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    • TO THE BIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR OP DUBLIN.
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      lyULUil COOP-EB must have read the Star inattentively , or he would have known that the conviction by the magistrates of the fellow who burnt his -petition-sheet was inserted the same week that he sent it-Betrt . Ra 5 KTX . —We have had quite enough of the discussion between Afr . O'Brien and Mr , Duncan . Vetoes may be a friend to truth ; but we must take leave to tell him that tee require other evidence of il than reprimand without authority , and denunciation without proof . Jokn FbjlZKB . —We never notice rejected poetry . y ? n . Li £ U ATKDfSO ^ . —His communication is an&dvertisement : but we trill vil'ingly insert it on

      payment of the duty , which is Is . Sd . Sheffield — Our space will be badly occupied in replying to the ravings of Mr . Ibbolsm . Ji . Block Pbisteb . —We have no room . Ah Old Democrat . —Mr . Moir lives in the Gallsw * gate , Glasgow . B . C . CaBBCJHERS may send whatever communication he may have for Mr . O'Connor to that gengentleman direct . The Northern Star is no post office . JjECTWSBS JfEGLECTIKG TBSISL APPOISTHEHTS . —Mr ; John Crowlher , of Lower Moor , Oldham , writes us , in reference to the late disappointment at Stockport , that thefault rested not teiihMm , fatt trith Mr-Storer t Ashlon-under-Lyne , whohad some tceeks before , in return for Mr . Crowther's fulfill

      ing an appointment of his at Mettram , promised to attend as Mr . Crowther ' s substitute at Stockport ^ on Easter Sunday : why Mr . Storer did not keep his promise Mr . Crowlher does not knots . W . H . Btott , Secretary to the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , has to gratefully acknowledge the receipt of several Stars , and would be more particular with regard to some written communications did time end circumstances allow . He begs further assistance as regards the newspapers which are regularly transmitted to the provinces , and are sure to do extensive service to the cause Direct 25 . North Kinff-slreeL , XhtlHn , CO 5 TEST 1 O 5 Ftjxd . —The following monies have been received by Mr . J . Cleave : — £ a . d . Norwich 4 7 9

      Sheffield 2 . 0 o Hnnalet , near 1 / eeda ... ... 0 12 0 Todmordea ... ... ,,, 4 0 0 Oxford ... ... ... ... 0 10 6 Bisheptrearaoulh 6 12 0 South Shields 10 0 A Republiesn , Bockdale ... 010 " Youths , Stockport * 10 0 Salisbury 1 10 0 Ardriey , Neas Banuley ... o 10 o Shutford , near Banbury ... 0 10 0 Bradford , per T . Roma ... 1 10 0 Chehnrford ... 0 8 0 Selby , 10 6 Selby Female Society 0 10 O Keignley 1 5 Chartist Meeting , Walworth ... 0 7 6 Stokesley 10 0

      £ 22 12 6 llB . Watkiss .- —The conclusion of his sermon is ts type out is unavoidably'postponed tillnext tceek . "BytB . —The address of our Correspondent at Bath is Mr : BarileU , 19 , Gloucester-row ! Buildings , Swanncick , Baih . TTlLUAH JOSES . OB THE MEBTBTB . TTDTIL ASSOCTATIOS . —The letter has been duly received , out the Plala cannot be sent urdil the amount they owe to the Ofice be paid . We hope to hear from them immediately . A 2 V 13 .. statement of all monies received Oy Abel Heywood for those who were injured , and repairing the Hall of Science , will be given in our next . A . Chabtist . —The "Child at Home" maybeprocured of

      Mr . Fox , news-agent , Bridge-street , Sheffield ; Mr . Crowther , Pigeon-lane , Rotherham ; and Mr . T . B . Smith , Leeds . Mr . Smith is also the xcholesale agent for Che sale of Piader ' s Vacking . " gba > k MrBFiELD , and our oiher good Barnsley friends , hare our thanks for their continued appreciation of honest seeking to desirve approbation . We think , however , thai they should not be too hard upon the person to whom they allude . Long and bitter suffering works htarUjf upon the mini . A TEETOTjLL CH . 4 B . TIST . —If you cut up a newspaper into separate s ? ttd $ you can only then send through the Post-ojia : that part which happens to hate tht stamp upon iL "I , " of Bristol , and T . P . GB . EES must excuse us : we have not room . ThokaS Xsiltu must take a like answer .

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      Messrs . Harrison , Barusley ; Tasier , SMpton ; Storer , Dancaiter ; Pratt , Howden ; Hodson . Retford , ¦ would oblige ub by miking tfceir post-office orders payable to Sir . John Ardill , our clerk . . WX wver sipplied any Papers to R . H . C Crnthers , Newcastle , and consequently haTe not any account to send him . Thb Papebs of those Agent * who have not paid their accounts mil be stepped after this week . J . 'Whiddqs- —App'y to the Agent . JOHK T 0 JIL 15 S 0 X , SCTTON-IS-ASHFIELK . —Yes . FOB THE HASCHESTEB SCTFEREBS . £ « - d . From a fe"w BsTonport friends ... o 5 o „ a few Frienda to Freedom , at Sfcoarbridje ... ... . * .. 0 3 0 TOR THE CHARTIST CA ^ SE . Prom Friends , Eregmont , per Adam KeitU 0 5 0 TOB XSS . ? B . OST . From tbe Cbartista of SoTrerby , near F ^ 'f" ... 0 7 0 FOB MSS . JOSES AM > XBS . ZEPHASIAH BULLIAHS . From Mrs . Bed-well , Stourbridg 8 ... 0 0 6

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      3 > It Lohd , —Only a tew wezts hare passed since I ira » amused by the happy intelligence " that your Lordship was decidedly a Chartist , " and that nothing short of " TfniTeisal Strf&age" -would satisfy 7 tn ia bebalf Of your rofffcriBg ffcllo w-connfcrymen . H&ny pei » sns -were £ o certain of the honesty cf your daelamioEs , that I haTe been requested " to be more kind , and less sersre , in my addresses to your Lordship in future . " Ko-w , my Lord , -whatever others may think , I do most charitably assure yon , I look "with caution to eTery measure which emanates from the source of which your Lordship is the head , and which holds its councils at the Corn Exchange .

      It i > row certain that your Lordship's cry for Universal Suffrage was not the bold aod intrepid cry of a patriii . and the leader of a suffering nation ; but the puny half-expiring whimper of a defeated , laction , who ¦ wonid fain be tbtm $ tit tht fritnds of the people , bnt ¦» ho have not the honesty , er the courage , to agitate for & full aEil unqualified measure cf justice , without any compromise whatever . ¦ Wben a man is dike your Lordshipj in possession of paramount inflnecce . and when it is known that that

      irfiatcee is . upon occasions , directed towards the furthnrsree x > I yonr own Tietrs , and the subversion of every measure which happens to be at -rariance -with your policy ; when we find this influence keeping in BBfjrf-tion and a-snng into c * ui « mptible servility the BponttTS of your party , we cannot help nolding your Lordship responsible for the political acts of your creatures , atd at the game time despise the efforts of the master and the man—ihe demagogue and the slave , ttJio wonid , reckless «* principle or patriotism , still endea-Toui to ktep the people in misery .

