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London, England, 1830-11-11 00:00:00

his Grace that he should stay away from the banquet, or
advise his Sovereign to stay away, but merely recommends
him to take such precautionary measures as the case might
demand, and to come " sufficiently guarded." If the
Lord Mayor had addressed this letter to a Minister rt.-
makable for the weakness of his mind, the deficiency of
his courage, or the infirmity of his character, he !nigh,
be fairly chargeable with doing that which he knew must
inflict such terror upon the sensitive object of his solicitude
as would naturally have the effect of preventing him from
performing a part in a pageant which foreboded some dark
calamity. But surely he must he a bold man who would
affirm it to be an easy thing for the letter of a Lord Mayor
to terrify the " Hero of Waterloo," and to terrify him to
such a degree, as not only to prevent him from riding
through the capital of Great Britain " sufficiently
guarded," and under the protection of a " moat popular"
Monarch, but also to induce him to excite equal
alarm in the breast of his Sovereign, and to cause him
to fly, as it were, from the loyal gratulations of his
subjects, who were prepared to prove that, however low
Royalty had fallen in public estimation in some parts of
Europe, there was no dearth of the spontaneous offer-
ings of a people's affection to the Majesty of England.
Surely nobody could have come, a priori, to the conclu-
sion that a personal and friendly intimation of some vague
suspicion of danger to the Duke of Wellington could have
led him anti the Cabinet of Great Britain to ring the tocsin
of civil confusion throughout the country, and to excite a
distrust and consternation which have had the most inju-
rious effects upon its pecuniary anti commercial interests,
and are calculated as much to embolden turbulent and des.
Aerate characters as to dispirit the well-disposed. If any
person but one of the approved intrepidity of the Duke
of Wellington had been at the head of the Cabinet, we
should cerLinly have imputed the silly conduct of 111 i•
sisters to personal fear ; but if such Statesmen as Sir
Robert Peel, Mr. Goulburn, and Lord Ellenborough are
capable of being actuated in advising their Sovereign by a
selfish apprehension of danger to themselves, we cannot,
for an instant, suppose such an unmanly and unmilitary
alarm participated in by a hero whose victories at'est his
superiority to vulgar considerations of personal danger.
No; the conduct of the Duke of Wellington in this matter
can only be ratitlially accounted for on the ground on which
we have placed it—a consciousness of his own unpopularity
and that of his colleagues—a moral dread of facing public
opinion on such an occasion, and suffering the mortifica-
tion of letting his Majesty see that the testimonies of
public affection showered upon him were not more de-
cided titan the expressions of popular disapprobation he•
stowed on his Ministers. Such a contrast in the public
smtiment* would have, no doubt, sensibly mortified the
Premier and the other confidential advisers of the King—
and they eagerly took advantage of the private and un-
official letter of the Lord Mayor, as well as the still more
unealled-for letter of Mr. Charles Pearson, and certain
verbal communications to the same effect, to cause his
Majesty to avoid the streets of his own faithful and de-
voted capital as he would the defiles of an enemy's coun-
try ! To cover their retreat they have thrown the onus of
their misconduct on the Lord Mayor;—but, although he
was betrayed into. an act of indiscretion, and is not, there-
fore, blameless, yet to them—the confidential advisers of
the King—belongs the culpability of having converted an
act of extreme zeal for the personal safety of the Duke
of Wellington into a pretext for a measure of great and
unexampled political fully and mischief !Jerald.
We gave yesterday a most ample and satisfactory re-
port of the tumultuous assemblages which took place on
Tuesday, and we have the satisfaction to state, that we
have nothing farther to add beyond a few insignificant de-
tails to what we then published. We only recur to the
subject, indeed, in order to impress on our readers the fact
of which they must by this time be convinced, that al-.
though the ass,mblages were formidable in point of num-
ber there WAS no preconcerted design in existence among
them—no selected leaders—no political object--nor, in-
deed, any object at all, beyond having, as it was expressed,
a cut at the new " police." Many, no doubt, assembled
for this purpose only, and many more were attracted by
mere curiosity, to ascertain whether there would, or would
not be a breaking out of the conspiracy which it
had been pretty plainly hinted in Sir Robert Peel's letter
to the Lord Mayor, had been hatched: No conspiracy,
however, broke out, and it must have been pretty plain
to every one, that but for the gathering of the police force
on the west of Temple-baromr gracious Sovereign might
have passed to and fro through London and Westminster,
without a stone being thrown, or an atm raised to injure
any one of his suite, except by.the very dregs of the po-
pulace.—The alarm, in fact, so far as lie was concerned,
was utterly without foundation and we cannot, therefore
help regretting, that the Cabinet should have added to
its unpopularity, by advising him to decline his intended
visit to the city, and thereby disappointing the goal
people of the city and the West-end, of a gratification
to which, without fiil, they have been annually acmes-
tome& Befere quitting this subject it is proper to ob-
serve that, however efficient the police may be under
proper direction—and we have seen no instance of
its inefficiency—the inhabitants of the West-end, who
were left totally unprotected, had no reason to be proud of
it. We are, in fact, confidently assured, that there were
not, during the evening of Tuesday, so many as three po-
licemen to be seen along a line of not lees than three miles
west of Temple-bar—a circumstance for which the men
are nut to he Waffled, but those under whose orders they
act, and to the possible recurrence of which, in case of
a similar emergency, we cannot ltiok without considerable
apprehension for the immense property which would be
left without any public protection. A beneficial ad.
dition, therefore, to any system of police, however ef-
fective, as well as a great saving of expense, would be
• a recurrence to the ancient practice of " Watch and
Ward"--or, in other words, to the employment of
all persons rated in the parish hooks to act, in turn, as
constable*, in the preaervaton of property whenever any
outrage or disturbance should call for the assembling of
the regular police force in any particular district. It would
be no difficult matter to draw up a plan for this purpose,
which, with a little trouble on the part of the inhabitants
of the different wards, would give more satisfaction than

