The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-04 00:00:00

simplicity in this lamentation, that those parts of
the citadel which were supposed to be bomb-
proof were, after all, not bomb-proof, and that
their not being so, was a very grievous disap-
pointment ! We know nothing superior in all
" Tristram Shandy"--not even in that scene
where Corporal TRIM complains that his
masters's jack-boots " made but indifferent
mortars." But the whole despatch abounds
in such quiet, minute, touches of cha-
racter ; and when the observant reader
bears in mind that it is a Dutch La-
mentation over French activity, assuredly it will
not lose in his estimation. We should observe
by the way that CHASSE'S fire is always " hap-
pily" directed, GERARD'S is always mal-apro-
pos, for the obstinate French Commander had
an ugly habit of firing perpetually at the wrong
time. This proved as great an annoyance to
General CHASSE as did the, refusal of the
Dutch to come forth and be shot at, which
Marshal GERA RD, it may be remembered,
complained of so bitterly in his despatches.
Of the two official accounts, we know not
which shows most amusing bon hommie. Both
are gems in their way.

We are happy to find, in allusion to an
article inserted yesterday in The Sun, on the
subject of informers, that the persons we spoke
of were not employed by the Stamp-office, who
intend to prosecute them for a conspiracy.

There are certain, constitutional subjects of
so delicate a nature,—we mean which, in their
remote or immediate consequences, involve ques-
tions of such vast importance, that by the al-
most unanimous consent of the friends of ra-
tional liberty and order, any slight abuse con-
nected with them is passed over in silence. Of
this nature are, during his life time, the personal
failings, or vices of the Monarch. If this be a
general rule, the goodness of which, in a consti-
tutional point of view, we are willing to acknow-
ledge, assuredly the deep debt of gratitude the
country owes to his present MAJESTY, is not a
circumstance that would induce us to exclude
him from its operation. Accordingly, we have
never followed the example of a certain
ultra class of papers which have delighted in
blazoning forth circumstances, which were better
forgotten, but which have been used both by
Ultra-Tories and Ultra-Radicals, Republicans,
and Tories leagued with Republicans, in order
to obtain a hazardous triumph over political
adversaries, covertly to undermine the respect for
the kingly office. We have viewed the KING
as the highest servant of the State, as the Chief
Magistrate of this Great Empire, as the head
and representative of the Majesty of the British
people, and to whom, in that character, the
most profound respect was due. The personal
weaknesses of the individual filling this exalted
situation, not for his own benefit or gratification,
but for the happiness and welfare of the people,
ought not to diminish the respect we are bound
to feel for his office. We fear that too many
of our contemporaries have, during the late
period of excitement, forgotten this well-known
constitutional doctrine, and have published ar-
ticles in direct contravention of it. We have,
as the best course, passed them over in silence-
But the delicacy of the subject does not
compel us to pass over in similar silence
the ill-judged approbation with which an Even-
ing Contemporary yesterday spoke of the
conduct of his MAJESTY towards his illegiti-
mate connections. It was naturally to be ex-
pected that his MAJESTY, with larger means at
his disposal than when Duke of CLARENCE,
should advance the fortunes of those to whom
he shewed all the kindness in his power in that
character ; but the fear was that he would do
too much, and not too little,—that the feelings
of nature would make him too forgetful of the
purposes for which the money he disposed of,
was granted to him, and lead him to do more than
simply, as far as possible, repair a past error
which, although in a painful point of view,
the opinion of society looks upon as ve-
nial, it still requires should not be paraded
before the eyes of the world. It was therefore
with feelings we hardly like to designate that
'we perused the article relating to the Earl of
MUNSTER, &c., in the Globe of last night, which
we give in another column. An apology, for-
sooth, is to be made for his MAJESTY, because
he has only given 40,0001. or 50,0001. in
hard cash and incomes to a string of TEN young
Lords and Ladies, their life interest in which
cannot be worth much less than 200,0001. The
Globe, as the Court newspaper now, and the
the Globe as the patriotic defender of the people's
hard earnings heretofore, are certainly not bound
to speak alike ; but we hope, for the sake of the
illustrious person whose name it compromises, as
well an .1 decency, it will not again intrude
such articles upon the English public.
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