The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-15 00:00:00

NiI.,ESTMINSTERIANA:

The forcing a contest in ‘Vestrninster by the
starting of a ;second Jacobin Candidate is, indeed,
a very provoking incident to all the friends of li-
berty, order, and virtue in this city. Their sore-
ness, however, at the repugnant of Administra-
tion to any conflict, trom the lamented catastro-
phe of Sir SAMUEL RoMILLY to the present Inn-
ment, is a new verification of an old remark—that
men are apt to see things only in their own light.
Charged as Government-is with the public safety,
enabled by the higher ground it stands on to take
a longer view of matters than is possible to the
mnltitude placed in the valley, so far from being
engrossed by gratitude for Government's prefer-
ring the peace of families to a vote in Parliament,
a large portion of the most loyal Electors, in their
clis,4w,t at Jacobin usurpation, seem wholly to
forget that the exis-ence of any vacancy at this
moment is altogether their own fault; and, appa.
rently unconscious of their own glaring error, are
very clear-sighted to the supposed error of others.
These Gewilemen make no allowance for the na-
toral chagrin of Ministers at the Election of their
Candidate in the late struggle being absolutely
thrown away.
No other mode of " throwing away " the late
Election is here referred to but the fatal mistake
in the mode of voting.
Of more than 2300 double voters for ROSIILLY
and Maxwaie, in the late contest, there were 106
barristers and solicit Ors. Those 106 individuals,
like the mass. of the 2300 double voters in the
same interests, •divided their suffrages, from, no
doubt, the best motive, that of redeeming West-
minster, entirely, from the further disgrace of its
representation for a dozen 'years past. As the
argument will richly bear the deduction, it shall
be in this place supposed, that, if the alternative
lay between liostreeY and Maxweet, those pro-
fessional Gentlemen would all have been plumpers
for the former. After the deepest consideration
of this subject—after analysing the double poll
for the two Candidates above named, with a la-
bour probably not bestowed upon that discrimi-
nation by any other-person, the following asser-
tion is hereby most confidently made—that ano-
ther 106 voters could not he pointed cut from that
list of 2300 double votes, which 106. if compelled
to choose between the two, would, or consist-
ently could, prefer Sir S. Rosati-tar. limidreds
upon hundreds of persons closely connected with
Government—depending upon Government for
their daily bread, divided their stafrAges in favour
of that eminent lawyer and vatiously estimable
Gentleman. In a word, the friends of Go-
vernment divided upwards of two thousand votes
for Sir SAMUEL RoMILLY ; and by that division
lost their own cause. That mode of voting is
not here imputed as a moral delinquency. Its
grossness, however, as an election error, should
serve as some corrective to that fluent censure
upon Government for discouraging a contest with
the Jacobins, which surely comes, with an ill
grace front the mouths of those very persons whose
palpable Wanderings prevented Sir MURRAY MAX-
WELL from being Member for Westminster at this
Moment.

But the Lacedemonion if, iv, it seems, opposed
to this strain of reasoning. If the friends of Go.
verhm•nt had not divined their votes for Sir SA..
MU F ltomm.y, the Jacobins would have done so
—the J AcoßiNs

Since the birth of Jacobinism in this country,
now little less than thirty years, the most *mi•
form and constant distinction Of the pure pro-
fessors of that holy youth has been pre-eminence
of hatred to the Whigs Whenever, and where-
ever Jacobinism is, and has been, most virulent
against the political adversities of ti.e Whig
party, the unvaried note of Jatobinism has pro-
claimed the IVhigs still worse' than their op-
ponents. Why and wherefore this higher hooplr
to the party called Whig, of the higher hatred of
the Jacobins, is foreign to the present discus-
sion. It -is here sufficient that the fact is incon-
trovertible ; and in no instance has that fact
been put so completely out of di•pute as in the
late contest for kVestminstei% The utmost scur-
rilities of Jacobinism against Sir MURRAY MAX-
WELL are eulogies, compared with the Jacobin
vilifications of tht Whigs, fur Sir SAMUEL Ito.
BILLY'S standing at the late election a candidate
for this "city ; the walls of which exhibited multi-
plied priors of the perfection, wholly unknown
in !miner struggles, to which the Jacobins have
carried the noble art of defamation, in their exe-
cration of the Whigs. Antipathy to the Whigs
appears to be a sort of ruling passion iu the Ja-
cobins ; and, like other ruling passions, toi' con.
quer' the Jacobin reason.' In situations where
it is the evident interest of Jacobinisrn to conci-
liate, its molesty has not temper enough to sup.
press its rancour to the Whigs. Throughout
those parish meetings at which Mr. Hoßnousa
interchanged endearments with the truly re-
spectable Electors, of whose love he seems to be
wholly worthy, in some shape, direct or indirect,
did that Gentleman's anti-whiggish spirit break
out, as• it blazed oat on 'Tuesday last at the Crown
and Anchor Meeting. Against living Whigs the
Jacobin wrath is unappeasable, bilt it is most dead-
ly against the dead—and of the dead, most in-
exorable to the most illustrious.

Horace—' the detestable and infamous; that bas-
est, most abject and self degraded wretch,' (a a
Jacobin luminary * chastely designates that re-
nowned writer) !Horace fancied that the grave
limited the workings of mortal malice—strpremo
fine domari is the Poet's phrase. But it that
glory of the lyric world happened to flourish co-
evally with the modern Lights, his philosophy had
been set right upon that point. He would have
found that the tomb, which neutralizes the hos-
tility of all the rest of mankind, serves only for
aliment to the genuine Jacobin. To the once
great leader of the Whigs, as well in the grave
as upon earth, the conduct of the Jacobins af-
fords sunshine conviction upon this topic. Him
the Jacobins dtemed.their greatest obstacle to the
demolition of the British Constitution. Accord-
ingly, their implacableness to his memory is *'n
exact counterpart to their aversion in his lite time.
—Thar person knew the Jacobin character Mo.
rotig/ity. At a time when the popular gust biew

* Ses C,LLe;e4 Re6,4lcr, end I.7ay :re it, of Jan. 42, ISIS).