The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and
their Royal Highness's Household, attended Divine Service
yesterday. The Dean of Chester officiated.
Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister, had an interview with
Mr. Poulett Thomson, on Saturday, at the office of the
Board of Trade.

The Church Commission sat on Saturday. The Arch-
bishops of Canterbury and York, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Viscount Melbourne, Sir Herbert Jenner, and other Com-
missioners, attended. The meeting broke up atur o'clock.
The French Ambassador and the Greek Minister, trans-
acted business on Saturday, at the Foreign Office.
Lord John Russell was indisposed during Friday, but was
was much better yesterday and on Saturday. •

Wednesday next will be the birthday of the Duke
of Sussex, who will then have attained his 63d year.
The Duke of Cumberland left Berlin on the 16th
inst., for London.

There has been already this year an accession of
members to partake of the approaching balls at Almack's,
and the Lady Patronesses anticipate a delightful season.
These together with a succession of Royal entertainments
to take place at the New Palace, and a repetition in the
spring of the splendid parties of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, at Kensington Palace,, will keep the vo-
taries of fashion in the highest circles in constant motion.
The late Dowager Duchess of Beaufort, daughter
of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen, who died in 1828,
lived to see her posterity flourish in an extraordinary man-
ner, being herself the parent of 12 children, 71 grandchild-
ren, and 14 great-grandchildren,a number which has since
materially increased.
S It Eli A m.—The congregation at our parish
church were thrown into a state Of no little confusion on
Sunday afternoon last. A lad was taken in a fit, and his
groans caused such consternation, that the persons more re-
mote from the cause of the uproar, imagined that some
wild animal had broken into the church ; others that the
building was falling. The rush towards the doors was
frightful, and the shrieks of the females added not a little
to the uproar. It was some time before order could be
re-established ; but so complete was the panic that it was
found advisable to close the service.—Brightou Paper.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEE PINGS.

Tills DAY. ..,
Geographical Society, 9.
Er.tymological Society, 8.
To-MORROW,
Medical acid Chirqrgical Society, half:pmt 8:
Civil Engineers, 6 pall.
Zoological Sociply,'half-Rst
Medico-Botanical Society, 8.
Societ of Wt.ONFRATI
y Arts; half-mt p: 1•
Royal Societi THURSDAY.
, half-p,
Society of Antiquaries, 8,t.8 p.m,
Society of Literature, 4,
Royal Academy, 8,
FRIDAY.
Royal Institution, half-past 8, pqn,

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE

COUNTY OF CARLOW.

GENTLEMEN-Mr. O'Connell, in a letter addressed to
the " Men of Westminster," has had the daring effrontery
to repeat in a more offensive manner, and to attempt to
justify, the foul and opprobrious epithets contained in .his
former calumnious reply to my address to you of the 20th of
October.
It was my determination, as stated in my letter of the
13th of November, not to take any further notice of Mr.
O'Connell's audacious assertions, but to wait patiently until
an opportunity was afforded before a competent tribunal
of refuting his denials, and of proving, by indisputable
evidence, that the statements contained in my address were,
each and every of them, in substance, if not to the very
letter, correct.
. There is, however, a Point beyond which it is impossible
for human nature to endure unmerited calumny ; and
to submit longer in silence might be construed into an
admission on my part that Mr: O'Connell's assertions are
founded in fact,
It may be mighty convenient for him to talk about " the
privacy of confidence being violated, and private letters
published and misapplied," but whose fault is it, and how
stands the case between us on this point ? We entered
into an engagement binding in honour on us both. I per,
formedrny part ;he forfeited his written guarantee. I had
no. redress, and tl\e only satisfaction I could have was by
making the whole transaction public, " preclude him from
ever deceiving any one else again."

