The Sun. — London, England, 1819-09-07 00:00:00

49 rOR THE SUN. TO JOHN BULL, ESQ. LETTER VII. nor, agreeable to the common adage, HONISIT JOHN—Your Bible ,tells you " that the Labourer is worthy of his hire,"—a sentence Nvivich has been too often quoted, and misquoted, as- a salvo to the consciences of the idle, or as a stimulus to discontent on the unthinking. Taking the phrase, I will not frighten you, JOHNNY, by calling it a Text ; singly and uncon nected, it will not be borne out by contmon ob servation. 'to►, yourself, knoW well that there ere many labourers who are not worth their g' worth their salt,"—but, if we take it with the context, it conveys the plain, moral, and social truth, that he who executes well what he undertakes ; has a right to his stipulated reward. It happens, however ; at the ptesent moment, that the agents of discontent are labouring to im press upon your mind a different conviction, not Merely insinuating, but asserting, that the la bourer bas a right, even an abstract right, " to a certain sum,7—" to a sufficient sum,"—to wages that he can live by, &c. &c. j forgetting, or attempting to' make others forget, that labour and its hire must form the basis of agreement be tween two individuals, 'voluntarily, and that there is no more obligation on the part of one to hire, than there is on the other to work ; &eve and ex eept that be who ceases to hire, must cease all *orks but those executed by his own hands, and that be who ceases to work, if he possesses no property, must cease to eat,—the one losing his profits, the other missing his daily wages, The late amiable Dr. PALEY, in a valuable little work of his, called " Reasons for Content. meat,`' one page of Vt'ilieb, JOHNNY, would do you more good than half a bundred Black Dwarfs, or the whole of COBBETT'S unsold Re gisters—be, my honest friend, tells you very justly, that " the labour of the world is carried on by service, that is, by one man working under another's dieection ;."-- , that " servile in Eng land is, as' it ought to be, voluntary and by con tract, a fair exchange of work for wages, an equal bargain, in which each has his rights and his redress; wherein every servant chooses his master, and makes his own terms for money and Do you never observe the constant succession of advertisements in certain Papers, where 1-1. L. M.; or or various other letters of the Alpha - - bet . , dater acknowledge a Letter being received, or a Letter being sent, or that somebody is at the old place, or is gone i to Geneva, or sonfething of that half-cypher order of infoimation. If you do, JOHN NY, you may boast that yon have the honour of reading the secret correspond ence of the Great NAroLuoN--.-the idol of modern Refortnefs—the man to whom they look up fo7 the tank of Dukes and Marshal % Prefects and Princes Now these labourers may be worthy of thei hire, at least they do much for it, and mom dirty work too—you, however, I trust, my goad old ft lend, will now examine their actions geld their words a little more narrowly, and will lo longer consent to be the cat-paw of discontett, ignorance, and venal sedition, but work honesly and faithfully, and work For such wages as you can get, knowing that a temporary cessation of demand for manufactured goods must always produce a commensurate fall in price, and that the manufacturer must either give lower wages, or cease to work entirely. You may stand out for wages if you will, but you cannot force the manufacturer to work at a loss. Yortmay demand higher wages for weaving a piece, or you may ask what you please for your web, when wove, in Leeds' Cloth-hall, but yon cannot oblige the manufacturer to employ you, nor the merchant to purchase. In either case your bargain is mutual ; and as you once lived rep to your wages, you must now learn the, I will own, hard lesson of living down to them, since you cannot raise them to your living : but with the certainty that the benevolence of your richer fellow citizens, I don't mean the Reformers, will always secure you from absolute want, and with the cheering hope of better times when the wages of industry will be more commensurate to - necessary cApenslitute„ though you must never expect that the two extremes will meet, of high wages and el►eap provisions. have now, my worthy old friend, touched upon all your political glievauces; and as, after so long a correspondence, I have become a little acquainted with your family, r shall, with your leave, next week address a Letter to your Wife. Your's, IGNOTUi. -THEATRICAL REGISTER. - Performed Last Night. TEUATIZE ItnYA 1.-, COVENT-GA HDEN.—Macbetit: Macbeth, Mr. C. Kemhle ; Marduff, Mr. Yates; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Bonn (late Miss Stnorrville). After which, Moe Beard. THEATIIE Royal, HAYMARKET.