The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-09 00:00:00

TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF
WELLINGTON.

IVlv Losn DCRE,
cc Some men achie‘ce
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London, Sept. 8, 18.
The latter • firrsatness ; and sow.. flute greatness
14"8' etr'on them."--SnAkSPEARE.
IS ceonlini-
upon me. I are -a
my Cafe. I have had greatness thrust
- a deeply convinced that it is also—but in a dif-
ferent Inn& —the ease f ' and in the fellowship
of this s . o your Grace : -
stn „onviction I proceed to zottle a short account which
euto as unclosed between us,
care
are. reported by all the newspa'pers of the last week-a-I
eie.not in what debate to b Saidofme these two thkigs :
aye .
First—That I had beets convicted of a misdemeanour, and
afterwards promoted by '.tie Irish Governs ent.
eno:seeZil syi—neelth heat I have more poivcr than any intliVidud
Revolution of 1688.
:11The first a°-.,ertiOn, my. Lord, pet vie to tell you is totally
.ftillioude", and you aught to have known it to be so.
.second is a gross exaggeration, and you mast Have
ea.r.n it to be so
than
may dispose of the first in a few words, You have more
in
',`,7a9e trade this charge against me publicly in your place
,sibinoutirsiidpr,libzeg,ctalyn.d I have as often. to my place in the taller
and eninhatically contradicted it. This
VQ,ltu a‘e put you i'r'on inquiry into the farts before you
nlred to repeat tbe calumny.
ti
ni••_Y more—yen had the proof in s.sour hands that vena asser-
t/L:4'B uncourided ; because, when you first made it in the
who. 0 ni Lons, it being, even then, contradicted, Lord Eldon,
in,s "Ille in aid of you, moved for a return of all the proceed-
hri
tsigainst me. That return was made—that return was
rilinte'd by the House of Lords—it was in your hands .. it
ol,'"ewr 11, indeed, that there were eleven indictments against me,
nharging me with sedition and a conspiracy for
that nss purpnnen ; but 'every one of them, every indictment
.sreeed--itei.4°P"aorfgeth=lemtne with any moral offence, abandoned upset' the
.;,'",•d hy the Attorney-General.
1,,,,7 man ever bated another more than Lord Anglesey hated
)41"ss'n hurtlle is not, as you, my Lord, know, a. wise man, and I
tt his vanity_ fee greatest offence that could be cent.
tee °(1 against a vain and unwise man. He accordingly hated
ton ordially, and Mr. Blackburne, his Attorney-General
"eons you more congenially continued in office) rivalled his
in :I'll_B_ll4, in animosity. Yet so totally false were the charges
Chord, given
indictments, that they were publicly, and on the re-
she qiven u b that Attorney-General. This you had in
printed return,There
preola_ remained one indictment. It was for disobeying a
nit, mation !I! Yes, literally for disobeying a proclamation,
slie,,o'4d. anY illegal or improper intent being so much as
11
4nci
i!lis.ted that it was no offence to disobey a proclamation;
to loe:Pone. on that plain principle of law I declined to plead
atte Indictment, b mot 'going first secured these terms :--That no
givin should be made to proceed to judgment without
"d
fin
mile the full power to have the twelve Judges in Ireland,
an en a Y the House of Lords, decide whether or not it was 1
r4enee to disobey a proclamation.
tton course the matter proceeded no farther, and thus I was
earl ly not convicted, 'Jut I was not tried at all ; and you
entire' should have known that your charge against me was
p destitute of fact.
siinslr the presont I have done with this part of the case,
Calumny autinning you against any other repetition of this
feel it You shall not repeat it with impunity, as I will
who al, duty to expose such injustice to the British people,
catis. eadY understand you nearly as well as Ido ; and your
Ore 0 career, as well as the tone and temper of your mind,
jildte familiar to me.
Inhtti, ',word_ as to the promotion von say I have received,
titeall'a'
-.as aet
2 was neither place nor pension, office nor emolument
nallY more useful to others than it was
to me. It
4, pal '. very undignified in you to quarrel with it. It is but
raeseellt
of precedence, costing the public not one penny--
no var ecedenee--and that below my standing at the bar: of
absinolle at all to me at present that I have almost entirely
I Could profession.
