who custodial macaw. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     - , v ‘ .  . ',~ I 
     
     was unsuccessful in his endeavour to get a seat on One oftlile 
     
     “cushioned chairs,” and “£30 cash,” and listened to the edi- 
     
     fying hnrangues of some honourable gentlemen while the 
     
     State ofthe Colony was discussed. .But whatIver have been 
     
     his opportunities, his attainments In the art. of blackening 
     
     character are considerable. Notice hlsdescription of Cons. 
     
     'rtos. One who has made evil his good—a levellerf—destitute. 
     
     of wealth and honour—a disappointed s'oliciior forproprie: 
     
     tary patronage—an aspirant after legislative honours and 
     
     imminunities—a corrupt agitator—~mne actuated by_ malice 
     
     towards land proprietors—ii person ofloosc anti immoral 
     
     character, die. Is he not an exquisite limiierP—and should 
     
     he not be employed to draw the likenesses of all the Tories In 
     
     the Island? His description of Clients, howayor, I sin 
     
     told, is altogether a failure; and is generally considered, in 
     
     the Irishman’s phrase, to be “ a personal reflection,” throw" 
     
     back by the faithful mirror which CURI‘Ius has held up to 
     
     his view. If so, he has taken the original faithfully, and Is 
     
     an adept in the art. You probably, Sir, do not understand 
     
     it, nor the advantages ofit. A ready and apt use of oppro- 
     
    
   
   
    
     he published them. This is a proofof the voracious appe- 
     
     tite for scurrility which he possesses. How the wealthy and 
     
     respectable part of the community can patronise a paper 
     
     abandoned to such licetitiousness, I cannot think. 
     
    

    
     .1 am glad, Sir, in see that you have chosen a more honour- 
     
     “hlea "Pl‘ight aud gentleiiiaiily course. Your paper Is, In 
     
     every department, superior to any inithe Island, and seems to 
     
     a. fair way to maintain its standing. ’I‘his inipressmn, [am 
     
     glad to find, is fast gaining ground here, and I think the 
     
     country will not long hesitate which to support. 
     
    

    
     By publishing this article, you willohligc one who seldom 
     
    
   
   
    
     troubles you; 
     
     i A FARMER. 
     
     New London, Nov. 6th, 1843. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     To Tn: Eni'roa or THE COLONIAL Hanan. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sir;'l haVe read the articles which have lately appeared 
     
     in your paper, signed A Conmsstossa, in answer to CUR- 
     
     Tms’ first letter. Their character and tone afford some very 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     :distinct revelations of the moral‘man ofthe writer ; and as b: 
     
     has assumed the task of pourtraying “the political character 
     
     .of CbRTtus,-I shall indulge myself a little, by way of exor- 
     
     diuin to my Weighiier remarks, in noticing some of tlie 
     
     péccitble points iii your correspoiident,_discovered by his 
     
     productions. That writer, then, has evidently a very high 
     
     opinion ofhiniselfi Phrenologists,_I liaveheard, attach great 
     
     importance to a' good development of'self—esteemtin making 
     
     a clever controversialist. But I very tnuch doubt Its compe- 
     
     tency to cope with well attested facts and sound argument. 
     
     'Alld perhaps when your correspondent has run his poll 
     
     against ‘a fewmore oftliese, it may considerably reiliice his 
     
     organ ofself-iinporiance. Another trait in this gentleman’s 
     
     character is pectisbnessr Thisis very natural. An advo- 
     
     cate for the sacred dogmas of the divine right of kings, the 
     
     paramount claims of wealth, auil the hereditary riglits'of 
     
     blood, in this sceptical age, when these things are falling 
     
    
   
   
    
     brious epithets is an excellent substitute for arguments, 
     
     when they cannot be procured. It is also prudent to daiib 
     
     an opponent’s face with dirt, as that prevents the fifth on 
     
     one’s own being so distinctly observable, for it looks lair In 
     
     the contrast. Besides, an outcry against sin is an eVIdeiicc 
     
     that we would not indulge in it. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Igive A COMMISSIONER credit for sincerity, in acknow- 
     
     lodging .his dissatisfaction with the subject which Gua'rics' 
     
     has chosen for his letters. But among the great variety OJ 
     
     subjects upon which a political economist might choose to 
     
     dist-ant, lew, I presume. would be willing to be confined to 
     
     the very narrow range which your correspondent has ltldl: 
     
     outed—much less entirely precluded from discussing one of 
     
     much more general importance than any of them, because A 
     
     COMMISSIONER did not like it. To the very limited list which 
     
     he has furnished, ,1 might add a few more, if only for the 
     
    

    
     ,. . . . . . l . . purpose ofgiving the chartn of variety to his studirs,—such 
     
     Into contempt, willnatitrally feel indignant against the luxuy as, me kind “live stock mostsuimme for ,he Gambia market 
     
     of. modem pr'l'c'l)les"' Hm he may ‘38 we“ be pmmm' Hellorimpi'ovmg the breed, &c.——the most summary and ef- 
     
