The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 12.
MR. SIIARMAN CRAWFORD.—This gentleman has again
favoured the Tory world with another display of his episto-
lary caco'ethes scribendi ct nialedicendi. Letter the third
is certainly not quite so lengthy as the antecedent effusions
from Grawfordsburn, but it is composed of precisely si-
milar ingredients, and they are all hashed and served up in
a style highly gratifying to Tory tastes. The Mail is exul-
tant, and knows not how sufficiently to mark the grateful
sense of the service Mr. Crawford is rendering to the party
to whom it belongs, and whose organ it is. This print be-
praises the ill-advised letter-writer in a spirit such as may
be thought his Sstanic Majesty would cornmnd an active
evil-doer for displaying. We have not thought it worth
while to notice in any particular manner " letter the third,"
for we think that the last " warning voice " which the in-
fatuated, impracticable, and wrong-headed Mr. Crawford
supposes or affects to suppose is sounded from his own
small grey goose gull, is a very sorry squeak indeed, and
deserving of little if any attention from the advocates of

Reform: We believe him to be an honest well-meaning
man, where personal prejudices and mortification do not in-
terfere with his political rectitude—and therefore really
regret that an individual who might be, nay who has, in his
degree, been us4ul as a subaltern in the ranks of the Re-
formers, should desert and malign the Leader who has
achieved so many and such splendid victories in the cause
of Ireland, but actually furnish weapons of attack to his
collar:A enemies, turning his arms against his own
countrymen. Mr. Crawford quarrels with Mr. O'Con-
nell because the latter gentleman deems that justice
to Ireland is a good, the attainment of which is likely
t 3 be promoted by supporting the present Govern-
ment—the first and only one whose measures show a
perfect sympathy with the wrongs of Ireland, and a deter-
mination to redre,s thcin. Mr. Crawford, no doubt, thinks
that he alone is the advocate of principles, and that Mr.
O'Connell and those gentlemen who act with him are mere
men of expedients ; but what think and say the majority
of his countrymen Do they not approve of the states-
manlike conduct of Mr. O'Connell, and censure the im-
practicability of the late member for Dundalk? If Mr.
CrawlOrd be not a more presumptuous person than is ge-
nerally found, he must, we think, have misgivings as to
the propriety of the course upon which he has entered.
Sure we are that had he a private friend who wished him
well, he would be " justified in speaking to (him) with a
warning voice." In such a spirit we now speak, when we
tell him that his letters have already damaged his reputa-
tion, and that by persisting in a course equally unwise and
pernicious, he is laying the foundation in himself of poli-
tical paralysis, and a neutralization of any useful faculties
he may possess for the service of his country.

THE PROJECTED DINNER IN ATHLONE.—The Pilot
slyg, " Some of our English Tory contemporaries have
expressed a desire to be made acquainted with the circum-
stAnees which led to the postponement of the projected en-
tertainment at Athlone in honour of the return of Mr. John
O'Connell as Member for the town. The following corn-

munication will let them into the secret. We trust that the
reason will be esteemed satisfactory, es ton great an ex-
citement of the Orange spleeu mi;lit have a dangerous

endency :

" Darrynane Abbey, 22d August, 1837.
" My Dear S-r
—Your letter of the 16th was directed to,
me at Dublin, where I was not, and thus my delay in an-
swering it is accounted for.
Your Representative, my son John, had gone to France
before your letter was written. lie went there to make
some researches in tha war-office, for ducuments respecting
" The Irish Brigade" in the French service. He is engaged
in an endeavour to rescue from oblivion a body of brave
and faithful men, whose history mingles the chivalry of ro-
mance with the plain matter of fact details of military life.
He will not return to Ireland until the middle of Septem-
ber. I make no doubt that if he had any ide i that such an
invitation as you have sent was intended, he would have
po,t potted his journey.
Linder these circumstances, I feel that I owe it to the
independent and honest electors of Athlone, to request per-
mission to decline this invitation, or perhaps I should more
accurately sly to postpone accepting it. Your representa-
tive will be in Ireland before October, and if' you then re-
quire his presence or mine at Athlone, you shall command
it. For my own part, I deem it one of the proulest fa-
vours ever conferred on me—that which I have received
from the good men of Athlone.
We are arrived at a [nest portentous era in Irish history.
Ireland is in en attitude to right herself, and she should at
once obtain justice, but that an inveterate and envenomed
spirit of bigotry lies arisen in England, intent on continuing
the oppression and degradation of Ireland. The Govern-
ment is inclined to act fairly and justly by the Irish people.
The bigots of England, marshalled and leagued together by
their unwise Clergy, are determined to coerce the Ministry,
and to compel the Queen to abandon the Irish nation to
the ancient misrule ; let us, for our part, act in the spirit of
conciliati,n, hut with the firmness and determination he-
for your kindness towards comingme,i
wise, to
too good,
on
o dwho
and deserve s freedom.strong to
be
Believe
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selfish Toryism on the one hand, or Orange bigotry on the
othyr.
rtilyo
press my gratitude to " the
good
t% Iv:o:rent:kis
myianordeu mitnrc:ui s(elfv hof eute
Athlone. All I can do is, in the i
name of Ireland, to thank them.

I have the honour to be,
Your faithful and devoted-servant,
James R. Kelly, Esq. DANIEL O'CONNELL.

• Mr. Cockerii, whose proposed railroad from Paris
to Brussels was thrown out by the French Chamber, bas
bought the cs'ablisliment of Decazeville.
ARREST OF AN OLD MURDERER.--•-James
Fitzgerald, who was charged with the murder of Janice
Morrissy, near Tipperary, in the year 1826, and who im-
mediately alter the transaction absconded, and has been
ever since residing in America,. returned a few days since
to his native land, under the fallacious hope that time had
oblitered both the recollection -of him and the occurrence
with which he stood charged from the minds of the of
of
he was recce,-
die county ;
ofho
tj,uisitei chea,dannodt
loan
atrhreke.erciimaita
halo
ac}aele awdh,ierg-
nised, arrested, identified, ,and committed to our gaol to
abide his trial at the next Assize. Tail is a convincing
' proof that though justice may be tardy in its movements,
it never tails to overtake the guilty in their tareer.—Cien-
mel