The Sun. — London, England, 1819-12-27 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, Therels no necessi•y, Sir, ior explaining how I came by this Document either. Suffice it, that 1 have no doubt of its authenticity; and I cat' personally vouch for the truth of the exploit of Monday evening which it records. I am, Sir, Your humble Servant, FLINT. 'lO CORR ESPONDEN I'EMBEitToN 3 on the Right of Voting. at Granwound, and other Articlec, To mai row "*• Fur SIMPLEX, ste the First Page, and for Tu COLONIES, see the Fowl(' Page. v l / 4 Jose.—A Holiday at the Exchequer, Bank, and Sjuth Sea House. MAILS. Astlifezii--2 Dublin, Malta, I France, 2 Hantlmrgh, I Flanders. Our-3 ‘Vaterford, I Guernsey and Jersey, 3 Hu!laud, 1 Guttenburgh, 1 )Hance, I Hamburg!), 1 Flanders. Ei IC II %WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nlotiiiisg, 20 minutes after I I: I Evening, 44 itmitites after I I. A RADICAL'S .JDURNAL. It is lair that the Writer of a Libel should be pnnished more severely than the Publisher, if alive, and wi!hin the jurisdiction of our Laws ; if not, then the Publisher to be considered as the Writer, provided proof of maliciously and wilful intention can be fairly proved to a Jury. But, except in cases flagrantly and notoriously jicious, the Publisher might be exempted - from punishment on giving up the Author, provided he isnot publicly known--a proviso, that would be a complete guarawee for the respectable part of the Trade, as well as for newspaper Proprietors, and also news-venders. Finally, let news venders be registered—antl, if any sell (dick wise, are not registered, let that increase the punishment—as a check to Black Dwarfs, and o►her poisonous animals, let there be an active inspection of the Press to report instan ter to the Attorney-General, who p►ay then serve the ►egist ered news-venders with notices, that par ticular Papers will he subjected to prosecution, after whiCh the vender must sell at his own risk. The cute is rough, but the disease is dangerous ! Yours, MONDAY, Doc. 13.—Eight o'clock—Awakened out of a pleasant dream of Mr. EI LINT being pro claimed King, and myself appointed First Lord of the TreJsnry. Bosy ain..ng the gold and sil ver, when niy wife broke up- my prefet went with her plagny tongue, calling me to ‘vork.—Mcmo ruiolum—Set the great tolks to work when we have got a Itetorto.— Ticelre—Ai the (;o+ni►►ittee. Famous speechi iying of the Orator ;—tried an oration myself ; ; ;;,,t 01 1 charrniugly, except a lode stuttering. A flesh stock of pikes ordered, after the Irish pat tern. Two—Dined with Tjin Turnover - and Jack Jumble; never mind tvile and children—legal in cumbrances as the Orator calls them.—Menr.— LaW almost as inconvenient as Religion. Six—At Drill. Begin to 'manage the pike pretty Practised apinst a stuffed figure, representing a Loyalist.— Mem —Loyalists all spies ; and spies are to base no quarter. Like the Black Dwarl's logic amazingly. Ninc—At the Crown and Anchor. Held up my hand against drinking wine, spirits, or tea ; remembered t he Orator's saving clause," unless t hey are sniggled." Picked a Gentleman's pocket of his watch.—Mem.--Sure he was a Loyalist. Went home in high spirits ;—gave the woman and her brats as much water as they wished ; must be kind to one's own, after all. TuEsnAi.—Breakfasted at home on smuggled brandy and cold beef ;—water gruel for the fa mily ;—they must learn to sacrifice their appetites to the Cause. Twelve—Committee again. Paid in half the money I got by pawning the Loyaii , t's watch ; received the Orator's certificate, which entitles me to be defended by the Metropolitan and Cen tral Committee, in case of being nabbed. Settled the profits of last night's meeting ;--more pikes ordered to the amount, to be ready ter " the time of action," as the Orator said. • Two—Dined in public—obliged to drink wa ter.—/Ifem.—HuNT had a bottle of Old Tom, which looked just as radical, and tasted a deal better. I smelt it upon his first speech. Eight—At rltill. Bad news from Manchester. ,No rising. The Patriots had not time to take the arms out of the Gunsmith's shop which they had broke open.—ille»z. Rise when they are riot expected ; Christmas 'Day, perhaps'. Who knows ?—llang the Magistrates—they ate too watchful ! Nine—Went home. Hurraed as I passed by Newgate, to comfort poor dear- Master Hos- HOUSE. WEDNESDAY.—Breakfasted on some of Mr. HUNT'S tea —made me sick—liked it as little as his beer.—Ment.—When we are n t power, the Loyalists shall swallow both. Twelve—Committee as usual. Comfortable news from the North. No fixed day of riiing ; catch the 'Magistrates napping. The Orator', tea to be recommended, and the arrears of hzi Trea surship to be paid out of the profits. Took my Instructions about hooting the Regent in the evening. _ . Two - -Early drill, not to lose time. All the troops .vastly improved.