The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1810-09-18 00:00:00, page 1

- Political Miscellany.
. Erom Cobbett’s Register, of May 12th, 1812,
i NARRATIVE,
Revaring o Mr. O’Connor.
- The public will not have forgotten,
that at the time when thz forcibleentry
" was made at ‘Sir Francis Bardeu’s
Boufe ; at the time when the qrmy was
called forth to execute the warrant of the
Homorable Houfs ; at the time wheo the
faldisrs, in purfaance of this objelt,
entered Sir Francis’s dwelling, forced
this tru= Englithmaa’s castle, and,
with mufksts loaded, bayonets fixed,
swords drawa, and the 'match at the
touch hale of the cannons, f{uccesded
in torciag him o 2 prison ; at that
time Mr. Rocsr O’Connor was ia
Sir Francis’s house.—The publis, or,
at least, that partof the public, who
have been, for the last fiftzen years,
in the habiy of attending to political
matters kaow, that about thirtecn
years ago, Mr. Artsur O’Connxog,
- a youager brother of Mr. O’Conner,
was charged with reasonable designs,
and, after some vain attempt at pro
ducing a legal convi&ion of him, the
goveéinment of Ireland entered into a
treaty with him, agreeing to drop all
proceedings againt certain of his
friends, and to put a {top to the works
of the army againlt the people to
whom he was known to be attached,
apon-condition of his giving them
- whatever information he mighr pofl:fs
relative to the views and resources of
the people in infurre®ion and upon’
the further condition of his emigra.
ting to any counrry not at war with
Eegland. In conf:quence of this
treaty, Mr. Arthur O’Connor emigra
ted, and is, at this time understood to
be the condu®or of a celebrated print,
called the Arcus published at Paris,
in the Englilh laugunage; a priat
which, it «is supposed, and perhaps,
truly, has done, and is doing; a great
- deal ofinjary to this country. ‘When
the peculators and borough mongers
and their absttors are hard puthed ;
when they are driven into a corner ;
wihen they have no defence to offer,
‘and when even thair “arts of thuflliag
and iyrorx.dand falfe fwearinoz and can
ting fail them when thus hemmed up,
they have (as the atteative observer
must well know) always recotrfe to
charges against those who are
are their exposers ; against those from
- whef= powers. of dete@®ion and expo
fare they meer with ahnoyance. These
+ public robbers; lik2 ‘private robbers,
~and indeed like resl criminals of every
fort and delcription, always inltead
of thinking about their own defencs,
thiak about nothing but of the man.
‘mer, in which they shall attack the.
‘motives, or i@:ﬁéﬂrb&err, ‘or both, of
their accusers, ‘They do ot fay *“the
charges preferred against us are
falfe ;”’ they dare not {ay, ¢ the things
alledged againl us dre not crimes.”—
But, unable to deny" either the
* criminality of the deeds or that those
- deeds have been done by them, they
- fay nothing at” all about the charges
-against themfzlves, but fall to the pre.
feriing ‘of charges ageinft their accu.
e gharges, too, which-have no
<hing in common with, which have no
fort. of connzttion with =h“b%g:
-pietercd againit them, and which they
donot atzempt _to repel only becaule
they cannot repel them. In desalt
4o fallibirdin theté their charges —
b, their more common .wa is-to
ks dp that fort of misture of botl,
“which, when applied to 2 purpof like
that hmfmken of, is called mfrepre.
fontation & which is perhaps.he bafelt
&%@wwg«gw%:fa&?s
winde of attack the borough mongers
I o A Bl sdourls npon e
Sciheir hirelings had FECORTE, PO -
oceafimof SirFrancis's commit ment athe
- fuse that physical foree B 0 PIEICLEY
ovet bim.—This theywould Base fked
well + this would: have delighted
uh:&w*ﬁm
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" of the people of Engiand, and of the
whole Kingdom, was 93 “'I..
