J327.J Notes for the Month. 5 



a " caulker," sot," " slanderer," " bully," and " poltroon," after 

 lie has quizzed Mr. Bentham and a few *of his acquaintance, seems, 

 prior to that event, to have been an " engineer/' formally engaged and 

 employed by the Greek committee ; a " Major," (as far as titles so con- 

 ferred 'are worth talking about) in the army of the Greek government ; a 

 gentleman " introduced," (according to the account of the Examiner 

 itself) " to Mr. Bentham's table, an honour which the late Sir Samuel 

 Romilly, an-d other similar spirits, always duly appreciated;" and a 

 habitual guest (according to Mr. Leicester Stanhope's evidence) at that gen- 

 tleman's own table, as well as at that of the late Lord Byron. So that one 

 would say, either Mr. Parry is something wronged in the description that 

 the Examiner gives of him and his pretensions, after the quarrel about 

 " The last Days" or the patrons of the Greek cause, prior to the perpe . 

 tration of that work, must have chosen their agents and companions very 

 unguardedly. 



A similar infelicity as regards the balance of statement and proof, 

 occurs again (to shew the disadvantage under which men fight when 

 they are wroth) in the Examinees comment upon the trial, in the 

 paper of the 17th instant. In noticing the evidence touching the attack 

 on the Turkish brig, by which the Examiner had proposed to prove the 

 fact of Parry's cowardice, Lord Chief Justice Best, who tried the cause, 

 observed to the jury that this event, whatever was the effect of it, took place 

 in the middle of February ; and that a letter was in evidence, written by the 

 Greek committee to Mr. Parry, dated on the llth of May (three months 

 after that occurrence) in which the committee, instead of charging him 

 with cowardice, express the greatest confidence in his zeal and conduct. 

 The learned judge then remarks that this letter must have been written 

 after the affair of the Turkish brig was within the knowledge of the 

 committee when he is corrected by Mr. Bowring, and informed that 

 " two mvnths is the minimum of time in which intelligence is received from 

 Greece." This fact of ' two months" being the 4< minimum" of time for 

 intelligence to arrive, is printed in words of large Capitals in the account of 

 the Examiner; and a subsequent observation in the charge to the jury, 

 treating the fact to be otherwise, is given in italics, to mark the partiality 

 of the judge; while the " Foreign news," in the very same paper, only 

 three pages from the column in which this statement appears, contains an 

 account of intelligence received from Greece, and through the medium of 

 the French papers after two months is stated to be the minimum in a 

 less period than six weeks ! 



The Liverpool Mercury states, that a newspaper has just been 

 started at New York, which is " edited by two gentlemen of colour ," 

 and " intended to circulate among the black population of the United 

 States ;" we understand that this publication is called the Jonkanoo Jour- 

 nal', but we have not yet been so fortunate as to secure any numbers 

 of it. 



A Fact accounted for. -In the discussion which arose in the House of 

 Commons, on Friday night last, on the expediency of making parochial 

 provision for the poor of Ireland, a well-known member for one of the 

 Caledonian boroughs, was pressing upon an English gentleman, who sat 

 near him, the impropriety of such an arrangement, and instanced the case 

 of Scotland, where there were no poor laws, and none were wanted. 

 "The enormous expence which you are at in England,." said the honour- 

 able member, " we entirely avoid ; and yet you never hear of any persoa, I 



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