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THE SUN.

aPOLE3I 41.1.1 S 'DICERE FALSIJM AUDEAT

LONDON,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1817.

THE SUN of to-day contains the two Official
Reports of Secresy.--that to the House of Com-
mons in our first, and that to the llouse of Peers
in our last page. Both Houses take up theilues=
tion,. the Lords this evening (the CommOfri on
Monday), and ulterior measures to strengthen the
111111(13 of the Executive, in order to counteract
the revolutionary designs therein exposed, will
receive that serious consideration which their vital
importance merits. We hope that those who de-
signate themselves the friends of freedom will not,
at this critical hour, act as if they were the
Abettors of Licentiousness.--We cannot believe
that there is a man of common understanding in
existence, who thinks there is the slightest dan-
ger to our popular liberties in the adoption of
strong preventives against the accumulating rage
of Jacobinism. Even party prejudice must, we
think, be ready to trust something to the discre-
tion of Ministers, on the candid allowance that
those who have steered the nation in safety
hrough the storm and peril of War, will be
hereby enabled more effectually to pilot ',her
hrongh the reflux and swell of I eace,
hey make the Haven of Prosperity through the
surf of Revolution, which would wreck us o
the very shore of our native Isle.

Such, for the good of the Country, we desire
maybe the cow ,e pursued by the Parliathentary
Opponents of the Administrations, though the
language of their Retainers in the Press has not
prepared us for a very sanguine expectat4on
that it will be so. Those who scouted and
ridiculed the idea of any plot existing, note
that this melancholy fact is too notorious
to be denied, turn round with the rapid inconsis-
tency so peculiar to them, and arraign Ministers
(or supinenesi in not having sooner arrested the
)rogress of this extensive.and dangerous Con-
spiracy ! At ether times they revert to their old
allegation of no plat, chiefly on the ground that
the plan on which the Traitors were to eniplOy
their " physical force" has not been detected—
probably never was embodied in a tangible shape.
And is this the argtiment against there being a de-
sign to overthrow the Constitution ? Must the
omission of the least effective of circumstantial pre-
paration be Itch! a sufficient assurance that nothing
of Treason and Revolution existed ? To our minds
the conviction is decisive, not only that a Plot, 601
a most dreadful
.plot, was far advanced to'nja,
tot it y. Had their been 'no standards of rebellinn,
no tallying cry, no arms provided, ,no organiz.
id communications among the disaffected, no
Conservative. Committees, •no plans of midnight
xWags rand conflagrations, no praseriptionss-- no
attempts at seducing the Military from their duty,
no revolutionary Placards, no assurances to the
Felons who were to be let loose upon Society—
bad none of these things been, still our a.. 01.
nion that a perilous Conspiracy. was in pltl4
gress would have remained unshaken. And
this is the nature of that Conspiracy, beyond
which there is nothing necessary to fill the King.
dom with misery and blood.--To corrupt the
lower orders of the people till 'they lose all percep.
tion of right and wrong, to fill them with irreli•
gion and Atheism, and to goad them with.exag.
gerated pictures of their own sufferings and
the relentless cruelty of their Rulets—thus
moulded to "be really, be steady," for. the
most' diabolical crimes, to accustom them to
assemble in crowds together, vithere they
may be drilled into all the inferior processes of
mob--at last, when accustomed to these excesses,
to bring the multitude together at the same time
and in many places, to infiame their passions to
madness, and throw them at will on the perpetra-
tion of crimes, taking the dunces of Revolution'