The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-17 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE of the RADICALS.

LETTER FROM THE. COMMITTEE TO HUNT.
" Tuesday Noon.

" To 111:Nrty fluvr, Esq.
" St a— We, whose names are tindersigncd, forming part of
the Committee of Five Hundred, .•aunut but express our
deepest feelings of regret and surprise in having- witnexyrd the
harsh and severe wanner in which the worthy Doctor Watson
nits treated by you, Sir, ou the preceding evening at the
Crown and Anchor.

4, Such conduct cannot fail to give the real Reformer great
suspicion, that those persons you have on former occasions
denominated as Tricksters, have most basely prejudiced one
as honest, as brave, and as virtuons a Reformer, as is possi-
ble for you to form an alliance with.
~ We rely, Sir, on Your compliance in forwarding to us,
the Undersigned, an explanation of the motives which could
authorize such a proceeding; and remain your's, &c.
(Sigued) 4, JNO. PALIN.
" JOHN HARTLEY,
" JOHN HARRIsON,
" JOSEPH PAIN ER,
" THOM AS CFI AM BERS,
" WM. HALL."

LETTER FROM THIsTLEWOOD TO HUNT.
Stanbope-street, Sept. 15, 1819.

" Stir--I have been informed, and for the authenticity I
make no doubt, that Mrs. Vince, Messrs. Curiae, Iraddinx-•
tim, Ireland, Gies, and Co. on .Sunday list, at Barnet, did •
suggest to you the necessity of coalescing With the We•tmin-
ster Rump ; and to bring that derivable object to an issue,
nod as a sine qua non, you were to discard Dr. IT'ai.von and
myself, or, at all events, we were to go to the back sroirnd
you ought to have consulted the propriety of such a measure,
as to whether the Puat.tc Would silfret it or nut ! !I
" Lord help their conjuring souls! What a pity they did
not think of this before the first Smithfield Meeting; what a
pity they did not think of it before the filled the Common
Hall with our friends. I know they did think of it prior to
the last Smithfield Meeting. I know they did think of it bt-
fore the procession; because they left no measure untried to
check them, both. by tri,k, a:1,1 frrfud,' and lies. Whether
the last Smithfield Meeting, and the procession, have been 44
any utility to the cause, I will leave to the Public to deter-
miine ; and I will also leave it to them to judge, whether the
Doctor and myself did deserve, after our unwearied exertions
in the cause to raise your tame, such treatment from vim;
mean a premeditated insult which you lavished upon the
Doctor, and of course intended for us both.
" You cannot plead want of due consideration, or want
contrary advice; you had the latter, and .plenty of time for
the first. 1 leave you to your reflections.

"4
• " Awraun rorsTLEwooD.

et lienry Hunt, Esq.".

SEVENPENCF.

TEE BANK.

A General Court ProprietOrs of Bank Stock
%vas Held yesterday morning, pursuant to the terms
of the Charter, in Corder to consider of a dividend
for the half year en:ling the 10,h of Ocrobcr next.
The CHAIRMAN having proposed, '' That a divi-
dent! of Five per Cent. he declared nn,the capital
and protits of the Coffin:lily for the half-year end-
ing the IQ+h of October," _ _ .

