The Sun. — London, England, 1819-03-01 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S BILL, sum A GLANCE AT THE SOLEMN FANCIES OF rrs OPPONENTS. NiTite Itonest met% are to decide, a good cause Is it a wants littl e nice than a plait statement. matter of iiublic concern ? Give the public yout' facts, acTiltittt them botte.ti! . .! with your objects at**4l put pogrs ; and take it fftr granted, that if Is I.r their ciw to feel, thentselces wilt Laow it NV it imat Prossitttc. This is a 6Httpliturnt which an English Public deserves. A osah, iardeed, may require more pun gent sauce but inch, thank He=aven, is not yet tire I ate, - lish Public. Now such a brief ottvar nistied tale, which will ; mot require ten tninutes. far life perusal, anal, once read, can. never be 'for go!tes, ire purpose ere long to bring rearward in auppott of Sir ROZERT PEEL'S Bill—or rather in behalf of his poor little clients, the children in the Cotton Factories. Tire "specific objections to the Bill will there find their specific answers ; supplied far the greater part from the admissions and state- melAs of the opponents themselves. But unfortunately it is not the influence of any specific argliments svLich floe advocates for the Me-atiltTe bate to dread ; but ,pretentled maxims : sof policy, vague appr-efiersions or suspicions, and sweeping 4evieratelies, that apply equatly to all at. tempts at legislative redress of wrongs or sidrer lugs ; even its cases where it eau be demonstrated tkat no other anode of 'redress is 'possible. These are the truly formidable obstacles which block op way bctween,juitice and its supplicants. Fur these prejadge the cause before its proper claims have been allowed s. fair hearing ; and even with trio's that sole? co cross bits from personal own good names, must have rendered them argus-eyed on this subject, declare solemnly Ow they have not discovered ti single substantial atm,' on which such a general snspicion can, be justifiably and fairly established. Let, however, a train of rational proof be produced of any such. general connection ; and the friends of the Bill will be among the first to allow the argument * its full weight. But, in the name of common jus tice, do not refuse the claims of common ntercy• in behalf of thousands of innocent sufferers,. on the strength of a mere vague suspiciou—sufferers, • whose innocence v.:mild not be affected even by its, truth. The last class would not deserve notice, were the influence of the feeling but as weak as the argumetit.-" Do what you can, you will leave so slouch suffering behind, that.," &c. &c. Really, the argument is so presumptuous, so little suited to the litnied powers which noil'ats pre entrusted with, tttad ,tides co much selfish inhuninnity in the rlisgwse of a sickly sensibility, that we had not patience to give it at lull lungth. Does he, Nvtio cuts o 1 the ten last miles front a long journey, 'lessen the fatigue only in the same proportion ? or be, who takes off the excess Icons the sinking Vittlet, does he slot, in removing , tire over load, remove the complaint too ? FOR T HE SUN. intarctt. OAr nittitS petiat Statite . the three Owls :into which itiese obstacles may. be cialscd,'ssitlwut ttiemptiug imy con ftit alien that (-Angel compeited i a"tiggle sentelire, iaa ad dition to the statement itself. .iS ate *dn ge wititis Lined 15),c01t as 1 fit eT4 rill an Italian foo- Uiticiait to this efect Boast' bolarrly, and it-Ow= " ever contradictory the results may be, octet' at* " lota yaucself to have tletra in the wrong ;Jattri " there will always be 'a pariy 'who will 'believe • , and trust you."