The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-30 00:00:00

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The scene that took place yesterday at Guild-
hall would be disgraceful to the national Cha-
racter, if the chief Authors of the Disturbance, as
far as they are known, were not held in contempt
land abhorrence. Their followers are weak and mis
ehitvous men, who think that if the Government
Wtre overturned, and their present favourites ex-
asked into ant'hority, they would Themselves
live into consequente, and partake in the general
'Poi'. When we look hack at the GREsnams, the
73ARtkraticis, the JANSRNS, and other distinguibbed
Citizens whose Dames are held in veneration, it
Spun be with feelings of deep regret that we see
the present race of Radical Reformers usurp their
Places, and throw the greatest City in the world
into tumult and conlii,ion. But the fault, in a

great deg- 'e, is to be laid to the door of the
Intlt+en• lei chants and Bankers, as well as of
the more respectable order of Tradesmen, who
t.eep aloof When they ought to come forward,
and let an example to tLe whole ot the Livery of a
aleterrniontion to preserve the peace and suppot t the
11011 Our
of the City. Were men ot such weight
to come forward, their influence would be in pro-
portion to their character and property. Their
fellow-citizens wo,ild hold them sin respect, and
vilatteli ignorance and obtrusive vanity
would soon be put down. Such is the case
Willi the Nubility and wen ot great landed ,

Property dirthig‘hout the Cciiinirjr. they
concerti themselves chic Ely
,mingentents, ur lead a life of indolent luxury.
100 many of the higher ranks squander that roo-
my abroad would give comfoh to the
whole circle of their respective neighboUrhoods,
make the Lower Orders contented with Weir con-
dition, and too much occupied in the Pursuits
of industry to listen to the insidious Coutisels of
wicked The disgraceful scene of
yesterday at Guildhall has naturally excited these
ideas; but we return to the subject. The pro-
per course yesterday; was for the Livery 04 pro-
ceed at once to the Election of the new Lord
Mayor, and any atteMpt to disturb that cOitrse
should be visited with punish tseut on the offender.
But instead of returning pioper Candidates for
the office, the Livery in general were obliged to
endure the turbulent harangues of factions Ora-
tors, who would suffer none to be heard but their
own Party. That Toeing Refuriner, HUNT, ob-
truded himself on the Hall, and from, that tno=
meta all hopes of order and decency were at an
end. From the very beginning of the Meeting it
was ktiowu that the Lord Mayor was to be assail-
ed with every token of vulgar clamour and ma-
lignity. He bore this treatment with manly firm-
ness, and though he must have despised his assail-
ants, he manifested no outward mark of the con-
tempt and indignation which they deserved. We
know him not, but we have particularly observed
his public conduct, and we do not think the Civic
Chair has been equally well occupied for a very
long period. He may be " hooted with the rab-
bles curse" when he resigns the office which he
has so ably sustained, butt he will be followed into
private life with the esteem of his friends, and
the approbation of all wise and honest Citizens.
Mr. Alderman Bit \Poo ES it the most proper person
to succeed to the office, which is more important

in its nature, and more arduous in its duties, at pre-
sent, titan at any former period. lint he must ex-
pect to be opposed by faction, prejodice, ignorance,
and folly, because be had the manliness to refuse
to pledge hiwelltocali a Common Hall upon every
Requisition. What, is the Chief Alagisrrate of
the City, who is always assisted by the advice of
the Court of Aldermen, upon every proper occa-
sion, to have no discretionary power, but to hold
his authority at the beck and call of every band
of moody malcontents who may want to dis-
turb the Peace of the City, in order to exalt
themselves into turbulent celebrity by factious
incitements, calculated to seduce the lower
orders from employment and Treat' the seeds
of disaffection ! 'There is
now a proper opportu-
nity for the men of real weight and conse-
qoence to come forward in support of the
honour of the City, and they will mat&est
their regard for its peace and hono,or by
supporting the nomination of Mr. Alderman
BRYDGES. He is not only in the Ii ie of rotation
to the Chair, a useful custom which the Reformers
want wholly to abolish, as they do all rules and
orders, but he is also by situation, character, and
principles, fully qualified to support the Office
with &runless and fidelity.

It mast be in the recollectie3 of all that en
outcry was raised against the Ministers for intro-
clueing into Parliament the Bill for " Preventing
the Enlisting, or Engagement of his Majesty's
Subjects to serve in Foreign States, ' &c. Tkose
short-sighted Politicians of the Party who decried
it as e wrong measure, only because they are not
in power, were little aware of the utility of such
a step and their predictions in this case, as usual
with them in al! others, have proved fruitless.
We have been favoured with a perusal of the
following Letter from Jamaica, written by a Gen-
tleman thoroughly conversant on the subject,
and on whose veracity we can implicitly rely.
I e so forcibly points out the situation its which
all those are placed who joined the lusorge fits,
' as to render his opinion of great weight with
all who may feel any inclination to envier on
the same hazardous entsrprize
" Tateetca, Ana. Non-enlistsnent
very much occupies the attention of all classes
here. The passing of such a tutus ore by the
House of Commons will be a *lost charitable and
philaotrophic act. It is only to visit this quar-
ter of the g!obe, to be satisfied of toe absolute ne-
cessity there is for such proceedings being carried
into effect. The People of Eegland have not the
most distant idea ofihe dreadful, melancholy, and
disastrous fate which attends all their poor coun-
trymen who enter into the service of what they
are pleased to term the " Independents." Every
man is inevitably lost to Creat Britain. They are
at the mercy of a set of fellows who have not one
shop of patriotic feeling in intir veins. Their
only object is plunder, and these Rascals always
shove poor "John Englishman" its front, and
then clap their hands on whateser is obtined !-
1.11.,e troops ACC rAtLz sickly, pdricularly thc sUth 1

and 9:2(.! Regirn•nti: ik1:11or noWE, of the former,
and his %. vile_ died, itithin a shoit time of each

other, •eiterday, leaving two ~otitig children to
lament the fee of both their parents The health
of tlic trewit of his Nlajest? ships Ott this station
is, boweieri most excellent,"

