The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-04 00:00:00

LORD ALVANLEY & Mr. O'CONNELL.

TO THE MEMBERS OF BROOKES'S.

London, May 2, 1835.
GUNTLEMEN,—In the House of Commons, on the 20th of
last month, Mr. O'Connell made use of expressions of a coarse
and insulting nature with regard to me. I received the account
of his having done so in the country on the 21st, and imme-
diately enclosed the following letter for him to Colonel Darner,
who, finding that he had left town, forwarded it to Dublin by
the post of the 22d :
" SIR,—In the remarks you made on Monday last, on a
question which I had put on the previous Saturday to Lord
Melbourne, a question of purely a political nature, you used
language which I cannot allow to pass unnoticed. lam aware
that you assume a right of insulting with impunity ; and I can
hardly hope that you will make an exception in my favour, by
doing that which every other gentleman would do, and giving
satisfaction where you have offered insult. I, however, give
you the option of doing se, and my friend Colonel Darner will
make the necessary arrangements, should you be inclined to
avail yourself of my proposal.---I am your obedient servant,
" Cliefden, Tuesday. " ALVANLEY."
Having ascertained his arrival in Dublin on the 26th, and
received no answer on the 28th, Colonel Darner wrote to him
again on that day.
" Sir,—l was in hopes to have heard from you by this time,
and must request that you will return me an immediate answer
to Lord Alvanley's letter of the 22d, as he is impatient at
labouring under the stigma of your gratuitous insult to him on
the 20th.

" I am your obedient Servant,
" GEORGE DAMER.

" 40, Grosvenor-street, April 28."

To this second letter he has returned no answer. Having,
therefore, tried those means to obtain redress which are cus-
tomary amongst gentlemen, I now appeal to the only tribunal
of men of honour, to which we are both amenable; and have,
therefore, sent a requisition, already signed by several members
of the Club, requesting the Managers to call a general meet-
ing, to take the case into consideration.
It has been objected to me that this is a question of a pri-
vate nature, and that the Club is not called upon to interfere.
I acknowledge that it is of a private and personal nature ; but
I think, that as the honour of two of its members is deeply impli-
cated, the Club has a right to do so, if it think fit. The one has
received a gratuitous insult, for which the other refuses in
any way to atone, thereby claiming for himself an- exemption
from those laws by which the society of Gentlemen is re-
gulated, and without which the hcnour and feelings of every
man would be at the mercy of those who might choose to cover
themselves with the shield of irresponsibility. Having that
right, I think it will be but justice in this instance to exercise
it, and to give to the one an opportunity of stating why he, a
member of the Club, has remained under the stigma of an
affront for which he has received neither satisfaction nor apo-
logy ; and to impress upon the other, that it utterly repudiates
his assumption of being out of the pale of those laws of honour
by which gentlemen are governed.
I have the honour to be, your obedient servant,
ALVANLEY.

LETTER FROM LORD ALVANLEY TO THE
MANAGERS OF BROOKES'S CLUB.

Gentlemen,—l enclose you a requisition, signed by 24
Members of Brookes's Club, which I request you to take into
consideration as soon as you conveniently can.
I am your obedient servant,
(Signed) ALVANLEY.
No. 2, Albemarle-street, May 3.
REQUISITION.
London, May 2, 1835.
We, the undersigned Members of Brookes's Club, request
the Managers to call a General Meeting of the Club as soon as
possible, to consider a statement that will be made to it of Mr.
O'Connell's conduct to Lord Alvanley, both being Members
of the Club.

Alvanley.
Sefton.
De Roos.
11. Gaily Knight.
Duncombt
Argyll.
Jersey.

Charles Standish.
Henry Baillie.
C. St. John Fancourt
Rowland Errington.
Villiers.
'V. 11. Tilly.
John S. Hipposley.
R. Williams Bulkeley,
M. W. Ridley.
James R. Graham.
Lichfield.

Tanker vine.
Stanley.
C. C. Greville.
Willoughby de Eresby.
George Bentick.

ANSWER.

The Managers of Brookes's Club having had under their
consideration a requisition signed by several members, re-
questing them to call a general meeting—
_ _ _

" To consider a statement that will be made to it of Mr.
O'Connell's conduct to Lord Alvanley, both being members
of the Club,"
are of opinion that it would be inconsistent with the prac-
tice, and contrary to the established rules, to take cogni-
zance of differences of a private nature between members
of the Club ; and therefore decline to call a general meet-
ing in compliance with the above requisition.
(Signed) DUNCANNON.
ALBEMARLE.
JOHN BYNG.
EDWARD BLOUNT.
EDWARD ELLICE.
RONALD C. FERGUSON.
Brookes's, May 3, 1835.