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BY JOHN - W. FORNEY,
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Pal ANiV$, FOIIK POLLAK!. YOK filotrras,
Timis Dow..ams rot' Six hfoorrao-4rivariably In ad
mime for the time orate&
TRY-WEEKLY PRESS,
Mailed to Bobearibeca out of the City at Man Dolt-
Less Ile Aroma, in advance.
COMMISSION HOUSES
WELL I Na,
COFFIN & Co..
ie. ilia CHESTNUT STREET;
AGENTS FOR THE SALE GP
DUN - NELL MPG. CO.'S PRINTS AND LAWNS.
GREENE MFG. CO.'S TURKEY RED AND STAPLE
PRINTS.
Fine Bleached Cottons.
LONDO/LLE , HOPE. BLA.OIinoNR. SLATis;RAI
VILLE,IAMPSTOW N. RED EARL GREENE ,
ORION. AND DELVIDER S.
Brown venous-
ETHAN ALLEN, MT. DOM. FRBDONIAN. ET
TRICK. OHIO. GROTON. VIRGINIA FAMILY
AND MECHANICS' AND FARMERS'.
GRAFTON, SLATERSVILLE, AND JEWETT CITY
DENIMS AND STRIPES.
LOSSOLLE CO'S NANKEENS AND RILINIAB.
BLE.NHAM CO.ll AND GLASGOW CORSET I E ADM
BOTTONILEY'S BLACK AND FANCY MIXED
CLOTHS.
STEARNS AND SAXTON'S RIVER CASSINLERES.
GREENFIELD CO.'S BLACK DOESKINS.
RODMAN'S FIN IR naris,nousbx AND TWISTED
CASSIMERES, NEGRO CLOTHS, Re.
MINOT. BASS DIVER, CRYSTAL SPRINGS.-CILE
• SHIRE, BRIDGEWATER. AN D BRISTOL
SATINETS.
SHIPLNY, HAZARD, It 1117TORENS0N,
NO. 11,i1 ORNSTNUT BT..
COMMISSION MBRORANTS
FOR TIM 81. LE OF
PHILADELPHIA-MADE
GOODS.
GENTS , FURNISHING GOODS.
Likal
CRAVAT STORE.
No. 703,,
N. W. CORNER SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT.
GREAT REDUCTION
GREAT REDUCTION .1
GREAT REDUCTION 1
.OUR WHOLE WINTER STOCK
WILL BE SOLD
AT THE JOLLOWUIO
LOW 'KATES
MEM THE IST OP APRIL.
Regular Ito
.
Price. &iced to
Pine Gents' Tmvellinz 00 600
" Combiners Underehirts & Drawers 260 2CO
Medan 44 200 160
" Shaker Flannel Travelling Bhirbs.. 600 400
.4 44 66 46 44 - 460 360
44 G. 66 2 00 1.60
"- Rom —....—_— 76 60
Frenet Gyot Elturpenders— ..... ILO 75
Imitation " —— . 85 66
Greeley's Brame. —.--. 100 75
Best Quality Lama Collars, per mss__ 220 200
Gents' Patent Enernelk4 Collars-- 10 for lye.
Lame Patent Eleotro Collars*. 10 for 560.
ALL OUR "LlatOS STOCKS 01
CRAVATS,
SCARFS,
NECKTIES.
STOCKS.
REDUCED SS PER CENT.
Also, all our utoolt of
KID GLOVES
Will be closed out at COST PRICES.
SHIRTS MADE TO ORDER
" SHOULDER BEAM SHIRTS." - -
" FRENCH YOKE SHIRTS,"
cc Olt ANY OTHER SHITS.""
6 FOR *9 AND. UPWARDS.
NO FIT-NO SALE !
THE UNION SOW! THE UNION TIE I
NO. 701.
NQ. 70L
NO. 70L NO. 701.
J. ALBERT ESHLEMAN,
N. w. COL BEVENIFE AND UNPATNITY Streets.
iniff-th eau ins
CABINET FURNITURE.
CABINET FURNITURE AND Bib
LIA RD TABLES.
MOORE et CAMPION
No. 261 POUTH SECOND STREET.
in connection wlth their extenlive Cabinet Business.
are n ow manosseturtng a oupermr article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
470 d have now on Fond n• full supply. finished with
MOORE it enfdrlON'S IMP NOVEL/ CUSItIOMIL
Whit* am Pronounoed. by all. who have need them, to
be superior to all others.
For the quality and finish of these Table' the mann
fastorers refer to their numerous patrons throughout
the Union, who are familiar with the ohmmeter of their
work. feV.6in
REMOVAL , .
W. & J. ALLEN & BRO.;
Ressootfolly inform their friends and onstomers that
they haarargregaro c tgo tzh te r o South
NEW STORE,
1409 CRESTMUT STREET,
Where they will have always on hand a fine assortment
et
BASSWOOD, WALNUT, AND OAK
FURNITURE;
Which they will sell at leas than their former prices, in
consomme of having greater facilities for business,
and being ender lege expense.
else They respeotfully solicit a, call before purchasing
where. jaSS-31n
LOOKING GLASSES.
LOOKING -GLASSES.
Now daily exhibiting and completing new and elegant
styles of •
LOOKING-GLASSES,
°whin= all the latest improvements and Winds, In
marrofeetare.
lereat novelties In Walvut and Gold and Rosewood
awe Gold Frames for MIRRORS.
The most extensive and varied assortment In the
eowatry.
JARES S. EAGLE Sc SON,
EARLZS' GALLERIES,
mhT-tf griflegralUT STRERT.
AWNINGS.
AWNINGS, AWNINC4S.
JOSEPH H. FOSTER,
443 NORTH THIRD STREET.
At the old-established stand can be obtained. it the
shortest notice, ,
AWNINGS. FLAGS,
TENTS, SAILS.
BACTICING-BOTTOMS, WAGOLt COVERS,
BAGS, .to.
CANITAtit of all deserintions, plain and fancy. of the
boat auslity . . 10112-110
PAPER HANGINGS.
pAYER HANGINGS.
HOWELL & BOURKE,
N. E. writer of FOURTH sad MARKET Streets
MARITINLCITREZB 01
PAPER HANGINGS.
BORDERS,
FIRE SCREENS,
WINDOW-CURTArN PAPER, &a.
Always on bud, a large and
ELEGANT STOOK
of 000DS, from the
FINEST BOLD EAEER. to the LOWEST PRICED
ARTICLES.
In our RETAIL DEPARTMENT will be found
THE .NRWESTATYLEB OF THE BE&E4ON.
inb3-Sm
SHOEMAKER & Ca
UL M, PAIL $,
MN, AND VARNISHED,
Sonitimat Ocitner FOURTH and RAOF. ?Stream.
da 44Isa
SUGAR-OURRD BABIB.-25 TTEROES
Rama.
Gardzifr. !Wove & Co.'a NUM Bow -owed bagged
axe pieces Phipps & Einglil'earad low‘g"'uo ,
woo do. tditehell Ladd's
„de_ ,_ do. do.
1,330 do. Cits dmoked Mauldin flit - side by
C. C. *anus a 00..
1•11 103 ASOLllirseit.
SPRING TRADE-4861
le now prepared to offer to
GASH' AND BOUND-OREDIT BUYERS
One of the moat attractive Stook' of
FANOY AND STAPLE
We invite special attention to our
LINEN DEPARTMENT.
Whioh at this time comprises a MI assortment of OUT
own importation in .
SOOTOH AND IRISH
LINEN GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
We have, also, a full line of
COTTONS.
Bought during the panto. for sale greedy . balmy. promo
Prices.
ALSO,
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
PRINTS.
IN STANDARD MAKES.
We have made arrangements to receive a simply of
SLANT CHOICE STYLES OF GOODS,
Aid shalt maintain
Throughout the Easton
Buyers wiU Sad our Stook
I.WAYS FRESH. .
. 11 , 61 tNr t p PRICES AS LOW AS TEE LOWEST
SPRING. 1861.
ROSENHEIM, BROOKS,
& CO.,
NO. 4:31 MARKET STREET,
North side, near Fifth,
Invite the attention of buyers to their s
LARGE AND HANDSOME TAB/ETIRS
RIBBONS, FLOWERS,
STRAW AND .FANCY
B O N . _ NE TS,
MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S HATS AND FLATS.
SHAKER HOODS, ittfellES,
AND
ALL ARTICLES APPERTAINING TO THE
MILLINERY LING.
snh2o tut
STRAW AND .MILLINERY .eooDs.
LINCOLN, WOOD, &
,NICHOLS,
7U OKESTZIIIT STREET.
ZVIELY &TVA OP
PANAMA, PALM-LEAF, AND STRAW
HA TS.
non tux OR MYMB.
PALM AND WILLOW SHAEEES.
STRAW AND FANCY
13 0 N- E T
FLOWERS, BiszeNs. SIMMS, LAOIS, &d.
