The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-26 00:00:00

of usurping an authority denied by the law, of
corrupting and vitiating the constituency of our
counties—" by threats or intimidation, or vexatious in-
dictments for conspiracy." The above instance pre-
sents so perfect an illustration of the remarks
with which we set out, that any other must
appear feeble as well as needless. One or
two, however, lie before us, which we can not
entirely omit. A person of the name of Haywood,
who was formerly a Member of the Orange Institu-
tion, has recently thought proper, as our readers are
aware, to promulgate by means of the press a very
improbable story of a treasonable conversation held, as
he says, several years ago by Lieutenant-Colonel
Fairtnan, in his presence, and that of several other
persons, importing no less than a deliberate and fixed
design, on the part of the Gallant Colonel, and of
other individuals of more exalted rank, to alter the
succession to the Throne. This dangerous plot, which
made so deep an impression upon Mr. Haywood, and
so slight an impression upon any of the other persons
present at the conversation in which it was revealed
that he alone recollects anything of the matter, was
prudently concealed by him until the present moment,
in order, we presume, to give the conspirators a fair
chance of success. The present day, in the discreet
judgment of Mr. Haywood, was eminently favourable
to the revelation of the mighty secret with which his
bosom had so long laboured. Now that Mr. O'Connell
so far at least as regards the distribution of Govern-
ment patronage, is a far more powerful man than
the- King of England—now that Mr. Shiel and Mr.
Hume, though far below Mr. O'Connell, and indeed
nothing unless in alliance with him, are far greater
men than any of the King's Ministers—now that it is
an especial object of the O'Connell cabal to elevate in
Ireland the virtuous and patriotic party of Ribbon-
men, and to extinguish if possible the Orange institu-
tion, to exalt Popery and extirpate Protestantism—
now that an active officer of the Orange Institution of
England had recently and in a very remarkable manner
foiled, disgraced, and mortified those great and influ-
ential statesmen, O'Connell, Sheil, and Hume—now
was evidently the time when the opportune production
of a choice piece of Orange treason might bs the
making of the man who had the good fortune to pos-
sess or the ingenuity to invent the valuable secret.
The whole matter is perfectly plain to persons of
the most ordinary common sense, if unperverted by
the rancour of party, or the more sordid motives of
self-interest. Mr. Haywood's speculation has, un-
'ortunately, failed. The public mind was not ripe
'or the advent of another Titus Oates. He is

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very properly under prosecution before the Court
of King's Bench. His allegations are proved upon
oath to be utterly false. He will no doubt be punished
as he deserves. But what is really instructive in the
case, and it is to this that we intended chiefly to ad-
vert, is the manifest reluctance of the Melbourne-
O'Connell press to be deprived of their darling disco-
verer of Orange treason—of the man whom they
hoped to make a Titus Oates in the cause of Popery
and Ribbonism—a powerful agent and ally of the
O'Connell dynasty. He is even now held up as a
person entitled to public sympathy, and subscriptions
for his defence are solicited by the Government journals.
If this subscription should succeed the next thin°. will,
undoubtedly, be an O'Connell rent. Nor indeed,° con-
sidering the rate at which our Government scribes pro-
ceed, could the latter be any longer regarded as a very
extravagant proposal. We find the principal organ of
the Melbourne Cabinet gravely admonishing the mem-
bers of Brookes's Club that, instead of expelling Mr.
O'Connell at the suggestion of Sir Francis Biirdett,
they ought to expel the venerable Baronet, because he
dislikes the manners of m®n who call Gentlemen
" mighty great liars," the most "inconceivable of all
imaginary vagabonds," " bloated buffoons," and em-
ploy other civilities of the same nature habitually and
systematically, and who, when the satisfaction of a
gentleman is demanded of them, have the answer ready
in stereotype, " I have a vow in Heaven." The man
of these manners and of this vow is to be considered a
gentleman because he is going on with Reform, and
the gentleman who dislikes equally the manners and
the vow is to be hunted from society because be is of
opinion that Reform has already gone far enough.
We think we have abundantly proved our proposi-
tions.—Morning Post.