The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

' FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Herald.)
; Whether we look east, west, north, or south, the Con-
servative cause, which is the cause of the Monarchy,
the religion, and the Constitution of England, gains con-
' tinual accession of strength. It is the conviction of
thii truth which puts the Ministerial Journalists into a
state of rabid ferocity, more becoming the season when
the " dog star rages" than the winter solstice. They
tremble and they bully—they whine and scold. They
loOk as fierce as " Herod's hang-dogs in old tapestry,"
while their hearts quake with fear, and they give vent to
the most furious menaces in screams of agonised des-
pair. In the meantime the crazy Cabinet is going
plank by plank. Of its original timbers the best have
long since started and gone. The rotten remains of the
old Grey Administration have been patched and vamped
in so bungling a manner as neither conceals their un-
sightliness nor improves theia strength. The Queen's
name and the Royal arms, surreptitiously.inscribed on
this miserable specimen of Lichfield House workmanship,
will not be able to protect it much longer from final ruin,
any more than O'Connell's patronage or the Pope's
benediction. Over its approachinr;fall will Irish agita-
tors pour a funeral howl, And Royal chamber-women
weep k but the people of England will rejoice, and all
who feel for the prosperity. and Oar; of the British
einpireill shed no
,tears save, those of joy. As the
Session of Parliament approaches, Conservatism dis-
plays its confidence—its just and sober confidence, and
more and more unfolds its strength. At public meet-
ings and festivals, characterised by unity, temper truth,
and loyalty, its banners are displayed, and its inspiring
voice goes forth to the: country, kidding it be glad in
the prospect of its approaching deliverance—a deliver-
ance which will bring with it the rescue of its religion,
the restoration of its character, 'and the protection of
its ancient and glorious iintitutions. Nor will any in-
stitution be more indebted to Conservative protection
than the Throne itself, which will regain the lustre and
the dignity it lost since, the deinoralising influence of
Whiggery overspread the Court, and darkened with
its shadow malign the personal popularity of the
"Sovereign.. Looking at the state of the public mind
ihroughout the country, except where tainted with the
Chartist treason, that monstrous offspring of profligate
Whig agitation—looking, we say, at the state of the
public mind throughout England, well was the Duke of
Buckingham and. Chatedos justified in saying at the
Winchester festival—a report of which appeared in
, our columns of Saturday—" Conservatism is the watch.
word of the country. The spirit is displayed in every
part of her Majesty's dominions, and she will find the
real, true, and loyal supporters both of herself and
Crown in the ranks of the Conservatives." That up-
right and patriotic Nobleman, whose course through life
haS been so unflinchingly consistent, properly distin-
guishes between the Sovereign and her Ministers. He
says, " I am addressing men whose hearts feel high and
devotedly towards the Monarch, and who are ready to
throw their bodies at her feet in defence of her person
and her throne. What, gentlemen, has been the cause
of the irritability which now exists in the popular
mind ? I state tc you, boldly, it has been, and is, the
result of the conduct of her Majesty's advisers. It was
through their constant desire for agitation that they
roused men's minds, and that without knowing how to
control them. They are now called upon to put down
treason. I boldly state they are traitors to their coun-
try." Who can believe that the Chartist insurrection
and the slaughter of the unfortunate victims of Chartist
agitation at Newport would have taken place if it had
not been for Lord John Russell's celebrated Liver-
pool speech in favour of " Chartist free discussion,'"
which the alleged traitor Llewellyn says encouraged
him to go on in that cause which has had such calami-
tous results ? Did not Ministers also allow the Parlia-
ment to be bearded all last Session by a set of BritiAl
Jacobins, calling themselves a " National Convention,"
assuming the character of " delegates," and openly
discussing the propriety or practicability of subverting
the whole system of existing society by physical force
Lastly, was not Mr. Frost, who stands charged with
leading the people against the Queen's troops, Lord
John Russell's chosen magistrate ? Can we wonder
that the land has been defiled with treason, when the

spirit that encouraged it dwells so near the throne?