      Yoor Lordship is aware that ycur creatures of the Corn Exchange dare not stir an inch * or move a resolution , contrary to your -svishe * . under pain cf denouncement . Thtn how cvmes it that the brace Tom Steele ia to be found in th « Conference of Joseph Sturse , " hfc& > Ijig abuse oo -- O'Connor , and the mad Chartists of England who follow him , " and stamping himself "with fee character uf a ninny , and an animal very like -what in Ireland they call an a—sa ? The answer ib a pi . an one . He either has been sent

      itthetxpfcnse uf the Irish people , or he has obtained or hvpb& to obtain , a place on the Sturge pension list . To » he former , 1 only say to the Irish , their money might bt : bttter trended than by paying an agent to mppon a "Whig lDt-ature , and for abusing their only certain rtmtdj f .. , r i ^ liticai evils—the People ' s Charter ; and if tie li . u .-r , it only augurs tint , either the funds of the Com Zxitange are a dif-count , and poor Tom is obliged : u i- ^ kanothtr marktt for his genius , or that your Lord > Lip preftxs aJ-y snffTBge to a full , fair , aoi tir-itLiiv . rwaid one like the Chartists .

      It -w .-ald be wisti . my Lord , to adopt the People ' s Charter without asy compron , ise ; for be assured neitttr the p-viicy of Sturge , rcr the oratory of Tom SUtle will ever be the means cf btntntins the people , or alttrlEs the present system ; ai : d much as the Whija iiiLfflt : and quibble abtat detail , they "will in She end fcave k » ccnie to the p&ople , and , what is more , to be honest with the people ; and although your Lordship ni ^ y noi relish the prophecy , I nevertheless feeg to infoini jcu , my Lord , that you will ere long bt compelled

      to become a Chartist in name and principle , or forfeit your p- j ularity . As for poor Tern Steel . I have little fear for him ; for , as soon es jour Lordship becomes a Chartist , he -will become one too . I would , however , ttqmt jun Lordship to order "Dear Ray" to recal &m ; if is really a pity to let . him go at large . Ha is 6 jhtr " daif or politically m&& , to think himself wiser San tfce millions of hontst men who drclare ¦ ' that the Qartti as it is , is the only remedy for existing evils . " ^ o , my Lord , have him brought back , and sent te * Swifts" xcntii a " lunar cliarEt" is effected in him ,

      • 63 . l&t Ms tetpt = r be chosen from amongst the meni-^*» of the Irish . UniTersal Suffrage Association , who ^ B , 1 have no doubt , administer proper treatment to l * Sfy his reason , and cool bis head-1 have the honour to be ,

      My Lord , Your Ltrdship ' s most obedient servant , W . H . CLinos ,

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      TO DANIEL O'COx \ NELL , LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN , &c . &c . Dublin , March 24 , 1842 . Sib , ~ I have now for more than nine years suffered in fortune . In reputation , and in feeling from a wrong inflicted on me by you . On the 18 th day of January , 1833 , yoa were a party to the passing of the following resolution in the committee of the Irish Volunteers : — - "We have beard the charges and snob evidence as Mr . Patrick O'Higgins produced , and we are nnanimously of opinion that the charges are totally false and calumnious , and we do most fully ana honourably acquit Mr . John Reynolds thereof ; and , it appearing that these charges originated in malice , we recommend Mr . Dwyer to return Mr . O'Hi < r Kms his subscription , being of opinion that Mr . O'Higgins ought not any longer to frequent these rooms . "

      This resolsiion hears your signature , as well as the signatures of three of your sons , and of yoar sonin-law , and every member of the committee whom = you coild mflneace to sign it . It condemns me before the whole world of having sought to destroy the character of an innocent man by charges known to « me to be false , and preferred from malice , and this horrible sentence , bearing your signature , and the signatures of your three sons on the face of it , bears also on the face of it the proof that thiB sentence of infamy was passed upon me by you without vour

      apprising me that any charge was to be preferred against me—without your instituting any trialwithout yonr affording me the slightest opportunity of defence—and without any investigation of the written ^ testimony which 1 produced , and npon which the charges against Mr . John Reynolds were founded . There is no man who reads this resolution who believes it te be just , and who has any Bense of virtue in his own bosom , who mast not regard me as one of the most abandoned villains upon earth ; and it is by . you that I stand so branded before my countrymen .

      It was on the 8 th of May , 1835 , I first thonght the blame of your not doing me jastice rested upon myself ; for , on the previous day , in a speech of yours at the Corn-Exchange , relating to the transaction in which Mr . Morgan O'Connell was engaged with Lord Aivaniey , you were reported to have said—M I never injured any man to whom I was not perfectly ready to make reparation to the fnllest extent in my power , i he required it . " I never reqnired you to make reparation to me till then . I did so then in a letter , of which the present one is nearly a copy ; I did so by the advice of a friend of mine who read your speech , and by

      the advice of a Catholic clergyman , a personal friend of yonr own . Ail I asked then was , that yon should remove an unjust stigma from me as publicly as you had fixed it upon me . I sent yon a copy of that letter at every Easter since , in the hope that your conscience would move you to name it to your confessor , because I knew that your confessor should tell you that no political expediency could justify this foul calumny upon me . I knew that he would tell you that you were bound by all the laws of the church to make reparation to me . And finding that those private letters had no effect , I now call upon you publicly to - make reparation to me before yon presume again to approach the Holy

      Communion ; because you know that that resolution , to which you have affixed your name , Bets forth upon the face of it that which yon know to be untrue . It states that the committee unanimously agreed to it , whereas yon know that you could get but twenty-three to sign it . The verv man who brought forward the motion for the inquiry refused to sign it . Your own brother-in-law , Mr . Finn , to his credit , refused to sign it . The late Mr . John Hedmond would not sign it . The Hon . Colonel Bntler did not sign it . Neither did Messrs . Barrett or Staunton , nor Messrs . Dolan , O'Dwyer , M'Loughlin , Doyle , Cavendish , and others , in all twenty-eight . You led the world to believe that

      the committee were unanimous . Yon have certified the charges to have been malicious , false , and calumnious , while yon know full well that their truth or falsehood depended entirely on the genuineness of the written evidence which I produced in support of them , and which you refused to examine , and yet you publicly pronounced me guiltyj on the 18 th of January , 1833 , in the teeth of evidence signed by Robert Cully , Accountant-General of the Bank of Ireland , by Michael Roche , of the Hibernian Bank , by Obadiah Willans and Son 3 , Lower Bridge-street , by Robert Byrne and Co ., Lower Bridge-street , by Armstrong and Byrne , Merchants' - quay , by William Lock , Linen Hall , by Blood .