—There is likewise a good old pro verb, " Every dog has his Alay:"„elind of loth these, never teas the ,trirrh more strikingly in statoced i 1 An iii the modern , al-rifest re•cent , school of Patiliteut Sc/nom:l4r. ..let ::entry. *licit cast the events have. tahified. their proplieries :itz each particular part .their 11-a:V3e been oppos ea by all . tlae Mtn Of deep praetiea ,experreace, at hart in t Per applicatintos, ' 44 4 'trot* riot 4says tie u.:alt gio'rru grey in, the stir ccasfnl matraec e. F en' of , ite most vatied and -extensive Banking cooeern , l that these are very great men, of pro found scienie in general, but in this point they are quite out of the rig•-!mt track." Nay.,, what is still more relnaikable, whets ally interest of .a party is Coccertard, there econimists loare'beeri seen to plat their own great maxims off and On as easily as tiseir era. - Bnt notwillistantiing alt this, if sus etrottger interest thail th•at of justice arc' htsmanity interfere, •these nmeit still have their tiay accordingly, Sir RoBEAT PEEL'i " ao imvemfertoct with tree ',axone," and there fore• control:en lion of a fiieel ito •Le risiation. • Indeed ! of 'row long standing 'MAY this peincietie be ? If the assertion loak been, of al/ watit,4o, uselcsi, or disproportio to mote i‘iteefererice, no one would have tin nlited its truth ; tint then time proof would he, re gutted, that this is a rase of wanton, useless, and disproportionate intetferemoce, It ranst therefore mean all interference, tinder whatever claittos.:-- CA O this he hazarded in a {Villa ly slays its every year, trot truly interfeves teal: tree labour, fiat naalkes both thy Wring and the ex trtion of the said free lahour a punishable breach of the law of the land. But religion, hu manity, decency, retuoire this exception. 0 S that the opponents of the Bill would hot consent to press their,ptinciple- in all cases, ..where the claims of common leoutanity, the distinct prescripts of morality and refigiost, did not'w arrant and corn- Wand art VN,Ctrioll . 11 . Sit' ROBELIT P ZEE. W01114:1 then wilt an easy victory. But assertion against assertion. Sire affirm, that the principle, except taken 'with such ii in stations as would reduce it tc+. a there irt4isot, is latterly alien the spirit of the B‘itislo Constitution, incousistent with time principles of British law, colotradicted by prece dents, and had its birth-place its the works of those economises in France, who, considering mato among tie beasts that are to perish, cost ned econuuty to the One object, the iaantay of the cotostonable, with utter neglect of the moral or even physical qualify of the consumes s. In this footway, Christianity is declared to he the law of the laud : and a plain Cinit . tiaim may well test satisfied, therefore, that the spirit of our Le gislarm e cannot be inconsistent with it, co si - noatitis. Whenever ass adequate cause cart be Aon stanii,,te4l, ti , e Leeislatute lias the tight, and has neecr scrnplegl to assert it, of interfering with etitent or direction of the labour of any dais of persons in the cosumttuity. • Piere are yet t MVO 4, ( her sources of opposition to the presto l3li , of the saute getter.eal t!essription: s4id ve il, ps %tilt on , re difficult to cope wit Is ,heca use fire op;‘ositioto which they prompt is is 447 verittg and halt-s'illed repugnancy. First, the feeling. OF alarm the suspicion that the late onbappy mud Thsgracettti toast its ;so Manchester have been in some wv iy connected the agitaiioto of the present imkkittre. What answer can be made to t;tis Men %vie° hare been all the time on the spot, ktli-se attested character and known rank are ptesnmptiee proofs of their veracity, and whose hntnane interest, whose concerts for their LONDON JOURN A LS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. [illoming Chronicle.] Lentil of a recent date from Port-au-Prince sive, thilt President Boyer has brought into the Senate ,a law for enabling foreign merchants to recover, by legal process, debts contracted by the r 1 natives. Mr. Grattan is arrived in town, and will, we osplet stand, bring forward a motion cite the sub ject of Catholic Emancipation early in the month of April, molten it is expected that the Irish Mem becs will be enabled to attend, as the Sitting A. sizes Will have closed some time before.