The Sun. — London, England, 1817-11-01 00:00:00

1 HE L0..1) MAYOR'S CHAPLAIN. TO MR. '«AITI-IMAN Slll,-1 am mite rejoiceo totod that 'ciu hive been (w , •eliletl upon to restoke your place in Council—(tlns swim's well)—and it., threat o' be'eo moperleded by a to keep odr - Otlier,;, ixtio weee ti) anxious to stize •tupon the -seat of populaiity vihiCh yon hail va cated. Yon, no dotibt, like other great men', .diienNtred rite fatal truth, that past .services a•ri, speedily forgoasen, and drat V 7ott had Versereted in your repeatedly professed determination of shutting ,up si,op (I mean in Common Hall), yoo would,-at the approaching General Election, hare been clean forsaken by the herd who were at) well satisfied with new Tribunes ! I perceive, bow. ever, that in resuming your public functions, you have taken up a new office, antlaince Mr. ‘VcroLza and Mr. Iluatt have assnthed the political depart• meat, you have most laudably established your self Spiriti al Conservator of the Rights of Citi zenship, awl Jccretary for the HOME DEPARTMENT Of MORALITY and RELIGION. There is no saying to what AO extent this new scheme may be carried wider your superintentling auspices, and If ever those days of perfect Reform, which dance so brilliantly befe,re the eyes of your friends and fol• lowers, should arrive, we may hope to see the freedom of speech, when not applied to the right side of the question, duly curbed, and the blessed times ast an IMPRIMATUR restored. Nay, as an immediate,step towards this halcyon period, it is to be hoped in future, that upon all vacancies which may occur in City preferments, the candi dates may be compelled to undergo a due exami nation, toliching-their fitness, at your episcopal residence in Bridge -street, and that the Bishop be interdicted from induction until these testimo nials be signed at least by your Foreman, in your .absence ! I need not, to a man of your clear perceptions, explain that this Letter is occasioned by the proceedings of the Coma non Council .on the question of a Vote of Thanks to the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, tor a Sermon, Ste., &c. Of Mr. Bomstead, • who opened the commission against the offending Chaplain, I profess to know nothing beyond his name, which, from its peculiar struct are, might, in the Shandtait school perhaps, he thought ominous, but which I rather conceive to originate in a much older school, and to haste been adopted as a Cognomen, to imply either that . the learned Speaker's Head is where his Tail should be, or that you, my good Sir,'are the bread, and he, to express - it facetiously ; your sit ting part. Be that as it may, his name, coupled thus, or any how, with the Head of the Linen-dra pery Faction, becomes of importance; and having, through intuition, or from immediate contact with your nobler part, ascertained that the Re verend Preacher had no motive either of charity, good.w ill towards his Fellow-citizens, or pa triotism, in what he had uttered in his public discourse, he itnmediately decides that his object was the purchase of Lawn sleeves; and having in terpreted this somewhat too literally perhaps, from the quarter which first insinuated it, he very good naturedly recommends him, iu the way of business, as a customer to you. That you re sented this piece of folly and misconception was clear, from the magnanimous manner in which you threw off the Trader, and attacked the de linquent Parson at his own weapons. Yes, Sir, you fought him upon his own ground, quoting Scripture, (as we find in Scripture itself, another most powerful Reformer c.in do upon occasion) against him ; you beat him out of the field— " With dritm Ecclesiastic;" and there is no saying what might have been the consequence of this burst of pious indignation had the offender been present. No doubt, a man who was possessett of sufficient effrontery to avow the strange doctrines he had uttered from the pill- -pit, would have presumptuously opposed his opi nion to yours—have taunted you with being ". a mar) of tuany words," which Solomon despiseth, or have further affected that wise man, who main- tains, that " . a fool's lips enter i n ti) contention, and his tuotith called' for strokes !"