The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Elsewhere, in the Times of this day, will be found
a report of the Harwich election, which took place
last Saturday, and of which the whole proceedings
may be comprised in the speeches of those worthy
gentlemen Messrs. Herries and Dawson, worthy of
each other, and of that free, and independent, and
virtuous borough whose representatives we must,
pro formes, consider them, according to the blessed
principle of representation which at present prevails
in England. The electors, by whom was conferred
upon this pair of Right lion. ex-Clerks of the Trea-
sury, the power of making laws for the whole people
of England, were in number just 16 ! So that,.
when the Right Hon. Mr. Dawson assured ha
hearers that he would go into Parliament a perfectly
" independent man," we are afraid that there was a
little lurking sarcasm in the expression; as if Mr,
Dawson meant to convey, that he would be altoge-
ther unencumbered by that troublesome thing a eon.
stituency. It is a pretty good joke of the same Mr.
Dawson to talk of the whole series of conduct
pursued by the present Ministers being " one
continued trick to keep themselves in dace."
This from the fag—the born tool of a faction,
which had contrived to hold orrice for fifty years
by one unvaried course of coercion practised
upon the will of the people, by every conceivable
" trick" and shuffle, for monopolising all the powers
and patronage of the State,---for extending the pa-
tronage, that the enjoyment of it might be the more
m
valuable,—for excluding every man in England fro
the least shadow of official influence at whose hands
the remotest risk of resistance to the established pos
soies of the party of trading Tories might be appre-
hended. Yt t Mr. George Dawson, the fag-end of
that Fame faction—a sort of second-rate Beresford
by birth—a sort of subordinate Peel by allianre—
a true epitome and personificatien of whatever is
most office loving, most people-hating, and incor-
rigible in the worst of the two races, from one of
which he springs as he merges in the other,—this
Mr. Dawson presumes to charge the Whig Admis
nistration of Lord Grey with shaping its measures
for the sole purpose of retaining office ! Between
the parties there is one striking difference. The old
Court-party aimed at keeping office by putting down
the nation, and governing in spite of it. The pre-
sent Minister 2 are siriving so to Reform the State,
atid so to reinforce the people of England, that
neither the Whigs nor their successors can occupy
the Treasury bench even for an hour, after public
opinion shad have declared that they are incapable
managers of the national affairs. To desire office,
therefore, on no other condition than that of holding
it with the good will and approbation of the country,
is not a crime, at which, although Mr. Dawson
should succeed to the fullest extent in proving it,
his Majeety's Ministers have very great reason to
blush. To hear Mr. Herries rentasticating, for the
sixteen elect of Harwich, the unsavory mouthfuls
of Sir Cher'es Wetherell, touching the sacred rights
of corporations, is really too !flitch for human sense
to endure. Be forgers that these boroughs, once
populous and important, were enfranchised by the
Sovereign for his own specific purposes, in the pro-
motion
of which the people of those ages had a
concurrent interest with the Crown. But it tray be
above the intellectual reads of Mr. Hurries to find
out., that when both Crown and people agree in the
condemnation of such boroughs, now decayed and
subjugated, as being deeply injurious to the wel-
fate of both parties, for the sake of which they
had been at first invested with their franchise, no
authority exists on earth, and no power in reason-
ing, to sanction their continuance for another day.
Its the mean time, intelligence crowds upon us of a
nature to induce an entire contempt for these mise-
rable doings at Harwich. Mr. Peel's brother at
Newcastle-under-Lyme has declared himself a re-
former, and promised to support the 13,11 ! Mr.
Palmer, the late Member for Berkshire, has retired,
and two good reformers will be chosen. A Reform
candidate, it now appear.,—and we publish the fact
with an anxious wish to have it circulated, and
promptly turned to account by all concerned,—has
stood up for Huntingdonshire, in the person of Mr.
Rooper. Lord Mandeville, son of the Duke of Man-
chester, late Tory Governor of Jamaica, and Lord
Strathaven, a sou-in-law, we believe, of Lady Co-
nyngham, both adverse to the Bill, are Mr. Rooper's
opponents. Men of Huntingdon, hasten to the poll !
Lord Exeter is fairly thrashed at Stamford ! Mr.
Tennyson having thrown out Colonel Chaplin, the
nominee of the tenant-ousting Marquis. The Duke
of Newcastle has the tables turned upon him
at Newark, the electors of that borough having
" done what they pleased with their own votes ;" in
consequence of which Serjeant Wilde has been
returned at the head of the poll, and the successor
of Mr. M. T. Sadler (or empty Sadler, as he is
there denominated) in the Duke's good graces,
having proved a positive failure. Messrs. Grant and
Gurney have completely beaten the aforesaid (empty)
gentleman, and his accomplished colleague, Mr.
