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FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1835.

By the American packet Ajax, we have a file 0r 1n
lea
York papers to the 14th of April. They do not contain
any political intelligence of interest, but we find in iften,
,
some rather curious disclosures of a local nature, wilt' f
we shall publish for the instruction and amusement
our readers, if we can make room for them in our nf%t't
We can only count seventeen articles on the import°
subject of the " five millions of dollars." This is be,
ginning to be moderate. Our friends calculate that tile`t
are to be paid. Little do they dream that the Preside°
is to apologise'first.

We have been favonred'with the following extract 'fa
letter from an officer on board his Majesty's ship 411
dated Malta, Gth April : •
•
Admiral Sir J. Rowley is here with his squadron, conS!!t•
t,,,
ing of six sail of the line, three large frigates, one twenty..eik,;
three corvettes, and Medea and Alban steam-vessels. for
squadron is expected to remain here till May, when it sail 1.,
Sicily, and is expected to be at Athens for the coronation:,
June. There are rumours of the squadron being reduced, ute,
nothing positive known. The Volage, 28, is at Constantinerre,
and is expected to bring Lord Ponsonby down here when it
lieved. The Endymion, 50, and Favourite, 18, are about
for Tripoli (Africa) where there were still disturbances. 1;;,4
ship (4 vne) is about to proceed to Corfu to take the
Lord TA,Th Commissioner General, Sir A. Woodford, to
I"'
raltar, who is to be superseded at Corfu by Sir Howard DW
st-
and relieves Sir W. Houston at Gibraltar. By the last vs
counts the plague was raoin in Egypt. The Alexae
to
steamer is hourly expected. no ColUmbian, 18, is gone
Seandoroon to attend aud assist Colonel Chesney's exPe"'''
The railroad from Cairo to Suez is not yet commenced." -

