The Sun. — London, England, 1817-10-01 00:00:00

'ELECTION OF A LORD MAYOR. doriog the whole of '.7es 'tertlay, :211i1 'close d at Have o'cloCk, when, the I , eir.g Crowded to excess, the state of the pdtl `o S titchirtql s Aldf.rma Smith 606 Alderman Atkins !Flit erlynr. . 371 2 , 1 r. Alder: an Goodbelleie , When the 'name. of Mr. , Akderatan Smith was ;pot up first upon'the list, there was a great deal of hissing, • and. senclemerritnent was excited Irons •1 he circutost ce, 1 - tiat:t he 'value of the Alderman tw ee spelt eietiht inset:et! tif Smith. Mr. Oef - viee stood hieweeiel to :address the Meet eing, and-observed,- that from toe result of the poll at eppeared that theeLiveey. were pursuing 'the - course Which best became their liberality, consis eney and judginente e , 1t .was declared distisectly -rat the last elect Ma, theolrjeot of those who tought the , re-clecr ion ()le/lie...Lord Mayer was by me m e ans 'political e this ivas the stun• and sub stance of-the, statements of. thOs*- who Were 'th'e promin e nt• advocates of- his Lordship upon that occesion e and according to the principle thus pub licly be was happy to perceive the• -very•disposed to act ) for very little of party feel. Ing had been manifested in the course of this days. poll. The• Livery had thus, while they must be -aware of their etrength, felt the pro,' • pricey. of making a liberal- and moderate use ' o f .. it—they_ had. considered that ,the . duties -of a Chief Magistrate of this City had no refer ence to politics, but to otherobjects, and especially • ttejudicial functions, for the performance of which -be was satisfied that Mr. Alderman Smith would be found folly competent.—( Hisses amid some.ap pleuses.)—Much bad been said about liberty yes terday, but liberty was, in his conception, -of generous views, and the power which belong td to. it- would never be exercised by any judicious advocate in such a manner as to endanger the principle itself. Every tyran nical dispositiou was inconsistent with that principle, but it was VVidCilt from the result of :the poll that this disposition was not so . prevalent • n 3, some persons appeared to wish—((neneral hisses end some applauses.)—He expressed,his readiness •to bow to the decision of the Meeting, and his disinclination unnecessarily to take up their t hoe.— • (The hisses still contined amidst cries of " who has been the best bidder for the. auctioneer ?" • who has knocked down the quondam reformer ?" he is gone—gone—gone.")—The Honourabl e - Ceative:lair retired from the hussings amidst loud laeghterand general hisses. Mr. livrerrENS began by expressing his surprize that Mr. Alderman Smith had tort come forward to thank the Livery for the suppine they had been pleased to give him. He had always understood that gratitude -was a virtue which ought. to belong to every individual nho had obtained time support rted approbation of his fellow-creatures. Oil the part of those gentlemen • who hail no argument r ot e ti on to sepport their. cause, but who could - appeal only to the • plain I/ oderstandin ! :s .of tire 'people brutelisguised language; no tricks or con • trivances had been used, whil e n o pains had been spared by the advocates of Mr. Alderman Smith to advance his cause. Committees had heels som e - nenetl, awl every exertion had been made forehis 7-sopport. So extremely anxious were the Alder= `into who had nut yet passed the Chair to sup port that custom of rotation, which ooght long ago to hare been scouted, that they bad, he understood, even themselves formed a Committee to support ethe tweeting cause.—(Cries of shatne.)—lt hail - .been said that this-was not a political question.,. He denied the assertion: it wi:s a most important quest on. - The Only point at issue was, whe ther the Livery would have Lord Castlereagh or (.tannin ; ; for their Lord Mayor.—(Cries no,. no.)—lt that were then the sense of the meeting, he would , venture to declare that Mr. Aldermen Smith and - Air. Alderman Atkins were the true representatives of them both. Every measure which they had brought forward had been supported by then); and they were only the -etii . gies of those two execrable men. Did be now 'ad , dress any of the Gentlemen of the Livery who were advocatt.se for the income-tax ) Vol not Mr. Al . derman Atk inS support that inionitous meashre with all his iothience "i—e(Hear 1)-It was well ItooWn that it, was time intention ot government again to impose that accursed tax, and thus deprive the peo ple of the last property tlnit remained in tilde hands. It W3S only the cringing courtier, and the pam pered attendant upon the Throne, oho were en ' tumbled to eojey their. luxuries, while the poor peasant and ;starving mechanic were beggars, de pendent softly upon parochial support. After haring touched opon the private character of Mr. Alderman Smith in terms of the highest enco miums, he celled the attention of the Lively to the - state of the poll. It did not, lie said, amount in all to miner more than one thou sam! voters; and it was - to be recollected, that this was only the second day of polling, and - that there were inure titan ten thousand voters in time City of London, typo could at any time come forward anti. support the advocates of freedom.