The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-23 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS,

Limn APPOINTMENTS—BRIBERY AND REWARD—,
VALSEIIOOD'AND CALUMNY.—The scandalous nature of
the' late- IriSh-appoititnients was most 'successfully
posed ou'laSt Monday evening. in the houie,. by Colonel
Perceval, in the course of the •debate on the Ipswich
'breach of privilege case. Mr. O'Connell; •it appears,
with his usnat-effronteryi• demanded the instant and'ex:
.emplary punisfirneht- of the persons`eng.aged:'in bribery
at the IpSwich election ' add, quite forgetful of his own
-.practices and those of his friends, made a vehement and
unbecoming attack•on a young.barrister• reported to be
'implicated in the charge. Colonel 'Perceval, witha
Trtirriptnecs and tad. which' do .hitrr infinite credit as a
ready and able- de.bater,: iminediately recalled to the- re--
collectinn of the house the report of the committee' which
sat9n.the ease attic -Dublin election-in • 1831, when Mr.
Louis zPerrin• antlitliet'•late'Mr. 'Alderman -Harty •wete
..ejected from their seats on account of bribery;
,and When
AirectionS were given tO the Attorney-General ; or rather
" the Attorney-,General's devil—to'prosecute Mr. Hu&
son as the-principal agent in the nefarious practices then.
developed. The :lion: and' gallant -naember reminded-the
house,-that, insteadordisgrating or punishing these men,'
l'iewhig party, then' and -now in power; have conferred
on 'them dignities and rewards—that Mr.. Alderman-
Harty.was-created-a baronet—that Mr. Louis Perrin has
been-made his Majesty's Attorneyeneral for Ireland-:--
aod'thit Mr:Hudson; as " the 'Attorney-General's devil,"
holdijhat very place which`would.have made it his -duty
to ptOsecute- hinself, had the recommendation of the
Dublin:comtnit fee beencarried into effect.
This was certainly apuzzler. to-Mr. Daniel O'Connell
—a.stambling-block; which lie'-who hadreConithended,
or, as he phrases it himself—" acquiesced in,the appoint-
ment of Mr. Hudson: to the devilship, 'could never get
over; but by a bounce—and a Rhodian bounce he
made of it. Evervbody knows that a fib•does not chbke
the hon. and leatn-ed gentlernatay, that he"gulps a
fib, sanctioned by an appeal" to the God who is to judge
him," withasinhch ease-ag Behemeth' Would SwallciW a
gnat. But it could scarcely hiire been foreseen that he
world have-ventuted 'on So fliinsy, and -palpablea lie, to
anSwtk so short-lived a purpose—as the assertion. that
Mr...HUdson•had been tried and acquitted of the chdtge
of bribery by the grand inquest ol the city of Deblin.
Incredible .as this may appear, yet it is the fact; andlest
we should be imagined-td distort his words, we give them
here, though they likewise appear. in the parliament*iry
debate :
" It happened (quoth the hoti:"and learned—bouncer,) that a
motion was made in that,honaetotinstruet theAttorney-General
to prosecute the offenders at the election in question. As toMr.:
Hudson, he (Mr. O'Connell) owed him no obligationl but 'he
felt bound to bear testimony in his favour. The committee
could not, of course, be acquainted-with the character of Mr.'
Hudson ; they acted upon the representation made to them, and
a prtisecution was accordingly instituted.' Bills wets sent up to'
the- grand jury for the city of Dublin. The Bathe witnesses
were examined before thc!, grand jury' that .were -exatiiined
fore the committee. These u-retther Whti were unknown. here
were examined before the grind jury, whoknew theireharacters
well; and the result' was, that- the grand -jury--;a tory -one—
unanimously ignored the bid. against- Mr. Hudion."
Now,- here is' a series' of gratnitous and- monstrous
falsehoods,-scarcely to be paralleled is the Danieliana :
Lie aid first--""A prosecution was instituted." There
was no such thing.
Lie the second-,--" Bills were Sentup: to the grind jury
of the city of Dublin." Arpute fable.
Lie the third—" The same -witnesseswere examined
before the grand jury. that were examined- before the
committee." A wilful fabrication.
Lie-the fourth—" These wretches; who' were unknown
the‘Hotiae.of Commons;) were .eXatitined before
the, grand jury, who knew their characters aVell, and the
result was; Oat the growl jury. UNANIMOUSLY. ignored
the. bill agaitat Mr. Hudson." Every syllable ." a lie,
more duly paid than' -the .Turk's tribute ;" yea, and that
very-kind of lie which most delights Mr: O'COnnell to in-
duke iii -; a' lie which, at the 'time it falsifieS a fact, ca-
lurnniates a character.:—nor have we the slightest doubt
that, had not the means of detection been at hand—had
the,facts been as inaccessible atthet moment as :tho§e'of
David Murphy's. case- in Kerry; on thefirit nlhislon to
theft we make :no manner of question,. We say, that Mr:
O'Connell wOold, iii such` circumstances,, have come-
forward to the house; and- in -a solemn appeal to that
" God-by whom he was-to be judged;" have winched for
the truth of his. story:-=Dublin' vening -Mail.