The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-16 00:00:00

&PHUT OF. THE. PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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presumed wrontily, when, on Sa-
turdayi.„ was expressed in this paper that if
Mr. fa".2ennell was unseated, the citizens of Dublin
Nye. be afFere.ed by the report of the Committee an
of ,portTinity of returning in another election two fit
nd proper penons to represent them in the present
:Parliament. That tribunal has, however, decided that

robbery of the citizens of Dublin, by cheating them
out of the representatives they ma fealty chosen, and
ralining upon them cm whom they abhorred. Then
:or the tountry what was it ?„ What has
the public treasury ? For months was a
colmnission sitting in Dublin to carry on the exami-
nation of witnesses, voters, &c., with no other view
than to bolster up the corrupt and rotten case of that
11-unaculate reformer, Mr. Daniel O' at
Connell. al

7Messrs. West and Hamilton ought to have been re- ,
SlVe the pocket of the said Daniel, bustZ'ng as it was
-turned originally, and that these gentlemen, are the with the fruits of his depredations upon " the peopled
duly electedsMeMhers for the Irish capital. Extraor- Ireland," by inflicting the cost of that extramotinaey
Binary' thourola ,his decision is—contrary as it un- and unexampled procedure upon the peopie of Ais
doubtedly is to all that the public had in the early country ? Here was a palpable defeat and frostratioo
Nta :4( SOf the ease anticipated—neither we nor the pub- of the Grenville Act, which had eStablished a specific
lie are soxeriscd at such a termination of the Committees tribunal for the settlement of contested cite ionso and
laboure. ' Any one who attended to the proceedings of a severe tax levied upoo the nation at larsres Shat a
that ',only for the last six weeks• must have prepared wholesale wrongdoer might be exempted from the legal
his. mina for a startling result. Without troubling and customary consequences of !mix own transgtoresioo.
c oroelves to inquire into the motives or feeiings of the Of course, immediately on the report of the Dublin
we
Committee—for with these
have nothing to do— Election Comomitteo being presented to the Rolls o this
we will embody the words the general remark, that no day, a motion will be made by some holependent
act of a tribunal which ruled that a corrupted voter so, r
lower for a return of the gross expenditure, eanssel
should not be •oruck off the pole, because the iol the local 0
y ,,onzmission to which was ttansterred the
chief witness of. his delinquency was the in- proper duty of die Election Committee itself—viz.,
dividual himself ! could come with surprise upon the the full investigation under the Grenville Act of olt
public. After this decision, which we cannot describe matters which might throw light upon din Merits of
otherwise than as an outrage upon law and common that species of question. It will thoo 'he seen what it
sense, coosenitted, no doubt, through ignorance, and in has cost the people of Eneleand to defend Amsesminhk.
the cot'oe absence of all corruption, we saw that Mr. every principle of laso, truth, and {oak% the de-
OTeunnell's chance of retaining his seat was reduced liberate usurpation of Mr. Daniel ''Connell upon
to the hazard of a die. Still we never could bring, the rights hod franchisee of the reformed consti-
fsurselvcs to suppose it possible that the nominees or 1 toe„cy
bt Dublin, and in what manner and at whose
the Orange lodge, to promote whose interests at the i
eso'Sense he, the grand projector of a College-green
election the money of the Carlton Club -was squats_
Parliament, would vindicate the purity of election.
