Mr. Fitzjames Stephen and Captain Jervis have had a rather
'warm controversy on the hustings at Harwich, in which Mr. Stephen, having said that Captain Jervis was disqualified by holding office under the Crown for a place in Parliament, that gentleman dropped the somewhat animated observation " That's a lie !" and, though requested, never withdrew it. It appears that Captain Jervis is Assistant-Superintendent of the Royal Small Arms Factory at Milbank, and that he received for this office 7171. in the last army vote, that 7th Anne, c. 6, sec. 25, provides that persons holding situations of emolument under the Crown esta- blished since October, 1705, are disqualified for election. Captain Jervis does not deny the facts, but denies, we suppose, that this is one of the offices contemplated by the Act, and his only reply to Mr. Stephen's charge of ungentlemanly conduct for calling Mr. Stephen's difference from him on a point of law " a lie," is that Mr. Stephen had previously violated the courtesies of election. Whether that is so or not we cannot tell, as we have not met -with any reprint of his speeches. But on the face of the facts it certainly appears that Captain Jervis is in a great passion with Mr. Stephen, and that Mr. Stephen, in spite of the lie direct, was not at all disturbed by Captain Jervis.
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