Tins TiMEi.—The Public will lee a prodigious
improvement in that Paper, since it has provoked
us to take it in hand. Not withstanding all that
happened -yesterday, and on whielr,-
but for our castig:dion, that Paper would most
copiously have vented its intiamtnntOr.Y incite-
ments, it this day contents itself with the follow-
ing meek and hinhble declaration :

" We take no part, and no very serious interest,
in the local politic's of the city of London, except
on occasions whei-e they may be presumed to de-
ter Mine those of the country at large. The pre-
sent disphte may be rathei- considered as the cop;.
sequence of those which agitate the kingdom ge-
nerally, than as likely to produce any violent in•
fluence upon the tnind; of the peopleat a i-listance."
Modest forbearance 1. We take this opportunity
of stating, as we did at first, that we copy the
accounts of the Coroner's Inquest at Oldham,
from Vie as they appeared originally in
no other Paper; but we earnestly cat); ion the
Public agaiOSt placing implicit confidence in any
thing which that Paper may contain ; for though
those accounts may he taken accurately upon the
spot, they may be laid upon the bed of Procrusfes
when in town, to suit a pu►pose. As a proof
that The Times has indirect views, it introduced
in the account of the proceeding its praise of a
" very modest and interesting ydung woman,"
who was one of the witnesses, because no doubt
the tendency of her evidence was against the Yeo-
manry Cavalry, and The Times therefore was
anxious to give it side-wind support.

HUNT.—This man, who, according to report,
brie deserted his own wife, and lives with that of
another, was yesterday asked by one of the Li-
very, in Guildhall, " Where is your wife ?" He
said his only answer should be, " Not where
your's is—kept at the public expense." Ile was
then desired to name the person, and he replied,
I don't know him—he is not worth your no-
tice," So that this impudent Calutnniator brings
a charge against a person whom be knew no!,
consequently Who might not he a husband. Such
is Radical Justice and Hioralily. But the fellow
was eunniug—he knew that any lie would serve fur
a mob, and he has always, on occasions, a ready
invuut ion—The Dail will never desert him as be
bas his Wife.

IMPRONIPTU.

HvNT brought his night-cap to the Hall,

Resolved his lungs to stretch,
Perhaps he'll get, at Justice' call,
Another front Jack Ketch.

Doctor IVATcoN has not brought forward his
promised ex pia nation of the quarrel between him
arid I-JUNT. Perhaps, like Peachum and Lockit,
they have said to each other, " Brother, brother,
we are both in the wrong," and agree to bunt to-
gether for penny subscriptions.

WINDSOR, SBPT. 29.—0 n Monday her Royal
Highness the Princess Sorit IA Of GLOUCESTER ar-
rived at ;he Castle, on a visit to the Princess.
At tour o'clock in the afternoon, the Duke of
GLoucesrtut arrived Et the Foot Barracks, where
the troop were all drawn up in readiness to be
inspected by his Royal Highness.
The health of her Royal Highness the Duchess
of CLARENCE, we are happy to state, is very much
improved since her arrival at Dover Castle.

Lord CASTLEUEAGII leaves the Nattiness of
H11117,013'3 seat, Sudburn Hall, Suffolk, in a
ft..kv days, for Ireland, where his Lordship will
remain some time.

Letters received from Cadiz by the last Mail
mentioned, that the greatest part of the troops
intended for the expedition had been withdraww•n
flout the neighbonring towns, in conseq'ience of
the a ppr then s ions of the yellow fever.—(Morning
Chronicle.)

Miss O'Nett.t. is to play twn nights at Man.
cheater, where she begins with Mrs. Beverly,it
The Gamester.

The Liffey friore, Hind sloop of war, and tiro
transports, arrived in Leith !toads yesterday i;fter-
noon, from Portsmouth, with troops on board.—
(Edinburgh Courant, Sept. 27.)
List night, about tie o'clock, an alarming fire
broke out at the house of Mr. Boxea, broker,
Wellini4ton-street, Bark-lane, St. George's in the
East, which in a short time consumed the inte•
nor with the stock in trade.

NORTH WEST PASLAGE.—The Captains of the
%shale ships recently arrived from Davis's Straits,
report generally their opinion in favour of the prac-
ticability of a Not iii-West pa.,sage. Thet,e vessels
have had a very narrow escape from being locked in
the ice, and their'safety was considered as doubt-
ful, that they were insured at Lloyd's at .10 Ks. per
cent. They penetrated further to the Westward
astral, and the Captain of the Bun ArCOUI
;rho steered a South West course into Baaiin's
flay, having observed that the course of the whales
hay its that direction, has expressed his hint
persuasion, that a passage must exist from tti•t
quarter, to which he penetrated, either into the
Vacitie OceaD, or into 11adsva'4 IJay.—Vlnil
fiAket