The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1837.

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should be elected for life ; and as it was deemed neces-
sary to counterbalance the influence of the French
party, who returned a great majority of themselves
Members of the House of Assembly, it became
usual with every new chief Governor to fill up
the vacancies in the Council from names known to
be well affected to Great Britain. As a matter of course
the thriving British settlers easily obtained a pre-
ference, and thus the whole body of Legislators
soon became divided into two parties, inflamed
with mutual jealousies, and actuated by sentiments,
feelings, and motives in utter contradiction to each
other. The Council was perpetually moving in
ore way, and the House of Assembly pulling
with might and main in an opposite direction.
To heighten this state of perplexing conflict, the Go-
vernment kept perpetually shifting from side to side—
one while throwing all its weight into one scale, and
in the twinkling of an eye, flinging it into another—
without the shadow of a pretext for a course so undig-
nified and extraordinary. In 1807 Sir JANIES CRAIG
dragooned the Canadians ; while his successor, Sir
GEORGE PREVOST, allowed himself to be bearded
and insulted by them, within the precincts
of his official residence. The Duke of RICHNIOND
had his authority set at open defiance—the House of
Assembly having first resolved to stop the supplies
during his administration, in 1815. Lord DAL-
• nousues policy was the very reverse of the Duke
of RICHMOND'S—and thus, from the year 1763

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o the present hour, has England been hold

ing out inducements to the Canadians to take the
dreadful step which they have now taken. That the
Canadians have many grievances to complain of, we
readily admit ; but we deny that they are of
a nature to justify the shedding of a drop of hu-
man blood. They are, therefore, morally reponsible
for the guilt of the war in which they have plunged this
country. We shall to-morrow minutely examine the
list of grievances complained of by the Canadians,
that our readers may learn what are our exact opinions
respecting them.

People, it is said, are allowed to talk nonsense at
Christmas-tide—for it is a tolerant and good-natured
season, when allowances are made for all sorts of social
escapades—but we know not that they are allowed to
talk such nonsense as was talked a clay or two since
at the Holywell Conservative Dinner. Captain
MOSTYN, to whom this feed was given, twaddled
away in a style that sets all competition at defiance.
He did not indulge in occasional sallies of no-meaning;
but was contitsuous and diligently persevering in his
efforts to bewilder and obnubilate his hearers' faculties.
Now, we hold, with die force of a strong moral con-
viction, that oratory of this sort is inexcusable even at
Christmas, more especially when it is of a lengthy
character, as was the case with the notable speech, of
whose peculiarities we now proceed to make honour-
able mention. After observing, that he " aspired not
to eloquence of diction or flower of speech," and then
hastening to prove the fact by spreading over some
five or six windy, corpulent sentences, remarks that
might have been packed up in three lines ;—after thus
certificating his abhorrence of all prolixity, Captain
MOSTYN—who, we should premise, is the de-
feated candidate for the Flintshire boroughs—
went on to say, " Gentlemen, I have, perhaps,
paid less attention to polities than many of you ;
nor do I pretend to possess the abilities which
are necessary to form a profound judgment on
the science of Government." And yet with this just
and becoming estimate of his own abilities, the gal-
lant Speaker aspires to a seat in Parliament, and
thinlt.s it uncommon hard that he has been unsuccess-
ful in his exertions 1 He confesses that he knows
little or nyithing of legislative matters, and that
many of his hearers have the advantage of him
in this respect ; yet, nevertheless, he is desirous
to take his place in the House of Commons,
in order, of course, to grapple with questions
which demand long habits of thought and sedulous
application ; which involve mighty interests ; and are
only to be fairly discussed and decided upon, by those
who have made politics the science of a life. We
might attribute Captain MOSTYN'S denial of politi-
cal ability to mock modesty, and give him credit
for all of which he denies the possession, did not his
remarks on the nature and tendency of the Conserva-
tive system convince us that he has done himself no
more than justice, and assessed his faculties at precisely
their proper valuation. What, indeed, is to be said for
a speaker who can talk such nonsense as the follow-
ing ?—" We have no time to lose ; the enemy of our
faith is abroad ; and he who loves his QUEEN, who
loves his ChUrch, and who loves his GOD, will avail
himself of the day of Conservatism to work the work
of the Constitution ; for otherwise the night of
Radicalism will arrive when no man can work ; and I
trust that no friend to liberty will ever again be so
tame as to open his mouth, and allow any man to
cram down his throat a stranger to us and our country."
We here pause an instant to contemplate in heart-felt
admiration, the daring energy of the above metaphor.
How perfect the picture I How refined and spiritual the
allusion I Conceive a Flintshire Conservative opening
wide his mouth, while a Flintshire Radical stands at
his elbow, and crams down his throat, head-foremost,
an immense stranger, hat, coat, breeches, boots, and
all I We know of nothing in the English language
—not even in that eloquent duodecimo entitled the
" Beauties of CASTLEREAOH"—equaI to Captain
MOSTYN'S image of the open-mouthed Conservative,
unless it be his earnest supplication to the Flintshire
electors, that they will not open their mouths for any
such unconstitutional purpose as swallowing a raw,
uncooked stranger I
Sir STEPHEN GLYNNE'S speech—a calamity in-
flicted at the same dinner—was worthy to vie with
Captain Alosivses, which is saying a great deal for
it. The Honourable Baronet indignantly repudiated
the notion that he was one of those " philosophers"
—we are not aware that he has ever been accused of
being a philosopher—" who assert that ignorance and
Conservatism are connected ;" on the contrary, he
maintained that " ignorance and imperfect knowledge
were the fruitful source of Radicalism." This is rich.
So then, the more the people become enlightened, the
more apt they are to fall in love with Toryism ; with its
happy genius for taxation ; its tact in inventing
jobs and sinecures ; its love of standing armies,
and Church pluralities ; its gaols and its barracks ; its
Pension-lists and its Peterloo massacres I An illu-
mined public doats on all these little Tory peculiari-
ties ; it is a benighted one only that eschews them.
The wiser we grow, the more we become reconciled
to the visits of the tax-gatherer ; it is our ignorance—
our perverse, deeply to be deplored ignorance—that
makes us averse to the kind, and well-meant investi-
gations of Toryism into the exact condition of our
purses I This is bright logic, and every way worthy
to have fallen from the lips of such a consummate
statesman as Sir STEPHEN GLYNNE.

Colonel O'CONNELL who succeeded to the com-
mand of the British Legion in Spain after the depar-
ture of Colonel EVANS, has been in town for some
time making arrangements for the conveyance of the last
remnant of this ill-used and ill-fated body to the shores
of England. We believe vessels have been dispatched
by Government for that purpose, and their arrival
may be expected in a few days. Thus will close a
scene creditable to the unfortunate sufferers for the
bravery and patience displayed under the most trying