The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-19 00:00:00

of a tremendous re-action, back again to thte
limited monarchy we now enjoy, and of which
the Whigs threaten to deprive us. But the
sufferings of the mass of the people, and
especially of the poor, in these successive re-
volutionary transitions, would be horrible be-
yond imagination, and our object is to avoid
this accumulation of distress by limiting our-
selves at the outset to a safe and practical
measure. Such a measure we are sure Lords
Harrowby and Wharncliffe will find it vain
to attempt to frame from the worthless
materials of Lord Grey's Bill. Let them try
it in the Committee by all means ; but
when the fact shall be fully proved by the
stubborn retention of the democratic clauses,
they will at once perceive what it is that the
country requires at their hands. They are per-
fectly aware, no men more so, that the Bill as
it now stands involves the extinction of monar-
chical power, and the creation of a pure demo-
cracy, and that even the temporary subjection
of this country to such a Government would be
almost instantly followed by the dismemberment
of the empire, and the infliction upon the great
mass of our dense and dependent population of
a degree of acute and hopeless misery, perhaps
unexampled in the annals of civilized society.
We have had foretastes, during the past misera-
ble year, of what would be the permanent ef-
fects, in a commercial country, of the ascen-
dancy of the principles of the Bill. There is
no individual or family in the community
dependent upon the confident investment
of capital whose very means of subsis-
tence would not be placed in jeopardy by
the triumph of those principles. Is it then
conceivable that the Peers of England will be
induced, by mere mob intimidation, to extin-
guish their own privileges, for no better object
than that of annihilating the constitutional liberty,
and with it the glory and greatness of their
country ? We find much, therefore, notwith-
standing our disappointment, in the present as-
pect of affairs to warrant us in the indulgence of
hope and confidence. We cannot forget, more-
over, that the Throne is filled by a Prince of the
House of Brunswick, who has only recently
bound himself by the most solemn of oaths to
respect those great principles which placed
in the hands of his family the interests of
the British Monarchy. We cannot believe
that the son of George the Third, that
the descendant of a hundred Kings, that
William the Fourth of England will transmit
to his successor a barren sceptre, a degraded
Peerage, an impoverished people and a divided
and ruined empire. Therefore we do not believe
that the Jacobin Bill will ever pass. But we
warn the Conservatives that united, strenuous,
and persevering exertions will be necessary to
recover the ground which may have been lost,
and guard against the dangers with which the
country is menaced. The splendid Protest of the
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who love and will defend the sacred institutions
of their country that they are not fighting alone,
or under doubtful and vacillating chiefs. The
banner of the Constitution unfurled by such
hands we are confident will not cease to wave till
the victory be complete. We call upon every
Englishman to act in public and in private as
though the salvation of his country from the
worst of principles and from the basest of factions
depended exclusively upon himself.—Morning
Post.