—Pigeons and Craws : Prin cipal Characters by Mr. Terry and Miss E. Blanchard. After which, A Day after the Wedding. Tu which was added, The Travellers Benighted. THEATITE RoVAL, ENGLISH OrF.Ri4•HousE.—The Brown Man : Bernardo, Mr. Dowton ; Cecile, Miss Kelly. After which, The Tailors. To which was added, The Death of Captain Cook. PRICE OF STOCKS • THIS DAY AT TWELVE o'CIUCK. S per Cent. Cons.. ~...7 iit7l I New Annnities ..... 71 si pc; Cent 8014 3 per Cent. 175 f ....70i 5 per Ccnt. Navy Ann.... 104 1 Exch. Bills, id, Is. S. 2s. dis. 105 1041 1 ' I Oniniunt Si J pr. Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann... „ 70 I Cons, for Account, 714 iii India 80nd5,.....115. 13s. pr. MAILS. Aaaivr.o-1 Dublin, I Frame. Dint-. 4 Waterford, I Gottentiurgli, I llandmrgli. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Nlorning, 2 minutes after 5. I Evening, 27 minutes after 5 time." That this is the fact you have already proved,. JOHNNY, when wages were on a rise. You locked not then for art abstract sum, on which you could live, and no more, for an abstract right must be founded on equity towards all parties, and must save the Master from all rise above, if it secures the servant from all fall below the abstract sum but you demanded as high wages as the 'Masters would give, standing out often for higher wages, and working but half the week. But the Writers who now goad you to discon tent, never Warned you that you were going be yond the philosophical limit of wages I indeed, if they had been consulted, I dare say they would have told you the simple truth, that as the Manu facturer's profits were rising, so the Workmen had a right to participate in these profits ; or, in other words, that he bad a right to work for that Master who would give him the highest wages.— That is the touchstone, %/MINN? ; it was so when wages rose; it remains so, now that %rages have fallen ; and will still be so on the rise that is likely to ensue throughout the Manufacturing Districts, erbere orders are actually existing that cannot be executed—at least whilst the wheel and the shuttle are left idle at home, and the hands that ought to ply them are chipping applause and affirmation to Political Resolutions which cannot be heard, nor understood if they were, or dragging the self-elected Apostles of Reform, the hireling Agents of French Jocobinisrn, from the Jail, instead of to the Gallows. By the way, JOHNNY, when you hear these Wiseacres roaring about the " Boroughtuongtrs uho imprison the Great NAPOLEON ill St. lie lena,"* does it never occur to you that there must be seine reason for this beyond mere Pa triotism Does it never strike your fancy that the Fellows who are driving about from Meeting to Meeting, without any visible means of liveli hood, DoctOrs, Coblers, &c. &c. must have souse fund of support ? Does it never oc cur to you that the only chance the Great guoma ranTE has of escape from St. Helena must be through a Revolution in England ? Don't you observe that there is always somebody, once or twice a year, coming from St. Helena, and that they all ask leave to stop here for a short time ? * 18th Resolution at a late Smithfield Meeting That this Meeting unequivocally disclaim any share or participa tion in the disgraceful or cowardly acts of the llorouglinion gers, in placing the brave Napoleon a prisoner to perish upon a desart Island, shut out from human society, torn front his otilv son, whilst lie is Imposed to the brutal insolence of a Keeper." THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE PALSUNI nUDEAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 181 9. Among other means taken by the Disaffected to further their ends, by exciting discontent, is that of spreading a report that Government intend to tay the hands of the EXCISEMAN on the Funds of BENEFIT 'SOCIETIES. There is no rumour too preposterous to be credited by same foolish per sons ; and we hear, that in consequence of the absurd report to which we allude, and which has SOT THE SLIGHTEST POUNDATION, some CLUBS have dissolved themselves, and divided their Funds. We trust that what we have said will expose tits folly and the mischief of the rumour in ques►ion, and prevent its having any further opet atiun. We received last night anti this morning the Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday last. The tolhwing are extracts : " SEPT. 3.