tiered in thousandseand the most barefaced a:-.ld uncon- There is nothing more disgustine, nor would there
-
stitutional interference practised by tho viceroy and
in another man's case be anything more astound-
Chief Secretary, and the underlino.„- 4 of Lord Had- ing, than the cool effrontery with which, so long ago
olington and Sir Henry Hardie
egewe could not, as Saturday, the 7th instant, this personage confessed,
we repeat, think it possible, that
persons thus lin a letter to the people of Kilkenny, his consciousness
supported by undue influerece and bribery,• would that he was unlawfully withholding from the real con-
be deelared duly elected. such, however, is the de- stituents of Dublin the rightful representative of their
cishon to which the Committee have come. They 'choice, and from that representative the seat to which
first decided that the, evidence of the bribed party was he had- been elected. Mr. O'Connell's address to
riot sufficient to prove his own guilt, and to dis- Kilkenny begins with these words--" Before this ad-
qualify him from the exercise of the elective fran- dress meets your eyes I shall have no seat in Podia-
chise ; and •2dly, that tthe candidates whose friends meet." How did he know so much ? And knowing
were, to the satisfaction of the Committee, con- it, why did he still continue for a whole week longer
victed of bribery on their behalf, have been duly his resistance to the prayer of the petitioners, which
elected, and ought to be the sitting Members I he thus plainly avowed to be as perverse as it was
This last, decision it was which, on Someday, we gave harassing ? Well done, stickler for justice to " the
it as our opinion that the Committee could not people of Ireland ! " But there is another pecu-
arrive at ; and for haoing done so, we are liarity in this document worth remarking. The
taken to task by the .standard. Our contemporary Agitator's first pledge to the " men of Kilkenny" is
charges us with igroorance of the. law, or with calcu- "to support cordially Lord Melbourne's Govern-
latiug upon the ;_gnorance of our readers, for having ment so long as it continues its present honest. course of
formed this 'opinion. To each and both
.of these policy towards Ireland." His next pledge is to vote
counts we plead not guilty. We know very well, and on all occasions "as a thorough Radical Reformer."
so do orz readers, that Election Committees set law at The third and final pledge is "to use every constitu-
defianoc, whenever it clashes with their peculiar no- tional (constitutional !) exertion in his power to coin-
riores. We did not, therefore, dream of tying the plete the reform of Parliament ;" and how is that corn-
I) nblin Committee down to the fixed rule of law—if pletion to be brought about by this organ of the body
there be a fixed rule in these cases—but we did say, of Radical Reformers, and patron of Lord Melbourne's
what we now iterate, that as in the Dunearvon case, honest and Ireland-loving Government ? "By intro-
-where agency was disproved, one 'ease of bribery inva- ducing, amongst other things" (things unexplained),
.lidated the election, so, or rather a fortiori, in the " the principles of election and responsibility in the
Dublios case, where several cases of bribery have been House of Lords." And now mark, reader, for it is
established against the petitioners, and agency has not worth remarking, this additional sentence—" Until
been negatived by them, there ought to be a new elec- there is a reform in the House of Lords, it is impos-
tion. The Standard is shocked at the idea of a can- sible to have justice done to Ireland." Here, then,
didate's being injured by the mere fact of bribery, we have placed at once and in one clear syllogism un-
when the fact of agency has not been established. der our eye, the whole case as regards Ireland, Minis-
Did our contemporary feel any of this virtuous indig- ters, and the Monarchy ; and be it remembered, that
melon when Mr. Jacob was sent back to the electors the conspirator against the monarchy is, as he describes
oI Dunoarvon ? Neither do we recollect his having himself, representative "of all Ireland," creator
challenged the Dublin Election Committee when and preserver of his Majesty's Ministers, and
-they ruled, in the teeth of law and reason, that a organ of the Radioal movement. With the two latter
voter who had been corrupted could not be re- he is evidently behind the scenes: " I support Lord
ceived as a witness of . the corruption. And yet, Melbourne's Administration because its policy is
see the consequence of admitting this precedent as a justice': to the people of Ireland. But it is impossible
rule. A candidate would have only to bribe a majo- to do justice to the people of Ireland without making
rity of the constituency, one by one, and on the prin- the House of Lords elective" (i. e. by republicanizing
ciple that a man is not only not bound to accuse hhn- the whole frame of the constitution) : ergo, " I sup-
