Last week we told the zealots of the National Union,
who seek from violence the distinction which they despair of attaining to by other means, that the Reformers did not and would not go along with them ill the studied insult offered to the King. We have received an early proof of the correctness of our opinion, of the existence of which we were not then aware. At the large and respectable meeting of the peo- ple of Leith, held on the 10th instant, it was unanimously agreed to present to his Majesty an address of thanks for the " Great Charter of Freedom" contained in the Reform Acts. The document, which is every way worthy of the occasion, will be found among the adver- tisements in the present Number of the Spectator. This is no more than is due to the King. The attempt to bring into question his sincerity in the cause of Reform, has hitherto been confined to a very few persons, of no credit or consequence ; we can num- ber among them but two men of the slightest pretensions to talent. The motives are as paltry and pitiful as the attempt is indefensible: the setting up for members of Parliament, the spouting at Union meetings, the travelling from club to club, are but so many- ingenious methods of evading the stamp-laws, and of advertising the sale of the wares these mock patriots deal in, without payment of the duty.
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