The Sun. — London, England, 1819-10-06 00:00:00

'On :h Pitt SEX! si . ATB of the COUN ntl 'lO THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL. Loen---1 address myself to your Lordship in preference to ail others, because you Hit: at the 'Head Of the Mieistrya because, you are in the confidence of the PRINCES REGENT; and, because you are the son of that able Statesman, who pO.l. 6essell the confidence and the friendship of our • venerable and venerated Sovereign. It is to you my Lord, that all those who are of any value in Society ; all those who are loyal in principle and practice; all those who, respectable, either for their virtues or their talents, stow look up as their sheet anchor in the present alarming state of the Na tion. They consider you as the soul of those mea sures, which will either save, or ruin the cou n try. streak, not for myself Moto., hut, I speak for all those who are wit hitt the circle of my erquaint store ; and also, most undoubtedly, for by far the hugest pot lion of the community ; and we sit °tie ly remonstrate with your Lordship, awl your Col leagues, on the insufficieucy of the measures which have been adopted to suppress the Homer oas Seditious now in existence. We look to the Government for pro action and support ; for, we see Sedition end Treason, stalking abroad in open day, undisguised, Heil arrayed in all. their terror's. We see all the horrors of a sanguinary end merci less Revolution but sting on our view, and we also see the feeble efforts of Government to sup press them. Is it to be endured, let me ask, that ' the peace and good order of society are to be en danget ed ? That social amid friendly intercourse is to be interrupted ? That Trade and Commerce arc to he checked ? That our lives, that our proper ties, are to be pot to the hazard, because a set of murderers, plunderers, and ruffians, the very scum and outcasts of society, will it to be so? And , • have not we, the rational, the honest, the respect able, and the loyal part of the people, a right to protection from the Government under whielAve live, to which we are sincerely attached, and which we contrNite to support ? Yes t. we have a right, and we claim that right, we call on you my Lord, we call on every individual member of the Government ; and we most solemnly call on the PRINCE REGENT, for protection. We ear nestly solicit that Laws of sufficient efficacy may speedily be enacted, by which these Seditious may be crushed, anti peace, security, and good order he restored to the country. That the present laws are insufficient for that desirable purpose, daily, fatal experience conviuces ns, although your I.oldsitip is undoubtedly highly to be com mended for a strict adherence to those Laws, how ever inefficacious they may he. But, if our pre sent existing Laws do not reach the poison ; if the ranker is too deep for the common pruning knife to eradicate, why not_ enact new ones ? why not replace the old worn-out blade with one of more exqeisiiely tempered steel ? As the condition of society is continually changing, and, as new cir cumstances are in consequence continually aris ing, new Laws are indispensably necessary to meet such changes ; and a servile adherence to, or, a di,ieclinatiou to change those Laws, adapt ed to times totally different from the present, can only he considered as little short of insanity. The Disaffected clamour about the liberties of the peo ple, and the right of petitioning ; hut such liber ties as we now daily witness, could never have been in the contemplation of our forefathers, from whose wisdom and labonrs emanated our glorious and invaluable Constitution ; equal Laws and equal Justice were their aim ; not anarchy, mist tale and insurrection. The Public were astonished that the Parliament Was prorogued without some energetic measures having been adopted ; it was generally expected, it was universally lamented, and the result was too truly anticipated. My Lord, you had sufficient warning, the " many headed monster" did not hide his diminished head, the storm was seen to be approaching, and yet no decisive measures were adopted to avert it. I say no decisive measures were adopted, for of what avail are words and proclamations ? 01 what avail are a few charges from the Judges on the Circuits ? Of what avail are the Ilesolus lions of a dozen or two of country gentlemen on a Grand Jury ? Of what avail are the ef forts of a few hundred Constables against hundreds of thousands of infutiated, ragged scoundrels ? Nay, of what avail will be the cf. forts of a few thousand !Adieus, against such a multitude of ruffians armed P which we have evi dence enough they will be, if time sufficient 'should be given to them. If it once conies to this, my Lord , e if once, each of these hundreds of thou sands of ruffians, should get an offensive weapon into his hands, farewell to our Constitution ; farewell to our Government; farewell to every thing which renders life valuable ; it n ill then, alas ! be too late for exertion. IVe want the energy of PITT ; the wisdom of BURKE ; end, the "vigour beyond the Lat.," of WYNDHAM, 'to sere•tisi not, my Lori% that i impale tire 'want of these qualities to you, and to our colleagues ; ye have Al been bred in the school of that tran scent:fent Statesman, who was at once the pride and the saviour of his country, and, I trust, are not any-ways deficient in any of those ineat imahle qua - ;hie.. which he so eminently possessed ; but the present time is critical ; big with events of por tent4ms import, and regnires moie than common energy . and vigour to conduct them. lam by no Me an advOcate for sanguinary measures, ex cept in the last extremity. 