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because a glass house is built in the park , all the ¦ world are to cast stones at it . The Red Republicans and Socialists of France , German Communists , American Socialists and Anti-renters , English Chartists and Irish Repealers , are to lead on the London mob of 50 , 000 like that which stormed the Tuileries . While a riot in the metropolis diverts the military , a descent is to be made on Manchester . By a confidential communication the New York Herald learns that a number of leading men at Liverpool contemplate a declaration of independence on behalf of ' a new republic , of which Liverpool , Lancashire , and the principality of Wales , are to constitute the nucleus . " Ireland will probably sympathize . " It is evident that sooner or later there must be a bouleversement throughout Europe , " and England is " full of the seeds of discord , rebellion , and revolution . "
Such is the Yankee version of the gossip afloat m Paris , suggested by the obvious coincidencies . No doubt there are men in London who would be glad enough of a hubbub during which they might have the run of Rundell and Bridge ' s , and the Bank , of Farrance ' s , and Monsieur Soyer's new eating-house . But no sober-minded reader need be told that the reports in Paris and New York are boyish dreams .
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In reply to the calumnies which have been circulating regarding them , in Parliament and elsewhere , the French refugees have published the following address : — " 71 , Dean-street , Soho-square , London , April 7 . " "We , the undersigned French Republicans , refugees resident in . London , lay before the English people the following declaration : — " The expulsion of the Republican exiles from Switzerland on the threats of Russia , Austria , and Prussia is now sought to be accomplished , as regards England , by trickery on the part of these powers . " But England , who had no idea of such a proceeding , would be in this case ruled by the foreign powers .
" There is a coincidence , however , which is very remarkable . At the moment when the Governments of Europe demand of the British Cabinet that we shall be put out of the pale of humanity , the mercenary journals of the counter-revolution in France redouble there accustomed violence against us ; and two individuals ( for diplomacy has not but official agents ) unite to accuse us of the basest and most detestable designs . " Who are these two individuals ? One of them is a Frenchman , who is not a political refugee , although he has assumed that title , and whose coming to this country has not , to our knowledge , been satisfactorily accounted for . This individual , after having made before a police magistrate various allegations of a most odious character against us , has since , in an official examination made by order of the superior authorities , been obliged to deny their truth , which denial has been duly recorded in a former report addressed to the Government .
• ' The other is a native of this country , who has forfeited the confidence of the political party whose cause he pretends to espouse , and who seeks to recover his lost popularity by exciting among the masses old and nearly forgotten international hatreds . The antecedents of this individual were , however , so well known to us that not one among us would enter into any communication with him , notwithstanding all the advances he has made to that effect , which is no doubt our inexpiable crime in his eyes ; but the English public will have no difficulty in divining that , without our being either assassins or incendiaries , we may be fully justified in regarding with distrust such a false democrat as Mr . Fcargus O'Connor .
" We , therefore , declare in the most solemn manner that whosoever attributes to us , the French Republicans , refugees , now residing in London , designs such as those individuals have attributad to us , or in any manner similar to them , is a vile slanderer . " We make this solemn declaration , not because we dread to be driven from the refuge we have found in this country , for the revolution which has had power in France may resume that power , and in so doing exact , perhaps , too largo a satisfaction for the wrong of which wo should be the victiin . s—an idea which never entered into our minds .
* ' We malio this declaration voluntarily , we make it freely , we make it without aftorthought , without any fear of menaces ; we make it . in the name of the eternal principles of brotherhood and concord among nations and peoples --principles for which we now suffer the pains of < X " We nmy be calumniated , but the world will never believe tlwit men the very first act of whose advent to power wuh the destruction « f the scaffold , —men who accomplished a gnat revolution without Hhedduig a Hingle drop of blood , without committing an act of violence , without imprisonment , and without confiscation , — the world will never believe that we are uHcmsumB or lncendiaricH . «« J V . BlCZJHAU . " Ll'JVIAKI ) . I ' . IlKKTHANl ) . J- MA DAN . V . Ciiiitki . kt . M . FniiviiH . C l ) i- ;] , i : noi , i )/ . K . H- M . ok Montjau , jk . ]) HION . ( JlJHTAVK NAQUKT . Dui'ont . I ' 1 . Pakdioon . TUIJMONI ) . 1 ' KTIT JUAN . I ) Punzoo . O . Vhuavi'K . TlIlSOUORU KaIIOIIISII . JtOUHHlKK . liANQKKON . HlHKYItOI . r , A . Lkdiu ; Koijjn . A . Kioatuau . LlONNH . SUIHKAU . LAitvr . 1 * . Viixain . Dakcannitz . Qoavin . "
