The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-08 00:00:00

ARMAGH REFORM MEETING!

This Krand Meeting was herd in the Market-house on
the 23d September, according to the public notice. As early
as ten o'clock, severai hundreds of very genteel people were
assembled, the greater number of whom had no other object
th;in to see what the rest were about.—The utmost order
prevailed until half-past ten, when a very loud cheer was si-
ntultaneously sent forth by the assembled multitude, which
showed that the great precession of the Reformers were at
hand. The first that made his appearance was a Gentleman
in a fancy dress, bearing a ,flag with the words ' preserve dis•
order,' on the 'one side, and on the reverse, to arms, fel-
low sufferers, to awns !' Next came a female Reformer,
dressed in the very extreme of the fashion, with a bug: pnd
and curtailed petticoats, bearing on the top of a ~•,)le
amazingly large coal-scuttle bonnet as the cap of ty,
with -4 Retrenchment' on one side, anti on the other,
Administration;' underneath this, ' The Ladies expect rs:
Man to do his duty.' fhe third personage was a legs, 5,-.
Built dandy, also hearing a pole with a'pair of stays, at the
top, the words Liberty Or Death' were on one side, and on
Abe. ot her,-.' Universal suffering;' underneath t hisT Au o Oat
Balls').---These were followed by some of the great Cham-
pions of Reform, laced very right like dandies, emblematical,
we suppose, of the oppressed state of the people.—They
'walked pound the Hall in regular procession, until they csme
,to the liustingS, when Mr. r,ibble, as Secretary to the Com-
mittee, rose and read the requisition. After this, Mr. Gill
Talsecullar, came forward proposed, that Mr. Henry
Pinchgut, the great oracle of reborn and champion of the
people's rights and liberties, -should take the chair.—(Ap-
plause arid cries " Pinehgut for ever.")—Mr. Pitietigut
-then addressed the meeting., but owing to the great .noise
that was made by the continued cheers ofjliemultitude, our
• reporter could pot even collect the heads of this speech. The
.resultitiOns were read by Di'. Watt SLituefem, and alter wards
,agreed to with nuanintous acclamation."

MELANCVOLM ACClDENT.—Wednesday Wm.
Brockwell, a young watermrn plying near the
Custom•bouse, put off from the stairs of that
place, for the. purpose of running alongside one
of tbe Gravesend• Steam Packets, to land passen.
lers. The steamboat rallying at the time, he
made rather a sodden exertion to lay hold, in
doing which he imprudently jumped too far a..
head, and lowered ,the st,etti of his own boat so
much that it caught' beneath the wrieel and works
of the- steam-packet, and lie was instantly sunk
below the latter. Every exertion was imniediately
made to find the burly, but it wtt not discovered
till life was WI Oily extinct.

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Feilt TILE SUN.

-TITZ CONSTITUTION.-(tErrn

'IR. EDITOR—I have undertaken to prove, chat
'my view of liN Etiglish Constituti“n, as stated in

-rny former letter, is correct ; and that it is not
19111 orwerstood by those who dispute the contrary,
find d, no, euriclusions unconnected with their pre.
I 11,
F. NA X writes like ;4 Gentle.
Mtn on-the subject ; but he hovers about anti
about it, coming to the end hepurstirs.
1 haye also said that be has 'kept thatheimitleoliy
to his point, and like a good chymist extracted a
strong spirit horn his ingredients ; but be has
blunted his point, by leaving the people to be
iittle more thatifirces, or dross. In this I hope I
nitstake his meaning, tit...ugh warranted in Itty
inference from what he has written; bait, Sir, my
fe:tr exceeds n'y hope, which it will do until
solved by Itim,elf. I have not called hint a mathe-
lnatkian 50 plol.olllld as Euclidi, nor a chymist so
able as G Aen ; but I give him credit for knowing
soluetliing of boli these great man. If
.his eon.
ruction lie in a circle, it may be because, he tears
to quit it, lest he be bocci! into all angle, out of
-which he cannot escape. In this lie is wise, and
way say with Horace,

Ini3CS.

Solve sencscentein mat ut e satins vqouly, tie
Peccet ad extreinum videliditi et Ida ducat.