We are now "revered with a finely-aaeorted stook of
all the shove articles, and invite the attention of at
oath or short-time buyers. zah4-Sul
HOMES FOR THE IN
DUSTIIIOIIS
NC). 701.
• . I '0 I 111 • 13
RICH FARMING LANDS
TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARD,
MECHANICS, FARMERS, AND WORKING - KEN
The attention of the enterprising and induotrione
portion of the community ts directed to the followini
datemente and liberal inducements offered them by the
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY,
Which, as they will perceive, will enable them, by
Proper energy, perseverance, and induntry, to provide
comfortable and permanent homes for themselves and
families, with, comparatively speaking, very little capi
tal:
LANDS OF ILLINOIS.
No state in the valley of the Museivapro offers No
great an inducement to the , settler as the State of Illi
nois. There is no portion of the world where all of the
eonditions of elimate and soil so admirably combine to
Produce those two great staples, corn and wheat, as the
preiriei of Illinois.
• RICH ROLLIEG PRAIRIE LANDS.
The deep noh loam of the prairies II cultivated with
Itch wonderful facility that the farmers of the East
ern and Middle Rates are moving to Illinois in vest
numbers. The area of Illinois is about equal to that of
Englund. and the 101 l is so rioh that it will support
twenty millions of people.
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS,
These lands are °outman to a railroad seven hun
dred miles in length. which connects with other roads
and navigable lakes and rivers. thus affording an un
broken communication with the Eastern and Southern
markets.
APPLICATION OF CAPITAL.
Thee far 'capital and labor have been applied to de
veloping the soil; tee great resource. of the State in
coal and iron are almost untouched. The invariable
role that the mechanic arts flourish beet where food
and fuel are cheapest, will follow at an early day in Il
linois, and in the coarse of the next ten rears the natu
ral laws and neeesetties of the case warrant the belief
that at laud fire hundred thousand people will be en
gaged in the State of Illinois in the various manufac
turing employmerits.
RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS.
Over 3100,000,0130 of private capital have been ex
pended on the railroad system ofßums. Inasmuch as
part of the income from several of these works. with a
valuable public fund in lands, go to diminish the State
'expenses, the taxes are light, and must consequently
every day decrease.
THE STATE DEBT.
The State debt is only $10405,398 14 and within the
Mid three Yearn hie .been redueed 82,969,74680; and
we may 'amenably expeot thatin ten yew* it will be
come extract.
The State is rapidly 'Ming up with population ; 698,096
Demon/ hoeing been added mince 1840, making the gra
mme population 1,719,496—a ratio of lint per cent, in ten
leers,
The agnoultinal products of Illinois are greater than
those of any other State. The prodneta sent out dar
ing the past year exceeded 3,400,000 tom The wheat
crop of MSC approaches MACAW bushels, while the
oorn crop yields not less than 140.000.000 bathes.
Nowhere can the industrious fanner mecum mob im
mediate regultn for his labor as upon them prairie moils,
they being composed of a deep, nob loam, the fertility
of which is ungurpaued by any on the globe.
sine mg she Company have sold 1,700,000 tiered.
They mit on/y to actual matioators, and dewy contract
contains aw asyssmant to cultivate. The road has bun
cons meted through thew /ands at an ezPesee of dalol
- Iw 1100, the popstlaties Nas fatty-aim caus
tics throsak which it pass's was on/y 335,500. sines;
which MAO have been added, snaking the whole popu
lation 814,M1—again of 14S psr cast.
EVIDENCES OP PROSPERITY.
Jim sr...video*e of the thrift of the people. It may be
stated that MAO tone of freight, minding 11,600,030
bushels of grain and MEM barrels of dour, were for
warded over the line last year.
BDUCATION.
Mechanics and workingmen will find the free-school
Imam encouraged by the State and endowed with a
large revenue for the support of schools. Their chil
dren can live in sight of the church end &shoot house,
and grow up with the prosperity of the leading State
in the Great Western Empire.
PRIDES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT,
The prices of these lands vat's from De to MI S X"
sereotimording tmr location. quality, Mo. First-cissa
farming lands melt for about MN or en 2 per sore; and
the relative expense of subduing prairie land, as com
pared With wood land. is in the ratio of one to ten in fa
vor
se bsndswillbe of the former. The terms of sale for the bulk of
the
ONE YEAR'S INTEREST IN ADVANCE.
at siX per Cent. per annum. and six interest notes at
a r cent . payable resseottvely to one. two, three, four.
five, and e years from date of sale; and four, tes
no
for principal, parable in four. five. mix. sod seven
Lean from data of etasthe contract stipule,
M ; g
that one-tenth of the Met purchased shall be
fewest and cultivated. esoh and every year for aye
years from the date of sale. sO that at the end of live
years one-half shall be leered and under cultivation.
TWENTY PER CENT. wrbi, BE DEDUCTED
from the valuation for rash, except the earns should be
at six dollars per aore, when the cash prior, will be five
Pamphlets dentripUve of the lands. coil. *innate,
Produotions, prince. and terms of pasmentorau be had
on emplioation to J. W. FOSTER,
Land Commissioner, Illinois Central Railroad,
Chicago. I ilinois.
For the names of the towns. villages, and cities situ
ated upon the Illinois Central Railroad, nes pages Ha,
1119, and 190 Aspleton's Bailers, Ramie. fel-tuth&dm
11 - A--
MS.2O barrels's
0. Chapin & Co."
..F-JR. roet 'or Extra Ragar-Cured Hams pat up ex
pressly for family use. Also 115 barrels Gardner
Phipps, & Cola " do. do., for Baia'
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C. RADLER a CO,
mlll4 104 ARCH iltrset.2d Door above Ernst.
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VOL. 4.-NO. 199.
DRY-GOODs JOBBERS.
JOSHUA L. EMILY,
IMPORTER AND JOBBER,
MO. 913 MARKET STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
DRY cto OD IS
TO BE FOUND IN THIS MARKET
BLEACHED AID BROWN
A GOOD STOCK
MILLINERY GOODS.
ILLINOIS LAND
GARDEN STATE OF THE WEST.
Have tor sale
1,200.000 ACRES
LONG CREDIT AND AT LOW PRICES.
PRESENT POPULATION
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
FERTILITY OF SOIL
TO ACTUAL CULTIVATORS.
ft7bt ;littss.
THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 1861.
di The Princess Olive of Cumberland*"
[A correspondent, to whose mummy and ability
we have been repeatedly indebted, bee favored us
with the following article respeoting the sot-disant
C 4 Princess Olive of Cumberland," which gives no,
in her own words, the leading points of her own
case, as originally put forward by herself, nearly
forty years ego. We subjoin the communication.]
—En. PRISS.
It is not because there was any lack of in
terest or of completeness in the exposition
given by THE Pans, of the 7th inst., in regard
to the recently revived pretensions in behalf
of the famous Princess Olive that I have ven
tured to send you the memoranda and papers
which follow. But these romances concern
ing royal life always take a deep hold of the
public mind, no matter how suspicious or ex
travagant may be their foundation ; and as the
one now referred to has lately found Its way
into the papers of this country, from the
London P ews, it seems likely to obtain more
credence than it deserves. For instance, in
the New York Home Journa/, of the 9th inst.,
I find an elaborate editorial analysis of the
fact, said to have been drawn from the London.
Nat's, presenting it all with an admission of
credence rather than doubt.
Is it not somewhat extraordinary, that any
well-informed journal, either of England or
America, should not have remarked the mani
fest absurdity here presented, of the certifi
cate of a private marriage, bearing the sign
manual of. George lIL, as a witness, and that
the marriage of a younger brother of his own
to the daughter of an obscure English par
son 7 Surely, the pretended 'presence of the
Earl of Warwick, and the attestation of Lord
Chatham, were strong enough challenges to
credulity, without adding this obstinate old
monarch to the party.
Frederick, Prince of Wales, the father of
George 111., is raid to have once been on the
eve of privately marrying Lady Diana
Spencer, niece of the aspiring and artful
Duchess of Marlborough ; and even George
himself, very early in life, is known to
have been deeply enamored of the beautiful
Lady Sarah Lenox, daughter of the Duke of
Richmond ; and, but for the energetic Inter.
ference of his mother and Lord Bute, would
probably have married her. But, later in his
history, all the world knows that he cherished
the utmost aversion to any commingling of
the blood of the House of Reliever with
English affinities ; and that the Royal Mar
riage set was Weed by him through a reluc
tant Parliament, against the general sense of
the English nation. This, too, only a short
period after he is made in this new version of
the Princess Olive's case to figure as a willing
witness to the secret marriage of the Duke of
Cumberland.
It is but fair, however, to rescue the inven
tion of the Princess Olive from any such clum
sy absurdity. In the case, as originally pre
sented by herself, it was not pretended (as it
now seems to be, from the publication in the
Home Journal,) that the King was a subscri
bing witness to the marriage certificate. There
are other very important variances from the
original text and tenor of the papers in ques
tion. Formerly, there was no express avowal
of the particular motive which induced the
King to bargain for the concealment of this
marriage. It is now made to appear in the
documents quoted by your New York cotem
porary, that it was to prevent the subsequent
marriage of the Duke of Ctanberland with the
daughter of the Earl of Carhampton, Lady,ann
Horton, from being visited with the pains and
penalties of bigamy.
