HA SZARD’S GAZETTE

MAY 17.

IDUIS NAPOLEON IN AXERICL. ——j I

A Mr. Tinelli recently published in the Courier den Eluli Unis, a letter, defending the French Emperor against the charges of aowdyisin and immorality brought against him, whilst in this country nineteen years ago. The Rev. Charles Stewart, Chaplain in the Navy, also publishes a letter in the .N'olional Intelligencer, from which we call the following extracts:

a was winning in the invariableness of his amiability, often playful in spirit and manner, and warm in his affections. was a most fondly attached son, and seemed to idolize his mother. \Vhen speaking of her, the intonation: of his voice and his whole manner were often as gentle and feminine, as those of ii woman. been his purpose to spend a year in making the tour of the United States, that he might have a better knowledge of ouriiistitutions, and observe for himself the practical work- ings of our political system.

His plans were suddenly changed by intelligence of the serious ill ss of Queen ortense, or, as then styled, the Duchess

ed in society, and had no acquaintances of respectability.

t is said, that he was without means, and lived on the loans which he never repaid. This is simply absurd. I am under the impression, that his private fortune was then unimpaired, and beyond the reach of the French Government; but, if this were not the case, his mother's wealth was am- ple, and his drafts upon her for any amount would have been promptly honoured. ‘I doubt not, that funds were waiting his arri- vsl, or, if not, were readily at his com-

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Louis Napoleon may have had some associations in New York of which ignorant; and he, like Dickens and other distinguished foreigners, may have carried his observations, under the protection of the police, to scenes in which I would not have accompanied him. If he did, I never heard of it, and have now no reason to suppose such was the fact. But that he was an Iiabilue, as has been publicly re- ported, of drinking saloons and oyster cellars, gambling house and places of worse repute, I do not believe.

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of St. Leu, in her castle in Switzerland. I was dining with him, the day the letter conveying this information was received. Recognizing the writing on the envelope, as it was handed to him at table, he hastily broke the seal, and had scarce glanced over halfa ago before he exclaimed, “ My mother is ill; I must see her. dead of a tour of the S.ates, I shall take the next packet for England. I will apply for passports for the continent at every embassy in London, and, if unsuccessful, will make my way to her without them.” This he did, and reached Arenenberg in time to console by his presence the dying hours of the ex-Queen, and to receive in his bosom her last si h. la both eating and drinking, he was, so far as I observed, abstemious, rather than aalf-indulgent. I repeatedly breakfasted, ‘nod, and suppe in his company, and never knew him to partake of any thing

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France and Germany, and of these in great moderation. I have been with him early and late, unexpectedly, as well as by appointment, and never saw reason for the alightest suspicion of any irregularity in his habits

After such opportunities of knowing snuch of the mind and heart and general character of Louis Na oleon, it was wit great surprise, thatl for the first time read, in a distant part of the world, when he had become an Emperor, representations in the public journals of his life in New York, (and in New Orleans, too, though he was

never there,) which would induce a belief

that he had been when here little better than a vagabond—low in his associations, intemperatc in his indulgences, and dissi- pated in his habits.

It has been said, that his character was so notorious, that he was not received in society, and made no respectable acquaint- ances. If, during his brief stay in the city, at a period of the year when general entertainments are not usual, he was not met in the self-constituted beau-monde of the metropolis, it was from his own choice. Within the week of his arrival, cards and invitations were left for him at his hotel.

As a reason for declining to accept the last, he told me he had no wish to appear in what is called society, but ndded:—— “There are, however individuals resident in New York, whose acquaintance] should be happy to make. Mr. VVashington Ir-

ving is one. lhave read his works, mid admire him both as a writer and a innn, and would take great pleasure in meeting him. Chancellor Kent is another. I have atudied his Commentaries, think highly of them, and regard him as the first of your jurists. I would be happy to know him parsonall .” He did make the acquaintance both of Mr. Irving and the Chancellor, and enjoy- ed the hospitality of the one at Suiiiiyside, and of the other at his residence in town. He saw some of the best French society,» of the city, and familiar with the lll.~'l4tl‘lc;‘ names of New the profl'ei-etl civilities of Stlch familics as -Illa Hamiltons, tho Clintous, the Living- dons, and others of like position. It is .aot true, therefore, that he was not receiv-

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Thcre was in New York, at the same _time and for about the same period, a ‘Prince Bonaparte who was, I have reason ,to think, of a very different character. llis antecedents in Europe had not been favourable, and his reputation here was not good. He too was in exile, but not for a political offence. He may not have been received in society, and may have had low associations. I met him, but from this impression formed no acquaintance with him. For the same reason, the inter- course between him and his cousin was infrequent and formal. All that has been said and published of the one may be true of the other; and, in the search for remin- iscences of the sojourn in New York of Louis Napoleon, on is elevation to a throne fifteen years afterwards, ' ' difficult to believe, that those ignorant of the presence here at the same time of two persons of the same name and same title, may have confounded the acts and cliarac- ter of the one with those of the other.

