The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF Till PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We cannot pass over the Norwich election>with
ao more notice than is due to an ordinary contest.
We see in the return. of Mr. Robert Grants -A itigo
tribitte to acknowledged worth and distinguished
.alents—qt decided manifestation in favour of liberal
principles, and a splendid triumph over an Adrilinisr
tration, which has not scrupled to have.recoursa to
he moat unwarrantable expedients, in the vain ex-
pectation of excluding him and his able and elespreat
brother, the Right Hon. Charlet Grant, from , the
new Partiernent. - We happen to know that, on the
eery evenitvg titY which Robert Grant brought
forward his motion on the Regency (one of the last
debates of the Session j, tie received undoubted its
formation that the Governatentt, was putting in
motion all its engines to defeat hit reelection (of
which he had reason to consider himself secure) fur
the district of Burghs in Scotland, which he thou
represented, end alto that of his brother for, the
county of levernees. The influence which had Wien
secretly at work for some time against these two
distinguished Membirt, was so oat of the .common
course, arid directed to such quarters,' that they
could scarcely believe the intelligence They had re.
ceived. They both left town for the North ionise-
(timely after the debate, end at Edinburgh Mr,
Robert Grant found that individuals, on whom he
had the greatest reliance had deserted his colours,
and ranged themtelves tinder those of an Bast India
Director, whose merniS of eorraption had been,joincd
to those of %Ilia abundant ratornisei were held out
on the part of the Administration; 'Hie return to
London, the signal of his discomfit tire, wee hailed with
transports of joy among the runners of Government.
Flushed with !hit Success in the Inverness district of
Burghs, and panting for fresh triumphs,. they pro-
ceeded with redoebled vigour, and still more one
blushing effrontery, in their efforts to oust Mr.
Charles Grant from the county. Every specie* of
interference was made use of, end the Home Office
in Whitehall emulated the labours of the Count De
Peyronuet at Paris during the late elections. Coi.
M'Leod put forth his 'memorable Address to the
Freeholders Pt the county of Inverness, which ?teems
fashirned on the model of the Polignac Circular..
The Treasury arrayed themselves alternately in all
their terrors, and in all their blandishments—threats
and promises were unsparingly scattered to intimi-
date and seduce; they even addressed themselves,
as we are well assured, to' s gentleman holdieg a
.high judicial apPoititment in the county, and were
not rcrupulous in promising a commission in the
army as the price of fa tote. We are much mirth'.
formed, indeed, if the prospect. of a Peerage has ma
been, hill out to overcome the coy resistance, or to
silinee the antiquated prejudices, of'a powerful clans-
' man. We shall not detail 01 that we have heard re-
specting this lavish abuse of patronage, because We
think it not improbable that it may be noticed in the
new Parliament in a more formal way. It is enough
for
,our present purpose to state that the two
brothers were put under the special ban of the
Ministry, and that no means %.146 deemedsoolow—
no price too high--to exclude them hem' the new
Parliament. But the English are a stubborn people
to deal with—blind to their 'own welfare, and (as
Captain ,Basil Hall would, perhaps, decide) " unfit
for the blessings of liberty." They cannot be
brought to consider the anathema of the Duke
of Wellington as a sufficient reason for shut-
ting the doors of the House of Commons
against attic, honest, and independent men.—
A few days after his return to London, Mr.
Giant was solicited by a deputation from Norwich,
to allow himself to be put in nomination for that
city in opposition to Colonel Peel, who had been
brought in there, at the last election, upon the prin-
ciples of Ultra-Toryism and Protestant Ascendancy.
Mr. Grant accepted the invitation. A tool
stringer, unconnected with the place—unprevided
with the means of undue influence—with only his
public and private character to recommend him, he
received in one day the votes of 1,96.5 freemen, and
the repudiated Member for a district of Scotch
Burghs, bearing•upon him the desecrating.mark Of
Ministeral wrath,was elected by a great majority the
Representative of a great and enlightened cormner-
cial city, which numbers more voters than the
whole kingdom of Scotland put together. Such
have. been the consequences of the Doke of .Wel-
lington's first illusory. victory in his Electioneering
Campaign. The, man whom he caused to be re-
jected by a knot of obscure Burghs in Scotland.
has been triumphantly returned by a numerous and
independent community in England. It is imps-
Bible not to be struck .with this occurrence, illusion-
ing, as it does, the weakness or the prudent caution
of the Government •in attacking only small mid
rotten Boroughs. The friends of Ministers talk
loudly of the accession of strength which they will
gain in the new Parliament. It is doubtful, we be-
lieve, whether, even numerically, their calculation will
be realized; but when we see them unable to put
forward a candidate for either of the Universities—
when we see Mr. I3roughum invited to Yorkshire,
and about to represent that immense county Mr.
Kutner about to walk over the course for Middlesex,
and no attempt mode to put up a Ministerial can-
didate at Liverpool, Nottingham, Westminster, or
any other great commercial town : when we see the
ministerial candidate defeated at Canterbury, and
read the pledges which those who tight under the
like colours in other popular elections, are driven to
enter into, as affording them the only hope of suc-
cess, we are confident that the moral influence of
the present general election must snore than coun-
teract any paltry gains which may be obtained by
corruption and intrigue, in close boroughs anti ob-
scure places. Will the voice of the people, thus
proclaimed at this critical moment, open the eyes, of
the Duke of Wellington to the impossibility of his
continuing to conduct the affairs of this country, in
its domestic and foreign policy, with a weak and ill-
constructed administration, and upon principles
which neither satisfy
.the just expectation of the
people at home, nor inspire confidence and respect
abroad ?-2lforning Mronick.

