The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-26 00:00:00

make the heart of every honest Englishman glow
with manly. pleasure. Where 'sensibility is be-
coming, and the expression of it useftil, the people
of England know how to feel and act. We have
long been satisfied bow deep and general w as the
indignation produced by this last act of power.
But an assemblage of respectable citizens like
that at the City of London Tavern was requisite
perhaps to display to the public at large the Tull
force of the sentiment so excited. The order
and decorum of the meeting were not more owing
to the impartial and judicious conduct of the able
and eloquent Chairmalt (Mr. Lambtou), than to
the good sense and right feeling of the great body
of individuals present. The Radicals, as they
are called, had no share in the proceedings of
the .day. Gale Jones's ,offer to address the
Chair was received with general hootings. Not
only was the unjust mode of punishment which
had been resorted to against the Gallant Officer
described, and universally condemned as it ought
to have been, but its injustice in fact, or in other
words, the impossibility that Sir Robert Wilson
could have been guilty of any of the offences
which rumour had ascribed to him, was made
clear as light by Mr. Ellice an 4 Mr. Hume.
The former of these Gentletteu had tra-
velled with Sir Robert -Wilson from Paris,
and arrived in London with him at five
o'clock on the afternoon of the 13th of Au-
gust ; having been on the French roads at the
time when Sir Robert was said to have been in
an ale-house at Kensington, plotting impediments
to the Royal Funeral. Mr. Hume, on the other
hand, declared that the - Gallant General had
never left his side for 10 minutes during the whole
of the 1-Ith of August. So much for the other
set of stories. Where is " notoriety" now?—
What becomes now of that exquisite piece of
logic, that a•person against whom there is no
charge, must prove that he ought not to be pu-
nished ? Shame on such deeds and on such ad-
vocates ! The subscription for Sir Robert Wilson
bids fair to be as liberal as the design of it is just
and noble. We learn with satisfaction also, that.
whatever surplus May remain beyond the sum re-
quired for the principal object, is to be bestowed
on the 'destitute families of Honey and Francis,
who were slain on that unhappy day on which
the Gallant Officer sinned beyond forgiveness, by
his efforts to save many other's of his countrymen
from perishing through the same violence.

ENEW 'owes.]
- It is so lonk since we have had Public Meet-
ings and Speeches from such Gentlemen as Mr.
Lambton and the Honourable Mr. Grey Bennet,
that we almost feel obliged to Sir Robert Wilson
for having afforded us the occasion for such a treat.
The oratory most in repute on such occasions is
such as must carry conviction to every man's bosom.
It is impossible to doubt, or dispute, or deny con-
clusions which are so logically hung to their pre-
mises. "If Sir Robert Nilson has been injured
he ought to be compensated. If an armed soldiery
are to be allowed to act.blindly at the will of the
Crown, there is an end of our Liberties. If we are
to be told that the only qualities necessary in a
soldier are implicit obedience and the disavowal
of all Constitutional feelings, then has England,
the boasted land of freedom, no longer au exist-
ence !"- • How true all this! and how instructive !
Then- comes the very ancient discovery that this
country is making a " slow but sure" progress tol
a Military Despotism! ! ! This fact, it is true,
does not quite accord with the other discovery
of Mr. Hume's, that we have Twelve Thousand
Officers on Half-pay : one would think that 1
the Military Despot—(by-the-by, who is he ?)
would have had the wit to put all his Officers on
Full-pay. However, military despotism goes
trippingly enough off the tongue, and it is as
plauSible and almost as true as the nursery tales
of the Ogres that lived entirely on little chil-
dren. One thing surprises us at this meeting,
considering the known liberality of principle
which the leading Gentlemen present profess ;
we are unable to understand why that very re-
spectable orator, Mr. John Gale Jones, was not
suffered to harangue. lie would, we have not
the least doubt, have talked as learnedly and
perhaps as loud as any other orator, on the mili-
tary despotism, and the atrocity of Ministers. It
was indeed extremely unfair not to give him his
share of the pleasures of the day, for a pleasure
he would, no doubt, have felt it to be cheered
and huzzaed, whenever he uttered a sentence of
extraordinary folly and fury.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
It is at length tardily admitted in the Irish
Papers, that the Gentry of the County of Li-1
tnerick have been hitherto very remiss in not
exerting themselves at an early stage of the dis-
turbances to seize and punish the rioters. Some
inquiry is also talked of, for the purpose of as-
certaining the causes of the disorders. Should
the Government have the courage to proceed
with such an inquiry, it will, we are satisfied, be
found, that the outrages have no connection
whatsoever with politics, in the ordinary ac-
ceptation of the expression. They may, in-
deed, have arisen as an almost necessary
consequence from the corruption of the Go-
vernment, as it is shewn in the general ad-
ministration of power within the county ; but
who that knows any thing about the affairs of
that country does not laugh at seeing it gravely
urged by a writer in a Morning Ministerial Pa-
per, that there is a close connection between the
few raggamuffins, who, to the eternal disgrace of
the local Magistracy, infest a part of the county
of Limerick, and (risuin teneatis) the Carbonari
of Naples ! . When the army of Andalusia first
declared in favour of the Constitution and the
Cortes, the Viscount Chateaubtiand, indulging-
his excessive fancy, formed a chain that united
the Spanish soldiers with the Blanketeers
of Manchester, and there were persons silly
enough, even in this country, to extol the
wisdom of this literary dreamer. With a
similar spirit a few miserable robbers in the
County of Limerick are now associated in a
community of interest with a body of men in a
far distant country, whose real purposes seem to
be as little. understood by the slavish advocates
of despotic power in this country, as their exist-
ence is likely to be known by their new allies in