The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-26 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL. JOURNALS.

The pressure of other matters has prevented
our recurring to this feature of our Paper, but
we shall always resume our Extracts from the
PROVINCIAL. JOURNALS whenever we have an
opportunity. The following is an Extract from
The Birmingham and Lichfield Chronicle, one of
our most popular Country Journals :-
- " The wholesome days of England have re-
turned once more loyalty has resumed its legi-
timate sway over the public mind ; and the Me-
tropolis has witnessed the cheering sight of a
patriot Monarch, surrounded by his Nobles and
his Princes,— receiving and acknowledging the
tribute of respectful and ardent attachment
from his subjects. What Englishman's heart is
there that does not burn within him, as l►e medi-
tates upon the interesting occurrences of the last
week ! What pious man but pours forth his
grateful acknowledgments to Him who stilled'
the madness of the people, for having thus
turned the hearts of his countrymen ; and
subdued those who imagined mischief, and
brooded -over schemes of Revolution and
Anarchy ? We wish we could say there
were no exceptions to this general feeling.
We wish it, not for the sake of public peace,
for we fear not what the battled and defeated
enemies of social order now can effectuate ; nor
for the sake of our Country's honour, nobly as it
has been redeemed by the manly firmness of its
Representatives, and by the thousand tongues of
loyalty, which, front one end of England to the
other, have vied with the Metropolis in the rap-
turous expressions of their loyal affection for
Georze the Fourth. But we wish it, for the
sake of the miserable, disappointed, and mortified
wretches, who, when all around them are breath-
ing mo►e freely, as in a fresh and wholesome at-
mosphere; raising their heads in triumph, and

their voices in joy, are crawling upon the dust k
the filthy holes and corners to which they have
been driven-by priblic indignation, and are chew-
ing the bitter cud of their oWn defeated malig-
nity. We have read, not in astonishment we
must confess, for knowing how. virulent i 3 the
disease of rooted_ disaffection, we were. pre-
pared for the most disgusting' of its symp-
toms ; nor with anger certainly, for there
are vices of too low and vile a nature
to move so generous a feeling ;
;but- with
deep disgust and loathing, the rancorous over-
flowings of radical spleen, which, on this occa-
sion, have stigmatized the _Times- Newspaper as
a disgrace to a free.Tress,.and a virtuous Nation.
Such sentiments so 'expressed, can injure none,
but those who feel and utter them. They can
be regarded only as the ravings of despair ; as
the last convulsive efforts which mark the ex-
pulsion Of an evil spirit. We notice them only
as such : and convinced that whatever punish-
ment the heart which engendered them may
merit, it has aleady inflicted torments upon it-
self greater than its severest judges could wish
it to 'Suffer, we heartily pray that it may be
speedily turned to better thoughts, and holier
conception.

" Turning from this wl►ol'•sale dealer in ma-
ce and sedition, we have been am►►sed with the

nenuity of another
.party paper, which, while
manfully and readily acknowledges the cheer-

ing spontaneous burst of loyalty ‘with -.which the
King was received at the two Theatres, attempts
to turn upon its triumphant adversaries, and ac-
cuses the loyal press of affecting wonderful sur-
prize at this result, as if any other could have been
expected.' .This is a skilful device, and well
calculated to pass with the readers for whom it
was intended. But we must not give the clever
writer credit for solidity, as well as wit ; we

must not admit that his evasion is more than an
evasion ; that there is any real foundation for his
remark, or any strength in the inference which

le wishes his readers to draw from it. We know

not that any surprise has been either felt or af-
fected on this gratifying subject. No one who
knew the character of his countrymen could
doubt that, of themselves, they were generous
and loyal. He could not be astonished that such
a people, when first their King appeared in pub-
lic among, them,' and that King George the
Fourth, should hail his presence with tokens of
heartfelt attachment.. But, knowing that a base
and desperate faction have been toiling for six
months to deceive this open-hearted and nnsus-
pecting people knowing that there was no ca-
lumny too vile for this faction to invent and dis-
seminate, and seeing how artfully they, had en-
deavoured to pervert the best feelings of their
misled adherents to their own dark and trPacher-
ous purposes, a. loyal writer cannot help express-
ing his joy to find that all these labours have
been unsuccessful.

" The seed of disloyalty has been scattered
with an unsparing hand ; it has been tended and
watered with unceasing care : shall we not rejoice
that the hopes of the mischievous cultivator have
been disappointed ; that the generous soil has
rejected the unkindly plants ! that they withered
and died in an atmosphere too healthy for their
poisonous germs. .to expand in !"