The Sun. — London, England, 1819-11-04 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. Mr. EDITOR—I rejoice to see that your good sense has preserved you from the deplorable ab surdity into which some of your brethren have fallen. I allude to the credit which they arc pleased to give to Mr. LAWRENCE DUNDAS, for his candour, in recanting an atrocious calumny, some days after it had been suffered to ferment on the minds of a lawless rabble. I am old enough, as I believe are you, to re member Coln.HoN, the bloodiest miscreant of the French Revolution. This wretch, in a Speech to the Convention, charged the Royalists of a village about thirty miles from Paris, with a re cent massacre of several Patriots, and raised, like the Yorkshire Broker, a wild howl of vengeance. On leaving the house, St. JUST said to hint. " In the Devil's name, Cotmtorr, what induced you to forge that impudent lie, when you must know that it will be detected in twenty-four hours i" And what, replied COUTHON, do I want with the lie after twenty-four hours 2 It will bave done my business by that time. That the falsehood of Mr. LAWRENCE DUNDAs bad not the dreadful consequences of the execrable CoUTHON'S fabrication, need not be attributed to any sense of justice or humanity in the Speaker, but to the disposition of his hearers. They hat.e not yet been fleshed in blood but, let them once have a taste of the sweets of murder and devasta tion, and the broad assertion, in the midst of twenty thousand of them, that " the Yeomanry of Manchester whetted their• swords for the occa sion,"—of falling upon the People, and it will have all the effect which the warmest admirers of the war-charge can desire. Bu►t Mr, LAWRENCR DU Day did not know, good easy man, that he was dissetninating an odious and a dangerous falsehood. The hardi hood of this a; , )ology takes away the last shade of respect for the character of the inventor. A Metn her of Parliament, a b►anch of a Noble Family, an inheritor of vast wealth and influence, thinks it consistent, with all thoe. advantages, to charge a number of brave and loyal men with a deli- berate purpose of sav a ge cruelty—for what else mean Mr. LAWRENCE DuNDAs's words of whetting their it'ords for the occasion P—‘Vitbout a single inquiry into the truth Of the accusation ! nay, in the very face of a regular affidavit from the workman who sharpened those swords, and who states th,it it was done two months before the Meeting at Manchester took place, and when suds an event wzs not even in contemplation. And this is " candour'." this is " the conduct a of an English Gentleman !" It differs, un doubtedly, in some degree from that of 1-JuNT, who made the very same charge in the very same words, and has not, perhaps, yet met with one of the insulted Yeomanry, or " a friend, of Whose accuracy there can be no doubts," to induce him to retract the atrocious accusation, Mr. LAW /if:I4CE DUNDAS took about a week to learn a llie truth--which, for more than'a months back, had stared him.in the face, in every Periodical' Paper, with the exception of The Black Dwarf and The 'Mr. HUNT may probably require a longer pejod, but the time wiil come ; and we shall not, therefore,- too eagerly question the Gentleman's ".candonr.", It is delightful to contemplate the tenderness winch these Reformers bear to a willing brother. This horrid charge was made in the hearing of Lord FITZ ILLIAM, Lord MILTON, the Duke of NoaFot.x. (to ‘vhoun I wish an easy penance), Mr. LAM Eros, and I know not bow many besides, of whom it is more than probable that every one was fully persamied of its falsehood, yet not a murmur was raised against it by any of the party. These gentle Radicals were content that it should drop, and fester among the People, while WOOLER and FtNNERTY stood idly by, pleased to see their ob.- jcct for.v.irded by labourers in the field more effi cient than themselves. Before Mr. LAWRENCE DUNDAS ventures again to wotk upon the passions of a moh of Radi cals, he will probably think it necessary to inquire into the foundation of the crimes with which be is disposed' to burden his poll'ical enemies. He roust see, by this time, the pitiable light in which be stands. What security have his hearers io their teliance ;you Isis facts ? And whete are the limits of credulity operating upon weakness, and both trpou prejudice to be fixed i Some other accredited friend may whisper in his east some other refuta tion of falsehood; and while I am ~r iting to you, Mr. L. DUNDAS may be contemplating a fresh tx erciie of his " candour,'' its the seuunciation of a second " too hasty charge !" Ile this as it may, yc,u have done well in withholding your praise 11 , ;fll such a mockery of all genuine feeling, and hrin9ur, and 1 trust your example will not be lost.