The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-24 00:00:00

'O, (I hope I :nay say without meaning either to offend or
to flatter any one,) the most distinguished General that
has ever won laurels in the Britidi army ; one that has
manifested the highest skill and courage, aml I net d not
ell you, Gentlemen, for you will know it, that wherever
here are great courage and skill, humanity and kindness
.re ever an accompaniment to that character. He says,
• but what has your Highness done ? You have, as you
lege, avoided a civil war. I deny your assertion. You
lave put off the evil day. Off the evil day! The con-
plest of the traitorous and confederated Papists of Ireland,
lid not suit yo,r present ambitious views, and I hereby
miblicly arraign your Highness of the grossest treachery to
roar country, or else the most arrant cowardice, or it
you please, treachery, cowardice, and artifice united. How
:lave you avoided a civil war ? By suffering the san
4uinary Papist to issue forth from his den, and murder
his Protestant fellow-subject in cold blood. How have
you avoided a civil war, I ask you again? By seeing the
decent, loyal, educated, and free-born Protestant impaled
,o the very earth, on the pike of the Popish assassin, at
the very moment when the last drop of blood flowing from
his heart was not sufficient to glut the vengeance of Ida
enemies, because the wretched man had dared to wear an
orange lily, or drink the memory of a Prince who gave
us a Constitution which your Highness has destroyed.—
And yet, with an effrontery only equalled by the dirty
perfidy and tyranny with which you carried your odious
Relief Bill, you say you have given relief to Ireland.—
Now mark me, proud Duke—l called you so once
before—l KNOW TOUR. OBJECTS—I HAVE KNO W N
rnxat LONG ; and it is not my fault if they are
not known in the highest quarters of this land.—
If it should please God, for some special marks of
his Almighty displeasure against this country, to con-
tinue your Highness at the head of the Administration
•if your betrayed and deceived Sovereign, you will
find that in the end (and that end will be before long)
you will be obliged to pot down, by main force of civil
war, the insurrectionary spirit of the Irish Papists, or
submit to an overthrow of the Union between Eng-
land and Ireland—an object not only contemplated
but projected, arranged, and matured, into every
thing short of actual execution, since the year 1814,
and all through the instrumentality and operations •
of the Jesuits." You will not understand me, Gentlemen,
as wishing to attach the least degree of importance to the
belly which dictated these expressions with respect to the
measure alluded to, or the present state of Ireland. To
these I give no importance; they merely form parts of the
libel to which I am now c'lling your attention. The
libel goes on—" Let me tell your Highness further, that
you and your colleagues can never shelter your-
selves under an assumed ignorance of those points.—
If you possess, however, one particle of honour,
bravery, loyalty, or justice—if you be not actually driven
to insanity by the restless ambition which characterises
your weal-known ULTERIOR OBJECTS—if you wish now
in your old age to conciliate a confiding and affectionate
people who once believed you to be their own—if you
know that the projects are KNOWN to an Illustrious Indi-
vidual, wham you permitted to be vilified, traduced,
calumniated, and detained, without even once denouncing
his traducers—if you think that the blood of those loyal
murdered subjects of the King cries aloud for vengeance,
if you be a Christian, if you know the uncertainty of life and
death, that you are but a man—that you may be a convert
• to the worm before you can wield the sceptre elan infant
Princes—that this infant has, in case of necessity, a
rightful guardian in a Royal and exalted Protestant rela-
tive, and that the best and proudest blood of England
4hall be shed in the defence of that Prince and his Royal
House—if, Duke--if, I say, your Highness knows that these
things are so, or may be so, then, in God's name, I conjure
you to restore peace, if peace be yet in your power, and
to give it to that wretched country, of which your High-
ness's vanity makes you ashamed to be called a native.
Does not your Highness know that if you ever deserved
the name of a brave soldier, or an honest man, you could
not take a more just or likely method of retaining
those invaluable gems in your coronet than by coining fur-
ward boldly, and like a man, in the house of Lords, and
by acknowledging the mischief arising from that error
which (to give it a mild name) your ignorance had led
you to commit." Well, then, I pass over a part, and
then it goes on—" To be sure people will ant give
you much credit for your wisdom and sagacity, but you
will gain much more by the balance which might remain
in favour of your honesty ; and I do believe, that
however late you may appear ox the ground, in this
act of justice and integrity, you will ultimately do
better for yourself, and for the noble palace which
you are now constructing, than in running any
risk to encounter a desperately ambitious measure which
is now not merely suspected by the public, but actually
canvassed and discussed in every political conversation. It
would be idle in me to suppose that your Highness
was ignorant of toy meaning." Now, by reading these pas-
sages, by this time, it will appear to you that in them the
writer intends to make an insinuation affecting the loyalty and
the honour of the Duke, by pointing to an infant Princeea,
and the ambitious views of the Duke in his expectation of
wielding her sceptre. Now, Gentlemen, you will consider
whether this is, or is not, a statement fit to be borne
by a Minister. A statement of circumstances in which the
writer presumes to impart to the world that his Highness's
Ambitious views carry him forward to the intention of
wending the sceptre of the infant Prince's.