THE Pans haying already traversed the
leading, and even most of the collateral facts
of the case so thoroughly, I will attempt no
more than this brief introduction to the deco.
mentary evidence. This, as I have it, is con
tained in a small volume, printed for private
circulation, for the Princess, in 1822, and is
authenticated by her own autograph signature,
OLIVE, ,, at the foot of the first page. This
signature (unquestionably genuine) has all
the characteristics described by THE Parse,
except, perhaps, the evidences of gin tremor,
which do not appear. It corresponds closely
with another autograph of her Highness, which
I obtained, with a mass of papers, at the sale
of the collection of Dr. Bliss, lately Vice Chan
cellor of Oxford. The book is further authen
ticated by the autograph notes of a distin.
giddied London licentiate of Doctors' Com- "
more, to whom it formerly belonged.
In order to present the documental under
standingly and seriatim, I copy them as em
bodied in an affidavit made by the Princess
Olive before the Court of King's Bench, when
under arrest upon a promissory note for £lO
10s., which she had given one Stephen Robey.
This affidavit, of which I give the substance;
was made in support of her plea of privilege
from arrest as a member of the Royal Family,
and contains the leading facts and allegations
of this extraordinary cane:
Princess Olive, of Cumberland, of Alfred
Place, Bedford square, in the county of Middle
sex, the above-named defendant, maketh oath and
smith that, in the early part of her life this de
pooont lived with and passed for the reputed
daughter of Robert Wilmot, who then, lived at
Warwick; and that she afterwards resided wholly
with the Rev. James Wilmot, of Barton-on-the-
Heath, in the county of Warwick, D. D., this de
ponent's grandfather, by whom she was educated.
And this deponent oath that the grandfather of the
right boomed° Lord Greville, Earl Brooke, and
Earl of Warwick, married Lady Franoes Wilmot,
(1) cousin to the said Dr. James Wilmot; and the
said Earl was in frequent habit of visiting at the
house of the said Dr. James Wilmot during the
period this deponent resided with him. And depo.
neat smith that for a great many years previous to
the said Earl's decease (Which took plame in 1816)
she, this deponent, had been on the most friendly
terms with him, and was in the habit of frequently
c orresponding with him, and Is well acquainted with
the said Earl's handwriting, and ales with the
handwritlig of the said Dr. James Wilmot, and
the handwriting of his late Royal Highness
Edward, Duke of Kent. And this deponent
further saith that, about twelve months priori.
one to the decease of the said Earl, be informed
this d. lament - that he considered himself In
a very precarious state of health, and that he was,
in consequence thereof, anxious to disclaim a cir
cumstance of considerable importanoe relating to
her : but that he had first consulted his said late
Royal Highness Edward, Duke of Kent, previous
to making the disclosures alluded- to. And this
deponent says, that a few days after, the Earl in
formed her, in the presence of the Duke of Kent,
that he bad communicated to him the important
secret; but before the said Earl could make fur
ther communication to her, he required her to
swear, on her knees, upon the Holy Gospels, that
mho would not make nubile any of the documenta
which be should hand over to her, until after his
late Majesty's (George ILL) decease; with which
terms she readily complied : when the. Earl in
formed her (which information she believea to be
true), that hie late Royal Highness, Henry Frede
rick, Duke of Cumberland, brother to his late
Majesty, was, on the 4th day of March, 1767, le
gally married, according to the rites and oeremo
nice of the Church of Eogland, to Cues Wintroe,
the daughter of Doctor James Wilmot, this dep
t nent's mother and that the ceremony was per
formed in the presence of him, the said Earl, and
one J. Addeo , and that the oe;tilleate of such mar
riage is in the handwriting of the said Doctor
James Wilmot, and attested by J. Dunning and
the late Earl of Chatham, in the words and figures
following : (2 )
"This is to certify, that the marriage of the nn.
derwritten parties was aolemnized atwordiog to the
rites and ceremonies of the Church of England,
March 4th, 1767, at Lord. Areher's house, (3) by
myself, at nine in the evening.
(Signed,) "J. WILUOT, Minister.
" Maser Fluenantos.
" °mum Witator.
"Present at the Marrivs. "Amsted before
" Loan BROIME, " CaIaTELAY,
"3. ADDia. at J . DuNstzto.”
And deponent further Bai', that ahe is the &mei.
tar of the said late Duke of Cumberland and Cave
his wife, anditilis_ born April 3d, 1772, as appears
by a certificate also in the handwriting of the said
Doot jamas WllmQt, ilignied* *Ptah* was informed
by the said _late Earl of Warwick (and which in
formation she believes to fie truk) by his said late
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1861.
Majetty, as well as by the said Foot. James Wil
mot, the said late Earl of Warwick, and by the
said late Earl of Chatham, which maid list-men
tioned certificate is in the words and figures fol
lowing:
" Olive, only child of Henry Frederick, Duke of
Cumberland, and Olive his wife, born April 3d,
1772
, IGEoRos B
And this deponent zeith that she was baptized as
the legitimate daughter of hie laid late Royal
Highness the Duke of Cumberland, ea appears by
the following certificate, in the handwriting of the
said Doot. James Wilmot, and witnessed by the said
Robert Wilmot, this deponent's reputed father:
" Wmtwicx, April 3d, 1772.
"I hereby certify that the infant daughter of
the Duke of Cumberland, and Olive, Ms Medal
Duchess, was: privatelv baptized by myself, at my
my mother's (Mrs. Sarah Wilmot's) residence, In
the parish of St. Mary, Warwick, three hours after
the said infant's birth, by the name of Otasz.
"J. WILMOT, Clerk.
" Witnesri.—Rosunr Waamor."
And this deponent further smith, that the said
last-mentioned certificate has an- endorsement on
the back of it, in the handwriting of the late Earl
of Warwick, which is In the words and figures fol.
lowing
"I hereby make solemn declaration that. Dr.
James Wilmot duly baptised Olive, the Duke of
Cumberland's infant. WARWICK. 047
" April 33, 1772."
And this deponent further saith, that eaob of the
particular marks mentioned In the following eerti•
floate are the same which deponent now hath upon
her pernon, and which oertifioate is in the words
and figures following :
" We, the undersigned, do solemnly certify that
the Princess Olive, of Cumberland, bears a large
mole on her right side, and a mark upon her back.
Wanwros, CHATII4II,
"J. Dunn - mo s WILMOT.
" May 9Eh, 1714." -
And this deponent further saith that at the time
the' said Earl communicated to 'the deponent the
circumstances before stated, he had not then with
him the documents before set out; the same hav
ing been safely depanted in 'Warwick Castle, his
place of residence: but he left town a short time
afterwards for the express purpose of getting all
the documents connected with this deponent's birth.
The deponent adds, that hie said late Reyallligh.-
nets, Edward, Duke of Kent, having been. made
acquainted by the late Earl of Warwick, with the
feet of this deponent's birth, he was requested bj
the Earl to be present when the dot/wants were .
delivered over to deponent, which he consented to
do; and the various original documents and pa
pers were handed over to her in his presence. And
farther, that the Duke of Kent fully acknowledged
and oonsidered heeas the legitimate daughter of
his unole, the late Duke of Cumberland, as appears
by the following certificate; which she avers are
in the handwriting of the Duke of Kent, and are
also signed by the said late Earl of Warwick :
I solemnly promise my protection to my cousin,
Olive, should the Earl of Warwick ;depart before
the King.
"July 31, 1815.
" Wanwrox„
Should I die before the Kiag, Prince Edward,
Duke of Kent, promisee his protection to Olive;
daughter of his late uncle Duke of Oumbeilead.
Vfeßwiett
. 4 Lennon, June 341,,1806
" EDWARD.
"Should I not recover, I solemulj recommend
Mrs. Olive Sorrel], otherwice Olive, Prinoess of
°umberland, to my brother, the Prince Regent, as;
the legitimate daughter of my late unole, Duke of
Cumberland. -
" January .15. IpivAnn."
And further, that among the documents handed
over to tide deponent by the late Rai of- -Warwisk
are i eeveral signed by his late Majesty, (as 'this de
ponent was , informed by the late Bari of Warwick,
and witioli she believes to be true ;)..one of wbioh
is endorsed in handwriting of the. late Duke of
Bent as a witness ; that the same mere handed - to
this deponent by the said Reuter . Warliek—which
hat mentioned doottment, signed by the said Earl,
are in the words and figures following:
"Geodes R : Where'll it Is no royal. command
that the birth of Olive, the Duke of Oumbarland'e
daughter, is never - made known to the nation du
ring our reign ; ltuffrom a sense of religious ditty,
we will, that she be acknowledged by the Royal
family after our death, should she survive our
selves, in return for the eentlderitial'services ren
dered ourselves by Doctor 'Wilmot, in the year 1764.