---1 am, Sir, Yours, &c. N. F. FOR THE SUN. Mg. EDITOR —It may be tho►rght, tbat after all the announcement and preparation which kept the town so long in alarm, the rid►culous conclusion of the Finsbury Meeting may change our future terror into mere contempt. So, as to tl►e Actors of the Farce, thick I ; but not so, of its Ma- !lagers. You say very properly, that if the Law is al ready strong enough, let it check these scound rels; if not, let it be made sufficiently strung. They are capable of producing mischief, and they do produce it, beyond their character, their sta tion, or their talent ; mischief,•not so violent nor so eepeditious as they would desire ; but ulti mately not less effective. They paralyze trade, by the alarms which every shopkeeper feels of being plundered, and every purchaser of being assassinated in the radical confusion. Terror and distrust pervade our city ; and it is in the power of fury miricreant who climes, to keep the Metro polis in prospective agitation by the announce ment of another Meeting. That common com munication of society, which is the vitality of our City, is suspended ; and you might as well ex pect animal life to continue without the current of blood, as political or commercial existence without the intercourse of business. Fellows, who in any other country upon the face of Got's earth, ‘Yonld be taken up and summarily flogged gild chucked into prison, are here suffered to die hit b the 'whole nation at their own pleasure, when, where, and how they think proper, I shall be told by your Radical Correspondent STEEL, I suppose, that England is a free State ; an d th a t this is freedom. Perhaps so; but ' it it is, I like it not, and care not how soon I am re lieved of such uncomfortable frer , dom. I would barter it all for a little security ; and beg that those who relish it world seek its pleasures among the CAribs or Cherokees. Freedom, Sir ! There is no legitimate freedom, cxcs pt the frcedom of holding one's person and properly in safety. For my part, I think the Englih Tradesman who is obliged to shut up his shop on a Monday for "fear of its being rolebed or• fired, mid his family perhaps murdered j'i the heroes of a Radical Meeting ; is as rery Vslave as the wretch who closes his shop in Cons4ntinople, for fear of being stripped by the Grand Turk. T hlk not to me of such freedom, while I in not sure of holding my life o r my goods 'for half an hour ! Sir, I pay the State for protecting me, and I have a right to its ptiooo,oll.Al call upon our Governors to enlotee thiLawi x aml, as yOU say, if that be not strong etioli::sll,Vinake it so:: If, in their reverend 'care .of':;11;adfp:al Liberty, they will not, then they Mast expect tii,at every peaceable man will remove - his family an - dhis property to some other State, where liberty is rather less abundant, and security rather less scarce. Another Meeting is culled for the 15th. Just long enough off to exhibit preparations, and to keep up alarms, and not too long off . to let us attend to our business in the interim. A flue time this, truly, to cry out against the danger of being imprisoned Wr ongfully, when a prison seems to be the only side place in the whole Country I And pray, Sir, what injury, or even what re straint, could the r everest Laws occasion to any honest and quiet man ?—Suppose all Public Meet ings were prohibit ed,what need I care ?--I do not want to attend them. Or all Blasphemous Libels punished with transportation 3 Ido not want to write them. Or , all Seditious Agitators sent to Newgate without bail Ido not want to imi tate them. I want but one thing ; and the severer the Laws are, the better it is ensured to me--- Se- CURSTY. If that can be had, consistently with the Constitution—well ; it not, it must be had ht all events. I like the Constitution, Sir, as heartily, and would defend it as warmly as would any other Mall ; more so, perhaps, than nine in tea of those who make such a noise about it. I never thought, however, that it was, like Troth, to be valued for its own saife, but for the sake of the good it brings it.—That good, 3 say agnin, Tell me of the Constitution, quotha, when the knife is at My throat and the torch at my win dow 1. They say that our Legislators will enact some very severe Laws. I hope they will, Sir ; and among them, those which your Correspondent TENAX has suggested. There will be a rare cla. moor, of course, when they come to be proposed. The Radical Knaves, who have no hope but in confusion and plunder, will bawl lustily for the Constitution ; aye, Sir, for that very Constitution which they would make accessary to its own de struction, by the continuance of its most danger ous privileges. It is the best Constitution in the world, Sir, for gniet times ; and in such, every body has an inte rest in keeping it unaltered. 