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The public will not have forgotten, that at the time when the forcible entry was made at Sir Francis Bardeu's house; at the time when the army was called forth to execute the warrant of the honorable house; at the time when the falishers, in pursuit of this object, entered Sir Francis's dwelling, forced this true Englishman's castle, and, with muskets loaded, bayonets fixed, swords drawn, and the match at the touch hole of the cannons, succeeded in bringing him to prison; at that time Mr. Roger O’Connor was in Sir Francis’s house. The public, or, at least, that part of the public, who have been, for the last fifteen years, in the habit of attending to political matters, know, that about thirteen years ago, Mr. Arthur O’Connor, a younger brother of Mr. O’Connor, was charged with seditious designs, and, after some vain attempt at producing a legal conviction of him, the government of Ireland entered into a treaty with him, agreeing to drop all proceedings against certain of his friends, and to put a stop to 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 and resources of the people in insurrection and upon the further condition of his emigrating. At war with England. In consequence of this treaty, Mr. Arthur O'Connor emigrated, and is, at this time understood to be the conductor of a celebrated paper, called the Arcus, published at Paris, in the English language; a paper which, it is supposed, and perhaps truly, has done, and is doing, a great deal of injury to this country. When the peculators and borough mongers and their abettors are hard pushed; when they are driven into a corner; when they have no defense to offer, and when even their arts of thieving and false swearing and can't fail them when thus hemmed up, they have (as the attentive observer must well know) always recourse to charges against those who are their exposers; against those from whom powers of detection and exposure they fear with annoyance. These public robbers, like private robbers, and indeed like most criminals of every sort and description, always instead of thinking about their own defenses, think about nothing but of the men, in which they shall attack the motives, or the character, or both, of their accusers. They do not say "the charges preferred against us are false"; they dare not say, "the things alleged against us are not crimes." But, unable to deny the criminality of the deeds or that those deeds have been done by them, they fall to the preferring of charges against their accusers. The charges, too, which have no relation to, which have no sort of connection with the subject: Pierced again by them, and which they do not attempt to repel only because they cannot repel them. In dessert, to fall under their charges, their more common way is to mix up both, which, when applied to a purpose like that, is called misrepresentation, which is perhaps the most basic wind of attack the borough mongers have over their hirelings had SECORTE, PO - occasion of Sir Francis's commitment at the fuse that physical force, BODY PICTORIALLY over him. This they would have sked well, this would have delighted their figure houses with a profession of the people of England, and of the whole Kingdom, was thus "I.." Sometimes, that the followers had WEASEL, OGRE, and SIRE REL ORDINANCE BY A foot, and artillery had been marched. They saw the army to an, in Spain and Portugal, to keep the inhabitants in fear. To that prison, to which vote of the AN ARRANGEMENT - to secure, PORTSMOUTH: (New-Hamstead) Published by W. WEEKS. - Pamphlet TO THE STATES, AND Printer for the LAWS are free use and reference States. Honorable House had doomed him; they saw, that it required the cession of the army to enforce the order of the honorable House against the vowed and well-known enemy of justice, cruelty, corruption and public liberty. All this the borough mongers and their hirelings saw; all this they knew well 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 were taught by experience, that in times even the least cultivated and accustomed to reason, the right, the inevitable and for them the dangerous conclusion must be drawn from these facts, and, in due time, be acted upon, unless the public could, by some extraordinary effort, be instantly misled by falsehood, or intimidated by alarm. Accordingly, soon after the commitment took place; soon after the Piccadilly expulsion had been crowned with success, the borough-mongering crew set to work, in their vehicles of falsehood. First they would fain have persuaded the world, that it was nothing but a "contemptible rabble" who opposed the imprisonment of Sir Francis; but, then, there was the army; there were the cannons planted in the streets and squares; there were the armed boats brought up the Thames and stationed opposite the Honorable House. There was no getting rid of these facts; and, unless they could be got rid of. “Ten rid of, it was, the borough-magnates saw, in vain to attempt to cheat this world into a belief that the friends of Sir Francis were “contemptible rabble.” The next feat was to accuse the friends of Sir Francis with violent and murderous designs; with firing of pistols in the streets, at the army; and with having formed a design to block up the ends of the streets; and tumble down the bricks and tiles upon the heads of the army. If this had been true, it would have done nothing in support of the assertion of the friends of Sir Francis being “a contemptible rabble”; but it was notoriously false; and we have now pretty good proofs of the falseness in the failure of the offer of soil to bring forth any evidence of a transportation of the law having been committed by the people, while it has been proved upon the oaths of two juries, that some of the life guards did commit willful murder upon two, at least, of the people. There is no getting over this. Soldiers are sent to aid in executing an order of the Representatives of the people; and, in this execution, the said soldiers commit murder upon the people; while it has not, in any case, been proved that the people, though some of them were murdered by the soldiers, committed any act of violence upon the soldiers. What, then, were the borough-magnates and their hirelings to