self, but 13 not even competent to do so, his return port the :Melbourne policy, because it goes to make the
would be secured, and his right to the-seat established. House of Lords elective." Is there anything mis-
After discoursing on law, the Standam goes, as usual, stated here ? we ask. Is there anything ever so
into morality ; and we are sorry wt cannot commend slightly overstated? Let any man lay his hand -on
his legal or ethical notions. Ws theme is ~ lying," his heart, and deny that such is the acknowledged aim
and after venting some bile upon this vice, he winds of the movement party throughout the United King-
up by repeating'for. the fiftieth time, an untruth, and dom—viz., to make the British monarchy a republic,
that deliberately, inasmuch as the writer published, we by making the House of Lords, like the senate of the
believe on Friday, its refutation in his own columns. United States, eleetive ? Does any sane Englishman
The piece of meurlacity to which we allude, is the trite doubt for a mosnent that such is the condition exacted
assertion that Mr. O'Connell some years ago, in a from this wretched Administration by the British Radi-
speech at a public meeting, held up the women of cal movement, and the O'Connell Popish movement,
England to shame, as being nineteen out of twenty of as the price of keeping the same wretched Ministry
them mothers before, or soon after, they were married, in office ? Can any but an idiot doubt that
We have already denied time truth of this infamous such price, or any other price however ruinous
Tory accusation, and the Standard published last week or d.'msgraceful, will by such Ministers be unscru-
a paragraph, purporting to be an extract from the peaously paid, and therefore that the. direct and hie-
Cork Southern Reporter, which completely bears -citable progress of their Government is a rapid
us out, and convicts our Evening Contemporary of march towards downright revolution ? To us, indeed,
grossly and wilfully calumniating Mr. O'Conreetl• this avowal of Mr. Daniel O'Connell's sentiments re-
Speaking against Poor-laws, to the introduct:,on of specting the true genius and policy of the Melbourne
which into Ireland Mr. O'Connell was some -gears ago Government, his own creature, was a superfluous,
opposed, he pointed to their demoralising ef'sect upon this however unlooked for, intimation. We have long la-
country, and quoted in support of. h'.:s view the evi- boured to impress upon the people of England the same
deuce of an English Protestant Ciergyman, who, in truth now promulgated ex cathedrii, and to then:, no
the course of his examination loefore a Parliamentary doubt, it may be useful. When we speak of the
Committee, stated that moing to the evil operation of " movement" as a source of terror to all Englishmen
the old Poor-law system, a large majority, nineteen who love their constitutional monarchy, we mean the
out of twenty of the 'females of England, were mothers movement as at present constituted, and with reference
before, or immed.:ately subsequent to their marriage. to its purposes as well as to its actual powers. It is
This evidence ?.Ir. O'Connell referred to, not in order no theory of ours that the public spirit of England
to cast a slue upon the female character of England, should stagnate, or that the principles of her political
but to sustain his own views with respect to Poor- system, fixed though they ought to he, should ever
laws. Mr. O'Connell did not of himself assert any- become petrifactions. Where there exists a natural and
thing about the English women ; he merely quoted unrestrained action among men, the vitality of free
the uncootradicted evidence of an English Protes- government, we are inclined to think, consists in a
-taut Clergyman (he might have quoted the evidence pretty regular oscillation—now the aristocratic prin-
of many other witnesses to the same effect,) and eiple elevated, now the democratic. But the ultimate
that for the purpose of showing the .evil tendency of st security of the State requires that this ebb and flow
portion of the unamended poor-law system in. this should have definite limits assigned to it. A ship
country. To extract malice from this conduct ol; Mr. ought not to lurch beyond her bearings on either side ;
O'Connell required the malignity of a Tory ; and to if once thrown upon the beam ends, it is chance wile-
fasten a charge upon it, demanded •ihe utmost sketch ther she ever rights. At this moment our feeling is that
of Tory impudence. What then are we to think of the bias has for some time been too heavy towards demos
the scrupulous, moral Journal, -which not only makes cracy. It was the persuasion of Edmund Burke, when
the charge, but invenss two Isntruths----viz., that Mr. he saw the old Whig benches of the House of Com-
O'Connell asserted that }he women of England were mons peopled by Jacobinism, and revolution stalking
in tile proportion of 19 out of 20 immoral, and that abroad in the guise of constitutional reform. We
.
