We learn from the True Sun, that Government has comAienced
a criminal prosecution against it, for counselling "resistance to the As- sessed Taxes," and for "bringing the House of Commons into contempt 1" We have not seen an account of the judicial procedure, and know no- thing of the case except the fact as above stated. We cannot there- forespeak as to its peculiar merits. But one thing is very certain- that a Government must be in a miserable state of weakness which can resort to a persecution of the press as a means of defence. The Ad- ministration of the Duke of WELLINGTON did not hold together long after it called in the fatal assistance of Sir JAMES SC ARLETT, and it needs no prophet to foretell the downfall of any Ministry which, in the present state of public opinion, shall refuse to take warning by the Duke's example. When the Whigs were in opposition, who so loud as they in condemning proceedings of this kind ?
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