The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-24 00:00:00

like their cheers, generally and generously anticipated the
cause—the facetious period concluded with, to his great 1
disappointment, one rather important omission, namely, li
the joke. He heard, indeed, some allusion to the papers
and notes he (Mr. D.) had laid upon the red box, as ifl
they were recipes. But the truth really was, and he did
not wish to conceal it from the Right Hon. Secretary, that
they were no such thing : they were not recipes of Dr.
Shaftesbury, but certain cases of complaint against an-
other doctor, a Doctor Westbury—they contained abstracts
of the cases of some 50,000 farmers, and as many shop-
keepers, reduced to poverty, and as many more labourers
reduced to the state of absolute skeletons, by the advice of

this learned doctor, together with his firms of two other
doctors, of the names of Liverpool and Callington ; and
they complained that they are still obliged to pay him
6,000/. a year for ruining their health, and advancing
them on their journey to the other world, by forcing
down their throats his celebrated golden drops. The
art of vaticination, as usual, was lugged in, to silence and
annul the stubborn facts apparent all over the country,
and to show that its present disgraceful condition ought
not to be inquired into by Parliament, because there may
be some amendment in prospect ; and this logic is deemed
quite sufficient for the most logical as well as honourable
of Houses. This stale trick of substituting prophecy for
inquiry had led him to expose the extraordinary mistakes
and misrepresentations contained in previous Ministerial
assertions, calculations, and predictions, having reference
to currency. And hence they had tried to make it a cur-
rency question, in order that it might be thought what it
really was—a Constitutional question. He had only
argued the currency so far as it illustrated the true value
of the great authorities concerned, and to make gentlemen
a little cautious how they pinned their faith again upon
oracles whose previous dicta showed their authority was
not worth a farthing ; and be would ask, who would trust
men who, in 1819, had brought in a Bill which, like the
Trojan horse, was by stealth to subjugate and enslave the
people, who dragged it along with 3 per cent. written on
its side—who brought all the best authorities to vouch for
its only affecting property to that extent—and who, when
they found that the 3 per cent. turned out 53, neither
showed any disposition to contrition or retractation,
but actually followed it up by another gratuitous
and additional act of confiscation, which, by with-
drawing the small paper money, has added 25 per
cent. to the havoc and robbery previously committed.
Now lie would ask, bow long the people of England were
to he the constant victims of the false prophecies of in-
capable rulers, why were they not called to account for
their errors and misconduct? Why were the false pro-
phets suffered, year after year, to go forth deluding and
misgoverning the country, just as if nothing had happened
to invalidate their testimony, instead of being impeached as
they ought to be, and as they would be, if Parliament
represented the people instead of the Government? Instead of
this, nothing goes down but fulsome panegyric. If any poor
Editor expressed a doubt of the extraordinary honesty or
sense of justice of a Ministry who could witness the havoc
produced by their measures, without the slightest wish to
alter them, Mr. Attorney-General pays his respects to him,
and he is referred to the speeches of lawyers and to the
decisions of accommodating Juries for proof that he is
not despoiled and misgoverned. (As the noise and con.
fusion which hail prevailed during the two previous
hours, now became excessive, the Hon. Gentleman
after commenting upon the indecency of such proceedings
in strong terms, concluded by withdrawing his motion in
favour of the amendment; stating that as the House
would not hear anything but what was t.gainst the motion,
it was quite in vain to persevere, and that he was fully
aware that he bad to contend against a decided majority
who derived their income from the taxes.)

The SPEAKER explained that if the original motion
was withdrawn, the amendment must follow, as there was
no ether motion before the House.—(llear, and laughter.)
Mr PEEL suggested that it was better to divide upon
the amendment, and let the original motion be negatived
without a division.

The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment B7
Against it 255
Majority for Ministers —l6B
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at Half-past Two o'clock.