The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-12 00:00:00

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HE ELECTORS- of the COUNTY

OF CARLOW.

DERRYNANE ABBEY, 6TH Nov., 1835.
...FELLOW COUNTRYMEN—I beg your pardon__„,
I humbly beg your pardon for having recommended to
your suffrages that most incomprehensible of all ima-
ginary vagabonds, Alexander Raphael. But the truth
,he deceived me—he altogether deceived me. There
is °nly one consolation, that he has precluded himself
Rota ever deceiving any one else again.
Tam bound to acknowledge that I had been cau-
tioned against him—that I had been told that he was
a faithless creature, who never observed any contract,
d. with whom no person ever had a dealing without
b'etag sorry for it. Why then did I disregard these
iCautions ? For two reasons. First—l am in the
nabit, of perhaps, undervaluing the effect of calumny
'and as to calumny itself, I know by the experience of
4, long life, that' the best of actions, and purest of ma-
t.!ves, cannot, in many cases, mitigate calumny. - I
therefore treated more lightly than it now seems I
Should have done those who condemned him. Secondly
lie-had long solicited my support to obtain a seat
In Parliament. He canvassed me for assistance, as a
Ltadioal,, when he avowed himself a candidate for
estluinster. After that speculation was given up,
le sought my aid at the last general election ; and upon
my return to London, he assailed me with profession's
°f Purity and patriotism, taking up expressions of
urine, of my attachment to those who were friendly
to Ireland, and in his letters declaring himself the most
,ardent friend of our unhappy country.
Perhaps I should not have attended to-him—J pro-
h
iably was wrong even then in believing him ; but
this at least is in my favour : that before I re-
eonlMended him to your notice, I obtained from him
a declaration of public principles, signed by him, and
el Which I was at liberty to make use publicly, if, as
Your representative, he swerved from any of them in
the slightest degree.
Such is my excuse for having at any time been
deceived by so very worthless a being, as his late
mean and malignant, but, at the same time, almost.
unintelligible attack upon me, proves him to be. The
diselosur? of correspondence written in. that .absence
()f caution with which men write when they do not
foresee the possibility of meeting the •public eye,
Places him in a predicament so deplorable, as to be an
Object of pity rather than of reprobation or mere con-
tempt.

This is my apology for having recommended to you
So base a man as he now shows himself—indeed at
"Present he is a creature so paltry as to be below re-
ProaCh. Let me give you just this specimen of this
man's mendacity : There is in his publication
tQLS passage-,-mark the hypocritical candour !
"That I should not do him an injustice, it is fair
that I 'should, in conclusion, observe, that the second
',to of 1,0001; has been accounted
,for by his paying
in Cash 3501. to Mr. Biker towards the law charges,
and of ,repeated applications madefor the balance,
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giving him a bill for at a long date, drawn by
Mr. O'Connell himself on the self-same brewers as
the eight hundred pounds before alluded to was
drawn
Perhaps there never were so many falsehoods steed
440 so small a space. It may amuse to analyse them.
; Ist. It is false that the second 1,0001. was accounted
f°t in the way stated. This is a pure invention—a
Simple falsehood.
2d. " Paying in cash 3501. to Mr. Baker towards
law charges." I never paid 3501., or one shilling, to
r• Baker towards law charges, or for any purpose.
4 hia is a complicated falsehood.
3d. " And after repeated applications made to him
for the balance." Mr. Baker never made to me any
application—no person even applied to me, or
any occasion to apply to me, for any balance.
This is a multitudinous falsehood.
4th. "B 1 giving him a bill at a long date, drawn.
Ly Mr. O'Connell himself, on the self-same brewers,"
T never gave Mr. Baker a bill for any sum upon
; 443, breWer or brewers, or any bill at any date. This
I.is
similar falsehood with the last.
sth. As the 8001. before alluded to was drawn
„ •
ipn." Neither the 8001., or any part of it, was paid
"- any person by a bill drawn on any brever or
brevvers. I never in my life drew a bill on any brewer.
Thin makes fals.ehood the fifth and last.
~-• .After this specimen I think it is not going too far
t,°, say, in the usual Irish phrase—that you, Alexander
A'.aphael are a " mighty great liar."
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have dwelt too long on this subject; I cannot
conclude, however, without stating that. Raphael was
aware that not one shilling of the 2;000/. was, directly
Or indirectly, for me or for my use ; that I received the
In°ller merely as the trustee of Mr.. Vigors, who was
the person liable to all expenses, I having been his
Surety as between him and Raphael. I have to add,
1.1'14'1 paid Mr. Vigors at the time, and as he called
°r it, the entire 2,000/., not only to the last farthing,
but that I actually made a mistake, and overpaid him
by fifteen pOunds, a mistake which he soon discovered,
and, of course, repaid me that sum.
As Raphael has had the indescribable meanness to
llnhlish: letters which certainly were not intended for
publication, it may be necessary to state, for the' sake
the public, why the 2,000/. were required from him,
44 the- purposes were strictly legal, and beyond re-
• Proaeb ; if Mr. Vigors agrees with me, as I think he
Will, in the propriety of that .course, I will satisfy the
Public on these points.
In the meantime, fellow•cotintrytnen, this incident
'43 taught me just so much of caution, as never again
t° hold too lightly representations by honest and ex-
Perienced men against individuals who thrust them-
tielYes upon me, and whose character I have myself no
Personal means of estimating. The baseness in the
present case is at once almost equally incredible and
unintelligible. If I could understand the man he
surprise but could not wound me. After all I
ern, afford to forgive him this annoyance.
I have the honour to be, fellow-countrymen, your
"er faithful servant,

DANIEL O'CONNELL.

MR. RAPHAEL.

( From the Dublin Pilot of Monday.) .
13 We have been favoured with a copy of a letter written
Y Mr. Vigors to Mr. O'Connell, on the subject of Raphael's
publication of private correspondence ; and, as we have the
authoritya of Mr. Vigors for publishing that letter, we do
2. It is, indeed, as himself says, superfluous ; but it may
rwell be put upon record, that it may be preserved to con-
und the' wretched scribes who avail themselves of every
sard charge against O'Connell.
of The letter of Mr. O'Connell, fully corroborative of that
1%. Vigors, contains what has been anticipated by the
'Public, both from internal evidence as well as from the public
and explicit contradiction of Mr. Baker—namely, that so far
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naphael's charges are intelligible, they were totally false—
absolute inventions without a colour of any transaction by
Which he could even deceive himself with the belief that they
were true. Mr. O'Connell seems to think the motive of such
baseness incomprehensible. With a knowledge of the mean
an
clavariciousqualities of Raphael,and the consciousness that
be was just the person to be used and remunerated by the
The and malignant Tories, it is not to us incomprehens:ble.
o.bject was to make it appear that Mr. O'Connell, who
eegae:ated between the candidates and the Reform constitu-
eneY Of Carlow—who, on behalf of the constituency, en-
ttvonred to secure the lodgment of the money pro-
inised and which was necessary for the legal expenses,
hi "der that the constituency might not be left In the
ri!,ll---that he (Mr. O'Connell), working to save the
V,u,lie the money, applied it to his own purposes, and
cationul9e county ;—this was the evident object of the
to old True, the calumny coOd pot long e?4,n ; but old