The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-02 00:00:00

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uesdAy the Duke of YOr I, 89 Com.main-
i;:"'n•Chief, held a Levve at bis Office in 'hi.: totriie Guards, which being the fir" `inc
mi-
teritil:,,l Guards,
Brighton, was very numerously
It ''' Ailltm tl►e distinguished characters pre-
-1 were, g
I,etti-er",(3entr-ti z ' • t -Generd Brown, Lieut.-
f'etl‘ *Slr Fitzroy.lll,"lttue'lle':'n Ile,int,t;t.-General
Sir Colin.liit(l.-
4;l'gliit'llt"%,.lieral Sir JOtn; Envy, Major-General Sir
Nallarc.
'At '` i)nk e ►~f Sursax;in his
II,,:n: Lt.-tieuerat moivneux, Major-General W. 4114 .
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way to town tr►►ut
liolkbain, visited Cambride, H
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1t)11,, 'vtili the Hew. G. A. BitowNa, of.
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.L.(l :t'' atql in the evening supped at Downing

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CHURCHMEN.

Nite ErteroaSome of your Correspondents,
I sees affect to call your Journal the Par Son's
Paper, but, I confess, I see very few proofs that the
Clergy give therhselves much trouble about public
concerns. Never *ere the Church And State so
vehertiently assailed- as they are at this period by
Deists, (Athiests, I cannot believe have any exists,
ence)--'-thii awful, this portentous period,--a tai
though I have hitherto been averse to the Intro-
duction of Politics in the Pulpit, yet now is the
tinie for Churchmen to inculcate that soletfin and
impressive lesson, Fear God and handed- the King.
The horrid miscreants who come forward as Ra-
dical Reformers, are nothing butt Deists and
Rebels; they seem not to ftqr God, and they cer-
tainly do not honour the King, for they insult hint
daily in their pages of infamy, and the very Sab-
bath is profaned every week by licentious and in-
flammatory compositions, Placards of which
Over the half-shut windows and shutters of th.e?
venders. There was a time when the Magli-'"
trates would not have suffered the Sabbath to be
thus violated, by what ought to be coosidered al'
a kind of sacrilege ; and there was a time when
.
the common People would have looked an these
Placards with disgust and horror. I am no fa-
natic, Mr. E,litor, tior am I what is stiled
/Methodist, and I once viewed with alarm the pro-
gress of Methodism, yet I now rejoice to see Re-
ligion kept alive by Dissenters of all descriptions.
They are active in speading salutary doctrines.
Heartily do I wish that the Orthodox Ministers
were equally assiduous in supporting the doctrines
of the Established Church, but they are in pity or
contempt stiled Holy Drones by the Dissenting Mi-
nisters, an•l unless they rouse from their lethargy,
they will have no hive to shelter them. I con-
fess I sometimes see articles in yo..r Journal,
which seem, by the language in which they are
conveyed, to come front Churchmen, and the
Writers are to be highly commended for exerting
themselves at this critical and perilous period,
and thus setting a good example to their Brethren ;
but there are by no means so many of these ar-
ticles as to entitle THE Subt to the name of The
Parsons' Paper, and., perhaps, after all, they are
written by learned and spirited Laymen, who are
laudably anxious to support the interests of Church
and State—interests of vital importance to the
Empire. Let then the Orthodox Ministers shake
off their slumbers, end, in the exercise of their
pious duties, inculcate and enforce the hallowed
maxim of Fear God and Honour the King; and let
them also exercise their pens in your Paper, and
io all other loyal Journals, and then, perbaps,
licentiousness, impiety, and sedition may be
checked in their baleful course ; but, at all events,
if THE Law has not power wholly to suppress the
publication of all Sunday Newspapers, though I
am persuaded that it has, let the Magistrates, at
least, prevent the future exhibition of those large
Placards which profstse the Sabbath, as well as
disgrace the Metropolis, and which detain the
, passengers, who probably never depart from them
• without carrying away impious and sophistical
doctrines, purposely calculated to corrupt the
. lower orders of the people, and to induce them
to he more inclined to dissipation and idleness on
the following day, %viten they ought to resume
their weekly course of industry and prudence.
A LAYMAN.

Ptinee EVTERHAZY entertained the PeastAN
AMEASsADOE and a !elect party, yesterday, at
(Aland°. House, Cavendish-square•
The Gentlemen who propose to bid for the
Lottery waited yesterday on the CIIANCELLoR of
the Excit Est..;Ett, in Downing street. We under-
stand tLat they twined a coalition, and offered
I3i. ss. but that their offer was refused.
Mrs, MARY ANN CLARKE and her two daughters
landed a few days since from the Isle of IVight,
at Portsmouth, front which place they set off for
London.

