The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-21 00:00:00

Sin,-If the present Government desires to secure the
protection of the people, they must not hesitate to demand
an immediate dissolution, and if that be refused, then in-
stanter to give in their resignation. There must be no
procrastination-no hesitation. This is not a period for
trifling. No little narrow policy must now be pursued--
no personal convenience studied-no personal inter, sts
consulted. They must not allow the supposition to ex:st,
that there is any want of firmness. There must not be
doubt entertained of their sincerity. The game of pro-
denee would now be irretrievable ruin. Action, and not
deliberation, is called for. My Lord Althorp pledged him-
self that the decision on General Gascoyne's insidiobs mo-
tion would be considet ed as determining the question of the
Bill, as fatal or confirmatory of the measure. Therefore
the Cabinet must either abandon their colleague, Lord
Althorp, or proceed to a dissolution ; there is no alterna.
tive. The notion that seems to prevail that Government
would not go to the country so favourably on the decision
of General Gascoyne's motion as it would do on a minority
upon schedule A. is quite mistaken and absurd.' The
people fully understand the hostility of that motion, as
well as the House itsrl'. It is one of the great acts of folly
which the Members of the House are guilty of, to imagine
hat the people are not as fully conversant with all the tricks
that are played by either party or by any Member,
as is the House itself. The friends of Reform require no
vase to be made out for them for their appeal to their con-
stituents. Tlrey want no adventitious circumstance to be-
friend then,. They can shortly and ably represent and
very intelligibly the necessity of a dissolution to de-
feat the Machinations of their opponents. The' mere
statement of Hie confidential communications that, were
made between Generals Gascoyne and Sir Robert Wilson, .
as acknowledged by them, is a sufficient demonatratioo of
the treachery iesorted to by the positive enemies of Ps-form
and its supposed friends-General Gasceyne felt twat his
motion, no it -origirally stood, we old not all. et his oh-
lect of defeating -the Bil',-sa it was craftily changed
by hit,; at the suggestion of his subtle advisers, to com-
promise Ministers and to defeat the principle of the Bill.
General Gascoyne admitted the alteration, and denied not
the purpose of such alteration. It was the low cunning
of the .txenty to do so, but such trickery is not lost upon
the people. The number of Members is not for a moment
considered by the people ; they attach no importanceto the
diminution ; they only require the purification of the re.
presentationthat they shall have a positive voice in
the election of their representatives--and that the
nominatien of those. now so falsely designated as' such
shall teas. to l-e in the hands either of the atisttfcracy,
or of an insolent oligarchy and base venal corporators.
The public e itertain no objection to a diminution Of ti-e
numbers. Such a diminution is not considered-to be
either a violation of right or principle. The increase
eiven• to Scotland and Ireland is not regarded as a robbery
committal on Engl 'tad, but only as an act of justice done
to the sister kingdoms. Englishmen are no.longer so
idiotic as to have any apprehension for the safety of the
Establish ed Church in Ireland. The thinking part are
rather of opinion that such an establishment is of no
benefit to the community, and only promotes the
interests of a desigring and plundering few.
The well-informed and enlightened Englishmen are fully
awaie the re is no charm in a given number-that the
essence of the representative system lies not in the mass of
the metemial by which it is constructed, but in the excel-
lence of the component parts, and of their fitting one with
the other. The infusion of one hundred Members into the
British Commit s House has not escaped the recollection
ot.the public. That great change has proved that a less change
in iy be made without any infringement on the general
Constitution of the country; and if there was such an aug-
mentation without any great injury having been sustained,
it is not understood how a diminution shall he productive of
mischief. Nothing could be more invidious than the motion of
General Gascoyne, and so it will be felt both by Scotland
and Ireland; of the latter country, in particular, the Ge-
neral is constantly- avowing himself the enemy. However
narrow-miNded and ignorant the Gallant Representative
of Liverpool may be-however much many of his sup-
port, rs may partake of his ignorance and contracted
views-yet the is, ople of England have overcome their
antiquated prejudices-801;e schoolmaster has given them
instruction-and wilh that instruction their minds have ex-
panded ; and they have not only acquil ed the knowledge of
what is correct in principle, but a:so the feeling to do what
is right, and have the conviction, that if they deny justice to
others-they do an injury to themselves. The middling
and lower orders of the peqle, now better educated than
the higher, can now he neither misled nor seduced. They
are now generally better qualified to be the hatters and the
legislators than are those persons who arrogate to -them-
selves the exclusive privilege of being alone capable of
judging what measures ate conducive to the general pros-
perity of the community. The absurdaest:hi,toiitceoisk,:-.eate.
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vacillation, and they have not the least occasion for ans.
aid to convince the people id the invetetare hostility of
shall increase popular influence, and that shall tend in
the least degree to give the people any controul (Net their
representatives.
Let there be an immediate dissolution on _the vote ef
the House on General Gascoyne's motion. In vain will
the opponents of Reform +raise the cry, we have not
yet voted against the reduction bf the rotten boroughs
-we . have defended your deli:it-we have only
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fought to preserve your present number of representa-
tives, tio one will attend to their cry, they will be laugh. d
at, they will be spurned 1 , Only let every Member state in
his address to his constituents, that General Gasroyne
tricked us; Lient..General Sir Robert Wilson betrayed
us ; Sir Roliert Peel would enslave you ; Sir Robert Inglis
and Sir Charles Wetherell would keep you in ignerance
the Duke of Newcastle will do with you as his own ; the
Marquis of Exeter will treat you as slaves ; and the Duke
of Northumberland will require yoa to think as he does,
Now think and act for yourselves and give a proof cf your
worthiness to possess the elective franchise.
Lord Althorp, if lie does his duty either by himself or
by the country, will give notice to-morrow, night
of an adjournment of the consideration of the scheelu'e A.
until M nday next. This will be a notification of a disso-
lution, and which may be formally announced on Saturday.
There is no Parliamentary reason why there should not be
an immediate dissolution ; all the requisite business will
have been got through by Saturday. There is every
moral reason-every political- motive-that there should
not he an 'times unnecessary delay in dissolving Parlia-
ment. would create confidence in the Ministers
- establish their popularity-.discomfit their typo-
vents, anti increase the people's affection for the King.
If disiointion be lamentably denied to the Government,
then let not an hour be lost in the resignation of office.
Sir Robert Peel dare not form an Administration. His
return to power would be the signal of discontent at home
-:-and that of the Duke of Wellington, of a general war
on the Continent. Swing would re-appear, and a
French army be on the Rhine within a month. King
William is too wise a Sovereign, and too good a patriot,
to abandon his people. CO-RADICAL,

LUKE DILLON.--There was a report through
town yesterday that there had been a commutation of the
sentence of LUKE DILLON. Upon inquiry we found
that there was not the slightest foundation for such a ru-
mour. Yesterday his Grace the Catholic Archbishop of
DUBLIN, accompanied by C. FEIZELL, Esq., had an inter-
view with his Excellency the Loan LIEUTENANT at
the Castle, when a memorial was presented, praying
for a commutation of the sentence passed upon DILLON.
The LORD LIEUTENANT stated that he would refer the
memorial to the Judges lrefote, whom DILLON was
' tried, and upon their report the fate of thr.r.os must
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