To such decision I scorned to submit, and I read the letter to the end, amidst the most enthusiastic cheers of the audience.

I was proceeding to read another letter from another clergyman of the same town, written in a very different spirit, when I was besought to withhold it, and entreated not to read it.

I complied.

It is but fair to add here that on the Saturday previous, an article was published in the _Nation_, some expressions of which Mr.O'Connell considered personally insulting.
Whether Mr.O'Connell was influenced by one or all of these occurrences, cannot be affirmed here.

But he proceeded to Ireland in the course of the week, and suddenly called a meeting of the Committee of the Association, before which he arraigned us of discourtesy to him in London, found fault with the meeting at Liverpool, accused the _Nation_ of attacking him, and, finally, expressed his unequivocal disapprobation of my resistance to the order of the chairman in the Hall.