The Sun.
London, England, 1817-05-16 00:00:00

NORFOLK ELLCTION.

THE CONINIITTEE fr CONDUCIUNG the
ELFA:ninN of Iy. ItiODFA-10tNE, SITh DAILY
at the dr/LDEN tItOSS, CHARING CROSS, from Ten
o'Clocii in the 'Morning to Fire in the Afternoon, where biv
FIIII3NDS are prrietilarly revested to attend.
Monday, May 12,1817.

. .
HIGH HARROGATE, YORKSHIRE.
JAMES SETTLE, of the Q►►een's' Heel, begs
leave to offer his grateful Thanks fin' the Favours lie
has received, aid at the same time to assure the Nobility
and gentry frequenting Harrogate, that no expence and en,
deavours on his part have been spared to render his I louse
deserving of their Patronage audSupport the umuing 'Season.
Harrogate, May ►3, 1817.

T,
UESDAY NEXT the STATE LOTTERY
FINISHES Drawing—Two of 20,000, Two of 2,000,
Four of 1,000, Six of 500, Eight of 9001. Sze, But t luit is not
all—the Purchaser may likewise possess the Chances in the
GRAND I.OITE!tY to be drawn on the 4th of JUNE, which
contains Two ,of i AID!. Two of 9,0001. Two of 1,0001. Two
of 500, Four frof 3001. Eight of ,200. Ac. Sze.—as such it af-
fords Double Chances.
TICKETS aod.stIARES,- warranted findrown, are selling
at the old-establisbeil Office, Nli. 2U, Comb i ; where N0:57m,.
it Prize of 4.601. 3 per Ce.at. Consols was sold in twelve Shares
and the game Number may be a 15,0001. on the 4th of June)
by the Public's most obedient Serrants,
HORNSIIY.und Co, Stock-Brokers.

lit NLY ONN DAY MORE, and the LOT-
TERY WILL FINISH.
lILAV
STATE OF THE WHEEL.
Two Prizes of £.20,000
Dour . . .
I. ,000
. • Four
Six
• -Eight 001)
:•&c. &c. Consols. and Money.
MI of which must be drawn NEXT TUESDAY, 20tit This
WWII' (May).
Warranted undrawn TICKETS and SHARES are selling
by T. LUSH,. Stock-tlioker,' •4;Cornliill, and 9, Cin
London, and bfait'Agent Of his• in. every principal
Tun in the Country. ' .., '"• ' • • .
PRESENT' PRICE.
Ticke. V. . • Y...: LlO 193.
Iltilf. • •.. L.lO 19 -0
I Eighth ../,..a_in Cr
raits,irter • 5 I I .0
Sixteenth ..... 1 8 6
P.'" Letters, post-paid, dui) answered.. . ,

NEXT TUESDAY,- eoth MAY, THE LAST, DAY, .
Wlicti all the following CAP.UALS must be Dr.two!!
2 of /...an,nuo• •
4 12,000
4 - l,OOO
6 ' '
R 9OO, &c.'&c.
ir STKEWRIGIiT, the Controcrw, rettitirt him,
tY '. grateful Thanks for the• linetiainpleil increase of the
Favours of•the Public at his ()tildes; 37, Corijiiill, 38, I lat.
market, Nri. 11, Holborn, and 1.41, 07,,ford•sti eel, whole
TicUets and !Moretti-warranted undrAwn) c oil inuc on Sale.'