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HUGH MILLER AS A LECTURIII.

recently lectured before the Young Men’s Christian Association, in Exeter Hall, London. His subject was, “ Labour lightened, not lost.’ The JV'orlhrm ult- signsays: “Lord unmure, who occu- pied tho chair, introduced him as a country- man of his own; and certainly no Scotch- man was ashamed of his countryman on that evening. His lecture was a master- piece of oratory. There ran quite ii vein of humour through the whole, and his stentorinn voice made the immense hall ring again. Now he would have is audi- ence in roars of laughter, then almost on the verge of weeping. he numerous stories with which he diversified his lecture were told with such an air of naivele, mixed with playful humorousness, that he at once riveted the attention of his audi- ence, and maintained it without flagging for two hours. The burden of his lecture was the advocacy of the half-holiday move- ment, and the sacred observance of the Sabbath. He also advocated every day ablutions and attention to personal cleanli- ness; and in denouncing intemperance, he aid a graceful tribute to the good effects which have resulted to Scotland from Forbes McKenzie’s Act, and called upon Englishmen to demand such an act for England. He described the Saturday half-holiday as the key to the proper observance of the Sabbath. At the present time, when the lialf-holiday movement is being agitated, this lecture will do immense good. ”—London paprr . Gama‘ Loss on Paonucs.-—lt is now stated, that the immense qumititics of wheat purchased at Cliicago. Milwankic and other points at the West, last full, said at the time to be on account of the -‘ronr-li (.v'overnment, were in reality bought for partirs in lloston, New York

d'c.,who will “realize” a loss of sortie- york’ ,,,,,,“,.,j h,,,,,.,,"~ ,,f thing ncara million ofdollars! Millions of bnsln-ls were purchased, and the pri- is the only trnurtwhorcin ll forlciturc can he ccs Paid wen. C(,nsjd¢-"id _-,3 high at "m tried. And whoever accepted or purchased a

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CORRESPONDENCE

Correspondents muvi turn-sh us with their nature, not vieeeasrily for punliniicn but u. . pisrsniaa - (iiisiuoml has in we do not halal s

ooisctim respovisihlc for the opinion suvl i-infribulon.

To run Eniroa or Iissnaifs Gszrrrs.

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In the lvlrsniiner of the 5th May. Capt. Swa- bey says, that no in the lsland would adrise a tenant to inform the Judge in the Sn- preme Court that the Townsliip land is forfeited on I iniposlors usurped an ownership over it and were demanding and obtaining money

the people by false prelences. I had no doubt before Mr. Swabey said so, that the Lawyers in general. had taken fees from the iuipostors, to uphold the fraud, and consequently could not advise a tenant against them. But I thought the Attor- ney General, who is appointed and paid, to guard the public rights, would take a such a case of fraud on the public, where the onor of the Crown is so deeply involved. think it would be necessary, for the tenant to commence such an action at his own cost. But if the Attorney General refusrd to take up the case, as a public wron , at .‘ie suit of the Crown, the Tenant should inform the Judge in open court, either by word or writing ; and the Judge will direct the way the case should be

In the same Eaminrr, Mr. Whclan says, that my opposition to the address to the Queen in relation to the etitions which the Landlords sent home against the Rent Rolland Compen- sation Bills, is a proof of my goin over to the proprietary or Tor si e. ow intend to show, that that ad rcss is as complete a piece of Iiumlmg as over issued from a Legislative body and is against the eople's interests. l\Ir. Whelan and the ‘ovorument insist, that the forfeiture declared in the Grants is no for- feiture, but the roprietors had a just and lawful title to the ad. ow if this were as as it is false, the Tenant Compensation Bill would be an act of grossinjustiee, to inter- fere with the rights of property, to make new uconditions between the Landlords and their Tens: ts, which they never intended to make themselves, or to tax their Rent Roll without taxing every other Rent Roll in the colony. The people understood. that those Bills were passed to punish the Landlords; because the Ministers would not allow their titles to be tried. But it is inconsistent with Law justice for the Government to retaliate, and do injustice to the Landlords, because they have done injustice to the inhabitants. A rson who had stolen property, might as well plead, that he did rig to steal a ittle, because he knew the person he had stolen from, was a thief, and had stolen far more than he had one. The Government declare the proprietors have a good title, and yet they compensation and Rent Roll ills, to deprive them of the hind. because they know they have is bad title.

And in that address to the Quean,it is al- lowed, that on subject may tition the So- vereign, to disa low an Act which would be an injurynto them. But the address does not allow the ndlords to petition. And the reasons assigned, why the proprietors must not inter- fere with our colonial Acts, is not because the

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have is bad title, the only feasible reason they could offer, but because some reside in Eng- land and the rest are unpopular in the Island. nd after such a jumble of inconsistencies, the address sums up with a prayer to her Ma- jesty, which if it were granted, l|l’I tyrannical Government might deprive as of al our rights. Perhaps that is the main ol-_iccl (fl/ie address. rayer is, that the colonial Acts should become

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uients should have known. that taking sums of from the people, for forfeited land, by sham purchases, and other fradalent daceptions-—i‘s obtaining money by fa so mm which is un- lsliablo by our colonial statute. See ol.I page 516; the following words “That if any shall by false pretence, obtain from any other erson, any chattel, money or other valuable security with intent to cheat or defraud an erson of tbe same. every such oflauder shall be guilty ofa misdemeanor and being convic- ed shall suffer punishment by line or uiprisou.

