The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-11 00:00:00

Placed in tire centre of a wide and populous District, in-
timately e neected with the Commerce of this great Empire,
,Nve are pi-Omits more sensibly aflected than any others of his
Xlalests's Ssleeete, by those vicissitudes which are iusepa-
rattle froin nature of Cart inmercial Enterprize. Still,
threader every cleaner of affairs, it Was ranee the high and manly
Character of our People to retain the most ardent spirit of
loyalts to their King, and the most devoted attachment to
,the Constitution ; arm to support theruselVC9 under tempo-
rary difficulties, with that exemplary fortitude and endurance
'Which reason arid religion taught them to consider at their
‘tisest interest and their bounden duty.
It is painful, however, to observe, that these honottrable
feelings, these sound and rational principles of human con-
duct, have been of late scars materially corrupted and im-
laired ; every device which a perverted ingenuity could in-
`seat, every engine which the most maligteinkraisc!;ief could
'"'llltry, have been directed with ceaseless activity to demo--
lcilizr and deprave the minds of the labouring classes of sit-
The Press has poured forth amongst them an over-
'whelinitiss torrent of infidelity and sedition. They hare
Leer, Lept in a state of continual ferment arid agitation by the
iteposina mocirery of Public AiSellllilies,and the inflammatory
airulenee of Popular Harangues.; they have been taught to
tegard their Rulers with abhorrence, their Employers with
tat red and distrust ; and infatuated with delusive and dan-
rerous notions of Civil Liberty, they have been instigated to
1101,4. crew social tie, to renounce every religious obligation,
'6"'i to become the Instruments of daring and ambitious
4aders in overthrowirg the Government of the Country,
and involving the whole Empire in the calamities of intestine
eta r,
That such and so daring are the real and ultimate design.;
*r Iheir factions Lea,lers, is a truth which can no longer ad-
-4'4 of a tioil!q. It ;S notorioits, that large bodies of men
lave Marti lA.an sere...nisei! in .`Military training, that weapons
• to I ate eituory warfare have been fabricated and dies
Persed ti,nruegh several
_Districts, and that every species of
iminn.kation has been resorted to, fur the purpose of corn-
relliata the honest and peaceable Mechanic to join in their
it"Ptrate Conspiracy.
111 this awful crisis of affairs, with these manifest indica-
tions before the eves of approaching danger to the Constitu-
-1100, and of universal chneetsion throughout the Fm-
lire, the Loyal and well erected attempt his Majesty's
subjects naturally iced; up to the Creverititit tit of the coun-
try for security and protanetion, and for the a loptioo of
those prompt and vigortrus measures which may effectually
{meat-the ogress of inischiet and ensure the public safety.
mole of his Majest7's•eubjects are the inval•tallie Pli-
tileges of a free Press, and tire right of presetiting our Pe-
titiurrs to Parliament and the 'Pirrone, more truly ap-
Pleciated than by ourselves; but we would wish these
sacred privileges to be secured elitist from the f.cnzy
*rid lieeotioustress of tire Pople, as from any neroach-
it*"ts %Able!! might be • apprehended froM the Crown ;
and it is with the purest sentiments of Patriotism, with the
racist devoted veneration for the Constitution of these Realms,
that we venture toexpress our earnest and anxious hope, that
wisdom of your Royal Highness's Codncils, and the au-
thority of the 'British Legislatore, will permanently secure
from violation arid aliu:e, privileges which are so sacred and
to dear to the heart of every Briton.
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rely with the fullest confidence upon the
ae,rl acrd vigilaaree of the Magistrates and Civil Authorities of
The. Land, in the faithftil discharge of their Public ditties, by
tfiran and undaunted 'eßecution of the Laws. Arid here,
!%litlst We are anxioosao .abstain front any expression of our
sent4tients, which might stern to anticipate the result of Ju-
'44lat F.nqtriry, We cannot se easily suppress the avowal of
our Latinist indignation and contempt, at the foul and calm-
-17;414 faleeihoorts have beers so openly blazoned and
s'etuitiated through-the Land, to the prejudice of the Civil
'Authorities of those Towns, upon a late eventful occasion.
tti Nos% •
"ug, we conceive, earl be more indecent, ungenerous,
than the rash and malignant charges which hare
a,d• en
4'44 against Gentlemen of the highest respectability,
th lost unblemished character, upon no better grounds
.rilit) the incorrect and exaggerated statements which have
taille4red in the Public Newspapers, the various aspersions
ii?l,ltained in seditious or the very questionable testi-
. i,;l°llf °f those who are notoriously the authors or abettors of
ery public tumult.
s *ha' tever indoleeraixavt Might' be dispdsed to allow to the
,Prielous exerciof private opinion, we cannot but consider
:044i3t/tit'dy unwarrantable and presumpt uoas. the unmeasured
and abuse which have been so intemperately lavished
1:"(sur highly reereented Magistrates, by Public !lodies of
"P'essla ceniseniel for this purpose, in various parts of
1-e Empire,
LttigK
area remote distance from the scene of these•Tian-
4:,•eF• ti(nt,s they be perfectly incompc'ent to form an
citrate oninioe ripaia the eireurnitariet;i whlelt preceded
:tr elided the aieetiiiie *of the lath rattr,tist List, they must
}°e ftle aceparlintial: with -the preparations which had long
tu.te. "Thaking through this and tine adjacent Counties, :for a
• iniciddblC display on this occasion of the collective strength
e Revoltitienary (';use. They mast he totally ignorant
'4
the teh,
fps Pe r arid spirit in which this mighty Mass'of the
isolation was Itratua.et topalier, the military' array in
Ustiich
e)*Precaseied to their appoiateri Sferieos iiii.;es; the
air ' Dishivaltv, and with every dentonstratiou of
' 11,u,tthe Constituted Authorities of t:•,• Land; ehilst
equally impossible for those r; lie were not pre-
at ~
ttcat, •s
tremendous moment, to form any arlerprate
14"'" of the univarsal eqjtsternatiou wlcica prevailed .