28 JULY 1838, Page 9

A pamphlet, published by Ridgway, entitled " Copy of a

Diploma- tic Paper taken at St. Petersburg in MA" has excited a good eleal of conversation this week. The Times transferred the whole of it into its columns, and puffed it vigorously as a genuine production, though bearing ample internal evidence of being a forgery and a hoax. It pretended to exhibit a plan drawn up in 1832, tinder the direction of the Emperor Nicholas, by one " Ivan • • *," (the stars may signify any thing,) for the partition of France among the European Powers. Englund was to have Calais and Boulogue; Talleyrand the principa- lity of Perigord ; Paris was to be it model republic; Lyons, another ; Charles the fenth, Henry the Fifth, Louis Philip, (whose throne was to be 'surrounded with Republican institutions,'') Dint Carlos, Don Miguel, Prussia, Austria, Bavaria, and the Pope, were all to have had slices; sod to be represented in one Grand Diet, to be called the " Diet of the Confederation of Gaul." The reason for this cutting-up of Louis Philip's kingdom, was the necessity of rooting out revolutionary opinions; arid in an elaborate historical sketch it was argued, that it, former times France was particularly prosperous because it was divided Into a number of separate dutchiee arid principalities. For this stupid farrago, the author, it was pretended. received 30,000 roubles from Nicholas, and a travelling allowance of 20 000 roubles a year.

Mr. Urquhart has published in the Times a letter from Lord Palmerston to himself, and his reply. The two letters occupy nine columns ! The Foreign Secretary labours to convince Mr. Urqu- hart, that he conducted himself at Constantinople with so much indis. action that it was quite impossible to allow him to remain there in au official capacity, and that he was treated with much delicacy and for- bearance. Mr. Urquhart enters into an extremely prolix defence of his conduct ; which possesses little interest to anybody but himself. One tact, however, he says he will prove, which may putt Loud Palmerston in an awkward position notwithstanding the noble lord's "denegation," Mr. Urquhart declares that Lord Pahnerston is region. Sible for the papers in the celebrated Portfolio ; and he mentions this Circumstance in confirmation of the charge- " As I recollect, when on one occasion the period of publication of that periodical required a more hasty determination respecting the insertion of a de- spatch than could be obtained by refeience to Lord Palmerston or Mr. Strang. ways, who were beth absent front Loudon, you, (Mr. Backhouse, to wlenn the letter is addressed, ) to whom I stated the difficulty, urged me to publish upon my own convictions. I replied, that not a single sheet should go from me to press without the sanction and revision of some member of the Foreign Office ; giving as my grounds for so doing the weighty responsibility involved its such *publication, extending even to the minutest details."