The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-27 00:00:00

SfIPT, 27,

shall be ? Does Mr. Daniel O'Connell know and feel this ?
Is he sensible that he Merits, justly merits, the reproof
here addiicid and the severe castigations which have been
occasionally inflicted on his political conduct, and his
objects connected therewith, in that independent journal ?
Is lie alOne,to escape the lash of criticism who so unmer-
cifully assails the reputation and the motives of others ?
Is he vain enough to imagine that the Times at this
period of its career would stoop like himself to become
the assailant of private character, and towards those to
whom it is politically opposed, and honour him with the
first " tilt" in his own literary assassination style ? Do
not the public at.s of Mr. Daniel O'Connell afford a suf-
ficient field for animadversion ? Is Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell enabled with this one case to go into court with
clean hands, or rather is lie not in his own person the
palpable victim of the memorable law maxim—"furiosus
furore suo punitur," arising from the furor loquendi et
scribendi which has marked his progress, and full evi-
dence of which we can bring against him? No. Mr.
O'Connell must expunge the epithets " mighty great
liar," " lying miscreant," "traitor," "coward," "sasse-
nach," " brutal," " bloody," " accursed," atrocious,'

"recreant poltroon," &c. &c. from his BRIEF before he
can with the least propriety ask at the bar of a British
public that impartial judgment upon the remaining
virtues of his case which he has arrogantly, aye, tyran-
nically, denied to others. We now consider that case to
be truly desperate, evidenced by his two letters to the
Pilot : they are the ravings of a disaPpointed and mis-
chievous ambition at a loSs for instruments sufficiently
foul and malignant to satiate its fury, and they will be
treated as such by the reflecting of every class in Eng-
land and Ireland.

These discursive observations we have felt called upon
to make, in vindication of our own consistency and Political
principles, from a sense of pripriety 'to a nobleman we
deem to have been most unjustly assailed, and 'cq.;; debita
justitia, between the Times and Mr. Daniel O'Connell,
whilst disclaiming every unchristian feeling towards him
in the relative capacities of husband, father; or friend, we
notwithstanding pronounce and charge him with being,
in his political conduct, spirit, and connexion, the CURSE
of Ireland and the enemy of England. This is our "bill
in equity," and " here there is no retreating." Let him
answer its interrogatories.

We have been given to understand, that our strictures
upon the political career, and public pretensions of Lord
Palmerston, have given some offence in'certain quarters.
We 'deem it due to ourselves, once for all, to disclaim
every motive' of private hostility towards his lordship, or
any individual member of that administration, to the en-
tire policy of which, foreign and domestic, we are con-
scientiously and unflinchingly opposed, under, a feeling
of conviction, that it is entirely incompatible with the
secupity of England's Crown 'and dignity, on the one
hand, and fatally injurious to the public and private in-
terests of the whole of her people on the other; and we
flatter ourselves, that we have shown our opposition to
have been founded on rational principles, in something
like solid data,—that we have not 'rested our strength in
mere idle declamation, and party bickering, or in cavil-
ling about non-essential points, in reference to the com-
plex machinery nf our reform polity. It has been our
endeavour to illustrate and maintain a principle, without
which all government is hypothetical and its securities
fallacious. In our present position and our past carrier,
we stand as freely independent of either party in the
State, as it is poSsible for the Whig-liberal Administra-
tion to do towards us; either indicidually or collectively.
We are under no favour to any public man in this king-
dom, let his rank or station be what they may, for the
exercise of our opinion ; and defy the whole tribe of
pretenders to liberality to establish against 'us any one
act of our life whereby we have compromised that funda-
mental principle of allegiance we hold to be due to the
vessel of the State, let who will' preside at the helm.
Standing alone on high principle we have not' been pre-
pared to tamper with our own jUdgment, nor to attempt
to impose on the judgment 'of our intelligent community,
at this era of political and moral competition; and, in
maintaining the allegiance we have described, as the
basis of our past and existing feeling, in Religion and
Politics, we have from necessity allied ourselves to those
only, who, we, in our humble judgment, conceive possess
the fairest- pretensions to enjoy the confidence of our
fellow-countrymen, whether considered as political or
moral agents. Under this impression, and giving matter
of fact reasons for our conclusions, we again repeat, that
nothing save a miracle short of the immediate contrOul
Of a master mind, and the association of a decided
principle of action will avert a general appeal to arms.
We deem it necessary to repeat this, and again to refer
to our Friday's commentary, on the existing foreign
relations of this country, and wherein the word " divi-
ded," instead of decided principle of action was, inad-
vertently printed, and which, taken literally, would
destroy the force of that argument, we wish to impress
upon our readers. Were we wrong in that conclusion ?
Let the proceedings of the Court and Cabinet of France,
towards Spain and Portugal, and the return of M. Pozzo
di Borgo to this country, at the imperative call of MS
Master, answer for us! France herself 'disclaims all
participation in the new Governments, and consti-
tutional squabbles of Spain and Portugal. She sends her
Ambassadors to the nominal Queens of 'those, two
countries; but she dissolves tile qUadruple compact
made with Lord Palmerston, and leaves him to his shifts
With the legion, and to sustain single-handed the in-
, an association
terests of a desperate band of adventurers
of beings whose policy is shunned by all the moral
worth and all the better intelligence of the Spanish na-
tion, headed, as we sometime since predicted it would be,
by the bankrupt financier whose acts and statements, to
save his own peculations from exposure, have thrown
the entire peninsula into the flame of revolution ! Did

