The Sun. — London, England, 1817-10-22 00:00:00

LITERARY REVIEW. IPt.s.v , , (Toon <1 :h TINTE!.I; or, V-TE POOR `IgIAN'SVIS TORY Of ENr4LAND, from the Earliest Period down to the Present Tinre.—APPLEVARti, Asrtut:E, &C &C.'&C. We have . s?idorn ,pertisetl a work written with `more spirit, iitirikele'dge, 'learning, and "laudable intentions, than that .witich we .now present to the notice of (Alt Headers. lt is well-ittioWti, that the infamous Orators %Nilo have eodeavourett to excite a general spirit of instoreerion, to subvert the Government of this Country, and the mischievous Journals of the Metropolis, inflamed Fly the same wicked impulse, have con stantly referred to what they denominate " Our Good Old Times," to justify their, revolutionary -machinations, The Author of this Work, 'how ever, having chosen that name for his work, and Animated Iky a zeal for the British Constitution as It now stands, has ',induced a series of Papers under that title, in which he completely demon- strates the ignorance of those vile Orators, and as 'vile Writers, of the true history of their country. These Miscreants, in their call Tor Annual Parlia tnents and Universal Suffrage, referred to Good Old Times, and affirmed that our Ancestors en joyed these privileges front time immemorial. Our author, therefore, has entered fully into the subject, has traced the gradual formation of Par liaments, and fully shown that the British Consti- tutioo, as it exists at the present moment, has reached such a degree towards the perfection of a political system, as may defy the wisdom of man to devise a system better calculated to com bine the security of Government with the hap piness of the people. To prove that he was dis interested in his views, and far aloof from all pe cuniary motives, be first published his series at three halfpence a number, hut conceiving that his work •might be rendered more generally accessible to the interior orders of society, who are least capa ble of detecting the arts of seditious agitators, he reduced it to a penny, and he comprised his task in 28 Numbers, that constitute a faithful and most valuable body of historical and political kriowledge, which may now be had in com plete volumes, and which %se beg leave ear nestly to recommend to all ranks of the people throughout the British Empire, for we-can confidently assert, that it will afford instruction to the highest as well as the lowest parts of the community. We this day submit a specimen of the Work to our Readers, and conceive that we can JCS •14.0 ra••••t..y.-- - ••-", th a n by advising them all to possess themselves of such a treasury of historical knowledge and political wisdom. " Tb TI - IE PEOPLE: or ENGLAND. " FELLow COUNTRYMEN, "• the thread of our History was broken in the last Number, but our time was not lost in the in teresting details of republican atrocity, acting in the name of the Sovereign People ! We will now proceed where we left off in the former Number. 'e bad, you will recollect, got rid of the Protec tor, and left the Reformers hard at work, rivet ing; the chains of the poor, wretched, deluded People of ttgland, who were absolutely reduced to the situation of galley-slaves, as we have seen in the particular instance of the poor Blacksmith ; %%nit this only difference, that food and lodging are provided for the slave, whilst the People of England were left to shift for themselves or to starve ; their lords and tyrants, the sanctified and hypocritical Reformers, plundering them at plea 3nre, and fattening on the spoils of the desolated country ! " The ol►l Rump Parliament, you recollect, was again assembled, and reformed for the third time•; but, wicked and corrupt as they were, they found it necessary to act with more attention to the feelings of the People, now almost driven to madness by their wrongs and sufferings . ; though their only.object was still to secure all the power to themselves, to become a House of Sovereigns, by overthrowing the power of the Republican Leaders, who were now carrying their armies about the country, and fighting and pillaging at free quarters ; for by this time several of, them bad begun, in earnest, to fight for single sove. reicrity, and hoped to seize upon the Protecto rate or the Throne, whichever might best suit the views of the one who should come off victor 1. " "rhe tyranny and anarchy (says the Histo rian) which now equally oppressed the king dom, the experience of past distractions, the d rea d of future convulsions, the indignation against military usurpation, against sanctified hy pocrisy,--all these motives had united every parry, except the most desperate, into ardent wishes for the King's Restoration, the only re medy for all these fatal evils !'