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A REVEREND LOTHARIO . A strange case was tried in the Nisi Prius Court , at Gloucester , last week . Mr . Gaisford , an attorney and solicitor in Berkeley , Gloucestershire , brought an action against the Reverend Seton Karr , the vicar of that town , for the seduction of his wife . Mr . Gaisford married a Miss TJlph , the daughter of a timber merchant at Lowestoft , in Suffolk , in 1835 . They lived happily for a number of years , during which they had four children , the eldest of whom is now thirteen . But , in 1839 , the Reverend Seton
Karr became Vicar of Berkeley ; in the following year he appointed Mr . Gaisford to collect his tithes and manage his business , and this led to an intimacy between the two families , which , according to the counsel for the plaintiff , " resulted in the ruin of the plaintiff ' s happiness , and the blighting of all his fondest hopes . " As regards the guilt of the parties the evidence was rather imperfect . The trial lasted three days , and the most indefatigable pains had evidently been taken to prove the guilt of the reverend gentleman , but somehow or other the case was left very doubtful . who
One lady , Mr . Gaisford ' s housekeeper , was examined at great length , had seen many instances of what she considered suspicious familiarity between Mr . Karr and Mrs . Gaisford . At certain archery meetings , " Did not think Mr . Karr behaved as he should to a married woman . When she went to pick up her arrows , observed him to take her hand more than once . " Again , one evening at supper , at Mr . Gaisford's , Mr . Karr sat next to that lady . " After supper they altered their places ; he got closer to her at the corner of the table , and she moved her chair nearer to him . I observed him holding her hand under the table . " After that discovery Mr . Karr was never
admitted to see Mrs . Gaisford alone ; either the husband or the housekeeper always took care to be present when he was there . The next remarkable event , after the hand-squeezing at the supper party , was a water party , which was to have lasted three days , but was broken up on the evening of the first day , in consequence of what was witnessed between Mr . Karr and Mrs . Gaisford . Mr . Gaisfoid had refused to go to the water party , or to allow his wife to go . She asked him whohad poisoned his mind againsther , anddenied
that there was any cause for suspicion , lo prove this she implored him to watch her conduct during the day , and declared that she would give Mr . Karr no warning . But , notwithstanding all her protestations , it appeared that when the reverend Lothario called in the morning to arrange about provender for the voyage , she rushed down stairs to receive him alone , and , as she afterwards confessed , contrived to put him on his guard . The evidence regarding the aquatic excursion is very meagre . A Mr . Charles Biss , who had been consulted regarding the Unison between Mr . Karr and Mrs . Gaisford , stutes that ho was one of the party : — " I was consulted about it , and I advised Mr . and Mrs . Gaisford firat not to go , but was afterwards induced to consent to the party being carried out , on the urgent solicitations of Mjh . Gaisford . 1 afterwards agreed to go . I slept at Mr . Gaiaford ' s that night ; Mr . Karr camo curly next day . The water party wuh to continue for two or three days as circumstaneeN might arise . It continued only one day , as far as Mrn . Guisford was concerned , by my advice . I observed that Mrs . Gaisford and Mr . Karr were seated together in the steerage of the boat , and after what had passed previously 1 thought they ought not to continue in that position . The next day 1 had a conversation with MrH . Gaisfonl . " In another part of the evidence given by the Reverend George Mudan , rural dean , who , along with other clergymen , had previously inverttigated the affair , the following memorandum of Mr . IMhb ' h conversation was given . Tin ; water party hud taken place on the 2 / kh of June . The memorandum relates to the day following : —¦ " June 20 Mr . Hitm , Minn AmyaH , and MifiH lla / . eland remonstrated with Mrs . Oawford , who exprensed the deepest contrition . If . wuh Hinted to Mrs . Gaisford by all the party an a particular reason for not permitting the Hlighteat familiarity with Mr . Karr , that he had eloped with a married lady prior to bin coming to Berk ^ Ynamely Mrs . Hernard , whom he afterwarda-deserted in France ' ami whoso conduct hiuco ho came to Berkeley had been notorious . Mr « . Gaisford promised that she would never have any communication with Mr . Karr that would cauHe the leant mispicioii . " For Home time slio appears to have kept her promise , but again tho intimacy waa renewed , only with
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THE "NEW MAN" AT FRANKFORT . Frauds and fictions have their periodical reappearances . It is some time since we have had the representative of a new race suddenly show himself in the midst of civilized society , but the German papers announce the advent of a " new man" in Trankfort . " The story—as related in the Correspondent of Berlin —attests that a stranger was picked up at the end of last year in a small village of the district of Lebas , near Frankfort-on-the-Oder , whither he had wandered no one could tell whence . Such a circumstance could hardly have piqued curiosity in another country , but to a people fond of speculationand situated far away from the great
, highways of the world , there was something strange and startling in the fact that the stranger spoke German imperfectly , and had all the marks of a Caucasian origin . Whether the man was a common impostor , and tricked the village authorities , or whether these worthies began in their usual way to construct a history for him ' out of the depths of their moral consciousness , ' is uncertain ; at all events they looked on him as a great prize , and carried him off to Frankfort . On being questioned by the burgomaster of that enlightened city the stranger said his name was Jophar Vorin , and that he came from a country named Laxaiia , situated in the portion of the world called Sakna . He understandsit is affirmednone of the European
