The Sun. — London, England, 1830-11-09 00:00:00

Ly, t • 'EXTRAORDINARY ATTACK ON THE FREEDOM OF ELECTION. comm Et. EVANS'S LETTER TO HIS CONSTITUENTs. thiNTIENIEN,...—My omission of the usual address 'efis candidate, after the close of the left election, give rise, I understand, to observation. Acknow ledgements however of your noble and enthusiastic conduct, though so well merited, seemed inadequate :to the Oecasion,—and complaints would have been Premature, while no possible constitutional means were at hand to seek relief from. But the time has now arrived when the vindication of your rights must he again entered on, when I may redeem the uninten tional remissness alluded to, and when a sense of duty compels me to communicate with you on that which so deeply involves your interests, and no less excites your anxiety. . Gentlemen,—lf we may credit rumour, the extra ordinary proceedings which have been hazarded *hist you have originated in the hope of crushing lilt efforts in your behalf, and of perpetuating the Insurable oppressions under which you have lan guished, by harrassing and exhausting me, with ex te,neive and accumulated petitions and appeals. were such unworthy calculations to take effect, the ithertion of the representative rights of the people Or Englund would resolve itself into a question of legal procrastination and pecuniary ability. Gentlemen,—lf your suffrages, and an express authority, of the noose of Commons be of any t 4lll e, I sun at this moment your virtual and legal l'eProgautative to Parliament. That the popular branch of the Legislature reserves to itself an ex clusive judgment on the cleitna of Electors to vote for Members of its own body, and that in doing so 1t is liable tots° OBSTRUCTION or CONTE:WM", are well known facts. E qua l ly certain, however, is it that 1 ; 14 high sanclisn in our feiVOttr, (guaranteed to us by the award acted on by the late Parliament) has been set aside and put at defiance ; and , that I me, Consequently d e p r i ve d of the trust reposed i n as you ure . of th e p r i v il ege b y which i t was imparted.< Thia is now a NATIONAL, not a local, isolated, or personal question! The peculiar nature and constitution of the Cinque Potts, as, distinguished from all the other corporate and incorporate boroughs of the kingdom, teems to be very little knows). They may be termed a Federalive body, not of one, but of twenty- One towns, ports, or villages. It possesses territorial and Maritime Courts of Adjudication, and a Chan tellor, High-Admiral, and Lord Warden—offices the bestow e d on t h e h i g he st su bj ect o f , e realm. 'Tile whole a pp ear t o h a ve been con -I°'J'ed by a Deliberative Assembly called the is odhul: which still is even occasionally convened. "ere is then Nu ANALOGY between this Federative "rity Palatine or Prineipality, arid those inland he local corporations it may inadvertentlye confounded with. ~ Your town enjoyed, as a .I:fentber of the Cinque P,Dris, the privilege of Su ff rage and Representation, 1,14,7. the or igi n . of a lower House of Parliament. .II institution Of which you form a part Iles POW 4 lured for about a thousand yeas. Aid ye t, vlimige to raiy, in the few previous at ierspts to recover the lost political rights of.• the re aiective towns (which have been more or less sub r_syted kince thetimes of the Mundt), the freedom ship has been contended for, as if h belonged to some ljr diony Muni c ip a li ty ; an d what i s no l ess surpris inir.i the Grtuvr PARAM OUNT C HARTERS to die COl fitetiYo HlStitlltloll h ave b een en ti re ly ov erlooked. h eiws though grante d i n var i ous ages an d b y dif ,lent dynasti es , d ecree throughout, that " those oo h eat t h e burthens shall enjoy the ciivileges. " — Aiwild this, as the Ch ar t ers express l y state , w i t h a are a'h to indu ce i n h a bi tants to resort to t h e Ci nque j. 11 Ott I owns, and settle in them. The Records of 1 , 1 .4 Itrodhuls u n if orm l y correspon d w i t h t hi s 'Jaen -ITn :—. an d i t was in conformity with it that the t'ommittee which decided in the case, consisting of !ts unusual proportion of gentlemen of high consi stretion as public men, ItasoLvEti UNANIMOUSLY, 4 t,sr 21 days' investigation, that the RESIDNNT ; * TANTIAL TAX-PAYERS were entitled, according ' 44tierit usage, to vote for those woo suPOsn Tills i At ts. txposell to the hostile attacks of the French, ''(l fiequently swept by the plague in ancient times, t he inhabitants of Bye do . not appear to have u t,rn very numerous ; but at the present period I nes. evils having ceased, and with the advantages of alt time cad inland communications, your copula ; t irt ought now probably to have exceeded ten thou -14141 so u l s . T o ' this fact let the frequent emigre ''u;.ns from your port testify. In what way is the t t e notry recompensed for this repression of a rising c ',"''n. and deterioration of a commodious harbour on bag line of coast, so dangerous to our navigation ? " for this Nvilfui decay of the surest refuge of our 11)ing Gs it manifestly is calculated to be), 'be eel, 14 ', 6 Portsmouth and the Thames? But,unhappily,f • the in terest of Borough ', it i s 01 'lace, to discourage the prosperity of a '' e "tli(l to keep down the number of itiliabi -4'4. I speak, of course, chiefly of those whose Power is derived from subtlety and intrigue, as in Your nominee, not from the natural influence of pro. m ats ' 'v., imp over i s h an d di s people enhance! the eurhy, and thereb the value of this odious kind of Possession. y l, l llO de c i s i on of t h e Comm i ttee i n f avour o f t h e 7 1 sebold er i n h a bi tants of Bye, was not only for (elY tinnotniced-by the Speaker of the house of i t , 4l QOl to th e M ayor , f or hi s gu id an c e as return ro,„`",:e'rs but. it was affix e d to the door of the et` ii : e ell under the authority of the Mayor him . d u H l l' the information of all concerned. At Lon itneiit was . followed up by the unseating of the to t e lterfirr returned by the votes of the usurping 4 791 ed c orporator!; and the result was therefore, ill "eatlTepea/ed, as much the law of the land as 9 'Vet within the statute books. . le ottv,th is state of thine, Gentlemen, a general : 1 -us oeettra and what are the consequences? j ii „ 4 ; e tetertiing officer re j ec ts . the votes he had Dull' Ile been compelled to put upon the amended 41 4 1 1 4 r Ile receives.l2 votes of his own party, and *Le l two Members on the strength of them; ,r,ir.t two rejects some hundreds', which the -House, eiit s t i lle P r evious election, had obliged him to ad. N14.1d recognise. Here the Cosnuoies and the i l e k OP RYE • ...I t 1 are at issue o r d er , le 17th of Al a y the Mayor obeyed the ! th e "i the House, by putting these votes upon poll. othe 3d following, 1 14 ,„“ _ n of August he re -1 ot :* le receive the same votes, and thereby dis cs the previous Miler of the House. In both ts 'm 04 , appeal from the farmer decision was avail , th e to the select