The Sun. — London, England, 1819-10-13 00:00:00

TO THE MULTITUDE. LETTER U. You bear a vast deal about Mr. Flusis wis• dom, and spirit, and patriotism ; and about his underlings also, who are almost as wise, as spirit ed, and as patriotic, as their master. But, my good friends, there is not in all this one morsel of originality; it is nothing else than a close and bumble copy, taken by a very inferior band in deed, from the Radical Reformers of four cen .turies back. You shall judge if it be not. In the year 1381, JACK CADR, JACK STRAW, JACK MILLER, and some dozen other such JAcKs,. being set on by persons of higher rank who chose to keep their own necks out of the danger, called together the Sovereign People against the King and Parliament. They announced a Meeting at Blackheath, for the discussion of their grievances, and the consideration of the best mode of obtain ing redress. Two hundred thousand Radicals at tended : and the Parsou HARRISON of that day-- PRIEST BALL—delivered a sermon ; the account of which I will translate for you out of the Latin of the old historian XVALIINGHAM g‘ To impress his doctrines upon the multitude assembled at Blackheath (where two hundred thousand of the common sort were assembled) be commenced his discourse in the following manner : " When ADAM delved and 7,VE span, Who was then a Gentleman ? " Ile 'then attempted by the words of this proverb, which he bad taken for his text, to prove, that all men being in the beginning created by nature equal ; servitude was introducer) by the on . just oppression of worthless men, contrary to the 'will of God : for, if it had pleased God to make servants, he would have settled it in the begin sling of the world who was to be the servant, and who the master.—They should consider, there fore, that Goo bad given them the present time; in which, having cast off the yoke of servitude, they might, if they pleased, enjoy their long de sired liberty. Wherefore, he advised them to take heart, Hod with the diligence of a good hus bandman, tilling his field, and cutting and rooting out"—There's a Radical for you !—" the noxious weeds which over-ran the corn, they should make themselves ready at the instant ;—first, by slayirg the great Lords of the Realm ; then, by destroying the Lawyers and Judges that, afterwards, they should turn out of their land all whom they knew would be injurious to the future commonwealth. Thus, they might obtain peace for themselves, and security for their descendants ; if, when the great folks were cut off, they might have among them equal liberty, equal nobility, equal dignity, and equal power." Now, my good friends, if you can find one flower of Radicalism, which Orator HUNT, or Parson HARRISON, or Doctor WATSON, have not picked out of this Posey to adorn their own hot-bed, I will fairly acknowledge them more eloquent and more ingenious than Priest BALL. You will say, however—and very truly—that in one point the Priest and his Jacks have not half the merit of your Leaders ; since the commonalty of that age were really in a state of oppression which—thank God !—we have never known ; and which our just and merciful law has long abolished. Much less applause is to he given to the describers of real sufferings and provocations, than to those skilful Orators who can work up fancies into realities.— The Physician, who ascertains and relieves an existing malady, is not half as ingenious as the Quack--praise be to Doctor Watson !•—who makes you feel yourself. ill by the very smell of his drug. Priest BALL obtained his object too—for the time being—inasmuch, says the historian, " he worked so well or. time mob, that they voted him by acclamation Archbishop and Lord Chancellor." What a noble example for you to follow I beg you of all loves to make Parson HAR RISON, at Captain TstrsTLawooo's November Meeting, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Orator HUNT, Lord High Chancellor !—I dearly wish that the Priest's preferment may be patterned in all points : for Putarr BALL. WAS HANGED. His Reverence, however, was not the only Spouter. The other Jacks had their share of fine speaking and fine writing; which was circulated among the lower orders as cheaply and as actively as the blasphemies of our modern Ultras. I will extract a few of these choice morsels for you ; and I am sure you will think them at least as emphatic and as intelligible as the twopenny trash of HONE, CAELILE, CORBETT, or SUER WIN. It may be my bad taste ;—but I protest I like Cie lucnbrations of this Reverend Priest and cumrogues as well as any speech I ever heard, ev e n of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT'S, Mr. CAM floacrouses, or Sir RoBSET WILSON'S. The first is from the Pt first himself ; who found it his mnvenience, for some reason or other, to take the alias of JOHN SHEEP. Joast Stiaer, sometime Sa - int Mary Priest of Yolk, and mow of Colchester, gresteth well We received this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday last. The Moniteur contains a. Royal Or donnance, directing that the young soldiers of the classes of 1816 and 1817 shall juin, and be corporated with the Legions of their respective Departments.