Attwood, in the great city of Norwich. Oxford
city has returned two staunch Reformers as her
representatives. Lord Chandos, its his much-talked-
of canvass through Buckinghamshire, has been
overwhelmed with every mark of public distaste and
opprobrium. At Newport Pagnell, and other places,
the people would not listen to a word the Noble
Marquis addressed to them, and the freeholders, in
the proportion of ten to one, avowed. themselves in
favour of Reform. But the crowning triumph is
yet untold, arid let the broken remnants of the Tory
faction give ear to it. Mr. Patten has formally re-
signed the contest for Lancashire, where Lord
Stanley and Mr. B. Heywood have nothing
now to oppose them ; and the subjoined state-
resent from Liverpool exhibits the redoubtable
General Gascoyne in a minority of one to
three. Hurrah !* His immediate resignation
Was looked for. Where be your Tories now ?
Where the stational convulsions with which, in their
despair, they threatened us, " should Ministers dare
to dissolve" the late virtuous Parliament ? Of
Tory convulsion, indeed, there is enough,—their
fury, their phrenzy, their agony :is obvious; but
never were the people of England more disposed to
good humour, and to overflowing loyalty ; never
was a general election entered upon in a more tho-
roughly constitutional spirit. They are too unani-
mous for disturbance. We said many weeks ago
that there were no materials in the country for any
thing like a struggle. A few hundred angry bo-
roughmongers are unheard amidst the paeans of
20,000,000 men.—Times.

The public will see with regret, but without sur-
prise, that the two Anti-Reform candidates for the
representation of the University of Cambridge, have
again kept a-head of their antagonists on the second
day's polling. The battle, however, is not yet lost,
and we trust that on the third and fourth day (for
the poll will be kept open till Friday) the Uni-
versity will endeavour to retrieve its character, and
rescue itself from the disgrace of being represented
by Members opposed to the sense of the nation.—
Zmes.

The King's visit to the city of London is likely
to be „gait-postponed, but it is almost superfluous
to add, that the postponement is totally unconnected
with political motives His Majesty had not, as
about six months ago, f consented to name a
day for dining with h':sofarihnntahadfluiyol subjects of the therefore
cor-
poration, and
td putpthe citizens to
any expense in making the necessaryte
receive him. It was only ves reparations to
Sheriffsaywhen the Lord
and the
Mayor, the Recorder,
to proceed to the Palace, to invite him to the civic
were about
of his
hp.leasure
banquet, that they learned his
isitvisit.
not at present to fix the precise Majesty'say
On looking at the proceedings in the King's
yesterday, it will be seen that the stupid and Tench c.umay
forgery of the hand-bill, which was ascribed at -
time to the Lord Mayor, and at another to
Home Office, was proved to be the work of the
enemies of Reform. It is more than probable, that
the windows of those who refused to illuminate
a Livirp_ool, May 3,-
1384
fwart
Denison 1374
GaHorne. tttttttt ~,..wm.,., ttttttt . ttttttt 40 •

were broken by gangs of miscreants hired and em-
ployed by the fabricators of the hand-bill. The at-
tempted calumny against the civil power, of having
eptcouraged outrage, which to all but idiots mus
have appeared an absurdity, will now be crushed foi
ever by the mace of justice.—Tinges.
A report has been industriously circulated in the
City that his Majesty has declined the invitation o'
his loyal citizens to honour them with his Roya'
presence, in consequence of certain calumnie,
against the City authorities, lately published in the
Morning Post. They who know any thing of his
Majesty have too high an opinion of the soundnes
and strength of his judgment, to believe for a too-
meat that he would allow his judgment to be biassed
against the authorities of his loyal City by the
anonymous calumnies in a daily print. We are sure
that no man would treat these calumnious attempts
with more contempt than his Majesty. It is no
doubt true that his Maicsty has intimated his wish
that the invitation might be postponed for a time;
hut the reason is a very different one from that so
maliciously assigned. His Majesty is at present
afflicted with the gout, and therefore unable to ac-
cept of the invitation. But we are sure, if he were
not prevented by a cause (the, existence of which
every good subject must lament), he is too sensible
of the loyalty and devotion of his good citizens to-
wards him—of the gratitude they have evinced
towards their benefactor, not to be anxious to make
the gratifyincr return of gladdening them by his
presence, and that he will not fail to announce his
acceptance of their invitation as soon as he feeis
himself in a condition in which he can receive the
city authorithea. The accounts so industriously
circulated to Which we have alluded have receive.:
no countenance from his Majesty. We are certain
nothing would give him greater pain than the
knowledge that such a construction has been put on
his lamented indisposition. These are the pitiful
inventions of wicked men, anxious to produce mis-
understandings between the King and the most
loyal and devoted of his subjects.—Morn. Chronicle.
After the loss of a battle, there is usually a good
deal of erimination and recrimination among such of
the vanquished as have been spared to settle their
respective shares of the faults committed. So it is
with the City election. It would seem that the
anti-reformers are angry that Mr. Ward, who, it
seems, on the canvass, had not promises from more
than 300 or 400 out of the whole Livery, did not
sacrifice himself for the great cause of anti-reform,
and drag the refractory crarlesmen of himself and his
supporters to the poll, to vote aeainst their con-
sciences. The account of the meeting of the friends
of Mr. Ward, at the City of London Tavern, yes- ,
rerday (in another column), is quite a curiosity in
its way. Mr. Ward, who is generally reputed a
gentleman of a straight-forward and candid disposi-
tion, seems to have felt uneasy, under the accusa-
tions heaped on him by the boroughmongers, who
now wish to make him the scope-goat for all their
disasters. "On the very morning of the election
(he says) he was informed by Sir C. Price, the
Chairman, and Mr. Timothy Curtis, the depu y
chairman of h:s Committee, that he had not the
most distant prospect of succeeding, and that it
would be unwise to be put in nomination at
all. He still persevered in his intention of eoing
to the poll; but they refused to nominate him."