or usurping art In both eases i g4ilveli,sirnatit voters were unswo P rn, Y a . nd unenrolledat uns mid freemen brcausethe returning officer had 6 , 41 „ 41 4 it, bout • ' instances, refused to udminister the 17.. ig . °r enroll them. It was allowed that no alters ..at ti ti d . to te ... lakes' place in the qualification of the t rsu - It is clear that the Hoosti OF COMMONS 1 !it have b • • . titio n , b e en 'WRONG in giving effect to the de-, i n ' the Committee on the 17th of May, or the 41)2 !sec t4 44l have b een sarong in refusing to give t • Ar °e we I t , Pit the 3d of A wrong itl refusing to give o it, Oil the 3d of Auguat. c!, ) , t _ to infer then that the hustings are a tit. eat of App ea l f rom the Commons, with audio -14 r everse, suspend, or set as id e i ts procee di ngs ? d 111, o 8 P9wer of a returning officer superior to that of Pett y pecker P Or is it t o b e suppose d t h a t a . Ilric tu ufl etioilary may ta un t w i t h contem ptuous .t he r w ell the proceedings of the Legislature ? th e : 4,goete of' Commons may stuLify itself (said , tadi:; ll YOr's Assistant or Assessor), but I will not tino .9 myself." Such was the character of the o,, tion ee eo atutnatious eoinnaents passed on the oc- Snai l _ p h , c sTlll$ IS NOY AN ORDINARY crisis. 414;7, a l though my colleague and myself had a i tii i n t l i l e4 t Y l °!* .T . W , IINTY , to ONR in our favour of the . Isounded innalmants whose votes had been pro tsott„ , legul, and admitted by the House of Com the l` r ' three months before, the nominees of 4b4l'are'icalpsttio were declared to be dull elected, tes t , t, _ with ,_ this moment sitting and voting in Perlis . no • More title to be there, as your Repro . 14 , ...- ...."- ....- ......- jr- ............- - c......- i......--- - ,.. , V r .... .C .... 400 / 4- ' 4 7 .... .- - 7 - -...- / , . . . , . . . . 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Suffice It to observe, that the Mayor refuses the formality of awearingand enrolling to ELECTORAL freemeo (who are admitted to pos sess the qualifications pointed out by the competent tribunal), and then rejects their votes, because 1w himself had not enrolled them! Which is about as reasonable as if a Judge, in trying n cause, were to disallow administering the usual oath to a witness, and then to tell the Jury his evidence was not to be received, because he was not sworn. An important distinction, not unfrequently lost sight of, may here be pointed out : To Common-law Courts chiefly belongs the liti gation of pi ivate, corporate, or pecuniary interests, — while to decide on questions of the elective Iran chive (the greatest of all public rights) is the ex.. elusive province of Parliament. Ancient right or ancient possession is the law of Parliament in re• Bard to, those tipestio.es,—tuid theariote ancient the more incontrovertible ; while, on •the contrary, modern usage, modern possession, or custom, is the rule which obtains in Westminster-hall. Thus widely different are the subjects of adjudication and the principles which govern technicul Courts and Parliamentary Committees ; and accordingly it was, that in the case of " Thorpe the Speaker," the twelve Judges declared, "That they would not ee tensible the privileges of the High Court of Parlia ment, of which the knowledge belongeth to the Lords of Parliament, and not the Judges." Again , in the' celebrated,cale of Ashby, eleven of the twelve Judges stated, that " The law of Parliament stood on its own basis, and was not to be decided by the general rules if, law."—EvEiv Lord Tenterden, in an action brought by a voter against the High Bailiff of Westminster, (1819), admits that " The right of voting was peculiarly a subject for the house of Commons, and that no decision of a Court in Westniinster•hall was binding on Committees." But ibis is the first time that a returning officer has dared to say that he will not conform to the decisions of the House of Commons on the elec toral franchise, unless they be confirmed by the Court of King's Bench, and therefore by Judges appointed by the Crown 1 Were the often-prac tised trick of confounding corporate with elective rights thus to pass into a principle, it would be in the power of a returning-officer to compel each elector to expend 5001. or 1,0001. (the usual cost of this kind of legal proceeding) before admitting hies to vote; nay, some of these suits, as that of Ches ter, have cost 20,0001. Now, as the great body of electors are utterly destitute o f the means of pursu ing any such remedy, were such a monstrous doc trine established, it would thenceforth be competent to these inferior Magistrates almost to disfranchise the whole kingdom. .layors, Bailiffs, and lawyers, would soon be masters of the safeguards and privi leges of Parliament and of the people; and the in fluence of those who have the keeping of the public purse alight then, by no very tedious process, and with no great difficulty, put an extinguisher on the Representative principle ! Rome continued to pos sess a Senate for souse hundred years after the real power and independence of that assembly had ceased to exist. - Gentlemen,---1 sin perfectly aware of the further depopulation and utter ruin that must ensue to your town, it this dishonourable conspiracy against you should, by any improbable circumstance, suc ceed. If a professional borough monger of inferior class should' thus continue to be supported in the attempt to 'regain 'hie former power, and so possess himself for eier; as an heir=loom, of the un controuled Government of .so many thousand re spectable inhabitantti,—then indeed the indignant an ticipations indulged in by some of you, would not be unprovoked,—nor could the despair contem plated by others, leading as it does to the in tention in such event of abandoning the country, excite surprise. Certainly if corruption or undue influence (which are expedients beyond the law) should on one side triumph over justice, so, on the other hand also, other means, out of the usual course, and beyond the law, might with equal equity be resorted to to counter-balance these foul and ille gal expedients. For my own part I consider, under the circumstances, my individual honour as much identified with this matter as your rights and inte rests are. And therefore I trust I shall be excused if disinclined to surrender either the one or the other, tamely. But, Gentlemen, I feel confident that the same high and • unimpeachable impartiality, the same just and humane relief which you expe rienced at the hands of the last Parliament; will be but Confirmed by the present one,—so that all cause either of exile or violence may happily be averted. Gentlemen,—Even while the delusive, indecent violation of an election was going on upon your hustings, essentially the very same question was debated at the cannon's mouth in a neighbouring country, though on a larger scale and more splendid theatre. For the subversion of the elective fran chise byan armed force