The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-15

His Incarceration of fifteen months being termi-
mated, he fastened to England, and to the Foreign
Office, with claims for redress, and we know not
what, which were at once decidedly ignored and
repealed. In fact he pestered the powers that were
till he received, in 1855, the following official
"foorer:"-
sR-I directed by Lord Palmsrston TO n,wlsdge
the receipt Of your leer, dated 25h August and u
form YOU in reply, that Lord Pa'merson consders sha!
you have no claim Whatever on her Msjestys govern
ment and that he must decline any further correspond
ence with you am, sir, your obsdent seIvaSt.
Il. wrKoFF, ESQ. CHARLES G. CLIFFORD.
Our ingenious New Yorker nothing daunted,
and still pretending to attribute his detention at
Genoa to the vndictiye Vaccinations Of the ex-
Premier, and protesting to conceive a full publ
cation of the facts imperatively necessary for the
salvation of his reputation, betakes himself to his
pen, and cOncocts the present work, which con-
tains his entire connection, much of It as he
thinks fit to give US, with Lord Palmerston and
Downing street. Armed with this wouid.be fuimi-
mating MS, and having previously imbued certain
clique with the vague Importance of the astounding
revelations to be expected he once again obtrudes
himself upon the authorities of the Foreign Office
of course to make terms. 'He would much rather
not publish the book" &c."his personal regard fer
Lord Palmerston makes the idea doubly repugnant
to him. &c.-"but his character requires immediate
vnJication," &C., &c. He fences for some time tn
the effect, being the while treated with merited
contempt, till he receives his cOupdegrace
"hoorer" No. 2, which will be found az the com
mencement Of this notice, dated January 1858, and
to the effect that his lordship has no wish, and
therefore expressed none respecting the publication
or suppression of the work.
This is the unvarnished history of these soidisant
revelations. and with reservation in favor of the
possible, though improbable hypothesis, that the
genuine and original work was in reality cancelled
we can only say that the book before us is mere
brutum fttimen, a most pitfu sham, and " de-
fusion and a snare" to all intents and purposes.
The hearty jouissance with which Mr.. WikoT details
and dlates upon his most questionable actions and
most equivocal proceedings is positively refreshing
in its originality. This in itself would constitute the
book curiosity in its way, while his fppant
sumption Of familiarity with the executive Areo-
phagus of Imperial France is as absurd as il is
ceediDgly amusing. The book abounds with pas
sages like the following
Invent talking with some aides de camp near me.
Presently 'he President approached me sgsin
You don't know Count Mole, think, ne said. Come
with me- vh 10 present You 10 hm.'
Bowing, followed him across the room, ami the evil
dent surprise of the COMPANY who looked on zoe as some
hlostrious urknown little dreaming thai was Yarkee
and . democrat
quaipted with very old friend of mine, who mss twice
crossed the Atlsotc 70 pay me welt
vas received by toe Count with the greatest
possible cordially, NC.
We have been betrayed into notice far longer
than this book itself deserves from the arrogant pre-
tensions and unhlushing presumption with which il
was attempted to set it before the public, and the
peculiar and dsingennous circumstances under
which il was published.
Mr. Henry Wikof u.s. we are informed half
Frenchman; he is no doubt fond of French as his
opusculem is so lavshlv nterarded with puerilities
and trivialties in that language. We will therefore
dismiss him-and like Lord Pllmerston, we are far
from sorry 10 do so-with the following envoe OF
the French satirist:--
Pour moi, parm deg fautss innonbrables
Je n'eo conpSis que deux, considerables--
C'est Enterprise Ell pexccu.ou,
A mon avis fautes irrepsrabIes.
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