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Harry of , Newmarket . YouVe planted your left leg among the sandwiches ! Lord Dough ( seating himself' ) . I shall not speak at all this morning ! Shamrock OTToole . As I ' ve been so narr'ly scarrified with the boiling stuff here , permit me to reward the good janius of
escape , by opening the conversazioni , honey , by spaking a few words about my friends the O'Connells , by jazes , and all the rest . Mr . Albion . Not all the rest—not all , I hope . Shamrock O'Toole . Well , all or some ; it ' s the same thing , whin we choose the best .
Lord Dough . With temperance proceed . Shamrock O'Toole . First and foremost , by my soul , the Lord of Alvanley did cast opprobrious imputaations on the honesty of the great Daniel in his resistance to the hoofs of the asses' den . All . Order ! order !
Shamrock O'Toole . Whereupon the great Dan , our largearmed liberator , did bestow upon his Lordship a personal title very different from his ideal title , being the ' letters patent" for a fat buflfoonship . Whereupon—Lord Dough . Justly
irritated—Shamrock O'Toole . Justly ? yes , justly irritated in his turnhis Lordship wrote to Dan , and had him written to , and kicked up a . great dust , on the Brussels and Turkey carpets of Brookes ' s club , and the managers virry properly hopped out of the way . When Daniel in Dublin town at last got the fighting letters , he found they had already appaired in the London newspapers , and conf 9
cluded they were only intinded for that general meridian , and not for his own particular island . But the publication of letters going on , and tinding to show how much his Lordship wished to fight , and how iriuch the Daniel was averse to come to pistoljudgment , Mr . Morgan O'Connell , own son of Dan , wrote to his Lordship , saying , " Although you were decidedly the aggressoralthough you attributed unworthy and interested motives tb
himalthough in your challenge , if it is to be considered one , you do not attempt to explain away the disrespectful expressions you had in fhe first instance used towards him—although my father ' return to Lpndon would necessarily be in a few days—although but a few days elapsed after your sending this communication to Ireland , so few , indeed , as scarcely to admit of the possibility of an answer
—you or y 6 ur friends nevertheless hastened to give j / ublicity to the circumstance , and follow it up by canvassing for a requisition to Brookes ' s , ( at the head 6 f which your own name , an interested party , most unbecomingly is placed , ) having for its object my father ' s expulsion from that club . " Mr . Morgan then prosaids by saying , that a previous affair had made his own father' resolve not to shoot another' ntafi as long ^ s h ^ re he livefd—ctf which his Lordship took an unfair acfvdtitage—and concluded by declaring ,
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Dies sub Caelo . 360
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/5/
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