The recent hot weather has been productive of
flux, cholera morbus, fever, and a very general dis-
order in the stomach and intestines, anti even surf-
tit a death, all arising, apparently, primarily from
drinking cold %elver, buttermilk, &c. when the body
was supernaturally heated. It has also produced
what may, perhaps, he interesting to the !tato•
ralist, an uncommonly small flea, which has
made its appearance in great numbers in many
respectable houses, where cleanliness is scrupu-
lously observed, and where none of the interior
animals are kept.

MOST DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—In the af-
ternoon of Tuesday seinnight, a young boy named
Paton, about 1,1 years of age, residing at Cairn-
beddie, whilst amosing himself with a double
pike-hook, unfortunately swallowed it. The barb.
of the hook fastened so far down in the throat,
that no instrument could he applied to unfix
them. In this state of torture the boy was
brought to Perth, with the end of the brass snood
or chain hanging out of his mouth, but no-
thing effectual could he done for hint. Imme-
diately a number of people very humanely opened a
subscription for him, and he was sent off on Wed-
nesday afternoon for the Royal Infirmary of Edin-
burgh, where he art ived on Thursday. A con-
ultat ion is to be held on his case to-day.—(Edirt-
i urgh Paper.)

PCETiti.

A VOLt7\TAIiT -C6NTIiIIICTIOX

IN Aib OF
TIIE BEDFORD FREE SCHOOL,
MAY I, 1819,

BY Miss i'onbrtt.

Hail to the genial hoUrs that bring
The happiest day of joctind Spring;
In every rank, in every clime,
Through all the long career of Time,
Has Pleasiire known her chstrt;•r'd day,
And hailed the opening morn of May.

Snft breathes the gale, the purple hours
Attire the grove, awake the flowers,
And like her insect SWArllli the hi-rah
Their cells, to spurt on lawh or lake
Now Nature bursts the ivy thrall
Tu bless the bounteous Lord of ill.

'Tis •Charity presides to-day,
In Albion HOW the Queen 01 flay,
See her fair Ministers that stand
'Nlid the rich labours of their hand,
'While o'er each animated face
She breathes her oWn angelic grace.

Anti gayer hand was never seen
'With chaplets decked on villaize green,
When rustic ssvaine convene to throw
:The ponderous bar, or bend tha bow,
Or dance in frolic circle round
• The pole with early garlands crown'd.

. Nor in.the garden-A of the East,
When Spring brings on the Tulip Feast;
When lamps Mame the gaudy flowers,
And Mirth is heard in Haram bowers,
Those Ifouri.forms can seem more fair,
r.% Or gayer shines their mock Bazaar.

Here Virtue die;nifies the smile;
Its end ennobles every toil !
Who were not"proud the works to wear
Of hearts so good and hands so fair?
Come, then ! all ye whom wealth has blest,
Your Gifts shall spread no idle Feast c

They go to bid the Eye of Youth
Bram with Intelligence and Truth :
To bid the Humble share the draught
Your lips at Mercy's fount have quaff d;
• In righteous paths to lead them here,
And fit them for a happier sphere!

* It has been recently observed that most of our Charitable
Institutions bare their Annual Meetings in May.

a.• The foregoing Lines were written as a Contribution
to the Annual Sale, %%lia] takes place at the Argyle Rooms
on the Ist of May, for the Benefit of the Bedford Free School.
This School is supported by Ladies► who themselves instruct
and clothe the Children. The Sale Consists principally of
little Works of Fancy and Ingenuity, made and sold by the
Fair Patronesses,and the profits are devoted to defray, in pa►t,
the expences of the Charity.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE --This superb The-
atrical Establishment, so useful as well as orna-
mental to the Metropolis, opens for the season
on Monday next. The din ot preparation has,
during the recess, resounded within its walls
the decorations have been newly embellished, but
the grand improvement has been made on the
.stage. By a bold and ingenious piece of ma-
chinery, the whole Proscenium can now he raised
bodily up, so as discover (when required) a height
of above forty feet ; and the last row of the one-
shilling gallery can have a perfect view of the
must extensive scene of spectacle.
PHILLIPS, the singer, is positively engaged at
Covent-Garden. Miss TREE, the principal singer
at !lath, is also engaged, and the Maid of the
31111 is getting up, with the whole strength of the
company, for the purpose ot introducing these
two popular vocalists in the characters of Lord
Ainiworth and Potty,
Mr, lityry has declined the very liberal offer
made to him by the Covent-garden Managers,
and does not intend to appear upon the London
hoards this season.

