litical philosopher," was a rea Duke," authenticated. I will first Greatest Captain's Letter. Courier's Testimonials. 20 August 1822, His Lordship's manner to his Lady during the last two or three months was considerably changed; his observations or answers, which bcfore were the kindest and most tender, were sometimes extremely petulant. It was remarked, too, that he was frequently absent, and even when there was company at his own table, that he has been twice addressed without replying. His memory had also greatly failed him, and, as Dr. Bankhead observed on the inquest, his Lordship is said to have himself complained of the defect. This was in him the m more extraordinary, as previously no man possessed a better recollec"London, Aug. 9, 1822.-DEAR tion, or confided more to it. In SIR, I called upon you with the discharging his official or Parlia intention of talking to you about mentary duties, he scarcely ever Lord Londonderry, and of request-resorted to memoranda, but trusted ing you would call upon him. He with just dependence to his mepromised me that he would send mory. The numberless instances for you, but lest he should not, I in which he was thus able to recall entreat you to find some pretence at a moment's warning to the for going down to him.-I enter-House of Commons, with the nicest tain no doubt that he is very un-accuracy of detail, the particulars well. It appears that he has been of proceedings which had passed over-worked during the session; years before, must be familiar to and that his mind is overpowered all who have been in the habit of for the moment and labours under attending Parliamentary debates. a delusion. I state, the impression A circumstance, however, which made upon me in the interview I occurred in the House of Commons have just had with him. I told about six weeks back, will show, oa him that this was my impression; the contrary, the melancholy reverse and I think it is his own, and he which was taking place. Two or will probably communicate it to three days before, an account was you; but lest he should not, I tell published in the newspapers of the you what I think; begging you capture of an English ship-bound never to mention to any body what from Buenos Ayres with hides, by I have told you. I am setting out a Spanish vessel under an obsolete this moment for the Netherlands. Spanish Colonial law. The BriI would have staid with Lord tish ship, it appeared, had beca Londonderry, but he would not al-taken into Porto-Rico, and there low me. I shall be very much condemned part of the condemobliged to you, if you will write nation being published along with me a line, and have it left at my the account of her capture. To say house, to let me know how you find him; and particularly if you think I am mistaken. Ever, dear Sir, your's most faithfully, (Signed) WELLINGTON.' nothing of advices, almost necessarily, having been officially received at the Foreign Office, of this transaction, before the public could have a knowledge of it, there is Bankhead. He also, while going the 11th of May at least; and, it down in the evening to North Cray is too much to suppose, that no asked the Marchioness, D I speak much nonsense King to- part of the madness existed, till day?" and then, as it were recollecting that she could give no anthe symptoms became apparent. swer, leaned back his head in the The Viscount Chateaubriand, that carriage, and in now, the of lethargy. painful All the a sort excellent novel-writer, circumstances, together with a CoURIER tells us, s sees a new somultitude of others of a similar de lution of the conduct of our great scription, which the Marchioness herself has called to recollection, hole-digging philosopher. And have, for the reason already men tioned, greatly reconciled her to the Divine dispensation with which she has been visited, and afford her Ladyship, as well as all his Lordship's immediate connexions, considerable relief from the grief in which they were at first overwhelmed. may not we see a "solution" of 66 making bank-notes a legal tender; Now, then, what have we here? for taking corn into warehouse, Assertions of madness existing as and for the grinding project; for far back as the middle of the the project of lending public money month of May! The Great Cap- to the land-people until the price tain's is a kind and a very proper of corn should rise; aye, and for letter; but, how came Castlereagh the "Dead Charge" project also, to be left; and to be left, too, at which Lord King, in his proposed the head of the Government; for preamble, treated as what it really the office of the Home Secretary was. Yes, we have now a comwas left in his hands as well as his own office and that of Lord Bat plete "solution" of these and many other things, which before Hurst? Suppose a row of some appeared wholly unsolveable. We sort had happened in London, shall watch the next batch of prowould not the military have been jects more narrowly, and shall be in pretty hands? In short, it is likely to trace them, at once, to perfectly horrible to think of what their true cause, whatever pains might have taken place in any may be taken to hide them from such case. us. ་ If this statement of the COURIER To be sure, the pranks, here be true, the House of Commons recorded, must be deemed proofs, has had a mad leader ever since or, at least, marks of madness; MORE MADNESS!!! but, then, who are we to look to for having suffered the madman to go on leading the House of Commons after these pranks were played? It is not much more than “The Dog-star rages !"