The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We were prepared for the display of spleen which
the visit of the King and Queen of elgium this
country called forth in the Times of yesßterday.to It is
quite m accordance with the system of our Contem-
porary. There are no charities of life, no ties of
relationship which the Times is disposed to respect.
The same fiendish spirit which endeavoured to infuse
into the late King suspicions of her present Majesty
and her illustrious mother, which sought to sow jea-
lousies between parent and chid, and to excite dis-
sat;sfaction with both in the minds of the public
by piWing the most uncharitable construction on the
actions of the inmates of Kensington Palace, is
still at s.nrk. The object of the article in the Times
is two-fold ; first, to give pain to the amen, and
next to exi.ite indium against the King of the Bel-
gians. The Tories ot dissemble the disap-
cann •
pointinent they feel that the door to Court intrigue
is now closed against thent. They see that her
Majesty reposes the most pc:7feet confidence in
. her present advisers, and that the'" policy re-
ceives her hearty and decided approbation. This has
led them to dilate in their reviews on the advan-
tages of the Salique Law, and to fill the public mind
with apprehensions of danger from a female reign.
The article in the Times has its origin in Tory spleen
arid disappointment. The grapes are sour. We should
have heard nothing of the inability of her Majesty to
act on the suggestions of her own judgment if she had
chosen to bestow her confidence on Sir Robert Peel.
But the advice of King Leopold is now, it seems, ur-
gently demanded. "It is idle to suppose," says the
Times, " that the universal interest attaching to her
Majesty's infant Councils will not be participated in
by her Royal uncle, or that he will wholly abstain from
giving his illustrious (royal?) niece the benefit of his
experience." Again and again her early age is dwelt
on ; and King Leopold is instructed as to the subjects
on which he may and may not give advice to his
Royal relative. He must not mix himself up with
" negatiations and proposals touching her Majesty's
personal happiness :" he must " see the propriety of
withholding his interference as well in regard to spe-
cific questions of policy, as with reference to the persons
who ought or ought not to conduct the Government
of this empire." But on what is he then to advise
his Royal relative ? He is to advise her to do no-
thing—to urge " the propriety of withholding any de-
cisive or premature exercise of her Majesty's confidence
and prerogative." Her Majesty is to have confidential
advisers in wham she is to have no confidence. How-
ever, the Times does not long remain within the limits
of neutrality. King Leopold is to abstain from ad-
vising the Queen on subjects connected with her per-
sonal happiness, from interfering with regard to specific
questions of policy, and from stating who ought or
ought not to conduct the Government of this empire ;
but for all that, it is more than insinuated that King
Leopold ought to advise the Queen to throw herself
into the arms of the " Conservatives." " Enough
was seen and heard by his Majesty (at Ramsgate) to
convince him that a high Conservative sentiment is at
this moment proudly buoyant in all quarters of the
kingdom. The signs of the times are manifest on every
side ; and King Leopold, if we mistake not, is no bad
judge of them." And as King Leopold will not read
the signs of the times with the spectacles of our Con-
temporary, he may prepare himself for a series of the
same vituperative attacks as those which were lately
directed against his illustrious sister. We understand
that the circumstances that took place at Ramsgate,
which according to the Times will suggest important
lessons for his Majesty's guidance, are altogether mis-
represented, in order to furnish this irrefragable evi-
dence of the predominance of high Tory sentiment ;
so that even the support of fact is wanting to this fine
superstructure.
" The pier and the adjoining streets of that watering-
place," says the Times," which at present is crowded with
visitors conveying an average specimen of national feeling,
were thronged with an immense multitude of spectators.
During his Majesty's short progress from the steamer to
the Albion Hotel, he received many tokens of a respectful
and highly decorous welcome. We do not mean to say
that the total absence of any thing like popular enthusiasm
on the occasion was at all intended as any disparagement to
the Royal cortege, on the contrary, we believe that every
other popular feeling was absorbed in that of a quiet, scru-
tinizing, and complimentary curiosity. But the moment
that his Grace the Duke of Wellington was ascer-
tained to be present, as Lord Warden of the Cinque,
Ports, the decorum of the well-dressed multitude gave
place to the deafening shouts of exultation. Never was
that illustrious Conservative more enthusiastically hailed.