and arbitrary decrees openly promulgated, is not one iota different in character, or more heinous, than its dettrUction by craft, ve- Wiry, or pretended legal forme. H The prOvidential failure, the tremendous copse : qtiences, the warning catastrophe of that atrociously had, but yet not so corrupt and Machiavellian at tempt, will, we may venture to hope, Gen tlemen, plead with avail and with, persuasive voice, j for the injured throughout the civilized world; ' and will do much for that safe and moderate species of reform, of which your efforts may he considered the precursor, and between which and some sudden sweeping measure, bearing the semblance and not divested of the dangers of a re volution, I apprehend there can be now no inter mediate alternative. Never at any former period was the mind of nations. so instinct with the desire of. removing abuses and of obtaining, justice. This spirit is not partial or territorial ; it belongs to Eu rope and to the age. Never was a discreet and temperate exercise of influence or power more im perative—nor a capricious invasion of supposed rights sn perilous. The political atmosphere is charged to the full; it is the part of wisdom, the solemn duty of men in high places, to abstain from those interferences which may provoke, and to suffer or direct that which may prevent, explosion. —The integrity of the elective franchise is the safety valve. But, Gentlemen, while I write, a petition of ap peal is put in against you by " Me Reverend George ,iugustus Lamb, Doctor it/ . Dianily, and Rector of the parishes of Iden, Plnydeis and G uldeford, and For what purpose can this be required ? Hes not that Reverend` Person already, of his own authority, reversed and controuled the Standing Orders and jucicial decisions of the House in your favour, by placing within its precincts, where they now are, his two nominees? And how, after such an audacity, lie can venture to approach its bar in the character of a respectful petitioner, praying that such an act should be legalised by an insulted Legislature, is not little surprising! • Gentlemen,--My colleague and myself have pre hatred to the House the ordinary petition. But the case is utterly the reverse dim ordinary one. It is wholly unexampled. In the dark annals of these m i s deedia, it is utterly without preePtlent, I am too obscure a perion—too moderate in - my general views—too unconnected with any of the great parties, to expect that any griev ance of mine or yours could draw forth ant peculiar interposition for our protection. But I thus have explained, in the hope that some public spirited Member may see—that far higher interests than those of a town or un individual are involved in the bringing this affair to the speediest postale issue. It is now appointed for a remote day, on what ground I know not. Gentlemen,--A deliberate Outrage on the dignity and privileges of Parliament has in this instance been committed. We have been openly menaced with a combination of influence and pecuniary means for maintaining that outrage. It would be far from (Met& to shew, that what has been thus briefly and feebly pourtrayed, is, in effect, the most direct and dangerous attack on public liberty essayed in this country since the reign of James the &cond.— Were it suffered to pass into a precedent, the con sequences are as distinctly predicable, us would those of the mina lodged under a beleagured rampart. An attempt so palpable to wrest from the hands of the representatives of the nation, the guardianship and interpretation' of the law of Parliament, to trairt:i ter its securities to the custody of inferior and easily corruptible agents—to dispute the competency, and treat as nought, the necessary and undoubted authority of the Commons, CORICi home to every man's business and bosom for that House, whatever its imperfections may be, is after all the great bul wark not only of stable lawful government and in ternal peace, but, in result, of whatever provides for the maintenance of all that is valuable or desirable in the institutions of the empire. Gentlemen, I have the honour to remain, Your faithful devoted servant, It Regent-street, London. a L. EVANS. To the Barons and Freemen of the Town and Port of Rye. SPIRIT OI THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The disappointment ihtlicted yesterday upon the citizens of London, and not on them only, hut on the public at large, and above all °these, as we can boldly affirm, on the feelings of our gracious Sovereign and his Consort, is alto gether indescribable. Our _ fellow-citizens were most anxious for the presence of their frank and kind-hearted Monarch in the midst of them. For days and weeks they had devoted themselves,--those of them who were public functionaries, mad all in their private character as hoUae holders, and masters of femilies—hand and heart, to the business of doing honour to their King. The Lord Mayor elect (Alderman Key),—whether willing to curry favour, as it is termed, with the head of his Majesty's Govern. ment, or by what other motive actuated is nut for us to say, but—behind the backs of all Isis brethren of the Cor poration—men quite as loyal, and of as discriminating judgments as himself, and before he had been sworn into office, or could formally exercise any functions becoming a Lord Mayor, took upon himself to address a letter to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, stating, that from infer- Illation which he had received, a design was entertained by some desperate and abandoned characters, to do— what?—to insult the King and his amiable Consort ? to storm the Bank?--to batter down St. Paul's to burn the city? No, nothing like it; but that the des perate characters had resolves! " to snake an attack on yuur Grace's person, on your approach to the Hall." Now, we tender his Grace the Duke of Wellington's person as highly as any Alderman, Mayor '" elect" or nun-elected, among the whole board. There is no public man now living, or at any time, whose life deserves from every Bri ton that greater efforts, or, if neresssry, greater sacrifices should be male by his country, to preserve it. But that a bare assertion hams the individual, unauthorized by any official power or tribunal, and by those more especially whom such an informant ought in all good sense and pro.