The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-09 00:00:00

the result but ruin, overthrow, and cnnsternation, to
the deceivers, while those who wei e to have la en
its victims have escaped the toil of the deceiver,
and tritimphed in a righteous cause' ? Flow different
might have been its situation, hall plain, manly, can-
d d dealing been the policy of the late Fretch Go-
v,rnment ! The Charter fairly exercised, and the
liberties of tin people gradually enlarged, should
have been its object, us it was its sworn and impe-
rative duty; inste3.l of which the Minister, in onp
and the same breath, boasts of having deceived
every one, and of relying implicitly for final success
no mere brute force. " This affair" (says Polignac,
in allusion to the ordhiatices which produced the re-
cent explosion), " this affair is settled ; all the rest
etnieernti the gendarmerie." But here how egre-
giously is the deceiver deceived ; and what a useful,
what an awful lesson does all this furnish to other
Statesmen of other countries ; not only to such, if
there be any, who entertain criminal designs against '
the liberties of their country, but to those who de-
sert the obvious and direct path of duty for the
slippery arts of deceit and mystification ! There
need be no obsearity, there need be no mystery in
State affairs! and it may be taken as a pretty sure
maxim, both in public and private life, that, where
these begin, truth, honesty, and fair dealing, are ge-
nerally banished.—Morning Herald.
A requisition has been presented to the High
Bailiff of Birmingham, requesting him to" call an
immediate town's meeting, for the purpose of ex-
pressing the sense of the inhabitants of Birmingham.
and its neighbourhood, on. the recent events in
France, and to promote a subscription in aid of the
hen.ic and suffering inhabitants of Paris." The
Requisition is signed by six blinkers of three diffe-
rent firms, by three physicians, and by merchants,
&c. Tba' High Bailiff has named Wednesday next
f. 4 the meeting. As Birmingham will in all proba-
bility have the 160 honour of being the first place of
which the inhabitants have met for this purpose, we
shall insert the names of the requisitionists
George Attwowt Arthur Hill George P3vons
Time us Attwowl Thomas Y. Hunt W. Reolfrrn

Jame► lb,lcher John Kentish B. Redfern
Robert Benton Charles Jones T. B. Robinson
W. J. Beale Francis Lloyd T. C. Salt
George Blyth George Cosby Lee Cornelius Stovin
James Belles E. B. Lovell W. 11. Smith
Edward Cotton John T. Lawrence Joshua Seta&Reid
Francis Clark E. T. Moore W. H. Stewart

Thomas Clark G. F. Muntx C. C. Fick; lt.tield
Matthew Dixon O. E. Male, M.D. R;ehard Spooner

J. B. Davies, M.D. William Martin Thomas Tindall
John Eccles,2ll.ll Henry Merry Henry Vim Wart
Charles Viridian Theophilus Merry Thianas Upfill
Thomas Harris Thomas Osier Richard Underhill
Thomas W. Hill Joseph Parkes Thomas Waddell
If. Hadley J. W. phliama William 'Willis
Frederick Hill Penjamin Parsons Robert Wrightson.
John Horton
Throughout the country advertisements for re-
ceiving subscriptions are becoming general. Thus,
for instance, we find the following notice in the
Hampshire Telegraph, dated this day :
". The Printer of this Paper, feeling, in common with
his brother Journalists, the highest admiration of the con-
duct of the Parisians during the eventful struggles (wand
despotism on the 27th, 28th, and 20th ult., will be happy
to receive the subscriptions of those of his readers who are
prompted by the same feeling, towards giving relief to the
surviving sufferers, anti to the necessitous families of such
es have been slain, The contributions shall be remitted
from time to time to the Authorities at Paris appointed to
administer this relief."
It is not much to the credit of the Metropolis,
that it has allowed the other towns of the kingdom
to take the lead on this great and spirit-stirring oc-
'casino. We confess we were never able to under-
stand why the merchants and bankers of London
should here deemed it advisable to proceed so di-
plomatically as to consult with Members of the Pro-
visional Government of Prance, whether or not a
subscription for the wounded Parisians would be
taken amiss. The moat striking feature in the
events of Paris was the promptitude of the people;
and we, could have wished that promptitude end
also characterised the expression of the sense of the
people of this country. On every occasion, indeed,
where public men have addressed the people, no
matter what principles they profess, they have all
spoken in terms of reprobation of the conduct of the
late King of France, and in terms of admiration of the
conduct of the Parisians. At York, Mr. Duricombe
and Mr. Bethel), as well as Mi. Brougham nod
Lord Morpeth, paid their tribute to. the French.
Even Colonel Joiiiffe, who has disposed of his
borough at Perersfield, finds it expedient to tell the
'freeholders of surrey, on whom he wishes, to
(touter himself, that " he was happy he could concur
wi,b the most popular candidate unto the gallantry
ants good conduct of the French, who had just re-
ictsed themselves from the chains of Popery and
Prestliood." These sentiments are felt to be po-
intliv, otherwise they would not be put so swill.
ottsly forward where the people tire assembled.
Why, then, do influen,iel hung bark ?
It is not surely for their interest to have it believed
that they are more indifferent than the body of the

