The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-03 00:00:00

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1834.

We hardly expected that a body everlastingly bab-
bling about the sacredness of vested rights, and the
sanctity of Corporate privileges, as the Tories are,
would have taken umbrage at the conduct of the
most respectable, and most influential citizens of
London, for exercising, in the most constitutional
manner, one of the most valuable and most sacred of
their chartered privileges. If there be one privilege
which a Monarch may grant to his people, surpassing
all others in excellence—less subject than all others to
abuse—which cannot change in its efficacy by times and
seasons—it is the right of carrying their grievances to
the foot of the Throne, and, in the simple language
of truth, informing the Sovereign of the real wants and
wishes of his faithful subjects. It binds the people to
the KING with a triple bond of respect, duty and affec-
tion. It consoles them under all temporary abuse's of
power, and gives them, as it were, a security against
the corrupt influence of Courts, and the wiles of crafty
Statesmen, educated and confirmed in habits of diplo-
macy. There is something even in the honest looks
of his people, strangers to his state, and to all
the formalities of artificial life, which cannot fail to
have a powerful effect on the counsels of a Monarch,
to whom GOD has given a heart participating in the
feelings common to human nature. The right,
therefore, of the citizens of London to present their
addresses to his MAJESTY in person, is a most
sacred one, and to the eternal honour of the city be it
spoken, a right which they have ever exercised with
the greatest discretion, and for the general good of the
KING'S subjects. Now as the Tories are uniformly
the champions of whatever is done by Corporations in
their chartered capacity, we are not a little astonished
:0 find the Standard of last night heaping all manner
of abuse on the deputation of the citizens of London,
consisting of the LORD MAYOR and the other muni-
cipal officers and members of the Common Council,
who waited on his MAJEUY at St. James's, yesterday,
with the Address, on the expediency of appointing
a Cabinet, whose political opinions should correspond
with those publicly avowed by his MAJESTY. and the
majority of his people. One would imagine, from the
strain of virulent and low abuse in which the Standard
attacks the deputation, that the Citizens of London
had been guilty of a species of constructive treason
against the State, and that instead of exercising a con-
stitutional right, they had wantonly invaded all the
prerogatives of the Crown :—" The following is the
KING'S truly dignified answer to the impertinent Ad-
dress of the Common Council," remarks the Standard.
"The animals to whom it is ?fend will not understand
it." This is the first specimen of the respect for the
people which we have received from the new Govern-
ment. We have here the Magistrates of the first city
in the world denominated, by the accredited organ of
a Government not yet completed, animals as if
they were a species of creatures incapable of under-
standing
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'he purport of two sentences of their native
language Were
the deputation of the citizens of
London such as the Standart; describes it, His MA-