'Moore's Diary,' vol. iii, p. 156, affords any justifi- | which I shall not be able to produce his own concation of that article. The case is this:temporaneous evidence of a contrary tendency."

"Mr. Moore dies leaving his widow nearly unprovided for, but intrusting to my care some manuscript volumes which he thought might furnish the means for her subsistence and comfort.

After impliedly avowing the authorship of the Quarterly Review article, he adds-"I admit that Mrs. Moore had for thirty years good reason "Seeing her broken health and shattered spirits, to believe me to be her husband's friend; but if I judged it necessary for her comfort that she should she was aware of all those offensive passages,' remain in her cottage, and continue in her accus-which you now admit to exist in the Diary, could tomed way of life. she have supposed that he was mine?"

"I endeavored in publishing the 'Diary' to omit passages offensive to individuals. I omitted some regarding you which, though not bitter or malicious, might, I thought, give you pain. There was one in which he said he found you less clever and more vain than he expected, or had supposed. This

I allowed to stand.

"As one of the public men of the day, you are accustomed to write most severely of others. To escape all criticism on yourself seems an immunity hardly to be expected.

STARVATION AN AMERICANISM.-Strange as it may appear, it is nevertheless quite true that this word, now unhappily so common on every tongue, as representing the condition of so many of the sons and daughters of the sister lands of Great Britain and Ireland, is not to be found in our own English dictionaries; neither in Todd's John"But were you justified in embittering the last son, published in 1826, nor in Richardson's, pubyears of the widow of Moore, sneering at his do-lished ten years later, nor in Smart's-Walker remestic affections, and loading his memory with re-modelled--published about the same time as Richproach, on account of the few depreciatory phrases ardson's. It is Webster who has the credit of

to which you refer?

"Mrs. Moore when she was told that you were the author of the article in the Quarterly,' would not believe it. She was deeply wounded when she was assured it was so. She had considered you as

importing it from his country into this; and in a supplement issued a few years ago, Mr. Smart adopted it as a trivial word, but in very common, and at present, good use.". What a lesson might Mr. Trench read us, that it should be so "In reply to a long and bitter attack, I wrote the-From Notes and Queries. note to which you refer. I have no further explanation to offer.

the friend of her husband.

"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

"J. RUSSELL."

SILVIO PELLICO, one of the celebrated victims of Austrian tyranny, died at Turin, on Jan. 31, aged 61 years. He was born in Piedmont, and spent a part of his youth at Lyons. He returned afterwards to Milan, where he was teacher of

Mr. Croker rejoins to this in a much longer and still more abusive letter, from which, however, we take the entire pith and substance in repro-mathematics and where he composed several of ducing two brief passages.

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his tragedies of which the most celebrated is Francesca di Remini. He then edited a paper, of "You sacrifice not only your argument, but the which the Austrian Government became suspicharacter of your poor friend, by revealing what cious, and it was suppressed. The breaking out never suspected, that during the many years in of the revolutions, in Italy, of 1820, raised the which he was living on apparently the most friend- tyrannical wrath of Austria, who accusing Pellico ly terms with me, and asking, and receiving, and of being a Carbonari, which he was not in realiacknowledging such good offices, both consultative ty, imprisoned and condemned him to death, in and practical, as my poor judgment and interest 1824. The Emperor Francis I, commuted the were able to afford him, he was making entries in capital condemnation to imprisonment for life, his Diary' concerning me so 'offensive,' that even and Pellico was confined with Godfalonieri and the political and partisan zeal of Lord John Rus-Maromelli in the fortress of Spielberg. At the sell shrank from reproducing them.

"I must be allowed to say, under such strange end of eight years, he was set at liberty and circumstances, that I reject your lordship's indul- transported directly to the Piedmontese frontier. gence with contempt, and despise the menace, if it The period of his imprisonment he rendered celbe meant for one, that you have such weapons in ebrated by his work, I mei prigioni, a book transyour sleeve; I not only dare you, but I condescend lated into various languages. There the Christo entreat you, to publish all about me that you tian forgiveness is carried to the utmost, Pellico have suppressed. Let me know the full extent of speaking of Austria and the Emperor with great your crooked indulgence and of Moore's undeviat- suavity. He spent the rest of his life in Turin, ing friendship. Let us have the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, while I am still keeping aloof from any political movement—a living to avail myself of it. Let it not be said that pious devotee of the Catholic religion-directed 'poor dear Moore told such things of Croker that and influenced by his brother, a distinguished jeseven Lord John Russell would not publish them.' uit, whom he even aided in answering Gioberti's I feel pretty confident that there will not be found first attacks against the order, in a work entitled any entry of Moore's derogatory of me against prolegomeni, published about 1842.