PORT NICHOLSON.

Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 22, 25 November 1842, Page 1

PORT NICHOLSON.

, It is a frailty iu human nature, that peopie are always apt to attribute, with much generosity, to others, those failing’s which they are painfully, but most unwillingly conscious,they are themselves the slaves of. JL drunken man, for example, always fancies it is any body else, but him sell, who is so.—it is recorded of the madman, who had occasional lucid intervals, that'he could give no other reason ter his necessary confinement, but, that all the rest of the world were mad, and having unfortu - nately jhe majority in their favor, they had laid him by the heels, lest he should institute harsh measures for their recovery. Just in this spirit it is, that our co-tempo-rary of the 64 New Zealand Gazette 55 acy cuses us of a desire to disparage Port Nicholson. He is in an awkward,tidgettv, restless position himself,from his constant desire to make the world believe, that Port Nicholson is, what all the lying books, published in London about it declare it to be-tlie Eldorado of the nineteenth century,

I “-“like the Capital city of Jselk Whittington’s will m - sles, upon Ike nt High-gate. The unhappy 15 labouring under a monomania about Wclliugimi (not the great Soldier, buttu© Ulnup© city), and fan* that we,and everybody el§e, have nothing to think or muse upon, but the guhmei of Ms mental thraldom • filke the naan that Charles Mathews, of immortal me»ory, used to teIS of, be is 66 haunted by ajtune, 5 ’ and w nether be is knockfisg/ui a door, dissecting his porkcliop, or squeezing mn the Mm lingering drop of Ms half-pint of Cape,-** 64 ’tis'all the same,”—his Involuntary muscles beat time t© the tanti palpiti,” or whatever other musleal hobgoblin may have possession of him |ir§ hue ctcc. We purgelves>ct forth with a very natural respect for the enterprise aid ihe capital of the Mew ZhalandCompany, and, iff we were not bother' €l about It, should be ready to say every possible thing that m handsome of IP ©Ft Micholson,— -that is, in conscience j—but, when It became a mooted question, whether Hobson’s choice or the Company’s was properly the Capital one, It behoved ns to be persuaded In favor off the balance off testimony. Ulie case is well made out by If*. Jffiealc’s book; but there are a thou Sand-and-one decisive witnesses besides that gentleman: much of this has induced us to believe that gpert lie, itself, would some day be converted to the universal opinion,—and, as **€©- suing events cast their shadows before,”we pronounce, skat .that conversion is not Mr olf.—Col. W ake&eld, we have a notion, will tell she B?ort M3cho2sonians,that Auckland, if she must be

considered a rival, M, at least, one that they* -may wisely conciliate. Mmi why 'should all this draw tlie wrath off tlie upon ns ?-—We have never made tnvMnows comparisons; If, by very chance, we- [have mentioned tlie respective merits off the two places, If lias been fin 121 ere incidental reply to some furious onset of* tlie Quixotic himself. We have' -met. the honor of knowing the writer, and iff we had, we wonldhaot fall info tlie error off isnpwting 1 to him Improper mofives, without heifer authoriffy/than an accusing' conscience off our own: common sensewould teach ns tl%e very .very .shallow pretensions off anycause, which needs to he propped up by unprovoked personalities. We* ■ might have expected that* we should lose nothing "otfm n accustomed courtesy, from a brother offthe.broad* sheet, by reason of our writing without assy anonymous tie-fence,—-but there is no accounting for tastes. The Proprietor of the Times, and the Steverend gentleman,' whose name file scribbler In the 6f« zette so coarsely drags into Ills ungentlemari- 1 ly Invective, may possibly be' off sufficient consequence to snake it worth the while off the latter to he abusive off them; but they cannot recognise him, under any other than his professional eharacier,which,iff he Is heedless off if, as to indulge in these sort off sallies, will soon be tee threadbare for any one to fake hold off. We Saave other 66 brothers-in-law” in our native Kngland, and other parts of the w t ofM-, but,the most remote off them all cannot possibly have less art'andpart in the coEsduct offhe AndsMmnd Times? than, Mr. Oaurten. 1 Mt is ineemremlent, me \ know, /©s• u politic;* lwriter ffo have no eseoteetS pecrig, j and nee .feel this rants *• ; tage 9 im the m office nee have

receivedfrom both sides Oj the WviMmgtom IPremiJFor the Colonist quotes weEmle columns of omr pages, and humltlnglg \as 'tr ibe® them to omr printer. Thom persons in mho “ communicate” such mean** spirited attempt®, are met* come to ait the advantage they mmg reap .from them. The effort that hm been made by the &overnment. in to gay] the iPrem, omgMt mot to hare ■met mith connivance .from the pabile. JfhumaM® of Wellington*; it is, hmeecen, oftess consequence to our i equanimity, than it mitt he to their mcm reputation. *-