The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-30 00:00:00

sincerity whether or not he really means to betray his
'.acted trust. The people of England will see the im-
mense importance of having this point cleared up ; for
'A-hat an awful business it would be if Lord Mel-
bourne were really to betray his sacred trust. The poor,
unsuspecting Princess of 18, if Lord Melbourne's con-
'science should really be touched, and if he should
confess the horrid designs he meditates against his
Royal Mistress, can never sufficiently repay the ser-
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vices rendered to her by our Contemporary. What a
Ibleseing to a nation is a vigilant Press conducted by
inen whose very slumbers are disturbed by their pain-
' , jul apprehensions for the dangers which threaten roy-
:,alty ! What a load of guilt must he on the soul of
Lord Melbourne, if after so solemn an adjuration, lie
.Ishould dare to betray his Royal Alistress ! 0, most
virtuous and disinterested Times ! How much the
people of England owe that journal for the watchful
'care it bestows on our unsuspecting Queen !—Morning
Chronicle.

1 The Times took much pains yesterday to persuade
Ache people of England that in consequence of the ac-
cession of the Queen, the Church and Constitution
eiof England are exposed to the most formidable dan-
hers, from which they were comparatively exempt prior
To that event. Our Contemporary must, it is clear,
'`=have utterly lost his senses, or have deliberately re-
solved to ruin in public estimation, if he can, the party
"Aand the cause which he pretends to support. Which
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[-'r'! )f the two suppositions is the true one, is, however,
e. a matter of curiosity rather than of interest ; for if
the object be to damage and disgrace the Conservative
, cause, and to injure the reputation of the statesmen by
:i:.. whom that cause is upheld, the failure must necessa-
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e',-- :ily be complete. The scheme is neither so wellima-
'4ined nor so skilfully pursued that it can have the
•, _slightest chance of success. There may be a few
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persons in Great Britain (we suspect the number is
r. mall indeed) who entQrtain a mean opinion of the
l; emiaent statesmen by whom in the two Houses of i
Par-
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qia9m °ent the Constitution of England is viLilantly and
rivierotously defended. There may be in Great Bri-
eitani, and we fear there are, a greater number who
Lles:re the overthrow of the Constitution, and who,
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Mintier'l
~.. ntier the influence of this dc3ire, are anxious, above
e, all things, to depreciate the character and talents of
: .those who stand forwaul most prominently in its de-
fence. But we venture confidently to say that not a
-lsin,,!e individual of either of these sections of the
liWhig-Radical party can conscientiously say that they
14suspeet their Conservative opponents of any partici-
pation or any sympathy with the silly and disgusting
trash which the journal we have mentioned put forth
--yesterday about Queen Victoria and her illustrious
.yesterday
Our Contemporary, it seems, has a corm-
Pispondent in Dublin, whom he vouches to be a man of
7ennimpeachable honour and character, alleging confl-
Tend.; that any facts stated on his own authority are en-
titled to explicit credit. Now let us see in what man-
Uer this correspondent "of unimpeachable honour
g fan(' ele.iracter,” this correspondent " entitled to min-
fillie.:t credit," is permitted in the columns of the
J limes to speak of our youthful Queen and of her
'lvirtueus and honourable parent :--
- i ‘• I attended Divine Service this day in the largest ecn-

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-trojatiott of Protestants to he met ‘vaii Dublin, ao, from
'the 1.,,h.5t to the lowest, in tlrecnt mourning ; and when
put of the Litany was come to, if our present Queen
'lh:A :ward the andthle sobs of her oxn sex wherein her

iearns was substituted in the place of a Protestant King,
The would have !earned ,t better lesson titan ail the %%ad
i.heorii.s of the Radicals and infidel's could have taught her
!.vorldl-rainded mother.
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' " As to ..shat I have heard I cannot of course Le so :nn-
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joden:. But this I wia tt'll )ou, as I am informed, that
.. .hoze tvas not to be seen t! ii (1:1-: a person in mourning in
iay. 11.,inun Catholic chapel in Dublin ; that there xure
:.0.pr,,.), rs offered up for the late King as, aceoroing to
~..lieir creed, there :Aiwa) 4; are ; that the Priests have for-
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vfluoct, mourning., and tiott not only prayeis, but thanlci-
-I,ivings, are offend up froin the Popish altars that our
iroung Queen is inclined to embrace the old reli,,;ion of her
;-3loreliithers, and immidiately the religion of her uncle Leo-
; ~old and her own n.wher the Duchess of Ketit, who has
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;- en Long a secret but a trusty believer—witness her re-
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p,..a.ted largesses to the erection of Roman Catholic chapels
• Ireland, and her having Mr. Shea so often at her tulle,
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lind who has repaid the banquet by eulogising her in the
i ilouse of Commons. * * They insist upon it,
,Isof-1;lt, that the yr,ung, Queen must marry a P,,pist ; that
'the Radicals and infidels laugh at all idea of religion, and
?rare not %l:om she marries ; that her present Ministry are
ialike indifferent to religious motives, and that the genuine
..!ptinine Protestantism which once placed in the hands of
:17:1;zabeth a sceptre which neither the Devil nor Popery