essrs. Wholan and Swabey have made objections to my letter of the 28th April, and to show what I think of titan, [am ready and willing to prove in a Court of Justice, that Mr. Whalan has by his writin in the Examiner deceived the people on the ad question, and made them an easy pro to be swindled out of their property by Len lords and Government. am as ready and willing to prove in like manner, that it was illegal in r. Swabs to purchase the Worrell Estate, until the for- fciture of the Grants was investigated in a court of Eschcat. Consequently r. Swabay is obtaiain money from the people on that estat.a,hy nlse pretanccs. The 0 le should understand, that Grantees who fi)el‘fft'f€d their Grants. had no right to the land whatever, Any other subject laid a better right to is share of the land than them, and all their demands, and the money they have taken from the peo- ple. is by false pretenees. But the attornment demanded. and obtained by an imposturc, is an imposition of a more gross and heinous nature, because the attorninent was not only intended to continue the frauds, but also b a rule of court to deuivo the persons defrau ad of their remedy at w. The attorninent and the purposes for which it was intended. is of the same nature, as if robbers were to bind the persons they had robbed under their anthori , and to kee them in such fear,that they shou d never divu go the robbery. at they and their children submit quietly to be robbed in future. lt is the duty of the Government to suppress such in ositions. They are invested with war and sat ority by the Sovereign, and paid b the public to do so. But they have batraya their trust, and instead of suppressing the impcsitions, have given it fresh eneoura eineut, by their example. The have no lawfu autho- rity over the Worrell tote, and the money and nttorumenqtbey demand of the people are obtained by false pretences. Wit. Cooriia.

Sailor's Hope, May 13th, 1856.

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Saturday. Kay 17, 1850.

Tara: are we understand, several notes ur orting to be one-dollar notes of the Canadian ranch of the Bank of British North America

in circulation; we would therefore guard the public against being imposed upon. a his- tory of these notes is rat er singular. It would

I appear. that about twelve years since. a vessel

from England was wrecked somewhere about the mouth of the St. Lawrence; among the articles thrown on shore, was, as we have been informed a hrass- and box. which being 0 ned, was found to contain blank copper-

ate impressions of notes for the Canada

ranch of the Bank. A gentleman from Prince Edward Island bappened_to be at Miramichi

w without the Royal assent, or in other‘ words, that we shall submit to be governed by’ the colonial authorities, withoutany protection: from the Sovereign. There is nothing said Off the forfeiture of the Grants. And such is the. principles of the address which I could not sup-i

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The Landlords would have just cause to com-I plain of any new Law, which would alter their» condition, or compel them to sell the Land. at they can have no cause to complain of their titles being tried by conditions icliicli they (lum- srlrrs agreed lo by their own acceptance or pur- chase of the grants, nor is there any injustice in punishing them, by an old Law for obtain- ing money by false prctences. Now the people’ may see tliat. the sovereign mld not allow acts to pass \\'lit(‘lI would place the lnndholdcrsin a worse condition, than they were before, and by the same rule cfjusticc, the sovereign could not allow any indulgence tofai-or landholders an (noble (Item to deprive ollicrs of their birlliriglil, n_share of the public lands. And as the inbu- lntnnts have afar better ri ht, to insist I110!) a trials of titles, than the

landholders had to on against the rent roll and compensation the people must seek for that trial in urmcst; the landlords have set the example. llut in seeking those rigtits, avoid the black- guaril language ofthe l-indlord’s petitions, such lauguago is only fit for iinpostors. A Court of l-Iseheiit is is Court ofjustico ; and

grant, knew that the grants were forfeit- ed. when the conditions for settlement were

when a man was detected in adoring one, an a great number were taken from dilerent parts of is person, where they were found accreted. Our informant thinks, that the parties into whose hands they fell, taking advantage of the lapse of time, are of opinion, that there is less fear of detection now, and have accordingly added number and signatures to them. ‘the copperplste being so well executed, they are well calculated to take in the unwary or the ignorant; ll little care and attention will show that they are spurious.

The firamvnrr has given us nothing more concerning the conveyance of tho Mails than we know before. The reason, it seems, that we are deprived ofthe services of the Steamer is, that Mr. Dos Brisay wanted £1500 and the Go- vernment being limited to £1300 could not venture to draw the diflcrenec from tho Trea- sur . r. Des Br_isay offered, we understand to take the £1301), if the Government would rc- coinmcndthe Legislature next session togiva the additional £200. but this was refused. We are told by the organ of Government, that Government is about to go into the English nmr_ket and purchase it Steamer. By what an-

horityl we would ask. If the Government cannot venture to take £200, how are they to taltc ten or twenty times as much for the pur- chase of a vessel! It is said by soino crsons thattno_rcason why the Government id not agree with Mr. Des llrisay, was because he Wlllllfd the steamer to go to llichebucto. We will make sonic inquiries into the truth of tho imitter. and lay the some before our readers at an ear y d .