The Irish demagogue has, within the last few days
appeared in a new piece, but in an old part, in which %lt
are taught the motives which induce a coward to resP.:
an oath in one case and violate it in another. In
narrative of hisfory, should the historian condescend v."
notice it, he will find in this episode some vivid 1110973.
tions of human nature in its most depraved and repulsive
forth. For these reasons we shall endeavour to coatrli
bate our share in preserving the details. What-the dile
confesses on the gallows is sometimes as valuable to re'
cord as what the virtuous say on their deathbeds.
It is pretty generally known that the worthless Pers°l.l
to whom we more particularly refer has, for more titan
twenty years, sheltered himself from the responsibiliti,
which his brutal and ferocious attacks upon other to
e"
would have exposed him to, by the plea that he has ai,
ready killed one man in a duel. If O'CONNELL Were
any other man, we should at once accept his justificatic:
If from penitent motives he had sworn never again e
lift a pistol against the life of his fellow creature, 1
should admire the nobleness and the christian spirit of hi_
vow. But before we can give, or lie can claim credit 0;
such purity of conduct, we must be satisfied that his r 3.
tires are more than seffish, and he must show and P.
that, as henceforth he is resolved not to givesatisfaeti°;
he is equally determined not to give offence. If be bll
really penitent he must show it in his conduct. hei.jo
abjured mortal conflict, he ought also to eschew tiles"'fe
of words, all insult and calumny, all foulmouthed inveca
tive, low scurrility; vulgar impertinence, and foul 03 0
personal abuse. It will not do for a swaggering bullft
lift his hand in mock solemnity, and declare "I have 3:
oath in heaven," and the next moment, as if •in violati°';
of that oath, to heap upon a political oppaient the 1113%
rancorous and personal vituperation, railing one
" bloated buffoon," another a " scoundrel," a third
d
" a 3
" paltry shave beggar," a fourth a " brutal bigot,
so on, sheltering himself from castigation or other 03-
sequences meanwhile under the aforesaid oath.
We appeal to all our readers whether O'Costraa 1125.
not, under tLis subterfuge of a voluntary oath, or
which lie knows his father confessor could release
bin
from any day in the week for the small sum of habl,
crown—we appeal to every gentleman in England ' iO,
ther O'CONNELL has not indulged in more wanton, Ord
yoked, unlicensed, and ferocious attacks upon publican,
private individuals than any other man, or all the cle"„,.10
gogues and rebels put together, who have lived in 1113clea
times. Where is there a minister or statesman—where
e,
person of talent, rank, or political or literary emiaelire
that O'CONNELL has not slandered and abused at s°'"nd
time or other ? We know not one. Fromhisbosotn °le, tr.
to his avowed political antagonist, lie has spirted
hood and calumny upon all. He has not confined ll'fflr;
self to sects or parties, to friends or foes. The ve
stranger lie has libelled within his gate. The langda.,
of the stews and the felons' cell, too well known to hi 'e
has been outpoured on every living soul which has c°iliiie
within his reach, or within his knowledge, or crossed t,t
path of his ambition. He who has knelt with Olio )
the same altar has not escaped his foul breath. He scil;:r
he never saw, and who never offended him, has be h 35 lie
slandered. He of whose meal lie has partaken has
aspersed and betrayed. He who had helped him en ip
the world lie has endeavoured to disparage and iniureis
the calm retreats of declining life. "Sanguinary" arena
orangernen of Ireland, whom lie praised and courted°e
a few years ago, when lie drank the " immortal iv
rv" in a bumper ! " Base and brutal" were the I.i to
whom he now idolizes! " Paltry and vile" was 30
" renegade" who " betrayed his country"—the ver.V 310 d,
whom he now patronises as Chancellor of Ire/ 101,
" Worthless, ignorant, and unprincipled" were. orlif
year, the I)USICANNONS, MELBOURNEs, RUSSELLS' 0.5
others, whom he now embraces. As for us torieg'oe
have had our full share of his metaphors culled hi,
g
shambles, or borrowed from the vernacular of a h e
"ef 05,
priest. Most redundant has been his rabid abuse ° .she
but we complain not. In short, this MA Calibari,
has been drunk and sober by turns, has flattered jog
cursed (the curse and the calumny uniformly fel" 90-
the praise) every man with whom he has politicaliPt.
cially, professionally, or accidentally come into "Contacroa
One of his most recent and foul attacks eras I.lo'
Lord ALVANLEY. The noble lord, in his place in lot'
went, had simply done" his duty, by asking Lord or
BOURNE whether he or any member of the adati3
lion had made terms with O'CONNELL, detlOUrscle'
as he had a clear right to do, any coalition with tilehigh
magogue and agitator whom the former cabinet to
long
Lord MELBOURNE had belonged had advised the p
to stigmatise in a speech from the throne. ord
VANLEY had made no personal attack upon O'Co_,l•mot
His language was mild, his question relevant. 00.
was the retort of O'CONNELL in the House of Col° oe
It was coarse, personal, brutal, and atrocious. deli,
noble lord was termed a " bloated buffoon" alike,rod
tute of " talent, principle, and independence.' ect'
last were only by implication—the former were tilt
and directly personal.
at
Lord ALVANLEY did not choose to stand this 3 ilea.
notwithstanding that O'CONNELL had an oath mil
yen." He very properly considered that the Lithe
ode
come when such infamous language should be log
an example of. All honour to him for having St
iv tjle
attempted to vindicate the English parliament fr°_hic!t
reproach of tolerating such epithets of ruffianism, 7.hicii
an Irish gentleman would be the first to repudiate, woble
none but a low Irish papist would employ. The lad-
lord accordingly sent a message to O'CONNELL, ii°r
vas
ing an ample apology or satisfaction. No answe oer-
returned. The " oath in heaven" instigated the

MAY 8, 1835.