people to the Almelo& of a tution ttitirnphing over
a tyrant who winked to trample their Constitution
in the dot. Yet the Want of promptitude ha.

;dredy led to the most injurious suspicions.
"AU the limiest men in London (observer a weekly
contemporary, the Spectator) dui not quit it when Parlia-
ment broke up. There are yet enow, and to 'pare, actin-
et.ked on such an occasion, to fill the largest room in Eng-
laud. Let there he a attbacriptiOa, if it be thought proper;
not for the make of the lucre---there is not a gentle heart

that fought the fight of the Vireo days that would not
spurn it if so proffered; but as a means of expressing the
feelings of the donors. If it be soothing to the honest
pride of a lioOd man that his courage in the hour of trill
has been approved by the citizens of his town—if it be yet
more gratilying that the wide influence of the gond his arm
ha. achieved, is appreciated by the inhabitants °lbis father

land—is nut the thought that the mighty revolution in
which he was a layout ed actor, it nu extended, and so hens-

&lid in its e.msequencet, that it has engaged the attentinn,
and called forth the sympathies of the stranger from Afar
—that foreign nations funk on him with applauding eyes,
end foreign wealth is poured not as a tribute to his vuluons
hearing—a still more heart-swelling thought titan even
the praises of home, and friends, and countrymen?"
There are people, however, it would seem, in this
country, who approve of the conduct of Cheats the
Tenth, acd think him a deeply injured man.
" There is a total want of analogy (says John Bull)
between the case ofJames the Second, and that of Charles
the tenth, string that Charles X. never imprisoned any
body without the sanction of the lawn—that sot a single
execution for political offences has taken place dining his
reign l and that, in short, no circumstance whatever hss
arisen, front the
.personal; conduct of the King, to justify
the vile and infamous abuse with which the levellers and
republicans have covered him; but that, on the contrary,
he.as the King of England might, and as the King of
England Constitutionally does, but as King James did not
I—has submitted himself to the advice of his Ministers.

If individuals choose to make a party by subscribing their
money fur French revolutionists, instad of adding to the
comforts or relieving the necessities of their own poor
countrymen, they may perhaps exhibit 4 specie* of parti.
sanship as title creditable to their heads at 4 to their hearts;
but whether this country interface et not, one thing is car.
tain--the cause of the Dom bons is precisely as good a cause
as it was when the Charter was granted—the fault and
blame must rest upon the Iklinisters."
Bravo! If dames hint only, on the recommends-
tion of a set of Ministers, annihilated Parliament,
and employed an army to butcher the people of
London, itnitead of delaying the slaughter till the
invasion of his son-in-law with a Dutch army rent.
.hared it dangerous, lie would have been, like
Charles, an excellent Monarch 1 " The King, says
John Bull, " acted upon by mingled feelings of
confidence in the people, and a desire not to fly from
danger, has, perhaps, prolonged . the winfai a ; but
is there a being se tame and base—except, indeed,
the wretched James—as at once to surrender the
kingly office and quit the land of his birth, and the
scene of his dominion, without a struggle ?" Had
januni only prolonged the warfare, he would have
been olmost up good a IFlontirch as Charles in the
eye* of John 1101; but our contemporary forgets
f
tittzterXteidngsbyt.:lihnins um A
ot fight without- soldiers, and that
" 4"ktittil of James refuied to fight. He was
y. II Kr as bravery goes,