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The brunt of the battle will be in parliament, and there they must meet 

 their enemy. But defence is always feeble ; their strength must be in 

 attack ; they must be prompt, active, and bold ; and we are glad to see that 

 as their old champions retire, a succession of able men are ready to 

 sustain the cause. The appointment of the Marquis of Chandos is a 

 Iiighly favourable evidence of the revived spirit of the West India pro- 

 prietors. For they could not have chosen a noblem.an more distinguished 

 by manliness and popularity, nor more entitled to respect from every 

 party in the legislature. In the members of their Acting Committee, 

 they possess very able men. Their excellent Chairman, the Hon. 

 Keith Douglas, is distinguished for his firm, vmcompromising character, 

 and for talents of the highest order. The local knowledge of ]^Ir. Burge, 

 the late Attorney-General of Jamaica, united to his legal acquirements, 

 point him out as possessing every qualification for sustaining the rights 

 of the Colonies, and justify the confidence which the West India Body, 

 as well as the inhabitants of that colony — where, for a very long period, 

 he exercised his high office v/itli singular discretion — must necessarily 

 repose in him. He is not alone. We can name, amongst other most 

 powerful coadjutors on the Acting Committee, the long-tried, faithful, 

 and excellent Agents — Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Manning, Mr. Innes the 

 Deputy-Chairman, I\Ir. Brown, Mr. Carrington, IMr. Colquhoun — toge- 

 ther with Sir E. Hyde East, Sir Henry IMartin, ]Mr. Bemal, Mr. 

 M'Garel, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Kynaston, &c. &c. Once more, we say, 

 let the proprietors avail themselves vigorously and wisely of their 

 natural strength, and no matter whether ministers are false or sincere ; 

 and no matter whether the saints are speculating on raising the colonies 

 into negro empires, or selling East-India sugar by a pious monopoly, 

 or simjjly are courting disturbance wherever it can be raised by madmen 

 or missionaries, the cause of truth and common sense will prevail. 



Lord Lyndhurst, the Lord High Chaiicellor of England, has put 

 forward his character in the courts, and has brought an action against 

 the Morning Journal, for what his Lordship terms a libel ! That the 

 Morning Journal would be pounced upon at the very first shadow of 

 opportunity, no man could doubt, who saw its vigour in defending the 

 constitution, or who knew the bitterness with which apostates hate 

 those who remain true to their cause. The observations of that manly, 

 powerful, and, we are glad to say, popular Journal, the Standard, upon 

 this action, are worthy of the best age of the English press. They 

 contain the true state of the case ; and ought, if Lord Lyndhurst has 

 any regard to consequences, to make him abandon this ridiculous 

 prosecution. 



" We feel," says this journal, in language, whose least recommendation is 

 its eloquence, " that we should shrink from a sacred duty if, being still able to 

 atldress them, we did not implore the people of England to keep their eyes 

 steadily upon this unexampled prosecution. 



" Here is the passage upon which Lord Lyndhurst calls down the vengeance 

 of the law by the extraordinary interposition of the Court of King's Bench : — 



" ' Uncle Toby — If a paymaster or a barrack-master lend money to his com- 

 manding officer, what should he expect ?' 



" * Trim — To be promoted of course, your honour.' 



" ' Uncle Toby — If a captain, a tall, broad-shouldered fellow, for instance, 

 who has married a rich dowager, should lend a thousand pounds to his colonel. 

 What docs he look for .''' 



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