The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-25 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
182,5.
Exiractsfrom the Morning Papers,Jun.2s,

[THE Tuts's.]
It appears that Mr. O'Connell has, as might
Ise expected, taken a magnanimous revenge up-
on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for the per-
sonal indignity offered him by the Attorney-Ge •
neral on a late occasion, in failing to get a bill
fotrnd for seditious words, and so cheating the
Learned Gentleman of his speech to the Jury.
Lkt a charity dinner, of which Mr. O'Connell
was President, he assigned his motives for not
drinking the Lord Lieutenant's health, in the
regular order after the " King," " Ireland, ice.,
and stated that the reason of his omitting that
courtesy was, " the course that Lord Wellesley
44 adopted at his setting out, when he conferred
the dignity of Knighthood on Alderman James,
" and which the Noble Lord having since fol-
" lowed up to the close—as he (Mr. O'Connell)
" had reason to think it was near the close—of
" his administration, made it, in his opinion, safer
" to be the enemy than the friend of the Noble
Marquis." Here are cause and effect, sure
enough, as plain as if Pangloss himself had de-
scribed them. Lord Wellesley had, three years
ago, made Mr. James a Baronet; and instead of
giving a silk gown to Mr. O'Connell, his Lord-
ship had suffered the Attorney-General to
threaten him_ with an impertinent prosecution.—
Now, therefore, that the Noble Lord is, accord-
ing to Mr. O'Connell, about to take his leave of
Ireland, and to be no longer a man in power
there, the Learned Gentleman thinks it a con-
venient opportunity for eating all his own fine
speeches, and declaring that he does not care a
button for his Excellency, because, in the case of
a defunct or a departing Chief Governor, it is
as wise, or even wiser, to be his enemy than his
friend ! We confess we are disgusted at this egre-
semis folly. Without caring for either of the in-
dividuals—the object of the rudeness, or the au-
thor of it—we would only ask the Catholics of
both countries, whether they will be led any
longer by the fickle, inconsistent, unreflecting,
indiscreet loquacity of Mr. O'Connell ?--He
must know—if he knows any thing—that the
present Lord Lieutenant is a staunch supporter
of emancipation, for which O'Connell and his
brother demagogues are eternally bawling. He
(O'Connell) has admitted a thousand times,
that during this government justice has been im-
partially administered, and therefore that the
main grievance affecting the poor has actually
been redressed ; as that which affects the rich
Catholic would be, if the Lord Lieutenant had
the same power of making laws that he has of
putting them in execution. What, then, is the
Catholic leader driving at ? lf, as he says,
Lord Wellesley be more influenced by fear than
by gratitude or friendship, his accuser, it may
be acknowledged, has stolen largely from his
Lordship's book. As a fund of conciliation for
the next Lord Lieutenant, Mr. O'Connell pur-
loins the little perquisites of common civility from
the present one. There may be malice in the
wish, but there would be no more than justice in
the fulfilment of it, that Mr. O'Connell and
his party might soon be blessed with a red-hot
Orange Government in Ireland ; and, by fawn-
ing and servility towards their persecutors—equal
to the contumely which they have shown to their
protectors—add one other illustration of the
maxim, that of some people it is safer to be the
enemy than the friend.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]

N'Ve have received the Etoile, dated Sunday, I
but its contents are unimportant, with the excep-
tion of an announcement of a rise in the rentes
en the preceding day. This improvemeut, as
connected with our recognition of the New States
of America, particularly as the Parisian specu-
lators had then had ample time to weigh well
its consequences, as well as an opportunity of
sounding the feelings of their own Government
—seems to us to constitute an unerring sign that
the peace of the world will not, in the slightest
degree, be affected by this very important pro-
ceeding. A higher proof than this of the power
and consideration of this country could not be
adduced ; and perhaps at no former period
could she have embraced a resolution involving
sach mighty interests, and shocking so many
powerful prejudices, with so little risk. ft' the
French Government, as the party most interest-
ed, next to Spain, feels sore in consequence, it
has taken such good care to disguise its feelings,
as to keep them a secret from the rest of the
world. It is, at the same time, so embarrassed
by the complexity and magnitude of its domestic
transactions, that it must put a good face on the
matter, whether pleased or not ; and, if our
Cabinet waited, as the French Opposition papers
have asserted in chorus, till it saw that of France
thus entangled, what does this mean, after all,
but that the former has displayed on,the occasion
consummate prudence ? But this is not the only
guarantee for the quiet deportment of the Power,
ag Villele's Ministry would not, in all probabi-
lity, survive the first cannon shot that should be
Tired in such a quarrel. Moreover, the irrecon-
cilable spirit of party in that country, which a
dispute between the two countries would inflame
almost to madness, is the best of atl securities
against such a contingency. Therefore the
French Ministerial Press may amuse and terrify
its readers with portentious signs as much as it
pleases ; but it must not seek in the conduct of
tkat Government for these portents; and it is
hut just to the former to say, that its allusions to
this effect have been of late more rare. Even
The Etoile has but little to say now on the sub-
ject of our relations with South America ; but, in
revenge, it has found inexhaustible mutter of
animadversion, in the tirades of The Courier
against the Catholics of Ireland. In the discord
which these tirades are calculated to excite, it
sees a counterpoise to the strength and considera-
tion which this country shall derive from the libe-
rality of her conduct towards the New American
States. But it does not know that it greatly
overrates the-labours of the London Journal, and
that the latter is held in the utmost contempt by