The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-20 00:00:00

whereby the meeting might have been effectually
prevented without any effusion of blood. An even-
ing Ministerial paper says that Lord Melbourne and
his police would have no right to occupy ground
which was a thoroughfare for such a purpose. This
is nonsense. If the meeting were illegal, and Lord
Melbourne had a right to disperse it, he had a right
to pre-occupy the thoroughfare which this illegal
meeting intended to block up. We told the people
not long since that the proposition for a National
Convention" was apparently the "device of an
enemy." We can only now express our regret that
so many fell into the trap.—Morning Herald.
The difficulties under which his Majesty's Mi-
nisters have laboured in the attempt to carry on the
affairs of the co'u'ntry have long been apparent to
all. Too dishonest to merit the confidence of those
who would preserve, too timorous to retain the
support of those who would destroy--feeble enough
to make the promises which the most unreasonable
demand, indolent enough to fail in the performance
which the most moderate require, copious in their
abuse of those by whose aid they have thus far
stood, bountiful in their eulogies of those by ✓hose
invectives they are most liereely assailed--they
have been; during the whole session of Parliament,
offendinl in their turn all classes of their country-
Men, the high arid the low, the merchant and the
trader, the farmer and the artisan ; until, at last,
men who agree upon no other point agree in their
abhorrence of Lord Grey's Cabinet, arid the Peer
sympathizes with the ploughman, the Republican
with the Conservative, in detestation of the perfidy
and contempt for the incapacity of the Whigs.
They have formed their resolution. Will they re-
cede, or will they advance? Will they listen to
reason, or will they satisfy Mr. Place ? Will
they act like honest men, or will they look for the
support of Mr. O'Connell ? Do not anticipate from
them anything which is either manly in right or con-
sistent in wrong. They will prorogue the Parlia-
ment. The day is already fixed upon which they
purpose, having obtained the requisite powers for
the raising and appropriating of the Supplies, to
escape for a time from those embarrassments which,
if they have not in public sufficient courage to en-
counter, they have at least in private sufficient can-
dour to confess. They will prorogue the Parliament,
leaving all the changes they have threatened incom-
plete, all the alarms they have created unallayed;
the West India question unsettled, the East India
question unsettled, the Bank Charter question
unsettled, the Church reform question unset-
tled. Having exposed all the important interests
upon which the welfare of the country mainly de-
pends to vulgar curiosity and vague speculation, they
will dismiss the counsellors in whose hands the Con-
stitution reposes the remedy for the evil; having guided
the vessel into the breakers, they will throw their
pilot overboard. They will prorogue the Parlia-
ment that Lord Grey may relieve himself of the
cares of office, and go back into the tranquil retire-
ment, where he will be safe alike from the sneers
of Mr. Stanley and the visits of Dr. Carpue; that
the Duke of Richmond and Lord Brougham may
decide at leisure which of the two is fitter to lead
the van against the eloquence of Oldham and the
patriotism of Coldbath-fields; and that the wiser
and nobler Statesmen, who foretold our present
calamities in vain, may be entreated to aid in their
removal. It is a strange thing that the King's
servarus should advise his Alajesty to send to their
homes the representatives of his people, before they
have legislated upon one of those vast themes to
which at the opening of the session he was induced
to direct their attention. It will be denied by the
sturdiest of their friends ; it will be doubted by the
kindest of their enemies. But the measure has
been considered and approved. Let some inde-
pendent Member question Lord Althorp on the
subject to-night, and to-morrow it will probably be
reconsidered and abandoned.—Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

On Saturday the LORD MAYOR was informed that
Richard Coster having violated the regulations of the
hulks, at Cha ham, with the intention, no doubt, to effect
his escape) was tied up and flogged severely, in the pre-
sence of the other prisoners under sentence of transporta-
tion.

The LORD MAI-on—Poor man, I hope they didn't lay
it on too hard.—(Great laughter.) But I dare say be
consoles himself with the idea, that if he had succeeded
in getting away, and had been retaken, he would, with.
out redemption, have fallen into the hands of the func-
tionary with whose name his ears have bees so familiar,
and to whom he ought long since to have been officially
introduced. I said, wheu he was leaving this, that he
would try to escape ; and I am sure that he Will try again.
The informant declared, that if he were ten times as
clever as he is, he would stand no chance of eluding the
vigilance of the active officers under whose care he was
placed. His tricks in Europe were certainly at an end.
Coster is to sail forthwith for New south Wales.