The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

mottNING FMITiOv

JOHN FROST.

(A LHAFSODY, BY THE EDITOR OF THE " STAFFORD.
nhlnli GAZET'FE," ON TWELFTH NIGHT.)
Tim Melbourne Government has reached its lowest
stage of degradation. Not one of the multitude of
enormities that we have recorded during our brief
career, at approaches in baseness the last daring act
they have Just perpetrated. These traitors to their
country lia,e actually rewarded the notorious John
Frost. the Chartist Magistrate of their creation, with
one of the inoct lucrative and important offices at his
place of exile, Poi t Arthur. Who would not be a
traitor ? Tue Melbourne Cabinet have ever and anon
rebutted nid indiwnation the charge brought against
th.lit of encouraging the monstrous doctrines of
the Chartists, Socialists, and other agitators that

have of late entailed such disastrous consequences
upon the community. Now th.y are convicted by
their own acts ; and who will believe them? 'Who will
place the sligi:test reliance upon their declarations, .or
even their oaths, after this mockery of justice—this base
betrayal of tile 'oe:t interests of their country ? Parlia-
ment wili shortly meet, and will they not then las
rai~ncd ,t the bar
cucourlgement of of
lub v,ip openly iiciioin,eion for this their direct
nle
sought by force of
arms and deeds of blood to overthrow the Monarchy,
ti! Chu. eh, and to remova every vestige of our ancient
and well tried form of government. They wjJJ they
must be so arraigned, and we Emil assured that -The in-
dignant voice of the country will make itself heard
within the walls of Pal !lament, and that n vote of " no
con,fidenee" will be car, is'd by a large majority. They
have rewat (led John Fro3t, and that is enough to hurl
than from tile posts they so uuwerthily fill. Will their
old \Vhig friend:—wiJ even the " Tail" support them
after this ? Surely nof. Tney must fall, and like Lu-
cifer, never to rise again. Vs trust every Conserva-
tive journalist in the empire will make his readera fully
acquainted with this case of rewarding. High Treason
by Lord Melbourne's C thinet, and also urge the pro-
priety of immediately larwarding petitions to her
Gracious Majesty :or the isjtant dismissal of sum; a
worthless and traitorous crew. Weak and short-sighted
Chartists of the North, you did not imbrue your
hands in the blood of the Queen's faithful magis-
trates and soldiers—you did not lead on the Queen's
misguided subjects to fall by scores under military exe-
cution—you projected no schemes of town-butnil-g and
plunder, and therefore you rot in gad. Silly Mr.
Feargus O'Connor, you rested upon " moral force," and
therefore rest you in York Castle. Chartists generally,
Lords Melbourne, Normanby, and John Russell have
told you what to do. They have rewarded Frost for his
treason. " Go," say they, as plainly as men can speak by
actions—" go and do thou likewise ;" assemble in thou-
sands and tens of thousands—try if you cannot but n
your fellow-subjects in their beds—plunder towns its
the confusion of midnight conflagration—daughter, if
you can, the Queen's magistrates aral soldiers—levy
war upon her Majesty ; you will merely have the
form of a trial to go through, for a " stitch will
be dropped" conveniently for your safety. You will
be sentenced, indeed, and a gallows may be built ex-
pressly fur your use, but this vvnl be all u delusion to
gull the public ; you know what really awaits you—a
free passage to comfortable " seats beyond the s.Juthern
main" provided for you by your Whig-Ridical friends and
patrons. People may say' that you will be sent to penal
colonies, but to you they will not be penal ; these penalties
are reserved for knaves—guilty of poverty, and of those
petty-larcery ofT.x.ces,to which poverty urges those who
arc not depraved tip to the temper 'fit for your greater
transgressions—your crime is high treason. It tray,
as Frost's did, involve murder, arson, robbery', and eveu
the most paltry thefts, but it is high treason, and with
high treason a Ministry appointed by and dependent on
Mr. Daniel O'Connell, must own a s 3 tnpathy. The men

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had beer•. guilty of the highest crime known to the law
All England had resounded with the noise of that

crime, and of their conviction. Ministers had for weeks
pretended that they must leave them to the extreme pu.
nishment. Will it IL! believed that such men are sent
out without special instructions for the disposal of them ?
We think not.