-1-lad our new pikes to day ; very bandy and cheap : only, two shillings a head. We'll stick the Loyalists, never fear. Four, till Midnight —At the Ambassador's. Climbed the walls, and did all the mischief pos sible.—Mein. No Foreigner to.come into our Ra dical Republic, except Bonay and his men. Got a sore throat vvith shouting against the lie- GaNT, and my left little toe grazed by a trooper's horse. • Never mind—it will make a good griev ance, and 1 shall call on SIR 808 JAvFA, the Theasurer, for a shilling a day till the nail,comes on again. THURSDAY.—At borne all (lay, to receive the Central Committee's visit of inspection to my toe. The venerable Major staid, four hours after' them, and read me to sleep with his pamphlets.—Mem. A stupid old proser, but must not tell biro.so, [lad rather by ‘ balf read COBBETT or CARLILB. .Dream ed again of our 'Radical Republic, and thought 1 was guillotining the Whigs. FRlDAY.—Committee us usual.--Upon Orator 1 - IuNT'S motion, voted Doctor INATson a perma nent sitting in the Marshalsea.—BlLL SNACKS presented his Map of the Estates of Lord FITZ WILLIAM, Mr. COKE, and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT; could not agree abort the division of the two last, as every body wanted the best hits. Settled about Lord FiiTzwiLLitates; when we ordered an Address of Condolence to his Lordship on his late dismissal, and divided Milton. Abbey among our best Patriots—Diem. he Orator has an eye on the Abbey.— Eta Cher Mem. Ilad rather have it myself. SATURDAY.—CtiIIed up in a hurry.—Parliament passing . all those tyrannical Bills ; and the Radi cals must be quick in their hoodoos. Double drill to-day; and practised wirh our new daggers.— Printed lists distributed of all the Aristocrats' houses.—Plan for the simultaneous rising 'Ton . [Here, unluckily, the Manu- IGNOTUS. 1 script is torn of.l T 1 E SUN. SOLEM QUIS I , lt RE I,SUM A ITlltirlf ? LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1819. We received yesterday the Paris Paper:, of Wed nesday last. Those of Thursday and ri iday, which ate due, have not yet arrived. The only business done in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, was the appointment of a special Com. mittee, to examine the projet resPe6ing the six eitths, and to make a Report to the Chamber, fur the purpose of receiving which a public sitting was expected to he hell on Wednesday. 'the KING on Tuesday tratipacted business with the Count DecAzEs. The Duke de RICiii.LIBU breakfasted with his Majesty on the same day. Marshal SERRURIER died on Tuesday morning. These Junrnals quote a paragraph how Brus sels, stating that the French Exiles there have received passports to return to France, but no notice has been officially published in the French Journals that such a measur e had been finally agreed upon by the Government. The Count de CARAMAN, at present the French Ambassador at Vienna, is, it is said, appointed to the Embassy to - London. The accounts from Spain state, that Te Deum was sung at Cadiz on the Ist instant, to celebrate the entire cessation of the yellow fever, From Vienna it is stated, that the Congress had, for the better dispatch of business, appoint ed Special Committees of its own body, to dis cuss and arrange different questions, and to report them to the whole, The greatest secrecy was ob served , whit respect to the deliberations of this body. • FIVE PER CENTS. Ttresday 70 f. 90c. DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 22d March, 1517, 92 f. 20c. 22d Sept. 1817, 9O f. 20 c. 221 March, 1818, BB f, 2,1 c. 2211 Sept. 1818, f. 20 c. 22d Nlar , lt,lBl9, B4 f. 2Uc. 22d Sept. 1319., B3 f. toe. Halifax Papers arrived this morning to the sth of December, and Boston to.the 26th of Novem ber : (From 7'he Halifax Paper of the 4th Dee.) • TEXA4 EXPEDITION.—A letter front an Officer of the Revolutionary Army of Texas. says, the Expedition is closed; it has now the fate I anti cipated. The Army is bt.ken up and dispersed. General LONG has departed for Galverstown. %Ire have Letters front New Orleans to the 25th ult. The fever of that place, although somewhat_ mitigated in its malignity, still raged, making the town as it were a grave-yartl.—lt is also stated that the Sextons of this City, in a Report to the Mayor, state, that upwards of 1200 bodies were deposited in the grave..yards, in the course of GO days. The number buried during the most fatal 60 days of 1519, is stated at 400. Advices from .the Havannati, state, that it had rained, without intermission, from the 12th to the 28.11 of October ; during the whole time business was almost entirely suspended. $o severe a storm, in the mouth of October, has not been known there within 20 years; the harbour, it is said, continues very sickly. The efficacy of the measures for the protectit.n of the Countly against Seditious M ee ti ngs , an d a seditious and blasphemous Press, begins to be alt parent. 