      Nott , and Co ., Trinity-street , by Greenough and Robinson , of Manchester , by Lingworth and Co ., Manchester , by "William Bolton , Manchester , and the oral testimony of Mr . John Robinson , of Delgany , of Mr . "William Russell , of Lower Bridgestreet , of Alexander Reynolds , of Lower Bridgestreet , and of Mr . John Hudson , of Mecklenburghstreet . Let me ask you now , Sir , at the end of nine years , did you examine any part of this testimony or any of those witnesses ? No , not one of them . Yet , you , with all your piety , persevere in pronouncing me guilty of having brought false , calumnious , and malicious charges against an innocent man ]

      Let no one say this letter is written from any other motive than that of giving you an opportunity of doing me an act of common justice , even now at the end of nine years' suffering . Do not say that I am actuated , by any feeling of revenge for the grievous wrong which you did me , because that would not be true , as I have the secretary ( Mr . P . V . Fitzpatrick ' s ) acknowledgment , that I contributed largely to swell your tribute , in November 18 S 3 and 1834 , and was mainly instrumental in retnming you for the city of Dublin in 1835—all of which have occurred smce January , 1853 ; and I would have supported you still had you not deserted the people by turning Whig and banker at one and the

      same time . _ I am . , -with as much respect for your public services as any man can feel , Patrick O'Higgins . P . S . —I think it is due to you to send you this letter before I publish it , and at the same time to say that yon are at perfect liberty to make any use of it you may think proper . P . O'H . Baniel O'GonnelL Esq ., M . P .

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      at that time in Parliament , the three of them ) , they have more influenced my conduct than I have done theirs , and I am glad of it . They were present during the ent » feinvestigation , and were capable of forming their own judgments . . As to your charge of my son-in-law having signed by my influence , I need not say how totally untrue it is . It would be shameful of him if he did so ; and he never has done any thing for which he ought to blush . His name alone is a sufficient defence , When you speak of Chbistophxr Fitzsimon , a man who has this most singular good fortune , that he is esteemed by every body—he is loved by those who agree with him in politics , and he is respected by the most violent of those who differ from him , whilst he is perfectly firm in the assertion and the carrying

      out in action of his own opinions , he with courteous cheerfulness allows all others to do the same . with respect to their opinions . Influence . Aim to sign a vercict withont his own judgment being convinced of its truth ! Ia it CHBiSTflOHEB Fitzsimon ? Why , if it were possible that the angel-wife I have given him should endeavour bo to influence him , it would be in vain ! Aye , I fearlessly say it , notwithstanding your paltry taunt , that if ever there lived a model of a Christian gentleman in conduct , character , and feeling , he is that man 1 Let me by way of parenthesis remark , that yon might as well have confined your Chartist virulence to me alone , and have passed by my sons and son-inlaw in the same silence with the other twenty gentlemen who signed the verdict .

      But you make several other odd assertions . You boast that the Hon . Colonel Butler did not sign the verdict . Quite true . It would have been wrong of him had he done so , as he was not one of the gentlemen to whom the case was referred . These were in all 44—Colonel Butler was not one of them . You also allege that my respected brother-in-law , Mr . Finn , refused to sign it . I do not know that any body asked him to do so . Bat I am quite sure of this—that if asked he would have refused , because it appears from Mr . Dwyer ' s entries that he was not present on the 18 th of January , the day of the investigation ; nor even on the 15 th , the day on which the charges were given in by you . A similar reason would of course have induced the other persons whom you name , not to sign , aa none of them were present upon both days . In short , do persons signed , except those who attended the investigation of the 18 th of January .

      You must really be endowed with great conldence in the effrontery of assertion , when you have the face to assert that the document I signed , stated , " that the committee unanimously agreed to it . " Why , it states no such thing . It does not refer to any committee at all . Even you yourself set it ont as beginning thus , " WE have heard the charges and such evidence as Mx . Patk . O"Hi « gin ' s pboduced , and We arb UNANIMOUSLY OF 0 PIM 0 N , "&C , &C It is followed by the signatures of the twenty-four gentlemen who attended the investigation . It does not Bay the committee was unanimous . But it is idle and foolish to reason with a man who sets forth » document , and then directly contradicts it

      Even in the number of signatures you were wrong . There were 24 , and not 23 : —Three barristers , Counsellor Close , ( who waa chairman at the investigation ) , Counsellor Stephen Coppinger , and Counsellor George Kera&a ; the iat « lamented Mr . Lavelle , of the Freeman ' s Journal ; Mr . Laurence Finn , Mr . James Sheridan But why should I continue ? You have them all before you ! But I cannot omit one name more—as pure a spirit as ever breathed—my respected friend , General Clooney . You next call upon me to make a public reparation to jon ; because , &s yoa allege , " I know that the resolution to which I affixed my name sets forth upon the face of it that which I know to be untrue . "

      If your premises were true , your conclusion would be irresistible . I would be bound to make you reparation ; and I would make it to you most publicly , and most cheerfully ; but I know no such thing as you allege . 1 do c « t beHeve any such thing . I believe every word in that resolution to be perfectly true . J am quite sure it was called for by all that appeared before us in evidence ; and if such circumstances again occurred one thousand times over , I would sign that resolution as often . But what were the circumstances ? These you keep bock . These yoa carefully cushion . You gfve the verdict , bat yea doat condescend to explain what may be technically called the pleadings and proceedings , and which can be more familiarly denominated , the circumstances that created the necessity of a verdict You thus mistify the matter , and prevent the public from seeing on the face of your own letter how glarinjjly absurd your calumny is .

      1 ¦ will , however , put the matter beyond a doubt . I will stale the circumstances as briefly as possible . The facts were these : — First—An associatian , called " The Volunteers of Ireland , " was formed on the 3 rd of January , 1833 . You and Mr . John Reynolds , with many others , became members of it Mr . Reynolds was shortly after named a member of the standing committee . You were noi . Secondly—Immediately afterwards you commenced a career of insinuation of the grossed and most debasing criminality against one of the members of that committee , whom you did not then name ; but you gave strong grounds for the conjecture that you meant Reynolds .

      Thirdly—You cannot pTobaWy forget , though yon may be ready to deny the fact , that I endeavoured to induce you to abandon that line of conduct I begged of you not to introduce personal quarrels into our proceedings . You , however , persevered , and rather augmented the virulence of tour insinuations than otherwise . Fourthly—The gentlemen forming the committee felt themselves obliged to call upon you to explain who it was that you meant , and to state what were your charges . Fifthly—You wrote two equivocal letters , alleging that y » u could prove gross criminality in a member of the committee , rendering him uvJU to be astociattd with —but still declining to name him , lest , as you said , you should subject yourself to legal proceedings .