* priety to have consulted, of an outrage against the indivi dual Duke of Wellington being meditated, should have be.. come the ground-work of a Cabinet remonstrance to his 111ajesty, urging hint, King William, t o a bst a i n f rom di n i ng with Isis loyal citizens of the metropolis of Englund, is something scarcely credible. If King William be, as all the world knows, a most popular and beloved Monarch, and one whose presence never fails to delight his faithful subjects, while with affectionate and cordial greetings they as uniformly testify that pleasure, is it fitting that, for the sake of any one person who may happen (perversely and unjustly we at once admit) to excite f. stingy less friendly in this minds - of the unmannerly multitude, the King and Queen of England should lose, the benefit of their well-earned popularity, and the people be deprived of the comfort of Ismail; sting their' ittachinent ? Such a reflection, moreover, arises from the supposition that the writer of the intelligence to the Duke of Welling ton' is correct' as to the fact which he communi cates. In that cave (the least favourable hypothesis), the Kiug and Queen might very well have trusted the devotion of their faithful and mahly subjects; and any Minister who bad reason to fear that his own want of po pularity would expose Isis individual person to rudeness, might surely have remained at home. But was the in formation true? Was violence to any mortal dreaded, even by the most ancient of the city old women ? We have good authority for asserting, that among the men of London at least, eiere existed no such fear. The Court of Aldermen are quite satisfied of the efficiency of the police, and that the steps Liken to increase the civil force were commensurate with the important occasion. The Court of Common Council go still further in their contra. diction of the fact which wart hazarded by the Lord Mayor elect. Aldermen Thompson (late Lord Mayor) and Welds man, lest night in the House of Commons, disavowed the o Ej ect " an d his intelligence.. In truth, the postpone. merit of the Royal visit has beers an inconsiderate and ill. judged act, proceeding evidently from imperfect and erro neous information. It will be seen Irons an advertise_ meat that a propassl its on foot for the great mass of re spectable citizens of London and Westminster to form themselves into a body guard to escort the King and Queen to Guildhall on whatever day it may hereafter please the advises s of the Crown that the city should he honoured with the Royal presence. Now that the civic authorities (both Aldermen and Common Council) have declared there is no ground fur any alarm, it may be hoped that the Royal visit will not long be delayed..-- Times, Both Houses last night were occupied with the conside ration of what might well be termed by Lord Althorp " ore of the most extraordinary and alarming events that he haul ever known in else course of Isis experience," the deice given by Ministers to his Majesty to decline fulfill ing the promise to dine with the Lord Mayor. We anti• cipated, from the ill-judged letter of the Secretary of State, the most disastrous consequences, and the event has already but too well justified our anticipations. The funds fell yesterday no lees than a per cent, But the extent of the mischief cannot be known for sometime. That letter will carry alarm into every collier of the British empire. The movement of troops on the metropolis, the putting the Tower into a posture of defence—all this, coupled with the letter of Sir Robert Peel, which, in charity to the Mi nistere, it will be supposed was dictated by the 000 urgent necessity—all this will strike the iteugmations of use's at a distance as the harbinger of some dreadful cala mity. A very justifiable curiosity drew crowds to the two House* to hear the explanation% of Ministers, The Duke of Wellington, after admitting thst his Majesty is one of the must popular Sovereigns that ever reigned in this country, and still more that he is a Sovereign whose public and private conduct most deserves the popularity which he has obtained, proceeded to state the circumstances which had led them to advise thii popular Monarch to disappoint the expeotation of his good citizens of London, lie began by ten lief the leVer C r"' the Lord Mayor elect, whieh has been so much animal vetted on by the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council. The Lord M syur elect, in this letter, sell, h's I Grace, " from what I learn, it is the intention of some of I the desperate characters who are anxious to avail them- ' selves of any circumstance to create tumult and cottfosiont to take the opportunity of ma n .ng an Ottt(ick on 'your Grace's person on your spproach to the Hail ;" and he added, " I thuuldttat be sluing my duty after what I have Iseard, did I not take the tanninglibestiotfrostuiyesitutidnsguffin to ri u ly r Grace the . propriety of your guarded.' " Under these circutustancet (says his Grace), when I received the letter I have referred to, I f e lt it soy duty to "freio floto ottending.at the City Feast." We do not certainly Islame leis Grace, who no doubt conceives the salvation of the country to be bound up with his life, for the impression which this recommendation seems to have made on him. To refrain from attending at the City Feast, under all the circumstances of the ease, might have been prudent. But it was not necessary that his Majesty, who is so deservedly popular, should not fulfill his promise. It would have been quite enough to have given ample notice to the public that his Grace, and the rest of his Majesty's Ministers, for sundry good and weighty reasons, had deemed it expedient td ab stain from eccompanying his Majesty to the City Feast. Their absence would have cast no gloom over the entertainment; the public, after what lute peeved during the last week, would have understood without difficulty the reasons for their absence It would not have entered into the head of man, woman, or child, that the hazard of hie Majesty would have been increased by their absence. The Funds would not have fallen one fourth, or even a smaller fraction, on account of their absence. The safety of the City would not have been supposed in Manger, because his Majesty's Ministers took soitable precautions. But, like the fox without a tail, they were determined that if they could 'not go in safety to the city, his Majesty should not go ; no matter what condo- Amy should be drawn front the unusual and appalling fact, Oat it had nut been deemed safe to allow hie Majesty to %wear at an entertainment given toilette.* him by hie loyal subjects, the citizens of London, "My Lord, I communicated this determination to my colleagues, and we found on that occasion; from the letter which I bad re ceived, and from letters received by my Right Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State on the same subject, that it was very possible that a tumult would occur in the city on the occasion of his Majesty's visit; and we thought it our duty to recomtnend to his Majesty to postpone his visit. We were induced to come to this determination in consequence of all the information we received of various descriptions. We have no doubt whatever, from the information conveyed to us from a variety of quarters_ information on which we could rely—that an attack would be made on the Police—that there was a plan laid to extinguish the lights, and a variety of attempts to be made to excite riot and disorder. We by no means wish to insinuate that his Grace did believe this informa tion ; but we think there itenot an individual in the coun try so credulous as to believe that there would have been the slightest danger of riot or tumult, if his Grace and colleagues had left his Majesty unincumbered on such an occasion by their unpopularity. As it is, the City Ma gistracy unanimously scout the idea of danger. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the other House, ob served, that they were actuated by compassion for his Ma jesty. "Would they, if they now resigned," he said, "not be told they hail brought the Monarch into circumstances of difficulty, and then abandoned him—(Cheers)—and left the City exposed, without means to repress the disorders which they had themselves anticipated, and from the approach of which they had shrunk?"—( Cheers. )—This !minds us of a saying imputed to a Learned Under Secretary for the Co lonies. 'When offered an Indian Judgeship towards the end of last Session, with similar generosity he refused, ob serving, that he could not think of abandoning Ministers in their difficulties. Mr. Brougham having observed, that 44 he could not help thinking it was a little haul upon his Majesty that this proceeding should have been Wien, nut with reference to any supposed unpopularity of his Ma jesty—quite the contrary—but with reference to the un popularity of those who were in his Majesty's Councils," Sir Robert Peel admitted that " the Honourable and Learned Gentleman had put a correct construction on the whole transaction. He did believe with the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, that their Majesties might have gone to the City without any inconvenience, but that perhaps arising front exuberance of affection on the part of their subjects; he did believe that ' vim one e n d of the procession to thee other their Majesties would have been received with one universal demonstration of loyalty; he also believed that every person ,possessed of property would have exposed himself to any danger in endeavouring, to preserve the public peace.-..a feet of which the voluntary offer of foes teen or fifteen hundred perscns for, that purpose afforded sufficient evidence. . But only let the House calmly reflect on the condition in which London would have been placed by the projected festival. All the firemen would have leen employed in the procession, All the constables would have been as sembled in one spot at an early hour of the day. Would it have been safe to leave the whole suburbs of the town exposed to outrage ? Would it have been right volunta rily to allow the congregation of an enormous crowd on a November night, which might be as oided ?" Strange that all this providence and forecast—all this danger from stripping London of its firemen, of its constables, leaving the suburb% to outrage, congregating immense crowd, on a November night, only occurred to Ministers at the twelfth tenor, when it was suggest e d to th em t h a t th e y were themselves in danger! It was known at hen the promise was made, that the feast was to take place on the nth of November—it could hardly be supposed that the King could dine with the citizens of London with out a large congregation of people taking place—the as sembly of firemen and constables must also have been an ticipated. But Ministers seem to have remained in a strange sort of lethargy from the time they advised his Majesty to accept the invitation—timing the progress of the preparation—till the letter of the Lord Mayor elect, by warning them of their own danger, roused them to a seek! of the numerous dangers to which London and its citizens were exposed by the various circumstances above enumerated. The Duke of Wellington has been taught on this occasion a great morel 1,01011, and we trust the lesson will not be thrown away on others. The declara tion in the House of Lords on Tuesday last, displayed so much more of mental prostitution than the weirdo!' called for, that from one end of England to the other it has pro duced but one feeling of disgust. Even the Borough. mongers whom he wished to conciliate must have turned away with loathing from the " matchless intrepidity of face which they witnessed." All our Statesinen of any distinction, however adverse to reform, have still shrunk from the task of eulogising the con up tint' they could not dispense with. Even the aristocratic Burke, when told by Lord Cermarthen Out Manchester not being represented, had as much right to complain as the Colonies, exclaimed " When they wish to assimilate to their parent, anti to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beaoteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness fur their strength? Oar °pitted,' ium for their glory ? And the 'dough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?" Ilia Grace, however, glories in their oppro brium, like one in the last stage of demoralization, he ex poses the shameful parts with an exultation which repels every beholder. Sir James Graham, in a most impres sive speech, touched on the irrepirable injury which the Duke has done himself. " Thu Right Hon, Baronet," said Sir Jame*, " in his letter toys, it is dangerous to the public tranquillity that by night a Royal procession s ;dace; and yet about eight d a ys ago , th e i r Majestiesticiutike visited the theatres, unaccompanied by any extraordinary guard. Was there any confusion ? None. The Royal Sovereign was received with the estimations of a loyal and attgelied people.—(Cheers.) net is it, then, Sir, which bus changed this se curity to slay m—this loyalty t a dissatiefection ? Hee anything ininterveued that could possibly 40 soeh a chauge? Yes, Sir, something has inteswened ; there has been a decleratiume,a moat uncompromising declare. tion—by the Noble Duke at the brad of his Majesty's: Government, that nothing should tempt him to admit e question, which, unless I ion much deceived on that very point on which the Duke of Wellington says, • will cons cede nothing,' is that on which the people-L.4 mean not the mob, but the middle clitaites,--( Hear, hear).-e-aintertain tort opinion, in conformity with whieh the Guvernment of this votary must he conducted, if it he amdfunted in peace, and in conformity with which the Right Honourable Se wavy hinted!' has declared that he will act, fur that he would throw aside patronageTtud rely on public (Hear, hear.) • • • toe, that it is now quite clear the titivation of Reform can he no longer evaded, and the declare tieri of the Nulik puke has astounded the people of Eegland, and wait; him within a short time the most enpepular:.i/iniater that ever s wayed the destiniea of his country."—.(Hear.).—lle 1 141 West, by seeking an advantage by meow which have left him Inc other auceess than the discredit of them. To throw away character without gaining the object rot • which it was thrown away, iY always prodigiously mottle Eying, The speech of Earl grey met hey* been keenly felt by the Duke of Wellington. 