The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-27 00:00:00

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.

[FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The late uncontradicted rumours of an hurtle-
, diate dissolution of Parliament, which have now
happily subsided, impose on us the duty of en-
deavouring to trace their origin, and more parti-
cularly as we conceive, in many instances, they
created mischief, inducing some who held seats
in Parliament, and others who were candidates,
to avow their political principles before the pro-
per time had arrived. We confess that the posi-
tive manner in which it was circulated, and the
extreme eagerness of parties in betting that it
would take place, did operate powerfully on us,as
great odds were offered in every part of Loudon,
and particularly by the friends of a Noble Lord,
whose ambition and long purse teach us to ex-
pect that when the event takes place he shall
be able to nominate thirteen Gentlemen to re-
present his ambition and fortune and to further
his political pursuits, added to which we heard
of the activity of a Gentleman well known in
the Ministerial divisions handing about a ter-
rible list of the proscribed Members who, he
confidently asserted, would all lose their seats
from having dared to give an honest and li-
beral vote upon the great question of Catholic
Emancipation. This gentleman was continually
shoving this self-important paper into the hands
of the Secretaries of the 'treasury ; and, as we
conceive, actiri in concert with the Noble Lord,
to whom we have before alluded. Just at this
critical moment of conjecture, appears a❑ address
of a Noble Lord to his constituents, stating that
he thought it right to inform them that it was not
his intention to offer himself again to their con-
sideration. The address 'lf this Noble Lord,
who was known to be in the confidence of one
of the leading Members of the Cabinet, gave
additional weight to the rumours then afloat, and
we believe unintentionally on his part thus in-
jured the cause of religious liberty, which he had
supported in Parliament. 'Why announce his in-
tentions then, unless upon an absolute certainty,
that the question of a dissolution had been posi-
tively fixed upon ? We confess that We did not
attach so much consequence to it as others did,
because we imagined that the Noble Lord had
penned what he conceived to be a very pretty ad-
dress to his Constituents, and that he had kept it
in his desk for some time, and having read it very
often, was so enamoured of the composition, that
he could not refrain from giving it a premature
birth. We must allow that these reports, which
were intended to create the necessity of a new
Parliament by the general ferment which it tended
to raise between Elector and Representatives,
were managed with considerable dexterity, though
we had a confidence that a distinguished Member
of the. Cabinet, who had in the last Sessions of
Parliament, on very many questions of import-
ance, shewn himself so friendly to civil and re-
ligious liberty, could not be hrought to think,
having seen the reflection of his own image in
the Lakes, that the month of October, this year,
was the best time, under all Circumstances, for
an appeal to the sense of the people.