the present system, as well as afford greater security to
person and property; but we content ourselves with
merely throwing out the hint, for the consideration and
improvement of those who have more leisure than our.
selves to discuss it.--Morning Advertiser.

The proceedings in Parliament have not yet restunell

hat tone of opposition to the measures of the Govern,

usent, which burst forth with such energy during the first
days of the Session ; but it will be Been from what took
place last night, that the Hon. Member for Middlesex has
again sounded a most determined note of opposition on
the two great questions of Parliamentary Warm and

National Economy. We question whether he is alto-
gether correct in charging the Premier with a decla.
ration against any additional retrenchment in the ex.

penditure of the Btate ; but certain it is, that no an•

nouncement of economical intentions has been made by
the Government, nor, consequently, of any additional

remission of taxes : and we fear, therefore, that although
he may not be literally correct in his charge now, there
is but little reason to apprehend that Ministers will, if they
keep their places, prove it to be false in the long run. In
the meantime it will be observed, that Mr. flume is cor.

dially joined by Sir James Graham and others, in itnpera-
five)), demanding that the public money shall not he voted

away without true time filr consideration. The question
of reform is one of even more serious import, and we
shall see, when Mr. Droughain has brought forwardhis mo-
tion, what is likely to become of it during the present ses-
sion. In the meantime, the animosity which has been excited
against the Premier, in consequence of his senseless declare-
lion against reform, is even greater than could be readily
supposed, except by those whose business it is to sound the
current of public opinion; and we think we may, with-
out any chance of the event belying us, safely take
it upon ourselves to inform his Grave, that his te-
nure of office will be brief indeed, if it be to be
hounded by the carrying of such a question. The ques-
tion will be carried, and that, too, at no great distance
of time; and when carried, the Constitution of the
country may safely bid 1:)y efizeelih it
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