—fiut, bless the poor man, he never would have been beard out—such doctrines are not to the taste of men who are contending for their rights, and Solomon must have known little of what the wisdom of this world was to consist, when he put such opi nions upon record. There is, nevertheless, one topic of your speech which might perh a p s h ave been omitted without injury to the " Good Old Cause," not that I would imply the possibility of injury to you, by any thing you can now or sh a ll hereafter say—but it would have been as well, as it appears to me, to have slurred it over, as it must naturally have gone against time grain—nr, • in other words (which I k►►ow to be a very deli- care point with you). agaimt your conscience.— I perfectly agree with you (tur I too am a Livery fatal) 1) that a Parson—nay the whole box!) , of 'Parsons, 'Might to hate no Op;Ilion el- voice, 'orie way or timelier, upon political subjects ; what have they to do with the fans hot to ohey them— but an trigument pressed too far cuts like a two• edged sword, Had tint tinfrequently recoils upon the front of the assailant. Ii is true that a Par son should be a passive antomaeon, never looking lie,yond the lt ohne, or presuming to otter advice upon temporal matters, but if we push this opi nion hom e up o n thetn, sante of these refractory hlaek-coats may take it into their wise heads to retott that a Linen-draper his nothing to do but to atteml to his - due measure of stay-tape and hockram; to how behind his counter, and bet.. rangur upon the merits of Manchester stuff, or a sintiggled shawl! 'chat he is Ott of his elenient when he shot., up shop, and mounts the rostrum as a political Speaker ; aunt, after a long-life spent in iisrertaiciing to a penoy tile value of a bale of dowlass (filthy dowlass) or of a piece of Gingham, that lie is lit le fitted to lay down the, law of -na tions, or to affect the character of a Solon or Ly ciargus, in reforming the State at home. No of fence; my good Sir,—l mention the possibility of such a term t, which, upon neutrals and unthink ing persons, might produce some effect ; and you will recollect, front the honk which you and Mr. Bunistead have so thoroughly digested, that " the measure Frith which you mete, it shall be measured to you again." Fortunately this is not a trading maxim, and if I am rightly informed, the.autho rify is of no great weight at Biackfriars,.bowever useful it may be at Guildhall! There is perhaps another point which might excite animadversion—not ,from auy defect of princilde on your part—that has long ceased to be matter of dispute—lna as affording a handle to the " Sons of Corruption" (as our dear exiled friend tibed to call tl►enm) to impute improper n►o- tives to,us. - Now this wicked Chaplain, it ap-, pears, only recommended obedience . to the laws, which, by the bye,, you know we cannot deny to he one of the most emphatic ;I)j:suctions connected with our social duties in scripture, and has cer tainly, though perhaps foolishly, 'ocen considered as the first duty of a subject by every constitutional man who has ever written or spoken upon the subject in this country. Perhaps it was going a little too far (in public I mean) to charge hint therefore with a deliberate intention of aspersing the character of our most solemn Conucil for it might be inferred (maliciously I - grant you), that either you and the whole band of Linen.drapery Patriots maintain that the Laws should not he obeyed, or that you have been doing, or are doing, something which is likely to he subversive of the Laws altogether ! Now, I know that no thing is further Iron your contemplation, pro vided these said Sons of Corruption would but see your Merits in their true point of view. It, indeed, they continue perversely-blind, they must take the consequences. Yon have: fairly given them warning, and your . great prototype,JouNNY WILFLEs ('bough, by the bye, he •was a geode- . man), %vould perhaps have incited down the mace. and burnt all the Chaplains in if he had not locked to enjoy, what in his first outset ap- pearcd at an initttensurable distance from his am bition. 1 say, 1 know all this—hot the Itanhle does not know it—and the Quit - law:6, and Ale, house Poiiticiazs do r.ot even suspect it. It •is not prudent therefore, I repeat, to open a loop h •)le which. way let in daylight upon the real mo tives of your daily efforts, and splendid ()rations ! Rarer upon the failure of your tvvll-laid plan of Gity . Representation ! The poor Alderman fell a - sacrifice to the manceovre, and your fortunes were baffled by a coup de main (1 might say a coup de baton), when you thought them most secure ! Such things may happen again. 