'sonal attack, and the same " oath" interposed between
the injured party and all redress.
In this dilemma Lord ALVANLEY addressed himself to
BROOKES'S club, of which he as well as O'CONNELL was
.a member. He presented a requisition signed by
twenty-five members of the club, namely, the Duke of

NORFOLK, the Duke of ARGYLE, Lord DE Roos, Lord

JERSEY, Lord SEFTON, Lord TANKER VILLE, Lord STAN-
LEY, Lord WILLOUG HBY DE E RES BY, Lord VILLIERS,
Lord LITCHFILD, Lord ALV ANLEY, and thirteen others,
requesting the management to call a meeting to consider
the conduct O ne member towards another.
The manage ent refuse, and why do they refuse? Let
their names answer the question. They are as follow :
DUNCANNON —a member of the government.
ALBEMARLE—dit 10.
EDWARD ELLICE--di 110.
R. C. FERGUSON—ditto.
JOHN BYNG—a poor old whig.
EDWARD BLotvr—a Roman catholic.

Four of these six are members of the government, or
at least hold place under the present administration .
and supposing BYNG and BLOUNT to be unconnected and
independent, still the voice of two is nothing against
four. _ .

This accidental fact, taking it. to be so, lets in a little
more light upon the mysterious though repudiated con-
nection between the Irish Callban and the MELBOURNE
administration. The Past says that two cabinet councils
were held in order to extricate O'CONNELL from the
scrape. We believe this; because we believe that, as
the ministry exists only by O'CONNELL's fiat, they had
no choice but to. extricate him or perish. If we take into
consideration the Irish appointments nominated by
O'QoNNELL,-the fact that a joint of the tail is a lord of.
the treasury, that O'CONNELL now hugs Lord PLUN-
KETT, that Lord BROUGHAM is thrown overboard, that
LITTLETON'S services are dispensed with, that Sir WTM.
COSSET was removed from Dublin castle, that Sir HOWARD
DOUGLAS is re`called, that the mission of Lord AMHERST
is suspended, and that Lord Htrrtsitun-r-does- Trot pro-
ceed to Iridia—When in addition to all this we take into

account that the public offices in England and Ireland.
are to be purged of their working officers, no matter who
they are, to be replaced by Irish papists and ultra
levellers, and that Ireland is'to be every thing in all the
contemplated measures of the government and England
nothing—not worthy of the slightest consideration—we
may then, without fear of being too ardent or hasty, come-
to the conclusion, that the present is a ministry under the
arbitrary dictatorship of DANIEL O'CONNELL, who called
the whigs " brutal and base," and whom the king do-
rthunced from his throne not many months ago.
Far the present, sad necessity compels us to submit to
the indignity; but there is a time coming ; it is fast ap-
proaching; and terrible will be the revulsion—instructive
the just retaliation. We wait and fear not.
But let us retrace our steps to BROOKES'S club, in St.
James's-street. The management of that clubrcomposed,
as we have shown, of parties intimately connected with
the-present administration, have recognised a principle

'which must lead to serious results. Let us imagine a
probable case. One member accuses another of swindling
—of cheating on a race course—of picking . pockets—of
robbing poor people of their treasured sixpences in Ire-
land—of using false dice in the gaming room, or of any
other fraud, at the name or bare mention of which a man
of honour recoils with horror. This is bad enough say
the whig directors of the club—we cannot interfere.-with
personal quarrels, or private accusations—.the thief may
steal; the swindler may defraud, the bully may slander,
but we, Lord DUNCANNON, Lord ALBEMARLE, Mr.
EDWARD ELLICE, and Mr. R. .C.. FERGUSON, cannot
interfere! In other words, we have no power to expel
any ruffian ; no matter how great a ruffian no matter
bow much or how often he bring disgrace upon the name
and character ora gentleman—we cannot interfere. Be
it so. The admission carries with it a foregone conclu-
sion. It amounts to this, that the whig club can contain
and must.recognise as a gentleman a person who has no
claim to the tjtl.
.This, in our humble apprehension,
intimates an end to clubs. If the noble lords whom we
have named choose to sanction this novel doctrine, We

