The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-17 00:00:00

[TUE MORNING HER,A.I.4).]

The correspondence which has been published as
blies taken, place relative to the Shoreham Election, disclotes
two things not very ereditable to the partial—the one, that very
enlightened Catholics indeed still hold it a point in their religion,
though tin y have often disclaimed it, that no faith need be held
with heretics; and the other, that equally enlightened heretics
have no objection, when it Anita their purpose, to blow hot and
cold—or, in' other worth*, to carry two feces under one hood.—
Vvlrtlicr it Ise horet creditable to make n communication in con-
Metort, uliich is at the time not, meant sincerely, or to violate
corittlitti‘c to reposed, —l4 tl point we leave to essuiate to (lON -
Yuji*. At any rate, we ale sorry to see men of education doing
the one or the carer. In both inatencert it implies an apparent
departure from truth, which ought to• he in eve, y man's eyes,
hut especially in khalie of a gentleman, paramount to every
other consideration, But we shied be' told, perhaps, that thin
it all election trick, end that in election, a* iti horse.dealing,
it is B.ll6Wiltile to cheat even friends. We believe that
this would tint, if "v6451Y urged in theory, he found very
far from the truth in practice. Humbug and deception are
the prevailing ellaracteriaties of the iley, hut are not the less
reprehensible front their frequency. Perhaps on community upon
earth ever presented such a mats
,of fAltebo9d and hypocrisy as
it row going on his England; Nt, e sty in England, because our
nsighhoure, hob in Scotland and Ireland, have roneli more truth
about them, though their objects he 80 eellish cc those. of the
mother coortrr.' Among o.lier specimens of humbug, the cry
of 44 No Popeer is northe leart, We Are no admirers of the
Crilrolic religion; but quitt its little do we etlnOlt. CheliCeiT
110ttre flewend liivinct, who make it a ineve step-ladder to
their own fit ()motion. fin the Curtin itlge election, as iihtetrat,
tog tine pogition, we shall offer a tempi!, or ht 0 wilco it is over.
In the moan time ue will onlY told, that the New Shoreham fiyfj..
,em of d, No popery," ought to he a SiAining to such of the
rhtriligh,,,,t the kingdom as have votes yet to give. llit
r:ita,-,e, too, of Norfolk, may perhepe, discover that he, like A.
certain predeaseor of his, silos"

" he notrion bold,
later, Is bovibt and sold,

rot. that,

The letter of Ivir. Iluliet, which we published the
ether day, declining a contest for the county of Birks, contains
toincitvat. and tensible remarks on the 'tete of the country, which
4"orv* to he retnembereti. flaying considered it our duty from
the beginning to espy and reprobete the practices of the con-
trivur, shoots of the gatohliag opteuletions that have
fliettA 1.0 111444 and misery on the nation, we nuty well

recommend such opinions at those which 111 r. Hallett has
expresieed on the ,eame vifhbitt being liable to the
charge of inconsistency. In the following sentiments of his
we heartily cotton., and only wish that when we stood /thine,
nearlyor so, in opposing the, torrent a fraud and currop-
lion, these few public Men, vim continued feei any anxiety
for the virtue atul h'ono'ur of Ilia country, had possessed sufficient
reeclution and firMneee to second tour efforts. ! But it is better to
becon'e wise even at the eleventh hour than that a Mari Should
allow the sun to go down opeli his folly. Those Who read Mr.
liallett'e address, will be, 'reminded hy it of what we long ago
Predicted ; yet ive woolal tie glad if thole who,
,before recent
events, neglect:ell our warning, should *now acknowledge the cor-
-4eclness of this gentlenian's statement. He says that " All
dealings, speciously called speculations, have hail, for a ',Umber
of years, a.gambling tendency, not tegulited like tht steady cow-
mercial and farming trahsactions of our Ibrefethers, tvhn were
contented With a filocle,iate expectetion of reward for their labours
imd the use of their real capital ; but by hopes of wild and inordi-,
nate gain, risking, as our list of bankruptcies can vouch, the ruin'
of themselves, their families, and neighbours." These are the
words of sobernese and wisdom ; and now that the delirium which
so lately set the public ild after funteetic riches has patted away,
we sliuuld not wonder if theh tietth would be generally adruituhl.
is augurs badly, however, for the virtue of the next Parliament,
that in no instance have we heard of either the ohl Members, or
the new Candidates, expressing their abhorrence of trimeactieue
that deeply dishonoured the last Parliament, and pledging them-
selves to expose such transactions in future, and to use every ef.;
fort to bring the criminal originators of them and their accom-
plic€S to the bar of pnblic inquiry. No such pledges as these
have been given by those who Ate looking for the honours of Re-
presentation ; and it dots not say notch for the moral principle of
the great Mites of the electors .themselves, that no such pledges
have been demanded. We do hope, notwithstanding; that public
virtue and the sence of shaine have not been so univerieth
extin-
tinguished in England as that there shell nut be funnel in the next.
.Parliament a single person who, ih of any renewal of 'such
fraudulent practices as we have ahead, witneesed in certain Mein-
here of both Houses, will have the honesty and couregctivrise in
hie place, and demand that the Legislature shall vindicate itself
from public contempt, by purging its benches of such diseredi!e-
ble company. '