Had Mr. O'Connell fulfilled his contract, and I had di-
vulged either the conversation or the letters that had passed
between us, " I admit, I fairly admit," I should have richly
merited the epithets he has bestowed ; but when he basely
abandoned his engagement, am I to be debarred the privi-
lege of proving, from his own communications, that my
charge against him was well founded ?
I hold it to be an incontrovertible axiom in the laws
which regulate the proceedings between man and man, in
affairs the fulfilment of which depends wholly on the honour
of the parties, that, so long as both of them perform the
compact they have entered into, so long every thing that
passes between them of a confidential nature is to be held
sacred ; but that whenever either of them violates his part
of the engagement, from that moment every obligation of
secrecy is by him discharged, and all that has occurred be-
comes the property of the aggrieved person, to be by him
used in any manner that circumstances may require, either
in vindication of his own character, or in support of any
charge he may feel compelled to make against the violator
of the contract. If such were not the rule by which the
conduct of mankind was governed and controlled, vast in-
deed would be the advantage which the knave would have
over the unsuspecting and honest man ; the former would
only hare to delude his victim by plausible pretexts and
promises, and, by marking them " confidential," preclude
his knavery from being established, whenever it suited his
purpose to abandon or'betray the party who had relied on
and confided in his honour.

Away, then, I say, with all the cant and hypocrisy about
breach of confidence. Whatever implied understanding,
might have been supposed to exist, that the communica-
tions between Mr. O'Connell and myself were confidential,
has been put,pn end to by Mr. O'Connell, who, by his pre-
vious conduct, justified me in the course I originally pur-
sued ; and as he still persists in his atrocious attacks on my
veracity, I feel myself fully warranted in publishing the
private letter alluded to in my former address, of which
Mr. O'Connell has, for obvious reasons, thought it most
prudent not to take the slightest notice. I shall, however,
refrain from doing so for the present, but if he has the
hardihood to again give utterance to his vile slanders on
my personal character and credibility, I will at once put to
, the test his veracity, and, by the production of that letter,
give him an opportunity of proving, either that be had
sufficient authority for making the unsolicited and unlooked-
for communications to me, which in that letter he repre-
sents he had, and of explaining whether it was in conse-
quence of his being called on to account .for, and refund,
the second 1,0001., or for what other reason, that the
allurements he then held out were not realised ; or, if he
cannot prove this satisfactorily, to convict him, by his own
handwriting, of being little better than an impostor, and
one on whose word no reliance is to be placed.
In my former address I studiously avoided entering into
any detail which might admit even of a colourable contra-
diction. My statement consisted of facts proved under
Mr. O'Connell's handwriting, with the exception only of
the last paragraph, relative to his application of the second
1,0001. ; this is the only part of my letter which he has
ventured to contradict, and in so doing he now asserts that
in seven lines I have published no less than sir " distinct,
direct, and wilful falsehoods." In his first letter he enu-
merated only five ; like Falstaff's slain, the inventive
genius of this " falsificator" increases the number each time
the tale is told. How he makes the sixth I know not, un-
less it be that he reckons his own assertion one.

That I may not even now do Mr. O'Connell any injus-
tice I will here insert that paragraph and his reply to it.
My statement was, " That the second 1,0001. had been
accounted for by his paying in cash 350/. to Mr. Baker,
and, after repeated applications made for the balance, by
giving him a bill for it at a long date, drawn by Mr. O'Con-
nell on the same brewers as the 800/. before alluded to was
drawn on."

Mr. O'Connell's assertion is, " that it is false that the
1,0001. was accounted for in the way stated ; that he never
paid 3501., or Is., to Mr. Baker ; that neither Mr. Baker,
nor any other person, ever applied to him, or had any oe.
casion to apply to him, for the balance ; that he never gave
Mr. Baker a bill for any sum upon any brewer or brewers,
or any bill at any date ; that neither the 8001., nor any part
of it, was paid to any person by a bill drawn on any brewer,
and that he never in his life drew a bill on any brewer."