      Sixthly—It having been rumoured and tolerably well known that-you alluded to Mr . John Reynolds , ht > ( TUynolds ) came forward and declared that he would not tafce any legal proceedings whatsoever against you , bnt wenld submit your charges to the investigation of any of the members of the association . Seventhly—You therefore persevered ; and on the 14 th of January produced no less than ten distinct charges against Reynolds . It was agreed on that the matter should be investigated by such members of the standing committee , unconnected with either party , as should attend . The three principal charges were these : — You charged Reynolds with being a public liar in a matter relating to the Trade ' s Union . You charged him with having committed gross and corrupt perjury in the case of a person called James Ahem , of Charleville .

      You cba ; ged him with having committed subornation of ptrjur > in the same case . Yeu will admit at once that charges tf more atrocious criminality could not possibly be made by one man against another . A public liar ! a gross acd wilful pwjurer ! a vile suborner of perjury ! If true , Reynolds would have bten ruined—and deservedly—for ever . ' If true , be would be a beggar ; for his station in life depended altogether npon his character . Reynolds would feave been a disgraced pauper . His wife and children trouirt have been beggars , or starved . Such were the charges you repeatedly insinuated ; and which you ended by directly , and with full prtmt-ditation . charging against Reynolds .

      The investigation took place on the 18 th of January . Twenty-four m-mbers of the committee attended . If you had succeeded in establishing your charge ; if you had even made out a probable case again > t Reynolds ; nay , if you . had made out such a case as t > ihe unhappy malignity of human naiuro would have evtn created a doubt of his guilt , he was ruined for ever . Mr . Reynolds bas since then brought mp in respectability a fine family . He has held a situation of great crust wit& large tmoluiutnts for years in a public establishment . And when , from motives of economy , his office was suppressed he got from that public body a large sum by way cf compensation for his services ; and a most flattering testiruonia to his character and conduct ; and he is now more confidentially engaged in forming another establishment of great prospective ¦ utility .

      What weuld h * have been , Mr . Patrick OHiggins , if you had succeeded in Wasting his character ? "What would he have- been , if you bad . . even been able to create a miserable suspicion of his guilt ? Are you become at length so sensitive about youralf , that you totally forget the envenomed stab you niade at another ? Recollect that you volunteered the accusation—that yoa persevered ia spite cf every friendly admonition in bringing forward > our charges Recollect that yon deliberately , and -with the fullest premeditation prodnced those charges . Recollect also that yon had no pecuniary interest , nor any inann « of property to be affected by festablishing those charges . You would not be one shilling the richer if you established them . He would nave been a wretched pauper . You would have been in nothing the better , save in the gratification of your personal malignity . . .. - _

      ___ . The investigation totk place on the 18 th of January , 1833 . You produced , and we examined t * o witnesses in support of the charge—yourself and another . though you now insinuate tne contrary , you produced your vonchers , aid we read them and considered them . Let me tell you that this fact appears on the face of Mt . Dryer ' s book , in his o- ; m handwriting . We were ready , and we offered , to bear any other witness , and to consider any other documents that you could produee . We fully considered the entire case ; and there was not the least doubt upon the mind of any one of the twenty-four gentlemftn , that the charges you brought were totahy false and calumnious . We , accordingly , fully and honourably acquitted Mr . Reynolds .

      And what else could we do ? Yet , here are you requiring ef me , by way of " reparation" to you , to reverse this verdict of a-cquittal pronounced by me and twenty , three others , nine years ago ! If I am to do that , pray -what ia to Dicome of Mr . Reynolds ? Am l W depr ive Mm of tire fcewfit ol ti » judgment pronounced

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      nine years ago in his favour , and sanctioned and ratified by the entire public , amongst whom he has since lived as a gentleman , instead of ; being acouted ( as you would have had him ) aa a shameless liar and a profligate perjurer ? Shame npon you ! O BhameJ Yet you coma out upon ine with an air of injure' ! innocence , forsoothl And you complain of me for having concurred in stating that your conduct on that occasion was malicious . Now , I ask yon , in the name of common sense , what other inotives , Bave malice , could have possibly actuated yoa ? . You had no lucrative gain to stimulate ytu . You had no money profit to obtain by blackening Reynolds , ; You had no office , no employment , no emolument to acquire by tuining the man . Taere is one thing quite certain— that , whether yonr charges . were true or false ; hatred , malice , and ill-will were your only motives for bringing them forward ; for , I repeat , you had no other earthly motive .

      Yet you come out with your air ' - ' at injured innocence to ask from me a double reparation . First , you want me to retract my share of a verdict of acquittal in favour of Mr . Reynolds . That I utterly refuse . I should be very criminal , and , if possible , more absurd than criminal , ifi did not refuse ! Secondly , you want me to retract that part of the verdict which declared that you were actuated by malice in making arid prosecuting the charges against Mr . Reynolds . In this respect I really would grant if

      yone request I possibly could . Enable me to do so , and I willr-readily and cheerfully . TteH ine what other motive thau rancour and hatred to the man did , or possibly could , actuate you . Show me that you had anything to gain , any interest to promote by dishonouring and disgracing John Reynolds , and I will retract my share of the verdict convicting you of malicious motives , and 1 will insert in its stead such other motives as you yourself reasonably desire idi substitute . Nothing , surely , can be more fair or reasonable ! . ; . ¦ ¦ ' : ¦• ¦ :. : . ¦¦ ' ¦ . - - - . ¦¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ . .: ' ¦¦ ¦¦ . - . ¦ ¦¦ .

      ...-There only remains the third point ; the opinion was announced that you ought to be excluded from the Corn Exchange rooms . It was unnecessary to go so far . You yourself would , after the honourable Mquittal ef Mr . Reynolds , have , I presume , deemed It prudent to refrain from frequenting these roems . . ( . It happened , however , that after my departure for London , the matter was taken up by the Association , and on the 19 th of February , whilst I was , as I recollect , fighting the Coercion Bill , and certainly whilst I waa in London , your expulsion was moved by the Rev . Dr . Orovea , D . D .. a Protestant clergyman , and seconded by the Very Rev . Mr . L'Estraogd , a Catholio clergyman , and carried on a division by a majority of 56 to 23 , I ne « i not describe what these clergymen were who thus acted against you whilst the matter was fresh , and all the circumstances known to every body . - ' ¦ ¦ . "'• " • ¦'¦ .. " ' ;¦ ¦ . '¦ . . .. ¦¦ ¦/ , ' . ¦ . ; ' -.: . v ' .. ' - ¦¦¦ ' '; - .