Yet in a tone of authority be becomes his own ar-
biter, and directly Belies what his denial entitles..
me politely to affirm,
lo my view of ottr Constitution, I have given
au outline to which I ;Orr, and shall, for aught
that at present appears, chide by it. Tice obvious
mullet is this ;—after :he formation of civil so-
ciety by human convention, for tonal right and
. the avoidance of wrong, a connected body ap-
peared, called tine people, disriuct from loose
lovers, whose sense of just and unjust did not ex-
tend beyond selfish regards, and the strongest arm
to gratify them ; whose sense of liberty rested in
their will, and what they will'd was law. This
compacted body entered originally into a social
contract, and framed a Constitution, which pro-
closed, first, a Democracy, second, an Oligarchy,
third, a Monarchy. In each of these it is easier
to surmise, in general, a contract between the
governots and governed, than to prove the ex-
istence of any in pat ticular ; unless, as Fontenelle
says of the donation by Constantine, of Rome
and Italy to Sylvester and 'his successors for
ever, we refer to the deed, as recorded in the moon;
but surmising a contract, as ably discussed by our
hest writers, it is fair to say that a Constitution
followed, first acted upon as republican in the
petty stares of Greece, then as aristocratical iii
parts of Fily, and then monarchical, as in Rome.
All these failed in their end, kiwi! ip England
on:y they were amalgamated for the wel!are of the
country, and the unceasing envy of surrounding
nations. Here we see a Constitution as produced
by the people, who before were headless. We
now see King, Lords, and Commons, one to pro-
pose, the other improve, and the other to sanc-
tion. Consolidated, they ate supreme for legis-
lation but as laws, when made, could not exe-
cute themselves, a power necessarily devolved on
the King to enforce them. In him we trace. true Su-
premacy, as the paramount head of Church and
staie, (he fountain of justice, honour, and mercy,
civil, political, and ecclesiastical. To him is al-
legiance due, not to ParliaMent, which is the Sig.
preme Court of the Constitution. This I have
proved, or rather it proves itself. The State, of
which the Church is a part, I have shewn has
three powers, and I believe fully explained it.
The first is certainly in the people, with whom it
originated; the second is in the Constitution, as
marked out by them ; and the third is the power
of the law arising from that form of Government,
as the effect of theConqiitution for the grim! of the go-
verned, and executed by the hand of Royal Power.
The rules, meaning the spirit of the Constitution,
are to Parliament, consisting of King, Lords, and
Commons, what the law is to the Judges, who
fits discere only promulgate them, but jus dare
cannot make them. One is confined to the Con-
snit utiou,the other to the letter. This is not asser-
tion but a known fact, as it is that Parliament
are the people's Trustees, and the Constitution or
original contract the deed of trust, for a breach or
vi-lation whereof they are answerable to those
for whose benefit it was made.

It is certainly not pleasant to reprove, and much
less where the wantonness of reproof recoils on
the reproved. To say that Parliament are not the
Trustees of the People is to sport wiib truth, and
calls forth a question—for whom arc they Trus-
tees ? Is it for themselves ? They would then
be the people, and the people nothing. Both le-
gal and equitable, and all estates are in the pen-
' le, and issue from them to Parliament, as King,
Lords and Commons; not a third part, but the
whole ; for out of the third germinate the other
two. The comparisOn of Trustees in civil to
Trustees in political affairs is flying from the Coq-
stitution in a tangent ; and he must be little ac-
quairited with the doctrine of trusts who says a
cestuy qac.trust has no legal capacity. Is TENAX
to he informed that trusts are executed in posses-
sion, which is joined to the use, and constitutes
it legl estate It is only when trusts are execu-
tory or unexecuted, and require the-control of the
King's Chancellor, that the estate of the cestuy
que trust, meaniog the person for whose benefit
the trust is raised, is only an equitable one ; but
it is idle to assimilate this with the political
trust premised, which, when executory and abused
by non-execution, is contronlable by the resist-
'slice of the people. This I consider to be sound
svhiggisrn, and-a- rational picture of the English
Constitution, as laid down by all the great men
who planned and brought about our happy and
peaceful Revolution in 1688, the Bill of Rights,
and the Act of Settlement ; as well as by all our
eminent writers thereof', but particularly on the
trial of Doctor Sacheverell, and I shall conclude
my mission upon it accordingly with the words of
Lucretius,

- Si tibi rera ridetnr,
Dede mantis; si falsa est, accingere contra.

PROPOSITI.

N. B. As 1 hAve fully explftined myself on our
Conssitwinn, . I will, send you my jwlginent on
Suptemucy, in which I piesci ye A due regard for
the rights of the people.