The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-19 00:00:00

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we generally excel the French in every thing we imitate
from theM, it is much to be feared that we shall succeed,
al5O in this particular error: Dr: jonNsoN used to say
that ." a Jie is a lie," and that he who called it by any
ether name was an accomplice after the fact. The stern
Moralist was right. We are sorry to see our countrymen
to little awake to the coriseqUences of modifying expres-
'ioni in order _to remove the censure or the reproach
which the original terms so well and so properly convey.
however, this is a liberal and enlightened age; and
therefore, as crime increases, it is perhaps necessary that
it be made as reconcileable as possible to the rules of mo-
dern taste and false philosophy.
This may. be expedient in the eyes of many, but.it is a
rule to which we cannot conform. We agree with Dr.
JOHNSON that A-LIE IS A LIE," no matter by whom corn-
Mitted ; and by that emphatic ward we shall continue to
tall it, unmindful whether it give offence. to a minister of
the crown or an Irish beggar—to a priest or a pedlar—
to a lord or a lawyerto 4 palriOt or a pickpocket—to a
demagogue or a thief—to a legislator or the robber of a
mail coach. This, however, brings is back to Lord MEL-
iIOURNE and DANIEL O'CONNELL.
The two.houses of parliament were engaged last week
In certain conversations—we cannot fairly call them de-
bates—wl;ich must make a deep and lasting impression
on the minds .of the religious people of this favoured
island, in Whom sincerity is one of the noblest attributes,
whose word in foreign countries has been considered
equal to their bond, .and whose regard for honour, pro-.
bitY, and truth has been the admiration and the praise of
VW Whole world. The Hong merchant of Canton's.reply
4° an American supercargo who had been sent to pur-
chase tea may be taken in illustration. The latter had
.made certain representations to the Hong merchantwhich
he doubted. "Do you. question. my word ?" inquired
the citizen of .New York. "I question your country,"
was. the reply of the other ; "you are-only a second chop
Englishman; must consult before Iconsent!"
Pardon this second digression—we cannot resist an old
'Propensity of knocking down a bird as we proceed to the
Aeld of action:. Well,. then, about O'CONNELL and Lord
.11ELHourtNE ?. We begin with the master before the
man; taking the liberty to assume, an no slight grounds,
notwithstanding the ingenious but jesuitical assurances
to the contrary, than the beggarly demagogue is, as far
AS concerns Ireland, the master and slave driver of Lord
MELBOURNE and the cabinet of England. We write
these last words under the burning sensations-of shame.
°ll, time-honoured father-land! once so noble, so glori-
ous, and so great, now torn, thumbscrewed, massed-over,
'and trampled upon by a vulgar Orator in a brown wig; the
jlireling of popish priests, whp, out of felon fees, the
'wages of cross-bones and pauper serfs, has contrived to
lend £40,000 to Lcrd KENMARE.: But we submit pa-
tiently, knowing right well that a terrible day of reckon-
ing is at hand.
Now for the first public character. Mr. SHAW, the
bon. and learned member for the Uniiersity of Dublin,
called the attention of the House of Commons, a few
Rights ago, to a circumstance which had occurred at the
last election for the county of Kerry. He stated that a
gentleman of the name of Murphy had been threatened
with a "death's head and cross-bones," by. O'CONNELL
himself, in case he should vote in opposition to the detua-
k°gue. When this charge • was made by Mr. SHAW,'
f9'PONNELL rose and declared in the most solemn man-.
.!iler, taking the name of GOD to witness, and haza'rding
.his veracity by an appeal to the last awful judgment, that'
'the whole statement leas false from-beginning to end! •
These solemn asseverations made a deep impression
On his auditors, and it was the general belief that Mr.,
=Spew had either been misinformed,. or had misunderstood'
leis evidence, or bad been grossly imposed upon. The
:learned recorder, however,, knew his many knew the va-
lue of.O'CONNELLIS protestations, and knew the authen-
4ieity of his facts. He returned to the charge on Friday
last, and produced a letter Written by Mr. MURPHY IO
16t1i.KE4ARE, in which every word and syllable of his
Aceusation was so-stronglyi. asserted and corroborated that
;ticot a doubt could rennin on any mind. Mr. Muamv
-141-.4een threatenel 'with the " cross bones"—he was
threatened with expulsion from a neighbouring town—he
'as told by O'CoNNELI, that he Should not haves corner in
Zlie'Village to leaVe his car, if lie .should vote against
'4'e44m-gi-t.. He did voleaga:nst the demagogue; Anti. 1.
the .consequence was his house was attacked, his propel ty
'spoiled, 'and he himself would have been murdered. but
.fur the accidental appearance of a magistrate and a -mill-
tary force.

