m A VISIT TO THE IKDIAN AliCHlPELAGO. 



by htfo ; and Mr, Hume knew this at the time t Whether 

 Mr, Cobdcu knew it also we need not decide. He raiist 

 choose between assisting to mislead, or being himself 

 misled, by a statement of which he made - strong me in 

 debate, hat which waa wholly iucoiiHistent with the na.ked 

 tmth. The fndh is tliis : that each of these two '* cap- 

 tains of tbe Indiau Ifavy," bj a coincidence wliidi points 

 to some om suggestive agency, afldreased to Mr. Hume, 

 or for his use, two letters ; one authenticate J, but 

 carefully telling him nothing ; the other unauthentLcatcdj 

 and, therefore, after the manner of auouymous writers, 

 much more ventm'csomc. I may obserTre at once that 

 Mr» Hume hiia lately confessed this to have been so in the 

 case of Captain Young : — that the officer who " does not 

 feel justified in giving an ophiion/^ and the officer" who 

 gives a Tcry free opinion, are one and the mme I Such a 

 mode of multiplying witnesses is decidedly more ingeniouis 

 tlian ingenuous. But I have not seen the same admission 

 aa to the letters of Captain Daniell I shall be happy to 

 give Mr. Hunie my reasons publicly for assigning in hke 

 manner two of the letters to thai officer's pen : and of the 

 trick thus repeated one can but say that it is only half 

 as ingenious the second time, fuid doubly disingenuous. 



And now let us see what they contain. 



What particular inqmries Mn Hume addressed to 

 Captain Yo\ing can only be surmised from his reply. He 

 seems to have worked liimsiclf up into a fear that a 

 piratica-l balln, if there />e such a monster, would some 



