The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-31 00:00:00

WHIG" LANDHOLDERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,-At a period when, with a few most honourable excep-
tions, of great Whig landholders, the two factions of the aris-
tocracy ( Whig and Tory), seem to have banded together to
plunder the poor, and send countless thousands to a premature
grave, for the sole purpose of keeping up exorbitant rents,
those who have manfully stood forward as "the friends of the
poor," are deserving of no measured praise.
I humbly conceive, therefore, the public should evince their
gratitude to those truly noble men, Lords Fitzwilliam, Radnor,
and Lansdowne, who, night after night, have confronted the
selfish band of confederated plunderers, and compelled them to
listen to the truth. Every obstruction appears to havo been
thrown in their way by the corn plunderers, and by the report of
last Tuesday's debate it would appear that Lord Radnor was
rudely interrupted by Lord Lyndhurst, on a matter of form,
which Lord Lansdowne subsequently proved was repeatedly
violated by the Tory faction.
I woubt venture to suggest that those who sympathise with
the unexampled sufferings of the poor, should mark the high
estitnatien in which they hold Lords Fitzwilliam, Lansdowne,
and Radnor, by subscribing for the purchase of apiece of plate
to be presented to each, with a suitable inscription commemo-
rative of the noble struggle those distinguished and honourable
men have made in behalf of the famishing poor of these
realms.
Many know how arduous and difficult a task it is to address
an unwilling audience, who, as Lord Radnor observed, " when
the facts of the distresses, of the poor, grounddown with misery
and poverty, were brought before them, received them with ridi-
cule, laughter, and contempt." Honour, then, to the glorious
advocates of our poor countrymen, and may Heaven reward their
exertions. B.

PARTY DEBATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—Ii it not most disgraceful, on the part of the House
of Commons, to trifle with the wants of a distressed working
people? hit consi.tent at all to have a Parliament for the
mere sake of displaying party prejudice, squabbling night after
night, introducing measures which are only to defeat one ano-
ther—trying who can make the longest speech, and who can
be interrupted with the most cheers, and thus prevent the
tide of national good ?
The House of Commons as at present constituted requires
(Heaven knows), an alteration, the sooner the better; and the
time has now arrived that those boyish and unmanly squabbles
will not do. The people who suffer so much under their ca-
price are ashamed of men who call themselves Senators, placed
in Parliament, as is understood, for unanimity and one gene-
ral good and the time has now arrived, it the people
want a good Houk of Commons, and good measures, to exert
their utmost endeavours to place a large majority of honest and
liberal men as their Representatives, and at once crush that
heinous faction which will do no good themselves, nor let those
that will.—l am, Sir, your very obedient Servant,
ONE OF THE UNREPRESENTED.
London, May 28.

