The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-26 00:00:00

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Burns, the poet, always quoted with the most
lively approbation the prayer of the Scotch cobler
Lord ! send us a good conceit 0' oursel"—
and we also feel well disposed to do justice to the
sincerity of heart with which this honest petitioner
supplication. A spice of vanity is, we
palslli up
hisllon
e of the " chief nourishers in life's feast,"
but we never wish to behold more of it in any man
than will serve to give his merits fair pia'', IVhen
it displays itself, us it does in Mr. Cobbett, to an
inordinate excess, it becomes one of the silliest
as well us most offensive infirmities of our fal-
lible nature. To give instances of this failing
would be to quote every number of his
Weekly Register. Ile is himself quite con-
vinced that there is no light in the world but
what comes from his taper. Ile is perpetually
ringing his own praises in the ear of his readers,
and there is no end to the changes. No sooner
is any scheme of policy afloat that he thinks
likely to be adopted, than, if it snits his
views, he instantly assumes to take the lead in re.
commending it,'nnd to assert the honour of being
its, first great patron ; and he proceeds, forthwith,
to issue his proclamation--44 Let all the world
renTmber, whets this measure was carried, that
it was mine !" And he would chop any one into
mincemeat that should step between him and
his claim. If Government never intended the
plan, whatever it may be, or abandons it, on
being satisfied of its impolicy, he immediately
cries out," It was abandoned for no other reason
than because it was mine ; they were resolved
not to proclaim me, as they must have
done, to have been its author. Ministers
are ashamed to confess that they are
taught by William Cobbett I" It was only
to defeat his prophecy, and to consign him to the
disgrace of the gridiron, that the Bank ever again
paid in gold ! But for this, not a sovereign
would have beets visible in all the realms of
commerce. Gold coin gluts the money market
only to the end that his prediction might be
falsified, and a slur thrown on his infallibility.
His Register of last week brings forth another
suggestion, under the following head, « Poor
Laws srauted iu Ireland." The subject is iu-

• .11TRTII.
On the 22d intr., nt Westeowem, hlrs.Cosway, of a daughter.

MAItRIED,
On Saturday, the 24th inat., nt Stratford,Essel,ll the Very
Reverend the Archdeacon Jones, Wolter Lawrence Lawrence,
Esq., of Sandywellinuk,
at the house of
only Sp!kit, Esq., of Stratford.
At the Hague, ottNattliday,. the 17th inst.,
child
of the tote
chrimitttiottnie county of Gloucester, to Mary,
hie Excellency' the Britieh'Aufbassador, John Payne F.lwes,
Esq., of Stoke College in the county of Suffolk, to Charlotte
Elizabeth, third daughter'of team Elton, Esq., of Stapleton.
house, in the county of Wouoester.

At Margate, aft the 10th hilt, Edwin.' Prosser, Esq., of
Brixton, Surrey:
On the 21st inst.t Jarnee Piggeo Charnhers, infant MN of
George Marc, P:sq., of ilecltard-plare.
On Friday. July 23, in his flu year, at his house in Lug.
Arre, after a few days' ilubert Green, Esq.,_fur manyflu. n 40.4 partror in the respectable &m of liatcbett
And Co.

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