' What is O'CosNimrs 'defence ? It is that of a felon
detected in the act, or that of a murderer caught with
the red nand. O'CONNELL'S defenee 'would' be quite a
tiavelty in a criminal court- in England: It isla plea of
:Rtkilty.on the -ground .of ignorance. He did not know
" that MURPHY'S name was .David! He had forgotten
that he had ordered the "death's head"' to' be chalked on
bavid MURPHY'S dnor. He confesses he said something
in a jocular humour, but that he was at a-great distance
from Kerry when his jocularity had led to something
bhich Might have eneel in the burning of property and
the.*Purder of an innocent and respectable family.
Englishmen ! -pause, ponder, reflect seriously upon
this! 'Here is a case' in which ' the majesty of HEAVEN
has been solemnly appealed to by a member of the Houre
Pr Commons, who, making sport of our solemnities, and
dragging down the judgment seat to the vile formality of
guager'S court, where oaths swear away revenue, and,
liceoinplices. bear the culprit over the shoals of obvious
trite--stands upcnr charaCter, lies as he defends,
'damps himself by his defence, and proves himself guilty
40 the very abjurations of the crime which sticks upon
hitn.as:the marks of the debauchee are lined upon his
i'9llntenance. This, we repeat, is LYING !
The demagogue is here convicted upon the clearest
evidence. Honour to -the great moralist when he said, in
Magniloquent English,—" THE LIE WHEN ONCE PROVED
; .18 INEFFACEABLE." On the forehead of the guilty party
4.l.remains for ever.. It is a stain which no lotion can
leitali out—it is a brand over which the, surges of• time
h eatia vain. There 'it is, and there it will ever be, while
the 'name of O'CONNELL is remembered.

' The richness and rareness of this extraordinary cir
arstarrce are, increased by the fact that the parties who
•
"6iet.O'Comisint. of Wanton and deliberate falsehood,
are Roman Catholics... ..They are Romanists of the old
'll-4(1 honourable school. Unlike the, vulgar representa-
t)v.es of the college at ,Maynooth,. they are gentlemen.
''Ord KENMARE is a Roman Catholic. Mr. D Avr n MUII-
- is a Roman Catholic. All the witnesses against the
'demagogue are Roman Catholic S—respectable, indepen-
dent,, and honourable .men. What will daliba n say to
thus? The. Duke of NORFOLK, the head of the Ronian
,Catholic families, denounces him under his sign manual,
4eelareshitn to be unit to mingle in the society of gen-
lienlen. In short, the last few days have furnished suf-
4Pient evidence to .prove that O'CONNELL is held in
contempt"-by all those who are considered the ornaments
v'tf the faith which he professes. But - Lord KENDIARit
.speaks
. out the plainest of all. He is well known tOlie
9e of the most generous, benevolent and honegrable
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46 old nobility of
,Ireland. He, however, not only
4Po.rns the demagogue, abhors his political coridua, and
I(3oderrans the factious and incendiary proceedings of
which he is the author; but he takes the trouble to ex-.
• pose the liesi and the frauds which O'CONNELL employs
to. degrade, enslave, and demoralize his countrymen.
Rot how does the agitator meet the chargeorbtought
4,11 i nst him by Lord KENM ? Disgracefully, do we say?
That word is not strong enough: It is that of a bill dis
the
"disreditably known in the city," who impugns
evidence of a victim to whom he had lent money upon
4.'lUrious interest. It is this—Lord KENMARE is not to be
because he owes me, DANIEL O'CONNELL,
tclAooo. How ungrateful in a nobleman to speak the
truth against a person to whom he owes so much money !
t
is a reproach to the peerage t A man who borrows mo-
t should have la convenient conscience and a silent
rlgue! It may b‘r true that I have uttered falsehoods,
. Lord KENMARE whose mortgage for money lent I
• 0. should have been the last man to expose me! This
PVisklugic in low life—the language and the reason-
.of a gaol sttoTney, or a hedge priest. DANIEL
j,_ • KNELL, like GILBERT GLOSSIN, in " Guy Manner-
•lirmy foreclose his uicrtgage if be pleases, but no
Iter-ors earth can compel .Lord KENMARE to unsay the