The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-10 00:00:00

one pre‘ri-tisly debancliedi by the unremitiitrg,, did-
gemination 111 blasphemous libels., and It eed from
the restraints of moral or. religious feeliog. On
this subject he felt sufficient connetence at once to
express ttis opitliOll. withOtit Waitirle for any of
those documents which the Noble
.Lord proposed
to lay before the House. There, wet e facts of
nittolie,y, known and. seas by every titan
who did not choose to shut his eves. Had not
Aleetittg,s been proposed, fot the purptbse of as-
siittlittg the functions which belonged only to the
govt., ergo power of the State--Meetings, which,
it they had been actually held, would have been
arils of high treason. When it was found that
tnatters were not sufficiently ripe for this midis-
guided act of public rebellion, had trot the same
masses of the populace been again 'convened,
under/the direction of the satue leaders, under the
pretext of seeking tittiversal Suffrage and ottual
Parliaments—their very pretexts such as the Con-
Stitt/'ion could n it silt-vier, it they .were rifectitat-
ed. but their real object to overawe the coustrtut-
ed 4‘'llt".ritirs by the di:play of their numerical
strength, and io pr,pare for direct. immediate,
frociltle revolution ? ELtd we 1101 seen the same
itinerant ittoundebattla, who set their powers in
motion, publicly 'assisting at the orgies of the
hin,ph,upws Wield) lately (01iVietril and could
d-tttht that treason k•.• 45 ,sus• ofbject, and that
and •e.-Ntrian were rite means IVlren
lid!fln. tio-,ti fiends lit human shape enderroliting
to rola their unhappy Victims of all their consola
(loos Here, and of 011 their hopts ItereAfter—when
Le saw them, wilt their lever.. ',facet§ nodes' the
great pillars ot social order, attditeacitt4 the Con-
stilt, jolt froot-its fottridatiou,'lte seaa rejoiced to
See 1%1114411CW assembled. Their first dtr y was
to convince these enemies Of Grid ntrd matt, that
',keit Hit the walls of Prriliantent :bey crit.ld find no
countenance; and through the organ of Parlirt-
'intent to lei them know, that nothing awaited!
client but indignant resistance from the great
body of the people.
They were bound to assure the throne of their
leyiil and cheerful co-operation for these purposes;
and on this grrelind alone the amendment was
objectionable, even if the measure suggested by it
Were in itself desirable ; inasmuch as by tacking it
to the address, arid not proposing it as a separate
resolution, it declared the measstre of inquiry so
essential, as to preclude all exertions for the safety
of thr State, until that itiviry should be disposed
of. But, waving this ohl:ction, lie should pro-
ceed to consider it on its own merits. It was
said, then, that the dispersion of the Nleeting
at 3.iancliester, of the !Gilt of August, called
for Parliamentary enquiry ; and here he begged

leave to remind the (louse, that Parliamentary
enquiry, though eel tainly a proceeding recognizeft
by our ConsTi.ntiun, kvas, still, not the ordinary
roode of investigating. tither We conduct of Ma-
-- gist:4%-s in the exec.tion of the laws, as the
conduct of those who were the objects of the ex-
ecntion of those laws. A case, therefore, for tu-
(l4irY. was to be made out by those svho called for
it. What, then, was the enquiry proposed? Was
it into 1k :conduct or Government, in thanking the
Magistrates ? Such a proceeding, he owned, ap-
peared to him most prematme and uncalled-lot.
if the Magistrates had issued orders for dispersing
the King's subjects, peaceably and legally assem-
bled ;—if, in consequence of such orders, the
blood of int:ocent and unoffenti,og persons had
b.-vo shed, the conduct ot Ministers in advising
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to thank
them for such acts would rail for inquiry and for
censure. If, on the contrat y, bodies to the amount
of twenty thousand, or seventy thousand, he cared
not which, but to an amount beyond:. the ,Ineans
of the civil power to deal with, had marched in
regular columns, and in military art ay,- with sedi-
tious banners, into the heart, of oue_of the most
populous and most inflammable towns in the eth-
pire ; if these men had been previously drilled to
Military-exercises if they had been shortly before
convened for treasonable purpoges; if they tesisted
the antho,iy of the Peace Officers- extctiting the
warrant of the Magistrates; if in short, the cave
stated by the Noble Lord, and by the liouourabte
Member for Dover, was correct, then he had no.
hesitation in saying, that his Majesty's Mioisters
were not only lust ifiA in returning thanks to the,
Magicrates, butt that it was their bounden duty
to do so; and that those Gentlemen, acting in the.
discharge of a most important duty, in a crisis of?
public peril, ant undertaking an a.vful responsibi-
lity for tile public service, were entitled to hare I
the sense of the Executive -Government on their
conduct. .When it was void that•this is prejudg-
ing the question, it seemed to be taken as granted,
that the executive power of the country is not in
any degree bodged in the Government. Would it
not have been their duty to give previous, advice
and instruction to the Magistrates on such a sub-

ject, and with a view to such art emergency
When they direct the public prosecutor tei proceed
against any individual, can that .he considered as
prejudgiug of the question ? 'l'o this extent it ili
the exercise of their proper function, which they
cannot neglect wifhout an ahatulonment of duty ;
mod if they felt, wilier all the circumstances, that
the conduct of those most meritorious public

servants des: re'e'l their prdise, it would huve ue•en
wjtost and menu to have withheld their expres-

situ of it, flow, rlteu, could the propriety of the
Letter of Thanks be judged of until the facts
were aseeetaiurd ? Tine, it was said ; and ,there..

hire inquire. Cert ; hut Cleady by
the regulnr coarse of 14 and by the regulir
tribunals 4.1 I lie unless ca.('
were p,evinaily sheering that these

trihumils were io44:pitife or urisiiit,A for the

pnrpose. bills itsd I en found against bevel 41
of the p-rsolis alleged to be actors in this sedi•
tious Meeting; these trials the leftsl y of
tt.e svould he tieeesskirily the subject of
itivestigat,o9. Aiid ,vhy was it that these trials Lad

nor THlieil ii-ut the witylic tilliiil, throtigit
the reglil4t ehatiml ot a trial by
Jury, hertz i:rormt-cl cit the real toitiire of [Dees
traoi:twiniad ? hec,itise the persons so llC-
etc,r(l ;Item•tives t4e delay vehick
the It v tilrot!wt:ittsly •, ;Hirt poFtpo-ell t htir
trials until the Spring A !,.izeg, Bfi. it is sniff,
that tolth(i.i.,ll Ihr leg4lity of the- ;Nlectirt;::
br decide,l on in those cases, still the conduct
tbe it: might illegal ;
and 'his would then', come
wailer discussion. %Vt.y, then, -.vera not precezd-