The Sun.
London, England, 1817-03-14 00:00:00

RBFORM AND,RgFORMERS.

The Reformers seen) determined to make the.
u►ost of their time. Meeting upon rueoing, Speech
upon speech, petition upon petition, are crowded,
and hurried, and jumbled together. A foreigner
would imagine the sole business of our Parliament
to consist in reading and rceeiVing the opinions
and demands of my Lords the Mob ; no matter.
what, and no matter wherefore.
We cannot comprehend the legality—,o en an•
der the existent laws—of this eternal exhibition
of the same object under different colours
less, indeed, the form can alter the substance,
and the purpose the pretence. If such be the
present privilege, the new law cannot come a
moment too WWI.

A deal hay been said about enslaving an►l pu-

',idling a whole nation for the offence of indivi-
dnals.—Fine word's these—had they but a little
reason It—Every law'has been counted a restraint
and an infliction by those who.feel its confront or
ineur,its penalty :—t lie Sessions Papers furnish a
thoussoni such. grievances.—But on those who do
not infringe the law, no hardship is induced;-and
by those ‘'elio -do not clesire to infringe it, no
hartibbip is apprehended. Tice Suspension of the

Habeas Corpus Act will endanger no man's li-
berty who ptactises nought: against the State;
while its suspension is—its the new law explicitly
declares—intended agitinst such practice 4 only,
and I not entarge4 over t!ce cwnmart achniniatration of
Just ' - • •

11.41 the galled jade wince —The tluntitites, and the Cob-
betites, and the liautpdvners, and the Spew:cans, and all
the • •

•ilinbubaiaruna Collegia, pharnwerpola,
Afenerees, Mind, Bah:trouts, kw genus cant—
wilt of course gtumble at the new,-law, which
wrings their %it hers so pinchingly. As the Judge
said to a poor devil of an lrishnian, who was
roaring and .blubbering in the doek—" Drin't
" alarm yourself, toy friend, you shall have ins-
" ticek. p.dy.upon it."—" Och, my Lord, that is
'• the eery thin I am afraidof!"—For how stands
the probability—that the new enaement will
leave the turbulent free ?—or that, it will restrain
only the peaceable ? that these fellowi will bf,
remitted to their Clubs, and their aott
their Delegations ?—or that the well-disposed and
industrious Citizens will be impeded in their ho-
nest eirployments ?

nine Mx lacryme-aln this terrible Suspen-
bion-a .word, by the bye, ticklesome enough to
make a Grievance
Iby itself-,-there is nothing but
restraint upon the violent, and protection for the
quiet. Without that protection, there is no se-
curity; and without security, there is no liberty.
Neither is any species of liberty guaranteed by the
Constitution, except through the general tlisabi•
lity of doing wrong a disability, which, so far
from being a restraint on all for the; fault of
smite, is a restraint upon some for the safety of
all.---And this, upon extraordinary junctures, must
be increased by extraordinary measures, affecting,
however, no individual, who is not a wrong-doer

in act or in purpose'
The new Ilw creates no new Offences; it only
d:sables the perpetration of those, which the old
law already 10, ids,bnt which the old. law is not
strut ig cunt% prevent ; and so lar.as preven.
titip is ill Lll't sneteitAti than punishment, the new
law is more salutary than the old.

The Gazette of lust night is filled with Ad.
dresses ft. the Paitiog REGENT from various parts
of the United Kingdom, an his escape from Ote
the late li-allot:0os outrage offered to his. Kayla
ilightiesw's privet,.
Boxitig.—Cartar cannot get backed to fight
Cribb. 7'fbe bets to be deposited for the tight
het wecu Serval/is and Turner. There arc 100
gitiPtas ttk .10 &your of the former.