The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-24 00:00:00

SPMIT OF TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The managers of the apostolical press have
not yet come to a positive understanding among
themselves, as it would appear, upon the desig-
nation to be given his Majesty's present Cabinet,
as a body. It is but a week since one of them
nick-named the Ministers as a Tory Government,
while a second would have them Whigs. We
took the word which pleased us best, (which
had, be it observed, in the article quoted, been
used as synonymous with Liberal) and begged it
might he " Whigs," in preference to the other
ugly epithet. The wretch turns round upon us
in his yesterday's antics, and with ludicrous
gravity informs the world, that the Tinies—the
" official Journal," as he calls us, of the Mini-
stry—" proclaims the present Administration to
"be Whig, purely Whig." This is sheer
" bother," for want of something say. Had
we liked name of Tory as well as that of Whig,
it must be evident to every one who read our
commentary on the Factions' papers, or who ob-
served the occasion which provoked it, that we
might as well, with reference to the real compo-
sition of the Ministry, have applied to it one de-
scription as the other. There is no such thing
to be found in the Administration, according to
our view of it, .(and if there were, it should not
hare support,) as Whig or Tory, in the party
and conventional acceptation of those terms,
The days for nominal distinction between men
whose principles and feelings were identified are
long since passed. Mr. Huskisson we take to
be as ,generetts a Whig as Lord Lansdowne ;
and the Noble Marquis, or Lord Carlisle, quite
as sound and loyal Tories, as a temperate, ell--
cuplspaet, and guarded policy could entitle any
man to designate either Mr. Huskisson or Mr.
Canning. It may indeed suit the taste, and may
be suggested by the factious eagerness of those
who are " damned to everlasting' Toryism, be-
cause no honest party in the State, or among the
English nation, will acknowledge them—it may
suit the ex-conspirators to play off one nick-
name against its opposite, and to try the game of
jealousy among the King's Ministers, who are
wise enough to know that their own stability,
their Sovereign's ease, and the people's welfare,
equally command them to unite against the
public enemy. But their game is up. The
political prism of a former season, by which con-
tiguous principles were separated, and willing
co-operators kept with the floor of the house be-
tween them, was broken six months ago by the
Royal hand. There exists now among men of
enlarged minds and of upright intentions but a
single colour. We believe that there is no mem-
ber of the Cabinet who would not deprecate
from the bottom of his heart that either of the.
obsolete term of other days should be affixed to
the present Administration. No man would be
a fit Minister of the year 1827, who could en-
dure to be classed according to distinctions whicii
are no longer real ; and, in our judgment, the
true excellence and value of this Ministry cone
sists in its having been framed in a spirit ex-
pressly conformable to the era at which his Ma-
jesty' has composed it—throwing off, as mis-
chievous, all characteristics but those which are
wanted for the emergencies of a new system, and
applicable to the objects of a more advanced and
experienced policy.—Times.

We had imagined that the idea of extending
the boundaries of empires, with a view to add to
their prosperity, was now nearly exploded in
Europe. As far as the people themselves are
concerned, extent of territory is only of import-
ance to them with reference to means of defence.
The inhabitant of the little Kingdom of Saxony
has no cause to envy the Russian, the Austrian,
and the Frenchman, except in so far as the latter
belong to Governments better enabled to defend
their independence. Yet here.even the subject.
of large and powerful kiugdoms labours under
one disadvantage from winch the native of small
States is exempt—the confidence in their power
leads tile great States into constant quarrels, to
maintain which that subject is taxed to the ut-
most, both in money and personal service. The
States are occasionally overrun by the •ar-
mies of the' large, who commit great havoc ; but
the evil •of these passing calamities is trifling
when compared with the constant drain in the
shape oftaxation, to which the subjects of ambi-
tious Governments are exposed. The small
a year,
small
a territory an d 3'‘4 YV
mustkingdom of Saxony had to maintain half a mil-
lion of soldiers, including about a hundred thou-
sand
ca
‘'alry,
thatfor so nearly
b e supposedsuffered dreadfully from the affix. t s I't was then
Ihaveilcalled to make ; but the industry of the people
soon effaced the traces of the ravages, end within
a few years after tile peace, the Government of
Saxony and the little State of Denmark _ could
have borrowed money on far better terms than
any of the larger States. But if, on the other
hand, the people derive no benefit from extended
dominion but independence, they. suffer, on the
other hand, many evils from it. The larger the
Empire, the greater the liability to misgovern-
ment. The multitude of affairs constantly soli-
citing the attention of Government prevents it
from bestowing due consideration on them, faci-
litates at•the same time the means of committing
abuses ; and by distracting public opinion, the
only check on men in office, renders it inopera-
tive. With all'our boasted intelligence and free-
dom of discussion, it is notorious that the Legiss
lature of this country is altogether inadequate to
the task of superintending the numerous posses..
sions under the British Crown, and that con-
sequently -there is hardly any check public
•
a
men. The abuses committed on
single Co-
lony would occupy Parliament the whole
time of its sitting. AI fee
- as Government
is concerned, the most of our Colonies
would thrive much better without any Go-
vernment at all, than they can do under our
protection. The example of the settlement of
Florida, since its acquisition by the. United
States, shows that the less men are governed,
and left to take care of themselves, the more
they are likely to prosper. If, then, a people
wish to ensure to themselves the evils of nese
government, they should seek to become a great
nation. Their Ministers will have, in that case,
beat means at their disposal, and they will be
enabled to commit great abuses with impunity,
because their actions can never be made the sub-
ject of an efficient scrutiny. The people will
not only suffer from sins of commission, but sins
of omission; for in the multitude of demands on
public men, • they can spare no time for an
efficient, improvement of the laws, so that anuses
grow auuses
grow out of abuses, till the mass
of abuse be-
comes of a magnitude absolutely appalling. If
tile people could only generally be made to com-
prehend that nations have an • interest in the
prosperity of each other, as
what impoverishes
one nation diminishes the : prosperity of its neigh-
hour ; and that conquest •
e) so far from being be-
neficial to those who make . . them, are seriously
injurious, by deteriorating their Government
1 from its increased liability to -abuses ; if, we say,
the people of Europe e9uld only be made gerigk