      After this , let me mournfully ask you , of what avail would any retraction of mine be , under these circumstances ? . •' . ; . ¦¦ ¦ . ' ¦¦ ¦" - . ¦¦ ' . ' ' ¦ : " ' : ' ' ¦¦ ' But the truth is , you do not desire any retraction . All you want is an excuse to vilify me to th « Chartiste . It is an attempt to delude those poor people , especially in England , by endeavouring to make out that you are an innocent Buffering man , injured by me ; and therefora only exercising . natural revenge -when yon calumniate and Vilify me in all possible ways as you have hitherto done , and as you are heartily welcome to do in future to the utmost extent of your every faculty . ¦ ' :: ' . ' ; . '¦ . ' . .. / ' ¦ " :.- ¦ - . .

      Two observations more , and our correspondence ends on my part for ever . The first is—that' -, you do not state any reason whatsoever why I should have been inimical to you upon that investigation , or what motive I could have to injure or do you any wrong . Reynolds was no friend of mine . You and I were upon better terms . I had been your counsel , and I believe your successful counsel . And what is ludicrous enough , is , that one of your charges against Reynolds—it waa the second—was for calling men together ll to put down O'Connell and to put up one of the ilahon family . " So strangely does folly mix with malignity in all you do I

      My second observation is—that it is quite impossible that any but the greatest dolt and driveller imaginable could believe that I had . atrociously , injured you with your full knowledge In January , 1833 . There are to be sure many stupid blockheads among the Chartists ; but it ia hard to think that any of them who read your letter could possibly believe you . Let them look only at your dates . You actually boast of yeur friendly services to me in the year 1835 . You exaggerate the value of those services , but you

      boast they were most friendly , and I admit that they were as useful as you make them . You would have been of more use if it were in your poor power . You also actually boajsfc that you were my benefactor in November 1833 , and in 1834 . Can human credulity . * go so far as to believe that 1 had atrociously injured you in January , 1833 , in your presence , and with your full knowledge ; yet that you were ray benefactor in November , 1833 , again in 1834 , and again , my active , friendly , and disinterested , though not very Beryiceablty agent at the election of IRXi ?

      But the climax is not capped yet . Yonr enmity to me—your malignity to me—your frequently calling me " a knave in . ' politics and a hypocrite in religion , " were not oceasioned by the alleged injury I inflicted on you in January , 1833 . But—^ 1 must use my own wordsit all arose by reason of my turning Whig and Banker at oneandat the same time ' . ¦ ' // Why , Mr . Patrick O'Higgins , there is ludicrous insanity mixed with your melancholy malignity 1 I cannot omit one more fact I published to the world that I became what you call a " banker" in June , 1834 j and the election in 1835 , at which you gave me some friendly assistance , was one fot the express purpose of turning out the Tories whom the King had brought back to power and lo-instating the Whigs !!

      The proverb truly saith— " A lie stands upon one leg , " Aye , Mr . Patrick O'Higgins—however ludicrous a lie may be , it stands but npon one leg ! Farewell—I kiss yonr bands . ' Danirl O'Connell .

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      appears by that entry that no persons attended that investigation except those four-and-twenty-gentlemeh ; no— -Biot one . " : .. Now here again , on this single fact , I aia ready to rest the case of veracity at issue betweon you and me . Surely , you cannot forget that you solicited several gentlemen to sign that document who refused to sign it . Is it possible that you forget the names of the gentlemen who refused to vote with you on the occasion , and who left the room under the impression that the matter would end there ? With all your power and all your influence , you could get but twenty-three to sign that document ; and who are they ? I left it to you to name them , and you have named but seven . Are you ashamed of

      the rest of them ? What have you done with the sixteen ? Who are they I What was their occupation then ? What has become of them since ! Taese are questions which you are bound to answer . In your anxiety to make those whom you did not name appear even above tht ir rank in society , you have transformed Mr . George Kernan , the attorney , into a Counsellor Kernan ; However , Sir , I am greatly indebted to you for mentioning the name of my respected and lamented Jriend , Mr . Patrick Lavelle , of the Freeman ' s Journal , and I still hope , Sir , that you will yet follow the example of Mr . Laveile . Shortly after his return , from Italy * - " . he invited me to hfa editorial room , and there , in the presence ef Me . Molonv , Mr .

      Prendergast , and another gentleman , said he wished to speak to me in the ^ presence of those gentlemen ; that the fact of hia having affixed his name to the sentence which was passed upon me by those who signed it had preyed upon ; his mind , and that he had long wished to ¦ explain to me how he was influenced to sign it , and to apologise to me , and to ask my forgiveness for having joined in such a : sentence against me . Those who were present recollect that the very reasons which you assign in your letter of the 2 ad instant for throwing the shield of yonr protection around your client , were the same which you made use of in order to : induce ^ Slr . Lavelle to sign that document , that is to aay--" What would become of him if you did not protect him . '? And he said that you also urged it as a

      reason why he should sign it , that the committee was a private one , and that the signatures to the document would have the effect of preventing me from proceeding further in the matter : that it could do me no harm , aa there wa , 8 no charge of any kind against me , and unless I was stopped I would ruin the other ; After this explanation , which is not half so ample as Mr . Lavelle made it , he , in the presence of tbose gentlemen , asked me to forgive him , and reached out his hand to me . I did forgive him most heartily , when ho eaid itjtook a load off his mind . I suppose , Sir , you will now say that I had just reason to be thankful to you for having mentioned Mr . Lavelle ' s name . Who is it that will read this but will admit he acted the part of a true Christian and a gentleman !

      It would occupy too much spaoe to follow you through every pare of your long letter , and to refute it paragraph by paragraph , what I might wry easily do I but I shall cement myself for the present by taking a leaf out of your own roles of evidence . That rule is , that if a witness break down , in any essential part , the whole of his evidence goes for nothing . I quote your own words , and beg your particular attention to them . They are— . "You cannot : probably forget , though you may be ready te deny , the fact , that I endeavoured to induce you to abandon that line of conduct . 1 begged of you not to introduce personal qaarrels into our proceedings . You , however , persevered ! and rather augmeutdd the virulence of your iteinuations than otherwise . "

      It is Vf ry strange , indeed , that with the record of the proceedings before you , as you have stated , that such a paragraph as the foregoing should be given trt the world under the sanction of your high name . How stands the fact I Why , the very day after I had stated that I had an objection to be a member of the same committee with a person whose conduct I could not approve , and constituted , aa it was , with power to try and decide upon the character of any man against whom an objection was made by any member , 1 was served with a copy of a resolution , which the committee adopted the very next day , the 11 th of January , requiring me to state the charges "forthwithin writing to the secretary , ' * and on the 12 th I wrote a letter to the committee , of which the

      following is an extract : — Thut I will not state in Writing , through the secretary , any charges whatosever against any man , until such time as a tribunal is appointed against which there can be no personal objection , and to whom all charges shall be sub ^ mitttid , in accordance with the rule 3 of the society ; and , moreover , before I undertake to bring a charge against any man , it is necessary and right that my own name should be posted up in the committeeroom for a week , and the public invited to bring any charge , political or otherwise , against my own character , and if it be found at the and of a week , that there is no charge against me , I shall then , aud not till then , consider myself bound to comply with your resolution / ' .