—M. Bourk, the Danish Am bassador to the Court of London, was yesterday presented to the King. this Majesty aftematds took his accustomed airing. " 11 is said, that the Session of the Chambers will be opened on the ,Ist November, and tl►at the Budget will be presented to the Cl►amber of De puties on the 4►l of the same month. ' 4 We learn from Bordeaux, that letters from Paris received there, announce that Marshal Gott viola St. Cyr will be succeeded in the Ministry of War by Marsl“.l Mahoneld, the former retiring On account of his health. The 111ertiorhil Bearnair, a Journal of Basses Pyr4nees, gisies the follociring intelligence A Spanish Secretary of Legation has passed through Bayonne, on his vtaytq,Bordeaux, entßark fotAttll, , Ijoil•etl"italics. • 'l4 evis - theN carer of the refusal of Ferdinand VII. to accede to the cession of the Floridas." " We have now the afflicting certainty that the yellow fever hos recommenced its ravages at Mar tinique and St. Domingo. " The 20th inst., at two in the morning, a lu minous meteor, in the shape of a globe of fire, was observed at Chambery ; its course was florin S. E. to N. W.; it shed a light almost equal to that of day. " Sari. 4.—Yesterday the King took an air ing to St. Cloud. The accouchement of the nu ch est de Berry is impatiently expected, but there is nothing yet to announce its approach. Her Royal Highness con tinues in excellent health. " Private letters from Vienna and Carlsbad speak of important modifications which are to he made in the Act . of the Germanic Confedera tion, and this is asserted to be the chief object of the conferences at Carlsbad. These modifications it is said, consist in 'knitting closer together the ties of the Confederation in order that there may be more unity of action. "tit courier has arrived from Rome, who, it is said, brings intelligence of the termination of the negociations with that Court. La Ruche d'Aguitaine of the 31st tilt says, • According to the accounts received from Ma drid, it is certain that his Catholic Majesty has refused to ratify the Florida Treaty. The same letters announce, that the squadron will certainly sail the I , sth September, and that the General Officers commanding the different divisions had set out from Madrid to take the command of their respective divisions.' FIVE PER CENTS. Thursday Friday. f. 75c. DEFERRED STOCK. Thursday. Friday. Of the 221.1 March, 1817— .91 f. 50c...91f. 65 e. i'gd Sept. 1817.... 694. 50c...89 f. 65c. 112 d March,lBl9 87 f. 50 c... 87 f. 65 c. 124 Sept. 1818—.85 f. 50 c... 535 f. 65 c. Std Nlarch,lBl9 83 f. 55 c... 83 f. 70C. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One Month Three Months 24 f. 75c. " HAMBURGH, AUG. 25.—A considerable tu mult took place here yesterday evening, directed against the Jews, in which the windows- of se veral of their houses were broken. It is attribut ed to the imprudence of several Jews having made an attack upon sonic Christians in a Coffee-house. A body of troops is posted in the City to prevent further disorder. " FRANKFORT, AUG. 2g.—ln consequence of new dispatches front the Prince de Metternich, and other German Ministers at Carlsbad, the Diet has held an Ex►raordinary Sitting, and it is to remain assembled till the end of September. STUTTGARD, AUG. 27.—The Commissioners •f the King and of the State are at length agreed respecting the new Constitution. " AUGSBURG, AUG. 26.—1 n some of the small towns of Franconia there have been serious out rages committed against the Jews. " HAMBURGH, AUG. 27.—A great number of the Jews here have emigrated to Alton*, which is so full of them that it may be called a second Jeru salem. Tranquillity has been restored in this city. MADRID, AUG. 23.—The King has finally refused to ratify the treaty for the cession of the Florida,. Our Cabinet has intimated to the American Minister, that it is essential for his Majesty to hive further it:Formation respect ing several articles of the Treaty ; and that, for the purpose of obtaining it, a person will be sent to Washington. This determination has caused much surprize at Madrid. " Don Luis Onis is here, without being either in favour or disgrace. " The new Commander of the Expedition, General Callejo, sets out to•morrow night for Cadit ; Admiral Manrelle, who commands the squadron, precedes him. " The Count Abisbal is at Madrid ; be is not to proceed to his Government of Andalusia till the Commission respecting the Officers arrested on account of the conspiracy at Port St. Mary shall have made its first report. " New arrests and new exiles have taken place at Madrid; the motives are not known. " VIEWMA, Auc. 24.—The Russian Minister, M. d'Alopeus, who has quitted Carlsbad, is about to proceed to Stuttgard and Carlsruhei some per sons think that this journey has a political object. RASTADT, AUG. 29.