he made this assertion, m order to injure the character have the same fear now. Perhaps the reaction of
of our countrywomen. ; and while canting about virtue, Conservatism,* now' essential to the protection of our
has the audacity to -repeat its calumny after the refu- religious establishment, and of monarchy, aristocracy,
tation was publish ed in its own columns ! In conduct property, and law throughout the realm, may, in another
like this of the Standard the public perceive the true oeneration, threaten the no less sacred rights of our
spirit of 'Toryism. The hypocrisy and boldness of the 'democracy, and demand, in its turn, from every honest
party are here fully eoempliiied.—Morning Chronicle. and enlightened Englishman; a resistance no less con-
The Committee upon the Dublin Election decided scientious and vigorous than is the support which every
au Saturday that Mr. Daniel O'Connell and Mr. such man must now be eager to afford it. Of the
'Ruthven, lately deceased, had not been duly elected, periodical and salutary " oscillation" which we have
and ought not to have been returned, but that Messrs. just described, political party—nay, even a nuisance
Hamilton amid West' had been duly elected, and ought like O'Connell, may be counted among the ordained,
to have been returned citizens to serve in this present and, ;mot unnecessary, instruments. We have merely
Parliament for the city of Dublin. Sic transit gloric, left ourselves room to add, that the Irish Municipal
mundi ! The ' swarmooerino offensive, and unprincioted Bill comes again before the House of Lords this even•
n
mountebank, who, by his presence in the “
- huse of ing, when there is no doubt that the measure will be
Commons, has d
one:Wore to vulgarise tihe tone of that
treated on the same statesmanlike and sagacious prin-
assembly, to embitter its spirit, ',ICI degrade its charac-
ciples as in its preceding stagstages.—Times.ter, than any course i"tv-"_l.-ar that we have heard of ever The resolutions of the Committee upon the Dublin
yet accomplishes] aso'hinst the suavity of human inter- election petition, whose tedious labours have at length
course,
and 'tie dignity of senatorial proceedings—that terminated in unseating _Mr. O'Connell and seating
persore, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, had no more right to Messrs. West and Hamilton, will be found in ono-
shove his face in Parliament than we have to a seat timer part of our columns. Mr. Ruthven, by his pre-
Urion the woolsack. Yet he has contrived, through a mature decease, had the honour of retaining his seat to
ilexterous intermixture of bullying and dishonesty, to time last. He died defrcto Member for Dublin. Had
keep within his gripe, for the best part of two event- he lived we wonder if the ~ bead of the tail" would
ful sessions the great trust and privilege which he ori- have displaced a second joint, ala Sullivan, to make
z'oinally filched from its rightful owner. The majority way for the return of his ejected Colleague for Dublin
of some hundicds of the " people of Ireland,' who to the House through one of the numerous boroughs of
timed the Agitator and his deceased associate for which he appears to be the master. Truly it is well
Dublin, turns out to have been a manufactured and for our ~ Reform Ministers" that, notwithstanding the
frudulent majority. It was composed of " patriots " utter, entire, amid eternal extinction of "close boroughs"
who had no votes at all—it was founded on a mass of by the operation of schedule A, there are still ho-
illegalities of which no lawyer so familiar with the roughs close enough, like Stroud, Tiverton, and Kit-
facts of the case as Mr. Daniel O'Connell unquestion- kenno, to prevent a Russell, a Palmerston, and an
ably was could have been unconscious—it was founded O'Connell from wanting seats in Parliament in con-
on falsehoods, to the iniquity of which an astute lawyer sequence of their rejection by popular constituencies.
W e have no doubt that the Committee which dared
like Mr. O'Connell must have been privy from the
outset. The whole affair of his return for Dublin, to unseat the great Daniel will have to bear with a
and his representation of it, and his political connexion good deal of abuse and vituperation from his party,
with that capital, was, in all its principles, and parts, and the journals devoted to that party, among which are
and attributes one enormous lie. It was a robbery the Ministerial Papers. From what we have seen of
practised
upon Messrs. Hamilton and West of their late years we do. not greatly . admire in general the
seat for the metropolis of their country. It was a mode or temper in which justiceis administered by