Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-03

sonal application for the packet. At this
time, however The queen was keeping her
own account at COutts ; bank, and the official
seemed afraid Of displeasing so powerful a
customer, and threw various obstacles in the
way Of getting the papers. Th5 executor
again appealed 10 Wellington and Albemarle,
bun they, too, seemed afraid of royal iudl-
ences, and would not move in the matter. Al
Ter "A while the three executors died, but the
executors of the one who had so long er rdeav-
ored 10 get possession of the documents re-
newed these endeavOrs BY application 70 the
executors OF the Duke OF Wellington and Lord
Albemsrle. The latter, however, were also
iineXorable, and as last resource the hTSt
named set of executors published det@led
history OF all the efforts 10 get the facts con
tanned in those documents before the world.
This history showed very plainly that power
ful and royal Influences had been active in
suppressing tho facts and the government at
once came down in 3 very emphatic manner
upon the publisher and upon the book. ane
story is at all events curious and romantic
one, and there are those who prophesy that
its most important chapter remains 10 be
enacted when Queen Victoria passes away
and the question of the succession comes 10
THE MISSING BOOK.
From the New York Times
II is probable that the book for which one
thousand pounds sterling is offered, published
in 1880 by Lindsell, of Paternoster row, and
suppressed by an Injunction of the then lord
chancellor on the ground of statements Il
contained relating 10 the royal familyr hess
reference to the late X ing OF Ranoyer- While
commission of crimes of a far deeper dye than
any imputed TO his brothers, and when his
valet was found dead from wounds, in q room
adjoining his own, popular opinion did not
hesitate to impute the crime to his royal
highness, and to suggest the most Infamous
causes for its commission. The matter was,
as far as possible, hushed up, and never salts
factorily explained. What gave deeper color
TO the Surmises against the duke were certain
opinions expressed by an eminent medical
authority to the effect that the valet could not,
from the nature of the wounds inflicted, have,
as was pretended, killed himself There is no
doubt that Mr.. Greville had good deal OF
light to throw on this dark subject, but 1t IS
not probable that Mr.. Henry Reeve will care
10 risk its Ventilation, even IN the next DaJch
of the diary, and IL is likely enough that the
members of the royal family, having in view
recent disclosures, are anxious, If possible, to
stop up cOntTibutOry channels, This Is not
the only book suppressed about the same pc
Legends, mentions that Jerdan showed him
COPY of Captain Rocks letters to the king,
containing list of Irish peers, with history
OF their families, the means by which their
honOrs were obtained, and, especially, the
conduct of the representatives OF most OF the
noble families during the inSurrectiOn of l79S,
depicted with great bitterness. The whole
hVe hundred copies, with the exception of
that which Jerdan showed Barham, were
burned in Ireland, and this one remaining
had expressed a wish TO see it. If true, IL was,
no doubt, a record of ineffable meanness and
duplicity, for a baSer aTfStOCracy than that Of
Ireland up to 1920 never breaI he'd. Lord Corn
wallis epIgrammatiCally expressed himself in
regard to some of them when he wrote how he
longed to kick-being then VlcerOy-those
whom he was compelled TO court; and de-
scribed the irish militia, which this precious
aristOcracy Officered, as corps dangerous to
everybody except the enemy.