urned, you are to be the
man.

"I have made all the pecuniary arrangements.... I send you Vigors' letter
to me. You see how secure we are. Return me this letter, as it vouches
L800 for me; with that you have nothing to do, as, of course, I stand
between you and everybody." A petition was presented against the return;
and Mr. Raphael considered himself safe from any further expense except
the sum of L1,000, and that Mr. O'Connell was bound by the express terms
of his bargain to defend the return. He paid the second moiety of the
L2,000 on the 28th of July; on the same day the election committee
was ballotted. Mr. John O'Connell, who had received the money for his
father, was himself one of that committee; and the inquiry before the
committee having resolved into a scrutiny, Mr. Raphael soon discovered
that it was in vain to look for the defence of his seat to his patron.
He called upon Mr. O'Connell to fulfil his engagement "by fighting the
battle so long as a bad vote for the petitioners remained on the poll,
or, at all events, to the end of the session." Mr. O'Connell, however,
either could not, or would not defend him; and Mr. Raphael was unseated
along with his colleague, on which he published the whole transaction to
the world. Mr. O'Connell felt himself called upon to answer the
charges brought against him; and in doing so, he began by abusing his
antagonist. He had been put on his guard, he said, against Mr. Raphael,
by "honest and experienced men," who described him as "a faithless
creature, who never observed any contract, and with whom no person ever
had a dealing without being sorry for it." He admitted the terms of the
bargain; but he insisted that he only acted as the agent of Mr. Vigors,
who was to pay all additional expenses of opposing the petition. The
first sum of L1,000 which Mr. Raphael had paid was expended on the
five days' poll; and he urged that that gentleman had made an excellent
bargain in having all the expenses of nomination and of a five days'
poll covered by a L1,000. As for the other L1,000, he said, that had
been expended in opposing the petition; and he maintained that there was
no obligation to continue that opposition after it had been spent. He
averred that he himself had no pecuniary interest in the matter: he
had made the bargain as acting for Mr. Vigors; for Mr. Vigors he had
received the money; and to him he had paid it over. The most important
part of his statement consisted in t