The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-19 00:00:00

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this dau,
at 25 minutes past Three o'clock.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1836

The visit of the King of the BELGIANS to this
country has created no small uneasiness in the minds
of the Tories. Those who are conscious of always
acting from improper motives themselves, will of course
suspect others of doing the same. When the " fac-
tion" have a point to gain they never set about it
openly and directly, as a true Englishman delights to
do. All their proceedings are masked, and when they
pretend to be most eagerly engaged in furthering some
object, we may be assured there is something in the
wind of a very different complexion. In artifice and
duplicity they .Are adepts ; and though we may allow
that this tricky policy does sometimes succeed, it is not
successful in the long run. We have never yet found
reason to doubt—and least of all would the attachment
of the Tories to the opposite maxim lead us to doubt—
the truth of the good old English adage, that honesty
is the best policy.
The Tories—charitable creatures—cannot persuade
themselves that there does not lurk some sinister pur-,
pose under King LEOPOLD'S visit to England. They
cannot believe that the feelings of nature and of Roy_
alty can exist in the same bosom—a left-banded com-
pliment to the latter, it must be confessed,—and
therefore we find them, through their organs, attempt-
ing- to infuse into the public mind a suspicion that the
visit alluded to arose out of political motives and was
intended solely to promote the personal interests of
the Royal visitor, by bringing about a matrimo-
nial alliance between the heiress presumptive of
the British throne, and one of his near relatives.
Who the " selfish and ambitious adventurers" are,
to whom a complimentary Morning Journalist al-
ludes, we pretend not to know ; nor can we ima-
gine who are meant by the side of the House described
as " not English," and said to .be " assisted by two or
three artful subalterns for confidential advisers." There
are, we know, some people about the QUEEN who
have more influence with her MAJESTY than persons
of their stamp ought to possess, and we should be as
happy as the Times to see them removed. But is it
decorous to remind her MAJESTY that she is "not
English ?" Is it not indelicate and unfeeling towards
the KING himself, who, by the operation of a cruel
law, must come under the definition of " not English,"
as must every Sovereign who rules over the English
people, while that law remains on the Statute book.
We think it is, and we would advise our Contemporary
to refrain from stigmatising any member of the Royal
Family (always excepting one who is illustrious by
courtesy), with being "not English," until our Princes
and Princesses are permitted to consult their hearts in
the disposal of their hands.
But the best of it is that this writer, who devotes an
article to the insinuation of unworthy motives against
the King of the BELGIANS, and his relatives, male and
female, winds up the matter by assuring his readers
that there is no danger to be apprehended from any
manoeuvres that may be directed against the free
agency of the Princess VICTORIA! In this we
perfectly agree with him, and all that we wish
is that the Princess, when the time comes for
her to make a choice which is to involve her
domestic happiness through life, may be left to
choose for herself. To this we may perhaps be
allowed to add, that were the choice to fall upon a
Prince of the House of Saxe Coburg, it would meet with
the cordial approbation of the people of this country.
Such a union would, we are aware, be wormwood to
the Tories, who arc anxious to neutralise the liberal
tendencies of the Princess, by patching
up an Al-
Matched alliance between her and a scion from the
rotten stock of CUMBERLAND—an alliance which,
we have reason to believe, would be as repugnant to
the personal taste of the Princess, as it would be offen-
sive to the nation at large.

We beg to direct the attention of our readers to an
article headed ‘, The
French Government and the
Spanish Constitution,"
which will be found in ano-
ther part of The Sun of this
day.
If true—and the
author is a gentleman whose veracity we have never
question-- u
Oncee
heard
ofthe called led i n st
instructive
will form the subject of
one
it
in the history of
modern Europe.
ett the facts which it purports
most
ln—
pto embody be established—let it be only roved that
the scheme which 11-.VIARDOT developer in the face of
Europe, was concocted with the knowledge, and by the
consent of Louis PHILIPPE, and the name of the
King of the FRENCH will become svnonimous with
treachery and political apostacy in their most hideous
fortns. But the wiseacres who plotted uniting Spain