ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 629, 13 August 1851, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the “ New Zealand Spectator.” Wellington, August 12th. 1851. Sir, With mingled scorn and indignation I have read the absurd articles abusing Sir George Grey, which have lately appeared in the Wellington Independent, but those feelings are lost in amazement at the effrontery of him who, years since, starting as a servile advocate of the New Zealand Company and reckless assailant of the Local Government,—who remained for years the Company’s slavish tool, until finding that no lucrative and useless agency rewarded his labours he became their bitter enemy, and assailed them with a rancour to which the assaults of their other foes was forbearance, who has wearied’his lungs in abusing, and his hand in writing censures of the conduct of that Company, now, from mere hostility to the Colonial Government, assails Mr. Swainson’s exposure of their misdeeds, and sings their praises in our insulted ears! Must we believe that a land company, whose only aim was to gain wealth, utterly reckless at the loss of capital by the richer, or the privations and misery endured by the poorer classes of their countrymen, provided that gold from the land sales dropped freely into their coffers, are entitled to our gratitude? Are we to feel eternally grateful for the rotten beef, mouldy flour, and scanty wages we received for our labour and for their pledges of employment, which they refused to fulfil ? No, we are not his slavish dupes to believe that the New Zealand Company, which has for years been a social ulcer on the colony, deserves from us aught but execration. The virulent attacks of this-weathercock patriot on Sir George Grey savours more of personal rancour against the man, than of honest political op position to the measures of the Governor-in-Chief; but the well-earned character of Sir George Grey needs no defence from the censures of a mere clap-trap demagogue. His former abuse of, and present servility to, the Lieutenant-Govei nor I despise, in common with the other settlers, but his praises of the New Zealand Company are too much fo v L’l—- — nature silently to endure. I am, Sir, Yours respectfully, Anti-Janbs.-