The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-14 00:00:00

" Are these Men fit to he at the Head of Affairs ?"--3Pr"
IPrg-" Post, Friday.

IF we have so seldom thought it necessary
notice the scurrilous and unceasing Abuse, of will('
the Paper from which the above Question is take
has of late been so.prodigal, -just in proportion
the, Minister has risen in the opinion and confidellc,t
of the Public, our Readers will not suspect, -that r
abstaining from it, we are luke-warm in otyr At:
:tachment to such a Government, or djicient iu ;
proper feeling of contempt and disgust, which
low and foolish scurrility of such a Paper cannol,
fail to inspire, We conceive, " That the.
carries its Antidote along with it."

The a Government, howe.ver upright, howevet
able, should be vigilantly waicixed ; that all
Measures should be sedulously ; that 0
public attention, and tbat of Paniament particw
larly, should be unceasingly-. direCted to all
proceedings ;, that its Errors, if any, ' shOuld
noticed ; and that •a b/i/id confidence should
placed in it by no man; however well earned,
or whatever may be the claim to it ; to these pro'
positions we are ready to give our assent, at leasl
as sincerely as those, whose attachments and anti,
pathies have long been in the habit of taking -;:n
verse course from that to which those of good me
and good subjeets have been usually direaed ; wb°
can find only in Merit and. Talents proper objects
for abuse and slander, and for applause and admira-
tion in Demerit and Insignificance.
When the change of AdMinistration took Plat'
truly lamenting, as we did,- the necessity of tngt
change, we did. not scruple to express, in tb;
strongest terms, our high opinion of the principal
Members of the new Governthent. They were tot
new men :—their Virtues, their Talents, theft
knowledge of Business, and their devotion to tli`
Constitution, had long been known to the
The difficulties which they had to encounter %vac
. complicated and stupendous. Conunon men wooiLl
have been afraid to face them. They required,.
and they experienced, the Confidence and Support Pi
Parliament and' of the Country.—They had ono
but we will fairly own that we had not strained our
Confidenee so far, as to have supposed it inor::11Y
possible, that in the short spaFe of .eight months
such dangers would have been averted, such obst3'
des overcome, such a total ekange from gloom to
sunshine, from darkness to light itself, could have,
been effeded ; in short, that such a succession ni
splendid services could have been rendered, in sucli
a time, and under such circumstances, by any set 01
men, to their KING and Country,—lf, therefore'
they were entitled to our support in February, what
claini have they not to it in December ?—Let their,
Enemies and ours charge us, if they please, ;cif°
servility and adulation, We appeal to an observing
Public, whether our occasional expressions of ad'.
miration and gratitude have been too extravagany'
to that Publie,, which, in common with us, Psi
marked with surprise and delight!, the gradual
removal of the most formidable difficulties, 30`
the happy etretts of a steady, uniform, and moil
course,- in the restoration of Peace 'and Prosperity to
Great Britain.

If in a moment of accumulated danger, and of uni'
versal alarm, to have boldly stepped forty ill cmV
the- comma naing imptilleTa Public Duty firo
nets and exertion under difficulties, and moderation
in success ; if to have disarmed the whole Continent
of Europe of its hostility against great Britain, by
temper, decision, and address if to have d;speLledl
one by one, the clouds which darkened atidoverspre4;
our political hemisphere, and to have crowned x
liant course of successful measures by an honouralo
'termination of the War ; if such conduit presents
any claim to confidence ; or that integrity, talcol
vigilance, energy, and a thorough knowledge `).
buAness as well as of mankind, are qualities reqll,l
site in a Statesman, especially at such a ef- isis,
the name of that country which they hate save'''
we conclude by asking in our turn—Aß E 114.05,
NtEN NOT FIT TO DE AT THE HEAD OF APtAlits

The late gales of wind on,the Coast of Ho!lad
have produced mot ealamiton§-etreas.;tine C«:tst is
every where strewed with kad bodies and wre2"
of Vessels.

"Even Mr. AnplN. GTON -admits the tinpopulaeity' o
vf
the measure, when he owns that a vakar prej,-‘1
exists against it."—itLrning

A lk, knoWn to be so by the writer of it ; Mr;
AgLIINGTON not only never' having said so, I)4t
having expressly disclaimed the application of 02:
reru to the objedions made to opening the Disn'i
leries, and more than once.

Mademoiselle DE BEALJHARNOIS, the First CoPi
sues daughter-in-law, is to marry CHARLES, son °i•
the Duke of LuxEmsoußo, who was Presidenj
the Nobility at the States-General, and emigrO
when the union of the three orders, in a Cunstituell
Assertibly, took place. This marriage form-
alliance between BONAP,ARTE and the House
MONTMORENCY, the most illustrious and ancient°
the former French Monarchy. The Duke de LA.
VAL'S son is just married to the Dutchess of 13F.i
THUNE .cHARosT, widow of the Duke of that
name, and one of the richest heiresses in France..
pi!)
Accoriiing to an observation taken cn the /,e
inst. by Mr. CAPEL Lomr, it appears that tt
solar spots at present exceed in number any seen Oc
a considerable time. The principal are past tir
sun's centre, westward, and form a striking curie;
exceeding,one.eighth of the sun's diameter, or
line of about too,ooo miles. A spot is entering
the eastern side of the sun, which is also clustered
•
Altitude of the sun at the tiiiieVObservation, 14
degrees ; latitude, by former. observation, 52 'lc'
()lees 18 minutes. •
An Aurora Borealis, of an _extraordinary al"
pearance, was seen at Edinburgh, between Cie
and eleven o'clock in the evening, on the sth
at
Saturday se'nnighr, a little before twelve
night, •a large Meteor, with.a globular head 0'415
long tail, passed over Glasgow.; its course
from the South-East .to the North-West. It `sr
so very luminous, that .the smallest•objed was-
cernible in the streets.