The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-09 00:00:00

'some pleasantry
,by saying that the Doke of Wellington
was popular every where, 'except with lion. Members in
the llouaeand the blarkguardi w4hout. It aprars to rfl
that the taint* expedient to prevent the tectsmity of Wm
3lajesty disappointing the city of Loudon, and spicaht
eonsternation through the empire, we, that the lake of
Wellington and Sir Hobert Pad should hare aunt ern.
logiot to the Loid Alayoe, and then his _Majt.toy
have entered - the City with a etttvinty of sufferieg nu
other inconvenience than what might wise from the txu.
hermit loyalty of his faithful peop'e, who kno,e how to
diatinguish between the Speech of the Ministers anal t'
personal sentiments of the King. In the tfun•ts
of Lords, explanitions shunts. to those whieh had
been made in the Commons were given. The Dni.o
of Wellington, in the most serious manner, declared
that lie had been induced to advise his Majesty
to change his intention with respect to going into the -city,
not from any personal apprehensions which he !night en.
tortain, but from the fear of consequences which he knew
would give pain to the breasts of their Majesties. A quei.:
tion hail been raised whether the counsel was suggt red by
the existing state of the country; but the Noble Duke tin,
equivocally declared that he did not believe the eountry
was in a disaffected.state, and that the King's visit to the
city stood upon grounds distinct from the state of thd
country, and peculiar to itself. Lor4 Clanriettroie heard
the Duke's explanation with great aorrow. He hail hoped
that the letter was written from fears excited by sone'
secret information of tin Ott-ming nature. The nimbi
fell three per vent., which was an ahmolute lots cousttl
,by
the condnet of Ministers, lie deprecated the attacks on
the Duke's person as much aa any one mould slat: Lord
Grey felt humiliated at meting the letter. in. the 'papers of
the day. Ile had hoped that Ministers had inquired-Welt
into the danger before they took to &vivito a measure.
The Marquis tat Bute eluded to the danger to the Duke ef
Wellington's person at arising from a tumult, and defended
the conduct of the Government. The mstter then drops
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ped, erenium,
The postponement of the Royal Visit to the city Wits
the general topic throughout .yesterdety. Replier:46one,,
which will be read with intense is:tern:es were given by his
Majesty's Ministers in both 'louses ref Pat liaruent lent night
relative to this very unexpected event. The proposition,
it appears, did not immediately emanate front. them. The,
Lost! Mayor Elect, impressed with apprebeesinee of disc
ont:flees, and becoming doubtful ..of the adequacy of teja
means to preserve the public pesce, deemed it his duty, to„.
communicate Isis fears to the Nolde Duke at the heed
the Government, to whom accordingly he adthenteed a let-
ter, informing him that he had reason to believe en attstek
was usetaisted upon his Grime's person, amid that, further,
advantage would be taken of an ilisufficient civil force to
commit serintisoutrages. With these warninga from a (meter,
whence it sus natural to conclude the must nen:tato inform-
tion was to be derived, hie Majesty's Ministers had of couree
:to other line of conduct to pursue than that which they
adopted; the question of expediency, therefore, rests
entirely with the Lord Mayor Elect, who, with the best
possible intention., may have moist ,ken the course beat
calculated to mettle the desired 'end. It will be seen by
the advertnentents in our first page, nut only that the
Court of Aldermen unequivocally disavow the conduct and
proceedings of the Lord Mayor in this respect, but that
the Common Council, held last night, has expressed si-
milar sentiments, declaring at the came time that " the
most perfect rebuke might have been placed on the boost'
feeling and spontaneous exertion* of the great ko,os of the
population of London to co-operate with the Civil Power
in effectually suppressing such attempt"' ant pteservieg
the public tranquillity." That the Lord Mayor's. letter
was the sole ground upon which Aliliiiters propertied to
the extreme ntrastile of potteoning, sine die, so lore(
and anxiously expected a festival, is evident front the
statement of Alderman Waitlimate cosefirmed by Aldettoun
Thompenn, that dleectiorss ware given not to deliver Sir It.
Peel's letter al the authenticity of that front the Lord
Mayor was satisfartolify ascertained. Netwithstundittee
this, however, we deem it cot 410 diet decisive and definite
information of an alerming (diameter Lae been received ley
Government, Which it is not expedient for the present to,
divulge. ' We'come into itably amid readily to this couclu-
sion, seeing that none of the several reasons adduced by Sir
Robert Peel are of eufficient weight to, justify the: great
and extensive alarm produced throughout the metropolis
by the pompano:wet of his Majesty's visit to the City.—
The appreheneion of danger to the public peece is etsfli-
ciently answered by the declaratious of the Aldeneett anti
Common Council, from which it appears that, though cone
fasion and initial rioting. might and probably would have
ensued, nothing of a really serious nature could Isave resulted.