Mr. R. JActesost rose to offer a few observations
on the present state of their affairs. He observed,
that the measure which had been adopted With le..
ire( to the Bank, in the last Session of Pal liament,
had, in a certain degree, affected his interest, and
interest of the other proprietors, inasmuch as
it had caused a depression in the price of Stock ;
but he d,d not, on that account, lament the ciretim-
stance, since it was the first step towards A return
to the system on which the Brnk had formerly acted
—and heexpressed his full conviction tharthe Bank .
at the present moment, stood on a 'wife solid
foundation than it had done at any preceding pe-
riod. The history of all banking institutions
proved that they were ruinous to the parties con-
cerned, where the Bank had one interest, and the
Government another. That was not the case
here—the interest of both flowed in the same
channel—and therefore it was that he depended
entirely on the stability of the Bank of England.
There were those who talked of a separation of
those interests—but the persons who contemplated
sneh an event, must be sorry reasoners indeed. It
was impossible to sever them, although the con-
nexion might not be quite so intimate as it had been.
‘Vliile he rejoiced that what was generally called the
political connexion between the Bank and the Go-
vernment was dissolved by the events of last Session
—while he rejoiced that the Gentlemen whom he
then addressed had had sufficient experience of
Courts and Court iers—were sofficiently apps ised of
the feelings of those who one day would call ott
them to advance money for the assistance of the
State, and would turn round to sacrifice them on,
the next—still he hoped that every thing would
be carried on between the Bank and the Govern-
ment with perfect good humour. In the course
of last Session, the Gentlemen who conducted
their affairs, were frequently obliged, in another
place, to discuss different points connected with
their establishment—and, would it he believed, that
on those occasions the very persons who had
urged them, rOr several years past, by the most
sacred of all appeals, the love of CC/0101y, to pursue •
the course they had done, were the first to taunt
them ? They were told, after they had been ac-
tually forced to make advances for the service ot
the country, that they were too fond of meddling
with State affairs—but that they were Bankers,
and not Statesmen. He was glad they were not.
He knew them to be men of education.....he knew
them to be well qualified to discharge their Par-
liamentary duties—he knew them to be well suited
for the situation they held in that House, and he
wanted no more. Let them proceed, as they had
heretofore done, on the great mercantile princi.
pies of caution and integrity, and there was not a
Proprietor of Bank Stock, who, in the course of
a few years, would not find his condition much
better than it had ever been before. They were.
taunted too (by a Gent letnan WIIO was present,
and who always made his observations with good
humour)- because they were not political econo-
mists. Lie was glad they were not, if political
economy consisted in a departure from the prin-
ciples of Adam Smith—the adoption of fan-
ciful -reveries—and the iotrodoction of a myste-
rious jargon, almost as incomprehensible as the
lucubrations of Professor Kant. He wished to
see those who conducted their affairs, acting on
the principles of practical mercantile men. Be-
tween the Bank and the Government he was anxious
that perfect good•humour should prevail—but Ise
deprecated any thing that looked like a slavish sub-
jugation to the will of Government. lie conjured.
the l)ircc' ors not to suffer advances to be made, for
the purpose of appearing on a good footing with the
St ate, or in orderto make a magnificent figure in the
public eye. He called on them, not to take any
step, which, it acting for themselves, in their own
pri..-ate counting-houses, they worsid not feel jos-
tified in adopting. If they pursued the plain and
simple dictates of can ,n Amf integrity, as they
had heretufore done, the interests of the Com-
pany would be placed on a iound,:tion of strength
which it would be impossible to shake.

The motion was then agreed to, and it was an-
nounced that the dividend warrants would be
ismted on Monday, the 11th of October. The
Court then adjourned, sine die.

On Friday last .'!Mary Tucker, (sister of James
Tucker, the
,notorious vender of sedition, now
confined in our city gaol), was examined at the
Guildhall, charged with selling a work entitled
The Republican, contailling au lid arnons libel on
the Prince Regent and his Government, when,
on her priimisiog to decline business altogether,
the whole ot her stork in trade was purchased by
the Mayor, and immediately burnt in the Matket-
place.—(Exeter Flying Post, Se:it. 15.)
Captain WILLIAM BALLET, the unfortunate
voting man who was remanded before the Sitting
Alderman on Wednesday, for defrauding AICSAre.
LEECH and DALLIMOUE, of the London Co*r.
house, Liolgate4iill, was found dead in his bed
at the Giltipur-Street Compter yesterday -twiling..
A Coronves Inquest was held upon the Ludy be.,
fore Mr. SHELTON last night, and on the evidence
ot Mr. Box and Mr. TAREATT, the sermons, who
opened the body and head ot the deceased, and
vyho each declared they • had never witnessed so
clear and decided a case of apoplexy, the Jury
brought in veidict cit--" Died by the Viiitatiot;
or God." •