J. sl,VltstWßl(till has remit- but a moderate ailvanee ia'the
Price, when it is considervd that ,otly VOTTE. CAPITALS
have he'en drawn in the two.flrst days, and that al! the ,dove
:retliaiii itt the 'Wheel. and MUST be- deawit.fn ONE DAY as
above. Purchasers hefure that tin , Day, •if sticee4sfol io the
!In.-sent. have also the Chao.,:e ofg:ii,,ing a Picket in the
NOCT 1.0111,1tY, tke Schem; .1 which contains
2:. Prigs of.. L.1.i.000 : 2. . Pr.zei of.. 1..500
I l,OOO 1;d....
2.:
The present retriod is therefore most pr,iiiitinas f.l adven-
turing, and but little Chance of getting a Blatilt:

CATON ON THE VENEREAL DISEASE AND ITS CON-
. SEQUENC Es.
Thii Day was puhlisherl,
A New F.ditime, iiriee ss. illustrAted with'Cases.
'A PRACTICAL • Tit EATISK 0-1 ,thie PRE-
VES'TiON Cuttri of rIte.'VEN'.:itVAI. DISEASE,
ex.ttibiting tip.. t Tuvatatent of the
biseas'eiirtnnediArely or reinatety connected with it ; contain-
ing.e/hietiati,ap; on Wert, Stricture. Itieal'Diseliarg.s, the
of the Caustic ;Ind commlin Bougie, Cutaneous Erup-
tions, jategitprViener,al Diseases, Dehilityo general or lo-
cal, the 'etie'or'y,ot Getter:o4m, &c. comprising an Ele-
mentary IVbik 'for Students, and a Guide to the general
IttOder ;. intimrpfirseol with select Prescriptions, applicable to
each IN vision of the ,
' By T, t. c.vroll,
No.ilo,' Starilsope-street, •Neweasar-strect, Strand, late of
:the united ifosPitals of St. Thomas's and Guy's.
fur Messrs. Sharwoud lld Co, Paternoster-row,
. ,

".10 RICIIAIID TURNMII,
. .
ON HIS INCOMPARABLE 13LACKINO.

Ac when the. Sun's glad hellos diicase
• nes
' - e9ienoent lustre far and near,
So shines your Blacking on my shlotg,
Unsullied, splendid, bright, and-clear.
To Sol what planet can compare,
Wiat morning star shines half so bright ?
For influence, heat, and light, are there,
Hail intactlets inure*, of ()mindless light!
The blossom spreads itself to thee,
Parent of trees, of flowers, and fruit ;
And in the eve, the Western Sea,
Spontaneous rolls to pay thee suit.
put cease, my Muse, this lofty strain,
Mir sun, Our stars, nor seas explore,
Bus to the poirl revert again---
Fur merit is reirreed-in store.
'Ticmeritimores the saw to ueite,
-Why should it languish, on my tongue ?
For merit must he brott4ht to light,
And. he to whom it does belong.
Tnattf.a, thy aarue'on record stands,
High on the,pinnacle Fame,'
Thy lively gentoo then demands
Some little tribute to thy name.
Thy carious liquid,: shining Black,
The rare invention of thy mind,
)Vas not explored its ages back,
Nor ever equalled by mankind.
This Blacking, when it applied,
To Boots or Shoes, such lustre yields,
That those who use it think with pride
On 'ruitNta, df Saint George's-lields.
'ris be, andlle alone, that can
This matchless compsition make;
Second his great exertions then, :
Rendered so useful tar your sake,
Wiiat, though the 116 gay garments boast,
And costly preparations liar,
l'e-t is their grandeur greatly lost
Without this Mucking ou their Shoes.
Urge, t hen, your footsteps ti) the place,
Of this renowned man's abode
Hit habitation yoti may' trace
liy journeying to the bondott Road.
Tai“.. notice, this Blackingmuty be had, 'Wholesale and Re.
tail, at the Exportation ,Warehouse, 114, London. Road,
Sonthwark, and by all the'Oriieers, Terfirmers, ;Oilmen and
ltieittaukers in the Metropolis, and in eiery'rowu so Eag.
land. -
N.D. Ask for Tors'as Blacking.

THE PEOPEZ -REPRESENTATION.

're *THE rco a OF ME SUN.

Sta,—Etrurs are aiways pernicious. The life
of the wise wan 6 a crosatle against them. But
never ate they more destructive titan when they

extensively prevail in commies ultimately go-
vented by public opiuiOu. :nett it is, that, by
falsifying the pi ilicipltm of Government, they
poison the very source of Legislation. Errors of
this kind are'revaletit even among our country-
men, %%lit); r~dt without some reason, tliink them-
selv.es, in general, po.litically wise. Nor are the
i•easons obsepre, or very difficult to detect..

