The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-23 00:00:00

SPIRI T OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.- burst forth from the Ministerial bene;tes of th\e llui3se
of Commons on the entrance ~
Our readers will see from our ample and eircum- ral, after the verdict, y •fel
, .ognant to 4.0 o( ••
ornev-Gene-
stantial report of the trial in which Lord Melbourne irreconeileable even. ordinary Pr- -•-
• -per-
was defendant, that. there was no foundation what- „„„! „
ever for the prosecution. The Jury had no hesitationthe la!lour of perusing
the evicieo;:e
in instantly finding a verdict of acquittal ; the only 7rom his task without being en.
evidence on which even a probability of guilt coul•;
lion,. of the absence of any cause of cxulta-
t friends, whether personal or political, of the
have been inferred, having been discredited 1,5.
Noh!e Defendant. Mornima , Post.
Lord Chief Justice in his charge, and r(1:-,ctea
by them
as unworthy of regard. So much for this grand Tory
machination for breaking up ----iteform Government, by
the sacrifice of Lord iNV:oourne. The Tory press has
been long at work ie. poisoning the public mind, by all
manner of insirroations, and even direct accusations,
in order to create a prepossession against the
parties, under the influence of which the slightest
circumsteAces affording an opening to. suspicion might
be reP.dily construed into positive evidence of guilt. I Jo.
To effect their purpose, no scruples, no eommiseratiop
for the lady, against whom they ha"c directed swinany
poisoned arrows, have arrested tram one moment in
their career. Faction woult,' seen to strip inn of all
the attributes of human;'4, There is not, perhaps, in
our domestic history 'Another instance of such an un-
generous disregar":t of all the charities of life. The
• case, as was forr_:ibly shown by the Attorney-General,
originated io party motives, and was conducted fur
party end r,. This view, we are confident, will be
- shared 'uy the public. As to the husband, poor Mr.
Norton, if ever man was entitled to exclaim " God
deliver me from my friends he, surely, is that man.
Bitterly must lie lament the day that he yielded to the
advice of those friends under whose advice he has acted.
Whoever instigated him to the course he has pursued—
whether Lord. Wynford (who generally receives credit
for it), or other parties—the signal and complete defeat
of the prosecution must fill their minds with reflections
which few persons will he disposed to envy them.
Verily, they will have their reward. But we turn
with scorn from tha parties who could seek to pro-
mote party purposes, at the expense of private suf-
fering—wl'_.o could, without compunction, expose to
the puh,lile gaze the weaknesses and infirmities (and in
what, fife, if laid open; may not defects and frailties
be. discovered?) which a keen and indefatigable
I.crutiny may succeed in discovering in . a course of
.years ; and we say that the prosecution reflects inde-
lible disgrace on the Tory party, who sought to
build their success on such a discreditable founda-
tion. The considerate and reflecting portion of so-
ciety, of all classes, will do justice to the minds
that could entertain the degrading designs which
lave been so signally frustrated. With honest
and allowable warmth we congratulate the people
of the British empire on the discomfiture of anattempt
to bring odium on the Reform Government by striking
alt it in the person of its chief. We have refrained'
From noticing the many false and stupid stories which
have circulated for weeks past, well knowing that the
trial, should it take place, would destroy the whole
fabric in a way the most conclusive and satisfactory.
We entertained no fears for the honor of Lord Mel-
bourne's political character. The friends of the
Noble Lord had a sufficient guarantee in .his known
discretion and personal integrity, to relieve them from
any fears respecting his having compromised his high
station by any exhibition of disrespect to his So-
vereign, or by a corrupt use of his patronage. And
if the Noble Lord had unhappily been found to
have fallen beneath the fascinations of a beauti-
ful and accomplished woman, we then could have
entertained no apprehensions for the sacred
cause of Reform and improvement. Reformers should
keep in view principles more than individuals, and
then they may safely deride the base and malignant
efforts of the wretched Tory faction, and defy all its
subtle courses, as well as the malice which has been
exhibited in its Nortonian folly. We will not be
guilty of the bad taste of complimenting an English
Judge upon the impartial discharge of his functions.
