Daily National Intelligencer

POLITICAL PERSECUTION

DUBLIN, APRIL 25.

Mr. O'Connor.—On Friday Mr. Roger O'Connor was conveyed from Cork to Dublin, in the mail coach, in charge of Mr. Gilbert, a Dublin police officer. He has published the following address:—

"TO THE PUBLIC.

"Fellow citizens—Malignity towards me is arrived at the height. I am charged with assisting in murder and robbery, together with one of my dear children, at the time a school boy of 16 years of age, after a lapse of nearly five years. To attempt to develope this most horrible conspiracy against me, is not at this instant within my power; for the present, I have to request of my numerous and faithful friends to rest perfectly assured, that I am actually possessed of the honor and integrity, for which, I trust, they have valued me; whilst I will take the liberty of recommending to those who, from motives peculiar to themselves and their present interests, are adverse to me, to practise what they pretend to admire; to withhold their judgment till the facts are before them, and then, if my reputation does not pass through this, to me, new ordeal of moral turpitude, let my name and memory be consigned to that infamy which ought and ever must attach to crime and baseness. Misfortunes have been long familiar to me. Since the 4th Feb. 1793, there has been no relaxation of persecution against me, in one shape or another; and though to the superficial observer it may appear, that what is called politics can have no concern in this conspiracy, the more accurate investigator will clearly discover it to have originated from nothing else.

"I defy the whole world, in truth, to breathe a taint upon my name and character. I have ever considered both as my best inheritance; which I had hoped would, and which, with the blessing of the Omnipotent, will descend unspotted to my child.

"I am, with every sentiment of affection and esteem, your faithful

"O'CONNOR.

Cork, April 25, 1817."