The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-13 00:00:00

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- o our §tie •
ti,tient ctise Oalt lie submitted for its cd 1-
sideration. This, -!,-6 i...:ettft::sl seems to tti
to be the Safest) th Most idteiligibie, and
the most ethisiitutional of refotining the
represebtation Of the people iit Parlittmeitt.=4
Should Lord John Russell's Bill Oenttially rep
teive the sanction of the LegiBlattire, a great and
positive good will be achieved, for not Only will
•CorruptiOn be clicked and ptinktied in one of
its strongest !midi; but the popular interest will
obtftfu ti positive increa:it, of strength in the house.
of Cdannotis. Wt.! fear; liewei-er, that should.tlie
House of Commons pass the Bill, the Lords will
rejoct it, and .disappoint the anxious-hopes of the
community.

[The Tales.] • ,
Bills of indictknent for libels on the Queen.
hate been `found by the Midditisk Giand Jury
against 7;ie"2llvrning Posl and Courier.• Upon
this .subject we should not have made one word
of remark, had it not been loran article contained
yesterday in one of the papers: the very name of
Which we are althost asliathed to pit in thiS jour.:
nal; nor shall wt even now say one word more
than is absolutely necessary to defetid the object
Of the various libels, for Which true bills have
been found. It is said then, even So late as yes-;
terday, " while fac4 were provea at the bar Of the
House of Lords,. which made every man tremble
for the purity of female Manners, the individual
against whom they were proved, Was. to b thrust
Upon us as a pattern for our wives and daughters,''.
Now,that the aboire statement iswhoilyand uhquez -
tionably false, is and Must be obvious even to those
who believe or profess they believe iii -the
Queen's criminality ; for, whether that Crithina,
Uty exists or not, nothing can be more certain
than that it is matter of inference, and not of
direct proof. No witness of any character—no
witness whose oath would not rather .have led to
the disbelief than the credence of what be stated
—ever swore to the -criminality of the Queen;
Lieutenant liownam certainly swore that she
was in a situation by night under what he called
a tent, viz.—the ship's awning ; ' from which -
others it ferred that her Majesty was guilty, but
from which the. Lieutenant himself. -who best--
knell- what this wrongly-named tent was, drew
no such conclusion ; and this, monstrous as the •
fact may seem, is the body of the
.case against
the Queen. —.....,..,,.....

. [Net; Mlles.]
We have received further proON of the tea
with Which the professed friends of,the Liberty
of the Press are endeavouring to preclnde all free
and fair discussion of, their public speeches aid
public conduct. Our readers will rentemb.,r that
we some time ago noticed a valuable. pamphlet
by the Reverend H. Philpott, entitled, " A Le
ter to the Right Honourable Earl Grey, on cer-
tain charges ativanced by his 4ordship in his
Speed' at the late_ County Meeting in Nor-
thumberland, against the Clergy of the County
of Durham." This Pamphlet, as we are inform-
'_ed, (and if, we are Wrong. Lord Grey and
Mr. Tierney Can set us right) this de-frnsh'e
pamphlet of a Clergyman, writing in behalf of
himself and his Reverend Brethren, was lately
the subject of a careful consultation by the
Leaders of Opposition, in order to dis Cover in it,
if possible, matter for -indictment! They per •
"ti.:ed the wtole, with the aid of very able legal
advice, but happily what they sought was not; to
be found. To what point then are we to .be
re-
duc .(1'? Must we listen with submissive defer-
e;ce to the most, false and groundless charges
a!;;ains.t authorities which we prize, and per-
sonages whom we venerate ? Must we hear
motives the most
_dishonOurable attributed to
Our own conduct ; and if we venture to retort
the charl,7e of calumny on our political op-
ponent.;, "if we p-resume to speak of public cha-
racters with the most distant approach to that
free Om of expression which they themselves use
must we instantly be marked out for pm ivate ven-
gearce or legal punishment ? It so, the Libeily
of the Press is entirely at an end. The strict "
letter of the law must be carried into effect on all •
hands, and then what individual is there (Whose
public writing or public speaking has ever at-
tracted a moment's attention). that will not he
amenable to .justice on the one side or on the

other
Be it observed, that in the great and serious
question of the Queen's conduct, the Govern-
ment of the Country , has not, been the first
to appeal to the Law for a protection against
public discussion ; although it is notorious
that that discussion has been carried -on
by. their Opponents in speech and writing,
,with an excess of violence and misrepresentation
wholly unparalleled=—but the Queen and th
Queen's friends are the first to cry out. Mr. Hume
at the Revolutionary Dinner last October said,
" he appealed to all present, he appealed to the
world to decide Whether- ever a good man ha:t.
been known, or could he found, who feared thz
influence of a Free Press." What will that
Hon. Gentletnan now say of his sensitive friends?
They havealready indicted The Courier and
The Morning Post: they have tried the ground
of Mr. Philpott's pamphlet—what may he their
next step we know not; but perhaps they will,
ere long, find that

—,
Even !milled justice
(7orrinien& the itigretliiiit* of the putson'il chalice
To their owii lip. (1,il)
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LAMBETII 11 lEL SOCIETY.-The eighth
niversary Meeting of the above Society was hel
yesterday evening in the.great robin of the Ilor 13
Tavern,. liennington, and was most numerously
and respectably attended. About half past six
o'clock, Thomas ‘VALssMAN, Esq. took the
Chair, supported by several eminent Divines and
other Gentlemen. The Report of the proceed-
ings of last year was then read,,after whiCh seve-
ral Gentlemen add-ressed the Meeting at consi-
derable length, and tbanks having been vote,d.to
the President, Officers, and Chairman-, of the-
Society, the Meeting adjourned. " • •
We have .particular pleasure. in learning, that
Sir J Amts ..Nl‘Grucvaß;' Director-Ceueral of. ih
Army Medical Department,solic!itous for the im-
prov mein of the profession in his native Country,
has transmitted to the Secretary of the Medical
Society of the North he'te, a handsome donation
of modern medical publications fcr - the Society's
library.—(lnvernesv Courier.)