The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-05 00:00:00

'iliE IiUBLi hViiNa. iit)fi;

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Not finding ,it convenient to 'Select fi;il• our d'wn
use that sort of article wl►ichltits denominate a
Butt, we ialte.the liberty of recommending to our-
Irish Contemporaries the Dublin Erenin,; Post,
which they will, upon trial, discover to be adtui-
i•ably calculated for that purpose. There is in it
so rich and natural a propensity to blundering ;
so curious a- mixture of sounding threats and im-.
potency, boasts and feebleness ; it is, withal!, so
dull and insensible, and so impenetrable to feel-
ing; so egotistic and incapable, virulent and :ab-
surd, that no better game for castigation or ht-
mour could be started by those who have leizure
to bunt it down, and whose local situation enables
them to serve their Country by destroying its ver-
min in the seat of their• Mischief. For oursel% es, tho'
almost incessantly chosen as the object at which
this Drawcansir rt4ns a tilt, we confess we have
little taste for a controversy with a Butt ; especi-
ally as our own country is not destitute of similar
ornaments, vvhich come more immediately within
our sphere. We are induced, however, to bestow
a few words upon the Dublin Butt, in consequence
of what appeared in its publications of the 27th
and 29th ult, which reached us vesierday. The

former number, after quoting a paragraph from
THE SUN (which it says, had for the second time
been sent to it in ". a mistake" for another Lon-

• don Evening Paper) dismisses it with the follow-
' ing criticism awl refutation, "fWhat a witch this
fellow is !" meaning tLe paragraph, and really in-
tending this deep argument, with a mark of adntira-
, tion at the end.of it, for an ans'wen What a logician
this writer is ? Out of THE SUN however, sent him
by mistake, he contrives to copy about twoof four
columns of the intelligence which he gives his
readers from the London papers ; so that we may
fairly infer lie does not heat-theni Drell if lie doeS
not hereafter take care not to be indebted to acci-
dent for so nnich•useful information. But in fact
we do not believe this Editor is so unmindful of
his interests as he pretends to be—he get's 'l'll2
SUN' by no mistake, but pays for every sheet of
it; and it is too bad in, him to endeavour,. by a
paultry subterfuge, to lead others astray in or-
der to monopolize that which, at least no
caterer for the public in the article of news,
ought honestly to be without. To strew,
for example, into what lamentable errors this
person falls, when he unhappily misses the .light
of the Sun, and either Mows a Will-O'-the-
Wisp, or grovels in his own. darkness, we shall
select two parts from the publications to WhiCh
we have alluded. On the 29t1i
Heaven save the mark ! a Second Edition, with
the following superior and superlative intelli-
gence

" Dublin Evening. Post Ofee, Three o' Clock.

44 We stop the Press to announce the arrival of the Mail
eue this day. The following arc the only interesting para-
graphs. Otuniurn is at 7i discount! !!

. •
" The depression of the Funds is now become so consider-
able as to excite serious alarm in the City. It will be seen by
refe.-ring to the price of Stocks, under the proper head, that
the Three per Cent. Consots have declined this forenoon
12s. Gd.; and that Omnium was, at one o'clock; at Seven per
Cent. discount. The cause assigned for, the immediate depre-
ciation is the removal of all dotibt, of the early meeting of
Parliament; and the certainty of a.Loan to a large -awount.
heforelhe close of the year, and previous to the redeinption
of the mass of Owniuns now pledged in the Bank. The re-
cent- advices Tromlimerica, and the protraction of the War
beyond any reasonable calculation, are likewise mentioned as
co-operating causes for the depreciation."