beg to tell theni that they are conniving at a principle
♦which ought, and'inust; and will make very short work of

their order. Even in a common pot-house club, called a
free and easy, some regard is had to character. The
very Lumber Troop' would discountenance the priticiple
recognised at BROOKES'S.' The Gagers in St. Bride's
lane would feel indignant at such a violation of, and

inroad upon, the rules of decency and social order. Are

the members-of the Luniber Droop or of the Cogers_
club more respectable, or more alive to decorum titan the
members of the whig Club in St. James's? For the sake
of the Duke Of NORFOLK, MACCALLUMORE, Lord STAN-
LEY, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, we hope not. There must
be a secession, or there is no honour remaining in the
breast of a whig,

"!l, good old English gentleman, all of the ancient time."

If they succumb to this insult offered them by mem-

bets of the administration for the sake of O'CoNNELL,
we shall be compelled under grave and disheartening
lieling,s to take sweet counsel of POPE—

• What can ennoble fools, or sots, or cowards?
Alas! nut all the blood of all the Howards !
'Now, reader, be pleased to turn back with us to the
" oath" with Which we set out. A short reviewal of the
circumstances connected with it may possibly throw some
light upon the mental turnings and windings, the shifts,
falsehoods, and subterfuges, of modern popery, the same
we contend at this day as it ever was since fraud took
refuge under the cloak of the christian religion.
'The Irish Caliban, it would appear, has. taken two
oaths. By the one, under the most solemn, formal, and
legal sanctions, he swears never as a member of parlia-
ment to. interfere ►with the property, rights, or privi-
leges of the ,church of England, as by law established,

at the time he took the oath. By the other, which is sims

ply a vow, for it can hardly be called an oath, for it is
cot an oath in law, he has sworn before the image of
some saint, or some piece of wood representing a saint,
or some piece of stone or plaster of Paris called a saint
that he will give no satisfaction to any man whom he
may insult; or, in other words, having committed a
motal murder, he will not take the risk, as under the
law,- of being !lain by the next of blood—the
avenger of the slain:
That these two oaths have been taken by O'CoNNELL
wilt not be denied. The one we have established in evi-
dence ; the other is confessed. Now which of these
oaths does O'CONNELL think the most binding? We
must infer this from his conduct. The one which pro-
tectshis worthless carcass he observes with the strictest
rigour. The other which imposes upon him a solemn
duty to the public helisregards. He will not violate
that which he has made voluntarily before some stock or
stone, because were he to relax in obeying the self im-
posed restraint, he would have to answer for innumera-
ble,,deliberate, ft.nd unpardonable insults offered to par-
ties a million times more respectable than himself. No,
he keeps that pagan self-prctecting vow most holy.
But the other, which relates to the duties he owes to
society, the obligations he is under to his King, the en-
gagements he has made with Protestants and with the
people of England, he treats lightly as if it were not at all
binding upon his conscience. To protect O'CONNELL he
will swear lustily and keep his oath sacredly. To
protect the, protestant church he will swear still more.
positively, but:the keeping of the same is quite another
question. In short, he observes the voluntary oath, and
violates the legal one.

How Tong, protestants of England ! will it be before
your eyes are opened to the ;perfidy, the baseness, the
fraud, and the sacrilege of conduct like this? ' How long
will 'you sleep as if you- were in your graves ? M.
DUPIN, when ,he travelled through England, bearing
vvith'him letters of royal introduction from CHARLES X.
paid particular attention to the duties which an Eng
fish juryman felt imposed upon him under the religious
'sanction of an Oath. He was astonished at perceiving
how strictly English farmers and tradesmen dispensed
justice. Our trial by jury excited his amazement; he
had seen no such popular courts in any country in the
World.; he never encountered any where facts, or where
truth was so duly and truly weighed, and where . the