— H e did, not, therefore,. feel extremely melancholy upon the occasion, .and he'trusted that the Gen tlemen of the Livery would show that 'the hopes of the other party were visionary. Wooernt said, that there teas - not much ne cessity for. eritering into any m i nute observations, atter what had already been said by the preced ing speaker. If.all the exertions and endeavours w hi c h had been made by .the friehds of Mr. Al derman Smith and Mr. Alderman Atkins to trd vartce their cause were taken into considelation, the state of the poll presented nothing discourag ing to the cause of freedom. Ernharked in a cause to be so vitally im which teas on alt bands agreed ',meant, it was the duty of every who was tree to -his country to pursue the course, wider all circumstances, - and in all seasons, stead- fa - stly and manfully., • however discottr;►ging the • prciNpect might appear. There were, it was to be tecollected, four or Eve regular barracks in this great city, from whence the Commander in Chief 'could march any number of, men according as it S inigUt.shit hislporpusts: from these - barracks the troops might proceed in detachments - ifs' they were required ; and lie had no doubt but that if the friends of Air. Alderman Smith exerted themselves, . • • (hey Could hilve compelieti all 111( . 2 Men 'ender their . orders to have conie forward and given their votes on the first day of the election.—(Hear !)—One reason indeed might be assigned why the voters on the popular side did not come forward, that it Was not expected after the success of the former struggle that any Gentlelll4ll would presume to place himself on that list front whence he had last year been driven with so much shame. It had (seen remarked by the Gentleman who pre ceded hint, that Mr. Alderman Smith Ought to have remained- upon the hustings, and returned thanks fur the support the Livery had given him. Mr. Alderman Smith kitear his interest better than to retort., tilankS to those who had rendered him nu service, and had gone from the Hall to dis charge his debt of gratitude to those to whom it was really owing. Mr. W. next adverted to what - h a d fallen from the Gentleman (Air, Oliver) who had first addressed the Livery. That Gentleman, he said, had been once a staunch Reformer, but had-now changed sides, and had become an aris !tocrat, though advocate of another aristocrat (Mi . . Alderman Smith), who was also in 'his younger days a Reformer, but who had hi his older and his wiser.years become a decided Tory. These two Gentlemen had changed sides, and ap peared determined to support each other. through all dangers and difficulties. With this specimen of-treason, 'what could be expected 1. The friends - of liberty bad no places, pensions, or salaries. to - give away, they could only speak the plain language of truth ; but these Gentlemen were not to be persuaded by such language, they replied -that they knew all that could be urged on that side of the question ; they had tried it, and found -that it had not answered their expectations. 'These Gentlemen knew their interests better than to re turn to that side of the, question which they had so honourably deserted, and to leave all their hopes of preferment for what they called outward show of honesty. It had been remarked by the Gentleman he alluded to, that no reason could be assigned for opposiug Mr. Alderman Smith. The Aldetman professed, that if he should he elected to the Civic Chair, he would serve his felloav-citi act's with integrity, independence,and talent, and relers back to his career for the last 30 years as a proof of his possessing all these good qualities. What taleat, integrity, or independence that Gen tleman had shown, he would leave the Livery to decide : but, for himself, he was vet y lunch inclined to think, that the sum total of all his talents, in tegu ity, and independence for the last 3) years, would be exhibited in the next 30 hours alter his election to the office for which he was a candi date:—(Laughter.)—'f he argument which the ft iettds of the worthy Alderman should have used, if they wished to support his cause, ought to have been, that Mr. Alderman Smith had not, in his preceding-career of lite, shown his independence, integrity, or talent, because lie had reserved it fur a more important occasion, and that lie had now a stock in hand of 30 years' accumulation to de vote-to-the set vice of his fellow-citizens.