The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-07 00:00:00

LONDON :
MONLAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1842.

The meeting of the friends to Trial by Jury,
which took place on Saturday, and of which a
report appears in another part of The Sun, was
more numerously attended, we believe, than
such meeting's usually have been. It was con-
ducted to the end with great harmony and. equal
enthusiasm. The sentiments were of the most
liberal cast, and they found a warm welcome. To
impress on Jurors of the present day, by the ex-
ample of their predecessors, a n,citerunination to
stand between power and the oppr.,:ssed, is likely
to be more than ever wanted. On
.Ibrmer occa-
sions the juries sympathised with tho le who were
persecuted by the Government, but. ti iey are not
so likely to sympathise with nen who
commit a riot in a turn-out for 1 rages, or
who may overstep the strict bounds of
law in seekin4 an extension of the suffncge. The
Jurors will now, frequently, we believe, have to
be on their guard against their own chi ss preju-
dices, and against their sympathies with em.
ployers. To do justice, they will sometiix es have
to conquer themselves. On this acct nt it is
most proper to enforce on Jurors of the present
day, by the example ofthrinerJurors, the& etermi-
nation to be strictly just, and always to t hrow a
shield over the oppressed. We rejoice much,
therefore, that a meeting, which had this for one
of its objects, was so well attended, art" displayed
throughout so much honest enthusias7.n.

'We formerly toJk it on ourselves to censure Mr.
MacauLAl-for ernployinghis time, w: hen he wasa
'Cabinet Mii.ister, with amusing lit( rature, and
not giving tl.at support and assistance to his party
in and °it of Parl:ament which they had a right
to expect from his great talents ai .d the high
situation in which he was placed. ,No defence
was then made for him ; but it v. ris thought
proper to deny for him the author .s hip of the
Pa. Per which led to the charge. It may he
thought that now he is out of ()the, t, no similar
objection can apply to giving himself ► tp to ballad
poetry, and endeavouring, though wit it no great
imccess, to reproduce something like tl5 e original
legends which serve as the basis of. the his-
tory of Rome. Such are his erapl'oymentS,
but to us they appear scarcely proper nil:. a public
man in the present state of the comitry.
Mr. MACAULAY is yet a Member of Parlia-
ment, and is yet bound, by representing Edin-
burgh, to the service of the people...l His counsels
and conduct contributed to overt urn the Whin.
coach.
His letter, pompously dated froth Wind-
sor' Castle, brought ridicule: on t imself and his
friends. His speeches at 7Edint urgh, avowing
bitter hostility to a large cln is of ;people, and ac..
eusiog them of designs a ga: ns7'. property, provoked
their animosity. He made it o Litt() his own satisfac-
.tion that they could not recoil e tile share of consti.
tutiona 1 power they asked wit hoot exposing society
io danger,and his language ct )n tribe. ted very much
to make the Whigs utipopL lar. llotlt by what
he did, and what he nen-les eted to do, the Right
Hot, Gentleman inflicted :heavy blows on his
own party, and on the w( ,bare of the country.
The solace he may find i> ). studying the legends
of old Rome is no satisfar tion, to the people he
insulted, and to the part he deceived. His
satisfh.ction will not rest( ;e, the national Pros-
perity which the Whio.s
so deeply wounded. and the Tories have
If .11 e be about to retire
from public life, it seems ; somewhat cowardly
not to fhce the dangers. he l Las brought on, and
leave the task of surmout sting them to the
courage and perseverance of • others. At present
the people, suffering from a. T 1 thious policy, have
need of aid from every (Lim ter to recommend
miser counsAs to the pul )lic. The nation not I