Now had he, luckily for himself, bad niE SUN
on his desk, he would have seen that there Was
to be no Loan before the close of the year, and
thus have saved his Readers, who trusted to his
intelligence and were laying out their money on
Government security, at least 5 per cent.--'--he
would have knoirn that it was utter nonsense to
talk of Government having to redeem Omnium
pledged by Individual Holders at the Bank, and
with which Government has no more to do than
with snuff-boxes at a pawn-broker's-he would
have heard that affairs in America bore a very
'different complexion; and, above all, be would
have been saved from exposing his miserable ig-
norance of the snbjects on which.he pretends to
Instruct the people, by copying a-.typographical
blunder. of a respectable Paper, stating the fall of
Consols at twelve and sixpence! What an alarm-
ing thing ! Consols down full five• eighths per
cent. ! Oh excellent and well-informed Jour-
nalist ! surpassing in financial as in political
knowledge !—How (lost thou enlighten the Peo-
ple, mighty Butt !
As a sequel and apt illustration of this know-
ledge, wg select the following acute, but. unfor- •
tunately mistaken, speculatiOts upon the approach
of the British to Wasbingtop:7.---

" In the meantime the American Government collected a
force of 7000 to meet him. That the.quality of this force is
not equal ,to that of the British is certain ; but from the_
fighting exhibited at the Falls, as well as at Fort Erie, iv ad-
dition to the numerical superiority of the Americans, we may
icst satisfied (truly patriotic souls !) that Washington will
not be won without a serious conflict, (Nothing, however,

Could be mote ludicrous.) In ibe eient of iiiecess, it ii y
be asked, what twill be the tUtther radrehtetith of so iltalequate
force as the nemN-Aiii. of 46b0 men; in sucli x 6onti Ant as
Aniei-ia? But suppdie that we ihOtild atteniPt to tiCedpy
iNashingtciti during the winter—is it tenable? (What a
shrew gnertiilu !) It is an open town Hie (What
A leer answer !) . Wbuld it be fealty advisable being
Burg. ogned .7" (What a dreadful rill !)
Butt; coriiitmes this sapient.titacle,
• el ~
" We have hitherto argued on the itipPositiOii. that we
shall prove ethinently victorious: btit suppose a.. disaster:
should occur td• Sir Alelander Coclißite's (the Adiniralii)
army—suppose (and we ought to take the buSitie.i 6f tort
Erie and of the Palls itki our contemplation) that ciiarane
was defeated, what would be the consequence?. (What a.
mortifying supposition !) Only the loss; it will be sidd, of
4000 men—a loss which we can *ell spare. Granted-:-(Good
easy souls !)-4000 lives js a there trifle in a Politician's cal.;
eulat ions ; but if thine 4000 hied Should lie sacrificed without
gaining any object, will We not, at, the dote of' a foot
years' War with AmeriCa, be in a worse eitnation than we_
were at the very conimengenunt?"

What a pity that all this fine writing shonlil be
thrown away, and that orie little silibborti
dent should destroy it wholly—iidelicet, the
-taking of Washington and re-embarkation of the
Expedition, as described in the Gazette Extraor-
dinary: Not even the « 1500 'Sons of The Sod,",
which Baltimore boasted of having sent forth
into the field, cold() preserve their. friend of th'ei
BUTT from this mortification.

POET it Y.

ion Mot of SOPHIE ARNOULD, the celebrated Parisian
Actress, paraphrjsed.

R YNF. so tell the Paris Seers,
The gayest life for twenty years

In high request had led ;
Loaded with jewels; watches, rings,
Bauhles—a thousand pretty things,
Shaken from Cupid's:rosy wings, -,
By those who shared her bed.

Age came, and Putt YN E «as forgot;
'['u sell•these gifts her cruel lot—

• . ify'adrerse fortune tort.
Fashion's proud dames the sale attend,.
BUt. such low prices recommend,.
• By Heaven!" cried Leis to her friend,
" They want them at pelone cost

A:%:AGRA .

BUONAPARTE IN FLEA.

w. J.

In Film. is Placed--(an appropriate station)
NAPOLEON, oreceAßLE,'one c'ar'd by each nation;
Note, strip! of his empire, his legions dispers'ti,
His real situai,osn is ABLE revers'd.