The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-09 00:00:00

PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Though the influx of important foreign intelligence
has compelled us to abridge very considerably the
space allotted for observations on public affairs, yet we
must find room for a few words in order to call atten-
tion to two interesting facts—one mentioned in the
fitter of a gentleman of the highest character present
at the Devonport meeting, the second by a core-
spondent no less worthy of attention, who has sent us a
brief account of a dinner at Cork. We give each •fact
in the language of our correspondents. First, as to
the Devonport dinner
Of all the exciting spectacles I have witnessed," says
the writer, "none ever so vouch struck me as the manner in
which the .name of the House of Lords was received. It
was first used the op:.'9lng speech of the Chairman, inci-
dentally in the micitll, of a „:_itence, and evidently without
the intention on his part of can,: at that moment for any
expression of feeling respecting it. ZIA the word, never-
theless, had scarcely passed his lips when
_lll that mixed
assembly, of which the greater majority were s.l'opkeeperss
or merchants, rose as one man, and raised a cumt;2tu°u,
cheer, which continued some minutes. A more unsoug,:t
for, spontaneous, energetic expression of feeling, founded
solely upon love for the Constitution, unmixed with personal
or factious alloy, was never, I venture to assert, displayed."
Now to the narrative of our friend at Cork :
.4 The topics broached by Mr. Deane were well followed
op I,y the Rev. Mr. Freeman, Mr. Longfield, M.P., Mr.
O'Driscill, and Mr. Comerford (both Roman Catholics,
but both g.entlemen of fortune and of independence), Mr.
Cramer, Mr, Morris, &e. Mr. O'Driscoll was peculiarly
pointed in his Ousion to the justice rent." For what,'
he asked, 'is it ccriicted ?' Is it to afford protection to
the poor ? Is it to ay.ert oppression ? Is it even to reform
Corporations, or to abolis;; tithes ? No, Sir, is to unsettle
the Constitution—it is to o:_sinember the empire, and I
therefore denounce it as, not the ;ustice rent, but the rebel-
lion rent.' These sentiments were loudly eiieered, the
more so as they emanated from a Roma.' Catholic-2_ loyal
and good subject it is true, but still a Roman (.3
atholic ''
These two statements are calculated to cii,er the
spirits of even the most desponding. The Constitu-
tion, civil and religious, of this great kingdom is safe,
when the middle and bumbler classes arise with en-
thusiastic sympathy to maintain the House of Peers
against its assailants, and when Catholic gentlemen are
not afraid to denounce as rebellion the profligate efforts
of Radical Papists to overthrow the Protestant Church.

—Times.
It is probably in the recollection of our readers,
that we published a few days since a dispatch from
General Rodil, dated from Argamasilla. From this
dispatch it appears that Rodil anticipated the siege of
Almaden by Gomez. His instruction to Flinter, the
intrepid Englishman, who commanded in the town,
was to hold out for two days; when he should certainly
be relieved, Almaden was besieged ;it did hold out
for two days ; it is not relieved, though Rodil, with
an overwhelming force, is only at the distancia of eleven
leagues. The result is told in our Madrid letter. Al-
maden is taken and sacked ; the !troops and their com-
mander who defended it made prisoners ; and Gomez
is uninterruptedly allowed to assume a position from
which he this moment menaco the capital. A parallel
to the disgraceful conduct of die Spanish leader will
not be found even in the career of :he traitor Cordova.
Had that calamity of his country beet: offered up as an
example to those who are prepared to form the same
course, much of the blood and treasure that have been
lavished during the last twelve months m;oht have
been saved. Cordova, however, is out of the reach of
the Spanish Government. Rodil is not. An ex-
ample must be made. To dismiss him and replace
him by another traitor will be no satisfaction for the
past—no protection for the future. The lives, li-
berties, and property of the people must not be sacri-
ficed with impunity ; and averse as we are to any
measures of unnecessary harshness, we do most
earnestly hope that General Rodil will be called to a
speedy and most severe account for the sacrifice of Al-
maden. We confess we are quite prepared to find this
conduct of Rodil and Alaix produce an effect upon the
temper of the Cortes, which, under other circum-
stances, we might have regarded as untoward and im-
prudent. Every friend of rational freedom applauded
the disposition manifested by the Cortes to continue
the Regency in the hands of the Queen, and to mo-
dify the constitution of 1812. But now, seeing trea-
son everywhere around them, who shall be surprised if
the war commission of the Cortes usurp the function
of the Executive ; and if the national distrust shall cur-
tail the powers of the Regent? Such a step can ex-
cite neither surprise nor censure. It would appear to
be the object of the traitorous leaders to bring discredit
on the Government, by forcing it into revolutionary
measures, and at the same time to refrain from striking
a serious blow at a faction with which France and the
Gallo-Spanish party are evidently in league. The
Journal des Debats, we observe, blames the ora-
tors in the Cortes for showing distrust in such
a crisis, and harrassing the Ministers with accu-
sations. For our part, we should be very much
astonished if they did not do so. To " furnish
arms and money, and to discipline patriotism,"
is, according to the French writer, the whole duty of
the Cortes. But of what use are arms and money in
the hands of such men as Rodil and Alaix, who, with
20,000 men under their command, allow Gomez, with
half the number, to capture an important town within
a few leagues of them ? No. It is not so much arms,
and money, and discipline that is wanted. It is, as
we have already said, that a public example should
be made of those traitors who, one after another—
year after year—have been basely selling the blood and
freedom of their country for their own personal and
party interests: If the French Government during the
early period of the revolutionary war had not secured
the obedience of their Generals by other means than
those adopted in Spain, they never would have ob-
tained their brilliant successes. Defection was medi-
tated by Dumourier and other distinguished Generals;
but their schemes were always discovered in time, and
frustrated by the intelligent men sent by the Govern-
ment to watch their movements.—Morning Chronicle.