— POPE. three months, since the defunct THE Old Times has, for jeered Mr. Brougham upon the long time, discovered marks of supposed wish of the latter to get illness," "" of mental delirium, his place, and, with his usual mo- of "mental delusion,” and all the desty, observed, that the House rest of that which is so fashionhe thought, would not be inclined able now-a-days. But, on Tues to repose confidence in so rash day last, in the morning, it broke and blind a leader! The House, out into a downright raving. The or, at least, a great part of it, Old Thing is never deeply af loudly cheered this; little think- fected except you touch its monish. ing, all the while, that it was Its sale is its God; and, if that cheering one whose absolute in- decline, it becomes first melansanity was to be openly declared choly, and then perfectly furious. by his own friends before the end We have touched it lately rather of the Session! Was it not the rudely upon this tender string. duty of his colleagues to inform It has, for many months, been the king of the madness as soon falling under two oppressive as they even suspected it? Was causes. The New Times has it right to leave him in possession been stripping it of the custom of the powers of the three Offices of all the Anti-Jacobins and of State? Was it right to appoint lovers of blood, who formerly adhim to represent the king at hered to it when it justified the the approaching Congress at massacre of the Protestants at Vienna ? Nismes; when it justified the kil But, it would be useless to mul-ling of Marshal Ney; when it tiply questions on the subject. The called so loudly for the blood of whole of the case is now plain to Napoleon; when it raved for the the public. Nothing can render execution of poor Cashman. or it obscure, And, therefore, here, these blood-lovers, the abler writfor the present, I leave it.. ing of the New Times has stripped it; for, bloody as men may be, they do not like a bungling The and brutal advocate of butchery. "That exemplary vagabond, The Morning Chronicle, by its Cobbett, has got home at last, as we are credibly informed. superior talents and industry old vermin had raised the country has stripped it of all those by his everlasting depredations and, pursued on all sides, he has readers who understand any thing been run to earth-where, reader? of foreign affairs and who ex- he was, or would be, in the In the Treasury! We often said pay of pect something like discussion Ministers, if he escaped hanging. on prominent matters at home. When he offered to write for them. some years ago if they would let It is impossible to look at the two him out of gaol, they were wise papers of Tuesday, for instance, enough to laugh at him, as the wretch's character was then past without perceiving, that no man redemption, and the Ministers had of sense, who can afford to take a yet some to lose. But time is a great accommodater of difficulties: Morning Paper, will look at the they have lowered their pretenOld Times if he can get the Chro- sions, and the old sinner his price -both approximating to that point nicle. Under these causes the which the arithmeticians call Zero. There is a Member of Parliament Old Thing had been wasting away residing somewhere about Blackfor many months, when its con-heath, who, for his readiness to duct with regard to the Bishop execute all the behests of his masters, the Ministers, used to go by and Soldier (which it was impos- a nick-name, importing that he would stick at nothing, not even sible to ascribe to but one cause) his own perdition, to gratify them. gave it a twist downwards more To the house of this tool, or whiprude than any that it had before per-in, let the world let his own crew of half starved radicals-received. We, in the STATES-trace Cobbett, carousing with a MAN, gave it a friendly push; and, one day last week, we challenged it to swear to numbers published for the last month, and did not besitate to offer a bet, that its numbers had sunk beneath ours.-This challenge, which it dared not accept (for we were prepared for detection in case of false swearing) seems to have set it raving; and, on Tuesday, out it bursted in the following paragraph, which we give word for word, letter for letter, and dash for dash. crew of his familiars from Downing-street, drinking, speechifying revelling in the consciousness of having degraded the King's servants by his society, duped the radicals by his hypocrisy, and sold the remnant of his existence, infamy and all, for a living out of the public money. If they picture to themselves this---it is a true picture. The runners of the Treasury have laid hold of this miscreant. They feast him, they pay him, they compound for his still abusing the Government, if he will only fling dirt at the independent part of the press. live talk as mingisu " By "independent part of the press," the Old Thing means |