The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-22 00:00:00

Such of the Tories as have not lost their senses
have endeavoured to disLlaim the speeches of
Messrs. BRADSHAW and Itoßy. Even the Times,
the great teacher of violent language, has been in-
structed by the moderates of its party to denounce
them. They accord, however, so well with the

sentiments inculcated by the Tories, that they

must be considered as party orations. Where
men are at liberty and accustomed to speak
out, no hesitation occurs ; the speeches are
gratefully acknowledged, and the authors thanked.
Possessed for many years of a complete as-
cendancy, and having no one to check the ex-
pression of their hearts, the Corporation of Dublin

ave conferred a vote of thanks, and the freedom o.

the City, on Mr. 1311,113mA w, " for his splendid
advocacy of Protestant principles." His violence,
and the ascendancy of the Anglican Church, are
identified both at Dublin and Canterbury, and
both the applauding Clergy and the applauding
Corporation have signed their assent to Mr. BRAD-
SHAW'S abuse of her MAJESTY.

We are not surprised at the Tory Journals

3eing anxious to throw off the imputation of
lisloyalty, which is now deservedly applied to them,
"or devotion to the Crown is the only civic virtue

they could ever claim. With the bulk of the
people they hare no sympathy and no connection.
They claim to be their masters, with an avowed
resolve to be their tyrants. Popular improvement
is their abhorrence. Of liberty they are enemies.
They maintain the Church, and insist on tyran
nizing over conscience. They hate education for
the people, whom their whole policy goes to
impoverish and degrade. As a party they can
boast of nothing but their devotion to the interests
of the Court. Hence the Tory Journals, the
blustering Times, the whining Standard, the
simpering Post, the scolding Herald, have all
been in a fret and a fume because Elie Li-
beral Journals continue to hold up the
beastly disloyalty of Mr. BRADSHAW and his
" half-drunken priests militant," and .Mr. ROBY
and his " military accomplices," to public reproba-
tion. We have no pity for them, and must con-
tinue, however painful it may he to the whole party,
to declare that the Tories are all implicated by the
conduct of their friends. Messrs. BRADSHA W and

R OBY may have committed treason against the Tories
by blurting out what they all speak, " beneath their
breath," amongst themselves ; but what they spoke
over the fulness of their cups, is the creed of their
party.

But if any doubt could be entertained of their
feelings and intentions, all is cleared up by their
conduct to the QUEEN DOWAGER. They are
parading her through the Tory territories as
a rival of the QUEEN. They hold up
Queen ADELAIDE as far superior to Queen
VICTORIA, and add to their disloyalty the avowed
desire to sow dissensions betwixt the QUEEN and
her aunt. Not content with depreciating her MA-
JESTY, they exalt another, and arrogantly- insist on
the QUEEN taking their lessons, and placing herself
in tutelage to them. When they can use the
Crown to their purposes they are loyal ; but the
tyrants of the people can never be faithful to the
SOVEREIGN. They are only intent on usurping
her authority as a means of extending and securing
their own beloved tyranny.

We have inserted in another column a Letter
on the imprisonment of JOHN THOHOGOOD,
which is worthy of attention. We quite agree
with our Correspondent as to the necessity of
adopting energetic measures to get rid of such abo-
minable laws as that under which this victim of

priestly; intolerance has suffered so long and so se
verely. It is the duty of all who are attached to
the principles of civil and religious liberty, whether
they belong to the Church, or dissent from it, to
exert themselves, in order to procure the abolition
of laws which can be reconciled neither with jus-
tice, with humanity, :nor, of course, with the spirit
of the Christian religion.

But until this desirable change can be effected,
and in order to effect it the more speedily, it is no
less a duty to protect, as far as that can be done,
the persons who, like THOROGOOD, prefer the tes-
timony of a good conscience to every
.other consi-
deration, from being crushed by the persecuting
malevolence of Ecclesiastical power.
Let the Dissenters take heed to themselves ;
their conduct is narrowly watched. They must
support the cause of JOHN TIIOROGOOD, or their
every
of own cause will suffer for it. If they do not—if
they do not embrace the opportunity which is now
afforded them, of proving by deeds that they sym-
pathize with a sufferer for conscience sake, they
must not, in future, talk about their zeal for the
principles
religious liberty. They will be told
on
convenient occasion, by those who owe
them no good will, that to profess principles and
not to practise them is the part of hypocrites.
Nor must they imagine that poor TIIOROGOOD
will be the only object upon which the vengeance
of the Church will be let loose if his case is not