verdict was so uniformly consonant with the evidence.
He was asked why could not such courts be established
in France. His reply was—the French people are not
sufficiently intelligent—they are not -competent to form
jurymen on a trial of life or death—they are not suffi-.
ciently conversant with the obligations of an oath.
What a compliment from a learned foreigner and a
Frenchman to our father land ! It was a compliment
wrung from a candid mind in support of a notorious fact,
which grated against the prejudices of foreigners but
particularly Roman Catholic communities. The French
are either papists or infidels, the majotrity being the lat-
ter. An accursed system, called religion, taking the
name of christianity, has reduced France to ignorance
in the multitude, to mental reservation in the few. Are
we then to concede that Ireland is more enlightened than
France ? No, she is an hundred years behind her, as
she is two hundred years behind England. O'CONNELL
is a fair specimen of the low Roman Catholic of Ireland.
SHELL is another—all the tail are the same. Why, then,
should we be surprised at the reckless contempt of oaths,
which we foolishly supposed were to bind Roman Catho-
lics towards the institutions of protestantism in this and
the sister island ? The delusion was forced upon the
nation by the whigs. They contended that Roman
catholics paid the highest regard to an oath, inasmuch as
they had only to violate one in order to sit in the House of
Commons7-a violation of which there is no instance upon-
record. But those who employed this argument forgot
that it is oaths -relative to and in favour of the church of
Rome, which they are not allowed to violate. For in-
stance, before a Roman catholic could have been admitted
to parliament, he must have sworn that the doctrines of
the church of Rome are " idolatrous and damnable."
This would have been an unpardonable sin against the
church, and therefore no sincere papist could swallow it.
But to swear that they will do nothing to injure the pro-
testant religion is quite another thing. The Roman
catholic is enjoined by his church to violate all such oaths.
In her eyes they are not oaths, but perjuries! This
shoves-toe impertzurt-distilictiorr which tho Roman catho-
lics took care to conceal, and some of them to deny, and
which the whigs would not recognise.
The last topic connected with this subject is the duel
affair. Lord ALVANLEY was not bound to recognise the
message of MORGAN O'CONNELL. This shooting by
proxy is not constitutional. The shooting, or attempt to
shoot, by mistake; is worse—it is exclusively Irish. We
remember an Englishman being shot 'in tlas manner at
Calais—murdered by mistake—by 'an Irish connexion of
the tail. It is a fortunate thing that no harm was done,
particularly at the first fire, otherwise, and had death en-
sued, Mr: MORGAN O'CONNELL would have had the
honour of being hanged in England—and " no mistake."
But we are sick of the affair altogether.

The electors of Devonshire have nobly responded to
our anxious hopes in rejecting Lord JOHN RUSSELL by
a triumphant majority. • The minister of the crown, and
the intended leader of the house of commons has been
signally defeated in a county where his father holds
large possessions—defeated by a young gentleman alto-
gether unknown in the political world, and who had no-
thing to recommend him but the principles he professed
and the cause he espoused. Lord • JOHN RUSSELL has
boasted of his principles in the house of commons, but
the people of Devonshire have taught him that they also
have their. principles, and that while he has abandoned
the opinions of his fathers, they have adhered to old at-
tachments, and will not allow their church to be polluted
by papists, nor the king's crown rolled in the dust by in-
fidel revolutionists.
The electors of Devonshire have done themselves im-
mortal honour ! Blessings on their green hills and their
sunny vales, and on all that belongs to them ! They have
the thanks of every good man in: England, and we are
sure we speak the heartfelt feelings of all, when we wish
them the enjoyment of happiness as pre as are the
truths of that book Which they revere, and which they
have rescued from menaced profanation by a cabinet
ruled by a popish diaator, himself the tool of the popish
priests of Ireland.

