plied. That Mr. Huskisson was a subaltern to the Under Secretaries of State, I believe, his friend will not deny: what, then, could he be more than a clerk?

3. The pension and sinecures bestowed on him are represented as granted for services as Under Secretary of State, and are stated not to be greater in amount than the emoluments enjoyed by other Under Secretaries upon their retiring from office. In the first place, I by no means approve of the word retire as applied to Mr. Huskisson. "When he obtained leave to retire"!!! Would not one imagine, that the personage here spoken off were a duke, at least? "Obtain

where, and, consequently, Lord Gower could not, as mentioned in the Register, find him "a banker's clerk at Paris." But, is this circumstance very material; and is not the mis-statement rather in favour of Mr. Huskisson than against him? I had always understood, that he was living, at Paris, with his uncle, who was an apothecary, and that he himself, followed the same business; but, having, just before the Register went to the press, been told, that he was a banker's clerk, and regarding that as somewhat the more reputable profession of the two, I adopted it in preference to the other. Since, however, I received the above memorandum I have made particular inquiry, and Ied leave to retire"! In dudgeon, perhaps, am now fully convinced, that Mr. Huskisson's uncle was an apothecary, and that the nephew, sometimes at least, prepared the prescriptions, and visited the patients, in which latter office, it seems, he was first noticed by Lady Gower, in consequence of his attendance on some of her ladyship's female domestics. That he should be at Paris, without any occupation at all, appeared to me extremely improbable, and most persons will allow, that (with the exception of the learned and the warlike professions, to neither of which he ever belonged) I could not have fixed one less degrading than that in which I stated him to be; therefore, my mis-statement in this respect, though very immaterial, is, as I before observed, in favour of Mr. Huskisson rather than against him.

because the royal ear was become deaf to his counsels? What did he retire for? Pensions and sinecures are, as far as relates to the subaltern offices of government, provided for men, who are, in a manner, worn out in the service, or who, in consequence of the new arrangements of a ministry, are displaced: they never were intended as a provision for those, who may choose to quit their offices. Because Mr. Dundas might think it necessary to resign, shall Mr. Huskisson be suffered to resign also? With all my heart, provided that he carries no pension with him; but, if he receives the pub lic money, we have a right to follow him into his retreat. In fact, nothing can be more presumptuous than this affectation of obtaining leave to retire (on the part of such a person as Mr. Huskisson), on account of 2. He was not " promoted to be a clerk in any opinions entertained in the Cabinet. "the Alien Office," but was, it seems, ap- -As to Mr. Huskisson having been, for the pointed to superintend the execution of the far greater part of the time, a mere clerk, Alien Act, passed in 1793, a situation held I still persist in my assertion. He went jointly with the Under Secretaries of State with Mr. Dundas at the creation of the new in the Home Department, and having clerks office, and was promoted; but he never was under him," instead of being himself one an Under Secretary of State; if he had, he of those clerks." The real state of the could not have been in Parliament at the case is this: Mr. Nepean was, when the same time with Mr. Frere. He might be Alien Law passed, Under Secretary of State called Under Secretary of State, he might in the Home Department, at the head of have a salary suitable to such a situation; which was Mr. Dundas. Mr. N. could but, without an open and scandalous violaspeak little or no French, and, therefore, it tion of the law, he could not be an Under was necessary to have in the office some Secretary of State; and, if not a Secretary, person capable of interpreting, translating, he must have been a cleik. The fact is, and, occasionally, writing in, that language. that the business transacted by him was not This was the employment of Mr. Huskisson, that of a Secretary of State. It had nothing and I appeal to the reader whether I de- in common with state affairs. He was the tract from the dignity of his situation in first person that filled the new and nondescribing him to be a clerk in the Alien descript office; as to precedents, therefore, "Office." As to superintending the execu- none can be found. But, were I to acknowtion of the Alien Act, jointly with the Un-ledge him to have been an Under Secretary der Secretaries of State, I know not what to make of the phrase. The words have no daitiye midating, as they are here ap

of State, I should still insist, that the provision made for him was, and is, all circumstances considered, totally unprecedented.

On whatever scale it is computed, it is out of all proportion, and must, by every candid man, be allowed to be a shameful waste of public money.

