The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-08 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Having observed in your Journal of the 31st
ult. a letter which is calculated to create some very erro-
neous impressions, I beg leave to offer a few comments
upon it. The writer signs himself, " Reformer," and his
letter is dated from Rye. He pretends to say that the
people of Rye have, at a public meeting, expressed their
" contempt" at the conduct of some Hon. Membeis of
the House of Commons, who ore supporters of the Reform
Bill, in introducing vexatious petitions, and discussions on
foreign affairs, and by'that means unnecessarily delaying
its progress. I wish your correspondent would have the
goodness to state when the meeting he refers to took place,
and how many persons attended it. I rather think he la,
hours tinder a delusion, and that the meeting he mentions
is but "a false creation, proceeding from the heat op-
pressed brain." No account of it has, to my knowledge,
been published in any of the public papers, nor, after a
strict inquiry at Rye, can I find one individual who knows
any thing at all about it. From the laboured and, in
some instances, ridiculous declamation of " Reformer,"
he appears to be some self-conceited orator, who, not being
able to obtain an opportunity of astonishing his neighbours
at a public meeting, considers his inspirations too good to
be lost, and resorts to a little artifice in order to get them
inserted in your widely-circulated Journal. But, Sir,
there is a sting in the tail even of this insect. Colonel
Evans, our popular representative, hss presented some
petitions, and has introduced some discussions foreign to
the Reform question. He has advoc ited the cause of the
injured Deacles, and of the gallant and oppressed Poles;
and if " Reformer" (who, I suspect, is but a borough-
monger in disguise) wishes to insinuate that the people of
Rye class such appeals of justice and humanity amongst
vexatious and dilatory proceedings, he attributes to them
sentiments which they will reject with scorn, and which
can have no place but in a bosom void of all high and ho-
nourable feelings. If such a case as that of the Deacles
is not followed by immediate investigation, it is a mockery
to call this the " land of freedom ;" and if there exists in
this country any sympathy for the oppressed Pa s, a voice
ought to be raised in their bet alf, whilst there is a chance
of its being effectual. It will be but an insult to their
sufferings to defer our interposition until the iron heel of
the Russian despot has crushed his bleeding and prostrate
victim. But " Reformer" would allow tyranny in any
shape to prosper sooner than snatch a moment from the
Reform question. Agreeing with him, as I heartily do,
that all vexatious and dilatory discussions ought to be re-
probated, 1 must yet assert that the cases of the Deacles
and of Poland are of a widely different character, and
that the ability and firmness of Colonel Evans in the per-
form ince of his duty entitle him to the thanks of the
kingdom at ILtrge, and have made his supporters in Rye
doubly proud of their representative. t
To say a few words on the progress of the Reform Bill.
The delay in passing it is, in my opinion, owing to vex-
atious petitions and discussions only as the proximate
cause. These petitions and discussions themselves have a
cause, in the irresolution and want of energy of the Mi-
nisters. Mr. Hunt is wrong in stating that the people
have changed their opinions on Reform. It is not on Re-
form that they have changed their opinions, but on the
Ministry. More energy and power must be displayed, or
the satisfactio❑ and confidence with which the Members of
the present Administration were regarded when they en-
tered upon office, will speedily evaporate, and be succeeded
by distrust and discontent. I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Hastings, Sept. 5, 1831.

VERITAS.

MRS. COLONEL ELWOOD'S JOURNEY TO
INDIA —ln the initiatory letter of this singular work, the
fair authoress expresses herself thus :—" I believe I may
safely say, that I am the only lady who ever travelled in
India overland, and probably mine was the first Journal
ever kept by an English woman in the Desert of the The-
bais, and on the shores of the Red Sea. Instead of the
Popes and Cardinals who grace the Diaries of other migra-
tory damsels, you will meet with Agas and Cacheffs, and
hear of Paellas and Rajahs ; and for the ceremony of the
Holy Week, you will have the rites of the Mahoinetan
Hadje, the Mohurrum and the Ilindoo Hoolie. You will
hear of places seldom or perhaps never before visited by any
of our countrywomen ; and I shall have the pleasure of intro-
during you to a Turkish Divan, at Djidda ; an Arab
Hiram at Hodeida ; a Jahrejah's Zenana, to Bhooj ; and a
Brahmin's Pinjrapole, at Broach : —Have you the courage
to accompany me? Allows dorm!"

Yesterday the workmen commenced clearing
away the p►anks and scaffolding from the new entrance
into St. James's Park from Carlton-place, preparatory to
its being opened to the public to-day. The width of the
step is 64 feet 5 feet inches, and the number of steps 27
(of the best granite), consisting of three flights, of nine
steps each, with a broad landing to each flight, of large
thick Yorkshire paving-stones. 'The intended place for
the statue of the Duke of YORK, at the top of the steps,
in the centre of Carlton-place, is paled in with boards
twelve feet high.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1831

The grand and imposing ceremony of the
Coronation takes place this clay, when one of
the most beloved and patriotic Monarchs that
ever swayed the British sceptre, goes forth to re-
ceive his crown as a solemn guarantee for the full
rights and privileges of his subjects. May his
MAJESTY and his Royal Consort long be pre-
served to their people ; and when in the fulness
of years they descend to an honoured tomb, may
" goodness and they fill up one monument !"

There is no fresh intelligence of moment from
Poland, though we arc in daily expectation of
receiving important and decisive information,
from that quarter. The Gazette de France of
Tuesday mentions that an extraordinary courier
has brought the confirmation of the accounts
lately published relative to the excesses at Warsaw.

German Papers say, that as soon as the troops
of General KREUTZ shall have advanced along
the left ba►►k of the Vistula to Warsaw, the
Russians will exert every means to take that
city, but that great preparations have been made
for its defence, which will enable it to hold out

for a long time
ANTWERP, SErr. s.—The pressing application of Ge-
neral Tabor to the Government, and General Chasse for
filling up the breachts made iu the dikes of the river dur-
ing the late hostilities, have been crowned success, as
we see from the following letter written to him yesterday
evening by General Belliard :
"Brussels, Sept. 4, Half-past Eight, p.m.
" I hasten to inform you for myself and Sir R. Adair that
the breaches in the dykes are at length to be filled up. Ge-
neral Chasse will receive orders to that effect from his Go_
vernment, and you will receive your orders to dismantle
and to level the battery erected during the existing armis-
tice between the city of Antwerp and the citadel. I and
my friend Adair are happy to be able to give you this
g.),sd news. We beg you, my dear General, to repeat the
strictest orders already given by your Government and
you, that the navigation of the Scheldt be protected, and
that the citadel may not suffer any interruption or obstacles
in the Scheldt, to its communications with Holland.

" Acost, dear General, &e.
(Signed) " A. BELLIARD.',

BRUSSELS, SETT. 6.—M. E. Lorence, Consul of
France at Rotterdam, arrived here on Sunday afternoon,
and drove to the Hotel of General Belliard. The contents
of his dispatches have not transpired. It is said that he
is going to the Hague with a mission to the French Am-
bassador.
General Nlellinet is put on half pay.

We learn from good authority (says the Courier) that
the French Government means that Belgium shall defray
the expences of the French army from its entrance into
our territory till the Bth of September, The French Go-