The struggle was tremendous—it was desperate on
.the part of Lord JonN RUSSELL All that .maney, could.
purchase or
,corrupt;--all that ministerial power could
effect by promise or by intimidation—nothing was left
undone that could be done to .return the leader of the
house of commons, BUT ALL: IN VAIN ! So much the
more glorious is our victory. It was a battle for prin-
ciple—it was a. contest in which the strength of our pro-
testant institutions was tried, and the affection of the•
people to the church of:England was put to the testthe
result of which is, that principle has triumphed, our in-
stitutions are invulnerable, the people are still true to
themselves!

Now that Devonshire hai given the coup de grace to
the. pretensions and the movement . principles of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, it is time to inquire what is to be done
for the discomfited minister of the Home Department ?
He is now once more upon the waters, a patriot gone a
begging, a secretary of state without a seat in parlia-
ment. How would it do to elevate him to the peerage
' like CHARLES GRANT, or Mr. WESTERN ? Not well, for
Lord John is supposed to be a famous orator, and a per-
son of uncommon tact, whose powers of debate cannot
be dispensed with in the " House below." Will his
lordship try to sneak into parliament through the rotten
borough of Tavistock, or the equally pliable borough of
Morpeth ? What ! the foster-father of the reform bill—
he who had the honour to introduce, that
of all men, confess in the face of the world, that no
county in England would return him, and that dire ne-
cessity compels him to beg a corner from his father's te-
nants in Tavistock•? Impossible ! The very goose quill
with which he wrote the reform bill would hiss him ; old
Major CARTWRIGHT'S statue in Burton Crescent would
point its finger at him ; and that of CHARLES JAMES Fox
in Bloomsbury-square would throw its scroll at his head.
No, no; Lord JOHN cannot take shelter in Tavistock, or
any other borough of equally convenient rottenness.
This would be a virtual repeal of the reform bill, by the
very man who introduced it. This would be to restore
Gatton and Old Sarum. As for Mr. BYNO being raised
to the'peerage, in order to make room in Middlesex for
Lord JOHN by the side' of JOSEiu HUME, we are not
sure if that would serve his purpose. Mr. WOOD is so
strong that the noble lord would stand an awkward
Chance. He cannot afford' to run the risk of a second
defeat. If Middlesex were to throw him hack, Lord
JOHN RUSSELL would be floored for ever. The coach
would be " upset," never •to rise again !

Now comes the dernier resort. We are told he is to
throw himself into the arms of the electors of Manches-
ter! It is said that Mr. MARK PuntPs has consented to
accept the Chiltern Hundreds, in order to make way for
Lord JOHN RUSSELL in Manchester.

We have heard this asserted in so many quarters that,
incredible as it appears, we are bound to believe it. Yes,
the important town of Manchester is to be converted into
a contemptible nomination borough, to suit the purposes
of such wi.:gs as the people of England have rejected
elsewhere. So confidently is this asserted, that the
friends of Lord JoLtti have actually begun to canvass for
him privately, in order that they may begin in earnest
as soon as the writ is moved for, which is expected to he
done on Tuesday or Wednesday next.

Electors of Manchester ! is it come to this? There
were no men in England who clamoured more lOudly for
the reform bill than you ; but if you submit to be in-
sulted in this manner by your first representative, of
what use can the reform bill be to you? If you 'are to
return those whom no other class of electors in the United
Kingdom will receive, why you are as degr;ided as the
tenants of the Duke of BEDFORD, and you might as well
delegate the duties of your trust to an individual, to
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, for instance, himself. If- you re-
turn Lord JOHN, do you think the world will believe that
you exercised an independent vote ? No, the world will
say that Mr. MARE PHILIPS, the lord of so many slaves
in the rotten borough of Manchester, commanded these
slaves to return the minister for the home department.

Electors of Manchester! 'Remember that a minister of
the crown; such as your intended representative is, has pa-
tronage to confei and favours to bestow. Do you know
the meaning of this? Are you prepared to be bought and