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-,:could wrest from her, is now fallen prostrate, broken, and
-din ruins. Wc, Protestants, deny it with all our hearts and
':'souls ; we rely with implicit confidence upon the vital energy
ii.ilof that holy religion which has made England what she is—
ire!igion which essentially abhors perjury, loathes all deceit,
;evasiveness, or .double-dealing—thc religion not of Priest-
craft-tyranny, but of perfect freedom—the religion not of
idolatrous ceremonies, but the religion of the heart ; that
lreligion is now prevalent amongst the old and young of Pro-
6testant Ireland, and it is not to be put down—all the Lord
,-4Durhams that ever came from that civilized region of
Russia could not do it. We call upon the Protestact
-Queen of England to protect us, her Protestant subjects of
Ireland ; if not, we shall try to the uttermost to save her
rand her Throne from evil councillors, aud we value our own
lives only as they may be conducive to our holy religion."
;r. This might be regarded as pure unadulterated non-
L Isense, but that its design and tendency are too ob-
: iNicusly mischievous to admit of its being treated with
l'??the indulgence which might be granted to mere folly.
It is more than folly. T i here s desperate and aborni-
Llnable wickedness in the attempt to instil into the
{minds of the people of England a suspicion that reli-
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?igious principles are entertained by the Duchess of
Kent, and have been instilled into the mind of her
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Idaughter, the avowal of which principles are, by the
-,Alaw of England, incompatible with the possession of
the Crown. We do not stop to point out the thou-
`?sand circumstances of universal notoriety which give
[lan effectual contradiction to the insinuated slander,
:jar any attempt seriously to refute it would be
;little less absurd than the slander itself. It
Ats difficult to conjecture to what class of readers
;the trash we have quoted is addressed. To the
lowest, the most ignont, and the most credulous
V m lwe arc bound to presume. But we have yet to learn
747.Ithat there is in Great Britain any class so low,

Li so ignorant, or so credulous as to be prepared for its
reeeption. The Times, not content with describing
'lithe mother of the Queen as a worldly-minded person
jand a systematic perverter of the mind of her (laugh-
:,lter, treats the Sovereign herself with more than ra-
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lAlical contempt, for the silly purpose of fixing upon
Lord Melbourne a deeper responsibility than that
' . which the Constitution of England exacts of any Mi-
nister. There needs no such absurd device to fix
''.-., upon Lord Melbourne and his colleagues as much
Aresponsibility as they or any other human agents can
_bear. They have, and will have, enough to answer
•:i for, without exaggerating the responsibility by speak-
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-in, irrevercndly of the Sovereign as " an innocent and
--,Ounsuspecting Princess of 18," as "an innocent and
,''ilinexperienced child," as one who "can have no intellec-
?' tual or moral restraint over the actions" of her Minis-
''l-,ters. The Constitution of England knows of no such dif-
lference of responsibility between the Ministers of one
~?,Sovereign and those of another. It holds the respon-
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lsibility of Ministers to be at all times, and in all cir-
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cumstances, perfect. To this responsibility no addition
... :..an be made. And the attempt to make any, now, is
equivalent to the assertion that the law is wrong, and
ought to be altered, which permits a youthful female
M ascend the throne. It is at all times desirable that
,lthe Ministers of the Crown should be worthy of the
•71,:onfidence of the country, and should possess it. Lord
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,INlelbourne, we believe, ;wither mei its nor has obtained
this confidence. It is a calamity that we should at .the
ipresent time, or at any time, have a Minister so little
-.;worthy of trust. But let us not, in the vain idea of
..oppressing Lord Melbourne with a responsibility for
Awhich he is the last man in the world to care anytbing,
,',lorget the respect and reverence due to the Crown of
.7Enoland, in the name and by the authority of which
'l,
iine is
for
a short time longer permitted to act.----illorn-
ilia Post.

Yesterday evening an inquest was .held at the Lou-
do:i Hoapital, Mile End-road, on the body of Emily Bryson,
...aged six years, the daughter of Henry Rapson, one of the
,messengers in the Bank of England. It appeared that the
child had been slightly bitten by a puppy about three months
since. The wound, which was a mere scratch, healed, and the
.child continued in perfect health until Monday morning last,
when decided symptoms of hydrophobia exhibited themselves,
end she died of that dreadful malady in the above institution on
Wednesday. The jury found a verdict to that effect.