The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-15 00:00:00

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PRICE SEVI EN PENCE. l 1 •
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'COPT OF A LOTTER ADDRESSED TO NIS xxcaitaNcr • .
SIR CHARLIE WTI/ART, HT SIR. SLAW/UM MID WHICH • •
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•CCoMPANIED TUIL PRECIIDING : •
Calais, Oct. 9. t ' I ..i:
Sin,—Should your Excelleary be pleased to claim tl.e '' "I'
letters and papers. which have jnst been forcibly taken
front my friend, Mr. Bearing, by the agents of the
French Police, I beg leave to mention that there was a
letter of mine amongst the nnmher. It is add .1 to
his Excellency Senor Osrcia, a Member of the Peruvians
legation, recently arrived in England; and, though
' con lining nothing Which I can have th- smallest wish •, .
to coureal, yet it is my duty solemnly to protest ago; net
tke seal being hroken•by any of the French Autl•orities,
as a manifest violation of law and justice.
In the event, .however, of your Excellency's feeling
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any desire to become acquainted with the contents of
the letter thus elletned, I beg to add, that I have not the I '
least objection. to i:s being opened by the Representative
of my Sovereigns and even transmitted to his Majeety'i
tiovernmeat.
I have the honour to be,
With the highest sentiment. of respect, ', ' 4
Your Excellency's most humble, . ,
And very obedient Servant, i ,i• )
(Signed) EDWARD BLAQIIIERII.
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The following Correspondence upon this affair appears
in a Alurniag Paper I—
TO TIE EDITOE. 7 •
Queen-square-plsce, Westminstet, Saturtlty,
Oct. It Itin.
Sta—Yeeteriler, a little before fire o'clock, No. A.
was delivered from me at the Foreign Office. The di-
rection, to my messenger were to ask leave td deliver :•
into Mr. Canning's own hands. lie was told that It sl'
could nut he; for that there were pinions at that time 4
with bins; hut that there nerd he no apprehensions of
its not bring itninediately delivered. A little after nine,
cane to me here an Oth a Messenger, with N.•• li. • ....;' ). . : -I•
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These fires and documents I give you: yon could not
hare had there from any one else. Observation• any -
body is as competent to make as Lam ; nobody more so 5 Air
than yourself.
I arm, Sir, vone•e„ .
Jeanie Iit,ITHAM.
(No. A.)
Queen-equare•ploce, Westminster. O.'t. 11, IM-2.
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SlR—The following occurrence, if I mistake not, Ire-
longs to your eognix &nee. Being, for onAt I know,
the only Peron in England who is a„.priz ol of it, I take
the necessary liberty of submitting it to your notice. t
Two Englishmen, men of the most respectable rho- .t
racier, and advantageously known is the literary world, ,
have jost been arrested at Calais, front whence, by thi.
thee, they have been sent to the prison at Boulogne,
thence to be delivered. as they are told, into the han•ls
of the Preettrear do Rol. The one is Alr. John Bow-
tine. of No. 7, J..fferepsircire, gt. Als-y•ate, and of . •
lanadon•fields. Hackney. the other is Mr. Potwaro [Sloe'
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criere. Cientennet in his Majesty's Nary, who, for some i
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years, had the Moninead of ^Alio of war erwhimen 111
-Mediterranean. On anyway!' supposition ss 'Blot a' th r t
havingcommitted any offence...gal:lst the Frenel, Goi • •,,-
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mem, I kuow not that ). should have been warranted io
the taking of any such liberty. Hut the sole grotml of
iris t, Air. llowring say., is his being the b of 1
certain letters, fifteen in unmber, and t.,0 packets. 0'
the contents of all which he declares himself to be silo-
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(ether ignorant. Ifa aro is to be sesponsitile crimio il-
ly for the contents of every letter wh rli it hopper,. to
him to take charge of, in his passage from one count 7
to another, in what predicament are travellers all over
the civilised world, and, io particular, the myriads of li,
Englishmen, settlers or sojourners in France, they and
their friends? Oa amt such occasioe, all that can be .
looked for at the hands of his Majesty's Secretary .f
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State is, I suppose, the giving information of the oc,oir-
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rence to his Majesty's Atabtssmlor at Pat is, that he to iv
apply for cognisance of it; and to this I dotter mys..if •
there Hill he no objection. Subjoined is an 'sat eup! .
of every thing in these short letters that seem to ine•
relevant and material to the present purpose:— ' IL"'
LETTER, DATED CALAIS PRISON, OCT It, 1922. DI- .$.
ItitcTeD TO JEREMY SENTHAISI, EsQ. QUSEX's-stacA HE- :
PLACE, WESTMINSTER, RECEIVED OCT. I ITO, HT TIM.
GINCRAL PORT, WITH THE Dori, POST MARK. ' r
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EXTRACTS. •
" This Government • • • has ventured to arrest
me as the b (despatches to rise Revolntionic• i, „
England. Without any previous proceedinge, my pAiler4 .
have all been forcibly seised, examined, and several
, taken from me. 'They have kept fifteen letters and two
t packets, one of them en official despatch from the Pur- i ,
• tuguese Minister at Paris, to the Portuguese Minister
, in London. They are selloff to Paris, and a telegraphic , •
• despatch bat ordered that I shall be immediately es- I
I coned to the prison at Boulogne, and delivered then . ).
i into the hands of the Procureur du Koi. • • • Of • '
r the contents of the packets and letters seized I know
I nothing • • 6. I am calm and energetic (though I '-
t ill) io this scene of filth, misery, and depravity • • •. ..
• I know of nothing to compromise me."
- As to the letters, whatever they are, they must speak ,S.
e for themselves. As to the bearer or bearers, if thero 3 .'
is really no charge against them, or no charge that bas
r any relevant or sufficient evidence for its support; evi- .
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s derma by depositions of witnesses, whose names and .:e.-
• scription are made known to them, I should hope there ! 4
✓ would be no objection to an application by the Arnboo- 4 I
o sador to have them respectively set at liberty. . t .1 .
I- I know not, nor have heard, any thing more aboot •
II the matter than is here unentiourd. I know nut, nor
y have heard, of any thing that should have drawn nines .
u them, or either of them, any such visitation.
I am, with all respect, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
t•
JEREMY BENTIIANI.
I- No. 11—Cory. . ..
I- Foreign °thee, Oct. 11, IS11:1,
L Sra-1 have to acknowledge the receipt of jourl
i- letter of this date; which conveyed to me the first inti- '
i• motion of the circumstances to which it relates. A mo. s ,
o tuoranduus was, indeed, left at the door of my office this
C. morning, which most have had reference to the same
case ; but it was without date or signature, or particular i
k. details. i
I will write to Sir Charles Stuart, with your stote-
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„ meat, by the courier of this evening.
il I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant, t '
A (Sigurd) UNO. CANNING. I
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.4 Jeremy Bentham, Esq.
V.
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In To THE EDITOR.
re Bonlognooor-Mer, Friday, Oct. I I.
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In addition to the particulars communicated in my ,
e,' letter of Wednesday, coocerning say friend Mr. Boo-
m ring, I now beg leave to inform yon that he 1..5, since • .
ig his arrival here, gone ander two secret exotnination, he-
fore the Procareur du Roi. who positively refuse.[ .o ~
admit of one Cuostil or oily other person being presto'.
The questions related chiefly to some French Myr%
found among the pavers of my friend. When charged
with having been the b of sated letters, whi:s, as