CAPTAIN GARTH.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
WE have inserted in another place the substance of an affidavit made by this person, which appeared in the Morning Chrmiclo of Friday. We were in possession of the facts and the names of the partieS -sonic time ago; but we wished to refrain from all allu- sion to them, so,long as the subject came before us as it rumour only. The formed shape, however,,in which it now appears, renders further silence inexpedient. The affidavit is in itself unimport ant : it merely supports a claim for the restitution of certain writings, hecause the consideration for which they were given up has wit been paid. But it has been more than hinted, that these writings contain matter of crimination, such as, thank Heaven! has seldom been preferred in this country. We have no means of forming, nor do we offer an opinion on these hints ; but thus much we must say of insinuations so horrible—it is the part of an honest man not to be- lieve them. There are cases, and this is one, in which credulity is wickedness : and there are two facts that would fortify us in our scepticism, were other reasons wanting. It cannot escape notice, that if the pecuniary recompense claimed by the party making the affidavit had been received, no disclosure would have ensued : whatever were the motives to its being made, love of justice, or abhorrence of crime, was not among the number. The other fact is the time chosen for the disclosure. Captain GARTH is said to have been of age for some eight or nine years. How happened it that these papers remained so long unknown ? How happened it that they were produced at a moment when it was so very de- sirable to get rid of the supposed influence of the Duke of CUMBER- LAND, against whom (it is nonsense to affect any mystery on that head) they are mainly directed ?
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