New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-04
be transmitted to the United States, aud this

intimasing that the plsy might have an after
piece: but a correspondent. Of The n. \. Com
rnerciGl proclsims that ! am still fettered here,
and not Kelly TO get of without much trouble.
Now IL is true that | was, willis in prison.
cited before the Tribunal OF Commerce BY Mr..
Lechesne, and that this Tribunal, composed OF
merchants, rot lawyers,) sent the case to a
reporter" equivalent to our old-time Masters
in Chsncery,) and that / have chosen to respond
and see the matter out; but it is not true that
am under any sort of duress whatever, or have
been since Judge de Belleyme ordered my dis
charge from Clcby expressly on the ground
that my arrest was illegal and not Liable for
the debts of the Crystal Palace. | went off to
Switzerland at my predetermined time and
came back when got ready-certainly in season
for the adjourned hearing in Mr.. Lechesne's
case; but that was my free choice; aud might
have been in America long before that day if |
had seen fs Now / have the documents, and
have submitted in open Court enough to demOl-
ish fifty such actions; and have ascertained that
they do not even try to make out case against
me. So, az the Reporter takes time TO write to
trunk and go away at my leisure, and there is
no ntimation that any one even wishes or has a
color of right to stop me.
But let me first pay my respects TO The BAN
more american. That paper talks Of the grea
hardships inflicted on exhibitors through the
failure of the Crystal Palace Association. Let
US consider In all similar Exhibitions, in
Guiding that of London in 1851 and that now in
progress here, the exhibitors have been re-
quired to pay heavy charges-freight, insurance,
breakage, fitting up, repacking, and the like,
amounting in the aggregate to hundreds of tnou-
sands of dollars. All these, 70 far as they affect
European exhibitors, the original Directors of
the New-York Exhibition most improyidently
took on their own shoulders and those of the
stockholders for whom they acted, and the re-
suit wss an almost inevitable breakdown. In
other words, they undertook 70 do four times
a. much for Foreign Exhibitors rs any other
Exhibition has attempted, and they have ex-
pended the HalfMilliOn Dollars contributed by
the stockholders, with One Hundred and Fifty
Thousand more loaned by themselves, without
having as yet been able, as respects small
remnant Of the exhibitors, to do but three
fourths of what they attempted. Nine-tenths
of the foreign exhibitors have made money by
the Exhibition, as they could not well fail to do,
having had their goods taken from their manu-
factories insured, transported to America, adj
yantageously displayed, widely advertised, and
half the possible purchasers in America col
lected to examine them-all without a do lar OF
expense to the owners. In their own good time
their fabrics were sold and withdrawn, and they
pocketed the proceeds. Many have thus opened
new markets, by which they continue to profit.
| don't want anybody's sympathy in the prem
ises. but most respectfully suggest that these
gentlemen have as little need of as have.
Then consider Mr. Lechesne's case. This
gentleman is a sculptor, and makes statues for
a living. One of these Gin plaster) he sent to
the New.York Exhibition, where it has been
conspicuously exhibited to at least one million
people. Every expense, from the moment it
left his shop, has been betrayed by the c. p.
Association, and il is now coming back to him
without a dollars charge. Thi; it has not
meantime been sold is no fault Of ours. The
Association, having expended all its own CAPT
tai and all its Directors could lend it, in order
to give Mr.. Lechesne this opportunity to achieve
on American fame and market, has nothing
left but its edfce, which it has for year been
trying to sell at any ruinous rate that would en-
able it to send back the remaining articles and
pay off its debts. 1t only asks patience-has it
not earned that muchl If there be people who
want to cry for any one mixed up with this bust
ness. entreat that Mr.. Lechesne have the ben
eft of their tears-I want nOne-but this | do
say, that my case il twenty fold harder than his.
And this brings me to that amiabe concern,
The Albany atlas, which talks abusiyely OF the
original getting up and management OF the New
York Exhibition, as if that had anything to do
with my case. l was neither director nor
stakeholder in the concern, and had nothing TO
DO with it except as pretty severe critic. L
believe every charge made or inslnua.ed BY The
AtIas against the original managers Of the New
York Exhibition TO be Indignantly false; but
they in no wise concern me. | neither sub
scrbed nor encouraged any one else 10 subscribe
a dollar 10 the stock Of the Exhibition; l never
sold share of that stock in my life, nor was
interested with any one who did do; had no
shadow Of connection with the concern till long
after Mr.. Lechesne and the other foreign exhib-
itors bad sent over their goods. After the en-
terprise had broken down, completely over
whelmed with debt and disaster, was one OF
those chosen by the stockholders, through no
agency or wish of my own, to make the attempt
TO revive its broken fortunes, at least so far az
to fulfill its obligations TO foreigners. did not
seek this trust, but most laborously and con-
n;ontinn LIZ filfIlaA ia resnon sIhili ties: and