We have, Sir, n Constitution, Ivho3e eulogy

would be the first to write, if eulogy 'ere want.
ed. 13tit' tt flinch wore coinmendei

thiln understood; and multitudes of those who

are the loudest in its pulse, have hardly a correct
idea on the subjel. The Constitution of
country; sir, has' Arisen, like all the best results
of human reason, tram careful 'experiments,
founded on particular circumstances and events.
It is neither the child of theory, nor has any rea-
sonable theory as yet been deduced front the et-
cellence of its practice. That it is a delicate ha-

lance and adjastn►eut of the principakpowers and
interests in the State, is generally acknowledged;
and will•not here be 'disputed. But how that ba-
lnr►ce
i 3 formed will never be rightly understood,
while-one or two fundamental errors sball preVail
in the minds of men.
Our Constitution arose, historic.►lly, out of the
contest between the regal and the baronial power
the Kiugs themselves gradually introducing what
has bt•cit called the popular power, for their own

defence against the tyranny of tlitir barons. It
perished once, as. every 'Government influenced
by popular pu6'er; iniiimilerstood, has of neces-
sity it tetnictizy to perish, in the total annihilation
of all other powers, by +he destructive violence
of the popular. 1.13 w the Kings did not introduce
the power of the; people, in I s vicious' extent ;
they were too %%Ise. They entrusted' the power
to the counties, cities, and r.limited number of
boroughs, selected by theo,3tlvcs ; antlAti these-

only IQ tesponsibic citizens,
who might have a

personal interest ity the general ertlfare of ihe
state, _ they distinguished, practically at least,

if out aseciretically, between the populace and the
people.

Here, Sir, is the fundamentab error of all our
political theories. They confound these two great
elapses. The distinction'between them has indeed
been made, by writers of great eminence, and
even by some writers.of no eminence at all ; bill
it hay never been sufficiently understood. It has
never been properly' defined and litaHted ; which
therefore, with yOur permission,. 1 will now un-
dertake. • • •

.The Phone, in the wait extended sense'of the
word, uni., be considered us meaning the whole
norly of the nation, except the Sovereign. But
this extensive: people must be variously subdivided
in r, descenaing series of classes, so far as the op 7
portunity of education, or a rational culture of
the understanding, is enjoyed ; below; that line,
there is only one comprehensive class, which is
properly called the POPULACE : whose general
characteristic,' from the very nature of this clan,
sifiqatiou, must be, that they ure utterly incapable
of political judgment or deliberation : the-want rat
opportunity to cultlVaie their reason being the very
disability n hich of necessity renders suet exertion
impossible. Yet is this class extremelynumerous,
and, when conducted by skilful leaders,- powerful.
It happens therefore to them, as to all who possess
power, to have their flatterers and: corrupter's.
la republic they are all•powerfnl. A REPUIALIC,

berefore, may be properly defined, 'l‘,o con-

ttivance to make those %rho cannot judge or
reason, direct those who are capable at both in
the highest degree." The very worst political
contrivance that ever !Inman folly tolerated ! lu
a. mixed polity, they who are discontented with
the rational powers of the Government never
fail to have recourse to the irrational power well
knowing that, by an able speaker, it May be
persuaded into any thing. Yet must impartia
wisdom unequivocally pronounce, that to delude
confidine ignorance is the very basest task in which
the powers of speech and reason can possibly be
employed. Such,' however, is the ernplOyment of
demagogues, of every rank and tiesetiption. They
affect to despise the flatterers of Kings; trough

:Kings have the means, it itheywill use thew, of
resisting all such arts yet they Are
to be the flatterers of tlit: popttirtee, who ar'e
neCessity the passive victims of tie ,and
geuerally:to their p %tit destruction. Wisdom mis"
leading folly, knowledge ignorance, and" art
Simplitity, must always,. when Seel in its trite
light, be a picture of the lowest baseneis' and