     ‘W'N l’mbably fiml wa'" Tad" of 3”."l' l’er‘l”ffl.hle "me' ilectual method of getting up er-oflicio libel prosecutions, doc. 
     
      that all he Wlll gain by his anger Will be additional hard U , ‘ v f 1 
     
     “mm” mm "fixation. Your cottespouileiit thinks that LLIt'rius has per ormep 
     
     . - ‘A Worse quality than either ofthe foregoing, which I re- “1" fifi'lfifes-‘Tfi’ lullouri "1 exl'lzfl'fllllg a“? growtffi Lilialg'fislf 
     
     fret A COMMISSIONER has evinced, is a. most prevailing pro- fl “"5135? 09C“)? ctii'lyflrSStI-ff liirocéeylfinis 0 "38:68:69 
     
     ipensity to pervert the sentiments of his opponent. Ishall “tors.” emlslma ’ e 9 W “fa-.33“: I"0 9:765. 309 . ,i I" 
     
     ‘noticen few intances. His comments on Coa'rius’ remarks and ‘V'll' alge'y k'lo‘V'llg 1'“ “'83 0m» 'i 328W ’93 
     
     ion the irresponsibility of our civil government, present!knows “ML Yesa ht” “ grim? manly do ",0?" fistmin')’ 
     
     themselves first. He represents that writer as inculcating, “I'd """0’ that df’i Onwadmlf 't’ “t eaStl’mmc,“ 3h 6 
     
     dint! our'authorities, “over and above the duties of their fir“ "'"s‘ b? enl'gh-[enf’fli “Te latter colll‘mndef', l: 2'." 
     
     .efiiees, should invoke ,he privations and plunge in“, the ticles to which he Iefeis. its instances ofthe exercise 0 tlis 
     
     vtoilsot' human life.” This idea has not the most remote conv “gm! were, 3' P” ("in “CCPHUP 0‘ [hem WI“ Slim“ "0‘ inn” 37’ 
     
     ‘IIection with Cca'rius’ remarks; and I presume he hail as “OMSt 3}“! 59m?“ ‘nVeSilga‘l‘mS “fll‘e cOliillictl pm Utefl' 
     
     Aliitla‘wish as any person could have that our rulers should slll'es. “fol” legmlaml'si “I” 5”” hufiponerrfir‘fi}! WIPelSO‘ 
     
     do so. His reasoning only censured the arrogance WHO“ ""I v'mperi‘t'on’ launch?! “gull”: “ Lev," '."‘ mind 5 liyblm; 
     
     thin” exempfio“ from ,hese things as an is inherent right"! sons who found it easrei to ridicu e tieir peiso‘ns, Ia its, 
     
     mum. than as “favour_me prwnege Mme“. omce [0 he &c., than to reftiie their posmons and arguments: - _ 
     
     first earned and deserved before it should be enjoyed; and This writer is next so stupid as to call the pl‘lnClpleS of 
     
     .whielI—instead of being an argument lbr a lofty contempt of political philosophy a “theory of moral sentiments,” and so 
     
     fhe-people-leiould beia motive to the contrary—a respect- corrupt in his own sentiments, as to pronounce the doctrines 
     
     fol sympathy with their “interestsand pursuits,” and ii grate- that the trite end ofcivil government is the greatest good oi 
     
     {oi attention to their wishes. Neither iliil Comma maintain, the general community, and that public officers are but the 
     
     that “because a man is thought more competent than his 1, machinery for effecting this end, “strange doctrines.” They 
     
     neighbour to fill a public oflice, he should, from the date of may be strange doctrines on board a IIHHI-pf-Wflf, anil they 
     
     liisappointment, become chargeable with some extraordinary may be unwelcome doctrines to the exclusive aristocrat on 
     
     amount of philanthropy, in addition to what he before pos- shore, though to him they can hardly be strange. But that 
     
     sound.” I presume that, had he advanced the idea at all, they are sound anil wholesome doctrines—alike advantage— 
     
     ‘instead of thus putting the cart before the horse, he would ous to the governing and the governed —your correspondent 
     
     have said, that a man’s possession of philanthropy—(and will liardlv dare to dispute. Another instance of liisnie‘ntal 
     
     patriotism, he might have added,)—-the greater the amount obliquity I shall here not-ice. Ile acknowledges the difficulty 
     
     the better—would be a reason why he should he “thought of paying their rent “experienced by many tenants.” “But 
     
     more competent” than others to fill an office. But Coartos‘ he denies that this difficulty is in any way the offset of the 
     
    

    
     (public officer. sympathising with the people's interests and rents being too high, or that it is unjust for the proprietors 
     
     wishes, and A COMMIssmsca’s scarecrow, “bursting with” to demand such rents, although they purchased their lands 
     
     sympathy, like Paddy with “loyiilt ',” are widely different spe~ at an almost nominal price! Let our politicians attend and 
     
     eimetrs of humanity; and Coa'rms charging our oflicials learn a lesson. Rents which are altogether beyond the law- 
     
