The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-24 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1837.

The citizens of London have by this time struck
the first blow in the cause of Reform. They
hive acquitted themselves as it became the citizens of
the first city of the first country in the world—as men
who felt that they were struggling in the right of their
countrymen for the greatest of all prizes—the prize of
well-established and still expanding liberty. They
have displayed in this arduous contest that love of
principle, and that indomitable spirit and energy
which belong to the charaCter of Englishmen, and
which justly entitle them to take the first rank
among the friends of freedom, and the sup-

porters of our national institutions, endangerc,
by the machinations of a faction which has now throws

ofd' the ni tsk, awl shown its hideous features in

their native deformity. Could gold have bribed,
threats intimidated, or favour influenced the Citizens
of London, this glorious victory would not have been
achieved, for all these means. have been used by a
pa erful and desperate party, to an extent perf:ctly
unprecedented. Happily they have only had the effect
of enhancing the triumph.
And now let the electors of the metropolitan boroughs
copy the noble example of the City of London. We now
call upon them to do their duty to their country, to their-
selves, and to their posterity with equal zeal and deter-
mination, unawed by the threats and unseducci by the
promises, of the inveterate foes of reform—uninfinenced,
in short, by any other consideration than that of obey-
ing the dictates of their own consciences, at whatever
hazard. The spirit of the fiction is broken ; now is
the time to crush it. By following up the victory
gaired in London and, we are happy to add, in &Kith-
warh, where the twa Reforonnq Members have been
returned by an immense majority—by following up this
signal advantage, with a kindred energy, a tone will be
given to the provincial elections frot-n the one end of
the kingdom to the other, the beneat of which will he
incalculable to the good cause. Let them not be de-
ceived by the specious and artful inducements that
may be hell out to them to give a vote for the " Con-
servatives," as they insidiously and arrogantly style
themselves. If ever there was any shadow of doubt
upon the mind of a single individual as to the true
meaning of their " Conservatism," it is now removed.
We have only to cast our eves to Hanover to see it in
its true colours. There we see this boasted Con,criatism
in the person of
no, its un-linslish
Chief—the Duke
of CUMBERLAND, trampling un-

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du. its ruthless hoof that ConstitutiOn which had been
estaNished by WILLIAM the FOURTH, and which
guaranteed a portion of liherty to the people. Let no
Englishman—above all let no elector—ever forget this
most important fact. Let him think of it by day and
dream df it by night. It is the beacon which must

warn him from making shipwreck of his purl-

tical faith, and of the liberties cf his coun-
try'---for what the Chief of the Tories has
done to the Constitution of Hanover, that will they
assuredly do to th Reform Bill the very first mommt
they have the power. Forward then, electors, for-
war-d, and stick for your QUEEN, for the Constitu-
tion, and for Reform !

The whole of the Pal; journals of Friday and
Saturday have been received. They contain no do-
mestic news of the least interest. In most of the
papers the conduct of the Government in searching
the' domiciles of MM. WALSH, GENANDE, and
BEvi(ER, in tlic absence of thcse gentlemen, and in