—(Ap plause alit! laughter.)--41. this plea had beet) ad vanced, there might have been some•reason for the support of the Livery, as the magnitude of the price "night be supposed to excite the languil and lateat •virtues -of the wortlyy Alderman. But, in - fact, the- only species of independence that could possibly he expected from hint was an incle &ittlence of •the people. It required no exertion to obtain• this spirit of indepeadence, no talents, and no integrity. . It was not rotation which in such-a : ease at this ought to be attended to; the -authority rests& entirely with the Livery, and be exhorted them by all-the means in thehapower -to guard against the ellCloachmcws tafaasthority. if, indeed, it were admitted that• no important duties were to be performed by•the Lord Mayor, then he would gladly agree that Mr. Alderman Smith was a fit anti proper person to fill the of , lice. if it could he said that the Vessel of State , was lying in a calm, with the sails furled, and the sailors with nothiug to do but drink, then the worthy Alderman might. in safety command the crew. In short, if there was not hiug to do, none was so fit as• Mr. Alderman Smith to fill the chair, But the contrary was the actual case, and the in fluence the Lord Mayor had in the city of London was a matter of cottsiderable importance. The iends to Freedom had to contend against a weak bat formidable Administration, at the head of which that arch-fiend (pointii,g to the statue of Mr. Pitt in the Hall) mice presided.—(Here the tumult in the Hall was so great that Mr. W. was prevented front speaking for a considerable time. -A few hisses were heard, but they were overcome by the clapping, and other Masks of approbation. After the lapse of a few miatnes he continue(l.) The cause must be weak indeed that could not venture to hear facts stated. Vie people might as • well attempt to hiss that statue (pointing to that of Mr. Pitt) front its base as shake him front his purpose, He repeated, that the weakness of the present Administration hail driven it-to acts of desperation, and it was the duty of every true linglishnian to endeavour to repress them. Ile would not . disguise. it front -any one that the ta s k undertake!) was arduous in the extreme. They bad not only to oppose their enemies, but to.encour a age their Ittkewarm. friends.- However peat might be their exertions, and however much they might labour in the advancement of the noble cause, one thing should never be forgotten, and it would crown their bold endeavours with Ito nour,—that it was more glotious to fail in the cdase they advocated, than to steered in the cause they opposed. The Hall-was then adjourned until.to-morrow, (this (lay.). A voting man of • Keadby, in Lincolnstire, bar. ing b - eeti:in a poor state of health for a consider able time, -and nothing hat• he took appearing' to relieve hinr,:Stated his arse to one Matthias Pep 'per, of Crowle„- Lanier of some note ; the lat ter advised him to drink in. a - morning a quantity of rate dyke -seater, i. c. water wherein:green flax has - undergone the putt•efying proeess,.for.the • Space of about ten days ; he did so, and in a short titne•passed a worm -ot the species called ttenia, or tape-worm, - which measured eight and ,a half feet in length. • Sunday night the back.promises of . - Mr. Large, en.aclk-intiker- in Long-acre, were feloniously en-, tered and robbed 91 a pair of curricle harness and' (Aber articles ' I'itOVINC : L . \ ' l, ..;OURNAL§. , • . liar t b ‘-. follOiVing pertlitent, and sett amiable' remarks, historical illustrationi, whith Wet npplicahle at the present i.iontent, we are intlebletl to tr!* , ..! feeds Intellitencer Of the 29th u lt .. - " It is rurions to that complaints of. the distress.es of the limes, of the Misconduct of ru lers, of the declension of lie:lA:mai poiver. and prosperity, of religious and mi n depravity , and even of inferiority in bodily vigour, of emery sue, ceeding genet ar iou, while it was a present 0,0 ration, have been the favourite theme if every gloomy declaimer, of every weak or disecintented mind, of every Cynic and every enthusiast; in all countries amid in all ages of the world. " Smith, in his celebrated work, 'The Wealth of Nations,' b. ii. v. 3. ingeniously traces the chain of incessant complaint and despondency, fa bricated by a certain class of political writers iu this country : The annual, produce of the land and labour of England, for example (says he). is certainly much greater than it was is little more than a cehtury ago, at the restoration of Charles - But though at present, I believe, few people doubt of this, yet, during that lung period, five years have seldom passed away, in which some work or pamphlet has not been • published, written