The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-01 00:00:00

been devoted ever since he was able to form an
opinion on a political question.—(Cheers.) On
that occasion they were beaten by a considerable
majority, but they had their victory notwithstand-
ing, for although they had lost the votes of those
gentlemen who imsgined it to be their interest to
monopolize all voting to themselves—(Cheers)-__
yet they had had sufficiently ample proofs that, in
addition to such of the existing votes which were
given them on liberal principles, they had an over-
whelming majority of those embryo votes, which,
though unfortunately for them, of no intrinsic value
at that period, were at this moment hanging riper-
ing in the car in rich abundance, about ere long to
produce a golden harvest of political •freedom.-..-
(Cheers.) The occasion he alluded to had been his
first appearance at any meeting of this his native
county, for his concerns elsewhere had hitherto
male him more of an absentee from East Lothian
than he could lave wished, or than he hoped to
be for the future. But really if he had felt himself
somewhat of a stranger at that time whilst passing
through Haddington on his way to Newbyth pre-
vious to the election, his feelings were very different
itelted on his return to attend it; for then he and Sir
David were met outside the town by a large body
of Reformers, and he had had the satisfaction of
participating in that triumphant entrance into Had-
dington, and progress through the streets, which had
been prepared for his Hon. Friend as the champion
of that great cause to which they were both so
strongly attached. But what was to him most gra-
tifying of all, he had had by this means the,good
fortune of being publicly introduced to some thou-
sands of the men of East Lothian (aye, and to many
of the ladies also), with all of whom he hoped hence-
forward to keep up a growing and improving inti-
macy.—(Laughter.) To those of their friends and
of the friends of Reform; who were there that day,
he begged to express the high delight he expe-
rienced in finding himself again planted at his
post along with his Hon. Friend, in support of the
great question of Reform. In this cause he had
raises his humble voice wheresoever and when-
soever he could do so with the !rust hope of ad-
vantage to it; but in no place, and at no time, had
he ever done So with more perfect gratification than
at that moment, AO before that assemblage. For
little as he had lived in Kea! Lothian, he had neve:-
forgotten that it was his native county, and he had
ever cherished for it the strongest filia; affection. He
had ever been proud in the coneitierat;e'n, that it
was the great leading agricultural county of ::;'eot-
land—(Cheers)--and if he were asked by wha,:
means it had risen to that pre-eminence, he would
say that it was eolely owing to the superior intelli-
gence of its tenantry—who, in that respect, stood
prominent even amid the highly enlightened tenan-
try of Scotland in general.—(Cheers.) To t) es
gentlemen were they indebted for the improvement,
or, as he would rather call it, the reform of their
estates—to them were they indebted for thet rich-
ness of surface which distinguished this highly cul-
tivated county, and which had rendered it an ex-
ample to the greater part of geotland, and even to
England itself.—(Cheers.) Was it to such men as
these, then, that they were to refuses voice in the
election of that Member of Pdrliament who was to
waech over the interests of East Lothian.—(Loud
cheering.) He declared that nothing but the most
narrow and selfish injustice could possibly dream of
doing so--en injustica so blinded as to lose sight
even of its own good—an injustice which, however,
earnestly it may oppose Reform, must be swept away
before the overwhelming force of public opinion,
and that with a violence exactly correspondirra to that
degree of resistance which it may unwisely dare to
offer. Reform they would have, and Reform they
must have; and that, too, ere many months went
round. Not a pitiful and paltry Reform, hue
a Reform broad and deep as that anxious thirst fur
it which now pervaded the whole population of
these islands ; a thirst, which if not, largely and co-
piously administered to, must soon produce a fever,
the paroxysms of which might be beyond the reach
of medicine, and which would be far more fatal to

