-
nesty there should be no confidence. As evil is returned
for good it becomes the duty of the well-disposed to keep
further aloof, and in proportion to their distance wilt
they be more respected. As navigators have found in
their intercourse with savages, the less familiarity the
more safety.
What is the serious charge against Lord LONDON-
DERRY? He has accepted the honourable appointment,
conferred upon him by his Sovereign, of representing his
Majesty at the Russian court. Is it alleged that his private
character is incompatible with the performance of his offi-
cial duties? No. The private reputation of the noble
marquis is above reproach. Ile is beloved in the circles
of domestic life—he is estimable as a landlord—as a hus-
band—as a father; he is strictly honourable in every
public and private relation—he is 'a soldier and a gentle-
man—he is active and industrious—he is of inflexible
courage, lie is unbending in principle—his loyalty and
his love of country being equally unquestionable and
unbounded.

These are rare qualifications; but, unfortunately for
the noble marquis, he is a tory, and has delivered on certain
occasions speeches deeply tinctured with the odious taint
of conservatism. Alas the day! we cannot but admit the
full force of these weighty objections. It is strange,
however, that the parties who object to the appointment
of his lordship had nothing to urge against the pacific or
rather family mission of the amiable Earl of DURHAM.
During the reign of the whigs they had no representa-
tive at St. Petersburgh. The gentleman whom Lord
PALMERSTON proposed to send was objected to by the
Emperor NICHOLAS. He had committed hiinself by some
rash expressions relative to the Poles. Lord DURHAM,
however, was sent thither for the benefit of his..bealth:
He 'and his lady, his children and suite=--the young
GREYS and the younger ELLIsEs-:- were sent 'off on a
pleasure tour (for it was nothing else) 0. the imperial.
court, at the public expense; and, although Lord DUR-
HAM did nothing, there was not a single patriot in the
House of Commons who objected to the appointment or
questioned the expenditure thus incurred. Lord LON-
DONDERRY is not sent upon a pleasure tour—he goes to
represent England at a court the most powerful in Eu-
rope, and where the utmost contempt for Whig statesmen
is entertained.

Mr. SHELL and Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSON contend that .
.the noble marquis is a very unfit representative, inas-
much as he is the enemy of the Polish rebels. This
comes with a bad grace from the whigs, who were and
are parties to all the alleged acts of oppression inflicted
upon Poland by the Russians. The rebellion in. Poland,
first instigated by a parcel of boys, followed up by its ,
gambling nobles, and brought to serious maturity by
those patriots who having mortgaged their estates wished
to swindle Russia out of its advances and its claims, was
the most rascally and dishonourable rebellion ever ex-
cited in Europe. The history of that insurrection has
not yet been written. When justice is done to it the
truth will appear. It followed in the footsteps of the re-
volution of the barricades. The leaders looked forward,
as they had good reason to do,
..to Lou}s
•PIHILIPPE apd
the whigs of England. They were promised, and they
confidently expected to receive countenance and support
from the revolutionary and reform governments of Paris
and London. France and England could have saved Po-
land, but they would not. The whigs talked and blus-
tered—they affected to be friendly—they remonstrated
in "Paper, but, in the teeth of all their popular pro-
fessions, made only to delude and betray, they refused
to succour the unhappy men who had
_taken arms at their
instigation, and were left to be sacrificed without word
of remonstrance or intercession. Talk ()Mord LONDON-
DERRY being unfavourable to the Poles ! The game is'
over—the deed is done—the
.decimation is complete.
—the nobles are in exile—the subordinate instigators;
are in Siberia—and all this was dose while the whigs
were in office, and could have prevented had they ex-.
erted the power and influence which belonged or should
•have belonged to the majesty and government of Great
"Britain. Lord GREY and Lord DURHAM might have
interfered, but Lord LONDONDERRY cannot interfere.
• The tragedy is ended. He cannot recal to life, the brave
but unfortunate men who,perished at Warsaw,. and who
were encouraged to rebel by the very parties who after-
wards refused to assist them in their extremity. The
strutting empirics of Paris talked heroically in their
chambers about the " suffering Polq," but they would
not march to their relief. They • were • sentimental over
their woes, and sung songs in their praise, 'but,they, al-
lowed them to be trampled upon and extirpated- never
theless. The same sort of favour was evinced towards
Poland by the whigs of England in the. hey-day of their
power, and yet they have. the effrontery. to complain that
Lord LONDONDERRY is unfriendly to the Polish rebels,
most of whom are dead,
.and who owed their melancholy
fate . to the revolutionary example set them. by the re-
formers and levellers of France and England. •

