The smuggling transaction with which the names of Lord war
de itormAy and Prince POLIGNAC were so absurdly mixed up by the Calais journalist and his brethren in Paris, turns oat, upon a more accurate investigation, to be precisely what we slid a fortnight ago it would be found to be, and indeed what the discoveries last week proved it. It appears that a coaehmaker in longacre had been commissioned to send a carriage to Lord SITART ; that advantage was taken of the opportunity, by some psons in London, to convey a few packages of contraband goods ink imperial and trunks attached to the carriage ; and that the weight of the goods giving rise to suspicions, Lord SruArtr desired that the French Customhouse-officers should open the trunks and dispose of their contents as the law directed. The whole amount of the possible saving of duty was about ninety pounds ! And the transaction took place not under the present Ministry, but under that of M. MARTIGNAC ! M,r. Bitouon.ica once talked in terms of lavish panegyric of the French journals ; but their conduct in this case brings them down from the proud height which,
I the imagination of the orator, they occupied. The lowest and most obscure journal in London would hardly have attempted to fabricate, out of such miserable materials as we have detailed, a charge against two Cabinets, much less to get up from them a cause of war between two nations. Yet this has been done by the most respectable journal of Paris. It is said, we see, in the journals, that the Customhouse here mean to send back the goods to France. We do not understand this. Is it a crime in England to attempt a fraud on the French revenue ?
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