The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-26 00:00:00

THE LORD CHANCELLOR.

I,lk_ Portion of the Metropolitan press has for some weeks past
itcl° attempting to
en - " write down" the Lord Chancellor !
Aere told
47 was their i
erntention. The Times took the
and was follow ed by seval of the Ultra -radical papers,
,
thas a matter of course, all the Tory journals. The success
,eeffort has been worthy of the object, and the motive
ifroidrinucsedwit. It has caused the friends, not of the Lord
I,.._uazeel or merely, but of those of the social improvements
iaegp6'ehre
hich his gigantic mind first propounded, and
ozeait afloat before the world, to rally round his Lordship with
ten, Proportioned to the virulence of the attack ; and. we
ood‘lare to say that his Lordship's character as a politician,
tre.as a statesman, has come forth like fine gold tried by the
or._ We trust that it will remain a monument of the futility
tiotr Y attempts now-a-days to ruin the character
ttalteq any man merely because he is entitled torespect for
41, a talent and consistent patriotism. The schoolmaster
leaeen abroad to some purpose ; the people of England have
their few lessons of late years, and the first use they make
ofknowledge will be to sift the wheat from the mountain
25fr, beneath which the assailants of his Lordships have
ki-os;z"'Pted to bury them. Without pretending to fathom the
Nes which actuated the leader of the onslaught, we may
,_ at the attack commenced with the development of the
opoor Law Bill—for. the success of which the country is
nly indebted to his Lordship's great talents. What the
:tet of this attack may have been in the metropolis, we know
one but in this district we can safely say, that it has had but
than t:adeney—that of securing his Lordship more firmly
1148 failedver in popular estimation and respect. The attack
tess
of for for want of two principles essential to the sue-
tiale.c.t ally effort for ruining a public man at the present
tot forau honest motive in the assailant, and a sufficient rea-
. t
Of the assault • and until the Chancellor deserts the people
tept agiand, they w' ill not desert him. The failure of the pre-
epeeatt ofeimPt is gratifying to those who believe in the exist
the Public morality and public gratitude. It shows that
and ZWer of the press is as nothing when opposed to truth
and i'as°ll, and that its shafts, however pointed, fall powerless
by :11110euous when hurled by virulent captiousness, and guided
Criee---- Western Times.
46„Itr) BRovonAm.—lt would be impossible to describe the
44'4 and indignation with which the attempts of the Times
hmtP_sper, cheered on by the Tory press, to blacken the cha-
ref7Thof Lord Brougham, have been received by all classes of
att:ersz. in this town (Taunton). However they may regret
at," °L ills errors (and who is without them?), they, one and
akte in the admiration of his talents, and gratitude for his
peogiarduous, and successful exertions in the cause of the
kulePba,.., There is no living man to whom freedom is so much
it d.,: vu; and that such a man should be so foully slandered,
to tigraceful to any press calling itself liberal, and an insult
;,?lation he has befriended. The secret of the hostility of
bim„" is the avowed intention of the Noble Lord to
tts of ,[le stamps on newspapers, which will cripple the pro-
to tnat monopolizing paper, although it will add one more
obligations which the people owe to their Chancellor.
PoilYit" complete the good work, and all the malice of disap-
Olterro eti;. will be vain against the gratitude of a nation.—
' "Ne Journal.