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Fionorable House had doomed him ;
they saw, thay it reqaired THE CO
CEFFRATION' O ZHE aamy to euforce
the order of the homorable House againﬂ:
ths Iwowed and wall knowan enémy of
inj iftice, cruelty, corruption and puad
lic 1 sbhery. All thisthe borough
moners and their hirelings saw 3 ail
this they knew right we!l the nation
and the world would fee too; they
were fully aware of the effeéts of such
notorions and friking f:&s ; they
knew well, they felt; they were taught
by In&ia&, that in miads even the least
caltivated and ascaftomed to leafon
‘ing, the right,ithe inevitable and {ro
them) the dargerous conclusion mult
be drawn from iiofe fa@s, and, in due
tims, beallci upon, unless the public
could, by some extraordinary effort,
be instantly mifl:d by faillehood, or
intimidated by alarm — Accordingly,
soon after the commitment took piace ;
soon after the Picadilly expelitioa
had been crowned with success, the
. borough-mongeriag crew set to work,
in their vehigles of falfehood. Firlt
they would fain” have persuaded the
world, that it was nothing bata *‘2
contemptible rabble’> who opposed the
imprisonment of Sir Francis ; but,
then. there was 7he army ; there were
the cannons planted in the freets and
squares ; there were the armad boats
brought uo the Thames and ftation
‘ed opposite the Honorable House.
“There was no getting rid of these
fadts ; and, unless they collld be got.
“ten rid of,it was,the borough-mangers
“saw, in vain to attempt to cheat this
world into a belisf that the friends of
Sir Francis were “ contemptible rabble.”
The' next fétch was to accuse the
~friends of Sir Francis with violent and
murderous z&ions ; with firing of pis
tols. in the fireets, at the army ; and
~with having formed a design to blpck
- up the ends of fireets;and tumble down
“the bricksand tiles upon the heads of
armiy. 1f this had been true, it would
have 10~ ded - nothing in fopport of
the assertion ® of the . friends of Sir
Francis being “ e contemptible rakbble ;”
- but it was notoriously falle ; and we
have now pretty good proofs of the
falfehood in the failure of the offer of
sool. to' bring forth any evidence of
a tranfgreflion of the law baving
‘been commiitted by the people, while it
has been proved upon the oaths of
two juries, that some of the life guards
did commit wiiful murder upon two,
at leaft,of the people. There is no get
ting over this. Soldiers are sent to aid
in executing an order of the ¢ Repre
sentatives of -the people 3 aund, in this
exscution, the said soldiers commit
murder upon the pegple 3 while 1t has not,
i anvy cafe.‘been proved that the peo
‘ple thouzh some of them were mur ‘er
ed hy the soldiers, comitted any act of
_violence . upon-the soldiers. What,
then, were the: borough mongers and
their hirelings to do 2 Why, resort to
their old expedient 3 mnamely, abuse,
defame, vilify,the persons, by whom
this exposure has been produced. For
this purpose the accidenr of M.
O’Connor’s . being in the house
of Sir Fr:—.xngis, at the time of its
“being broken - open, was eagerly
feizea on, particularly by one wri.
“ter, ‘who in his condu& wpon this
“oceaflon, has difcovered'a depree of
maligaity and of coardice rarely tc
“be-met with even in the crew to whick
'bé belongs, and néver to be found ir
~any. other description of men, The
‘bafenels of this man’s autack upot: Mr.
SRy ke
'word gﬂdb justice to it It wa
_notmerely a wanton attack ;Mr
O’Connot was not only an unoffend:
10gparty io this case, agd it was not
ARSI his brother, jince Ir. lef2. (b
mgdomhy as well 4s while he wasin ic.
PR s ull s, there was Mie
ﬁ%&i&; et= f?! o
ißt e very nane of
- O’Comnor ; andyth ?@hmhmw
By o B ARG De e e R R S e
defictent in point of understanding
and ‘*”gh’éi@ per-.
ceive that chie prejudice would,in some
e 2oy W;* SYL LT S el e R
J&}“’ g o *f“f bim?&g;!
g o) fag genchully U
PENEREIONE 5 suid not fahitiyom) en
Bitaging ohi o % Skt
et -k Dag gOne COUtYs. WltNOout
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L O RN DR )
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1810,
telped to accuiutions againf him by
the povernment,which, Narra®ive, in.
deetd, T was the more anxiou to poss
{els, from having -heard that Eheral.
minded, kind, and honelt mai, Dy,
Lawrence, fiy, that never wi.ireat
mesit more unworthy than tha: ahich
this very. gentleman had reccjved,
and, concerning which treatmzat, the
Daétor sent me some papers, dariag
the adminifiration of Mr. Fix and
Lerd Grenville. .~ This circuinftance
Da: rally gave a spur to the cther
mwotives, which led me to difire 1o
pofif: Mr O’'Connor’s Narative,
which lravicg ebtained, I herd srefent
it 1o My readevs in. bir ows) awards.