--(Hume, vol. vii. p. 315,) " A man arose to answer the expectations and prayers of the People.—General Monk, at the bead of an army, which had assembled Eton a ll quarters, marched to London, where, indeed, h e proved himself to be a Reformer int die true le gitimate sense of the word. Not in the cant of Republicanism ; not by misrepresentation ; not by irritating the bad passions of the People ; not by talking of his own honesty and virtue, nor by bolding secret cabals to involve the country in war and bkodshed ; but by opposing men who pro fessed to Reform, arid acted as Plunderers ; by exposing and punishing wretches who called themselves the Friends of the People, and became their tyrants and oppressors - ; by reforming a re formed Parliament, Wh:ch had o'vetahrown 'the• COnstitattioo and murdered the Sovereign, or der to. -. Seize upon the property and en:shire the Verso* of the whole coctutry !—by hulling nut 'invaders and 'usurpers, who had hypocritichlly. styled thetMelves the children of God, to oppress mankind, anil to legalize robbery and assassina tion; by :e-establishing Monarchy as the only lategnard of the People's rights I .—This was the • Reform of a Champion of Royiilty—of one who was to restore the Law, the Constitution, the Church, aiia 'the le g ltiMate Sove'reign ; to bring hack peace, and to identify Ott inreteats of the People with Kingly Government.—This was the Reform the People's honest friend-, Moak, had in contemplation, when Ire had the power, if he had chosen, to he as utter a tyrant as CrOtlltireli him self. lie addlesSed the Monk Parliament, the Runup, the Prair.e-God Barehone Pat Raiment, and reproacired them a ith their iniquities, their lying, their hypocrisy, their cant, their corruption, their o ppression ; and reluired, in the name Of his in jured and soffering Country, that they should give up their seats, and take immediate measures for assernblinii a New Parliament ! ' It would be difficult (says our History-book) to describe the joy and exultation which displayed itself throughout the city, as soon as intelligence was conveyed of this happy measure embraced by the General. The prospect of Peace,. Concord, berry, Justice, broke forth at once from amidst the deepest darkness in which the Nation had ever been involved. The populace, more out rageous in their festivity, made the air resound with acclamations, and illuminated every street with signals of jollity and triumph. - Applauses of the General were - every where intermingled with detestation against the (refortned) Parlia ment.—The most ridiculous inventions were adopted to express this latter passion. At every bonfire, Rumps were roasted ; and, where these could no longer be loom!, pieces of flesh were cot into that shape, and the funeral of Parliament (the populace exclaimed) was Celebrated by these symbols of hatred and derision.' (Page 3J,0.) " Never, never, my Friends, lose sight of the appalling fact, that this Parliament was a Reformed Parliament ; aye, reformed precisely on the model of our present Patriotic Constitution-moogers.— reformed to the exclusion of all influence connect ed with the King or with Peers ! Reformed so as to throw all power into the hands of the Reform ers themselves, who always usurp the name of the People, and to turn it directly against those for whom they profess so vast and prodigious an af fection ! No Borough-mongeriog, no purchase of seats, no influence of any kind in Elections, but that arising front the pure Election of the People ! This is the cry, the eternal cry of war-hoop and faction ; and you now see what the influence of the People, as it is called, is likely to effect for you. Hear tie huzzas, the cheers, see the illumi nations and bonfires of a madly joyful People, set free from the bondage and chains of a Reformed Parliament, and then think what a fate awaits you if you ever lend a hand to bind yourselves and your children down to this it on tyranny. It is the plan of. these miscreants to get rid of the balances of the Consttution, and thereby to overthrow it. — It matters little, as you have sects, if you have patiently attended to all I have brought-forward from our History-book, whether the King be ab solute, or the Nobles absolute, or the popular Democrats absolute. Confu,ion and tyranny will ensile from either and from all !