13ttt your Lordship knows, that when the '' swirlier in modo" has failed, that the " fortiter in re" is our only resource. Prevention is better titan cure. These Meetings, tny Lord, must be prerented. No thing short of such a measure will in the least grad. The People most anxiously expect it ; they confidently look towards the immediate assembling of Parliament ; to a revival of Mr. admirabfc Bill for preventing Sedi tious Meetings ; to a Law, making the punish ment of Sedition infinitely more heavy than it , is at present ; to a much more severe pouisitment on those who write, print, publish, sell, or hawk about seditious and blasphemous publications, and even to make the possession of _them pengl ! Let not your Lordship be appalled, or shrink from the responsibility which will attach to these necessary measures; you are imperatively called upon by the Country, by every principle of lit - moor, loyally, and justice, to adopt thrtu. Be assured that you will receive the cordial support of all the good, the loyal, the virtuous, and the respecta ble part of society ; they will riliy row u y u with corresponding energy ; you will save your country ; and the blessings of applauding mil lions will be shovvered Clown upon your head. - - , I have the honour to be, &c. Bath, Oct. 4, 1811% FOR THE SUN. OBSERVER. TURNPIKE ROADS.-(LONDON TO PORTSMOUTH.) Ma. Enrroe—l heartily concur in opinion with your Bristol Correspondent, on the advantages to be derived by the general empl o y ment o f t h e Poor, in repairing the Thropike Roads of the Kingdom; and the public thanks are due to you for having eirawirdie attention of the country to a con,i dermion of the subject, during the present Recess; but it is to be regretted that you have not inserted in your Paper the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, and the evidence taken before them. It only requires to ho read, to satisfy every unprejudiced disinterested mind, of the great ad vantages to he derived by the adoption of Mr. M'AnAsrs Plan for the Improvement o f Roads, not only from the economy he has introduced, but from the extended Employment it will give to the Lower Classes of Society. Every one is intetested in its adoption and success ; and I trust, that in the next Session of Parliament, sonic additional powers will he given to the Commissionets for t h e i s su e of Exchequer Bills, for the encourage s went of Public ks, which will enable them to lend money .to the Trustees of Roads and of Hars hours, without requiring those Trustees personally no pledge themselves for the repayment of such Loans,—merely taking tte Tolls as the security for the canoe, and postponing the Private Creditors of the Roads and Harbours, until the money is re-. paid to the Commissioners for the Public. If such AO authority had been invested in these Commis sinners', many thousands who are no , v out of work would have been employed; and, in many instances, great public works are at present ar a stand, from the want of capital to complete them ; for, unalfinished, in many cases the Tolls are not payable.-1 merely throw out this hint for the consideration of the CHANCELLoft of the EXCHI3- QURR, Who iS feelingly alive to every suggestion which in any degree is likely to relieve'and bene fit the Poor. .I shall now proceed to notice your observations on the necessity of improving the Roads to the four great Naval Stations in this Kiugdont ; for every sentiment you have expressed on the sub ject I most cordially approve. I shall, therefore, offer to your Readers a few observations on the present state of the Road from London to Ports mouth, which is susceptible of great improve ment ; fur in many parts of it the distance may be shortened,—several of the heaviest hills lower ed or avoided,—and the Road in various places widened and improved. The preseut (tine of peace is most auspicious for the commencement of such a national under•- taking l and there cannot he a doubt but that all the higher Departments of the State—the Admi ralty, the Ordnance, and the Treasury—will give every support and encouragement to it. Whether the Commissioners of the two Trusts, that is, from London to Sheet-bridge, and from the lat ter place to Portsmouth, are likely to unite in giving effect to the improvements which require to be matte, I do not know; it is, however, more than probable, from their respectability, that they will, as I observe by the Hampshire Papers, that a Bill is to be brought into Parliament next Ses sions, to extend mud enlarge the powers of the Trus tees of the Road front Sheet-bridge to Ports mouth. Every authority required for this desirable purpose should be included in the New Act, so that immediately after .it is passed into a Law, the improvements may Le entered on, tied the poor people in the parishes on the line of the Road set at work upon it. If the Funds of the Trustee's of the Road are not equal to the undertaking, they should be audio rited to borrow money of the Commissioners for