The Sun.
London, England, 1804-07-13 00:00:00

TO THE PEOPLE.

Thal. the sentiments of the People are. generally' I
right, though theiropinions may sometimes he erro.
neous, has become a sort of axiom in Politics. In this
free Country, both will always have great weight
in public measuref. Besides the great commorrdan.
ger, and the great‘eneral interest at stake, .there is
another coosideratton highly honourable to you,
which will he strongly felt on the present occasion,
as giving authority to your suffrage ; the exertions
and sacrifice;, which you have made, not only will.
ingly and cheerfuliy,, but with the zeal of patri.
otistn, and the ardour of the highest public virtue.
In the immediate circumstances which the
Government Of your Ccuntry is at present involved,
you have been toll, that a severe disappointment has
been suffered by the formatiott of a Ministry or a
principle of Exclusion ; a principle which has de.
privet{ the Country of the services of :men of the
most eminent talents and tried experience, as States-
men and as Ministers. That such services are with.
held, every honest and impartial man must regret ;
Isut in weighing the causes of this privation, it will
be proper to consider,
.what that principle is which,
the advocates of Opposition now stigmatize as' Ex.
elusion, mid to which they attribute so great 4.100
of Weight and talent in the different Departmeuts of
the State.
This EXclusion applies only to oThr individual,
whom it is understood the Royai'Mind could not be
'brought to 'approve as a MeMber of that:Cabinet
which at this momentous crisis was to guide the
affairs, to provide for the 'safety, ro'assure the ex. •
istence olthe Empire; This sentimenrof exclusion, ,
thouith thus limited in exteot, his been represented
as equally unconstitutional in its nature as hurtful
in its tendency. Let us examine calmly and impar.
•tially.,boih these positions, which, indeed, in the
present rase, arc inseparably connefied. .
h is a principle admitted in the British Constitu. '
tiara, that the choice of its Servants rests with the
Crown. It is equally admitted that the disap.
probation of the People, signitisd, by, their Repre-
sentatives, might to, operate the' dismissal of such
Servants, when their incapacity or unfitness has
forfeited the confidence of the Nation. Those two
principle* in the extreme, it. is evident, must pro.
duce inextricable confusion and anarchy ; but
the. other balances of an excellent system of Govern..
ment, they are, in pratlise, softened into something
which produces A power sufficient for the good of the
People, but restrains it whenever it would go be,
yond that point ;.-.4 tempered authority consistent
with freedom; a Prerogativ.e. by which, the,privi.
leges of the People are prevented from being.hurt.
ful to them. . .
Let us see how far, on the present occasion,
Prerogative has been ,thus legitimately executed.—
The Monarch yielded to what ivai conceived to be
that.voice of his People, in every point but that of
admitting sue particular person into ilia. Councils.
That person :if of the most acknowledged talents in
public,. as well as of the most brilliant a,Rd.oaptiVat,,
ing.iicCoMplishments in, private life. But to,what
puipotcs have his extraordinary talents been applied
during the greatest , part of his political Oreer
I ;w,ould speak ,tenderly,, apd will thetefore speak
goat:l4a but I think. your recollettionwillfutly
bear me otit in saying, that he has spoken and ailed,
abnost uniformly, in a manner contradictory to the
lentral opinion, to the public voice of ..theCottotry.
flatlet private ace,niplishments,,those social attrac.,
tinfis which J (for I haye,hailseinctimei the honour
of itis.society,), and so many others admired alut de.-
..lighted in, displayed themselves with peculiir par.
tiFtlity among then, who, while they flattered the in.
dividpal, were confessedly hostile to.his Country.
I have said that-I would.speak tenderly, I there.
. fore speak generally ; hut others, and those whose
.testimony is of peculiar weight: in this case,,have pot
been ytite:so guarded. I too much respea for
the camiour, the delicacy, or even she taste of Mr.
VV twuttm,t, to 'repeat the terms of gross and .un.
trulified reproach with which he was wont: to ex.
prtss.,in the llouse of Commons, his reprobation of
* theconclud and the language of Mr. Fox—of that
Mr. Fox whom he now styles, .with a fondness of
repetition, his Harionvble Friend; whiase
duelitin into the Cabinet he considers so essential to
the public interest as to overhear that just Preroga.
live of which Mr. WINDLIAM used tube the..Cham.
pion, against what he then considered as the dan.
geruus deMocratiodoarines of this very Statesman.
-Let it be remembered, I beseech you, that Mr.
Fat has nevcr disavowed•one of those principles or
sentithents which Mr. NV ;voltam used to Apre.
case with an much indignation, and which...tried to
excite in you so Much uneasiness and*distrust.—
. Anti is it to he held a' Matter of censure against our
Beloved Monarch, it, feeling with and for his Pea.
pie) he Pa,!"ed isCOgptitqce of such.a Man, as
rite of the Guides of his Councila ? I am speaking
of the Monarch in the cold official charafter of the
Supreme. Magistrate, in the.'mere ahstratt view of
his fun4lions _us. the 4xceurive Po..wcr of the State,
w hose duty, it is to hartg..the suspensive weight
with which- the Constitution has cotilMeti bin),
which he conceives may be.dangerous. to the Com.
Motlity, 1 srust„ j .am ,certatn,, that you would
symt ;all; •,,,t,.with my let Nogg, if I ventured to think
.on this :Itthjefi if, at, the 'resent :sno.
writ livrticulituly, I :4004 think of the Man as well
:itsthe Monarch, and make an allowance for that
pitvate reluCtance which it might require:at least
'unit! .pause, some, deliberation, to accommodate to
a wry4te in which the K t ao,,peraonally considerek
.was to'yield ranch, without , any great ionncdiate
'dvantage, or rather, as it seemed, witheonside.r.
able rate, to the interests of his People. He might
reasonably.,enough doubt the eiciiey, of the greatest
!Mewl, if, placed in cottjunetion with others which
hid.been So orten exerted Un,Opposite principles, in
opposite direaions, Some.-of those who arc Most
7!`4411.1S for Mrs. Fox's *admission into the Cabinet,
are so accuitomekl to a pliancy of principles, or to
their accommodation to Party.ailiance,
,as not per.
to lay mooch stress on the danger of_jarring
voinions. BUt
.we who are accustotocti to plain