The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-22 00:00:00

MR. HUNT.

About a quarter of an hour previous to the ar-
rival of his Majesty at the House of Lords,
the Honourable Member for Preston was - discovered
dilving along Parliament-street in an open cabriolet. The
instant the populace recognized him, their shouts and yells,
and groans and execration, were truly deafening. Mr.
Hunt, in fact, was assailed with reproaches from all
quarters.

This morning, at an early hour, Ministers waited
on his MAJESTY in a body, tendering their re-
signaTion, as it would be impossible for them
to carry on the Government unless an instant
dissolution were resolved on. Mt MAJESTY,
with the generous manly feeling of a true
British Monarch, replied that not only would he
dissolve Parliament, but would readily do so in
person. The last hope of the Boroughmongers
is now crushed for ever.

• Electors of the United Kingdom,- —To you
at this eventful crisis, we solemnly, as is our
bounden duty, address ourselves. On you hangs
the salvation of the country. You have it in your
power either to precipitwe or to prevent revolution..
Hitherto your battle has been fought—and nobly
has it been fought—by the Ministers: now, their:
toils for the present are ended, and you yourselves
must enter the field of action. All now depends:,
on your exertions. Give but tie order, and the.
boroughmongers are fur ever extinguished; delay
it but a•week—but a day—but an hour--and the
sel of their cause is again in the ascendant ; they
become the tylarits, you the slaves; they enjoy the
triumph, and you are dragged in chains at their
chariot. wheels. A dissolution, as you must ere
this have foreseen, is resolved on. Probably, ere to-
day's sun set, •it will have taken place. Ministers
in the noblest spirit of confidence, after having dis-
puted every inch of ground with the borough-
mongers; after having nailed their colours to the
mast, and resolved to peril their all in your calm;
finding the enemy still too strong for them, have
determined, as their last resource, to appeal to you;-
-to rely on your .energy—on your generosity—on
your patriotism, to entry them triumphantly through
all their difficulties.

Electors of the United Kingdom,—This is the
first time in the annals of the British Constitution,
that a Ministiy ever preferred appealing to the
country, to
.uppealing to a faction. It is absolutely
the first time that the voice otthe people ever pos-.
sesed more weight with the Government than that.
.of the boroughmongeis. Ilithetto we have seen
party after party take up the reins of office,
end, when- once in, throw overboard the pro-
fessions they made when out ; but now. we
.behold ,a More glorious7-a more soul-stirring
spectacle. We see an administration despising
'all the whi,pet—the lures—the threats of party;
clinging for support neither to this faction
nor to that; appealing neither to Whigs on the one
hand, nor to Tories on the other; but looking solely
to the people; legislating solely for them; and de-
&ring to main Office, only so long as they can ad-
vance the public interests. Is not this a Govern-
ment to be supported, if only from the novelty of
its principles ? We need not answer. -Every good
man's heart will reply for us,

Mearrime, however, if the country expect to
conquer, it must be prompt and persevering in its
exertions. NOt an hour must be lost. Every
minute even has its value, and adds the widow's
mite to the gm:4 cause. We appeal to all that
is generous, open and enlightened in the English
character; to the hones► pride and high-minded in-
dependence of the gallant Scots; to the steady bold-

tress-Enid loyally of the Welsh; to the chivalrous
enthusiasm of the Irish ;—we appal, in short, to
Britons of ail ages, of all ranks, of all professions, of

all trades ; to the divine, to the lawyer, to the phy-
sician, to the merchant, to the tradesman ;—we ap-
peal to each and all of these, to come boldly

forward and take th;s, perhaps the last opportunity,
of assyrtina their common rights. Not a man in the
ecinmuuity, 1;c0 matter how humble he m.iy deem
himsed, but has a deep, personal interest in Reform.

He is bound to the cause by all the ties of public
honour and private feeling. He owes it to his
country that she shall not be trampled on; to his
poster;ty, that they 0011 not 1,,e born slaves. A
voice from the future, as well as from the past,
calls aloud on him, sternly, to do his duty!
In the spirit of these exhortations, the people have
already anticipated us. In Scotland, the Giant. agi-

talon; after a short uneasy slumber, has commenced
his iahours afresh ; while in the populous manu-
fluffing disttie's of Sleffield, Birmingham, Alan-

