knew that he had attempted to take advantage of a moment of effervescence traitorously to excite its indignation, and to hurry it to revolt.” This was pretty plain speaking. On the same day that the article appeared, Mr Soulé addressed an angry letter to the _Diario Español_, which did not publish it. The letter afterwards appeared in a French frontier newspaper. The following is a translation of its contents, as given in the _Bayonne Messager_ of the 9th August:— “MADRID, _30th August_. “_A Monsieur le Directeur du Diario Español._ “Sir,—The tone and character of the article concerning me published in your sheet of this day, too plainly prove the influences that have inspired it for me not to honour it by a word of reply. “I leave Madrid because it pleases me to leave it, and because I have no account to render to anybody, either of my proceedings or of the motives that determine them. “I will never absent myself from any place through fear of being insulted or put in peril by those whom my presence may displease. “I do not fear impertinence, nor even assassins. “And especially, Sir, I do not fear the people. “The people respects what deserves to be respected;—it brands only the miserable men who flatter and deceive it.... It fights—but it does not assassinate. “As to the perfidious insinuations of which your article is full, they are beneath my contempt. “I leave to you the merit of the varnish with which you have covered them, and, to those who dictated them, the infamy of their invention. “I am, Sir, your Servant, “PIERRE SOULÉ.”