The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-27 00:00:00

THE TtEGvNT AND WO; CAIXNINIATORS.

Among the miscreants who labour the radical
to ersion of all Jaw, human and divine, there
are Leaders of intellect sufficient to discover the
readiest means of that sobversioss, and to set their
agents upon its most effectual operation. CAC-
/ALE waa to overturn the Altar by denying the
Deity ; and I-lONIS is lo destroy the Crovn by
slAndeting the Sovereign. 1 am not entirely of
Ciceao's opinion, that offences against Heaves)
should be remitted to Heave n's displeasure, with-

out man's interposition. And this for two rea-
sons, because the Divine Power, having once
given to the world its ordinances, and e►tioined
their observance, priced upon the world the duty
of their enforcement by visible laws ; and because
it is impossible to offend [leaven, viithout at the
same time off-ending by that loosening im-
piety which wool'', destroy his laws in destroying
their Divine origin.

Justice, however, hkis in ionic degree vindicat-

eel our national character, by the limitary punish-
ment which she has bacted on one
CAULILH, encouraged by the escape of his pre-
deces,or in the radical vineyard, presnmcd to
deny THE DirtNITY CIIIIIST ; not only to-
deny, but to insult it ; not only to insult, but to
cover it with his infernal fill'. `rely grievously
this wretch has complaiited that the other wretch
was acquitted, and rewarded by a pupils SO) -
scription, and set up in a flourishing shop for the
vent of his nti,chief ; while Itimselt has been con-
victed and punished by a public sentence, and
deprived of his shop and his merchandize to-
gether. The speculatiom of llotse and CAROLE
was evidently the same; the difference lay in the
success, not in the attempt ; in the consequence,
not in the motive,. Caat.lLE himself has let out

this acknowledgment.
But my present business is not with the punished
blasphemer ; I have now to notice the unpunish-
ed slanderer.

Let me not be supposed to enter the lists of
controversy with Wit.ctAza Boss. Neither my
band nor my cause shall be sullied by an anta-
gonist, with whom contest is reprodeb, and over
whom triumph were infamy. Still more averse
am 1 from vindicating the character of OUR Re.
GZNT against an accuser, so base, so bad, and
so brutal.—Leaving Ilosig, therefore, and his
" House that Jack Built," to the Attorney. G-
eneral--whose DUTY imperatively calls on his offi-
cial interposition—l shall retrace, as succinctly
us possible, the conduct of the PRINCE since l►is
Administration of the Sovereign Power.—lf the
character of this illustrious man has been vilified,
and his actions misrepresented, for the base dc-
sign of discrediting, in his person, the royal func-
tion, the poison will meet its best antidote in the
fair portraiture of that character, aid the nue
statement of those actions.

Virtue is hateful before vicious eyes. Every
good deed, every honourable feeling sharpen the
resentment in proportion► to their heightening
the reproach, which by their contrast is sure to
fill on the vile and the dishonest. For the same
reason that CAILLILE blaSphCrilel, tic slanders.
DlOice and cupidity conspire to excite their spleen ;
and their white-hatted leader }idiocies on his
ho►►nds, while they hunt in couples.

These wretches are offended—that THE REGENT
should have manifested his filial piety :—that he
should have paid to his venerable Father, not
only personal but political obedience ; that he
should have cherished, and watched, and tended
the old man through the heavy visitation of bo-
dily and mental weakness : that he should have
consulted I►is fathers principles, and respected his
feelings : that his father's oath should have de-
scended upon his conscience : that he should have
thrown around himself the new glory of a So-
vereign Son's duty to a Parent, aged, infirm, dis-
abled by the afflicting hand of [leaven. Is ex-
asperated their malice, that Ile should have been
thus submissive, when his father was alike inca-
pable of praising the duty which he paid, and of
blaming the disobedience which the good heart of
our Prince refused and abhorred.

Oh, it would have been a precious theme for
these scoundrels' eulogies—had THE ItrGENT
hurried his father into lone and powerless obscu-
rity !—had he made profit of his afflictions ! had
he teartd his own absolute rule upon the broken
mind of the old King ! had he flashed his own
regal splendour upon his darkened sight ! had he
onverted the chamber of aged weakness into ITS
LIVING GRAVE !—Oh, how they would then hare
fa wth,d, and crouched, and yelped before him !
Bow tkey would have licked the dust before such
n unfilled Throne !

But the RegeiTA—our Regent—disdaiaea the
allurements I%hich were so _anxiously spread out
tor his acceptance. Melt the temporary restric.

tian cif I,:s atlAiotity had ps.pired, instantly Attu.;
magnanimously he cod:ruled iii their offices his
father's faithful servants. Magnanimously—l say----
because these were the very Ministers who had re-
commended and placed that restriction upon Mat-
sRLF ; and because he saw in the only pledge which
they offered of their fidelity to the Son, the
strongest of all assurances—their fidelity to the
Fattier. How different were the rejected propo-
sitions of his own personal friends, the confident
and triumphant anticipators of place and power—
there needs no recital.

