TlIE N EW 11 Et OR D SERVICE.

We have this week received t'rmn another correspondent, a letter on the Records, WO 1•011(lily insert, as it deals in specific facts, and points to it course ot' conduct, which, ifailowed to be persisted in, will go far to nullify the improvements intended by the gentlemen who

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originated and conducted the Parliamentary inquiry, the members of the Government who passed the Act, and Lord LANGDALE who framed the excellent regulations we recently published. Sir FRANCIS PAL... citavi•:, whose conduct our correspondent describes, and whose unfit- ness for the office of Deputy Keeper he indicates by his statement, was included in that class of " persons who, if they did not approve of the old abuses, silently profited by them, and came in at the eleventh hour, when Reform grew into fashion." Any passages in our third paper that seemed to, praise the new Deputy Keeper were drawn from his own praises of himself, in his Report. But if he is forming Cata- logues in the way described by M. G ARNIER, they*will be very little better thins the old Indexes.

TO '1111: EDITOR or TILE SPECTATOR.

London, bah October 1640.

Sm—Tlic papers which have appeared in the Spectatiir on the English Record service, embolden me to lay before you my own personal case, which, 1 feel convint•ed, is calculated to throw a light on the Record department as it is :it present. Yon have already fully appreciated the merits of herd LANGDALS; and, in my cpinion, it is scarceiy possible to exaggerate them. On the other I and, Chic' presient Record service seas made up with the materials, rind allow me to say, with the con-upi materials of the old Record Coninnission. This is a great ince:ivenience. The worst mistake which Goverm»ent committed, WWI t he rs ppnintinent of Sir FRANCIS PALER tV e, and what is still more, his pro- motion to the most important plonte in flue service, as 'Deputy Keeper; for, however well-intentioned the head or king may he, if his prime minister is tie contrail., it will compose in the whole what people are accustomed to

bad govertimeat. But instead of these vague generalities, I prefer to re- late to you in a sin:ell:et and unvarnished tale what happened to me during two months' service in the office.

I received my appointment RS clerk of the treasury u the Record service at the end of doly. At the beginning of August. I p vscnt,1 myself before Sir FRANCIS PA LO RA E ; who received use with gnast and even offered me employment in lois owm othee,—an offer which , as accepted with pleasure. The following day, my tri•slo; was pointed out to toe. It carnisted in writing nut a, fish. coi,:„. foal] a paper disligurad hy num...rons eorreetioins in the hand.- writing of r Ti17.1 :ope:. was intended to lie it calendar or descriptive catalogue o vu 1 volatile. at theological and politic:a tracts from the Char- terholise. In the cvidently a mere serihe had been sent there vith instruct o-ihe the hold or endorsement and the beginning and

riding plIra oaell met. This had lo,en dame with care and etti-

ekney. 51...1- • ICE, 7.1,-e1.13 introduced his corrections. In writing out my fair and scomid col.y td,in this first copy, I could no: avoid paying atten- tion also to the nature of the corrections; which. I am sorry to say, were not always vcry happy. As an ilhvtration, I selcet two glaring instances. The 11..1e5, as you nuty cali it, is headcd " Tractii•w, politici," vol. I, 2, 11, etc. In fidlio 4, '2,1 volume, tract i., the heading ran as follows—. " .,tatuta et orilitiationas potentissimi princi•ois II stud Octavi, etc.. volgariter too:et/pa; g liettry the viiitlt his vollsoge." Such was the wording of (hi- and Sir PP.:VS.:1S corrected SC,). id, which, it its scaredy neve, roo'i,rs to the genitive f'filliVii, into — auncupattott.

It the trion,erir r it o " mincupatuni, an overstght on the part of Sir FRANCIS I: •i.7,1ble and pardonalol., ; lout. having a correct phrase before Lim, Mtn-ad:H:1g, as we Mil .17 5711:7 • 'n mature delibera- tion, a grin-' blonde,. Sot -'jothe first radian .s o e I. ,tin grammar, was something se,orsa than or ,.:!!! German an •• I-tio 5 la Bullhorn," It renew d philologist o'd of Ntirlibcre. Ws,. 1 v :•orrecting gailin info 1,• ti..• cock to 1 ,,s• ;It: eggs-- ga.!"..H trut ;vit." One instance, and ilOW uloy no-nod, 2. -!: ido!. Bonifiteiiaputi • furl' cede- ._".ve an idea of the contset-. 1 ti, .7iy mode amelio- rated, " the Papal power,

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dila voice, "Reconsideration! Oh, if it is so, you shall go to the Records." The next day, my banishment was sealed, and 1 was sent to Whitehall Yard, to undergo new vexations; which, after two months' patient enduring, became too much for rue, so that I took my leave. Of those vexations, perhaps in a second letter.

lithe crowded state of your columns will allow of some final considerations, I beg leave to conclude my present with the following remarks. I was told to copy something: did I infringe my instructions by exerting my judgment and performing the task in the best mode I could ? The exercise of judgment is consequently a heinous crime in the eyes of Sir FnANcts PAI,GRAVE ; and every clerk under his orders, who is or endeavours to rise ahave the standard of a mere mechanical drudge, is guilty of gross insubordination. Is progress possible under such a ruler ? I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. II. GARNIE11, formerly Professor at the University of Freiburg.