The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-27 00:00:00

strata on the assailing side, and the blame has
no personal attachment: And them we often
see that in law'and morals, as in algebraic equa-
tions, to change the sides of the charaNers, alters Nt-
their effect from positive to negative, and the
opposite. - When Mob is against Magistrate,
Magistrate is plus Justice; but, when Magistrate
is against Mob, Mob is minus Justice. Mr.
I,k3ulton, it soon appears,' had his cogent reasons
fornot understanding the impersonal blame of
the •,Manchester transaction. Thought he, I
h4ve been praised for my part in the transaction,
and so I must have had a part, or how can I
have the praise ? HC had had the praise; of the
finest gentleman of the age, the graceful George,
for authorising the sabreing of the people; and
now to be told that the character of an affair of
such gore and glory can be ad, erted to, without
concerning in any way the conduct of the ma-
gistrates, who cried havoc, and slipped the dogs
of,yeomanry, is to take the red feather out of his
plume. He is evidently touched at his part
having been overlooked. •
I should have imagined, that to one ,who took the
active interest which your Lordship did in the effort of
1819, my name might have been as familiar as that of
Deacle. Humble individtlal as I am, hon Our, tOe' firmest
basis of private life, forbids that I should tamely submit to
have the epithet revolting' applied to any transaction in
which I had participated."
Mr. Hulton has his own taste for fame, but„

with that we have nothing to do ;—dier.e may
be a taste for fame, like that for game, most re-
lished by the epicures when it stinks. Those
fames however, which are so very high, will not

keep; and it scarcely surprises us, that so pure
a person as Lord Althorp really is, should have
had his recollections purified from the odour of
the Manchester Magistrate. The Minister, in
his reply, still endeavoured to soften the angry
gentleman, and at the expence, we must add,. of
manliness and reason.

" I told you that I could not be at all sure that the
report in the Mirror of Parliament was a correct one,
nor can I be sure that the reports which you have referred
to are incorrect; but I think they must be, because I do
not believe I ever used the words ' revolting' and ' fright-.
ful 'in public speaking in my life. Eloquent people use
these sort of exaggerated expressions; speakers like me

do not."
A man, without being accused of eloquence,
might designate a charge of cavalry on an un-
unarmed, helpless multitude, of mingled men,
women, and children, as " frightful ' and " re-
volting." We say, with Billy Lackaday, "If
it's murder, mention it."
" The words imputed to the in the Mirror of Parlia-
ment are most unjustifiable.' The sentence is, Think-
ing, as I did, the acts which were committed there were
most unjustifiable, I considered it my duty to move for a
Committee of Inquiry '"
" Most unjustifiable !" Lord Althorp stands
clear of eloquence indeed. The bride in the
farce says to her husband accused of adultery
with her particular friend, " Fie, you naughty
man !" Sir Astley Cooper observed, at a lttblic
dinner, that he was positively " ashamed of
Bishop and Williams," whose transactionsgere,
undoubtedly, what Lord Althorp would style
" most unjustifiable." But even this descrip-
tion of " most unjustifi.,ble" has been before
explained by the Noble Lord not to involve the
authors of the injustice, the Justices. What
follows is eminently aristocratical.
" I hope it is not my habit to say whit is offensive to
any man ; and if I was to expres. any such feeling towards
a gentleman of my own rank in society, as you are,
should be guilty not only of gross impropriety, but of
great folly."
Parcere superbis, et debellare subjectos, is,
indeed, the rule. Of such persons as the Dea-
cies, for example, Lord Althorp is careless of
speech and imputation; but the Baring class
have another treatment.
The answer to this bland epistle is an effective
piece of impertinence, and will, we earnestly
hope, cure Lord Althorp of his propensity to
gallant with the Tortes—we trust it will be a
warning to the whole Cabinet indeed : it is what
Mrs. Abigail styles " a complete set-down," or
" dressing."
" Your Lordship will neither deny nor a l e t 64 use of
the word • revolting,' as stated in many oi most
unjustifiable,' as quoted from the' Mirro* of PCS I lidnient
But, as your Lordship seems to think the la-t superlative
epithet so much the more gentle of the two, I will assume
that it was the one ~p,piied by your Lordship to same par-
ties engaged in the transactions at Manchester in 1519.
As your letters are not marked private,' I have shown
them to several of my friends holding different pulitical
sentiments. They, and the public, had come to the same
conclusion as myself, and fancied (erroneeu,ly, as it tc,w
appears) that your observations applied to the M-gisirates.
It may be very presumptuous to make the inquiry; bait it
would be extremely consolatory to me to hear from your
Lordship for whom the remark was intended? I -woir,il
not take the liberty of asking the question if your Lordship
had not volunteered the denial of its application tomyself."
Now, is not this melancholy ?—after ail the
courtesies, and explanations, and wriggling, and
twisting, and evading, and renouncing,—all lest
a Tory Magistrate should retire in displeasure
tram the commission, whence five hundred such
as he could be excellently well spared—after all
this, the most amiable of all Chancellors of the
Exchequer only gets pinned fast to a charge, in
flinching from which only could there be di.-
credit, and insulted for all his labour of love !
So it is, and so it should be. The Tories, in
this respect, evince a secret modesty—they
always despise those who court them, as if their
own consciences made them judges of the abject-
ness of the homage. But, as we love to be just,
we must observe that something is to be con-
sidered on the other hand, and that the Whigs
may have a profound and subtle policy in tits
practice which so disgusts their friends. To
despise an enemy is, we know, one of the most
dangerous errors ; and, by these courtships
causing themselves to be despised by the Tories,
the Whigs may design to betray their opponents
into some capital and irremediable errors. There
is also another explanation. Lord Herbert of
Cherl'ury says lie made a rule of returning good
for evil, and heaping favours nn his enemies, be-
cause he had an opinion that God punished
them the more, and far more effectually, in the
other world, in consequence of such great good-
ness on his part. This may be the virulent ma-
lice of Whig beneficence to adversaries ; but then
what will become of the Tory Church ? is it
not too bad to trap them into Tartarus with
fat things, benefices, palaces, purple, and pre-
ferments
remarksents
apply, in the same light with some?
We cannot view the correspondence to which
that soit
proves
rudely
reiof our contemporaries. We see in it more than
the arrogance and impertinence of a Tory Squire,
and
Globe
Lord
Althorp
observes,
the importance kif one sort of man to himself.
utithfd. meekness
es s
It proves rather the importance of that
one sort
of man to another, and a'Minister,—and this is
precisely what we grieve to see. It adds to the
many evidences that the relations between the
Government and the Magistracy are the rezerse
of what they should be, and shows the üb,urd
importance that is attached to the displeasure of
one of these rural Bashaws. 6itch an example
.is this really does lower the dignity, aye, Milt .he
tuthority, of the State. Deference to c:asptious-
iiess is an infallible sign of subjection, and
.cer-
tain encouragement to insolent exaction. Hardly
will it be now possible for Ministers to opOi