The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-15 00:00:00

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LONDON.
TUESDAY FVENING. AUGUST 15, 1837.

The Tories are completely gravelled by the result of
the Scotch and Irish elections. They had, we believe,
calculated on the successful employment of their cor-
rupt arts, in stifling the voice of the people of those
countries. Having been able to force in some of their
creatures into the County representation of England,
by driving or dragging their rural bondsmen to the
poll, and to smuggle in others by pandering to the
basest passions of the profligate freemen in the small
boroughs, they imagined that they had the ball at
their foot in the other parts of the kingdom also.
Thanks to the unconquerable spirit of the Irish and
Scottish people, the friends of corruption, the enemies
of everything great and good in morals, as well as
liberal in politics, have been baffled in their wicked at-
tempts against the liberties of their country. It will
be seen by a reference to the election list in ano-
ther part of our paper, that Scotland has, as we
aaticipated, returned 34 Reformers and only 19
anti-Reformers. This is the triumphant result as it
stands at present, and viewed in its least favourable
aspect. It must, however, be borne in mind that
there are four counties entered on the Tory side of
this account, in which the returns have been protes-
ted against, and which will, in all probability, be
• be wrested from the King of HANOVER'S party—
namely, Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire, in each of which
the majority was onlyone—Peebles-shire, where it was
six--and Caithness, where more scandalous prac-
tices were resorted to by Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR'S
Supporters in fabricating votes, than ever were heard
of before, raven in the days of the DUNDAS ascendancy,
when Scotlagd, by means of faggot votes,was one immense
rotten borough. These counties being then, as they
will be, taken front the one side and given to the other,
the number of Reformers sent to the new Parliament
by Scotland will be 38, and of anti-reformers 15.
In Ireland the result will he as cheering. From the
returns and the state of the rolls, when the elections
are finished, there is no doubt that from 70 to 75
staunch supporters of Reform and of the QUEEN'S
Ministers will be found in St. Stephen's Chapel on the
opening of the next Session.
How then does the honest Times endeavour to get
over this stumbling-block thrown in the way of its ,
pro-
phetic vaunts about re-action and " Conservative"
(bless the mark !) triumph ? It returns—as the dog
to his vomit, and the sow to her wallowing in the
mire—to its old worn-out argument, that Ireland is
not a part of the United Empire. It makes, or at-
tempts to make, a distinction between the value of
Irish and English votes ; as if the increased impetus
• given to Ireland's patriotism, and the increased number of
Members returned to advocate her cause and redress
her wrongs, were not ten times more formidable to the
. Tories as a party, than if that increase had been in the
representation of England ! Look too at the sly and dis-
ingenous way in which the writer of the article which we
have this day extracted from that Journal tries to hoodwink
his readers. He attempts to league England and Scot-
land together against Ireland. In the elections for
the two former countries there is, says this straight-
... furward scribe, a majority against the Irish people and
their demanded justice, when the fact is, that it is in
England alone that such a majority exists—and that,
. too, acquired by means which cannot stand
the test of a moment's investigation—therefore a
numerical majority, but nothing else. Would
not the writer have done more for his cause, bad
as it is, had he limited himself to the simple truth.
instead of lugging in so enormous a quantity of fus-
tian falsehood about " eight degrees of latitude,"
" industry and civilization," " venerable antiquity,"
" towering cathedrals," &c.? Would it not have been
fairer and more creditable in him—if he did not like
to contl:ss in so many words that Scotland had re-
turned 34 Reformers and 19 Tories—to have left
it out of his calculation altogether, and confined his
latitude and longitude to England ? So much for
Printing House-square veracity !

In another part of to-day's Sun will be found an
Address from Mr. PAUL METHUEN to the electors
of North Wilts, in which he hints at the recent con-
duct of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT on the hustings in
terms which will, we suspect, pierce the Hon. Baronet
to the heart, even through the thick coatings of his
self-conceit. "My absence from the contest," ob-
serves Mr. METHUEN, " and the total impossibility
of my friends replying to a charge which they did not
hear, might, I think, have induced a generous enemy
to have practised a little more forbearance than is to be
found in the reported speeches of Sir FRANCIS BUR-
DETT on this occasion. The confession of his new
faith would not have been less acceptable to those with
whom he now associates (many of them high-
minded and honourable men), if, remembering my past
fellowship with him, my long connexion with you, and,
must add, my present misfortunes, he had spared
those reproaches which it would have required no in-
genuity to retort upon himself. If I announced my
intention to retire from Parliament, so did Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT. If, at the request of a numerous
body of your constituency, I consented to forego
fly resolution, so did Sir FRANCIS BURDETT.
Gentlemen, I repeat, I have nothing to regret
for myself. I retire with the consciousness of hay-
.,ing done my duty by you ; and I shall take the liberty
t
o add that I prefer that retirement, accompanied, I
hope,
by your esteem and approbation, to a conti-
nuance in public life secured by any sacrifice either of
pablic principles or of private friends." This is just

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