Sir Nicholas Tyndal, in his 'former political career,
can pnly be remembered as a decided Tory. Yester-
day he appeared the dignified expounder of the law,
and the careful holder of its balance between the
parties. Englishmen well may be proud of the admi-
nistration of justice, when they behold Judge and
Jury, as in the case of yesterday, lay aside all influence
of political excitement, and manifest only a sacred re-
gard for the conscientious discharge of their duty.—
Morning Chronicle.
The Tories have been again laid low. Failing in
all their public attacks upon the liberal and patriotic
Administration to whose care the destinies of this
country are entrusted, they succeeded in mastering
as they thought, a matter of private scandal, by
means of which they hoped, along with the private
character of its head, to destroy the Government ;
but in this their private intrigue they have been guilty
of as great a failure as in their more public attacks.
Lord Melbourne has been acquitted by a Jury of
his countrymen of the crime laid to his charge ; and
the villainous concoctors of it ordered to be sent back
to the place from whence they came, to chew the cud
of mortification, and fish for other gudgeons than
they have found in the Lambeth-street •Magistrate.
For that poor gentleman—deluded and used as he
has been—we have every feeling of compassion.
His mortification must be beyond description. He has
not only been subjected to such an exhibition of his
own household affairs and conduct as few men would
relish, but he must now feel that he has been used as
a tool for party and political purposes, and that, in-
stead of gaining anything by the advice of such persons
as Lord Gran de y, he has lost all that men prize most
highly—domestic comfort and self-esteem. In making
this poor gentleman the victim of their political ani-
mosity, the ultra-Tories have given the most decided
yrocfs of the lengths to which they will go in order to
replace themselves in power, and check the progress
of Reform. No means are too low for their adop-
tion, provided they appear to be available. The
kitchen and the stable—the laundry and the bed-room
—smell as sweet as roses when anything is discover-
able in them which is calculated to suit their purposes.
Women who love not once, but too well and often,
become ladies of worth, credit, virtue, and honesty in
their hands ; and men who are daily so intoxicated as
to be unable to distinguish a black tailed horse from
a grey, persons of notoriously sober character, and
unquestionable members of the temperance society,
if not also well-wishers of the Carlton Club. But it
-is needless to expatiate on what our readers are as •
thoroughly acquain-ed with as ourselves. The
in question was a political trial—it was an al'empt to
destroy his Majesty's Government ; and.. instead of
effecting its object, it has streno7.,„,d *the hands
which it attempted to paralyse. ." So perish all who
such bad deeds commit !”--.4orning Advertiser.
We give this day a r.ery full report of the procea-
ings of yesterday the cause of Norton v. Lord Mel-
bourne, wh:eh terminated in a verdict for the defendant.
The station which the Noble Lord occupies in the
Government of Great Britain imparts to this process a
degree of interest much greater than it would otherwise
hrye possessed, and compels us to do some violence to
our own taste and feelinpT, in the publication of its (le-
ads. We have cautiously abstained during the prepa-
ration of the cause for trial from any prejudication
of its merits., and from all attempts to derive from
it any prilitical or party advantage ; and we now
think it right to say, after a careful perusal of the
proceedings, that the decision of the jury seems to us
to be the proper and natural result of the evidence
which was laid before them. It can excite no sur-
prise that the friends of Lerd Melbourne's Govern-
ment should rejoice on the favourable termination of
the inquiry, since an unfavourable conclusion would
have rendered important and hazardous Ministerial
changes i.:idispensable. We may now, without in-
curnnr: the reproach of fighting the battle of
party with unfair weapons, express the opinion that
'll verdict against the Noble Defendant in this
cause must of necessity have been followed
by his •
immediate retirement from office. The
impossibility would have been universally felt
of separating the public and private conduct of
one who, as a man, had been convicted of adultery by
a jury of his country, and as a Minister of State was
known to have promoted the husband of his partner in
guilt• to a judicial office. It can excite no surprise,
therefore, we repeat, that the friends of Lord Mel-
bourne's Government should rejoice on the result of
yesterday's investigation Having said this, we must
be permitted to add that he exulting cheers which

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