The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-07 00:00:00

TO EARL HOWE, LATE CHAMBERLAIN

TJ THE QUEEN.

My LORD,—I have addressed you as lute in
her Majesty's household. Had I done other-
wise you might have complained fitly of a viru-
lent attack on your honour as a Peer, as a gen-
tleman, as a man of common honesty. I con-
clude you resigned your office the moment you
ventured to put your name to the Address of
the Kentish malcontents, against the measures
and the Ministers of the Queen's Royal Con-
sort. But, my Lord, I still consider you to
have committed a most gross outrage on decorum,
and to have violated every duty to your Royal
Mistress, in becoming a party to that inflamma-
tory Address while you still remained in her
employ, though doubtless you have since given
it up. It might be very well for such men a'
the consistent Earl of Jersey or the Rev. Earl
of Guildford to sign such trash. Where the
former got his new light as to the present Mi-
nisters, his old and valued friends, I know not ;
nor do I know where the latter ever got any-
thing like light at all; nor do I feel in a condi-
tion to say whether the domestic sovereigns of
either Earl commanded these signatures. Sure
I am that one of them durst as soon have put
his hand in the fire as set it to anything his lady
and mistress did not perfectly approve. In truth
I Suspect he only acted by orders on this as on
most other occasions. But you-you can have
no excuse ; you cannot have been ordered to act
the part you have done. In making of yourself
a greater fool than nature had made you, it.was
not in compliance with your 9uistres.4's
mands; it was in dcfiance of her displeasure-;
it was a gross anti scandalous breach of all the
duty you owed her. Therefore, although Ido
not slander you by even suspecting you of so
incredible a meanness as keeping your place after
betraying your trust ; though I do not think
you, or, indeed, any man, of almost any sta-
-tion, capable of doing so grovelling a thing, for
the sake of a few hundreds a year, I must still
severely blame you for not resigning till after
you had done an act tending to throw discredit
on the pure honour and untarnished good faith
of the Sovereign.
If, indeed, it should turn out that you are
still in office ; if the most abject of all degra-
dation has really befallen you, and you cling by
your place until you compel her Majesty, in de-
fence of her own honour, and in discharge of the
highest duty she owes to her Royal Husband,
to do an act you know her good feelings in-
stinctively recoil from, then I can only say you
have no parallel left in the history of political.
baseness, and you have cast in the shade the
conduct, eleven years ago, of that Earl to
whom, a few weeks ago, a question NOT
YET ANSWERED, was put, respectfully, but
plainly, by DETECTOR.

Two facts are fit to be well considered, and
deeply pondered upon at the present eventful
moment. Mr. Dowdeswell, a fierce Anti-Re-
former, who voted against the Bill in both
stages, has been fain to pledge himself to his
constituents to support " the Bill, the whole
Bill, and nothing but the Bill." Mr. E. Peel,
at Newcastle-under-Line, has given the same
pledge. The latter gentleman is Sir Robert
Peel's first cousin, and he comes into Par-
liament, of course, to support his kinsman and
the head of his family. Now, many reflec-
tions crowd upon the mind in meditating
on these facts. The first and most gratifying is
the evidence they afford that the Bill is tri-
umphant and omnipotent. This is past all
doubt. But this we knew before. What we
did not know was, though we might suspect it,
that those stout Anti-Reformers were, in reality,
so little alarmed at a measure which they pre-
tended to think the overthrow of the Con-
titution. It is now plain that they, and
among them the Peel family, after all, do
not think there is any danger whatever in the
Bill. If they did, of course they never could
think of voting for it. But what an odd thing
it is to find some of them all the while bawling
among the Cambridge parsons that the Church
and the Salto will be involved in one indiscri-
minate ruin by the measure ! Surely Mr. W.
Peel can't have expected that Mr. Edmund
Ditto would so soon " let the cat out of the
bag." His prudent elder brother, Sir Robert
Ditto, keeps his bag much tighter drawn. Not
even a kitten will get out of it till the
right moment—nay, not a hair—or a whisker
of poor, dear, Grimalkin will be seen. The
right mouse must first come in view ; and then—
oh then, w© admit, the bag will open and the
spring be made. But does any one who recol-
lects 1828 and 1829 doubt that this moment
will come? Only recollect how Mr. Robert
travelled in the. much-loved and congenial stuff
districts in the autumn of 1828, after he had
prepared to swallow Catholic Emancipation ;
after lie had, as it were, bagged his cat.
There he was at dinners, and at break-
fasts, and at public luncheons, and at
christenings, with his bag as tight as a
cocoa nut, and looking as lank as if no cat
had been in it. There lie travelled, and there
he feasted, and there he toasted the Church and
the Protestant cause. No cat ever stirred ; but
all of a sudden, a few weeks after, " out jumped
she." Now all we would suggest, by way of a
query, is—who will ensure us that she is not go-
ing•to jump again ?

RUSSIAN NOBLEMEN AT THE STAMFORD
ELECTION.—Two Russian noblemen, who have been some
time in England, expressed a wish to Mr. POULETT
THOMSON to observe the humours of a contested election.
That distinguished Statesman recommended them to
Stamford, on the ground that the greatest battle between
the Aristocracy and the people would there take place.
During the whole of ti.e election they have been most
anxious spectators of the proceedings, and were highly
elated with the ultimate triumph of the popular cause.
When they return to their native country, they will carry
amongst the most barbarous of European communities a
reflected light from this little borough.--Stanford News.
StIOCKINci ACc I DENT.—OuThursday night,
just before the conclusion of thu performance at Astley's,
Alias BURNETT, one of the figurantes, in performing one
at her evolutions, by some means slipped, and fell with
considerable violence on the stage. • Some of the perfor-
liters immediately ran and raised her up, when it was dis-
covered that she had broken one of her legs just below the
knee. A coach was instantly procured, and she was con-
veyed to St. Thomas's Hospital.
LUKE DILLON.—The sentence of death,
Which was to have been carried into effect upon this un-
fortunate man on Saturday next, has been commuted to
transportation (or life. An official notification from the
Castle, announcing the fact, was yesterday morning trans-
ittitted to the Pig,' Sheriffs. The notice was immediately
[liven to Mr. DILLoN, who appeared to receive it with
eotqlete indifferem.;e, a matter which should excite but
little surprise, as he had been known to state long before
the slightest hope of mercy could be entertained by him,
that he thought hanging, in comparison with perpetual
transportation, would be the lesser punishment of the two.
The authorised intelligence of a reprieve was received at
._"ewgate about twelve o'clock, and in a short time after-
wards Mr. DILLoN's irons were struck off, although it
Was at the same time stated to him that no distinction
°child or would be made between him and other persons
''cnvicteti of offences against society. In a few days he is
t° be removed to the hulk, and will as soon as possible be
sent out to Botan Bay.—Dablin Paper.