The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-18 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES OF YESTERDAY.]

If ever there was a circumstance calculated to gratify a sin-
cere friend of the British Monarchy, it was the enthusiastic
loyalty with which the King was received by his Irish subjects :
and accordingly the disaffected Journals have exhausted their
whole malice in attempting to render that loyalty fruitless or
ridiculous. The attempt recoils on their own heads, and marks
them as enemies to the pence and honour of the country. In
-the breast of a true Briton, loyalty and liberty are inseparably
united. It is a constitutional -principle that the King should
reign in the hearts of his people : and they who labour to bring
his Majesty's Person and 61-overnment into contempt are among
the worst enemies of the Constitution. An odious essay of this
kind appears in " The Times" of Saturday, under the head of
" The KING'S Visit to Dublin." Its object is, .first, to render
the Irish dissatisfied with the King ; and secondly, to load
their attachment to him with ridicule. " His Majesty's .grati-
fication,r says the writer, " has not been as complete as the
Irish desired." Now this is. a gross and wilful falsehood, in
the teeth of his Majesty's own assertion, in that gracious
Letter which Ireland will ever preserve among
.her most pre-
cious records. And to what end does tl:e writer thus gra-
tuitously violate the truth ? Can he suppose that the Irish
will give credit to a word that he says, on the, subject of
his Majesty's feelings, when they find him so impudently
falsifying. their own ? He has the. audacity to tell them
that "their sacrifice of mutual party contentions" was merely
pretended ; and that " all their joy evaporated in the streets."
Now, this they know to be false • but he is not contented with
simple falsehood : he must help it out with sneers at every
thing like loyalty. He designates their cessation from party
animosities " mock heroic ;" as on a former day, quoting.an-
other Radical paper, he called their joy on the King's arrival
" Tom-foolery," and treated their grief at his Majesty's de-
parture
with the utmost ridicule. It is however remarkable
that the same journal which could speak with the most heartless
contempt of tears shed for a King of England, could gravely
present its readers with the-letter of a Correspondent, who de-
dareshe could not look on a brooch, containing the hair of
-Buonaparte, without feeling his eyes moistened !—Yet so it al-
ways is ; the wretches who could insult Louis XVI. with their
sarcasms, trembled, crouched, and affected the raptures of ad-
miration before Robespierre !—Be it observed, "The Times "
often affects to, say, that its hostility is directed solely against
the King's Ministers, but that to himself it is devoted with the
most loyal attachment ; and yet in tae passages to which we
have adverted, there is no question of Ministers ; the endeavour
is to render the King personally odious to the Irish, and to re-
present the Irish as idiots on account of their loyalty !

SOUTIINNIPTON, SEPT. 15.----Yesterday the
Mayor and Corporation met at-the. Guildhall, to
elect Officers for the year ensuing, when the fol-
lowing Gentlemen were chosen, viz. George
Atherley, Esn. Mayor ; Wilson Lomer, Esq.
Shf.' riff ; Jame., Bovill, Esq. Senior Bailiff ; and
P. C. Fall, Esq., Junior Bailiff. Mr. Thomas
Fowler and -Mr. Wm. Chaplin were appointed
Constables.. Our present Nayor (Stephen Lin-
tott, Esq.) gave a sumptuous dinner at. the Audit
.House, on the occasion, to a select party, which
was served up by Mr. John Webb, in excellent
style.
The Earl of MOUNT. EDGECUMB has given a
freehold piece of ground, at' Stonehouse, near
Plymouth, on which is to be erected a Classical
and Mathematical School for one hundred boys.
The stone for building it is also the gift of the
Noble `Earl.