      Well j what was the answer to thia proposition 1 It is scarcely credible . The very next day , the 13 th of January , John O'Connell , Esq ., M . P ., ia the chair , the following resolutions , with . three others , were all drawn up in the handwriting of Daniel O'Connell himself : — " Resolved unanimously—That the Secretary do write to Mr . O'Higgins , to inform him that his letter is considered in the highest degree unsatisfactory . u That Mr . Q'Hi ^ ine be also informed that he is required to follow up his indistinct and general charges , which , if he should decline to do , it will then become the Committee to wipe off a stain which , in &uoh event , cannot be too indignantly repelled . " ¦ ... ¦ ¦¦ .. * .

      This is the way you " endeavoured to induce me to abandon the charges , " and not " to introduoe personal quarrels into yeur proceedings , " I hope , for your own sake , that you forgot that tftose documents were in existence when you wrote your letter . How could you say , with those resolutions before yon , " that I persevered , in spite of every friendly admonition , in bringing forward the charges ?" No , no ; I am sure you overlooked thia part of the proceedings . You acquit me ( and I am obliged to you ) of being actuated by any selfish motive—any motive of gain , throughout the whole of this affair ; your own words are , " You had no lucrative gain to stimulate yon ; you had no money profit to obtain . You had no office , no employment , no emolument , to ac < jiire by rninirig the man . " Now , this is all strictly true . But be pleased to recollect , to bear in mind , what > ou are pleased to call the pleadings .

      You should recollect—1 st . That when you suddenly changed the National Political Union into that of the Irish Volunteers , one of Jhe reasons you assigned for the change was , that in the then crisis of affairs it became your imperative duty to form a socieiy of such a nature as to prevent the possibility of any ptrson whatever , of even doubtful characcer , becoming a mpmber of it . And one of the rules drawn up by your own hand was to the effect , "That any member to be proposed for admission

      should have his name entered by ( he secretary , Mr . Edward Dwyer , in a book kept for that purpose , for one week before such member should be proposed , and in the event of any member objecting to the person to be proposed at the open meeting , such objection should go before the standing committee , to be there investigated ; and should any difference of opinion arise as to whether the person objected to should be admitted or rejected , the committee should at once proceed to a ballot , and that one black bean in four should exclude him . "

      Now , mind this w * s all to be done privately , and by ballot , and other resolutions . stated that the man was no patriot who should wilfuJly and knowiegly allow any person to bucome a member of the Irish Volunteers against wh < m he had an okjectioh , without subniuuug t > uuh oi jection to the decision of the committee . This resolution , I trust , will in itself explain to thei sauslaction of every honest and well-thiukingman , the motives which influencea me to object to the individual in quet > tipn . My objection to him went no further ( and it . was so stated in a letter of mine to the committee on the subject ) than that of his being & member of a committee which assumed

      the right and the power to at in judgment on the characters of other men . I do now most solemnly declare that I did , in the first instanoe , conceive myself morally bound to state my objections , and that I never Would have gone on with them had 1 thought that they would have become public , and had 1 not betn forcod to go on by the resolutions of the Committee , which resolutions I showed to the Hon . Colonel Butler , and William Francis Finn , on tho 15 th of January , when they were both kind enough to offi-r m « their assjtianco to quash the proceed ings ; but who , on seeing the resolutions which I have already quoted , deemed it useless to interfere in the matter . I hare no doubt but these two honourable

      gentlemen will bear testimony at any time to the fact I have just fctited . Permit me here to remind yon , Sir , that the renewal of this subject rests entirely with yourself ; that in a speech of yours in August last , which was not provoked by any act or word of miae , you said thit "I hated you , and that I ought to hate you , for it was you who procured my expulsion from the society of the Irish yoluntecrs , for conduct unbecoming a patriot , a gentleman , or a Christian . " Now , Sir , let me ask you was thero any reason under heaven for thia attack upon me , except my having

      refused to vote for you at the last election , unless you would sign a pledge that you would support no administration but one that would give its official advocacy to iJniversal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Annual Parliaments , Equal Eiectorial Districts j the Abolition of the Property Qualification , and the Payment of Members I It was my demanding this pledge that excited your ire . Had you sighed it I would have voted for you ; aad tOBhow that I want no " excuse to YiiWyypu to the Chartists of En « - land , " I now pledge myself to vote for you , provided you gire me the foregoing pledge in writing . You

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      mistake if you thiok that people forget public proceedings as soon as they used to do . Everv ptie wno has seen your letter will lecoUect that I demanded this pledge in July last , and that you attacked ma BoonaftT . ¦ " ¦ ' : ; :. v . - . ; . -: . ; : ^ ¦ . . ' ^ : 2 d : That -. the reported proceedings in all 'ho Dublin morning papers of the 4 th of January , 1833 . which are worth reading even at this distance of time , will fully explain the real object of the Btriiigent resolutions- to which I have already adverted . I , though a member of the committee from its form * tion till the lith of January , tho day of the date of my letter requefiting to have my name posted up in the room for a week , agreeable to the rules , before I would state charges in writing against any man , was wholly and altogether ignorant of the pecres motives which led to the adoptioa of this

      dbiectionable resolution—a resolution which , when its evil tendehcy was : discovered and admitted , was then rescinded , but hot till long after the publicity of the circumstances which gave rise to the proceedintis , which I havei I must say , borne a very unenviable part . There was ho malignity in my act : there was neither maiice , envy , hatred , or ill-will in it . There was great folly in my supposing , even tor a moment , that any political society could be formed in strict accordance with the terms of the resolution . There was folly also in my being duped into the belief that the committee had either the power or the will to summon and examine evidence on oath , or even to imagine , for a moment that it was their intention to . abide by their own rules . If it were right or just to expel a man for credulity , and implicit reliance on the integrity and honour of some public men , no man deserved expulsion more than ¦ ¦