—(lLiti.) [Morning Herald.] It was strongly reported, and generally believ ed, yesterday,th at a young Lady, a Wntd of Chan cei y, took flight, at tme o'clock yesterday (nam ing, with the son of a certain Baronet. [Morning Post.] We are sorry to state, that a house of the first respectability, in the East India line, in the City, stopped payment on Saturday. [New Times.] We received Paris letters yesterday. We re. gret to state, that they inen►ion two large houses having stopped pay;aeat.•-I\lessts. lioucherot, of Paris, for about one and a half of frAtics ; and M. Mareave, Havre, tor about one mil lion. rrEit iii. Mn. EDITOL—The Iteligiortiif a State is that • . wiiich is avowed hy its laws, aiid interwOven with its Constitution. A Coontty which admits of all. without iiistinctioil, has no Religion. Individuals ifitty be pions in their several ways, but tlie State itself is aiheisticai. It adopts •no faith, it ap-. proofs do doctrine, hut it suffers all. it is inert . anti neutral ita the twist vital concert of its mem tiers, Great Britain b,a4 talien a decided and a felnii.nut: Toot. its declared Religion is Protestant. Ling stray it Ile so 1 ,For since it took that part, the flvotirittg baud of Heaven has been visibly upon 1.. It itas beet) planted in every quarter of tile globe, as it tta pielotre a similar lot for ttitliTe grirvalionS. Its eXtcnt beyond itself has been hnuilrecl so that, now, -- Pars est terra Brit aura stvi. How thep, let me ask, can ` . a t?untry so cur eutustancea " form a cotnplot jictlirical anion with another room/7 avowing tilt opposite. and A has tite creed 1.:,-IV,e have united S'eatiand hit Scotland is Protestant, though Presbyterian. eilferefitt•ravelit tlifC:lllline, rattit-r than in prin ciple. Such a tOola with Iceland Would have been impractilalile: had Popery been established there. It would llav \ e.tritide the State declare against it s.elf, ili4l it i 9.1104 is not Protestant. .Setting tip tie t(ligion of one part against , the other, it would have-newtraitzed both. 'Tae State wooed have become a tiseiitital.,, For however vre..ntßy!ole• Et.t.e Religions' must stand in coM plete opposition. Could the Papist t be brought to tolerate Its, lie must still, on . his principles, wish the destruction of our Iteligionieveir for our sake. We may and do tolerate Popery to the utmost, brit -while we think it idolatrous, we canoe - rd approve it"; tog to establish is t approve in the very-strangest manner. • — To grant!th'e . ROmanist's political rawer, would therefore ire ltltiittately to reduce :ourselves to this et-native:, tither to 'dissolve the ntrion with Ireland, or - to declare the State to he without Religion. Tor that to emancipate the Catholics of Ireland, as they call it, would be to mancipate the Protestants (if . 1 May - hazard the word), is Avioit event the blind must see. The establishment (al .P,,p-ry in drat Country would be the first step, and the rest invest immediately follow. For these and many other reasons, I arn,de lighted to see, by your late Papers, that the Pro testants of Ireland -are at length corning lOrwarrl in a -stmt 4 and -decided lather to oppose their aestruerion. May the Protettailli of Eng land resolve ,tspors siunal.ar measures before it be too late ? May Petitions he poured in from every quarter; and every class of the people who are -sincere in a regard (or Our purer Religion, 50 115 CO viten , ' our temporising Politicians that their Measures cannot take place ; that the Country will not bear it ; nor sutler that the Crown, feeble , and limited as it is, should stand as the only re 7 tnaitling bulwark against those evils which Vrt hare escaped, and those superstitious which we have.abjitired. LOLL 3813. WESTMINS'rERIANA. At the end