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‘FI. TAYLon, Panretterott of Tng Sur.
Ny.w,PAPER, being desirous of lessening the La-
bniir and S,)livitiole attending Ito; Conduct or s
Drily Print, is williog to part with 'a portion ot
it to any Gentleineo of Talents and R.Psourecs,
whose Politic'-:! Piincinles correspoi d ti ers*.
which the raper 1,14 81 war, F tipp or! and Vi-
would be inclined to eo-opeiaie in Menage.
hint as well as Literary (;otnnosittoo). lie wool.,
rather at once dispose of ihe whele concern,
he did not veotore to conceive that tits siradinr.
of his Political Character has txcited the confi-
dence of his Bead,•rs, and that Its long experi-
ence may reason:Oily be shrp,ed to attach some
credit to his competency, in conduct of
Public Journal. He conceives also, that in these
tertul and threatening times evt,ry Piddle Mao
should remain a! his post, in order to contribute,
to the utmost of his power, towards tiJ. deit:oce
of our inestimabe Constitution. , Several In•
dividnals have ()Gunl to p.o.chase the Palter;
but as it was founded tiod:ci the immediate sanc-
tion of the late Mr. PITT, the Proprietor deems
it his duty to consider it as a Political Legacy
left by that Illustrious Statecip,io to his Comory,
to inatitaiti and perpetuate t!irse inciples which
ate most conducive to the seewity of the State
tool the happiness of the Peisole.* Hence the Ad-
mirers of that enlightened Minister anti f r,,e
ti int May rt ink that a Paper itsti:lited by him,
and for inch important objeets, should be oliered
to some public spirited Body, actuated by higher
considerations than mere re;.-tard to pecuniary ad-
vantages, and animated by zeal for the general wel-
fare ;Thr at least to any other whose intereits may
be essentiallvooired with the intetelt of the Coun•
try. To such Persons the Proprietor would most
willingly dispose of the entire concern ; and,
however anxious he may he for repose, atter utruy
year:: of toil and solicitude, be would readily act
as their Agent so long as bis soperintendance
might be reqnired. It cannot be necesary to
dwell on the high reputation which Litt SUN
has so long possessed, in consequence of the
unueviating consistency of its Political Character,
and the uniform propriety of its geeeral CoAluct.
To +rapport a Government acting on the system
of Mr. PITT is the main principle by which the
p.,ver has been directed, and only by a firm ad-
herence ro that system can it. maintain its charac-
ter. It is obvious, however, that a steady att4cll-
- to a System whiCh coniprebends the safety
ot the Constitution, by no means triplies a ser-
vile concurrence in the Measures ot any Admini-
stration. But: while fat: SUN perseveres in the
same direct course, it tat relsonablY expect the
support of the pre•eut Government, Oil account of
its Politi,al Princi;.les, and the reverence due to
the memory of its Illustrious Founder, Isnce an .

diaerence f. the tate. (It" such a Ply.r, on tlie
part of a Pare AOMINtsrRATIoN. he a Sole-
HS well As a ,t,p!ciaen, which it is no, likely
to inruT. With not less eolifalcnce may the
Paper rely on the protection of the Pr-
o-1
5 rANT CritjucH jt. I,iks so str-nuousi7; sap-
ported it that i is io:prlost d to be peculiarly !
Nistraiigirs. lodeed. as THE. CL•Ol6l' 'tnuSt be •
well qualified, by abilities and knowledge, to in-
struct the Community at large, and, in these
times, should con•ider that they have duties
to tullil as Citizens as well as Pastors, they
might very properly possess themselves of a
Piper which would not only enable them to
spte•al right principles in general, but also
to check those Ikentious and impious doctrines
which are daringly inculcated with malignant
assiduity, and are manifestly intellect; to destroy
the Religion and the Government of the Coun-
try T!Pe Proprietor may confidently expect the
aopp..rt of the PITT CLUBS throughout the British
Empire, considering to whom THE SUN owes its
origin, and from whom they derive their appella-
tion. ANNUAL CELEBRATIONS Of a BIRTH-DAY
are of little use, and must fall into Liuguor and
decay, unless effective means are taken to diffuse
and support the Principles upon which those
Associations are professedly established. THE
SUN may also expect the support of the REGULAR
SOLICITORS throughout the Kingdom, as that
Paper, and that alone, has zealously endeavoured
to maintain the honour of the Legal Profession,
by exempting it from all irregular Practitioners
end discreditable Intruders. Finally, Toe SUN
may look to the PEOPLE AT LARGE for patronage
and encouragement on account of the steadiness
of its Plineiples, its Public Spirit, and its reso-
lute eudeavoins, on all occasions, to p7oinote the
Honour and Interest of the Country. Such, then,
is the Opportunity which the Proprietor now
offers to his Countrymen; arid as it presents A
Tar TO PUBLIC VIRTUE; and to GENUINE PA-

