The Sun.
London, England, 1819-12-28 00:00:00

(as in the ease of Carrilo and Slier'.. iii) ',Vas tltite
hopeless, %, bile the detect pots-of-the printer was a
matter of no great difficulty.. I,:,,ery ()le, -how-
ever, could not be expected to concur in this es-
timate. 'Dole were honest useu who believed
that the country could proceed in the. present'
way, and considered that the Constitution was
erected on too`firtn a basis to suffir from the at-
tacks of its present toes. He thanked God that
the Constitution 'was firm ; but, when lie saw the
means takers to subsert it, he could not help
thinking of Lord Bacon,. where he.obser ves that
a titan ought to be cautions of -trying how muds
poison his 'constitution can bear. Sedition and
blasphemy were conspiring to destroy the Con-
stitution ; and sedition Mid blaspheMy must be
thoroughly put down, if the preseriatirto of the
Co:lstitotiou tea.: now desirable. It was under
the persuasion that both blasphemy and sedition
would be effect naliy put' do .en, that he now
rioted their Lordship that the pi esent
should he read a second time.
The Eirl of DoNotronsioeu said, that Minis-
fess had, according tit the speech of. the Noble
Viscount, pot a happy termination to those mea-
sisies which they judged to be necessary for
the preservation of • the country. 'F
-hose fearful
measures, as .he conceived then) to be, instead
of bsittg described as an attack .oft the liberties
of the laden people, were now described as called
for in otsler to protect the faithful subjects
,ot
the State.' If Ministers- were in 'reality so aware
of the &tigers- of I he cottony for so many months,
how was it possible, lie would ask, for them
so culpably to have neglected their duty as to pet-
mit the Parliament to separate, at least, without
one solitary caution of the dangers that threatened
us ? This was i ,explicable to him. lie bid at
length entered.into the streets <st measures which
Pte cold nor characterise ht, any other term than
fearfol, ' but which the Noble Lords opposite
treated as altsoltnely necessary to defend the, loyal
from the designs of the disaffected.. Previously
to the speech of his Royal High.nes's on opening
the present Parliament, the tone of Ministersihad
Dot assigned arty thing like anxiety or apptchen-
slots as, to the situation orthe country ''r the
allegiance of the subject. Their tone now, and
their assurances were all of a different nature, the
reaolt of which was that sedition bad taken so deep
a root in the country, that to presrrve the formsOt
the Cons' ittoion it was necessary to sacrifice,a part
of the civil liberty of each, Ile could not believe
thai'such was our condition, and would coureoll,
that even with the aid of (he garbled statement
of evidence submitted to the liouse, no such case
against the interests of EngliAmen coeld be
made out ; much less a ca3ewhieb would warrant
the passing of a list of Bills of a -general and un-
exceptive nature, which in tact, amounted to a
proscription of all the principles hitherto dis'in-
goishing our Constitntion. From the general
character which had been given for order and,
tranquillity to that country, be could not think.
that Government was justified in introducing this.
system into Ireland. But there was nothing in
the oature of conciliatiois to be found in the sys-
tem Goveroment now put sued by Ministers.-----.
In drawing a line of demarcation beyond the go-'
tented and their rulers. Ministers ,shoniti have
kept in mind the impolicy 'of passing one Sweep-
ing line of measures against a certain class of his
Ai,jesty's subjects, whether they deserved the
extent of punishment denotinced against them
or not. And bete it teas to be deeply regretted,
that the Servants of the Crows/ should ever have
brought the Pzince ;orward as they bad_on a late
occasion: 13-y the forms of the Constitution it
had been provided that the Sovereign should never
be exhibited to the-people as an object of fear, but
as the fountain. orfavour, tumour, and mercy. In
the late in-tance lie had been; introduced as it
would appear, for the purp;)se of influencing the
public mind, Pat ii amen t, and. he very much fear-
ed the verdict's of Juries. The people, the Ca-
houniated -aseople., it should not be forgotten,
tyere the great body of the-social commisuity : our
sitength its war ; (tie source of one prosperity in
peace ; whose money and blood had, under the
auspices of our glorious and ffitimphant leader in
anus, laid the fotindatiou of the most splendid
consys,.sts recorded in history.
The D.:Le I-4 ATHOL was anxious to learn,
whether One Noble.. Earl mrant to inculpate indi-
viduals in that [Abuse, amongst whom he tnust
.class himself, who in.voting for the measures of
restliction proposed by Ministers, hail acted, as
he must profess lie did, In compliance with the
dictates, of conscience. Nothing was more dart:-
ral than that a variety of opinions should prevail
on most subjects. in that House, it bere contradic-
tory evidence had been given; TAs .to the taunt
thrown out. respectiog. the overwhelming majori-
ties' which Goverhment had made the instrument
of carrying their measures, he trusted in a week
'or two he should have to congratulate the country
upon the fortunate results arising from the vote
of these majorities. There was now, every rea-_
son to expect that the loyal wool(' boldly stand
forward, the timid and irresolute become assured,'
the seduced he gradnally lessened, and tie rebel-
lious designated and set apart, so as to be-
come less an object of terror. On the sub.::
ject of the public distress, be cOnlit see no
reason .to find fault with the Government.—
The benevolent intentions of Government bad
been sufficiently explained by a letter read its re-
ply to that of the Doke of Hamikon in the other
H. use, wherein they .stated their willingneis to
relieve the public distress by the means of. public
works for the local inaprovtment of such disttess,
provided any reasonable security by assessment, at
a very long date, would be giveufor the money so
laid our. Anil this isistanee 'Government .bad

pro losetl to give, not only 99%4', when it wa's
wanted, bot liberally. The result of entering into
an ,ingairy, as•had been the dreme of perpetual ar-,
gurnent amongst the opposers of these, Bills;
would .le, tlidt time would be lost, no such Bills
would yet have been proposed, and the 11.4dieAls
from Glasgow,' Paisley, Manchester, and. New-
castle, would have bad frequent meetings of a si-
milar mitore to those which created such very
justifiable ground of alarm. Of the overwhelm-

ing majorities he" should rather say, that the
Houses bad then rather passed the motions intro-
duced by Ministers, as by acclamation ; and he
thought it the more unfair to be described as' an

instrumaent in any one's bands, at a woment when