4' 1 mutt say," : observed his Lordship, etthat Min I first read the letter this morning whieh appeared in the public prints,. that I fat " 'la thing like humiliation! I felt the fullest regret and. ai c ypointment that such a letter was thought necessary by the Government, being persuaded that it would not issue each 4 letter without first making inquiries, and ob. twining information that the letter was necessary. Is this a moment to circulate accounts of public dangers unneces. wily? His Lordship passed a warm eulogy on the French Revolution, and hoped that Ministers, as they had bhown respect to the Government of Prance, would show respect to the people of Belgium, by which alone, be thought they would ensure the peace of this country, anti the peace of Europe." So much for this ill-judged proceeding of Ministers—a proceeding A;hich most lower them pro digiously with regard to character for discretion through out the country.-11torning Chronicle. The Magistracy of the City disclaim the representations of the Lord Mayor Elect, and another Alderman. In the Common Council strong measures would have been adopted had not the Lord Mayor Elect thrown himself on the compassion of the Court. in the house of Lords Ear; Grey significantly nlluded to the period of 1780, .when London was disgraced by her Chief Magistrate. The lesson of yesterday will nut be soon forgotten by the Lord Mayor Elect. Between him and Ministers, the: feast has turned . . out 4 sorry repast for the country. itltitein# Chronicle. It was only last week ihst his '' „; - made use of the fell f . "o l g wt4Sisi4oll l oosirso ,' Wed Neils , s-,t atott Meet t=" Amidst. al . the difficulties of -the present con juncture, I reflect with the highest tatisfaction on the loyalty and affectionate attachment of the great body of my people,"—and yet, in one short week, after pro nouncing the emphatic opinion iif the good disposition of the people towards his person and Government, his Majesty officially declares, through one of his Secretaries of State, that he dare not venture at the head of his Mi. :nistere and the Greet Personages of the realm, and guarded by a numerous force of police and military, to dine with the Civic Authorities of hie own capital ! What is the cause of a change in the ,pinion of the Sovereign with regard to the loyalty of big people so sudden and por tentous ? The excitement! and consternatian which the letter of the Secretary of State to the Lord Mayor occa sioned in this great metropolis, and, no doubt, has, by this time, spread very generally throughout England, could only be justified on grounds of urgent and extreme necessity. 'Such as an intended revolutionary movement, or an attack on the person of the King. Had the Government credible inform +don of either one or the other of those violent and treasonable intentions. The discussion of last night shows that they had not. That discussion, as will be seen from our Parliamentary report, was brought about by Lard Al thorp demanding an explanation of the conduct of Minis ters in advising his Majesty to relinquish his purpose, at least fur the present, of gratifying his good citizens of London by visiting them in state, and partaking of the civic hospitality, according to an appointment, which had given pleasure only to be exceeded by the regret and alarm occasioned by the unexpected change of the royal inten tion. Sir Robert Peel being thus called te:on, rose to give such explanation as he could of the grounds of the advice wlrich Ministers had thought fit to give his Ma jesty, and in the commencement of his ',peach expressed a hope that Parliamint would not call upon him to wake any disclosures that " might interfere with the course of public justice." Flom such an exordium it was naturally inferred that Ministers had acted upon information whirl, made skein acquainted with meditated acts of a treason able character, which only awaited their proper and full developetnent in it court of law; but the remainder of his speech did not bear out well au inference, for nothing could be more vague and unsatisfactory than the counnun'cations :to which he referred, as justifying tire advice which the confidential Council lors of the Crown bad given. to their Sovereign, and which had thrown theinhabitante of the metropolis into a state of the most extraordinary agitation, and made them ap prehensive of the su Idea and terrific explosion of some mapending calamity. The only document which he pro duced was a letter from the Lord , Mayor elect, who stated that he had received communications which made him ap prehend tluit a personal attack would he made on tie, Duke of Wellington if be joined the Royal procession, in conse quence whereof he recommended that his Grace, if he came at all, should come particularly well guarded. This was the only documentary evidence, its we awed, that Sir Robert Peel produced • and it does not appear he ever In quired, as it was his ()minden duty to du, what was the Lord Mayor elect's source of know'edge. It le not the vague assation of a Magistrate that should be a foundetion for a solemn act of the Minister of the Crown. He should ask fur the certain and defined evidence on which the state ment was grounded ; and if there was none, he should have treated it as an idle report, unworthy of the serious attention of the Minister aof a greet empire; or, if he took any step in consequence of it, he and his colleagues should have confined themselves tw the sidoptitm,withouteit her noise or ostentation, of precautionary measures, and, thereby, while they were vigilant against surprise, they would have avoided spread ing among the people unnecessary alarm. The conse quences, in a counnerciel country like this, of exciting sp. pr of revolutionary proceedings are so dreadful, that a Government should take care never to do so but upon testimony so clear and indisputable as, when stated, must inevstably produce general conviction. But did the evidence which Ministers brought forward last night produce such conviction on the minds of those who heard it ? So far from it, that the statement of Sic Robert Peel only created laughter and termitic cheers. Mr. Brougham strongly depicted the fully of Ministers in spreading, on melt indefensible ,rounds, an alann that had canard the public fund* to fall, in the course of that one day, about three per cent., and had probably reduced many reepectabie tioniliet, who had previously an honed independence, to absolute beggary Sir Robert Peel, in his speech, having admitted that the communications which he received mily..applied tu meditated attack on the Duke of Wellington, and having also admitted that his Majesty's popularity re• mined unimpaired, Mr. Brougham obeervial i in refe rence t o this part of his statement, that the proper re medy for the apprehended evil was, that the Duke of Wel ington should remain 0 3 home, an d not to attempt to screen himself from the odium which his political wee. cures had brought upon him, by involving his Itoyal Matter in the consequences of his own unpopularity. Indeed it was acknowleill ed on Loth sides of the House that his