"Kew Palate, May 23, 1773.
GKOEGZ R
We hereby confirm the legitimsoy of Olive, our
brother of Cumberland's do : lighter, known hither
to as the child of Mr. Robert Wilmot, of Warwick ;
only in MO of royal, demise, we will that she be
Immediately provided for. Amen.
"June 2d,18--," (torn in the original.)
And lurther, that on the sth of March and 2d
of April, 1816, the late Earl of Warwick made the
following declarations, which are in his own proper
hindwriting :
"I hereby make the most solemn and sacred de
claration, that I saw his Majesty sign the papers I
We delivered to Mrs. Olive Berms of her birth.
" WARWICA.
"London, March 5, 1816.
"Should this paper meet the eye of the Prince
Regent, It is most solemnly declared that Aire.
Olive Sorrels is Prinoess Olive of Cumberland, the
only obild of the late Duke of Cumberland, and
Olive his first wife, whose marriage I witnessed
Marsh 4th, 1767. . " WARWICK.
" LONDON, April 2nd, 1810."
And further, that the whole of the documents
before set oat, and which she received from the said
late Earl of Warwick, were handed over to her in
their present state, as the genuine and anti:tenths
documents, signed by the respeetive parties whose
signatures appear thereto. And having been told
by the late Hall of Warwick, that he had solemnly
pledged himself to his late Majesty not to commu
nicate the circumstance ot this deponent's birth,
until after his late Majesty's decease, and knowing
it to be the moat anxious wish of his Royal High
ness, the late Duke of Kent, for important family
_reasons, that such circumstance should not be
made known, she refrained from making public
any of said documents, until after the decease of
his late Majesty. In consequence of the death of
the Duke of Kent, and the refusal of the present
Earl of Warwick to pay the sum of £2,000, and in
terest, which had been received by the late Earl
from deponent's royal father (6) which the present
Earl of Warwiok was commanded solemnly to pay,
this deponent has been much embarrassed in her
circumstances, and bath been arrested at the suit
of the plaintiff for debt, to.
You have thun in full and literally, as they
were presented by this soLdiewnt Princess,
the documents relied upon to prove her iden
tity and legitimacy, some forty years since.
She was not released from arrest upon her
plea of privilege, thus supported ; but re
mained within the rules of Fleet Prison seve
ral years. The then Chancellor of the Ex
chequer (Vansittart,) declared her petition,
when presented to Parliament, the g 4 act of a
mad woman ;" the Bishop of London decliaed
to admit her claims to the forms of confirma
tion provided for members of the Royal Fa
mily and finally, the ten-days-wonder which
her clumsy fabrications occasioned, entirely
subsided; now to be revived in behalf of her
daughter Lavinia, Mrs. Elves. As the Ss
lique law prevails in Hanover, the poor blind
king is not much in danger of being disturbed
by the result of the late verdict, that Mrs.
Rhyves is really the daughter of her mother,
born in lawful wedlock ! Per that is all the
late decision amounts to, in the case pre.
seated. W.
TOWAND4 Pa. --
To the above highly curious and interesting
document and accompanying observations we have
nothing to add. Bat, to point out, from known or
ascertainable (Hes t and from internal evidence,
some or Mn.s Olivia flosses' falsehoods and Won
dere, appears within our province. We have
numbered the references, for convenience to the
reader.
(1 ) This is not only a falsehood, but a clumsy one,
as it could be deteeted by reierenoe to any Peerage.
The Earl of Wafwiok, so prominently brought for
ward in Mrs. Olivia Serrea' romance, had a grand
father, William Graville, seventh Lord Brooke,
who married Mary Thynne, daughter and so-heir
ess of the Ron. Henry Thynne, only son of the
first Viscount Weymouth. The boom of this union
was a son, Francis Greville, eighth Baron Brooke,
created Earl Brooke in 1746, and, a few months
later in the same year, created Earl of Warwick,
after the title of Bari Warwick, of Warwick Cas
tle, became estinot by the death of Edwerl Rich,
Earl of Warwick and Holland. Folk. &mills,.
fifth baron Brooke, great•great grandfather of
Olive's Earl of Warwick, succeeded to the peerage
in 1676, and married Lady Ann Wilmot, daughter
of the notorious Earl of Rochester, who lived so
badly and died so well. " The Prineess " Nubia
tuted Lady Frances for Lady Ann, besides wholly
mistaking the identity of the husand.
" May Ist, 1773
Jexzelasor.
Casts +x.
a WARWICK " ( 4.)
EDWARD
" Casrusx.
WAS WIGS."
" WitllBBB EDWARD."
" WARWICK
EDITORIAL. POOT190111P?
, (2.) This certificate is very different- from tbat
upon which Mra. Rives (Olive's daughter) pre
tends to claim' to be a Prinoem.
(P•r'Ill our recent remark! upon this ease, we
ditibted. whether there was a Lord Archer in the
SW& Peerage. Two correspondents have our
rfictektis, end . wlll accept On? thanks. .H F. tells
rti that Lord Archer was an Irish Catholic, with an
Irish peerage, which did not gite him a seatin the
Orkish Parliament, and that some of his descen
dents still reside in Dublin, though the peerage is
extinct. There was, to our own knowledge, an
Alderman Archer in Dublin, some twenty-five
rears ago. Our oorreepondent adds, " When visit-
Ing the Church of Wetherell, in the North of Eng
land,. about four miles from the 'city of Carlisle,
and opposite to Corby Castle, for the purpose of
ifeerieg the celebrated monument of Mrs. Howard,
5.7 . Nollekins, I read an inscription in the follow
ing I words : To the memory of Harriet, wife of
iienry Hurd, Esq., and third daughter of Lord,
Archer.' As this ' brings the parties into the pre
oleo time when the marriage is asserted to have
been witnessed by Lord Archer, this may be a Jost
,
amendment to your otherwise very clearly stated
esien." Another correspondent (C. S. S., member Of
tie !Historical Society of Pennsylvania) appears to
harp reached the correct cenoludon. Quoting
"The "New Peerage," printed In London,
itiat7B, he shoWo that "Thomas Archer was created
11 mon - Archer -'of 'Umberstaile,. in county War
wick, 'July 14, 1747 21 George 11. He died Os
-tobeir 19, 1768, and was scoceeded by his son, An
drew A.rolier;'seeend Baron Archer of Umberslado."
'rli& thie, be adds; .Is, now extinct. - Moreover,
Borke's General Armory givei 'the arms of Baron
Arehierr"Orl:Tricherslade, county of Warwick.
Marks's Extinct Peerage no doubt oontaine full'
partileiffire.
(4.) - In 1772, the Earl of Warwick was not the
Loini -Brooke said to have:witnessed the marriage
in 1767, but hie-fat her.
• .6 1 ) Lord Brooke, who is pat forwtird as
witzwis - to the marriage in 1767, did not sue.
newt to the Beildom of Warwiek, by hie father's
deet a , until July 1773—fifteen months after the
date', of this certilit;ste. Therefore his signature
Warwiek," in 1772, was impossible—for It was
not his his failier's name, at that time. The
semi remark applies to the other documents here,
signed' ":Warwick," before JOll 1773.
(0 i , ),Rere, Mrs. Olivia Serres swears that her only
pecuniary claim was for 12,000. Bat her daughter,
I Mss Ryves, is declared, by the London News, and
its eageeiona echo the Home Journal, to Claim the
titiel of Princess of Curriberland and Dtiohess of
Lancaster, with over £1,000,000 arrears, as rental or
income from the Booby, and £105,000 in bequests
froin theltoyal Family. There is a vast difference
bet Ween all this money and the poor 12,000 which
the 'original Princess Olive said was kept book
frOM her. 6OreoVer, this is claimed as a bequest
froni her " royal father," who appears never to
have liken the slightest interest in her welfare,
nor even to have known of or oared for her exist
ence.
From Milwaukee.
lIIPOILTANT DECISIONS IN THIS SUIT AGAINST THE
LA cams RAILROAD COMPANY.
[Corieepondenee of the New York Times.]"
MlLWAiinn, Friday, March 15.
The deeisione of Judge Miller, in the United
Staten District Court, in this Btate, in the oases of
Bronson, Bouiter, and Knapp, trustees, against the
•La Orem Railroad Company, and Bronson and
Bonner '
trustees, against the same, are of great
Intelsat to your readers.
Theirst is known as the Land grant case, being
a snit to forts:slows the land-grant mortgage.