Now, Gentlemen, it is possible that Mr. d'Connell may
not with his own hands have either paid to Mr. Baker
3,50/., or delivered to him a bill for the balance-; but this
I know, that Mr: O'Connell received from me 1,0001. in
cash ; that he had referred me to Mr. Baker as his agent,
between whom and me he would stand for all expense 7,. It
is admitted that 3,101. was paid to Mr. Baker by some per.
son or other, and I naturally inferred either by Mr. O'Con-
nell or by his direction. Be that a it may, I was re-
peatedly told, and so was my solieitff, during the proceed-
ings before the Committee, that several applications were
made to Mr. O'Connell for the balanee, and that he at
length did account for it, by giving a hill at a long date on
the same firm on whom the former bill was drawn (said to
be brewers in Dublin) ; that the bill was handed over to
Mr. Baker ; that, on remonstrances being made against the
mode of accounting for what had been revived in cash, it
was stated that Mr. O'Connell had added the interest and
discount to the amount due, and that, as the former bill
had. been discounted, there would be no difficulty in get-
ting this also discounted, and that ultimately Mr. Baker
took the bill, and agreed to consider it as cash.
Whether the whole of this be " pure invention or wilful
falsehood" I neither know nor care, I originally stated it,
and now repeat it, on information given at the time by
authority which neither myself nor
,my solicitcr had any
reason to doubt or suspect, and which I believe not even
Mr. O'Connell;himsell will venture to impugn.
Whether, therefore, the representations now made by
Mr. O'Connell or those communicated to me in August last
be the correct ones I know not. They cannot both be true,
and they are none of my fabrication.
Mr. O'Connell asserts that be acted throughout the bu-
siness on behalf, and as the trustee, of Mr, Vigors, and that
I knew it. This I distinctly and positively deny ; indeed,
so little did I suspect that Stroh was the case, that at the
meeting on the 4th of August I told Mr. O'Connell that so

secret had I kept everything that had passed between us, I
had not even mentioned to Mr. Vigors one word about the
terms or n iture of our engagement, and in confirmation of
my statement I
appealed to that Gentleman, who instantly
stated it was true ; and Mr. O'Connell then observed th
my conduct throughout had been highly honourable. Hoc 7;
then, is it possible that I could have suspected, much less
known, that Mr. O'Connell acted as the " surety" and
agent only for Mr. Vigors ? Such A circumstance was never
stated to me, and I never heard of it until I
road Mr.
O'Connell's letter. Indeed, his correspondence with me
proves throughout that such was not the fact.
There is another subject to which I ought to advert.
Mr, O'Connell in his. last address accuses me of " having
deluded him into a mistaken opinion of entertaining honest
opinions in politics." I utterly deny that I practised any
deception upon him on this or on any other point. On
every division that took place during the short time I had
the honour of a seat in Parliament, I voted with the Go-
vernment,-and I would have supported every useful mea-
sure of economy, retrenchment, and reform, which might
have been brought forward. if Mr, O'Connell fancied that
I would go beyond this, and vote for every measure which
ho might think proper to propose, whether I approved of it
or not, be bad indeed deluded himself into a mistaken opi-
nion of what would be my conduct ; and he would have
found that on all such occasions I should have acted 'as be-
cab° the really independent Representative of the county
of Carlow.

Gentlemen, I am well aware that in thus ventoping to
continue a controversy with Mr. O'Cp,nnilli I labour under
almost insurmountable difAcnliles—that I am no match for
him in tip use, or rather abuse, of the English language,
and that I subject myself to all the venom and rancour
which his malignity and disappointment cap give vent to. I
console myself, however, with the reflection, that " Magna
est vetitas, et praovalebit,” 4ntl that I have done some ser-
vice to the public l y eNposiug the double-dealing of this
agitating m.enclicapt,
I have now done with Mr. O'Connell. his conduct has
compollea me to make these transactions public, and I ap-
peal with confidence to the judgment of every honourable
and impartial mind whether l am not fully justified in so
doing ; and whether his elegant epithets of " indescrihable
vagabond," " faithless creature," and « mighty great liar,"

Kt"',4.-gfi
•
instead of being referable to me, may not, wW.'trf0.4.465,,i4'....1
tice, propriety, and truth, be applied to a cert
dividual? Ben Johnson certainly foresaw dig.
he described one who L'N C
" Gives forked course), thkes provoking gold
On eitl:er hand,.and puts it up."
" Of so perplexed a tcng,ue,
And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce
Lie still without a fee."
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I remain, Gentlemen, your most obedient and obliged
servant,