—and those fac tion-workers of iniquity, who preach from the platforms of Palace-yard and Spa-fields, are a ea'l tomed by the same principles, directed by the same views, and press on towards the same obi ject as a single tyrant, or a body of Nobles who wish to seize upon the Liberties of their Country, have constantly done. It is only (I repeat fur the hundredth time) by balancing the three Powers of the State, and poising them in doe proportions, that peace, law, and liberty, can effectually Ist:se emed to the People of this or any other Country. This, the is isest and ablest politicians 011ie an cient world considered to be the most perfect form that could be de%ised by man. This, with all their wisdom, however, they could never effect ; yet thislfas been done in the single instance of our happy Country, and this our present Reformers, like their ancestors, of whom we have now been taking a view, would diSfigure and demolish mere ly to gain their own selfish ends in the plunder and desolation of the People, and in the seizure of all political power ! Like Satan when he looked 'into Paradise, they see that all is good, and their base passions yearn to defile, corrupt, and Over throw it ! But to proceed :—The new Parliawent, being freely chosen, spoke time voice of the Na tion in the return of their banished King, whose father they had seen butchered as a pretended sa crifice to their liberties, but ,those death they had fatally learned was the signal for their Slavery.— Charles 11. landed at Dover on his birth-day, and joy spread like wild-fire from' one end of the coun try to the other. A slave, set at liberty after years of bondage, could not express his gratitude and delight in louder terms than the whole' body of Britons on being restored to liberty by the re storation of their King. You have now - another opportunity of comparing the Revolutions of fac tious upstarts with those effected by legitiMate authority. The first steps of reloaming democrats ate invariably winked with blood ; their first acts, vengeance upon those who have opposed them it; their career. But though time People th emse l ves now called for vengeance on the King's murder ers; though the harassed and enslaved Nation, on shaking off their fetters, looked. forward with hope to the punishment of their tyrants ; Charles, with very few exceptions, forgave all, and passed an Act of Oblivion, in favour (,f his enemies.— The greater part of the rebels were simply dis abled from holding offices of trust ; amid this, you will agree, was not a very unnecessary or a very harsh measure, especially as men of this descrip tion are always for turning out Ministers, at all times, whom they dislike for their loyalty, and banishing them for ever from-his Majesty's Coun cils ! Some few of the King's bloody Judges were brought to trial and condemned, but the greater number were imptisoned only. This, with sonic few measures of precaution, wete the only severities which followed such furious civil wars and convulsions."—(Vol. vii. p. 354 ) (To be continued.) TilzArttzt It ISTE R. Perfiiimrd Taral. Nr":rh . t. I; 11eg:cars' 04) , 111: Maelwath, Mr. 'l'. (;.,“I,c; Aftcr I)augtitt.t. TttEATnE I:OY:tI,,toVENT-(4Atinr.N S'toops tivemnquer: Youtsz Marlow, Mr. C. ; Misa liardcastle, Visa Brunton. Lifter which, C)•nion. lattsvtv-- - ) Giterhsey rind .h•rs,y, 1 1 Waterford. flux-1 Gottctiburgh, I Wattfrivrti. I'IIICE 1)i sTocKs Tins I,AV AT r !Ar. Loc. Bank Stock,.... . - .28,21 2851 Bank L. ,Ann. 20 15-laths 21 3 per Cent. Ai India n0n.15,.. 1008. fats. pr. 3 per Cent. Con's • 821,1 0 1,1 Exch. Bills, l B .s. 325.1 a. per Cents. • . 93:14 I Cons. fur Nat'... B 2lii ,5 per CiAlt. Navy Ann. 10714 E EYTON, Stack-Broken; Cornhii, and 19, Coventry-street. I-11G11 WATER. X • l' LONDON BRIDGE vi-moitttow. Nlurning, 59 minutes after I. Evening, 24 minutes after I. THE SUN. 110 LEM QUJS meEtte FALSUM AUOILVI ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1817. The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which were due this morning, have not come to hand. In a Second Edition of our Paper of yesterday it would be seen, that the authentic accounts re ceived respecting the movements of the Spanish Troops do not in any way confirm the- report of the Invasion of Portugal. An Evening Paper of yesterday asserted, 011 the contrary, that there appeared reason to believe, from the contents of son►c of the private letters from the Peninsula, that tl►e Spanish Troops had entered Portugal.