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TO EARL Fi IZWILLIAM. MY Lottp--lf, twenty-five years ago, you were addresseil as a " venerated Nobleman,"' 'that veneration cannot now - have alatiteJ. Whe ther or not your Lordship has advanced 'in wisdom with equal progression -as in years, the into - ease -of the latter chum to our respect may be adatiKed to balance the former, Omagh it elion!d save been stationary, or even retrograde. In these days of modern illumination, when all that wisdom has instil wed and an ti c:l ,67y confirmed, seems marked out for scorn and subversion-1 am not Radical enough to treat carelessly either thing or person,, eat rying the certainty of age and the possibility of experience. portion of the respect which I fed bound to thew towards your Loordship► mAy be paid to your station in Society. The mulfitside are waiting in the street :—their shout i , heard, in the vestibule : not one of that privilev,etl class which sits within the Temple must he tjected to their scorn, even though he divegard his own dignity. It must be defended for hint, if he neglects its defence : for the sake of his equals he must not be abandoned to his inferiors. Non progredi, est revcdi, is a maxim--the allowance whet eof be ajourn• ed, while 1 have the honour of midi-cuing your Lortisliip. The securi•y of a very extensive distafg ICAS Confided, my Lo, d, into your bands by the Sove reign, whose gepresentative you there stood ; guardian of his peace, and the de!egate of his au thorir y. You were not the Officer of the People : your Constitutioilal function was derived from the King; and every other duty Aryls impliedly, and even directly, postponed to that appointment, which placed upon you its especial obligations. As a Peer you might still have advised the Sove reign as a Privy Counsellor, you 'night •still have expressed before hint your opinions : but let your advice and your opinion have been what they may, you were bound, as Lis Lieutenant, to dis charge his executory functions. As a Legislator, too, you bad your privileges, and the proper .sphere of their exercise ; but neither as Senator, 'Noble, or Counsellor, had you any business on the York Hustings. The King's Lieutenant might have attempted there to preserve 'the King's Peace ; but not as a popular Requisi tionist, to censure its preservers, or the authority which had commended them. The Sovereign did, through his Constitutional Organ, express his approbation of the conduct of the Magistrates at Manchester. Your Lordship was perfectly entitled, as a Peer, to advise him against giving that approbation ; and, if you can think the admonition decorous, you may still advise him to retract it. ' As a Legislator, you' may recommend any inquiry, and propound any censure ; not perhaps very consistenly, but cer tainly not improperly. Though 1 can never admit the propriety of your Lordship's presence at a popular Meeting, 1 will concede that you are still free to chose between your personal rights and your vicarial duties. .1 must, however, be suf fered to add, that you could not consistently re tain incompatible functions ; that, holding such opinions as you sanctioned in the York Re qnisition, you should have disembarrassed your self from the duties of the King's Delegate, be fore you exercised those of a private Englishman. Nevertheless, the time which your Lordship selected, and the place, for censuring those Acts which the Sovereign had approved, are all that I question. Your right of censure is wily admitted ; and I only expect yotir Lordship to admit the Sovereign's equal right of dismissing the servant whose censure be has incurred, and on whose ready obedience, therefore, he cannot rely. If 'pia Stormier did not precede his dismission, if a Lord Lieutenant could sanction, and- even call a County Meeting, to censure what the Sovereign had approved, we might well have expectcd•him to resign, unmurmuringly, the Office which was 30 adverse to his principleV. lout Lordship, however, did not sake the choice. Whether you deemed their variance com— patible, or disregarded its incompatibility, I shall ot detain you by enquiring. The Sovereign has now made the choice for you and your Lordship is graciously relieved from an Office, which must have embarrastied your exertions in the popular Cause, while the Regal Cause retains in your si-,:ht any portion of its value. I could almost fancy, that in your Lordship's history every distinction of time was- effaced.