1 cry, therefore, Prudence, Prudence ! I say nothing of the event of the late State Trials. It everts better not to abuse the poor victims of our seditious harangues. They stick to HUNT and HUNT sticks to Us—and to shake him off, without bursting the whole Bubble, is impossible. We must sink or swim together ! We should, therefore, , profess to Pity—not stigmatize them. I regret ako, my good Sir, the necessity under which 1 doubt not you laboured, of throw ing out a doctrine which is in its very nat ore and principle congenial with all we have pretended to arraign and reprobate iu the practice of our oppo nents—those Sons of Corruption. If the City Chaplain 'really thought what he said—if he felt it to be his duty to state his opinions, by what sort of authority, taken even irons our own Code, wetlo s pretend to silence him ! As for political sermons between ourselves, we only - object to them, you know, when they tire inipudenly op posed to our own schemes. I speak confiden tially. You remember the old Gentleman in the large whiff;, who properly smoked the Ministers in his own way ; and though I did not pretend to understand above one half the anglo-grecisms of his macaronis Rhapsody, there was enough in' plain English, to shew what he would be at, and we hailed the Doctor as a proper claimant for the lawn, whenever we should gerthe tipper hand, if in our wisdom we did not dispense with the lawn. altogether. It was, therefore, I must say, goirtg somewhat too far to sanction by a public avowal a principle which goes to gag one set of men, and clap a padlock on their opinions altogether, whilst we claim unlimited license of speech for ourselves ! It is true, indeed, we never suffer any intruder to be heard in our Halls and Councils, who is disposed to thwart our measures or oppose our schemes, but these have nothing to do with principle you know. Principle is what we talk of, and not what We do—and if we contradict our own principle in words, there is a strong chance of our being exposed for inconsistency. You, indeed, who are so learned—and so used to con quer knotty points in controversy, may have some notions in reserve which, my humble capacity cannot reach ; but. it appears to me that if we propose gagging the Parsons, others way turn the arguments against ourselves, and set at work to gag us; for it is • beyond My i parrow view of the rule of right to discover, why a Linen-draper or a Chandler (which•l humbly profess myself to be) may leave his shop to spout politics all the week—and the Parson be denied all allusion to them on one day, in tike discharge of whit he con scientiously believes to be tiffs duty?—Why you, ur i, my good Sir, may convert our counters into Rostra to set the peovte by the ears together, and our-Chaplain or Rector be (killed the privilege at peace and good Or(ler to Isis adito . l3, atia.somMenting the prayers appointed by his i':uhric against Seditiuft., Privy Crnspitacy. and !tette!Hod ti"—P6r it must, alas, he i'eeed lected that we have riot yet got these Chnrchmen doWn, we irate not yet redteeed them to a state of nonentity, we hAVe not yet been able to open the door to the Roundheads, nor swept them away with the beSont of destruetion, as our weeping and winning friend over the• bridge, who like Judas is ready 16 betray his own into our bands, proclaims to be . our duty ! This rentaiiis to be done—but till it is done, Pstsims Ate men, and men will talk in a black coat as well as in a jacket and apron ; will dream ut rights--even whilst we ate seeking to overthrow them ! Indeed, upon 11;e whole, I cannot but think we bate got upon slippery ground. tile may give the alarnt, in bur over-zeal, too soon ! There is an awkward story about seven Bishops who were sent to die ToWer for meddling with politics. We are surrounded by ene.rnies who may infer a parallel—and com pare the principles of tyranny with the thirst for Reform. In short, there is no saying what may be urged against us by men who have the audacity to insist that Demagogues, from the beginning of time, front Satan downwards, are the bastards of anibition, that we, like our predecessors, care not a rush light (pardon [be illustration) for the peo ple or their rights; that our sole object is to get what we can, under these false pretences, and to rise, it possible, front selling slops or buckram, to title in our coaches, as Placemen, or Pen- L .sioners, or any thing to lift us out of our native mire ! Against such vile calumniators, (who, between ourselves, must have been behind the scenes to be so devilish knowing) it is prudent and politic to guard. Pardon all.this gracious Repre seutation, of what JOHNNY WILKES, who knew what he