— We, however, confidently rely upon the correct ness of our statement of yesterday, and which will be found in another column. DISTRESSING NAVAL NEWS. We. copy the following from The Dublin Evening Post of the 'Sit' : " The Lyra ship of war, hoir.eward-bound from India, put into Bantry Bay yestr•rtlayt in want of provisions, having been for some time On reduced allowance, and had, when she reached the Bay, only three days' supply. Captain HALL arrived in this city to-day, and communicates the following distressing information :—That to the south-west . . be had taller► in with upwards of .300 vessels, all in extreme distress for want of previsions, owing to the prevalence of easterly winds for ,so loot a period having prevented them from making any point of laud on this coast. Athniril HALLOtVELL, we underitand, has ordered oil all the cruizers and other disposable vessels that were in the har bour to their assistance." NVe find that another Prisoner was yesterday found Guilty of lIIGH TREASON at Derby.-- We cannot but lament that disloyal Mis creants, by their ina.tnimat'iiry speeches, have thus heated the passions and corrupted the minds of these deluded men. At the same time, with every impulse of rational huManity, we cannot but feel indignant at the attempts of the Opposition Writers to excite a feeling of false compassion towards the culprits, who are rather treated by those Writers as the victims of tyranny and injustice than as criminals who have joined in a Conspiracy to overturn the Go vernment, and involve the Empire in blood shed, and all the horrors of a Fiends Revolution. CORN-EXCHANGE,sOCT. 22.—We haft few fresh Arrivals with 'Wheat this morning, and Fine Samples, both in Wheat anti Oats, were taken off on full as good terms as on Monday ; Fine Bar ley, Grey Pease, and Beans, are full as dear ; iii other articles no alteration. WINDSOR, OCT. 21.—Yestertlay the Duke of York arrived at the Castle, and paid a visit to HER MAJESTY and the Princesses, and afterwards returned to Oatlands to dinner. • This morning Princess Auoci-A, attended-by General Sir BaEwr. SP ENCRR, and other attendant s, rode ant on horse bad: in ll'indsor Great-pat k. Princess SornlA, with her attendants, took an airing on horseback in the Little-park. GIBRALTAR, SEPT. 29.—" By accounts from Fez, it appears that the .Emperor of Morocco, notwithstanding his previous determination to cut. off all communication by land With Algiers, has permitted a caravan to pass into his States, which circumstance has induced still more rigorms ince sures in the quarantine department here." Lord HOLLAND still- continues confined by his severe attack of the gout in France. The mo ment the state of his Lordship's health enables him to travel, the family returns to England. There %via be a Court. of Common Council to morrow ; in which it i., expected the sermon of the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, which has already been the sphject of discussion, will be taken into consideration. i tt t h e mi c h of bnas Cattle Fair, held h) [layer fordwest, on Stiirday, the 18th inst. there was a larger show of all hints of cattle than has been kuown for many preceding lairs, the whole of which weat. off unsulnincittly brisk, and at ad• vanced juices, tIII I s N VV Ou'r. 'll.-Arri . ved yesterday 'the Leicester packet, Uapttlio from Wit tvrford, alitl sAild file tat n ttflett ocket, 30sEt.ti NutTAtt., for Wdterford, both with mails anti passengert. Pot in the Antelope Revenue cutter, Captain GREKN, With the loss of sails ; also pnt the Wellington, t ' ARISH, from Chtpston , for tireavock. OcT. 20.—Arrived !he Sand*ich packet, Capt. POTTER, with the mail and passengers from Wa terfoid. Remains the Shark, from Trinidad for (ire'cliock DEAL, OCT. `_'l.—Carne down frorn Abe Ritter, and sailed, the Atlas, for Madras ; Sappho, for BOtnbay ; William Harris, and Tranley, for Ja maica ; William, for Leghorn, ; Cambrian, for the Cape of Good Hope ; John Baker, for Naples; and Alexander, for New Yolk. FALMOUTH, OCT. 19.- , Sailed the Francis Free ling packet with a mail for the Leeward 1513thIS. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 21.—Arrived fte Char lotte, - EimEsr i from Boordeaux for London.— Sailed the Elizabeth for London. PLvmouTH, OCT. 20.