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side of St. JAmEs's as a person whOrn it is no reproach to
acknowledge as a friend or an acquaintance ? The mem
hers of the whip club mus? answer this question. If they
have any pride, any sense of honour or dignity, or any
regard for the rules of decency and propriety, they will
answer it in the negative.
But this is not all. Suppose that O'CONNELL did not
cheat or intend to cheat Mr. RAPHAEL. Suppose that
the money bargain about the seat for Carlow were a
strictly honourable and legitimate transaction ; still, does
not enough remain to prove that O'CONNELL has wan-
tonlyand recklessly placed himself beyond the pale of
honOrable society? fie has, elevated by the suffrages
'of his countrymen, been allowed to assume an honoura-
ble title and distinction, and by virtue of this be has been
admitted into good society, mingling with the noble and
affluent of a particular. party, and claiming to, be recog-
nised as a gentleman. But with these temporary and
adventitious claims in his favour, he has nevertheless
glaringly and potoriously violated all the laws of honour
and all the rules to which gentlemen pay a most.implic4
obedience. He has, having no provocation thereto,
called the brother of the King of ENGLAND " a mighty -
great liar"—be has called his victim RAPHAEL "a mighty
great liar"—he has said that the late House of Commons
contained " six hundred scoundrels"—he has called
Lord KEN MARE "a base, silly, and ungrateful creature,"
to un had lent several thousand pounds—he called
Mr. Secretary LITTLETON a "liar"—be insinuated as
much against Lord ALTHORP—he has called Lord MEL-
POUENE "treacherous, insince-e, and incompetent"—he
has called his 'cousin FINN "an abandoned apostate
who had sold his religion"—be has called ENEAS MAC-
DONALD an " unprincipled renegade whom he bad saved.

from beggary"—he has accused Mr. Recorder SHAW, of
Dublin, of falsehood—he has, at least a thousand times,
called the very men with whom he is now in close alliance
"base, brutal, and bloody whigs--and, in fine, there
lives not a man, there ,sleeps not a man in the grave

with whom he ever had any communicatior, whom he

has not loaded with vulgar and beastly invectives, so
vulgar and so coarse that murder must have been tlie re-
sult had he not, like a base coward and a detestable pol-
troon, sheltered himself behind an alleged " oath in
heaven."

Gracious GOD! is not this enough ? Was there ever
such a wretch allowed to associate with honourable men
in any period or our history ? Where is the man of any
latent, authority, or distinction whom DANIEL O'CON-
NELL has not insulted to the.last verge of endurance—to
the very pistol-mouth of retaliation, but from which he
has skulked under a pretext as craven as it is dishonour-
able ? He has an "oath in heaven," the ruffian ! What
oath did he ever regard when it suited his selfish purpose
to violate it ? He has an " oath" to protect his own
worthless carcass. That, for prudential reasons, be will
not violate. But he has, in a more solemn strain, sworn
not to use his parliamentary privileges in the House of
Commons to the injury of the protestant church. This
last he has violated. The selfish oath—the coward's
oath, he keeps—the solemn oath, the more important
oath, he breaks. 'What protects the hudy of DANIEL
O'CONNELL he respects most religiously—that which
stands between DANIEL and perjury, between truth and
illlehood, between duty and an open infraction of every
sacred obligation, he laughs to scorn, and tramples upon
with impunity !
Such, truth to tell, is the miscreant whom Sir FRANCIS
BURDLYT, who, with all his faults, is an English gentle.
man, has thought it his duty to impeach before his party,
and hold up to the execration of his countrymen. And
this we will say for Sir FRANCIS, opposed though we
have been to his politics—he will not be turned from his
purpose by any of the tricks of the RUSSELL party. His
letter is a studied production. It has not been written

hastily. It bears the marks of collective composition ;
and we have no doubt whatever but that before publica,
tion it met with the approval and received the indorse-
ment of a large majority of the leading whigs of Eng-
land.