'We do not say knowingly encouraged it as treason,
but did what was, in effect, tantamount to that, by
inciting and encouraging the political agitation, which
step by step has led to treasonable conspiracy, revolu-
tionary violence, and civil slaughter. If, then, the poor
ignorant victims of this profligate system of agitation
are to be winged, will not the public call for justice
upon a higher class of political delinquents ? Is not
Chartism only another offshoot of blood-dropping sedition
from that atrocious system of agitation which led, in
Ireland, to the murderous scenes of Rathcormac, Castle
Pollard, and Carrickshock ; at the latter of which
places fourteen policemen, with their captain, were
suddenly closed upon by a treacherous crowd of
" passive resistance" Papists, and brutally slaughtered ?
Was not O'Connell, who fills the double situation of
chief Irish agitator and Lord Protector of the Queen's
Ministers, one of the persons who set " Chartism" a
going in this country, by assisting to draw up " the
People's Charter" ? And is not Chartism, through
that channel, at least, obviously traceable to Ministers
themselves ? When Ministersof the Crown, either ac-
tively encourage, or passively connive at the promul- •
gation of doctrines that strike at the root of 1110-
narthical Government, and, by tending to loosen
all the bonds which knit society together, in-
evitably lead to popular violence, what name so
fitting for such Ministers as traitors to their country ?
Under that designation, treachery to the Sove-
reign is implied, for they who betray the country
are traitors to the throne. In alluding to the just de-
scription given of the conduct of her Majesty's Ministers
by the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, at the Win-
chester festival, the Standard, said, " So spoke the last
Plantagenet, though we hope not to be the last of his
high and loyal race." The Globe, commenting upon the
passage in the Standard, repeats the words " the last
Plantagenet," and sneeringly observes, "we do not
know the grounds on which this sobriquet is given to the
Duke of Buckingham." Perhaps our worthy Evening
friend, whose confession of ignorance touching this mat-
ter is more creditable to his sincerity than a pretence of
knowledge on many other subjects on which his mind is
equally dark, will not be thankful to us for enlightening
him. Yet, at the risk of meeting no other reward than
rank ingratitude, we will undertake the task, and commu-
nicate one ray of knowledge to a mind not overstocked
with information. Be it known, then, that the name which
our worthy friend of the Palmerston Journal calls a sobri-
quet the grounds for which he is at a loss to conceive, is in
the first place the right of the Duke of Buckingham
and Chandos as his name of baptism, he having been
received into the bosom of the Christian end Catholic
Church by the name or names of Richard Plantagenet
Brydges, &c., Grenville. Let us observe at the same
time, that there is a slight' mistake in applying to him
the description of " the last of the Plantagenets," for
there is, we are happy to say, another of the name as
well as race—viz., Richard Plantagenet Campbell
Grenville, commonly called the Marquis of Chandos,
who inherits his father's talents and virtues, and who,
on his first public appearance at the dinner of the
Buckingham Conservative Association last year, gave,
in the short but expressive address which he made, high
promise of future distinction as an able and devoted
champion of those Protestant principles which placed
the House of Brunswick on the throne of these realms.
In the second place the Duke of Buckingham has
an ancestral right to the honoured name of " Planta-
genet"—a name rich in the recollections of history,
and associated with the royal blood of England. The
late Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, the mo-
ther of his Grace, was the heiress and representative
of the house of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk,
who married Mary Dowager Queen of France, and
sister of Henry VIII. To the issue of that sister,
who was the relict of Louis XII., the crown of Eng-
land was left by Henry in his will as a contingent
remainder ; but we need not add, that, as the contin-
gency did not happen, the title never vested in Mary's
descendants. This was not a mere exercise of despotic
authority by Henry VIII., for thepower of bequeathing
and limiting the Crown was conferred on him by Act of
Parliament, respecting which Mr. Justice Blackstone
says, " A vast power ; but notwithstanding, as it was
regularly vested in him by the supreme legislative
authority, it was therefore indisputably valid." The
Crown, as we stated, never vested in any of the descen-
dants of Henry YIII.'s sister Mary, but on the death
of the last of his daughters, Elizabeth, it vested in the
heirs of Henry's elder sister Margaret, Queen of the
Scottish Monarch, James IV., from whom descended
James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England, from
whom the Hanoverian line, represented by our present
Most Gracious Sovereign, are descended through the
Electress Sophia of Hanover, youngest daughter of
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, the daughter of James I.