too with such ability, as to gain some au thority with the 'public, and pretending to demonstrate that Um wealth of the nation was fast declining, that the country was depopulated, agriculture neglected, manufactures de caying, and trade undone. Nor have these publications been all party pamphlets, the wretched offspring of falsehood and venality; many of them have been written by very candid and very, intelligent people ; who wrote nothing but what_ they believed, and for no other reason but because they be lieved it.' " He then goes on to show that the situation of Engliml was much better at the Hi storation than at the accession of Queen Elizabeth, about a huudred years previous. " Again , that at Elizabeth's accession it .was richer and more prosperous than it was a hundred years before that period ; that even then, its con dition was superior to %vita it had been at the Norman Conquest; that at the Norman Conquest it was better ,than during the confusion of the Saxon lleptareby ; and, even at that early_period, that it was certainly a much .more improved coun try than at the invasion of Julius Cwsar, when its inhabitants were neArly in the same state with the savages in North Auierica, and about which pe riod, by the way, an extensive trade WAS actually carried on, in British Slaves, by adientitrit'Stror4) the Continent. " Every succeeding age, however, has been:agi tated by the complaints of the credulons,. the dis contented, and the designing. The good old times,' has been in each the conVenent and la conic, but vague and absurd mode, of imp!ying that all had been prosper . pus, and happy, and vir tuous, and well, with their forefathers,, and that all was miset y, and calamity, and vice, and ruin, with their descendants. Yet when you re-trace the connection of future prophecy, present cOin plaint, and posthumous admiration, you find, that at each step the time which was present -was al ways, in paint of fact, better than t bat which preceded it, though its possessors lamented its evils so loudly; and thus you go up, through the times that are past, arriting always at worse, and worse, and .vorse, instead of better and better, till you reach the highest ages of vnticiuity, and ob berve that the highest possible degree of igno rance, ferocity, and wreteheddess, were their at tentlauts and bentirge. " Such is a brief glance at theitind of spirit, and complaint, and propheey, of political writers and declahners, in this country. " lint the same result attends a similar observa tion of every description of d e spo n di ng dis contented characters in all nations. HoracF :was of opinion That ,inanintl had become - More and mote vicious-down to his time; and that the ge neration which was to follow him would he . worse than his own. Juvenal; who lived long otter Ho race, thought with Horace; that mankind had been always degenerating, till at length, lie as serted the vice and infamy of . his own age were,so complete, that: it was impossible mankind. could get worse. Several centuries after Jtivenal, how ever,. we find his tiLsie spoken of with admira tion,' as the age, comparatively', - of reason, tind,:f virtue. " Homer thought men were once so mmohniore vigorous than himself, that he mak-es each of his heroes stronger than any t wo of his cotempora ries. Virgil assures us that twelve chosen men •could- not have carried, iu his days, the-stone which Timms dung, with easy vigour . and forie. " Credulous narrators and dis Contented de claimers have been the numerous -offspring of every age, and designing demagogues and dis turbers have been not less numerous, from the earliest period of history to the present time: " But the bawlers after popular rights are ge nerally, when in power, the greatest tyrants. The Hunts, the Waithmans, and the Cobbetts, are creatures indigenous to -evert soil -and climate. The history of the world - presents them in every page and at every will. That of Syracuse contains one illustration -so apposite, that if the Reader, while perusing the following abstract, choose to change the name of Dionysius for that of a -well known noble Patriot of -the present day, he will find a history of our own times, acted-upwards of -two thousand' years ago. " Diunysius imps ached the Magistrates, as at tempting to introduce an Oligarchy. • - His speech', which was t=ntire!y levelled against wealthy and powerfulcitizens, and there fore agreeable to the humour of the people, set all the assembly in a flame; the people, - already incensed against their commanders, being more exasperated by . the speech 'of Diot4sius, forth with deprived them of their commands, and named others in their room, -among whom was Diony.