TUE TROUBLES OF THE REVEREND RICHARD CRUTTWELL, CURRENCY-DOCTOR.

THIS singular outpouring is the autobiography of a currency- doctor, coupled with an exposition of his views. His notions are those of the apostle THOMAS of Birmingham, as regards " taxation-

money." The political economy of " One of No Party" does not therefore require exposition; and if it did, its importance must yield to the sufferings and persecutions of the currency-martyr. Having

by 1833 worn out his health in the cause of mankind, who obsti- nately refused to listen to him, Breit:SAD CRUTT WELL "was at length

compelled to think of travelling in the hope of its restoration." He

fixed upon America for a two-years' trip ; his baggage was aboard, and he himself about to follow it, when Sir CHARLES BURRELL procured him." what he had long sought for, an interview with Lord ALTHORP. MT. CRUTTWELL found the then Chancellor of the Ex- chequer afflicted by the gout; and our Doctor inflicted upon him a speech and a pamphlet ; notwithstanding all which, honest Lord ALTITORP seems to have played a part to perfection. He pro- fessed to he " struck " with some of Doctor CRUTTWELL'S Views; never to have seen others in that "light" before; and altogether discovered such an earnest wish for further information, as well as such an apparent leaning towards the new faith, that the preacher of the currency was sore distraught between ALTHORP and America. However, time and tide stay for no man ; the anchor's weighed, and the Doctor at sea. But the yielding docility of Ammar haunted him ; he thought of the glory that would accrue to himself from such a convert, and of the gain that would follow to the cause; he could not rest on the Atlantic, or in Yankee land ; and hardly had be set foot ashore when he put him- self aboard a fast-sailing packet, and shortly announced to his noble pupil his arrival at Portsmouth, as well as his "perfect readiness to receive his Lordship's summons to attend him.' But, "0 curas hominum !

After about a fortnight's delay, I did receive a cold, forbidding letter ; simply to the effect, that Lord Althorp felt no disposition to renew the discus- sion of the subject to which my letter adverted. I believe I am moreover quite correct in saying, that within the lapse of woollier fortnight, the papers an- nounced that our then Chancellor of the Exchequer was giving 'dignity' to a Smithfield cattle-show-dinner, after conferring the supreme benefit of his en- lightened judgment to the award of prizes in certain exhibitions of fat cattle:" Having apparently tackled each Premier from the days of Lord LIVERPOOL, Viscount MeenornxE did not escape. With his wonted dexterity, the Premier first turned the Doctor over to the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, and then suggested that it would be more convenient than an interview if the currency views were put in writing.* With this invitation Doctor CRUTTWELL was not slow in complying; and having exhausted his literre seriidre, requested to enforce his fiiith by word mouth. To several demands the Pre- mier was dumb ; but at last he spoke by the pen of his secretary to this effect—" Lord MusmounxE is out of town ; but, after the correspondence 'which has taken place, he thinks an interview would be quite unnecessary, as it could not lead to any practical result."

Our enthusiast, foiled by the men in office, turned his hopes to him who is a last resource in all times of our tribulation, from the choosing a Ministry down to a squabble at Court. But the Duke revived the tactics of Torres Vedras ; writing as follows.

" London, 4th July 18S9.

"The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. Cruttivell, and has received his letter.

"The Duke begs Mr. Cruttwell to publish upon the currency if he pleases, and to speak upon the subject to whom he pleases. "The Duke desires to have nothing to say to it ; and he entreats Mr. Crutt- well not to give himself the trouble of writing to him again."

But what are the misdeeds of ALTHORP, MELBOURNE, or WEL- unTox, comvared to those of ROBERT PEEL? That man has ruined his country in despite of warnings " tenderly " held out to him, he has persisted in his course ; and he has "brutally insulted" the physician, who volunteered to " minister to a mind diseased." Here is his public character, under the figure apostrophe. " Oh, endless disgrace to that wrong-headed, self-willed, perverse individual, who first mooted the proposal for resuming cash payments on the virtually long- exploded standard of our ancient coins. And yet, pure as noontide sun were he, compared with that monster of ignorance and guilt, who, after having the misehiet of his mad course delicately and tenderly pointed out to him, has the supreme baseness still to persevere in consummating the ruin his previous folly Lad commenced, and deliberately offers to insult the friendly hand lie saw stretched out, as well in the hope of saving his own reputation as to rescue his ,unhappy country from the rum he seemirOy had so resolved to bring upon her, Let the or/ions name of Peel never—yes, never be forgotten." And now for the private offence ; which, we grieve to say it, ini,ght have added gall to the previous rhetoric. '1 dispersed a series of printed circulars a few years ego, (solely at my own cost,) in the hope of drawing attention to the subject among our more influen- tial public characters, men of high rank, &c.; of whom it was hardly to he ex- rected (after a circulation of some hundreds of each of such tracts, including

* The letter is not a had thing in its way.