011 Your 4 have bad it before the Emancipation Bill. It was
only to Part and on that of your party a gross injustice, not
of h 'no but to my clients—to my numerous clients, some
f
a es,
all "' were Orangemen, and the very great majority o
deeo were Protestants--not to have given sem that preen-
des,: lwenty years sooner. Industry, and above all provi-
rst 1,:,",ad 'given me those faculties which placed me in the
the rs'.'s'o-ess in my profession. For twenty-five years
.I had
the r''clery to see my juniors in standing, and my inferiors in
bcfet:'ertssion, one after the other, put over my head, plaited
here Before
and given those opportunities of success which
~,,1 but of little value to them, but would have been of
'4,5-‘ culable importance to me. How often have I returned
Mein:, from court heart-sore, and pitying myself for being
silent 'lra of the injustice, not of the law, for the law was
ab•ei. on the subject—but of that fell spirit of ascendancy
thel-p" You still cherish with as envenomed a fidelity as if
j 4 foenal Laws and Test and Corporation Acts were still
ten ', force. It therefore is vary unbecoming of you
to
You any persons with doinn me a tardy justice, which
se'ci, and the men who thought and acted with you, so long
'sii„ sP shamefully withheld, But injustice—gross, palpable
piety in not only tlsa motto, but the daily practice of the
tn, CY ill Ireland, to vvnich you arc, and always have been, so
°,,ngly devoted.
14:itour second. assertion, namely—" That I have more power
min "I/ Ind
;signal possessed since the Revolution in 1688,
is
some-infortunate than the first.
neo:a no power, properly so called. I have, it is true,
; in.fluenee—nay, considerable influence. I discover,
irio-s'ilally, that I possess more influence than I could pre-
yllll-I', trust myself to believe.
if n„°11, you may call this power if you please; but then,
tor:i.have any thing of the Statesman about you, should you
hie hs", "3', and answer these questions—what has created
I row .3
to be ear • —what continues this power ?—how is this power
TO catiriguished ?
stand aeswer these questions it would be necessary to under- .
my Ltbe past history and present state of Ireland, and this,
eat Lore
you do not do—l must, therefore, endeavour to as-
You.
niCtlie first place, you will admit that I do not owe this
I:l,aatieonoorettfeluait:enyiethaef
eadhrefntataingeersyomf
.ssaiyipbeer,iolr
am but
prideor re: for whatever
riy
the son of a p -
gentleman. Nor do I owe this influence to supee-
ss. for mine is but a small competence, and th
bloc Le ,tof favour in this respect is bestowed on not by me.
nrdiss" I owe it to superior talent, for mine is but of plain and
ini-I.Y dimensions.
Illy / 'oat then do I owe all you call power? I will tell you,
is v •erd Duke, I owe it, all to you, and to men like you. It
.. ou
ce,ati) !Ind men like you, who have created that power—who
Centrou that power—and who, if you be not checked and
, It ;ed will augment, increase, and accumulate that power.f
irenhn"t the grievances, in the oppressions, in the wrongs. o
I,lle e•.n, that the source of my power is to be found. It is to
'l*e'ktie,"sinsgs, to the woes,. to the miseries. of the people of
son, ,that tny power is to be traced
a INA-,,,,1411d men like you, have always governed Ireland with
pat' v4rty 16nyiew and in a sinister spirit. You have encourageca_
testeda l' disparaged the people. You have courted. and
ca-
r n n 'faction, a " pale," a particular denomination, e secte
lion; elstlas•es • and you have insulted and despised the a-
ttain. , This'has'been the course and career of British Govern-
3..'on;:n Ireland for six hundred years ; and here are you and
Colo : ronstitutional blood hounds," as your gallantfriend
start °1 Sibthorp calls them, as fresh, as untired, as ready. to
at d
si Pon another crusade of oppression, insult, devastatxon,
flint, aoiliter, as if you were now to begin only
.for. the first
fren: 1141 that the misgovernment of Ireland had in it all
.the
"useand incitement of novelty and of untested gratifieatio.n.