It was a noble and spontaneous tribute. The air literally
rung with acclamations ; and though nothing could exceed
.the delicacy wherewith his Grace hastily withdrew himself,
hi order to leave the King and Queen of Belgium in sole
and undivided possession of the admiration of the public,
enough was seen and heard to convince his Majesty that a
high Conservative sentiment is at this moment proudly
kuoyant in all quarters of the kingdom. The signs of the
times are manifest on every side ; and King Leopold, if we
mistake not, is no bad judge of them."
We have received from a correspondent the follow-
ing account. of what took place at Ramsgate, authen-
ticated by his name and address :
" I beg to inform you that I was at Ramsgate on Mon-
day, and saw the landing of the King and Queen of the
Belgians, On that occasion there was no particular
display of popular feeling. There certainly was a very
little cheering, and every wish to show a fair respect to. the
King and Queen, but nothing more. As Ramsgate is at
this time very full of respectable company, and as it was
expected that the Royal strangers would arrive some time
between three and five o'clock, no hour could be more fa-
vourable for promenading, and the pier was literal!y crowded
from one end to the other.
" I am sure that the Duke of Wellington will he much
surprised at the statement of the Times, for he was in
waiting at the pair-head from half past two until six o'clock,
when the King and Queen arrived, and during that long
time we did not hear any cheering at all for the Duke. It
is true that many gentlemen and ladies walked up to have
a sight of the Duke, whilst he and they were in waiting,
but on these occasions there was no cheering. Again,
when the King and Queen drove along the pier to the Al-
bion in an open landau, the Duke of Wellington walked
behind arm-in-arm with the Hon. Edward Cust ; and, al-
though they walked up through the centre of the line of
people, we must certainly say, with truth, that there was
no political display whatever, and if there was a cheer it
was from a stray voice. You may with great truth and
justice distinctly declare that no individual so nearly con-
nected with our Queen, and of such rank, could have been
received with less political feeling ; and that no individual
could have been received with more cordial kindness, and
with more calm respect, than was shown to Leopold and
I.is Queen."
But, after all, even supposing the statement of the
Times to be true, what an idea of King Leopold
must that journal have to suppose that lie would be
so overwhelmed by the cheers of the loungers at Rams-
gate, as at once to infer from this display the predo-
minance of Conservative sentiment in England, and
run °p.m mouthed to the Queen and warn her against
the danger of continuing to repose confidence in her
present advisers ? The idea is, after all, too absurd
even for the Tilies. The truth is, its affectation of
deference for King Leopold is merely a feeler. Having
familiarised the public with the idea that the visit
of the King of Belgium has for its object an inter
ference Nsitist the Government. of this empire, on that
assumptionthe Times will, without much ceremony,
proceed to cover him with ribaldry and abuse.—Morn-
ing Chronicle.

On taking a second glance at Lord Palinerston's
address to the Tiverton, electors, we find that it is sus-
a more extended comment than we have
ceptible of
vet bestowed upon it. The earnest thankfulness with
which his Lordship speaks of his return to Parliament

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as a piece of " good fortune" indicates upon the
whole a more modest estimate of his own deserts than
we had previously given him credit for. That the
Noble Lord should have been twice endured by the
same constituency is evidently regarded by him as an
unparalleled mercy. He is confounded to find, that in
-in spite of the forebodings excited by a just apprecia-
tion of his personal and political claims, the purchase
of Mr. Kennedy's interest in the Tiverton venality has
for the second time effected for film a touch-and-go de-
liverance, such as can only be ascribed to sheer " good
fottunej.'. But in truth Lord Palmerston his been a
chlil of fortune from first to last, Play the fiddle
who may, his Lordship is an everlasting dancer. He
is under no necessity of giving any prospeetta of his
principles. He i 3 privileged to hear what opinions
the Premier for the time being pleases. He neither ap-
peals to past services, nor pledges himself for his future