, , languages ( except , we must suppose , the broken German ) , but reads and writes what he calls the Laxarian and Abramian tongues . The latter he declares to be the written language of the clerical order in Laxaria , and the other the common language of his people . He says that his relig ion is Christian in form and doctrine , and that it is called Ispatian . Laxaria he represents to be many hundred miles from Europe , and separated by vast oceans from it . His purpose in coming to Europe , he alleges , was to seek a long-lost brother ; but he suffered shipwreck on the voyage—where , he does shore
not know—nor can he trace his route on on any map or globe . He claims for his unknown race a considerable share of geographical knowledge . The five great compartments of the earth he calls Sakria , Aflar , Aslar , Auslar , and Euplar . The sages of Frankfort-on the-Oder , after much examination of the tale and its bearer , have come to the conclusion that it is true . Some men believe things because they are incredible . However , Jophar Vorin has been carefully despatched to Berlin , and is now the subject of much scientific and curious gossip in the Prussian capital . "What mystifications hide under the story time will probably show . "
The mind at once jumps back to similar cases . Peter the wild boy seems to have been a genuine foundling—a mere castaway with no pretensions of his own . Count Cagliostro must be reckoned amongst clairvoyants rather than ethnological novelties . Caspar Hauser , whether he was an impostor or a real victim , belongs to the wild boy class . One of the most recent ethnological wonders was the Princess of Cariboo , who was suddenly discovered at Hastings , we believe , thirty or forty years ago . She was a charming young lady , spoke an unknown tongue , soon learned English enough to explain that she was princess of an island in the Atlantic , and was much feted . The Princess of Cariboo ultimately turned out to be a native of Witherege in Devonshire .
But the new man at Frankfort appears to rival th immortal Psalmanazar , whose successful fraud has been so often recounted . A narrative more comp lete than most appeared about seven years ago in the Revue des deux Aiondes . Psalmanazar was a Frenchman . He wandered through Europe , by turns a cheat , a pilgrim , a Protestant , a Catholic , a merchant , a pedlar , and a soldier , and thus became a master in the art of working upon human credulity for his own benefit . Experience having taught him that it is easier to excite sympathy for strangers than for those vvhom we see daily , lie chose a distant locality as his birthplace , and called himself a Japanese exile , born in the island of Formosa . By continual repetition of his adventures he ended by believing them himself , and gave
his fellow soldiers daily more and rnore dramatic narratives of his Japanese and Formosan life . He one day attracted tho notice of a , shrewd Protestant chaplain , who converted him ; tho willing convert was taken to the Bishop of London and loaded with favours and money . Our Japanese friend had too much tact not to continue bo profitable a deception . He not only ate ravv fl <\ sh and roots , but invented a Formosan alphabet and language , into winch he translated the Bible , wrote a detailed de-Hcviplion of the inland of Formosa , its history and euHtoniH , with a map , an engraved alphabet , costumes , temples , public buildings , and neveral portraits of the natives , former friends of Pmilmanuzar ( a Japanese name of his own coining ) . He abused the Fiench and the Roman ( , ' atholicn , who were no
favouritOH of the Kngli . su , and the more ho abused them , tho more abundantly money poured in . for him . lie gave lessons in the ForrnoHan tongue to several devout women , and brought them ForrnoHan love poems which enraptured them . The worthy Bishop of London wan meditating the establinhrnent of a professor ' s chair , which he thought would bo most useful to English missions , and of great help in the conversion of tho heathen . Pious ladies furnished Psiilmunnzar with a very handsome dress . From time to time he was attacked , but only in freothinking newspapers held in low estimation . Kvery true EngiiHluium ohHtinately believed in tho lies of the converted Jui >! inene ; a novel which ho wrote wont through six cditiona , and gavo
him a position of some importance in the literary world . At last , having secured himself from want by his writings , and a small pension from Government , he became an honest man , repented his Formosan lies , and wished to make a recantation of them j but his religious friends interfered , fearful of the ridicule which they would have to endure . Psalmanazar contented himself with writing a fresh account ol lormbsa , drawn from true sources , and meant torectity his former fictions . At the age of ninety-three he wrote his confessions , which the Calvmistic party suppressed . He enjoyed public respect and admiration to the end of his days , but never revealed the name of the French family to which he belonged .
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Aprh 12 , i 85 i . ] © fie &ca * tt * ^ 339
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Leader (1850-1860), April 12, 1851, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1878/page/7/
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