The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-16 00:00:00

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FOR THE SUN.

ANTI-DEMOCRACY.

MR. EDITOR—Since Youtt supelintendance and
management of THE SUN, I !rave always admired
your disinterestedness and independence ; and al-
'thong', you give, as it were, a general support to
the present Glvernwent, it is evident, that the in-
clination of your mind, and the Constitutional
principles you hare always openly professed, lead
you to feel to stronger interest in favour of one of
the. Divisions of the Cabinet than the other ; hot
that whoever may be in the possession of the

'Government, it is 11 sine qua non With you to
tn3intaio the Motrarel and the People agalust
the overechelming influence of the Old Aristo-

trricy, which was so timely and so consti,n-
tionally clieelted by that illu“rioos St;ifeA;l43n,
the first Cu. Tin at, and controu!ed by
the influence of his no less illus!tious Son.

A great deal is now said iihont Democracy and
itttortn, and the danger to be apprehended from
both of them ; hut from a rational and tempe-

rdte Refortn, no dispassionate, disinterested, and

irt►hartial man will sl►tii,k or contemplate (linger ;
but whilst the Ohl Aristorracy resist all endea-
vonrs to place 7HE CLOSE BOROUGHS on their
ancient constitutional footing, it is not surprising
that tl►e People should be dissatisfied with fh,e Pre-
rem state of the FlelneF,eitiation of the Country.
liar! the Bill to regulate the Elections in Close
Boroughs, which► you, and your cotemporary
in a respectable Morning Paper, so ably sup-
ported ri:►tin;; the lost Sessions pas:e,l into a Law,
the People wouLl hare hall, as they term it, SOME

UARNEST of the intention ot the Ugislatore and
Government to correct the aht‘s,..:s which 14revail
in thoSe places ; and it is arirnt:ted by the Oppo-
s:tion, ot whom opposed that Bill, Ow had
it passed it would have been, a wore tationdl,
thongh extensive Reform, than any which h.d
taken place for a century. Yet this Bill, th(wgli
1101 opposed by i4linicters, was lust, from the con-
duct ot the Opposition, who bad only Ilte'night
before carried the Question for a Ref or at in the
Scotch Boroughs.

I am led to make these remarks from the ru-
mours which are afloat respecting !:•,e ►tnsettleti state
of some of the Distriuts,—and as I do not knoW
any plan so likely to appease the SOBFR-21.1iN1nD
portion of the Community, who are beginning to
sheyr symptoms of an intention to support and join
ti,e views of the Reformers—than by the PuaLtC
}Tress—feallessly,and independently miintaininz,
broAly,the neceSsiry olcorrectiOg the corrupt prac-
tices which prevail in the Close Boroughs, and by
recommending Petitions to PArliament to saject
all the Electors in those places to the same re-
gulations as the Voters in Counties and Cities -I
make the FIRST appeal, through the medium of
your Paper, convinced that your good sense, rb-
Sic spirit, and patriotism, will never allow you to
shrink from the performance of your public duty,
and influence you NOT to insert in it those arti-
cles which may be sent you, the object of which
is to restore to its original state and purity the
Representation of the Country. I hope never
to see you—l know I never shall—the Advocate
of Annual Parliaments, or of Universal Suffrage ;
but something must be done to satisfy the rational,
reflecting, and industrious classes of the cow-

The rapid progress which education is making,
throughout the Empire demands it ; (or as the re-;
novation of the Representation of the Commons
Noose of Parliament must be slow and progressive,
it therefore ought not to be delayed—but to be
entered upon- seriously and honestly early in the
next Session ; otherwise we shall have, in a very
few years, such a MASS OF INTELLECT let loose
upon the Country, as will be tincontroulable ;
if it is not judiciously anticipated anti met, by
every improvement and amendment, which time'
and the change of circumstances in the Coun-
try have rendered necessary. For myself,
have no apprehension of danger from the
People—for When the present moment of
their in itation .is passed, " their quiet good,
sense" will revive in their bosoms the Same
ardent affection for their King aini Country
which animated their Ancestors in former times.
At present they are in the hands of designing,
wicked, and foolish men, without morality' or Ito!.
nesty, who have every thing to gain and nothing to
lose. But unless the PUBLIC Puess will diligently
apply itself to rept ove the delusion under which
the lower order labour from the misrepresenta-
tions of these men, abet etl as they are by the
worse part of the Press, nothing can he done !
Jr is not by abusing such worthless fellows as
Mr. I-luxT, or by noticing the folly of the cre-
dolotts Staffordshire Baronet, that the labOtitiog
hart of the Community will withdraw flout this
connexion, but it can ,only .he achieved by the
LUYAL PRESS, and by the MIDDLE IiAUKS of