The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1810-09-26
Frsa CstbeH's Weekly Ps6ticai Register,
.f May l2th, 1910.
NARRATIVE,
RELATING TO .Nfr. O'CO.N.N'OR.

at the time when the forcible entry was made
at Sir Francis Burdett's house at the time,
when fhe army vss called /orih 20 erecufe the
warranf Of she Honorable HOnse /; at the time
when the soldiers, IN pursuance OF this object
entered Sir Francis's dwelling, forced This
true Englshman's castle, and, with nuskets
loaded, Dsyonets fixed, swords drawn, and the
match at the iouch-hole OF the cannons, sue
cceded in forcing him toa prison; at that time
Mr.. ROGER O'CoNNoR was in Sir Francis's
house-1 ne pubick, Or, at least, that part
of the pubick, who have been, for the last
fifteen years, In the habit of attending to po-
'itical matters, know, that about thirteen years
ago, MIR. ARTHUR O'CoNsoR, u younger
brother of Mn. O'CoNNoR, was charged with
reasonable designs, and, after some vain at
Temps at producing legal conviction OF him,
the government OF Ireland entered into
treaty with him, agreeing to drop all proceed
ings against certain OF his friends, and TO put
a stop 10 the works Of the army against the
people to whom he was known to be attached,
upon condition OF his giving them whatever
information he might possess relative TO the
views anc resources OF the people in insur-
rectlon, and upon the further condiuon of his
emigraling to amy country not at war with
England. In consequence of this treaty, Mr.
1frfhur C'Connor emigrated, and is, at this
time, understood to be the conductor Of
celebrated PRINT, called the AReUs, publish
ed at PARIS, in the English language print,
which, II Is supposed, and perhaps, truly, has
done, and Is doing, great deal oil injury To
his country When the peculators and bor-
rough-mcDgers and their abettors are hard
pushed when they are driven into corner
when they have 20 defence To offer, and when
even their arts OF shufilins and lying, and false
swearing, and can,ing fail them when thus
hetnmed up, they have (.s the attentive OBJ
server must we'll know always recourse to
charges against those who are their exposers
against those from whose powers of detection
ana exposure they meet with annoy ance.
These pubiick robbers, like private robbers,
and indeed. like real criminals of every sort,
md description, always, instead of thinking
about thei, own defence. think about nothing
but of the mannet, in which they shall attack
the moures, or the characters, or both, of
their accusers. They do not say, the char
! ges preferred against us are false - they dare
not say," the things alledged against us are
not crimes. ."--But, unable TO deny either the
criminality Of the deeds or that those
deeds have been done by them, they Say moth
ing at all about the charges against themselves
but fall to the preferring of charges against
their accusers charges, too, which have
nothing in common with, which have no sort
of connection with the charges preferred a.
gainst them, and which they do not attempt
to repel only because they cannot rcpel them.
In default OF truth they never scrupIc 10 rr-
sort TO- faisehood in these their charges.---but.
their more common way, is TO make up that
sort O mixture of both, which, when applied
10 purpose like that here spoken OF, is cai-
led mis-frhrescntafion, and which is, perhaps,
the basest of al possible modes Of hostility -
To this mode OF attack the borough-mongc,s
and their hireIngs had recourse upon the oc-
casion of Sir Francis's commitment to the
Tower. They saw him in prison they saw
that physical force had prevaied over him
This they would have liked well this would
have delighted them tins would have ilattercd
their guilty souls with promise of cessation
at least, OF those deadly hos,iliies, which Sir
Francis, at the head Of the people Of England,
and Of the whole Kingdom, was waging a.
gainst them. But, they saw ; to their mex
pressible modification, they saw, at the same
time, that the soldiers had been called our
they saw, that horse, foot, and artillery had
been marched to London (; they saw that il
required an army, aye, iargcr army than,
IbcGepe, sve have noav in Shaia or Portugal,
to take the unarnied Sir Francis to that pris-
on, TO which vote Of the Honorable House
mad doomed him; they saw, that it required
THE co-oPERATfoN OF THE ARMY 10 en-
force he orders u the Honourabie House,
against the avowcd and wclI-known enemy Of
injustice, cruelty, corruption and pubiick rob-
berry. All this tho ugh-nongers and
their hirelings saw all this they knew right
we'll the nation, and the world would see too |;
they were fully aware of the effects Of such
notorious and striking facts they knew well,
they felt, they we're taught by instinct, that,
in minds even the least cultivated and accus-
tomated to reasoning. the right. the inevitable
and, (to them) the dangerous conclusion mns,
be drawn from those facts, and, in due time.