The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-22 00:00:00

manifesto in hand, strategem in their heads, an d
corruption in their hearts, will endeavour to de-
lude the people. They will appeal to their love
and loyal), towards the SOVEREIGN in support-
ing the Royal prerogative ; they will denounce
the violators of our Holy Church ; they will expose the
danger Of mob influence ; touch upon the .terrors of
revolution ;- the pure intentions of the Tories in their
efforts to save their country from anarchy and confu-
sion ; the property of the Tories and the respectability
of the Tories (half the Tories, among the middle
classes are so, because it looks genteel and something
aristocratic, th 3 other half is composed of place or
pension hunters), and their desire to neutralise Radi-
calism and its destructive propensities ; in short, every
means that range between fright and wheedling will be
employed to make the people emasculate their own
energies.

The torto:se won the race because the hare slept,
We have the strength to beat the enemy ; shall we
suffer defeat for want of vigilance ? Sir RoBEFT's
address is a very pretty opium draught, but it must not
b 3 swallowed.

Mr. GISBORNE'S address to his constituents, the
Electors of North Derbyshire, is characterized by a
bold and manly spirit. He does not shrink from the
duty incumbent on every honest man and good citizen,
at the present moment of danger to the best interests
of the country—the duty of expressing his sentiments
in the fearless language of truth, however disagreeable
that language may be to ears little accustomed to hear
it. There is no mincing of phrases—no- mezdiness of
mouth—no heating about the bush. He speaks out;
and to the point.

of our relations, cel'eign
After taking a brief sur::-cy
and domestic? in whien he points Out the greatly
Prove: And prosperous state of our affairs, when ifte
intrigues of the Court party suddenly opened the
fountains of strife, bitterness, and confusion, Mr. Gls-
BORNE makes the following patinent and constitu-
tional remarks on the exercise of the prerogative :

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" Now I atn told that all this is done in the exercise of the
Royal prerogative, which I admit—and that we I,,ntst
question it, which I deny. It is an atsertion for nobody
but a slave. Now this prerogative it either to be exercised
under responsibility or not If it is irresponsible, then his
Majesty may send for six men from the ranks of the first regi-
ment of Dragoons, and six from the forecastle of the flagship
at Portsmouth, and make them his Cabinet Council ; and
some people have even talked of his Majesty going to
Luke's or the Hulks for his Ministers, Well—it is the pre-
rogative. We are not to question the appointment. We are
to wait, I suppose, for the men.sures of the new Administration.
I give the consequences of this argument to the Tories. J
will maintain that the prerogative is only to be PXereittl
un,er responsibility. and for the benefit of the wation. The
only question, therefore, is, where doe, the responsibility rest ?
and to that question I will apply myself. First then—it does
not certainly mst on the King. It is a necessary principle of
our Consti:swion that no responsibility can rest on the King,
except in extra-constitutional cases, that is, cases in which the
Constitution provides no remedy within itself l and that it
pro'; ides abundant remedies in the case which we are discuss-
I will shortly show yoi, Even if we were to suppose a
case in which the King carried on all the acts of the Execu-
tive by his own 'lucre will, the Constitution would presumn
vice, In order to create responsibility. In instenr,o,,t lit the
present, when there is no apparent adviset', the party respon-
sible to the country is he who by his acts gives effect to the
advice-. It is not-material for us to inquire, though it might
be a subject of curiosity, and we may have our own opinions
on it, whether the Duke of Wellington was an accessory be-
fore the fact ; it is enough for us to know that he is an acct.'s-
very after. But for the act of the Duke of Wellington the
pestilent advice given to his Majesty to dismiss his reformin,i-
Mic,isters, would have fallen effete and inoperative to th'e
ground."