the country than that disease of which they had
heard so much of late, and for the approach of
which so many excellent people were at thin m0..._.
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had recently had the cup of health presented to their
lips, but it had been dashed away from them at the
moment when by. anticipation they had already be-
gun to experience the sanitory efficacy of the balsam
which it contained.—(Loud cheers.) Let them
then go on peaceably and temperately, but steadily
and resolutely to demand the resto.ation of the
healing draught, which could not fail to renovate
and invigorate their decayed and shattered consti-
tution. But above all things let them never forget
that it is the characteristic of Scotchmen, highly
rational and educated as they universally are, to work
out the attainment of all their objtcts by peaceful
and intellectual means alone, and never by that brute
violence which hail disgraced other countries—
(Hear, hear)—and which their worst enemies would
rejoice to see them resort to, in the hope that such
conduct would rum their cause. But he fondly
trusted that the sound sense of the people of thie
country would prevent them from having recourse
to any such extreme measures, and that they would
go on as they were doing, to secure the attainment
of their object by such fair and constitutional means
as they were then in the act of adopting.—(Cheers.)
Mr. GRANT SUTTIE then addressed the meeting
at some length, statir,g that he had not altered his
opinions in favour of Reform, but contending that
Ministers were entitled to confidence on other
grounds than merely their bringing in the Roform
Bill.

The CHAIRMAN then read the address to the King.
which was carried by acclamation.
Mr. SUTTIE then moved the thanks of the meet-
ing to the Chairman, and three cheers for the King,
which were heartily responded by the mePting.
Cheers were then given for Reform, and for the
gentlemen who had taken part in the proceedings,
and the meeting separated in the greatest cordiality.

THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA'S LAST POLISH-
MANIFESTO.—To-day we have the mockery of an am-
nesty on the part of the Autocrat of All the Russian, ad-
dressed to his Polish. subjects ! Oh, how my blood has
boiled, and then frozen in my reins, as I have read this
insolent and cruel document. The insolent Autocrat has
affected to grant an amnesty to the repentant, and pardon
to the rebels ! But read, I pray you, this impious mockery
of patriotism and of worth. All are to be pardoned, ex-
cept those who are not—and those who are not to be
pardoned, are all who are noble, patriotic, and well-prin-
cipled in Poland. The authors of the Revolution are not
to be forgiven !—that is all the population of Warsaw,
for all Warsaw assisted in Novemb:r, 1830, to drive from
the Palace of Belvedere the " well-beloved Grand Duke
CONSTANTINE!" No members of the Government are
to be pardoned—no members of the Diet are to be
pardoned—all who took part in the deposition of NicuoLas.
are to be tried and condemned—a special Tribunal of
Russian Officers is to be established to try and condemn
these patriots—the Officers of the corps of ROMARINO,
ROZYCKI, KAMINSKI, and RYIIINSKI are not to have the
benefit of the amnesty ! And " our subjects" in the de-
partment of the west, who took part in this revolt, are
also prohibited from availing themselves of the general
amnesty. This is the fulfilment of the promise made by
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Warsaw should be
is the fulfilment of the engagement made by Louis PHILIP
with the French Chambers, " that the nationality of Po-
land should not perish !!" All that is virtuous, and all
that is patriotic, wise, and enlightened, is to be pre-
scribed ; and those only are to be pardoned who took no
part in the Revolution, or who submitted to the Autocrat
when PASKEWITSCII, Prince of Warsaw, entered the
stormed city, and marched over the dead bodies of thou-
sands of Polish victims ! ! This is the General Am-
nesty 1 1 This is the result of British influence, and French
protestations ! ! This is all that you have been able to
procure for Poland by trusting to the generosity of this
monster ! This is the result of his conference at Moscow !
This is the advice of his nobles and his slaves! This is
the wise and enlightened policy of " the best of Princes !"
Thus tens of thousands of Poles are to be prescribed—
those who have remained are, with but few exceptions, to
be tried and condemned by a special Russian Tribunal;
and to be a Pole is to be another term for a proscribed and
wretched wanderer !—O. P. Q. in the Morning Chronicle.