     ‘witb'a want of becoming sympathy and respect for the peo- ftil interest ofthe purchase-money, and the circumstances of 
     
     pie, and. ACOMMIsstoxsit representing this to mean, that the the tcnantry to pay, are not too high!.’ A COMMISSIONER 
     
     'oflicial of ‘this Colony is “really more prone than in anymvouclies this. 
     
     other Colony to suppress within him whatever of christian) 1 must now notice (he most serious chm-g9 made against 
     
     benevolence 0]‘ 890ml Ifllel‘efl he mightprevmusly llilVe fend, CURTIUS altogether—that of misrepresenting the construc- 
     
     nl‘e Vfl§llyll|55||flllfil‘ ldUaS- A'ld these “"9 ll'lnl‘ls “’hl‘il' all tion of the Councils, in two particulars: fii'st,.witli regard 
     
     the l'1'?3ral’la§°Ph15‘l'Y oryour c"fresl’ondl‘Jm “’l” "0‘ “NW” to the number of proprietors in the Legislative Council {and 
     
     Fland'd imbl'F '°_c°}ll‘°u"fj' _An°ther “Mable Install“? or secondly, as to the extent of the family connection in tlic 
     
     ’ .mlsreiireseptatlonjs louu‘l '0 his 3990"" le'fe"; "6 elf-"Tiles Executive Council. CURTIDS asserts that there are three 
     
     ‘QURTivl Willi Sfly'mga [hubweilm‘ "ml S'll’el'l‘mll', “refllsriua- proprietors in the Legislative Council. Your latter com-es- 
     
     llficaflmllffi) Officml lll’ln'N'llnlemfii”!!nd Ill“! “"3 his (003' pondetit indirectly gives him the lie, and savs there is but 
     
     arms) opinion, a man who holds two or three thousand one, ' 
     
     Pounds, “form or lalld ,ShOUld be: 0" lhi‘t ilCCO'mIi ineligible for there are at least twu large land proprietors in the Legis- 
     
     TOI'B 30’“ In the COI‘E‘Cll-n NO‘Vi‘CUM‘lUS $11M llcllllel‘r “‘3 lative Council—the Hons. Messrs. M‘Donalil and Wortb'v— 
     
     represented mom’PO‘lw" "5 unsullml’le ‘0 “W” the Execmlv“ aiiil I am informed that the Hon. \V. W. Irving is one also. 
     
     Of a collml‘yi and land mOnOPOh-‘lts Blllonallle 1‘95), =15 “0 "'0‘ It mav be probable that CURTIUS had forgotten that the Hbu. 
     
     3? l! "3 more dangerous "'3" “‘3‘ 0i. {he SOIL A'Id h? C. Wori'ell liad lately resigned, and included him. At any 
     
     d} "0‘ "38d A COMMISSIONER ‘0 "Nike his “let‘s more 6"0"" rate, the mistake is not very great. As to the next charge, I 
     
     F"- Bmi ":onsll‘o'lls “if lt "my appear I0 .‘"‘"I' (‘Of'l‘e-“lmmlm'b conceive that Cun'rius’ statement can be fully sustained ;and 
     
     m“ 3 m“) 5 h9l‘lmfifi2i0009r £33000 “’"rthPl “"1” Should A COMMissIONEIt’s assertion, that the family connection only 
     
     sreate adisqualification to his holding a seat In the COUNCIL embraces three members of the Council, is gluriiigly false. 
     
     1'- mar. "everlhElefssi be 3 Perleetly 50"“(1 "mxml—lllmlgll In addition to the Hons. Messrs. Hodgson, Haviland, Ifreckeii 
     
     penned by 50 ""l'kely 3" 058d" “3 A.C°MM|5§IO¥ER- l” " and Peaks—who are veryintiinaiely connected—the Hon. A. 
     
     Cum"! “he”? the “2"”? °l “'9 I'm.“ ‘3 lh”,l""n“_‘l}al ET'eV' Lane is related by the Hon. J. S. Smith to the Hon. the At- 
     
     !!"ce ofthe Pcol'les‘ “‘W'” be Illa h'HllQSl disqualihcntlouto torney-General, and the Hot] J. S. Macdoiiald is related by 
     
     Exwullve amh‘m‘ys "‘8‘ We lmrly “8'5; 0" ""3 DON"; “II In", his cousin, the Hon. D. Macdonald, to the lions. Messrs. 
     
     tare" OPP“ed ,‘0 Ih‘“ 0f ‘he People- 1 he above [HSKHP'WS Ol Breckeii, Haviland and Peiike. There remains, then, but the 
     
     misrepresentation. prove your correspondent’s inability to Hons. Messrs. Goodman, Pope and Palmer, who are uncon- 
     
     encounter lhe Rasmons 0i CUWHVS by rm? urgllll'e'll- 1}" iiected with tltefamily. The other two-thirds are related pre- 
     
     stend ofanswertng them, he has made it his business to (113- (giggly in the way in which Cua'ncis has said, they are 
     
     tori thamqand We" ‘0 9537 0|". In afiectell hOI‘I‘OI‘. “A’Hl lites}: “ knit together in every variety ofcounection.” 
     