do? Why, resort to their old expedient, namely, abuse, defame, vilify the persons, by whom this exposure has been produced. For this purpose the accident of Mr. O’Connor’s being in the house of Sir Francis, at the time of its being broken open, was eagerly seized on, particularly by one writer, who in his conduct upon this occasion, has discovered a degree of malice and of cowardice rarely to be met with even in the crew to which he belongs, and never to be found in any other description of men. The particulars of this man’s attack upon Mr. O’Connor word give justice to it. It was not merely a wanton attack; Mr. O’Connor was not only an unoffending party in this case, and it was not against his brother, since Ireland, being his kingdom, as well as while he was in it, there was more at stake very much of O’Connor; and anything that affected him would, by a great prejudice, influence some people against him. By an act deficient in point of understanding and in the very essence of prejudice, one would perceive that such prejudice would, in some cases, sway heavily against him. This gentleman, therefore, not being able to sustain the charge against Mr. O’Connor, resorted to the only means he could think of, which was to bring him into court on a charge of riot, knowing fully well that he would not be able to prove it. This was the more anxious to possess himself, from having heard that Sheridan intended to narrate, in the House of Commons, the circumstances that led to the breaking open of the house of Sir Francis Burdet. Minded, kind, and honest man, Dr. Lawrence, why, that never wastes more unworthy than that which this very gentleman had received, and, concerning which treatment, the Doctor sent me some papers, during the administration of Mr. Fix and Lord Grenville. This circumstance really gave a spur to the other motives, which led me to desire to post Mr. O’Connor’s Narrative, which leaving obtained, I heard present it to my readers in bars awards. Upon reading this Narrative, there is the just man, who will not fail in exonerating the recent attempt to excite, to renew, a suspicion of his character and his motives. Well may he set out with observing, that the “people of England know nothing about Ireland.” But, this is not strange; it is to divide and oppress.” This is a maxim; and, it would be strange indeed, if this maxim were forgotten by the borough mongers and their hireling writers. Hence the never-ceasing calumny upon the Irish people. Who, upon observing the manner, in which Mr. O’Connor has been spoken of, since the affair of Piccadilly, would not imagine, that he was a lost, desperate adventurer, at least, a man serving upon Sir Francis; a sort of hireling patriot; in short, a man almost as despised as if he were a tool, a swallower of false oaths under a borough monger; almost as despicable as if he were a journeyman in the work of corruption. Yet is Mr. O'Connor, a gentleman of ancient family and independent fortune, having his possessions in lands, being one of the saviors of his native country, and having of course, all the motives that a man can possibly have for preventing that country from being robbed, for preventing property from being taken from the owners, of whatever description the robbers may be, or under whatever name they may approach. With this preface, I shall submit the Narrative to my readers, beseeching them to reflect, that although men are seen as well as themselves, they have not only feelings as well as Englishmen, but that Englishmen possess no rights, to the enjoyment of which Irishmen are not naturally entitled, and that, to deny this proposition, is to declare open war against the people of Ireland, and fully to justify every act that they have, or may, commit in hostility to England; a denial, therefore, which no one but a traitor to his King and country will ever attempt to make. Mr. O'Connor's Narrative: From a desire to make the people of England acquainted with Ireland, of which they know worse than nothing, receiving as they do, all their accounts through the medium of a description of persons, in the constant habit of calumniating that people; and from a wish to give the English in England the means of forming a judgment between the government of Ireland during the residence there of Lords Camden and Cornwallis, and me, it can be thought obtrusive in me to lay before a just, but possibly prejudiced public. A faithful narrative of those events, which took place in my particular, commencing on the 27th of December 1796, and ending on the 8th of May, 1803; a space of nearly seven years; during the whole of which time continued fear of persecution was kept up against me. Connor Ville, the former place of my residence, is situated about three miles from Spyey Hay, where a French fleet made its appearance on the 23rd of December 1796. To oppose a landing of the troops on board this fleet, about 5000 of the Irish militia had advanced and occupied the villages about me. For the friends and myself, we treated these men, we refer to the panegyrics in the houses of Butler and English at the time. We cheered them in their distress; we administered to their ordinary share. On the 27th of December, about midnight, my countrymen were welcome to me. I had then a large house, well stored. I was in the midst of plenty; full of happiness. I brought all the men to my house. My mind has no register of the time they remained. remained with me, nor what I did for them. My tenants were very good to those with them. My friends (that was the whole country far and wide) opened their doors to this native at my expense; let them want for nothing; and even when the terror of invasion had subsided, my tenants and myself presented the poor fellows with the bullet money, to which we were entitled, to buy them shoes and socks. I did my utmost to make the situation of the officers as comfortable as possible; and this I will say, that I received from all more thanks than were due, and experienced gratitude far exceeding the obligation. I learned afterwards that these officers (strangers to me before) had been directed by some agitators, to my house in the expectation of my not admitting them, which was the opinion also of all the officers in that army. I dare say, such of them as live at this day, will acknowledge that they received a more hearty welcome at Cooksville, than at the house of the most loyal man in Ireland; that is, the man that has the largest pension, or most lucrative sinecure; or post in the kingdom. Whilst this division of the army was in their cantonments, in my neighborhood, when the men lost their muskets, bayonets and ammunition, which regrettably happened, they came to me - I had the things restored to them. The soldiers became attached to me, Long indeed - always, before these events, I had been an object of great jealousy and hatred; I had ever been in the habit of committing a crying sin in Ireland. I had borne myself so to all the people, that they were greatly attached to me— I had appointed arbitrators in every parish, throughout an immense district, who decided all controversies; the situation of the petty foggling lawyer was nearly gone; I curbed the rise of drunkenness; I prevented riots; I did all the good that I could. It will therefore not surprise any person, in the least conversant with the character or complexion of the ruling factions in Ireland, that I was an abomination to them; and when to these vices, in their eyes, the thanks of the poor soldiers were added, my crimes were not to be endured, and I became an object of suspicion and distrust. In this state of things (the French force having long left the coast) a young man from my neighborhood had gone in the beginning of March to see some friends of his at Bantry, where he was arrested for administering the Oath of Union. Of being questioned, he acknowledged, that he had received it from my Steward, a lad not more than 18 years of age, who was also arrested and both were conveyed to the prison of Cork, where every means were used to extract confessions from them to implicate me —They declared, however, that I was the last person to whom they would disclose anything of the kind: Their honesty and perseverance were called treason to their country, and attachment to me; and a Council was called together in warrant was issued, to arrest me on suspicion, the act of Habeas Corpus being, at the time, suspended. However, the server was not kept. Discovers the plan. I lay down in my own house the night on which I knew that an attempt was to be made to seize on me by a large detachment of horse attended by Tories, esquires, and generals and their staff, and before they had marched half a mile from their quarters, I was at a distance of 12 miles) apprised of their having set out. They made their search so me, and a considerable depot of arms, which they were informed were secreted in the cellars and lofts of my house, were there, and they marched back. The weather was very stormy, saying, that, if he would give information, I preferred the service of the commission. A offer of unlimited imprisonment. I found out till the latter end of April, when finding that my Steward and the other person who had been arrested with him were about to be discharged, I went to the prison and demanded their immediate liberation, which was granted, and I returned home. Being my health someway hurt from the manner of my living, particularly from damp, I left home and came to England, on the 27th of April, where I remained till the middle of June, when I received advice from home, that several of my tenants, and others of the poor people to the amount of 51, had been sent to prison and that two unhappy men had been induced to wear against them. The same packet contained also a proclamation that had been issued by Lord Camden on the 17th of May before inviting every person to come and surrender and give security for the peace, on an assurance of being further questioned. Very happy at the opportunity presented by this proclamation. Ed me, to develop the conspiracy agains the people in prison, and to aid them in their defence; I returned to Ireland, surrendered myself at Mallow to Lord Kirlin and Sir James Cotton, on the faith of the proclamation; performed the terms required of me, which was to give bail to be of the peace for seven years, of all which I apprised Lord Camden and his Secretary, and Mr. Pelham. Now Lord Chichester, the 18th of June. From Mallow I went home on the 18th of July; and, on the 14th was arrested by Brigadier General Eyre Coote, at his camp whither he had invited me. Before he seating me he looked for great certainty, into his orderly book, and there found, as he said, an order dated the 1st of July to arrest me. On his having done so, he was at loss what to do with me; and attended me to Bandon, where I was to remain till he should hear from Dublin. On the third day of my stay in Bandon I received a letter from Mr. Pelham, dated in Dublin the same day I was arrested at the camp near Bandon, 80 miles from town, saying that Lord Camden wished much to see me in Dublin, and that, if I would comply, I might depend upon my person being perfectly safe from arrests and that I should be persuaded to return home immediately. This letter I communicated to Mr. Coote, who said, that as the government did not know of my arrest, at the time Mr. Pelham wrote, he could not let me go until he received an answer from Dublin to his letter, apprising the government of my being in custody. A few days later, he received his orders, which were to send a military officer to attend me; Carran Roche and I set out for Dublin. The Captain had a sword, and he had his shako and gorget. There is a high hill between Bandon and Cork; we alighted from our carriage; it is a place of rendezvous; 20 or 30 carriers assembled here; they had not seen me since my return from England. Captain Roche, upon his danger, his sword could not defend him, his shako and gorget could not protect him. I perceived the workings of his mind, a look of kindness from me to him would have saved his life; I superadded a word of esteem. Captain Roche was not molested. We arrived in Cork that evening, where we halted for the night. A man of the city got acquainted with me. Cork is the place of my nativity, I have friends there; would that every man could fly the same where he is best known! I discovered it was notcondceded toprefr violence to Captain Roche, I prevented it, bringing him in safety to Dublin. 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