The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-24 00:00:00

LONDON, SEPTEMBER 24., 18ox.

To convey. to the Public the earliest Intelligence
of important events ; to state fads with truth ; to
support good men with zeal, and to oppose bad
'men with vigour ; to inculcate verk ration for the
Constitution, submission to the Laws, love for the
KING, and deVotion to the interests and welfare of
the Country ; these are the main objects which we
originally had in view in the first establishment of
THIS PAPER, and in the pursuit of which, however
inadequate may have been our efforts, we trust that
we have at least been zealous and diligent.
If we have occasionally stepped forward as the
Panegyrists of those whom His MAJESTY had placed
at the head of his Government ; have applauded their
public and private virtues ; have called the attention
of the Public to the wisdom of their Measures, and
recapitulated their Successes, it has been, because
we could not.patiently bear the rancorous calum-
nies, the atrocious misrepresentations, and diaboli-
cai aspersions which they have experienced from
those who, acing only under the influence of dis-
appointment and malice, seem to have had no objet
but the subversion of the Constitution, and the ruin
of the Country.

This short Preface leads us to a few observations
on a long Paragraph which appeared in the '2lTarn.
ing Chronicle of yesterday, entitled, " Remarks on
Mr. ADDINo-roN's Administration." Had these
remarks appeared at their proper time, namely,
'when that Administration was first formed, we
should have contented ourselves with simply refer-•
ring our Readers to that Gazette, in which the
names of those Individuals appeared, who had been
called to the diretion of Public Affairs, In looking
at them singly and collectively, we might have asked,
without any great danger of a negative answer,
whether these were men whom His MAJESTY, by
dint of Prerogative, had forced into Power, as a
matter merely of Speculation and Experiment Or
had this been insufficient, we might have indivi,
dually examined their claims, to public confidence,
from a view of their past conelud, as Public Men,
and of Public Services aaually rendered.
But it is not a little curious, that at such a period,
when a trial of them has been made as Cabinet
Ministers ; when moie su,cress has been crowded
into their short Administration, than has, perhaps,
ever fallen to the lot of any -that preceded it,
that the Morning Cbrdnicle should labour to prove,
that the formation of such a Government was al-
most a violation. of the Constitution, and should
libel the Executive Government for having risqued
the security of the Country, by an experimental
seledion of the individuals who compose it. When-
ever that Paper will speak out, and generously in-
form the Public who the men are who ougl)t to have
been the objeEt of His Majesty's choice, we shall
not be backward in expressing our opinion of the
tualificaiions of those individuals, by a compara.
tive examination of their public charataers and con,
dual, which are to entitle them so pre-eminently
to the favour an-4 confidence of the People.
In the mean time, we assure those distinguished
Charmers now so. happily conducing our affairs,
and to whom our applause must be at best matter of
indifference, that we shall never, Without provo-
cation from their Enemies, and those of their
Country, put ourselves forward as ChampiOns in
their defence, which may' very safely be trusted
to the Country at large. Their own conduft Will
be their best Zgis. If we have been, and still
perhaps may be, betrayed into it, it is rather to
do justice to our own feelings
.than to them.—
Nor have wet any wish, as it never was our ob-
jeet, to spew our hostility towards any 'Pulalica„
tion which rested its opposition to the measures of
Government on fair and manly argument ; but to
the Slanderer, the Jacobin, and the Traitor, who..
ever ,he may be, we avow inveterate, implacable,
arid persevering hostility.

1-Us Excellency the Loßp LIEUTENANT of Ire-
land has appointed the Earl of LONDONDERRY to be
Governor of the County of Down.
The Earl and Countess of CHoLmoNDELEY,
with their family, arrived on Sunday at Dumbreck's
St. Andre. W's-square, Edinburgh.
The EMPEROR of i'vssrA, in consequence of the
representations of Lord ST, HELENS, the British
Ambassador, has, it is reported, induced the Court
of Berlin to consent to withdraw its troops from the
Electorate, as soon as certain points connected with
the affairs of Germany shall be arranged,
Tli Narioverian Counsellor of Finances, Count
1/41MSTEE, has received orders iron the Regency
of Hanover to set out for London on an important
rni:;siDn. He is RV be followed 1)), a Bccrecary of
1,v.g4;i0, and has
,alre„ldy reached Cuxhaycri to
re; bark fc).

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