The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-16 00:00:00

NEWSMEN.

MR. EDITOR-.A beg permission to reply to your
regrets, kindly expressed in THB SUN Paper of
this"evening, concerning the Newsmen, by assur-
ing you, that so tar from having involved them-
selves iri any legal difficulties, by the circuktion
of the poisonous trash of Cathie. Zitc., they are as
free from apprehension gespecting the pending
prosecutions alluded to as yourselt, and no more
interested in the decision of the Laws than honest
and npt i2ht men should be, who revere those of
their country.

The Newsmen are a respectable, and, as you
are pleased to call them, an useful body of men.
They are not dealers in professedly seditious,
blasphemous, immoral, or obscene publications ;
and whilst the Law tolerates the printing of Sun-
day Papers, are content to supply their regular
customers in the least offensive manner ; they nei-
ther break the Laws nor beard the Magistrates,
nor seek to increase their gains by keeping open
shop the whole of the Sabbath, a custom dis-
graceful to the society that permits it, discredit-
able to the country, and an outrage to all decent
usage and moral feeling.

NVhatever may be their opinions individually,
which, in a great number, must necessarily vary,
I am assure(' that there is scarcely one who does
not feel that he has a cliaracter at stake, and
would not willingly hazard his reputation by
becoming the Vender of infamous
.or illegal Pub-
lications.

Respecting th• persons with whom you have
unknowingly amalgamated the Rect.!Lan No ws-
MEN, it would be indecorous in me to say any
thing; they are under:the ban of the Law. How
far their gratitude may be excited, orAheir con-
duct influenced, by your humane and considerate
remarks upon their case, I knOw not; but I may
safely assert, that they live by their vocation, that
they have sought the Lion in his den, and that,
like their convicted Chief, they boast themselves
to be fearless of consequences.

I have by negations pointed out a distinttion,

drat I had thought was as obvious as that which
exists between the regular Newsman and those
wretched men, who obtain a precarious livelihood
by hawking Papers about the Town, disturbing,
with their discordant noises, the stillness of the
night and the sanctity of the Sabbath.

My object being to rescue a respectable body
of men from aspersions, arising from your well-
meant animadversions, as well as from the (pro-
bably) equally well-meant defence of the News-
maN, in The Morning ChroniclO of this day, if I
should 5o tar have succeeded, to convince your-
self and their Patrons that the Nawsm are not,
as a body, the object of either the one or the
other, that end will he attained ; and in eonsi-
detation cat having performed, what ! consider as
a duty, I may be pardoned for presuming to in-
struct, when 1 should be more properly and more
meritoriously employed in disseminating the in.
structions of others.
Nuv. ts, Is:9. A NEWSMAN.

The York Loyal Declaration hod on Friday
hat received TWELVE TtroUSAND SiZtUittite

....,
The Barb Loyal Declaration, on its close on
Saturday last, had received the signatures of 800

A Declaration, expressive of entire concurrence
in the sentiments recently communicated to the
High Sheriff of Hampshire, in reference to the
transactions at Manchester, deprecating any pub-
lic Resolutions upon the subject, as prejudging
a question likely to become a matter of legal in-
vestigation, and tending to diminish public confi-
dence in those laws by which the security and the
happiness of the country have hitherto been main-
tained, has been signed by about 300 of the
principal Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders,
residing within the division of Potsdown.
(Hampshire Chronicle.)

COMMON HALL—The LORD MAYOR, at the re.
quisition of a number of the Livery, has consented
to call a Common Hall o Friday next, to take
into consideration the recent resolution of the
Court of Aldermen to prosecute Messrs. \VA!TII-
MAN, PARKINs, &c. for their conduct on the occa-
sion of the late election of a Lord Mayor, and to
adopt such inCaSUICS atereoll us may be deemed
necessary.