Unpardonable offence ! Multiplied cause of
mortification ! The wisdom of our Regent, as well
as his duty, were proved in the issue. The dis-
appoiuted expectant s beheld victory crowding
upon victory, and all created by the trICAS:ITCS
which they rt,isted and the 'Ministers whom they
envied. Tbose of them, who could survive the
disappoiututent, saw foreign rebellion put down,
as they will nine' see domestic rebellion extiu-
guishrd ;—tiot ()illy without their aid, but agiinsi
their desire.

And, through all this vexa!ion of ungratified
i“,pce dud refuted prognostics, the Regent held on
his steady course; until the more decent of his
enemies became ashamed of expresSing their ran-
cour, and the reckless togues who had no cha-
racter to lose became more virulent in their's. As
a Son, 1 have all eady pourtraitured his con-
duct to an helpless Father :—needs Oleic to
repeat his tender and unceasing affec:ion
to his excellent Mother ? Well, do 1 know
the stale and vulgar calumny which spared
rot a Queen, venerable for her virtues,
even more than for her years ;—well do I know,
and thoroughly do 1 contemn it ;—yLt cannot 1
forbear to pause upon her 1011111 for one sincere
eulogy—that religious faith and moral purity
found in Heat not only their most powerful en-
forcer, hut their most strict observer; and, that
she gave to England, not only their most illns-
trious but their most perfect example.

Not all the malicious industry, that gathers in
much busy gossip, and gabbles it out again, man-
gling the parts and exaggerating the whole, can
throw sc►lullal upon the Rti OE NT. It is reduced
to the hopeless necessity of catching at his best
feelings and turning them into his reproach. His
high sense of honour, his delicate vigilance of
twor's most irmpor•tant possession, have become
a crime with these slanderers, almost equal to his
vindication of the Empire's glory. As little c,n
they forgiv, his kind protecting condescension to
all who have the happiness of living under Lis-
immediate service ; his general h►rmanity, his ten-
derness, his benevolence. They cannot with any
patience conternn a Sovereign Prince standing
by the death-bed -of his aged Tutor, over whom
the shadow of the grave was fast extending ; and
offering the last reward of his consolation ro the
ears that can no longer listen and to the lips that
could no longer instruct. No, while eternally
repeating the common-place sophism. that a
Prince is tint a Mao—they allow no merit to a
Prince for a Man's best feelinl2s.
Neither can the REGENT'S affectionate and
kindly delicate conduct toward his Daughter, iu
some, perhaps the most trying sitnations; nor his
paternal sorrow ; nor his invariable kindness and
sympathy towards her exemplary husband—none
of these gr'aces can reconcile his slanderers to the
virtue which they detest in proportion to its emi-
nence; and which they look up to but as Satan
looked to the Sun, to proclaim bow inveterately
they " hate its beams."

If I have said more of these wretches than their
worthlessness, their miserable absence of all va-
lue, can possibly deserve ; let it be recollected
bow faint and how inadequate a testimony I have
offered to the character of our illustrious Prioce..
Let no man accuse me of defending him against
Holes l-7-Let no man charge me with vindicating
him against so vile, so vulgar a slanderer. It is
not for the Prince's sake I have spoken, but for
the Empire's. I have wished to spew, by the
insolent falsehoods, the shameless sedition of that
acquitted, Libeller, the danger of the License of
the Press, and the necessity of its immediate re-
striction. To punish the published slander, will
he well :—to prevent the unpublished slander will
be better. When that prevention shall affect
the " Liberty of the Freers," let the blame fall
where it ought—on the nbose7s of its License.—
For my part, !do not think the privilege of print-
ing a libel is a whit more essential to Constitu-
tional freedom now, titan the privilege of speak-
ing
one was fifty years ago:—or, that a Licenser
of the Press would be more obno:tious than is a
Licenser of the Stage.

TENAX.

Madame ltecAmiEn, who has been long cele-
brated for her beauty as Weil as for the wealth
of her husband, lives in the most tetired Fli Bnner
with the Sisters of 111: " Congregation," at the

T EA T ICAL ItEGISTE R.
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THEA I'RE ROYAL, Drti!lLY-LANE.—A New Way to Pay Old
Delos : Sir Giles Overreach, Mr. Kean ; Lady Allwurth,
Mrs. Glover. After which, the Three and the Deuce.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GA fiVEN".—The Beaux Stratagem :
Archer, Mr.C.Kenthle ; Mts. Sullen, Mrs. Davison. After
which, Silvester Daggerwood; to which was added, Arthur
and Etntneline.

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