— The past and the present arc as similar as identity itself; and while your Lordship is spared 'to be the Champion of the People, they enable its to judge with equal accuracy of the future. In 1793, you joined in approving the conduct of Mr. Fox, and in censuring his Censurers. Then, as now, you operated yourself with all the acts and all the principles which yuu approved. ileac; a slight anti inrmil variation of name; o ur modern Radicals “re but the Jacobin. of thtit writ: Mr.''Fox sent to l'e , ersburgh tis own private Representative, for the putpos-e of in►peding the accredited Minister of Englona. Your Lordship approved his interference. Mr. Ft's recommended every possible measure by which the English Jacobins might be encou raged, end out national hostility against the French Jacobins might be prevented. Your Lordship aNtroved his recommendation, It is but art odd coincidence—and I call it no thing niQue—that so very near ihe time of these interferences and tcottnnendations, *lie Corre sponding Sociedes of England, and the 'ten of It viand, should have sent their Ilttpiesenta lives also to a foreign Government, in opposition to thrir own lirge country. I do not press the par.liel, I do not even observe that one of thwe treasonable &mbassies proceeded from-Man chester. limber than ascribe to Earl FITZWILLIA.M the opinions which he approved in Air. Fox, I would extract a lesson, which at no period - of life is too late to be learned—of .the danger we run in ap proving meaSures before we, are assured of their roricurreoce with our own . judgment. To the ti!iefit of this saviog clause 1 willingly remit your LoFdshir. But, my Lord, we trust move forward in your biography, whoSe every page seems embarrassed with incompatible functions and feelings. Two years afterwards. when you were the Ici'sre:G's Lieutenant in Ireland, you had his MA.lrtsTv's in structions to keep bark the Roman Catholic Ques tion ; and you accordingly engaged to " imme diately use every effort to keep the question back." At that very time, your 'Minister, Mr. (;aATTAN, whose movementa you neither forbade nor disclaimed, was pushing it actively forward with the Roman Catholic Leaders. To the re iterated instructions which yOur Lordship receiv ed of keeping back that mischievous question, your reply was, a direct refusal. Of course, you were, as now, (lisembat rassed of an Office, which kept your duties and your opinions at a variance so vexatious. Illy Lord, you have been singularly unfortu nate. I know not a Nobleman who, through a long life, has claimed more commiseration. What you were bound to do, and what you were dis posed to do, could never be brought into coali tion. As the King's Lieutenant, your principles would not let you fulfil his directions ; and your feelings would not let you conceal them'''. You will urge, perhaps, that these ware not given to you as a Privy Councillor, but as a Lord Lietue nant ; and that, in the retrospectiveness of the latter capacity, you detailed them to the Public through Lord CARLISLE. I by no means ques tion the correctness, or even the conscience, of . a distinction almost too nice for my understanding ; but k adds to the proofs of your Lordship's un luckiness. Radical Reform has been so connected with Ramisll Emancipation,--each bas been so con vertibly employed as the means or the end of the other,—that I cannot forbear tracking them in the long history of your Lordship's political life. They bring into one point your measures of 1795, and of 1819, with that discrepancy of opinions and obligations, so intolerable to a liberal spirit; they spew that twenty-five years have not abated the difficolties of the " venerated Nobleman ;" that his predicaments encreace with his pa triotism ; and that, as it is impossible to serve two Masters, the Servant of the Multitude could at no period be the Officer of she Crown. My Lord, you have passed that maturity which endure the conflict of opposing principles. Event in the n►eridian of strength, few men have - vigour enough to perform one duty more than sufficiently: but to discharge two duties, not only of equal weight, but of contrarious impulse, is beyond septuagenary exertion. In your privilege as his Hereditary Adviser, your Lordship probably has long since said to the REGENT— Solve senescentem, malure saints; and you now gladly retire from the fatigues of the Royal Set vice, to those single duties which are nut too difficult for your conscienee.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, TEN as. READING-ROOMS, TAUNTON, October 27, 18191, Sta—A large majority of the Gentlemen Sub scribers to the Taunton Reading-ttoorus, of which I am the Master, having made a written request to me to substitute The New Times. Paper instead of The Old Times,l bare to beg that you will im mediately order the biter to he discoutinned, and forward me punctually The New Times, addressed to me as the others are. I ad*, Sir, your obedient Servant, H. UPHAM. nr.solith, Newspaper. Agent, - rhae.srreet, , Provesuar-square - ,' Lundell. •, P. S. If yi,o tbiuk p. per yogi rosy ebew the . ftbove.to the Editor of The New Times, wig) is at liberty to WWI it.—(New Times.) FOR THE SUN. RELIGION.