'or t'':►t precise lea- , son it ij sure of escaping alteration. But in times like the present, it must surely have the power of defending itself, else, in good truth, it is not worth being defended. Besides, Sir, when the danger is over, the precaution may be laid aside. I do not like going in armour when there is no enemy in the way ; but I should still less like going naked, when a cut-throat is at every FLINT. Corner. FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR—Your loyal, spirited, and excel lent Correspondent TaNax has fallen into an er ror in stating that Earl GROSVENOR subscribed to Horn , — llis Lordship publicly contradicted that report. JuOging from the whole tenor of all the productions of TENIAX. I am persuaded that he will be the first to rejoice in the opportunity of correcting any mistake. Yoe.; Hotel, Nov. 3. - PHILO-TENAX. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. MEATRE ROYAL, DRUTIY-LANE.—The Beggar's Opera : Cap tain Macheath, Mr. Pearman ; Polly Peachum, Miss Carew. After which, The Three and the Deuce; to which was added, Two Strings to your Bow. EATRF, ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—The Tempest: Pros pero, Mr. Terry; Ariel, Miss M. Tree. After which, The Forty Thieves. KING WILLIAM LAN:MD—A Holiday at the Bank, Exche- quer, East India, and Spud} Sea Huuses. MAILS. ActßivEo—i Dublin, I Waterton!. Dug-1 Waterford, 2 Lisbon, 1 France. HIM! WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Motninq, ciff minutes after 4. I Evening, 53 minutes after 4. TH E SUN. soLcm QUI! , DICERE FALSITI AUDEAT ? LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1819. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Monday last. None were to be published on Tuesday, on account of the Festival of All Saints on Monday, when the Offices of the Journals were all shut. The following are extracts : " l'Ants, Nov. I.—The King yesterday, after hearing mass in his apartments, received the Dignitaries, several Nlinisters, amongst others those of War and the Marine, the Ministers and Councillors of State, the Marshals, and the Spa nish and Neapolitan Ambassadors. His Majesty transacted business with the Count Decazes. " Mademoiselle was to have been baptised on Thursday, the day of the te'te of Monsieur, but on account of the Court Mourning, the ceremony is postponed. " Marshal the Duke de Reggio has been since the 21sr ult. at his estate of Jeandlteures, in the department of la Meuse. " Cornelius Sakavonta, and his troop of Oneidas, set out on Friday ha Havre, to embark on board the Seine, in order to return to his country by the way of New York. The receipts not being equal to the expenses, this Indian is unable to pro long his stay in France, whither he was brought at the expence of a French emigrant, formerly a GJrde-du-Corps, residing at Oneida, whom it has cost about 20,000 francs to procure his neigh bours the pleasure of seeing this Country. It is to the generosity of Mr. Gallatin, American Mi nister in France, who has advanced the money for their return, and to the care of Mr. Barnet, Ame rican Consul at Paris, that Sakayonta and his family are indebted for the happiness of returning to their forests and their cabins. "'rite Frankfort Journal of the 26th ult 7 states, that the Countess of Gothland (Queen of Swe den) continued to reside in that city, whither she returned the 6th ult. " In virtue of a decree of the King of the Two Sieines, the following Note has been communi cated by the Minister for Foreign tl ffa i rs, to the French Consul-General at Naples :-- The Police is direted to forest, and cause to be conveyed immediately to the trontiers, all travellers of whatever nation who arrive at a Neapolitan port without passports, or with pass ports not vise'd by the Agents of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, residing in the places from whence they conic.' " The Prince de Ted!grand is expected at Paris Ibis day. " FRANKFORT. OCT. 24.7--It is said that the opening of the Congress at Vienna is deterred, and that it will probably not take . place till De cember. The principal object of this assemblage is said to he, to adopt measures for the purpose of giving the necessary developments to the de cisions agreed upon at Carlsbad, and published by the Germanic Diet. " It is still reported, but it is not known upon ‘vhat authority, that the King of Prussia end the Emperor of ussia will rot eed in the ctfursr of the eusuiug winter to Vienna, in older t o have intecTicw, w%;cli will be of the Oighest itam poi tauce. MADRID, 0C77. 