Any attempt upon the life of the Duke of Wellington, if it
be Indeed tensible that so inexpressibly infamous u pro..
ject could have entered the mind of the lowest repudiate
or villain in the kingdom, might easily have been frus-
trated by common vigilance. No pereon will believe for
an instant, that the truly noble and gallant individual who
has exposed his life tor his country in so matey ',leanly
field., could have been acted upon by fear on this lieelolo,to
The season, however, must strenuottely urged we ohaervn
to be that in the event of 4 tumult and it necessity arising•
for vigorous repression, the innocent would have suffered
in a larger propartioms even than the guilty. It is almost
needles)* to remark how easily all apprehension of this kind
might have been removed by a simple but serious vanish's,
publicly given to the respectable anti orderly classes to
keep within doors after a specified hour in the evenieets
We repeat our couviction that Government is its the pee-
session of proof more relative than it hiss been deetuesi fit
to promulgate, and we look Ar it with confidence when the
proper hour shall arrive. The assertion boldly hazarded
by the Anti-Ministerial faction, that the whole effeir was is
ruse to excite unfounded alarm tend being supports re to
the Government, we cats only uousider me desperate eapa-
riment as to how far imereeition may be successfully pure-
thee! upon public cretielliy. It is worthy of the wove
whence it proceeds,' Morning Post,
The puetponststent of his Ztlajesty`it emit to the city is
at the piesent moment a *Oleo* of se: 111t101 anxiety, Merin,
eonl discussion, that we shad) riinalteilly out trout our reader,
to the discussion oiceesty other matter. And little ales dints
it behove us to say nu this 'better, for there is no one
within the 'sound of the city belle, or within the call of
the High Bailiff of Weetnalmitere who haa not !wide nit
his mind respecting it, And what is the opinion ?—Why,
that it was a pitiful attempt to get up another " hots
bay" MUM% and to alarm the country with notion% of
revolution and conspiracy when there was ott ground for
eitltere—that it was intended to form the basis of 4 pretencet
for the friends of Ministers to say " strengthen the Govern.
merits" and quash the question of Parliamentary Iteforin
—and, finally, that instead of affeeting any object heuelicial
to the Government, it Wu only added to its unpopitlerity,
mid covered it, in every respect, snore completely with the
contempt which lash been previously entertained fur it..
The great subjects of regret in the City are, on the hoe
hand, that the King should have lent himself to such a
state, and stale, trick, and thereby have ilimiaisheel the
just popularity which he has hitherto ertjoyed ; 01141
the other, that while every person of the slightest tespeca
lability nuts prepared not only to do all honour to this
King of Little:id, but to defend his person if lie:vas:rya ,
and had inctirreel great expellee, aod made up 01.4 minds
for still more, they Should have no opportunity of testify-
ing their loyalty affeetioll. On this subject the city
re, Is that itisas been insulted, notonly by the lewd Mayor
elect, but by his Mijesty'e confitleittod advisers; stud we
are truly glend to perceive that the Coutt of Aldermen
have taken the earliest opportultity act only of dieavotekng,
in every respect, the officious communication of the Leesi
Mayor elect, but of sleobteing that his Majesty might have
passed to and fro, in every quarter of the city, without
the slightest grottos' for fear. The Court, in its Advertise-
ment saem'
„ al„,„
' court "4" hereby hae thiP oppeettuaty cit to..
tootling their fellew.eitiaeus, that they roost urietielvocally amiss
deilidelny 41111/IVOW knowlettge of any connuurleation made to the
Eamiii_ve ()overwrite of the (natality 61 the magiatracy to
Preaervo the, Pea en of the Metropolis on the Lord Mayor Day
(which they are bound amt ready, with their lives, In maintion
on oti oetassions), because they arts quite satiatiot of the cent-
Oats efficiency of the Pollee, and that the steps taken by the
laglittracy to increase the civil mice were ogiatneestivate ti the
highly important tesesion of late hlaiestyis intended visit to thil
great City ; oust they cannot but 131i1W1 that any representation
should WOOl4OO made wirieh has hail the Wino. of nutmeat:log
the lifainiautanetit or his ste44oo, vial; to lute loyal City of
)tiAlenn."
And well, indeed, nety it lament that any representa•
tient should have W:osn merles wish+ hits had the effect
influencing this postponement of his Mejesity'ss vielt'to the
city ; fee never wits there ate ineeh contusion, exoitexr,,,nts
we are confident* nniSeeeSsiry 4141'114 creased, as by.
this simple anti cowardly step. Horne slight tunsultatnight
here bete epeaseintiided uuquestiourshly, fur where tho
King its there will he a crowd, mid where them is a. crowd
th#, es will be disorder bat we at the wee titre perfeetly
even with the Coinage:l Commit of the City that neitherriot
or eon fuel Olt tifriny serious moment was to Iseapprerliendeilhad
lair Altrietoty sod his Royal Consort cOndeactuttled to visit the
01,1, tine that lia,l evil.alisposed and dieaffeetril permute
Made Attempts to excite commotion, or disturbance, the
mint perfeet reliance mieht have been placed on the no
feeling pal et:out:menus exertions set the great noon of the
pnetAlivitua of London, to coeoperete with the-civil power
to
Ivtitiailtr).4bllligteel(tilratilitrligliehliteitaYnietiv""tabtiNe etPuiltenliri:dPaae°inikeitlftaleliCatit siVp.aleatdBhueuYntitt:lifultigl:
effectually suppressing such atteoloa, and pet.crvi,;
stay alarm—it has caused another irtmendouti drirrevistitae its the funds; and,- if we are not 'egregiously, trilitibien'tutir':'
paved the way for the fall of alone *hos tenure Of oNftir'-;
it was intended to etrenithentrsMitritil

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