was about, called the nonsense of the City, and keep this majoi ity, if such indeed it be, compact and undivided against the expected disso lution. It would be hard, having so far matured your schemes—to be thrown out at last for the display of a little petulence or indiscretion. I grieve, ou looking bark, to find that what I in tended as a panegyric, has,. from an accumulation of petty objections, swelled into wbat might be maliciously construed into a censure upon your first essay, in the discharge of the new and int. ! portant functions you have taken upon you. It strikes me, therefore, that all things considered, and as few men are horn to shine with equal brilliancy in two spheres at one and the same time (1 might say three, and dub you Trisme gistos, including all your vocations) that it might, I only throw out the suggestion, that it might he adviseable for you to enter into a compromise, for the sake of keeping all the parts of the machine together, with our worthy and tried Patriot, Mr. Wooler—the two Hunts, that is,, the new Edit). burgh Reviewer - (emit Jupiter !), and the out single speech Orator (Oh Gemini !), Preston, and Hone, to take upon•thcm the department of Re ligion and Morals, whilst you resume business Upon the old stock, which is totally independent upon these ; double vour advertisements and puffs for Shawls and Refotin ; measure tint and Plush by the. ell' French; supply your customers even-handed with Norwich Stuff—and Common hall-Stuff—with Ann-bast and Bom bazeen, and make dlr. Bum-stead your L'ore-omen as well as your La/ter-math 1 am, Sir, Ever, Your best Ally an►l Supporter, CORINTH BRASS. NEXT FRIDAY THE LOTTERY WILL COMMENCE DRAWING.;-SIX PRIZES OF TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS.-MORE PRIZES THAN BLANKS. I' On Monday next ►ce shall insert the rias'r of a Series of Letters on the Catholic Claims. The adinii able style and spirit with which they are written cannot fail to be highly interesting to the Protestant Community. The QUARREL of TOL MONTHS fur THE ROYAL INrANT, on Monday. For PROVINCIAL JOURNALS, and QUEREC SitlyNNG, see th,e Last Page. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last 11, 7 tr, , 1tt. • THEATRE ROYAL, DR urty-LANE.—The Beggars' Opera Captain Macheath, Nlr. T. Cooke ; Polly, Miss Byrne. Af ter which, The Fall: of Clyde. Ti, F..ITRE ROYAL. COYENT.GARDPN..—The Apostate: Malec, Mr. Young ; Florinda, Miss O'Neill. After which, The Bee-Hirv. • AtiftivED--Dnblin, 1 Waterford. Dui.--2 Gottenburgh, 1. Haniburgli, I Guernsey and Jersey. ALL SAlNTS.—Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, ..East ludia and South Sea Houses. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 44 minutes after 7. I Evening, 9 minutes after 8. THE SUN. goLE3I QUIS FAUSLIM AUDE.%IT ? LONDON, SATURDAY: NOVEVRER 1, 1817. We have again to announce the non-arrival of Paris Papers. Two days' Journals are now due. The execution of Brandreth, Turner, and Lud lam is fixed for Friday next. lreightnian is re spired for a week beyond that period. The rest of the Conspirators are respite() also, iodefi o iti ve ly, that an examination may take place as to their several degrees of atrocity, anti punishment be awarded accordingly. • (From the New York Commercial Adrerticer of Oct. 7.) BOSTON, SUPT. 20.—The lion. WARD CHIP MAN, one of the British Commissioners for ad justing the boundaries, has arrived here in the sloop Duke of lVellington, from St. BALTIMORE, Sorr. 26.--1 t is now generally be lieved, that our Government are about sending a Secret the rbtriotS "of Anarira. yak the desigu, ol- object Mission, it is in Vail: cOnjecture; tent It unity. lead to imp`ortaut re utts , is, we thinit, very evident. SEPT. 27:—lt is already known, that in . .rune last, CrßsAit IL Itorrt:ntit, JOHN GRAHAM, and WALTER JONES, Esp - t. *ei.e appointed, by the Executive of the United States i Commissioners to proceed to numb Arnetiea, for purposes whicle Lave been Kttliel• kitessed at than folly explain ed; Thes‘e Coniblissionera were to have sailed kr the Hornet, hilt that vessel having been found on trial not well suited to accommodate them, and other Circin)6tance:.; having Occurred to, cange delay, those Gentleinen did not proceed on their thisiion at the time contemplated. A subject of ionic moment has been started for public discussion. Some weeks since an itllusioh was Made in this paper, tb the circumstance of a rumoured negociation between our Government and that of Spain, for the exchange of the terri, tory We chimed west of NacogdoChes, for Florida. The National Intelligencer seerns to countenance the suggestion. "An Inhabitant of Louisiana," has conic forward to attack the principle of such negociation, and to show the importance of the possession of Texas, in comparison of the " sad dy" slip of Florida. . The essay is written with ingenuity•—but how• ever just are his ideas of the importance of Toots, he has underrated the value of the Floridas.