The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-13 00:00:00

We hope the gentlemen of the House of
Commons, who are prepared to vote against the
Ministers, are also prepared to settle how the
Government is to be carried on. There are many
persons in the country, who pant for a Tory
Ministry, that they may have a feasable pretext for
agitation, and means to stir up a row. Many of
those, who at public meetings declaim the loudest
against the Whigs, do it because they preserve
the peace. They have not been provoked into
instituting one prosecution, except that lamentable
one against STEPHENS, to which they were insti-
gated by others, notwithstanding the numberless
libels by which they have been assailed, and the
, extraordinary, not to say illegal, proceedings
which the distempered times have brought forth.
Mob orators and demagogues hate them, because
they supply no food for excitement. The To-
ries, it is expected, would take a different
course, and by making a few martyrs would
serve the cause of agitation. At a meeting
.held at Newcastle on Tuesday last, the most
violent declaimers were advocates of the To-
ries, precisely, we believe, on the ground that they
want a Government which they can cordially hate
;and zealously oppose. We hope the gentlemen of
It the House of Commons have taken this point into
their serious consideration, and before they vote out
'i the compromising yet conciliating, the vacillating
1 yet soothing Whigs, will ask themselves if they
i are ready to back the new Government, with a
formidable military force to overcome the fierce
opposition, not to say hostility, which it will cer-
; lainly have to encounter.
We should like them also to remember who is to
' The the new leader. The Duke of WELLINGTON
its getting an old man, and has resigned the chief
command to BOBBY PEEL, a name that expresses
his soft and yielding character. When did he
really take the lead in anything ? What plans of
government has he matured—what comprehensive
^,iillemes of administration has he invented ? From
being a second-rate hack of the LIVERPOOL Ad.
ministration, hating CANNING on account of his
talents, he became, after that Minister's death, the
head clerk of the Duke of WELLINGTON. At the
Duke's command he gave up for a moment the
convictions of his political life, and grudgingly
conceded Catholic emancipation. He then dis-
gusted
his clerical friends by his treachery, and
strice he has continually shown himself a friend to
the bigots, in order to win back his lost popularity
with his own party. With no comprehensive
grasp of mind, with none of the sagacity of a
statesman—for he has never taken one position in
advance—with no capacity to appreciate the present
movement of society, for he has lived in the House
of Commons, and the distinguishing mark of this
age, is, that the people are giving the law
to the law-makers—Sir ROBERT PEEL is
'wholly unfitted for the leader of that bigoted
arid coercive Administration which, if the Ministers
be turned out by the Orangemen and the Priest-
hood, he will be compelled to form. We hope
those who, like Mr. JERVIS, have declared that
thoty will not vote for the Ministers, have consi-
dered these circumstances, and are prepared with an
Administration which, like that of what the
Tim's calls the shabby Whigs, has preserved
tranquillity at home, and peace abroad. We
repeat what we have said before, that we are
neither for Whigs, Radicals, nor Tories, but for ,