The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-31 00:00:00

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1836

There cannot be a stronger ground of suspicion that
he Lords have certain misgivings as to the propriety
and safety of the course into which they have been
dragged by their learned and upright ex-Chancellor,
than the daily labours of the Tory press-gang afford.
The Lords, say these hired actors of all work, never
stood so high in the public esteem as they do at this
moment. They have sliewn such dignity, such firm.
ness, such spirit, that they have turned the hearts of
all their enemies, and have risen incalculably in po-
pular favour during the last Session of Parliamen
—so much so, that were an appeal to be made
to the people at the present moment, the nation
would to a certainty declare in favour of the principles
acted upon by the House of Lords. The unprincipled
scribblers who put forth such nonsense know very well
the weakness of the cause they attempt to support.
They know that it wants all the bolstering up that they
can give it, and a little more too. They are persuaded
in their hearts--and indeed they would be duller and
more stupid than the stupidest animal that ever
cropped a thistle, were they not—that so far from the
House of Lords having risen in public opinion, that
assemblage of scrofula and insanity has sunk to the
lowest pitch of contempt and disgust, until, in point of
fact it absolutely "stinks in the nostril."
Only think of the impudence of these hirelings,
who thus insult the people, by imputing to them
a feeling so ignoble as that of respect for this hereditary
nuisance. The conduct of the House of Lords during
the last two Sessions of Parliament has been one con-
tinued outrage on popular rights, an uninterrupted
crusade against those improvements in our institutions
which the people demand, and which the progress of
society, the expanded and expanding intellect of man,
render necessary. The tide of improvement has set
in, and the Lords are attempting to stem it. The
puny creatures imagine, in their ineffable imbecility of
mind, that they, the physical and moral scum of so-
ciety, have power to resist the will of a great na-
tion, by dint of titles derived from a Norman robber,
or parchments and patents granted for services per-
formed against the liberties of the people. These are
the men with whom we are told the people are in
love these the men to preserve whom in the enjoy-
ment of their tyrannical privileges—nay, to enable
whom to trample still more haughtily and cruelly on
the necks
of men a thousand times better than them-
selves—the
people are said to be ready to sacrifice
everything. What a libel is this on the people I The
real fact is, that were it put to the general vote, whether
there should be a House of Lords or not, the negative
would be carried by a hundred to one.
At the same time, such is the ingrained stupidity of
,he whole class of Tones, that notwithstanding all the
experience they have had of their incapability to carry
on the Government of the country, we should be sorry
to acquit them of a design upon place. We are
strongly inclined to think, that had they succeeded
in smuggling through Parliament the clause, giving up to
their direction the Corporation Clia4ittes, which it must