—The Count de Saint Leu (Louis Buonaparte) has quitted Carlsbad; he proceeds by the way of Rat4bon to Inspruck.': tloambeen the t a b ourgthtisw kb sti° ° ' inforfn ire ' not only to this Country, but to the c ivilir_ii by " c OO% world-in general, should be disgraced of f s ß u e e li b imnfcait:ousTiwl:ensttchsvesi:2l-16,in;ritstfeod belso?gt6:et lechtahnantelthoeffiu"sbeifitca Preis' -11 °u Or ~..., ,.. din rat - etter o a Friend . in own, swbi eh " t n Or ' being intended fNir publication, sod t° leer '' a j obi" his name, is given by that Friend to some aPi Print, and the Loy a l Journals are o bli g ed to e t e r e the despicable and mischievous trash , f or 14 einsusement of a People who ought indignation on such wicked Disturbers a f , der Public Peace. In this last Letter from the l' ea oa of the Radical Miscreants , HUNT exalts the Bill which the Lancaster . Gran d 0 na med Rl cil d l‘ y , , have found against a man OWEN, fur per jury , as we mentioned Yester mar, because he bad sworn that a Radical Itefriibi called Mcioessousa, of Stockport, was 7 ) j a rf Hustings on the 16th ult. Bat the Gran pat es decide upon ex-parte evidence, acrd it radY 11°- ros improbable that the same Grand Jury may firld t o Bills against the men upon whose evidefice of Bill was found against Owns. WW l ' th e P os Yeomanry Cavalry, and seeds to utter more fool abuse aga in° ot to look w:bs of the cruelty of one of that Body . in ing ict ! g b it deep wound upon the sisal' of a wrong° W.l D et child in her arms, and turning back to acre la of again. Is there one man of sense ePllsnitii giving credit to•to monstrous a stor y , w hirl : ?, a stiong brand of fakehood upon the face Of . Dr gives a dreadfol ace ° • We most earnestly hope that the telitivy :d igs punished for his infamous exaggeratio n ' , it l utters is not direerfalsehood. Al' well'di6edte People will rej o ice to hear that true bills tlicvo, 411 been found against HUNT, JOHNSON, 1‘ 1 ": t Sl i KNIGHT, and others, and most heartily 111-gcvill peaceable and rational risen hope that lb° p ol be brought to such legal plinishment as ibef er isso be found to deserve. If Government should Pacre there may be an end of every chino, fore r : i n t :le ° f there in this country a more flaaitions h o (clot. Traitors than those who appear under th c - 0 0 racier of Radical Reformers. Their obj ect ev en be nothing short of a Revolut ion, to descry boo vestige of that peat Political Fabric which j ot long rendered us the freest and the Pyres People on earth. We understand that Ill iir dise dicule has been thrown on Governme nt ii 7 j , Loyal Papers on account of certain Pike , °I ;ids either and most dangerous construction' %of have been found among some of the itel°f-hass near Manchester. That a great number of i-bo Pikes were found is a positive tact. i f i, Saidloo the Inventor first offered it ;o G ov ernm ent Q' weapon calculated peculiarly for the Use of dieng. farm)! ; that it was examined ist the O rdn- t o Board and not approved, and that, in re elvig pf Inventor o ff ered it to the Radical Refe nmer" ol s whom it was eagerly adopted, as one o f the,:ledie to improve the Constitution, prot r ote r - ro t mental y Reform, Annual Parliaments, 61:11,trie Suffrage, and Election by Ballot !!! Tb e 'II - o f went in question is said to manifest gre° I foe nuity, and to be fully adequate for the P tifil :a , which it was originally intended. We - ; ec ted believe that Government would hoe° re ' 10' an invention of this nature, or have hee ( i° different to the use to which it filib o° . that case be devoted. This it a tirne I°r 0 51 vernrnent to be indifferent to any tbiog Illstiverst guard the State against those iniquitous ge t°. or whose aim is to destroy all Government. i f he r oin position Papers are now become really i t : e e f til 6 Plperg, and either openly or insidious!! "."-f flit Cause of Treason end Rebellion, 111 0°0 ' I es t Proprietors were a moment to reflect* they 1 110 know that they would be overwhelmed in r ind general ruin. :Ministers are c harged will : b t eto negligent toward the Loyal Press, o d In r OP respect to deviate from the practice t '' o w PITT, who was fully sensible of its skateimport' ance. We can hardly believe th at this stets is well founded, for the dangers which t"e inj e us are much more formidable than i n the dens of that' great Statesman, as the lower °r o ot of the People are corrupted by Inisellicrept doctrines to a greater degree and %%Ind' than during his Administration. AS -rfed stets, by adopting his pi inciples, have Pres-ioie . 5r their Country and rescued Europe , let therilf•the tate his firmness, and exert the full ea ergY eo Law, in bringing to condign punishment tho se tr y would destroy all Law, and reduce the C°llll to the lowest state of anarchical Detnocrtlell The Chairman of the Bench of INlw;istsirc.i. si Lancaster has been censured by the 113'11,0 Ruffians, for directing Own: no t to answer Ehe HUNT desired to 111101 Y his residence' 13° 00 5 J reason is plain, and the direction Was j uciel w e' for if the man had told his residence, i t 13 1 ' s of bable that the LIuNTITEs h a re [d ie(' c ; ( 1 ) ;) his house before night, and if the