      I did .: ¦ : ¦• ¦ ¦ , - .: . , - ¦ : . ' ¦ : ¦ .: ¦ : ¦ - ¦ :. ; . / ;¦/ .. - ¦ ¦ ¦ .: I had the folly to believe that mankind generally , but particularly the members of the Irish Volunteer Society , required only to be told that they were acting wrongfully ia . 'fmy thing in order to make ; them actrightly ; I did not know that Mr . O'Connell was counsel for Mr ^ Steele when I mentioned to him the real etate of the case of Wigly , Dixon , Steele , and O'Gnrman Mahon ; I was wholly unacquainted with O'Grorman Mahon at the time , and have had little acquaintance with him since ; but I knew the facts of that case well , and I thought it my duty to mention them to Mr . O'Connell , little conceiving at the time that I . should be looked , upon for so doing as thepartizaa of O'Gorman Mahon . In addition to

      this I objected altogether to the appropriation of the fund tor certain tithe martyrs , to any other purposes than those for which it wa « subscribed . Per * haps it may be neceaaary to remind Mr . O'Connell that I and another gentleman had an interview with , him npon this ! subject at his own house on ; the 14 th of January , and that we mentioned to him that Mr . David Lynch , the treasurer , ooncurred with us ia opinion , and . that Mr ^ O'Connell m » de an appoint ^ ment to meet us upon the same subject the next day , the 15 th , at the entrance to the Court of Chancery , and subsequently at the meeting at the Royal Exchange , where he did not scruple to tell me that I should be sorry for my obstinacy upon this subject . It it rightalso to remind Mr . O'Connell that I had

      repeatedly applied to the committee of the National Political Union , between tne 2 Qth Deo ., 1832 , and the 5 th January , 1833 , for the re-payment of the £ 100 , which was advanced by the late Mr , Ruthven , at the close of the city election , but which £ 100 was applied to the county election for the purpose of returning the Ilepeal candidate . That this " jEIOO never was refunded , though the order for it was duly signed by the Finance Committee , one of whom was General CJooney h-mself ; that this £ 100 never was repaid , and that the order for the payment of it is still in my possession , drawn in the usual terms in which such Orders were drawn , and signed by the proper number of members to assure its payment . The excuse for not paying it at the time was that

      there were no funds in hand belonging to the National Political Union ^ and that the Volunteer Association could not pay the debts of the defunct society . Now , Sir , would it not be just for some of those pure spirited , high-minded gentlemen , who benefitted by the advance of this £ 100 , and who are very well off now , to pay it to Mr . Ruthveri ' s heir , who , perhaps ,, may be in want of it at present . , I shall give up the order to any of the parties who pays me the money , and you may depend upon it that Ishall hand it over to the man who is entitled to it , and shall most cheerfully publish his receipt for the money . You asked me . Sir , to etate , or rather accuued me for not stating , my reason why you should bo inimical to me upon the investigationl I stated before that your having : taken part against me might have arisen from your natural disposition to throw the shield of yoar protection round those

      who were under prosecution . You answer this yourself by saying that the man would have been , ruined had you not acted as you did . Inow fully admit and declare that I know of no other reasons why you should have turned round upon me than those I have stated . You have said , and said truly , that you were mv successful counsel upon one occasion . You were my successful counsel , and obtained for me a verdat for £ 200 ; but I am sure you did not know that your friend , the attorney , who is the relative of him whose cause you espouse , never paid me the money , but took the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act . . I am sure you forgot , too , that you were counsel in the oase of Farrelly against Heynolds , prior to your having been my successful counsel , and you read your brief , and you know the witnesses Who sustained that case .

      I hare but a few words more to add to this letter , already too long , and exceedingly painful to me , and these are , that in a letter dated the 23 fd of January , just five days after you had pronounced sentence on me , and twenty-one days before thit sentence was brought before the public , with all the pomp and circumstance attendant on the expulsion , on the 12 th of February ^ in that letter which was addressed to the Chairman of the standing Committee , and read and answered by the reHolution of that Committee , I offered the following terms , which were rejected : — ' ' . - . . ¦ " ¦ - ' . , ¦ / .: V ' :-V ' . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦¦ " " 1 st . —That your friend should name six gentlemen unacquainted with the case at issue ; thai those six should not include a lawyer , attorney , or relative . ; . ¦' ¦ .. ¦ ' .. ¦ - ' .. '¦ : ¦ ¦ : ¦ . ' ' .:... ' ' ¦ - - " ¦ ¦' : ' - '¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ " 2 nd . — -That I' should name six others upon the game terms . ¦

      . ¦ " 3 rd . —That these chosen twelve should apt under a deed of submission , which should be made a rule of court , as in Mr ; Lawless ' s case , with full power to summon witnesses , and examine them upon oath . ¦ " 4 th . —That I should , in the event of a Verdict being against me , pay all the . costs and expenses , as well as the cost of inserting the verdict in all the Dublin papers , if my opponent required it . " This fair , reasonable , and equitable ^ proposition was refased . However , had I then known as much of the world as I have learned since , I would not have gone on even if these terras had been fully coiceded to me . : . V It is impossible to overlook that species of rhetor ricaV artifice to which some Steat and powerful advocates have recourse , for the purpose of leading the public away from the real question at issue .

      Instead of calling in question the authenticity of the names which are published in my letter of the 24 th ultimo , and upon which the truth or falsehood of the whole case depehils , you leave that part , whole and entiro . There it stands ; and until you prove that those names are not genuine hut forgeries , you fail in proving that I brought false charges . The case does not depend for its trsth or falsehood either upon your veracity or upon mine , but upon the evidence which I have adduced , aud which you do not even condescend to advert to , much less to impeach . What would you , or what would any map , Bay of the judge who would overlook all the evidence , and , in his charge to the jury , tell that jury that their verdict should be ^ iven in accordance with the statement of th ^ defendant ' s counsel t Here are your own words-

      " Let those who choose believe you . I consent . Those who know us both , or know either of us , will have no difficulty in deciding without any imeryen ^ tionofmine . " Now , in the name of common sense , what has this to d *> with the question 1 I have now , "in conclusion , merely to add that I did not see the difficulty : in : which my demand for reparation had placed you , until Monday , the 4 th instanti , when a gentleman , whom I had consulted upon the propriety of publishing the letter at all , pointed out that dMcuky to me , when I at once made up my mind not to publish it . Wishing , most Bincerely , to see you once more the pledged opponent of any ministry but one thai will give its official advocacy to Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballpt i Annual Parliaments , Equal Electoral Districts , Abolition of th e Property Qualificationand Payment of Members ,

      , I am ; Sir , with as much respect for your public serv ces as any man ' can feel , ¦ " •' . ' Patrick O'Higoins . No . 14 , North Anne-street , April € \ 1842 .

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      On TueBday last , at the parish church , Halifax , Mr . Ely RotWell , of Stainland , to Miss Martha SnoWden , of the Rose and Crown Inn , Halifax . On Sunday last , at the parish of Si . Martin-Ie-< 5 rand , Coney-street , in York , by the Rer . DerBei Fellowes , Mr . George Robinson Donkin , of Beverley , draper , to Anne , second daughter of Mr . Pole , combmanufacturer v of York .

      To The Bight Honourable The Lord Mayor Op Dublin.

      TO THE BIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR OP DUBLIN .

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      TO PATRICK O'HIGGINS , ESO , Mansion-house , 2 d , April , 1942 . " O'Connell is a knave in politics , and a hypocrite in religion . "—Paisick O'HIGGI . YS . Sib , —In replying to yourletkr I very properly begin by making you a free present of the above text , which you have hitherto so often used without my permission . I now not only forgive you for your past use of it , but allow you to employ it in future at your uncharitable discretion : and 1 gratuitously

      add to this permission a plenary license to abuse , calumniate , and vilify me as often , as loudly , and as long as yon please . You shall not only have this license , butmy cordial forgiveness beforehand , -wiih theknowledsje superinduced that it is my determination never again to reply to any one of your charges . Let those who chose believe you—I consent . Tho ? e who- know us both , or Jknow either of ns , will have no difficulty in deciding without aay intervention of mine-Let this be understood between U 3 .