We have had occasion to advert pretty freely to the
flagrantly corrupt practices of. the executive government
of the United States of America, and we have endeavoured
to prove. that in. that admired republic, . the best of all
free, cheap, and popular systems, there is more jobbing,
seating, and plundering than *Amy of the much vilified
countries of the old world. But we have been accused
of misrepresenting America,
~and of exaggerating the
evils which are admitted to exist, and which are inlepa-
rable from all,bernan institnticms. , Those who. make this
charge against us know that. 4 is false,- for they have the
evidence before their eyes in the, pagea of the New: ork
papers. The public, however, do not possess these sources
of information, and therefore it is reasonable to. suppose
that many. persons are still inclined to give to our cOrriiri
republicans the b4nefit of a generous incredulity. We
have no wish that they should place implicit confidence
in•our statements. .Our_ only object is to make the Arne,
rican system better understood on this side of the water;
and open the eyes of our countrymen, whir have too long
been.deluded as to the:degree of perfectibility ascribed
to the institutions and departmental governinent of the
United States. In order to accomplish this, we are con-
tent that American legislator's and writers ;alone' should
be made,: the mitnesses. againstrAiremselvcs: Surely
, .not be said that theirs is questionable .authority, .or
that they are. likely to invent calumnies *against the
country of their birth, and of which it is natural they
should be proud? No; we believe them: and in doing
so we pay a higher compliment to America than the
narrow-minded persons.in. Liverpool who deny the truth
of the, charges, and strive to conceal the
,defects of the
system. For
,as.suming, that the, allegations' are un-
founded, that the corruptions charged are invented calum-
:Dies, and that, the statements put forth fromitime to time
by congTessionalpommittees are all false;—assuming all
this, we say, for the' sake of argument,- how wotild the
case be mended ? The charge would be,
.regrove.d ,frPm
the executive,. but a fouler charge .would rest. on the
heads of the public men of America—of the roost distin-
.guished mania the union—of, senators of approved.wis-
do.m and hitherto of unblemished reputation. The alter-
native would force upon us the belief that the orators and
statesmen of Washington are ready to sacrifice truth to.
faction, and devise schemes of fraud,, of a purely imagi-
nary . nature, for . the purpose of damnifying ,their poli-
tical-.opponents. We protest.against this most•eruel and
:unwarrantable .assumption, for, it conveys a charge of
moral depravity a thousand times, more serious in, a na-
tional point of view than the corruptions 'they have dis-
.
closed.and condemned.
Having offered-these preliminary remarks in order to
satisfy the reader that we draw our information from the
bestsources, and that our. evidence is strictly confined to
American authority, we proceed to furnish a few illustra-
tions_of repriblican corruption. We have before us a
copy of the New York Morning ,Courier, of the 16th of
February, one of the largest and hest supported news-
papers inthe United States, in which a Washington cor-
respondent gives an analysis.of the report presented to
the house of representatives on the state of the Pest-
office.: He says:—

"This morning, in the honse,,thecomrnittee appointed to exa-
mine .into tho ailaira. of the Postottice reporte-(f. There is a
niajority_end a minority report. Tiny are both voluminous.
There is also,un imitiene mass of testimony.. F..ren the' majo-
rity dq apt pretend tp justify the.Putrages and•juisa-kapageineat