Mr. Huskisson was in office, he received, in various ways, about £3,000 a year; since he has "obtained leave to retire," he has hitherto received (or it is become due to him, which is the same thing) £2,400 a year; but, as the Agency of the Cape will, perhaps, drop off in nine or ten months after our final evacuation of it, his permanent receipt from the public will be £1,800.

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4. Never did I mean to say, or to insinuate, that Mr. Huskisson enjoyed his pension and sinecures during the time that be was in iz; nor do I think that my words will bear any such interpretation. Indeed, upon re-perusal of page 54 of the Register, 5. Most assuredly no reflection on the birth I perceive, that it is absolutely impossible to of Mr. Huskisson was intended by me. I understand me as having added the pension said his birth did not entitle him to such exand sinecures to the emoluments of the of traordinary favours; but, is it not evident, fice; for, I state the amount of the whole that I only meant to say, that he did not beat £2,400; whereas with the addition of long to the nobility or the gentry of the kingthe official salary and emoluments, the to- dom? I did not say, or insinuate, that his tal would have been £4,400, and perhaps birth was disreputable: I said nothing that much more. I meant to confine myself, could render the explanation of his friend at and I think I did confine myself, to the emo- all necessary; and, indeed, I am almost laments received by Mr. Huskisson, since be tempted to believe, that he has feigned a "obtained leave to retire." I state that he has misconception of my words, for the purtaken care to secure to himself £1,200 for pose, not of defending Mr. Huskisson against life; that he is furthermore in the enjoyment any charge of dishonourable birth, but for.that of 1600 a year for the Agency of Ceylon, of inculcating a belief that his birth was haand also £600 for the Agency of the Cape, nourable, that his immediate ancestors were which last he will, of course, lose, but which of the gentry of England. With this view it he will, however, enjoy from the time he undoubtedly is, that we are told, "His fa"obtained leave to retire" 'till the last hour ther was a COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, or, in that we shall hold the Cape, and perchance" other words, one of the HONEST YEOfor a few hours longer.-As to the pension being in arrear, does Mr. Huskisson's friend realy suppose, that that circumstance will induce one to believe, that the pension is of uncertain value? And with regard to the subtraction on account of fees, &c. &c. what estate is there which is not liable to deductions, &c.? When Mr. Huskisson's friend talks of his real estate of £500 a year, he certainly means the full rent of it, undiminished by taxes and expenses. I did not state that Mr. Huskisson's pension amounted to 80 much net: I merely said it was a pension of £1,200 a year. It will be recollected too, that, it was not so much the positive as the comparative magnitude of his provision, which formed the subject of my complaint. It was not so much that £1,800 a year had been bestowed on Mr. Huskisson, as that he had obtained nearly as much again as the defender of Acre. If Mr. H.'s pension be in artear, so is Sir Sidney Smith's; if the forher be really worth no more then £900, the later is worth no more than about £780. But, it is not pretended, that the agency suffers any considerable diminution, and, therefore, it is by no means unfair to conclude, that Mr. Huskisson receives from the public purse a reward of double the magnitude of that received by Sir Sidney Smith! The result of the enquiry is this: while

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MANRY of England, from whom he re"ceived an estate, which placed him above "dependance." Honest yeomanry are not only other words than country gentleman, but they convey quite another meaning. I am very willing to allow that Mr. Huskisson's ancestors were yeomen, and as to their honesty, no one, as far as I know, ever presumed to call it in question; but, as to country gentleman, especially when spoken of at Whitehall or at St. Stephen's, I can by no means give that title to a farmer of £500 a year. This income, it seems, placed Mr. Huskisabove dependance." What proof have we of this? Is it to be found in the records of the Alien Oflice, or of the war department? Is it to be found in the list of pensions or of sinecure places? Is it to be found in the circumstances under which the pension was obtained, or in the motives from which the tenure of it was changed? As a farmer, as a yeoman, indeed, he might have been above dependance; but, I imagine it would be very difficult to point out one person in all England more dependant than he now is, if unmeritedly living upon the public money can be called dependance.