— " Sand !" Is it the only characteristic of that region ? Is it net of great value to us a'S em bracing the mouths of the. Mobile and Other rivers ? As comprehending some Indian tribes, whose mercenary or vindictive tomahawks fri:- quently drink the blood of our brethren ? As furnishing depirts for an enemy, and the means of attacking some of our Southern assail able points ? As presenting :future harbours for our marine, in its operations in the Mexican Gulph ? as furnishing a large supply of valuable live oak for our navy, stores of which we are at present purchasing ? as containing several tracts of excellent quality ? The fact is, we want the Floridas and we mast hare them. Is any time more favourable to this object ? How long shall our just claims be put 04 by the insidious arts of DON °NIS, his master ? Month after month, and year after year have ws petitioned for redress ; but front some frivolous , pretext or other, they have contrived to evade oil( import unities. Delay breeds danger. LIAVANNAII, AUG. 31.—The Independent ph vateers are very numerous at present in this. quar ter, and have taken many vessels under the Spa. nish flag, and plundered several Dutch, HAT , . burgh, and Bremen vessels, but we do not hear of their molesting either English, French, or Americans. The frigate Sabina is to sail for Ca diz to-morrow with 4 or 5 millions of dollars. A Dutch Mail arrived yester►lay, by which WC have the following corions art icleof - - PETERsnuttGit, Our. B.—The Russian Asiatic CompanY has acquainted the Governmetr, that its ships which last re turned from China have brought the account that the Empe ror of CISINA wishes to sec at his Court Amilassadors froo , foreign Powers, .on the same footimr ;is at the Courts of F,o rope, in order to !Jeep up constant diplomatic relations with them." QUEBEC.—By letters from this City, dated the 23th of September, we learn that the Commis sioners appointed by Government, continued it the vicinity of the Red River, investigating the causes of the dispute between Lord SELKIRK the North-west Cumpaoy. The trial, which hail exciter,. general interest, was expected to take place immediately at York,. Upper Canada, that town being selected for the convenience of wit" ncsses, and it ,was reriorted they would be very' numerous. The letters add, that there was in , doubt the whole matter of dispute would ulti mately be referred to the Courts of England, bni , that it was necessary to establish the facts of the case in Canada.—The accounts from Americ' ~state, that in less than six months the Florido; be under the goverment of the United States; for that a Treaty between the American Govertv" ment and Spain, respectine. the cession of those provinces by the latter, will be sit/unified earls next Session to •the consideration of Congress' The price to be paid for those extensive countries is reported to be five millions of dollars. GENERAL ELECTION.—Beside !Jr. SHIPPERV . SON, General Sir GottnoN lluommoND is uV' mentioned as bkely to offer hintself,lttE th e City of Dtaltn, at the next election. iu Newcastle, o. e have rumours in abundance about who is to be our future member, as Mr. ELLIsoN, it has bee" said, would decline. Those twined as solicitoo 4 for the vacant seat are Sir T.,BuunoN, Mr.Scolf' the son of the Loan CHANCELLOR, and Sir J0t. 44 SwlNßlinN E. It is exceedingly improbable tl' the latter Gentleman will offer himself, as b e 10 1 been frequently invited to stand, without :0 4' The currency of these rumours timplestiottabN l arises front the general dissatisfactio n expressed s 4 Mr. ELLIsON's conduct On all the popular tions lately agitated in Parliament ; and there no doubt of a candidate of independent princiPk succeeding in this town, in the event of a'conteit' (Newcastle Paper.) • • W!e have before mentio ne d p ersons w ho to‘-- „.04 to offer themselves as Candidotes for the COOO f Y of Cork, on the next General Llection. and 0 1 : following, we understand, are also likely to stet . ' on the occasion :—The Hun. \V' Smyrn NASD, JOHN TAI3, and,Joseeu D BAN F RELN AN. 1?;. qt's,