TRloTtsm, lie should insult the National Clia

ractet if he were not to suppose that among the
admirers of Mr. PITT, and Friends CI Tun CON-

smuTtom, many wise, independent, disinterested,
magnanimous BRITONS will be found ready, at
this awful crisis, to unite in order to become Pro-
prietors of a Paper which so o!..vionsly pGssesses
peculiar and prominent claims' to National Pro-
t ectiw,,—Noue hot Principols need apply in.
Person, or by .i.d.:tter, (post paid) addressed to
the PucrittETort at Tug Sua-OnicE, 112, S:rin;d.
N. B. This Address will be continued till the
opportunity which it presents has been fully sub-
mitted to the United Kingdedn ; nor will the
Proprietor havily dose with any offer, as he can-
not hot conceive that, in reference to the revered
Founder of the Paper, and its established charac-
ter for political consistency, the Proposal held
forth tends to ascertaiu the extent of Public

• The Proprietor has been desired, by a Gentleman of rank,
who was in the confidence of Mr. PITT at the time, to state

that Tim Stni Newspaper was not instituted for the mere
support of his own Administration, hut" for the PuovecrioN
of the KING'S GoVERNMENT." Such was the magnanimous
loyalty of our great departed Statesman. Never was " the
I,.l.Ncr's GOVERNMENT" more formidably threatened than it is
at present, ald never was it more in need of loyal Adherents.
We hope that Mitssters are fully impressed with this truth,
otherwise the Throne and the Altar will at last Ire buried
eter the rubbish of Atheistical Anarchy.

you Tl.O

I'O Nies. .1 oILV

LET l'Elt IT.

DzAR pare altearly no:lced the

infioence you po•sess over lot NNY aUd 613 iittt,
ones ; and b din ill/1)y 10 confess, that, with the
exception of a few slips and fducies, you lave
hitherto made a good use of it. But you must
remember, that if tl►e points on which that in-
fluence 'is founded, should once be neglected, the
power' itself will cease ; nay; that the very abuse
of the power will be the cause 'of its own destruc-

4 im).

'Twas in your own proper walks of domestic
life that the powcr was acquired;—=—step out of
those walks, and the charms which gave you in-
fluence lose their power, because there they can
no longer be exercised. Step but for a moment
trout the routine which the laws of society) the

custom of she country, your own sense of pro-
priety, tint; your own feeling of modesty have
formed around you, atql what do you, become ?
If you cease to act like a woman, you cease to
look like one ilia() you cannot become, though
you TIM y adopt something I:ke the resemblance of
one,,but it is the mere family likeness of a
monster. In short, a female Orang-outang would
be less disgusting, because she would he less trou-
blesome and mischievous. She might indeed play
the deuce with the side-board and currier-cup-
board, but all she could learn would be an ad-
vance in the scale of being, whilst female disar-
rangement must_ always lead to female degrada-

lion.

Besides,. my dear Mrs. BULL, what could you
possibly hope to gain, either for yourself or your
little ones, or for your good man, by quilting the
fireside foe the forum, or the distaff for the dag-
ger ? Do you not literally rule the roast at home,
and even do so more than metaphorically abroad ?
Are not curtain lectures more convincing than all
other leetores What are the galvanic excite-

meats of a dead frog, compared to your own upon
a livin4 subject 1. Is it not more delightful to
teach the rudiments of knowledge to your own
little men at home—to polish your own Corne.
lian jewels—l mean the jewels of which Cornelia

boasted,--than to pr.each to a party of men-folks,
who care little about what the women say ? Must

