The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-30 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

Wp noticed, we trust, with becoming indigna-
tion, the words which we-hope were unjustly im-
puted to Sir RONALD FERGUSSON, as having been
.uttered by him in the Debate on the 21st inst. in
the .Mouse of Commons viz., that the Coronation
was " a most ..foolish, absurd, and ridiculous
Pageant." We expected that the Honourable
Member would have disavowed these words,
yet though he has not done so, we still shall not
presume. to infer that he uttered them, but rather
that he disdains to notice wbat has been falsely
ascribed to him in a common Newspaper. 'We,
however, feel some pleasure in finding that the
words in question have not escaped the observa-
tion. of an intelligent'. Proviticial Journalist as
may be seen in the following Extract from • -
7`he Birminghavn and Lie Veld Chronicle if the 281 h taw.
As the time fixed for the Coronation approaches, the public
mind becomes daily anore and •more interested in the prepara-
tions for' this imposing solemnity.; and not only in'LondOn it-
self, where these preparations arc carrying on, and continually
attract attention, but in various parts or the country, arrange-
ments are snaking for marking the day by some public expres-
sion of those feelings of loyal attachment to the Sovereign,
which such an event is so well calctilated to excite.—All this is
as it should be. No man who really loves his country can loOk
with indifference upon a ceremony, which, while it reminds the
Monarch that he has received his 'Crown from Heaven, in trust
for the benefit of his people, secures to the people the due ex-
ecution of that-trust by the solemn sanction of their Monarch's
oath. But there are, it seems,
.persOns who regard the Corona-
tion as".nn absurd and expensive pageant ;" as "mere child's
play -;".and the money which it will cost as" useless expenditure."
We do not envy these sentleinen their feelings, if indeed they feel
at talon the subject. 1\ or is itperhapsnecessary to do moic than to
remark, in justice to all the rest or his Majesty's loyal subjetts;
that such expressions have been attributed to Sir R. Fergusson
and Mr. J. C. Hobhouse, by the Morning Chronicle. If they
have been libelled, we are sorry for it ; and we hope they will
take the proper .steps to rescue themselves from the imputation
of having used expressieris' so unbecoming their senatorial wis-
dom. Nit it is certainly-desirable at all events that the public
should rememberethat they arc ecaiuted to have said such things ;
that theyhaVe not yet, its it. appears, contradicted the report;
and that the leading Journal of the WhigS hasnot thought it ne-
cessary to express the least disapprobation of such sentiments.
All these things we leave to be accounted for by these whom it
may most concern ; convinced that whatever such persons may
think or say, nineteen-twentieths of the people of England have
too deep a sense of the sanctions of religion, to sneer at a ce-
remony which binds their-King by an oath to govern according
to Law, and to preserve inviolate the Constitution in Church
and State; and too much real regard for the dignity of their
Sovereign, • to . treat his Coronation as an absurd ana useless
pageant. •
While for reasons which we do not pretend to understand,
and if we did, should be unwilling to specify, the august.eere-
mony of his Majeaty's Coronation is evidently anticipated with
no feelings of. pleasure or zeoprArition by some of the Gentle-
men connected with the Public. Press; (such we perceive is to
be the elegant periphrasis by which the writers for the London
Newspapers are to be henceforth• spoken of ;)--these same Gen-
tlemen dilate with great satisfaction on the public proceedings
of her. Majeray the Queen ; and devote their columns without
hesitdion to long and laboured descriptions of the demonstra-
tion:of that sort of popularity which She still continues to court
and to receive. They inform us, 'that last week she " honour-
- eristt
ed Astley's Theatre with her•presence, and met with such a
reception as fully deMonstrated the unabated ardour of her pn-
pnlayc—W
taste ; certainly e. hav no right to find fault with her
liajy
she thought it not unbecoming the
dignity of her high station to honour A.Stley's.Theatre with her
presence; nor inconsistent with those refined. ideas which the
education and habits of a Queen generally inspire, to be

In this case the Plaintiff; Lady, had lived 'a considerable
time with the defendant, who.made.her a grant of an annuity of
£5O.- In consequence of non-payment of arrears she commenced
an action; to which there was a dethurrer, and the Court was
called upon in this instance to say whether- there was anv.legal
bar to her claim. It was contended in support of the objection
to the suit that no consideration valid in law had been given for
the annuity. • It was true there had been cohabitation, but that
Was not a legal consideration.
'On behalf of the Plaintiff, it was ably argued that the De:-
fendant was bound by A moral, as well: as legal obligation, to
abide by his own act, but the Court, under all the circumstances;
held there, was no consideration for the atinui y, and the Pl*,
tiff consequently could not recover in a Court of JAw'.
LIBELS. , .• . ,
TIIE ICING EDWARD KlN'e..

The Defendant appeared, on the. Motion of Mr: L F
to plead to an indictment charging him. with-publishing a scan-
dalciusi false, and indecent Mel against our Sovereign Lora the
King, in a work intitled " The Paso:if; or General Satirist."
After the. libel -had been read, the , D2fenditht pleaded -not
Guilty, and was told that he would be tried at the 'sittings -after
the present term.