'Fhe infamous Radicals have n ot ventur ed on a Meeting, and the factious Prints begin, not to " assume a virtue If they have it not," but at least show that the venomous and. traitor ous Scribblers in their service write with the caution which fear naturally excites. Ti►us a great progress has been made in securing our Consti►ution and Religion-, even hoore Legislative enactments Lave been pot in ope ration. The Government, therefore, h-as ditional claims on the respect, justice, and gratittufe of, the people, for having raised the National Character by the deliverance of Europe, and secured our Political and it eligions Esta blishment from the daring and insidious assaults of ATHEISM and REBELLION. The Times of this day has made a very clumsy attempt to acquit itself of the charge of having supported a menace of assassination, held out " some anonymous ruffian against Mr. CANsitio."" The Times says that the threat was not direct, b° conditional. I t appears that thesPorronym° se'oundrel who wrote the palm let which this threat, .was iittNetely connetie d with The Times, for the pamphlet in Vo i non was transferred into that Paper, with varl P lions, which could only have been made by tb' author. The Times, on Saturday, revived mu ch of its malignity against Mr. CANNING, and is abli handled by The New Times of this day, for its black' blooded malevolence on this occasion. Who 0 1 anonymous Defamer was, has not been discovere d and he wisely hides his infamy, which, however' must be shared by the The Times, that repeate d his execrable threat. It is observable that The Times couients itself with alleging., that th e menace of murder was condilional, not direct, M I says nut a word in censure of so atrocious* an !ennui). CnimeTT.—«c inserted on the 18th inst. an OC count of the attempt of this man to renew li lt intercourse with Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. TO account first appeared in THE SUN, and wa g cvpied into most of the Daily Papers,—The fac t is ceitain, and as even Cc/BRETT hirnseU canno t deny it, be has' attempted to Cipain it in own way, but as the explanation .depends his own tes:intoov, we believe that. tticr e ate very few persons in the world who will place much confidence in it. He sap, that wird persons urged him to endeavour to roror c conciliation between himself and the B.lronet, that having obser.ed in he letter of Sir F A ANcI / to the Electors of Westminster, Hod other poll of the Baronet's conduct much that he a pp r ovett , he was willing to protno'e the reconciliation, 04 wrote a paper, expressing Ins amicable sentiment / on that head. The Baronet, as we stated, inexorable, Now, in the conditions which Cos' BCTT proposes Ds the ground of the reconcilia # lion, one of them was, that the Baronet should " out of his own purse," .facilitate the entrance of HUNT and CORBETT into the rouse of Comment' A very modest proposal from a man who is under' stood to owe the Baronet many thousand poonfro, and who had reviled his Creditor in the grosses t terms is observable that COBBETT never B. l ' ludes to the debt. IVe have not room for the ce lions Document this day, but we shall insert i t to-morrow, with other_ matter that will billy: irate character of this Morose Reformer. A F.auders Mail, at:d ttAo Mails from Hato' burgh, artited yesterday evening with lirussti l Panels to Wednesday last, and Hainhurgh it)or' n , tis to the 17th instant. The follow;ng roit. THE SU?V, IA BEI,C. Liherty of the Preto has been compared to many fine things, and may he c•impated to many more ;—to some it is a cloak, - to- ntlier,l a dagger,—but in my humble opinion, as a matter of taste, it bears a gt rat resemblance. to a Jovial Chi istmas dinner;—the one being good for the political, as the other is for the bodily constitution ; in both cases, we may suf- ier from repletion. Of all that has been said upon it, all that is worth all tine may he comptized small cow risq. The Liberty ot the Press must eitittr exist tvithoui limits or restrictions, et- with them. It is vot, like NlAllomET's tomb at Mecca. to hang he- tweet' /waver' end eirib, why fir %the! C- fore ; thnitgh some of its tithert%ise imtesttictablv rulvneites might perhapi he very jodicionsly placed it: that situation, coupled together like rhymes, at the end of a tine ! If it is to exist without limits or restrictions, Ten oy body may write down any holy all ass or a traitor, or call any woman by a paw-pw name with impunity—a degree of liberty for which, 1 presume, there are not more than halt a dozen advocates to be found at the present doy s —the 1/Aley hove-raker, the Dorchester blafplienier, the - Middle•ton Cottage wife-stealer, the Black DTvarf, the Newgate Greek, and his Patron, the I lc worth Barmier. 