That Princess, though not the nearest to the ancient
blood royal in respect of consanguinity, was the nearest
of the Protestant religion ; therefore the best and strongest
title which the august family whom Queen Victoria re-
presents have to the throne, is written in that legislative
title-deed called the Act of Settlement, 12 and 1:3
Wm. 111., cap. 2, which limits and binds the inheritance
to the imperial crown of these realms forever exclusive/a/
in a Protestant line of succession—esto perpctua.

Having thus given the Globe some view of the royal
lineage, descent, and connections of the Duke of Buck.

ingham and Chandos, we hope we have satisfactorily
accounted for his right to the name of " Plantagenet. ;"
for if the blood of the Plantagenet race was in the
veins of Mary, the daughter of Henry VII., and of
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV., it ►s also in his.
But he claims not public respect for high descent alone.
He who has earned the unambitious title of " the
farmers' friend" is also the high-minded and de-
voted supporter of the Monarchy—the established
liberties—and the Protestant Constitution of England.
Let us add here, in conclusion, an observation from
the great commentator on the laws of England, which
the Ministerial patrons of the Globe ought not to be
ignorant of. Their policy of "inflicting a heavy blow
and great discouragement on Protestantism" would seem

_EVENING LAIDITION.

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to imply, that if they ever knew it, they have not kept it
in remembrance. " Formerly," rays Wackstone, " the
descent was absolute, and the Crown vested in the nest
heir, without any restriction; but, now, upon the nets
settlement the inheritance is conditional, being
to such heirs only of the body of the Princess Sophia as
are Protestant Members of the Church of England, and
are marl ied to none but Protestants." How comes it,
then, that no official announcement has ever yet been
made of the religion of the intended consort of the
Queen ?

(From the 21forning Advertiser.)
Tor3ism is no spirit metamorphosing itself into va-
rious forms, suffering success:ve metempsychoses for the
purposes of purification and progressive perfectioq. It
is one and the same—the incarnate spirit of oppression
—" Moloch, horrid king !" rod with the blood of sacri-
fices! Soft, silken Peel is scarcely. suited for its high
priest. We never believed in its pretended conversion,
nor that its essential love of evil had changed of a sud-
den into etberial mildness. The long vaunted " loyalty":
of the faction towards monarchs aftr their own heart
was even it seems no better than a pretence, a ;sort of
Pontius Pilate mockery—since a chenge in Court senti-
ments brings inevitably a chang4 in Tory doctrines and
deeds. In the unreserve of their evening orgies, warmed
by wine into unwonted candour, the Ashton Tories.
