The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-28 00:00:00

be paid by the Government to that of France ;
but that ACUMET, the present Bey, wished
some delay ere this was ratified.

We have accounts from Hesse Darmstadt,
under date Hanau, the 16th instant. They
mention that some revolutionary movements had
occurred there ; in consequence of which the Go-
vernment had issued the following proclama-
tion :

" The day before yesterday and yesterday evening, po-
pular movements have taken place, by which the public
tranquillity has been disturbed. Several individuals have
allowed themselves to utter cries against the Civic Guard,
charged with maintaining and causing to be respected
the public peace. These events have proved to us that
our brave National Guard will, when needed, serve against
the disturbers, and support the authorities acting for the
King against the 'agitators. Lastly, in order to oppose
as much as is in our power, the tenewal of these scenes of
disorder, a e ordain, in virtue of Art. 7. of the Ordinance
of 22d Oct., 1830, that from the date of this day the
innkeepers shut their outer doors at the commencement of
the evening, and that all assemblages exceeding four per-
sons be forbidden. All disobeying this order will be im-
mediately arrested. We are happy in not having to em-
ploy more rigorous measures."

Mr. RANDLE JACKSON, in a letter addressed
to Lord HENLEY on the subject of the Middle-

sex canvass, in which he declines voting for his
Lordship, has taken up the cudgels for Mr,
HumE in a very spirited and decisive manner.
In particular, he dwells on the absurd charge of
Atheism which the High Church party, who are
all banded together in the service of Lord HEN•
LEY, have thought fit, with their usual good
taste and liberality, to promulgate against the
Hon. Gentleman. Mr. JACKSON asserts, from
his own personal knowledge, that Mr. HUME
(though no saint) is as sincere and zealous a
Christian as ever knelt before his Maker ; that
he is a good father, a good friend, a good hus-
band, and as exemplary in the discharge of his
private, as he is of his public, duties. We should
argue that such was the fact, if only from
the extreme malignity with which he has been
opposed at every step of his canvass, by the

clerical Pharisees of Middlesex. These men,

whenever they find that an opponent is
otherwise unimpeachable, always get up a
vague charge of Atheism against him. It is the
clerical mode of dealing with a troublesome ad-
Were Mr. HumE blacker even than

versary.

the devil himself, yet let him stand up " for
Church and State," and they would make him
out an angel of light. But because he objects to
non-residence, therefore he is a free-thinker ;
because he condemns pluralities, therefore
he is a rank Atheist. Mr. HUME may, how-
ever, console himself by the reflection that
some of the most illustrious names in every
department of intellect that this country
ever produced, are to be found among those
whom the Churchmen of their day branded as
infidels. Who ranks higher in political virtue
and sagacity than DEFOE and SWIFT ? Yet
these men were both " writ down" Infidels. Who
higher in the walks of science than PRIESTLY?
Yet he, too, was dubbed an Infidel, and perse•
cuted even to exile. Who in history than
HUME and GIBBON ? Yet these, too, were
stigmatised as free-thinkers by the ecclesiastical
authorities of their time. Why, even the LORD
CHANCELLOR himself has not escaped the
vulgar charge ; though every action of *hic
mous man's lite gives the lie to a thousand such
calumnies ! We congratulate Mr. HUME on
the abuse with which he has been honoured by
the Middlesex Pharisees. It is a proof of his
efficiency as a Reformer—of his sincerity as a
Christian.

We always thought the Tories little short of
inbeciles by their inveterate, protracted hostility
o Reform ; but we are now convinced beyond a
doubt that they are mad—stark, staring mad.
Their attempts at getting up a European war,
under pretext of preserving the peace, are proofs
of insanity which would jus:ify any Jury, were
the. question ever to resolve itself into one tie
Lunatico lnquirenclo, in finding that they
had been " of unsound mind since the year
1830." Wherever a Tory faction presumes to
rear its head, there, it is sure to be met with
laughter and execration. Whether the scene of
action be at Newcastle, or at Leeds, at
Huddersfield, or at Shrewsbury, no matter ;
the result is still every where the same.
Tory influence now exists only in tradition. We
speak of it as of the tale of Troy, in the past
tense. " Troja fait" must henceforth be the
motto of the few wretched Tories that yet linger
among us.
A handful of these special imbeciles made
some slight attempt at a rally on Monday
last, at Shrewsbury. The question was the old,
stale one, of the Dutch war; but it was at once
settled by the good sense of the Shropshire
Reformers, who rated it just at its fitting
worth. This, of course, made the Tories
wax wrathful and vituperative ; and one of
the squad, who, judging from the tenor of his
speech, seems to have more of the Cobbett
than the Cicero in his composition, actually
addressed his hearers by the flattering epithet of
6' vagabonds." The gentleman who thus at-
tempted to insinuate himself into the affec-
tions of the assembly is, it appears, a barrister.
Pity that one versed in the law, should be so
little versed in the ordinary courtesies of society
Mr. BATHER, we suspect, has been a constant
attendant in Parliament during the last two
Sessions, for his speech smacks strongly of the
Carnarvon and Croker school of eloquence.
His selection of the epithet " vagabond," is,
we conceive, decisive on the point. It reminds
us of the energetic Earl and the sprightly Pat-
lander, in their most inspired moments.
Had the Tories an ounce of common sense
left, they would study night and day, how they
might most effectually glide out of public recol-
lection. They would neither exhibit as moun-
tebanks at Shrewsbury, nor as hypocrites at
Huddersfield, but suffer themselves to be quietly
shelved and forgotten. By their present course
of proceeding they are only committing suicide
on their own interests, by promoting everywhere
a reaction in favour of the Whigs. They have
already all hut carried the Ballot ; a few more

meetings, a few more speeches, a little more