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Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 148, 8 November 1845, Page 2

A most contemptible, malicious, and unmanly placard has been, printed and posted, addressed to His Excellency Captain Fitzroy. Our readers may be assured that we shall not disgrace our pages by inserting it. We only notice it at all for the purpose of recording our unqualified reprobation of it. The writer must be utterly destitute of Christian feeling, who could put forth such a document. He must want no less that forbearance towards misfortune, which even a brutal pugilist respects. «' Wheu a man has knocked under, what strike at him then ? By the fist of i»y father I blush for ihee Ben." Tom Crib.

There are twenty-one separate paragraphs (besides the exordium) m this disgusting publication, couched in what the writer calls the language of truth, but which ought rather to be designated the language of studied and coldhearted insult.

This pseudo Junius in the first paragraph, puts his best leg foremost by a bundling recapitulation of the quondam prosperity, anJ recent disasters of JCororarika. Conviction of the error of his policy, must long ere this, have been produced in the mind of Captain Fitzroy ; and for what but a malicious and unmanly purpose, should Mister Junius Zelandi reproach him now, when his power for the reparation of past disasters, or for the promotion, or prevention of future evil, is in either and every rase alike at an end.

But we shall not trouble ourselves, or magnify the author, to the disgust of cur readers, by following him through the several heads of his trashy publication. Suffice it to say, that the whole lucubration is executed in a style of taste and feeling of intention and per formance, only worthy of the spiteful anger of a school boy, smarting under the rod. There is nothing consecutive, or consistent throughout the who e production, except the well sustained, and very apparent spirit of malice. As a literary performance, it would little credit an ambitious stripling in the lower school. The errors in grammar are monstrous, as (hey are frequent ; and a little stuiy in orthography is manifestly necessary before the writer can pretend to the title of "Junius," which he has had the presumption to assume. We beg leave to suggest to the arrogant scribe, that there is an obvious error in spelling: for Junius, he should n ave written J-ewnius. We drop the re mark en passant, that he is no Genius. lie calls himself the Junius of Zealand. Heaven help New Zea'and if her best political wri ing is to be entrusted to iiis hands I But moreover, he says, Zeland, not New Z..a and, and if such be really the case, we only hope i.e will quickly return to the land of sehnaps, fog, and broad foundations. We are ashamed of basing devoted so grave a criticism to such a pa ! try subject ; but we must further add, that the printer having been afraid, or ashamed to affix his usual imprimatur thereto, we disclaim all art, or part, in this most ungentlemanly business.