Upon readiag this Narrative, ishere is
the jut man, who will not fiis miin.
exécrating the recent attempiio excite,
to renew, a fulpicion of his chara@er
and his motives ¢ Well may he set out
with observing, that the “people |of
England &nomw avorfe than nothing ab&w‘
Ireland. . But, this is not firangd:
s divide and opprefs.”isan ol 4 maxim;
.and, it would be itrange indeed,
this maxim were forgotten by. th
borough mongers and their hireling
Hence the never-ceasing calumnie
upon the Irith people. = Who, upo
observing the manner, in which M
~O’Connor has been fpokesn of, finct
the affair of Piccadilly, would not
imagine, that he was a bw, dejperati
adventurer, oty at * lealt, a 2 man /fivin
upon Sir Fraucis ; a fort of hireiin%
patriot ; in short, 2 man aimoft as d¢-
{picable as if he were a tool, a gulper
of filfe oaths under a boerough mon
ger; almost as defpicabls asifhe werea.
journeyman inthe work ofcorruprion.
Yet is Mr. O’Connora gertleman of
ancient family and ofindependenet
fortune,baving his poffeflions in lands,
being one of the sawners of his native
couniry, and having of course, all the
motives that a man can poflisly
have for preventing that cetntry from
being robbed, for preventing property
fraom b:ing taken from the owners, of
whatever delcription the robbers may
.be, or under whatever name they
may approach. With this preface I
shall fuhmit the Narrative to my rea
ders, beseeching them to refl:&, that
Trilhmen re not only sen as well as
themselves, they have not only feelings
as well as Eaglithmman 3 but that
Engiifhmen poflz(s no rights, to the
enjoyment ofghich Irithmen are nat
filly entitlea, and that, to deny this
proposition isto . declare open war a
gainst the people of Ireland, and fully
to jultify every aé that they have, or
‘may, commit ia hostility to England }
a denial, therefore, which no one but
a traitor to his King and country will
~ever attempt to make, ,
- Mr. O’Conner’s NarraTlVE.
- From a desire to. make the people
of England acquaiinted with ilreland,
“of which they know worse than no
thing, receiving as they do, ail their
accounts through- the medium of a
~defcription of persons, in the constant
~habit of :{:‘alumniaﬁxﬁg" that people ;
and fiom a with (o give the Henpienl
- England the " means of forming a
_judguwent between the government of
Areland { 'uring the residence there of
- &uord’s Camden and. Cornwallis) and
“me, it €annor, especially ‘ac this mo
"ment, be thoughi obirufive in e to
lay before a just, bur pygjudiced pub.
Jic, a faithfai narrative of those £lQs,
~which tovk place in ‘'my particular,
commencing on the 27th of Decem:
‘ber 1796. and ending on the Bth of
'~ May, 1803 ; a space of nearly seven
years; during the whole of which time
2 _continued fire of perfecutiod was
“kept up at me.. Conner Ville, the
former place of my residence, is fitu
avsdhnsoggiiles from Sdpyey Hay,
- where a French flcet made its appeai
%Wi he 234 of December 1796.
~ To oppose a landing of the trobps on
-board this flzet, about 5000 of the
Irish militia had advanced and occu
_pied the villages abot mé. For the
friends and myfelf treated these men,
T refer to the panegyrics in the houfés
of Butimér o Eoglend and Trland
“at the time. We_ cheered them in
their distress ; we adminiltered to
Ua ety ad o
dinary share. On the 27th of De.
