The Sun.
London, England, 1819-12-06 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,—l rejoice to find that new Laws will he
enacted, sufficient—in some degree at least—to
encounter the Radicals. Will be enacted, I say,
feeling confident as I do, that the wisdom of the
Legislature will validate the care of the Sovereign.
These indispensable precautions against the
tongue, the sword, and the pen of disaffection
may be thus marshalled

I I. Meetings, which are not a counties or
corporate bodies, ior coneei:ed by certain Ma-
gistrates, shall not he held, hot within their own
parishet,, and after six days notice given to the
Magistrates.

2. No rxtra parochial persons shall attend at

such meeting.

3. Large parishes shall be divided, as to the
norpcntes of such meeting, into districts of not
less that► ten thousand persons.
4. The M►►gistrate may change the day and
place of meeting, within four days after receiving
notice.

11. 1. No persons shall attend any meetings,
even of counties, armed, or beating revolutionary
symbol,.

2. No meeting shall be held for training to
arms, or drilling.

3 The I,igistrates 511811 be empowered to
scald) for arms and seize them.
111. 1. The mioor PublicAlions shall be sub-
ject to the same stamped duty as Newspapers are.

2. Their publishers shall deposit sufficient se-
curity to abide the result of any prosecution for
libel or blasphemy.
3. The Judges shall have the power of inflict-
ing an heavier punishment upon the repeated of-
fence.

1 indulge an honest pride in hay-
ing urged, through the medium of your Paper,
the enact meat of many of the principal of these
restraints, and an equally honest satisfaction in
their adoption, let 'lle indulge also my regret,
that they have not been framed with a more penal
and a more comprehensive restriction. It is some
assurance, that seditious meetings and seditious
writings will never again find their wonted faci-
lity but I deeply lamen,, that the power of
setzit.g• arms should be only local and temporary.
I lament. ton, that no penalty Is contemplated on
those who shall refuse or evade delivering up all
the arms in their reach or possession, so soon n 3
legally demanded. Still more, that the precise
purpose and boundary of petition is not defined,
and thereto limited, even in county meetings.
They who experienced, as I did, all the mischiefs
and dangers of this uncertainty in Ireland, in the
case of the Popish Delegates, will join in my re-
gret. Let 110 man start at my further regret—
that the -Hnheas Corpus Act is not—in cases of
blasphemy, sedition, and treason—to be s uspended—
upon Lord CASTLEREAGH'S just and incontro-
vertible axiom, which I have long laboured,
faithfully though perhaps feebly, to support,
that the restriction of the bad is the
protection of the good. I cannot imagine
what cause of fear any honest, or loyal, or
religious person can entertain against such a mea-
sure ; were it even enacted permanently. If,
however, the wise restrictions which his Lord-
ship has brought forward, shall be found, in
consequence of his anxious lenity, inadequate to
their.purposr ; if seditious men shall still -con-
trive some evasion of the law; then, I trust, no
measure vein be considered too severe, too de-
cisive, too extinctory of Rebellion.
I care not for the language of the law; I look
only to its spirit 5 and that, I know, is the pre-
servation of the Constitution. Here again 1 re-
peat my axiom ; and never will I cease repeating
it ; to save the Constitution, nothing is unconstitu-
tional. An Englishman's proper freedom is, not
thsit hi shall have the liberty of doing what he
pleases to others ; but, that none shall have the
liberty of doing what they please to him. They
who understand by the term " Freedom," any
thing beyond " security and peace," are fitter
objects for the new law than for any animad-
version.

TENAX.

P. S. I am in no small degree gratified by the
alarm into which my suggestions have thrown
The Afanchesier Observer. This Radical Journal
styles them " infamous," and calls for County
Meetings to remonstrate against their adoption.
at, how I love the throes and agonies of these
criminals ! They had better make haste with
their next assembly, before they are liable to be
hanged for attending it.

On Friday a Niceling Wag held at the Old Ship
Tavern, Brighton, the Earl of EGREMONT in tl►e
Chair, to determine upon erecting a Sta►ue to
the PRINCE liFce,NT, S a memorial of affection
to lout, when 4501. were subscribed itl the room.
The statue is proposed to be of btonz, and Mr.
WESTMACoTT the artist, Tie estimated expence
is about 40001.

FLANDERS MAIL.

A Flanders Mail nilive4.lasi. night with.Brnsseis
Papers to Friday last,' The following are eR•

tracts :

" BRUSSELS, Dec s_—.Accounts from the
Hague and Aitiaterifont speak of various arrests
which have taken piaci- In the latter city, without
giving any explAnation of the cause of-,this inea.
sure. On the oilier band, the Dioch News•
papers, which are extrumely circumspect, do not
spet,lc of them at all We •ball not write all the
reports that are ith virrida rum ott ft•ia subject,
vso.ich mu•t be confirmed h! fore credit, can be
given to them. A very 'obvious rifler Ito!! pre.
'kelt, namely, that in a Constittriot►al Mo.
narchy, governed by a fundamental law, which
ensures public freedom, there must doubles ba
extrpioidinary circinosiances to deprive citizens of
ibeii liberty.
" 'Fite cause of M. Constantin, Editor of The
Constillitionnel of An. werp, was heard to-day helot C
the Court of Appeals. M. Constantin was pro.
lectottl, as our readers will remember, at the in.
stance oldie Austrian Minister, litrou de Beater,
and was acquitted by the Correctional Tribunal
at Ant Vverp The pleadings were long. ,The prin.
cipal Tiestion was, whether offensive expre-si,i, •
rbtivarus the Austrian Cabinet, in.,er ed it► The
Constiintionne, and extracted trout an English
Journal,. were to be considered directed a4ainst
Ole Empe,or himself, and consequently whether
111. Constantin ought to pay the tine of 500 tin.
tins? The Court will dcLvtr its indolent the day
after to-Mat row,

" There have been some diattoblnces at Bro.
kurn, in rile Kingdom of 113nover ; 'his place is
much friquented by young Pros,ians."