Majesty might tartly traverse any part of !ail metropolis, or kit dominions, without the protection of a military guard, if unaccompaiiied by hi,% Ministerei— Alderman Waithmin expressed himielf, upon the con. duct of Ministers in this case, iu very strong tertian lie said it was impossible to account for their conduct upon any rational ground of action, arid that he w a s run . vineeil if Isle Majetty'a " confidential edviselos" were put upon their defence Part writ de lunatic() implant)°, there was no ounseientious Jury in the kingoom that would not bring in a verdict of insanity Titia aeatement was followed by vehement elieeriag. The Worthy Al. derman also stated that tho Woo. of the Lord Maur . . elect, as well as Ott; `verbal communication tit *toiler Aiderinen t who made a similar statement to, Sur Ilobert Veel, as the representative of the Fats Lord Mrtlor, were totally unknown to the caller Aldermen of the City, and that a Court of .Alliermen had been held that day,• who had doehtimed all Imutvlsalge of thole co u• numieations, mid had stated it as their 'Arm opinion that If his Majesty hail adhered to his original intention of dieing with the Corporation in Guildhall nu distrobara of the puhlie peace wou'ei have occurred. Titiw at4teiont Alderman Thompson fully confirmed, 14%1, be was not pie :nerd t ► doubt the propriety awl, wisdom of the advice which Ministers had elven tu Oak Sovereign. Mr. n o b. house observed that Ministers seemed to forget there who an alterntiye to whickthey could have resorted % unapt nut cawing the King to sacrifice a particle or ',1,,s popularity, and that was to resiyn. Tido it \oil their duty to have done, when they found that they had lost the public cots thieoce, which they well deem veil to lose in contirournce of the Sin eels from the Thrice., end the tleAnations of the Duke of Wellington and the Secretary for the Boom Department against all ref urn In the reprraentstien of the people. Sir James tlraloon eapresiedeluttilar m 1044044, as tli,sl Colonel Devise and sane other Menberii oft the Opposition aide of the House, mole particularly Mr. Hume who expetted a hove that Varliament would CrOwo to (Nook, the Ministers. The cit i t i o eellor of the tiechiquer challenged him to carry his threat into effret, by calling on the 10 ;+t; to vote such Address at once but Sir Ames Graham observed that; constituted us Me 44ouse Men was, he trusted Matt no such direct attempt to putout Miniskrs would ft Made, but that the oratioary busiiiess Of the Sestsiou would be allowed to go one, and that the atalAility of the Intent Government would be tried let n way not so congenial with their tarries as an addieta of the nature proposed. Some of the Members on the Treonry benches—. hut they ! were not many—defended the Government : among these Sir Charity leorine Was the num lettioutt, and he tuitt4 PRICE 7D. 'some pleasantry ,by saying that the Doke of Wellington was popular every where, 'except with lion. Members in the llouaeand the blarkguardi w4hout. It aprars to rfl that the taint* expedient to prevent the tectsmity of Wm 3lajesty disappointing the city of Loudon, and spicaht eonsternation through the empire, we, that the lake of Wellington and Sir Hobert Pad should hare aunt ern. logiot to the L o id Alayoe, and then his _Majt.toy have entered - the City with a etttvinty of sufferieg nu other inconvenience than what might wise from the txu. hermit loyalty of his faithful peop'e, who kno , e how to diatinguish between the Speech of the Ministers anal t' personal sentiments of the King. In the tfun•ts of Lords, explanitions shunts. to those whieh had been made in the Commons were given. The D n i.o of Wellington, in the most serious manner, declared that lie had been induced to advise his Majesty to change his intention with respect to going into the - city, not from any personal apprehensions which he !night en. tortain, but from the fear of consequences which he knew would give pain to the breasts of their Majesties. A quei.: tion hail been raised whether the counsel was suggt red by the existing state of the country; but the Noble Duke tin, equivocally declared that he did not believe the eountry was in a disaffected . state, and that the King's visit to the city stood upon grounds distinct from the state of thd country, and peculiar to itself. Lor4 Clanriettroie heard the Duke's explanation with great aorrow. He hail hoped that the letter was written from fears excited by sone' secret information of tin Ott - ming nature. The nimbi f e ll thr ee per vent., which was an ahmolute lots cousttl ,by the condnet of Ministers, lie deprecated the attacks on the Duke's person as much aa any one mould slat: Lord Grey felt humiliated at meting the letter. in. the 'papers of the day. Ile had hoped that Ministers had inquired-Welt into the danger before they took to &vivito a measure. The Marquis tat Bute eluded to the danger to the Duke ef Wellington's person at arising from a tumult, and defended the conduct of the Government. The mstter then drops • --.41111 ped, erenium, The postponement of the Royal Visit to the city Wits the general topic throughout .yesterdety. Replier:46one,, which will be read with intense is:tern:e s were given by his Majesty's Ministers in both 'louses ref Pat liaruent lent night relative to this very unexpected event. The proposition, it appears, did not immediately emanate front. them. The, Lost! Mayor Elect, impressed with apprebeesinee of disc ont:flees, and becoming doubtful ..of the adequacy of teja means to preserve the public pesce, deemed it his duty, to„. communicate Isis fears to the Nolde Duke at the heed the Government, to whom accordingly he adthenteed a let ter, informing him that he had reason to believe en attstek was usetaisted upon his Grime's person, amid that, further, advantage would be taken of an ilisufficient civil force to commit serintisoutrages. With these warninga from a (meter, whence it sus natural to conclude the must nen:tato inform tion was to be derived, hie Majesty's Ministers had of coure e :to other line of conduct to pursue than that which they adopted; the question of expediency, therefore, rests entirely with the Lord Mayor Elect, who, with the best possible intention., may have moist ,ken the course beat calculated to mettle the desired 'end. It will be seen by the advertnentents in our first page, nut only that the Court of Aldermen unequivocally disavow the conduct and proceedings of the Lord Mayor in this respect, but that the Common Council, held last night, has expressed si milar sentiments, declaring at the came time that " the most perfect rebuke might have been placed on the boost' feeling and spontaneous exertion* of the great ko,os of th e population of London to co-operate with the Civil Power in effectually suppressing such attempt"' ant pteservieg the public tranquillity." That the Lord Mayor's. letter was the sole ground upon which Aliliiiters propertied to the extreme ntrastile of potteoning, sine die, so lore ( and anxiously expected a festival, is evident front the statement of Alderman Waitlimate cosefirmed by Aldettoun Thompenn, that dleectiorss ware given not to deliver Sir It. Peel's letter al the authenticity of that front the Lord Mayor was satisfartolify ascertained. Netwithstundittee this, however, we deem it cot 410 diet decisive and definite information of an alerming (diameter Lae been received ley Government, Which it is not expedient for the present to, divulge. ' We'come into itably amid readily to this couclu sion, seeing that none of the several reasons adduced by Sir Robert Peel are of eufficient weight to, justify the: great and extensive alarm produced throughout the metropolis by the pompano:wet of his Majesty's visit to the City.