The Globe affects to think that there is no founda-
tion for ascribing to the lucky circumstance of being
attached to Mr. O'Connell's party (for that was what
we asserted) the recent appointments, which placed
one of Mr. O'Connell's friends on the Bench of the
Exchequer, and made one of his family an Accoun-
tant-General. It even denies that Mr. O'Loghlen
was attached to the party of the Learned and Hon.
Member for Kilkenny, though it admits that he was
" slightly connected" with the Catholic Association,
'of which the latter was the manager and dictator.
The assertion that he was not attached to the. party of
the man who is the chief support of the Melbourne
Cabinet, we are sure Mr. Baron O'Loghlen himself
would indignantly repel. That party undoubtedly as-
sisted him into Parliament, and they are not in the
habit of so exerting themselves for those who do not
belong to them. If the late Learned and amiable
Baron Smith had attached himself to the same party,
ever so " slightly," he would not have experienced the
persecution which he did, when dragged as a culprit
before Parliament. Ile triumphed, it is true, over
his accusers, but his health seems never to have re-
covered the shock of that trial, so severe to the feelings
of a man whose upright mind valued an honourable re-
putation above all earthly possessicins. As to the ap..
pointment of Mr. Fitzsimon, he being one of the forty
" joints," and, moreover, Mr. O'Connell's son-in-law,
it speaks for itself. Why should those who profit by
their connection with Mr. O'Connell be ashamed .-a•f
acknowledging what they owe to their patron and bene-
factor ? This savours of ingratitude.—Morn. Herald.
Has the manufacturer of a clumsy calumny upon the
Government and upon two Learned Gentlemen, lately
Members of the House of Commons, which appeared
in a morning paper of yesterday, been napping for the
last ten years?—or has he men only let loose from the
grammar school ? We ask the question because of
the blissful ignorance he has exhibited respecting mat-
ters cf public notoriety—the very matters his malevo-
lence urged him to adopt as a theme on which to em-
ploy his vicious fancy, and perhaps to try his hand as
a libellous paragraphist.
"Another instance (says this precious scribbler) of what
is meant by the slang: phrase of Justice to Ireland,' has
occured in the appointment of one of the tail' to the lu-
crative situation of Accountant-General of his Majesty's
Court of Exchequer in Ireland, Mr. O'Loghlen who was
originally designated for the Attorney-Generals/zip by Mr.
O'Connell, has lately, as our readers are aware, been raised
to the Bench of that Court. We do not quarrel with the
appointment on account of the religion or the legal qucli-
Xcations of the new Judge, but we may observe that if he

had not attached himself to a political party, whose chief '
INTs denounced by Lord Grey's Ministry in the speech from
the throne, there is not the slightest rca,on for believing
that under the Melbourne Ministry he would have been
made one of the King's judges. Mr. Fi!zsimon, who has
just now been made Accountant-General, is Mr. O'Con-
nell's so: -in-law, and by getting that appo►ntment has re-
ceived his share of Jusitce to Ireland,' and a pretty large

large slice it is.,'
The writer of the foregoing must be a bright genius.
He does not quarrel with Mr. O'Loghlen's appoint-
ment (how condescending !), on account of that
Learned Gentleman's religion or legal qualifications.
Then why take any exception to it ? If Mr.
O'Loghlen's religion was no legitimate bar to his pro-
motion, and if he possesses the legal qualifications for
a Judge, what is there objectionable in his elevation to
the Bench, alongside of Baron Leslie Foster, be it ob-
setved ? Oh exclaims our long-eared tyro—" We
may observe that if he (Mr. O'Loghlen) had not at-
. taciied himself to a political party, whose chief was
denounced by Lord Grey's Ministry in the speech
from the Throne, [Another slip from the truth ; as
the blockhead could have known by simply reading the
sp~,ches of Lords Lansdowne and Holland in the
House:of Lords, we think, in July last, in which
explicit contradiction was given to the
speeches ai;
'ft:Ty falsehood that Mr. O'Connell
ovel.ats ractpeataclt:d ed b; Lord Grey's Ministry in any speech
from the throne]_.....„•bere is not the slightest reason
for believing that under :
11e Melbourne . Ministry he
would have been made one 0; the.
fors
sgths flippantsiJudges.