      In the present controversy thi 3 letter will serve to aid right-thinking persons in coming to a proper judgment ., by having the facts of the case before them , stripped of some of the distortions , foreshorienings , inventions , and ludicrous absurdities with wiich it ha 3 pleased your piety to surround them . Now for the fact ? . You have called upon me to make reparation for an is-. justice which you say I have done jou . That injnsuce you allege to consist in my having signed , aid having been , as you allege , but allege UDtruljj actually engaged in procuring signatures to , a ddcumeLt wh = ch you have set forth in your letter , and waiGh I thick it right to repeat in this place . It bears date the 18 ch of January , 1833 . It involves three dis : inct propositions . The firai is contained in these

      wordsu We have heard the charges and such evidence a 3 ilr . Patrick O'Higgins produced , and we are unanimously of opinion that the charges are totally fake and calummons , and we do most fully and honourably acquit ilr . John Reynolds thereof . " The second proposition is contained in these words" And it appearing that these charges originated in malice , we recommend Mr . Dwyer to return ilr . O'Hif ; gin 3 his subscription . " The" third proposition ia contained in these words'" Being of opinion that Mr . O'Higgin 3 ought not any longer" to frequent ibese rooms , " Y ^ u call upon me for reparation for having Binned that document .

      You then , strange to say , complain that this doenment was signed without the institution of any trial—withont any investigation of written testimony which you produced . You also accuse me of influencing my sons , and other members of the Committee , to sign ihe document . "Why do I dwell npon these drivellings 1 The French call such things " niaiseries . " Why should I tfcen lake any trouble with these gross and palpable distortions ot the facts ? There were tour-and-twenty gentlemen who signed that document . I have now before me the original entry in tho late Mr . Edward Dwyer ' s handwriting ; and it appear ^ by that entry , ttat no other persons attended that investigation except those four-and-twenty gentlemen . Kot one . '

      It is a iiTcuriie point of yours , that out of this number three were my sons , and one my sou-in-law , T ? hcin you say I influenced . Ol my sons I thill say nothiri- It «? not become me—except this—that since they came to man ' s estate ( and they ware

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN . Sir , —In the Freeman of this day , the 6 th inst ., you have published a letter of mine of the 24 th ult ., addressed to Mr . O'Conriell , and a letter from him in reply , dated Mansion House , April 2 d . Both these letters have been published at the desire of Mr . O"Connell . When I wrote to him on the 24 th , and received the following note from him on the 25 th , I little expected the kind of letter which appears in this day ' s paper in reply : — " Mansion House , March 25 th , 1842 . " Si * , —I have received a letter from you , marked private , but intended to be published . V I have not time ta answer it at this moment , but you shall bave an answer before I leave thia city for London , on Monday , 4 th of April . " I have the honour to be your , humble servant , Daniel O'CoNNELi . " To Patrick O'Higgifcs , Esq . "

      I certainly did expect quite a different answer , and I am tree to admit that iu the answer I have got I am bitterly disappointed . But , notwithstanding the provocation which I have received I shall hot be betrayed into one angry expression , nor should I ever trouble you or the public with any observations of mine , only it might be considered that by remaining silent 1 had assented to the whole of the statement which has been made against me . I regret to see that Mr . O'Connell still acts the part of an advocate instead of an arbiter . No doubt itishis charitable disposition that has led him along from the beginning to act as couusel for the accused The odds , then , against me are fearful .

      Mr . O'Connell has not stated the charges . He suppresses the principal charge altogether . However , I shall not state it , lest Way one should imagine tha . in so doing I was actuated by either " malice , envy , or ill WilU ' - I feel none towards any human being : private wrongs I am as ready to forgive as any man , but political Wrongs I caniiat forget . When Mr . O'Connell had the books before him he should have stated the whole of the resolution , which appears on those books , in Mr . Dwyer ' s haudwriting , on the 18 ch of January , 1833 , and not a part of it . It was for the sake of brevity that I did not state the whole in my letter , and Mr . O'Connell , with the books before him , seizes upon that omission , and savs : —

      " You must real } y be endowed with great confidence in the effrontery of assertion when you haye the face to assert that the document I signed stated that the Commitieo unanimously agreed to it . " Now , Mr . O'Connell , for to you I shall now address the remainder of this letter , you give this statement of mine a flat contradiction , and upon this point alone I mi ^ ht rest the whole case ; for it I prove that youaTe m the wrong here , it naturally foiiows that you may be wrong throughout the whole of your long letter . The following is a correct copy of the entry in Mr . Dwyer ' s book , as well as . of the lithographed circular , which was sent to all my friends and relations upon the occasion . — " Corn Exchange Rooms , 28 th Jan ., 2833 .

      " Mr . Patrick O'Higgins bavin ; instituted several charges against Mr . John Reynolds of a political nature , the committee of the Volunteers were convened , and after due consideration came to the following opinion : We have heard the charges and anch . Gvidenoe as Mr . O'Higgins produced , and we are unanimously of opinion that tie charges are totally false and calumnious , and we do most fully and most honourably acquit Mr . John Reynolds thereof ; and it having appeared to us that those charges originated in malice , we recommend Mr . Dwyer to retarn to Mr . ' O'HJ ^ gins his subscription , being of opinion that Mr . O'Higsins ought not any longer to frequent those rooms . '" Now this is the whole resolution , with the exception of the twenty-three names attached ; to it : and if it do not convey to the public the meaning that the committee were unanimous in their opinion , I shall &i"ve up the whole case . The i ext point I shall notice is that wherein you say—** I have now before We the original entry in the late Mr . Edward Dwyer ' s handwriting , and it

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      . ' ¦' . ¦ ¦ DEATHS . ¦; ¦ ' . [ ¦; .:. , :. / v '¦ ' . .. ¦ ¦ , Oa Simday last ,, aged 50 , much re ^ peqieAhiMpJtt * William Whitaker , of the British fi ^ fi ^^ S ^> % ^ " > W of the Hare wood Arms , Leeds . ' j ^ j ?^< g ^ f ^ Vr « yW <^ On Sunday last , at Gristhwaite . ^ e ^ yl ^^ r ^ r ^^^ la Oh Sunday morning lMt , agM ^ Sl ^^ i ||^|< Sli ^ ffl ^ after a protracted illness , the ltew * W ^ , WH ?^^ f « :: 5 ffW Primitive MetUodi . Bt ^ Minister , of WS fW ^^^^ I'Mt ^ ¦ •;¦ ¦ ;¦ - " ^ ssiiil

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      _ ' THE NORTHERN STAR . ____^_

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 16, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct594/page/5/