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the lie is hazarded -and the charge made. • If, therefore,
the Times, the Herald, and•the Post mould but cease to
report O'Coptiigu, and exclude his filthy and abusive ti-
rades from their pages, they would confer an inestimable
favour upon the public generally. The mendicant's ora-
tory is only calculated for the meridian of Donybrook
fair—to the boilers, venders, and consumers of tripe,
cabbages, and swine's feet; and, indeed, it is chiefly to
this class that he addresses himself in England. Wher-
ever he can find a beehive of the lowest of his country-
men, as, for instance, in Manchester, Newcastle, Edin-
burgh, and Glasgow, there DANIEL is at home. The in-
tellect of these hodnien, cOalheavers, porters, and factory
slaves, is on a level with his own, and he extorts from
them the cheers of ignorance and brutality, by indulging
in vulgar jests, in pothouse declamation, in ribaldry that
alone could emanate from a thief's attorney, and by mis-
representing the words and libelling the character of his
superiors. In this garbage the beggar is a wholesale
dealer, and upon . this the rabble and his admirers feed.
We have watched him in his career from Manchester to
Edinburgh, and we rejoice to say that he has not
been countenanced by a single English gentleman.
There has not been a solitary individual of either charac-
ter or standing, of wealth or intelligence, who has taken
any part in his procgedings. The respectable whigs have
cut him, and kept aloof from him, as if he were a pesti-
lence—axif to touch or speak to him were infamy. The
better sort of radicali too, having reason to suspect the
Man, and well knowing that he injures every cause lie
advocates, have carefully avoided him, and have shut
their doors upon him. Even hospitality has conspired
against him. He cannot pretend that he has had a single
invitation to a private table, or that he has been received
into any respectable domestic circle. On thiosontrary,
he hides his head in some_ third-rate hotel, or spends his
leisure hours in an obscure tavern, where the spirits
which there congregate:are congenial with his own.
But with all these dead weights against him O'CoN-
NELL is doing all the mischief in his power—assailing
the prerogatives of the crown, menacing the House of
Peers, slandering the best men in England, and, as a
missionary of popery, spreading his demoralizing tenets
amongst the people, and insulting the religious feelings
of a whole nation. The agitator is doing this with all
the mover be can command, and with all the insolence
and mpndacity which so truly mark his character.

But is O'CONNELL alone to blame for these acts of se-
dition and petty treason ? He is not yet the government
of England. His mouth is- not yet, as an honester pa-
triot wished his to be, " the parliament of England."
He does not yet monopolize in his vile person the powers
Of the Attorney-General of England and the Lord Ad-
vocate of Scotland. He may be the master of tl:e mas-
ter of these two honourable and learned functionaries ;
but Lord MELBOURNE has denied all connexion with him,
and Lord JOHN RUSSELL has not yet confessed that he
has delegated to the mendicant papist the power he is
presumed to exercise as principal Secretary of State for
the Home Department.
On Lord MELBOURNE.and Lord JOHN then devolves
the responsibility which the mendacious buffoon incurs.
The people of-England look to them for protection, and
it is their duty to ask the government not only whether
they sanction such conduct, but why they tolerate it.
