The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-26 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.)

Of the two great debates of Thursday evening,
that which produced the less display of elo-
quence appears to us to have been infinitely the
more important, inasmuch as it exhibited no less
than 169 votes for that miserable delusion—
Parliamentary Reform. As to Lord Ellen-
borough's proposed Address on the Negocia-
tion; it was really so unintelligible that we can-
not think it could- possibly produce either good
or harm ; and certainly it will not create a thou-
sandth part as much sensation in the country as
the.same Noble Lord's ingenious manufacture of
a Marriage Act did last year. His Lordship
has the misfortune not to see precisely the effect
of his owm propositions. His Marriage Act pro-
moted any thing but matrimony ; and his Ad-
dress of censure on his Majesty's Ministers re-
dounded, as far as any thing could be made out
of it, entirely to their credit. It charged them,
in sum and substance, with not having plung-
ed this country into war, when it was most
manifest that the whole Nation desires Peace.
It accused them of not having taken up arms in
the cause of the Spanish people, when it is no-
torious that that people are embarked in two
opposite causes, both alike inconsistent with the
principles of British liberty. If the object of the
Address was not to make us break our neutrality,
the language of the Address was in direct oppo-
tition to its object ; for it avowed the most hos-
tile feelings against all the Great Powers of
Europe. Really, of the two compositions, his
Lordship's famous Marriage Act appears to us
the more rational. Either we wish to maintain
our nautrality, or we do not. - If we do not, in
Heaven's name let us draw the sword—
And ran an Indian muck at all we meet.
But if we mean to remain at peace, and most
assuredly such is the wish of ninety-nine persons
out of a hundred throughout the country—then
let our conduct be neutral ; and let our lan-
guage be suitable to our conduct. Some poli-
ticians talk as if they thought that two great
nations might be scolded into a war with
each other. Violent and even scurrilous lan-
guage has been uttered, with no other view, as
it should •seem, than to excite a personal an'

iru►+4ity in Foreign Governments against this
country. Singular enough too it is, that the
Speakers, now so valiant, are the same who
during the war were so extremely pacilic—who
bent like bulrushes to the storm before the Despot
that bestrode the Continent,and always counselled
pence and submission to his sovereign will. We
wore much surprised to find Lord Grey
disclaiming that Speech which fame has for
so many years attributed to him. how it
has happened we know not ; but certainly
the world has hitherto believed that his Lord-
ship once said, in three months from that
date, there would not be an English soldier in the
Peninsula but as a prisoner of war. But since
the Noble Lord disclaims that unfortunate pro-
phecy, we are bound to believe he did not utter
it. Only it would be.as well if he would state
what it was be did say on the occasion. alluded
to. We apprehend it would be found to afford a
singular contrast to his present warlike orations.