The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-20 00:00:00

POPULATION RETURNS.

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necessarily, destroying the attachment of the
people to a Legislature which passes such laws—
is also the duty of every man who wishes to cor-
rect injustice, and promote the prosperity of
mankind. To say that such language is "incen-
tives to rebellion," is to pronounce a severe con-
demnation against the Government, which is
thus set in direct opposition to truth and justice.
But the language of the Times is mere raving,
for it can no more be incentives to rebellion to
denounce the unjust laws which the aristocracy
have passed to enrich themselves than to criticise
the ordinances of MENU.
It is, unfortunately, a lamentable fact, that
the conduct of the Legislature, in reference to
the Corn-law, which the Times formerly took
the lead in denouncing, has taught the people
to despise its authority. Shall that fact not be
stated, even to warn the Legislature ? Shall
the people go on blindly submitting to injus-
tice, because it is practised in the name of the
law, till England be reduced to the condition of
France under the tyranny of Louis PHILIPPE ?
Those, in our estimation, are the best friends of
the country, and the best friends of the aristo-
cracy, who warn them in tune of the dreadful
consequences of their present career, and endea-
vour to frighten them back, by a representation
of the dangers which await their onward course,
as was ably and honestly done by the Leeds
meeting.

From the company which the Tory Ministers
keep, it is plain that they will not need to be
spurred on by English journalists to try high-
handed measures with the people. They have
begun that in Ireland. They are incited to go
on by all the menials of the despotic Courts of the
Continent by whom they are surrounded. There
is scarcely one of these, from an Ambassador Ex-
traordinary to the lowest Vice-Consul, who does
not continually reiterate that no such free discus-
sion is allowed abroad. These gentlemen do in-
deed continually use incentives to rebellion
against the people, and against the duty which
the Government owes the people. They con-
tinually remind our aristocracy that on the Con-
tinent there is the knout, or incarceration in for-
tresses, for those who use their tongues or pens,
or there are laws against bringing the Govern-
ment into contempt, however much it may de-
serve to be brought into contempt ; and, according
to them, it is a weakness and a disgrace to our Go-
vernment that public writers and public speakers
are at liberty to use their pens and tongues
so freely. They manage such matters, it is said,
better in France and Russia; and it will not go well
for the aristocracy and the GovernmentinEngland
tin the free expression of opinion be put down
here as it is put down abroad. With such en-

couragement, and incited to rebel against
the public and against justice by the Times and
Post, it would not surprise us were we to find,

amongst the measures which the Tories are con

cocting to relieve the public distress, some plan
for putting an end to the meetings of the manu-

facturers, and for enchaining the Press. From
an erroneous analogy, the precept that self:pre-
servation is the first law of nature has been ex-
tended from animal life to constituted Go-
vernments , and under the influence of this
error—as the unjust laws passed by the
aristocracy for their exclusive benefit cannot

possibly be maintained if the press and the suf-

firing manufacturers be allowed to speak freely
of them—we dread that the monopolist and
starvation Government will endeavour to pre-
serve itself by striking a heavy blow at the
liberties of the people.

We can assure Mr. WARD that we had no per-
sonal motives for our obseriations last Tuesday,
and no intention of making a personal attack on
him. He is, however, a public man, answerable
to the public for his conduct. His connection
with the Weekly Chronicle is notorious and
avowed, and we could not allow sentiments to
pass which were obviously his—which the writer
in the Weekly Chronicle does not repu-
diate for him, and which, in our opinion,
struck at the very principles for which
the free-trade and Anti-Corn-law party are
contending—without alluding to the fatal in-
fluence which such sentiments might have on the
welfare of Mr. WARD'S constituents. We did
this in few words ; declaring, however, that if
those were Mr. WARD'S sentiments, the confi-
dence of the free-traders of Sheffield in him was
misplaced.

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