the issue of Exchequer Bills, and allowed at least 20 years to repay it—indeed, a scale of pro gressive annual repayment of principal t►ed idle. rest might be adopted —that would facilitate its return to the rubhc—but not to commence until !. the Nev Tons to be charged for the improve- Ille a're payable. As I d h o not Wish to occupy too large a . portion of your colnoths, but reserve for another any wy more detailed cbsereations on this branch of the subject, I, shall merely remark, that it is gene rally admitted, the distance in , the present line of Road from Portsmouth to London may be shortened at least seven miles, and a very considerable addi tional saving in point of time, by judicious alter ations of the hills in several parts of the Road ; but whether it can be effected without a Union of the two Trusts, remains to be inquired into. If any obstacle in that respect should unfortunately arise from either of them it will THEN be THE DUTY of the Government to interfere, and obtain from the Legislature an authority to enable thern to make these Improvements, for THE PUBLIC are greatly interested in lessening the Distances, ant facilitating the Communications, between the Sea of Government and the great Naval Arsenals o the Kingdom. 11'041,6A, Oat. 6. AN OLD SOLDIER. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Perfurnzed Last . THEATIIR ROYAL, Ditlf RY-LANE.—The Devil's 131 idge Cowil Brahaiii Ciiitittess Rusitlritia, Miss Carcw, Ater which, Modern A ntiques. TtiEATRE, ROYAL, COVNNT-11ARDEN.NO Performance. PIZICE OF STOCK'S rats ;my AT rwF.Lvt: o'ci.ncot. 3 per Cent. Cons 7ni 1...x01. 'lllls, Qd.... ss. 7s. tfis 5 per Cent. Navy Ann. 1 Cuns. fur A‘euttra......7uoi India pr. ARRIVED—I Waterford. Dus-1 Waterford, 1 Guernsey and Jrrsey, 1 Gottenbargh 2 Ilaniburgh. Mei] WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•MORROW. Mos Hiss, 4ti uttitulvs'al ter 4. Evening, II 1111411.10:3 Itta 5 SUN. 111)Li:A( QJ I , loEitt: F,►L , ,(.'.1 Al , UEAT ? LON DON , iTEDNESIMY, OCTOBER 6, 1819. The Pori, l'arrs of Sui,tli►y last: which were due Ihi3 morning, have not arrived. Extract of a Letter f, out New York, Aug 29. " Whatever way be the actat..l state lii our rela. tions Great lititain, whether the professions of amity be sincere or not, or %vile:her their in tentions be charitab:e s 'tis certain that great prepa rations are making to pot the Provinces of Upper sod LOwer CL,ar.la a very strong state of de fence, and several fortifications are erecting in different points. " The Isle of Noix, which is 10 miles below St. John's, is ordered to be stt oDgly garrisoned, and new works ate throwing up in all directions ; it is said that 600 dollars ate daily expended on these works. Upwards of 12,000 tons of ordnance stores have arrived from England this year. Al though these preparations may be nothing, mote than precautionary measures in relation to any movements on the part of the Milted Stales, a report was prevailing in Canada, that the recruit ing service was progressing briskly in this cow). try; but. this is an erroneous impression, and may be probably the occasion of these move-1 mews." THE PRESENT SITUATION OF AMERICA. CrroArs a late dnzerican Paper, Sept. 1.) It is estimated that there are 20,000 persons daily seeking work in Philadelphia ; in New York 10,000 able-bodied men are said to he wan dering the streets looking for it ; and if we add to them the women who desire something to do, the amount cannot be less than 20.000. In Bal timore there may be about 10,000 persons in un steady employment, or actually suffering because they cannot get into' business. \Ve know se veral decent men,-lately '' good livers," who now subsist on such victuals as two years ago they would not have given to their servants.— Here are b 0,900 persons, in three cities, wholl) or partially idle. The Declaration trom the really respectable Citizens of Lni►don is by no means acceptable to the Radical Reformers, -and tt►erefore The Morn ing Chronicle is very much puzzled how to treat it, for by approving it, it would offend the Radicals, and by condemning it , it would at once throw . off the mask, and own itself an unqualified Radical. The Chronicle has therefore hit upon an ingenious device, hut has not adequate ingenuity to manage it. It affects to agree with several of the points, because they are such as naturally lead to the welfare of the Country, which the Radicals themselves must, pretend to have in view; and then, under the character of a Correspondent, it has made a very wonderful discovery;—nothing less than that the Government Letter, relat ing to the Manchester transactions of the 16th of August, was " an attempt to overawe the Con stituted Authorities.** This, indeed, it well-found ed, would be a prodigious discovery, as it would demonstrate that what was intended to prevent prejudice, and to refer all matters to the Consti tuted Authorities, was intended to set them at nought. Truly the sagacious Writer in The Morn• in? Chronicle has a wonderful genius for 'inventing a paradox, and his Radical Erieiids hove 01/11t0 1 Liment that he wants ability to reconci!e it 0 common sense.