of the twelfth day of the present contest,. to wit, .yesterday, Saturday, the 27th of February, 1819, only 6807 Electors of Westmin ster have given their suffrages towards *supplying the present vacaiii:Y: — This . small number, cons pired with former l Elections, leaves about five j thousand nnpolled Voters in this greatest of cities. As ther'atio of polling in past times, while such a mass remained unrolled, has been proved by f' the evidence of facts' to have been Front 250 to 300 votes per hour, it follows, that Mr. GEORGE -Loee's miserable nsujority of 616 may be out , stripped in less than three hours of to-morrow, Monday, the first of March, or of the two suc eeediug days. Hence the Committee of Mr. GEORGE LAME, unless doltishness prevail where shrewdness should preside, must see on what velvet their cause reposes. That the reiterated assertion from the Hustings, of a Coalition between Government and Opposi tion, in favour of Mr. G: LAMD, should have hi ther:to been' a mere Jacobin fact, that is to say, a sheer lie, is deeply to be deplored. Let it be such 4io longer, in the name of common sense. A single -vote in the House of Commons is a mere.nothing to the power and popularity of the present Go vernment—not their' popularity with the biped hounds of Covent-Garden, but with the mass of society in every pare of the Empire; with the in telligent, respectable, teflecting people of Eng land. V, ry different would be the pressure upon -the public mite! of all Europe, it Jacobinism should triumph ie this Congest. at the head-quar ters of all t the eon: titutional parties that torso the tiit silty of our civil system. It is, however, true that, without the existence of 41,11 y understanding -between Government and Opposition upon the sehject ot this Election, Mr. G. LAMB incontestibly owes his :pre . • seet . auspicious position to the - iitesistible re probatioe of Jacobin atitleeity wlach pervades the friends of Administration in tl.is''City. But why sheidd so landsble a spirit • be resisted ?, There has been great self-deniei in• the tlovern merles- not allowing any Candidate to start upon its own-interest. In addition to whatever motives of prudence determined their stsnditig aloof, th tasie; : end chariiy in witleedding' Si' MURRAY MAILWELL, or any other Gentleman, from the daily defilements of Covert Garden; are indeed :.010st,pSaiseworthy. The strength of (3 4 ,v e y ereeet 'in Westminster is molter of demonstration: ,Whilst the a single votes of Sir SAMurtL ItObllLLy were . 014572, those of Sir MURRAY MAXWELL' were 2676 Yet the friends Of overnment would di vide foil 2000 of 'their votes ; and so, with in eemperable judgment, destroyed then' 'own ob ject All the powers of sopilis!ry. ca,inot over. _threw such facts. Arithmetic never yields to *r elents-tent, It will not, however, now he blundering—it wilthe clear, plain, sound•gooall sense to redeem Westmitsetre Irons ignonsinious bondage, even In the Tarrson ot Mr. GeORGE LAMS. What the 'ci?orse Of 'Sir Fttgeets ButtneTT nsy;be, in this 'Crisis, to-morrow will : show. .Althotekle,blihsv= defitged this county with cor r uptions is mat- - ter of jtiridicsi eecord—althatigh-miserable meg have suffered the last penalties of flegrant bri bery from. the Horiourable Baronet's exche quer, yet would the writer of this article • rather he hie dupe than his disfruster; in • refusing to him all credit for the .sincerity 'of that solemn declaration on Monday last, wheiein • he iustly stigmatized the corrupted Elector as Plate of treason to his country and- perjur y to his God.' Notwithstanding the general theology of the Jacobin world, the writer hereof • is not endowed with seten intrepidity of disbelief to keep his mind wholly essimeressed by that em scobi Iphatic sentence, even fr own n. It is not h owever in .the English language—it conic not J be its the genius of even that same SHAKSPEARE, sob:ninsillrla