The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-08 00:00:00

most zealous partisans and favoured friends
of Ministers instructed in the sacred duty of
resistance by precept and example ? We are
firmly persuaded that there is not a man of in-
tegrity and candour from Caithness to Cornwall
who will give to this question any other than an
affirmative answer. It is idle to talk to such
men as necessarily constitute the majority in such
combinations of the difference between the for-
mer occasion and the present. And in the face
of all who so presume to talk to them they can
do nothing so good as to laugh a laugh of deri-
sion and contempt. Why did they illegally
conspire with the King's Ministers to force the
Reform Bill upon the Legislature but because
they were told that the Reform would operate
to give them not only sensible relief from taxa-
tion, but the power of sensibly affecting the
decisions of the Legislature as to what taxes
should be retained, imposed, reduced, or re.
pealed ? They looked to the Reform Bill as a
means to an end, that end being something very
different to the prolongation merely of the term
during which Earl Grey should have the power
of quartering his needy relatives upon the
country. And were they to do so much while
in conspiracy with Ministers for the acquisition
of an instrument, and now that they discover
the fraud that was put upon them—now that
they find the instrument by no means answers
the description given of it by its wily fabricators
—now that the Ministers, their end being oh-
; tained, belong to the conspiracy no longer, are
the other conspirators to relinquish their end, to
which the instrument is found to contribute
nothing, and to resume in placid contentment
their former habits of obedience to the law ?
The idea is much too preposterous for even the
present Ministers to have entertained it. They
must have contemplated this consequence of
their persevering and systematic policy, that
it would make conspiracy to resist the
law familiar and habitual in England.
They are morally responsible, therefore,
for all that ensues. They are greater cri-
minals even than the greatest of those whom, as
the only means of preventing anarchy, it has be-
come their ministerial duty to chastise and
coerce. The policy pursued by Ministers with
respect to the Church in Ireland affords evidence
equally conclusive of the community of interests,
feelings, and conduct which have indissolubly
associated the present Administration with the
• cause of habitual, systematic, and confederated
enemies of order and contemners of the law.
So deeply are Ministers stained by this foul
contamination that for them to set themselves
up in the new character of maintainers of the
law might even be attended with the evil effect
of casting upon the sacred cause of law and
order itself some portion of that ridicule and
contempt which should properly fall only upon
the inconsistency and hypocrisy of its self-
seeking and unprincipled defenders. Right-
minded men are the enemies of lawless combina-

tions as much when the latter are employed to
maintain in power a particular Administration, as
when they are employed to resist the collection
of a particular tax. But if there tie anything
which right-minded men abhor still more than
they abhor lawless combinations, it is the
treachery, duplicity, and fraud with which the
present Ministers might justly be charged if they
were to cause or to permit so much as a hair of the
head to be touched of any one of the conspira-
tors against the assessed taxes. These conspi-
rators are the pupils of the King's Ministers.
"1 hey are merely practising the lesson which
the King's Ministers have sedulously taught.
Every principle and feeling that inspires or
directs them is a principle and feeling which the
Ministers have taken pains to implant in their
minds. And if integrity and good faith, if
honour and honesty, are not wholly banished
from among mankind, how can the world endure
to behold the patrons and pedagogues of lawless
combination award punishment or administer
rebuke to ignorant and deluded men, for the
offence merely of continuing to obey with con-
stancy and fidelity an impulse of which these
same teachers and rewarders of lawless combi-
nations were the main and original source ?
Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION- HOUSE.

A man named Hasildel was brought before the
LORD MAYOR yesterday, by inspector Lowry, of
the Metropolitan Police, charged with having com-
mitted a burglary and robbery in the house of Mr.
Crop, a merchant, residing in Muscovy-court,
Tower-hill.

A witness, named Fox, stated that on Sunday
morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the pri-
soner came to his house to ask about a lodging, and
had with him two bundles. The prisoner complained
that his boots crippled him, and said he would go
out and get rid of them. He then pulled them off,
and not being able to borrow any slippers, he went
out in his bare feet, leaving behind him the bundles.
Witness's wife, upon looking at the bundles, sus-
pected that all was not right, and found, upon ex-
amination, that they contained a quantity of plate.
A policeman was sent for, and informed of the cir-
cumstance, and measures were adopted to ascertain
whether the plate did not belong to another party.
Mr. Crop, the prosecutor, a foreigner, stated that
his house had been broken open on Saturday night,
and plundered, and he identified the plate found in
the bundles and the boots as his property.
Ann Tracy, servant to the prosecutor, deposed
that at eleven o'clock on Saturday night, she left all
the doors and windows fastened, arid went to bed
at the top of the house. On going down stairs
next morning, at half-past seven, she found that the
window and window-shutters of the kitchen had
been broken open, arid that the cupboard had been
stripped of the plate ; that the unwelcome visiter
had supplied himself with a candle from a quantity
at the top of the cupboard, and had closely examined
every part of the ground floor, from which he had
not only taken the plate, but a pair of her master's
boots, and a cap of her own.
A policeman stated that he apprehended the
prisoner, who, upon being questioned, declared
that he could not resist the temptation to take the
plate, he was so
poor. He had, he said, been
wandering about, having no place to lay his head
in, and feeling very cold, he looked for a covered
spot, so finding the window of a kitchen open, he
popped in to make himself comfortable. On going
in, however, he by some means caught a glimpse of
the plate, and could not help taking it.
Inspector Lowry said, that when he beard of the
plate, he went round the Tower Ward, and was
particular in his inquiries amongst the inhabitants.
As it was Sunday, a considerable time elapsed be-
fore he succeeded. At length his card fell into the
hands of Mr. Crop, and every article which had
been stolen from the premises of that gentleman
was recovered.

The prisoner repeated the story about the great
ness of the temptation.

The LORD MAYOR said, that the temptation did
not strike him as anything remarkable. It was
merely the temptation to break through a window,
which was fastened on the inside with an iron bolt•
The prisoner was remanded.
THE LAST EXAMINATION OF MASON FOR STEAL-
ING BIBLES AND PRAYER.I3OOKS.—Mason, whose
examination, some days ago, drew together such
crowds of parish officers from the various parishes