— The appreheneion of danger to the public peece is etsfli ciently answered by the declaratious of the Aldeneett anti Common Council, from which it appears that, though cone fasion and initial rioting. might and probably would have ensued, nothing of a really serious nature could Isave resulted. Any attempt upon the life of the Duke of Wellington, if it be Indeed tensible that so inexpressibly infamous u pro.. ject could have entered the mind of the lowest repudiate or villain in the kingdom, might easily have been frus trated by common vigilance. No pereon will believe for an instant, that the truly noble and gallant individual who has exposed his life tor his country in so matey ',leanly field., could have been acted upon by fear on this lieelolo,t o The season, however, must strenuottely urged we ohaervn to be that in the event of 4 tumult and it necessity arising• for vigorous repression, the innocent would have suffered in a larger propartioms even than the guilty. It is almost needles)* to remark how easily all apprehension of this kind might have been removed by a simple but seriou s vanish' s , publicly given to the respectable anti orderly classes to keep within doors after a specified hour in the evenieets We repeat our couviction that Government is its the pee session of proof more relative than it hiss been deetuesi fit to promulgate, and we look Ar it with confidence when the proper hour shall arrive. The assertion boldly hazarded by the Anti-Ministerial faction, that the whole effeir was is ruse to excite unfounded alarm tend being supports re to the Government, we cats only uousider me desperate eapa riment as to how far imereeition may be successfully pure thee! upon public cretielliy. It is worthy of the wove whence it proceeds,' Morning Post, The puetponststent of his Ztlajesty`it emit to the city is at the piesent moment a *Oleo* of se: 111t101 anxiety, Merin, eonl discussion, that we shad) riinalteilly out trout our reader, to the discussion oiceesty other matter. And little ales dints it behove us to say nu this 'better, for there is no one within the 'sound of the city belle, or within the call of the High Bailiff of Weetnalmiter e who haa not !wide nit his mind respecting it, And what is the opinion ?—Why, that it was a pitiful attempt to get up another " hots bay" MUM% and to alarm the country with notion% of revolution and conspiracy when there was ott ground for eitltere—that it was intended to form the basis of 4 pretencet for the friends of Ministers to say " strengthen the Govern. merits" and quash the question of Parliamentary Iteforin —and, finally, that instead of affeeting any object heuelicial to the Government, it Wu only added to its unpopitlerity, mid covered it, in every respect, snore completely with the contempt which lash been previously entertained fur it.. The great subjects of regret in the City are, on the hoe hand, that the King should have lent himself to such a state, and stale, trick, and thereby have ilimiaisheel the just popularity which he has hitherto ertjoyed ; 01141 the other, that while every person of the slightest tespec a lability nuts prepared not only to do all honour to this King of Little:id, but to defend his person if lie:vas:rya , and had inctirreel great expellee, aod made up 01.4 minds for still more, they Should have no opportunity of testify ing their loyalty affeetioll. On this subject th e c i t y re, Is that it isas been insulted, notonly by the lewd Mayor elect, but by his Mijesty'e confitleittod advisers; stud we are truly glend to perceive that the Coutt of Aldermen have taken the earliest opportultity act only of dieavotekng, in every respect, the officious communication of the L e e s i Mayor elect, but of sleobteing that his Majesty might have passed to and fro, in every quarter of the city, without the slightest grottos' for fear. The Court, in its Advertise ment saem' „ a l„,„ ' court " 4 " hereby hae thiP oppeettuaty cit to.. tootling their fellew.eitiaeus, that they roost urietielvocally amiss deilidelny 41111/IVOW knowlettge of any connuurl e ation made to the Eamiii_ve ()overwrite of the (natality 61 the magiatracy to Preaervo the, Pea en of the Metropolis on the Lord Mayor Day (which they are bound amt ready, with their lives, In maintion on oti oetassions), because they arts quite satiatiot of the cent- Oats efficiency of the Pollee, and that the steps taken by the laglittracy to increase the civil mice were ogiatneestivate ti the highly important tesesion of late hlaiestyis intended visit to thil great City ; oust they cannot but 131i1W1 that any representation should WOOl4OO made wirieh has hail the Wino. of nutmeat:log the lifainiautanetit or his ste44oo , vial; to lute loyal City of )tiAlenn." And well, indeed, nety it lament that any representa• tient should have W:osn merles wish+ hits had the effect influencing this postponement of his Mejesity'ss vielt'to the city ; fee never wits there ate ineeh contusion, exoit exr ,,, nts we are confident * nniSeeeSsiry 4141'114 creased, as by. this simple anti cowardly step. Horne slight tunsultatnight h ere b et e epeaseintiided uuquestiourshly, fur where tho King its there will he a crowd, mid where them is a. crow d th # , es will be disorder bat we at the wee titre perfeetly even with the Coinage:l Commit of the City that neitherriot or eon fuel Olt tifriny serious moment was to Iseapprerliendeilhad lair Altrietoty sod his Royal Consort cOndeactuttled to visit the 01 , 1, tin e t h at l i a,l evil.alisposed and dieaffeetril permute Made Attempts to excite commotion, or disturbance, the mint perfeet reliance mieht have been placed on the no f ee li ng pal et:out:menus exertions set the great noon of the pnetAlivitua of London, to coeoperete with the-civil power to Ivtitiailtr).4bllligteel(tilratilitrligliehliteitaYnietiv""tabtiNe etPuiltenliri:dPaae°inikeitlftaleliCatit siVp.aleatdBhueuYntitt:lifultigl: effectually suppressing such atteoloa, and pet. crv i,; stay alarm—it has caused another irtmendouti drirrevistitae its the fund s; an d,- i f we are not 'egregiously , trilitibien'tutir' : ' paved the way for the fall of alone *hos tenure Of oNftir'-; it was intended to etrenithentrsMitritil .;,.. ~, ,t.~~