The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-03 00:00:00

have above treated of as being perpetrated only in the
opinion of the Noble Lord, and of course very harmless
in their effects. But the attack here made on the
Government is of a more serious nature, and merits a
stronger reprehension than any which shall fall from
us. Mark the way with which the courtesy of a
Member of the Government to O'CONNELL is made
to tell, and the horrible impression which the infe-
rence is calculated to make on the minds of an igno-
rant, infuriated multitude. O'CONNELL is here made
the object of Ministerial regard, on account of his be-
ing the chief instigator of the cruelties recounted in
the first charge ! What will the crowd learn from
this language but that the Ministry meditate their
banishment and death, and are ready to bribe every
wretch who is ready to imbrue his hands in their
blood ? This is truly horrible. But to proceed :--
"3. That the Magistrates who are willing to endanger
lives in endeavouring to quell these outrages, not only are not
supported, but betrayed, and if they are hardy enough to dis,
charge with effect their arduous and painful duties, they are
persecuted, deprived of the Commission of the Peace, tried
for their lives, as if they were the violaters, not the asserters of
the law—(hear)—and when honourably acquitted, again and
again brought to trial, so as to ruin by the expense those whose
lives they are unable to sacrifice at the shrine of the dema-
gogue, and deter, by the example, all other Magistrates from
being so rash as to resist those lawless depredators."
No person will express astonishment that the
Marquis of LONDONDERRY and the Orangemen of
Down, sympathize from the bottom of their hearts
with the fate of Messrs. BLACKER and CI-toss, dis-
missed from the Bench for deeds which have deservedly
obtained for them a species of convict fame, of no
great account with the magistracy of England. It is
certainly a pity that any loyal Orangeman (and all
Orangemen are very loyal fellows !) should he de-
prived of the power of handcuffing peasants, for no
better reason than that he exercises it on the innocent
to sate revengeful feelings. The next is half a conti-
nuation of the same complaint :
" 4. The most loyal and most talented of the Protestant
gentry—the most amiable and respected private characters
grossly insulted, subjected to the insolence of low inquisitors,
opprobriously dismissed from the Magistracy, should they dare
to show their attachment to the Protestant cause."

The low inquisitors here denounced are persons who
dare to ask for old charters, and take an inventory of
the " Lions of the North," as CASTLEREAGH styles
them, with no better authority for so doing than
his MAJESTY'S commission for such purposes. The
next is rather apocryphal :
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" 5. The naturally local governors, the necessarily loyal
gentry, the men of rank and property and intelligence, are
proscribed by the Irish Government; while the habitually dis-
loyal, the conspirators of 1798 and 1803, the republicans and
revolutionists, the hungry and needy adventurers, the natural
enemies to the Protestant cause and Protestant religion, are
alone courted; with them is the Viceroy surrounded, and by
them alone the measures of the Irish Government directed; in
them alone is vested power, influence, and patronage."

We have ourselves some complaints to make of the
Government, of a very opposite character. The Whigs
have been, and are, too lenient to the Tories, in the
exercise of their patronage. This complaint is one which
has been repeatedly urged, and we earnestly desire they
will yet pay attention to it. It was a great error in
their policy ever to attempt the conciliation of the
Tories by means so ruinous to themselves, and so in-
jurious to the country. But we cannot pursue this
subject to-day. The remaining four articles of . com-
plaint we shall touch upon to-morrow.

Whatever other faults we may have to allege against
Messrs. COBBETT and O'CONNELL, one praise at
least we must accord them—that of thoroughly under-.
standing their trade as mountebanks. Two more ex.,
pert jack-puddings never grinned through a horse,
collar, or danced on a tight rope—we beg pardon for
using the ominous phrase " tight rope" in connection
with these
sworthies—at a country fair. We will give
-iTi all ztance of bur sstertiori, .f-r.'tlther't-i-st; it inigni,
wear the aspect of an extravagant eulogium. When
COBBETT publicly announced his intention of going
over to Ireland, for the purpose, as he declared, of en-
lightening that benighted region with his lectures,
O'CONNELL, who at once saw through his motives,
and was desirous, for obvious reasons, to be of service
to him, despatched a long letter to the Dublin journals,
in which he not only expatiated on the consummate
patriotism and ability of the Corporal, but pretty
broadly hinted also, at the amazing advantages Ireland
would reap, by paying attention to the opinions of such
a SoLomoN. The bait took as was intended. COB-
BETT, backed by DAN'S certificate, went about lec-
turing from town to town, and the people paid hand-
somely for the privilege of falling asleep over what he
said ; and we now find him, in gratitude for such sea-
sonable help, paying back his patron in his own coin,
in a letter to the Dublin Press, lavish of the praises
of the great Agitator, and whose every sentence is
penned with a view to the aggrandizement of the
Rent Tribute. If this be not quackery in its mot
consummate and unadulterated shape, we know not
what is. O'CONNELL puffs COBBETT juSt at the
moment when lie is on the look out for money by his
lectures. COBBETT puffs O'CONNELL just at the
moment when he is in the same delicate predica-
ment. DANIEL, in his letter, hints that the Corporal
is a prodigy. The Corporal, on his part, proclaims
DANIEL a phamomenon. Oh, rare couple ! Where
even among the GRAHAMS, the SOL omoNs, the
EADYS, or the MORRISONS, of a past or . present
age, shall we look for your equals ? We forbear
inserting COBBETT'S epistolary panegyric ; for though
it is fulsome, extravagant, and contains as much brasS
as would stock a brazier's shop, yet its intense
impudence is deprived of all amusing qualities by its
profound dulness and vulgarity. One, however, of
the Corporal's remarks is droll, not to say original.
He talks of the " public virtue " of O'CONNELL.---.
and this with an irony so well concealed, that one
would actually almost believe him in earnest in what
lie said. How the great Agitator, who boasted that.
consistency was a " rascally virtue," must chuckle
when he comes to this passage r He has often pub-
licly boasted of the many hearty laughs he has in-
dulged in, but we will lay a wager he never enjoyed
such a boisterous burst as COBBETT'S praise of his
" public virtue " will give him. We can ima-
gine every roof and rafter in old Derrinane ring-
ing with his inextinguishable roars of cachinna-
tion. Mr. COBBETT, we perceive, lays much stress
in his epistle on the fact of his not having yet visited
DANIEL at the Abbey. We cannot wonder at his
forbearance, for even through the triple bronze of his
matchless face, a blush, or something like it, must find
its way, at the idea of accepting the hospitality of a
man, whom, though he now discovers him to be a
miracle of " public virtue," he once denounced in his
Register, as a " bully, a hypocrite, and a fellow of no
bottom" In that same Register too the Corporal
mentions his intention of thrashing O'CONNELL
whenever he comes in his way ; and of course, as he
is one who has never yet been known to tell a lie, he
will not the Abbey without putting his threat into
execution. But should tie visit DAN, and this in
a courteous temper, what an interview must it be I The
richest farce ever exhibited could never equal the