(the Squire Westerns and Parson Trullihcrs who had
assembled in herds, " every beast after his kind and
every creeping thing after its kind") applauded to the
very echo the filthy calumnies which the wretched
slanderer Roby dared to utter against his innocent and
youthful Sovereign. With the morning came sobriety
and repentance. The burst of honest indignation which
arose from the people of England as from one man, the
cutting and dignified rebuke of the Commander-in-Chief
to the officers who disgraced the uniforms they wore by
a participation in those treasonable words, convinced
them that they had gone too far, that they had spoken
out too plainly, and that it was necessary to proceed to
cat their words with all imaginable dispatch. In solemn
conclave they met together to go through the humiliating
task, and endeavour to convince their countrymen that
treason did not mean treason at Ashton, and that slan-
derous abuse was in the mouth of a Robe synonimous
with chivalrous devotion." We disloyal !" they exclaimed
with frell-acted aredigenat ion, " why the the thing is impos-
sible. Are not we Censervativere and does not every Con-
servative suck in loyalty with his mother's milk ?" " Con-
s-rvatives Rloyal, indeed!" repeats every venal scribe who
for the last twelve months has done nothing but rail
against his Sovereign in rounded pergls. Conservative
" loyalty" becomes at once the theme of every ci-decant
sputter of treasons. Mark how a plain tale shall put
them dcwn. Listen to the sort of " loyallg" which
Conservatives " suck in With their mother's milk," We
quote from the Lincoln Gazette, upon whose authority
we give it, the following account of the proceedingsof
certain of the friends and supporters in the city of
Newark of the Tory candidate, Mr. Thesiger. The
Journal from which we quote may well express its be-
lief that disgust at the proceedings of the Tory party
-will be increased to horror, when we ley before the.m
some of the proceedings of their own party ; nor wail •
they alone partake cf this feeling, for it will be partici-
pated in by every honourable and right-minded person
throughout the country. Whatever the bias of poli-
tical opinion, the national character of Englishmen is
loyalty to the Sovereign ; much then is it to be re-
gretted, that this character should have such frequent -
taints ; but Newark was the last place we should have
expected in which to have found disloyalty. In former
days, meetings were held in London on the 30th of
January, when a calf's bead was the principal dish, to
commemorate the beheading of Charles 1., and during
the last week at Newark, at a Red supper, the follow-
ing toast was given by a Mr. Proudiove :—" The
Queen's Head in the Poultry, and may every passer-by
have a chop at it." This needs no commentary. Yes,
we have lived to hear the descendant of a hundred
kings, " in the morn and liquid dew of youth," our
" Fair vestal throned by the West,"
our lovely and innocent Queen, threatened with the
fate of Marie Antoinette. (alas ! for the chivalry o!'
England !) not by revolutionary ruffians, maddened by j
the " Marseillaise" or " Ca ira," and goaded to frenzy
by misery and despair, but by English Tories calling
themselves " loyal" gentlemen and orthodox Chris-
tians ! A thousand swords would leap from their •
scabbards, it seems, not to defend, but to deface that
head, to save whose slightest hair from harm the life-
blood of a nation would be freely shed ! We dare no'
add a word more, lest we should do injustice to the
feelings of burning indignation which will swell in the
bosom of all who possess the feelings of men.
(From the Morning Post.)
Many of our readers have doubtless heard of the
" Irish cry ;" but never did we think to have seen Bri-
tish politicians reduced so low as to have nothing else
in their favour save this same " Irish cry." But this is
the present condition of the Ministerial party in this
country. The " Irish cry," when used upon what ma 3
be called legitimate occasions, is a wild lament, savage
and yet pathetic, which old women perform at Irish In-
nerals. The Irish cry, as now used for a political pur-
pose, is very savage, hut not at all pathetic. It is an ;
angry anti impotent howl set up by the Ministerialiste
in anticipation of the official death of their patrons ;
even as house-dogs are said to ululate in the dreary !
watches of the night, when the dusky wings of
the angel of death are overshadowing the household.
