The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-10 00:00:00

" PROPOSITION 1.-THEOREM.

" No rulers will do any thing which may hurt the
people.
" This is the thesis to be maintained; and the
following, we humbly offer to Mr. Mill, as its syllo-
gistic demonstrati on :

"No rulers will do that which produces pain to
themselves.

" But the unfavourable sentiments of the people
will give pain to them.
" Therefore no rulers will do any thing which
may excite the unfavourable sentiments of the people.
" But the unfavourable sentiments of the people
are excited by every thing which hurts them.
" Therefore no rulers will do anything which may
hurt the people, which was the thing to be proved."
The trickery consists in substituting people
for that portion of the people by which the ruler
is enabled to rule. Every Orange Leader wishes
to stand well with the body of Orangemen.
Every Catholic Leader wished to stand well with
the body of the Catholics. But an Orangeman
did not wish to stand well with a Catholic, nor
a Catholic with an Orangeman. Wherever
there are casts or factions, the love of approbation
is confined to the cast or faction. In this way
the apparent cleverness of the Reviewer is merely
the absence of all power to analyse,—/bid.
Among the curious instances of the " patriotism
of pounds, shillings, and pence," which have
come to light in the course of the angry dis-
cussions upon the pecuniary claims of Mr.
Eneas Macdonnell in the Finance Committee of

the Roman Catholic Association, is the circum-
stance of 2,000 guineas having been given to the
son of the orator Burke to conciliate the interest
of his father with the Ministry of that day.
Now, the opinions of Edmund Burke in favour
of " Catholic Emancipation," have often been
quoted by the modern advocates of that measure
with an air of triumphant authority—repeatedly
have we seen in newspapers and pamphlets his
florid declamation on this subject appealed to as
an emanation of such genius and virtue as it
would be a sort of profaneness to resist. Alas !
the more we discover of the secret springs of
public action the less are we inclined to put any
faith in those arguments founded on the autho-
rity of celebrated names ! Who could have ima-
gined that when the Roman Catholics and their
advocates were referring to the name of Burke as
an oracular authority, the sentiments which were
held forth to admiration, as resulting from
the purest conviction of a great and upright
mind, should ever be imputed by the same party
to the influence of a paltry bribe of 2,000
guineas, paid to the son to enlist the services of
the father in the cause of " civil and religious
freedom," We know nothing of this circum-
stance but upon Roman Catholic evidence,-,,
Hear what Mr. Finn, the brother-in-law of Mr.
O'Connell, said on this subject in the debating-
room of the " Agitators' the other day :
" There was one of those persons included as
having received remuneration. It was a sop of
the celebrated Burke. He got 2,000 guineas
from the Catholic body—not because he deserved
it, l.hit that his father was the celebrated Edmund
Burke, who was known to possess powerful in-
fluence in the Cabinet. It was a bribe to the
son to obtain the powerful influence of the father
with Pitt and the other Ministers of the day."—
Against this amicable demolition of the poli-
tical purity and disinterested patriotism of Mr.
Burke not a voice was raised' among the pro-
fessed admirers—we might say, the idolators of
his memory. Here is a job which forms a cu-
rious cornMentary on the " art of political per li
-
suasion." It deSeryes to be remembered, if it
were only to show the value of the groment
frcm authority.—Morning Herald.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Crown Office, July 10, 1829.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR-

LIAMENT.
Borough of Corfe castle.—George Bankes, Esq.

Commissions in the North Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Salop.
Lieut. J. Croxon to be Capt., vice Lovatt, resigned.
July 4.
Lieut. Ft. Jones to be ditto, vice L. Jones, resigned.
July 4.
J. R. Kenyon, Gent. to be Lieut. vice Croxon, pro-
moted. July 4.
R. Bonner, Gent. to be ditto, vice R. Jones, promoted.
July 1.

R. Nicholls, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Longueville, re-
signed. July 4.
E. Gwynne, Gent. to be Surgeon, vice Essex, deceased.
July 4.