The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-24 00:00:00

NovEmnEll 24, 1835

forget to the last day of their existence. But as the
charges and the calumnies, the inueudoe and the das-
tardly allusions, must come before the public in another
shape, we are persuaded to forbear for the present:
We, however, at all hazard, take upon ourselves to

state, for the benefit of those who have loosely consider.
ed the proposed corporation endowment, that the Rev.
Rector QAMPI3ELL is not interested in it in any way what-
ever. The municipal bill secures to him for life his present
stipend. The object of the common council was purely,
and nothing More than, to effect a final settlement of
this much-agitated and ill-understood question. They
were, and still are, anxious to secure to the clergy of
Liverpool their present income in perpetuity, under cer-
tain reasonable modifiCations. The old corporation had
induced the ministers of the established Church in Liver-
pool to accept the appointments in their gift, guarantee-
ing to them specified salaries. They consequently felt it
to be their duty to secure to their successors what they
considered a very moderate and limited income to the
present incumbents.
But the writer in the Chronicle calls this arrangement
a corporation job. He never was more mistaken in his
life. But we suspect that ignorance can hardly be
pleaded as his excuse. There is too much wanton ma-
levolence—too much soreness of feeling—too much of
politicalirancour in his rabid and vulgar animadversions,
to admit of any shelter under the plea of ignorance.
But.it is proper that the public should be made acquaint-

ed with the whole facts, and what we now communicate,

rather reluctantly, we hope will be used respectfully and
gratefully by our contemporary, if not for his own sake,
• at least for the sake of those whom he professes to sup-
port—we mean his Majesty's ministers
We have, then, to inform the burgesses of Liverpool,
that the proposal to endow the clergy of the corporation
churches was, in the first instance, suggested by one of
his Majesty's ministers, and before the municipal bill
had passed into a law. We are also authorised to state,
that the proposed endowment has received the express
anti' unequivocal sanction of his Majesty's -ministers:
We can also assert, the proof being before us, that one of

• these ministers—one of the most upright and influential
members of the cabinet—has expressed his "deep regret
and great annoyance" at the singular and inconsiderate
decision of the Master of the Rolls in the case of injunc-
tion applied for and obtained on an ex parte statement by
Mr. Thomas BOLTON; and what is more, the said cabi-
net minister has authorised the counsel for the corpora-
tion to state these his opinions in open court when he
shows cause against the injunction, which will be done
in a day or two, and when the injunction is sure to be
dissolved.

These are facts for the proprietors of the Chronicle to
digest at their leisure, and we trust they will serve as a
warning to them not to allow certain persons—they know
whom we mean—of venomous, deceitful, and malignant
dispositions to have such ready access to their types and
presses. We should be sorry to see them exposed to any
prosecution, knowing, as we well do, they would be deserted
by the very base people who have imposed upon them,
and we therefore give them this hint, which we hope they
will neither misunderstand nor consider illtimed or offen-
sive. We have saved them from one prosecution already.
They are at least £5OO richer by our intercession. We
again put them in the way of saving.perhaps double that
sum. We do not ask their thanks—we do not even seek
to be spared their abuse; but we beg to say we cannot
continue our good offices unless we see some signs of
penitence and reformation.

It has been reserved for an English gentleman, a re-
former of no mean standing, to put his foot on the neck
of the ruffian O'CONNELL, and expel him from all de-
cent and respectable society. The merit of rescuing the
whig party, or at least an honourable section of it, from
the degrading trammels of the Irish beggar, belongs to
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, to whose letter we refer with un-
alloyed pride and satisfaction.

It is of little or no moment whether the members of
I3soorcEs's Club do or do not fling out O'CONNELL from
their society as a worthless wretch whom no man of ho-
nour can associate with. They may kick or keep him—
throw him off or retain him—spurn or embrace him ;
but it is gratifying to know that by .doing the one they
cannot possibly whitewash his character, whereas by do-
ing the latter they will only sink theimelves to his own
base and polluted level. But whatever the majority of
BROOKES'S may do, they have no choice now between de-
stroying O'CONNELL and destroying the club. If he is
allowed to remain a member, the best and most influen-
tial, and, consequently, the most honourable portion of
the club, must withdraw. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT un-
questionably speaks the sentiments of the old whiffs and
the moderate reformers, who, however much they may
differ with respect to measures of policy and the exten-
sion :If reform, are united to a man upon this question
which affects personal character and identifies them with
the honour of resistance or the infamy of submission.
The worthy baronet does not utter a single word reflect-
ing upon the political principles or the avowed opinions
of O'CONNELL. He does not provoke any discussion as
to the expediency of pulling down or remodelling the
House of Lords—he cautiously avoids any allusion to the
repeal of the union—he takes no notice of the protestant
church or the proposed plans for its extirpation—in short,
his reasons for expelling DANIEL from BROOKES'S have
relation solely to the private character of the man—to
his savage ruffianism of manners—to the brutality of bis
language—to bis ferocious and disgusting attacks upol
individuals, who by rank and station are immeasurably
his superiors, who never personally offended him, and
whom he thus brutally insults under the voluntary and
assumed protection of an hypocritical and a COWARD-
LY IRRESPONSIBILITY.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has thus chosen a position
which is invulnerable, and the only ore which the whigs
can occupy with honour and save their party from signal
and irretrievable ruin. He says, this is a man whom no
gentleman can with honour associate with, and be asks,
why should we tolerate him at the tables of our club-
house whom we should consider it infamy to see passing
the threshold of our private mansions?
But let us put it in another form. Any gentleman
may by accident be thrown into the company of a thief
or a swindler, in a mail-coach, for instance, or a steam
packet. In such a case his only concern should be to
watch his movements and take care he is not robbed.
If, however, the said gentleman, being aware of the cha-
racter he has met by accident, should, nevertheless, in-
vite him to his house and treat him to a sort of experi-
- mental hospitality, would lie deserve the slightest com-
miseration if he were robbed of his last shilling, his last
silver candlestick, and last silver spoon ? No, the thief,
under the guise of an old clothesman, a quack doctor, or
a fortune-teller, might enter the house, tamper with the
servants, and succeed in robbing the master. If caught
and convicted he would either be banged or transported.
It would be a very different case, however, if the master
himself were the patron of the thief—his dear friend—
his boon companion—his bail under suspicious circum-
stances,--treating with indifference all surmises as to his
reputation, and all tenders to prove their truth. He
might in this case be robbed, and deservedly robbed,
without attracting the slightest degree of sympathy, in-
asmuch as he repelled all warnings and was the means of
intioducing his confrere " vagabond" into society in
which he had committed petty depredations without be-
ing suspected.

This is the case that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT makes out
for himself in a very able manner. DANIEL O'CONNELL
is more than suspected. He is convicted of something
as near akin to fraud as ever was charged against mortal
man. He confesses that he received £2,000 from RA-
PHAEL, for his own use, on certain conditions, and for a
specified consideration, which he did not perform! The
beggar and jobber, we admit, has not yet been convicted
by a jury of his countrymen, and probably never will,
for there are many difficulties in the case; but can theme
be morally any doubt in the mind of any intelligent man
as to his guilt % We contend this is next to impossible.

Then comes the question—ought this man to remain a
member of BaooKEs's Club ?—to associate With gentle-
tnen ?—to mingle with persons of high rank and untar-
nished honour ?—;to be familiarly recognised on the shady