The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-10 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

The intrinsic merits of the article which we
shall continue to extract under the following
head require no apology to our loyal Readers for
the insertion of it, as we are sure it will be highly
gratifying to them, to whatever length it may be
extended, as it comprehends a full refutation of
factious sophistry arid falsehood.

(Coritioued from Tu. SUN of August 30.)

CURSORY REMARKS UPON THE TRANSACTIONS OF
THE LAST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.
(Pioln.Ths ('Dublin) Correspondent, of ,ingust e.)
Not withstanding the convincing demonstrations
already referred to, not only that the springs of
the public prosperity were unimpaired and entire,
but that the nation was the best governed upon
earth-s-a body of malcontents, who call theta-
selves 'Reformers, shallow sciolists in political
science, demanded from the Parliament, by means
of numerous Petitions which they had suborned,
a fundamental change in the Constitution and
the Government. This description of politicians
never trouble themselves w ith any close examina-
tion into matters. They never enter into any
sober estimate or rational calculation concerning
the real state and condition of the country. They
give no credit, in account, for the prosperity with
which it is so boontifully sprinkled over—for the
spirit of liberty which animates and agitates, and'
purifies, by sabitaiy agitations, the great mass of
the Counnimity—for the toweling height to
which the natinuil credit has ascen(led—for the
number awl variely of the public instittrions, and
the noble solicitude for public honour, stletv, and
comfort, ‘t hich pervades the entire scheme of the
411)41 anlelinlation. From this side of the BC-
-Ib4lllt they •turul away Slier fa-''es with pretne di-
ta•ed indifference; and they lay out their zeal in
enumerating tne entire suini of all that is tran-
siently inconvenient, ot-easionally defective, or
radically imperfect, as matter. of human desivi—
ot all that is frustrated in its ends, for a moment,
by chance—every misfortune, however tempo
nary, every adversity, however fugitive; and,
pressing forward this artificial accumulation, they
call this the real and veritable condition of the
public affairs, the offspring of political venality
and corruption, the evidence of the Government's
vices and the people's wrongs. Vs'ith foolish-and
scrambling arguments, engendered in presump-
tion, and ignorance of all sound and useful know-
ledge, they gain over the vulgar, who take user-
Lion for proof, and complaint for Sagacity ;- who
are easily-persuaded that quiet and regulated
spit its. are but the old women of society ; and
that every turbulent schemer and retrograde
blockhead, is-the only fellow destined for natu-
ral influence, or qualified to direct the political
system of themation. I_Theless they reason, and
the more they assert,.the more sure they are. of
the shouts of the populaCe. Whoever will set
about finding out causes but the depressions:of in-
dividuals, and the casualties of communities, that
are perfectly in unison. with the prejudices of the
vulgarwhich exempts them from any influence
in producing public adversity, and lays it all to
the charge of those who are the natural objects of
envy—need not study to be very profonad, to ac-
quire numerous and strenuous partizans, and very
sincere practitioners under his doctrine. He may
sound all the depths and shoals of absurdity,
without the terrors of refutation, or any of the
fatalities with which reason and argument threaten
less adventurous speculators. Nonsense and im-
pudence are not easily worsted told overpowered
into rest—their labours never intermit through
fatigue—and the consciousness of any superiority
against them, however immense, never contributes
to depress them into tranquillity or good beha-
viour. -They are volunteer qualities—the off-
spring of street-levity and ignorance, that are
ever oil the watch to aid the worshippers of
the idol, Popularity ;—and they very seldom
permit any other auxiliaries to be employed,
where they espouse political contentions, or con-
spicuously patronize political schemes or impos-
tures. if thil declare war against any component
item in the public revenue, they immediately set
to work, to raise the voices of those against it,
who never contribute a farthing towards it—they
rummage pauper lists and schools fur signatures—
call meetings of all the contingents; which the
discontents of life, and the rough, contentious
spirit that liberty itself is apt to breed, are ready
to send its support of any standard. 'They make
a noise, for noise is their characteristic every
where—and every dunce and blockhead that is
muddled with the sense of his own importance,
and neglected—or who hangs loose upon society,
and is soon put into motion by any blast that may
blow—immeuiately responds in congenial uproar ;
and all this is consecrated, by all the speculators