"London, loth Marelt MS.

" Sir—I am directed by Viscount Melbourne to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the fith instant. Lord Melbourne feels the great importance of the sntjects to which you Mil', and begs that you will isrite upon them any

opinions which you way wish to communicate. 1 am, Sir, yours," &c.

certain news-editors and others) that not one single proof would ever reach me of their being read or at all looked into: if indeed I except Sir Robert Peel as one solitary instance; his politeness showing itself in a note addressed'. to myworthy publisher, couched precisely in the words underwritten- " 4 Sir Robert Peel requests that Mr. Tippell will discontinue sending him printed papers respecting the currency.'

" This came unfranked, written upon a paltry bit ' of paper ; for which, of course, I had. to pay the regular postage. .After brutal and uncalled-for insult like to this, marvel not if that I bring thy golden ' honour to the dart." .

The only Finance Minister of whom our author speaks with complacency, is Mr. SPRING RICE. That gentleman "politely and generously acceded" to his request for an interview; made several appointments to meet for exposition, but always put them off when the time came—at least, so we interpret the "unavoidable accidents" which prevented any "personal communication." The unkindest cut of all, however, is yet to come. The neglect or coldness of statesmen might be borne ; it forms part of the misery which humanity would escape from by self-murder but for the "dread of something after death." In his public sufferings Doctor CRUTTWELL has only experienced the common lot— "The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes."

But his own kith and kin have deprived him of fifteen thousand pounds—not "taxation-money," but current coin. A cousin of his, it seems, died leaving property to that amount. He bequeathed it to his sisters for their lives, with remainder to the Doctor, in- tended, but unfortunately not expressed. It was left for these ladies to carry their brother's wishes into effect; but they took such offence at Cousin CRUTTWELL'S currency doctrines, that,- dying, they cut him off without a shilling. M hether they were angered at the unprincipled nature of "depreciation," as our sufferer sometimes seems to think ; or, as be fancies at other times, had witnessed in sonic obscure town the disastrous effects or bad; paper-money in the stoppage of a country bank, which touched' their sensibilities ; or whether the subject and style offended their feminine taste, we cannot presume to decide. One thing only is clear—RienAnn CaurrwEes, has lost golden money whilst pur- suing paper.

having hitherto dealt with the past in ow author's pilgrimage, let us picture the present, and what, with his propensity, will most likely, alas ! be the future.

THE TOILS OF A CURRENCY-DOCTOR.

I usually rise, then, at three, four, or five in the morning; write some hours, with most unabated earnestness through the whole dead of winter, often shivering in the cold, may be, wholly without a fire, till the time for break- fist arrives. Immediately afterwards I go to the printing-office, usually to correct my own proofs; which, notwithstanding the utmost possible care in preparing the MS. would defy the power of most ordinary compositors to do. them justice at any rate. Commonly on my legs eight or ten hours daily, in making good the first proofs. Return home at dusk, worn completely down by sheer fatigue. After swallowing my simple morsel, sleep soundly for an lieue or two. Get up comfortably refreshed; trim my cheerful. fire— honest "dog" on one side, and drowsy "puss" on the other ; write or correct for the next day, another two or three hours. And this is the kind of labour constantly pursued by me for days, weeks, and months together: nay, almost the entire of last year (with reservation only Of Chic time exclusively requirin,g to be employed professionally); in the -view of softening the labours of our high public functionaries, in their object of dis- charging the heavy and awfully important duties imposed on them by their - office; after all receiving only in return such almost intolerable mortification and disappointment as would he likely to result from reading some flippant, meagre, irrelevant, totally empty, unfeeling,, and inconsiderate letter—not sun-: ply as those of Lord M'elbourne's No. 4, and the Duke of Wellington's before noticed, each silly enough in its kind, but grossly "rude" and "insulting," perlems, like one formerly- received from that masterpiece of coxcom'etry and impertinence, the present Sir Robert Peel.

Slight things mark men. A good deal is talked about " Tory trickery," but in the case before us, candour compels us to say that the trickery was all with the Whigs : whilst Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Duke of WELLINGTON discouraged, with unpalatable plainnesa, the delusions of this unfortunate gentleman, the whole batch ofWhig Ministers, by hollow and insincere treatment, have stimulated him to years of toil, trouble, and expense. We say stimulated, because we do not suppose they caused them. No official discouragement, no public punishment, would wean RICHARD CRtiTTWELL from his notions. Currency " is the opinion that fire cannot melt out of him ; he will die in it at the stake."