The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-23 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1831.

A Privy Council is summoned to be held at St
James's Palace, this day, at three o'clock, when a
Proclamation for dissolving Parliament will be
issued. The Proclamation will appear this evening
in an Extraordinary Gazette.

In again addressing ourselves to the electors of
the United Kingdom, we implore them, as they
value their liberties—aye, even their lives—to lose
not an hour, to relax not an instant, in their ex-
ertions. The struggle in which they are now about
to engage, is one for life and death. If they hesi-
tate, they are lost. Should the boroughntongering
faction again return to power, adieu for
ever to the boasted freedom of Englishmen!
There is no act so unprincipled; no des-
potism so atrocious; no cruelty so enormous ;
of which ohm men, judging from their past intem-
perate conduct, will not be guilty. Remember,
countrymen ; treasure it up in your minds, meditate
on it by day, dream of it by night; that if the
boroughmongers once again return to power, they
return armed with tenfold strength. Distrust-
ing the people, they will naturally hate them ;
hating, they will as naturally trample on them.
• Foreign wars, new loans, exorbitant taxation, in-
creased Pension List, sinecures without bounds, bar-
racks in every county, and gaols in every town—these
are a few among the multitudinous national cala-
mities which will usher in the return of these tyrants
to power. The hulks, the dungeon, and the scaffold
will silence their opponents ; bribery and the Pen-
sion List will secure their friends. Up, then,
countrymen, and be doing. Put forth your undi-
vided, moral strength, and annihilate for ever the
unconstitutional authority of the boroughmongers.
Shew them that you are, to a man, in earnest ;
that you will allow of no compromise; in-
dulge in no relaxation ; hesitate at no expenee,
till they and theirs are gone for ever.—
Remember, it is your KING himself who calls you
to action. Yes, that high-minded Monarch—the
noblest who ever swayed the British sceptre—him-
self, having nobly discharged his duty, now calls on
you to do yours. Be generous then—be resolute—
and, above all, be prompt in your exertions, for thus
only can you discharge your duty to your SOVEREIGN
and your Government.
On the Provincial Press, too, we call, to brace
themselves for this mighty task. Let them not be
deterred by any idle fear of popular disturbance.
The spirit of the people is too elevated ; they are
too conscious of the lofty nature of the duties
they are called on to discharge to indulge in
any indecent and intemperate exhibition. They
have no time, and less in for riot. The
moral grandeur of their straggle forbids it. It is one
without parallel in:any age or country ; and of so holy

It is said when the KING yesterday
determined to go in person to the House
ogue Parliament, and gave orders for the state se
at
ror ipa rgoe-,
e of
be was informed that it was not
ind
otin readiness. "Nell,
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,h,egetnie a exclaimed, in honest
nation, like a true
hackney-coach,
for will not be pre-
stabielo then,"
pre-
vented doing my duty." It is a singular circumstance
the horses were not decorated with their ugualttrappings.
that
MOTION OF WAVES A DECEFTIONrinTr There
is a curious optical deception attending
of
a the
ele-
ration and depression of the surface alternateig uid The
waves thus produced appear to have a progressive "
lion, which is commonly attributed to the liquidel in
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itself.
When we perceive the waves of the sea apparently ad-
vancing in a certain direction, we are irresistibly
iim-
pressed-
pressed with a notion that the sea itself is advancing '
that direction. We consider that the same wave, as it
advances, is composed of the same water, and that the
whole surface of the liquid is in a state of progressive mo-
tion. A slight reflection, however, on the consequences
of such a supposition, will soon convince us that it is
unfounded. The ship which floats upon the waves is not
carried forward with them ; they pass beneath her, now
lifting her on their summits, and now letting her sink
Me the abyss between. Observe a sea fowl floating on
the water, and the same effect will be seen. If, how-
ever, the water itself partook of the motion which we
ascribe to its waves, the ship and the fowl would each be
carried forward, and would have a motion in common
with the liquid. Once on the summit of a wave, there
they would continually remain, and their motion wonld
be as smooth as if they were propelled upon the calm
surface of a lake. Or if once in the valley between two
waves, there likewise they tsmald continually remain, the
one wave continually preceding them, and the other fol-
hoving. —Dr. Lardner', Cabinet Cyclopedia, Vol.
X VII.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY).

CO UR T OF KING'S BENCH.

The Court this morning proceeded with cases in tl c
Crown Paper.

THE KING V. THE INHABITANTS OF IVEEKES.

This was an application for a mandamus, to compel the
inhabitants of the parish of Weekes to assemble and elect a
churchwarden, that office not having, been filled up at the
proper time for electing parish officers. In opposition to
the mandamus it was contended, thst the Court of King's
Bench had no authority to compel a parish to assemble
together for any such purpose.
Lord TENTERDEN-The Court have the power, and
those to whom the mandamus is directed refuse to obey it,
they will find the Court have also the power to inflict
punishment for disobedience of its authority. Depend
upon it, if the parties are obstinate they will find they are
struggling with a power they cannot contend against.—
Maud imus granted.
The other cases that were disposed of related merely tai
dry points of law, respecting the removal of paupers.