" Ireland," cries a blatant blunderer, who appears
to consider himself very wise and prodigiously elo-
quent, " Ireland will not dip her green bead in the
Atlantic at the bidding of the Bradshaws, or for
all the ranting of the Stowells and M'Neiles. Sir
Robert Peel will find that there will always be an Ire-
land—always a solid mighty third of the main body
the empire—firmly, indissolubly, everlastingly combined
in fiercest enmity against him?' We don't care a pinch
of snuff for this ridiculous rant—this egregiously
pompous pother. What does it signify-, except to show
that, if it be true, Ireland is not fit to exist as a part of
the British Union on equal terms with the rest? If
the British nation, through the majority of its Parlia-
mentary representatives, should happen to prefer Sir
Robert Peel and his British Protestant policy to
Lord Melbourne and his Irish Romanist policy,
we humbly trust the British nation is not to give
up what it deems right by reason of the " firm,
indissoluble, everlasting fierce enmity of Ireland" to
the Minister whom Great Britain prefers. They -
who are of too grave a mood to regard the
Irish cry as an absurd noise, worthy of' no notice save
that of ridicule and contempt, must still consider it, not
as an argument, but as mere menace. Such menaces
the British nation must scorn. We care not for Irish
threats. Let the Irish, or any one, show that an in-
justice is done them, or proposed to be done, and they
have a right to be listened to, while they express them-
selves in terms of decent respect. But this is not the
course of the ranting and ribald fools who threaten the
British nation with the enmity of the Irish to the chief
of the Conservative party. Let Ireland be heard by
all means, so far as Ireland is just ; but when Ireland
forgetting justice altogether, has recourse to insolence,
it can only have the effect of inspiring honest and
manly Englishmen with a determination to put down
the disgusting Irish Romanist influence which
now pollutes and degrades the Government. We
are not to be dictated to by Irish enmity ; the
rather that we know the intellect and integrity of Ire-
land to be on our side. What is the Ireland of which
the enmity is paraded before us, with such a menacing
air? It is a multitudinous horde of savages, mar-
shalled by a set of the most unprincipled and malignant
men in the whole world—the very incarnation of all
coarseness, craft, and perfidy, the.Maynooth-bred, un-
believing ecclesiastics of thelrish branch of the Romanist
Church ! We use these descriptive words, not from
any feeling of enmity to the Irish, for we have no such
feeling, but simply because they are words which ex-
press the truth. For the same reason that we call an
equiangular and equilateral four-sided figure a square, t
or the season which follows autumn winter, we describe
the Conservative-hating Iriph as we have described
them. Most heartily glad should we be of any oppor-
tunity of doing them good—of making them cleanly,
honest, and religious, instead of dirty, deceit.
ful, and superstitious—of imbuing them with a love
of peace, good order, and independence, instead
of their wretched addietednees to riot, disorder,
and self-abasement—but still we must, from de- it
ferenee to truth, describe them as they really are, and
in doing so it is impossible not to be struck with the
enormous insolence and absurdity of pretending that
such a people, with such leaders, should controul the
course of British Government. We call upon the people,
of England, as they value their name and character
among the nations of the earth, to stand firm in the.
maintenance of their independence and their rights, no
matter how the champions of Irish Romanism may rant,
and rave, and howl. We have, as we said, no enmity to
the Irish, nor do we wish to encourage or excite any
such thing ; but we have an enmity, and, we trust, a
truly British enmity, to political Romanism, and we call
upon the people of all ranks and conditions to steadfast
in the determination to cast from them an Administra-
tion which is obviously the tool of political Romanism.
If the prevailing influence 'nettle present Cabinet be not
overthrown—if the Protestant principles and sentiments
of a majority of the British Members of both Houses of
Perri erne nt are to be set at naught and insulted by an Ad- '
ministration whose sole strength is derived from Irish
Romanism—farewell to our liberties—farewell to our
sturdy British independence. This is no party matter.
It is an affair of national character—of national liberty
—of national morals. Look at, the morality of the
Romanist Irish, under the domination of that power
grasps our British Government, and compels
obedience
hienncow
e
to its will. Behold promises broken—oaths
laughed at—deceit boasted of—every honourable qua-
lity -of man debased. Behold natural astuteness de.
eradedinto the cunning of the political swindler, and the
wild justice" of revenge poisoned into the Italian •
atrocity of the assassin ! These are the works of
Romanism in Ireland. And shall we escape like
degradation by tame submission to Romanist e&A,
croachment and tyranny ? No ; if our people would
escape destruction, they must repel the destroyer.
Allow the Rorrianists in peace to exercise their civil
rights, but beware of their ascendancy in the Go-