HC Deb 23 July 1866 vol 184 c1285
MR. MONSELL

said, he would venture to ask the kind indulgence of the House while he referred for a single moment to a statement affecting the character of Professor Sullivan, of the Queen's University, Dublin, made on Monday last in that House by the right hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel). He had intended on Friday last to refer to that statement, but he had not then the opportunity of giving previous notice to the right hon. Baronet, who was not in his place. The statement made by the right hon. Baronet was to the effect that the very first thing done by Professor Sullivan on being appointed to the Senate of the Queen's University was to write to the newspapers under a feigned name as to what had been said in the Senate; and when the right hon. Baronet was challenged by "a laugh," he said that he had seen the letter in the newspapers, and that he believed it could not have emanated from any one but him. Now, to that statement of the right hon. Baronet he begged to give the most unqualified contradiction. Professor Sullivan neither wrote the letter in question nor got it written, nor did he give any information, or knew who wrote it.

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