ALEXANDER IiAPHAEL.
Great Stanhope. street, Jan. 17.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Arrived this morning at Spit-
head, during a gale of wind, the Romney troop ship, Mr.
James Wood, master ; nd at a late hour this evening she
was enabled to communicate with the shore. We find she
is from the Cape of Goad hope, and has been 47 days on
her passage, and brings information that the Caffres were,
at the time of her sailing, perfectly, quiet, and evinced
every disposition to keep the peace to which they had bound
themselves. Still, however, it was not deemed prudent to
send away the 98th Regiment, although the 27th Regiment
had been conveyed out in the Romney for the purpose of
relieving it. The Romney brings home, therefore, only
returned naval and ordnance store, with a few officers and
their families, from the garrison and squadron ; the invalids
arc from the 72(1 and 75th Regiments. The Romney has
been for the last four months in a series of bad weather,
and on her voyage out was driven into Algoa Bay with
ten feet water .in her hold, after having her chain pumps
continually. going for fifteen days ; even at Ascension the
rollers had done more mischief than had been witnessed.
since we had garrisoned the island; the Pier and the Turtle
Ponds had been much damaged ; and the Romney was pre-
vented for three days from landing a supply of stores and
live stock. The Lynx and Forester, brigs of war, and the
Neuha, transi-ort, were left there. The Romney spoke
on the I.sth of January, the Samuel Winter, Roger,
Master, all well, bound for Charleston, lat. 40. 1 N. don.
17. 30. W.
We have accounts from Jamaica to the 16th of Decem-
ber. The Comus sailed from Jamaica on the 10th of De-
cember, on a cruise. • The Pieklefiton the Bth, for Nassau ;
the Wasp on the 2d. for Vera Cruz ;- and the Meteorn on
the 30th November, for St. Thomas's. The Dee had also
sailed for St. Thomas's, from which she was to return to.
Jamaica. The Skipjack schooner arrived at Jamaica on
the 13th of December ; and the Gannet on the 2d, from
Honduras.
The Melville, 74, was commissioned yesterday, as the
new flag ship for the West Indies, and North American
station, and the following officers appointed :—Captain P.
J. Douglas, Commander G. A. Elliott, Lieutenants W. H.
Molyneux, T. R. Sullivan, 11. Schomberg, Robert Harris,
Mr. John M'Donald, master ; Mr. E. O'Maley, purser ;
Mr. Jeffery, second master ; Rev. A. Fielding, chaplain
Mr. C. T. Tyers, schoolmaster ; Messrs.. H. E. S. Win-
thorp, D. W. F. M'Leod, L. Maitland, and E. Sympson,
masters ; Messrs. J. Alldridge, E. M. Matthews, A.Wyllv,
midshipman ; Mr. Crewe, volunteer of the first class. ;1/2..
reduced party of Marines, under the command of Captain
Gillespie, embarked in her this morning.
The Seaflower cutter, Lieutenant Roche, sailed on Tues-
day to resume her cruise, and anchored at the Motherbank
on Thursday. The Speedy cutter, and the Gossamer
tender, arrived on Wednesday from Sheerness, and the
Cracker on Thursday from a cruise ; the latter sailed again,
yesterday from the harbour, anchored at Spithead in the
night, and with the Speedy, slipt her cable this morning,
owing to the heavy gale, and came into harbour, the Speedy .
having pitched away her bowsprit.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTUENTS.—Commander James
Morgan, from the coast guard 'service at Newhaven ; Wm.
Hillyar, from his Majesty's ship Revenge ; H. J. Codring-
ton, frordthe Orestes sloop of war, to the rank of Captain ;
'Lieutenant Bates, of the coast guard service, to the rank of
Commander, Messrs. Dyke (12 years passed), Hippesley,
of the Harpy, and Ellis, Mates, to the rank of Lieutenant,;
Captain Lord James Townshendto be extra Aide:de-Cam
to his Majesty, in the vacancy caused. by the death of the
Hon. Captain Duncan ; Mr. J. Seileck, Assistant Surgeon ;
and Mr. A. R. B. Carter, Extra College Midshipman, to
the Racer ; Mr. J. Cheere, Mate, to the Britannia ; Lieut.
Hon. G. R. A. Clements, and Mr. IL T. C. Scott, As-
sistant-Surgeon to the Harpy ; Mr. Rose, Master (whose
a?pointment to Melville has been cancelled) to the eGM•••
mand of a Post-office packet ; Mr. Matthias, Mate of the
Victory, to the Melville.

