The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-29 00:00:00

FOR THE SU'J.

" This is the day, t speak it with great sorrow,
" That we were all t' hare been blown up to-morrow."
Michaelsna3 Ere.

Ma. EDlTOR—Passing alongSouthwark7bridge,
a few evenings since, I observed several' parties
waiting, as I ascertained, to see a boat-race; of
which
,1 wns most pompously informed by an
honest Cockney, ‘vho assured me that this is the
season for " !towering Matches," and truly, Sir,
1 think lie was pretty right, as we ROW have little
else but Roaring Matches from your four-footed
neighbours, who assert and exercise their natural
right of Roaring in Exeter 'Change, Eastward
IIo! to the bipeds who claim the civil right of

Roaring to-morrow, in a most uncivil manner, in
presence of the two great blockheads of the Cor-
poration, Gog and Magog to wit—two Gentlemen
who had long looked down upon the Citizens in
Common Hall assembled, until the Alderman,
who by his name is made of the same flesh and
blood with themselves, thought proper to bring
them down to the level of other blockheads, whe-

ther in fur, sarsnet, or grogram.
Sir, I fear for the fate of these Civic Veterans,
for if they escape being elected Lords Mayor, or
Sheriffs, or Members of Parliament, still may they
suffer that which time and weather have as yet
been linable to inflict upon them.
HAMLET'S advice, " not to roar so as to split
the ears of the Ground Hugs," will, I fear, not be
attended to on the aweful morrow ; and they now
are Groundlingo, and should their ears be split
either by HUNT'S or ‘VAITHAIAN'S Oratory, by the
Bull or the Bully, why, Sir, their heads may be
split too, for they are not so hard as other blocks
which will be exposed to the same operation.—
Then, Sir, if they are not only to be split, but to
be bored also during the two hours and a half of
the " Wordy Haldermates" Oration, they will
he as full of holes as a Reformer's White Hat or
a Sintiggler's.Conscience !
Alas, Sir, whilst I am penning these lines, and
expressing those fears, the speeches are perhaps
preparing which are to du, the job. Perhaps the

patriotic haberdasher is now measuring out by
wholesale the stuff which he means to offer on the
altar of liberty, and retail inch by inch to his
gaping audito►s, who, in the privacy of their
allies, courts, and cul-de-sacs, are doubtless prac-
tising a roar which shall last until—until dinner's
on the table, when all ideas of rights and wrongs
shall be neutralized by Turtle and Madeira !
Those of the Corporate Body who have already

talked loudly on the subject, say their voices shall
be heard all over the Empire ; but surely, Mr.
Editor, they ought to he taught to roar so as not
to disturb those who prefer quiet and tranquillity.
Bottom says, "I'll roar ynu like any nightingale—
I warrant ye, I'll roar so sweet that the Duke
will say, Let him roar again, let him roar again !"
—and truly, as the civic linen-draper is evidently
the Bottom of to-morrow's roar, it he cannot imi-
tate the nightingale, I trust he will not go beyond
the whistle of a Whitechapel hird•catcher, so that
the Duke, if he were in town, or the patriotic
Major, or the aldermanic Miner, may cry, " Let
him roar again !"
As the roar will be over when this Epistle makes

s appearance to an admiring world, it will be

needless to recommend the stopping of cars with
cotton ; but as part of the roar is to be about the
Manchester affair, I shall close with a short illus-
tration of that business, in reply to all that has
been sung and said, in churches and out of them,
respecting it.

If a stout, hale, sturdy beggar implores my
charity with an humble accent and his hat in his
band, his requisition and his mode of petitioning may
be said to be agreeable to the st,rictest rules and
practice of mendicity. But if, whilst he holds his
bat in one band (that hat a white bat), he holds
a pistol or a dagger in the other, even though he
does not present it at me, and if at the same
time he has a paper stuck upon his breast in the
modern style, will) the inscription, '' Your money
or your life," why then, Mr. Editor, I humbly
surmise, that instead of a beggar, he must be
taken for a highwayman, and that I have a right
to give him into charge of the Civil Power, nay
to shoot him, if I am armed, and have no other
immediate and ready mode of opposing his de-
signs upon my purse, and threats against my life

This, Sir, with (hie tibmission to the Lew of
The Tinses and Chronicle, I consider as sound Law,
aye, as " Crowner's Qaest Law ;"—Hnd so, if
people will go to the meeting, as the meeting does
not go to them, we need not a grave-digger to
prove that it is willy nifty felo de se.

I !co►st, however, Sir, that we shall speedily be
able to give Christian burial to all our political

squabbles ; but it is a grave subject, Mi. Editor,
and tbetetore I close it.—Yours,

IGNOTUS.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed Last Night.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GA REEV.—Th e School for Scan-
dal : Sir Peter Teazle., Mr. W. Farren ; Lady Teazle, Mrs.
Davison. After which, The Libertine.
THEATRE ROYAL, ENG LI 3H GPERA•HOUSE.—Artazerxe,'
Arbaces, Mr. Pearnian ; Mandane, Miss Carew. After
which, Fire and Water. To which was added, The Wood-
man's Hut.

TO CORItESPONDENTS.
A MAN or KENT) on the Conduct of Tl:c Time: Newspaper,
To-morrow.

ERRATA.—In Lettrr VI. on CHURCH rinitts, line 13 from the
bottom, for dear, read clear. Also, in the last line, dele
whole.

In SOMERS, Lvtter IX. line 12 from the bottom, for positive/y,
read possibly.
And in the article of " Mrs. John Bull" yesterday—For
" strippling." read " strapping;" fur " olieyance," read
" abeyance;" fur" scent," read" search."

Sr. MICHAEL —A Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, East
India and South Sea Huuses.

MAILS.
ARRIVED-1 Gottenburgh, I Malta.
Dua—l Waterford, 1 Hamburgh.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW.
Waning, 56 minutes after 11. I Evening, CO minutes after It.