—Arrived the Economy, SUTTON, and SWlitSOre, TREMAYNE, from Ala laga, and Jolion Otto, SCHIERWIRST, from Bout-- dcatlx. HARWICH, OCT. 21.-- ,, Sailed the Auckland and. Beantoy packets for Cuxhaven ; Thetis and Char lotte, packets for Gottenburgh—all with mails also about 350 sail of coasters and colliets to the North ward: GBAYF.SENO, 21.—Arrived the Britannia, Stranack, front Ostend ; Mary, Major, from 1-lamhurgh ; Sisters, Dycr, trona Rotterdam.— Sailed the Progress, Talbert, for Yucatan ; Vir giuia, Fisher, for Virginia Lucy, Cullen, tar _Madeira and St.Thonius's;" Marianna, Thornton, for Malaga; Lucy, Jenkinson, for Petersburgh. Sir TitomAs B. MARTIN, Comptrol!cr of the Navy, accompanied by Nlr. SEPPINGS, title Sur eyor, and other Commigsionerl of the Ntley guard, are daily expected upon a visitation at the New Duck Yard, Pembroke. ELECTION OF MAYOR. • Saturday last, being St. [Julie's, Day. the elec , . Hon of Mayor for this borough commenced at 10 o'clock in the morning. TuomAS CASE, E q. Froposed by SAMUEL STANIFORTH, Esq. and se conded by JNo IIouRNE, Air. tclANtoNr) then nominated J NO. BLUNDFLL HOLLINSHEAD, q. which was seconded by Mr. J. 11..STAWERT. After the usual prcluninary husittes bad breo gotte through, a short coi.versalion took place al to which bar the poll should begin at, and it be- ing decided in favour of th , it occupied hy Mr. t To t ,. LINSISEAD, the poll comtneuced itibout halt-past IU o'clock, which continued without the least inter mission till within a few tninuies of P 2, at night, when the nillitbers stood as follow : Mr. (';lst' - - - - S2O Mr. Fh ! llinsbead - - - But as the'clock had not struck the hour of twelve when these numbers were atnionneed (the usuat time of finally closing the poll for Mayor)`, and Mr. 11311inshead having another tally at h.s bar ready for polling, the Returning Officers, under these chcomstances, dill not feel themselves jus tified in closing the poll, or Of proceeding to take the suffrages of those llK'n Mr. nollinslicad haft at his bar ; they therefore adjourned the poll till this morning at nine o'clock, when we understand the contest %yin be renewed. We never witnessed a contested election carried on with greater spirit or animation than the one of Saturday last, and without the least riot or tumult of any sort, ‘‘ , llich we trust will be con tinued in the sante spirit to the close of it. It is 20 years since the contest for Mayor oc• copied more than One day. In the year 1797 the election lasted till noon of tbe third day : the candidates were Thomas Staniforth, Esq. and Jos. Brooks, Esq. the latter being put in nomination without his knowledge. The following is the state of the poll on that occasion : Mr. Staniforth. Mr. Brooks. 328 29.1 251 61 Oct. 18—t ht day -- V ditto - 3d ditto - 857—Tot al 936. The number of freemen polled on Saturday ex ceeds any former occasion by near 600: even in those years when the poll was kept open till mid night. In 1802 the number polled was 1061, and in 1803 only 995,, A Corres'pondent informs us, that in 1727 the number of freemen who polled for Mayor was 1280, being for Jim. iltighes, Esq. and Thin.. Brereton, Esq., 628.—(Liverpool Acicerlizer, Oct. 20.) CLOSE OF THE ELECTION. Extract of a Private Letter.—" The Election ter minated at about one o'clock 00 Monday, having been retievred at nine that morning. The numbers were—for Mr. CASE, 1020, and for Mr. HoLutis- READ, 912. The result is very satisfactory, in.! a3MIICII as although both Candidates belong to the Loyal Parry in Liverpool, there is reason to believe that Mr. HOLLINSHEAD was chiefly sup ported by the interest of the Jacobins." Seven of the persons confined in Worccster poi, for being accessory in some shape or other to the late riots, were on . .Vednesday fully com mitted for irkl at the next . Assizes, charged on oath " with feloniously and riotously assembling and destroying the boildings, feoces, /thd other property of John and t\ri.thatn Edmunds." Ano ther man confined on the SA me charge was held to hail for his good behaviour, and a boy was discharged. EC We ace() t It (Mien has hioveni, MIT tviiich 1 Neut v effect,il hiovetn tst ram tide red are no% lieve t forces iented, it mow' kVere h by no tion. have b of Spa place, aeon a to dist consec contes DUK' of Alohii the E am! I! fords, lle3Se' h the to lii asses uhicl dr-C tunic M. r re U. a vis Gros tiny, who► $Oll3 then Dov of I' w ill SUC( 13i1 of g for Wit the dri to ye