The nobles of England and Scotland, when assembled in
patliatnent, have an opportunity of expressing their in-
dignant horror of such seditious proceedingi; but when
not so assembled they have a clim upon the King for
protection. They have-a right to ask their lawful sove-
reign, "why are we traduced, and libelled, and held up
to popular obloquy, in all parts of the United Kingdom,
by one of your majesty's subjects, himself a member of
the lower house of parliament, and known to be either a
voluntary or mercenary supporter of your majesty's go-
vernment Y"

What the King's answer would be, under the present
circumstances, we shall snot venture to conjecture ; but
this we will say, that a,t no Period since the accession. of
the. House of Brunswick would any of our sovereigns
for a single moment have submitted to the insolent threats
and maliCiouslibelS''of flux avowed friend and ally of his
servants. We have no doubt that earnest and respect-
ful supplications have already been addressed to the So-
vesieign. We have no doubt his majesty is alive to the
seditious and al ..ost treasonable harangues of O'Coss•
NELL, and that the cabinet which was held on Saturday
last had reference to his conduct. But we go further
than this, and contend that it is' the duty of the King to
command his servants to vindicate the laws and suppress
agitation, which this vulgar buffoon confesses it is his ob•
ject to excite in the large towns of England and Scot-
land whdre any considerable portion of Irish papists are
located. We care little how this royal and salutary com-
mand is enforced—but it must be enforced ! Lord MEL-
BOURNE and Lord Joust may advise their ally O'Con-
-.NELL to stay his pranks and cease his appeals in favour
,of popery and rebellion; and if he obeys so far well. But
if their advice be disregarded they are bound to try the
power of the law upon him, and compel him to recognise
its authority and pay respect to its mandates. If be still
persist, the Lord Advocate of Scotland has a very simple
duty to perform. The inhabitants of Glasgow and Pais-
ley are already sufficiently excited. The Presbyterians
cherish an intense hatred of popery which is singularly
national. They are at the same time a patient, reflect-
ing, and enduring people. They may not at the
first blush penetrate all the crafty designs of this
hireling of the jesuits, who, with the beggar's penny
in one hand and the widow's mite in the other, sup-
porting himself and family on the wretched contribittions
wrung from starving peasants by the vile taxgatherers
of the Romish church, who make their souls a commodity
of sale and barter, by mass and mummery, on the
threshold of eternity—they may not at first be enabled to
grapple with the pretexts that are made and the delusion
that is practised; but We should evince a total ignorance
of the Scottish people if we were. to conclude that
O'CoNNELL'S fabrications and perversions of truth would
not speedily, be exposed, and produce a serious reaction.
Liberty is a fine word, The wrongs of Ireland is a de-
lightful cadence; and the hoary beggar, talking of Auld
Langsyne and Burns's wild reverie of Scots wha hae
Wallace bled, may for a passing moment blind their eyes;
but as sure as the sun shines this mist will be dispelled;.
the glowing recellections of former days, the passions
subdued by time",. the insults forgotten for the sake of
charity, the murders, crimes, and persecutions of popery,
forgiven, perhaps, but not forgotten—these will arise like
a flood tide in a. storm, and wo be to the man who dares
to combat its surges t O'CONNELL and his herd ofiesuits
—his principles and his faction—his monk priest's and his
nunneries—his confessionals and his absolutions—his
holy water:And holy spittle—his bits of wood called vir-
gins, and his bits of putty called saints—his holy thumbs
and miraculous toe nails—are held in utter detestation
by the people of Scotland, and depend upon it that no
man ever brought himself into such disrepute, or did the
cause he espoused, be that as we believe it to be the
cause of the Whigs, so much injury---4o Much irretrieva-
ble injury—as DANIEL his done,.and will do, by making
a popish appeal to the, reflecting, argumentative, and
bible reading population of the north.
We solemnly protest that we are not the enemies of
those who honestly assert the rights of the common peo-
ple. We appeal to -our readers Whether they ever. read
in these columns any argument opposed to the enlight-
enment, the improvement, or the advancement of our
countrymen. We have seen, in a shopkeePing news-
paper, admonitions addressed to the humbler and work-
ing classes calculated to please their fancy but rob them
of their rights. This we are sorry to say has been done
too successfully for the last five years. 'The liberty that
the Irish beggar contends •fur the liberty to rob the
poor. He, in the language ,sif st ttiniter, abuses Sir Rn.
BERT PEEL for his alleged .snpport .of LOON PHILIPPE.
Sir ROBERT never defended Lows .PFIII-1,1)P13- . :He only
drew into his argument the effects of the natural ten-
dency towards 'despotism. superinduced by ultra republi-
canism. He argued that excessive liberalism led to ty-
lannys and he was right in reference So the "best of all
possible republics," as the new dynasty of France was
pronounced to be by Old LA FAYETTE. Sir ROBERT PEF.I,
was unanswerably corrert in his reasons founded upon
,facts. The Irish beggar, however, tried to him them to,