The popzeiacc should be protected front every
species of oppression. This is of the first ne-
cessity, in point of justice. By what political
provisions this.shoold be effected, it is superfjnons
to say, since our Constitution amplY 'proyidt..s
their, Whether they are oppressed or ntirXis,
perhaps, the ont,froint which the populace ntight
be capable of 'judging, if there. %Vete' tio P,lttcryrs
to deceive them. But there are men so
basely profligate as to teach them that the ne-
cessary gradations of rank and prope'rty are an
oppression ; that the visitations of Heaven, sc;tr-
city, famine, war, or whatever other .evil they
may haPpento feel, iiitheit' proportion; are the
tanks of their Governors, there is. do trusting
them to judge, even of that siMple fact: They
would be contented, or at least patient, under
such necessiry, evils, had they not .diaholic3l
Counsellors to instruct them, that they ought. to
be discontented,' and impatient.

Of political measures the poilitlace is, . of ne,
cessity, altogether 'unable to judge; the
cilile proof of which is, that the very rue:ds.dores
which. they bare once approved!, under the pen:.
Suasion of a new Orator •they will as violeotly
tondemn.

A few words On ItEPRES'ENTATION', And i havo
done, for the present. There cannot he a stronger
instance Of the pernicious influence of words upon
• things, than the pitvalenee of this ,unhappy term.
It is founded wholly on afiction... The Member 4
of our Parliament never tepreseqted, .not were in.
tended to represent, the numerical body of the
people, end still less of the pvpulact. They tire
purposely ehoseu to be as unlike them as p:rssifiLt ;
to deliherato.and to judge, in eases where they
are utterly lucitpithle of both in ereetHllle.
'barrier of, suffer reason against cvery.s;;:ecit,:'Sjoi
popular infatttation. They are, indeed, 'wist•ly
taken 'among the intelligent persons'of crew grpat
local division, told every important subdiVision,of
the country : and. hence probdhly arose the idea
of Representation. But • they do 'not ..tepreieht,
they are deputies to act, for the districts e,liettce
fher Ore cent and so chosen, that the-particular
interests of every liart nuty'be made known to the
getieral body but they represent them nog. They
neither act in imitation of them, nor by their di-
rection; but on their own superior ltn6viedge'and
‘‘,iadotn.

One fully always nrodnees more. FrunCthe
• •
adoption of the term Representalive,an idea Itas
gone forth that every man hag a right to be re-
presented. The populace have even been taught'
to believe that they must be unliappy if they are
not represented. Whereas, among those who are
represented (as it is called), wit due Intelligent
mat; in a thousand ever exercises his right of
voting, unless led lo it by particular circum-
stances. The having a vote ran do a common
man no good, unless it obtaus him money or pa-
tronage, and both, in the Crinr emplntion of our
Hret corruption. But the legitimate
work of the demagogue. Ile Inkkcs the people
matl,„ and ti.en butt nets them I hat, they ought to
govern their keepers. This is no better logic in
.0 State than It would he held in Bedlam.

The thing required, for the benefit of the Suite,
is the connsel of intelligent Men front evetif Part
of the country; and, if I olttain the aiivice of
fifty competent men, how; can it lie amendett by
the interference Of fifty tittinsand ignorant block“.
heads Let 113 hope then,' that, wi rye grow
wiser, we shall banish all deiniive terms from onr
speculations ; and learn to.call thing,s
theie propel' tintneS. Let hope, that it will
e!e ,lung be rii:hoy, understboa, t bat they who
try to persuade the POPULACH that,they are TUR
Penri.t tire insidietis deceivers nod ilidt no man
ca,n pusspaly ;wept the welfare of rho v.'hole State,
who trim to irritate any one class or order hi it
against the opterS. If this be not truth and reason,.
I shouted be glad to learn them front those t-ho
linow better ; ,bltt of this, I conftss, 1 have tety
little expectation, Yottes,

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