The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-10 00:00:00

etas indeed less a blunder than a crime, since it ha-
Ittained the end for which it was evidently di -
.igned, of throwing all their other blunders into th
.ilade for a longer period than they probably ex-
aected, during which they have continued to enjoy
he emoluments and profit by the windfalls of office.
%ll these we omit, and are content to rely for proof
of their imbecility on the miscarriage of their Reform
Bill, on the non-adaptation of the measure upon
which they rested their reputation as Statemen
,o the character arid feelings of the Legisla-
ture upon whose fiat its eventual success was of
uecessity, to depend. Who can deny that, by
introducing such a measure without having first
made sure of the Legislative Bodies, whose as-
sent was indispensable to its completion, they
have exposed their claims to the character
of practical Statesmen to universal and everlasting
derision? But it seems they calculated not upon
the Legislature as the Constitution of England has
made it, but upon an Utopian Legislature, which,
iri their treasonable dreams, they imagined the
King of England would be ready to create when-
ever it might suit their convenience to require this
service at his hands. They advised the King, for-
sooth, to pack the House of Lords. By the crea-
tion of how many Peers ? Sixty, eighty, or a hun-
dred ? They were afraid to tell. Perhaps they
required an unlimited power to exercise the Royal
prerogative at their discretion; perhaps they dared
to attempt to wrest the sceptre from the Monarch's
hand; perhaps, not content with being Ministers,
they aspired to be Kings. But the King of Eng-
land is a worthy descendant of the House of Bruns-
wick; and he spurned them, and defeated their
revolutionary and treasonable machinations. They
have fallen, and the independence of the
throne and the peerage is preserved. But low
as they have fallen, a deeper fall yet awaits
them if they dare insinuate, what some of their
agents of the Press have nc,t scrupled to
affirm, that the Sovereign has in any manner de-
ceived them. Deceived no doubt they have been,
but only by their own overweening arrogance,
which led them to imagine that every thing was in
their power, that from being the servants they had
become the masters of the State, that with the aid
of their Political Unions they could defy and trample
upon their Sovereign. Earl Grey once before in
the course of his life ventured jesuitically and falsely
to insinuate that he had been deceived by the So-
vereign from whose service he had just been ex-
pelled. Nobody believed him. The people of
England knew Lord Howick to be Lord Howick,
and they knew George the Third to be an honest
man. Let the disgraced Nlinieters of William the
Fourth be assured that the conduct of Lord
Howick upon that occasion is not an example
to be followed, but a beacon to be carefully
avoided, unless, in addition to all their other
titles to public aversion and contempt, they
wish to dec.re;lrl to posterity with the cha-
racter of the moot perfidious and ungrateful traitors
that ever polluted the public councils of Great Bri-
tain. As we have alluded to our Ministerial Con-
temporaries, it is but justice to one of the best-in-
formed of their number, the illornin6 Chronicle, to
notice that it has anticipated the aspersion which
others of the same party are striving to cast upon
the Sovereign, and has effectually and honourably
repelled it. " The truth," says the Chronicle,
" must be told. His Lordship has never yet had
the power to create Peers." The truth is told sotne-
what tardily, but even at the eleventh hour it is not
unacceptable. But what are we to think of the
Journals which, professing to be in the confidence
of Ministers, have asserted daily for the last seven
months that Earl Grey held in his hand an unli-
mited power of creation ? What are we to think
of the Ministers who availed themselves of this
falsehood if they did not suggest it ? What but
this, that they have carried on a systematic scheme
of fraud and delusion, for the purpose of exciting
expectations which they knew could never be re-
alized, of arousing and enflaming the democratic
passions of the rabble, of harassing and enthral-
ling the King ?—elforning Post.
The King has refused to create the number o
Peers necessary for carrying the Reform Bill—Lord
Grey and his Majesty's Ministers have, in conse-
quence, resigned—and the country is again turned
adrift to the fury of the political storm, without any
pilot to confide in—with no chart to guide it but its
ardent and most traitorously disappointed wishes—
with no haven to steer for but that from which it
has been driven by an unexpected hurricane of poli-
tical treachery and idiotism—and with no hope of
safety from a dangerous shipwreck but in those un-
forseen circumstances, out of which Providence con-
trives that right shall ultimately prevail over might,
and the greatest good result from occurrences appa-
rently the most disastrous 1 With what pain we
communicate the above intelligence, we need
not express—with what regret, amazement, and
indignation, it will be received by every think-
ing man in England, Scotland, and Ireland,
may be more easily guessed at than depicted,
to what results it may lead, we almost trembie to
think ! The people reposed in peace and security
upon the lauded patriotism of the King, and the
now proven honour and integrity of his Ministers—
they have been roused as from a dream by disap-
pointed confidence in the one, and the almost for-
cible ejection of the other from office; and what
they may now think of—what they are bound and
are compelled to think of and do next may, we trust,
be best learned from what they have thought and
done in former and equally perilous times; but
this we will say to them, that if they sit still
or sleep at such a moment as the present, and
under such an insult as that which they have re-
ceived in the dismissal of the Ministers, whom they
may be said to have carried upon their shoulders
into office—if they tamely give up the rights for
which they have prayed and petitioned during the
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friends—they are the veriest cravens that ever
mouthed about freedom—a people to be laughed at
and scouted from one end of the world to the other,
a thing at which to point the finger of scorn—
a by-word, a reproach, and a scandal, even in
the mouths of those by whom honest men would
consider it a scandal to be spoken of. Did not the
people of France effect their freedom from the
fangs of a traitorous Cabinet, and are Englishmen
less worthy of the boon—are they less deter-
mined against a usurpation of their political rights ?
We call riot upon them to imitate the conduct of
our Gallic neighbours; for the occasion requires it
not ; but we do call upon them to prove to the
King, by all legal means, that their wishes are not
to be despised, nor their voice to be gainsayed, even
for the sake of pleasing a German Princess with
100,0001. a year on the decease of her husband ! Now
is the time to act—now is the season for verifying
by deeds all that has hitherto been said. Country-
men, we beseech you to be up and doing. Not a
moment is to be lost; for every moment that is
spent in any other cause than that of Reform, is a
gain to those who would have no hesitation in rid-
ing over you rough-shod as they term it, or in other
words, of putting you to the sword arid the bayonet.
It is also much more easy to carry your cause Dos.
than when your enemies have got possession of d the
citadel—have spotted the
pour forth upon you the whole artillery_ of th
hatred. Let not this be forgotten.— 010 ruing
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Lord VERNON voted with Ministers in the
❑iinority on Monday evening. His Lordship's name was
omitted in the list.

The author of " Darnley" will shortly pro-
,!tice a new novel entitled " Henry Masterton, or the
Young Cavalier." 'The scene of the present story is laid
in England, at the period of the expiring fortunes of the
First CII.II.LES. Happy as Mr. Janice has already shown
liimselt in delineating the stirring times of chivalry, it must
1,, confessed that the agitating epoch in the history of our
.wn country which he has selected for his forthcoming
ork, mustrender it yet inure attractive than any of hi,
rwer productiono.