This mostgagis ekvered the Western division of
the La Croeseßidlitaid, from Portage City to La
Crosse; and - the lands granted by Congress to aid
in the.construction of a railroad from Madison to
Portage City, and the St. Croix river or lake. It
was in evidence that some one million nine hun
dred and ninety-ore thousand dollars of the bonds,
from, NO. 1 to 1991, were, issued under this wort
; gage prior to Ootober 'l, 1857, when the La Crosse
Bailroad Company leased its road to Malt Chant
' berliiin, and confessed a judgment in his favor for
at large seta. That a further issue of five hundred
and nine thousand dollars of the bonds was sable
planer made, infer to January 28, 1858, being to•
gather what is known as the first two and a half
million issue of land grant bonds. On the 28th of
January, 1858, a supplemental deed of trust or
mortgage was made; changing the remedy for de
fault, and limiting the issue thereunder to one and
hair mit tone, or four millions in alt.
*beet the date of the lease and judgment in fa
,vor of Chamberlain, a second mortgage was made
wen tthe road from Portage City to La Crouse, to
pee Belfeestsin, under which some three handred_
and sixty thousand dollars in bonds were issued.
It was in evidence that the bonds bad become
depreciated at the time of the issue of the $509 000
land grant bonds, and that the second issue of the
same bonds to the of $1.500 000 was distri ,
bated among the directors, at Albany, or their
Mends, realliaing to the company only thirty cents
on the dollar. No evidence was exhibited as to
what the Relfenstein bonds sold for, or were worth.
The holders of the first issue of land grants,
$2 500,000, deffinded against the subsequent Janie,
claiming a priority, and showing that they bad
paid eighty cents on the dollar for their bonds
Upon this state of facts shown, the judge decides
that the first two millions and a half shall hnve
the preference in the following proportions, viz :
The nineteen hundred and ninety-one thousand at
par, and the five hundred and nine thousand at
forty per tent. of their par value. He then allows
the tleifenatein bonds to oome in at forty per cent.,
and theh, last of all, the one and a half millions of
Land Grant bonds, numbered above 2 500, to come
in at forty per cent. This decision practically de
stroys the value of all these bonds, except the first
two and a half millions, as t he value of the
road and lands (none of the latter having yet been
obtained from the United States) will hardly meet
the amount of the principal and interest due upon
this class.'
The Mend case, Bronson it &alter, trustees,
against the Ls Crosse Railroad Company and
others, was a suit to foreclose the second mortgage
upon, the Eastern division, from Milwaukee to
Portage City, for $1 000,000. Answers were made
by judgment creditors and stockholders in the
Milwaukee and Minnesota Railroad Company—the
latter a paper corporation, formed under the third
or. Barnes mortgage—setting up that the bonds
under this second mortgage were issued for part
clash and part stock and other bonda of the com
pany, and in fraud of the righte of creditors. It
Was shown that come $590.000 of the bonds were
paid for, Part in clash and part in stock and in
other bonds, and that many were bypotheeeted,
some soldlor cash, and some paid to the contractor.
No evidence was in the ease that any creditor was
hindered or defrauded by the mortgage, or that
any etch intention exieted. It was shown by the
complainants that the laws of the State authorized
the Issue and sale of the bonds et any rate of in-
West and at any price which svght be agreed
upon between the company and the poichasers
The judge decided that, as the bends were issued
at a time when all securities were depressed,
(September, 1857,) and sold at low rates, be should
allow only fifty per eent., without distinction or
dieerimination. Be denied to these securities the
character of negotiating to the extent heretofore
claimed, and which has been conceded to them and
confirmed by numerous declaims of the Supreme
Goan of the United States. It is understood here
that the second case, if not the Land-grant ease,
will be taken to the Supreme Court, as this decl
aim affects the value of hundreds of millions of
like securities which have heretofore circulated,
unchallenged, in all the money markets of the
world.
ILUSACRUORTTO LIQUOR Law.—The lower
branch of the hiassaehnsetts Legislature has passed
to a third reading a new liquor act, which repeals
the eat of last year in relation to single Ma of
drunkenness, makes the State agent liable for the
cost of any liquor for which hegtves credit to town
agents, if they negleet to pay, and provides that all
sales made by the oomunstrioner in less quantity ,
than the original package, shall be made at a price
not exceeding an advance of seven and one-half
per sent. upon the actual cost, together with the
coat of the analysis
•
SHOEMAILBES AGAIN ON' A STRIM—The
bootmakers of Beat titoughton met on Saturday
evening to consult with reference to a strike. Ho
mer Beale was ohoeen Chairman; J. Beals, clerk,
and H. S. Crafts, morality. The meeting was full,
and was addressed by Gideon Howard, of Ran.
dolph, who urged a strike, sfter whioh the matter
wee diem:weed,
.and the meeting was adjourned
until Tuesday evening, to organize a lodge for the
protection of labor It is said that the boottaakere
have been making boots for $5 a cue, for which
they had $lO and $l2 in 1859 and 1809 —Bonen
Traveller Mara 18.
RESPONSIBILITY OF LIQUOR DEsamits.--One
clause of a bill in relation to the sale of intoxi
cating liquors, which passed the fdassaohnaetts
How* of ftepresentatives on Friday, provides that
the husband, wife, parent, child, guardian, or em
ployer of any Term who hereafter may have the
habit of drinking apiritnone or intoxicating liquors
to excess, may, in an salon of tort against any per
son or persona who shall sell or deliver unlawfully
to the person having such habit. recover as da
mages any amount not exceeding $5OO, and not less
than $2l.
THE GOLD DIGGINGS IN BRITISH COLDNIOA
extend over a range of country of from 300 to 400
miles. Near Cariboo, many of the miners win
tered on the ground in order to resume operations
earlier in the /spring. Recently, four men brought
forty pounds of gold each into Cariboo, and six
men in eight weeks made 720 ounoes, worth $lB
per ounce Various claims are reported to yield
from $6O to $lOO per day.
SENTENCED TO BE EEECIITED.—TWO De
grees, who last week attempted to rob and mar
der Mr. Charles E. Jones. who lives near the gold
mince in Unita county, Va ha.ve been tried by
the county court and condemned to be hung. The
indignation of the people was greatly excited
against them, and st-one time it was feared they
would be hanged by the populace.
RIVER PIRATE SENTENCED.—Jobri Daffy,
charged with abducting and enticing seamen to
desert the bark Langton, at Savannah, Georgia,
RU convicted in the oily court of that city, teat
Wednesday, and eantenoed to pay a fine of $5OO,
or enter six mantle' tut prieonment in the jail.
A SUPPOBtD VICTIM TIM MS up ATTER AN
Angelica or Tangs Yasuo —Dr. J R. Rowe,
serrosed to have been murdered at -Oxford, Ind.,
three years ago, arrived there a few days ago from
mash to the delight of a man named
Kink who was in jail , awaiting his trial for the
=ran. •
Letter to Henry Lord Brougham.
BY AN AMERICAN PREMISS MINISTER
Mr LORD: Two events of recent occurrence—
trifling in themselves, except when regarded in
connection with the peculiar circumstances of the
limes in which they occurred—have ocintributed
more towards the identification of your Lordship's
name with the political convulsion which the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one is`now witnessing in America, and with
the anti-slavery movement, in which it has had its
origin, than all Which you have hitherto a000m•
plished, during your long and brilliant career as
an - English statesmen.
With a real which has known no flagging—with
a resolution whioh . was appalled by ho probable or
possible consequences—with an ability which is
fully accorded by your adversariee—and with an
ernes times which would nom to preclude any
doubt of your sincerity, you have labored for the
overthrow of that institution of African slavery In
America, which has existed from a period long
anterior to the incorporation of the.Republio in
the family of nations.
In this lifetime labor, however,•you have been
identified with others of your compatriots, who
have exhibited the some pertinacity of purpose,
and who have probably acquired a reputation al•
most iqual. to your own as the great exponents of
English sentiment and English policy.
It has been the fortune of year lordship through
the instrumentality of the two' evetitif . refeeredto,
tol IMO di:m.)llller napie fir ab6v'e Those of joiv fel-
low laborers , iri the roll of the recognised exam
plate of British sentiment and British/04:
The first of these 000asionkoffered to your lord
ship the opportunity, in .an assembly of dietin.
gobbed dignitaries from almost every nation of
the civilised world, of 'proclaiming, in effect, your
belief in the equality' of the races of man, and the
special claim Win African then:present to be
regarded as a worthy and' fit associate for the no
ble here of England.
If your lordship had been contented with the ut
terance of this simple expression of opinion, it
would probably have been forgotten by those who
were your auditors, almost as soon as uttered. If,
by any accident, a representative man of the mil
lions of Anglo-Saxon blood and Aoglo-Sexon color,
who baveeighed in vain to attain to that social rank
and station which you so readily aocorded in that
august assemblage of princes, and nobles, and
statesmen, to this sooty African, had beatowed a
passing notice upon this paragraph in your lord
ship's speech, the subject would doubtless have
been dismissed after a brief commentary, with the
very natural and charitable observation, that a
Peer of Eogiand bad an undoubted right to choose
hie own associates, and might be expected to coat-
pretend better than another the qualifications and
characteristics of those who should be regarded NI
worthy of such association.
But your lordship entertained a deeper purpose.
