21 JUNE 1834, Page 8

The prosecution of the 7'rue San is one of the

most disgraceful measures of the Whig Administration. Year after year, the leading member,: of the Whig party, when in Opposition, denounced the gross iniquity of the Law of Libel. Yet their Attorney-General did not scruple to use it as an instrument of vengeance against an Opposition journalist, who dared to recommend a course of defensive resistance to taxes, substantially the same as that which one of the most estimable ' members of the Whig nobility, and which another Whig, the brother of theLordChancellor,had openly advocated when such a course was deemed advantageous to the interests of their party. All but the base and ser- ' vile were disgusted with such conduct. An opportunity will be offered to Ministers, on Monday, to regain a portion of the credit which they

lost on that occasion. A motion will be made by Mr. FERGUS O'CON• NOR (who presented the petition of a public meeting on the subject) to address the Crown to remit the sentence pronounced upon Messrs. GRANT and Bara—a sentence of imprisonment, for that which in the case of Earl Frrzwita.taat and Mr. BItOUGIIANI was deemed no offence, but a incri•. After the recent declaration of the Lord Chancellor before , the Libel Committee, that all Government prosecutions for libel were indefensible, and that the prosecution of the Trite Sun formed no ex- ception to that rule (for Sir ,Toni SI CAMPBELL asked him the question

in almost direct terms), it is hardly credible that Ministers will refuse to Literate the journalists, or that the House of Commons will sanction by their vote the punishment of those gentlemen. It is usual, on all such occasions, for Ministers to shelter themselves behind the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown ; but in this instant e, the head of the Law, the foremost man in the Government, has avowed his opi- nion that the prosecution of the True Sun was improper. It is im- possible to exaggerate the odium which will rest upon Ministers, if, in the teeth of this declaration, they persist in refusing the only repara- tion in their power.