Mr. Newdegate was charged, on the last day of the
Session, by Mr. Monsen, with having "hounded to death" the late Mr. Turnbull, a zealous Roman Catholic, and calendarer of the Foreign Office papers in the State Paper Office—a position which, our readers will remember, he was induced to resign from a feeling of delicacy for the Master of the Rolls, who was incessantly persecuted: by the Protestant Affiance with accounts of Mr. Turnbull's untrustworthiness for that office. Mr. Newdegate admits that he did all that in him lay, by signature and by deputation to oust Mr. Turnbull from his post, and that his death, about eighteen months later, may probably have been hastened by pecuniary anxieties. But he denies having hastened his death, because the life was accepted last January by an insurance-office. He finds an additional justification for his ! course in the fact that Mr. Turnbull belonged to a society for publishing and selling Catholic books all over Europe, Asia, I and America, every member of which was requested to exert • himself personally in aiding its operations. Mr. Newdegate thinks such an office entirely inconsistent with giving a fair and impartial account of the Foreign Office papers in the reign of Henry VIII., and we can only judge from his state- ment that he, who is quite to zealous a man as Mr. Turnbull, ' would avow his own incompetence to acquit himself of the like task without lending a Protestant colour to his abridgments. The matter is of more importance to the electors of North Warwickshire than to any one else. They must feel painfully the confessed incompetence of their representative to reproduce facts without the refraction of intense prejudice.
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