Mr. FERMAND'S affair has ended in smoke, with a characteristic
escapade on his part. After the resolution passed by the House of Commons last week, declaring his statements false and calum- nious, Mr. FERRAND addressed a letter to Mr. H000, which ap- pears to be meant for an amende honorable so far as that gentle- man personally was concerned; but it is full of curious miscon- ception as to the writer's own position. He blames Mr. Hoot for bringing the matter before the House ; which Mr. HOGG did not do. He says that if the House had ventured to assert its power of interference, either by censuring or by any other act of a tangible nature, it was his intention to resist : why, suppose the House had voted him to Newgate, what resistance could be have made ? And he evidently has an idea, too, that he has not been " cen- sured" ! It only shows how little he can comprehend and appre- ciate the force of words. He says that he is " in no way respon- sible" for the anomalous position in which the House placed itself: few people, after this exhibition of flighty and unimpressible intel- lect, will deem him very responsible for any thing.
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