POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
The domestic news this wonting is scanty, and the foreign mails have not arrived; but the Morning Herald publishes a letter dated from Black Torrington Rectory, Devon, by the son of Mr. Penleaze, the British Consul at Barcelona, incorporating an extract of a letter from the writer's father, which will just now be read with interest: it is a com- plete disproof of the charge against Mr. Penleaze, that he pushed neu- trality to cruelty- " When the place was in the hands of the insurgents, and we expected to be fired on by the fort of Montjuich, I sent your mother to my Vice-Consul at Mataro, where she was most kindly received and treated; but she was anxious to retnrn home, and as we had no reason to believe that the people of Barcelona would be mad enough to oppose the entry of the troops, almost everybody had reentered the-city. When we were threatened with the bombardment, Captain Mauusell, of the Rodney, requested me and my family to go on board, but said lie could not receive any Spaniards. As I had some under my protection who had been threatened with assassination, I determined not to desert them, and we stood out the whole bombardment ; which your mother bore with great courage and calmness. But on Sunday morning, when everything was over, Captain Maunsell sent to say that Espartero had complained that I impeded. his operations, and urging me as a point of duty to go on board. I could no longer resist ; and taking your mother out of a sick bed, and going out in a heavy sea to the ship in the roadstead, proved too much for her shattered consti- tution, and she sunk under it."
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