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From 1829 to 1835, both inclusive, it has been cus-
tomary for the Admiralty, under an Order in Council, to
promote annually ten old and meritorious clerks, to the
rank of Purser ; but this year, to the great.chagrin, and
we may fairly say, heart-ache of many a respectable indi-
vidual, the Admiralty have thought proper to make six.
only, and. have stated that in future, for three vacancies
there will be one promotion ; consequently it a young man
steps into a foreign death vacancy, the patient old one must
still hope on till he is grey-headed. Five of the under-
mentioned gentlemen have been more than 22 years in the
service ; but when it is known that 13 still remain, who
have been flourishing the quill for more than the fifth part.
of a century, we shall not be accused of encouraging lavish
expenditure, in expressing-a wish that they, at least, had
been promoted befbre the door was closed to the narrow
limit of one Commission for three vacancies. • The fol-
lowing clerks were made Pursers' on Tuesday last :
Messrs. S. Mosely, It. L. Stokes, C. N. Osmer, D. C.
Coils, Thomas Hookey. Thomas Dobbin.
The following is a statement of the naval forces that the
different powers have, at this moment, at the various sta-
tions of the Levant
. Of the Lillie. Fr;':, aes. Smaller Vessels. Total.
France has - I 1 7 9
England - 17
Russia will 5007, have 6 4 2 12
Aushia - 4
P- •t
-tql,
Turkey 5 6 at Tripoli 12
14
} aind off Albania of various classes 16
This makes nearly 100 ships of war, to which may be
added, a Sardinian squadron of six or seven frigates and
corvettes. .

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, JAN. 21.—The Stag, 45, was
taken out of the Dock on Friday, and transported to the
Sheerhulk and masted the following day.—The Donegal, 74,
was docked on Monday.—The Swallow packet was paid off
on Tuesday to be sold out of the service. The Comet
steam-vessel is being brought forward for service with all
possible dispatch, under the command of Mr. WriOt, se-
cond Master, R.N. This vessel, it may be remembered,
was experimentally tried with the supposed method of a.
propelling power being obtained by quicksilver, which failed
so far (when off Lisbon) in May last year, that she was
obliged to return to England by the use of her sails only.
Two 16-gun brigs, to be named the Grecian and-4 Persian,
are to be built at Pembroke : the principal dimensions to be
the same as Columbine.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury of Satueday.)

TRADE OF LEEDS.—There was a brisker market at the
Cloth Halls on Saturday last than has been the case for
soire months past ; but on Tuesday there was less done, al-
though a fair average market, without any alteration in
prices. In the warehouses there is quite as much doing as
can be expected at this season.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JAN. 19.—There has been a
considerable quantity of cloth sold to-day. No alteration
in prices that we bear of.

BRADFORD MARKET, JAN, ‘2l..—There is some differ-
ence of opinion as to the amount of business done to-day in
the piece-market ; whilst some think there have been more
goods sold, others say, not quite so many. Be this as it
may, the market has been brisk, and several buyers for the
Amoricaa market have bought freely, and decidedly higher
prices have been obtained on most descriptions of goods, es-
pecially three and six-quarter merinos ; nevertheless the
manufacturers still complain that they are not obtaining a
remunerating price for goods, as compared with the pre-
sent high price of yarn. Should the demand for prices
continue good, a farther advance in prices-will probably
soon be obtained. The state of the yarn-market to-day
has, been so similar to our recent reports as not to admit of
any quotable variation. The increasing demand before no-
ticed still exists, and has a natural influence on prices. The
activity in'the wool market, which we noticed in our last,
has to-day been fully maintained, and priees are kept up.
The country dealers are not in heavy stock, and the far -
mers are generally firm. The failure of turnips will affect
the next clip in some districts, though much less than might
have been expected.
HALIFAX MARKET, JAN. 16.—There has been a very
good attendance of stuff merchants to-day, and the sales
in both extent and number have been greater than those of
t of businessr
omanu-.
last,week. Prices have been very firm, and on the finer
descriptions there has been a small advance obtained. In
the yarn market there basebenctni
continued
cd fair
m
done, notwithstanding the complaints
oun
facturers 'that the rise obtainable on pieces is dispropor-
tionate to that demanded by the spinners. In long wool
there has been a good deal done during the last week, and
butadvance since our
last report has been very =ad, and scarcely exceeds ss.
prices 4re gradually advancing the
per pack.
RoCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, JAN. 18.—The market
was
much
Monday, and a fair proportion
of business was done.
Mted on.
ddle qualities of flannels were
prettyltlai well
after, and of course most business was done
in them, though the demand was hotter for ail sorts than it
has, been for several weeks- past ; prides were stationary.
1 wool market begins to be more lively, and much more
business was done thark for several weeks : prices were a
.
shade Clas are earning lower in prices.

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