The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-01 00:00:00

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Whilst on, thin part of the subjel, we cannot
help noticing, with astonishment and disgust, some
animadversions which 'we have heard made by in.
discreet and bigotted ?artisans, on the Minister's
acelting (as it has been strangely called) such sup.
port, and on his not standing forward on all occa-
sions to repel the incessant attacks which have been
made on the measures and conduEt of his great Pre.
drcessor. These are charges equally foolish, insi.
dious and cruel. To the first—we would only
ask, Where did ever exist such an idea; of a Mini.
ster as would tefuse to 9ccept support, from what.
ever quarter it might be tendered ? Where was
ever yet co be focind an individual at the !.,:d of

an Executive Government, so besotted and so said. '
dical, as to resist and to disclaim support sponta-
neously offered to him, unclogged with conditiona
of any► sort, and by doing which he might risk the
failure of measures on which he thought the welfare
and security of the Country depended, and, howevir
remotely, the permanence of his own Government ?
On the second part of this charge, we shall only
observe, that we are, and ever shall be, quite as
sensitive to any calumnies that may be uttered
against the late Minister, as any of those can be
who may be ranked amongst the number of his per.
sonal friends. Mr. PITT is (thank God) not de-
stitute of numerous friends in the House, men of
consequence, rank, and talents, abundantly equal to
the task of answering and repelling such attacks as
may be made in his absence. The event has fully
proved it. When present, he wants none. Mr.
ADDINCTON has, on every occasion that particu.
larly called for it, and on a great many that did
not, testified in the most unqualified terms his ad.
miration of the measures, and his devotion to the
principles which marked the condo& of the Admi-
nistration which, preceded him, and has no less
generously than justly, attributed part of his own
success? to his having aded up to the same prin.
ciples and the same system. Had we not witnessed
it, we could not have conceived it possible that
any expeaation so barbarously and extravagantly
unreasonable, could have been formed, as that a
Minister, who has quite enough on his hands to
justify and defend his own measures, however me.
ritorious they may be, must have the double duty
imposed on him, of individually undertaking the
justification of all those of a preceding Govern-
ment,

On the condua of the Opposition, now properly
so called, we cannot help observing, that it appears
to us inexplicable. Soon after the change in His
Majesty's Councils took place, Lord GRENVILLE
promised his cordial, zealous, and alive Support
to the new Ministry. Against that Ministry he
has, for the last year and a half, direded his cordial,
zealous, acrd aftive Opposition; and according to
his own statement, because they had been guilty of
the Convention with the Northern Powers, which
relieved Great Britain from the formidable hostility
of four great Continental Powers and afterwards of
the Preliminaries with France, which restored.
Peace to this Country and to Europe. To, these
two great Measures Mr. Ptit. gave his most un.
equivocal nipport and approbation. And yet this
consistent Statesman tells us, that Mr. PITT is the
only 'person,' at the present crisis, capable of saving
the Country. To ' the great talents and splendid
services of that truly conaistentStatesman we most
'..readily bow :,--but is. he to "sive the C4ontry by
!!acing up to those Measures which he hris so de.
cidedly approved, or by attempting to undo them ?
By which line of condua would Mr. PITT become
entitled to the confidence of Lord GRENv LLE and
his Associates ? This consistent Statesman, and his
consistent Associates will be puzzled to answer this
question.

To sum up the whole—we see but one course for
the present Government to pursue; which is, to aft
steadily up to the line which they appear to have
chalked out for themselves. The present state of
Parties is the best comment on, and the surest test
of the public approbation of their past condua.
They need not deprecate the continuance of an
Opposition which has so recently stigmatized itself
by its resistance to a measure for the reform of
Abuses, which was so loudly called for, and the
necessity of which has been so long acknowledged;
and by a desperate attempt to stop the Supplies
in the House of Lords—an attempt, we believe,
new in the annals of that part of the Legislature.
The Measures of a Government may be very wise
and highly salutary to the Country, whose affairs
are intrusted to its management, though unaccom-
panied with the display of extraordinary oratorical
talents. Like the powers of Mechanism, the af-
fairs of State may generally be considered as going
on the most correEtly and satisfactorily, when there
is the least appearance of effort.

Et - Stillest streams
" Oft water fairest meadows, and the hird
" That flutters least is longest_on the wing."

01 this quotation we willingly leatre to the
judgment of our Readers;aod to the course of time,
the justice and propriety of the application.

Yesterday morning HER MAJESTY, attended by
the Princesbeh izAu ETU, MARY, and Atm LISTA,
took an airing in Hyde Park in Her IVlajehty's Car.
ridge, and paid a visit to the Countess ,of CAR Dl-
c AN. At half past two o'clock they returned to
Buckingham.house.
Hi; j EST Y did not leave the house.

This day, we believe, General Sir THOMAS
TR. Iva embarked at Portsmouth on board: the Ama.
zon Frigate for Gibraltar,

Saturday morning the PR I've tt of WALEi'S an_
nual donation, consisting of prime beef, bread, and
potatoes, to the amount al 501.• was distributed
Among the i)oor in*itants of 131ii.,,T10n.i