Mr. GissortNE then supposes hi 3 MAJESTY to
have asked advice of a counsellor, actuated by motives
of genuine and enlightenod patriotism, before he pro-
ceedt:ti to a measure involving consequences. of such
awful importance, and puts the. following answer in
his mouth :

" The advice given to your Majesty to dismiss your Minis-
ters, would, if unhappily followed, piece your Majesty before
conetry in a very equivocal character. Your Majesty will
recollect that when Lord Stanley, the Duke of Richmond, and
others, seceded from the Government, your Majesty suffered
the vacancies to be filled by men whose known principles were
a pledge to the country of your Majesty's determination to for-
ward, with increased energy, the work of Reform. Again,
when the resigrnition of Earl Grey, and of most, or all the
Members of your Majesty's then Cabinet, placed the construc-
tion of a new Government naturally and necessarily in your
Majesty's hands, your Majesty did not call to your Councils
those who stood before the country as men of opposite princi-
ples to the then self-dissolved Administration, but ordered the
Government to be re-constructed in such a manner that it
should, in the eyes of the public, (lifer only from the preceding
Government in bearing a still more reforming character,
both in Church and State ; and this Government, so re-con-
structed, received, in an eminent degree, the support of the
Representatives of the people. Your Majesty, therefore, in
following the malignant advice which has been tendered to
you, must either bear the imputation of having acted towards
Lord Melbourne's Cabinet, ever since its construction, with a
degree of duplicity almost unexampled among Princes, and
I which would cover any man in private life with deserved
contempt and odium : of having been a member of a back-
stairs plot against your own Government, and against the
Parliament recently chosen : or your Majesty must ap-
pear to have acted in these matters, so interesting to
the nation, with a looseness of principle, a trifling le-
vity, or a wanton indifference, which must destroy the
affectionate confidence hitherto reposed in your Majesty by
a loyal and grateful people. As a faithful subject and
counsellor of your Majesty, no act of mine shall sanc-
tion and give effect to advice which must be followed by
such destructive consequences.—Such advice, in substance,
it would have become any man, I care not who he might be,
to have tendered to his Sovereign on such an occasion. But
did the Duke of Wellington so act ? Far from it. Whether a
member of it before or not, he entered into the plot against
his Majesty ; he adopted it ; he gave effect to it ; and became
responsible for it. Hitherto we are only considering the Duke
of 'Wellington's guilt towards his Majesty. We are only eon.
sidering him as a conspirator against his Majesty's character
and honour. But he has something to answer for also to the
people. He has counselled and is responsible for the most
arbitrary act, which, since the time of Queen Elizabeth, has
been enacted by any British Monarch, who has not lost either
his head or his Crown. I do not call the act tyrannical, because it
is not tainted with cruelty. He has trifled with the (Lula aria
repose and peaceful and contented industry of this VT-Miry—
not wantonly, but for an object. And for what object ? ni
and solely to bring a rejected faction back to
last and desperate effort to quarter 0" "-
on the country. It is for r•-•• • •-- o gory Aristocracy again
z.
else." • rawer. It is v

As

instance of the base bare-faced effrontery
with which the Tories of Bristol are endeavouring to
bolster up the new Ministry, we give the following
copy of a bill which wo are confidently assured has
been extensively rerculated in that city, purporting to
to be an extract from this Journal. The bill is headed
" A list of the New Ministry;" and after giving the
names of Sir It, Ptn, Lord LYNDHURST, the Duke
of WELLINGTON, &c., concludes thus :

" Looking back upon the names above quoted, we feel con-
fident that the announcement of them will win the approbation
and confidence of the notion, in favour of the King's Ministers.
Whether we view them with respect to rank, intelligence,
official experience, political independence, fortune, probity, or
talent, we are persuaded that under no other Minister than the
eminent Statesman who now stands at the helm could such an
assemblage of all these indispensable qualifications have been
drawn together. When we add to this, that a Government
so constituted, receives the active, though unofficial aid, of
such men as Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Duke of
Richmond, and other Constitutional Reformers, we cannot
conceive any Administration more likely to receive, or more
sure to deserve the support of Parliament and the Public. A
warm attachment to the institutions of the country, unmingled
with any disinclination to purify those institutions ; to amend,
to improve, and to correct them where faulty, but, above all,
an unsuspicious, because disinterested, devotion to the public
weal, are the principles upon which the present Administration
is launched, and on which only, it relies for the countenance
and support of the country, it has been called upon to govern.
Sun, D',c. 16, 1834.
" A Dissolution is expected every hour.
J. Bonner. Printer, Bristol."

Tho sentiments here attributed to us belong to the
Morning Post, from which we
extracted the article,
together with those of our other nit:ming contempora-
ries- The Sun Nvas among the first to denounce the
New Government, and to apprise the 06 untry of the
machinations of the desperate faction who ha, -e now
seized the management of the State, and the
formers may rest assured that it will not des-ea its I

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