NOTE to the Article on Maynooth, in No. LXXIV, We are not in the habit of noticing attacks upon us in the newspapers; but in some letters lately so published by Dr. M'Hale, in reference to the article Maynooth,' in the last number of this Journal, there occurs a passage which it would certainly be unfair to pass altogether without remark. The Bishop of Maronia (after much vague abuse, which we may safely leave to its fate) complains formally that he has been accused of transgressing, in a very essential particular, the Statutes of Maynooth, after having sworn to observe them. He admits the transgression, but denies altogether the oath; and it is under these circumstances that we must now apologize to the right reverend letter-writer in the Irish newspapers. Our statement was erroneous. The Doctor never swore to observe the statutes of his seminary. He only assisted at the celebration of High Mass, and at the invocation of the Holy Ghost, to enable him to fulfil a promise which he was about to make on entering on the duties of an eminent station in that religious establishment-and then subscribed, publicly and solemnly, an engagement to observe the statutes in question. The Doctor's words were,' EGO SPONDEO et polLICEOR;' not 'EGO JURO.' We do not hesitate to express our regret that we should have fallen into an error which the Bishop of Maronia considers as of such grave moment. NOTE to the Article on Mr. De Roos's Narrative, in No. LXXIII. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a letter complaining of a paragraph in this article, which, but that it is very long, and contains matter wholly irrelevant, we would have published in this place. The paragraph is that entitled 'Settlement of the boundary line;' and the letter-writer asserts that we have fallen, in the course thereof, into no fewer than eight misrepresentations. ་ We admit that we have two errors to apologise for the first, that of alluding to one of the king's commissioners as an American citizen born in America;' whereas it appears that the family of the gentleman in question were American loyalists, and he himself born in England; -we are very sorry for this mistake. The other is, as the writer seems himself to suspect, a mere typographical error, and one which we should have thought too obvious to require any remark whatever. As to the other six charges, we must, for the present, plead not guilty: 1. A line has been drawn contrary, it is said, to the spirit of the treaty.' Of this our correspondent complains grievously, alleging that we represent the line as having been agreed on and established by the commissioners.' We neither meant nor said any such thing: our meaning was confined to the line as drawn by the Americans, and submitted, or about to be submitted, to a third power; and we accordingly spoke afterwards of its consequences, if admitted;' per haps 299 haps 'proposed' or 'contended for' would have been a better expression than drawn. 2. We have been cheated of a vast extent of territory.' meaning was, that we shall be cheated of it, if the American preOur tensions are ultimately approved of; but in the meantime we are cheated of its use-America is, de facto, in possession of a territory that, in our opinion, ought to be British. 6 3. By some unlucky chance, an island at the foot of the Long Soult rapids has been ceded to the Americans-we are, therefore, at the mercy of the American government, whether we shall be permitted to navigate that part of the river which is between Kingston and Montreal, or not; and to obviate this difficulty, we are driven to the enormous expense of a canal of communication. Our correspondent says the island is only a mile long, and the distance between Kingston and Montreal one hundred and ninety miles; and complains of us for saying that one mile could interrupt such a navigation. We answer that less than a mile, or than half a mile, may create an effectual interruption; and beg leave to ask our correspondent why, if there be no such interruption, the canal has, de facto, been undertaken? 4. With respect to that part of the boundary-line which is to run along the 45th parallel of latitude, from the Connecticut river to the St. Lawrence, it happens that the line has been drawn thirteen miles too far to the northward.' Here again, for drawn, read proposed.' 5. The letter-writer says, there would not, it is believed, be a difference of a principal proportion of thirteen miles, even if the 45th parallel of latitude were run upon the geocentric principle, as contended for by the United States.' This is the belief-the opinion-of the letter-writer; our belief-our opinion-is the other way, and we are not alone, as our correspondent must be aware, in our opinion. 6. Our last alleged misrepresentation is a supposed assumption, on our part, that the geocentric principle contended for by the Americans had been admitted by the English commissioners. The passage complained of bears no such construction; we only mentioned the proposal, to show the trickery to which the American agents have resorted. 、 In conclusion, we must once more apologise to Mr. Alexander Barclay (whose very name was altogether unknown to us till we read his letter) for our mistake as to his country, and disclaim the slightest intention of being guilty of personal calumnies' towards him, unless it be a calumny to call a man (even in mistake) an American citizen. He can scarcely, we think, be serious when he speaks of our remarks as likely to affect his advancement in life.' He is in the service of the British government-to that government he has, as he informs us, submitted a full explanation of all his conduct throughout the business in question; and he must be aware that, on that explanation, and not on the casual observations of by-standers, the issue will and must depend. NEW 6 NEW PUBLICATIONS. AGRICULTURE, GEOLOGY, AND BOTANY. 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