The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-10 00:00:00

Pa EDITOR OPP..TIL St,V.

rgIR,
Havidgovith tbudh Contera;and,,l may ad,l, in-
dignation, seen the Resolutions of the Common Hall
of the City of London, as published in the daily pa-
pers-, I cannot but come forward, and assert most
confidently, that the sentiMents expressed in disc
Resolutions are not the sentiments of the citizens of
London, but are those of a fat-Ai-cm, endeavouring to
mislead the people of this country, and with whom
no respectable persOn,who values his fair reputaiion,
or his personal safety, would be seen to:as.,ociate in
any meeting held at the Guildhall of this city.
A,t the conimendernent of the present war, ,in
May, 1803, for there had been a iwace, such as it
was, the peace of Amiens, the 'merchants, bankers,
traders, and inhabitants of London, held a public
meeting on the Royal Exchange., not* for the pur-
pose of fabricating fa!sehood, detailing fancied
• grievances, traducing the Government of the coun-
try,,and insultirw, in the must gross and unwarrant-
able language, nor enby the venerable and much
loved Monaich of the country:, but his‘'augusf re-
presentative, the Prince Regent ; not for such pur-
poses did the valuzble and -respeclable inhabitants of
the City of London meet, but to express what were
their sentiments at that 'period, and %dint, I will as-
sert, are their 'real well knoWn sentiments, at this
motnent in the following

DECLARATION,

OF THE MERCHANTS, BANKERS, TRADERS, AND
OTHER INHABITANTS OF LyNDON AND ITS NEIGH.

BOUR HO.D.

We, the Merchants, Battlers, Traders, and other
Inhabitants of London and its neighbourhood, deem
it our bounden duty, at the present toomenteus pe-
riod, to make public our unaeimous determination
to stand or fall with our King and,country.
The iedependence anti existence of the British
Empire, the safety, the liberty, the lite of every man
in the kingdom, are at stake. The events, perhaps,
of a few months, certainly of a few years, are to de-
termine whether we and our children are to continue
freemen and members of the most-flourishing-com-
munity in the world, or . whether we are to -be the
Slaves of our most implacable enemies—theriaselves
the slaves of a foteign usurper.
We look on this great crisis without dismay. We
have the most firm reliance on the spirit and virtue
of the people of this counru. We believe that there
exists a firmer as well as nobler courage, than any
which rapine can inspire ; and we cannot entertain
Such gloomy and unworthy apprehensions of the
moral order of the world, as to think that so admi-
rable a quality can be the exclusive attributes of
freebooters or slaves. We tight for our laws and ,
bertie,s---to defend the dearest hopes of our Children,
--to maintain the unspotted glory-which wehaVe in-
herited frem our ancestors—to guard from outrage
and shame those whorn.natnre has entrusted to our
proteelion—to preserve the nonour and existence of
the country that gave us birth.
' - We fight for that Constitution and system of soci-
ety, which is at once the noblest monument and the
firmest bulwark of civilization !--We fight to pre-
serve the whole earth from the barbarous yoke of
,military despotism !--We fight for the independence
of all nations, even of those who are the most indif-
ferent to our fate,.or the alto blindly jealous of our
prosperity. • .
. In so glorious a cause—in the defence of these
dear and sacred objeCts,,we toast that the God of our
fathers will inspire us with a valour which will be
more than equal to the daring ferocity of those who
are lured, by' the hope of plunder, to fight the bat-
tles of ambition.
His Majesty is aboat to call upon. his Penile to
arm in their own defence. We trust, and we be-
lieve, that he will not call upon them in vain—that
the freemen of this land, going forth in theirighteous
• -cause of their country, under the blessing of Al-
Mighty God, will iu the tnost signal chastise-
ment on those who have cjated to threaten our de-
struelion—a chastisement, of which the. memory
will long guard. the shores ot t;;s island,- and which
may riot only vindicate the hooour, and establish the
safety of the British EMpire, bat nrty also, to the
latest posterity, serve as an etviinple to strike terror
into tyrants, and to give courage and hope to insulted
and oppressed nations.
For the attainment of these great ends, it 'is -EC-
cessary,that we should be not only an unanimous,
but a, zealous, and ardent, and unconquerable_ people.,
—that. we should Consider the public safety as the
chief interest of every individualthat every- man
should deem the sacrifice of fortnne and his life
to his country as nothing more than his duty—that.
no man should murmurat any exertions or privations
' which this awful crisis may-impose upon him--that
we should regard faintness or,languor in Ore com-
mon cause
,as the basest treacherythat we should
go into the field with an unshaken tesotution to con-
quer or to die=—and that we shoal look upon no-
thing as a calamity compirJed with the subjdgation
of our country:
We have most sacred duties
,to perrorm—we have
most invaluable bleSsings to preserve--we have to
gain glory and safety, or to incur indelible disgrace,
and to fall into irretrievable ruin. Upon our diet ti

will depend the triumph of _liberty over despotism--
of national independ= nce over projetis of univertal
empire, and, finally, of itself over barbit
rism, •
At such a moment, we deem it our duty solemnly:
to' bind ourselVes to each other, and to our country-
men, in the most sacred mannei, that we will em-
ploy all our exertions to rouse the. spirit,. arid, to as-
sist the resources of the kingdom—=that we .'ill be
ready with our set vices of every sort; and on every
occasion, in its defence—and that we will atiter
perish together, than live_ to see the honour of the'
British name tat nished, or that noble inheritance of
greatness, gloty, and liberty destroyed, which has
descended to us from our forefathers, and which We
are determined to transmit to our posterity.
JAcoa ',BOSANQUET, Chairman.

By iraertipg the above you will oblige, your's
PUBLI CUS•

Recent advices received from the Mediterranean,
state, that a severe shock of an earthquake had been
felt at Smyrna, which did great mischief.