It then goes on—" If I discover your base hireling
press again daring to insult and calumniate my Royal
Muter, the Duke of Cumberland, or if I tied you ever to
suffer the foul libellers to pass by unnoticed and unpu-
nished, I shall, with God's blessing, hold your Highness
up to public view, and unmask you more openly than you
have been even hitherto exposed to your betrayed country;
and further let me tell you, Duke, that I shall do so in
defiance of your Highness, your Whig Attorney-General,
the whole Cabinet, and the Popish mob of Ireland into
the bargain, for I am determined to try, either by the
sacrifice of my own life, or your Highness's head,whether
it be in your power to keep the Protestants of my native
land in the degraded, miser.ible, and humiliated state,"
to which I again repeat, your vanity, ignorance,
treachery, ambition, and artifice, have reduced them.

" One word more. There is not a sensible man in the
kingdom who believes the flippant and well-contrived report
that your Highness's eldest son is about to be married to
the accomplished daughter of your physician. Trust me
that we know your Highness too well. Long—long since
has your Highness aspired to a higher prize for the heir of
Apsley Palace. Do you understand me, Duke ? If not,
my next shall speak in plainer terms thin those which be-
wildered my Lou! Lyndhurst in the interesting story of
Uncle Tohy and Corporal Trim. I will watch you—l
will unmask you. I have the power to do the first—l
have the power and courage to do both, but as I once
told your Highness, sot ere already watched by
deeper and wiser heads than mine.' I leave you
to the consolations of your conscience, while you reflect on
the blessings and advantages of your Relief Bill,'
although I do not know what kill you mean to introduce
to relieve yourself from the acorn and detestation of
every loyal Protestant in this land of former pride and
liberty." Now, you sec that it is insinuated here, his Grace
the Duke of Wellington intended to place the Sovereign
power in his own family. It cannot be disguised that it is
meant that the Duke, for the purpose of accomplishing
this by his power and authority, intended to effect a mar-
riage between his eldest son and the Illustrious Princess,
who, according to the probability of all human events, may
he considered destined to preside over these realms. Now,
if any Minister could entertain such a design, if he could
make use of his power to accomplish such an event, it
would, indeed, be a treacherous conduct towards his Sove-
reign that would truly call for very severe punish-
ment. The question for you is, whether the Duke should
under this charge against him—and made by a person
who seems to write in the character of a gentleman,
giving some appearance to the publication, as if it were
not the dull production of 31r. Alexander, but of a person
whose name is introduced to carry it off and give it a
semblance of authority, whether he should rest satisfied
without noticing it? Most unquestionably the Duke of
Wellington is of a contrary opinion—he thinks that he is
bound to notice it. I run of the same opinion. I think
he was bound to notice it, and he has noticed it, not
in the form of an es-officio information. The only
difference between which and an ex-officio information
is, that in this information the previous opinion
of the Grand Jury is taken. In this instance, the case
has been laid before the Grand Jury, to know whether the
matter deserved to be carried further or not, and they con-
sidered that it ought to be prosecuted.
The libel concludes thus—" I am not hypocrite enough
to say that I ant your Highness's obedient servant, John
Litton Crosbie, A.M., Minister of Sydenham, Kent, and
domestic Chaplain to his Royal Highness tie Duke of
Cumberland, a Prince before whom 1 hope to see you
quail."feelingthe
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individualapiece w
ofnonsense
;but it charac-
terises has, written this
publication, by introducing the name of his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cumberland, and thus treating
it with disrespect ; for undoubtedly the introduc-
tion of his flame into such a lihel as this,
b°ll.di-Yiyaalny thing but an act of
llighness the Duke of
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