Having thus endeavoured to obviate the objections made to any statement respecting Mr. Huskisson, I must beg leave to say, that I cannot but regard those objections as

being rather vexatious; and that, instead | two triumphal arches erected; one before of complaints on account of my hostility, I the gate of Lieban, representing a portico, really should have expected thanks for my the entablature of which was supported by forbearance. Mr. Huskisson must know, four groups of pillars, and in the frize the that I could have touched upon several sub- inscription-Alexandro et Frederico Wilbelmo jects, which I have even now passed over diis a Deo junctis civitas. In the middle of in silence. The very positive assertion, the attic were the arms of the town~3 that he has never been concerned, either at savage leaning on an anchor, wreathed with Paris or elsewhere, in any commercial affairs flowers. The other triumphal entry, at the might easily have been combatted, and end of Linden street, was formed by two that too with the introduction of circum- obelisks entwined with garlands of flowers, stances not altogether uninterresting to the one bearing the Russian, the other the Pruspublic. I have said nothing about the secret sian flag. On the 10th his Imperial Majesty history of the pension: "Tiens, Gil Blas, je arrived, under the name of a "Comte de te donne cela pour cadeau de noces." Mr. Dun- Russie," at Bolangen, the last frontier town das is no very feeble imitator of that faithful of Russia, three German miles hence, where friend and generous patron, the Duke of he was received by Comte Kalkreath, GeLerma; nor do I think it is at all over-rating neral of Cavalry, who accompanied his Maeither the talents or integrity of Mr. Huskis-jesty to the entrance of the town. On the son to say, that he, in certain points, bears a strong resemblance to honest Gil Blas. There was, unfortunately, no parliament in Spain, or, to render the semblance more complete, Gil might possibly have been a Jaw giver.

Let it not be forgotten, that I, a long time, forbore to meddle with Mr. Huskisson and his emoluments, and that I was at last provoked to break silence by nothing short of an attempt to thrust him into parliament in opposition to the brother of Sir Sidney Smyth. It cannot be supposed that I had, till the other day, been ignorant of Mr. Huskisson's history; yet, till then, I 1 ever did write a word on the subject; nor should I have done it at all, had he been content to use his acquisitions for any other purposes than those of a public and political Bature. To attempt to force him upon the country as a member of parliament, was the very last excess of indiscretion: it was an act of which no one would have suspected Mr. Pitt; and, indeed, it is said, that it ought to be ascribed solely to Mr. Dundas, whose domineering influence has, in too many instances, thwarted the will of his more scrupulous and less selfish colleague. What are the motives of Mr. Dundas in heaping favours upon Mr. Huskisson, I shall not, in this place, enquire; but, that they are very powerful no one will doubt, and I am far from being certain, that they may not become the subject of some subsequent page of the Register.

WM. COBBETT.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Memel, June 12.-To shew honour to our distinguished visitors, the town has had

way from Bolangen to Bommels, half a mile off, the royal state coach with eight horses, was ready to receive him; he was accompanied by several piquets of hussars, placed there for the purpose, and thence to the town by a squadron of dragoons, and by the merchants' guard of this place. His Majesty did not accept the state coach, but remained in his chariot, attended only by an Adjutant. His Imperial Majesty had put on the Insignia of the Order of the Black Eagle. He was saluted from the camp with 100 guns. His Majesty the King, ornamented with the Russian Order of St. An drew, rode in the mean time on horseback, about a quarter of a mile from the town. On perceiving the Emperor's chariot, his Majesty dismounted, as did the Emperor likewise, and the two illustrious personages welcomed and embraced each other. The Emperor then mounted one of the King's led horses, and the two Monarchs rode side. by side, followed by their united suites (all on horseback) into the town. Before the house of Mr. Lorck, where the King and Queen were lodged, Her Majesty the Queen came to meet the illustrious guest, and surprised him with an embrace, which the Enperor returned by pressing her Majesty's hand to his lips. He remained to dinner with their Majesties, and about four o'clock, accompanied by the Royal Princes, went to his apartments at the Merchant Glagon's, in Linden-street. Before entering, his Im perial Majesty passed twice before the guard of one hundred and twenty-seven men and four officers, and inspected the grenadiers with visible satisfaction. He then presented Major Von Bulow with a gold snuff-box set in pearls, and each of the officers commanding the guard with a gold ditto, and each