You desired to hold up to obloquy a great nation on
the opposite side of the Atlantic; and, in order to
startle your audience by the magnitude and the
enormity of its crimes, you proclaimed the presence
of the diplomatic representative of tha t nat ion which
held in the bonds of slavery millions of a race of
people, of which you then and there presented a
faithful type, and to whom you assigned an equality
of social rank with the noble order, of which your
lordship, in the estimation of your fellow-oeuntry
men, is a faithful representative:
Your tordship's design was skilfully, and artis-
tieally, and dramatically executed. To.. be re
ceived and acknowledged as a peer, in Such an as
aetubly, was certainly, in your lordship's Wires
tion, te be placed upon a pinnacle of social and
moral. Itlevation which few could hope to reach ;
while the doom of the alms upon the plantations
of America was a degradation beyond which there
was no lower depth. The worthy representative
of the oppressed, and the official representative of
the hated oppressor, were both present before you.
Both were in a foreign land, and both were
strangers, and your guests. Disregarding these
pressing claims upon your forbearanoe—aoting, it
may be, upon the conviction that the claims of
God and humanity were more than paramount to
all other considerations, you held them up, as it
were, to the gaze of your audience as represents.
Ores of the victim and of the enslaver—of virtue
and of vice—of freedom and of despotism—of all
that was worthy to be lined, end of all that ahOuld
bh hated.
The occasion was one whiob precluded reply or
explanation. The generous, the refined, the in
tellea tual, the noble representative of a despised
and down-trodden race, stood revealed before
your sympathising audience, in all the majesty of
injured innocence ; while .there, too, stood the
spoiler—the embodiment of the stupendous crime
of his country.
It would probably be presumptuous in me to
question the good taste displayed by your lordship,
either in your choice of the occasion, or in your
manner of treating one' of these stranger guests.
I am willing to concede that your lordship should
know better than I the rules of politeness and
good breeding 'proper to be observed in an assem
blage of nobles and high dignitaries, gathered
together in the great capital of the civilised world,
and presided over by the Prince Consort of Eng
land's noblest Queen. Upon this collateral point,
I would not dare to make up an issue with your
lordship, the more especially as your audience, by
the applause with which it greeted your relnarke,
has already recorded its verdiet in your favor.
The main purpose of your lordship was aohieved
--the contrast you suggested startled the world
by its magnitude. The irrelevancy of the subject
to that which your auditors had assembled to con.
eider, gave to the incident a notoriety which was
magnified by its very isolation ; while the event
has been perpetuated in the memory of the multi
tude by the princely character of the audience be
fore whom the scene was so dramatically enacted.
Prom that moment, America hao recognised in
the questionable gallantry ofyour aohievement the
qualities whioh hale made you the great champion
of British Abolitionism.
I will sow pass to the second event, which has
served, in a still greater degree, by expanding the
field of your operation, to strengthen and to m
illi:a you in the position which, by common con
sent, bad been previously assigned to yon. But,
before entering directly upon the subjeot, allow
ma to refer to an incident which occurred, not a
great while ago, at a spot more than three thou
sand miles distant from that great centre of civili
sation in which your lordship moves.
A murderer in another continent closed a long
career of mime under the gallows! There was
nothing peculiar in this faot, for suck has been
often the fate of murderers In Bogland, in Ame
rics, and elsewhere. Bat this was a villain of no
ordinary stamp. His. viotims were not stalwart
men alone, but defenceless women and little on.
dren. He did not slay in the glare of the noon
day sun, as a common robber at the head of hie
band of retainers, but he killed in the quiet hours
of the night, and the slumbers of innocence were
startled by the death-shrieks of his unsuspecting
victims. But his crimes bad not their beginning
In those for which he suffered an ignominious
death. They extended over a series of years, and
the last, for whioh with his lite be paid the for
feit, was by no means the worst. I myself have
seen and known the unhappy, victims of his earlier
crimes. I have seen and known the happy wife
and mother—happy ha the innocence and parity
Of her life, though bumble in her atetion—and
have Been her again in all the desolation of a Will
iam! widowhood. Dreadful, indeed, were the
scenes through which that poor woman passed
during the brief space of one abort night. She
wee sleeping in fended security when the spoilers
case to her humble log osbia, And passed through
the unbarred door to the bedsides of her sleeping
husband"and children. Your lordship knows the
rest, and I will be brief. They were four when
they laid down to.reat, that dreadful night. The
morning dawned upon the living woman, sur
rounded by the lifeless and mutilated bodiea of her
husband, and children.
The chief criminal in this drams of blood, em
boldened by immuntty, changed the aeene and en.
larged the held of his operations. At Harper's
Ferry, he again unsheathed his bloody dagger, and
again was' the hour of midnight made terrible by
the death•struggles of his unwatobing victims.
Am I not right, then, in saying that John Brown
wawa villain of no ordinary stamp? Sane men, in
a contemplation of the magnitude of his crimes,
have said that he was mad, while madmen have
exalted the demon into a saint, and mourn for him
as so martyr in a holy cause!
It was upon the 31 day of December, 1860, that
his friends and partisans assembled in the city of
Boston to celebrate the first anniversary of his
martyrdom.
Previous to that time a letter had been addressed
to your lordship by the " Committee of Mana
gers," inviting you to be present upon that coca
slop, awl to join in that celebration.
Those who knew the fact that such an invitation
had been addressed to your lordship, were eager
to learn in what manner you would respond. The
first impression would naturally be that your lord
ship would treat the missiie with the dignified al
lone* and disdain'with which a nobleman of your
lordship's exalted standing might be expected to
meet a gross and studied insult; or that your in
dignation, obtaining the mastery of your better
judgment, might induce you, in that burning ale.
queues of words, which your lordship can so rea
dily command, to hurl back the insult in the flees
of your traducers; or, milder and more humane
than either, and, perhaps, more inconsonance with
**gentle manners Which might be expected to
TWO CENTS.
distinguish those through whose veins flows gentle
blood, you Would have responded, "it is not my
sans, but your insanity, which has led you to be
lieve that I could hold fellowship with the parti
sans and admirers of an ataaesia. Go ! you are
madmen, and I forgive you."
These thotighti, I Confess, were my thoughte,
and that I give them voles here will show to your
lordship that I did not rank you amongst the
clone and blood-thirsty fanatics with whom a oom•
mon sentiment, upon a single point, had served M
some measure to Identify you. Besides, I will add,
that my high respect for the exalted order to which
you belong, as well as ttie poeition in which you
stand towards, the oconpant of a throne, induced
ie my mind the belief that you would, in tome
manner, exhibit your horror of the Crime of Maas
slnation, and with snob an emphasis that even
madmen might never again give expression to the
thought that an English nohteman could have any
,sympathies in common with either assassins or
their partisans. ,•
Pardon me, my lord, if I, in Otteol3lloloOtt igno.
ranee, did not carnnate, at their proper value, the
refined principles of that " higher law" which I
have been inoorporated among the dootrinee of 1
that so-called great hatuanitarian anti slavery
party, of which you are so distinguished a chief.
At first view it might °cession surprise that the
" Philanthropists " of Great Britain should seem
to shut their eyes to the spectacle, and their ears
to the wall of woe which rises up around them
frotn the millions of tbe unhappy, the destitute
and depressed, of their own race and kin, who
live through life a lingering death, while they
have only eyes to gee, and ears to bear, and tears
to shed over the reputed wrongs of a handful, of
Africank uptirr the far-off, shores. Of,n,eontinent
beybeli - the- Atlantic.- ' But it is necessary fn•
c/safity-10.;remember that the" degradaiion and
wrongs of the one are familiar to them from
youth to old age. It le - ea - ofttnid, tale, to which
.tbey have :become accustomed, familiar, and, w
imp!, indifferent from its, ponstmat repetition.
The ski probably appalled by the magnitude of
the utril, and ask to forget its existence and their
obligations by the exhibition of redoubled seal in
the eause of those whom their imagination, excited
by heart-rending romanoes, pictures ae the victims
of sorrow and oppression in a far-disfant land.
From this brief but not unnatural digression I
will return to the subjtet of the invitation which
nee given to you, to participate in the celebration
in memory of Joan BROWN, the great American
murderer. Permit me to refresh your memory
with 'the first linen of your response to-the com
mittee in your own language :
" But : I feel honored by the invitation to at
tend the Boma Convention."
Efpitn reading these few emphatic) words, I paused
and reread the letter of invitation which had been
addressed to yew, to discoed! if I had not, in my
hasty perusal thereof, misunderstood its import and
object. I beg to quote its words: "illy Lord :
A number of young men, earnestly desirous of de
'reties themselves to the work of eradicating slavery
In the United States, respectfully, invite you to
meet theist in a public convention, to be held in
this city on Monday, the 3d day of September. *
* *. It seems to them that the anni
versary of the death of Jonit Beowir, who was
killed for attempting to decide this problem in the
mode that he believed to be the most efficient, Is
an occasionpeculiarly appropriate for the discus
sion of our duty to the race for whom he suffered.
