The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-04 00:00:00

A. NEW IRISH. PATER;

INTITULETY
Tim CONSTITUTIONALIST, on, CORK- MORN-
ING POST.';
TO Tag PUBLIC.

AT the urgent requisition of numerous and
zealous Friends, and also, in deference to the strong
sense of the necessity for such an 'undertaking which exists,
EDWARDS and SAVAGE have adopted the resolution of en-
gaging in the establishment of a PUBLIC JOURNAL, and hale
advanced a considerable way in. the most extensive arrange-
mentS for the handsome and effective execution of this design.
The Journal which they hope in a short time to present to the
public favoiii, -will be established upon one simple founda-
tion, equally dear and interesting,: and that is-:--THE MAIN-
TAINING OF THE GENUINE. AND VITAL PRINCIPLES OF
OUR GLORIOUS CONSTITUTION, AS. ESTABLISHED
IN CIIURCH AND STATE: This brief exposition of the
mother principle.upon which their undertaking rests, the Pro-
prietors humbly conceive is sufficient to-recommend it to every
real Friend to true Civil Liberty. For no thinking man can
mistake the character of the present times-,can view with dis-
regard the drift of those desperate theorieS which are pressing
with the full force of their hostility and power against those
Institutions which should be held by the British race amongst
things the most sacred; because, it is within those Institutions
that the spirit of British Freedom_ is enshrined and preserved,
--and because it is owing to those,.and to the immeasurable
energies of which they form the salient spring of supply, that
we are indebted for the immortal triumph obtained over that
tawdry despotism, which was the offspring of the French Revo-
lution ; and to the same source also is Europe indebted for its
redemption from an afflicting and a grinding military vassal-
age. By means of those Institutions, as the fountain-head of
our national power—just such as they have been handed down
to the living generations, UNCHANGED by metaphysical ex-
periment, and ieresAcairicEn to abstract projects about go-
vernment,—the noblest and the grandest ends have been ob-
tained : the Confederation of a hostile world has been defeated
and crumbled at one time,—at another, the languishing Na-
tions of Europe have been refreshed, their fears converted. to
courage, and their despair to hope ; and, during the mighty
contest, in which the powers of the British Empire were un-
veiled in such awful virtue and splendour, the enslaved mind
every where was taught to pant for disenthralment,—and to
all Nations, Communities and Sects, something of a generous
desire was imparted for that Liberty which for so long a time
has been the happy enjoyment of the genuine Sons of the
English Constitution !
kor obligations of such paramount value, and for results so
splendid and illustrious, much is due to the jealous anxiety with
which the principles of our Constitution have been guarded by
the manly reason and spirit of the Empire—much to the reverential
zeal with which our Civil and Religious Institutions have been
protected against the inroads of spurious and profligate theories,
and of those blasphemous experiments that have covered 'with
crimes so many other Nations arid States ; and a vast portion
to those able and honest men who presided over the destinies of
the Empire. The spirit which served to resist those awful en-
croachments upon the national welfare is the offspring of that
sober thought that still directs and influences the course of
British Public Opinion, even when its counsels are unheard
and its operations unseen amid the occasional uproar created
by popular infatuation. To act auxiliary to this spirit—to sup-
, port it, and to nourish it by all the means which truth and
reason abundantly supply, is at least a generous and an ho-
nourable task; and it is one, which the loyal and enlightened
of every description, it is to be hoped, will not grow weary of
cheering in the execution. To them the Proprietors of THE
CONSTITUTIONALIST; or,CORK MORNING POST;
look with honest confidence, in the attempt which they are com-
mencing.
The Proprietors intentionally avoid resorting to those prefa-
tory recommendations which generally usher in the publication
of new Journals—the Public have long had an opportunity of
determining concerning their characters, and to this they ap-
peal.—They trust it will entitle them to public confidence when
they affirm, that the CONSTITUTIONALIST, or, CORK
MORNING POST, will be published with sound and honest
pretensions to the public favour—that no expense or trouble
shall be wanting to render it a handsome example of typogra-
phical industry—that they have formed the most efficient con-
nexions for procuring the EARLIEST and the most au THEN--
TIC intelligence.-that they have engaged able and experienced
literary support—that the most rigid impartiality shall be ad-
hered to, in the reporting of the Debates in Parliament--in re-
cording the public occurrences, and all other matters and cir-
cumstances, whether political or otherwise. To those essen-
tiol, elementary duties, in the conducting of a Public Journal,
the Proprietors pledge themselves to add a continued, anxious,
and diligent attention to the Commercial, Agricultural, and
Manufacturing interests of their Country—an industrious re-
gard to all Judiciary and Magisterial proceedings in this City,
and to all other matters of what may be deemed local inte-
rest. It is in truth the earnest purpose of the Proprietors of
the CONSTITUTIONALIST, to deserve the favour and
confidence which have invited and encouraged them to the Pe-
riodical Press ; and it will constitute their most ambitious re-
quital, if the Patrons who have called them to their new post
shall be satisfied.
To the busy orders of life and to advertising friendsof all
descriptions, the CONSTITUTIONALIST will hold out
more inducements than can be specified in this place, as from
the encouragement already received, and the extensive circu-
lation which the Proprietors anticipate upon the surest grounds,
the greatest publicity, will be afforded to WANTS and DE-
sLREs, not only in this Province and Ireland in general, but
in the Sister Kingdom.
The Proprietors hope their Journal will afford some excite-
ment to that mass of talent which they are convinced slumbers
in comparative rest in this City and County, and they trust they
shall succeed in inviting some share of its exertions to the
space which shaltbe always reserved for Literary contributors.
It may not be out of place to remark, that the present mode
of dispatching his Majesty's Malls for the South of Ireland,
has disposed the Proprietors to select a Morning instead of an
Evening Publication ; as by that plan, though at no small in-
crease to their labours,. they will.be enabled to give both their
Town and Country. Subscribers the most recent intelligence, at
the usual charge for Newspapers in this City. "
In soliciting from the Public a generous share of their pa:
tronage, E. and S. have again to add that their warmest en-
deavours shall be used in inculcating LOYALTY TO THE SO-
VEREICIN—SUBJECTION TO TIIE LAWS, AND VENERA-
TION FOR THAT GOVERNMENT UNDER WHICH WE
HAVE THE HAPPINESS TO LIVE A FREE AND INDE-
PENDENT PEOPLE.
Castle-street, Cork, March, 1822.