'the common consent of mankind is, then, that e LIBERTY OF THE PRESS ought only to exi3l trilh limits and restrictions ; for, however we may differ in regard to be modifications of that liberty, it must be admitted that there is no precise and absolute definable medium between the two ex tremes. It follows, then, that every thing which can be printed and published, must not. Of course all that is possibly printable, must be divided into that which rnuy, and that which maynotbeptint ed—the hoer class, for distinction-sake, being called a " LIBEL ;" a very harmless word in it self, but yet one winch seems to give great of fence to many tender consciences. it were well indeed if the telly) could be strictly defined that it cannot be so, is not to be attributed, to the impel fection of our laws, but to the general na ture of things; so that he who laments the want of precise definition, and, upon the ground of that deficiency, would: do away with all restric tions, must be, to ipeak plain English, either a knave or a foot. Jr is, Mr. Editor, another impelfedion in im perfect human systems, that you cannot -guard aga 7 tist rogues, without at the same time, in some mt►easure, affecting honest men. It is an evil that ought certainly to be avoided as much as possi, ble ; but it is on evil that must sometbues yield, whilst we are guarding against greater ones. 'Tis in this point of view that we ought to con sider the present- Law of Libel before the Lrgis lature, and also the very temperate, ingenious, and generally well drawn up Resolutions of the Booksellers of the Metropolis. 1 will not intrude upon your space by analyzing these seriatim, but -shall venture to offer one or two hints which, we•ithout increasing the danger of the honest part of the Trade, may yet further the intentions of Go vernment in the preservation of public tranquil. lily and of private morals. If a heavy punishment for a secoild conviction for Libel is to he given up, it may still be proper to affix transportiviun to the second publication, by the same individual or by any other person, of a libel found to be so by any Jury, either in town or country, after such verdict shall have.received the sanction of the Twelve Judges ; whether the Libel is published %%holly or in part. extracts : BRUSS - RLS, Dec. 17.—1 t is affirmed that be sides the two persons arrested at AmSterdam, we mentioned before, a third individual, who° name is still a secret, has also been put ande r confinement, This last person is sill to be foreigrp-r, and that, under the Imperial.Govern i ment, be filled one of the highest and most 4' cult posts in the French Empire. " I)cc. 18.—The -French included in the list of thirty-eight, who reside in this city, re# ceived yesterday an flicial notice, that thrir papa' ports will be-delivered to them by the Fren c/j Consul at Antwerp ; they are Messrs. Arteault, Bury, St. l'incent, Mulinet, and VA' damme. " Dcc. 21.—The Constitutionnet of Antwerp C. l the 20th says, Last night there paised -throug` 3 , this city several French Connors from Paris golf''" to Amsterdam, and a Russian Courier from S t ,', Peietsburgh going with all haste to the Hogue: Letters from Jamaica, dated 23t1 October, state, that the sickness with which that Want? had heel visited was more severe than any experienc e( during the last 20 years. Its effects among 11 1 troops had been Yet y great, both in officers a t ”, privates ; 19 of the formar,exclusive of their wi ve and families, are represented as having become 54 ; cruces to its violence. In the family of an offc i ,e belonging to the sflth regiment, consisting of [O rr individu4ls, seven have died. The loss in O il ; comniksioned and rank and Re is said to assoll ij o to 500 y tortntiaiely, the rainy seo 9c s had commence.), by which the atmospligto was greatly cooled, and the most lango ill d expeetalions were entertained of the isl 6ll o being again speedily restored to its former st i4 4 of health. me a n t tear and crews of the m";,1 war are represented as enjoying good health.' 0 addition to those ot M•GttEcpoti•s officers, wV i i protest was given i!) our Saturday's paper, 1 , , following had also ariived at Jamaica, viz... o Colonel hoe t ell, of the Ist Lancers ; Capco l l John Lafoy, Edwattl Graham,. John T. Conran. and John T. Shorte, of mite regiment of Wi n e r , uia ; Captains J Catitell and .1 Cullen, and i / e 4 Hen, y Rooth. Mr , . Ere, the wife of Cola ll ei l Eyre, a‘ll,li ante of their children, have also ane w lb here. This Lady lust one child ft Rio de a o ilache ; and her husband, who w a s sick • shore, was abandoned to his fate. Sir EL 11 , (4 0 , hart very benevolently promoted a sot/30'4) 11 1 'ot . which he headed «it h a donation of 251 , f . ° l ' ptit pose of al - lording some relief to Mrs. Eyre,g which amounts to neatly 30a1. Ch.THCART Wok Isis scat in Ihr Hous e Lords on Friday 'evening. Ifis Loidsnie ;°° retnaikAbly welt. 2