21.—T . e ateen arrived here yesterday in the midst of the acclamations of the inhabitants. " The last Reports from Cadiz are as follow :•"" Death:. Sick. The 12th instant 95 10,73S -18th 14th.. AT PORT ST. MART. Deaths. Sick. The 11th instant l7 I Itt) IS 13111 II AT SAN FERNANDO. D! al . Sick. The 10th instant lB 11th l4 12th l7 VrENNA, OCT. 21.—1 t is now known, that all the Princes of the Confederation, as well as the Free Cities, will send here Ministers to the Congress, of which the opening is finally fixed for the 20th of November." As the removal of Earl FITZ vILLIAIK is still the subject of Party clamour, which is likely to con fuse and bewilder the minds of many of the pen pie, we conceive it to be a duty to the Pattqcst REGENT and the Government of the Country, to throw all possible light upon a circumstance which has produced, and is still producing, such all excess of factious misrepresentation. We took the lead in expressing our approbation of the firmness and decision which Ministers It! " 1 shown on the occasion, for the very circumstance , : of remaining on the Hustings, while Woo Leg, lIAINes, and other outrageous Radicals, occupied a prominent situation on the occasion, and the vast majority present formed a Radical Assemblage, indicated a want of judgment, a degree of delu sion, or an indifference to the high character of his local dignity, in Earl FITZ wILLIAM, which pro' perly drew upon his Lordship his removal frotn so office of great responsibility at all times, but par ticularly at the present awful and perilous rssa' anent. We were ably followed by our excellent Correspondent TBNAX, who discussed the subject more deeply and extensively, and vindicated the_ conduct of Government wills irrefragable argo' mews, in a Letter to the misguided Nobleman• We have since taken Extracts from The Leeds Irs' telligencer, and the Leeds Independent, which abif maintained the same course of reasoning. W. this day, take another Extract from The Yorkshir e Gazette, (see our fourth page), a Paper of recent origin, but supported by such sound principles and spirit, as cannot but insure it success amoos all true friends to the Country, its interests, ll ° honour, and its security. Our Readers will see by the Advertisemcnt is our front Page, that the Magistrates of La'' cashire are following the example so landabil held forth in other places, by coming f o rwar d with loyal energy in support of our glorious alit } unrivalled Constitution, the safeguard of ( '` lf freedom, and the temporal sanctuary of the 0 1 ' 1 / true Religion which Heaven has graciously becl3 pleased to impart to mankind. WARRINGTON, Nov. 2.—The most numer ol and respectable Meeting ever held in this 1 1 .0° took place this morning, in consequence of the Requisition to the Magistrates.—Jolty BE•A cl° BORNE, Esq. was unanimously called to the C 4 ' i. ' the duties of which he fulfilled in a manner creditable io himself and satisfactory to the ° s ' sembled Inhabitants of the Town and neighba dr' hood.—We lament our inability to do justice tcl a the energetic addresses with which he opened 5° closed the busin ess of the day. They were re' plete with sentiments congeaW with all 1 4°5 ( around him, and with the spirit and intention °,l the Meeting, and never was a Meeting conducte wiih• more unatrimity,—There were 250 sie l ; titres added to the Aldress (see our Fast Pag e ' before its retnoval from the Town Hall. From a Berlin article biought by the 1 4411 r burgh mail, we learn that the King of r - has published the Law relative to the Pet of aereed to by the German Diet on the 2 61 b September, and that by a second o rtlinatic e o f has promulgated the remaining Resolution' d. the Diet. A Cabinet Order of his Maje 3 tY' dressed to General HAIM:, and the Minister . 0 , GERSLE3EN, makes known the reasons en ns s was founded the Resolution to proceed 45- M. GOEREEI for his bolls. n ee' The repo: t 3 which ht, ye been circulated resrilee lag an intended new Palace for the Pc l24 9 6 , i ierf GENT, we are well assured, are in tnomt very erroneous, if not completely unfoullti— (Morning Post.) Yesterday his Royal Highness P t ince rAg°-eu visited the Duke and Duchess of Kawr at sington Palace. ger His Royal Highness the Duke of CL 4ll°- ta j iirs* tends shortly to pay a visit to the Port o'.'; Sir J. Gotta, and to the Commissioner, IStf Icioot' BattLow, at Chatham Dock-yard, whic li : flof el and being properly adjusted for Ws HiglinesEt4 inspection. 11] ►j 3 04 en,! 111j rn mid i tw o °lie Pow the titl e to c rest leaS , Port n CIA, in tI p t(lri csi~ t tel