5' w w * *. /t would be a work of
impererogation now to defend Joint BROWN, and a
useless waste of time to eulogise him. Leaving
both these duties to the coming ages, let us seek to
continue his life by striving to accomplish what
he left us to finish."
It le true, my lord, that yon modified somewhat
the only legitimate interpretation of year first em
phatiet endorsement. True, as " the representative
of the Auti-Slavery party in Enigland," yen
avowed a wide difference of opinion between those
you represented and the promoters of the Harper's
Ferry expedition. True,you denied that John
Brown was a real martyr. True, you declared your
opposition to the encouragement of negro bisurreo-
Lion, because "they aught prove less hurtful to
the master than the slave" True, you intimated
that the surest means of accomplishing your
cherished schemes of American negro emancipa
tion was under the form of law, through the itu trti
mentality of a recent political change in the Go
vernment of the Republic! But pre-emlneut
above all other considerations which are suggested
by a perusal of your letter stande forth the decla—
ration that you "feel honored by the invitation to
attend the Boston Convention !"
Yr bat a spectacle is here presented, and bow
fruitful a theme for reflection ! An Englieh eoble
man shaking hands across the ocean and trans
mitting pleasant messages to such an assemblage,
convened for such 'a purpose !
It is. perhaps, not unworthy of a passing thought,
that while some of your admirers have hailed your
letter as furnishing evidence of the conservatism
and moderation of British Abolitionism, many have
regarded your slight deviation front the bloody
path of an extreme fanaticism as too great a con
cession to the -dictates of an unoalouleting and
weakly-relenting humanity.
1 codas that upon ibis sabject there is a chasm
between us, so broad and so deep, that I have not
the hardihood :to attempt to fill it tip. cannot
hope even that anything will ever opal:it to reduce
the breadth of this impassable gulf to smaller di
mensions.
But pardon me, my lord, if I suggest the possi
bility that you may not have fully appreciated the
deep significance of the first Sentence of your me
morable letter. Did you reflect upon the powerful
influence which your slightest word of encourage
ment. might exercise upon the furious madmen
whom you addressed? Do you believe they will
fail to infer that whileyou disclaim eympathy with
John Brown's plans of emancipation, "immune
they are leas likely to result in injury to the
master than the slave," you will, nevertheless, re
gard it as an honor to be invited to attend the
oelebrations consequent upon the death of other
martyrs in the same cause? Do you excuse your
self, my lord, with the thought that it is only the
assassins of slaveholders in America who ere
worthy to be treated with so much kindness, re
spect, and forbearance? Have yon forgotten from
whom, and under whose auspices, Amerman slaves
were acquired as chattels? May I be pardoned
for saying that in the family of the writer there is
a slave, bought and paid for by my !wester from a
subject in a British province, under the
solemn emotion and approval of British laws, and
who is now held as a slave under the guarantee of
a British title deed ? Should another John tirown,
under the pretext of giving freedom to this slave,
slay the owner thereof, and for his crime stiffer
felon's death, would your lordship feel honored by
an invitation to attend the anniversary celebration
of his " martyrdom ?" Your lordship has already
anewered the interrogatory in the affirmative.
The day may come, my lord, when "even
handed justice will commend the ingredients of
the poisoned chalice to , your own lips." There
are more shining marks for the assassin's dagger
than the slave-owners of America! Millions of
liven stand between the honored felon and the ac
complishment of his bloody work of philanthropy ;
a thousand times your lordship might have the
privilege of acknowledging " the honor" of Invi
tations to attend and participate in the celebration
of events similar to those which were enacted at
Harper's Ferry, and as often might " English phi
lanthropy" palliate or MUM the orimes in which
they had their origin, and still there would be a
sea of living blood coursing through the veins of
slave.holdere ! There are millions of the human
race who, bound in the chains of 11°1111081 eervi•
hide, are ready to believe that they behold but
one living man standing between themselves and
the liberty to which they aspire that one life less,
and the fetters would fail from their liberated
limbs ! You may truly believe, my lord, that no
snob danger may threaten England's Sovereign.
Even madmen would sot strike at one whose noble
virtues have added a brighter gem to the British
Crown than was ever
_placed there by the valor of
British arms. But Sugland'e best and noblest
Queen must die, and be transacted by sovereigns
who may not imitate her virtues. If a British
nobleman, of such world-wide reputation for
statesmanship and philanthropy as your lord
ship, endeavors to Instil into the public,
mind the belief that it is a real honor for an ho
norable man to be invited to join in render
ing homage to the virtues, the moral worth,
and the philanthropic eervioes of an admitted mid
night assassin, whose only virtue, or worth, or
service in the cause of humanity, whose only claim
to diatinotion above other ont•thmts, beyond that
notoriety which always attaches to the most revolt
ing murderers, consists in the fact that he killed
ostensibly in thecause of the so•oalled great huma
nitarian anti-slavery movement of the age; you
need not be surprised, my lord, if others, who have
real or imaginary wrongs to redress, may, while re
jecting your peculiar idiosyncrasy, accept this as a
means of redress. There are those who from the
depthr of their bleeding hearts, and for the redress
Of grievous wrongs 'rut* they themselves have
suffered at the bands of their own race would feel
and say , 4 if this be a real honor ,
which a British
nobleman may covet, how much more honorable
to be invited topartioipate in a saturnalia of nobler
blood 1" May Heaven grant that neither your
lordship nor another may ever again bet:tailed upon
to acknowledge the honor of an invitation to jom
in the eelebration of such a feast
But your lordship's response has satisfied me
that though yon may be a Fanatte, you are not a
Madman. Though you may move fearlessly upon
the brink of the precipice. you will not plunge
bodily into
.the abyss into which you invite others
to descend. You will not place in jeopardy that
which you conceive to be the polloy of England by
permitting it to be fully idenUlled with the crime
of assassination. The more especially as you ima
gine that you perceive in resent political events a
more elfeettual means of aseomplishing your ends
with less probability of Injury to the slave than
the to aster.
. ,
I come now, my lord, to consider a paragraph
in your letter, which, containing, as It does, a
grave personal charge against myself, oonotituteit
within itself my claim and my apology for ad
dressing you. Your lordship may mentally re
spond to this announcement, that not the moat in
aignificant thing alive wag farther from your
thoughts than the unknown writer who now de
mands an d exeresses the privilege of repelling your
unjust imputations, that he hes never onoe "pretend
between the wind and your nobility," and that
you have, therefore, never given to him a cause of
offence.
In order to refresh your lordship's memory, I
beg to refer you to the aiming sentences of your
response to the Boston committee. The following
is your language':
In the elevation of ,our new President, all
frsends of America, of its continued Union, of
the final extinction of slivery, by Peacefe/ mecca,
all friends of the human rase must Istarafg re
joice! They will, jet us hope, find in htm a
powerful ally, as his country may exiled to find
an able, a consistent, and an honest ruler.
"I have the honor to be,
"Your faithful servant,
Baotrostau."
I have italicised that portion of the above pars
graph` to which I claim the right .of response
While I will not pause to consider the , phenomenon
whiohls exhibited in yotir expressions of friendly
regard and sympathy for, and confidence in an
American President ; yet; I beg to say, that it at
least furnishes evidence of a wonderful change in
the sentiments of British politicians in regard to
the chiefs of the Republic. At the end of a long
night of horrors and misrule, your lordship Bees
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Issued three thine a bleathcp time for the Golifer
um Steamers,
bursting over the 'horizon the blight and glorious
sunshine, which is hereafter to illumine the career
of the Republic By the early light of this dawn
ing luminary you imagine that
you behold in the
not distant future, the end of that terrible conflict
between brothers and felloweiountrymen, which
you hope will in its results be less hurtful to the
slave than late master. You, perhaps, imagine that
in a very brief ported the nation whiee Great
Britain failed to conquer with bar mighty awo'd,
even in the Mien of ire infant existence, will have
fallen an easy viotim to that entitle policy, by
Which you and your oolaboreirehave endeavored to
arm its citizens in a fratricidal war. If the merit
of a deed may be measured by its suco.ess, I grant
that your lordship, as the representative of British
policy, may boast that you are upon the point of
achieving a greater triumph by'the subtle arts of
diplomacy, than has ever been won by British arms,
during a long and brilliankand bloody career.
' In contemplating the possibility:of such a catas
trophe, one is tempted to exclaim. Was ever na
tion before so wooed, so won ! Your own King
Richard had less cause to hope for success, when
he 15011ght to win the widow of the Murdered - Bd- •
ward. And, in surveying the victory you lava
achieved, you may well recall the words in which
he vaunted his victory over the weak'Lady Anne;
and with a alight change of . phraseology, apply
them to your own triumph
" have her, but I will not keep her long:
What! I. that killed her husband, and his father!
The bleeding witness of her hatred by.
With Clod, her oonscienee.and these bars against me,
And I no-friend to boos n:l7 suit withal..