Great preparations are making to commence the
Theatrical Cainpaign at Drury with

Con►modore SirTitostAs HARDY IS arrived in
town from Plymouth, and has had several long
intervieecw• with the A►;miralty Board, on the sub-
, ject of his command in South America. lie is
expected to return in a few days to join the Su-
perb, of 74 guns, Captain WHITE.

- .
IMPORTLNT DISCOVEKY.—A recent Patentee, in
his specification, says," The first or foremost part
of my invention, which 1 call the back part, con-
sists of two sjdes," Sw.
The RevAOWLAND HILL, and the Rev. T.
Jacti.obr,,whniiiive taken a tour through this coun-
ty on. behalf of,,the Missionary Society, have been
tuttc.;li, pleeseil:,Nyith the interest universally telt
for titit,'„Oicpcipant object ; they have visited
Launceston, 110dinin, Lostwithiel, Fowey, Me-
vagistey, Penryn, Falmouth, and Truro, in
which towns skdissenting pulpits have been open
for ileir:,reeeption, and the collections libcral.—
They 'visited St. Ives on Thursday evening,
intend. io snenti the sabbath nt Penzance,
preach! 4 6weillia-pit on Monday, at three
o'clock in 64_ afternoon, and are expected at St.
Austell on Tnesday, and at Liekeard on Wednes-
day, front,tlinit:place they proceed to Tavistock.—
(West 8riff1±;.;;,.....

On Sr.nd:ty lelert, Mrs. Lyall, of Russell-sqnare, of a son.

?,I,IIIIIIED.

At St..linvt A Church, oti Toiesdav, the 31st ult., L. M.
Prior. 91111 of 'l'. Prior,l*.sq,, oriiliew of Lord
dt Montmorency, to I.trin, widow
of Colooul iuta Commandant of tile 69111 Iteginient.

DIED.
xat., at liar house, Ni wran•street, Mrs.
Ward, wife of the IV,yal Academician.
On the I,t nom, Edward, the infant sun of Edward

On thrt.4.91.14 titt„ut ItteJtouse of his brother-in-law,Warn
M'lnerlntor, I Ivitdott, Mr..lttlitt Deloltety, aged 17.
Lktely, Mr. Witt. Atillijo, ynutnrest sun of the late Gettrze
Autdjo, Euq. (Thiel Nfigistrate of Abettieen. lie was first
officer of the karst India ship Queen Charlotte, which was
totally Joist in btirticsine off Nladrn,, on the tit thlulJet

SECOND EDITION.

SUN-OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK.

WESTNIINSTER MEETING.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, on taking the Chair
this day, in Palace-yard, proceeded to state the
business of the day. He signified, that he was
called on to perform the duty of presiding as
Chairman., and referred to the refusal of the
High Bailiff to call the Meeting. Soon after
appeared a herd of Radical Reformers, with a,
band of mnsic in the front of the scaffold,
bawling out UNIVERSAL. SUFFRAGE, and displajs.
log a hag with PEACE AND GOOD-WILL"
the Motto. Here, as we stated in our first im—
pression, was likely to be the case, a scene of
undescribable confusion ensued, and several per•
sons appeared to he materially injured by the
conflict which we rpedieted, ,and the violence of
the Rabble Reformers. At length order being ;rt
Rome degree restored, the Chairman produced fiefs
Resolutions, couched in the usual hackneyed
and Oaring stile, which were of coure received
with applause by the vagabond audience. Mr.
Hoßnooss then !addressed the Meeting, and read
a Petition to the PRINCE REGENT. THELwALL,
WALKER, and other obtrusive Orators, who are
diseased with a desire of notoriety, also tittered in•
flammatory nonsense. There seemed to he a strong
disposition in the vast unruly multitude to pro,ecti
in the course of the day, and when they were
sufficiently heated by the democratical harangue,.;
to commit the most violent excesses, but we again
assure our Readers, that due care I! .s been taken.
to suppress tumults and secure offendets against
the public Peace.

A prodigious mass of the Radical Rcformers,with
their banners and music, have just returned from
Palace-Yard, and never were b fore collected
such an enormous heap of the scum of the Mc.
tropolis.

FOR THE SUN.