chester, thousands, and tens of thousands, and
hundred of thousands, are waiting only the signal to
put forth their tremendous power. In Manchester
more particularly, a petition praying for a dis-
solution, has received in one day upwards of
fift,•en thowand signatures ; and a public Rib-
seription,• whose amount is already enormous,
has been entered into for the express purpose
of supporting Ministers at all hazards, and under all
cit cumstances ! In fine, let the boroughmongers do
what they will, or sty what they please, the fact
can no longer be concealed nor denied, that a vast
moral revolution is at this very moment in active
progress thrAighout the country. The mighty
barriers which have for so many ages sepa-
rated the interests of the upper, from those of
the middle and lower classes, are one by one
giVing way. Rank is fast losing its factitious
influence; wealth its undue supremacy. Look at
Stamford—at Newark—at Northumberland—at
Aloanlcuth—at Monigomery—at Carmarthen ;
look -at these important towns and provinces, and
see with what rapidity the old overwhelming autho-
rity of the EXETER,.—.the NEWCASTLES—the
NowrnUAINERLANDS —the NV yNNS, and the DY-
NEVOR'S, is passing from their hands ! Every
where public opinion is asserting its proper right;
every where the boyoughtnongers are descending to
their proper level. What then becomes of Sir R.
PEEL'S statement last night that a re-action has
taken place in the public mind; that the people are
no longer frantic for Reform. We tell this shallow

Statesman, who seems to derive his opinions
second-hand from Mr. HUNT, that so far from any

reaction having taken place, the country is more deter.
mined than ever on Reform. That the people will
neither hear of delay, nor vacillation on the subject.
1 hat they will instantly form Committees—sub-
script ions—Unions—Associations—in every county
city, town, and borough, throughout the United
Kingdom; in a word, that sooner than have Reform
longer delayed, they will agitate ; sooner than lose
it, they will fight for it.
Already the countiy has fixed its mark on the
Anti-Reformers. Not a single Member who voted
aga;tist the Bill will be returned ; even the doubt-
ful; the timid, and the cautions will be rejected.
Those who are not with the people, are against them.
The cry now is the Bill—the whole Bill—and
nothing but the Bill ; and ill order to insure the full
and perfect triumph of this Bill, it is necessary
that every elector so act, as if on his individual ex-
ertions hung the salvation of his country.

We have authority to state that immediately on
the arrival of the news of the defeat of Ministers on
General GASCOYNE'S amendments, a special meeting
of the Council of the Birmingham Political Union
was called, for the purpose of considering the mea-
sures which it may be proper to adopt, in support
of his MAJESTY'S Government at this eventful crisis.

The other evening Mr. J. WOOD presented a
petition from the Council of the Manchester Poli-

tical Union, stating that it was composed of persons
of every class in that commercial community, having
ample opportunities of knowing the opinions of
every grade in the immense population around them,
and that their belief was, founded on their own ob-
servation and the result of every meeting that had
been held, that there was an unanimous and earnest
wish that the Reform Bill should pass, if not im-
paired by concessions to the borough faction. These
views have this week received a striking combo-.
ration. A petition of the working classes in Man-
chester, praying that the Bill may be passed into a
law, has, in one day, received FIFTHEN THOUSAND
signatures. These, be it recollected, are the men
who have been represented by Mr. HUNT as being
oppo'ed to the Bill !

Mr. HUNT has comphined in the House that the
report of what be said in Manchester, about laying
one-half cf the town in ashes, has been grossly
exaggerated, and. that the only correct reports of his
speech are what are given in the Manchester Times
end the Manchester Advertiser. Now we are in.
formed by our Manchester correspondent that the
Times does not contain one word of laying the town
in ashes ; and that on inquiry at the office, be finds
that owing to an accidental pressure of other matter,
HUNT'S speech was cut off in the middle, and a few
lines of apology for shortening it given in its place
So much for this man's matchless honesty

Our readers will find in another column, some
edifying accounts (from a provincial correspondent)
of the way in which the Hon. Member for Pres-
ton's calumnies have been received at Sheffield and
elsewhere. This man's public career henceforth is
at an end. His mischievous imbecility, long sus-
pected, is now universally known. He will never
►:gain be returned for Preston.

'IIIE LO NDON GAZ ETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Lord Chamberlain's Office, April 21.
The Lord Chamberlain has appointed Charles Heneage, Erq.,
one of the Gentlemen Ushers of his 'Majesty's most Honourable
Privy Chamber in Ordinary.

War Office, Aril 22.
31st Regiment of Foot—General Sir H. Warde, K.C.8., from
the f,Sth Foot, to be Colonel, vice General the Earl of Mulgrave,
deceased, April 31.
63th Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir J. Keane, K.C.8., from the
94th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Sir H. Warde, appointed to the
command of the 31st Foot, April 13.
94th Foot—Major-General Sir J. Campbell, K.C.8., to be Co-
lond, vice Sir J. Keane, appointed to the command cf the 68th
Foot, April 13.

GARRISONS.
General Sir George Don, G. C. B. to be Governor. ot"M:...
borough Castle, vice the Earl of Mulgrave, deceased. April 13.

Crown-office, April 22, 183 L
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.
21:HEN'S COUNTY.—Sir Henry Parnell, Bart., of ltathleague,
in said count•.
Bottoucar OF SIIAFTON, OTHERWISE SHAFTESBURY...4.IeUte.
nant-Colonel William Leader Maberly, in the room of William
Stratford I)ugdale, Esq ,who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.