—The following are extracts : " Prt's, OcT. 10.—Yesterday Marshal Gott vion St. Cyr, the Minister at War, paid hia re spects to the King, and remained nearly half an hour with his Majesty ; his Excellency appeared in good health. The King also gave a private audience to the Count Barbi Marbois. At two o'clock his Majesty proceeded to tbs' of JOIN iNAMELEiS, af►(i JOUN THE i\ILLLLI, and JOHN CARTER, and biddeth tl►em that they be waie of GUILE IN BOROUGH, and stand together in God's name ; and biddeth Pleas PLOWMAN go to his work, and chastise well lion Tits Romig'', and take with you JouN TauemAN, and all his fellows, and no more." You must understand, that this rastoral charge WAS written nearly tour hundred and fifty Meats ago ; and that " Hob" is not a diminutive pet name for the aforesaid Mr. lionuovsE, hut a safe sort of slang they had of denouncing Thu KING: just as the Manchester Seripturalists call the Pitt NC.:Ei REGENT 4 ' Rell0b0811)." And pray obsei ye the " guile in borough."— The handiciatt,men of that day were to leave their needles and lapstones, for the discussion of state grievances and the reform of rotten bo roughs! To be sure.—And so should ours !-11 we had a score of Members for every county, and half a score for every town, and a new Parliament every year, and a vote for every man Jack, these suffering patriots would no longer be tailors and coblers. Then came JACK MILLER with his poetry. — lie, 1 suppose, was the father of the White Hats. Alas ! there is nothing new under the Sun ! " JACK Mlt.LEn asked, help to turn his mill aright. " Ile hath grounden small, small ; " The Kinp's Sun of Heaven shall pay far all. " Look your ►vill go right with the four sails, and the post " stand ►n steadfastness. " With might and with right, , 4 With skill and with will, " Let might lirlp right, " And skill go before will, " And right before might, "Then goeth our mill aright. " And if might go before right, " And will before skill ; • " Then is our will mis-a-Might."—(set wrong.) You will observe here, and in the next speci men, the same canting stile which those of your modern Radicals affect, who are not yet blas phemers of God's word. And now fcr JACK CARTER, who is quite a casuist, I assure you, and talks as learnedly about the end of Reform, with as laudable an indifference to its means, as any the most practised Ultra of the nineteenth cen tury. Pray hear hint JACK CARTER prays you all that you make a good end of that you have begun, and do well and aye better and better. For if the end be well, then all is well. Let PIERS the Plowman, my brother, dwell at home and (light (Trepare) U 9 corn, and I will go with you and help, that I may, to (light your meat and your drink, that yon none fail. Look that /Yob Robber be well chas tised for injuring your grace; for you have great need to take God with you in all your deeds. FOE NOW IS TIME TO BE WAR." Can Smithfield or Palace-yard go beyond this . ? Surely, friends, when UuNr presides at the next Meeting, you will call for something new from his Ora:orship ; instead of the old trash of Sedi tion and Treason, which has been said so much better by the ancient Radicals. 'fell him, I pray you, that the White Hat fitted old JACI. MILLER far more handsomely; and that your forefathers had better reason to Cie Priest Balls' Jacks, than you have to be Henry Hunts' Jack-asses. I shall write to you again to-morrow. PERTLNAX. THEATRICAL REGISTEIL Performed Last :17{ , At. MILATRE ROYAL, Da trar-LANe.—The Honey-Moon the Duke Aranza, dr. ElliQluu ; Juliana, Mrs. Edwin. After which, The Innkeeper's Daughter. Tut:A - rat itorm. ' Covxi4r-GAtenv.N.—The Steward: Principal Characters by 111 r. Macreadv, Mr. Jones, Mr. W. Farrel, ; Mrs. Davison, and Mrs. Giblis. After which, The Gnome- PRICE OF THIS DAY AT TM Bank Stock ...... 219 't 219 3 per Ceut. Itcd...tifii (Pi 671 3 perCeist.Cous.6Bi4;9t;Sal SI per Cent, 77e 71;8 STOCKS P. LV l'. o'CIA,CK. Bank Long Annuities.. 171 19 India Bonds .... )(is. pr. Exela. Bilk, id Is. dis. Is. pr. Minium l4 pr. Ditto Parn►ent Cuns.fur.lcc...oBi 69 4 per Centi • 8') - ; 4 I 5 per Ct. ary ICS E,ll HAILS. AtintvEtt-1 Gottroburgh, 1 IJamburgh. WAlrrturil, t Gottetiburgh. HIGH WATER A'T LONDON BRIDGE 'TO-MORROW. Nl.ortiivig, A minutes after U. I Evening, Sd minutes after 10. TH E S UN. lOLEM . 