THE DIDIER PAPERS.
(From the Commerce of Thursday.)
Our readers will perhaps remember that we have several
times published matter respecting the revelations announced in
the famous Didier conspiracy. This mysterious affair is about
to form the subject of trials at Grenoble ; the one a Govern-
ment prosecution against the Gazette du Dauphine, and
the other between the Ministerial Journal the Courrier
de l' Isere and M. Simon Didier, son of the victim of
1816. The latter has addressed a letter to the Courrier de
l' here, and has summoned it by a warrant to publish the fol-
lowing.vindication of his father's character, attested by the
Courrier de l here :
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURRIER DE L'ISZILI.
" Paris, May 17, 1841.
" Sir,—Son of the Didier of Grenoble, I have read with
great surprise, in your numbers of the 20th and 22d of April,
the following statement :
" Didier wished to establish a kind of jacquerie in 1816.'
" A jacquerie, that is to say, caprice armed with bad pas-
sions, pillage, organisation of a facultative massacre, insecurity
of person and of roperty, brigandage which would not be put
since down by force, the authority would go with it ! And
then for what would a jacquerie serve which was improvised
elsewhere and was not instituted? With what object th's
absence of institution and of discipline, at a time when
tactics is everything in war, when armed individualism can
produce nothing'in France, especially in the plains? Such
a plan could only have been the destruction of the resources
of the country, and the robbery of property and travellers.
My father establishing a jacquerie—my father a chief of
brigands ! This is your language, Sir ; and this language
iv
the more serious as you are considered in this as the organ
of the Government. This language is the expression of
mainess. The servants of power ought to remember that the
Grenoble scaffold deserves to be respected by power above
all, and by the world afterwards, which ought to honour
the martyr of a political connection. The Government
has profited by it, as it sits through similar attempts. No,
I ought not to have anticipated to see the memory of my
father attacked by such pitiful calumnies. No, I had
no right to expect that a journal like yours should
turn the scaffold of my father to account. And if even
my father, without the participation of the Duke of Orleans,
with whom he had passed, as my mother has declared
to me, several hours in conference before the explo-
sion of the conspiracy, might have wished to hoist Louis
Philippe on the throne, was it requisite to cause the destruc-
tion of the instruments of his elevation? Machiavel advises
this, and it may be concluded that if this feeling is ungrateful
it is not new. Under a Government calling itself one of repa-
ration, my father, Didier of Grenoble, the chief Of brigands !
No, Sir, he did not betray his accomplices ! He refused ever.
to ask for clemency from the Crown, and his last request
was to appear before Louis the Eighteenth, to whom alone
he would, make important revelations. My father was
cut up with the precipitate executions, without even
the form of trial- of his accomplices. Instead of in-
quiry, the cry of truth was feared, which, however, the
interest of the existing Government required. The con-
deemed without interrogatory, without a legal and formal de-
fence, are always innocent in the eyes of the law. This is the
first principle of the law. Innocent were confounded with the
guilty, and it was the natural consequence of the illegal man-
r,er of proceeding. My father destined and womi.ed for us
important papers, in which his political views were revealed, as
well as a letter to the Bishop of Grenoble to be guaranteed
against the seizure of them. These papers will be remitted
to you,' said my father. They have not been so. It is unever
nfor-
tunate that M. Motte. the the defender of my father,
meddled with affairs after the 10th of June, 1816. as he was
designated by the victim as Counsel for the family. I have
the voucher. My father told us that precautions had
been taken to prevent that contrary opinions were molested.
These are the facts upon which he relied, and now he is a chief
of robbers. Under the eyes of the representative of authority,
of which you call yourself the organ, two articles, one od
and
n the
20th, the other on the 22d of April, have been printe
distributed by you. This insane calumny has not been denied.
The whole has- been done by the side of my father's tomb, of
the birthplace, of the sojourn of my mother, in our native city.
Authority has neither prevented, stopped, nor protested against
the publication. I will tell you the character of my father.
lie was religious, liberal, a over of order
r was onlymonarchica he
l.
Te destroy and deny the ruling authority that
might renovate and establish. I shall speak of him furganisnther
at a future period. As a liberal, religious, and or
of the
man, my my father was the unfortunate personification
actual epoch which desires all this. Now I, his son, swear
before God and before man that I will at no price accept the
law of silence that it is pretended to impose upon me, and that
1 shall know how to avenge my father, who ought to be glori-
fied more and more under this Government. I have proofs in
this respect. Neither the memory of my father nor my de-
ceased mother, nor have gained anything from this Govern-
ment but humiliations. This last is the most frightful of all,
and it is before the tribunals of my country that I shall force
vou to make amends.

(Signed) " SIMON DIDIER."

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THE TRAFALGAR.—The Trafalgar, 120 guns,
.which has been many years on the stocks, will be launched
groin Woolwich Dockyard, on Monday, the 21st of June,
being the anniversary of the proclamation of her Majesty
Ls Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and not on the
19th, as formerly named. The Queen, Prince Albert,
and many other distinguished and noble personages,-will
attend the launch of the great ship, which has been
mamed to commemorate the great victory of Nelson and
-he fleet under his command. The Trafalgar is to be
locked on the day of the launch in the new and spacious
dock lately built by Mr. Rolt. The launch will take
)lace on the top of high water, which will happen at
Woolwich on the 21st at about half-past three o'clock in
the afternooo. •