The result of the Norwich election must be pecu-
liarly mortifying to the Ministry; for not only is
Colonel lied brother to,the Swampy of State, and,
as such, brought into Ant field' 'all the influence
which tho Government could give him, but his site-
cessful opponent, Mr. Robert Galt, is the person
against whom, and against whose fantilY, the Trea-
sury had determined to make this most "dead set."
Besides other unpardonable sins of the last Session,
Mr. Robert Grain, the new Member .for, Norwich,
is the person who so obstinately brought forward
the Regency question, laid whose'defest upon thst
occasion the ea whipper-in" announced as the prelude
to his own defeat, and that. of kis family, every
where else. What Mr. Charles Grant's fate in in.
verness-shire may be we have yet to learn; awe know
that his defeat is looked to as certainly, and, pa-
baps, as mistakenly, as 4is biothees eras at NOtWieli.
Every thing tends to-make this Norwich affair Mine
mortifying. The person hest out or the tichlte 'than
old Member—one who was personelly much liked
among leis constituents, independently of his power
to win their good opinion in the most winning way;
yet he is defeated by a gentlemen who WAS not
I thought of as a candidate ten days before the elec..
don; while the Ministerial candidate was in the
.field this first among the whole body of candidates
throughout. the kingdom. The other candidate
(Admiral Sir Charles Ogle), who has also lost his
election, may, we think, be rather proud of his eta-
ogni
ty
hadioio ,joined
actually
y lists
be:ut
,yet
seuncriht
tion on the poll than mortified at his share of the den
i
-
feat.
hour, ,Ssivr 1 iCe rht theles
fi
in the eyes of Xnglishmen, that Sir Charles pulled
lOU of Colonel Peel—
is the weight of personal and professional -I
within little more thkts
can-
didate ten title ago, c ),ructcr
hilt the
II ell—Morning Her 1.
Colonel was i4rithe

Public interest is vehemently excited by the pro
ceedings in France incited, it far exceethi even
that for the home elections, in ,the general muss of
the people, those being excepted of course from its
influence who are
personally angsged in tlu latter.
It is glorious to have broken the fetters an the hook

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