     fflouumnfi “Unmemsf I Indeed, he has aCkHOWledged his Your correspondent has complimented Comma upon his 
     
     Inpatitpetencylto cope With (IURTIUS, unless by being Per- “education,” and taunted some of your “escheat, corres- 
     
     flllllefl I0 consular _l||m 85 11 "muster 0f llllqlllly ; and Eilysi pondents” with bad grammar, 5w. 1 can neither return the 
     
     all“ in “FY other View he “ would not Obtrude liimsell 0n compliment, nor will I throw back the tatint. But he may as 
     
     the public, but would Leave: to competent hands the less may well be more modest iii future, lest some of his marked 
     
     Mk 0f correcflng hfm . {iere IS Ml acknOWledg'nem !! . blunders be pointed out. At present, “I spare him.” 
     
     The next Virtue in A Lommsstossa’s character is, his 
     
     faculty ufexaggeration. He says, that those whom he calls YOIHOS’ sac" 
     
     deinagogues have taught the people, “that the difficulty of 
     
     paying their rent is entirely owing to its being unreasonably 
     
     high.” Now, he knmvs that all parties acknowledge—eveh 
     
     those who maintain the injustice of rent—that the difficulty 
     
     of making cash payments is owing to the limited resources 
     
     and straitenet' markets ofthe country. Again, he says— 
     
     s‘. the proprietors’ ancestors purchased the Townships seventy 
     
     or eighty years agot” though he knows that most of them 
     
     have been purchased within forty years. And again, he says, 
     
     the demagogucs—a distinction, by the bye, 1 tiiiiik, even be- 
     
     yond his reach—have taught “a uniform resistance of pay- 
     
     ment” ofrent. This he knows to be a pure invention of the 
     
     truth-losing and. honourable Tories! Once more, he says 
     
     that the dissatisfaction ofthe tenantry with their landlords has 
     
     bssnfprodu'ced by the spoken and published ebullitions ol' 
     
     cunning agitators! Very cunning men, truly, these agitators, 
     
     who could persuade a whole comtnunity that their landlords 
     
     'rbad never settled their lands our paid their quit rents—that 
     
     they have compelled squatters to take leases at hiin rents or 
     
     leave their improvements—that they have exacted cash rents, 
     
     at the same time that they denied titles to the settlers; that 
     
     they have taken the people’s property, by seizures and other- 
     
     wue,fbr less than one-third of' its value often—and that, 
     
     owing to the pressure of rents, the tenants suffer the greatest 
     
     privations—if none of these things were true! Are not 
     
     these things cognizable to every man in his senses? Atid 
     
     if_they do not exist, as facts, could any agitator, however cun- 
     
     omg, rsuade people that they do? Or, if they do, is the 
     
     skill o a cunning demagogue necessary to make people dis- 
     
     satisfied witb them .? 
     
     'As I shall probably have to draw a full-length portrait of 
     
     this rareuhow before I am done with him, I shall be content, 
     
     5%-. .at present, with adding another shade to my hasty sketch— 
     
     minsly, his skill in defamation. This is evident from, some 
     
     referencesi‘n the last paragraph. He has represented the 
     
     friends of Escheat as “ cunning demagogues ;” as “ agitators, 
     
    
   
   
    
     too ridiculous and contemptible for notice -” “clodhoppers 
     
    
   
   
    
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     and Ignoramiises.” He has evidently read the Islander to 
     
    
   
   
    
     snipe purpose. .He Uses filthy epithets with almost as much 
     
     - ficilit as its editor; and bids fair to become his successor, 
     
     oven fthereibe no truth in the report which makes him his 
     
      Jtis probable that be frequently occupied the 
     
     gallery of the House of Assambly last Session—though he 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     PHILO-CURTIUS. 
     
     25mm: 
     
    
   
   
    
     AN Accusr Eamon—We have always considered: io- 
     
     naparte rather a smart man, and we have lately been ully 
     
     confirmed in thatopinioii by reading in Bourienne’s Memoirs 
     
     the statement that he was capable of writing very fair edi- 
     
     torials for a daily paper. When first consul he used some- 
     
     times to write the leaders and even small news paragraphs 
     
     for the Moniteur, the organ of the administration. As the 
     
     most patient compositor that ever held a stick could not have 
     
     made out one ofhis villanous scrawls, be employed Boiiri- 
     
     enne on these occasions as an amanuensis. The style of 
     
     these effusions was rather abrupt and energetic than finished 
     
     or elegant. They did not exactly indicate public opinion, 
     
     but they certainly promulgated the first consul’s opinions, 
     
     or at least his intentions, and that was just the same thing. 
     