ü b e yr, t lYnetobis preference, is the -idol of Sir' Fstec o clesracteriee; it living ,these times, the flegitiousness of se/chug hands of wretches to votefor Mr. Hoanouss with ropes round -their consciences, after the (lesemit upon venal voting so plausibly delivered from the Hustings on the 22d iest. However, it behoves the supporters of Mr. G. L u xe to be impost their gland its more than one j ett y. Throughout the Westminster contest of last summer there was nut, on any side, a ray —a glimpse of Election genius, but upon one oc casion--arid that, uedeniably, was on the pert of Sir FRANCIS BustpeTr. Whoever the planner was of the measure on Sunday the 21st of last June, which, its the Address of sortie supposed Ek e . toll to. Sir FRANCIS and in Sir FRANCIS'S An swer to that Address, seslocked the springs of the Baronet's Election purity, and produced sixteen , hundred votes, good men and true, in two days, for him who in the three preceding days had only reached 454 votes—that planner, whoever be May be, should never be out of the apprehensions' of Mr. k;E-ORGR LAMB or of Mr. GRoRGE LAMB'S Election Managers, or Manglers, till three o'clock on Wednesday next. The beauty of that ma noeuvre was, that not one Elector's name ever once appeared in it—though no doubt the sup posed sigeers were not Electors in buckram, but clear realities—all—all in Kendal green.' Now, what is to prevent that very planner Irons helping Mr. Geotta a ',Area's voters to the poll to.morro by art impenetrable blockade of both ends cif the Hastings, with _1 clear passage for the voters' impriured on the hats ? To whom so likely as to that planner is doe the imPartial hearing of. Mr. GEoRGE LAMB'S vote-making eloquence at the daily close of the Poll. That branch, however, of Jacobin tactics admits.of improvement. The systematic interruption of all but one side, would tell mach better with cards audi alter= par- . tem,' (which being in the Cherokee tongue, could not fail to be as intelligible ie front of the Hest ings as Mr. LIOSHoUSE'S Reform') whilst the principle may be enforced by gagging the Whit; Aloother with the offals of the Garden. To a man, the professionals are for universal suffrage ; only .place of animal monthly elections (magni menses) would better bind Members to Constituents. One of these public functionaries, it appears, made himself Cushos' of Lurch FOLEY's woe!' and pitese, though perhaps only to prevent the rob her y, by any other person, of the Noble Lord, who really seems to have been so batty in prose- I ,n 1 CSA as scarcely to allow his rotary , may be out upon mottgage, the means of °_ ranging his defence or dying like a Gentletrou:i But though this member of the corps diSP( . " of of, the main body, faithful to the good caus e Universal Suffrage, is still at their diurnal Pot fr. a powerful body ; and never supine at an eiecti • Mr. GEORGE LAMB'S Committee must be I)°' ° ' and bred and educated for losing an deed their wisdoms ought to have a patent fot: b l ie if they are, at this time, unaware of the possible interception of the polling passage, in sucl!,, crisis as. at present, by dicers methods ; aoilww;t, out any collusion in any quarter. Nut ping is J►c insinuated against the IReturning Otlicer--"%t face the writer never .saw ; but, in the Plai t-1 4 % z words that can convey meaning, he declares,".. election it, Elect, , it any evil happens to Mr. G. LAMB'S through any stratagems, defeatable by pr"I )e , r :„: gilance in the Head of that Court of th's t ' n ' t i ‘ who is possessed of unstinted power of poliee---540' conduct ought to b e sub m itt e d to the ju d g ult o of fifteen Members of Parliament deciding IJPA their oatbs.