Carlow Sentinel. 24th May 1834. HENRY BUTLER, Esquire, SUB-SHERIFF. As will be perceived by our report of the proceedings at the close of the election on Monday, a most unwarrantable and insolent attack was made on the above gentleman by Mr Thomas Bunbury. Had Mr Bunbury not made an abject apology before the public for his conduct we would feel ourselves called upon to say more on the subject, acquainted as we are intimately with Mr Butler's character as a public officer. But we must make allowances for a defeated candidate - a man who coolly calculated on slipping into the position of Coroner without the slightest opposition, and consequently his rage and disappointment because Mr Butler would not lend himself to cooperate with a plan calculated to smuggle Bunbury into a public job by holding the election the day after he received the writ for the vacancy, which writ was obtained at the special request of Mr Bunbury. Mr Butler's exposure of the patriot Bunbury was admirable, his defence was brief, manly, and energetic ; and Bunbury, feeling the extreme delicacy of his situation, publicly apologised. Bunbury's attack on Sir Thomas Butler was equally unhappy. The worthy Baronet had, in his capacity of freeholder of the county, publicly declared his reasons for voting for Mr Gorman, and in doing so informed the public of the exact price of a patriot, namely that "an appointment as Coroner" would cool his patriotism, shut his mouth for ever, or as the poet has it, ~~~ "To place and power all public spirit tends, In place and power all public spirit ENDS. And thus it was with Mr Bunbury ; he would discontinue abusing the gentry of the county, if they allowed Bunbury to take office. We thank Sir Thomas Butler from the bottom of our hearts for giving us so excellent a definition of a "patriot" and exposing those itinerant brawlers who presume to seek for public situations.