-LE I'TEIt MR. EDIT°Ii- 7 -Feeling, as I do, not only the importance, bnt the dignity of my subject, I shall be careful not to degrade it by any thing like pally-writing. As I shall not preach, so neither shall I satirize. Religion is of no party, though all should' be religious. My principles will be broad and general ; applicable, indeed, to many situations, but not specifically applied. My ob ject is not to censure, but to advise. When, indeed, advice is opposite to common practice, it must sometimes arpear like censure, whether so designed or not. We have lately,seen the conclusion of the most tremendous war in uhicli this country was ever engaged ; a contest for our very existence as a nation. The tnemy with ►thorn we had to coo tend had vowed our utter ruin ; and that was not the kind of vow which he was at all inclined to break. His gigantic efforts all proved fruitless, and he is now our prisoner. He was ahle to dis tress, but Was not permitted to desttly us. To speak of particular Ptovidences, with respect to common events, and the concerns of private persons, is generally rash, and often worse than rash. It is the folly of fanaticism, or the cunning of hypocrisy. But there cannot surely ►,e a broader or a clearer principle of religion, than that the d stinies of nations-are in the hands of God. In dividuals are'reserved for future judgment. But nations have no resnrrection. Once dead, they never can revive. Their visitations must be here, • or not at all. On thiS ground, no man, surely, ()ratty religious feeling will hesitate to say, that, in the winding tip and conclusion of the war against Boonaparte, was manifested one of the niost distinct and node niable interpositions of Providence. Au interpo sition which, to say no time of it, suateied us, front the brink of destruction, and placed us at once in a state of security. A very few months before, we had a hostile frontier opposed to us throughout the whole of Europe. From Gibral tar to the Cattegat all were either leagued with the enemy, or in subjection to him. The magnitude of the deliverance, not to men tion the glory of it, at first was universally felt. Our thanksgivings were ardent, our joy was ex alted but rational. Ales ! how soon has the me mory of it become obscured; and to what an extent has the grossest ingratitmle succeeded to the sense of thankfulness I have not tie vanity to suppose, that any thing which I can write can make the smallest impres sion upon the profligate but I appeal to every one who merits not that epithet, whether this be right, or any thing approaching to right ? Anti I put it to the heart of every man of that descrip. tion, whether to have caused, or even at all pro moted this defection from right feeling, be not a serious crime ; an offence not only to man, but against Heaven 1 . When two strong men engage in combat, and contest it obstinately, even the conueror is sure to feel it for a long time after. He is exhsusted and enfeebled, and if not permanently Mimed, at least, not what he was before the fight. So in s i st it be with. nations. Peace cannot suddenly re move the consequences of a long and arduous War. So is it now with us. But what is the result ? Is it a patient bearing of a necessary:evil, with thankfulness that it is not worse ? Far other wise. Impatience and ingratitude prevail to an extent that is disgraceful. The causes and the bearings of this evil shall' be considered in my next. HOOKER. Ma. SHERIFF PARKINS.—The follow;ntr f rag . ment of a Letter, which appears in 'Hie Morning Chronicle of this day, manifests a temper in the Writer so . little consistent with the dignity of the City of London, the Capital of the World, that we trust the Livery will feel much regret that th e y should have invested such a person with any of its honours. His treatment of Tits JUDGE, by his own acknowledgment, was so very reprimen sible, and chews such a contempt of Authorities, which the lowest of mankind hold itt respect and cavereoce, that we need not make any comment ILLe subject : " As my reasons at large for asserting my se niority as Sheriff are already before the Potrlic, and involve no personal feeling, I shall not now trouble you with any 'repetition on that point ; but will thank you to correct a mistake in the ac count of what passed between Mr. Justice Palk and myself. Instead of saying,. that I would do myself the honour of attending that Learned Judge, I told him that 1 would do hilt& the heiroirr to attend him. His Lordship was, pleased to ob serve, that he did not think it an honour ;. but I. again assured bins that it was so, and I am still' of that opinion. " With regard to the chagrin which I am stated to have evinced on leasing the Court, 1 can truly say, that I telt nn chagrin whatever ; hot having been chosen Senior Sheriff by the Livery of LM) • don,. I did and do feel highly indignant at the gross • violations of their independent elective rights which I am daily doomed t o w i tness . " I am. Sir, your obedient !4ervanr, "1 7 4;rk Hotel, Oat. 29, 113.19. J. W. YARKINS.' THEATRICAL ItEUISTEIt. Performed I,ast Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DOURY-LANE.