The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-02 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

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c; Inclosed ycib will find the article in justificatiqn of
o:,racier in;aiirst
.the indo.;ent and calumnious aspersions
CT :sir I pANCIS Bu RDET T, which you' obligingly promised
to ii,serr m your patriotic Paper. I request ydu will accept
my Thanks for your liberality and impartiality; and -I am
nor without hope, that the Public will now have.an oppor-
tiinily of discriminating 'between tale condua of an 111 edged
Lited fq;.rmer, and a systematic, and-fanatics! De.
onag-gue: I am, Sir, your's, &c.

H. R. YORKE.

South Lambeth, Supday Night.

TO SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BART.

It is not without a considerable degree of pain that
I tied myself involved, in a personal dispute with
you. The Press being the only medium through
which I can now address myself to you, I here ap-
peal to the public judgment, less on your account or
my own, than for the sake :of that Country whose
welfare you pretend to espouse.
You have empleyed expressions, when speaking of
me, which, as a Gentleman, you would never have
e.dured for one moment, had they been applied to
yourself by any person. I can make every reason-
abi:: allowance for the fugitive orations pronounced
fr;)m the Hustings by a young man, inflamed by
persotial vanity, and the violin of an ardent and fa-
oatical, mind. But surely the manners of Sir F.
BUTD'ETT, and his connexions in life, should have re-
straioed him from violating those decent and decorous
charities, without the. observance of which the moral
obligations of civilized society can never be upholden;
more especially in those cases wherein the sufferer
can. obtain no:redress from the laws of his Country,
In breaking down the great barrier between order
and licentiousness, you are incautiously opening the
road to a scene of confusion and misery, of which
you yourself may become one of the earliest viaims;
Gf this fa6t your political experience may not, per-
hqs, have atibrded you -sufficient proofs. My ex-
perience has been derived from the most afilielive and
dreafful scenes ever witnessed by roan. Whether it
b t.,--oe that you are the dupe and tool of designing
hyp Icrites, or that the original bent• of your mind
Las i)ropelled you to exhibit yourself as the Hiero-.
pha ,t of turbulent and -licentious Anarchists, is a
q !oition which•l cannot presume to decide;' because
'toe habits of your life are as much unkneszililio me,
as mine are, evidently, to you. But, in either case,
feyi no hesitation in assuring you, that your folly is
as'eootetuptible as your conduct is deserving of re-
proach.
It is my intention to divest this Letter as moth as
posslble of personal altercation for, Ma's! the state
of the world, and of our Country, is sucb, as to check
the spirit of recrimination, and to require of every
man, who glories in the name of Briton, to consider.
,no one as his enemy,.but a Frenchman. The day is.
• put, I believe, far distant, when you and L shall be
ciled upon to proceed to the margin of oar
in order to defend its altars, its venerable laws, and
sacred Constitution, from the gripe of felonious in-
%%Lien, whose ambition and cupidity no laws, hu-
m:m or divine, have been hitherto able to restrain.---`
At , that moment it will not be necessary, nor, in-
deed, will there be time sufficient,for tis to ascertain
'each other's condua and motives of aEtion. I trust
we shall both do our duty, though you may belieVe
me to be ".an hired informer," and I may believp'
you to be—a political incendiary.
To he brief, therefore, I shall separate private
front public feelings, and, after having dismissed
the' one in which I alone am concerned, I shall
endeavour to expostulate with you as a public cha-

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When you took the advantage. of that licence
uglily 'granted to Candidates at a contested eleaion,
and stigmatized me-ts " an hired informer,- you
nmit have been conscious that you were uttering ,a
falseliood—or you must have acted under impresious
which had been made upon your simplicity by the
c.%114y knaves who surround and laugh at )ou.—
`t hat you spohe with deliberation is evidentfrom the
circumstance of your having . repeatecithe same ex-
pression more than once, and on more than one oc-
casicm. Now, observe the consequence. By lay-
'leg yourself open to public deteetion and exposure
it, this- instance, have you not incurred the risk of
Lehig marked as a foul calumniator in every other ?
Pc you conceive that, with the starched grimace of
a l'ulitao, with the phraseology of_ a Thersites, and
with the manner of an aseetick,, to whom the dis-
tinions in iociety are abhorrent; you can persuade
hoeeurable minds‘to give you credit for political in•
tce:-ity, when you commit yourself' so grossly as to
cause your veracity to be disputed by every one who
LenA you ? , .
You declared that I was the autlior of a .paper
you held in-your hand, and Which, accord-
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to the report of your speech in the daily pa-
contained some aspersions on yOur..chara6ter,
eats assure you, Sir FliaiNClS,' that
~.I Boyer-con..
;410tieed .you as a nein worthy of ally particular at-
tention on my part. Of your. political talents
have always entertained the most contemptuous
oeinion of the qualities of your-heart I know no-
thiegt Hence it is. nut likely that J should give
reiyiiell any trouble in writing against you, especially
fitter the experience 1 -have had ref demagogues, and
the firm opinion I entertain concerning the manner
in which they onght to be dealt with. I never even
.raw ynu in the.whole course of my life until the.
Westminster Eleaion ; when, from .the same Mo-
tives of curiosity which lead me to view any thing
wild or exotic amongst quadrupeds, fishes, and
bipeds, I resolved. to ascertain what sort of .a look-
ing animal you were. You were pointed out to me,
and G have never seep you since.
Your critical accuracy is as defective as your pa•
tieal judgment for I now solemnly declare that; so
fir from having' been the Author of the .parser to
filch yeti • alluded, I have not, to this meinent,
been able to obtain a sight of it. Neither have
during the whole course of the Eleaion, nor boibre
il‘a since, written one syllable abont you, ex-
eevieg the 'article which appeared in my Weekly
Tolitieal Review' yesterday' sennight, wherein, in-
stead of defaming your charaaer, Tstrived to do it
fropie justice ;' for I think that I pros,l, t6'the eon'.
'eietiee- Of every unprejudiced` mind, chat end were
exel;'er an apegate from tior inconsistent
iti inasmuch as'yotilitee'''evthis time, as.
i.4,1‘...i-oes a politiciati, and as inflexible a Jacobin, its
ever been Snipe:2lm atom_ 'iii ''veezr 'brain
Vl-4 Cci !14e hiToif 11;.11)01). "'
kliwawPd impti-
,4rl.Vit4 yon Ur,y,e e.har4cd me, I now come
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