Bot the plain devil, end (humbling looks ,
And yet to win her the world . to nOtbingi !!,
:Were this communication addressed to my fellow
smentrymen,lnatead of to your lordship, I might
het ,themzito remember this. fiereweLl inputtottoe of
F
the atherr of his Dountry-the immortal Wash
ingten
"
Against the insta'ions wiles of fore4.rt tgifa-
MlCe, I CONJURE YOU TO BELIEVE
ME, FELLOW-CITIZENS, the jealousy of
a free people ought to' be constantly awake;
stucelastory and experience prove that foreign
anjtuoitce it one of the most baneful foes of Re
,publican Government."
I might pray them to consider that foreign na
tions rarely, if ;ever, mingle in the internal con
flicts of a rival power, for any other than selfish
purposes. I might point to the long and brilliant
career of your own great country, and demand in
vain to be informed of a solitary instance in which
the footsteps of Great Britain might be traced
upon the soil of a foreign Mad, except in the se
complishment of her' own aggrandizement. I
might say to them, and I might prove that British
anti-slavery fattatioism is but the creature sad the
servant• of British policy, owing its origin and its
development to what was supposed to be a political
necessity, and that though your lordship might
write as a fanatic, you never failed to remember
that you were 'also a British politician ! Yee,
my lord, if if thought that my voice would be
listened to in the madness of the hour, I would ap
peal . to my countrymen, with the earnestness of
conviction, to resist with all the energy of a de
termined will, and to repel as an insult not to be
forgiven, every effort of the foreigner to embroil
them in fratricidal contliebe even though attempt
ed under the garb of philanthropy. I would say
to them, that however gratifying it might be to
havi the sympathies, and to win the smiles of the
great of other lands, the hopes which may be built •
thereon will prove delusive; the promises of too
-1 00r will, in the day of Rdlersity, be forgotten, and
all the bright anticipations which may have their
origin snots an emulation will, like the apples
of Sodom, which tempt the eye of the traveller
upon the shores of the Dead Sea, turn to ashes on
the lips! ,
Perhaps, though, your lordship'e visions of the
future of the Republic may prove delusive ! Per
haps` your own unguarded words, written in the
first flush of an anticipated but not yet fatly no
ompliehed victory, mny of themselves indium a
momentary pause in the mad career which you
and your associates have inaugurated. Perhaps,
when they read your lordship's letter, a burning
thought of days long past, when as a baud of
brothers, their fathers, by their bloody valor, con
quered liberty from their hostile invaders, may
penetrate their hearts. Perhaps the retrospect
way reinaugurate once more that feeling of fra
ternity which animated their ancestors "in the
days that tried men's souls." Or, if they cannot
agree to live together as brothers in one family,
that they will, in memory of a glorious part, with
all its heart-thrilling aesociatione, in memory of
the blood of their sires, mingled together upon
many a L and fought battle-field, consent at tenet
to part as friends ! The end may not be yet, my
lord ! Oat of the clouds may emerge a stem, more
resplendent than oven that which seems to you
now to be setting in a 'tutees night !
But your lordship, plunging into the arena of
party polities in America, hails the recent defeat
of that political organization, which bee ruled and
guided the destinies of the Republic from the
first moment of its existence to the present day, as
an event in which "all friends of America—au
friends of the human race—must heartily re
joice " if your lordship should happen to re
. member that, during brief intervals in the history
of the Republic, parties known by other names
have obtained a temporary ascendency, I need
scarcely remind you that these were but orgeokias
of that great organization which has just been de
feated, divided as it Was into three parties, each
claiming that it adhered most closely to the dis
tinctive principles of the old Democratic party.
All of these, therefore, go to swell the rooks of
those whom your lordship declares, in eject to
be the enemies of America and of the human
race.
This is a most harsh jadgment, most harshly
enunoiated—to Ray nothisg of its Implied con
demnation of the statesmen and citizens who have
passed away, and whom we, their sons by blood
and inheritance, have been taught to regard as
" true friends of America " It is certainly, when
considered in reference to the source from whence
it emanates, a most overwhelming condemnation
of the millions of American citizens who struggled
to avert Its downfall, and who still cling to its
fallen fortunes, and to Its great distinctive princi
ples, as the sheet-anchor of the hopes of the R 6.
The charge is as sweeping as it is harsh.
You will not grant that mot " friend of America,
or of the human race," can feel any regret at
the occurrence of the event you commemorate.
The Heaven doomed pity of olden time, even
after its destruction had been ordained by the fiat
of Omnipotence, wee allowed a respite from its
terrible fate, in answer to the prayer of one real
friend of humanity, who acid : " Behold 1 have
taken upon myself to speak unto the Lord, which
am but dust and ashes ; peradventure ten righteous
men shall be found there." And the Lord, ad
mitting •he doubt, and ever tempering justice
with mercy, delayed the execution of his judg
ment with a promise that if ten righteous men
cyanid be found in Sodom the city should be spared
for their sake.
More inexorable in your lodgment, though but
a man; under the influence of your own antipa
thies, and upon , the testimony of their enemies
alone, you coudemn unheard millions of your fel
low-men, and deny that, amongst them all,' there
likes one friend of his country, or of the human
race, whose righteousness might plead in behalf
of his fellow-countrymen to save them from the
doom of Sodom !
While the world may give your lordship credit
for a more profound knowledge of those subjects
which concern the general good of the human
race, than the unknown writer who now addressee
you, I cannot doubt but that an impartial public
would dooide that an American citizen, whose dud
ny has been oast within the limits of the Republic.
ought to understand as thoroughly, and to appre
ciate as fully, the qualities which distingnise a
" true friend of America," as any British noble
man, however high his rank, or however exalted
hie endowments as a British statesman.
This consideration emboldens me to declare, in
my right as an American born citizen, and as the
representative of a sentiment bald in common by
millions of my fellow-countrymen, that it is not I,
nor they, who are the enemies of America. If it
must be that one or the other of us, my lord, is an
enemy of the Republie, it is you, who from your
high and noble rank disdain not to stoop to a fel
lowship with the openly-avowed friends and fol
lowers of aonwains . It is you, who by acknow
ledging yourself to be honored by an invitation to
participate in demonstrations of respect for one of
the foulest murderers whose deeds have found a
place In the records of crime, place the lighted
torch and the dagger in the hands of the 'peen
diary ! It is you, who from your safe retreat may
laugh to scorn the horrors of the (=feet that thus
kindles the flames of a fratricidal war in a distant
land, and all in the prostituted name of huma
nity.
'there are many who do not rejoios over the
event which has filled your lordship with so much
satisfacition. These mourn over a result which
places in imminent peril one of the noblest—par
don me if with the old pride of an American I
say the noblest fabrio of a Government that has
ever been construe ed by human inteiligenee.
You delude yourself, my lord, if you believe
that all " friends of America " and of the human
race" share your sentiments of joy upon the ooca•
sion you celebrate Millions of the downtrodden
and the oppressed of other climes now mourn over
, the peril W1)1011 1:0013/10133 the overthrow of " the
I groat iteptiblio,." without knowing, or oaring to
comprehend, the domestic questions which have
produced the danger. During eighty-five years,
it has been a beacon of hope to the weary and
heavy laden, and shouli its brightness bo quenched
by that dare and clouded night, upon whose
gloomy and fitful shadows we may even at this mo
ment be gazing, believe not, my lord, that the
announcement of the catastrophe will be a mes
sage of joy to the hearts of " all the friends of the
human race !" No, my lord; yon may or may
not represent the sentiments of toe high and noble
order to which you belong. I would fain hope
that you do not, but you do not express the snits
ments of the million!
. if your lordship really believes that " all friends
of the human race " are rejoiced at the overthrow
of . that polities] organization ',blob, commencing
with Washington, has been perpetuated in power
to the present day, descend a little. I pray you,
from your elevated position in the social eoale,
and seek enlightenment from those whom you may
encounter. Ask of the wandering exile from his
native land, who, for the orime of seeking freedom
from the thraldom of despotism, has been doomed
to revisit the home of his childhood no more for
ever, if he rejoices at an event which threatens to
extinguish the brightness of that light, the oon
temptation of which has been to him, and to his
eenow-sufferers, a thing of joy, of life, and hope,
in the gloomiest moments of hie despondency
I would ask no nobler epitaph upon the tomb of
that party, whose defeat your lordship comme
morates as an event ',bleb Should be baited with
joy by every " friend of the human ram , ' than to
record in simple and brief words this fragment of
ita history :
"The political organization which inaugurated
the revolt of the Thirteen American Colonlee of
Great Britain ; which conducted the war of the Re
volution to a successful close; under whose auspices
the Confederation of free States was established;
and which rated and guided the destinies of the
Republic during the Alt eighty five years of i ts
existence, perished in the year Of the Christian
Era one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one."
Whether its fail was a consequent,. of its its
v i r t u es, or its misfortunes, let posterity determine.
And may I be pardoned if, in outing a glance
into!! he unrevealed future, f venture the -
tion, that even though the Republic itself should
perish to-day, the incidents of its brief but bril-