"TO TI1E EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.
" Sir—I have seen the following paragraph in the Morning Thrald of thi
day, relating to the reported death of Lord paragraph rumour that thse noble and learned lord had been killed—" kicked to death," as the rumour las it—was set on foot, we are told, by a well-known fashionable Count having received a letter from Mr. Shaft° 'yesterday morning, in which the lied: dent was mentioned, took the letter to 1\ hite's, and by way of a fake (1) read it publicly in the coticeroom, in such a way as to justify the rumour that 11,, result of the upset was the death of Lord Brougham.' "I believe this paragraph alludes to me, because I did mention to malty /sr, sons in the coase of 3 estertlay that I had seen a letter from Mr. Shako, cr. 'lamming the dreadful accident to Lord Brougham. The statement, howect; that I took the letter to White's or any other Clubhouse, and read it by ica,; of joke, is an infamous falsehood, which I cannot refer to without indignatioi The letter which I saw I considered to be genuine ; and you will readily is: lieve, Sir, that my feelings yesterday were any thing but jocular. The pers,„, who could suppose that I could be capable of making a joke about too Brougham's death, can know nothing of me, nor (I should think) of the feel. ings of a gentleman. The facts of this business, so far as I have bad any thing to do with them are as fsillow. Mr. Montgomery, it friend of Lord Brougham and Loot Web' leslev, called upon me on Monday afternoon in a state of the most distressiv grief: Ile had received a letter from Mr. Shaft°, dat«1 Brougham hall, tm turday, detailing the dreadful occurrence very nearly as it was detailed in yen:, paper of this mornhig. Mr. Montgomery, when he called upon toe, was tr. his way to Fern Bill to communicate the contents of this letter to Lord \Yd. lesley; and I never saw any one in a more deplorable state of grief and agita. tion than Mr. Montp,nwry was. This morning I bad a letter from 31 r. 3Iono gomery, written at Fern 11 ill, and he was as strongly as ever under the dis. tressin!, conviction of Lord Brougham's death. 4, Jt has since come to my knoWledge that Mr. Shafto's letter was intendsa as a joke. I leave others to eNplain the motives Mr so heartless a hoax. 44 I have the honour to be, sir. your obedient servant, Cot. D'OR.IAT."
" Tuesday E Oct. :22,
Evening, A letter front Lord Methuen distinctly confirms Count D'Orsay's de- duration that he made no juke of Lord Brougham's supposed death- " TO THE EDITOR or THE MORNING, POST.
" Sir—Seeing in your paper of to-day a letter from Count D'Orsay, in which he alludes to a most infamous misrepresentation of the manner in which be re- ported the death of Lord Brougham at this Club, and as I am the individual to whom he made his first communication here, I feel myself called upon to bear my unequivocal testimony to the kindness and good feeling with which it was throughout made. 4, Any thing asserted or hinted to the contrary, I can only assure you, is a downright falsehood.
"I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, " White's Club, Oct. '23, 1839." METHUEN."
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