44U1S DICER6 rnt , U3I AUIEAT ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1819. L - diutillg, Where tlie princtliNl fill ISIS Wig sewed to him, to whom his Alajesty addressed many ilatteeing expressions. " A report was circulated yesterday evening, that a great number of Deputies have signed an Address to his Majesty, in which they protest re spectfully, but energetically, against the admis sion of M. Gregoire to the Chamber of Deputies. " The celebrated Dr. Gall has, it is said, re ceived letters of naturalization. " A Letter, dated from Port-au-Prim., con tains the following extraordinary intelligence, vliich we give without guaranteeing it. it will be recollected, that the last expedition f r om En g land, in favour of the Independents, left the British perts the eve of the day on which the Foreign Eniistment Bill was passed. This expedition touched at St. Domingo, where it appears they learnt the news of the disasters of M‘Gregor. A separation en sued between the adventurers, of whom three or four hundred, guided by two French Of ficers, the brothers Marbot, made prisoners the force at Santo Domingo, and rendered them selves masters of the whole of the Spanish part of the Island of Santo Domingo. The success of this expedition of free-booters, is not beyond the bounds of probability, but the intelligence re quires confirmation. " The Chamber of Accusation of the Cour Royale, has referred to the Court of Assizes of the Seine, which is to try them at the neat Ses sions, M. M. Doumere, bookseller, and Reg nault Warin, the Editor of the History of The Hundred Days, which was lately seized. FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday 7O 1. 15 c. DEFERRED STOCK Of the 22d March, 1817, 1 1 2 f. SO c. 22d Sept. 1817, 12d March, 1818, 22(1 Sept. ►BlB, B6f. ao c. MI March, 1819, B4 f. SO c. 22d Sept. 1819, B2 f. 80 c. " FRANKFORT, OCT. 4.—The censorship of the Press is in full activity in this City, and in several other States of the Germanic Confederation. " It is believed, that the King of Wurtemberg will request at Warsaw, for the new Constitution of his Kingdom, the guarantee of the Emperor of Ru!sia, which it is probable will not be refused. " Assemblies and Public ntes on the 18th in stant (the Anniversary of the battle of Leipsic), have been forbidden throughout Germany. The ,celebration of the Anniversary is to be confined to the Churches." We yesterday announced that a PROCLAMATION, for convening Parliament on the 23d of next month, would be published forthwith, and in con firmation of our report, it appeared in The Gazette of last night. The Public will agree with us in considering this measure of assembling the Le gislative Bodies at this momentous crisis, as a proof of the wise policy of Ministers. The People must feel confidence its the security of the State when its essential functions are in operation ; and the alarming strides of Atheism and Sedition cannot but induce the hereditary Counsellors of the Realm, and Representatives of the People, to co-operate cordially in guarding the political fa bric of the Country from the assaults of those miscreants who are attempting to rise upon its ruins. It is a truly lamentable circumstance that, in the Ttial of CARIALR, yesterday, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY and the high Judical Character who presided, as well as other distinguished Cha racters who were present, and indeed, the whole of the audience, were obliged to listen to the blas phemous trash of the infamous THOMAS PAINE, which was read in the Defence. It is still more lamentable that the curiosity of the Public should render it necessary to circulate the Reports of the Trial, because the offensive passages, so abhor rent to the principles and feelings of every good mink must necessarily be diffused all over the Country. Hence the mass of unreflecting men, who are always disposed to listen with eagerness to whatever will justify the indulgence of their passions, may be ensnared by the horrible doc trines of Atheism, and not have an equal oppor tunity of knowing how completely they can be, and are, refuted. We have this day given, but with much regret, a copious account of the Proceedings on the Trial yesterday, as it was our wish, that since the Trial must be submitted to the world at large, some measure could have been adopted to prevent its being given piece meal, that when presented altogether to the Public, the antidote might accompany the pcison, as well as the decision of the Law, which, we are persuaded, whatever it may be, will be fully warranted by wisdom, justice, and equity. Since the receipt of the intelligence of the death of the Duke of RicntdoNo, the 35th Regiment, of ‘a hich his Grace was Colonel Commandant, have appeared in mourning. The nth ate at preicnt quartet ell in Cut k. 1•14 - 1.