The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-18 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR.-Having received a letter from
a fruiterer this morning, in consequence of ,the
evil tendency resulting from a false statemoit in
your paper of .Tuesday last relative to the prices
of fruit in Covent Garden market, I beg leave to
say that from whatever source you derived your
information it is incorrect, and the evil arising
.from falsities, of this description is considerably
more than you can calculate upon ; to me a's a
grower, the injury is trifling, but to the retailer
it is verysevere, which is the case in this solitary
instance. I must beg you will immediately cor-
rect your statement of Tuesday evening last,
and state that Grapes of the ;very best quality in
Covent Garden Market have not been sold 're-
tail at a less price than ten shillings per pound,
second best, and small in proportion, previous to,
Tuesday last, and at the same time beg leave to
inform you that at those prices (in the beginning:
of June) the grower is not remunerated for his
trouble and expence.

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
Isleworth, .Tune 15. JOHN WILMOT.

*** We have already contradicted the mis-statement respect-
ing the price of Grapes, &c. &c. as our Correspondent will sae
by a reference to a letter from " One of the Trade," imerted in
of Friday last, but anxioils to obviate any 11:13.

chieVoas consequences that may have affected an industrious
class of people, we readily give place to the foregoing letter,
and have only to repeat that the paragraph which contained ea,:
mis-statement was copied from a Morning Paper.

FO.ll, THE SUN.

ROMAN CATHOLICS-(LETTER

With pleasure I again refer my Readers. to
the words of our revered LORD Cll.tscEt.r.oe,
whose .authority in Jaw or wisdom cannot he
too highly eStimated.—Speaking of the lately
proposed measure, he observes,
" it is said that this Bill, if passed, would be
" a Bill of peace and conCiliation. Is there not
" abundant reason to believe, that it would, in
44 truth, introduce confusion and domestic dis-
" cord, and eternal struggle for power?"
When the Noble and Learned Speaker said
this, he must have felt, that the only rational
answer to his question must be in the affirmative ;
and, to be sure, of all methods of making peace
'between contending parties, that of putting arms
into the hands of the weaker is the.most extra-
ordinary. The immediate consequence.of such
a measure must, be to gi'e spirits to the one, and
alarm to the other ; feelings the most remote from
conciliation and peace :of any that can be ima-
gined. I appeal, said an author of great sagacity,
" to the judgment, reading, and experience of all
who have in any measure applied themselves to
the observation of men and things, whether they
ever yet found that any, who pressed for indul-
gences and forbearances, rested in. them, ' when
once granted; without. proceeding any further ?
None ever yet did ; but used them only as an act
and instrument to get into power, and make every
concession a step to a further demand ; since
every grant renders the person to whom it is
made so much the more considerable, when he
thinks fit to ask for more. n grant is to give
ground; and such persons ask some things, only
to get others without asking." •
,Here then are ample grounds for discord. In-
croaciunent on the one hand, jealousy and dis-
gust on the Other. Competitions for place and
power,.of a new and most inflammatory. kind.
The exercise of that
.power, always liable to.sus-
picion, often really indiscreet ; for who shall se-
parate indiscretion from religious zeal? to ad-
vance, to gain new steps, to obtain whateVer can
be sought, would be the effort on one side;. to
resist, repel,and counteract, the necessary objects
of the other ; and, are these the seeds of peace
And harmonY ? such fruits can never grow from
such a stock. `Die quiet good sense of the Eng-
lish public, (the enlightened part of it I mean),
is not easily, roused to violence, but there are
provocations, easily to be foreseen, the effect of
which Would. be irresistible. What would be
their•feelings when they saw the advance of
that they most dreaded, the ruin threatened. of
all that they hold sacred ? They must be moved
to. despeiation ; and the dream of peace and
unity would vanish before the reality of discOrd
in its most tremendous form,
.* Dr. South, CATHOLICIA •