Gember, about nif i)
‘tt ‘ ) 3;:»»’ *igité. " ;\‘ % i
et 40 WW@ P RSIRL R oik W
‘ot {oldie ’”f:ﬁ e
m)ﬁﬁ%’im‘“* 5e two com.
or {mooth, my countrymen were wel
come ,to me. I had then a large
house, well stored. I was in the midd
of plenty ; full of happiness. ['bro’t
all the men to my house. My mind
has no register of the time they re.
mained with me, nor what I did for
‘them. My tenants were very good
to those with them. My friends {that
was the whole country far and- wide)
opened their doors to this | native
atmy ; let them want for “nothing ;
and even when the terror of invasion
had fublided, my tenants and myfelf
presented the poor fellows with the
biilet money, to which we were ‘in
titled, to boy them shoes and fock
ihgs. I did my ntmoft to mak: the
ficuation of the officers as comfortable.
as poffile; and this I will fay, that
I received from all -more thankd
than ‘were due, and experienced
gratitude fir exceeding -the ob
ligation. 1 < learned .af‘ter‘wai'aé;;
that these officers (strangers hereto
fore to me) had been direéed by some
agitators, to my house in the expecta
tion of my not admitting them, which
was the opiaion also of all the officers
in that army.. 1 dare fay, such of
them as live at this day, will acknowl
edze that they received a more hear
ty welcome at Coanor Ville, than at
the house of the most * loyal’”” man in
lieland ; that is, the man that has
the largest pénfion, or most lucrative
sinecure; or polt in the kingdom.
Whillt this division of the arm¥ was
in their cantonments, in my neighbor
‘hood,when the nien loft their mutkets,
bayonets and and ammunition, which
t_quendly happened,they camis tojme
~—l hadfthe things restored to them.
The soldiers became-attached to me,
Long, indeed - always, before these
<€%ents, I had been an cbje@ of great
jealousy and hatred ; I had ever been
in the habit of commitiing a crying
fin in Ireland. 1 had boroe mylelf so
to all the people, that they were great
ly attached to me—ll had appointed
arbitrators in every parifh,through an
_immenfe diftri@, who decided all con
troversies ; the situation of the petty:
fogging lawyer was nearly gone; I
curbed the rife of drubkenefs ; T pre
vented riots ; I did all the good T
cotld. It will not therefore, furprize
any person, in the.leall conversant
‘with the charadter or complexion of
the ruling fadtions in Ireland, that I
was an abomination to them; and
when to these vices, in their eyes,; the
thanks of the poor fodiers were {u
peradded, my crimes were not to be
endured, and I became an obje@® of
fulpicion and distrait. * In this ttate of
things {the French force having long
left the coafl) a youdg man from my
neighborhond had gone in the begin
ning of March to fee some friends of
“his at Bantry, where he was arrested
_for adminifleriog the Oath ‘of Union.
Of being queltionedy he acknowl
edged, that he had received it from
my Steward, a lad not more than 18
~yeais of age, who.was also arrested §
- and both: were conveyed to the prison
-0f Cork, where every means were used
to'extort confeflisns from them to imi
_plicate me —They declared, however,
~thar T was the last person to, whom
- they would -disclose any thing of the
kind:~=Their honesty and perfiltance
intrath were called treason to their
- country, add attachment to me ; and
' a Codncil was called together i
_ warrant was iffied, to arrest me on
fafpicion,the a& of Habeus Corpus be
ing, at the time, fulpended.. - ' .
it serer, Towever was ot oel
kept. Ldiftoversd the plor. Llay
down in my own boufe the- night on
~which I'koew that ao ate¢mpt was to
be midde to seize on me by a large
detachment of ‘horfe (attgnded: by
loris, esquires, 40d generals and thieir
_Raff ) and before they Had marched
‘half a mile [rom their quarters, I was
A OGS A G W U TRt TR S S o T e
-{at & diltancé of 12 miles) apprized
_of their having {et out. They made
“their eatch sos me, avd a confiferable
depot of armts, which they were in.
formed were secreted i the lofis/and
¢cellars of my houle “’é‘“‘ rere
there, and they marched back. The;
wé@ﬂmmmh%
Cork, fayiag, that, if be would give
i <fucaiin s STHIML eor ok
o ARG GIE Vg < ey
preferred the liversy of the comaion.