"cse are the causes which naturally account far the prFclis-
n„ssng symptoms of my influence. It is the ;.nsalting nu!tgo:
p'uMent...-it is the audacious preference of tli. blood-stained
aretabaglies, faction to the Catholic population of Ireland—it is the
nier!atil, administration of justice by part:is:4n magistrates, party
prajudiced judges, and bigoted, factious jurors.
.It theis.
the
tcexaction'sshm and insolent triumph rif a sinecure Church ; it is
,ileer,
emoifointiththees:rom an inroo-ierished people, to support
never see, and whose spiritual assistance.
.._, are far from requirincr. It is the still more insulting in-
nee towards the clerey who serve the people, and w ho are
41Iitolli^t d ' • •
less , .." c anu vilified, under your auspices, by every worth-
toi, "otamer, from the Giughtv Bishop of Exeter down to the
crimes le
Knight of r'• rry. 'These and one thousand other
teio-nls clommitted tr, wAa;ds. *lreland, and the. .myriads of addi-
me olds which *.clay generate, are the originating causes of
I, 114 i
cili:i übl
ea
iriiet3l..,:'.; deni
jnoflyu.ence which you attribute to me, and
eel., Iv mc, to add, that the Irish nation know me to be sin
denwand Inonest. They confide in ray moral courage and in-
s,it 'lVolc perseverance. They know I never will cease to
en'ttat,% whilst one grievance remains unredressed. They are
11, Ins that my untiring energies are devoted to the good of
Y rth.
ties • riveland. They, of course, are aware of the infirrni-
sn„,_,'r my nature, and the paucity of my ability, but they
in'""o in that gracious God, who, in using so worthless an
iosi.ment as myself, and in procuring, through such feeble
s essiuirientnlitY, some 'ameliorations of the evils of Ireland,
aeni;:r. t" iniicate that a period of mercy, after centuries of
lint approaches.
mains
snore than enough of myself, and yet the question re-
the 1.14 i hors is the influence, or—if you please to call it so—
)>?sser I Possess to he terminated? •
4"F3,,,, n•s is a question which, if you were a rational Statesman,
Tauld answer at once. My influence—my power—is to be
.titlated hy one mode, and by one mode alone.
a.,,1: boiNG JUSTICE TO IRELAND—DO what you please, to
0 completion •
• There
is • You must come.
5,,,1"e e no other method of obviating irregular influence
and Power no
TO IRELAND—FULL, COMPLETE JUSTICE
t," IRELAND. This is the remedy—this is the only way to de-
nutrt°37 my Power. You may try any other method you please,
latlacrisn'ogessaveilillinf, you cannot succeed.
•We fear not your swag-
we care not for your exaggerated report of the
thorni_ber
_of
.Orangemen ; they are not altogether one hundred
the -'sod, including the over old and the over young, the halt,
thous e blind, the lame. Suppose them, however, one hundred
*4.:,:ildd en a:til ifighting
ni
en
; there are six million_five hundred thou-
there could be, and if absolutely necessary there
;lould be, or.e million of fighting men in the field—aye, in the
ill" iessuee to fiThat.,, million of men, who would
But this is a subject I hate to dwell on ; I
raition it merely to show how futile and foolish any reliance
the Physical force of the Orangemen must be, now more
esthat '
4,1 y the conspiracy—the treasonable conspiracy
sse°l,gst so many of the underlines of that body, to alter the
u. cession, many
to supersede the Princess Victoria, has, in
spite of the ce-ncealment of the official menial, exploded;._ and
to‘t M
the oat Noble Grand Himself has borne his blushing
flours and grey whiskers to the meeting of
er
nt Kalisenn
No. s, . Owned delpots
nllr% iquren-le Is but otie remedy, and that is, to do justice to
Lett', ,
4 tr:i.
remedy be adopted, and there never lived a moo ,