The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-17 00:00:00

raised one universal feeling of exultation amongst all
men who know and feel what liberty is.—(Cheers.)
Never, I will venture to say, did history record
a Revolution more necessary in its commencement, more
terrible in its warning to all tyrants, more ;just in its ven•
geance, or more speedy and glorious it its termination.
(Cheers.)—The rights of freemen are not tobe compromised
by, nor held at the will of tyrants; and this lesson canner
be too strongly impressed upon all men—that the people
have an indefeasible right of resistance to Kings and to
kingly power, whenever that power is exercised against
their liberties.—(Applause.)"

Sir James luivi.i;g added—
" I trust that the French people will show with what
moderation they can use victory, by sparing the life of that
wretched and outcast man who was their Sovereign."

W. Lawson, Esq., of Brayton-hall, the gentleman
who proposed the Honourable Baronet at the Elec-
tion, on the Tuesday following, observed—
" From one pint of his speech I slightly differ, and
that difference will be best shown by the toast I am about
to propose--e' May the beads of Don Miguel, King Fer-
dinand, anti Charles Csapet, be severed from their bodies
and rolled in the dest—and the more speedily the better.' "
The toast was drunk with " applause." Accord.
ing to the intelligence from Madrid, we may soon
expect to hear of important events in that country.
Ferdinand's reign will not, probably, last much
longer. The influence of the great movement in
France must speedily be felt throughout the Peniii.
suds. The statements in the letter from Madrid, in
another column, may or may not be true; but that
important changes must take place in Spain, is a
point as to which there can be little doubt. When
speaking of Ferdinand, we naturally recur to the
period when the French army, led by the Duke
d'Angouleme, enabled him to trample a second time
on the' constitution of his country. On that occa-
sion we well remember the fulsome praises lavished
on the hero of the Trocadero. How times are
changed ! We have before us a Brockune, just
published in Paris, under the title of " The Flight:
of the Royal Family—exact relation which passed
at Saint Cloud, Rambouillet, Maintenon, Laigle,
Argentan, and Cherbourg"—in which, while the
late King is spoken of as having been unable to ex-
tricate himself from the influence of Priests and
Emigrants, but yet possessing " no decided pens
chant for despotism," the Hero of the Trocadero is
throughout treated as an ideot and a coward. "He
was incapable (it is observed) of connecting two
ideas together," such was his hebetement. The only
man of the family was, it is said, the Duchess
d'Angouleme. So much for history 1 Yet the
destiny of thirty-two millions of men would have
been committed to this ideot.--Morning Chronicle.
At the Cumberland election Sir James Graham,
among other desirable reforms, is reported in the
Carlisle Journal to have said, " that an immediate
effort ought to be made to reduce the expenses at-
tendant upon elections : to remedy this, let the votes
be taken in five or six places in such a county as
this; and then the freeholders, without inconve-
nience, without expense, could make choice of re-
presentatives—not because they were possessed of
large properties, but because they were endowed
with consummate abilities."—As Mr. Crackanthorpe
had just before observed,
" That the interests of this country are no longer re-
presented, because the expenses ;of contested elections are
mo enormous, that compromises of the grossest and most
scandalous nature are made daily..--(Loud cheering.) I
find that all the counties in England are completely pars-
lystel.—(4 Look to Yorkshire.') IVO, I do, and I say
Yorkshire is completely so, or rather, it is rendered com-
pletely nugatory; there are two Members of independent
principles, but, on the other hand, there is one a little
liberal, and the other anti-liberal ; and I sincerely regret,
that, owing to the expense, Yorkshire cannot send four
liberal Membere.—(Chvers.) And I also assert it as my
deliberate opinion, that, in consequence of the progress of
liberal anti enlightened principles, were it not for the irn-
memo expense, Cumberland could send two independent
Member* to Parliament."—(Cheers.)
There can hardly be a doubt that the taking the
votes in a number of places would alone tend mate-
rially to improve the County Representation. But
this improvement *ill riot be conceded till the still
more important reforms can no longer be refused ;
for we must never blink the question, that the
Government of this country is founded on corrup-
lion, and that whatever tends to improve the Repre-
sentation must equally tend to shake the foundation
of the Government. The Duke of Wellington is
severely censured by Sir James for his opposition to