A o v e TR R
[TWo DOLLS. PR aNNUM.]
| air, and the use of my own limbs, t»
l unlimited imprifhnment. - I Rond out
till the latter end gs April, when find-.
ing my bealth fomewhir hurt from
tiie manner of my living particalarly
from damp, I left home and’ came
to England, on the 27th of
April, where I remgined till the mid
dle of June, when I received advice
. from bome, that several of my ten
ants, and others of the poor people to
the amount of 51, had bee fluns inte
prison and that two unhappy men h:d
been imfyced 1o {wear against them.
The fame packet containet also a
proclamation that had bernriffued by
Lord Camden on the 17th of May
before inviting every person to comsg
_I iz and surrender and give security for
the peace. on on affuranceof bring ra
{ Jarther gueftioned ~ Wery happy al the
| oppnm{;ﬁt y this proclimation aff~rd.
ed me, to develops the confpiricy |
againf the people in prison,. and 1o
aid them in their defence; I returned
to Ireland, surrendered myfelf at Mals
low to Lord Kirf:le and Sir. James
. Cotton, on the faith of the proclaima,
- tion ; performed the terms required
- of me, which was to give bail to be ok
the peace for seven years, of all which
I apprized Lord Camden and bis
~ Secretary, and Mr: Pelham. - now
- Lord Chichefter,the 18th of June —
. From Mallow [ went home on the
the sth of July ;- and, oo the 14th
~was arrested by Brigadier Gen,
Eyre Coote, at his camp whither bz
“bad invited me Before he etaingd
~mie he looked for great certainty, iv to
his ordetiy book, and there found, as
~he said, an order dated the Ift of July
toarrel me. 'O~ his having done {4,
e was at alofs what to do with me;
and attended meto Bawdon, what: L
was to reman till he thould hear from
Dublin. Oa the third day of my stay
in Bawdon I received a letter from
- Mr Pelham, dated in Dublin the fame
- day I.was arrefled at the camp near
- Bawdon, 180 miles from town, faying
. that Lord Camden wished much to
fee me id Dublin, and that, if T would
| comply, I might depend upon myg
i person being perfeétly fufe gom arrests
and that I should be perfhitred to re
turn home immediately ~ This letter
- I communicated to Mr. Coote, who
“said, that as the government did not
~know of myarreß, at the time Mr.
~ Pelham wrote, hé could dot let me go
till he received an answer from Dub
lin to his letter, apprizing the govern
~ment of my being in custody. Ina
few days he received his orders:
which were to fend a military officer
to attend me; & Carrain Rocwe and
- L set out for Dublin—The Caprain
had a {word, and he hadenhis {:(h
- and gorget. There isa high hill be
‘tween Bawdon and Cork ; we _alight.
‘ed from our cdrriage ; itis a place.of
rendezvons ; {“fe 20 or 30 cariers
aflembled here; they had not seen mie
- finte my return from England Cip
tain Rocheﬁrﬂ {i% his danger, hiz’
sword could not defend him. his {ifh
~ and gorget could not protedt him. 1
- perceived the warkings .of His mind,
~a look of kindnels from me to him
“ would save his life ; I Tuperadded a
‘word of efeem. Captain Roche
. Was not molefled. We arrived in
- Cork that evening,where we haltedfor -
theanight, A man of the city got ac
~cefstome. Cork is the place of my na.
tivity, T have frifnv's - thers : would
.that every man could fiy the fame
~ wherehe is best known ! T discovered
lh@:{itw\a‘q'inccndédﬁ'topﬁfr" violence to
~ Captain Roclie, T prevented it 7 rioh
bim in fafety to Dudlin. On our way we
- where the Wexford M rlm!aiygtm;,
/ipeofiictrs requeled §f Lapt < Mothe -
_dered them,. W‘ hi%;mr
| owed me. g*w ived in Dablin.and.
- Taw Lord Chichefter who liberated
me from arrest; and. wroteto Mr.
e har © s pociobe moleied a 3
- gami—l "wm“lm& and in the
. beginning of September I went to the
, aflizes of Cark for :the purpose of dé
feng myenatrageiad he conpiva.
¢y before mentione g;eféemﬁ
G i homeny and_proiedtd the.
witaells, wlo wigre both_tranfporied
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