Mr. Ward, like a General with no great stomach
to fight, called his council of war, and the
Council, as is usual in such cases, dissuaded him.
Woe to the Committee I. But the Committee again
endeavour to throw the whole blame on Sir Charles
Price and Mr. T. Curtis. The chief of the counts
of the indictment against the Chairman is, that he
talked bravely, hut did nothing—t hat he told good
stories, and spoke of a long pull, a strong pull, arid
a pull altogether, but did not pull at all. Mr.
Turner blames the Committee, though he admits
that Mr. Ward had no chance. Mr. Wm. Morgan,
on the other hand, had never been an successful in
canvassing on any occasion, and considered Mr.
Ward absolutely sold by the Chairman and Deputy.
Mr. Kerschaw had strong personal reasons for
wishing that Mr. Ward had not resigned, for being
a great constitutional gentleman, he found on reach-
' ing Yarmouth that the news of the defeat in Lon-
don had given fresh courage to the Reformers! there,
and he had not only great difficulty in effecting a
landing, but was moreover exposed to well-directed
discharges of mud all the way to the poll. We sup-
pose the boroughmongers would have left Mr, Ward
to brave the expense of a hopeless contest, but now
declare, that rather than the defeat should have acted
with such electrical effect throughout the country,
they would have indemnified him out of their
stock purse. But, after all, is not this pure
dti-
yelling 2 Would the protracting the contest have
disguised the melancholy fact, that on the very
first day the majority against Mr. Ward would
have bten eight to one Would not the people
throughout the country have drawn from this fact the
inference that Mr. Ward would eecessarily be
beaten. And might not the appearance of the first
day's poll have deterred even some of the few who
gave Mr. Ward prorni•es of support, because in dis-
graceful matters there is a great difference between
sharing the disgrace with many associates and
sharing it with a few ? When there is but one
man in a street who votes for an anti-Reform candi-
date, that man must be more uncomfortable than if
there were twenty neighbours in the street in the
same unfortunate plight. Let, therefore, Mr.
Ward and his Chairman, and Deputy Chairman,
and the body of' the Committee, cease to reproach
each other; for they could not have given any other
turn to affairs than that which they actually took.—
They are not by any means the cause of the defeat
of the boroughmongers.—Morning Chronicle.
Every day brings its triumphs. Mr. Wilson
Patten has abandoned the contest for Lancashire.
In the placard printed under the direction of Mr.
Heywood's Committee it is stated that Mr. W.
Patten honestly declares that he found the feeling
of the freeholders everywhere so strong in favour of
the Reform Bill, that a candidate not approving of
it had no chance whatever. Will any one have the
temerity after this to calumniate the people of Eng-
land, by declaring them indifferent with regard to
the Ministerial plan of Reform ? Will any man
have the hardihood to say, after such a rising en
masse, as it were, of the whole population, rich and
poor (with the exception of boroughmongers and
their beggarly retainers), in the North and South,
East and West, that it would he safe to disappoint
them in their web-formed expectations ? That Sir
Robert Peel, or any other hypocritical State Jug-
gler, who voted against all Reform whatever when
a little might have pacified the people, could now
fob them off (to use a low but an expressive phrase)
by a plan of Reform " keeping the word of pro-
mise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope ?"
But is it Lancashire only ? No. The (fending
Member will be cast off. It was the Member for
Liverpool who lent himself to a manooivre devised
by cunninger heads than his own for defeating the
Bill. It was a sham debate got up about issuing a
writ for Liverpool, that enabled that hopeful scion
of an old boroughmongering trunk, Mr. William
Bank-es, to carry an teljournment before the business
of the night could be entered on, by which means
the orders for supplies became dropped orders, and
the supplies were in fact refused. We are glad to
find that the people of Liverpool kid as they ought
the affront offered to them, by their representative's
connecting the name of that splendid cotnmercial
mart, with the loss of a Bill so deservedly dear to
the English nation. General Gascoyne evidently
thought he might take every liberty with his con-
stituents—that he had but to whistle, and they
Nouid ash,hielbeieit,totfore return him by a considerable
shown majority. liiekebheiskibmrothefr anti-Reformers,
which pervades.' the
read him
it , howeveran
d the
lEo‘thrhegeliws‘h.r acTontlie:l'itti.lo.eefnf
Liverpool have
He will now
from which it is to be hoped they will errs
fia
in due
eps profit
d edduie I
time. The following extract from

,ion of the Liverpool Times of Tuesday, dated s.ven
)'clock, P.M., shows the miserable plight of pour
General Gascoyne :
.‘ GLORIOUS MAJORITY IN FAVOUR OF THE