The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-20 00:00:00

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think ,the most propt.T. _ ,
" But,-; on wliat groands, and for what per-
poses, have they so smidenly changed their tone,
and wheeled round 'tram inflammatory declama-
tion, and virulent invective, 'to affected canting
moderation ? Pitt y have ince,santly 'incited the'
populace, step by :atop; to instihorcliontion,- in the
hope, no doubt, that, if tiny very tormithible
surreetion took place, die) shoeld he enabled to
step into places 01 power-.and wealth' ;in which
event, their followers wo,dd Inlet been whip-
ped witlt scorpions, by their pretended- friends.
They had determined, it -is .evident, to keep.
themselves cleat of a+l legal- con,equences.•
It
the tumult had slice& eche!, it would have been
arl very- well. They woold .have •nppeared
as the osten,ible heads, and reaped all the fruits
of •the straY.Av. It did not succeed ; and
(as they have shewo) they knew .very
aril
how to leaee•the dupes and tools to their own
fate. The working class will perceive too, that,
even if insurrection had been successful, the views
of the instigators were very different frorn_theirs.
It is hot a speculative reform in:Pavliament,,
merely, which the lower orders contemplate...,
Under that unknown good, they fondly flatter
themselves, onthhey have been palpably deceioed
km). the belief, dull there would be found some
golden means for the redaction of labour, and tee
increase of its price ; for renderieg every thing,
het labOta, cheap -; for bringing about sonic will
project of a division of property ; for restraining,
,:,he use of machinery,- and,-in short, for until ely
changing., by sonteinnical proress, the present
state of human society. But the Reform which their
pretended friends Hint at, is not to prcluce,'-a mi.
cannot produce any one .of ,thesteeffects. ~1 c i 4 a
Reform by 'which they hope merely 'fa put the
present men cult of poWer, and to succeed. them-
selves to their•places ; when she labouritte
would find neat they still retained pree:sely'the
same situation in whicli they are and necessadly
mus't he placed, until, indeed the operatieneot the
%N ail principles and mad projects oh.thrir
ii oulcl-
be tyrants, should, by sacrificiog all the real in-
terests of the country,. tender the _situation (1.
eeeryclass of of rich and poor, %,rorle.
taro and misters, infinitely worse than, ire trust,
they as ill evt.r have it in theirpower to, re.dize,
Tht! hypocrites have led you to the brink..9l de-
strac tioe tiara' they havelef(yen to peril, ;
or to he saved hy.the merciful generosity ot,those
a..Ainst 'idiom they have. excited y9tt, Aud thee
;Isl.. now (having failed by your violence) [o lIZIVC
rt:COAr,.! only tu.toodqate for the .amaitc.-
~,eitt their objects ;they you by
all
the opprol4ions names they can lay their tongues
to, for haying , recourse to violence at their
instigation ! 891 these are thetnen, and not ran,
who are deserspine.4 reproach. lid they not tell
yOn and again, that you. were a vilely treat:
ed. an oppressed,. and an renslaved people ? that
rcrliameot eev so corrupt, as to be at OW lend .91
prOfiigare ..anti therefore that it wits of,
no.wie to rtition 00'11—that in tact you han
nu
I ereStlltatioll itt Parliallient ?-7tllo you %I:Fr.t;
rid( il9l of proflivey ill the Prince, and tyrsoriVy
iii the. Ministell, 1 and that, to Complete time bone-
lest.ness of your misery ; you were held in suit).
jeetiotf,by a.stolidi-ng .army'?,---111Ht even the peace
with:which Providence- had blessed its, w.is (see
Mr. Fawkes's „speech to the York County
ing) a demon " having the tax-gather's imple-
ments ill one hand, and a fixed bayonet in the
other ?" They':told you all this, and itifieltely
more and wot'se that' this, with which we Shall
not defile our paper, or again-grate your eats by
the repetition of, opeli as they now are toconvie-
Otto and truth. They told you all this; so often,'
and so pet timo iously, that at length you believed
them. And, impressed with such a belief,. what.
were you to do ? To crouch 'Under the rod by
which you were beaten ? .No—with the spirit of.
Britons, which,lhough wrong directed, was still,
that prowl—that free,-that daring British spirit,
us-herewith it is to be hoped you will ever be dis-
tinguished, part of yon rose up as yottrancestors
have -done bellye; end more of you Wire ready
to rise, to 'burst asunder the itnoginary
sera by which you were told you were bound.
Ilowever much we may execrate the villany
that made you believe so touch falsehood, it
is iatpossible not to applaud the spirit, though
misguided, Which it called into action. If we had
believed, as you did,---if we had been certain that
the country was enslaved, we shnuld have been
proud to have appeared in. your rauks,-we should
- have called upon every lover .of his,, native land,
toshed the Inst droji of his blond in 'the sacred
cause of her independence.
" But What, on the
..other has. been the
conduct of .yonr. seducers ? They pretend to be-
lieve; as they have made you do; that von are
etislavfd, and yet they join those whom they call
your oppressors, in putting' you dome! If all
they have told you,—if but ai tythe of. what they
have told y0u,..-be true (end they neverexpressed
a doubt-of its truth), it'. was their duty manfully
to have stepped forward to your support—to have
seized the opp,i, tonity, as hide you afforded them,
to rescue thecountty-,...0r to have perished with
you inthe attempt. They rejoice at every symp-
tom of 19SlitTeclion in other countries- If the
people of Spain, of -Sotith America, of ;ince,
of :my region nil the globe, rise tap against•their,
Rulers (and you will observe that yonr ntisietitkrs:
abuse the linters of every other people as we ti “*-
their own),---if li tebabitants of sty.. other
country burst into ifiturreetion, they, reinee at
time event, as a triumph to their principles ;•-•-rtikeY
gloat over the accounts; of murders, of buntings,
ontrag'it, and devastation!—Blu9d, and fire,
arid fury, ate doe luxurious hansiiet which' they
delight to contemplate, though they have some-
times peace, and philanthropy, and benevolence,
in their mouths l Weill—the same cAuses which
excite insurrections in other emouries, they tell
you exist iu this country; soil why do they not
rejoice that insurrection has comMeneed here also?
Why ?,;Because, though they intialgo is savage joy
at beholding other men engaged in ,the work of
blood, they have no particular relish for broken
hones and bloody, wounds thenaselVes. They
stand aloof front alt danger Would 'pre.
viii upon -you, if they can,- to shed the blood of
your governorat and countrymen"! •If yots
teed, then will they tapplaucl:the 'will