—The Chronicle proceed: to sof' " the name of the PRINCE REGENT bad been mat l6 use of to intimidate these Constituted Authorities/ and as far as,possible to prevent them from diseharr ing their duty with impartiality." The folly of this charge is upon a level with its audacity. Were not the Magistrates of Manchester '" constituted Authorities," and was not the letter intended to express an approbation of their conduct, and to en. courage them to discharge their duty, not to pre' vent them ? But perhaps The Chronicle will et• tempt to escape, by saying, that it intended to refer to the Courts of Law that were afterwards to investigate the whole of the transactions. Artil• period in question no consideration of such ease.. quent investigation could properly he introduced,el that might be expected in due course. It is e%ident therefore, that The Chronicle has fallen into I dilemma, or has been pulled irvo one by its Cor respondent, and that their efforts to rise out of it will only plunge them into deeper absurdity. ELECTIONT OF LORD MAYOR —(; th Day)--.Statel of the Poll at Halt-past Olie this Dthy :-- This Day's Pull. Whale Pcll, , BRYDGES - 156 2,927 WOOD 77 1,974 TtioEP - - 76 1,945 THE TlMES.—Thougis we have lessened the venom of the dull Old Times we hive by no means extinguished it, but 'we will proceed till w ender the Paper as harmless as it is stupid, It as this day that " the, interest of the loyal proceed• logs at Oldham, and now at Manchester, rather increases than diminishes - ," yet it adds, " that it has but little room for comment," though it was abumidtit in corn:news • when matters malt much less interesting. Whence then this fora bearance ? Because The Times knows this utale volence has roused the indignation as well as excited the contempt of the public, and that its rancour is now sedulously watch' ed. It says that it is " careful of speaking about Meagher." Why ? For the same reason—' because its prejudice and venom would be detect ed, and it has not justice and liberality enough speak truth. FOR THE SUN. RAMSGATUFIAREOUR. MR. EDITOR—I wish some of your Reader. would state why it is said that the Works, carried on bete by the Directors of this Trust, approximate nearer to FaRPZTUAL MoTION Ihati any d4euveti which has hillurto been made i arid wiry the Reverend Contractor and his partner, for clearing this Harbour of mud or slit h, are allowed to deposit it in the Sea, So near to the cu:r.tiee of the Outer Boson that h cannot fail to tilt it up again quicker than it is taken from it. St. Lawrence, 00.4, 1819. QUIZ. t is not the Seamen who have made a stamtie e North fur wages, but the fieeloten, who sa hat they are not paid tor thcextrachaldron of Coals given by way of dbuceur, by several of the Cost Owners, to the persons wha buy their Coals ; if thiS be true, we no not know on what principle. the Coal °worts refuse to pay these labor ous in dividuals for all the Colts they work.--11 is not sk satisfactory answer to stare that the Keelmen have the same wages as they had during the vier• or nearly so—and there?ore we hope these well will be paid their just wages, and the inhabitants of the Metropolis and the Seaports relieved from the risk of an advance in the price of Coals during 114 e ensuing winter. Bat the complaints made O r the Kevin:en of the introd:uc.ion below Tyne Bridge of Staiths or Wharfs for loading Soil). with Coals, to save the keel dues, and other charges, must be wholly disregavded. Committee of Magistrates has been appoint' ed to inquire into the expenditure and payments for building the County CG aol at Mantsti me , a nd they have, it is understood, 'made considerable progress in their interesting investigati The disrespect recenly shown by the Mayoress of a Northern - Corporation to a Noble Lady. most deservedly beloved and distinguished for the kindness of her disposition and her amiable wan nen, has been entirely overlooked ; and is, we trust, forgotten by every one who had the sonata tification to be present on the occasion. The Partridge, Captain KELLY, arrived in the Downs on Monday from Bombay, from whence she sailed on the 25th of May, and from the Cape of Good Hope on the 4th of August. - She brings advice of tile arrival at the latter place, on the 29tb ofJuly, of the Abundance store-ship, Lieu' tenant CAMPSELL, from Portsmouth, for whose safety apprehensions had.been entertained, in cots' secprethe of the length of time she bad been outs having sailed from Portsmotr h on the 19th Of April, for St. Helena, the Cape, and th e Man' ritius, and no accounts having been received of her until now, duce her departure from Madeire on the 16 h of May. THE LATE DUKE OF RiCHNIOND..--By the Itrothers, which arrived at Cot k on the Ist itta man!, to 25 days from America, letters have been teceived which give some particulars, n ot before known, respecting the death of the late Duke at RICHMOND. 1 hey state that his death teas occasioned by a bite front a fox, received some time before. His Grace was up tl,e cool . try when symptoms of hydrophobia hist appear.' and tell a victim to the dreadful malady be:ors he could be brought to Quebec, to which pl 3 c e his remains were conveyed by a steam-boat' where they lay in state in the grand hall, 011 the 311 of September. The Inneral took pl 3c l is with great Ituletunity on the even i ng o f t h e lose inn day. The a I d e n t obi s 1 I ) e a Ntin; C H 1d th e al,, lei „, o g • i v ,, lin it "ter v fir fir Die. tc t ti a: , )111 11) VII ( n., I: r . II r , Eii Li( b.