—Sir FRANCIS BURDBTT has b r e : / 11 / 1 , •fatal favourite of some Returning Officers• zanship in his cause has laid two of theca bi A heels in Newgate, before now. Before PIS to, High Baili ff of Westminster has been mulc t i o Lawyers i,. the tune of 20001. for malve'rsation ° of bold—that what happened ' on ce „ ' happen twice. February 28, 1819. - • THEATRICIIb - REGIS r Performed on Salimlay N6firt. • n -, ii , it THEATRE nOYAL, I,RURY-DINE . -kfid time), 11 ', e il d e At- - Principal Characters i.y Mr. Rae and Mrs. W. 1 ; 4 " -.. 4 which, Rosina. Villtir - THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—Love ill a . :15 Young Meadows, Mr. Hunt; Rosetta, Miss 541 11 11:I 00 ter which, How , to get a Place. To which iviks.Ad ue Ton. PRICE U STOCKS THIS DV AT r Z pet Cerit.-Red.... 721 iii 73 3 per Cent. Cons. 73,f ,34 721 4 per 93 6_p.er Ct. Navy thu. itht,t 104 ' ELI/ O'CLOCK. .00 Bank Long Attn. • •-• • India Bonds.. ••• •` 2s '" - 4 544 '‘ . Ext•ii. Bills, 4d..• • Cons. for Ace.. 741 74 7"4- MAILS. at d ikes Annivr.l)-3 Thilin, fl ) 3 Waterford, I Holland, I , joikeY. I *'slice, I .i.twlici. DUE--2 (iiieiaise,y ,a 0" 1 \m:1441 7 - I ll.p.nbtirgli ; 1 Holland., 1 Lisbon. • it it 0 0/ 7 ., HIGH iVATF.II AT LONDON BRIDGE 'l'o.ll ol ` s iter Morning, 1 . 6 niitititei after 6. I Emiing, 4i rrl l E SUN. •OLEti Quiz: VICEItE FALSUM AUI/KAT LONDON,. MONDAY, MARCH I , .1811 4 • Yesterday . ' and this mortiin ,, rec eicbe !Paris the te. T d. dahee;:artoeenc.itaiiikedn preceding, gke o , of OC T : l t i l u n r e s b d e a r y f e Oin, Peers, 517' at isle Sal p ropo s c l f e Div f' queas de MARTAITELISMY, respectin g Elections.. • ta„„shed A.sort of etiquette has been es with regard to the publicity Of the discnssi" l i t t the Chitinber a Peer S which is n ot a . little culous. They debate in the first instance' n ' it" 7- the Journals are forbi(l~e' t c g l i t' ve sed a t ri l y " ac rs‘ cou i r l i d t what of their proceedings, pace{ (ay or to is contained in the ant horised Bullet ill s a iaft erwards: appearance, and then, perhaps, auotber, • length 'ire find in The illoniteur a pretty abstract of the whole debate. Another ;however,. attends this latter Cat lon, which is more: than- , ordioariu e e l & turd, namely, - the merely describi° teer who speaks as a Peer---Latiother V eel ak, Preopinan, &c. ; and then,..to crowo the wit giving in a note to-eachspeech, at the bot"ltil the' tolumu, the paint of the'speaker. " e ' *l f from . the proceedings thus given in The ADnitegli; that the Marquis de BALITHELEMY did 4 10 t t 4 least explain what ameodutetits or modifiejitl° be sought to have made in the Law of El ecti(aL44 but contenting himself with a general speeei" (efil markable only for obscurity, he concluded by ti)6l d ing a general proposition for -praying the tip present a projet of Law, having for its obj ect make such modifications in the organization of t Electoral Colleges as may appear to be indisf a . ► s bly necessary. A proposition so made , 11°1 4 nothing tangible about it, and put forth % .I(.lt° any explanation of its meaning, must, of Vurse have been pre-concerted with the sintlers7, object of overthrowing, if possible, the The Marquess de LALLY TOLLENDAL, "", 4 the next speaker, strongly opposed the tak iu g 1 3 0 / consideration the proposition, on the grpu ut. ber the alarm that would be caused by the Cl) - entering into a discussion upon so undefille tt proposition upon such a subject. Lie c alled ti the mover, either to explain what he IDealit' of 0, to withdraw his proposition. .The Count bed razes, the Minister of the Interior, .characteris a the proposition as the worst that could love been made, and conjured the Chamber not 10 to he taken into consideration, as by sucil r , step they would be considered to be fi' vDd able to it. The Marquess de Psstoagr, who 54 ; o ported the proposition, followed the ega' lll). b e its mover, by dealing in obscute generaltti''a; of spoke of inconveniences attending tb ' e Lat , v oe Elections, but declined explaining Ow"' 00 , Magness d„ GARNIER opposed the prul")sill