     These articles, we may presume, were generally approved 
     
     ofby the French Press, and “extensively copied,” inasmuch 
     
     as it is more than probable that the Editor who hail ventured 
     
     to question the soundness oftbeir arguments, or who might 
     
     have refused to give them “the benefit ofhis circulation,” 
     
     would have been the next day sent to the gallevs, or to the 
     
     swamps and forests ofFrenith Guiana. For Napoleon’s ideas 
     
     respecting the liberty ofthe press were something ofthe 
     
     narrowest; though he had a great notion of its potency 
     
     when unrestrained. He used to say ofthe journals, “ Should 
     
     I give them the rein, my power would Iiot continue. three 
     
     months." We might multiply anecdotes ofhis career as an 
     
     editor, which would no doubt amuse and entertain our ren- 
     
     ders, but we have not space for them.—All the world lau h- 
     
     ed, for instance, at the fury into which he lashed himsel in 
     
     his contest with Peltier, a refugee Frenchman, who edite‘ a 
     
     scurvy little paper in London. Napoleon would ans r 
     
     Peltier’s attacks in the Mm, s crossfircmt‘ 
     
     “ paper bullets" was long kept up‘across the channel. B‘th 
     
     Peltier got the better of him, and at last Napoleon sou t 
     
    
   
   
    
     to end the war by prosecuting him for libel in the Eng b 
     
     Courts, where also the liveyfiw proved too I 
     
     for his mighty an in, at which the world lsu 
     
     louder than over.  or snow mvi A and at 
     
     was all. Hem'rnsur‘untemigsndhps sway.” 
     
     heartin as befm. ' , Wm,“ . ‘1 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Both may be wrong—A COMMISSIONER ccrtainly't's;' 
     
    
   
   
    
     PAPERS BY THE CALEDONIA. 
     
     FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH CHINA. 
     
    

    
     The following extract from a recent oflicial despatch from 
     
     Sir H. Pottinger to the Earl of Aberdeen, from the familiar 
     
     and almost domestic nature of'its contents, will be constder— 
     
     ed as a curiosity in diplomatic correspondence, and enable 
     
     the reader to judge of the goodewill towards England and 
     
     the English which perviides the Celestial Empire. Uur 
     
     troops, in fact, appear to be received by those children of 
     
     the sun and moon as friends and brethren, and the British 
     
     empire to be considered by them as a member ofthe fellow- 
     
     citizenship it is the pleasure, as well as the interest, of the 
     
     Chinese empire to cultivate:— 
     
    

    
     (sx'raac'r FROM AN orrtcut. nssrx'rcn PROM SIR assay 
     
     romances TO THE EARL or assansan.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ In the evening (says Sir Henry Pottinger) the Imperial 
     
     l-Iigh commissioner Keying came, according to his engage- 
     
     ment, to dine with me, and alter he and his two companions 
     
     had made themselves comfortable, by laying aside their 
     
     mandarin caps and upper dresses, which is the custom at 
     
     such parties in Chitin, we sat for a few minutes'in the draw- 
     
     ing room whilst dinner was being served. During-this short 
     
     period Keying’s attention was attracted to the miniatures of 
     
     my family, which happened to be on the table, and he dest- 
     
     reil Mr. Morrison to explain to me that he had no son him- 
     
     self, and therefore wished to adopt my eldest boy, and to 
     
     know it" I would allow him to come to China. To this I 
     
     replied, that the lad’s education must first be attended to, but 
     
     that stranger things had happened than his seeing Keying 
     
     hereafter; on which his cxcellency rejoined, ‘ Very Well, he 
     
     is my adopted son from this day. His name (which he had 
     
     previously ascertained) shall henceforward be Frederick 
     
     Keying Pottinger, and until you send him to me, alter he is 
     
     educated, you must allow me to keep his likeness.’ To this 
     
     proposal I could make no objection, and I accordingly gave 
     
     him the picture. Immediately after his cxcellency expres- 
     
     sed a strong wish to have Lady Pottiiiger’s miniature also; 
     
     but about giving it I made some little demur, and before the 
     
     matter was either way settled, dinner was announced, and we 
     
     went to table. 
     
    

    
     “I supposed the thing would be forgotten; but when din- 
     
     ner was partly over Keying again introduced his request, 
     
     said that he would send me his wife’s likeness in return, and 
     
     that he wanted my whole family to take back with him when 
     
     he went to Nankin, and eventually to show to his friends at 
     
     l’ekiii. I felt it was impossible to reliise this flattering re- 
     
     quest,and [hail the miniature brottghtnnd put into his hands. 
     
     He immediately rose and placed it on his head, which, laiii 
     
     tolil, is the highest token of respect and friendship, filled a 
     
     glass of wine, held the picture in front ofhis face, muttered 
     
     some words in n low voice, drank the wine, again placed 
     
     the picture on his head, and then sat down. The whole of 
     
     this extruoi-ilinary action was performed without apparent 
     
     reference to any one being present, and formed quite a scene. 
     
     He then delivered the miniature to his principal attendant, 
     
     who was standing behind, him, and directed him to send it 
     
     home in his state chair, in which his excellency had come to 
     
     dinner with his oflicial suite. Afterwards he expressed his 
     
     deep obligation to the lbr the gift I had bestowed on him, 
     
     and enquired through Mr. Morrison what present he could 
     
     send to Lady Pottiiiger that would be acceptable. I wished 
     
     to evade giving an answer to this inquiry, and said I should 
     
     think ofit, and let him know next morning; on which he 
     
     asked, ‘ What! am Ithe Governor General of the Two 
     
     Kiank, and cannot get my order obeyed?’ At last, to satis- 
     
     fy him, I told him some pieces of embroidery would be, as 
     
     his gift, highly prIZed, and be had a memorandum made 
     
     ofit. 
     