'Under these rather novel but refreshing circumstances
we take for granted that DANIEL O'CONNELL will never
again show his face in England. The stamp of infamy
is now indelibly imprinted on his forehead. He is now
proved to be a coward and a slanderer, with the desire
but without the courage to be an assassin. he should
dare to come. -here, 'UPHAM, we understand, is ready
with a criminal information—if his son JOHN should
come here the Attorney-General will be compelled to
prosecute him—but neither, we suspect, will have the
audacity to appear in England. They will be compara-
tively safe in the mountains of Kerry, but not long!
This article, upon one of the most conspicuous and de-

testable of the "six hundred scoundrels" immortalized
by himself, is already too long; but we must beg per-
mission to trespass upon our readers for a moment longer,
in order to consider the effect of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT'S
letter upon the embarrassed and desperate members of
the present administration.

It must be plain to the simplest understandicg that the
MELBOURNE cabinet have no chance of a majority in the
House of Commons without the purchased support of
O'CONNELL and his tail. It must.also be admitted that

if they lose O'CONNELL they lose their majority. • We
take for granted that they have lost him. Ist, Because
no ,cabinet minister—not even Lord MELBOURNE himself
—can again meet parliament without disclaiming, in the
mcst direct and unequivocal terms all connection, and
every shade of direct or indirect participation with O'CoN -
NELL in his open and violent denunciations of the House
of Lords. 2d, The King, we have reason to know, has in-
sisted, in the most imperative terms, upon this disavowal.
That it has already been disavowed, to a certain extent—to
the fullness ofpersonal responsibility, by Lord MELBOURNE,
we know. That 1.;.3 Majesty has called the cabinet to
disavow it collectively we are assured of on good info ora-
tion determined thereby to make Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
Lord MORPETH, Mr. SPRING RICE, Lord PALMERSTON,
Lord GLENELG, and the whole cabinet, parties to Lord
MELBOURNE'S personal declaration.

What was the result of the meeting of the King's ser-
vants with their Sovereign at Brighton on Friday last we
have no means of ascertaining; hut we know, from high
quarters, enough to satisfy us that O'CONNELL was either
denounced and abjured, or that the administration is at
an end. We assert upon authority, that will not, and
cannot be disputed, that at the Pavilion on Friday last
the ministry either agreed to renounce their connection
with O'CONNELL, and undertook to suppress his seditious
machinations, or the cabinet retired from the royal pre-
sence deprived of the seals of office

it does not suit our present purpose to inquire which
was the preferred alternative. For the sake of argu-
ment, and as whip are concerned, we shall take the li-
berty of assuming that they preferred their dutiful repro-
bation of O'CONNELL'S conduct, and asserted their inde-
pendence. Be it so. How long can a government last
which has no other majority than that furnished them by

the representative of the popish priests of Ireland—men
who hate England—and who, even at O'CONNELL'S com-
mand, would not return representatives who would refuse
or he.sitate in pledging themselves to follow up their ambi-
tious principles to the full bent of their revolutionary de-
signs ? It cannot last a month. It O'CONNELL be not con-
ciliated, and his 35 votes secured, there is an end to the go-
vernment. If O'CONNELL should not appear in England,
which is more than problematical, what becomes of his
wretched nominees ? We pity Lord MELBOURNE, be-
cause without talent or influential connections, he has no
friends, no party, no neutral class, wedded to him by
circumstances,. upon which he can fall back. He is the
avowed Lord of radicalism. He has drank of radicalism
to its dregs. Every new election is against him. The
people have no confidence in his administration—O'CON-
NELL is a dead weight which must eventually sini;
In short, the days of the present administration are num-
bered. Whether it fall this month or the next, or
tiler it shall struggle on to the next meeting of Parlia-
ment are matters of inferior consideration, for we feel
confident that, Come what may, it cannot survive the
first month of the Session.

POT AND PEARY:, AStiES.-A very great rise in produce had
taken place at Quebec. Pot and pearl ashes had_ particularly
advanced, the forther froin 245. had advanced to St., and the
atter had risen to 42...—Werniny Herald: