THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, O'CONNELL, AND THE TORIES.
THE readers of the Times cannot have forgotten the deadly ran- cour with which the Duke of CUMBERLAND was, not very long ago, assailed in that journal. They must remember the story of Captain GARTH—the box of documents at the bankers'—the threat of making public acts that were -a disgrace to human nature, and would cause a Christian people to shudder. By implication, another and a female member of the Royal Family was darkly accused of the same unnameable offence against the laws of God and man. It was not in one article merely, but in a series of papers, that these foul libels—to support which, not one tittle of evidence was ever produced—were promulgated through the lane'. Verses to rhyme with " SELLIS were inserted in the Times, in order to insinuate that the Duke of CUMBERLAND was concerned in his murder--proved at the time to have been self- aim mit ted.
This infamous series of attacks on the Duke of CUMBER- LAND, and on one, we know not which, of his blood relations, must, we say, be still vivid in the recollection of the writers and readers of the Times : and yet, now, O'CONNELL is attacked with unparalleled brutality, for calling the Duke, in plain and short language, what a Committee of the House of Commons and several individual Members of the House styled his Royal High- ness, in terms quite as unambiguous, though not so coarse. O'Co REEL said the Duke of WELLINGTON was "a stunted corporal," (a very absurd and inappropriate, but harmless piece of abuse,) and the Duke of CUMBERLAND "a mighty great liar." The Times affects an ecstacy of loyal horror at the phrase, and proceeds to de- nounce O'Cosisrau. as "a rancorous-mouthed ruffian," "the most practised blackguard," " the most brazen bully," "a loathsome and licentious blackguard," and "a libel on humanity." He is charged with habitually using language "that would disgrace the most drunken fish-fag;" and Lord MuLoaavs is threatened with a Parliamentary investigation for inviting him to his table. This torrent of Billingsgate has been provokei by O'CostatELL's calling the Duke of CUMBERLAND "a mighty great. liar :" but what if he persisted day after day in insinuating—foully and falsely insinuating—that the King's brother had been guilty of murder and incest 7 What language of reprobation would the Times find suitable for the enormity ? " Rancorous-mouthed ruffian." " brazen bully," "loathsome and licentious blackguard," would be terms too mild to be used towards such a wretch. We are not able ourselves to conceive language more bestial, more hoggish, than that which the Times vents with an air of practised ease against O'Costreem., for simply calling the Duke a liar ; but we doubt not that the same inimitable master of the vulgar tongue can supply fit epithets for the still more atrocious delinquent.
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