The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-25 00:00:00

, PARISH MEETINGS.

Among the compilations of literary lumber that have
been laid aside in our Printing-Office; last week, upon the
subject of the late Parish Meetings; we find au elegant and
erudite paragraph, no doubt from a pen whose writer would
be libelled by even an imputation of an effort coupled with
literature; that ignorant impudent scribbler has asserted,
alluding to the sentiments of the members of Eleven Parishes
of the Irish Metropolis on the Hawthorne Manifesto, that
the` result of their deliberations will be found below" (de
pryiendis); the debates " on the score of argument, elo-
quence, or good manners," had little to recommend them,
says that drivelling dotard in politics. Pray tell us, Mr'
Strand-street Lecturer, where did you learn argument, efo-
quence, or rood manners ? Was it "below ?", and where
below, thou underling of in udent asperity. Do you seri-
ously wish to have an anticipated answer from the- Parish
Meetings to the arguments you perhaps intend not to offer,
when, on Saturday night next, if argument you are able to
enter upon, you will attempt to furnish a week's Work, for
which neither Mr. Hawthorne, his employers, or the Pariah
Meetings, will thank you, and for which you might have
escaped contemptuous ;md well-merited observation.'
" On the other side, the London Courier of
Wednesthiy last liz3rds the following bitter
pleasantry upon half a sentence of our last num-
ber
TRIM BOAST—" At the end of sixteen months," says
the Editor of the Dublin Weekly Gazette, " we may chal-
lenge our enemies to present from our sheets a single eulogy
upon a man in power." What an impartial writer this same
Editor must be, or else, what sad rogues all men in power
are. This truly Hibernian vaunt reminds us of the elderly
maiden in the play, who repels an attempt to praise her can-
dour, by exclaiming in a fury, " Marry come up I warrant
no one ever heard me speak well of any body'."'

The sentence, and that which preceded, as
written and printed, run thus
LORD WIIIT*ORTII.—There is a personality of panegyric
not less illiberal and more disgusting than the most unjust
individual calumny. We have industriously laboured to keep
our pages undefiled by either of these forms of meanness,
and, at the end of sixteen months, we may challenge ou r
enemies to present from our sheets a single eulogy upon a
man in power, or slander upon a private person.'
" We are at a loss to see what there -is in this
to deserve peculiarly thc title of a truly Irish
vaunt.'

" If it discovers to our neighbours any of that
ccnfusion of ideas which has been, with flip-
pant absurdity, attributed to 'lie countrymen of
Berkely, and Swift, and Goldsmith, and Burke,
the same ill-organized understanding' which in-
spired the blunder, still conceals it from us ; but it
the sneer is directed against the vanity of our
boast of nut eulogising great men, merely be-
cause they are hot sad rogues,' and if the intro.
(faction of the term Irish is meant to imply that
it is only in Ireland that the negative merit of not
being a knave it to be rejected as a ground for
panegyric, we thankfully accept the compliment
which plates our country ou such an enviable
eminence. But in spite of the manifest inference
from this clumsy jest of The Courier, corroborated
as it would seem to be by the late reports on the
Police of London', we will believe, that in that
great City, as well as here, something more titan
not being a sad rogue' is wanted to justify a
panegyric, particularly on men who have so much
power to reward, as to make all praise of them
suspicious. Whatever may be the practice or opi-
mion of The Courier, we will think ourselves per-
fectly impartial in withholding our encomiums
from those who Would receive them from the
most prostituted, as well as from us ; and if this

Irish boast' offends The Courier, and be is p re-
pared to say, that pride turns his stomAch,'
our Editor may answer with a perfect truth, in
the words of the same Poet, So does flattery
mine.'

" We, however, solicit a continuance of this
censure from both Chronicle andiCourier, as the
surest ground for our own self-applause; and the
best proof that we do our dnty to the public."

••*' For "THE GOOD OLD Times," see the Last nne.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Perfi,rmed Last Night.
TIMATHE ROYAL. COVtNT-GARDEN.—The Apostate : Malec,
Mr. Young; Florinda, Miss O'Neill. After which, The
Miller and His Men.

MAILS.

ARRIVED-1 France, 1 Waterford. DUE—.I Gottenburgli,
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KING GEORGE AccEssioN.—Holiday at the Bank, Ex.
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