    

    
     “Soon after he proposed to sing a Tartar song, which I 
     
     am told is customary at their convivial friendly parties—and 
     
     on my saying that I should bedelighted to hear it, he began 
     
     with a very animated and loud voice. The couplets he sang, 
     
     I have been since informed, were allusive to the peace that 
     
     hail been concluded between the two countries, and like- 
     
     wise to his great personal fi'tendsl'iip for me; and, at the 
     
     close ofii, he took a rich golden bracelet, made in the form 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Tait Ls'r'rsas or “PniLsi.s’-risss;”-—Tho editor of an 
     
     Banner 0 ' Ulster, a Tory paper, characterizes the sustain. 
     
     contained in the two letters of Philalstlus, publist in th. 
     
     Morning Chronicle, to the effect that the routltry is on b 
     
     verge ofa rebellion, and that the Protestants of the 
     
     and the Catholics of the south are pantingfor war with.“ 
     
     other, anil eagerly seeking a cause of amines,” “a ” 
     
     recklessly, utiil scandaloust false,”.a'ud describes other m 
     
     ments ofthe writer "3 worthy of little or no reliam. h 
     
     support of these opinions he publishes it letter frpni tho 3..., 
     
     M... Godkin, in answer to these statements of PM“, “ 
     
     observes that the authority of Mr. Godkin _Is perfectly an“, 
     
     ceptionable, he being a person most obnoxious to the I,“ 
     
     Catholics on religious grounds. From this letter we I 
     
     a few extracts. The testimony ofthe writer Is most in“ 
     
     tautz— ; " ‘ 
     
    

    
     “You are aware,” says he, “ that I must be well seq. 
     
     ed with the state ol' feeling in the south. During 1h.  
     
     six months] have traVelled through twelyo counties, .‘ 
     
     conversed with people ofall sects and parties.  have m 
     
     the condition of the people my specml study in town a“ 
     
     country, and have availed myself pf every source afoot“. 
     
     tic information. My opportunities of knowing than.” ' 
     
     very different from those enjoyed by an English tourist, ’ 
     
     is liable to be imposed on.by every wag who stands jaw 
     
     in the market-place, uttering the most extravagant thing 
     
     just that his wit may raise a laugh, and that he may 9 n 
     
     the stranger’s astonishment. How long shell the caricatulfi 
     
     of-all that is wild and uutre among the idlest of our popuh. 
     
     tion be taken by England as a true representation or" 
     
     might look on these ludicrous libels Oil the national chem 
     
     ter with indifference or contempt, if they were not inflic ‘ 
     
     on us the deepest injury. Knowing tliis,I confess they hang 
     
     often excited my own indignation, and, therefore,  
     
     long ceased to read the fictitious trash that is publism 
     
     about us so profitser in the magazines. 
     
    

    
     “But, to the object of this letter. You know 1am mas. 
     
     nest protestant, and no repealer. Miiie is no partial  
     
     inony; nor, as I said, is it founded on a hasty glance at th'. 
     
     surface of Irish society. I 
     
    

    
     “ First,then, I can assure you that, in most parts of  
     
     south and west. the peasantry, and the town population 7 
     
     are deeply discontented. The former are, to a great mug 
     
     unemployed, rack-rented, half-naked, and half-starved, wh 
     
     the latter are universally complaining of the want of burde- 
     
     ness. The blame ofthis state of things is partly laid on an 
     
     Government, but chiefly, and in my opinion justly, on tie 
     
     landlords. Their neglect oftbeirtenantry is almost incrs'dfi; 
     
     ble. 1 was lately among the mountains of Clare, unduly 
     
     heart was saddened with the information Ireceived fronts 
     
     Protestant gentlemen, and with what I saw around an, 
     
     Their absenteeism is a curse, but their residence is seldom 
     
     a blessing. - 
     
    

    
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     “ ln utter hopelessness ofany relief from landlord or logb- 
     
     lator, and sinking under intolerable burdens, the pumps.- 
     
     ple have, I admit, thrown their whole souls into the " 
     
     movement. This is certainly the fact, and a painful fact it 
     
     is ; but remove the cause, and you remove the efi'ect. i Th 
     
     priests go with them—some of them reluctantly—but many 
     
     heartily, enthusiastically. They look for the separation of 
     
     the church from the state as It sine qua mm; and should the 
     
     establishment be obstinater maintained, they are not with. 
     
     out hopes that some lucky turn in the affairs of Europe will 
     
     transfer the temporalities to themselves as the national 
     
     priesthood. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I am, however, persuaded that the policy of peaceful  
     
    
   