not the Duke of Wellington, who well knows Spain
throughout, and all her parties—her strength and her
weakness, predict the whole-of this, and, with his usual

straightforwaid and manly bearing, warn his Majesty's
government of the consequences ? Did not Lord Mel-
bourne treat such warning with undignified nonchalance
`nay, almost sneer thereat? Is not the Duke of Wel-
lington borne out. .fully borne out ? And' What is' the

Up as an object of execration to the British nationi not
on account of any maintained or defined private injury
done, to himself or any one of the members of his family,
but because he chooses to take it into his arrogant head
that some articles which have been inserted, and some
letters. which have been published, in that journal, re-
flecting on his political conduct, and his known connex•
ion with the objects of the present ministry, have eman-
ated from tht nobleman's influence! Now, as the public
life of Lord Lyndhurst is before the entire English nation,
and not more conspicuously displayed in any one part of his
honourable career than by that which embraced an act of
signal, albeit, imprudent generosity to Ireland herself, the
object of Mr. O'Connell's pretended affectionate solici-
tude, and rendered only nugatory in its effects by the per-
jury of those who ought to have been ever grateful
for the concession. The threat cf bringing L9vd Lynd-
hurst before the public, in the form in which it was con-
veyed, by every rule of logical inference, could only be
taken as applied to his private life and actions ; for the
context would be incomplete without such inference, and
which is not merely implied, but expressed by the term
hideous details" in connexion with "all the bearings.
and all the partnerships that have distinguished that
life;" nor would the malice of the threat itself be satis-
fied by any other conclusion. Upon this the. Times
openly and, being politically opposed to Mr. Daniel
O'Connell, or rather to that destructive course to which
thousands and tens of thousands of our fellow country-
Men. in England and Ireland are also opposed, simply
warns Mr. Daniel O'Connell that, should he carry such
threat of more than implied private injury into execu--
tion, that journal, under a sense of its public duty, will
Show up the whole of his history and that of his family
as a set off against tile threatened injury to a third party.
Now, in the name of common sense and impartial discus-
sion, and of common honesty into the bargain; is there
any thing so very extraordinary in all this ? Is not the
article of alhiged grievance a fair retort courteous for the
foul aspersion cast on Lord Lyndhurst by the very threat
itself, leaving it open to be considered what that threat