Indeed ! And upon what grounds
scribe rest his assertion ? Two judges have been made
in Ireland by the Melbourne, Ministry—Yln Justice
Perrin and Mr. Baron O'Loghlen. May we ask, are
they not better appointments than those of Justice
Torrens, for instance, by the Liverpool ..Ministry—or
Baron Foster by the Wellington Ministry--or Chief
Justice Doherty by the Grey Administration ? Than
I th;se two !judicial appointments of the Melbourne
ministn-v, better could not by possibility have been
made byd al:: Ministry in the present day ; and better
have not been rn:de..in either country by any Adminis-
T 'on They are in every respect
nation since the un. •
but . highly creditable to the
not only unexceptionable,
benefi-
present Government, accePtabi... - 1
to the ,
cial to the country. So contempti;).:- in t, is the
ruth and
The have
wretched tissue of spite and falsebcp,... ,d the
quoted, that we should not at all have notn.:.
thing, were it not with the view to expose tin.
infamous system of warfare against a liberal Go-
vernment pursued by the Tory journals. These
"public instructors," although clamorous advocates for
the dissemination of the unmutilated Word of God, do
not scruple to falsify, to distort, to misrepresent every
action of the Government which they are hired by a
conscript band of corruptionists to calumniate, and, if
they cannot run Ministers down, at all events to affix
to their conduct some obloquy. Thus, though an ap-
pointment is admitted to be unexceptionable, still the
cause of it must be foully misrepresented in order to
create an occasion for finding fault. The paragraphist
to whom we allude has not only misrepresented the
motive which led to Mr. O'Loghlen's promotion, but
he has also outraged truth in the liberty he has taken
with Mr. O'Loghlen himself. Ministers did not pro-
mote that Learned Gentleman for the reason malig-
nantly and falsely assigned by the Tory scribbler ;
nay, more, they could not have done so, for the plainest
of all reasons—that Mr. O'Loghlen never belonged to
that section of politicians who adopt Mr. O'Connell
as their leader. Mr. O'Loghlen was always the advo-
cate of liberal measures, but until he became Solicitor-
General he never appeared in the political arena.
Once he became that officer of Government, his-other
promotions have been, as the Globe correctly remarks,
matters of course. Now it so happens that he be-
came Solicitor-General upon the promotion of Mr.
Justice Crampton, which happened prior to the ex-
plosion of that nefarious intrigue of the Court and
Tory faction which broke up the first Melbourne
Administration. At that period Mr. O'Connell was
in active opposition ; the very circumstance upon
which Sir R. Peel since rested his own justifica-
tion in taking office. We do not affect to say that
Mr. O'Connell disapproves of Mr. O'Loghlen's
promotion. On the contrary, he must cordially ap-
prove of so merited an elevation of one who,
though not always his political, has, we believe,
been ever his personal friend. On the Repeal
Question Mr. O'Loghlen stood aloof from Mr. O'Con-
nell, a circumstance which possibly had some weight
in influencing his subsequent appointment to the
office of Solicitor-General. Will the journal which
published the calumnious statement we have thus taken
to tatters, treat its readers to an antidote for its poison
by publishing the truth, which it might not have recol-
lected yesterday, but of which it is now in possession ?
Is there in Toryism honour or virtue enough to repair
an intended injury by even cancelling slander? With
respect to Mr. Fitzsimon's appointment, that,. we un -
derstand, proceeded voluntarily from the Lord Chan-
cellor, in whose patronage the vacant place is included.
To Lord Plunkett belongs the credit of nominating,
unsolicited, a very intelligent, amiable, respectable gen•
tleman to an office belonging to his Court. Mr. O'Con-
nell did not ask the place for his relative, nor, as we have
learned, were the Government at all instrumental in ob-
taining it for Mr. Fitzsimon. Even were the case
otherwise, surely there is nothing in the name or blood
of Mr. O'Connell to mark with inferiority, incompe-
tence, and disgrace a member of his family. We do
not say it would be becoming in Mr. O'Connell to
solicit places for his relations ; but most undoubtedly
it is not wrong in them to accept of proffered situa-
tions, the duties of which they are in every way qua-
lified to discharge ; nor could it be a just cause of
complaint against a Government, that they bestowed
some of their patronage upon qualified members of Mr.
O'Connell's family. Upon this point the reader will
find in another column some very pertinent remarks,
borrowed from the Pilot and Dublin Evening Post.—
Morning Chronicle.