   
    
     tholic mind of Ireland. They are a patieth “5 
     
     Roman Catholics who send some buttermilk eight or  " 
     
     miles to market, in order to pay tithes to an absentee rem, ‘ 
     
     be blamed for sometimes complaining over the dint-wit 
     
     ‘ dry luinpers ?’ Yet, except the very lowest and most inc. 
     
     rant (who will be always led by those above them), no  
     
     thinks ofmsitrrection, rebellion, or massacre, unless it bite 
     
     laugh at it can dream ofa madman. They allude, indeed, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ofa puzzle, with two clasped hands, off his own arm, and 
     
     put it on niine.—lle then explained to me that this bracelet 
     
     and its fellow liiiil belonged to his father, who gave them to 
     
     him when he was 11* years of age—that he had worn this 
     
     one for upwards of 40 years, and had left the other with his 
     
    
   
   
    
     one ofthe hands in mystic characters, and that he had some 
     
     friends in every part of China, who would, on my producing 
     
     fl, receive me as his brother. Iii ihe course ofthe evening he 
     
     told me that he expected to go to Pekin iti three or four years 
     
     —-that he would then send for me—tliat in the mean time, I 
     
     inust correspond with hint, whether I remained in China or 
     
     returned to England—thatifTaoukevang (the Emperor) saw 
     
     me, he would give me a two-eyed peacock’s leather, the 
     
     highest order in China—and that I had gained a great repti- 
     
     tation and much distinction, not only in my own country, 
     
     but in every part of this empire. After we rose from table 
     
     and retired to the drawing room again, 1 presented his ex- 
     
     cellency with a handsome sword and belt, which I hail coni- 
     
     missioned by Lieut. Col. Malcolm from England, for the 
     
     purpose ofsendiug to him, and with which he was highly 
     
     pleased. He immediately buckled it on,and though it was 
     
     a very warm night, anil'l begged him to lay it aside, he sat 
     
     with it on whilst he staid, and went to his chair of state to 
     
     go home. Just before he went away he put on my shoulder 
     
     his own upper dress, which, he said, was made of silk that 
     
     had been given by the Emperor Kielong to his (Keying’s) 
     
     father when he was prime minister. 
     
    

    
     “ On the evening of the 26th the whole ofthe troops were 
     
     out, and after the exchange ofthe ratifications they fired a 
     
     fen dejot'e and marched round, the officers saluting the im- 
     
     perial commissioner, who seemed greatly struck with the 
     
     whole ceremony, and expressed his admiration of the ap- 
     
     pearance and regularity of the men, as to their dresses, 
     
     movements, &c. We afterwards sat down to dinner, a very 
     
     large party, at which the Chinese high officers entered with 
     
     great spirit and good feeling into the conviviality. Keying 
     
     himselfasked many officers to drink wine, and was asked 
     
     by many; and as his cxcellency hail been complaining of a 
     
     cutaneous disorder, it was hinted to him, by Mr. Morrison’s 
     
     desire, that he ought to be careful ; to which he answered, 
     
     ‘ :I‘o-iiiorrow must take care of itself: I am too happy to— 
     
     night.’ Then iurning to me, he was about to address me in 
     
     a whisper, when he suddenly seemed to recollect that] 
     
     could not understand liiiti; on which he expressed his cha- 
     
     grin t_hnt he could not tell me his secrets, and desired Mr. 
     
     Morrison to explain to tne, that if he got tipsy, in the joy of 
     
     his heart, I must find him a bed for the night. When the 
     
     dinner was over, I proposed a but per toast, with all the 
     
     honours, to ‘ The Healths ofthe QIeen' of England and Eat- 
     
     peror of China, and that the peace which had-that day been 
     
     ratified between their Majesties might be eternal’——indrinking 
     
     which the Chinese officers most warmly joined. I discovered 
     
     In the course of the evening that Keying was a great proficient, 
     
     or at least amateur, in music, and whenever the band played 
     
     any particular time, he fashioned it to some of his own ria- 
     
     tive airs, and sung to it in a low voice. ~This led to a pro- 
     
     posal to his cxcellency to favor the company with a song, 
     
     which he did immediately with great good humour: and as 
     
     Kwang and Hienling (assistants to the'imperial commission- 
     
     er) followed their cliief’s example, and they all three called 
     
     on different officers to sing in return, the evening passed 
     
     away most jovially and agreeably; and we did not separate 
     
     till a late hour. Just before we did so, the commissioner 
     
     and two Chinese oflicers gratified the company by playing 
     
     one of their favourite games at convivial parties, by one 
     
     party rapidly throwing out his fingers whilst the othe 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ass at the numbers they are supposed to represent, salt-lasts)- 
     
     ever loses drinks a glass of wine—II forfeit which they most 
     
    
   
   
    
     scrupuloust enforced. On one occasion, when Keying was 
     
     playing With Hienling, and the latter lost the game, he was 
     
     kbout togavewaa already hag-full, replenished, on which 
     
     eying un Im Wit out in his ‘ 
     
     called on him to fill a bumper.” ‘ "up" MM’ “d 
     
    
   
   
    
     .Dr. Kalley, s Scotch physician, in the Island of Madeira, 
     
     has. been thrown Into prison for attempting to convert the 
     
     mom to Protestantism, by preschingto such ofthem :- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     , wasnm km; 
     
    
   
   
    
     “W” ‘° “Md J“ hl' wait, in his «In house, and; in, the 
     
    
   
   
    
     wife at Pekiu,aud that it cotttaxne' d his name in the pnlmofi “on; the-V know 'I would be ‘ml’OII"“—"l'm“‘ m  
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     to War—use martial language—and talk of their military ya. 
     
