The Sun.
London, England, 1818-04-20 00:00:00

Press of the tiorips and' tie 11cNT!,—and
more than insinuated by the Speeches and
Scribes of Opposition. It matters not whether
the case of England run parallel with that of

France—make the People beliere it, and the come-
,iquences cannot be doubted. To make the People
belie.re it is the foundation stone of the policy of
..raction
.in the present day. No opportunity i.
:Coffered to pass by which invites the display of
popular declamation against the Members of the
Royal Family,-rind against the ).linisters of the

,Croan. Every feature that can give poignancy
and effect to the portrait of corruption is added
fr,,in the incidents of the d,y, and the ingenuity
of hireling artists. The coarse daubings of the
tinder craft are held up to admiration by the con-
noisseurs and dilletanti of Opposition, and The
Edinburgh Review becotnes the point of contact
between the Partisans of Aristricratic Whiggism
and the dregs of the minor Sabbath-breakers and
Writers. The Editor of The Review has identified
himself with the 'Editor of The Examiner !
If the folly of the Party were not likely to he

m'schievous, it need nor excite a,stronger senti-
ment than contempt ; but folly, active without
principle, and urged on by desperation, forms a
fearful odds in a question to be d:cidecl by num-
bers!

The stand tnnst he made somewhere. The

Courts of Law are hermetically sealed against a
remedy for Libel, by the intimidation successfully
practised upon Juries ; ground after gro,und has
slipped from under us, and whilst Ministers, whom
I conscientiously believe to be the most rigidly
etinstitutional .body of men who ever tgok the
lead in our public councils, are acting on the de.;
fensive, the enemy is undermining the bulwarkti
of the Constitution, and already contemplates a
division of the spoils—" Undique circumventi
swims ; Catalina rum exercitu, faucibus urget, alii
-,isqra Mania, atque in sinu urbis sunt hostes."

We have seen one Minister butchered under our
eyelt, and even within these few days a Nobleman
at the head of a public department nearly sub-
jected to a similar fate. Do not Engliihmen
tremble for the character bequeathed to them by
their brave and noble ancestors ? will they not be
*wakened though they stand upon the embers of

a fire; which has nearly destroyed every vestige
of honourable feeling throughout the Continent
of Europe, and from whose devouring rage we
slime have been hitherto excepted, under Divine
Providence, by the foresight and vigour of our
Governors ! Shall we attribute the murder of a
Pk:twovar., or the assassination of Lord PALMER-
STON, to the mere workings of private feeling ?
~No, Sir ; these degrading facts ►vould not have
stained any period of our history previous to 1789 ;
they are the product of French principles,, im-
ported by degenerate and denaturalized English-
men ! Read the abominable incentives to assassi-
. ration openly pobli•lred through the weekly press.;
read the libel sent forth, by the .anonymous assas-
sin addressed to Mr. CANNING ! The system in
progress, and every disappointed man is taught to
look to the Public Functionaries as the origin and
cause of his individual privatio►►s. The worst pas-
sions of our nature are encouraged by palliatives
(drawn froM the perverted authority of history,)
to their free exercise. The prodigal, the adven-
turer, the speculator, the dcbanchee,-the out-
cast, whose resources are exhausted, or whose
wants exceed their ordinary supply, are referred
to the superfluous possessions of the rich and
noble as usurpations of what belongs to.the com-
munity, and as the cause of their immediate
wants or reverses. Their passions are first heat-
ed, and then impelled in the direction where they
may be satiated. In citing the popular Creed of
the Whigs, it is not my intention to animadvert
upon it. Usurpation is subversive of the rights
of the community ; oppression is the legitimate
signal for revolt, and. tyrannicide may be a virtue
among a free people, but I cannot suffer the
shameless application of the doctrines now set
forth or insinuated by the Whig teachers to pass
unnoticed and unreprobated, namely, that all
authority is usurpation, ail law oppression, and all
Its administrators tyrants, It is obvious where
this cou►tnentary is intended to lead, and that it is
current, may be proved by reference to any of
the itinerary publications of the Sunday Press.—
The example of Batrrus,sin particular, is selected,
and is upheld to popular admiration and imita-:
tion. With the moral feelings of the man who
stabbed his benefactor in the Capitol I meddle:
mot ; though it should be remembered, that his
viet►m was not a King, but an aspiring and success.'
tut Demagogue: but I would raise the- voice of
my yet uncorrupted countrymen against the in-
fluence of such an example, subtracting nothing
from the factitioui blaze with which republican.
idolatry has illustrated it, because in this country
a fixed Constitution, and the purest System o
Laws ever granted to the wants or wishes of man,
!save neither room nor necessity for encircling with'.