you not do more r ssenthd good to your country,
by watching and guarding the cortv:,,ntion of
your little ones, thi??yattsmx.tirl,rtrat .o:,:, patch,
toOS t u tion ? What Habeas Corpus Dare

you to wish for beyond that of a good and rational
husband; who will find his happiness at home,
instead of running after radicals, or being Minted
and hoaxed by police officers and penny snit-
set iptioos Is it not your interest to support the
cause of religion and revelation ? Are you not to-
day an angel ? But what is an angel to-morrow,
if Christian Revelation is once set aside The
Heathen Mythology might indeed make you a
Goddess ; but a Goddess requires many essentials
which you may not possess, whereas any woman
may be an angel whenever site pleases.
have you not always had the suffrage of the
Universe ? Will you give up that for Universal
Suffrage ? Will you have a soberer or a more in-
dustrious husband, by his frequenting Elections
once a year ? the Spencean System, while it
gives you four acres to cultivate, give you also

strength, spirit, and taste for cultivation ? Be-
' sides, if you marry, your husband's four acres
may be a long way from your own, so that either
you or your land must be allowed to run to grass!
Nay, should your portions even be in the same
parish, where are you to find other four acres a-
piece for each of the ten young patriots with whom
Providence may bless your happy state of connu-
bial freedom ? It will be no reply to this to say,
that the four acres of the dead may be given to
the living ; for population Clearly increases, the
births exceed the deaths throughout the 'hut), and
therefore every year a more decided pauperism
would be increasing than exists at the present
moment, and with fewer means of meeting it.
Indeed, Mrs. BULL, two guineas per week are
an hundred a-year ; nay, even one will afford you
more comfort and more flannel petticoats than
ever you will be able to raise off four acres even
of garden ground. To-day, it is very trne, those
who have four acres, or even one of garden-
ground, may raise melons, and sell them well in
Covent- garden Market; but who will buy melons,
when the income even of the lowest mechanic
shall be reduced far, below its present scale, and
all others reduced to it ; and when the very
paupers themselves must be worse off than at
present, because workhouses must cease to exist,
whilst many of their occupants must he unable
even to till as much grow(' as will form their

f4,nereal freehold, that. equal share of the soil
which, soonrr or Idler, comes to both Prince
and Peasant ?

XViien rut, my dear Madam, have asked your-
self some of these questions, you shall again
hear •from

IGNOTLIS.

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110 I' UI.A It AI i'. i-: TING ti,

'..."lf:cn. all the discossi,)n ‘thich thts ter:ile snb-
ject has imdergonei a lc w plain. Obser vatiott* are
still neeess.Ary.
'l'he People -are privileged to petition ;,:and, of
course, to assemble for petitioning :—but they
have not any .privilege to deliberate, or to assem-
ble for deliberating.
The People already form in Parliament the third
branch of the ConstitutiOn ; wherein atone their
deliberative powers exist. Their assemblage out
of Parliament, though never so peaceably, though
with neither ensigns, nor weapons, nor any other
warlike array, for the purpose of deliberating on
State affairs, passing resolutions, and advising
enactments—such assemblage, I say, makes the
People a fourth estate, breaks the Triad of the
Constitution, and gives to them two estates in
four, instead of one estate in three.
The meetings, then, at Alanchester and else-,
where—except where held under some especial
eurpoi ate privilege—have been, and • will be, un-
constitutional—and therefore illegal.
And, though convened for the ostensible or even
the real purpose of petitioning, they assume
.this
illegality, at the ninment when they transgress
the mere act tf petitioning, and diverge into any
other act whatsoever.

This illegality, which violates the Constitution,
must he checked :—more than checked—it must
be iitevented niußt be

imuishttl.