- sins. Having gained t h is step to preferment, he began to consider wit-It himself-'how he might have his colleagues turned out, and -the whole, command of the army lodged in himself. With this view -- he never joined in any council of war 'with the other commanders, nor imparted to them- , his resolutions, giving o u t, t hat h e dorm not Ito* them, and that they had more at heart their own interest than the welfare of their coantly. lie was thus by degrees paving his way to the throne; lite_tost pi:Went among the citizens-, be, log well apprised of his wicked designs, compilin ed of his proceedings to the senate and tnagis-. trates, fin . ed Lin; F;s (ilstut'l)er di( peare. ACCOrMng to the Igoe wa• to he pain before he eciuld Spe4. io and Y.)!nuy.- sins wits . 4 nOt discharge ti ereution t ,rfiitstus the ilif•;torian, a in ,n llf Meat- wealth, tint otilY.1!.011 the lice for hi m: I ) ,a cnvottra4ed hini to speak his mind ft eels, as it became n Lesbos citizen to do, offering to pay all the fines th 9 eY slipiald lay upon him. Dionysios„ beini; thus supported by the wealth of It rich citizen, and the favour of the people, as be was an eloquent speaker, bitterly itiveiAlied against those, who, on account of their power or in iercst, were iii recondition to obstruct his designs; and by degrees brought them into disgrace with the people. " Thus ids things succeeded accordinc to his wish, DinnysiuS, from a siinple notary, as Diod;irus forms us, raised himself to the sovereignty of .the greatest and most opulent ci t y o f Si c il y . " Syracuse, from one of the most flourishing, powerful, and free States of the time, groaned under the tyranny of Dionysins and his successor; till she encutintered the ,worst strokes of wretch edness and degrad at io n ; an d was at l engtEl, oft her emancipation by Timoleon, re-peopled by the beneficence of other Greek States—a-sad and in structive example _ of the danger of popular delu sions, tint( of entrusting power • to • der:la:20;111es whose ambition advances . upon the abuse of pei sons in atit ls ritY, and the subversion of the iu stitntions of their country. Dionysi , is kept in constant pay, for the preservation of his ill-got: ten power, an army of alitindred thonsand foot and ten thousand horse, aria a - itavv of four butt tired ships ; yet, such were his criielty Mutt his crimes, and such, lo consequestee, the terrors Lis guilty conscience, that, though at the head or all this force, he slept in a tied sorrounded• by a deep trench, across which there a as a draw_bridgx he durs: not submit his head to the of a barber ; but used to 'burn It is beard ; and he tue4r admitted even his wifeandellitireo to his prese!ce without a previous examinath ? n of !Leif - go.unt:Tiri, lest they should have arms concealed about their persons." AG RI CULTUR &e. MONTHLY REPORT FOIL SEPTENMEIt. The lingering Harvest occasioned in a great measure by the. unequal ripening oft be Wheat an 4 soft corn crops, is- clearly closert:in the Horne,.and Midland Counties, exc e pt f ur Beans, a great breadth of which remains abroad. In the Nor ibern Districts most of these crops are still uncut -for- want of ripening weather. The new Wheat, _too hastily got up, and threshed out, have, froar their cold damp state,found an unprofitable market. Many stacks thus rtin up in bad condition, having, heated, have been taken down.— The Bader( that did not plant regularly shew an onerrnit sample, which is too generally the case.-r- Oats are a lariat crop, and in most parts' in (virility : time Fens of Lincoln; Hnnting.drnic-aud Cambridgeshire have newer experienced a lattgee produce, 'Tice Beans are in most parts- foitaul lective, particul ai ly i n Kent,• where the horse hoeing system rarely fails the Pent Redilishers being. unusually .foul from -the wetness of the; summer wlll considerably retard their being sowti ailth Wheat. On the Hills in Gloucestershire and Adjoining parts svhere they sow earlv - tirt 3 lands, new sown . Wheat appear to plant Clover-seed is not likely to prove -a el.( p.--- Potatoes every where rise well . linp s trill /o tit average a tenth part of a crop. The Cider Coain irit:s of Devon and Herefordshire, Bte.. are without fruit, except in a few ‘vorn7 garden grounds. 'Fla Grass Lands are generak shot t of feed, btu the Turnip and CHeseeds are every where alp:D.! !tit ; and Lean Stock of most kinds are in constkpie::ce got or in price. Sheep and Lambs at the late Lewes and other Southdown Fairs have advaoeca 11111.15 per cent. Cart-horses and Colts arc toncti dearer. The Wool-market has experienced sud den rise since our lust Report of 6d. per pound ja fine clothing fleeces. Smithfield hating had a shot supply or two, has occasioned a brisk demand Or prime Beef and Mutton at more money. lit other articles but little alteration. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, 'fuEsumr, SgPT. 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