retrenchment. After noticing the superannuations
of Messrs. Bathurst and Dundas, he adverted to the
opposition of the Ministers to the reductions re-
commended by the Finance Committee, and then
gave the following very graphic account of the nature
of the reductions effected by his Grace :
" Icy commencing with the higher offices, it would
produce a double effect—it would reverse the state
of things—it would act like a two-edged sword, cut.
ring down the public expenditure, anti striking a
death-blow at that corruption which the high offices
engendered and supported.-•--(lmmense cheering. )
But instead of that, the Government began by lopping
off clerks, private soldiers, and subalterns of every depart-
ment—(A voice In the crowd : The chips of the block.
yard I') Aye, es my friend in the crowd has said, the
mere chips of the block-yard.--(Great cheering.) I fed
extreme pleasure in being thus interrupted—it proves that
he who takes upon himself the tank of exposing evils,
does not undertake a thankless office; it provea that his
labour is not in vain ; that the great body of the people
know, and are narrowly watching their own interests.—
(Cheery.) This thought animates me upon the present
occasion, and if I am elected, it shall cheer rue through
the paths of my duty,—(Cheers.) I was about to remark,
that the Ministry having taken this course—the Committee
broke up—because, it did ea happen, that all their recom-
mendations touching the higher offices were thrown over-
board by the very House of Commons that appointed them,
end their operations were confined to such paltry offices as
I have stated to you.—(Cheere.) They did not touch the
salary of one single Member of the Howse of Common*,
nor that of an individual Peer in the other House, but
confined themselves to the weak and powerless-.-.thus keep.
ing :open flu': corrupt gates of influence wide as ever, and
increasing the duties of those who had most work and
least pay.—(Cheers.) Seeing this, I thought it toy duty
to try the honesty of the Home of Commons, and the
sincerity of the Government, by bringing forward a dis-
tinct motion for doing away with the office of Lieutenant-
General of the Ordnance—an office which was filled,
I ant sorry to say, by an individual representing a great
mid populous county—and which the Finance Committee
had declared to be useless. I proposed the measure—the
Government resisted—and the Ilouse of Commons rejected
the recommendation ofa Committee elected by themselves,
and by whose Nuggeytiony both they and Minister* had ex-
pressed their willingness to abide..--(Loull checrieg.)-1
took my course from the moment—l sane that the Duke's
deference to public opinion was a false delusion.-.-arid that
his Ministry were a twee poor, and corrupt body, totally
',worthy of my confidence.....(Cheete.)—lt then bscaine
necessary fur me, treeing that there was a body of men in
that Howie who invariably voted with the Ministers, to in-
quire how far they were influenced by the Aristocracy, and
what interest they had in the Governnient, by emoluments
derived through the patronage of the Crown. Now, I
think them scarcely ever could lie a proposition more fair,
More reasonable than this—that when a roan has hie hand
in your pocket, you Arnold inquire how much he takes
out, and what he does with it. House
of Commons are the guardians of tine public pro-
perty, and it iv but- reasonable that that public should
know how that property -is expended.—(Cheers.)-1 said,
then allow Me to ask how much thelPrivy Councillors re.
ecive from out of the public pause? Ministers said, in
reply, sou shall not know---they offered a conditional re-
sintance-1 might have information About any body *dee,
but that body was sacred, and not ten he meddled with.—
(Applau,e. )—I thought it was most unjust, moat impoli.
tie, to wish to conceal such facts. And here let me say,
and it is but justice to nay own assiduity that I should say
tint I made out a list of the Privy Council-.--which 1
ant inclined to believe in correct, tinted it has never been
contradictial--and in the presence of that Parliament.e-in
tine teeth of those very individuals who were receiving it—
I said, and I now repeat the assertion, that there are no
less than 113 intlivi,tuals of the highest rank of tine No-
bility, having either seats or direct inductive nre that House,
who aro receiving einonget them tilto,ooo/. yearly from
the pockets of the people.—(Cheers, and cries of "tohatue,
elnittrue".....“ at them again l")—I will not go through an
analysis of the whole course which I have ;Aimed, but I
think thia inn a slight apecitnen of the honesty and faith
with -Winds I have weed you."--(Cheelft-)
h4vo HD doubt that both this Duke of %Veiling-
, !°l4:itt mliet‘ltt)e'r i " during the°r t titan behave Comtmrorrs will
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