{.1 (SECOND DAY.) This morning the Defendant appeared in Cou rt soon after nine o'clock. At half-past nine di e CHIEF JUSTICE took his seat, and the Jury lovi' 4 been called over, Cara.me addressed the Cour t ' observing, that " be hoped, in the former Parts "( Mr. Paine's Age of Reason, he had satisfac torily proved to the Gentlemen of the Jur/ that free discussion was the object of the Author of the Work, and that it was the propaganoo of truth, and not a desire to vilify or bring into die' repute any Religious Establishment that had in' duced the Author to write the Work in question: . lie should now proceed to account for the Nell' gious Opinions of the Author.--[(Here a long ex' tract from PAINE'S Theological Works were read , giving an account ufa Sect called the Tbeopbilathro d pists, a Sect of which PAINE was a disciple in Paris at the period of the French Revolution.)—Cant.ul resumed, and said, that he should now proceed 10 read certain passages of the Book called " Tbs Bible," of which the work complained of W$ said to be an investigation. Mr. ATTOENE" GENERAL objected to its being read, as it won't' be the means of disseminating other libels, wilich was a course that could not be tolerated in that Court, and referred to the opinion expressed in (be case of WILLIAMS, in the year 1797. in this the CHIEF JUSTICE concurred, observing, that ig € could not, as a Judge and a Christian, permit th e Christian Religion to be vil;fied, scoffed at, 0 4 ridiculed, through the medium of a defence vered to an information in that Court ; he 1 01 most anxious that the present defendant shoul d have every latitude, but he must keep within bourols' CARLILE then stated he would pass over th e Bible for the present, and proceeded to read 1 011 % extracts from the Koran, without any particula r fact occurring, except its shewing there was difference of opinion between the professors 01 that Creed and Christianity. Having finished, b e produced a book, which he stated to be writtf° by Sir William Drummond, and which coincidei with the opinions of Paine, he proceeded read at considerable length, until be can° to some passages of the Book so outrageousif offensive, that the ATTORNEY-GENERAL 41 ' jected to their being read.—.CARLILE said, " I f lam not allowed to proceed in defending my o ' in my own way, I had better not proceed ; it if to me that the issue of the Trial is of coni c : quence, as the Learned Attorney-General O P seemed to have left Lim out of the qaestioo.'''' Cu lEFJUSTICE, " YOU may proceed,and I am: ol4 to interrupt you, but it appears to me I 61104114 b i guilty of a great misdemeanour, if I sat in this Coe / as Judge, and suffered the Established R e ligion the Country to be traduced and vilified, thro4 ll the medium of a defence; conduct yourself, S' f ' with moderation ; I have no objection to hear opinion of the Gentlemen of the Jory.'• The 1 0/1 here expressed that the defendant was not clui° 4 himself any service by reading the passages ° Sr jected to. CAltLlLU, after some further perseveran c° to read the passages, consented to pass them 111; After continuing to read some further extra ct from this work, be had again recourse to the Bible, which CARLILE began reading, but wb iP. was again objected to by the ATTortNey-Gcatce ilfd supported by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL.- ge o a long controversy took place, in which CAS,: Lug contended that there was no law 1 England to prevent Blasphemy; and s i contended that the Act of Parliament, O f° monly .. called the " Unitarian Act," repealed the Acts of the 9th and 10th of William and gird ItO and made Deisni pert of the Law of t • Land—[l-lere the defendant entered int ° loud philipic against the Bible, describing, g as**** * * * * 0 0 ' * * * Mr. GURNEY stated, that th e 1) 0 ject of the defendant was to get publicity t° defence, which was worse than the libel itself' CaaLme proceeded to quote the cane of Gallilco, , and stated his determination to prontutgli ,- (CARLILB'a) opinions, believing them to be-r o in defiance of any attempt to prevent hitu.-40 line of defence he appeared to be pursuing, n' s . l ,l* estimated, front the frequent necessity of re ° / ing him to keep the proper line of defenc e ' tb It may be proper here to observe, ale - .1 ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, he should Cs ar S the Work of Sir V. Daustmostn, above a ltd oi# to, as proper for a prosecution, should a P ti ti os cation of it be attempted. —At the o r', OM" Retorter left the Court, CARLILE W Bl siting his defence. Ilis Grace the Archhis l “ i ll i tte CANTERBURY was in attendance the whole 0 o bi morning, but did not take his seat on the De " a OU P , MILFORD HAVEN, OCT. .—Lly --ccores which have reached us front Ireland. we reg'ooo state the loss of the Albion, WiLsor 4, e , Antigua, for Liverpool, some little time sinrceotil which melancholy accident the Captain anti !; 1 , part of the crew suffered, together wit viere NtcHot,t,s, Esq., and two daughters, rib' ) passengers by her. 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