But its punishment must not wait for the or-
dinary forms of ordinary cases.--A single boor
may suffiLle the previous organization of a drilled
and xveaponed mob to destroy the C.wstnwion,
as fully, as to throw ope❑ an toclosureor to pull
down a brothel. In these minor outrages, we
concede the hour's mischief after reading the Riot
Act because tnese may be none easily remedied
than co'dd the subversion of the Law, But the

forrohl---or, if you so chose to tel 111 it, the Con-

stitutinital—hour mnlt not accommodate the tie-

stroyers of the Constirotion.

lt tills: not. It ()ugh\ uot. Constitutionally

it cannot.
The Supreme Power of a State is that, beyond
which there are neither the means nor the right
•
of Huthority,
The C'onsti:ution is the Supreme Power of Great

•
Britain.
Every Supreme Power possesses in itself the
--uns of its own preservgiinfl,.
, tjonstitution

_
itself those means.
Again.—Not any act done by the Constitution
can be unconstitotional.
The King is the only Branch of the Consti-
tution which can do any act affecting the

Therefore, not any act done by the Kng for
the preservation of the Constitution can be un-
constitutional.
The act of his Magistrates, under his Commis-
sion, is the act of hitnself. .What authority shall
resist it, or eveu question it ? Not any one of the
other two Estates in Parliament ; and, assuredly,
neither of them out of Parliament.
The King might possibly adopt unconstitu-
tional .means for th►e safety of his Throne ; the
Lords, for the safety of their privileges ; the
Commons, for the safety of their rights. I put
only the possibility of such cases.
Because, as the other two Estates are o: en for

redress or protection to the one requirinz it, not
any one Estare is privileged to redress or protect
itself ; other than by the general courke of the
LAW, concerning its own internal functions.
But, the act of the only Executive Power of
the three Estates for the preservation, not of it-
self, or of any one, but of the whole, cannot be
uncon3l itut lonal. It is the act of the Constitution,
0 feel that]. am arguing in a circle. But it is
a circle which my opponents will not easily
overleap.)
The executive branch of the Constitution is
bound to its defence, and charged with its. re-
sponsibilil. No act, therefore, which it sloes for
the preservation of the Constitution, can ha on-
constitntional.
Were the King to endeavour a preponderance of
the Monarchy, I know not whist tnean3 of de-
fence the other two E9IRICS of Parliamm, which
ore not Executive, could employ for the solety of
the Constitution ; but I am sure that pone
which they did employ could be unconstitir-
tionol.
Were the Lords to endeavour a preponderance
of the Aristrocrocy ; or the Commons—0.1, out of
Parliament, is the present case—to endeavour
preponderance of the Democracy; the Executive
Branch of the Constitution would be obliged t(i
its defence.
And, being responsible for such delence, he
cannot forego is exercise.
'And, being hontul to such defence, be cannot
be questioned for its enforcement.
I speak of extrtme positions—happily, of rare
occurrence, but through the agency of trcasonab:e

!nen sometimes Occurring. Such as are those of
Manchester and of other places ; wherein for-
bearance has encouraged the mischief, which it
si-111)1aq encounter would have summarilt,po
anguished. Nics
Ido tidt love the bamiuyiokof 'Nies between
the Bend! and Dock ;.thetoleration of saucy"
in!ruders ;or the indulgence of clap-trap speeches.
One audacious fellow's impunity figs up an bun.
aired others, .-Until an heavier severity becomes
indispensible at 'last, than would have sufficed at
first. Nothing was ever yet gained by tempo..
rizimg; and in every question between the Re-
formers and the Magistrates, so it will be found.
It is one of the best merits of our present Lord
Mayor, and one of the most useful, that he never
temporizes. He meets the mischief and the mis-
chief maker ; and he puts them both down.
I think I have now shewn that the Constitu•
lion possesses in itself :be means of its own pre..
servation. But, if we admit the pretensions of
HUNT and his fellows, it possesses nothing except
the means of its own destruction. The inference
is too absurd to be true; but, if true, is such d
Constittithmoorth our contest?

We should be left to chuse between Anarchy.
and Despotism. For my single part, I should pre-
ter the latter, as being somewhat more compen.
(lions, much mare gentlemanly, and much less
mischievous:

TENAX.

' TI-lEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed Oil Saturday Night.
THEATRE ROYA L, Covzvr-G.tancs.—The Steward: Principal
Characters by Mr. :klacready, Mr. Jones, Mr. W. barren,
Mrs. Davison, and Airs. Gibbs. Attu- which, The Marriage
of Figaro.
THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OrEn.A MOS-E.—The Duenna:
I),n Carlos, Mr. Davis: Clara, Miss Carew. After which,
The Death of Captain Cook.

TO CORrIESPONDENTS.
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