The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-14 00:00:00

UNION.

" It would have given me great pleasure, had I been able
personally to assist you in the efforts which you are making at
this most important crisis ; but, confined as I am to my cham.
ber by sickness, I am reduced to the necessity of confining my
exertions, in the great cause in which we are conjointly em-
barked, to this address, which has been composed amidst the
distractions incident to the situation to which I have alluded.
" No doubt you have been severely disappointed by the
failure of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords. On reflec-
tion, however, you will be sensible, that this issue, though a
just subject of sorrow, is not matter of surprise. In this case
the culprit passed judgment on himself. What verdict could be
expected from a jury of pickpockets, sitting, in all mock gra-
vity, ' well and truly' to try a gang of burglars ? Was it to be
expected that the Duke of Newcastle would find a verdict of
guilty against himself, or that he would join in such a verdict
against Lord Lonsdale ? It is marvellous and satisfactory to
me to find, that so many Noble Lords have manfully stood in
hostile array against the vicious system of Parliamentary repre-
sentation, of which we have so loudly and so long complained.
" I think you will agree with me, that, crippled as Lord
Grey now appears to have been in the management of the Re-
form Bill, he has conducted that business with great firmness
and with consummate address. He has had not only to con-
tend with the powerful activity of the enemies of Reform, but
also to bear, as he has done, with silent submission, the unrea-
sonable impatience of his friends. It was imagined that he
was vested with an unlimited power to create Peers; and how
many ardent Reformers have blamed him, in no measured
terms, for not exercising that power which, it now appears, he
never possessed
" And here let me entreat you particularly to attend to
what lam about to say. The feature which has given me the
most complete disgust of the Tory character, is the indecent
and vituperative language adopted by the ultras of that party
when his Majesty recommended from the throne the considera.
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was for a while withdrawn from them. I call upon you, by all
that is wise and good, not to follow this odious example. It
is requisite to the good order of society, that the kingly office
When faction was too strong to be encountered
should be treated with respect in the person of the King Be-
sides, remember what his Majesty has done for his people. He
has brought forward the question of Reform under his imme-
diate auspices.
by his Reforming Ministers, he dissolved, and when the Bill
was refused a second reading in the Lords, he prorogued the
Parliament. The creation of a large number of peers, for a
special purpose, we must acknowledge to be a measure of most
serious moment, the adoption of which required no ordinary
strength of- nerve. If his Majesty shrunk from this, let us
ascribe his determination to an overwhelming sense of the re-
sponsibility which rested on him, or to anything rather than to
the want of a generous concern for the welfare of his people.
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" lam confident that you will not waste your time and
your strength in idle complaints, or in threats which are worse
your exacerbation, you will see
than idle.
that it is to comply with all the requisi.
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Lions of the law. At the same time, lam happy to observe
that you have lost nothing in proceeding to the exercise of
your constitutional privil,ges ; and that you are determined to
meet publicy, on Monday next, to declare your sentiments on
the present awful crisis, and thus to convince the incredulous,
that in the town of Liverpool there is no reaction in the cause
of Reform,

" But your task must not terminate there. Matters of
much greater moment call for your most energetic exertions.
You must prepare for a speedy dissolution of Parliament. Ito.
perfect as our system of representation is, I am fully persuaded
People of England and Ireland have their political
in
yin their own hands. They will act like children if
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