—The Way to Get Marrid: Tangent, Mr.Elliston ; Julia Faulkner, Miss 'vers. Atter which, Who's Wh o , THEATRE' ROYAL, COVF.NT-CARDCX.—The School for Scar-ial' Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farrel: ,• Lady Teazle, Nirs. vison. After which, Arthur and Einweline. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are ienavoidaOly ol.liged to defer many Articles till Monday. II I PRICE a sToc KS TOl3 DAY AT TWELVE o'cLoctc.. 3 per Cent. Red..... ti-41A1 India' Bonds 3t. 1 03 * P f ; 4 per Cent. Cons. titi44/1 South Sea Stock ....... • 7 ' 4 ' 31 per Cent. ... 7-4 Exch. Bills, 2d Is. es ' lls ' 4 per Cents. .. 8 83 1 1 Otnnium h pet ('t. Nary Ann. .. IC2jh Ditto Payment ....• • • 4 ,Vi Bank Long Ann. ..17 7-IGtlis Cons. for A &11 ceount 6614 ARRIVED-1 Dublin, 1 AVaterfor4l, I Guernsey and JerseTh I France. Due-1 Dublin, I Waterford, I Lisbon. , HIGH WATER LIT LONDON BRIDGE TO•MORRO W• Minintig, 3. minutes atter U. 1 Evening, 57 unnutes aitur THE SUN. 1101,101 QUILs FAI.SUAI AUDEAT ? LONDON S-17'UR031 7 , OCTOBER 30, 1819. We received this morning the Paris Paper; of Wednesday lust. The following are rxir acts ec I'Alus, OCT. 27.—The King yesterday took an airing to Vincennes. The Duchess de 13er l1 (hued with his Majesty. The King gave Lod i ' once to the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris. " Yesterday M. Mestier, J.ge dlnstructio nt interrogated M. Gevandar and Colonel Simon/ formerly Chief of the' Staff of General Gerard-"" They are accused of ha , iog lent their residetic° for the meetings of a Club of the Friends of the Liberty of the Press, without having conforod to Article 291 of the Penal Code. This Article imports, that no association of upwards of 20 persons, - the object of whi c h s h a lt b e to el' semble every day, or on certain appointed daY9P for the discussion of any subjects, religions, rary, political, or otherwise, shall be formed, OW ont the consent of Government, and under l" conditions imposed by Public Authority, tinder gi penalty of from 16- to 200 francs. " Some of the Journals are obstinately be ° upon making the Princes of Wales arrive at Palk. Some say that she is here incognit" others, that she only passed by the city witho" g entering it. The tact is, that this Princess, "' be ' travels under the title of the Countess Old i ' Angela, is still at Lyons. We. know V t when her Royal Highness will unit tb °t city ; but we have stunr reason for believing, (I I on whatever side she directs her course, she w ill not come to reside at Paris.—(Gazette de France.) " Saturday the Commissary of Police of the Quarter du Mail seized, at the house of the St e" Crouitthois, print•seller, Rue-de- Petit-Rtpos" i" two coloured engravings, One representing 13 ° . naparte with religious attributes ; the other, " 11 ' der the figure a flenr-de-lis, presenting an out' raucous caricature of his Majesty. " The ?slarechal de Camp Royer, Ex-Con' e° : tionalist, exiled in 1815, died the 21st instoo t Brussels. " On the 20th hest., the Prince Kudase b and Serge, Courier Extraordinary from rite )1/1 ; ° perm. of Russia, passed through G r x (MO on his %vav to Paris. E , " The accounts fromCactiz continue very The following is the last B,:lteti►► 1061 thence, received at Bourdeaux The sth instant, 9,152 sick, 60 deaths ; 6th, 9,494 sick, 82 deaths ; the 7th, 9,619 e iti" 75 deaths.' i i i " Letters from his Majesty, in, the terms of established regulation, have been sent to the t pinks of the New Series, to desire their to"" lime at Paris. It is said that the Ahb 6 GieV r is has not received any. • FIVE PER CENTS. Tacsday 70 f. 65.0. IteitßED STUCK. Of the 2.2 d March, 1817, 92 f. 60C. 9.`2,1 Slit. 1817, f. 60s• 52 , 1 March, ISIS, sg ,f. goc• 22d i S., Bat. 6 0- e• ,Nlarch, 1819 B4 f. GO. 22,1 Sept. 1S " FRANKFCtitT, OCT. `.:U.—The coilfer CnCeg Vienna I commence the 20 . :11 November. the Ministers who were 0 C 4 d.rlsb.ad willp rocee l thither, and it is believed that the T rib 4 iin4 established at Mayence will receive nottl"ctir: dons-, and wilt be organized in a manner 111°. conf‘ono;hle to general opi:lion, and t o tbe g P ir at Representer ive Govetnatents." Are have read whit sincere regret a Lette. le d, Earl GRosvnton, which we hive tii",s, daY ifiser o l l ' le ' It is impossible that be atten tivelY " cr es. served and ,-erionsly have reil..cred o, i the i'r4 j 50 of Rebe!lion and In fi delity, which 'O rel `tb g tlitivly over the Conlin v, and which titre''teb%ol very eaiitrurr of our CollStiLtitiOli (31411 C Itich N t h lee, th e 1 herd toi nc Of e, tioti det, w ell Pro t 1 14 r folk diSp of I Lie ' feet, les p Pag tat i t) torr P I* 1) , der as Lit in tit)i Nivi fat to att lb) 4ti