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The critic was Benjamin Constant. He wrote:
For Kant's reply, see his essay On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns.
Thanks for the citation - that's actually exactly the sort of thing that informed the background of my original comment, but didn't have time to look it up. Though I was of course at the time addressing a virtue ethics reading of the problem, not a Kantian one.