    
   
   
    
     i people—to give them the feeling of conscious strength [ 
     
     ‘to make their rulers uneasy. 
     
     }slightest intention of going. The priests are not for 
     
     cause. Nor are the people for massacre. Let no one  
     
     a Bartholomew in Ireland. No; I believea gmbu'ti‘ni- 
     
     deuce is over-ruling this agitation for good, franghtltit ‘ I 
     
     be with present evil. The benign principles of  
     
     inculcated and warmly cherished ; temperance and-Mm 
     
     trol are established in the national characterutordolm 
     
     it isin vain that the leaders ofthe repeal movement I ‘ ‘ 
     
     suppression of religious animosity. Certainly ml 1'3 
     
     fast gaining ground among the people; and Iain  
     
     Protestants thinly scattered among Roman Catliolicq'llm 
     
     ltliey find them more civil and neiglibourly than formerly”? 
     
     ‘ In a large parish in Clare there are only thirty W330- 
     
     I asked one oftbem lately, an intelligent young farther, uln- 
     
     ther he was annoyed on account ofhis religion. He 
     
     the lie was not in the least—that ‘ the people made  
     
     difference with him than il he were one of theinselve"? I. 
     
     this same county, I was rowed nearly three inile on I“ 
     
     on a dark and stormy night, by Roman Catholifl,’ 
     
     preaching a controversial sermon, to which several no N 
     
     to listen, though under the surveillance of a repeal um' 
     
     Surely ifaiiy man should dreads religious war—s  
     
     of Protestants—l ought! And yet, so thoroughly  I 
     
     quainted with the feelings ofthe people, and so  
     
     confidence in them, that] travel as securely and- ' ' ‘ 
     
     soundly among the wildest mountains and in the »' - 
     
     habitations as if] were in London. ' i 
     
     “ For the sake of my country’s character, which It“, , 
     
     vilified beyond any other on the face ofthe emit, 
     
     order, ifpossible, to quiet the fears of Prom. ' 
     
     know are in many places labouring under distr w , 
     
     I have felt called on to give you thus candidly my 
     
     sions, which I hope will be found more in ace ' 
     
     facts than the nervous apprehensions of ‘Plulaw ’A 
     
    
   
   
    
     not Protestant Ulster, therefore, draw the sword  
     
     Catholic South, but let its comparatively happy  . 
     
     generously petition Parliament fora redress (if-infill. .v 
     
    
   
   
    
     peace and prosperity within her borders. 
     
    
   
   
    
     October 23, 1843. ‘,  ' 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
          
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
          
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     Insqosurias or Rsrassss'nnotv.—Among the . 
     
     grievances of Ireland, that which seems to be mad, 
     
     interwoven with the legislative union is, the infill . 
     
     her representation in parliament. In the Home 0'; 
     
     mons, England, with a population close on fifteen _. 
     
     has 500 representatives, being one to every 301K”. ,  , 
     
     With a population of 8,179,359 has 105 rep!!! ' 
     
     one to every 77,908. In this view, England is It 
     
     times as Well, or rather as much, represented I 
     
     Then take the proportion of the electors to the ( , _ 
     
     The whole electors of the kingdom amount to  
     
     lion, being about one to every twenty-seven inhabits!!!” 
     
     these, England has (or had by the last return we  
     
     mend, which dates 1839,) within a very few of  
     
     about one to every 19 inhabitants. Ireland but , .. . 
     
     above 100,000, or about one to every 80 of the ' ' 
     
     If Ireland were represented on the same scale as 
     
     she would have 250 members instead of 105. ll) 5 ' 
     
     there are upwards of 80 represented boroughs, the ,4 
     
     tion of which is under 10,000. Ol'theso there mi“ 
     
     each return two members; and taking the snap 
     
     tion of these at 6,000, a population of W -‘ 
     
     members to parliament than the eight millions of 
     
     Tait": Magtm'm. 
     
    

    
     Rolounln Brennan-r or Ihsovnus 
     
     IRILAND.—we can give an explicit and u i 
     
     s statement, Which has appeared in some 7 ' 
     
     that ministers intend to e ’ the sonic“ 0 
     
     troops in Ireland. Min‘ to ‘ 
     
     policy; on the contrary, they ate 
     
     ability ofthe British troops, and the 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     unmask-fish.»- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tation is deeply rooted as a first principle in the Roman Ca. " 
     
    
   
   
    
     Further they have  . T‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     grievances, and our beloved country shall ere labs 5" I 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     sources; but the design of this; is to raise the spirit  .